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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. But when Moore arrives at a rendezvous to take charge of a high-ranking Taliban captive, the meeting takes a horrific turn. Barely surviving, he tries to bring to safety a Pakistani colonel with information...
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Wolfe family novels volume 2
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English
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"Eddie Gato Wolfe is a young, impetuous member of the Wolfe family of Texas gun-runners that goes back generations. Increasingly unfulfilled by his minor role in family operations and eager to set out on his own, Eddie crosses the border to work security for a major Mexican drug cartel led by the ruthless La Navaja. Eddie falls for a mysterious woman named Miranda, whom he learns too late is the property of an intimate member of La Navaja's organization....
4) 22 SECONDS
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Women's Murder Club volume 22
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English
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22 seconds ... until Lindsay Boxer loses her badge--or her life. SFPD Sergeant Lindsay Boxer has guns on her mind. There's buzz of a last-ditch shipment of drugs and weapons crossing the Mexican border ahead of new restrictive gun laws. Before Lindsay can act, her top informant tips her to a case that hits disturbingly close to home. Former cops. Professional hits. All with the same warning scrawled on their bodies: You talk, you die. Now it's Lindsay's...
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Editorial Colibri
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2005.
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Español
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"Estela es una maestra de la Ciudad de México, que por intrigas mezquinas debe abandonar su escuela y trasladarse a Ixcuintla, un pequeño pueblo perdido en la sierra del estado de Guerrero, casi frontera con Oaxaca. A regañadientes, la maestra acepta su 'destierro' porque piensa que le caerá bien un cambio y un poco de tranquilidad, pero Ixcuintla no es el pueblo sencillo y apacible que aparenta. Muy pronto Estela descrubre que los tentáculos...
7) Laberinto
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Literatura Random House
Pub. Date
2019.
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Español
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"Dos náufragos, dos supervivientes con más ganas de ahogarse de verdad que de seguir respirando, se encuentran una noche en un bar. Se conocen de tiempo atrás, de cuando eran otros. Uno fue profesor de literatura y entrenador de futbol, el otro fue su alumno. Ahora, beben con la misma feroz disciplina, para apagar la memoria , pero ésta se alimenta de un dolor demasiado vivo: de una noche, hace nueve años, en la que dos bandas rivales de narcotraficantes...
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Vintage Español, una división de Penguin Random House LLC
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2020.
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Español
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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 one day a man enters the shop to browse...