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Love On High Steel Bridge

Love On High Steel Bridge
  • Author(s): Rebecca Rohman
  • Location(s): Seattle, Juneau, La Paz
  • Genre(s): Romance, Suspense
  • Era(s): Present Day

Captain Dorian Rae is a wounded soul who gets his greatest pleasures from being in the great outdoors and soaring the skies. When he has a life-changing encounter with a beauty on Washington State’s High Steel Bridge, he never...

Love’s A Beach

Love’s A Beach
  • Author(s): Nicole Cronin Ashong
  • Location(s): Oaxaca
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

At a luxury resort in sunny Mexico, cast and crew film the hit reality dating show, Love’s a Beach. The series is known for plotlines as shallow as the turquoise waters, but this season takes a dark turn when...

Mexico

Mexico
  • Author(s): James Michener
  • Location(s): Mexico
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1400-1960

(Wikipedia:) The main action of Mexico takes place in Mexico over a three-day period in the fictional city of Toledo in 1961. The occasion is the annual bullfighting festival, at which two matadors — one an acclaimed hero of...

Nine Birds Singing

Nine Birds Singing
  • Author(s): Edythe Anstey Hanen
  • Location(s): British Columbia, Mexico, Vancouver
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1960s to present day

Nine Birds Singing is a poignant coming-of-age story. Readers travel back to the swinging 60s in Vancouver with Maddie, a young woman breaking free of her religious upbringing. Follow Maddie’s journey from Vancouver, to Mexico, to the Gulf Islands...

On Starlit Seas

On Starlit Seas
  • Author(s): Sara Sheridan
  • Location(s): Mexico, England, South America, The Atlantic Ocean
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 18th/19th Cenutry

Celebrated writer and historian Maria Graham must make the treacherous voyage from Brazil to London to deliver her latest book to her publisher. Having come to terms with the loss of her beloved husband, Maria now has renewed hope...

On Swift Horses

On Swift Horses
  • Author(s): Shannon Pufahl
  • Location(s): San Diego, Las Vegas, Tijuana
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Mid 20th century

A breathtakingly beautiful debut novel of revolution, chance and the gambles we take with the human heart. Muriel, newly married and newly orphaned, works as a waitress in a San Diego diner. As she pours coffee and empties ashtrays,...

Only to Sleep

Only to Sleep
  • Author(s): Lawrence Osborne
  • Location(s): Mexico, California
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1980s

The year is 1988. The place, Baja California. Private Investigator Philip Marlowe – now in his seventy-second year – has been living out his retirement in the terrace bar of the La Fonda hotel. Sipping margaritas, playing cards, his...

Our Own Private Universe

Our Own Private Universe
  • Author(s): Robin Talley
  • Location(s): Mexico
  • Genre(s): Young Adult
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Fifteen-year-old Aki Simon has a theory. And it’s mostly about sex. No, it isn’t that kind of theory. Aki already knows she’s bisexual–even if, until now, it’s mostly been in the hypothetical sense. Aki’s theory is that she’s only...

Paradais

Paradais
  • Author(s): Fernanda Melchor, Sophie Hughes (Translator)
  • Location(s): Mexico
  • Genre(s): Fiction, In Translation
  • Era(s): Modern

nside a luxury housing complex, two misfit teenagers sneak around and get drunk. Franco Andrade, lonely, overweight, and addicted to porn, obsessively fantasizes about seducing his neighbor – an attractive married woman and mother – while Polo dreams about...

Remember Me

Remember Me
  • Author(s): Mario Escobar
  • Location(s): Spain, Mexico
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1930s

Amid the shadows of war, one family faces an impossible choice that will change their lives forever. Madrid, 1934. Though the Spanish Civil War has not yet begun, the streets of Madrid have become dangerous for thirteen-year-old Marco Alcalde...

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