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Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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"In 1895, Antonio Sonoro is the latest in a long line of ruthless men. He's good with his gun and is drawn to trouble but he's also out of money and out of options. A drought has ravaged the town of Dorado, Mexico, where he lives with his wife and children, and so when he hears about a train laden with gold and other treasures, he sets off for Houston to rob it -- with his younger brother Hugo in tow. But when the heist goes awry and Hugo is killed...
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Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Montserrat has always been overlooked. She’s a talented sound editor, but she’s left out of the boys’ club running the film industry in ’90s Mexico City. And she’s all but invisible to her best friend, Tristán, a charming if faded soap opera star, though she’s been in love with him since childhood.
Then Tristán discovers his new neighbor is the cult horror director Abel Urueta, and the legendary auteur claims he can change their lives—even...
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Dan Tucker is sent to Deming by US Marshal Harvey Whitehill, to clean out a few bad men who have taken over the town for their own ends. Motivated not by idealism but by money, a reluctant Tucker is resigned to doing this one last job before retiring from his dangerous life. And then the murders begin. Forced into a corner, threatened at every turn by forces he doesn't understand, Tucker will do what he does best - come out fighting...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Rival archaeologists must team up on a secret Aztec expedition, or it could leave their careers--and hearts--in ruins. Archaeologist Dr. Socorro "Corrie" Mej©Øia has a bone to pick. Literally. It's been Corrie's life goal to lead an expedition deep into the Mexican jungle in search of the long-lost remains of her ancestor, Chimalli, an ancient warrior of the Aztec empire. But when she is invited to join an all-expenses-paid dig to do just that,...
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Series
Nora Kelly novels (Preston & Child) volume 4
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"In 2008, nine mountaineers failed to return from a winter backpacking trip in the New Mexico mountains. At their final campsite, searchers found a bizarre scene: something had appeared at the door of their tent so terrifying that it impelled them to slash their way out and flee barefoot to certain death in a blizzard. Despite a diligent search, only six bodies were found, two violently crushed and inexplicably missing their eyes. The case, given...
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Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
In modern Mexico, Sitlali is all alone after the death of her beloved abuela. Targeted by a dangerous gang member, she flees to the United States. As a memento, she takes with her an ancient conch shell. In 1521, Calizto is trapped in the Aztec city of Tenochtitlan. He has fought valiantly for his people against Spanish invaders, but hope is fading. Desperate, he takes up a sacred conch and sounds a plea to the gods. The conch holds magic neither...
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Publisher
Children's Book Press, an imprint of Lee & Low Books, Inc
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
Español
Description
When his mother is sent back to Mexico for not having the proper immigration papers, José and his father travel from San Diego, California, to visit her in Tijuana.
Cuando su madre es enviada de vuelta a México por no tener los documentos adecuados de inmigración, José y su padre van desde San Diego, California, a visitarla en Tijuana.
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Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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"It sounded like a good job with nice pay -- five hundred in gold to get the Central Party's candidate through the campaign alive. It was an easy decision for Shawn Starbuck to make. The campaign would be over in two months and the pay would keep him going for many more months as he continued the search for his brother. But Starbuck soon found himself mistrusted by the very ones who hired him! He even met opposition from beautiful Carla Flood, the...
Author
Series
Geronimo Stilton. Original series volume 83
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
When Thea goes missing along with an ancient Mayan necklace, Geronimo Stilton is fast on the case, scouring Chichén Itzà for clues to find them.
11) Plaster City
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Publisher
Brilliance Audio
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
When Bobby Maves's teenage daughter goes missing, he and Jimmy Veeder take off on a misadventure that starts out as merely unfortunate and escalates to downright calamitous. Bobby won't hesitate to kick a hornets' nest to get the girl to safety, but when the rescue mission goes riotously sideways, the duo's grit--and loyalty to each other--is put to the test.
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Ulverscroft, Linford Western
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Ross Chisenhall lies defenceless and defeated. Four riders have viciously killed his only son and left him for dead. In time he recuperates from his wounds, and is left with not only a scar on his face, but a darkness inside that cannot be quenched until his child's death is avenged. Under an assumed name he escapes to the town of Mesilla, where he soon discovers that he can be as cruel and brutal as the most savage gunman.
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Series
Publisher
Ulverscroft, Linford Western
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
While Sheriff Flint is out of town, bandits strike Greenville Bank. Only they have come at the wrong time and do not get the haul they expected, instead leaving behind a trail of destruction. On Flint's return, he is faced with a deadly situation. When a beautiful woman and her elderly father get involved, Flint thinks at first that they are a liability, especially when he discovers that he has to lead a posse into the dangerous borderlands between...
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Publisher
Ulverscroft, Linford Western
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
The arrival of Rod Wilson in the New Mexico town of Cabbana, a place of lawlessness, is welcomed by most but greeted with hostility by a few. Along with two fellow lawmen from his past, Wilson sets about bringing order to the place. With the added complication of two women vying for his attention, he has to deal with the constant threat of being killed by outlaws employed by a businessman who wants rid of him, leading to a confrontation with a man...
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Publisher
Wolfpack Publishing
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
In Arizona Justice, when Rowan Locke rode into Llano with a marshal's badge in his pocket and the iron will to bring back a killer, all he heard talk of was the terrible Donnigans, those five wild-tempered brothers who thought they were above the law.
In The Lonely Gun, Case Hardesty had to cross what the Conquistadors called the Devil's Highway on foot-or die. It was the highest, driest, meanest desert in northern Mexico. Hot on the trail behind...
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Series
Beach House volume 1
Publisher
MTV Books
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"If Grace is being honest, she knows her choices skate past questionable and probably into destructive. But her heart is broken and the guy who broke it—her ex Josh—keeps hinting at a reunion. So when her best friends, Tiff and Camille, suggest they take a girls trip to help her get over her heartache, Grace doesn’t hesitate to recommend Cancún. She just doesn’t mention that Josh also happens to be there. But juggling...
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Publisher
Tin House
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"In 1983, deep in New Mexico's Gila National Forest, the bodies of a young woman and two children were found. Who were they? How did they get there? Thirty years later, two women find themselves drawn to the cold case. Librarian Laura MacDonald begins her own investigation as a way to distract herself from breast cancer treatments and becomes consumed by her search for answers. Jean Martinez is a veteran detective determined to keep working cold cases...
18) Spanish grant
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Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"The game of cat and mouse had lasted a week and covered many miles before Rogue Bishop tired of it. His pursuer was Rory Ballinashawn, a cowboy who was unwilling to accept graciously his defeat by Bishop in a game of poker. Bishop had stopped and waited, without fear, for the young cattleman to catch up. The problem had to be settled, probably with six-guns. As the two men confronted one another, a stage coach came into view. Suddenly, there was...