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2) 100 hours
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Series
Language
English
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While on an exotic spring break to an untouched beach in Colombia, Maddie, Genesis, and their friends are kidnapped and must escape their captors if they want to survive.
5) The cobra
Author
Language
English
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Description
Having once been forcibly retired from the CIA for being too ruthless, former director of Special Operations Paul Devereaux is called back into action, with the agency giving him free reign and unlimited resources to take down the top drug cartels
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Series
Killer Instincts (Elle Kennedy) volume 1
Language
English
Description
Dangerous. Ruthless. Savage. And she's the good guy.
Abby Sinclair had a desperate childhood until she was rescued and adopted by a retired army ranger who molded her into a master of self-defense. Now, she's a cunning and fearless assassin thrust into assignment after dangerous assignment, using everything she has-nerve, resilience, strength, sex-to come out on top. Her only rule: trust no one.
Abby's latest assignment is in Columbia: go...
Abby Sinclair had a desperate childhood until she was rescued and adopted by a retired army ranger who molded her into a master of self-defense. Now, she's a cunning and fearless assassin thrust into assignment after dangerous assignment, using everything she has-nerve, resilience, strength, sex-to come out on top. Her only rule: trust no one.
Abby's latest assignment is in Columbia: go...
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
"To save their father's life, a brother and sister must journey across a land full of magical beings from Colombian folklore and find the most powerful and dangerous of them all--the Madremonte"--
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Publisher
Alfaguara
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
Español
Description
Publisher Annotation: Fernando Vallejo returns to the forefront with a powerful tirade against the Colombian political class and what is happening in the world. The mad protagonist argues that democracy is the malicious electoral system of corrupt people who go after the loot of power, but one that at least allows citizens to choose between the bad and the worst; that patriotism only brings wars; that religions have prevented the rise of morality;...
10) Reputations
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Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
An influential political cartoonist is paid an unexpected visit by a young woman who upends his sense of personal history and forces him to reevaluate his life, work, and position in the world.
11) A King's Ransom
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English
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Bestselling author James Grippando demonstrates his trademark gifts once again in a taut new tale of intrigue that will keep you guessing to the final, breathtaking scene. Nick Rey is on the fast track at a hot Miami law firm when he is suddenly plunged into a dangerous bid to save his father, who has been kidnapped while on business in Colombia; the ransom demand of three million dollars is far more than his family can ever hope to raise. Fortunately,...
12) Guayacanal
Author
Publisher
Literatura Random House
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
Español
Description
Publisher Annotation: In Guayacanal-the name of his family’s farm, around which the lives of the family revolve-William Ospina tells the story of his great-grandparents, his grandparents, and of Padua and the surrounding areas, the place where he was born and where he spent a happy, charming childhood that he has never left behind. With engrossing, intimate prose that is both simple and poetic, he brings the reader from past to present, and from...
13) Llegaron!
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Publisher
Alfaguara
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
Español
Description
With the world seemingly at their feet, the narrator and his siblings cruise to picturesque Santa Anita to visit the narrator's grandmother. There, lessons about childhood and the rolling tides of time help the siblings understand what life is truly about. Colombia, 352pp.
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Publisher
Disney Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Encanto tells the tale of an extraordinary family, the Madrigals, who live hidden in the mountains of Colombia, in a magical house, in a vibrant town, in a wondrous, charmed place called an Encanto. The magic of the Encanto has blessed every child in the family with a unique gift from super strength to the power to heal--every child except one, Mirabel. But when she discovers that the magic surrounding the Encanto is in danger, Mirabel decides that...
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Series
Publisher
Alfaguara
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
Español
Description
Publisher Annotation: By Colombian Narrative Prize winner, comes a monumental book about the passing of the human species on Earth. Simón Hernández, a writer from Bogota with more pretentions than creations, has died. And in his journey through the underworld he meets seven characters of other times and landscapes: a seventeenth century nun from Tunja, a Portuguese undertaker who witnessed Lisbon s destruction in 1755, a young impostor who collaborated...
16) Río muerto
Author
Series
Publisher
Alfaguara
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
Español
Description
Publisher Annotation: Story tells of a fable about a mother who on a leap day went to every criminal and hit man in town crying out desperately for them to kill her and her two children because they had left her family fatherless. On the outskirts of Belén del Chamí, a town that has yet to appear on any map of Colombia, the mute Salomon Palacios is murdered a few steps from his home. After the first days of mourning, his widow, the courageous...
17) Algun dia, hoy
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Publisher
Planeta
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
Español
Description
Publisher Annotation: On a stormy and muddy night a bastard girl is born whom, believing her dead, is baptized with the name Bathsheba. No one knows that inside her, she carries the force of femininity, as well as the magic and rebellion that will make her overcome all obstacles. She will create an indissoluble bond with her milk sister, Capitolina, a poor rich girl, and none will remain indifferent to her gaze of fire. Not even Emmanuel, the French...
18) Escombros
Author
Publisher
Alfaguara
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Español
Description
Publisher Annotation: The new book by the author of El desbarrancadero / The Edge of the Abyss, winner of the Guadalajara Book Fair Prize for Literature, and the Rómulo Gallegos Prize "His explosive anger is so bright, so sonorous, real, sincere, funny at times, cruel almost always, that reading it is something joyful and invigorating." -Pedro Almodovar In Rubble, a book that connects directly with one of the most emblematic and recognized works...
19) El cielo a tiros
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Series
Publisher
Alfaguara
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
Español
Description
Publisher Annotation: A thrilling novel about the generation of children of the major Colombian drug lords of the '90s, and a true portrait of Medellin today. Larry returns to the country twelve years after the disappearance of his father, a mobster who was close to Pablo Escobar in the 1990s. His remains have finally been found in a mass grave, and Larry is returning to reclaim them and give them a proper funeral. He is picked up at the airport...
20) Colombian psycho
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Series
Publisher
Alfaguara
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
Español
Description
Publisher Annotation: An exciting thriller portraying the various faces of evil. Gamboa s narrative is reminiscent of Roberto Bolaño s in his masterful use of intrigue, the complexity of his literary references, and his gritty take on violence, sex, and drugs. Publisher s Weekly In an unexpected find, human bones are discovered in La Calera ridge, east of Bogota. Prosecutor Edilson Jutsiñamuy, joined by Agent Laiseca and the rest of his team,...
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