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42) The sinister pig
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperCollins
Language
English
Formats
Description
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...
43) Tacopedia
Author
Publisher
Phaidon Press Limited
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
A guide to the different taco traditions of Mexico includes interviews, maps, graphics, and recipes.
45) Méjico
Author
Series
Publisher
Océano
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
Español
Description
In Méjico, Antonio Ortuño presents two tales that traverse the Atlantic in a way like no one has before. This is a story of the militian men who fled to Mexico following the failure of the Republican cause, but also a story of one of their descendants, living in Guadalajara, who is forced to flee to the Iberian continent in order to escape a sour settling of accounts with a local politician.
46) The Russian cage
Author
Series
Gunnie Rose novels volume 3
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Description
"Picking up right where A Longer Fall left off, this ... third installment follows Lizbeth Rose as she takes on one of her most dangerous missions yet: rescuing her estranged partner, Prince Eli, from the Holy Russian Empire. Once in San Diego, Lizbeth is going to have to rely upon her sister Felicia and her growing Grigori powers to navigate her way through this strange new world of royalty and deception in order to get Eli freed from jail where...
47) Mexico
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English
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Description
Pulitzer Prize–winning author James A. Michener, whose novels hurtle from the far reaches of history to the dark corners of the world, paints an intoxicating portrait of a land whose past and present are as turbulent, fascinating, and colorful as any other on Earth. When an American journalist travels to report on the upcoming duel between two great matadors, he is ultimately swept up in the dramatic story of his own Mexican ancestry—from...
48) Tumble
Author
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Formats
Description
Before she decides whether to accept her stepfather's proposal of adoption, twelve-year-old Adela Ramírez reaches out to her estranged biological father--who is in the midst of a career comeback as a luchador--and the eccentric extended family of wrestlers she has never met, bringing Adela closer to understanding the expansive definition of family.
Author
Series
Publisher
Debolsillo
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
Español
Description
"Del autor de Aura, La Silla del Águila y La muerte de Artemio Cruz. La región más transparente ha sido considerada la primera obra del boom latinoamericano. La región más transparente fue la primera novela de Fuentes, la que le abrió todas las puertas posibles. Inventario de la sociedad mexicana, es también una suerte de versión vanguardista de la comedia humana, en la que, a través de un curioso mapa de linajes, se representan mundos y...
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Series
Language
English
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Description
Juan Garcia Esquivel was born in Mexico and grew up to the sounds of mariachi bands. He loved music and became a musical explorer. Defying convention, he created music that made people laugh and planted images in their minds. Juan's space-age lounge music popular in the fifties and sixties has found a new generation of listeners.
Author
Series
Petra Luna volume 1
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Based on a true story, the tale of one girl's perilous journey to cross the U.S. border and lead her family to safety during the Mexican Revolution"--
Author
Publisher
Vintage Español
Pub. Date
2010
Language
Español
Description
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 búsqueda de la poetisa mexicana Cesárea Tinajero, por parte de dos jóvenes poetas fundadores...
Author
Series
Kerney Family trilogy volume 1
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Formats
Description
Struggling with the death of his wife in childbirth at the end of the nineteenth century, John Kerney gives up his Texas ranch to pursue the outlaws responsible for his brother's murder and participates in nearly half a century of turbulent history in New Mexico Territory.
58) Mexico
Author
Publisher
Children's Press
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
Describes the geography, plants, animals, history, economy, language, sports, arts, religions, culture, and people of Mexico.
Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"From a visionary Mexican author, a hallucinatory, revelatory, colonial revenge story that reimagines the fall of Tenochtitlan. One morning in 1519, conquistador Hernán Cortés entered the city of Tenochtitlan - today's Mexico City. Later that day, he would meet the emperor Moctezuma in a collision of two worlds, two empires, two languages, two possible futures. Cortés was accompanied by his nine captains, his troops, and his two translators: Friar...
Publisher
Touchstone Home Video
Pub. Date
[2000?]
Language
Español
Description
Romantic fantasy set in Mexico during the early 20th century. A young couple is blocked from marrying by the demands of the young woman's cold and selfish mother. To be near his love, the young man marries her sister, and she expresses her passion for him through her cooking.
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