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English
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Journalist Sam Quinones chronicles how, over the past 15 years, enterprising sugar cane farmers in a small county on the west coast of Mexico created a unique distribution system that brought black tar heroin -- the cheapest, most addictive form of the opiate, 2 to 3 times purer than its white powder cousin -- to the veins of people across the United States. Communities where heroin had never been seen before -- from Charlotte, North Carolina and...
Author
Publisher
Chicago Review Press
Language
English
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"This comprehensive guide will assist the traveler in planning an excursion and executing it with minimum effort and maximum pleasure" -Library Journal All Aboard-first published in 1995, and here completely revised and updated-is much more than just a mile-by-mile scenery guide for train travelers. It will make any trip smoother and more enjoyable with its insightful travel trips and information about how railroads operate. With trains attracting...
5) Snowbound
Author
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
For Will Innis and his daughter, Devlin, the loss was catastrophic. Every day for the past five years, they wonder where she is, if she is - Will's wife, Devlin's mother - because Rachael Innis vanished one night during an electrical storm on a lonely desert highway, and suspected of her death, Will took his daughter and fled. Now Will and Devlin live under different names in another town, having carved out a new life for themselves as they struggle...
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Publisher
Princeton University Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"Winner of the 2018 Mirra Komarovsky Book Award, Eastern Sociological Society" "Co-Winner of the 2017 Best Book Award, Migration and Citizenship Section of the American Political Science Association" "Winner of the 2017 Otis Dudley Duncan Award, Section on Population of the American Sociological Association" "Honorable Mention for the 2019 ENMISA Distinguished Book Award, Ethnicity, Nationalism, and Migration Section the International Studies Association"...
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Publisher
University of Texas Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
In a quest to capture a real-life, close-up view of the land where so many have been kicked, cussed, spit on, arrested, detained, trafficked, or killed-and the subject that has been debated for decades by politicians and commentators-Charles D. Thompson records his journey from Boca Chica to Tijuana, and his conversations with everyone from border officials to migrant workers to local residents. Along the journey, five centuries of cultural history...
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Publisher
Austin Macauley Publishers
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Trees are silent witnesses to the passing of time, guardians of myth and memory, metaphors of life. Each story in this collection has a tree of particular importance to its characters and their communities. These are tales of childhood and imagination, of migration and struggle, conflict and change. They are about specific places in Mexico, Nicaragua and the U.S. and real and imagined sties of cultural encounter, growth and adaptation.
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Publisher
EgretBooks.com
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
This book shines new light on reasons for the US invasion of Mexico in 1846, opposition by Abraham Lincoln and other politicians to the unjustified and unconstitutional decision by President Polk to go to war, the importance of the ensuing war against Mexico, the resulting territorial seizures by the United States, the impact both nationally and internationally to both countries, the troubling legacy even today, and the result of silences that have...
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English
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"Updated road maps of all 50 U.S. states, Canada, and Mexico make it easy to find your way. Add a special Scenic Drives section featuring 20 of the top road trips in the country and you have the best atlas ever published for planning your own road trip of a lifetime."--Back cover
17) Catlow
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 8
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English
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"Ben Cowan and Bijah Catlow had been friends since they were boys. By the time they grew to manhood, Catlow had become an outlaw and Cowan a U.S. marshal. So when his old friend rode to Mexico to pull the biggest robbery of his career, it became Ben Cowan's job to hunt him down. While trailing Catlow south of the border, Ben meets Rosita Calderon. Intelligent and beautiful, her presence further complicates what is already a dangerous situation. While...
Author
Publisher
Charlesbridge
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Juan Garcia Esquivel was born in Mexico and grew up to the sounds of mariachi bands. He loved music and became a musical explorer. Defying convention, he created music that made people laugh and planted images in their minds. Juan's space-age lounge music popular in the fifties and sixties has found a new generation of listeners.
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