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Harlow Estrada returns to the enchanted Hacienda Estrada, a family farm in Mexico where her mother, sisters, aunt and cousins harness the magic of charmed flowers, but when she's chosen to watch over the farm, she panics since she, herself, is magic-less, until she opens her heart to love and creativity.
When Harlow Estrada is abruptly fired from her dream job and her boyfriend proves to be a jerk, her world turns upside down. She flees New York...
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"In 1964, when Jaime Sonoro, Mexico's most renowned actor and singer, discovers a book telling of the multitude of horrific crimes committed by his ancestors, he must pay for their crimes unless he can uncover the truth about his grandfather, the legendary bandido El Tragabalas, The Bullet Swallower"--
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"Montserrat has always been overlooked. She's a talented sound editor, but she's left out of the boys' club running the film industry in '90s Mexico City. And she's all but invisible to her best friend, Tristán, a charming if faded soap opera star, though she's been in love with him since childhood. Then Tristán discovers his new neighbor is the cult horror director Abel Urueta, and the legendary auteur claims he can change their lives -- even if...
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Nora Kelly novel volume 4
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"In 2008, nine mountaineers failed to return from a winter backpacking trip in the New Mexico mountains. At their final campsite, searchers found a bizarre scene: something had appeared at the door of their tent so terrifying that it impelled them to slash their way out and flee barefoot to certain death in a blizzard. Despite a diligent search, only six bodies were found, two violently crushed and inexplicably missing their eyes. The case, given...
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206 pages ; 21 cm
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Gordon Meese believes all mistakes should be corrected, none more egregious than the location of the border between New Mexico and Texas. His meticulous research, coupled with his relentless insistence that the 103rd meridian is the accurate boundary line, lands him in the middle of the desert ... and in some embarrassing hot water. He's too feisty and stubborn to take the hint, however, even when the FAA threatens to rescind his pilot's license....
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222 pages ; 19 cm
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"Un editor yuppie y su socio visitan Acapulco con el pretexto de escribir un reportaje sobre los lugares oscuros del puerto y buscando pasa un buen rato. Pero sus deseos se pierden en la frialdad inexcusable del destino cuando un huracán arrasa el puerto y los obliga a modificar sus planes. La tormenta desnuda lo que permanecía escondido: mientras uno reniega de la situación, el otro se hunde en la vida cotidiana de Acapulco. Narrada con la soltura...
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"When Daniel de La Luna arrives as a scholarship student at an elite East Coast university, he bears the weight of his family's hopes and dreams, and the burden of sharing his late uncle's name. Daniel flounders at first-but then Sam, his roommate, changes everything. As their relationship evolves from brotherly banter to something more intimate, Daniel soon finds himself in love with a man who helps him see himself in a new light. But just as their...
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260 pages ; 23 cm
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"Ocurrió en una fiesta infantil de clase alta; la llamaron "la Masacre de la Piñata". De un día para otro la matanza se volvió sensación en los medios y luego pasó a ser una de tantas que se vuelven triviales y se olvidan. Pero algo no está bien en la versión oficial sobre los hechos. Los datos no cuadran. Los asesinos dejaron ir viva a una niña. Y Damián, sicario de sangre fría que no parecía tener vela en este entierro, recibe la encomienda...
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1 videodisc (28 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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A young Aztec girl tells her little brother how the beautiful painted manuscripts of their culture are made, a tradition that began long before European colonizers arrived, and continued after to preserve the history, science, and religion of the Nahua-speaking people.
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540 pages ; 23 cm
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"Tenochtitlan, 1520. El buen trato que Motecuhzoma ha concedido a los castellanos desde su llegada provoca sospechas entre los mexicas. Como gesto de confianza, el huey tlahtoani entrega varias doncellas de noble cuna a los forasteros para que la armonía siga reinando en el imperio. Una de ellas es Citlalli, joven aguerrida que deberá complacer y obedecer las órdenes de Gonzalo, capitán de rodeleros. Convencida de la importancia de su papel para...
12) Perra brava
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260 pages ; 20 cm
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En el Monterrey de los narcos, el reggaeton y el hip hop, ella es una joven universitaria más pero también una reina entre las de su clase, la novia de un jefe de sicarios del narcotráfico, al que sirve como su esclava. Fernanda le profesa a Julio un amor incondicional que no es solo sumiso sino también miserable y babeante, tan violento como el trato que él le propina y tan inquebrantable como el terror con el que ella vive.
In Monterrey, territory...
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225 pages ; 23 cm
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En 1996, Sagrario murió baleada en la entrada de su residencia; los disparos alertaron a los vecinos, incluyendo a Hiram, el hijo mayor de la familia Ruvalcaba, de apenas ocho años. Poco después, en el año 2000, también a Rocío le arrebataron la vida de forma violenta: fue asesinada y sepultada a medias en la sala de su casa. En 2005, la frontera simbólica entre un asesinato noticioso, anónimo, y el de alguien consanguíneo terminó por quebrarse....
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290 pages ; 19 cm
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"Se está haciendo tarde (final en laguna) se sitúa en Acapulco, a inicios de los setenta, narra el viaje interminable de un lector de cartas de tarot, un dealer acapulqueño -quienes sostienen una increíble relación sadomasoquista- y un joven gay, callado y sabio, que contrarresta el vértigo del libro. Estos personajes entran en un trepidante torbellino donde las drogas, el rock, la irreverencia y la rebeldía son los elementos detonantes de...
15) Pie Town
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328 pages ; 21 cm
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When new priest Father George Morris and a young hitchhiker named Trina arrive in Pie Town, New Mexico the townsfolk are resistant to welcoming newcomers, until Trina and Father George unwittingly transform the town and its people.
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304 pages ; 23 cm
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"The conquest of Mexico is over, and Juan de Toñanes is just one of the many inglorious soldiers eking a small existence on the land he helped conquer. When he receives one last mission, to hunt down a renegade Indian who calls himself the Padre and preaches a dangerous heresy, Juan realizes it may be his last chance to create the future he's always dreamed of. But as he moves deep into the unexplored northern territory, hot on the Padre's trail,...
17) Gótico
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349 pages ; 23 cm.
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"Tras recibir una extraña carta de su prima recién casada, Noemí Taboada se dirige a High Place, una casa en el campo en México, sin saber qué encontrará allí. Noemí no parece tener dotes de salvadora: es glamurosa, más acostumbrada a asistir a cócteles que a las tareas de detective. Pero también es fuerte, inteligente y no tiene miedo: ni del nuevo marido de su prima, un inglés amenazante y seductor; ni de su padre, el antiguo patriarca...
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Marty Makes his Way is a story about a curious and adventurous moose who decides to leave his home in Taos Ski Valley to follow his heart. He travels through the unique landscapes of New Mexico, encountering new sights and sounds along the way. He visits Ghost Ranch, Abiquiu, Medanales, Española, Pojoaque, Nambé, and Tesuque, before finally arriving in Santa Fe. Marty's journey is one of self-discovery, as he learns more about himself and the...
19) Hollow beasts
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Jodi Luna volume 1
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244 pages ; 22 cm.
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"After a long stint in academia, Jodi Luna leaves Boston for the wilds of New Mexico to start a new life as a game warden. Jodi is no stranger to the wilderness; her family has lived here for generations. Determined to protect her homeland, she nabs a poacher in her first week on the job. But when he retaliates by stalking Jodi and her teenage daughter, a cat and mouse game leads Jodi to a white supremacist group deep in the mountains. She learns...
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"1971: la pequeña ciudad estadounidense de Camel City se cimbra cuando la heredera de un emporio multimillonario desaparece de su habitación en un exclusivo internado para señoritas. En los hechos podría estar involucrada su vecina de cuarto, una mexicana llamada Rosario Navarro. Mientras el ambiente político se enrarece, la policía sigue pistas cada vez más ominosas. 1973: en Sinaloa, el profesor de Derecho Bernardo Ayala intenta disuadir...
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