Augie is a poor but exuberant boy growing up in Chicago during the Depression. While his friends all settle into chosen professions, Augie demands a special destiny. He tests out a wild succession of occupations, proudly rejecting each...
Mexico
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Auteur:Newcomb, KerrySommaire:Galloping toward his Mexican pursuers, Johnny Anthem reaches down to rescue his unhorsed brother Vin--who instead pistol-whips Johnny, steals his horse, and leaves him for dead. Nine months later, Johnny escapes the brutality of the...
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Auteur:Gibbs, StuartSommaire:Ben is taken to Mexico by his nemesis in the hopes that he'll finally be able to take down SPYDER in this latest addition to the New York Times bestselling Spy School series. Thirteen-year-old Ben Ripley has been caught in the snares of...
- Auteur:Moreno-Garcia, SilviaSommaire:
NATIONAL BESTSELLER - From the author of The Daughter of Doctor Moreau and Mexican Gothic comes a fabulous meld of Mexican horror movies and Nazi occultism: a dark thriller about the curse that haunts a legendary lost film-and awakens...
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Auteur:Montecino, MarcelSommaire:1920s New York gangster escapes to Mexico, dressed as a priest and is drawn into a revolution, people thinking he is a real priest. Known as Padre Pistolero, the Irish-American Tommy Coyne becomes a guerrilla leader, defending the...
- Auteur:Feehan, ChristineSommaire:
GhostWalker Kane Cannon's mission plunges him into a hot zone more personal than he anticipated: the hiding place of Rose Patterson-hunted fugitive, ex-lover, and a fellow GhostWalker desperate to save the life of her unborn child...
- Auteur:Magini, RogerSommaire:
Ce roman au ton intimiste propose une réflexion sur l’oubli et la banalisation de l’horreur. Assis à la terrasse d’un café de Cholula, l’antique Cité Sacrée du Mexique, un journaliste écrit un article sur « Hiroshima, soixante ans plus...
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Auteur:Taibo, Paco IgnacioSommaire:Héctor Belascoarán Shayne has danced with the dead. Luke Estrella does the rumba in white patent leather shoes. Together, they make the perfect pair to lead each other into an inferno under an azure Acapulco sky: a hell populated by...
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Auteur:Birtcher, Baron R.Sommaire:In 1976 Colt Freeland and his partner, Snyder, like a modern-day Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, have plied a small-time marijuana trade and now want out. But their failed getaway takes them straight into a deadly narcotics war.
- Auteur:Rosenmuller, ChristophSommaire:
Palace intrigues and clientelism drove politics at the viceregal court of colonial Mexico. By carefully reconstructing social networks in the court of Viceroy Duke of Alburquerque (1702-1710), Christoph Rosenmüller reveals that the Duke...
- Auteur:Bullard, LisaSommaire:
Day of the Dead is a holiday when families celebrate their loved ones who have died. Learn all about the customs of this holiday with text feature questions. Extend learning with a downloadable reading organizer.
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Auteur:Michener, James A.Sommaire:When an American journalist travels to report on the upcoming duel between two great matadors, he is ultimately swept up in the dramatic story of his own Mexican ancestry-from the brilliance and brutality of the ancients, to the iron...
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Auteur:Martin, Martha BrackSommaire:Tom is looking forward to spending spring break in Mexico with his girlfriend, Kat. Her father, an FBI agent, has invited Tom to join them at a fancy Cancun resort for some much-needed R&R. But when the daughter of a local law-...
- Auteur:Ruth, ElizabethSommaire:
Set in Spain and Mexico during the 1930s, Matadora tells the story of Luna Caballero Garcia, an impoverished and intrepid servant attempting to make her name in the bullring at a time when it was illegal for a girl to do so. Matadora...
- Auteur:Traven, B.Sommaire:
This well-known novella captures the essence of Mexican culture through the story of a poor woodcutter whose biggest dream in life is to eat an entire turkey by himself. When his dream is about to come true, and he sits down to the...
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Auteur:Browne, AnthonySommaire:Following a bout with polio at the age of six, Frida Kahlo's life was marked by pain and loneliness. In real life, she walked with a limp, but in her dreams, she flew. One day, her imagination took her on a journey to a girl in white...
- Auteur:Rivera Garza, CristinaSommaire:
NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST - A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK - "A searing account of grief and the quest to bring her sister's murderer to justice years after the fact" (The Boston Globe), from "one of Mexico's...
- Auteur:Bouchard, CamilleSommaire:
On lui offre la possibilité de servir de mule entre le Mexique et le Canada. On lui assure qu’un kilo de cocaïne caché dans son estomac lui rapportera une petite fortune. Faustina est persuadée que ce sera un jeu d’enfant. Elle se...
- Auteur:Brasset, Rose-LineSommaire:
C'est le mois de janvier. Gina et sa mère partent se prélasser sous le chaud soleil du Mexique et Juliette souhaite en faire autant. Le hic, c'est que les choses ne se passent jamais tout à fait comme l'espère notre...
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Auteur:Easton, DonSommaire:Now available in one bundle for the first time, the first seven books of the Jack Taggart Mystery series are gathered together, including the latest mystery, Corporate Asset. "Ripped from the headlines... Easton, an ex-Mountie, knows...
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