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1) Bel Canto
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When terrorists seize hostages at an embassy party, an unlikely assortment of people thrown together, including American opera star Roxane Coss, and Mr. Hosokawa, a Japanese CEO and her biggest fan. From the bestselling author of "The Magician's Assistant" comes a marvelous novel of love, opera, and terrorism set in South America. Two couples, complete opposites, fall in love; sexual identities become confused; and a horrific imprisonment is transformed...
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From the #1 New York Times bestselling Grand Master of Adventure Clive Cussler comes a breathtaking thriller from the Numa Files series about a primitive Brazilian tribe whose secrets could save the world from the billionaire tycoon set on destroying it. An investigation into the sudden deaths of a pod of gray whales leads National Underwater & Marine Agency leader Kurt Austin to the Mexican coast, where someone tries to put him and his mini-sub permanently...
8) Eva Luna
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The history of a woman born poor, orphaned early, and who eventually rose to a position of unique influence.
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c1965, 1991
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The timely story of how the forces of change converge on a small tribe of Niaruna Indians living in the heart of the Amazon rain forest. In addition to being a prophetic commentary on emerging threats to the environment, and the troublesome encroachment of the modern world on traditional cultures, the novel is a suspenseful adventure story about two men striving to find meaning in a world not their own.
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1995.
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In the 18th Century, a Royal Navy ship runs aground during a storm while on a mission to harass Spanish vessels off the coast of South America. A mutiny breaks out and the novel follows two young sailors as they battle the elements and fellow sailors to survive. By the author of The Golden Ocean.
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[2007]
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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...
14) Up
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[2009]
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Carl Fredricksen lived alone. But things were changing all around Carl. People wanted him to leave his house so they could put up more buildings. So Carl tied balloons to his house and headed to South America. But in the air, a knock came at the door. Russell, a boy is there. And in South America Carl also finds a bird and a talking dog. Many adventures occur. Carl loses his house but he ends up with friends.
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Manolito de la Cruz wakes to a nightmare. Voices condemn him, he is racked with an unnatural hunger, and somehow he has bonded with a life mate whose name he doesn't even know. MaryAnn wants nothing to do with the Carpathian way of life, but her conscience won't let her leave Manolito's spirit lost in limbo. As the two look for a way to save him from his enemies in the shadow world, they uncover threats not just to Manolito, but to his entire race....
18) Violeta: a novel
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Living out her days in a remote part of her South American homeland, Violeta finds her life shaped by some of the most important events of history as she tells her story in the form of a letter to someone she loves above all others.
Violeta comes into the world on a stormy day in 1920, the first girl in a family with five boisterous sons. From the start, her life is marked by extraordinary events, for the ripples of the Great War are still being felt,...
20) Excavation
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Ingenious traps have been laid to ensnare the careless and unsuspecting; where earth-shattering discoveries -- and wealth beyond imagining -- could be the reward for those with the courage to face the terrible unknown. Here where the perilous journey ends, in the cold, shrouded heart of a breathtaking necropolis; something created by Man, yet not humanly possible. Something wondrous. Something terrifying.