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From award-winning novelist Mary Morris comes the remarkable story of a remote New Mexican town coming to grips with a dark history it never imagined. In 1492, the Jewish and Muslim populations of Spain were expelled, and Columbus set sail for America. Luis de Torres, a Spanish Jew, accompanies Columbus as his interpreter. His journey is only the beginning of a long migration, across many generations. Over the centuries, de Torres' descendants travel...
4) New Mexico!
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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...
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"Desde la frontera norte hasta las calles de la Ciudad de México, a mediados del siglo XIX, esta novela histórica muestra las diferentes caras de un conflicto que llevó a la pérdida de una parte del territorio mexicano. Los protagonistas de esta historia, la familia Escobar -habitantes de Santa Fe, Nuevo México-, son testigos de conflictos que los enfrentarán entre sí y los confrontarán de cerca con la guerra."--Back cover.
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"It's late 1860 and out at Soldier's Farewell, a relay station in the middle of nowhere, the Munros are far removed from everything - including the smoldering conflict between the Northern and Southern states. There's nothing to worry about, Smith Munro keeps hearing from his father. But Smith can see the way tempers between passengers flare, the way more soldiers are coming through. One of these soldiers is his own brother, Julien. What Smith can't...