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The face of the assassin
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David L. Lindsey |
When a mysterious woman arrives at the home of Paul Bern, a forensic artist who lives in Austin, Texas, she brings him two things: a human skull that she smuggled out of Mexico and an incredible secr… |
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The Poison That Fascinates
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Jennifer Clement |
Deserted by her mother as a baby, Emily lives with her father in Mexico City, working in the local orphanage. When a mysterious cousin, Santi, appears on the doorstep, he brings with him family secre… |
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Mexico City Noir
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Paco Ignacio Taibo II,Achy Obejas |
Mexico City enters the Noir Series arena, edited by one of Mexico's most revered novelists."Set across Mexico City in a variety of neighborhoods, the stories feature acast of characters as diverse as… |
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Return to the same city
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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… |
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The Neruda case
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Roberto Ampuero |
"Originally published in Spanish as El Caso Neruda by La otra orilla/Grupo Norma, Barcelona, Spain"--
"Published for the first time in English, an atmospheric, brilliant novel from an internationall… |
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Robert Ludlum's The Bourne retribution
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Eric Van Lustbader |
Jason Bourne's friend Eli Yadin, head of Mossad, learns that Ouyang Jidan, a senior member of China's Politburo, may have been working with a major Mexican drug lord in something far deadlier than dr… |
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The House of Wolfe
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James Carlos Blake |
On a rainy winter night in Mexico City, a ten-member wedding party is kidnapped in front of the groom's family mansion. The perpetrator is a small-time gangster named El Galan, who wants nothing more… |
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Signal to noise
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Silvia Moreno-Garcia |
"Mexico City, 1988: Long before iTunes or MP3s, you said "I love you" with a mixtape. Meche, awkward and fifteen, has two equally unhip friends, Sebastian and Daniela, and a whole lot of vinyl record… |
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I'll sell you a dog
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Juan Pablo Villalobos |
Long before he was the taco seller whose 'Gringo Dog' recipe made him famous throughout Mexico City, our hero was an aspiring artist: an artist, that is, till his would-be girlfriend was stolen by Di… |
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Modelo antiguo
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Luis Eduardo Reyes |
"Engaging, idiomatic translation of Modelo antiguo (1992) is first translation into English of work by Mexican playwright, script writer, and novelist Reyes. In this novel, his first-person narrator,… |
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La ley del amour
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Laura Esquivel |
"Fusion of science fiction and adventure-romance attempts to produce a multimedia 'event' that narrates through comic-strip panels and period music on accompanying CD. New Age tracts, precolumbian po… |
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