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Editorial Planeta Mexicana
Pub. Date
2022.
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Español
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"Capital de imperios, ciudad de palacios, metrópoli cosmopolita, pero también víctima de los embates de la naturaleza. Sus tragedias no tienen fin. Aunque tampoco sus grandes momentos que han visto coronar emperadores, vitorear ejércitos y levantar portentosos edificios. Cuatro familias lo han visto y padecido todo, cada una con su larga genealogía de mentiras, sueños y penas. Ellos revelan los secretos de la Ciudad de México y sus protagonistas:...
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2021.
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"As a young Nahua girl in Mexico during the early 1900s, Luz learned how to grind corn in a metate, to twist yarn with her toes, and to weave on a loom. But when the Mexican Revolution came to her village, Luz and her family were forced to flee and start a new life. In Mexico City, Luz became a model for painters, sculptors, and photographers--artists interested in showing the true face of Mexico and not a European version. Through her work Luz found...
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Journalist Sam Quinones chronicles how, over the past fifteen years, as opioid-based pain medications like OxyContin began flooding the prescription drug market, enterprising sugar cane farmers in a small county on the west coast of Mexico created a unique distribution system that brought black tar heroin-- the cheapest, most addictive form of the opiate, two to three times purer than its white powder cousin-- to the United States. The result has...
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2015.
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Español
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In Spanish: "Descubra los últimos años de la interminable dictadura de Porfirio Díaz, una época en la que México vivió en un volcán a punto de estallar. La historia de un país que había disfrutado de un extraordinario progreso económico, pero que conservaba aún el profundo lastre del analfabetismo y de la muy desigual distribución de la tierra. En 1910, la exigencia de democratización aglutinó a los disidentes y pronto quedó claro que...
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In 1851 French Bishop Latour and his friend Father Valliant are dispatched to New Mexico to reawaken its slumbering Catholicism. Moving along the endless prairies, Latour spreads his faith the only way he knows-- gently, although he must contend with the unforgiving landscape, derelict and sometimes openly rebellious priests, and his own loneliness. Over nearly 40 years, they leave converts and enemies, crosses, and occasionally ecstasy in their wake....
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This powerful novel from a bestselling and Pulitzer Prize winning author tells the story of a young woman's journey—both emotionally and physically—as she travels north to America.
Nineteen-year-old Nayeli works at a taco shop in her Mexican village and dreams about her father, who journeyed to the US to find work. Recently, it has dawned on her that he isn't the only man who has left town. In fact, there are almost...
Nineteen-year-old Nayeli works at a taco shop in her Mexican village and dreams about her father, who journeyed to the US to find work. Recently, it has dawned on her that he isn't the only man who has left town. In fact, there are almost...
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"Certain Dark Things combines elements of Latin American mythology with a literary voice that leads readers on an exhilarating and fast-paced journey. Welcome to Mexico City, an oasis in a sea of vampires. Here in the city, heavily policed to keep the creatures of the night at bay, Domingo is another trash-picking street kid, just hoping to make enough to survive. Then he meets Atl, the descendant of Aztec blood drinkers. Domingo is smitten. He clings...
28) The hot country
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Christopher Marlowe ("Kit") Cobb, an early 20th-century American war correspondent reporting on Mexico's civil war, witnesses the attempted assassination of a priest and the arrival of strange ships bearing German officials.
29) Witches: a novel
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English
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Journalist Zoé comes to the town of San Felipe to learn about the famous healer Feliciana, who has the ability to heal the soul as well as the body, and about the murder of Feliciana's teacher, Paloma.
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Vintage Español, una división de Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2016.
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Español
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"A debut collection of linked stories that follow the members of a wealthy Mexican family forced into exile--to Madrid, New York, Austin, Palo Alto--when the patriarch of their family is kidnapped"--
En una noche como cualquier otra, José Victoriano Arteaga, el patriarca de una próspera familia de la ciudad de México, desaparece sin dejar rastro mientras maneja a su casa luego de un día de trabajo. Los Arteaga encuentran pocas respuetes con pistas...
31) 2666
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"Cuatro académicos tras la pista de un enigmático escritor alemán; un periodista de Nueva York en su primer trabajo en México; un filósofo viudo; un detective de policía enamorado de una esquiva mujer--estos son algunos de los personajes arrastrados hasta la ciudad fronteriza de Santa Teresa, donde en la última década han desaparecido cientos de mujeres"--P. [4] of cover.
An American sportswriter, an elusive German novelist, and a teenage...
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Sheriff Chris Cherry novels volume 3
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G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
20190716
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English
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Alfaguara
Pub. Date
2013.
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Español
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Camila jumps at the chance to alleviate her boredom and memories of her late son by traveling to Mexico to write about the Zapatista movement, but a series of dramatic events, including her own kidnapping by paramilitaries, leads her to question her own past and the way she has been handling her life.
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Kerney Family trilogy volume 2
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English
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Catapulted into early adulthood after the death of an older brother he idolized, eight-year-old Matthew Kerney assumes difficult responsibilities to save the family ranch against a backdrop of the Great Depression and a drought-stricken Tularosa Basin.
36) Like water for chocolate: a novel in monthly installments, with recipes, romances, and home remedies
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Like water for chocolate volume 1
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
1992
Language
English
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38) Getaway
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Publisher
Soho Press
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
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Michelle Mason comes to Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, to temporarily escape her problems, but a date with an attractive man leads her into a world of danger and deception, and soon her only goal is to get out of Mexico alive.
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Like water for chocolate volume 1
Publisher
Vintage Español
Pub. Date
[2001], ©1989
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Español
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A classic love story which takes place on the De la Garza ranch, as the tyrannical owner, Mama Elena, chops onions at the kitchen table in her final days of pregnancy. While still in her mother's womb, her daughter weeps so violently that she causes an early labor, and little Tita slips out amid the spices and fixings for noodle soup. This early encounter with food soon becomes a way of life, and Tita grows up to be a master chef. She shares special...
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Kevin Kerney mysteries volume 5
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English
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In a remote New Mexico campground, six people are killed in an apparently senseless murder spree. Deputy State Police Chief Kevin Kerney suspects the slaying wasn’t random at all—but rather a calculated plot to eliminate one high-profile victim, retired judge, Vernon Langsford. In piecing together the judge’s shocking past, Kerney discovers the victim’s predilection for sexual indiscretions, a history of family betrayal and...
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