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21) Cindy la regia
Publisher
Zima Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
Español
Description
"Cuando Cindy, la niña más fresa de San Pedro, Monterrey (que no es decir poco), le dice a su novio "partidazo" que no quiere casarse con él , sale corriendo a la Ciudad de México, done nuevas amistades y caminos inesperados le enseñan que hay mucho más en las posibilidades de su vida y su talento de lo que ella misma se imagina." -- Container.
A young woman runs off to Mexico City after she decides she is not ready to get married. While there,...
24) La perdida
Author
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
©2006
Language
English
Description
Carla Olivares, a young Mexican-American woman, goes to Mexico to "find herself," and moves in with an old fling. When his circle of Anglo expat friends fail to provide her with the authentic experience she seeks, Carla becomes involved with el Gordo, a drug don who takes her down a dangerous path. Presented in graphic novel form.
Publisher
Distribuido por Distrimax
Pub. Date
©2005
Language
Español
Description
Tres vidas de los vecinos se intersecan: Rutilio, el hombre de la familia que experimenta las sentimientos homosexuales que destroza su vida doméstica; Susanita, la solterona que sueña de casar, y se enamora de ladrón; y Alma, la virgen que hace prostituta adicta de la cocaína.
Story of three neighbors whose lives are intertwined. Rutilio, the family man who experiences homosexual feelings that shatter his domestic life; Susanita, the spinster...
Author
Series
Language
Español
Description
Un ranchero quiere que sus cuatro hijos sean sacerdotes; ellos piensan distinto. Un hombre es humillado por su patrón; su hijo quisiera humillarlo más. Una madre renuncia a su carrera de cantante y se pregunta si valió la pena; su hija renuncia al mundo y vive a través de los reality shows. El hijo del presidente se rebela contra su padre, pero depende de su protección. Una mujer sufre el sadismo de su marido porque recuerda cómo se inició...
Author
Publisher
Grove Press
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"Goldman's story of his emergence from grief five years after his wife's death, symbolized by his attempt to overcome his fear of driving in the city. Embracing the DF (Mexico City) as his home, Goldman explores and celebrates the city, which stands defiantly apart from so many of the social ills and violence wracking Mexico ... [and] sets out to try to understand the menacing challenges the city now faces ... [resulting in] an account of one of the...
Publisher
Vanguard Cinema
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
Español
Description
Sanchez is the proud patriarch of a poor Mexican family. The Sanchez clan has seen the worst of times, yet they have survived so long by sticking together. Now Consuelo, Sanchez' oldest daughter, wants to break away from the poverty and succeed on her own as an airline attendant. But Sanchez expects her to help him raise the three younger children in this single-parent, single-room household.
Author
Series
Publisher
Oceáno
Pub. Date
2013
Language
Español
Description
In this third volume of the series of chilling novels, the killing spree in Mexico City continues still. This time, Sergio is subjected to an ordeal that not only threatens his survival, but also sheds light on an unknown facet of his lineage.
31) La tepiteada
Author
Series
Publisher
Editorial Océano de México
Pub. Date
2007
Language
Español
Description
La epopeya que vivieron griegos y troyanos y que Homero recreó en la Iliada y el inicio de nuestra literatura, sirven de linea argumentativa a Armando Ramírez para trasladar varias de esas historias a un México, D. F. de hoy, en un Centro Histórico donde el amor, la posesión, los celos, la traición, la envidia, la admiración y la misma pasión desbordada están en esta Tepiteada, que narra el rapto de la Negra, pareja del Diablo, el violento...
Author
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"Set in Mexico in the 1970s, the novel charts the literary and romantic escapades of two Chilean aspiring writers, employing a range of genres, from epistolary novel to science fiction to satire"--
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....
33) Un nuevo hogar
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2019
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
Español
Formats
Description
"Espero que las cosas no sean tan diferentes en mi nueva ciudad."--Back cover.
Moving to a new city can be exciting. But what if your new home isn't anything at all like your old home? Will you make friends? What will you eat? Where will you play? In a shared voice, a boy moving from New York City to Mexico City and a girl moving from Mexico City to New York City express their fears about leaving home to live in a new and unfamiliar place. Tania...
34) Bajo la sal
Publisher
Distributed by Maya Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
Español
Description
Commander Trujillo is led to Santa Rose de la Sal to investigate a series of murders. He meets a lonely teenager who works in his father's funeral home, whose strange behavior seems to point at him as the culprit of the crimes.
Author
Series
Publisher
Editorial Océano de México
Pub. Date
©2011
Language
Español
Description
In this second volume of the series of chilling novels, a series of violent murders plague Mexico City. In addition to their atrocity, the crimes have two things in common: the victims were alone in a place where no one could enter and all of them were pianists. Ashes of a nocturne attributed to Franz Liszt lead Sergio lead to uncover the truth behind this cursed composition. With much more than his own life at stake, he must act before it's too late....
Author
Publisher
Umbriel
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
Español
Description
"Domingo, un solitario recolector de basura que vive en la calle, trata de sobrevivir en una ciudad indiferente y amenazadora cuan una hastiada vampiresa a la fuga aparece en su vida. Atl, descendiente de bebedores de sangre aztecas, es inteligente, preciosa y peligrosa, y Domingo queda hipnotizado. Atl necesita escapar rápidamente de la ciudad, lejos del clan narco-vampírico rival que la persigue sin descanso. También requiere de un ayudante...
Author
Publisher
Editorial Planeta Mexicana
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
Español
Description
"Cuando el padre de la narradora muere, lejos está de imaginar que tan solo un año después tendría que enfrentar también la pérdida de su madre. A partir de este golpe tan doloroso como real, los recuerdos y las emociones irán tejiendo un texto donde la fuerza de la sinceridad da paso a una prosa íntima y poderosa, que indaga sobre la orfandad y la necesidad de reconstruir el origen: quiénes fueron los padres, los distintos exilios por los...
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
Español
Description
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.
On a first solo visit to her grandmother's home outside Mexico City, a young girl discovers what makes Grandma so special.
Author
Publisher
Vintage Español, una división de Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
Español
Description
"A debut collection of linked stories that follow the members of a wealthy Mexican family forced into exile--to Madrid, New York, Austin, Palo Alto--when the patriarch of their family is kidnapped"--
En una noche como cualquier otra, José Victoriano Arteaga, el patriarca de una próspera familia de la ciudad de México, desaparece sin dejar rastro mientras maneja a su casa luego de un día de trabajo. Los Arteaga encuentran pocas respuetes con pistas...
Publisher
DistriMax
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
Español
Description
Being a fan of someone suggests a relationship that, by definition, is unequal. One loves in advance and falls in love with a projection, with an invention of the imagination. 'Your Biggest Fan' is not a story of delusional love or unattainable idols. It is the history of real characters that show how to be fans of people who are close to them, yet for some mysterious reason, are inaccessible. It's a love story full of loneliness, random encounters,...
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