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Author
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
c2008.
Language
English
Description
Sophomore Frankie finally finds the courage to ask his long-term friend, Rebecca, to the Homecoming dance, which ultimately leads to a face-off between a tough senior whose family owns most of their small, New Mexico town, and Frankie's soccer-star olderbrother and his gang-member friends.
62) Devil's rim
Author
Pub. Date
c1998.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Concho Smith, an old cowboy lamenting the end of the cattle drive era, is riding down to Mexico hoping to find work there. On his way, he sees a beautiful woman trying single-handedly to keep her ranch running and offers to help repair her fencing that had been knocked down by a storm. As days turn into weeks, Concho learns that Judith Van is married to Sid, a proud but bitter cripple. Unfortunately, Concho has already fallen in love with Judith and...
Author
Series
Posadas County volume 3
Language
English
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Description
Undersheriff Estelle Reyes-Guzman is called in to investigate a scene of domestic violence, but she becomes suspicious of an outside assailant when the family's next-door neighbor disappears.
65) Earthway
Author
Series
Ella Clah novels volume 14
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
A group of activists is determined to do whatever is necessary to stop the building of a nuclear power plant--assault, sabotage, domestic terrorism. When a fellow Navajo Police officer is injured in an attack aimed at Ella Clah's boyfriend, Ella vows to do whatever it takes to find the terrorists and bring them to justice.
66) The buscadero
Author
Series
Publisher
Chivers
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English
Description
"When Tom Bell rode into Doblado to take over the only newspaper in Vaca County, he saw the old editor shot down before his eyes. The cut-throat gang who wanted to run the county pinned the murder on Bell. Bell blasted the gang in his newspaper, and printed enough evidence against them to sign his own death warrant. But Tom Bell was un buscadero--a two-gun man."--Page 4 of cover.
67) Shooting chant
Author
Series
Ella Clah novels volume 5
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
c2000.
Language
English
Description
Once an FBI agent, Ella Clah is now a Special Investigator with the Navajo Police. She walks a tightrope between the Najavo and the white worlds, fully accepted by neither but needed by both. Ella's brother, Clifford, a hataali or medicine man, says that her investigave skills are a gift from the spirits who guard and guide the Dineh, but Ella insists it's her FBI training that has honed her instincts.
69) Song of the road
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Series
Language
English
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Description
Returning to her childhood home in Depression-era New Mexico, pregnant and penniless widow Marilee is distraught to learn of her father's death and her mother's alcoholism but vows to revive the family's motor court business.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
It's 2004. DEA agent Art Keller has been fighting the war on drugsfor thirty years in a blood feud against Adán Barrera, the head of El Federación, 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...
72) Tumble
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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Description
Before she decides whether to accept her stepfather's proposal of adoption, twelve-year-old Adela Ramírez reaches out to her estranged biological father--who is in the midst of a career comeback as a luchador--and the eccentric extended family of wrestlers she has never met, bringing Adela closer to understanding the expansive definition of family.
73) The Judas judge
Author
Series
Kevin Kerney novel volume 5
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
2000.
Language
English
Description
In a remote New Mexico campground, six people are killed in an apparently senseless murder spree. Deputy State Police Chief Kevin Kerney suspects the slaying wasnt random at allbut rather a calculated plot to eliminate one high-profile victim, retired judge, Vernon Langsford. In piecing together the judges shocking past, Kerney discovers the victims predilection for sexual indiscretions, a history of family betrayal...
74) Texas Lily
Author
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
1997.
Language
English
Description
In Texas Lily, Elizabeth Fackler has recreated the historical actors of the Lincoln County War, a pivotal event in the development of the western frontier. In 1875, along the Rio Panal in New Mexico Territory, wealthy rancher Emmet Moss proposes marriage to the daughter of an old Texas friend who was recently murdered in the opening act of a conflagration that will soon flare into war. Sixteen-year-old Lily Cassidy accepts his proposal in the interest...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"From the New York Times bestselling author Darynda Jones comes the second novel in her laugh-out-loud Sunshine Vicram mystery series, A Good Day for Chardonnay. Running a small-town police force in the mountains of New Mexico should be a smooth, carefree kind of job. Sadly, full-time Sheriff-and even fuller-time coffee guzzler-Sunshine Vicram, didn't get that memo. All Sunshine really wants is one easy-going day. You know, the kind that starts with...
76) Die by the gun
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
After completing a successful cattle drive as the chuckwagon cook, Dewey "Mac" McKenzie signs up for another one on the Goodnight-Loving Trail, deep in New Mexico Territory. Pursued by a gang of ruthless killers hired by his enemies, with an ornery trail boss and the cattle owner's spoiled son as his crew mate, Mac sets off on a route overrun with kill-crazy rustlers and bloodthirsty Comanche. When the owner's son is kidnapped, the courageous cook...
77) Abuelos
Author
Publisher
Groundwood/House of Anansi
Pub. Date
c2008.
Language
Español
Description
Young Ray and Amelia move to a new village in New Mexico and experience the fright and fun of "los abuelos" for the first time. In the cold months of midwinter, village men disappear to disguise themselves as scary old men and then descend on the children, teasing them and asking if they've been good.
Sumario en español: Ray y Amelia, descubren por primera vez una vieja tradición de Nuevo México llamada ́"los abuelos." En el medio de frío invierno,...
Author
Series
Ella Clah novels volume 15
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
"Returning to the Navajo Reservation after receiving an offer for a lucrative new position in Washington, D.C., Ella Clah anticipates a cheerful family welcome at the tiny airstrip. What she gets is a firefight--three men in body armor, guns blazing, shooting at anyone who moves. Tribal attorney Kevin Tolino, war hero Nelson Lonewolf, the plane's pilot, and Ella herself duck for cover amid the hail of bullets. Tolino and Lonewolf are seriously injured"--Page...
Author
Publisher
Schwartz & Wade Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
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Description
Cody is worried when his family on a New Mexico Navajo reservation runs out of water, but Darlene Arviso, called "The Water Lady," is on the way with her tanker truck. Includes glossary of Navajo terms and notes about Arviso and life on a reservation.
80) Before she dies
Author
Series
Posadas County volume 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Posadas Register reporter Linda Real barely survives her nighttime patrol with one of Undersherrif Bill Gastner's deputies who is killed by a more accurate shotgun blast than the one that ruins her face, Bill gets angry. Teamed with his intuitive, observant detective Estelle Reyes-Guzman and her usual sharp eye for physical evidence, Bill implicates Tammy Woodruff, the thrill-seeking daughter of the local Republican County Chairman, in the brutal...
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