Trueit, Trudi Strain
Summary: "Amid assignments that take the Explorer Academy recruits from the iceberg-filled waters of Antarctica to the bone-dry deserts of Argentina, Cruz Coronado is scrambling to complete the last piece of the cipher. With Nebula agents and the elusive explorer spy still out there, his opportunity to recover his mother's world-changing formula is slipping away. But as Cruz has learned from his time...
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Publisher / Publication Date: National Geographic 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC TRUEnglander, Nathan.
Summary: In 1976 Buenos Aires, Kaddish Poznan, the outcast son of a whore, and his wife, Lillian, are devastated by the disappearance of their own son, Pato, which forces them into the bleak corridors of the Ministry of Special Cases in search of the truth.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2007
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ENGGriffin, W. E. B.
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2005
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GRITrueit, Trudi Strain
Summary: Cruz Coronado is scrambling to complete the last piece of the cipher. His opportunity to recover his mother's world-changing formula is slipping away. But as Cruz has learned: true explorers must never give up.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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2 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD FIC TRUToibin, Colm
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Co. 1997
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TOIMendez, Yamile Saied
Summary: Seventeen-year-old Camila Hassan, a rising soccer star in Rosario, Argentina, dreams of playing professionally, in defiance of her fathers' wishes and at the risk of her budding romance with Diego. Rosario, Argentina. At home Camila Hassan lives within her mother's narrow expectations, her soccer-star brother's shadow, and under the abusive rule of her short-tempered father. On the field, she...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Young Readers 2020
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC MAECopies Available at East Bay
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC MENGreene, Graham
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon and Schuster 1973
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GREGriffin, W.E.B.
Summary: August 6, 1943: In his brief career in the Office of Strategic Services, twenty-four-year-old Cletus Frade has already been involved in a lot of unusual situations, but nothing like the one he's in now, standing with a German lieutenant colonel named Wilhelm Frogger in a Mississippi prisoner-of-war detention facility. Frade's job? To help Frogger escape so the OSS can use Frogger's knowledge...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Putnam Pub. 2009
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC GRIGriffin, W. E. B.
Summary: While World War II rages on in Europe, 24-year-old Cletus Frade has been hired to spring Wilhelm Frogger, a German officer, from a Mississippi prisoner-of-war camp. Having learned that Frogger has masterminded a plot to assassinate Hitler, Frade plans on bringing the war to a swift end. However, a rogue group of fascists, led by Argentinean Colonel Juan Peron, plans on thwarting the coup and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Audio 2009
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC GRIEnriquez, Mariana
Summary: El mundo de Mariana Enriquez no tiene por qué ser el nuestro, y, sin embargo, lo termina siendo. Bastan pocas frases para pisarlo, respirarlo y no olvidarlo gracias a una viveza emocional insólita. Con la cotidianidad hecha pesadilla, el lector se despierta abatido, perturbado por historias e imágenes que jamás conseguirá sacarse de la cabeza. Las autodenominadas "mujeres ardientes," que...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Español, una división de Penguin Random House LLC 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 468.4 FIC ENRGarretson, Dee
Summary: In this all-new very special miniseries, the Aldens have been recruited by a secret society to return lost artifacts and treasures to their rightful locations--all around the world! The final leg of the Aldens' journey brings them to South America and to the Salt Flats in northern Argentina. But when they hit a dead end, they realize someone has tricked them in order to delay their plans!...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Albert Whitman & Company 2017
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED BCGA 5Loedel, Daniel
Summary: "In 1976, Tomás Oriilla is a medical student in Buenos Aires, where he's moved in hopes of reuniting with Isabel, a childhood crush. But the reckless passion that has always drawn him is leading Isabel ever deeper into the ranks of young insurgents fighting an increasingly oppressive regime. As its thuggish milicos begin to disappear more and more people like her, she presents Tomás with a way...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LOEBetancourt, Ingrid
Summary: "From the extraordinary Colombian French politician and activist Ingrid Betancourt, a stunning debut novel about freedom and fate. Set against the backdrop of Argentina's Dirty War and infused with magical realism, The Blue Line is a breathtaking story of love and betrayal by one of the world's most renowned writers and activists. Ingrid Betancourt, author of the New York Times bestselling...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BETSteel, Danielle
Summary: Joachim von Hartmann was born and raised in Buenos Aires by his loving German mother, inseparable from his identical twin. When Joachim moves to Paris with his mother in his late teens, his twin stays behind and enters a dark world. Meanwhile, Joachim begins training to be a butler, fascinated by the precision and intense demands and goes on to work in some of the grandest homes in England. His...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print 2021
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC STEPauls, Alan.
Summary: The hero of this novel is obsessed with money. His father makes money in poker games and casinos. His mother marries again and squanders her small inherited fortune. A novel of hardcore economics where the sex was replaced with money, and the economy of an entire country goes insane without hope of recovery, a centrifuge created by inflation and financial irrationality.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Melville House 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PAUSchweblin, Samanta
Summary: El campo ha cambiado frente a nuestros ojos sin que nadie se diera cuenta. Y quizá no se trata solo de sequías y herbicidas, quizá se trate del hilo vital y filoso que nos ata a nuestros hijos, y del veneno que echamos sobre ellos. Nada es un cliché cuando finalmente sucede. "Distancia de rescate" sigue esta vertiginosa fatalidad haciéndose siempre las mismas preguntas: ¿hay acaso algún...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Literatura Random House 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 468.4 FIC SCHSteele, Michael Anthony.
Summary: Thirteen-year-old Ryan Barnes is youngest skater in a group on an international tour to South America, but a Argentinian team, led by an older skater and named Arsenio, is determined to win at any cost--including getting Ryan and his friends into serious trouble.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books 2014
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED STECopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC TONSacheri, Eduardo A. (Eduardo Alfredo)
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Publisher / Publication Date: Other Press 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SACCussler, Clive.
Summary: On December 7th, 1941, five brothers exploring a small island off the coast of Washington State make an extraordinary discovery, only to be interrupted by news of the Pearl Harbor attack. In the present, Cabrillo, chasing the remnants of a crashed satellite in the Argentina, stumbles upon a shocking revelation of his own. His search to untangle the mystery leads him to that small island and its...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Audio 2010
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC CUSCussler, Clive.
Summary: In December 7, 1941, five brothers exploring a shaft on an island off the coast of Washington State make an extraordinary discovery, but a tragic accident suspends further investigation. In the present, Juan Cabrillo and his Oregon team, chasing the remanants of a crashed satellite in the Argentine jungle, stumble upon a shocking revelation. His efforts to untangle the mystery lead first to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wheeler Pub. 2010
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC CUSCussler, Clive.
Summary: On December 7, 1941, five brothers exploring a shaft on a small island off the coast of Washington State make an exciting discovery, only to be interrupted by news of Pearl Harbor. In the present, Cabrillo, chasing the remnants of a crashed satellite in the Argentine jungle, makes a shocking discovery of his own. His search to untangle the mystery leads him first to that small island and its...
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2010
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Publisher / Publication Date: Akashic Books 2007
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CHASteel, Danielle
Summary: "Joachim von Hartmann was born and raised in Buenos Aires by his loving German mother, inseparable from his identical twin, Javier. When Joachim moves to Paris with his mother in his late teens, his twin stays behind and enters a dark world. Meanwhile, Joachim begins training to be a butler, fascinated by the precision and intense demands, and goes on to work in some of the grandest homes in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC STEDuBois, Jennifer
Summary: "When Lily Hayes arrives in Buenos Aires for her semester abroad, she is enchanted by everything she encounters: the colorful surroundings, the street food, the elusive guy next door. Her studious roommate Katy is a bit of a bore, but Lily didn't come toArgentina to hang out with other Americans. Five weeks later, Katy is found brutally murdered in their shared home, and Lily is the prime...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2013