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Gods of the Lost Crossroads

Gods of the Lost Crossroads
  • Author(s): Robin Lloyd-Jones
  • Location(s): London, Peru
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1823

Rainbow, an African shaman travels through London in the early-nineteenth century in an attempt to locate the gods who will rescue his homeland from famine. Ending up with the mercenaries in the Peruvian War of Independence he finds his...

The Caiman of Iquitos

The Caiman of Iquitos
  • Author(s): Bayard and Holmes
  • Location(s): Peru, Japan
  • Genre(s): Spy, Thriller
  • Era(s): Present

In a chilling continuation of their Apex Predator novels, Bayard & Holmes compel us into the darkest corners of the Shadow World. A world where billionaires are not subject to governments and assassins, rogue nations, and terrorists are their...

Toward That Which Is Beautiful

Toward That Which Is Beautiful
  • Author(s): Marian O'Shea Wernicke
  • Location(s): Altiplano, Peru
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1964-1965

Sister Mary Katherine, a young American nun, is working in a small town in the Highlands of Peru in 1964. One day she slips away from the convent with no money and no destination. Disoriented in a culture not...

Monkeys on the Road: One family’s vanlife adventure south in search of a simpler life

Monkeys on the Road: One family’s vanlife adventure south in search of a simpler life
  • Author(s): Mary Hollendoner
  • Location(s): Central America, Mexico, Peru, South America
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Travelogue
  • Era(s): contemporary

A family road trip adventure from California to Argentina, finishing up just a few months ago in mid-2021! “Monkeys on the Road is primarily a heart-warming family travel memoir full of nail-biting adventures, but also weaves in educational snippets...

A Bear Called Paddington

A Bear Called Paddington
  • Author(s): Michael Bond, Peggy Fortnum (Illustrator)
  • Location(s): London, Peru
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): N/A

“A bear on Paddington Station?” said Mrs Brown in amazement. “Don’t be silly – there can’t be.” Paddington Bear had travelled all the way from Darkest Peru when the Brown family first met him on Paddington station. Since then...

On Wilder Seas

On Wilder Seas
  • Author(s): Nikki Marmery
  • Location(s): South America, Pacific Ocean, Peru
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1579

April 1579: When two ships meet off the Pacific coast of New Spain, an enslaved woman seizes the chance to escape. But Maria has unwittingly joined Francis Drake’s circumnavigation voyage as he sets sail on a secret detour into...

The Machu Picchu Mystery (A Monstacademy Mystery)

The Machu Picchu Mystery (A Monstacademy Mystery)
  • Author(s): Matt Beighton, Amalia Rendon (Illustrator)
  • Location(s): Peru
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): N/A

The fourth and most spooky Monstacademy mystery. The mountains are full of secrets… Trixie, Gloria and Colin are off on a trip to Peru to study ancient monsters. When they arrive and find that the children of the local...

The Key to Finding Jack

The Key to Finding Jack
  • Author(s): Ewa Jozefkowicz
  • Location(s): Peru
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): early 21st century

Flick’s big brother, Jack, goes missing in Peru and she is desperate to find him. But can she solve the greatest mystery of all: who Jack really is? A heartwarming, third novel from Waterstones Prize shortlisted author, Ewa Jozefkowicz,...

Behind Inca Walls: A Peace Corps Memoir

Behind Inca Walls: A Peace Corps Memoir
  • Author(s): Evelyn Kohl LaTorre
  • Location(s): Peru
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): 1960s

At twenty-one, Evelyn is naïve about life and love. Raised in a small Montana town, she moves at age sixteen with her devout Catholic family to California. There, she is drawn to Latino culture when she works among the...

Along the Inca Road

Along the Inca Road
  • Author(s): Karin Muller
  • Location(s): Ecuador, Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Peru
  • Genre(s): Travelogue
  • Era(s): Later 20th Century

In its heyday, the Royal Inca Highway was an extraordinary feat of engineering. Meriting comparisons to the Great Wall of China, legend has it that the route was built not by men, but by the gods. An essential component...

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