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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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His birth ended his mother's life in Tennessee. Scrawny and wiry, he runs away at the age of 14. As he makes his way westward, the impoverished and illiterate youth finds trouble at every turn. Then he's recruited by Army irregulars, lured by the promise of spoils and bound for Mexico. Churning a dusty path toward destiny, he witnesses unknown horrors and suffering--and yet, as if shielded by the almighty hand of God, he survives to breathe another...
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ATF agent Sean Ozburn is deep undercover supporting the sicarios of the Baja Cartel when he suddenly goes completely dark, his only communications being the haunting digital videos he sends to his desperately worried wife, Seliah. Charlie Hood must determine if Oz is simply chasing demons deeper undercover than anyone has ever gone, or whether his friend has suffered a permanent break with his mission and his moral compass.
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Charlie Hood struggles with the moral challenges of arresting his late love's cartel-connected son, Bradley Jones, while the enigmatic Mike Finnegan uses his unsettling knowledge to infiltrate both of their lives.
Three men: earnest law-enforcer Charlie Hood, inveterate lawbreaker Bradley Jones, and the man who pits them against each other Mike Finnegan, hurtle toward one another in the jaw-dropping conclusion to T. Jefferson Parker's mesmerizing...
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Josie Gray mysteries volume 1
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Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
c2011
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English
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A debut novel and winner of the "Tony Hillerman Prize" follows the experiences of West Texas police chief Josie Gray, who tackles adversaries on both sides of the law when she is caught between a violent drug cartel and a tiny community of locals who are determined to take the law into their own hands.
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Josie Gray mysteries volume 2
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Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
[2013]
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English
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Small-town Texas police chief Josie Gray stumbles across a nearly dead heatstroke victim who is unable to explain why he was out in the desert and why he was found beside the murdered body of a Mexican immigrant.
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Josie Gray mysteries volume 5
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Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2016.
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English
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"Police Chief Josie Gray wakes in the middle of the night, sure that she's heard a car slowly passing by her remote homestead. When she goes outside to check, she discovers a woman, mute with shock and terror, hiding on her porch. And when she explores the field nearby, she comes across the body of another young woman, shot and killed. Located on the border of Texas and Mexico, the small town of Artemis has become a way station for the coyotes who...
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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...
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