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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...
3) Mexico
Author
Publisher
Children's Press
Pub. Date
c2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
4) Mexico
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
From Mexico's sunny beaches to its ancient ruins, readers have so much to discover about this amazing country! This title covers information like Mexico's common foods, its largest cities and capital, plants and animals, and things to see and do. --
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.
7) 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
10) The pearl
Author
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
1992, c1973
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
For the diver Kino, finding a magnificent pearl means the promise of better life for his impoverished family. His dream blinds him to the greed and suspicions the pearl arouses in him and his neighbors, and even his loving wife cannot temper his obsession or stem the events leading to tragedy. Kino and his wife illustrate the fall from innocence of people who believe that wealth erases all problems.
Author
Language
English
Formats
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...
12) 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.
Author
Series
Hardy Boys mystery stories volume 13
Language
English
Description
Reprints the original 1934 edition of the Hardy Boys mystery in which Joe and Frank get entangled with a band of Native Americans and a smuggling operation while searching for a stolen boat in Mexico.
15) Pumpkin fiesta
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
1998
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Hoping to win a prize for the best pumpkin at the fiesta, Foolish Fernando tries to copy Old Juana's successful gardening techniques, but without really watching to see how much effort and love she puts into her work. Includes a recipe for pumpkin so
Author
Publisher
Macmillan
Pub. Date
c1988
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Having generously aided the needy with money he'd earned to buy a silver whistle for a gift to the Christ Child on Christmas Eve, a Mexican boy approaches the manger in the cathedral in embarrassment, only to find that he has pleased the Baby Jesus after all.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Legendary travel writer Paul Theroux fearlessly drives the entire length of the US-Mexico border, then goes deep into the hinterland, on the back roads of Chiapas and Oaxaca, to uncover the rich, layered world behind today's brutal headlines."--Provided by publisher.
18) 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
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Description
At age sixty-seven, Colin Fletcher, the guru of backpacking in America, undertook a rigorous six-month raft expedition down the full length of the Colorado River—alone. He needed "something to pare the fat off my soul...to make me grateful, again, for being alive." The 1,700 miles between the Colorado's source in Wyoming and its conclusion at Mexico's Gulf of California contain some of the most spectacular vistas on earth, and Fletcher...
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