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New Mexico trilogy volume 1
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"It was a soft, early spring morning with the mist still clinging to the mountain and the blackbirds just starting to swoop low over the alfalfa fields when Jo Mondragon - thirty-six with not much to show for it, a feisty hustler with a talent for trouble - slammed his battered pick-up to a stop, tugged on his gumboots, and marched into the arid patch of ground his father had once cultivated. Carefully, impulsively (and also illegally), he tapped...
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2022
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There’s cash missing from a local charity thrift shop—lots of it. And when it looks like her surrogate grandma might be accused, there’s nothing for Charlie to do but take a job there and try to catch the thief from the inside and clear Elsa’s name. As she and Elsa begin tracking the missing money, it becomes obvious that the shop is a little goldmine and there are a number of people who could easily be after the money.She’s narrowing down...
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New Mexico trilogy volume 1
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The Milagro Beanfield War is the first book in John Nichols's New Mexico trilogy ("Gentle, funny, transcendent." —The New York Times Book Review), later adapted to film by Robert Redford.
Joe Mondragon, a feisty hustler with a talent for trouble, slammed his battered pickup to a stop, tugged on his gumboots, and marched into the arid patch of ground. Carefully (and also illegally), he tapped into the main
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2002
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Ariel Rankin seeks to locate and save her unknown father-a man deeply scarred by his secret and brutal role in the history of his country In the sequel to Bradford Morrow's heralded Trinity Fields,young New Yorker Ariel Rankin learns that her birth father is not the man who raised her but rather a soldier named Kip Calder who disappeared into the jungles of Laos during the Vietnam War. Hoping to preserve her otherwise happy life, she pushes the revelation...
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Old New Mexico volume 1
Pub. Date
2018
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Can Gerald survive the Sangre de Cristo mountains, the Mohave Indians, and the arid south rim of the Grand Canyon as well as the fellow trapper who hates him for the color of his skin? Can he prove to himself and the girl he loves that he is, after all, not just any man?
11) Mexico
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[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
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An introduction to Mexico, providing information about the country's cities, history, and occupations among other aspects. Includes glossary.
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Old New Mexico volume 2
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2019
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Suzanna's adjustments to marriage and her new home in New Mexico's Sangre de Cristo mountains are menaced by the man everyone thinks her husband, Gerald, killed two years before. And Enoch Jones' lust for Suzanna may be even stronger than his desire for Gerald's blood.
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Old New Mexico volume 3
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2017
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In 1860s New Mexico, a teenage bride discovers her husband is a serial killer. Based on a true story.
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©2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.4 - AR Pts: 5
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This book describes the Mexican revolt against Spanish rule, from the 1810 arrests of key members of the Literary Society of Queretaro for plotting an independence movement and the speech "Grito de Dolores" by Father Hidalgo to the 1821 proclaiming of Mexican independence from colonial rule.
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©1989
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The Laboratory of Anthropology, the Museum of New Mexico's anthropological research unit, presents selections from its famed Southwest Indian art and artifacts collection. Essays by noted scholars in the field illuminate the change and continuity over two thousand years of Native American basketry, textiles, pottery, and jewelry, while developing the connections between prehistoric, historic, and contemporary trends and traditions.