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Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Georgia

A Novel

From 21-Jump Street writer and series creator Patrick Hasburgh, a part thriller, part family novel about an ex-pat American living and surfing in Mexico, the family he loves, and the murder he witnesses, in the vein of Don Winslow’s The Dawn Patrol. “It’s rare to find a novel that’s so harrowing, funny and touching at the same time, but Patrick Hasburgh somehow pulls it off. His surf-bum narrator is a new classic—think of Philip Marlowe, on a longboard.” —Carl Hiaasen, New York Times bestselling author of Razor Girl “Fueled by equal parts humor and suspense, Pirata makes for a fast and satisfying read.” — Kem Nunn, author of National Book Award Finalist Tapping the Source "Going straight at the stuff that scares you is good advice. I just didn’t have the courage to do it…”—Nick Lutz In a former life, Nick Lutz, sold cars in the Golden State. He had a wife and a young son, and they struggled along until Nick was shot in the head when a potential customer hijacked the car he was demonstrating. The incident sets off a bad-luck domino fall, and he loses an eye, his job, his family, and, eventually, his self-respect. With nothing left, Nick heads for Mexico, where he sheds his former self among an eclectic group of expats and locals, who fondly name him “Pirata” on account of his eye patch. There on the beaches of Sabanita, Nick and his buddy Winsor drink, surf, and—most of all—escape, buoyed away from their pasts on south swells and Tecate. Nothing epic. That is until Winsor’s girlfriend, Meagan, ends their abusive relationship and flees with her two boys to the safety and solace of Nick’s beachside casita. A monsoon season fling of convenience turns into a torrid love affair as new loyalties and dark secrets are shaped into something like a family. But when the local policía struggle to identify a body that has washed up in the surf, Nick realizes his secrets—and sins—have caught up with him. And there are dangerous new surprises that have yet to roll in with the tide. . . . A gifted storyteller, Hasburgh drops readers into the middle of a gripping, heartwarming, viscerally compelling page turner. At once tender and deadly hysterical, Pirata is a novel readers won’t soon forget.

Pirata

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#paperback #travel #nonfiction #canada #galapagosislands #guatemala #israel #mexico 

Washington

Living at Large in the World

A fascinating memoir of a reinvented life follows the author, the creator of more than seventy children's books, on a journey across the globe in search of her personal identity in the wake of a failed marriage and her peripatetic lifestyle in the fifteen years that have followed. Reprint. 25,000 first printing.

Tales of a Female Nomad

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#hardcover #fiction #mexico #middlegrade #mythology #retelling #rickriordan #rickriordanpresents 

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

California

A contemporary adventure based on Maya mythology from Rick Riordan Presents! Zane has always enjoyed exploring the dormant volcano near his home in New Mexico, even though hiking it is challenging. He'd much rather hang out there with his dog, Rosie, than go to middle school, where kids call him Sir Limps a Lot, McGimpster, or Uno--for his one good leg. What Zane doesn't know is that the volcano is a gateway to another world and he is at the center of a powerful prophecy. A new girl at school, Brooks, informs him that he's destined to release an evil god from the ancient Maya relic he is imprisoned in--unless she can find and remove it first. Together they return to the volcano, where all kinds of crazy happens. Brooks turns into a hawk, a demon attacks them in a cave, and Rosie gives her all while trying to protect Zane. When Zane decides to save his dog no matter the cost, he is thrust into an adventure full of surprising discoveries, dangerous secrets, and an all-out war between the gods, one of whom happens to be his father. To survive, Zane will have to become the Storm Runner. But how can he run when he can't even walk well without a cane?

The Storm Runner (a Storm Runner Novel, Book 1)

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#hardcover #mayan #aztec #mexico #mexicanhistory #history #nonfiction

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

Nevada

The History and Culture of the Maya, Aztecs, and Other Pre-Colombian Peoples

Ancient Mexico

#hardcover #Antique #Signed #1957 #Legend #Mexico #JoeSwallow #RioGrande #DonJose #Confederate  #History ￼#elmachoblanco #TheWhiteBook #SarahSanbornWeaver #Vintage #Worncover￼ please note the pictures as they detail the condition of this book. The outside dust jacket has Definitely seen better days but I think that it has quite some appeal in this condition.￼ very cool history and very cool information about the author. ￼￼￼box 13

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Texas

Legend of the border

The white buck - box 13

#paperback #fiction #chicanostudies #classics #mexico #magic 

Arizona

This coming-of-age classic and the bestselling Chicano novel of all time follows a young boy as he questions his faith and beliefs -- now one of PBS's "100 Great American Reads." Antonio Marez is six years old when Ultima comes to stay with his family in New Mexico. She is a curandera, one who cures with herbs and magic. Under her wise wing, Tony will probe the family ties that bind and rend him, and he will discover himself in the magical secrets of the pagan past--a mythic legacy as palpable as the Catholicism of Latin America. And at each life turn there is Ultima, who delivered Tony into the world...and will nurture the birth of his soul. The winner of the 2015 National Humanities Medal, Rudolfo Anaya is acclaimed as the father of Chicano literature in English and for his rich and compassionate writing about the Mexican-American experience.

Bless Me, Ultima

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Some corner and edge wear, slight wavyness to pages 

Illinois

Written by the bishop of Yucatan

An account of the things Yucatan

New York

A critically acclaimed tearjerker from a master storyteller: On one side of the border is brutality and heartache; on the other side--a new life.14yo Manny is an orphan in Juarez, Mexico. He competes with his bigger, meaner rivals for the coins American tourists throw off the bridge between Texas and his town. Across that heavily guarded bridge await a different world and a better existence.On the night when Manny dares the crossing--through the muddy shallows of the Rio Grande, past the searchlights and the border patrol--the young man encounters an old stranger who could prove to be an ally or an enemy. Manny can't tell for certain. But if he is to achieve his dream, then he must be willing to risk everything--even his life.

The Crossing

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#paperback #action #cartel #fiction #mexico #suspense #thriller #warondrugs #thecartel #donwinslow

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

A drug lord's prison transfer to Mexico upsets a precarious balance of peace and forcing a DEA agent to come out of retirement to stop the ensuing violence.

The Cartel

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#hardcover #historicalfiction #fiction #barbarakingsolver #WWII #USA #Mexico #lifejourney 

Ohio

In her most accomplished novel, Barbara Kingsolver takes us on an epic journey from the Mexico City of artists Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo to the America of Pearl Harbor, FDR, and J. Edgar Hoover. The Lacuna is a poignant story of a man pulled between two nations as they invent their modern identities. Born in the United States, reared in a series of provisional households in Mexico—from a coastal island jungle to 1930s Mexico City—Harrison Shepherd finds precarious shelter but no sense of home on his thrilling odyssey. Life is whatever he learns from housekeepers who put him to work in the kitchen, errands he runs in the streets, and one fateful day, by mixing plaster for famed Mexican muralist Diego Rivera. He discovers a passion for Aztec history and meets the exotic, imperious artist Frida Kahlo, who will become his lifelong friend. When he goes to work for Lev Trotsky, an exiled political leader fighting for his life, Shepherd inadvertently casts his lot with art and revolution, newspaper headlines and howling gossip, and a risk of terrible violence. Meanwhile, to the north, the United States will soon be caught up in the internationalist goodwill of World War II. There in the land of his birth, Shepherd believes he might remake himself in America's hopeful image and claim a voice of his own. He finds support from an unlikely kindred soul, his stenographer, Mrs. Brown, who will be far more valuable to her employer than he could ever know. Through darkening years, political winds continue to toss him between north and south in a plot that turns many times on the unspeakable breach—the lacuna—between truth and public presumption. With deeply compelling characters, a vivid sense of place, and a clear grasp of how history and public opinion can shape a life, Barbara Kingsolver has created an unforgettable portrait of the artist—and of art itself. The Lacuna is a rich and daring work of literature, establishing its author as one of the most provocative and important of her time.

The Lacuna

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Poor condition, but still readable. #paperback #spanish #mexico 

Minnesota

Jose Antonio Villarreal illuminates here the world of "pochos," Americans whose parents come to the United States from Mexico. Set in Depression-era California, the novel focuses on Richard, a young pocho who experiences the intense conflict between loyalty to the traditions of his family's past and attraction to new ideas. Richard's struggle to achieve adulthood as a young man influenced by two worlds reveals both the uniqueness of the Mexican-American experiences and its common ties with the struggles of all Americans--whatever their past.

Pocho (VINTAGE, 1970)

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Perfect condition outside some writing on inside cover. 

A Novel Account of Utopia in Mexico

In 1532, eleven years after the Spanish conquest, Mexico is in crisis. As the conquistadors discover an earthly paradise, its peoples and their Gods are being destroyed. This is a time of greed, uncertainty--and idealism. Despairing of his surroundings, Vasco de Quiroga, a new member of the Spanish ruling council, forges a commune on Mexico City's outskirts, using Thomas More's book, Utopia, as his blueprint. As Toby Green explores Quiroga’s story, he begins to sense an eerie resonance between Quiroga’s age and our own. With vivid reconstructions of 16th-century Spain and Mexico, the narrative becomes an account not only of Quiroga, but also of Utopia as both an idea and a literary form.

Thomas More's Magician

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A New Life in San Miguel

We walk the dimly lit town, along its Moorish walls of roseate hues. In the small, thronged central plaza, we sit on an iron bench gazing up at a quirky dripcastle church, its spires embedded in full complement of stars. Drop it, something whispers. Just let it all go.When Los Angeles-based novelist Tony Cohan and his artist wife visited friends in central Mexico in 1985, they fell under the spell of an irresistible place where the pace of life is leisurely, the cobblestone streets and bougainvillea-splashed patios are seductive, and the sights and sounds of daily fiestas fill the air. Awakened to needs Cohan didn't know he had, they returned to California, sold their house, and cast off for a new life in San Miguel de Allende. In an alternately humorous and poignant narrative, Cohan recounts how he and his wife absorb the town's sensual ambiance, eventually find and refurbish a crumbling 250-year-old house, and become entwined in the endless drama of Mexican life. From peso devaluations, earthquakes, murders, and water shortages to a jail break and Mexican and gringo friends' births, marriages, and deaths, On Mexican Time captures

On Mexican Time

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Florida

American journalist Norman Clay's assignment in Mexico leads him to uncover his fascinating Mexican ancestry, set against the backdrop of 1,500 years of the country's history

Mexico

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Idaho

During her family's annual car trip from Chicago to Mexico City, Lala Reyes listens to stories about her family, including her grandmother, the descendant of famous shawl makers, one of which has come into Lala's possession.

Caramelo

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#ARC #PreRelease #vacation #Mexico #thriller #savingtheworld #Paperback #fiction

When Bess Grady and her sister arrive in Mexico on vacation they are expecting paradise. Instead they find every person in the village is dead, killed in a bloodless carnage. The sisters are aided only by a mysterious agent who holds the key to stopping a vicious weapon aimed at America.

Arkansas

ARC/PreRelease

A well-crafted romance thriller. -- Kirkus Reviews
Bess Grady is a hardworking photojournalist on an easy assignment. But what awaits her in a small-town paradise is unimaginable. She and her sister Emily have stumbled into something in Tenajo, and suddenly Emily disappears. It turns out that Tenajo is a testing ground for something twisted and grotesque, and Bess's only hope of saving herself and her sister is to trust a man whose motives are suspect, whose alliances are unclear and who leaves bodies in his wake . . . *Explicit

And Then You Die *ARC*

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Pennsylvania

Though the Olmecs (1250-200 bc) were the first civilization in Mexico, the Aztecs (1325-1521) -Mesoamerica's last imperial civilization and the most significant of the militaristic post-Classic period - are probably who first come to mind when we think of great empires of that region. Like other Mesoamerican cultures, Aztec gods and myths reflected a natural philosophy where ideas concerning life and death were linked symbolically to the earth, sky and sea in a grand cosmic scheme. Their religion was dominated by the tribal war god Huitzilopochtli, the rain/fertility god Tlaloc and the supreme deity Tezcatlipoca, the Lord of the Smoking Mirror. This fascinating collection explores the history, culture, gods, calendar, myths and tales of this people, from migration legends to the origin myth of the Five Suns.

FLAME TREE 451: From mystery to crime, supernatural to horror and myth, fantasy and science fiction, Flame Tree 451 offers a healthy diet of werewolves and mechanical men, blood-lusty vampires, dastardly villains, mad scientists, secret worlds, lost civilizations and escapist fantasies. Discover a storehouse of tales gathered specifically for the reader of the fantastic.

Aztec Myths

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#octaviopaz #essays #mexico #mexican #nobelprize

The Other Mexico, Return to the Labyrinth of Solitude, Mexico and the U. S. A., the Philanthropic Ogre

Examines Mexican character and culture, pre-Columbian societies, and relations between Mexico and the United States

Labyrinth of Solitude

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#mexico #folklore #lambs #coyote #wolves #paperback 

Michigan

A Tale from Ayulta, Mexico

Borreguita and the Coyote

never read #paperback #action #cartel #fiction #suspense #thriller #mexico #warondrugs 

The Cartel (Power of the Dog #2)

#juvenilefiction #purabelpreawardwinner #youngadult #esperanzarising #ya #Mexican #Mexico #california #latina 

Esperanza and her mother are forced to leave their life of wealth and privilege in Mexico to go work in the labor camps of Southern California, where they must adapt to the harsh circumstances facing Mexican farm workers on the eve of the Great Depression. Jr Lib Guild. Reprint.

Esperanza Rising

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#hardcover #Mexico #writer #soldier #journalist #Latin #America 

Iowa

The Old Gringo

#exlibrary #mexico #paricutin #volcanoes #hardcover 

Every day was the same for Pablo's father. He woke up early every morning and ate the same thing for breakfast. Then he went to his field. Every night he was very tired. "Nothing ever happens," he said. Then one day it was different. Something happened to Pablo and his father that had never before happened to two people anywhere in the world: a hill of fire began to grow in their cornfield. For beginning readers, here is the exciting story of Paricutin, the volcano that erupted in Mexico in 1943. It is also the story of the brave and proud villagers who survived the catastrophe. Joan Sandin's magnificent illustrations were sketched at the volcano site.

Hill of Fire

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Colorado

Winner of the HarperCollins/UBC Prize for Best New Fiction

Just shy of her fifteenth birthday, Gabriela Amador Prieto has been cast out of the family home by her father for tarnishing the family honour. All traces of her are brutally erased, and not even Lucy, Gabi's older sister and best friend, knows where she is. Furious at her father and desperate to find her sister, Lucy leaves their small town in Baja California, Mexico, and sets out for the capital to track Gabriela down.

Lucy ventures deep into Mexico City's most dangerous neighbourhoods, coming face to face with the dark underbelly of the city, while back at home her family members--her parents, her brothers, and her devious brother-in-law, Antonio--struggle with their own complicity in Gabi's fate.

Winner of the HarperCollins/UBC Prize for Best New Fiction, The Good Sister is an urgent, timely, and moving exploration of betrayal and steadfast devotion, and the ways in which our own intolerance can harm what--and who--we love most.

Patrick Hasburgh

Pirata

Rita Golden Gelman

Tales of a Female Nomad

J. C. Cervantes

The Storm Runner (a Storm Runner Novel, Book 1)

Maria Longhena

Ancient Mexico

Sarah Sanborn Weaver

The white buck - box 13

Rudolfo Anaya

Bless Me, Ultima

Fray Diego de Landa

An account of the things Yucatan

Gary Paulsen

The Crossing

Don Winslow

The Cartel

Barbara Kingsolver

The Lacuna

José Antonio Villarreal

Pocho (VINTAGE, 1970)

Toby Green

Thomas More's Magician

Tony Cohan

On Mexican Time

James A. Michener

Mexico

Sandra Cisneros

Caramelo

Iris Johansen

And Then You Die *ARC*

J. K. Jackson (Editor)

Aztec Myths

Octavio Paz

Labyrinth of Solitude

Verna Aardema

Borreguita and the Coyote

Don Winslow

The Cartel (Power of the Dog #2)

Pam Muñoz Ryan

Esperanza Rising

Carlos Fuentes

The Old Gringo

Thomas P. Lewis; Joan Sandin

Hill of Fire

Chelsea Bolan

The Good Sister

And Then You Die ARC