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1) Angel fire
Author
Series
Angel trilogy (L. A. Weatherly) volume 2
Formats
Description
Willow and Alex flee to the gritty urban streets of Mexico City, where their love is tested by their discovery of an elusive angel killer and a powerful adversary with a mysterious agenda.
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
c2009
Physical Desc
311 p. ; 22 cm.
Description
Fleeing to Mexico City for a holiday retreat in the wake of a crumbled marriage and a scandalous affair, former college friends Josie and Raquel experience opportunities to discover their sexual selves while grappling with realizations about how sex has compromised their pasts.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 27 cm
Description
A boy whose family is moving from New York to Mexico City, and a girl whose family is making the move in the opposite direction, wonder what life will be like in their new homes as they experience the highlights of living in their old city.
Author
Publisher
Zando
Pub. Date
2023
Physical Desc
326 pages ; 22 cm
Description
Grieving mother Magos cuts out a piece of her deceased eleven-year-old son Santiago's lung. Acting on fierce maternal instinct and the dubious logic of an old folktale, she nurtures the lung until it gains sentience, growing into the carnivorous little Monstrilio she keeps hidden within the walls of her family's decaying Mexico City estate. Eventually, Monstrilio begins to resemble the Santiago he once was, but his innate impulses--though curbed by...
11) Silver nitrate
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Appears on list
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A meld of Mexican horror movies and Nazi occultism: a dark thriller about the curse that haunts a legendary lost film--and awakens one woman's hidden powers. Montserrat has always been overlooked. She’s a talented sound editor, but she’s left out of the boys’ club running the film industry in ’90s Mexico City. And she’s all but invisible to her best friend, Tristán, a charming if faded soap opera star, though she’s been in love with him...
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Description
"1970s Mexico City. Maite is a secretary who lives for one thing: the latest issue of Secret Romance. While student protests and political unrest consume the city, Maite escapes into stories of passion and danger. Her next-door neighbor, Leonora, a beautiful art student, seems to live a life of intrigue and romance that Maite envies. When Leonora disappears under suspicious circumstances, Maite finds herself searching for the missing woman--and journeying...
13) A new home
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2019
Physical Desc
29 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 27 cm
Description
Moving to a new city can be exciting. But what if your new home isn't anything at all like your old home? Will you make friends? What will you eat? Where will you play? In a shared voice, a boy moving from New York City to Mexico City and a girl moving from Mexico City to New York City express their fears about leaving home to live in a new and unfamiliar place. Tania de Regil offers a heart-warming story about finding home wherever you go
Author
Publisher
Editorial Planeta Mexicanna
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
534 pages : genealogical tables, maps ; 23 cm
Description
"Capital de imperios, ciudad de palacios, metrópoli cosmopolita, pero también víctima de los embates de la naturaleza. Sus tragedias no tienen fin. Aunque tampoco sus grandes momentos que han visto coronar emperadores, vitorear ejércitos y levantar portentosos edificios. Cuatro familias lo han visto y padecido todo, cada una con su larga genealogía de mentiras, sueños y penas. Ellos revelan los secretos de la Ciudad de México y sus protagonistas:...
Author
Publisher
Umbriel
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
375 pages : 24 cm.
Description
Domingo, un solitario recolector de basura que vive en la calle, trata de sobrevivir en una ciudad indiferente y amenazadora cuan una hastiada vampiresa a la fuga aparece en su vida. Atl, descendiente de bebedores de sangre aztecas, es inteligente, preciosa y peligrosa, y Domingo queda hipnotizado. Atl necesita escapar rápidamente de la ciudad, lejos del clan narco-vampírico rival que la persigue sin descanso. También requiere de un ayudante y...
Author
Series
Victor Li novels volume 2
Publisher
Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
294 pages ; 24 cm
Description
Victor Li is a man without a past. To his new employer, Mark, he’s just an anonymous hired hand to help with the dirty work. Together, they break into storage units that contain the possessions of the recently deported, pocketing whatever is worth selling. Only Victor and his sister, Jules, know that he’s a wanted man. Amid the backpacks and suitcases, Victor makes the find of a lifetime: a gem rare and valuable enough to change his fortunes in...
Author
Publisher
Picador/Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
xxiii, 648 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Description
New Year's Eve, 1975: Arturo Belano and Ulises Lima, founders of the visceral realist movement in poetry, leave Mexico City in a borrowed white Impala. Their quest: to track down the obscure, vanished poet Cesárea Tinajero. A violent showdown in the Sonora desert turns search to flight; twenty years later Belano and Lima are still on the run. The explosive first long work by "the most exciting writer to come from south of the Rio Grande in a long...
Author
Series
Publisher
Editorial Planeta Mexicana
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
534 pages ; 23 cm.
Description
"Nayeli, una joven tehuana que ha huido de su hogar, llega a la ciudad de Mxico desamparada. Gracias a sus maravillosos dotes en la cocina encuentra un lugar en la Casa Azul, donde Frida Kahlo vive prcticamente aislada desde el fatal accidente que la dej paraltica. Entre sabores, aromas y colores, la pintora y su nueva cocinera inician una amistad que marca profundamente el destino de ambas. Muchos aos despus en Buenos Aires, donde Nayeli se asent...
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