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Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
After her fiance calls off their marriage a week before the wedding, heartbroken Christine Hollister reluctantly agrees to accompany her friend Jessica to Peru to do volunteer work in an orphanage, where she meets American doctor Paul Cook.
Series
Geronimo Stilton. Thea Stilton volume 4
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
"When Paulina gets a phone call from home telling her that a friend is missing, the Thea Sisters travel to Peru to help solve the mystery. There, the five mice climb the Andes Mountains in search of a missing archaeologist. Along the way, they stumble upon clues leading them to a mysterious hidden city. Will the Thea Sisters find Paulina's friend, and the treasure of the Secret City?"--P. [4] of cover.
Author
Series
Punto de lectura volume 4/1
Publisher
Punto de Lectura
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
Español
Description
Four cadets form a secret group to beat the confinement of their military academy. This sets off a chain of events that starts with a theft and ends in murder.
Author
Language
Español
Formats
Description
"La idea de esta novela comenzó con una imagen de dos señoras amigas que de pronto una noche, de una manera impensada para ambas, viven una situación erótica. Luego se fue convirtiendo en una historia policial, casi un thriller, y el thriller se fue transformando en una especie de mural de la sociedad peruana en los últimos meses o semanas de la dictadura de Fujimori y Montesinos. Me gustó la idea de que la historia se llamase Cinco esquinas...
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Español
Formats
Description
Enjoying days spent with animal friends near her home in the Amazon, young Zonia wonders what to do on a day when the rainforest calls out to her for help. Lush illustrations are complemented by back matter about the Ashaninka community.
Author
Publisher
Melville House Publishing
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Leonora Gelb came to Peru to make a difference. A passionate and idealistic Stanford grad, she left a life of privilege to fight poverty and oppression, but her beliefs are tested when she falls in with violent revolutionaries. While death squads and informants roam the streets and suspicion festers among the comrades, Leonora plans a decisive act of protest--until her capture in a bloody government raid, and a sham trial that sends her to prison...
Author
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
Español
Appears on list
Formats
Description
"La novela cuenta la historia paralela de dos personajes: el ordenado y entrañable Felícito Yanaqué, un pequeño empresario de Piura que es extorsionado, e Ismael Carrera, un exitoso hombre de negocios, dueño de una aseguradora en Lima, quien urde una sorpresiva venganza contra sus dos hijos holgazanes que quisieron verlo muerto. Viejos conocidos del mundo vargallosiano aparecen en estas páginas: el sargento Lituma y los inconquistables, don...
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
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Formats
Description
Discreet Hero, follows two fascinating characters whose lives are destined to intersect: neat, endearing Felícito Yanaqué, a small businessman in Piura, Peru, who finds himself the victim of blackmail; and Ismael Carrera, a successful owner of an insurance company in Lima, who cooks up a plan to avenge himself against the two lazy sons who want him dead. Felícito and Ismael are, each in his own way, quiet, discreet rebels: honorable men trying...
Author
Series
Publisher
Alfaguara
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
Español
Description
In a newly revised version of the author's third novel, Gabriel, a young man who works as a reporter for a Lima television station and is attracted to both men and women, is a heavy cocaine user to avoid the evils he sees in Peruvian life.
Author
Publisher
Arthur A. Levine Books, an imprint of Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
In the mountains of Peru, friends Hector the bear and Hummingbird the hummingbird spend most of their time together, doing the same things, and Hector has had just about enough of it--or has he? Includes a list of animals hidden in the illustrations.
15) Yo amo a mi mami
Author
Series
Publisher
Alfaguara
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
Español
Description
"Jimmy vive en las afueras de Lima, estudia en un colegio inglés y sueña con ir a Disney. Como el de todo niño, su mundo está lleno de héroes, algunos domésticos y familiares; otros, radiales, televisivos, futboleros; ninguno, sin embargo, se parece a su padre, un exitoso hombre de negocios eternamente malhumorado. Su madre, mujer fina y devota, en cambio, es el centro de sus ilusiones. De su mano, Jimmy, sensible, tierno, divertido, descubre...
Author
Publisher
Deep Vellum Publishing
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
This novel follows three women whose lives intertwine and are ripped apart during what's known as the time of fear" in Peruvian history when the Shining Path militant insurgency was at its peak. The novel rewrites the armed conflict in the voice of women, activating memory through a mixture of politics, desire, and pain in a lucid and brutal prose.
17) Red April
Author
Publisher
Vintage International
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
Lima prosecutor Félix Chacaltana Saldívar becomes the investigator in a mysterious murder, discovering links to the terrorist group, the Shining Path, and mass graves that expose the destruction and corruption of Peruvian society during the Fujimori regime.
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
1996.
Language
English
Description
"In this novel, simultaneous plot lines ranging from an investigation by Corporal Lituma of a mysterious disappearance, to his deputy's love affair with a prostitute, to an Andean community terrorized by Shining Path guerrillas, and the alternating first- and third-person narrators all obscure coherence. Grossman's lazy translation needlessly retains large doses of original Spanish lexicon. An introduction, maps, and a translator's note are badly...
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"In 1859, ex-East India Company smuggler Merrick Tremayne is trapped at home in Cornwall after sustaining an injury that almost cost him his leg. . When the India Office recruits Merrick for an expedition to fetch quinine--essential for the treatment of malaria--from deep within Peru, he knows it's a terrible idea. Nearly every able-bodied expeditionary who's made the attempt has died, and he can barely walk. But Merrick is desperate to escape the...
Author
Series
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
The unnamed hero takes on the Peruvian government, priests, guerrillas and drug dealers to find an ancient manuscript whose nine insights prophesy New Age spirituality. An adventure story replete with energy transfers and other psychic phenomena.
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