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In his first adventure since the revelation that he’s a parent, Dirk Pitt must uncover the truth behind the myth of another long-lost father-figure, Homer’s Odysseus, if he’s going to stop a dangerous cult from reshaping the earth in their own image.
Fraternal twins, Summer Pitt and Dirk Pitt, Jr., are working to determine the origin of a strange brown tide infesting the ocean off the shore of Nicaragua when...
Fraternal twins, Summer Pitt and Dirk Pitt, Jr., are working to determine the origin of a strange brown tide infesting the ocean off the shore of Nicaragua when...
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2020.
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"Fleeing the ravages of wartime Vienna, Pepa and her family find safe harbor in the small town of El Castillo, on the banks of the San Juan River in Nicaragua. There her parents seek to eradicate Yellow Fever while Pepa falls under the spell of the jungle and the town's eccentric inhabitants. But Pepa's life - including her relationship with local boy Guillermo - comes to a halt when her family abruptly moves to New York, leaving the young girl disoriented...
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"Gladys Darío, sterling police lieutenant for the revolutionary Sandinista government in volatile 1986 Nicaragua, has been kidnapped by a notorious Contra commander. Gladys knows she doesn't have a hope for escape, unless her partner on the police force, former Sandinista guerrilla comandante Ajax Montoya, stages a rescue attempt. When he does, it's more outrageous than Gladys could ever have imagined. But it comes at a price. Ajax is imprisoned...
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MacMurray & Beck
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[1999]
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English
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An American midwife on holiday in Mexico decides to stay on to help the local people and a priest falls in love with her. Kate Banner is a woman in her forties from Indiana and the culmination of her work is a clinic and school in Guatemala.
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"When Maria Vazquez returns to Nicaragua for her beloved grandfather's funeral, she brings with her a mysterious package from her grandmother's past--and a secret of her own. And she also carries the burden of her tense relationship with her mother Ninexin, once a storied revolutionary, now a tireless government employee. Between Maria and Ninexin lies a chasm created by the death of Maria's father, who was killed during the revolution when Maria...
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"El inspector Dolores Morales y el subdirector Bert Dixon, del Departamento de Narcóticos de la policía nicaragüense, investigan la desaparición de una mujer; las únicas pistas son un yate abandonado en la costa de Laguna de Perlas, un libro quemado y una camiseta ensangrentada (más tarde aparecerán una valija con cien mil dólares y un vestido de novia). Los detectives crean una insólita red de espionaje en la que participan por igual la...
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Former Vice-president of Nicaragua Sergio Ramirez is one of the best Latin American writers in these current times. Here he writes about a variety of Los Nicaraguenses whose lives, or that of their relatives, have crossed paths over the years from 1930 to the early 1960's and their heart-wrenching experiences as the Somoza dynasty ruled Nicaragua with an iron fist (or two). It is humorous, sad, touching, disturbing and full of insight for anyone wishing...
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2015.
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"When Charlie's choices produce devastating consequences, he sets out to right wrongs, traveling to Central America where he will meet those who have paid for his actions. Will their encounter present Charlie with a way to seek the redemption he thought was impossible--and free his heart to love one woman as he never knew he could?"--
Charlie Finn had to grow up fast; highly intelligent, he earned a life-changing scholarship to Harvard, where he...
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