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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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461 pages : map ; 22 cm.
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English
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"From the day that old Nana Reja found a baby abandoned under a bridge, the life of a small Mexican town forever changed. Disfigured and covered in a blanket of bees, little Simonopio is for some locals the stuff of superstition, a child kissed by the devil. But he is welcomed by landowners Francisco and Beatriz Morales, who adopt him and care for him as if he were their own. As he grows up, Simonopio becomes a cause for wonder to the Morales family,...
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420 p. : map ; 21 cm.
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English
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In the 1931 war-ravaged Mexico border town of Corazón de la Fuente, where the only enterprise in town is a brothel, Dr. Romulus Brinkley decides to build a gargantuan new radio tower to broadcast his miraculous "goat gland operation" said to cure sexual impotence. Inspired by the shenanigans of a real life American con man.
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585 p. ; 24 cm.
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Español
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In 1928, president-elect Álvaro Obregón was assassinated. One man was charged. But the autopsy found that either the assassin used six different guns or there were six shooters. What really happened? Facts hidden for eighty years finally come to light in this exhaustively researched novel full of action and intrigue.
En 1928, presidente electo Álvaro Obregon fue asesinado. Oficialmente, hubo solo un assesino. Pero la autopsia concluyó que o...
10) Viva Zapata!
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1 videodisc (113 min.) : sound., black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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The life and times of the legendary Mexican revolutionary Emiliano Zapata are brought to the screen in Darryl F. Zanuck's powerful production of John Steinbeck's screenplay.
The story of Mexican revolutionary Emiliano Zapata, who led a rebellion against the corrupt, oppressive dictatorship of president Porfirio Diaz in the early 20th century.
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