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1) The cobra
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For decades, the world has been fighting the drug cartels, and losing, their billions of dollars making them the most powerful and destructive organizations on earth. Until one man is asked to take charge. Paul Devereaux used to run Special Operations for the CIA before they retired him for being too ruthless. Now he can have anything he requires, do anything he thinks necessary. No boundaries, no rules, no questions asked.
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2023 FPPL Latine/Hispanic Heritage Month Reading List
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2023 FPPL Latine/Hispanic Heritage Month Reading List
2023 Read Widely: Central & South America
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Published to worldwide critical acclaim, with more than one million copies already in print, this is the lush, wondrous story of an unrequited love that survives half a century and more than 600 distractions.
"A man with the soul of a poet and the patience of a saint, Florentino Ariza has waited more than half a century for the beautiful and haughty Fermina Daza, who revoked her promise to be his wife and instead married the wealthy Dr. Juvenal Urbino....
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Emma Caldridge thrillers volume 1
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"A breathless, hair-raising read, one of the most gripping thrillers I've read in a long, long time."
—Tess Gerritsen, New York Times bestselling author of The Keepsake
A high-octane debut thriller in the tradition of James Rollins, Lee Child, and Daniel Silva, Running From the Devil by Jaime Freveletti starts racing on page one and never slows down for a minute until it crosses the finish line. Lee Child calls it, "Just
...7) The bitch
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"In Colombia's brutal jungle, childless Damaris develops an intense and ultimately doomed relationship with an orphaned puppy. Colombia's Pacific coast, where everyday life entails warding off the brutal forces of nature. In this constant struggle, nothing is taken for granted. Damaris lives with her fisherman husband in a shack on a bluff overlooking the sea. Childless and at that age 'when women dry up', as her uncle puts it, she is eager to adopt...
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Once a month, the refinery workers of the Tropical Oil Company descend upon Tora, a city in the Colombian forest. They journey down from the mountains searching for earthly bliss and hoping to encounter Sayonara, the legendary Indian prostitute who rules their squalid paradise like a queen. Beautiful, exotic, and mysterious, Sayonara, the undisputed barrio angel, captivates whoever crosses her path. Then, one day, she violates the unwritten rules...
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Carlotta is frantic. It appears that Paolina, a street-smart teenage girl she's always thought of as a little sister, has run away. After dead-end investigations throughout Boston, Carlotta fears the worst. Especially when she connects the disappearance to Paolina's biological father, Roldán Gonzales, a ruthless Colombian drug lord. To find Paolina, first Carlotta has to find Gonzales-but he's vanished too. The official report is that he's dead....
10) House of Beauty
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Karen, who works in a high-end Bogotá beauty salon, is privy to all of her clients' secrets, but when a girl turns up dead and Karen was the last one to see her alive, what Karen knows could provide clues to the killer's identity.
11) Green ice
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A down-on-his-luck American makes one last gamble to reap a fortune in the Colombian emerald business. After years of stultifying office work, Joseph Wiley will try anything to get rich in a hurry. He's hustled all kinds of products, but each venture has left him deeper in debt, chained tighter to his office desk. When his latest moneymaker goes up in smoke, Wiley doesn't even bother to quit his job. He takes every cent he has to the airport and flies...
12) Manatee rescue
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When her father successfully harpoons a manatee, leaving its baby orphaned, Manuela vows to rescue the calf and return it to the river, helping change the attitudes of the people in her village in the process.
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First English edition of a classic Verne adventure, with a unique feminist twist.
Jules Verne (1828-1905) was the first author to popularize the literary genre of science fiction. Written in 1898 and part of the author's famous series Voyages Extraordinaires, The Mighty Orinoco tells the story of a young man's search for his father along the then-uncharted Orinoco River of Venezuela. The text contains all the ingredients of a classic Verne scientific-adventure...
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"While her parents are away, a teenager finds herself home alone, with the household staff mysteriously gone, no phone connection, and news of an insurgency on the radio-and then she hears a knock at the door. Her teacher, who has been kidnapped by guerrillas, recites Shakespeare in the jungle to a class of sticks, leaves, and stones while his captors watch his every move. Another classmate, who has fled Colombia for the clubs of New York, is unable...
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"A US Army Special Forces team carrying sterilized weapons and unmarked uniforms is on its way to Colombia. The mission: conduct covert, unilateral raids to destroy cocaine processing laboratories. Of course nothing is as it seems especially once the CIA gets involved. Throw in an Israeli mercenary, betrayal and double-dealing in Washington and the team soon finds itself wondering what the real mission is"--Amazon.com.
16) Salt crystals
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Victoria returns to San Andrés, a Colombian island off the coast of Nicaragua, after many years away. The island is a unique mix of noisy tourists, sudden storms, sewage blooms, and government resistance groups. Here Victoria must confront the place she thought she knew, her own history, and the possibility for a real future.
17) María
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Maria es, sin duda, la mejor y mas conocida obra de Jorge Isaacs. El amor d ela protagonista con Efrain, su separacion y su tragica muerte, se desarrolla teniendo como telon de fondo a la America colonial, su paisaje, habitantes, esperanzas y pesares. Poeta, diputado activo participante en las luchas civiles que agitaron Colombia en el siglo X1X, Jorge Isaacs creo en Maria, una de las mas notables novelas romanticas en Hispanoamerica.
18) 100 horas
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"Maddie está fastidiada del circulo de amigos presumido y superficial de su prima Génesis. Génesis está cansada de la predecible escena social de Miami, con entradas exclusivas, pequeños juegos de poder y novios traicioneros. Mientras que Maddie ansía pasar momentos familiares durante esas vacaciones de primavera, Génesis busca las novedades, como una salida de último minuto a una playa virgen en Colombia. Y cuando Génesis quiere algo, sucede....
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Jack Ryan and John Clark novels volume 6
Jack Ryan Universe volume 6
Brilliance Audio on compact disc
Jack Ryan novel volume 4
Jack Ryan Universe volume 6
Brilliance Audio on compact disc
Jack Ryan novel volume 4
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When Colombian drug lords assassinate both the U.S. ambassador and the visiting head of the FBI, their actions trigger a covert response from the American government-- a response that goes horribly wrong ... As the newly named Deputy Director of Intelligence for the CIA, Jack Ryan should be privy to operations like the one in Colombia, but he's been left completely in the dark. With the help of field officer John Clark, Ryan intends to find out what's...
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