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"También de este lado hay sueños. 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 favorite books in her store. And then...
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Navajo tribal cops Jim Chee and Bernadette Manuelito and their mentor, the legendary lieutenant Joe Leaphorn, investigate two perplexing cases in this exciting Southwestern mystery. Doing a good deed for a relative offers the perfect opportunity for Sergeant Jim Chee and his wife, Officer Bernie Manuelito, to get away from the daily grind of police work. But two cases will call them back from their short vacation and separate them; one near Shiprock...
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For years, ex-Navy SEAL Maxwell Moore has worked across the Middle East and behind the scenes for the Special Activities Division of the CIA, making connections, extracting valuable intelligence, and facing off against America's enemies at every turn. When Moore arrives at a rendezvous to take charge of a high-ranking Taliban captive, the meeting takes a horrific turn.
4) Final target
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Jonathan Grave thrillers volume 9
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
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The mission: Drop into the Mexican jungle, infiltrate a drug cartels compound, and extract a kidnapped DEA agent. But when Jonathan Grave and his partner, Boxers, retrieve the hostage and return to the exfil point, all hell breaks loose. Ambushed, abandoned, and attacked on all sides, their only hope of survival lies inside a remote orphanage where innocent children have been targeted for death. Even if Grave can lead his precious cargo to safety...
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Sheriff Chris Cherry novels volume 3
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
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Sheriff Chris Cherry and his deputies investigate the murders of student protesters in the Mexican borderlands and get caught in the crossfire of an escalating cartel war.
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Jason Richter novels volume 2
Pub. Date
[2006]
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English
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The elite American unit known as Task Force TALON continues to battle a Russian terrorist group known as the Consortium, whose leader, Yegor Zakharov, seeks to exploit the porous Mexican border to infiltrate the U.S. and has allied himself with a mysterious Mexican smuggler of drugs and people. When U.S. Border Patrol agents are massacred, the National Security Agency adviser proposes such radical steps as using robots and nanotechnology to protect...
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Hogarth Press
Pub. Date
©2014.
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English
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Born in a rural Mexico region where girls are disguised as boys to avoid the attentions of traffickers, Ladydi dreams of a better life before moving to Mexico City, where she falls in love and ends up in a prison with other women who share her experiences.
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Jimmy Veeder Fiascos volume 3
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
[2017]
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English
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Sony Pictures Television
Pub. Date
[2012], (.
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English
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In season four, Walt and Skyler try to use gambling to explain how Walt has made all of his money; Skyler tries to launder money through a car wash; Hank's discovery of Gus Fring's fingerprint in Gale Boetticher's apartment is enough for DEA and Albuquerque PD to bring Gus in for an interview; and much more.
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Vintage EspanÌol, una divisioÌn de Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2020.
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Español
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“Si lo que buscan es una mejor vida, búsquenla en otra parte. Este camino solo es para personas que no tienen otra opción, que dejan violencia y miseria detrás. El viaje se volverá más peligroso de ahora en adelante. Todo irá en contra de sus propósitos y los boicoteará”. Lydia Quixano Pérez vive en Acapulco, México, donde lleva su librería. Tiene un hijo, Luca, el amor de su vida, y un maravilloso esposo que es periodista. Y aunque...
14) Gringo
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Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
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While in Mexico, mild mannered businessman Harold Soyinka finds himself at the mercy of his back-stabbing business colleagues, local drug lords, and a morally conflicted black-ops mercenary. Crossing the line from law-abiding citizen to wanted criminal, Harold battles to survive his increasingly dangerous situation.
15) Heli
Publisher
Strand Releasing
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
Español
Description
When Heli's twelve-year-old sister inadvertently involves him in Mexico's brutal drug ear, Heli must do everything it takes to protect his family. As he descends further into inescapable and nightmarish corruption and violence, it threatens to tear his life apart.
16) The marksman
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
A rancher on the Mexican border in Arizona protects an eleven-year-old Mexican boy fleeing assassins sent after him by a drug cartel. When his mother asks the rancher to take her son to her family in Chicago, the two hit the road with the cartel's assassins in pursuit.
Ex-Marine and hardened Arizona rancher Jim Hanson (Liam Neeson) simply wants to be left alone as he tries to make a living on an isolated stretch of borderland. But everything changes...
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Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Even though his cancer is in remission, chemistry teacher turned meth maker Walter White still can't catch a break. His wife has filed for divorce, his DEA agent brother-in-law is out to bust him, and a Mexican cartel just wants him dead. But with his family's future still at stake, Walt cooks up a deal that will make him a fortune, a scheme with a terrible price.
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RLJ Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
A haunting horror fairytale set against the backdrop of Mexico's devastating drug wars; follows a group of orphaned children who are unexpectedly given three magical wishes. As they run from the cartel that murdered their parents and the ghosts that haunt them, they must decide how to use this special gift to save their own lives and the people they love.
20) American sicario
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
American gangster Erik Vasquez schemes to become the top dog in the Mexican underworld, only to find himself making enemies out of both the powerful cartels and his own allies.
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