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Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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Description
"Lydia Quixano Perez lives in the Mexican city of Acapulco. She runs a bookstore. She has a son, Luca, the love of her life, and a wonderful husband who is a journalist ... Even though she knows they'll never sell, Lydia stocks some of her all-time favorite books in her store. And then one day a man enters the shop to browse and comes up to the register with four books he would like to buy--two of them her favorites. Javier is erudite. He is charming....
Author
Series
Border trilogy volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
Cut off from the life of ranching he has come to love by his grandfather's death, John Grady Cole flees to Mexico, where he and his two companions embark on a rugged and cruelly idyllic adventure.
Author
Series
Ed Eagle novels volume 4
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Ed Eagle, the six-feet-six, take-no-prisoners Santa Fe attorney, has recovered from his encounters with Mexican organized crime and-more treacherously-his ex-wife, Barbara. Now a mysterious new client has come his way, one who may shed light into some dark corners of Ed's past...and put him in danger once more.
Author
Series
Texas Rangers volume 6
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2004
Physical Desc
288 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
When Texas Ranger private Andy Pickard is assigned to help patrol the Texas-Mexico border country he rides directly into a deadly feud.
5) The dead run
Author
Series
Jess Galvan novels volume 1
Publisher
HarperVoyager
Pub. Date
c2013
Physical Desc
297 p. ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
On both sides of the border, girls are going missing and bodies are beginning to surface. It’s a deadly epidemic of crime that plunges a small-town police chief into a monster of an investigation he's not equipped to handle. An ancient evil has returned, and now everyone — the innocent and the guilty — must face their deepest terrors.
Author
Series
Lena Jones mysteries volume 5
Language
English
Description
While scouting locations for a film documentary on the Arizona's Apache Wars, private investigator Lena Jones and Oscar-winning director Warren Quinn, discover the mutilated body of a young girl. The gruesome manner of the child's death evokes memories of Lena's own rough childhood. Clashing with the local law, Lena's investigation uncovers a small town with a big secret. Los Perdidos is not the Eden it first appears. Founded by the descendants of...
Author
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
478 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"In this high-stakes romantic suspense novel where tensions mount on both sides of the border, bestselling author Kelly Irvin explores what happens when the past explodes against the present and the only person you can turn to is the one who broke your heart"--
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
343 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Is there a connection between a series of train robberies and a mysterious nightrider who delivers hand-minted gold coins to poor Mexicans? Marc Charvein, Wells Fargo express messenger, and two of his old friends, Carlos Sandoval and Lucy Barkley, cross the border to find out. Quickly captured, they're brought to the lair of an outlaw gang whose leader has been stealing the gold shipments in a vendetta against his former partner. The trio can now...
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
403 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
His name is Chance Gambel. His occupation: Witness Seeker. It's a perilous profession where he is hired to search for witnesses to crimes so that they might testify for or against the accused in trials held throughout the frontier territories of the Southwest, circa 1880. He embarks on his most perilous assignment when he teams with a mysterious Mexican named Francisco Velasquez to search for the vicious outlaw gang leader, Silvano Ramos, who brutally...
Author
Series
Publisher
Touchstone
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
293 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
When Santa Cruz county deputy sheriff Jose Reyes, one of Ali Reynolds's classmates from the Arizona Police Academy, is gunned down and left to die, he is at first assumed to be an innocent victim of the drug wars escalating across the border. But the crime scene investigation shows there's much more to it than that, and soon he and his pregnant wife, Teresa, are both under suspicion. Ali Reynolds owes Jose Reyes a debt of gratitude for the help he...
11) Santa Olivia
Author
Series
Santa Olivia volume 1
Publisher
Grand Central Pub
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
341 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Loup Garron was born and raised in Santa Olivia, an isolated, disenfranchised town next to a US military base inside a DMZ buffer zone between Texas and Mexico. A fugitive "Wolf-Man" who had a love affair with a local woman, Loup's father was one of a group of men genetically-manipulated and used by the US government as a weapon. The "Wolf-Men" were engineered to have superhuman strength, speed, sensory capability, stamina, and a total lack of fear,...
Author
Series
Jess Galvan novels volume 2
Publisher
Harper Voyager, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
309 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Locked in a Mexican jail for a crime he didn’t commit, Jess Galvan made a devil’s bargain to escape and make it back home. Now, he’s trapped in his own personal hell, his mind and body inhabited by the soul of Cucuy, a fearsome, five-hundred-year-old Aztec priest and major crime kingpin determined to bring about hell on earth. Estranged from his daughter, Sherry, and now his own body, Galvan’s every moment is a battle to keep the evil priest...
Author
Publisher
City Lights Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
126 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"This stunningly original collection of stories illuminates a spectrum of Latinx, Chicanx, and immigrant women's voices. In confrontations with fraught matrilineal lines, absent or abusive fathers, and the effects of historical violence, these women and girls navigate a male-dominated world where they rely on a resilient mujer network to get them through sometimes supernatural obstacles. In visceral, embodied prose, Fragoza's imperfect characters...
Author
Series
Cork O'Connor mysteries volume 16
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
306 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Cork O'Connor's search for a missing man in the Arizona desert puts him at the center of a violent power struggle along the Mexican border, a struggle that might cost Cork everything and everyone he holds most dear. On the Fourth of July, just as fireworks are about to go off in Aurora, Minnesota, Cork O'Connor and his new bride Rainy Bisonette listen to a desperate voicemail left by Rainy's son, Peter. The message is garbled and full of static, but...
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