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"También de este lado hay sueños. 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 favorite books in her store. And then...
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For years, ex-Navy SEAL Maxwell Moore has worked across the Middle East and behind the scenes for the Special Activities Division of the CIA, making connections, extracting valuable intelligence, and facing off against America's enemies at every turn. When Moore arrives at a rendezvous to take charge of a high-ranking Taliban captive, the meeting takes a horrific turn.
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Leaphorn, Chee and Manuelito volume 2
Leaphorn and Chee
Leaphorn Chee and Manuelito volume 2
Leaphorn and Chee novel volume 20
Leaphorn and Chee
Leaphorn Chee and Manuelito volume 2
Leaphorn and Chee novel volume 20
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Navajo Tribal cops Jim Chee and Bernadette Manuelito, and their mentor, the legendary Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn, investigate two perplexing cases involving a missing woman and a drug bust gone bad.
4) The cartel
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It's 2004. DEA agent Art Keller has been fighting the war on drugs for thirty years in a blood feud against Adan Barrera, the head of El Federacion, the world's most powerful cartel, and the man who brutally murdered Keller's partner. Finally putting Barrera away cost Keller dearly-the woman he loves, the beliefs he cherishes, the life he wants to lead. Then Barrera gets out, determined to rebuild the empire that Keller shattered. Unwilling to live...
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Badge of honor volume 11
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For Philadelphia homicide detective Matt Payne, the news from an old law-enforcement friend sends a shiver down his spine: a connection between the Mexican drug cartels and the Russian mob. Russian girls are being smuggled in to work in the sex trade, and now some of them are dying or just disappearing. The trail leads right to Philadelphia -- where Payne learns that's not all. It isn't just Russian girls who are vanishing. Teenage girls are being...
6) Sicario
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (121 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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A female FBI agent joins a team fighting against Mexican drug cartels.
8) The exiled
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Mulholland Books/Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2016.
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310 pages ; 25 cm
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"Back in the 1980s, Wes Raney was an ambitious New York City narcotics detective with a growing drug habit of his own. While working undercover on a high-risk case, he made decisions that ultimately cost him not only his career but also his family. Disgraced, Raney fled-- but history is finally catching up to him. Now in his early forties, Raney is living in exile, the sole homicide investigator covering a two-hundred-mile stretch of desert in New...
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[2020]
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It's hard to make Diane Harbaugh flinch. A former prosecutor notorious for her aggressive tactics, she's now a DEA agent who interrogates witnesses so effectively, she has them confessing in tears. But when she hears from Gustavo, a high-ranking cartel member with an invaluable secret about the international black market, she's thrown for a loop. She heads to Mexico to meet him, and her entire understanding of justice and duty is thrown into question....
10) La reina del sur
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When she discovers that her boyfriend Guero, a Mexican drug smuggler, has been killed by rivals and that she is the next target, Teresa Mendoza must give up her old life and become a member of a dark and deadly world in order to survive.
La joven Teresa Mendoza se ve envuelta en una peligrosa red de narcotraficantes a causa de la muerte de su compañero. Su huida constante la llevará a España, donde buscará un lugar y una identidad.
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"The Mexican village of San Patricio is being menaced by a bizarre, cultish drug cartel infamous for its brutality. As the townspeople try to defend themselves by forming a vigilante group, the Mexican army and police have their own ways of fighting back. Into this volatile mix of forces for good and evil (and sometimes both) steps an unlikely broker for peace: Timothy Riordan, an American missionary priest who must decide whether to betray his vows...
12) Gringo
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 blu-ray (111 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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While in Mexico, mild mannered businessman Harold Soyinka finds himself at the mercy of his back-stabbing business colleagues, local drug lords, and a morally conflicted black-ops mercenary. Crossing the line from law-abiding citizen to wanted criminal, Harold battles to survive his increasingly dangerous situation.
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Vintage Español, una división de Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2020.
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463 pages : illustration ; 21 cm
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"También de este lado hay sueños. 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 favorite books in her store. And then...
16) Disappeared
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Four months ago Sara Zapata's best friend, Linda, disappeared from the streets of Juarez, and ever since Sara has been using her job as a reporter to draw attention to the girls who have been kidnapped by the criminals who control the city, but now she and her family are being threatened--meanwhile her younger brother, Emiliano, is being lured into the narcotics business by the promise of big money, and soon the only way for both of them to escape...
17) Gringo
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 111 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Harold Soyinka finds himself at the mercy of his back-stabbing business colleagues back home, local drug lords and a morally conflicted black-ops mercenary. Crossing the line from law-abiding citizen to wanted criminal, Harold battles to survive his increasingly dangerous situation.
19) The marksman
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2021]
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1 Blu-ray (108 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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Jim is a former Marine who lives a solitary life as a rancher along the Arizona-Mexico border. But his peaceful existence soon comes crashing down when he tries to protect a boy on the run from members of a vicious cartel.
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Planeta
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
204 p. ; 23 cm.
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"Tras las elecciones de 2012, el país anhela que la presidenta electa consiga controlar la violencia que en los últimos años ha desangrado a México. Después del encarcelamiento de empresarios dedicados a lavar dinero, el asesinato del secretario de la Defensa, atentados en el Congreso y el descubrimiento de la infiltración del narco en el gobierno y la Suprema Corte, la tarea de pacificación no es fácil y todo parece complicarse cuando la...
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