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Cisneros, Sandra
Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories
Short story collection depicts the variety of life on the Mexico-U.S. border as portrayed through the wisdom and vibrant dreams of exceptional women.

Esquivel, Laura
Like Water for Chocolate
This tale takes place on the De la Garza family ranch in Mexico at the beginning of the twentieth century.

Durham, David Anthony
Gabriel's Story
Coming-of-age story of 15-year-old Gabriel, an African-American boy who moves from Baltimore to Kansas shortly after the Civil War to meet his new stepfather.

Evans, Nicholas
The Horse Whisperer
The British editor of a New York magazine finds her life changed when her teenage daughter survives a near fatal accident and is then aided in her recovery by a horse trainer.

Faulkner, William
Go down, Moses: and Other Stories
"The Bear", a short novel included in this collection, is a story about a young man's development set against a background of vanishing wilderness that is being destroyed by human greed.

Fuentes, Carlos
The Death of Artemio Cruz
Hailed as a masterpiece since its publication in 1962, The Death of Artemio Cruz is Carlos Fuentes's haunting voyage into the soul of modern Mexico through the thoughts of a dying patriarch.

Kelton, Elmer
The Time it Never Rained
To Charlie Flagg, an honest , decent, and cantankerous Texas rancher, the drought of the early 1950s is a foe that he must fight on his own grounds.

Lea, Tom
The Wonderful Country
An American exiled to Mexico for murder returns to Texas and finds he is not really at home in either country.

Lone Star literature :from the Red River to the Rio Grande
In this anthology, Don Graham has rounded up a comprehensive collection of writings that provides an overview of the diversity and excellence of Texas literature.

McMurtry, Larry
Lonesome Dove
A love story, an adventure, and an epic of the frontier, Larry McMurtry's Pulitzer Prize-winning classic is the grandest novel ever written about the last, defiant wilderness of America.

McCarthy, Cormac
The Crossing
In The Crossing, Cormac McCarthy fulfills the promise of All the Pretty Horses and at the same time writes a story that is darker and more visionary about sixteen-year-old Billy Parham who captures a she-wolf that has been marauding his family's ranch.

McCarthy, Cormac
Cities of the Plain
Two men marked by the boyhood adventures of All the Pretty Horses and The Crossing now stand together, in the still point between their vivid pasts and uncertain futures, to confront a country changing or already changed beyond recognition.

Rulfo, Juan
The Burning Plain, and Other Stories
A major figure in the history of post-Revolutionary literature in Mexico, Juan Rulfo has written this collection of short stories about rural people caught in the play of natural forces.

Traven, B.
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
This western masterpiece follows the rugged adventure of three Americans hunting for gold in the mountains of Mexico who find themselves caught in a morality tale of greed and betrayal.

Wister, Owen
The Virginian:- a Horseman of the Plains
Classic western about a young man who runs away from his family at 14 and then must deal with a local bad man named Trampas.

Annotations partly from BOOKS IN PRINT, (r), (c) 2004 R.R. Bowker LLC, available through the FirstSearch database.