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2) Burning rose
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English
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An environmental journalist stumbles into the deadly world of mega-corporations Burning Rose is a gripping mystery from Shirley Kennett, author of the beloved PJ Gray series. The story follows Casey Washington, a freelance journalist with environmental convictions. When she lands a rare interview with Robert Gunner, CEO of World Power, a company building a controversial dam in the Amazon rainforest, she anticipates a personal triumphonly to have...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 19
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English
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Somewhere in South America, at the home of the country's vice president, a lavish birthday party is being held in honor of Mr. Hosokawa, a powerful Japanese businessman. Roxanne Coss, opera's most revered soprano, has mesmerized the international guests with her singing. It is a perfect evening -- until a band of gun-wielding terrorists breaks in through the air-conditioning vents and takes the entire party hostage. But what begins as a panicked,...
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NUMA files volume 2
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English
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Kurt Austin and his crew are back to slake their thirst for action as they attempt to drown an eco-extortionist's plan to control the world's freshwater supply. From deep within the Venezuelan rain forest emanates the legend of a white goddess and a mysterious tribe with startling technical accomplishments. Few believe the tribe exists -- and even fewer suspect its deity can change the course of history. For National Underwater & Marine Agency crew...
6) Do or die
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Reluctant heroes volume 1
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English
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"Former Navy SEAL Ian Dunn has been tasked by a mysterious government agency with rescuing two kidnapped children believed to have been taken prisoner in a South American embassy. Leading the mission alongside Phoebe Kruger, the new hire at the prestigious law firm where Dunn is a longtime client, Dunn will embark on a race against time while simultaneously dealing with an equally pressing danger -- he's being hunted by the mob for a job gone bust....
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Everyone has skeletons in the closet, but Simone Cooper Sheridan's involve secret CIA operations in the steamy jungles of South America. Now, after years of disguising her true identity, she's finally come face-to-face with her previous life.Reece Sheridan knows that a smart man doesn't think with his heart. After all, he is the one who divorced Simone, when their marriage just couldn't overcome her mysterious past. But he's never gotten over her.Now...
8) She thief
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 13
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English
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When Demi--a master pickpocket working for the gang leader Fay--steals a ring, his partner in crime, Baz, soon finds herself alone and betrayed as police and the Barrio's crime boss close in on Fay and her den of child thieves.
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NUMA files volume 2
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English
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Clive Cussler's New York Times bestselling Blue Gold, now available in ebook, is a heart-pounding thriller in the NUMA adventure series. Kurt Austin navigates the Amazon jungle in search of a legend that could change the path of science—but secretive powers will do anything to stop him.
From deep within the Venezuelan rain forest emanates the legend of a white goddess and a mysterious tribe with startling technical accomplishments....
From deep within the Venezuelan rain forest emanates the legend of a white goddess and a mysterious tribe with startling technical accomplishments....
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 8
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English
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In Bolivia in 1999, when their father is unjustly arrested and their mother leaves, Francisco, seventeen, and his sister Pilar, eight, must move to the dirty, dehumanizing, and corrupt prison.
1999, Bolivia. Francisco's father is arrested on false charges and sent to prison by a corrupt system. Now Francisco and his young sister must move into prison with their father. There, they find a world unlike anything they've ever known. Prison life is dirty,...
11) Excavation
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 20
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English
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A classic adventure from James Rollins, the author of The Doomsday Key, The Last Oracle, The Judas Strain, Black Order, and other pulse-pounding, New York Times bestselling thrillers, Excavation carries readers deep into the jungles of South America, and into the terrifying heart of dark mysteries that should never be unearthed
12) Empire of gold
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Pub. Date
2011
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English
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While working with Interpol investigating smuggled artifacts, archaeologist Nina Wilde and her husband, Eddie Chase, get close to the mythical city of El Dorado and may have to sacrifice everything to solve the mystery of this legend.
13) Running wild
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Sisterhood diaries volume 4
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English
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"Magdalene Deluca isn't the damsel-in-distress type. But if she has to involve a stranger in a dangerous chase through South America, she's glad Finn Kavanagh's the guy she sucked into her problems. Very glad. The man oozes sex and magnetic confidence. And since their connection is steamier than the sultry rain forest, why waste time resisting him? Finn's peaceful vacation is blown to bits the second Mags strides into view. For years he's ignored...
15) Dark predator
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English
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Hunter of the undead and master executioner Zacarias De La Cruz returns to Peru where he finds betrayal, vengeance, and the consequences of his family's bloody legacy.
16) Hide and seek
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Men of T-FLAC. Wright Family volume 2
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Random House Large Print : Distributed by Random House
Pub. Date
2003
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English
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Series
Julian Escobar series volume 3
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
1983
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 10
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English
Description
Spanish seminarian Juliǹ Escobar, known to the Mayas as Lord Kukulcǹ and worshipped as a god, witnesses the fall of the Mayan and Incan civilizations with the coming of Cortš and Pizarro.
20) Isabella's bed
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Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
1993
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English
Description
Two children uncover the key to Grandmother's secret on a dream adventure in South America.
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