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Gunnie Rose novels volume 3
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"Picking up right where A Longer Fall left off, this thrilling third installment follows Lizbeth Rose as she takes on one of her most dangerous missions yet: rescuing her estranged partner, Prince Eli, from the Holy Russian Empire. Once in San Diego, Lizbeth is going to have to rely upon her sister Felicia, and her growing Grigori powers to navigate her way through this strange new world of royalty and deception in order to get Eli freed from jail...
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I-Team volume 5
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While investigating border violence in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, Denver journalist Natalie Benoit is caught in a bloody ambush and taken captive. Alone in the hands of ruthless killers, she will need every ounce of courage she possesses to survive. Betrayed by another operative, Chief Deputy U.S. Marshal Zach McBride has endured a week of torture and interrogation at the hands of a bloodthirsty Mexican drug cartel. Ready to give his life if he must,...
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Fifteen-year-old Georgia learns a great deal about herself and her troubled best friend Riley when they become part of a group of suburban Pennsylvania teenagers that go to Anapra, a squatters village in the border town of Juarez, Mexico, to undertake a community construction project.
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In Cuidad Juárez, Mexico in 1999, where kidnapping of girls and women is common, a woman approaches thirteen-year-old Anamaria claiming to be her future self, offering advice and requesting help. Fear is overtaking the city as cases of kidnapped girls and women become alarmingly common. Anamaría works hard at her strict, grade-obsessed middle school, wanting to do the best she can so she can grow up to be successful. Then a lady comes up to Anamaría...
5) Trash
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"Trash interweaves the voices of three women with connections to the municipal garbage dump of Ciudad Juárez, Mexico. Sylvia Aguilar Zéleny's English-language debut shows the complexities of survival and joy, love and violence for three women: a teenager abandoned by her guardian at the dump, a scientist doing research on residents of the dump, and a transwoman living nearby who is the matriarch of a group of sex workers. Each character navigates...
6) Disappeared
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Disappeared (Stork) volume 1
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"Four Months Ago Sara Zapata's best friend disappeared, kidnapped by the web of criminals who terrorize Juarez. Four Hours Ago Sara received a death threat--and with it, a clue to the place where her friend is locked away. Four Weeks Ago Emiliano Zapata fell in love with Perla Rubi, who will never be his so long as he's poor. Four Minutes Ago Emiliano got the chance to make more money than he ever dreamed--just by joining the web. In the next...
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Ciudad Juárez, Mexico. Two cities. Different sides of the border. They share streets. They share families. But most of all they share crime. And one gang rules over it all: Los Aztecas. In Tequila Sunset , three people are confronted by Los Aztecas's ruthless power: a reluctant gang member, an El Paso police officer, and a Mexican federal agent. As their paths cross with the gang and each other, they all become involved in a complex struggle between...
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Against all practical advice, the seasoned agent Pablo Faraón, also known as Commander Yellow, falls in love with his beautiful and young colleague just as two criminal cartels decide to confront each other throughout Cuidad Juárez. While struggling to perform his job, even against his own colleagues, Faraón has to identify the murderer who leaves a strange message beside his victims, and figure out why he was chosen as one of the key players in...
10) Juárez whiskey
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Ciudad Juarez es un asentamiento fantasmal enclavado entre el desierto y la frontera. Senales de violencia y desazon se dejan de percibir en sus calles. Carlos, un ingeniero de treinta anos, disfruta y sufre al mismo tiempo la soledad que ha construido para si mismo. Introspectivo, entrenado en la nostalgia, pasa los dias perdido en reflexiones. Un tema recurrente es el de las mujeres con quienes ha compartido fugazmente su vida La nueva novela de...
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"Set along the border between El Paso, Texas, and Juárez, Mexico, American Tumbleweeds tells the bittersweet story of a Mexican-American family's struggle to stay together as tradition collides with the social upheaval of 1960s America"--Back cover.
"Inez comes home from school to find FBI agents ransacking the house and her father under arrest for smuggling marijuana. In the devastating aftermath, the old ways cherished by her beloved Mexican grandmother...
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The death of DEA agent in a squalid Mexican town forces the world's most elite fighting force to take action. This time, the brutal and callous drug traffickers who haunt the dark underbelly of Ciudad Juarez have gone too far. For the dead agent was the nephew of US Marine Corps Major General Hicks. With links to the SEALs, he insists on nothing but the best to avenge his nephew. A mission is planned to hunt down and destroy the drug cartel, led by...
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