Mystery in Mayan Mexico

Mystery in Mayan Mexico
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Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Total Pages : 229
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ISBN-10 : 9780544302068
ISBN-13 : 0544302060
Rating : 4/5 (68 Downloads)

Synopsis Mystery in Mayan Mexico by : Marcia Wells

"On vacation in Mexico, Eddie Red and his best friend Jonah must once again rely on Eddie's talent for drawing and his photographic memory to uncover clues to catch a crook when Eddie's father is falsely accused of a crime"--

Twenty Centavos

Twenty Centavos
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 306
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ISBN-10 : 0983258244
ISBN-13 : 9780983258247
Rating : 4/5 (44 Downloads)

Synopsis Twenty Centavos by : John E. Scherber

Twenty Centavos Does an artist really see things differently? Painter Paul Zacher, preparing for a gallery show in the Yucatan, is unwillingly drawn into a murder investigation in his home town of San Miguel de Allende, Mexico. A prominent antiques dealer has been shot in the head, and a twenty centavo coin found in his mouth. Zacher draws on the help and expertise of his Mexican girlfriend, Maya Sanchez, and his retired detective friend, Cody Williams, to comb the prosperous expatriate community for clues as he tries to stay out of the way of the police. The action ricochets from the heartland of colonial Mexico to the steamy jungles of the Yucatan, as Zacher inches closer to the killer, only to find himself marked as the next victim. Twenty Centavos is the first book in the Murder in Mexico mystery series.

A Massacre in Mexico

A Massacre in Mexico
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Publisher : Verso Books
Total Pages : 419
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ISBN-10 : 9781788731508
ISBN-13 : 1788731506
Rating : 4/5 (08 Downloads)

Synopsis A Massacre in Mexico by : Anabel Hernandez

On September 26, 2014, 43 male students from the Ayotzinapa Rural Teachers' College went missing in Iguala, Guerrero, Mexico. On route to a protest, local police intercepted the students and a confrontation ensued. By the morning, they had disappeared without a trace. Hernández reconstructs almost minute-by-minute the events of those nights in late September 2014, giving us what is surely the most complete picture available: her sources are unparalleled, since she has secured access to internal government documents that have not been made public, and to video surveillance footage the government has tried to hide and destroy. Hernández demolishes the Mexican state’s official version, which the Peña Nieto government cynically dubbed the “historic truth”. As her research shows, state officials at all levels, from police and prosecutors to the upper echelons of the PRI administration, conspired to put together a fake case, concealing or manipulating evidence, and arresting and torturing dozens of “suspects” who then obliged with full “confessions” that matched the official lie. By following the role of the various Mexican state agencies through the events in such remarkable detail, Massacre in Mexico shows with exacting precision who is responsible for which component of this monumental crime.

Robert Wise

Robert Wise
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 0
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ISBN-10 : 0692854479
ISBN-13 : 9780692854471
Rating : 4/5 (79 Downloads)

Synopsis Robert Wise by : Joe Jordan

Joe Jordan's book offers commentary on every film directed by Robert Wise (The Day the Earth Stood Still, West Side Story, The Sound of Music, and many more). Includes over twenty interviews and also features production stills.

Mysteries of the Mexican Pyramids

Mysteries of the Mexican Pyramids
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Publisher : HarperCollins Publishers
Total Pages : 456
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ISBN-10 : UCSC:32106010437058
ISBN-13 :
Rating : 4/5 (58 Downloads)

Synopsis Mysteries of the Mexican Pyramids by : Peter Tompkins

The Happy Hollisters and the Mystery of the Totem Faces

The Happy Hollisters and the Mystery of the Totem Faces
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Publisher : Happy Hollisters
Total Pages : 0
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ISBN-10 : 1949436055
ISBN-13 : 9781949436051
Rating : 4/5 (55 Downloads)

Synopsis The Happy Hollisters and the Mystery of the Totem Faces by : Jerry West

This story finds the Hollister family off to Alaska for another exciting Happy Hollisters mystery.

Mexico

Mexico
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Publisher : Kehrer Verlag
Total Pages : 176
Release :
ISBN-10 : 3868288481
ISBN-13 : 9783868288483
Rating : 4/5 (81 Downloads)

Synopsis Mexico by : Harvey Stein

In his masterful photo series Harvey Stein explores a country of incredible contrasts and contradictions.

2666

2666
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Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Total Pages : 1053
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781466804821
ISBN-13 : 1466804823
Rating : 4/5 (21 Downloads)

Synopsis 2666 by : Roberto Bolaño

A NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER THE POSTHUMOUS MASTERWORK FROM "ONE OF THE GREATEST AND MOST INFLUENTIAL MODERN WRITERS" (JAMES WOOD, THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW) Composed in the last years of Roberto Bolaño's life, 2666 was greeted across Europe and Latin America as his highest achievement, surpassing even his previous work in its strangeness, beauty, and scope. Its throng of unforgettable characters includes academics and convicts, an American sportswriter, an elusive German novelist, and a teenage student and her widowed, mentally unstable father. Their lives intersect in the urban sprawl of SantaTeresa—a fictional Juárez—on the U.S.-Mexico border, where hundreds of young factory workers, in the novel as in life, have disappeared.

Mexican Gothic

Mexican Gothic
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Publisher : Del Rey
Total Pages : 361
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9780525620792
ISBN-13 : 0525620796
Rating : 4/5 (92 Downloads)

Synopsis Mexican Gothic by : Silvia Moreno-Garcia

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “It’s Lovecraft meets the Brontës in Latin America, and after a slow-burn start Mexican Gothic gets seriously weird.”—The Guardian IN DEVELOPMENT AS A HULU ORIGINAL LIMITED SERIES PRODUCED BY KELLY RIPA AND MARK CONSUELOS • ONE OF TIME’S 100 BEST MYSTERY AND THRILLER BOOKS OF ALL TIME • WINNER OF THE LOCUS AWARD • NOMINATED FOR THE BRAM STOKER AWARD ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, NPR, The Washington Post, Tordotcom, Marie Claire, Vox, Mashable, Men’s Health, Library Journal, Book Riot, LibraryReads An isolated mansion. A chillingly charismatic aristocrat. And a brave socialite drawn to expose their treacherous secrets. . . . From the author of Gods of Jade and Shadow comes “a terrifying twist on classic gothic horror” (Kirkus Reviews) set in glamorous 1950s Mexico. After receiving a frantic letter from her newly-wed cousin begging for someone to save her from a mysterious doom, Noemí Taboada heads to High Place, a distant house in the Mexican countryside. She’s not sure what she will find—her cousin’s husband, a handsome Englishman, is a stranger, and Noemí knows little about the region. Noemí is also an unlikely rescuer: She’s a glamorous debutante, and her chic gowns and perfect red lipstick are more suited for cocktail parties than amateur sleuthing. But she’s also tough and smart, with an indomitable will, and she is not afraid: Not of her cousin’s new husband, who is both menacing and alluring; not of his father, the ancient patriarch who seems to be fascinated by Noemí; and not even of the house itself, which begins to invade Noemi’s dreams with visions of blood and doom. Her only ally in this inhospitable abode is the family’s youngest son. Shy and gentle, he seems to want to help Noemí, but might also be hiding dark knowledge of his family’s past. For there are many secrets behind the walls of High Place. The family’s once colossal wealth and faded mining empire kept them from prying eyes, but as Noemí digs deeper she unearths stories of violence and madness. And Noemí, mesmerized by the terrifying yet seductive world of High Place, may soon find it impossible to ever leave this enigmatic house behind. “It’s as if a supernatural power compels us to turn the pages of the gripping Mexican Gothic.”—The Washington Post “Mexican Gothic is the perfect summer horror read, and marks Moreno-Garcia with her hypnotic and engaging prose as one of the genre’s most exciting talents.”—Nerdist “A period thriller as rich in suspense as it is in lush ’50s atmosphere.”—Entertainment Weekly

Midnight in Mexico

Midnight in Mexico
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Publisher : Penguin
Total Pages : 306
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9780143125532
ISBN-13 : 0143125532
Rating : 4/5 (32 Downloads)

Synopsis Midnight in Mexico by : Alfredo Corchado

One of Time Magazine’s Sixteen Best True Crime Books of All Time A crusading Mexican-American journalist searches for justice and hope in an increasingly violent Mexico In the last decade, more than 100,000 people have been killed or disappeared in the Mexican drug war, and drug trafficking there is a multibillion-dollar business. In a country where the powerful are rarely scrutinized, noted Mexican-American journalist Alfredo Corchado refuses to shrink from reporting on government corruption, murders in Juárez, or the ruthless drug cartels of Mexico. One night, Corchado received a tip that he could be the next target of the Zetas, a violent paramilitary group—and that he had twenty-four hours to find out if the threat was true. Midnight in Mexico is the story of one man’s quest to report the truth of his country—as he races to save his own life.