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Down the Rabbit Hole: An Echo Falls Mystery (Echo Falls)

Down the Rabbit Hole: An Echo Falls Mystery (Echo Falls)

by Peter Abrahams

Welcome to Echo Falls, home of a thousand secrets. Ingrid is in the wrong place at the wrong time. Or at least her shoes are. And getting them back will mean getting tangled up in a murder investigation as complicated as the mysteries solved by her idol, Sherlock Holmes. With soccer practice, schoolwork, and the lead role in her town's production of Alice in Wonderland , Ingrid is swamped. But as things in... (more)

7 años secuestrado por las FARC (Spanish Edition)

7 años secuestrado por las FARC (Spanish Edition)

by Luis Eladio Perez

In this searing account, Dario Arizmendi recounts the story of Luis Eladio Perez, a man that was held hostage by Colombia's Revolutionary Armed Forces (FARC). His story gives testimony to a tragic period in Colombia's history, to the unimaginable reality of living in captivity for seven years. ''Luis Eladio Perez shared the terrible experiences of living in captivity -the humiliations, ill-treatment and total loss... (more)

Out of Captivity: Surviving 1,967 Days in the Colombian Jungle

Out of Captivity: Surviving 1,967 Days in the Colombian Jungle

by Gary Brozek

On February 13, 2003, a plane carrying three American civilian contractors—Marc Gonsalves, Keith Stansell, and Tom Howes—crash-landed in the mountainous jungle of Colombia. Dazed and shaken, they emerged from the plane bloodied and injured as gunfire rained down around them. As of that moment they were prisoners of the FARC, a Colombian terrorist and Marxist rebel organization. In an instant they had become... (more)