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"As the daughter of a rancher in 1840s Mexico, Nena knows a thing or two about monsters -- her home has long been threatened by tensions with Anglo settlers from the north. But something more sinister lurks near the ranch at night, something that drains men of their blood and leaves them for dead. Something that once attacked Nena nine years ago. Believing Nena dead, Néstor has been on the run from his grief ever since, moving from ranch to ranch...
2) Mexico
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32 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color maps ; 22 x 25 cm.
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English
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"Welcome to Mexico--home of the Sierra Madre mountains, Teotihuacan, the Riviera Maya, and Chichen Itza! Informative, easy-to-read text and oversize scenic photos draw in readers as they learn about Mexico's history, government, major cities, land features, natural resources, culture, and more! Maps, a timeline with photos, and a facts page that includes major statistics complement the text. Aligned to Common Core standards and correlated to state...
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Coronado historical volume 7
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xxxii, 455 pages : illustrations, map ; 26 cm.
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English
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1 videodisc (28 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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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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xi, 273 pages : illustrations, portraits, maps ; 24 cm
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English
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"Analyzes the political and strategic importance of nineteenth-century New Mexico as the geographic space connecting Texas and California in terms of American imperialism, Manifest Destiny, and the sectionalism surrounding slavery debates"--Publisher's description
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"Describes the epic range war over control of the Maxwell Land Grant, some two million acres in New Mexico Territory, and its resources between 1870 and 1900. The conflict involved miners, a foreign corporation, local elites, Texas cattlemen, the haughty 'Santa Fe Ring' of lawyerly speculators, and indigenous Jicarilla Apache and Mouache Ute people"-Provided by publisher"--
"The Spanish word cimarron, meaning "wild" or "untamed," refers to a region...
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459 pages ; 24 cm
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Español
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"Ésta es la historia de un hombre, tres mujeres, una revolución y un tesoro. La revolución fue la de México en tiempos de Emiliano Zapata y Francisco Villa. El tesoro fueron quince mil monedas de oro de a veinte pesos de las denominadas maximilianos, robadas en un banco de Ciudad Juárez el 8 de mayo de 1911. El hombre se llamaba Martín Garret Ortiz y era un joven ingeniero de minas español. Todo empezó para él ese mismo día, cuando desde...
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540 pages ; 23 cm
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Español
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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...
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367 pages : color illustrations, color maps ; 29 cm
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"El Larousse del tequila ofrece todo lo que usted debe saber sobre el universo del tequila. El libro está dividido en tres apartados para su ágil consulta: Tequila y pasión por el agave, Empresas de la industria tequilera y Sabores con tequila, que en conjunto ofrecen de esta bebida: " Su historia, zonas geográficas donde se elabora, su proceso de producción, las normas que lo regulan y protegen, los tipos de tequila que hay y cómo catarlo y...
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ix, 315 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.
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A highly readable narrative of the causes, course, and consequences of the Spanish Conquest, incorporating the perspectives of many Native groups, Black slaves, and the conquistadors. Five hundred years ago, a flotilla landed on the coast of Yucatán under the command of the Spanish conquistador Hérnan Cortés. While the official goal of the expedition was to explore and to expand the Christian faith, everyone involved knew that it was primarily...
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xiii, 222 pages ; 22 cm
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"From a visionary Mexican author, a hallucinatory, revelatory, colonial revenge story that reimagines the fall of Tenochtitlan. One morning in 1519, conquistador Hernán Cortés entered the city of Tenochtitlan - today's Mexico City. Later that day, he would meet the emperor Moctezuma in a collision of two worlds, two empires, two languages, two possible futures. Cortés was accompanied by his nine captains, his troops, and his two translators: Friar...
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466 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations ; 23 cm
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Español
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"Tras publicar Emma y las otras señoras del narco y convocar a romper el pacto de impunidad dentro de los cárteles de la droga, Anabel Hernández recibió un inquietante mensaje. Mujeres y hombres respondieron al llamado, revelando los secretos del mundo en el que han vivido. Es así como Celeste, quien durante más de una década fue pareja sentimental de Arturo Beltrán Leyva, se convierte en la guía de un viaje por el infierno donde ella vivió...
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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,...
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