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A haunting in Hialeah Gardens : a novel / by Palma, Raul,author.(CARDINAL)878351;
"Since his wife died, Hugo Contreras's debt from her medical bills has become insurmountable. His world in Miami has shrunk. He shuffles between his efficiency apartment, La Carreta (his favorite place for a cafecito), and a botanica in a strip mall where he works as the resident babaláwo. One day, Hugo's nemesis calls. Alexi Ramirez is a debt collector who has been hounding Hugo for years, and Hugo assumes this call is just more of the same. Except this time Alexi is calling because he needs spiritual help. His house is haunted. Alexi proposes a deal: If Hugo can successfully cleanse his home before Noche Buena, Alexi will forgive Hugo's debt. Hugo reluctantly accepts, but there's one issue: Despite being a babaláwo, he doesn't believe in spirits. Hugo plans to do what he's done with dozens of clients before: use sleight of hand and amateur psychology to convince Alexi the spirits have departed. But when the job turns out to be more than Hugo bargained for, Hugo's old tricks don't work. Memories of his past--his childhood in the Bolivian silver mines and a fraught crossing into the United States as a boy--collide with Alexi's demons in an explosive climax."--
Subjects: Novels.; Widowers; Haunted houses; Exorcism; Debt; Bolivian Americans;
Available copies: 26 / Total copies: 27
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A haunting in Hialeah Gardens : a novel / by Palma, Raul,Author(DLC)n 2022031110;
"Hugo Contreras's world in Miami has shrunk. Since his wife died, Hugo's debt from her medical bills has become insurmountable. He shuffles between his efficiency apartment, La Carreta (his favorite place for a cafecito), and a botanica in a strip mall where he works as the resident babaláwo. One day, Hugo's nemesis calls. Alexi Ramirez is a debt collector who has been hounding Hugo for years, and Hugo assumes this call is just more of the same. Except this time Alexi is calling because he needs spiritual help. His house is haunted. Alexi proposes a deal: If Hugo can successfully cleanse his home before Noche Buena, Alexi will forgive Hugo's debt. Hugo reluctantly accepts, but there's one issue: Despite being a babaláwo, he doesn't believe in spirits. Hugo plans to do what he's done with dozens of clients before: use sleight of hand and amateur psychology to convince Alexi the spirits have departed. But when the job turns out to be more than Hugo bargained for, Hugo's old tricks don't work. Memories of his past--his childhood in the Bolivian silver mines and a fraught crossing into the United States as a boy--collide with Alexi's demons in an explosive climax."--.
Subjects: Horror fiction; Widowers; Haunted houses; Exorcism; Debt; Bolivian Americans; Large type books.;
Available copies: 5 / Total copies: 5
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American visa / by Recacoechea, Juan de,1936-(CARDINAL)718381; Althoff, Adrian.(CARDINAL)552738;
Subjects: Fiction.; Teachers; Bolivians; Fathers and sons;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Un fantasma en Hialeah Gardens / by Palma, Raul,author.(CARDINAL)878351; Pimentel, David Horta,translator.;
"Un moderno Bob Cratchit, Hugo Contreras, vive en un húmedo departamento de una sola habitación y sabe que nunca dejará de pagar las cuentas médicas de su difunta esposa ni sus propias deudas, acumuladas durante su juventud. Su Scrooge es Alexi Ramírez, un avaricioso abogado de cobranza cubano-americano con un rostro familiar por sus anuncios en las paradas de autobús y un serio problema personal: un fantasma en el caserón de su familia. Es bajo estas circunstancias que los dos hombres se conocen, ya que Hugo trabaja como babalawo, ayudando a los habitantes de Miami a limpiar sus hogares de malos espíritus. Desde hace mucho ya no cree en lo paranormal, pero cuando Alexi, a quien Hugo abomina porque ha estado quitándole su dinero durante años, le promete perdonarle la deuda a cambio de sus servicios, no se puede negar. Dispuesto a salir de deudas y vengarse en nombre de su difunta esposa, Hugo hará lo que ha hecho con decenas de clientes antes: usar trucos psicológicos amateurs para convencer a Alexi de que los espíritus ya se han ido y escapar libre de deudas antes de la próxima Navidad"--publisher.
Subjects: Paranormal fiction.; Horror fiction.; Thrillers (Fiction); Widowers; Haunted houses; Exorcism; Debt; Bolivian Americans; Spanish language materials.;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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Fire from the Andes : short fiction by women from Bolivia, Ecuador, and Peru / by Benner, Susan E.(Susan Elizabeth),1957-(CARDINAL)642067; Leonard, Kathy S.,1952-(CARDINAL)642068;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 159-189).
Subjects: Fiction.; Bolivian fiction; Bolivian fiction; Ecuadorian fiction; Ecuadorian fiction; Peruvian fiction; Peruvian fiction; Short stories, Bolivian; Short stories, Ecuadorian; Short stories, Peruvian;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Butch Cassidy : the lost years / by Johnstone, William W.,author.(CARDINAL)339749; Johnstone, J. A.,author.(CARDINAL)339750;
On November 7, 1908 in the town of San Vicente, Butch Cassidy was killed in a bloody shootout with the Bolivian army. Or was he? In a small Texas town in 1950, a Pinkerton detective interrupts and old- timer's daily game of dominos to learn the truth about Butch Cassidy-- who is alive and well and sitting right in front of him. So begins a novel about the West's most legendary outlaw, as told by America's master storytellers.
Subjects: Western fiction.; Alternative histories (Fiction); Biographical fiction.; Cassidy, Butch, 1866-; Outlaws; Train robberies;
Available copies: 6 / Total copies: 7
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The exterminators : an assassin bug thriller / by Fitzhugh, Bill.(CARDINAL)636946;
All Bob Dillon ever wanted was a truck with a big fiberglass bug on the roof. All he had to do was survive half a dozen assassination attempts, pull a $10 million con on a Bolivian drug lord, and then fall off the face of the earth with his family and his new best friend, Klaus. Six years later,they surface in Oregon where they continue Bob's work creating an all-natural means of pest control.
Subjects: Humorous fiction.; Thrillers (Fiction); United States. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency; Assassins; Genetic engineering; Pests; Terrorism;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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The body snatcher / by Melo, Patrícia,1962-author.(CARDINAL)381347; Landers, Clifford E.,translator.(CARDINAL)385200;
One bright Sunday, alone on the banks of the Paraguay River, the narrator witnesses the fatal crash of a small plane. He finds a kilo of cocaine in the dead pilot's backpack and pockets it along with the pilot's expensive watch. Thus begins the protagonist's long slide into corruption. When police locate the crash site, the pilot's body is missing and a large-scale search ensues. Our hero, now involved in a busted cocaine deal, ends up owing a Bolivian drug gang so..
Subjects: Noir fiction.; Thrillers (Fiction); Drug traffic; Extortion; Police corruption;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Butch Cassidy : the lost years / by Johnstone, William W.,author.(CARDINAL)339749; Johnstone, J. A.(CARDINAL)339750; Johnstone, J. A.,author.(CARDINAL)339750;
Asking the question "What if Butch Cassidy wasn't killed in the infamous Bolivian shootout in 1908?", an exciting novel of the Old West follows Butch as he, after fleeing South America, is pulled into the most dangerous train robbery he's ever attempted along with a new Wild Bunch.
Subjects: Western fiction.; Biographical fiction.; Cassidy, Butch, 1866-;
Available copies: 40 / Total copies: 44
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Dangerous creatures / by Higgs, Steve,author.(CARDINAL)858019; Higgs, Steve,author.(CARDINAL)858019;
"A desperate call for help is more than enough to get Patricia and friends in motion, especially when the call is from Patricia's socialite friend and zoo owner, the rather gin-soaked Lady Mary Bostihill Swank. Her husband, George, an acclaimed thriller writer, has gone missing from her home but there is no ransom note and no sign of foul play. With no crime to investigate, the police are doing nothing and that's not good enough for Patricia. Amid a backdrop of strange occurrences, which include jewelry stolen from inside Lady Mary's mansion, a note that suggests George might have been kidnapped by Bolivian freedom fighters, and a lady tiger somehow pregnant from immaculate conception, the team must wade through a confusion of clues to find the truth. Will they be too late? Is George dead or alive? Will Lady Mary run out of gin? With Patricia's ability to attract trouble working overtime, every hour counts, but as she begins to close the net, the dangerous creatures that surround them reveal a far more deadly crime is taking place...
Subjects: Cozy mysteries.; Detective and mystery fiction.; Fiction.; Missing persons; Women private investigators; Zoos; Tiger;
Available copies: 0 / Total copies: 1
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