Summary: The anchor of a popular news show flies to a small town in Ecuador to cover a story about a serial child killer. He saves a man after the town tries to lynch him. The man offers information about the case in exchange for a story about his innocence.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Palm Pictures 2005
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN CROThomas, Joan (Sandra Joan)
Summary: "A riveting novel, set in the rainforest of Ecuador, about five women left behind in the wilderness when their missionary husbands are killed. Based on real-life events."--Flyleaf.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Avenue 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC THOResau, Laura
Summary: Twelve-year-old Coco Hidden has grown up in her mother's chocolate shop in Colorado, along with her friend Leo de la Cueva, but recently things have not been going well; the shop is failing, and Leo is hanging out with the other boys, and barely wants totalk to her--but when they both win a culinary contest, the two children and their mothers find themselves on a trip to the Amazon in Ecuador,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2019
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Summary: Explores creative genius and fame through the life of a writer whose search for a muse has led him into dangerous and destructive places.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin 2005
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC THEHering, Marianne
Summary: Beth and Patrick time travel to 1950s and 1960s Equador where they come in contact with missionaries and the Waodani people.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Tyndale House Publishers 2016
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J Fiction HerHughes, Lorena
Summary: "As a child in Spain, Puri always knew her passion for chocolate was inherited from her father. But it's not until his death that she learns of something else she's inherited--a cocoa estate in Vinces, Ecuador, a town nicknamed "París Chiquito." Eager to claim her birthright and filled with hope for a new life after the devastation of World War I, she and her husband Cristóbal set out across...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2022
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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC HUGResau, Laura.
Summary: A child in Ecuador is sent to be the servant of a rich mestizo family where she is mistreated. She teaches herself to read and write and escapes, but she is lost between two cultures. Based on a true story.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2011
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC RESCórdova, Zoraida
Summary: "Perfect for fans of Alice Hoffman, Isabel Allende, and Sarah Addison Allen, this is a gorgeously written novel about a family searching for the truth hidden in their past and the power they've inherited, from the author of the acclaimed and "giddily exciting" (The New York Times Book Review) Brooklyn Brujas series"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CORStilton, Thea.
Summary: It is up to the Thea sisters to investigate when an Ecuadorian chocolate factory known for its environmental practices begins malfunctioning and the owner suspects sabotage.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic 2014
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1 available in Juvenile- Series, Call number: J Fiction Series Stilton 2014Summary: "Where in the world is Carmen Sandiego? Headed to the South American country of Ecuador for her next caper! It's up to Carmen and her crew to stop VILE from their evil exploits in the waters just off the coast--but what is VILE after this time? Adventure awaits in this action-packed graphic novel starring the world's greatest thief."--Provided by publisher.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 CARStilton, Thea.
Summary: It is up to the Thea sisters to investigate when an Ecuadorian chocolate factory known for its environmental practices begins malfunctioning and the owner suspects sabotage.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic 2014