Clement, Jennifer
Summary: Born in a rural Mexico region where girls are disguised as boys to avoid the attentions of traffickers, Ladydi dreams of a better life before moving to Mexico City, where she falls in love and ends up in a prison with other women who share her experiences.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CLELozano, Brenda
Summary: Paloma is dead. But before she was murdered, before she was even Paloma, she was a traditional healer named Gaspar. Before she was murdered, she taught her cousin Feliciana the secrets of the ceremonies known as veladas, and about the Language and the Book that unlock their secrets. Sent to report on Paloma's murder, Zoe meets Feliciana in the mountain village of San Felipe. There, the two...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Catapult 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LOZCisneros, Sandra.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 2002
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CISKellerman, Jesse.
Summary: When Carl, the boss she has secretly loved for years, goes missing during his annual visit to Mexico, Gloria Mendez begins a search for answers that reveals hidden, sinister aspects of her employer's life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2006
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP M KELUrrea, Luis Alberto.
Contents: "Nineteen-year-old Nayeli works at a taco shop in her Mexican village and dreams about her father, who journeyed to the US when she was young. Recently, it has dawned on her that he isn't the only man who has left town. In fact, there are almost no men in the village--they've all gone north. While watching The Magnificent Seven, Nayeli decides to go north herself and recruit seven men--her own...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC URRBenítez, Sandra
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Publisher / Publication Date: Theia 2003
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC BenitezScofield, Sandra Jean
Summary: Widowed pet store owner Tom Riley of Chicago goes to Mexico to drown his grief. His fellow tourists annoy him so he tries to meet the locals. A resident American painter introduces him to her model, Consolata Arispe, a widow who runs a cafe. Love follows.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 1996
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SCOMujica, Barbara Louise.
Summary: Presents a fictionalized account of the tumultuous marriage between artists Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera as seen through the eyes of Frida's sister, Cristina.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Overlook Press 2001
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MUJBowles, David (David O.)
Summary: In modern Mexico, Sitlali is all alone after the death of her beloved abuela. Targeted by a dangerous gang member, she flees to the United States. As a memento, she takes with her an ancient conch shell. In 1521, Calizto is trapped in the Aztec city of Tenochtitlan. He has fought valiantly for his people against Spanish invaders, but hope is fading. Desperate, he takes up a sacred conch and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury YA 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC BOWJohansen, Iris.
Summary: Photojournalist Bess Grady teams up with a CIA agent to catch germ-warfare terrorists who wiped out a Mexican village in a rehearsal for an attack on the U.S. Bess was vacationing in the village and only escaped because she is immune to anthrax, the bacteria used. By the author of The Ugly Duckling.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 1998
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JOHDallas, Sandra.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Pub. 2003
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC DALHoward, Linda
Summary: Milla Edge, a woman with a gift for locating lost children, travels to Mexico to uncover the fate of many children who have vanished over the years, joining forces with a mysterious stranger on a mission that makes her an assassin's target.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2003
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HOWGunn, Robin Jones
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Publisher / Publication Date: Multnomah Publishers 2004
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GUNDallas, Sandra.
Summary: Her protective instincts brought out by Emma, who was sent to New Mexico to marry a man she has never met, Addie French takes her new friend under her wing, and the pair begins unfolding secrets, hatching schemes, and questioning everything they once believed.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2002
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wheeler Pub. 2009
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC BERBerwin, Margot.
Summary: When Lila stumbles across a strange laundromat, which houses a fern so valuable that a small piece of it is worth thousands of dollars, the owner offers her a cutting provided that she passes a test of growing a fire fern from a small cutting.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BERSpillane, Mickey
Summary: "It starts with an abusive, drunken young scoundrel who resists arrest, holds a barmaid hostage, and gets what he deserves from the blazing .44 of Sheriff Caleb York. The New Mexico lawman doesn't regret taking such deadly action, but the late youth's powerful mother, cattle baroness Victoria Drummond, seems bound to feel differently. To York's surprise, Victoria takes the news with stoic...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Publishing Corp. 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SPIBrown, Sandra
Summary: While following a story TV reporter Tiel McCoy learns why two young runaways fear a wealthy father more than the FBI, and why she must defend them at all costs.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Audio 2000
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC BROBrown, Sandra
Summary: TV reporter Tiel McCoy is driving through New Mexico when she hears over the radio that Sabra Dendy, the pregnant 17-year-old daughter of multimillionaire Russell Dendy, has been kidnapped. When Tiel stops at a gas station, an armed couple robs the cashier and the female burglar goes into labor.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Books 2000
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BROLuiselli, Valeria
Summary: "Bon vivant, world traveler, auctioneer--the story of Highway and his teeth is like Johnny Cash meets Robert Walser in Mexico"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Coffee House Press 2015
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Summary: "In 1983, deep in New Mexico's Gila National Forest, the bodies of a young woman and two children were found. Who were they? How did they get there? Thirty years later, two women find themselves drawn to the cold case. Librarian Laura MacDonald begins her own investigation as a way to distract herself from breast cancer treatments and becomes consumed by her search for answers. Jean Martinez is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tin House 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HERBybee, Catherine.
Summary: Shannon Wentworth's biological clock is ticking, and she isn't going to let her single status keep her from having a baby. When her wedding-photography business takes her to Mexico, she has every intention of finding a willing baby daddy to help her out. Until the bride goes AWOL, leaving Shannon to coddle the arrogant fiancé who has accused her of sabotaging his wedding. Victor Brooks never...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Montlake Romance 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BYBHenry, Sue
Summary: Heading for New Mexico in her mini-Winnebago, Maxie McNabb and her dog, Stretch, find their cross-country odyssey interrupted by the attempted suicide of a local woman despondent over the infidelity of her middle-aged husband.
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Publisher / Publication Date: New American Library 2006
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Summary: "An intriguing contemporary mystery that exposes the dark side of life in historic Santa Fe by Hillerman Prize-winner Christine Barber Christine Barber's acclaimed mysteries explore not just the folklore, Indian heritage, and colonial history that drawspeople to Santa Fe each year, but also the lives of locals, from the rich retirees to the families that have lived there for generations. These...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2013