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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...

Red Smoking Mirror

Red Smoking Mirror
  • Author(s): Nick Hunt
  • Location(s): Mexico, Spain
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 16th Century

The year is 1521 in the Mexica city of Tenochtitlan. Twenty-nine years earlier, Islamic Spain never fell to the Christians, and Andalus launched a voyage of discovery to the New Maghreb. For two decades the Jewish merchant Eli Ben...

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...

Santa Olivia

Santa Olivia
  • Author(s): Jacqueline Carey
  • Location(s): Mexico, Texas
  • Genre(s): Fantasy, Science Fiction/Future
  • Era(s): Near Future

Loup Garron was born and raised in Santa Olivia, an isolated, disenfranchised town next to a US military base inside a DMZ buffer zone between Texas and Mexico. A fugitive “Wolf-Man” who had a love affair with a local...

Sea Monsters

Sea Monsters
  • Author(s): Chloe Aridjis
  • Location(s): Zipolite
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 19880s

One autumn afternoon in Mexico City, 17-year-old Luisa does not return home from school. Instead, she boards a bus to the Pacific coast with Tomás, a boy she barely knows. He seems to represent everything her life is lacking...

Speak To Me: Travels and Exploits of a Language Lover

Speak To Me: Travels and Exploits of a Language Lover
  • Author(s): Pat Hall
  • Location(s): World, Mexico
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): 1955-2020

Speak To Me: Travels and Exploits of a Language Lover is a memoir with an unlikely twist. It’s a story about an intrepid woman’s adventures traveling and pursuing her passion for languages, visiting and living in many countries solely...

The Book of Rosy

The Book of Rosy
  • Author(s): Rosayra Pablo Cruz
  • Location(s): Mexico, Arizona
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Compelling and urgently important, The Book of Rosy is the unforgettable story of one brave mother and her fight to save her family. When Rosayra “Rosy” Pablo Cruz made the agonizing decision to seek asylum in the United States...

The Corpse with the Emerald Thumb

The Corpse with the Emerald Thumb
  • Author(s): Cathy Ace
  • Location(s): Mexico
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Criminologist and foodie Cait Morgan was looking forward to her dream vacation in Mexico with her boyfriend Bud Anderson. She wasn’t anticipating a fresh corpse on the floor of a local florist’s shop, and she definitely wasn’t expecting Bud...

The Crossing

The Crossing
  • Author(s): Cormac McCarthy
  • Location(s): Mexico, Texas
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1930s/1940s

The Crossing forms second part of Cormac McCarthy’s critically acclaimed Border Trilogy, that began with All the Pretty Horses and concludes with The Cities of the Plain. Set on the south-western ranches in the years before the Second World...

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