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Tara Holloway novels volume 11
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English
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When the IRS is tasked with assisting the border patrol in pursuing individuals who transport illegal immigrants across the border, Tara Holloway must investigate her former flame Brett while convincing her fiancé Nick that she doesn't still carry a torch for Brett.
63) Tattoo of death
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Choose your own adventure volume 159
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English
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"When you become friends with two slimy students in your martial arts class, you are soon lured into the dangerous Red Flowers gang. Thugs who smuggle innocent people into the United States, then force them into slavery. You're in deep, the ugly flower tattoo on your arm proves that, but you are determined to stop these deadly deals, unless the Red Flowers stop you first"--Cover.
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Ana Falcon, along with her husband Lucho and their two young children, has fled the economic and political strife of Peru for a chance at a new life in New York City in the 1990s. Being undocumented, however, has significantly curtailed the family's opportunities: Ana is indebted to a loan shark who calls herself Mama, and is stretched thin by unceasing shifts at her factory job. To make matters worse, Ana must also battle both criticism from Lucho's...
69) Lupita Mañana
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English
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To help her poverty-stricken family, 13-year-old Lupita enters California as an illegal alien and starts to work while constantly on the watch for "la migra."
71) Wink of an eye
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English
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"On the run from a double-cross, Las Vegas private investigator Gypsy Moran shows up unexpectedly at his sister Rhonda's house in Wink, Texas. She introduces Gypsy to one of her former students, 12-year-old Tatum McCallen, who is in need of Gypsy's services. Tatum wants to hire Gypsy to investigate his father Ryce's alleged suicide. His dad was a deputy with the Sheriff's department and was found hanged in their backyard. Tatum believes his father...
73) Lucky boy
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"A heart-wrenching novel that gives voice to two mothers: a young undocumented Mexican woman and an Indian-American wife whose love for one lucky boy will bind their fates together Solimar Castro-Valdez is eighteen and drunk on optimism when she embarks on a perilous journey across the US/Mexican border. Weeks later she arrives on her cousin's doorstep in Berkeley, CA, dazed by first love found then lost, and pregnant. This was not the plan. But amid...
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"Por más que lo intento ya no recuerdo la cara de mamá. En realidad, son pocas las cosas que recuerdo de ella. Se fue hace mucho tiempo y no ha cumplido su promesa de regresar por Juana y por mí. Decidí que, si ella no venía por nosotros, yo iría hacia ella. Sólo necesito saber que aún nos quiere. Dicen que el viaje es muy peligroso, pero no hay vuelta atrás, tengo que llegar a Estados Unidos con ella. Por lo menos no tengo que hacer este...
75) Cuarenta dias
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Español
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Un paciente traumado por todas sus penurias a través de su vida y de las veces que cruzó la frontera o que lo intentó, son lo que lo llevó a consultar con una psicóloga, la misma que al ir conociéndole se interesó tanto por el tema que terminó, por una parte, a pedirle que le contara de esas vivencias para exponerlo en su convención, para lo cual le propuso un trato: reembolsarle los honorarios pagados por sus servicios como psicóloga. La...
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Polish
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"Niezwykła historia miłości dwojga ludzi, którzy myśleli, że w ich życiu zapanowała już zima. W samym środku brooklyńskiej śnieżycy sześćdziesięcioletni Richard Bowmaster, profesor uniwersytecki, wjeżdża w bagażnik samochodu Evelyn Ortegi, młodej nielegalnej imigrantki z Gwatemali. To, co z początku wydawało się zaledwie drobnym wypadkiem, staje się czymś o wiele poważniejszym i niespodziewanym, z chwilą gdy Evelyn staje...
77) Bang: a novel
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"Rafa's first flight, a late-night joy ride with his brother, changes their lives forever when the engine stops and the boys crash land, with "Texas to the right; Mexico to the left." Before the accident, Rafa was a high school track star in Harlingen, Texas, even though he was undocumented like the rest of his family. His mother Araceli spent her time waiting for her husband to return after being deported. His older brother Uli, a former high-school...
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