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Author
Series
Border trilogy (Cormac McCarthy) volume 1
Language
English
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NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER • NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The first volume in the Border Trilogy, from the bestselling author of The Passenger and the Pulitzer Prize–winning novel The Road
All the Pretty Horses is the tale of John Grady Cole, who at sixteen finds himself at the end of a long line of Texas ranchers, cut off from the only life he has ever imagined for himself. With...
All the Pretty Horses is the tale of John Grady Cole, who at sixteen finds himself at the end of a long line of Texas ranchers, cut off from the only life he has ever imagined for himself. With...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
In the mountains of Oaxaca, a major storm wipes out the roads and all communication with the outside world, trapping a tour group in the jungle with a dangerous predator with a secret to protect. With her only resource her determination to live, single mother Eve must fight a dangerous foe and survive against incredible odds--if she's to make it back home alive.
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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Description
The year is 1846. After the controversial annexation of Texas, the US Army marches south to provoke war with M?xico over the disputed R?o Grande boundary.? Ximena Salom? is a gifted Mexican healer who dreams of building a family with the man she loves on the coveted land she calls home. But when Texas Rangers storm her ranch and shoot her husband dead, her dreams are burned to ashes. Vowing to honor her husband?s memory and defend her country, Ximena...
6) Sunstroke
Author
Language
English
Description
When Carl, the boss she has secretly loved for years, goes missing during his annual visit to Mexico, Gloria Mendez begins a search for answers that reveals hidden, sinister aspects of her employer's life.
Author
Publisher
Spiegel & Grau
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
Mila, the daughter of an American diplomat, has no idea what to expect when her mother is assigned to Mexico City for her senior year of high school, and sets out to uncover the identity of her unknown father, a politician with whom her mother had a brief affair.
15) Choke point
Author
Series
Roscoe Brinker mysteries volume 2
Publisher
St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Description
Refusing to accompany an idealistic reporter into Mexico to cover a story, private investigator Brinker becomes involved when the reporter is murdered, a case for which he infiltrates a corrupt underworld with ties on both sides of the border.
16) Xibalbá
Author
Publisher
Nowtilus
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
Español
Description
Zapatista guerrillas, drug traffic, political and military corruption, the inhospitable Chapas rain forest-- American expatriot David Wolf, and Smithsonian Institution archaeologist Karen Dumas risk their comfortable and peaceful academic careers to search for treasure: two mysterious Mayan books.
"La guerrilla zapatista, el tráfico de drogas, la corrupción política y militar, la inhóspita selva de Chapas... David Wolf, un estadounidense expatriado...
Author
Series
Crossroads Crisis Center volume 2
Publisher
Center Point Pub
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
For Lisa Harper and her mother to survive Lisa's abusive stepfather, Special Operations officer Mark Taylor must risk his life--and even more difficult for him, he must trust God--as one question haunts them all: Can Mark and Lisa untangle these deadly ties before it's too late?
Author
Publisher
Penny Candy Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
When Luca and his brother, who are citizens, must travel to Mexico with his undocumented parents, who have been deported, he must live in his grandmother's house but takes comfort in his trumpet that reminds him of his home and his friends.
Author
Series
Choose your own adventure volume 11
Publisher
Chooseco
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
The reader faces deadly dangers as a writer on assignment in Mexico to explore the ruins of the Mayan Indians and solve the mystery of why the ancient civilization collapsed. By choosing specific pages, the reader determines the outcome from among a number of possible endings.
20) Untamed shore
Author
Publisher
Agora Books, an imprint of Polis Books, LLC
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Baja California, 1979. Viridiana spends her days watching the dead sharks piled beside the seashore, as the fishermen pull their nets. There is nothing else to do, nothing else to watch, under the harsh sun. She's bored. Terribly bored. Yet her head is filled with dreams of Hollywood films, of romance, of a future beyond the drab town where her only option is to marry and have children. Three wealthy American tourists arrive for the summer, and Viridiana...
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