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Summary: "An impassioned group of men and women risk everything for family, faith and the very future of their country--as the film's adventure unfolds against the long-hidden, true story of the 1920s Cristero War--the daring people's revolt that rocked 20th century North America. ... General Gorostieta, the retired military man who at first thinks he has nothing personal at stake as he and his wife ......

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: distributed by ARC Entertainment 2012

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD + BLU-RAY DRAMA FOR

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Fo

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD/Blu Movie For

Dobbs, Alda P.

Summary: Based on a true story, the tale of one girl's dangerous journey to cross the U.S. border.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2021

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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD DOB

Lasky, Kathryn

Summary: "Yossel, along with his family, flees anti-Jewish Russian pogroms in the late nineteenth century and settles in the American Southwest where he forges a friendship with Thomas, a Native American Navajo boy"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Charlesbridge Publishing 2022

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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE LAS

Dobbs, Alda P.

Summary: "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"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks Young Readers 2021

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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC DOB

Osborne, Mary Pope.

Summary: As a thank-you from Merlin and Morgan, Jack and Annie are sent on what should be a vacation at a luxurious resort in Cozumel, Mexico, but is, by mistake, an adventure with ancient Mayans, instead.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2015

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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED MTH 53

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1 available in Juvenile- Series, Call number: JS Magic Osborne

Ernst, Kathleen

Summary: In 1826, strange occurrences on eleven-year-old Josefina's New Mexican "rancho" lead the young healer to wonder if old legends of lost treasure and the wandering ghost called La Llorona may be true. Includes a Spanish glossary and historical background information.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Pleasant 2006

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2 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC ERN

Osborne, Mary Pope

Summary: "Jack and Annie search for the fourth secret of greatness for Merlin the Magician in Mexico City at the 1970 World Cup Games. They hope to learn something new from soccer player great, Pele"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: A Stepping Stone Book, Random House 2014

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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J MTH 52

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED OSB

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1 available in Juvenile- Series, Call number: JS Magic Osborne

O'Dell, Scott

Summary: In this deeply effecting novel Scott O'Dell envelops the reader in the heroic world of the conquistadors, a world that is at once somber and many-colored. Though they may have been ruthless, these steel-helmeted young men of Spain lived their lives on the very edge of eternity with style and uncommon courage.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton-Mifflin 1994

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Summary: A successful cattle rancher battles with corrupt government officials and their stooges in New Mexico's Lincoln County War.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2007

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD MOVIE CHI

Tripp, Valerie

Summary: Meet Josefina Montoya, a nine-year-old girl growing up in New Mexico in 1824. Josefina and her sisters have been struggling ever since Mamá died a year ago. When Mamá's sister, Tía Dolores, comes to live on their rancho, the girls are overjoyed. But Tía Dolores has lots of new ideas! She starts a family weaving business. And she teaches the girls to read, something Mamá never learned to do....

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2006

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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD FIC TRI

Summary: After the Spanish conquest of Tenochtitlan, scribe Topilzin rebels against the new state-imposed religion.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Starz Home Entertainment 2007

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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN OTH

McGarrity, Michael

Summary: When Matthew Kerney returns to his ranch in the beautiful San Andres Mountains after serving in Sicily during World War II, he must not only fight to recover physically and emotionally from a devastating war injury, but he must also battle attempts by the U.S. Army to seize control of his land for expanded weapons testing. Forced off public grazing lands, banned from gathering his cattle on...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2016

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC MCG

Tripp, Valerie

Summary: When Tia Dolores, the beloved aunt who has cared for the Montoya family since the death of their mother, announces that she is planning to leave, Josefina and her sisters try to find a way to change her mind.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Pleasant Co. Publications 1998

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2 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC TRI

Tripp, Valerie

Summary: Nine-year-old Josefina, the youngest of four sisters living in New Mexico in 1824, tries to help run the household after her mother dies.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Pleasant Co. 1997

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2 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC TRI

Segovia, Sofía

Summary: En Linares, al norte del país, con la revolución mexicana como telón de fondo. Un buen día, la vieja nana de la familia abandona sorpresivamente un reposo que parecía eterno para perderse en el monte. Cuando la encuentran, sostiene dos pequeños bultos, uno en cada brazo: de un lado un bebé misterioso y del otro un panal de abejas. Ante la insistencia de la nana por conversar y cuidar al...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Debolsillo 2018

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: 468 SPANISH SEG

Michener, James A. (James Albert)

Summary: When Norman Clay, an American journalist, arrives in Mexico it is to cover the decisive duel between two celebrated matadors, and to learn more about his family's past. As he uncovers the story of his Mexican ancestors, the dramatic story of Mexico unfolds. (from back cover.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print 1992

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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC MIC

Tripp, Valerie

Summary: Josefina hopes to become a "curandera" or healer like Tia Magdalena, and she is tested just before her tenth birthday when a friend receives a potentially fatal snakebite.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Pleasant Co. 1998

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1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC TRI

Tripp, Valerie

Summary: Josefina and her sisters distrust learning to read and write, as well as other changes their Tía Dolores is bringing to the household, because they fear they will lose their memories of their mother.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Pleasant Co. 1997

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2 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC TRI

McGarrity, Michael.

Summary: Catapulted into early adulthood after the death of an older brother he idolized, eight-year-old Matthew Kerney assumes difficult responsibilities to save the family ranch against a backdrop of the Great Depression and a drought-stricken Tularosa Basin.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2015

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Hawkins, Aaron R.

Summary: In early 1980s New Mexico, thirteen-year-old Jackson Jones recruits his cousins and sisters to help tend an elderly neighbor's neglected apple orchard for the chance to make big money and, perhaps, to own the orchard.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Books for Children 2010

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1 available in Stacks, Call number: J FIC HAW

Enrigue, Alvaro

Summary: "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...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2024

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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC ENR

Grove, Fred.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Five Star 1998

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GRO

Blake, James Carlos.

Summary: "James Carlos Blake is a master at weaving historical fact into fiction. Two generations of Wolfe men--begat by an English pirate in New Hampshire in 1828--track their violent but manifest destiny through the Diaz Regime in Mexico in the early 1900s and back to Gulf Coast Texas. The novel centers on two sets of identical "hero twins," each with a violent history that mirror the author's belief...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Cinco Puntos Press 2012

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BLA

Summary: In 1870's New Mexico territory, a father and daughter are torn apart over their choices in relationships and ultimately the ownership of their land.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2008

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1 available in Western DVDs, Call number: DVD WESTERN FUR

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