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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) The cartel
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
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Description
"It's 2004. DEA agent Art Keller has been fighting the war on drugs for thirty years in a blood feud against Ad?an Barrera, the head of El Federaci?on, the world's most powerful cartel, and the man who brutally murdered Keller's partner. Finally putting Barrera away cost Keller dearly--the woman he loves, the beliefs he cherishes, the life he wants to lead. Then Barrera gets out, determined to rebuild the empire that Keller shattered. Unwilling to...
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
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
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Description
In the Mexican state of Tabasco in the 1930s, all vestiges of Catholicism are being outlawed by the government. As churches are razed, icons are banned, and the price of devotion is execution, an unnamed member of the clergy flees. He's known only as the "whisky priest." Beset by heretical vices, guilt, and an immoral past, he's torn between self-destruction and self-preservation. Too modest to be a martyr, too stubborn to follow the law, and too...
7) Burn
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Formats
Description
She escaped the fire--but not the effects of the burn.
Janeal has long felt trapped in her father's Gypsy culture. Then one night a powerful man named Salazar Sanso promises her the life she longs for--if she will help recover a vast sum of money tied to her father.
When the plan implodes, Sanso and his men attack the gypsy settlement and burn it to the ground. During the blaze, Janeal is faced with a staggering choice.
The impact of that moment...
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.
9) 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
11) 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.
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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...
13) 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.
16) 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,...
18) A hill of beans
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Series
Language
English
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Description
Mac is back. Framed for a murder he didnt commit, Dewey Mac McKenzie is a wanted man on a cattle drive heading west, as a chuckwagon cook. Though he's never even boiled an egg, McKenzie has a natural gift for cobbling together good trail drive grub. Now, with two trail drives under his belt, McKenzie has proven to be more than a good chuckwagon cook. He's good at serving up justice, too, with a side of hot lead.
19) Bad faith
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Author
Series
Posadas County mysteries volume 13
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
Estelle Reyes-Guzman, undersheriff in Posadas, New Mexico, has an eventful Christmas when medical emergencies sideline the police chief and the sheriff, the fiancee of one of her deputies is murdered on Christmas Day, and former sheriff Bill Gastner is attacked that night, leaving her little time to pursue the criminals, and no time at all for her family.
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