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Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Tambien de este lado hay suenos. Lydia Quixano Perez lives in the Mexican city of Acapulco. She runs a bookstore. She has a son, Luca, the love of her life, and a wonderful husband who is a journalist. And while there are cracks beginning to show in Acapulco because of the drug cartels, her life is, by and large, fairly comfortable. Even though she knows they'll never sell, Lydia stocks some of her all-time favorite books in her store. And then one...
Author
Publisher
Del Rey, an imprint of Random House, a division of Penguin Random House, LLC
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
From the New York Times bestselling author of Mexican Gothic comes a riveting noir about a daydreaming secretary, a lonesome thug, and the mystery of the missing woman that brings them together. 1970s Mexico City. Maite is a secretary who lives for one thing: the latest issue of Secret Romance. While student protests and political unrest consume the city, Maite escapes into stories of passion and danger. Her next-door neighbor, Leonora, a beautiful...
Author
Series
Wyman Ford novels volume 1
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Tom Broadbent comes across a dying man while riding through a New Mexico canyon, the man asks Tom to deliver a notebook containing mysterious numbers to his daughter, sending Tom on a dangerous journey that puts them in an assassin's path.
5) Like water for chocolate: a novel in monthly installments, with recipes, romances, and home remedies
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
1992
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Author
Language
English
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Description
An American classic widely considered to be one of the best novels of the 20th century In 1851, Father Jean Marie Latour becomes the Apostolic Vicar to New Mexico. While the area is American by law, it's still Mexican and Indian by custom and belief. During the years that follow, Latour tirelessly but gently spreads his faith while facing external and internal obstacles. Loosely based on the life of Jean-Baptiste Lamy and the construction of the Cathedral...
8) Mexico
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c1992
Language
English
Description
Norman Claysan, an American, arrives in Mexico to report on two matadors and to learn more about his family's past.
10) The Chili Queen
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
This Literary Guild and Doubleday Book club alternate by best-selling author Sandra Dallas features a bank robber, a mail-order bride, and a cathouse madam joining forces on a quest for happiness in 1880s New Mexico.
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Series
Language
English
Description
What begins as a typical day for Officer Bernadette Manuelito ”serving a bench warrant, dealing with a herd of cattle obstructing traffic, and stumbling across a crime scene ”takes an unexpected twist when shes called to help find an old friend. Years ago, Bernie and Maya were roommates, but time and Mayas struggles with addiction drove them apart. Now Mayas brother asks Bernie to find out what happened to his sister Tracing Mayas whereabouts,...
12) Depth of winter
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Series
Language
English
Description
"The new novel in Craig Johnson's beloved New York Times bestselling Longmire series. Welcome to Walt Longmire's worst nightmare. In Craig Johnson's latest mystery, Depth of Winter, an international hit man and the head of one of the most vicious drug cartels in Mexico has kidnapped Walt's beloved daughter, Cady, to auction her off to his worst enemies, of which there are many. The American government is of limited help and the Mexican one even less....
13) Don't look back
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
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Description
In Don't Look Back, Eve Hardaway, newly single mother of one, is on a trip she's long dreamed of--a rafting and hiking tour through the jungles and mountains of Oaxaca, in southern Mexico. Eve wanders off the trail, to a house in the distance with a menacing man in the yard beyond it, throwing machetes at a human-shaped target. Disturbed by the sight, Eve moves quickly and quietly back to her group, taking care to avoid being seen. As she creeps along,...
16) Armored
Author
Series
Joshua Duffy volume 1
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
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Description
A novel inspired by #1 New York Times best-selling author Mark Greaney's Audible Original drama, Armored. Joshua Duffy is a Close Protection Agent-a professional bodyguard- and, as such, he's one of the world's elite operatives. That is he was until hislast mission in Lebanon. Against all odds, Josh got his primary out alive, but the cost was high-the loss of Josh's lower left leg. There's not much call for a high-end guardian with such an injury....
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Series
Language
English
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Former U.S. Senator Quintrell is dead.
His son, New Mexico's governor, is preparing his
run for the highest political office in the land. And dark family secrets are about to explode with the
devastating force of a Southwestern earthquake. An eccentric Quintrell aunt has invited genealogist Carolina "Carly" May to their Taos compound to compile a record of the illustrious family. But digging into the past is raising troubling questions about a would-be...
19) Skeleton man
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Hailed as "a wonderful storyteller" by the New York Times, and a "national and literary cultural sensation" by the Los Angeles Times, bestselling author Tony Hillerman is back with another blockbuster novel featuring the legendary Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn and Sergeant Jim Chee.
Former Navajo Tribal Police Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn comes out of retirement to help investigate what seems to be a trading post robbery. A simple-minded kid nailed for the...
Author
Series
Desert roses volume 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
As a Harvey tour guide, Rainy Gordon spends her days in the magnificent landscape of New Mexico. Having already fled a tainted past, Rainy is alarmed when she becomes a suspect in an investigation of stolen Hopi Indian artifacts. The man she loves has been secretly asked to assist the law enforcement groups in finding the thief. When all evidence points in her direction, will the truth be revealed in time?
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