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1) The pearl
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
1010L
Language
English
Description
"For the diver Kino, finding a magnificent pearl means the promise of better life for his impoverished family. His dream blinds him to the greed and suspicions the pearl arouses in him and his neighbors, and even his loving wife cannot temper his obsession or stem the events leading to tragedy. Kino and his wife illustrate the fall from innocence of people who believe that wealth erases all problems"--Page 4 of cover.
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"También de este lado hay sueños. On this side, too, there are dreams. Lydia Quixano Perez lives in the Mexican city of Acapulco. She runs a bookstore. She has a son, Luca, the love of her life, and a wonderful husband who is a journalist. And while there are cracks beginning to show in Acapulco because of the drug cartels, her life is, by and large, fairly comfortable. Even though she knows they'll never sell, Lydia stocks some of her all-time...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 14
Lexile measure
840L
Language
English
Description
Ultima, a curandera, one who cures with herbs and magic, comes to Antonio Marez's New Mexico family when he is six years old, and she helps him discover himself in the magical secrets of the pagan past.
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Series
Lexile measure
860L
Language
English
Description
"Edward Abbey was a hero to environmentalists and rebels of every stripe. With Fire on the Mountain, this literary giant of the New West gave readers a powerful, moving, and enduring tale that gloriously celebrates the undying spirit of American individualism. This fiftieth anniversary edition, with an introduction by historian Douglas Brinkley, reminds readers of Abbey's powerful conviction that "a patriot must always be ready to defend his country...
Author
Series
Border trilogy volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 15
Lexile measure
940L
Language
English
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Description
Cut off from the life of ranching he has come to love by his grandfather's death, John Grady Cole flees to Mexico, where he and his two companions embark on a rugged and cruelly idyllic adventure.
Author
Series
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Lexile measure
1360L
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A Concise History of Mexico: This concise history looks at Mexico from political, economic, and cultural perspectives, portraying Mexico's struggle to break out of the colonial past and assert its viability as a sovereign state in a competitive world. In this third edition, Hamnett adds new material on Mexico's regional and international roles as they have emerged in the twenty-first century, including membership of supra-national organisations (including...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.9 - AR Pts: 12
Lexile measure
1150L
Language
English
Description
Death Comes For The Archbishop shares a limitless, craggy beauty with the New Mexico landscape of desert, mountain, and canyon in which its central action takes place, and its evocations of that landscape suggest why Willa Cather is acknowledged without question as the most poetically exact chronicler of the American frontier. Told with a directness that overlays its profound artistry, this story of the nineteenth century missionary priest Father...
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Language
English
Description
The citizens of a small Mexican farming village hire seven gun fighters to defend them from a ruthless and exploitative group of bandits led by Calvera. As Calvera's next raid approaches, the peasants and the gun fighters work together to prepare to defend the village.
9) Like water for chocolate: a novel in monthly installments, with recipes, romances, and home remedies
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
1030L
Language
English
Description
Despite the fact that she has fallen in love with a young man, Tita, the youngest of three daughters born to a tyrannical rancher, must obey tradition and remain single and at home to care for her mother.
10) The cartel
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Series
Language
English
Description
It's 2004, DEA agent Art Keller has been fighting the war on drugs for thirty years in a blood feud against Adán Barrera, the head of El Federación, the world's most powerful cartel, and the man who brutally murdered Keller's partner. Finally putting Barrera away cost Keller dearly--the woman he loves, the beliefs he cherishes, the life he wants to lead. Then Barrera gets out, determined to rebuild the empire that Keller shattered. Unwilling to...
11) Mexico
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Language
English
Description
In James A. Michener's Mexico, one of the world's greatest bestselling writers tells the story of a tumultuous land, in a novel that vividly captures the sweep of Mexico's colorful history and teems with a multitude of unforgettable characters. Moving between the past and present - from important events in Mexico's history to the excitement of a modern-day bullfight - and ranging from the arid plains of Mexico to Inquisition Spain and Civil War Virginia,...
12) Shalako
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
He was a loner and a brooding man who trusted nothing and no one -- a white man as cunning as any Indian who owned nothing but his horse, his saddle and his guns. He was a man willing to gamble his life to get the woman he wanted. He was Shalako. Now Shalako is determined to cross the bleak Sonora Desert -- the Apaches' killing ground -- alone. On his way, he finds a European hunting party -- and a brave and beautiful young woman -- stranded and defenseless....
14) Standoff
Author
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
On her way to a vacation, TV reporter Tiel McCoy hears that the teenage daughter of a Texas tycoon has been kidnapped. Racing to cover the story, she stops at a convenience store where she is taken hostage in a hold-up attempt by two desperate young lovers--one of which is the pregnant tycoon's daughter. Tiel must act fast to avert a disaster.
15) Silver nitrate
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Language
English
Description
"Montserrat has always been overlooked. She's a talented sound editor, but she's left out of the boys' club running the film industry in '90s Mexico City. And she's all but invisible to her best friend, Trist̀n, a charming if faded soap opera star, though she's been in love with him since childhood. Then Trist̀n discovers his new neighbor is the cult horror director Abel Urueta, and the legendary auteur claims he can change their lives--even if...
16) The black pearl
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
980L
Language
English
Description
In claiming as his own the magnificent black pearl he finds, a sixteen-year-old youth enrages the sea devil who legend says is its owner.
17) New Mexico
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
920L
Language
English
Description
Looks at the history, population, geographic features, animal and plant life, state government, economy, and people of New Mexico.
18) Mexico
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
990L
Language
English
Description
An introduction to the geography, history, economy, culture, government, and people of the very varied country of Mexico.
19) Mexican Gothic
Author
Language
English
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Description
After receiving a frantic letter from her newly-wed cousin begging for someone to save her from a mysterious doom, Noemi Taboada heads to High Place, a distant house in the Mexican countryside. She's not sure what she will find--her cousin's husband, a handsome Englishman, is a stranger, and Noemi knows little about the region. Noemi is also an unlikely rescuer: She's a glamorous debutante, and her chic gowns and perfect red lipstick are more suited...