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When the Colonel's famous Valle del Sol ranch is raided, it was Pancho Villa who not only stole the cattle but also murdered the ranch manager. Even worse, Villa's henchmen abduct the Colonels grandchildren in another daring raid only days later. Frantic, the aging patriarch and his adopted son race to El Paso, hoping to gather a group of cowboys brave enough to hunt down the generalissimo on his own turf. But their deep pockets and political clout...
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In this New York Times bestseller, two women in different eras face similar life-altering decisions, the politics of exclusion, the terrible choices we face in wartime, and the redemptive power of love.
In 1945, Elsie Schmidt is a naive teenager, as eager for her first sip of champagne as she is for her first kiss. She and her family have been protected from the worst of the terror and desperation overtaking her country...
In 1945, Elsie Schmidt is a naive teenager, as eager for her first sip of champagne as she is for her first kiss. She and her family have been protected from the worst of the terror and desperation overtaking her country...
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"The Presidential Agent adventures return in the most harrowing novel yet in the #1 New York Times-bestselling series. Mexican drug cartels are shooting up the streets of Laredo and El Paso. Somali pirates are holding three U.S. tankers for ransom. The President is fed up and has what he thinks is a pretty bright idea-to get hold of Colonel Charley Castillo and his merry band and put them on the case. Unfortunately, that will be difficult. Everybody...
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"Stories from a lost American classic "in the same arena as Alice Munro" (Lydia Davis) "In the field of short fiction, Lucia Berlin is one of America's best kept secrets. That's it. Flat out. No mitigating conditions." --Paul Metcalf A Manual for Cleaning Women compiles the best work of the legendary short-story writer Lucia Berlin. With her trademark blend of humor and melancholy, Berlin crafts miracles from the everyday--uncovering moments of...
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"Jeff Guinn, chronicler of the Southwestern US and of American undesirables (Bonnie and Clyde, Charles Manson, Jim Jones) tells the riveting story of Pancho Villa's bloody raid on a small US border town that sparked a violent conflict with the US. The "Punitive Expedition" was launched in retaliation under Pershing's command and brought together the Army, National Guard, and the Texas Rangers--who were little more than organized vigilantes with a...
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In his first book of new writing since winning the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2016, Bob Dylan offers his extraordinary insight into the nature of popular music through a series of essays that double as meditations and reflections on the human condition.
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Miramax Home Entertainment
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[2008]
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English
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Llewelyn Moss is a Vietnam vet who could use a break. One morning while hunting antelope, he spies several trucks surrounded by dead bodies. He decides to examine the site. He finds a case filled with $2 million and a truck loaded with heroin. Moss takes it with him, tells his wife he's going away for awhile, and hits the road until he can determine his next move. On his the way from El Paso to the Mexican border, he discovers he's being followed...
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Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
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[2019]
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English
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"The painter, draftsman, and illustrator Edward Hopper (1882-1967) is one of America's best-known and most frequently exhibited artists. This revealing volume unfolds the layered meanings of a key motif in Edward Hopper's work, exploring the hotel-motel subject as an agent of cultural transformation and emblem of its time."
An examination of the hotel and motel imagery-and the culture it represents--in Edward Hopper's iconic paintings and watercolors....
15) Borderline
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Hardcase Crime
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2014
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English
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"On the border between El Paso, Texas, and Juarez, Mexico, five lives are about to collide--with fatal results. You'll meet Marty--the professional gambler who rolls the dice on a night with... Meg--the bored divorcee who seeks excitement and finds... Lily--the beautiful hitchhiker lured into a live sex show by... Cassie--the redhead with her own private agenda... and Weaver--the madman, the killer with a straight razor in his pocket, on the run from...
16) Margarito
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Cuento de Luz SL
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[2017]
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Español
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"Una entrañable historia sobre el valor de la experiencia y la sabiduría que puede aportarnos el paso del tiempo."--Casadellibro.
A good-natured, helpful donkey becomes a favorite of all the farm animals, until a beautiful, young, but arrogant colt arrives to replace the aging donkey.
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Film Movement volume year 9, film 6
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Film Movement
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Español
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Karen cries on the bus --"Karen has left her slimy but successful husband Mario after ten years of marriage. She needs a fresh start to find out who she is and who she could be, despite her husband's proclamation that she can do absolutely nothing. She walks out into Bogotá with no job, no friends, and hardly any money, but catches a break when she meets a hairdresser named Patricia at a cheap flophouse. With her younger and seemingly stronger friend...
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Random House
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2019.
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"Based on exclusive interviews and access to the Supreme Court archives, this is the intimate, inspiring, and authoritative biography of America's first female Justice, Sandra Day O'Connor--by New York Times bestselling author Evan Thomas. She was born in 1930 in El Paso and grew up on a cattle ranch in Arizona. At a time when women were expected to be homemakers, she set her sights on Stanford University. When she graduated near the top of her class...
19) Pass of fire
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Destroyermen volume 14
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Time is running out for the Grand Human and Lemurian Alliance. The longer they take to prepare for their confrontations with the reptilian Grik, the Holy Dominion, and the League of Tripoli, the stronger their enemies become. Ready or not, they have to move - or the price in blood will break them. Matt Reddy and his battered old destroyer USS Walker lead the greatest army the humans and their Lemurian allies have ever assembled up the Zambezi toward...
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"The third novel in a WWI alternate history series where America's greatest weapon against Germany is the Black Chamber, secret agent Luz O'Malley, and technical genius Ciara Whelan. Only they can protect America's best hope of winning the war. The Great War is at a stalemate, and the only thing stopping Germany from striking America is the threat of the United States using their own Annihilation Gas against them. But America's supply is quickly decaying...