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Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 11
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"Nineteen-year-old Nayeli works at a taco shop in her Mexican village and dreams about her father, who journeyed to the US when she was young. Recently, it has dawned on her that he isn't the only man who has left town. In fact, there are almost no men in the village--they've all gone north. While watching The Magnificent Seven, Nayeli decides to go north herself and recruit seven men--her own "Siete Magníficos"--to repopulate her hometown and protect...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 28
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Teresa Mendoza's boyfriend is a drug smuggler who the narcos of Sinaloa, Mexico, call "the king of the short runway," because he can get a plane full of coke off the ground in three hundred yards. But in a ruthless business, life can be short, and Teresa even has a special cell phone that Guero gave her along with a dark warning. If that phone rings, it means he's dead, and she'd better run, because they're coming for her next. Then the call comes......
10) Witches: a novel
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Description
Journalist Zoé comes to the town of San Felipe to learn about the famous healer Feliciana, who has the ability to heal the soul as well as the body, and about the murder of Feliciana's teacher, Paloma.
Paloma is dead. But before she was murdered, before she was even Paloma, she was a traditional healer named Gaspar. Before she was murdered, she taught her cousin Feliciana the secrets of the ceremonies known as veladas, and about the Language and...
11) La reina del sur
Author
Series
Biblioteca Arturo Perez-Riverte volume 1/2
Pub. Date
2007
Description
La mas esperada novela de Arturo Perez-Reverte podria no haber llegado nunca a las librerias. La apasionante historia con la que ratifica sus innegables dotes literarias y un magistral dominio de las tecnicas narrativas quiza pudiera haberse resumido en tres minutos de musica y palabras. Entonces se habria convertido en uno de los muchos corridos que cantan las gestas de los narcotraficantes mexicanos. Pero el escritor espanol mas aclamado dentro...
Author
Pub. Date
[2009]
Description
Nayeli, a taqueria worker in a poor coastal Mexican town, spends her time serving tacos and tries to help her aunt Irma get elected as mayor, but as drug gangsters take over the town, which is largely devoid of men, Nayeli travels north to find seven Mexican men to protect the community.
"Nayeli es una chica de diecinueve años que trabaja en una taquería de tres Camarones, un poblado mexicano. Ve en sueños a su padre, que emigró al norte cuando...