Search Results: Returned 11 Results, Displaying Titles 1 - 11
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2012., Adult, MysteriousPress.com/Open Road Edition: eBook ed. Summary Note: "A pair of federal agents from either side of the US-Mexico border target a cartel kingpin. They call him "Cuchillo,"the Knife. Not because he kills with a blade - he has plenty of men to do that kind of work for him - but because his mind is so sharp. As Mexico's government wages war on the drug cartels, it takes brains to survive, and Cuchillo has not just survived - he has prospered. But when Cuchillo begins to cut too deeply, the federal police of both the United States and Mexico step in to dull his blade. P. Z. Evans and Alejo Díaz know the Hermosillo cartel is planning an attack on a tourist bus in Sonora, and they know they will have to capture or kill Cuchillo to stop it. The cartel leader has one weakness: rare, old books. To destroy the intellectual's evil empire, this unlikely pair of international police will have to appeal to his inner bibliophile."--Publisher.
![An acceptable sacrifice [eBook]](/Library/images/~imageCT76137.JPG "An acceptable sacrifice [eBook]")
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1992., Knopf Call No: Fic McC Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Border trilogy Volume: v. 1
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2020., Flatiron Books Call No: Fic Cum Edition: First International Edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "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 favourite books in her store. And then one day a man enters the shop to browse and comes up to the register with four books he would like to buy-two of them her favourites. Javier is erudite. He is charming. And, unbeknownst to Lydia, he is the jefe of the newest drug cartel that has gruesomely taken over the city. When Lydia's husband's tell-all profile of Javier is published, none of their lives will ever be the same. Forced to flee, Lydia and eight-year-old Luca soon find themselves miles and worlds away from their comfortable middle-class existence. Instantly transformed into migrants, Lydia and Luca ride La Bestia -- trains that make their way north toward the United States, which is the only place Javier's reach doesn't extend. As they join the countless people trying to reach el norte, Lydia soon sees that everyone is running from something. But what exactly are they running to? American Dirt will leave readers utterly changed when they finish reading it. A page-turner filled with poignancy, drama, and humanity on every page, it is a literary achievement."--
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1992, c1985., Vintage International Call No: Fic McC Edition: 1st Vintage International ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: An epic novel of the violence and depravity that attended America's westward expansion, Blood Meridian brilliantly subverts the conventions of the Western novel and the mythology of the "wild west." Based on historical events that took place on the Texas-Mexico border in the 1850s, it traces the fortunes of the Kid, a fourteen-year-old Tennesseean who stumbles into the nightmarish world where Indians are being murdered and the market for their scalps is thriving.
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c2011., Adult, Dutton Call No: MYS Fic Par Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Charlie Hood novels Volume: 4Summary Note: Charlie Hood must determine if ATF undercover agent Sean "Oz" Ozburn, deep undercover supporting the "sicarios" of the Baja Cartel, has suffered a permanent break with his mission and his moral compass or if he has his reasons for going "completely dark.".
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c2012., Adult, House of Anansi Press Edition: eBook ed. Summary Note: When Dr. Brinkley arrives in the tiny Mexican border town of Corazón de la Fuente claiming to have a cure for male impotence, he builds a giant radio tower to broadcast his services. The town's fortunes change overnight, though not all for the good. Corazón attracts the attention of the criminal-minded while the doctor attracts the affections of the town's most beautiful citizen. But an unlikely group of townspeople bands together to fight back.
![Dr. Brinkley's tower [eBook]](/Library/images/~imageCT74730.JPG "Dr. Brinkley's tower [eBook]")
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c2009., Algonquin Books Edition: eBook ed. Summary Note: Set in 1916, Far Bright Star follows Napoleon Childs, an aging cavalryman, as he leads an expedition of inexperienced soldiers into the mountains of Mexico to hunt down Pancho Villa and bring him to justice. Though he is seasoned at such missions, things go terribly wrong and the patrol is brutally attacked. After witnessing the demise of his troops, Napoleon is left by his captors to die in the desert. Through him we enter the conflicted mind of a warrior as he tries to survive against all odds, as he seeks to make sense of a lifetime of senseless wars and to reckon with the reasons a man would choose a life on the battlefield. Olmstead, an award-winning writer, uses his precise, descriptive prose to explore the endurance and fate of the last horse soldiers. The result is a tightly wound novel that is as moving as it is terrifying. -Amazon.com.
![Far bright star [eBook] : a novel](/Library/images/~imageCT73486.JPG "Far bright star [eBook] : a novel")
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2011., General, Simon & Schuster Call No: MYS Fic Bur Edition: 1st Simon & Schuster hardcover ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Hackberry Holland Volume: 3Summary Note: "Sheriff Hackberry Holland patrols a small Southwest Texas border town with a deep and abiding respect for the citizens in his care. Still mourning the loss of his cherished wife and locked in a perilous almost-romance with his deputy, Pam Tibbs, a woman many decades his junior, Hackberry feeds off the deeds of evil men to keep his own demons at bay. When alcoholic ex-boxer Danny Boy Lorca witnesses a man tortured to death in the desert and reports it, Hack's investigation leads to the home of Anton Ling, a regal, mysterious Chinese woman whom the locals refer to as La Magdalena and who is known for sheltering illegals. Ling denies having seen the victim or the perpetrators, but there is something in her steely demeanor and aristocratic beauty that compels Hackberry to return to her home again and again as the investigation unfolds. Could it be that the sheriff is so taken in by this creature who reminds him of his deceased wife that he would ignore the possibility that she is just as dangerous as the men she harbors? The danger in the desert increases tenfold with the return of serial murderer Preacher Jack Collins, whom The New York Times called 'one of Burke's most inspired villains.' Presumed dead at the close of Rain Gods, Preacher Jack has reemerged with a calm, single-minded zeal for killing that is more terrifying than the muzzle flash of his signature machine gun. But this time he and Sheriff Holland have a common enemy."--Inside jacket.
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c2015., Adult, Alfred A. Knopf Canada Call No: Fic Vai Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Hector, a young Zapotec fleeing Mexico for a better life in the US with his friend Cesar, a biotech researcher, pays to be smuggled across the border by unscrupulous "coyotes," concealed in the tightly sealed, empty tank of a water truck packed with illegal migrants. Abandoned by the smugglers in the desert, they are left to die, their only lifeline Cesar's phone. As legends fuse with the terrifying present, the dangers Cesar is fleeing become grippingly apparent.
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2015., Adult, Alfred A. Knopf Canada Call No: CD Fic Vai Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Hector, a young Zapotec fleeing Mexico for a better life in the US with his friend Cesar, a biotech researcher, pays to be smuggled across the border by unscrupulous "coyotes," concealed in the tightly sealed, empty tank of a water truck packed with illegal migrants. Abandoned by the smugglers in the desert, they are left to die, their only lifeline Cesar's phone. As legends fuse with the terrifying present, the dangers Cesar is fleeing become grippingly apparent.
![The jaguar's children [CD] : a novel](/Library/images/~imageCT76896.JPG "The jaguar's children [CD] : a novel")
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By Bozak, Nadiac2014., General, Anansi Edition: eBook ed. Summary Note: "Inspired by J. M. Coetzee's "Disgrace", El Niño tracks the survival of one woman and a young, undocumented migrant as they journey through the no-man's-land of a remote southwestern desert. Honey hasn't seen her mother, Marianne, in more than two years. She drives deep into the once-prosperous border region of the Oro Desert for a surprise visit, only to discover that Marianne has vanished. Alone in an unforgiving environment populated with hostile locals, she meets Chávez, a young "coyote" or human trafficker, who convinces Honey he knows her mother's whereabouts and agrees to take her there - for a price. As they make their way through the Oro's brutal no-man's-land they are tracked by Ocho, a teenage bounty hunter determined to recruit Chávez. And then there is Baez, Marianne's wizened Shepherd-coyote mix, whose death and life intimately intersect with Honey and Chávez 's search for Marianne and who tells the story of the Oro Desert as it slowly comes apart. Told in three distinct voices, El Niño is an intricately constructed and starkly written novel from a bold and inventive new writer."--Publisher.
![El Niño [eBook]](/Library/images/~imageCT76612.JPG "El Niño [eBook]")