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Benjamin January mysteries volume 7
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Mexico City in the autumn of 1835 is a lawless place, teeming with bandits and beggars. But an urgent letter from a desperate friend draws Benjamin January and his new bride Rose from New Orleans to this newly free province. Here they pray they'll find Hannibal Sefton alive-and not hanging from the end of a rope. Sefton stands accused of murdering the only son of prominent landowner Don Prospero de Castellón. But when Benjamin and Rose arrive at...
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2014
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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.
10) Skull duggery
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Pub. Date
2009
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281 p. ; 24 cm.
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Detective Gideon Oliver and his wife are on vacation in Mexico when a local police chief requests his assistance on a case. After Oliver realizes the coroner has misidentified two bodies, he concludes these two mistakes are no coincidence.
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1984
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214 p. ; 20 cm.
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This is the story of Sara and Richard Everton, a couple embarked on a journey of renewal. They leave a house and job in San Francisco and travel to the small Mexican village of Ibarra to reopen a copper mine, abandoned in 1910 by Richard's grandfather. They also plan to restore the family home, a crumbling reminder of the past. However, they learn that Richard is dying of leukemia.
13) Lando
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The Sacketts volume 8
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One of the great sagas of our time, the chronicle of the Sackett family is perhaps the crowning achievement of one of our greatest storytellers. In Lando , Louis L'Amour has created an unforgettable portrait of a unique hero. A man never to count out....For six long years Orlando Sackett survived the horrors of a brutal Mexican prison. He survived by using his skills as a boxer and by making three vows. The first was to exact revenge on the hired...
14) Curses!
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2014.
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189 pages ; 22 cm.
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"Mayan ruins in the Yucatán, a secret room in a tomb, age-old skeletons. To anthropologist Gideon Oliver, the renowned Skeleton Detective, the invitation to join the archaeological excavation of Tlaloc promises two months of paradise on Earth. That is, until an ancient series of Mayan curses against desecrators of the site is unearthed. When the first one comes to pass ("The bloodsucking kinkajou will come freely among them"), it is taken by all...
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2018.
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629 pages ; 23 cm.
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Two complete novels by 'one of the greatest and most gifted of Western writers'. (Historical Novel Society) Bitter Trail: Tough teamster Frio Wheeler hauls cotton from Texas to Mexico. But as the Civil War rages through the South, Wheeler must contend with the most difficult challenges he's ever faced, including imprisonment with the bandidos in league with Union sympathizers and the betrayal of his best friend--his former partner and brother of the...
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2024.
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452 pages : genealogical table ; 21 cm
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"Lola Espinoza parece llevar una especie de maldición en el amor, aunque quizás no sea una maldición ... la magia no existe, ¿verdad? Sin embargo, cuando Lola viaja para pasar el verano con su abuela en la Ciudad de México y conoce a Río, un joven atractivo y coqueto, descubre una verdad sorprendente: la magia sí existe, y lo que siempre había considerado mala suerte resulta ser que era... una verdadera maldición."--Provided by publisher.
Lola...
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