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1) Peru
Author
Publisher
Capstone Press
Pub. Date
c2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Discusses the land, history, economy, and culture of Peru.
Author
Publisher
The History Press
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
Stuart Stirling tells the history of the Inca princesses and of their conquistador lovers and descendants. The story begins with the early days of Pizarro's conquest at Cajamarca in the 1530s, when the emperor Atahualpa gifted his young sister wife Quispe Sis Huaylas to Pizarro. This was the beginning of the distribution and rape of the princesses among the conquistadors - a practice which was in many ways a distillation of the tragedy of the Spanish...
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
One day Enrique, a high-profile businessman, receives a visit from Rolando Garro, the editor of a notorious magazine that specializes in salacious expos©♭s. Garro presents Enrique with lewd pictures from an old business trip and demands that he invest in the magazine. Enrique refuses, and the next day the pictures are on the front page. Meanwhile, Enrique's wife is in the midst of a passionate and secret affair with the wife of Enrique's lawyer...
Author
Series
Magic tree house volume 34
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"The magic tree house whisks Jack and Annie away to South America, where they must climb Machu Picchu to save a baby llama" -- Provided by publisher.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
State of Fear takes place in Peru, yet serves as a cautionary tale for a world engaged in a “global war on terror”. It dramatizes the human and societal costs a democracy faces when it embarks on a “war” against terror, a “war” potentially without end, all too easily exploited by unscrupulous leaders seeking personal political gain. An unforgettable array of characters takes us down a troubling road peopled by perpetrators and victims,...
Author
Series
Publisher
Franklin Watts
Pub. Date
2009.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Profiles the explorer Francisco Pizarro, from his early life to his expeditions to Peru, where he battled the indigenous Incan empire and claimed its land and riches for Spain.
Author
Series
The Incas trilogy volume 1
Publisher
Canelo Digital Publishing Ltd
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
The New World and the Old clash in this bestselling epic of the Conquistadors and the Incas. In sixteenth century Peru, Anamaya, daughter of an Incan princess, is summoned to the dying Huayna Capac , ruler of the Incan empire. Huayna makes her guardian of the Empire, entrusted with the mysteries of the Inca Gods. But after his death, Anamaya finds she cannot remember these secrets. Her only reminder is the black puma spirit that prowls around her...
Author
Publisher
The History Press
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Francisco Pizarro is possibly one of the best known but least understood figures of world history. In 1530, at the age of fifty-four, he set out on his successful and bloody conquest of Peru, thus changing the future of a continent and its peoples forever. It was a long way from his humble beginnings as an illiterate, illegitimate pig-herder. Within these pages Stuart Stirling tells the story of adversity and tragedy which was the life of Francisco...
Author
Publisher
The History Press
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
The Inca civilization of Peru was one of the gratest of the ancient civilizations of the Americas. Famous for their massive temples and fortresses built from huge blocks of stone and decorated with sheets of pure gold, the Incas also developed a system of government, capable of holding a vast area of territory together, and an extensive system of roads, connecting administrative centres, which acted as a means of colonization. Their religion of human...
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