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1) Adam in Eden
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English
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A respected Mexican businessman finds his idyllic life crumbling in the face of his wife's infidelity with a corrupt director of national security, his brother-in-law's worship of a child preacher, and his mistress' break with reality.
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Wolfe family novels volume 3
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English
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On a rainy winter night in Mexico City, a ten-member wedding party is kidnapped in front of the groom's family mansion. The perpetrator is a small-time gangster named El Galán, who wants nothing more than to make his crew part of a major cartel and hopes that this crime will be his big break. He sets the wedding party's ransom at five million US dollars, to be paid in cash within 24 hours.
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Pub. Date
[2009]
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English
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Fleeing to Mexico City for a holiday retreat in the wake of a crumbled marriage and a scandalous affair, former college friends Josie and Raquel experience opportunities to discover their sexual selves while grappling with realizations about how sex has compromised their pasts.
6) A new home
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Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.2 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Moving to a new city can be exciting. But what if your new home isn't anything at all like your old home? Will you make friends? What will you eat? Where will you play? In a shared voice, a boy moving from New York City to Mexico City and a girl moving from Mexico City to New York City express their fears about leaving home to live in a new and unfamiliar place. Tania de Regil offers a heart-warming story about finding home wherever you go.
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Pub. Date
[2022]
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English
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Tells the story of Christopher Bell, a blocked painter on the East End of Long Island, and Ana Ramirez, a journalist who fled the crisis in Venezuela and is looking for work in New York. Christopher has retreated to a modest house near a patch of woods. In the woods, he encounters Ana, who is trying to reinvent herself as the kind of person she'd been before the world she knew disappeared. A complicated romance develops that gradually reveals their...
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English
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My name is Ixca Cienfuegos. I was born and I live in Mexico City. Which is not so grave: in Mexico City there is never tragedy but only outrage.
Thus begins Carlos Fuentes's first novel, unfolding a panorama in which many people's lives depend on the fact that they live in today's Mexico City, where the air is clear and yet filled with the old gods and devils still struggling to overcome the new, where a long and bloody revolution
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Pub. Date
2024.
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Español
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"Lola Espinoza parece llevar una especie de maldición en el amor, aunque quizás no sea una maldición ... la magia no existe, ¿verdad? Sin embargo, cuando Lola viaja para pasar el verano con su abuela en la Ciudad de México y conoce a Río, un joven atractivo y coqueto, descubre una verdad sorprendente: la magia sí existe, y lo que siempre había considerado mala suerte resulta ser que era... una verdadera maldición."--
Book smart teen Lola's...
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Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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At Grandma's house, where Julia is staying without her parents for the first time, the breeze is sweet like jasmine. Mornings begin with sugared bread, and the most magnificent hot chocolate cures all homesickness. There's something about this place and about Grandma. Like how she can tell when Julia has been quietly picking limes from the garden. Or that she can see the future--and knows when Julia is about to fall off her bike. Or how she can journey...
11) Silver nitrate
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English
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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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English
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"From the New York Times bestselling author of Mexican Gothic comes a riveting slow burn of a noir about a daydreaming secretary, a lonesome enforcer, and the mystery of the missing woman they're both desperate to find. 1970s Mexico City. Maite is a secretary who lives for one thing: the latest issue of Secret Romance. While student protests and political unrest consume the city, Maite escapes into stories of passion and danger. Her next-door neighbor,...
15) Monstrilio
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Pub. Date
2023.
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English
Description
Grieving mother Magos cuts out a piece of her deceased eleven-year-old son Santiago's lung. Acting on fierce maternal instinct and the dubious logic of an old folktale, she nurtures the lung until it gains sentience, growing into the carnivorous little Monstrilio she keeps hidden within the walls of her family's decaying Mexico City estate. Eventually, Monstrilio begins to resemble the Santiago he once was, but his innate impulses--though curbed by...
17) Cry in the night
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English
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"Egyptologist Sheila Ramsay develops a newfound interest in MesoAmerican affairs after meeting an outspoken--and attractive--Mexico City curator, a harsh critic of museums that deal in stolen art. And her own museum gives her the perfect opportunity to see him again: a valuable Aztec manuscript needs to be returned to its rightful owners, the wealthy Ortega family. But things don't go as planned for Sheila south of the border. An anonymous note threatens...
18) Shady lady
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Series
Corine Solomon novels volume 3
Pub. Date
[2011]
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English
Description
"When Corine Solomon touches an object, she knows its history. But her own future concerns her more and more. Now back in Mexico, she's running her pawnshop and trying to get a handle on her strange new powers, for she might need them. And soon. Then former ally Kel Ferguson walks through her door. Muscled and tattooed, Kel looks like a convict but calls himself a holy warrior. He carries a warning for Corine: The Montoya cartel is coming for her--but...
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Pub. Date
[2011]
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English
Description
"Magazine journalist Seneca Hunt is reporting on the opening of Montezuma's tomb in Mexico City when the dig team learns that the remains of the Aztec emperor are missing. Within moments of the discovery, an apparent terrorist attack kills everyone at the site except Seneca, who barely escapes the carnage. To get answers, Seneca starts investigating. She finds out that someone is stealing the remains of the most infamous mass murderers in history--and...
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Pub. Date
2022.
Language
Español
Description
1970, Ciudad de México. Maite trabaja como secretaria, pero solo vive para una cosa: la siguiente entrega de «Romance secreto». Las protestas estudiantiles y la inestabilidad política asedian la ciudad, pero ella se evade de todo gracias a esas maravillosas historias de pasión y riesgo. La vecina de la puerta de al lado, una atractiva estudiante de arte llamada Leonora, parece llevar una vida repleta de intriga y romance, algo que Maite envidia....
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