De Regil, Tania
Summary: At Grandma's house, where Julia is staying without her parents for the first time, the breeze is sweet like jasmine. Mornings begin with sugared bread, and the most magnificent hot chocolate cures all homesickness. There's something about this place and about Grandma. Like how she can tell when Julia has been quietly picking limes from the garden. Or that she can see the future--and knows when...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2022
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Summary: En una primera visita sin sus papás a la casa de su abuela en las afueras de la Ciudad de México, una niña descubre lo que hace que la abuela tan especial.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2022
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Summary: Mexico, 1970s. Jan and Remo find themselves adrift in Mexico City. Obsessed with poetry, and, above all, with science fiction, they are eager to forge a life in the literary world- or sacrifice themselves to it. The city tugs them in opposite directions. Jan withdraws from the world, shutting himself in their shared rooftop apartment where he feverishly composes fan letters to the stars of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BOLLuiselli, Valeria
Summary: "Bon vivant, world traveler, auctioneer--the story of Highway and his teeth is like Johnny Cash meets Robert Walser in Mexico"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Coffee House Press 2015
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Summary: Book smart teen Lola's summer plans are derailed when she is sent to live with her grandmother in Mexico City and learns a family secret that changes her life forever.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kokila 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC CERSholes, Lynn
Summary: "Magazine journalist Seneca Hunt is reporting on the opening of Montezuma's tomb in Mexico City when the dig team learns that the remains of the Aztec emperor are missing. Within moments of the discovery, an apparent terrorist attack kills everyone at the site except Seneca, who barely escapes the carnage. To get answers, Seneca starts investigating. She finds out that someone is stealing the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Midnight Ink 2011
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Summary: "From the New York Times bestselling author of Mexican Gothic comes a riveting noir about a daydreaming secretary, a lonesome thug, and the mystery of the missing woman that brings them together. 1970s Mexico City. Maite is a secretary who lives for one thing: the latest issue of Secret Romance. While student protests and political unrest consume the city, Maite escapes into stories of passion...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Del Rey, an imprint of Random House, a division of Penguin Random House, LLC 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MORSámano Córdova, Gerardo
Summary: Grieving mother Magos cuts out a piece of her deceased eleven-year-old son Santiago's lung. Acting on fierce maternal instinct and the dubious logic of an old folktale, she nurtures the lung until it gains sentience, growing into the carnivorous little Monstrilio she keeps hidden within the walls of her family's decaying Mexico City estate. Eventually, Monstrilio begins to resemble the Santiago...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Zando 2023
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Summary: In a shared voice, a young boy conveys his fears about moving from New York City to Mexico City while, at the same time, a young girl expresses her worries about leaving Mexico City to move to New York City.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019