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Pub. Date
c1994
Language
English
Description
A picture book that introduces the Aztecs, their cities, and the dramatic confrontation between Montezuma and Cortes. Tells how the Aztecs established an empire in Mexico and what happened when they, led by Montezuma, encountered Cortés and the Spaniards in the early sixteenth century. An account of the establishment of the Aztec empire in Mexico and of the terrible battle between the Aztecs and the Spaniards known as the Sad Night.
Author
Series
Case file 13 volume 4
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"The three Monsterteers are off on a vacation to Mexico, where they join an archeological excavation of an abandoned--and haunted--Mayan pyramid"--
85) The cowboy way
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
A missing girl has Sutherland and Harrelson saddled up for big trouble as they set out to find her within the badlands of New York City.
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Series
Language
English
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"Clint Morgan was a giant of a man, but his love for his foreman's wife had produced a son while his foreman was away with the Confederate Army. When Kehoe Lamb returned, the boy was sent to his mother's relatives. Eighteen years later, Morgan Lamb returns and the violence that has been building finally erupts"--
87) The Maya
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Series
Language
English
Description
The Maya has long been established as the best, most readable introduction to the New World's greatest ancient civilization. In its pages Professor Coe distills a lifetime's scholarship for the general reader and student, presenting the latest findings, most exciting scholarship and freshest perspectives on Maya culture. Since the publication of the previous edition, new sites have been uncovered and further excavations in old sites have proceeded...
Author
Series
Monographs of the School of American Research volume no. 14, pt. 1-13
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
" ... Sahagún's monumental and encyclopedic study of native life in Mexico at the time of the Spanish Conquest. This immense undertaking is the first complete translation into any language of Sahagún's Nahuatl text, and represents one of the most distinguished contributions in the fields of anthropology, ethnography, and linguistics. Written between 1540 and 1585, the Florentine Codex (so named because the manuscript has been part of the Laurentian...
90) The Russian cage
Author
Series
Gunnie Rose novels volume 3
Language
English
Description
"Picking up right where A Longer Fall left off, this ... third installment follows Lizbeth Rose as she takes on one of her most dangerous missions yet: rescuing her estranged partner, Prince Eli, from the Holy Russian Empire. Once in San Diego, Lizbeth is going to have to rely upon her sister Felicia and her growing Grigori powers to navigate her way through this strange new world of royalty and deception in order to get Eli freed from jail where...
Author
Series
Victor Li novels volume 2
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"A riveting thriller about a young man on the run from a furtive past, in search of a quick payday in Mexico City, who finds himself in the crosshairs of a dangerous international scheme"--
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Regina Mart̕nez was no stranger to retaliation. A journalist out of Mexico's Gulf Coast state of Veracruz, Regina's stories for the magazine Proceso laid out the corruption and abuse underlying Mexican politics. She was barred from press conferences, and copies of Proceso often disappeared before they made the newsstands. In 2012, shortly after Proceso published an article on corruption and two Veracruz politicians, and the magazine went missing...
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"This provocative account of the persecution of the Catholic Church in Mexico in the 1920s and 1930s tells the stories of eight pivotal players. The saints are now honored as martyrs by the Catholic Church, and the sinners were political and military leaders who were accomplices in the persecution." Amazon.com
95) Standoff
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Language
English
Description
Ambitious TV reporter Tiel McCoy is driving through New Mexico when she hears over the radio that Sabra Dendy, the 17 year-old daughter of Fort Worth multimillionaire Russell Dendy, has been kidnapped.ááTiel calls her editor and learns that Sara was "kidnapped" by her boyfriend Ronnie and is pregnant.ááTiel is at a gas station store when an armed couple robs the cashier and orders all the customers to the floor.ááThe girl goes into labor
...96) Josefina's song
Author
Pub. Date
c2001
Language
English
Description
In the early 1800s, nine-year-old Josefina accompanies her father into the New Mexican mountains to check on the elderly shepherd who works for him, and she proves herself a good traveling companion when her father has an accident.
98) Desperado
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
Description
A mysterious guitar player seeks vengeance against the men who murdered his girlfriend --
Pub. Date
1997, c1996
Language
English
Description
Mount Dragon: an enigmatic research complex hidden in the vast desert of New Mexico. Guy Carson and Susana Cabeza de Vaca have come to Mount Dragon to work shoulder to shoulder with some of the greatest scientific minds on the planet. Led by visionary genius Brent Scopes, their secret goal is a medical breakthrough that promises to bring incalculable benefits to the human race. But while Scopes believes he is leading the way to a new world order,...
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