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Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"También de este lado hay sueños. 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. And while there are cracks beginning to show in Acapulco because of the drug cartels, her life is, by and large, fairly comfortable. Even though she knows they'll never sell, Lydia stocks some of her all-time favorite books in her store. And then...
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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Description
"Tambi�en de este lado hay sue�nos. 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. And while there are cracks beginning to show in Acapulco because of the drug cartels, her life is, by and large, fairly comfortable. Even though she knows they'll never sell, Lydia stocks some of her all-time favorite books in her store. And...
Author
Series
Alison Reynolds volume 7
Publisher
Touchstone
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
1st Touchstone hardcover ed.
Physical Desc
293 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
After the near-fatal shooting of a former police academy classmate and an encounter with Sister Anselm, who is acting as a patient advocate for a woman who was savagely attacked by a drug cartel, Ali Reynolds is determined to seek justice in both cases.
5) Saint death
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First American edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 8
Physical Desc
pages cm
Language
English
Description
"A novel about the illicit human and drug trade at the US-Mexican border."--
6) Crossers
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
447 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Author
Series
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2004
Physical Desc
288p. 22cm.
Language
English
Description
Elmer Kelton, author of more than 40 Western adventures, has won an unprecedented seven Spur Awards. Jericho's Road follows the perilous trail of young Texas Ranger Andy Pickard, who has been assigned to control feuding ranchers on each side of the Mexico-Texas border. Caught in the middle of a potential bloodbath, Andy is determined to find a peaceful way to end the conflict.
Author
Series
Alison Reynolds volume 7
Publisher
Touchstone
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
1st Touchstone hardcover ed.
Physical Desc
293 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnams Sons
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
292 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Recovering from his most recent battle with the Mexican mafia and a clash with his ex-wife, Ed Eagle encounters a mysterious new client who offers dangerous clues to unresolved elements from Ed's past.
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 7
Physical Desc
273 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Based on a true story, the tale of one girl's perilous journey to cross the U.S. border and lead her family to safety during the Mexican Revolution"--
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks Young Readers
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 7
Physical Desc
273 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Based on a true story, the tale of one girl's perilous journey to cross the U.S. border and lead her family to safety during the Mexican Revolution"--
13) Borderless
Author
Publisher
Atheneum
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
328 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Caught in the cross hairs of gang violence, seventeen-year-old fashion designer, Maya, and her mother set off on a perilous journey from Guatemala City to the US-Mexico border.
14) Taken
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Hired along with Joe Pike to investigate the allegedly kidnapped missing daughter of a woman, Elvis Cole goes undercover to infiltrate a ring of professional border kidnappers only to be abducted himself.
15) Taken
Author
Series
Physical Desc
341 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Hired along with Joe Pike to investigate the alleged kidnapping of a wealthy industrialist's son, Elvis Cole goes undercover to infiltrate a ring of professional border kidnappers only to be abducted himself.
16) Border reprisal
Author
Publisher
Five Star, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning
Pub. Date
2016
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
232 p.
Language
English
17) The lost ones
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Army Ranger Quinn Colson, newly-elected sheriff of Tibbehah County, Mississippi, is called out to investigate a child abuse case, he finds a horrifying scene of neglect, thirteen empty cribs, and a shoebox full of money. Janet and Ramon Torres seem to have skipped town -- but Colson's sure they'll come back for the cash. Convinced that they have a taste for guns, drugs, and human trafficking, Colson and Deputy Lillie Virgil find a link between...
Author
Publisher
Doherty Associates, LLC, Tom
Pub. Date
2018
Physical Desc
800 pages
Language
English
Description
Desert gold: "While rescuing a lovely Spanish maiden from Mexican rebels, former Union soldier Dick Gale partners up with a pair of rough-hewn cowboys. The three men take refuge on the ranch of Al Belding, where Gale finds a new mission helping breed fine horses and carving a settlement out of the wild landscape. But angry, greedy men have their eyes on the rich ranchlands--and the beautiful women who live there"--Amazon.com.
The light of western...
Author
Publisher
Tyndale House Publishers, Inc
Pub. Date
c2012
Physical Desc
389 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Longing to atone for the choices that drove him to Tucson, J.D. Jessup disobeys his employer and hides Maria, an illegal alien he found near death in the desert, and unleashes a chain of deadly events he could never have imagined.