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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
The power and the Glory	Graham Greene	One of Greene’s most powerful novels, the book takes as its theme the era of religious suppression in Mexico during the early 1930’s. An unnamed Catholic priest, an alcoholic with a shameful past in …	OL106084W
Ask For Me Tomorrow	Margaret Millar	Gilda Decker needs a new bag, what with her second husband being suddenly crippled and her ex-husband hiding himself and his money somewhere in the hinterlands of Mexico. Gilda's recently retained la…	OL137312W
Blue Diablo	Ann Aguirre	Corine Solomon is a handlerwhen she touches an object she instantly knows its history and its future. Using her ability, she can find the missingwhich is why people never stop trying to find her. Lik…	OL14958828W
Where fireflies dance	Lucha Corpi	A girl and her brother spend their childhood in a small town on the Caribbean coast of Mexico.	OL15052162W
From north to south	René Colato Laínez	When his mother is sent back to Mexico for not having the proper immigration papers, José and his father travel from San Diego, California, to visit her in Tijuana.	OL15069757W
Notes from a spinning planet-- Mexico	Melody Carlson	When Maddie joins her journalist aunt on vacation in Mexico, she finds a rival for Ryan's affection, a friend who has a drinking problem, and most important, a new trust in God.	OL15109835W
The Knights of the Cornerstone	James P. Blaylock	An exquisite novel of fantasy from a "true one-of-a-kind original" (Neil Gaiman).Calvin Bryson has hidden himself away from the world, losing himself in his work and his collection of rare and quirky…	OL15186239W
Risky Engagement	Merline Lovelace	Secret Service Agent: Rafe BlackstoneCodename: WolfMission: Prevent breaches in U.S. government security by any means necessary. Bring down Sebastian Cordell, international thief suspected of selling…	OL15187830W
What can't wait	Ashley Hope Pérez	Marooned in a broken-down Houston neighborhood--and in a Mexican immigrant family where making ends meet matters much more than making it to college--smart, talented Marissa seeks comfort elsewhere w…	OL15443989W
The wrath of God	Jack Higgins	The Trinity of Death Emmet Keogh: A master assassin who can no longer remember how many men he's killed—or why. Van Horne: Priest, bank robber, and murderer— on the run from the law, and his own …	OL157792W
Lovesick	Ángeles Mastretta	"Set against the backdrop of the Mexican Revolution, this romance knits the passion of a strong, independent woman into the history of a country, much in the manner of the 19th-century costumbrista t…	OL15838031W
Mummy	Daniel Curley	As a visitor to Guanajuato down from Illinois just for his mother's funeral, Marc Williams is grabbed on a false drug-smuggling charge and thrown into prison for seven years. Now, upon his release, M…	OL15844195W
Apocalypse 2012	Gary Jennings	Scientists discover the Aztec-Mayan End-Time Codex, which foretells the end of the world in 2012, and must struggle to crack the code before it's too late.	OL15970026W
Sunstroke	Jesse Kellerman	When Carl, the boss she has secretly loved for years, goes missing during his annual visit to Mexico, Gloria Mendez begins a search for answers that reveals hidden, sinister aspects of her employer's…	OL16060435W
Return to the same city	Paco Ignacio Taibo II	"Regreso a la misma ciudad y bajo la lluvia (1989) is another Héctor Belascoarán Shayne caper in the hilarious series of venality and violence as told by Mexico's favorite one-eyed detective in thi…	OL1632046W
Las mujeres de Adriano	Héctor Aguilar Camín	"I have been a man of five women" confesses the historian Justo Adriano Alemán to his young confidant, the narrator of this novel. His words open the door to a private world full of passion and secre…	OL1636916W
The girl who could silence the wind	Meg Medina	Worn down by the constant petitions of the villagers who think she has special powers, sixteen-year-old Sonia leaves behind her shawl covered with milagros and her mountain home and sets out to live …	OL16495489W
The Dead Women Of Juárez	Sam Hawken	A visceral crime novel based on the true story of mass murder in a Mexican border town In the last twenty years, over 3000 women have disappeared from Ciudad Juárez, on the border between Mexico a…	OL17448586W
The guns of Caleb Jones	Alan C. Porter	Caleb Jones rode into Desert Bluffs to make peace with his daughter whom he had not seen in twenty years. But Aguilar's raiders, from across the Mexican border, denied him the opportunity, killing he…	OL17893374W
Manhunt	Lyle Brandt	Deputy U.S. Marshal Jack Slade can't help but remember his own murdered twin brother, while trying to keep one outlaw from busting his equally notorious twin out of prison. But with a Colt on his hip…	OL18172500W