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At seventy-nine, Gloria Garrison must plan for the future of Glory, Inc., the beauty-makeover business that she has grown from zilch into an eleven-million-dollar-per-year bonanza. Gloria's never been big on family, but she's forced to contemplate her three grandkids as objects of her largesse.
There's Daisy, a story editor for a movie studio; her brother, Matt, who does PR for a New York baseball team; and cousin Raquel, laboring away as a Legal...
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Posadas County mysteries volume 18
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
2011
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English
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When a county employee is found shot to death in sun-drenched daylight while sitting in his county road grader, [Undersheriff] Bill Gastner is faced with puzzling questions.
3) Caramelo
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 23
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English
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Lala Reyes' grandmother is descended from a family of renowned rebozo-, or shawl-makers. The striped (caramelo) is the most beautiful of all, and the one that makes its way, like the family history it has come to represent, into Lala's possession. The novel opens with the Reyes' annual car trip-a caravan overflowing with children, laughter, and quarrels-from Chicago to "the other side": Mexico City. It is there, each year, that Lala hears her family's...
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Houghton Mifflin Co
Pub. Date
2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Ten-year-old Rosa hopes that her mother, whom she has not seen for three years, will leave her job in New York and come home to Santa Catarina, Mexico, for Christmas and maybe even longer. Includes a glossary of Spanish words used.
5) Bad faith
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St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 16
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English
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English
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The victim, well dressed but stripped of identification, is found at the edge of the vast Jicarilla Apache natural gas field just inside the jurisdiction of the Navajo Tribal Police, facing Sergeant Jim Chee with a complex puzzle.
Why did the Washington office of the FBI snatch custody of this case from its local agents, cover it with secrecy, and call it a hunting accident? What was the victim seeking among the maze of pipelines and pumping stations...
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"I was born in rain and I will die in rain," begins Kate Braverman's The Incantation of Frida K., an imagined life journey of Frida Kahlo. The book opens and closes inside the mind of Frida K., at 46, on her deathbed, taking us through a kaleidoscope of memories and hallucinations where we shiver for two hundred pages on the threshold of life and death, dream and reality, truth and myth. Defiant and uncompromising, Frida bears the wounds of her body...
8) Scavengers
Author
Series
Posadas County mysteries volume 10
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2002
Language
English
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Series
Posadas County mysteries volume 12
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books
Pub. Date
2004
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English
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Vintage Espanol
Pub. Date
2017.
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Español
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New Year's Eve, 1975: Arturo Belano and Ulises Lima, founders of the visceral realist movement in poetry, leave Mexico City in a borrowed white Impala. Their quest: To track down the obscure, vanished poet Cesarea Tinajero. A violent showdown in the Sonora desert turns search to flight; twenty years later Belano and Lima are still on the run.
La novela narra la busqueda de la poetisa mexicana Cesarea Tinajero, por parte de dos jovenes poetas fundadores...
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Mac Reilly novels volume 1
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English
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It was just one of those Malibu nights, dark as a velvet shroud, creamy waves crashing onto the shore, breeze soft as a kitten's breath...
But, when Private Investigator to the stars, Mac Reilly, hears the sound of a woman's scream over the crashing waves, his low-key beach-bum lifestyle is changed forever. A beautiful, distraught woman wearing only a black lace negligee stands in the doorway of a fabulous beach house. In her hand, a gun, and it's...
14) Song of the road
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Series
Route 66 novels (Dorothy Garlock) volume 3
Publisher
Warner Books
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
17) Burn
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 16
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English
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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...
19) Butterfly boy
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Publisher
Caroline House, Boyds Mill Press
Pub. Date
1997
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A boy and his grandfather joyfully watch a gathering of butterflies in this story set in Mexico.
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