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Smithsonian Folkways children's music collection [sound recording]. by Seeger, Anthony,annotator.(CARDINAL)350043; Guthrie, Woody,1912-1967,vocalist.(CARDINAL)146349; Jenkins, Ella,vocalist.(CARDINAL)350044; Seeger, Pete,1919-vocalist.; Leadbelly,1885-1949,vocalist.(CARDINAL)146625; Lord Invader,1914-1961,vocalist.; Amoaku, W. K.(William Komla),1940-vocalist.; Hughes, Langston,1902-1967,vocalist.(CARDINAL)150094; Rubin, Ruth,vocalist.(CARDINAL)203640; Mills, Alan,1912-1977,vocalist.(CARDINAL)510363; Paz, Suni,vocalist.; Houston, Cisco,vocalist.(CARDINAL)762539; Poolaw, Irene,vocalist.; Bontemps, Arna,1902-1973,vocalist.(CARDINAL)142096; Long, Larry,vocalist.; Ritchie, Jean,vocalist.(CARDINAL)161943; New Lost City Ramblers,performer.(CARDINAL)730803;
Various performers.
Subjects: Children's songs.;
Available copies: 4 / Total copies: 5
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Wolf boys : two American teenagers and Mexico's most dangerous drug cartel / by Slater, Dan,author.(CARDINAL)401949;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 339-342)."The story of two American teens recruited as killers for a Mexican cartel, and their pursuit by a Mexican-American detective who realizes the War on Drugs is unwinnable. What’s it like to be an employee of a global drug-trafficking organization? And how does a fifteen-year-old American boy go from star quarterback to trained assassin, surging up the cartel corporate ladder? At first glance, Gabriel Cardona is the poster boy American teenager: great athlete, bright, handsome, and charismatic. But the streets of his border town of Laredo, Texas, are poor and dangerous, and it isn’t long before Gabriel abandons his promising future for the allure of the Zetas, a drug cartel with roots in the Mexican military. His younger friend Bart, as well as others from Gabriel’s childhood, join him in working for the Zetas, boosting cars and smuggling drugs, eventually catching the eye of the cartel’s leadership. Meanwhile, Mexican-born Detective Robert Garcia has worked hard all his life and is now struggling to raise his family in America. As violence spills over the border, Detective Garcia’s pursuit of the boys, and their cartel leaders, puts him face to face with the urgent consequences of a war he sees as unwinnable." --
Subjects: Cardona, Gabriel.; Garcia, Robert.; Zetas (Drug cartel); Drug traffic; Organized crime; Narco-terrorism; Drug traffic;
Available copies: 14 / Total copies: 17
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Traditional crafts from Mexico and Central America / by Temko, Florence.(CARDINAL)139531; Gooch, Randall,illustrator.(CARDINAL)633938; Wolfe, Robert L.,illustrator.(CARDINAL)512435; Wolfe, Diane,illustrator.(CARDINAL)726449;
MARCIVE 03/01/06Includes bibliographical references (pages 60-61) and index.Criticas Reviews,Horn Book Guide,School Library Journal,Provides instructions on how to make traditional Mexican and Central American handicraft such as metal ornaments, tissue paper banners, and Guatemalan worry dolls.3-4Accelerated Reader AR
Subjects: Handicraft; Handicraft; Handicraft; Handicraft;
Available copies: 8 / Total copies: 12
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Wolf in the shadows / by Muller, Marcia.(CARDINAL)343954;
Successful in her investigative work for All Souls Legal Cooperative, happy with her newly renovated house, and feeling somewhat more secure in her relationship with the mysterious environmental activist, Hy Ripinsky, Sharon is shocked to find herself suddenly faced with a wrenching ultimatum. No longer a small, informal co-op, All Souls has grown. New legal partners, exasperated with Sharon's free-wheeling ways, want to kick her upstairs with a raise, perks, and a "career opportunity" that will chain her to a desk forever. Offered a take-it-or-leave-it deal, Sharon is in turmoil. And to make matters worse, Hy has disappeared. His abandoned plane, wrecked rental car, and a road map point to RKI, a firm of international security consultants with a reputation for questionable, unorthodox tactics and clients engaged in controversial research. Sharon discovers that they hired Hy as a free-lance operative and that they, too, are looking for him. Determined to find out what has happened, Sharon pushes aside her career concerns at All Souls and plunges into a search that will force her to take unlikely sanctuary in her abandoned San Diego childhood home and find and unexpected ally in her wild, unpredictable brother John. From the drive-by hiring hall for illegal aliens in Imperial Beach to an opulent villa on the Mexican coast, she will track down every clue in a complex plot that builds to a breathtaking climax on the treacherous canyon trails that lead back across the border. There, in a no-man's-land where terrified pollos defy la migra in a desperate bid for freedom...and where decisions won't wait, Sharon must make the tough choices that put her own life, her own freedom, and everythingshe holds dear at deadly risk.--
Subjects: Detective and mystery fiction.; Fiction.; McCone, Sharon (Fictitious character); Private investigators; Women detectives;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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Woman hollering creek and other stories / by Cisneros, Sandra,author.(CARDINAL)354637;
My Lucy friend who smells like corn -- Eleven -- Salvador late or early -- Mexican movies -- Barbie-Q -- Mericans -- Tepeyac -- One holy night -- My Tocaya -- Woman hollering creek -- The Marlboro man -- La Fabulosa: A Texas operetta -- Remember the Alamo -- Never marry a Mexican -- Bread -- Eyes of Zapata -- Anguiano religious articles rosaries statues -- Little miracles, kept promises -- Los boxers -- There was a man, there was a woman -- Tin tan tan -- Bien pretty.This volume is a collection of short stories originally published in 1991 that reflect the author's experience of being surrounded by American influences while still being familiarly bound to her Mexican heritage as she grew-up north of the Mexico-US border. The short vignettes focus on the social role of women and their relationships with the men and other women in their lives. The majority of the characters are stereotypes: men embody machismo while women are naive and generally weak. The author focuses on three feminine clichés: the passive virgin, sinful seductress, and traitorous mother. Not properly belonging to either Mexico or America, the Chicana protagonists earnestly search for their identity, only to discover abuse and shattered dreams. Apart from focusing on these issues of struggling females, this work simultaneously develops the readers' sensitivity towards the lives of immigrants.960LAccelerated Reader ARAnisfield-Wolf Book Award, 1993.
Subjects: Short stories.; Mexican Americans;
Available copies: 4 / Total copies: 8
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The witch of Goingsnake and other stories / by Conley, Robert J.(CARDINAL)274822;
Yellow Bird : an imaginary autobiography -- The immortals -- Wili Woyi -- The night George Wolfe died -- Wickliffe -- The hanging of Mose Miller -- The witch of Goingsnake -- Moon Face -- The name -- The Mexican tattoo -- Bader -- Calf Roper's house guest -- Calf Roper's bandit car -- Bob Parris's temper -- His grandma's wedding -- Old Joe -- Wesley's story -- The endless dark of the night.
Subjects: Fiction.; Cherokee Indians;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 2
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One way to Boot Hill [large print] / by O'Hara, Max,author.;
"Stretching across the wild western frontier, the railroad needs guardians like Wells Fargo detective Wolf Stockburn. Known as the Wolf of the Rails, the steely Scotsman is as cold and hard as the tracks he rides -- and those too foolish to fear him will soon lie dead at his feet . . . When train robbers hit the Boot Hill Express -- so called because of all the people riding it who have ended up dead -- with a full head of steam, Wolf Stockburn makes quick work of them. But the gun smoke has barely cleared when a second gang attacks, catching Stockburn by surprise. In a hail of hot lead he falls from the train and the thieves kill two guards and make off with the cattle the train was hauling. Now it's a matter of honor and payback as he trails the outlaws -- his only clue a hoof print showing a faint star shape. Dodging a deadly bushwhacker, Stockburn, hell-on-wheels angry, teams up with a beautiful half-Comanche hellcat and follows a twisted trail of bullet-ridden corpses to a final reckoning in a Mexican ghost town -- where bad men end up dead . . . on the wrong side of the tracks."--
Subjects: Large print books.; Western fiction.; Fiction.; Wells, Fargo & Company; Railroad police; Train robberies; Railroad stories.;
Available copies: 17 / Total copies: 19
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Country of the bad Wolfes / by Blake, James Carlos.(CARDINAL)393356;
Mary Margaret and the Gemini -- The turncoat's trials -- Dartmouth days -- Sister of fortuna -- Uncle Redbeard -- Villa Rica de la Vera Cruz -- Reckonings -- Buenaventura -- Ensenada de Isabel -- Seasons of Mars and Venus and Mors -- The second twins -- The bastards -- Account to the courtesan -- Discoveries -- In Mexico City -- Turns of fortune -- Two weddings -- Gloria Little -- El Presidente -- Tales from the cove -- Los cuates blancos -- Other crocodiles, other sharks -- Bruno and Felicia -- Black horse -- Distances -- The Espinosa legacy -- 25 July 1886 -- The harrowing -- Creeds of fraternity -- The power his sister married -- Or even ever grow old -- Nooses -- Noticias de Patria Chica -- Pleasures of a late hour -- Under the Porfiriato -- Tampico -- His mother said -- A country all its own -- Roots -- Correspondence -- Trespassers -- Mister Wells -- In the getting -- Culmination -- Branchings -- Cries of liberty -- Catalina -- The matriarch -- The uncaged -- Sins of the fathers -- Remains of night -- Epilogue."Two generations of Wolfe men--begat by an English pirate in New Hampshire in 1828--track their violent but manifest destiny through the Diaz Regime in Mexico in the early 1900s and back to Gulf Coast Texas. The novel centers on two sets of identical "hero twins," each with a violent history that mirror the author's belief on the primacy of violence in the evolution of civilization. Their lives are intertwined with important events through the history of the United States, beginning in the 1820s. Crucial are the histories of the infamous Saint Patrick's Battalion (revered in Mexico as "los San Patricios") who deserted the U.S. Army during the Mexican-American War (1846-1848) and the rise and fall of Porfirio Diaz regime (1876-1910), which marked the beginning of the Mexican Revolution"--
Subjects: Historical fiction.; Novels.; Families; Twins;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 3
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The rules of Wolfe : a border noir / by Blake, James Carlos.(CARDINAL)393356;
"Eddie Gato Wolfe is a young, impetuous member of the Wolfe family of Texas gun-runners that goes back generations. Increasingly unfulfilled by his minor role in family operations and eager to set out on his own, Eddie crosses the border to work security for a major Mexican drug cartel led by the ruthless La Navaja. Eddie falls for a mysterious woman named Miranda, whom he learns too late is the property of an intimate member of La Navaja's organization. When they're discovered, the violent upshot forces Eddie and Miranda to run for their lives, fleeing into the deadly Sonora Desert in hope of crossing the border to safety. But La Navaja's reach is far and his lust for revenge insatiable. He sends a horde of operatives and the notorious bounty hunter El Martillo after the pair. If La Navaja's men don't kill Eddie and Miranda, the brutal desert just may. Their only hope: help from the family that Eddie abandoned. [This novel is] at once a riveting thriller and an inside look at the blood-drenched Mexican drug trade ..."--
Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Man-woman relationships; Drug traffic;
Available copies: 7 / Total copies: 8
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After dark : poems about nocturnal animals / by Harrison, David L.(David Lee),1937-author.(CARDINAL)351605; Laberis, Steph,illustrator.(CARDINAL)395924;
The Rehearsal (Gray Wolf) -- Posted Property (Cougar) -- Mouth of Doom (Flathead Catfish) -- The Hunt Is On (Coyote) -- Don't Let Him Needle You (Porcupine) -- Night Class (Skunk) -- Armored Night Knight (Nine-Banded Armadillo) -- Toothy Grin (Kit Fox) -- Owl Rules (Screech Owl) -- Bug Patrol (Mexican Free-Tailed Bat) -- The Queen (Luna Moth) -- A Night's Work (Deer Mouse) -- The King (Mexican Red-Knee Tarantula) -- In a Mood (Arizona Hairy Scorpion) -- By Land and by Sea (Land Hermit Crab) -- Survivor (Cockroach) -- Hear This! Hear This! (Spring Peepers) -- Slimy Character (Leopard Slug) -- In a Hurry! (Cricket) -- Insect Texting (Common Eastern Firefly) -- And Did You Also Know...? -- No Fooling (Raccoon)"After dark, when we are thinking about going to sleep, many amazing animals are just waking up. What do they do in the dark of the night? *Bats fly out of caves, zigzagging into the sky. * Wolf pups wrestle, growl, and romp. *Tarantulas emerge from their lairs--leg by leg by leg. *Fireflies flit through lawns, their flashes lighting up the dark. With this engaging collection of twenty-one poems, learn about the hidden lives of these nocturnal animals (and many more.) You'll be surprised to find out what happens when we're asleep and animals have the quiet night to themselves."--Jacket flap.NP
Subjects: Poetry.; Animals; Children's poetry.; Nocturnal animals;
Available copies: 3 / Total copies: 3
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