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63) Die by the gun
Author
Language
English
Description
"Dewey 'Mac' McKenzie is wanted for a killing he didn't commit. He saved his hide once by signing on as a cattle drive chuckwagon cook and bolting the territories. Turned out Mac was as good at fixing vittles as he was at dodging bullets. But Mac's enemies are hungry for more, and they've hired a gang of ruthless killers to turn up the heat. Mac's only hope is to join another cattle drive on the Goodnight-Loving Trail, deep in New Mexico Territory....
Author
Series
Publisher
New Directions
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Set in and around the Mexican city of Veracruz, This Is Not Miami delivers a series of devastating stories--spiraling from real events--that blend together reportage and the author's rich and rigorous imagination. These narrative nonfiction pieces probe deeply into the motivations of murderers and misfits, into their desires and circumstances, forcing us to understand them--and even empathize--despite our wish to simply label them monsters. As in...
Author
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
Center Point Large Print edition.
Language
English
Description
Narrowly avoiding a deadly encounter with a young gunfighter while searching for a stolen horse, Curly Wells encounters a young woman who has been harassed by a violent band of horse rustlers.
Author
Series
Journey of Jim Glass volume 2
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2013.
Edition
Center Point Large Print edition.
Language
English
67) Mexican Gothic
Author
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The acclaimed author of 'Gods of Jade and Shadow' returns with a darkly enchanting reimagining of Gothic fantasy, in which a spirited young woman discovers the haunting secrets of a beautiful old mansion in 1950s Mexico."--
"After receiving a frantic letter from her newly-wed cousin, Noemí Taboada heads to High Place, a distant house in the Mexican countryside. Noemí is an unlikely rescuer : She's a glamorous debutante, more suited for cocktail...
68) Miss Meteor
Author
Publisher
HarperTeen
Pub. Date
2020
Edition
Unabridged
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
A teen who secretly arrived with the meteor that gave her small hometown its name discovers that she is turning back into stardust and teams up with her best friend in an effort to secure her human existence by entering a local beauty pageant that has always been won by thin, blonde, white girls.
Author
Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
2021
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
In 1970s Mexico City, Maite, a secretary with a penchant for romance novels, searches for her missing neighbor, Leonora, a beautiful art student, which leads her to an eccentric gangster who longs to escape his own life, and together, they set out to discover the dangerous truth.
Author
Series
Bindi wildlife adventures volume 8
Publisher
Sourcebooks Jabberywocky
Pub. Date
c2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Bindi, Robert, Terri Irwin, and their American friend Kelly are on a surfing tour in Mexico and the United States. Getting to surf with green sea turtles is a complete thrill. But one of their fellow surfers is acting suspiciously, and Bindi realizes he's got more than just beautiful waves on his mind."--
Author
Series
Last Mountain Man series volume 18
Language
English
Formats
Description
Summary: Legendary mountain man Smoke Jensen becomes the only obstacle standing between robber baron Clifton Satterlee and the timber-rich New Mexican land the greedy thief seeks to wrest from the Tua Pueblo.
Author
Series
Kerney Family trilogy volume 1
Publisher
New American Library
Pub. Date
2013.
Edition
1st New American Library trade paperback ed.
Language
English
Description
Struggling with the death of his wife in childbirth at the end of the nineteenth century, John Kerney gives up his Texas ranch to pursue the outlaws responsible for his brother's murder and participates in nearly half a century of turbulent history in New Mexico Territory.
73) Lando
Author
Series
The Sacketts volume 8
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
Lando Sackett embarks on a dangerous journey to retrieve a fortune in gold buried on an island in Mexico.
74) Too Far Down
Author
Series
Cimarron legacy volume 3
Publisher
Baker Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Formats
Description
When an explosion kills men and damages the CR Mining Company, the Bodens realize their troubles are not behind them as they thought. Shadowy forces are still working against them. Cole Boden finds himself caught between missing his time back East and all that New Mexico offers. Sure he fights with his siblings now and then, but he does care for them. He enjoys running the mine and, when he's honest, he admits that Melanie Blake captures his interest...
75) Basil in Mexico
Author
Series
Publisher
Oasis Audio
Pub. Date
2017
Edition
Unabridged
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Basil, mouse and master detective seeking the truth behind the theft of the Mousa Lisa, must also solve the mystery of his companion's disappearance.
76) Rock with wings
Author
Series
Leaphorn, Chee and Manuelito volume 2
Leaphorn Chee and Manuelito volume 2
Leaphorn and Chee novel volume 20
Leaphorn Chee and Manuelito volume 2
Leaphorn and Chee novel volume 20
Language
English
Description
Navajo Tribal cops Jim Chee and Bernadette Manuelito, and their mentor, the legendary Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn, investigate two perplexing cases involving a missing woman and a drug bust gone bad.
77) Armored
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Joshua Duffy is a Close Protection Agent--a professional bodyguard--and, as such, he's one of the world's elite operatives. That is he was until his last mission in Lebanon. Against all odds, Josh got his primary out alive, but the cost was high--the loss of Josh's lower left leg. There's not much call for a high-end guardian with such an injury. So Josh has to support his family working as a mall cop in Virginia. For a man like Josh, this is purgatory...
78) Yo, Naomi León
Author
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
c2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 6
Language
Español
Description
When Naomi's absent mother resurfaces to claim her, Naomi runs away to Mexico with her great-grandmother and younger brother in search of her father.
Author
Series
Sunshine Vicram volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
Running a small-town police force in the mountains of New Mexico should be a smooth, carefree kind of job. Sadly, full-time Sheriff--and even fuller-time coffee guzzler--Sunshine Vicram, didn't get that memo. All Sunshine really wants is one easy-going day. You know, the kind that starts with coffee and a donut (or three) and ends with take-out pizza and a glass of chardonnay (or seven). Turns out, that's about as easy as switching to decaf. (What...
Author
Publisher
Flying Eye Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Lobo, the legendary leader of a band of cattle-killing wolves has been terrorizing cattle ranchers and their livestock in the American Southwest. Bounty hunter Ernest Thompson Seton, sets out to trap and exterminate Lobo.
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