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1) Caramelo
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NATIONAL BESTSELLER • Every year, Ceyala “Lala” Reyes' family—aunts, uncles, mothers, fathers, and Lala's six older brothers—packs up three cars and, in a wild ride, drive from Chicago to the Little Grandfather and Awful Grandmother's house in Mexico City for the summer. From the celebrated bestselling author of The House on Mango Street and winner of the 2019 PEN/Nabokov Award for Achievement in...
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2020.
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Jeanine Cummins's American Dirt, the #1 New York Times bestseller and Oprah Book Club pick that has sold over three million copies
Lydia lives in Acapulco. She has a son, Luca, the love of her life, and a wonderful husband who is a journalist. And while cracks are beginning to show in Acapulco because of the cartels, Lydia's life is, by and large, fairly comfortable. But after her husband's tell-all profile of the newest
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c1972
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277 p. : col. ill. ; 22 cm.
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Tony faces the daunting prospect of growing up amidst constant religious and cultural uncertainty. His mother is a devoted Catholic, but her influence is challenged by Ultima--a woman with magical healing powers. As Tony follows his own path toward adulthood, he relies on Ultima's wisdom. With her guidance, he is able to forge his unique identity.
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1994, ©1992
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298 pages ; 18 cm
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Cuando un curandera viene permanecer con un muchacho joven, él prueba los enlaces que lo atan a su cultura y se encuentra en los secretos del pasado.
When a healer comes to stay with a young boy, he tests the bonds that tie him to his culture and finds himself in the secrets of the past.
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Kerney Family trilogy volume 2
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[2014]
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507 pages : map ; 24 cm
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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.
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Sergeant Jim Chee's vacation to beautiful Antelope Canyon and Lake Powell has a deeper purpose. He's on a quest to unravel a sacred mystery his mentor, the Legendary Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn, stumbled across decades earlier. Chee's journey takes a deadly turn when, after a prayerful visit to the sacred Rainbow Bridge, he spots a body floating in the lake. The dead man, a Navajo with a passion for the canyon's ancient rock art, lived a life filled with...
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2009
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342 p. ; 24 cm.
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"Nineteen-year-old Nayeli works at a taco shop in her Mexican village and dreams about her father, who journeyed to the US when she was young. Recently, it has dawned on her that he isn't the only man who has left town. In fact, there are almost no men in the village--they've all gone north. While watching The Magnificent Seven, Nayeli decides to go north herself and recruit seven men--her own "Siete Magníficos"--to repopulate her hometown and protect...
9) Come dark
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Posadas County mysteries volume 21
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2016.
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298 pages : map ; 23 cm.
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The Posadas High School girls' volleyball team is on a hot winning streak, exciting everyone. But then the coach, Clint Scott, is found gunned down in the girls' shower room, the victim of four bullets, one fired nearly point blank into his heart. Dead for hours, he was killed soon after the end of last night's game. And, last night, a homegrown Banksy tagged several sites in town before he apparently began work on a section of wall outside the girls'...
10) The sinister pig
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c2003
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228 p.
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When Navajo Tribal Police Sergeant Jim Chee finds the victim--stripped of an identity--he calls on a Washington mogul, a crooked customs official, a Mexican smuggler, and the legendary Joe Leaphorn to solve the puzzle: why did the FBI cover up the case? Are billions of embezzled dollars at stake?
11) Skeleton man
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c2004
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241 p. ; 24 cm.
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Former Navajo Tribal Police Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn comes out of retirement to investigate a simple robbery. But soon the trail leads back 50 years, to a plane crash in the Grand Canyon that killed a man protecting a fortune in diamonds.
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2021.
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205 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
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Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, in the 1990's. Fear is overtaking the city as cases of kidnapped girls and women become alarmingly common. Anamaría works hard at her strict, grade-obsessed middle school, wanting to do the best she can so she can grow up to be successful. Then a lady comes up to Anamaría and says she is her, from the future. Anamaría knows better than to talk to some weirdo stranger, but the lady-- Thirty-- won't stop bothering her,...
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2021.
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332 pages ; 23 cm
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Cuán perversa debe ser esta mujer como para ser capaz de querer estudiar medicina con tal de ver hombres desnudos . Periódico El Amigo de la Verdad, 1881 El conocimiento fue para Matilde Montoya su único dios verdadero, pero también el origen de todas sus desdichas y su olvidada gloria. A pesar de su inteligencia y sólida vocación, siempre fue relegada en la Academia por su condición de mujer. Al interior de las escuelas donde estudió,...
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2023.
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431 pages ; 23 cm
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"Ésta es la tercera vez que Jesusa Palancares regresa a la Tierra, pero nunca había sufrido tanto como en esta reencarnación. Lleva el aire del camposanto en sus ojos desde que muy pequeña perdiera a su madre y soporta una existencia exculpando pecados de vidas previas. Jesusa, tehuana, soldadera, sigue a su padre y después a su hombre en la Revolución y recorre todo al país. Cuando la deja viuda, tendrá que sobrevivir en la capital...
16) Thief in retreat
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Sister Agatha mysteries volume 2
Pub. Date
2004
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256 p. ; 22 cm.
19) Blood debt
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Shad Wakefield westerns volume 2
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2006
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182 p. ; 20 cm.
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[2019]
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285 pages ; 24 cm
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"Our people are survivors, Calliope's great-grandmother once told her of their Puebloan roots-could Bisabuela's ancient myths be true? Anthropologist Calliope Santiago awakens to find herself in a strange and sinister wasteland, a shadow of the New Mexico she knew. Empty vehicles litter the road. Everyone has disappeared--or almost everyone. Calliope, heavy-bellied with the twins she carries inside her, must make her way across this dangerous landscape...
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