Las Animas - Bent County Library District

The story of an American journalist who travels to Mexico to report on the upcoming duel between two great matadors, but who is ultimately swept up in the dramatic story of his Mexican ancestors. From the brutality and brilliance of the ancients, to the iron fist of the invading Spaniards, to the modern-day Mexicans battling through dust and bloodshed to build a nation upon the ashes of revolution, James Michener weaves it all into an epic human story...

As a thank-you from Merlin and Morgan, Jack and Annie are sent on what should be a vacation at a luxurious resort in Cozumel, Mexico, but is, by mistake, an adventure with ancient Mayans, instead.

When the entire family goes into the hills to collect pinon nuts, Josefina hopes to find the most in order to make Tia Dolores proud of her.

No marshal's badge or sheriff's posse had yet brought law to the sun-drenched adobes of the great American Southwest. White settlers, Indians, and Mexicans trembled in fear under the azure sky of old Albuquerque, as they prayed to God that the cruel renegades called the comancheros would spare their women, their homes and their lives. But outside this thriving city the comancheros were gathering ... as the time neared when all would feel the terror...

Story of two Americans in Mexico, Jason James, a colonel in the French Foreign Legion fighting for the Emperor Maximilian, and Sarah Anderson, a girlhood friend of Empress Carlota, looking after her dead brother's mines. They must deal with their torn loyalities, their love for each other, and the demons in Jason's past.

Will Kane is hired to transport a priceless religious shrine through revolution-torn Mexico.

When Molly and Colleen's father dies, nineteen-year-old Colleen dresses thirteen-year-old Molly in women's clothing, and they both find jobs at the Harvey Eating Houses, which feed the popular Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad.

Demetrio Macias, forced to side with the rebels during the Mexican Revolution in order to save his family, comes to realize while fighting in Pancho Villa's army that he is more violent than he thought possible.

When Tia Dolores, the beloved aunt who has cared for the Montoya family since the death of their mother, announces that she is planning to leave, Josefina and her sisters try to find a way to change her mind.

New Mexico Territory is no stranger to bad men. But south of the border, on the wild Mexican coastline, is another kind of wicked: a murderous Arab with a ship full of stolen women--to be sold as sex slaves in the four corners of the world. Among them is a missing local school teacher Shawn O'Brien has been searching for--a woman with a past she's kept carefully hidden. Now Shawn, along with a half-mad bear hunter and a professional hangman fight...