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Reservoir Bitches

Reservoir Bitches
  • Author(s): Dahlia de la Cerda, Heather Cleary (translator), Julia Sanches (Translator)
  • Location(s): Mexico
  • Genre(s): Short Stories, Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A debut linked story collection of gritty, streetwise, and wickedly funny fiction from Mexico. Life’s a bitch. That’s why you gotta rattle her cage, even if she’s foaming at the mouth. In the linked stories of Reservoir Bitches, thirteen...

Retreat

Retreat
  • Author(s): Krysten Ritter
  • Location(s): Punta Mita
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Liz has always had a knack for charming people and gaining their trust. That’s what makes her such a talented con artist. But lately the pressure’s rising – Liz’s past crimes have started snapping at her heels. So she...

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 Bewitching

The Bewitching
  • Author(s): Silvia Moreno-Garcia
  • Location(s): Massachusetts, Mexico
  • Genre(s): Horror, Fantasy, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1990s looking back

Three women in three different eras encounter danger and witchcraft in this eerie multigenerational horror saga from the New York Times bestselling author of Mexican Gothic. ‘Back then, when I was a young woman, there were still witches’: that...

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...

The Daughter of Doctor Moreau

The Daughter of Doctor Moreau
  • Author(s): Silvia Moreno-Garcia
  • Location(s): Yucatan Peninsula
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Fantasy

Carlota Moreau: A young woman, growing up in a distant and luxuriant estate, safe from the conflict and strife of the Yucatán peninsula, the only daughter of a genius – or a madman. Montgomery Laughton: A melancholic overseer with...

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