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81) Machu picchu
Author
Pub. Date
c.2021
Description
Engaging images accompany information about Machu Picchu.
83) Peru
Author
Pub. Date
c2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 1
Description
An introduction to the history, geography, people, economy, transportation, mass communication, and social life and customs of Peru, the third largest country in South America.
85) Peru
Author
Series
Pub. Date
c1999
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Presents the landscape, culture, food, animals, and sports of Peru.
86) Peru
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2001]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 10.4 - AR Pts: 6
Description
Examines the land, people and history of Peru and discusses its current state of affairs and place in the world today.
87) Machu Picchu
Author
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.7 - AR Pts: 2
Description
Describes the excavation of Machu Picchu, discussing the history and culture of the site, leading excavators, and their findings.
88) Valiant ladies
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 15
Description
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.
Pub. Date
[2016]
Description
Peruvian leaders will stop at nothing to keep their respective goals intact. President Alan Garcia begins aggressively extracting oil, minerals, and gas from untouched indigenous Amazonian land. He is quickly met with fierce opposition from the indigenous leader Alberto Pizango. Alberto's passionate speeches against Garcia prove a powerful rallying cry from those of his supporters. When Garcia continues to ignore their pleas, a war of words erupts...
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Description
From the Nobel Laureate comes a politically charged detective novel weaving through the underbelly of Peruvian privilege. In the 1990s, during the turbulent and deeply corrupt years of Alberto Fujimori's presidency, two wealthy couples of Lima's high society become embroiled in a disturbing vortex of erotic adventures and politically driven blackmail.One day Enrique, a high-profile businessman, receives a visit from Rolando Garro, the editor of a...