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Posadas County mysteries volume 24
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"A Posadas County Sheriff's Department Dispatcher sticks a Post-It note on an incident report. What he meant to write was, "Not for news," hoping that the newspaper reporter who drops into the Sheriff's Office each morning would ignore the report. But what he unintentionally wrote was, "Note for news," and so the arrest of Quentin Torrez, nephew of Posadas Sheriff Robert Torrez, goes public. And Quentin, who has applied for a job with the NightZone...
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English
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A successful web designer, forty-year-old India has a fabulously hip life in Denver. When her father passes away, India's flamboyant mother, Eldora, has no plans to mourn peacefully. She insists they hit the road on an unpredictable journey to the city that changed her life forever, so many years ago Las Vegas. Along the way, they'll look for India's twin, Gypsy, a brilliant artist who lives a nomadic life in the remote mountain towns of New Mexico....
123) The bloody spur
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Series
Publisher
Kensington Books,‡[2018]
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Description
Mickey Spillane's larger-than-life lawman Caleb York is backin the latest tough-as-nails Western novel from New York Times bestselling author Max Allan Collins. This time Caleb may be outnumbered . . . but not outgunned. The Santa Fe Railroad wants to build a spur through Trinidad, New Mexico, linking the town to the cattle trade. Only one man stands against itrancher George Cullen. At the request of the town council, Sheriff Caleb York rides out...
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Series
Posadas County mysteries volume 16
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Pr
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
"Former Posadas County Sheriff Bill Gastner, now a New Mexico Livestock Inspector, is enjoying a day on Herb Torrance's ranch--soaking in the sun as he counts a small herd of cattle and thinking about an upcoming lunch with an old friend back in town. But a light breeze stirs dust, a horse spooks, and Bil finds himself ferrying a broken cowpuncher in the back of his SUV, headed out to meet an ambulance. Moments later, Bill's day goes from bad to...
125) The border trilogy
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Series
Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
1999.
Language
English
Description
''From the acclaimed Pulitzer Prize–winner and one of America's greatest writers: available together in one volume, the three novels of Cormac McCarthy's award-winning and bestselling Border Trilogy constitute a genuine American epic. "An American classic to stand with the finest literary achievements of the century." —San Francisco Chronicle Beginning with All the Pretty Horses and continuing through The Crossing and Cities of the Plain, McCarthy...
126) Old man's love story
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Series
Publisher
University of Oklahoma Press
Pub. Date
[2014].
Language
English
Description
“There was an old man who dwelt in the land of New Mexico, and he lost his wife.” From that opening line, this tender novella is at once universal and deeply personal. The nameless narrator, a writer, shares his most intimate thoughts about his wife, their life together, and her death. But just as death is inseparable from life, his wife seems still to be with him. Her memory and words permeate his days. In The Old Mans Love Story, master storyteller...
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Series
Posadas County mysteries volume 20
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Gifted fifteen-year-old Francisco Guzman has become an internationally renowned concert pianist, touring the world under the auspices of his music conservatory. That gives his mother, Posadas County Undersheriff Estelle Reyes-Guzman, plenty of reason to worry--and that's magnified when she learns that he's in Mexico's crime-ridden Mazatlan for a concert series where he may be the target for scam artists and kidnappers. Estelle's worries go from bad...
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Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
Claiming King's baby: "Their last meeting to sign divorce papers goes wrong when passion overtakes Maggie and Justice King. Still, she walks away with a legal decree--and a pregnancy. Justice had always refused to have children, so this is one fact she won't reveal to him. But when Maggie ends up back at the King ranch, her secret must come out!"--Page [4] of cover.
Claiming King's baby: It was supposed to be a last meeting to sign divorce papers....
129) The shotgun wedding
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Series
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Bo Creel and Scratch Morton are mighty proud of themselves. They managed to deliver five mail-order brides to the New Mexico mining town of Silverhill in one piece. The town is so grateful, they want to make Bo their marshal and Scratch his deputy. Since they don't have another cargo of brides to escort, Bo and Scratch are happy to accept the jobs - and even happier to attend the weddings of the fine young women they brought here... As it turns out,...
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Series
Skye's West volume 13
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
The DeliveranceBarnaby Skyetrapper, guide, and magnet for adventureand his Crow wife, Victoria, agree to help a mysterious Cheyenne woman on the Mexican frontier locate her two children; they were kidnapped by Ute Native Americans several years before and sold into bondage in Mexico. This impossible, dangerous, and foolhardy mission takes the three to Santa Fe and Taos, and into a strange association with an eccentric Texas adventurer who agrees to...
131) Lost birds
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English
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"Joe Leaphorn may be long retired from the Navajo Tribal Police, but his detective skills are still sharp, honed by his work as a private detective. His experience will be essential to solve a compelling new case: finding the birth parents of a woman who was raised by a bilagáana family but believes she is Diné based on one solid clue, an old photograph with a classic Navajo child's blanket. Leaphorn discovers that his client's adoption was questionable,...
132) Hollow beasts
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Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"After a long stint in academia, Jodi Luna leaves Boston for the wilds of New Mexico to start a new life as a game warden. Jodi is no stranger to the wilderness; her family has lived here for generations. Determined to protect her homeland, she nabs a poacher in her first week on the job. But when he retaliates by stalking Jodi and her teenage daughter, a cat and mouse game leads Jodi to a white supremacist group deep in the mountains. She learns...
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Series
Publisher
The Library of America
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Redefining the American experience for a new generation of readers, this brilliant collection of writings from one of the giants of Latino literature captures the richness and complexity of history, community, and place in the American Southwest.
Rediscover Rudolfo Anaya: mythmaker, master storyteller, American original “The godfather and guru of Chicano literature.” —Tony Hillerman A writer powerfully attuned to the land and history of his...
134) Bag limit
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Series
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
c2001
Language
English
136) Under a desert sky
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Publisher
Summerside Press
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
In 1935, socialite Eva Fortier witnesses her grandfather's murder and must flee New York to ensure her safety. Leaving behind a life of wealth, she seeks refuge in the secluded high desert area of Ghost Ranch, New Mexico. Navajo doctor Tahoma Benally doesn't have time to fall in love. But when his father asks him to help fulfill a vow made to Eva's father, Tahoma has no choice but to oblige his father's request. In the process he finds himself drawn...
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Series
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
"Another Posadas County mystery with Estelle Reyes-Guzman as the undersheriff, but with the ever more popular Bill Gastner peering out of the wings to which he dispatched himself upon retirement. Estelle's new job continues to be far from easy, and now she is faced the death of a young woman on a motorcycle—a death that could have been caused by improper driving from one of the county's traffic officers when he tried to stop her for speeding. But...
138) Dane's mark
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Series
Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"Katy Chavos refilled coffee cups and made her way around the small diner in Broken Butte, New Mexico heading for that last table at the far corner, placed before two plate glass windows that looked out on the lower end of the main street and the sheriff's office. There were rumors that one of the occupants took that table for the sole purpose of catching sight of the sheriff's wife. But what man would do that while flirting with only her and no one...
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Publisher
Tin House
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
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"In 1983, deep in New Mexico's Gila National Forest, the bodies of a young woman and two children were found. Who were they? How did they get there? Thirty years later, two women find themselves drawn to the cold case. Librarian Laura MacDonald begins herown investigation as a way to distract herself from breast cancer treatments and becomes consumed by her search for answers. Jean Martinez is a veteran detective determined to keep working cold cases...
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