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Herrera, Yuri

Summary: "Yuri Herrera does not simply write about the border between Mexico and the United States and those who cross it. He explores the crossings and translations people make in their minds and language as they move from one country to another, especially when there's no going back. Traversing this lonely territory is Makina, a young woman who knows only too well how to survive in a violent, macho...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: & Other Stories 2015

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HER

Anta, Julio

Summary: "As long as he remembers to stay smart and keep his eyes open, Mateo knows that he can survive the trek across the Sonoran Desert that will take him from Mexico to the United States. That is until he's caught by the Border Patrol only moments after sneaking across the fence in the dead of night. Escaping their clutches comes at a price and, lost in the desert without a guide or water, Mateo is...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: HarperAlley, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2023

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in New YA Materials, Call number: YA 741.5 ANT

Santamaria, Sendy

Summary: Yenebi, her sister Melanie, and mom drive to school every morning across the US-Mexico border.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Chronicle Books 2023

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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE SAN

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

Copies Available at Woodmere

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

Ruiz, Rudy.

Summary: "Solitario Cisneros thought his life was over long ago. He lost his wife, his family, even his country in the late 1870s when the Rio Grande shifted course, stranding the Mexican town of Olvido on the Texas side of the border. He'd made his brooding peace with retiring his gun and badge, hiding out on his ranch, and communing with horses and ghosts. But when a gruesome string of murders and...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Publishing 2022

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RUI

Caputo, Philip

Summary: "The Mexican village of San Patricio is being menaced by a bizarre, cultish drug cartel infamous for its brutality. As the townspeople try to defend themselves by forming a vigilante group, the Mexican army and police have their own ways of fighting back. Into this volatile mix of forces for good and evil (and sometimes both) steps an unlikely broker for peace: Timothy Riordan, an American...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2017

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CAP

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

Stone, Michel

Summary: "For Hector and Lilia, pursuit of the American Dream became every parent's worst fear: their infant daughter vanished in the midst of their border crossing from Mexico to the United States. With great empathy and a keen awareness of current events, Michel Stone delivers a novel of surpassing sensitivity and heart. Years ago, young lovers H©♭ctor and Lilia dreamed of a brighter future for their...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Nan A. Talese, Doubleday 2017

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC STO

Blakely, Mike

Summary: Pairing extensive research with a brilliance for reviving the past in gripping narrative, Spur Award-winning author Mike Blakely has penned an epic novelization of the Mexican-American War in A Sinister Splendor. It's 1845. Texas joins the union and Mexico threatens war over the disputed Texas border. Meanwhile, expansionists dream of an America that sprawls all the way to the Pacific Coast....

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Forge 2019

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BLA

Wheeler, Richard S.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Forge 2003

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WHE

Bass, Rick

Summary: When Sam Houston organizes an attack into Mexico, the gloryseeking Texans are overwhelmed. Captured, they face the terrible Diezmo--a game of chance that ensures every 10th man will be killed.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin 2005

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BAS

De Leon, Jennifer

Summary: 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.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum 2023

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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC DE L

Dobbs, Alda P.

Summary: Twelve-year-old Petra Luna is in America, having escaped the Mexican Revolution and the terror of the Federales. Now that they are safe, Petra and her family can begin again, in this country that promises so much. She leads her family from a smallpox-stricken refugee camp on the Texas border to the buzzing city of San Antonio, where they work hard to build a new life. And for the first time...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2022

Copies Available at Woodmere

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

Iglesias, Gabino.

Summary: "A man tasked with shuttling children over the border believes the Virgin Mary is guiding him towards final justice. A woman offers colonizer blood to the mother of chaos. A boy joins corpse destroyers to seek vengeance for the death of his father."--Back cover

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Broken River Books 2018

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC IGL

Castillo, Ana.

Summary: Eking out a living as a teacher's aide in a small New Mexican border town, Tia Regina is also raising her teenage nephew, Gabo, a hardworking boy who has entered the country illegally and aspires to the priesthood. When Gabo's father, Rafa, disappears while crossing over form Mexico, Regina fears the worst. After several days of waiting and an ominous phone call from a woman who may be...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2007

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CAS

Gidwitz, Adam

Summary: "Uchenna and Elliot travel with Professor Fauna to the Texas-Mexico border to save the region's animals and help bring a divided community back together with the help of locals"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton Children's Books 2019

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Fields, Tricia.

Summary: When her longtime boyfriend, Dillon, is accused of murdering his secretary, police officer Josie Gray struggles with precinct disputes and memories of the last time she saw Dillon only to discover that she was the actual target in a multimillion-dollar con game.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: St Martins Pr 2014

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FIE

Fields, Tricia.

Summary: West Texas police chief Josie Gray tackles adversaries on both sides of the law when she is caught between a violent drug cartel and a tiny community of locals who are determined to take the law into their own hands.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2011

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FIE

Land, Jon.

Summary: Caitlin Strong is a fifth-generation Texas Ranger, proud to wear the badge of her father and grandfather—until a deadly shoot-out along the Mexican border causes her to question her calling. Five years later, Caitlin is still trying to purge herself of guilt from the day that ended her Ranger career. But a shattering discovery will reopen old wounds, and Caitlin’s renewed investigation into...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Forge 2009

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LAN

Mansbach, Adam

Summary: "[A]n edgy novel set in the netherworld of the Mexican-American border. On both sides of the border, girls are going missing and bodies are beginning to surface. It's a deadly epidemic of crime that plunges a small-town police chief into a monster of an investigation he's not equipped to handle. An ancient evil has returned, and now everyone-- the innocent and the guilty-- must face their...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2013

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MAN

Brown, Dale

Summary: The elite American unit known as Task Force TALON continues to battle a Russian terrorist group known as the Consortium, whose leader, Yegor Zakharov, seeks to exploit the porous Mexican border to infiltrate the U.S. and has allied himself with a mysterious Mexican smuggler of drugs and people. When U.S. Border Patrol agents are massacred, the National Security Agency adviser proposes such...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: HarperLargePrint 2006

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

Jance, Judith A.

Summary: Ali Reynolds's old friend, a Santa Cruz deputy sheriff, is gunned down, an apparent victim of the drug wars. But looks can be deceiving, and when more bodies begin to pile up, Ali suspects that everyone looking into the case is a potential victim--including her.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2012

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

Jance, Judith A.

Summary: 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.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Touchstone 2012

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Jance 2012

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Adult, Call number: MYS JAN

Mansbach, Adam

Summary: Locked in a Mexican jail for a crime he did not commit, Jess Galvan makes a devil's bargain to escape only to confront the hellish challenges of having his mind and body possessed by the five-hundred-year-old ghost of an Aztec priest.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Voyager, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2015

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MAN

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