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162) Nacho Libre
Pub. Date
[2006]
Description
Ignacio, a monastery cook, lives his dream by becoming Nacho Libre, one of Mexico's most feared wrestlers.
Author
Pub. Date
2004
Description
La Ventana (The Window) Landmark still holds the secrets of the richest gold mine to ever be mined in the San Juan Mountains of Colorado. Hidden by the Utes after a running battle with the Spaniards in 1770, it has never been found. Along with the mine, Treasure Hunters have looked for the gold bullion and rich Sylvanite ore, said to be stores somewhere east of La Ventana. Many stories have been told of sheep herders finding and losing the location...
Author
Pub. Date
©2002
Description
"Craig Childs has walked thousands of miles, season after season, into the desert looking for a wildness few people ever witness. In places that should have only desolation and waterless death, in seas of sand dunes and snow-swept high deserts, Childs has discovered an infinitely powerful grace. In the labyrinthine slots and walls within the Grand Canyon, he maps an improbably course toward a chute rumored to be an ancient shortcut through impassable...
165) Not without hope
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Description
A former college football star shares the story of his dramatic survival and rescue after a headline-making boating accident that left three of his friends dead, including two NFL players.
Author
Pub. Date
1993
Description
"The myths and beliefs of the great Precolumbian civilizations of Mesoamerica have baffled and fascinated outsiders ever since the Spanish Conquest. Yet, until now, no single-volume introduction has existed to act as a guide to this layrinthine symbolic world. In The Gods and Symbols of Ancient Mexico and the Maya nearly 300 entries, from accession to yoke, describe the main gods and symbols of the Olmecs, Zapotecs, Maya, Teotihuacanos, Mixtecs,...
167) The lonely men
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 9
Description
In order to seek revenge on the Sackett family whom she believes destroyed her father, Laura Pritts Sackett dupes her brother-in-law Tell into undertaking a deadly mission through Apache territory to search for her kidnapped son.
169) Going home
Author
Series
Skye's West volume 11
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 14
Description
"It is 1812, six years after he [Barnaby Sky] deserted the Royal Navy, and Skye has a chance to return to England, clear his name, and take up employment with the Hudson's Bay Company. But "Mister Skye," as he insists on being called, is as much a magnet for trouble as he is a legend among mountain men, and this opportunity of his life begins to disintegrate almost from the moment it is presented to him." -- Jacket.
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Spanish Conquistadors and the Imperial Catholic Church, through murder and fire, tried to erase from history the creation stories of the Aztecs and other Mexican peoples. But bits and pieces survived. Through long research and imagination, David Bowles has woven together a remarkable tapestry of the whole, from the beginnings of the world to when Cortes first stepped onto the Continent.
Legends and myths captured David Bowles's imagination
...172) Breathe: a novel
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Formats
Description
"Amid a starkly beautiful but uncanny landscape in New Mexico, a married couple from Cambridge, MA takes residency at a distinguished academic institute. When the husband is stricken with a mysterious illness, misdiagnosed at first, their lives are uprooted and husband and wife each embarks upon a nightmare journey. At thirty-seven, Michaela faces the terrifying prospect of widowhood - and the loss of Gerard, whose identity has greatly shaped her...
173) Home for Navidad
Author
Pub. Date
[2003]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Ten-year-old Rosa hopes that her mother, whom she has not seen for three years, will leave her job in New York and come home to Santa Catarina, Mexico, for Christmas and maybe even longer. Includes a glossary of Spanish words used.
Author
Pub. Date
[1984], c1981
Formats
Description
"A River No More makes a statement of the utmost importance and gravity. Though it focuses on the Colorado River and its tributaries, the book's implications reach from the high plains of Montana, Wyoming, Colorado, and New Mexico to the Pacific littoral; from federal land and water policies to the survival strategies of the ranches, farms, country towns, and small regional capitals that constitute the west's only permanent and renewable way of life."...
178) Aztec, Inca and Maya
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.9 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Photographs and descriptive text provide information on the people, cities, culture, food and drink, trade, gods and goddesses, clothes, sports and games, and other aspects of the Aztec, Inca, and Maya civilizations.
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Description
"'In Strangers Talk or Die', Jeff Parker takes on the syndicate that killed his father and brother when he was a boy. In 'Cantrell', Tom Cantrell attempts to stop the Indian raids on Texas ranches and protect his ranch in New Mexico by going after the men who trade with the Indians for the stolen cattle"--
180) The crossing
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 3
Description
Thirteen-year-old Manny, a street kid fighting for survival in a Mexican border town, develops a strange friendship with an emotionally disturbed American soldier who decides to help him get across the border.
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