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1) The lacuna
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English
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"The story of Harrison William Shepherd, a man caught between two worlds -- Mexico and the United States in the 1930s, '40s, and '50s -- and whose search for identity takes readers to the heart of the twentieth century's most tumultuous events"--Provided by publisher.
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Pub. Date
2003.
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English
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The New York Times hails Barbara Hambly’s novels featuring Benjamin January as “masterly,” “ravishing,” and “haunting.” The Chicago Tribune crowns them “dazzling…January is a wonderfully rich and complex character.” Now the bestselling author returns with a story that leads January from the dangerously sensual milieu of New Orleans into a world seething with superstition and...
4) Getaway
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Publisher
Soho Press
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
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A woman visiting Mexico stumbles into danger in this “sinister tale of a vacation gone bad” by the New York Times–bestselling author of Rock Paper Tiger (Publishers Weekly).
Michelle Mason tells herself she’s on vacation, just a brief stay in the Mexican resort town of Puerto Vallarta. It’s a chance to figure out her next move after the unexpected death of her banker husband,...
Michelle Mason tells herself she’s on vacation, just a brief stay in the Mexican resort town of Puerto Vallarta. It’s a chance to figure out her next move after the unexpected death of her banker husband,...
6) Lando
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English
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This installment in the Sackett Family saga follows the adventures of Lando Sackett who, after six years in jail, has revenge etched on his brain--and he will not stop until the men who set up his fall get what is coming to them.
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Pub. Date
2014.
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English
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In Don't Look Back, Eve Hardaway, newly single mother of one, is on a trip she's long dreamed of--a rafting and hiking tour through the jungles and mountains of Oaxaca, in southern Mexico. Eve wanders off the trail, to a house in the distance with a menacing man in the yard beyond it, throwing machetes at a human-shaped target. Disturbed by the sight, Eve moves quickly and quietly back to her group, taking care to avoid being seen. As she creeps along,...
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Series
Border trilogy ; 1
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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.
10) Hot rain
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English
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"Allie Parker knows her best friend's death was no accident, but her quest to find the truth soon puts her in the wrong place-at the worst possible time. An unwilling passenger on a boat carrying deadly cargo and dangerous men, Allies only hope is mysterious Jake Dawson, who warns her that she must play the role of his woman, if she wants to stay alive. Under any other circumstances, she would welcome the attentions of a man with Jakes powerful body...
11) Untamed shore
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English
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"Baja California, 1979. Viridiana spends her days watching the dead sharks piled beside the seashore, as the fishermen pull their nets. There is nothing else to do, nothing else to watch, under the harsh sun. She's bored. Terribly bored. Yet her head is filled with dreams of Hollywood films, of romance, of a future beyond the drab town where her only option is to marry and have children. Three wealthy American tourists arrive for the summer, and Viridiana...
12) Pirata: a novel
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Pub. Date
[2018]
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English
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"From former 21-Jump Street writer and creator Patrick Hasburgh, a part thriller, part family novel about an ex-pat American living and surfing in Mexico, the family he loves, and the murder he witnesses, in the vein of Don Winslow's The Dawn Patrol"--
"A former car salesman from California moves to a quiet Mexican surf town after a botched carjacking takes his eye and his family. After four years, though, his peaceful life and new friendships are...
13) Gringos: a novel
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Publisher
Simon and Schuster
Pub. Date
[1991]
Language
English
Description
Follows the fortunes of an expatriate American in Mexico.
14) Skull duggery
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Series
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
Gideon is happy to be in Mexico with his wife-until he's asked to examine the mummified corpse of a drifter thought to be shot to death. Gideon's findings reveal that the cause of death is far more bizarre. Then he's asked to examine the skeleton of a murder victim found a year earlier-only to discover another coroner error. The Skeleton Detective knows that two "mistakenly" identified bodies are never a coincidence. But if he isn't careful, unearthing...
15) Curses!
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Series
Publisher
Mysterious Press
Pub. Date
[1989]
Language
English
Description
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...
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English
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When Ned Giles is orphaned as a teenager, he heads West by joining the 1932 Great Apache Expedition on their search for the kidnapped son of a wealthy Mexican landowner, but Ned's growing feelings for an Apache girl soon force him to choose allegiances and make a fateful decision that will haunt him forever.
"When Ned Giles is orphaned as a teenager, he heads West hoping to leave his troubles behind. He joins the 1932 Great Apache Expedition on their...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
A compelling new novel about a couple's getaway to a Mexican paradise that goes horribly wrong.
Joy Nicholson's second novel, The Road to Esmeralda, is a dark, seductive story about Americans abroad. Fed up with their L.A. lives, Nick and Sarah decide to head south to Mexico. They are looking for something: love, self-fulfillment, inspiration, or even just peace of mind. However, as the roads get windier and the jungle thicker, this naïve pair realizes...
19) Ransomed dreams
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Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
Sheridan Montgomery leads a charmed life as the wife of Eliot, U.S. ambassador to Venezuela. But an attack on their lives cripples Eliot, and they retreat to a remote Mexican village. As Sheridan quietly cares for her husband, she sees her dreams slipping away. Luke Traynor shatters their reverie when he arrives to tell Sheridan of her father's heart attack and the evidence implicating him in a conspiracy. Sheridan returns to Chicago to untangle the...
20) The diezmo
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
Author Rick Bass has won the Pushcart Prize and the O. Henry and PEN/Nelson Algren Awards for his short fiction. With The Diezmo he crafts a stirring novel that sheds light on an extraordinary but little-known episode of Texas history. When Sam Houston organizes an attack into Mexico, the glory seeking Texans are overwhelmed. Captured, they face the terrible Diezmo-a game of chance that ensures every 10th man will be killed.
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