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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 15
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In Potosí, a silver mining city in the new Spanish viceroyalty of Peru, two teen vigilantes set out to expose corruption and deliver justice after Kiki's brother is murdered and the prostitute he loved disappears. Includes author's note.
4) Killing Che
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A rich, complex historical novel in the spirit of Graham Greene and John Le Carre, Killing Ché is a personal and political thriller that pits history's most infamous insurgent against a conflicted and world-weary CIA officer.The year is 1967; Vietnam is in flames and half a world away few realize that a firefight on a jungle road in Latin America is the beginning of a new and secret war. In the Ñancahuazú Valley of Bolivia international revolutionary...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 15
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Twelve-year-old Ana dreams of leaving her small Bolivian mining town high in the Andres for another life. On her mountain, the air is thin, the weather cold, and no matter how hard her father works in the mines or her mother searches through discarded rocks for bits of silver to sell there's never enough food or money. To make it off the mountain and get a job in the cities down below, Ana knows she must stay in school. But Ana's dream of a better...
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One evening, eight Mennonite women climb into a hay loft to conduct a secret meeting. For the past two years, each of these women, and more than a hundred other girls in their colony, has been repeatedly violated in the night by demons coming to punish them for their sins. Now that the women have learned they were in fact drugged and attacked by a group of men from their own community, they are determined to protect themselves and their daughters...
7) Affections
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Pub. Date
2017.
Description
"A ... novel about an unusual family's breakdown set in South America during the time of Che Guevara and based on the life of Third Reich cinematographer Hans Ertl"--
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Life of faith: Millie Keith volume 8
(Kersten R.)Life of faith.Millie Keith volume 8
Life of faith Millie Keith volume 8
(Kersten R.)Life of faith.Millie Keith volume 8
Life of faith Millie Keith volume 8
Pub. Date
c2003
Description
Twenty-two-year-old Millie Landreth, a missionary in Bolivia in 1843, finds her faith shaken when a local witch woman calls upon the power of her false god to curse Millie's husband, Charles.
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Series
Life of faith: Millie Keith volume 7
(Kersten R.)Life of faith.Millie Keith volume 7
Life of faith Millie Keith volume 7
(Kersten R.)Life of faith.Millie Keith volume 7
Life of faith Millie Keith volume 7
Pub. Date
c2003
Description
Millie Keith has always dreamed of serving God with her body, soul, and spirit, so when God calls her and her new husband to a life in the foreign missions field, she does not question her path and sets out to live her dreams.
11) Andreo's race
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Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 7
Description
"Just as sixteen-year-old Andreo, skilled in death-defying ironman events in wilderness regions, is about to compete in rugged Bolivia, he and his friend Raul (another Bolivian adoptee) begin to suspect that their adoptive parents have unwittingly acquired them illegally. Plotting to use the upcoming race to pursue the truth, they veer on an epic journey to locate Andreo's birth parents, only to find themselves hazardously entangled with a gang of...