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82) The raid
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Ryan Decker novels volume 2
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English
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"After exposing and dismantling a deep-state conspiracy that nearly destroyed his life, Ryan Decker finds his covert skills have put him on the radar of influential Senator Steele. Now Steele needs his help. Two patrol agents were killed in a bizarre explosion near the US-Mexico border--and the evidence doesn't line up with the official story. Enlisted by Steele to run an undercover, off-the-books investigation, Decker and his partner, Harlow, head...
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Indagar sobre el origen personal es abrir una puerta a muchas preguntas, a silencios y respuestas impensadas que aveces terminan por ser un revés de la memoria. En Autobiografía del algodón, Cristina Rivera Garza sigue con curiosidad y asombro los pasos de aquellos hombres y mujeres que habitan su pasado familiar, obreros, campesinos que trabajaron la tierra que ahora conforma la frontera entre Tamaulipas y Texas, una región que alcanzó un alto...
93) Border reprisal
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After narrowly escaping serious bodily harm in a train robbery, Wells Fargo courier Marc Charvein makes his way into Mexico to find out whos responsible for a wave of similar robberies and whether the culprit has anything to do with an unidentified individual whos been handing out gold coins to the poor. Is there a modern-day Robin Hood operating along the Mexican border, or is something else going on, something a lot darker?
94) A river to cross
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Texas Ranger Jake Nelson rescues Elizabeth Madison, a beautiful young journalist captured by Mexican mauraders in 1874 Texas, and he finds himself taken by her when she proves to be quite different than he expected.
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"Based on historical events in 1851, this Western noir novella traces the struggle of the first integrated Native American tribe to establish themselves on the North American continent. After escaping the Oklahoma relocation camps they had been placed in following their forced evacuation from Florida, the Seminole Indians banded with fugitive slaves from the American South to fulfill the vision of their leader, Coyote, to establish their land in Mexico's...
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Toño has spent his entire life rising hours before dawn to feed the animals and mind the farm of his father Jose Angel. He wants nothing more than a plot of land and a farm of his own. And he knows exactly how to get it: make his way across the Mexican border to the United States of America, where he'll earn enough money to help his family and himself.
97) Border Blood
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"It was rough killer country. For months the border had been smoldering with hate. A gold-crazed gang was at work. Mexican was pitted against Texan and the countryside was an inferno of gunfire and bloodshed. Into this snakes' nest rode one man--Walt Slade, Texas Ranger. His mission was to bring justice and peace to the Border. But as the Ranger set out to find the hidden haunt of the vicious bandits, he became marked a target for death."--
98) Rącze konie
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Border trilogy volume cz. 1
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Polish
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Na drugim brzegu Rio Grande zaczyna się przygoda, i można tam znaleźć szczęście i wielką miłość. Ale może też być inaczej. Dla trójki młodocianych uciekinierów z południa Stanów Zjednoczonych Meksyk -- dziki, bezkresny, romantyczny -- staje się krainą, w której za marzenia trzeba płacić krwią, a bycie kowbojem oznacza najczęściej kłopoty z prawem. Rącze konie są opowieścią o dojrzewaniu, utraconej niewinności, pierwszych...
99) The widow
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When Santiago, the tough-looking, scarred, but oddly attractive cowboy carrying a caged, one-winged macaw and a baby, approaches Jane Peterson for a job on her south Texas ranch, warning bells go off. Reasoning that a man tenderly caring for two helpless beings cannot be dangerous, she hires him. The independent, hardworking widow needs help, as she is beset by dangers: the brutal drought plaguing the land, the illegal border crossings on her ranch,...
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Narrativas hispánicas volume 613
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Español
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"La novela arranca con la vindicación de la escritura y la construcción de un paisaje. Ese paisaje es fronterizo -entre México y Estados Unidos-, y en él irán apareciendo personajes, del pasado y del presente. Asoman misioneros, colonos y también los otros, los indios de las tribus ya civilizadas o aún salvajes. Asoma una mujer que huye por el desierto, y un militar que persigue por ese desierto a unos indios que han robado ganado. Y también...
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