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3) Bel canto
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
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Description
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,...
4) Dark peril
Author
Language
English
Description
Two lovers are bound by the very desires that could destroy them in this darkly exquisite novel in the #1 New York Times bestselling Carpathian series.
There’s only one way for Dominic—one of the most powerful of the Carpathian Dragonseekers—to learn the secrets of the enemy: ingest their parasitic vampire blood, infiltrate the camp, and relay the information to the Carpathians before he goes out fighting. There...
There’s only one way for Dominic—one of the most powerful of the Carpathian Dragonseekers—to learn the secrets of the enemy: ingest their parasitic vampire blood, infiltrate the camp, and relay the information to the Carpathians before he goes out fighting. There...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
#1 New York Times bestselling author Christine Feehan returns to her uniquely sensual Carpathian world in a novel about the nature of true love and the unnatural forces that could destroy it...
Manolito De La Cruz knew he was dangerously close to turning into a vampire. The last thing he expected after being called back to his Carpathian homeland by Prince Mikhail was to catch the scent of his destined lifemate in MaryAnn Delaney....
Manolito De La Cruz knew he was dangerously close to turning into a vampire. The last thing he expected after being called back to his Carpathian homeland by Prince Mikhail was to catch the scent of his destined lifemate in MaryAnn Delaney....
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Series
Language
English
Description
"As brutal as the undead he hunted, Zacarias was a master executioner. But after an endless lifetime of evil, his savage journey is over. Zacarias has accomplished everything he set out to do. His brothers are safeguarded. Each has found a woman who completes him. And they are at peace. For them, he walked the edge of madness. But without a hunt to define him, Zacarias wonders, for the first time, who he really is. The answer awaits back home in Peru"--P....
12) Do or die
Author
Series
Reluctant heroes ; 1
Language
English
Description
Navy SEAL Ian Dunn went rogue in a big way when he turned his talents to a lawless life of jewel heists and con jobs, or so the world has been led to believe. In reality, the former Special Ops warrior is still fighting for good, leading a small band of freelance covert operatives who take care of high stakes business in highly unofficial ways. That makes Ian the hands down choice when the US government must breach a heavily guarded embassy and rescue...
14) The orchids
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
1982.
Language
English
Description
As the world closes in around them, two Nazis hide out in a tropical paradise The servants sense something strange about the two old men. They are not sure what business Dr. Langhof and Dr. Ludtz have in El Caliz, but they are certain that whatever they do in their colonial mansion is the work of the devil. Although they do not know the specifics of the two men's crimes, the servants are right to suspect something sinister. The men are Nazis, fugitives...
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Language
Español
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"La historia se desarrolla en una remota villa de la amazonia suramericana donde el bambú está presente en todo, el jefe de la comunidad, Huascar era un maestro ya anciano que luego de recorrer el mundo vivía en medio de la selva porque así lo había decidido. Tenía tres hijos, dos varones y una niña de apenas 14 años. Huascar les deja un legado como recuerdo en el que había estado trabajando en su taller por años en secreto y nadie lo ha...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.4 - AR Pts: 32
Language
English
Description
A magnificent saga of proud and passionate men and women and the turbulent times through which they suffer and triumph. They are the Truebas. And theirs is a world you will not want to leave, and one you will not forget.
17) Austral
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"From the author of Natural History, a dazzling novel about legacy, memory, and the desire to know and be known"--
Author
Publisher
Harper Collins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
For ten years, Norma has been the on-air voice of consolation and hope for the Indians in the mountains and the poor from the barrios-a people broken by war's violence. As the host of Lost City Radio, she reads the names of those who have disappeared-those whom the furiously expanding city has swallowed. Through her efforts lovers are reunited and the lost are found. But in the aftermath of the decadelong bloody civil conflict, her own life is about...
Author
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
Based on real family events, Danny Scheinmann's novel paints a dramatic portrait of two epic love stories.
1992: Traveling through South America with his girlfriend, Leo wakes up in a hospital to find his girlfriend is dead. He blames himself for the tragedy and is sucked into a spiral of despair. But a surprising secret leads Leo to discover something that will change his life forever.
1917: Moritz is a POW fugitve, with seven thousand kilometers...