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The Hummingbird’s Daughter

The Hummingbird’s Daughter
  • Author(s): Luis Alberto Urrea
  • Location(s): Mexico
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Late 1800s

an epic mystical drama of a young woman’s sudden sainthood in late-19th century Mexico. It is 1889 and civil war is brewing in Mexico. A 16 year old girl, Teresita, illegitimate but beloved daughter of the wealthy and powerful...

The Lacuna

The Lacuna
  • Author(s): Barbara Kingsolver
  • Location(s): Mexico, North Carolina
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Mid 20th Century

The Lacuna is the heartbreaking story of a man’s search for safety of a man torn beween the warm heart of Mexico and the cold embrace of 1950s McCarthyite America. Born in the U.S. and reared in Mexico, Harrison...

The Savage Detectives

The Savage Detectives
  • Author(s): Roberto Bolaño
  • Location(s): Mexico City
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1970s onwards

Los Detectivos Salvajes is an urban odyssey set in the sprawl of 1975 Mexico City. Written by the Chilean author Roberto Bolaño, the novel won the Rómulo Gallegos International Novel Prize and is counted among his most successful novels,...

Under the Volcano

Under the Volcano
  • Author(s): Malcolm Lowry
  • Location(s): Cuernavaca
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1938

Geoffrey Firmin, the former British consul iun Mexico is a prisoner of alcoholism. On The Day of the Dead in 1938, his recently divorced wife Yvonne returns to Quauhnahuac (The Aztec name for Cuernavaca), over which two smoking volcanoes...

Mexican Gothic

Mexican Gothic
  • Author(s): Silvia Moreno-Garcia
  • Location(s): Baja California
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1950s

When glamorous socialite Noemí Taboada receives a frantic letter from her newly-wed cousin begging to be rescued from a mysterious doom, it’s clear something is desperately amiss. Catalina has always had a flair for the dramatic, but her claims...

Risky Business

Risky Business
  • Author(s): Nora Roberts
  • Location(s): Acapulco, Cozumel
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

Cozumel had been home to Liz Palmer for ten years. She was settled, respected. Her Black Coral Dive Shop was the best on the island. She no longer missed Houston, or thought about the man who didn’t want her...

All Inclusive

All Inclusive
  • Author(s): Bea W Meyer
  • Location(s): Yucatan Peninsula
  • Genre(s): Travelogue
  • Era(s): Modenr

In her fourth book the author takes the reader on a resort-style vacation to Mexico’s Yucatan peninsula. Funny episodes alternate with useful information about sights to see and things to do in an area full of natural wonders and...

All the Pretty Horses

All the Pretty Horses
  • Author(s): Cormac McCarthy
  • Location(s): Mexico, Texas
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1949

John Grady Cole is the last bewildered survivor of long generations of Texas ranchers. Finding himself cut off from the only life he has ever wanted, he sets out for Mexico with his friend Lacey Rawlins. Befriending a third...

Amity

Amity
  • Author(s): Nathan Harris
  • Location(s): Louisiana, Mexico
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1869

Louisiana, 1869. The Civil War might be over, but former slaves Coleman and June have yet to find the freedom they’ve been promised. Two years ago, the siblings were separated when their old master, Mr Harper, took June away...

Arranged

Arranged
  • Author(s): Catherine McKenzie
  • Location(s): Mexico, New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Anne Blythe has a great life: a good job, close friends, and a potential book deal for her first novel. When it comes to finding someone to share her life with, however, she just can’t seem to get it...

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