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1) Borderland
Author
Series
Borderland trilogy volume 1
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Publisher
Echo Bridge Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"In 1880, Pemmican lay at the western edge of the Great Plains. Nearly a decade later, surveyors of the 49th parallel reached the small community to find it straddling the new Canadian-U.S. border. Now known as Bordertown, local law enforcement is dealt with on one side by Clive Bennett, a Mountie, and on the other by U.S. Marshal Jack Craddock. Whiskey traders, buffalo hunters, gold prospectors, silver miners, drifters and drunks keep the two men...
Author
Series
Clásicos chicanos volume 5
Publisher
Bilingual Press
Pub. Date
[1990]
Language
English
Description
An experimental novel uses multiple narrators to trace four generations of two Texas border town families, Mexican-American and Anglo, as they confront the influence of the devil in their daily lives.
Series
Criterion collection volume 376
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
As the voice-over proclaims, the 49th parallel is the only undefended frontier in the world. The parallel is the goal of a small group of Nazis, survivors of a U-boat that has been spotted and sunk in Hudson Bay, deep in Canadian waters. The United States is not yet at war with Germany, and if Corporal Hirth and his six crew members can reach it, they can be repatriated to Germany with no fuss. But their trek across Canada becomes a fierce struggle...
6) Devil's day
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"In the wink of an eye, as quick as a flea, / The Devil he jumped from me to thee. / And only when the Devil had gone, / Did I know that he and I'd been one . . . Every autumn, John Pentecost returns to the farm where he grew up, to help gather the sheep down from the moors for the winter. Very little changes in the Endlands, but this year, his grandfathert́he Gafferh́as died and John's new wife, Katherine, is accompanying him for the first time....
Author
Publisher
Eerdmans Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Lexile measure
AD 460L
Language
English
Description
Bear likes playing piano for all the other animals, but they keep asking him for more, and Bear has trouble setting boundaries and expressing that he needs time for himself until he finds sympathetic Zebra.
