Mexico: Stories, Hardcover

DescriptionMexican folktales invite us into a magical world of enchantment and transformation, populated by cats and kings, priests and tricksters,...

Reducere. "Buzz, buzz, I like what I duz, " sings Dumbee, the handsome bumblebee who buzzes happily around the mesa all day. Dumbee gets into more trouble th...

Hints of S.P. Peredo's Mexican American upbringing appear in Marco's Journey and Other Stories as he draws from personal experiences to present ric...

In English for the first time, a wild and darkly funny book that combines Surrealist painter Leonora Carringon's fantastical writing and illustrati...

Award-winning illustrator Duncan Tonatiuh brings to life debut author Gloria Amescua's lyrical biography of an indigenous Nahua woman from Mexico w...

This exceptional and powerful anthology explores the joys, heartbreaks and triumphs of immigration, with stories by critically acclaimed and bestse...

These early stories by the award-winning novelist, David Allan Cates, take place in Mexico and Central America during the war years of the 1980s. T...

Reducere. See the world through Georgia O'Keeffe's eyes and be inspired to produce your own masterpieces. Have you ever wondered exactly what your favorite a...

Reducere. The cat and the tiger are best friends. Every day, the cat enters the zoo and visits the tiger's cage. They talk about everything, but when the cat...

Reducere. During his long and plentiful professional career, Jorge Bucay has always recounted stories not only as a means to teach his patients, but also to ...

Reducere. Science tells us that young children develop best when they are read to. In this follow-up to Read to Your Baby Every Day, soothe your toddler with...

Reducere. A powerful social-emotional picture book about friendship and courage in the face of hardship. When Conejo's house blows away in a storm, his frien...

Reducere. Powerful and universal retellings of seventy-eight divine stories, legends, and myths from around the world, each accompanied by a gorgeous illustr...

Reducere. "Tai-me" is a traditional medicine bundle used by the Kiowa in their Sun Dance. The bundle has been handed down from generation to generation, thro...

DescriptionLong before snowmobiles, paved roads, and SUVs were introduced into Yellowstone National Park, a myriad of companies offered buggy and s...

Reducere. Search the planet from top to bottom in this giant search challenge! Starting with space, moving down to the mountains and to cities before finally...

A collection of stories from nations and cultures across our two continents--the Sea-Ringed World, as the Aztecs called it--from the Andes all the ...

The Mexico we hear of in the news--the drug cartels, migration and senseless violence--is rich soil for Herrera's moving stories of people who live...

Reducere. A family memoir full of New Mexico flavor, Tortilla Chronicles serves up a hearty helping of the "City Different" from the perspective of the humbl...

Reducere. Contributor(s): With: Amy CordovaWith: Eugene Gollogly Long ago, in a small village in old Mexico, a baby boy was born. A child of the Great Eagle ...

Reducere. This enchanting anthology of 20 forgotten fairy tales features stories of strong girls from different cultures around the world. Includes a story m...

A Mexican-American lawyer exposes corruption in the US asylum procedure and despotism in the Mexican governmentFrom a storefront law office in the ...

Reducere. The moving stories of children in migration--in their own words. "In Spanish and in English, a devastating first-person account of children's exper...

Reducere. DescriptionThe Stonewall Honor-winning author of Beyond Magenta shares the intimate, eye-opening stories of nine undocumented young adults living i...

Introducing World Food, an exceptional new cookbook series in the classic tradition, taking readers on a journey to the world's greatest cuisines a...

For more than four decades, between 1969 and 2010, the remote former mining town of Trinidad, Colorado was the unlikely crossroads for approximatel...

Reducere. This book, aims to help young readers to build their vocabularies and to help them to remember definitions by using mnemonic aids. Using 26 vocabul...

Reducere. The underground world of con men, winos, prostitutes, laborers, and artists has been an abundant source of material for great writers from Dickens ...

Reducere. Ancient relics--stone tools, bones, footprints, and even DNA--offer many clues about our human ancestors and how they lived. At the same time, our ...

Reducere. Fresh out of training, Dr. Chuck Radis moves with his wife and daughter to Peaks Island, Maine, to fulfill a Public Health scholarship obligation. ...

NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS' CHOICE - From the New York Times bestselling author of Mexican Gothic comes a "delicious, twisted treat for lovers of noir"...

Reducere. Winner of the 2002 Man Booker Prize for Fiction Pi Patel is an unusual boy. The son of a zookeeper, he has an encyclopedic knowledge of animal beha...

Reducere. Annabel Abbs's Windswept: Walking the Paths of Trailblazing Women is a beautifully written meditation on connecting with the outdoors through the s...

Reducere. If you're looking for a captivating collection of Central American myths, then keep reading...Mexico and the Central American states are home to ma...

DescriptionMadame Katerina, Detective 'Nine Nails' McGray's most trusted clairvoyant, hosts a s ance for three of Edinburgh's wealthiest families.T...

Reducere. DescriptionFood, family and stories share a deep connection, one that is often overlooked in the age of instant gratification. Born into a strong t...

Reducere. Take a journey with Robert through the high mountains of New Mexico in an exciting and often humorous pursuit of big game animals. Follow behind th...

Beginning in the seventeenth century, townsfolk and rural dwellers in the remote Spanish colonial city of Santa Fe maintained a provocative interes...

Reducere. From the ring to the kitchen, celebrate lucha libre with popular Mexican dishes offering a modern twist from iconic athletes, legends, and supersta...

26 new short stories representing the state of the art in international science fiction, selected by Lavie Tidhar. 21 counties: France, China, Sing...

Reducere. ``A beautiful, fiercely honest, and nevertheless deeply empathetic look at those who police the border and the migrants who risk - and lose - their...

Reducere. There are many things that are big in Texas: Wide open spaces, personalities, hair, but above all, there's flavorUnited Tastes of Texas is your geo...

Reducere. New Mexico's Spanish legacy has informed the cultural traditions of one of the last states to join the union for more than four hundred years, or b...

Divided into chapters by time of day, in Ciudad de México, chef Edson Diaz-Fuentes takes the reader on a whirlwind tour of one of the most diverse ...

Reducere. Even before he was shot and killed in 1881, Billy the Kid's charisma and murderous career were generating stories that belied his brief life--and t...

Reducere. Southern California, with its burgeoning Latino population, marked the spot as the proving ground for world-class boxers from Mexico, Puerto Rico, ...

DescriptionSome say a child is fortunate to grow up in a community with eccentric characters and plenty of opportunities to explore nature. Fran oi...

Reducere. Storytelling has been a vital and vivid tradition in Apache life. Coyote tales, the creation legend and stories of historic battles with Comanche a...

Reducere. At 5: 29 a.m. on July 16, 1945, the Trinity Test explosion of the first atomic bomb changed the world forever. The dropping of the bombs on Hiroshi...

Contributor(s): Author: Lucia BerlinNamed a Fall Read by Buzzfeed, The Boston Globe, Vulture, Newsday, HuffPost and The MillionsA collection of pre...

Description"Martin shares the history, traditions, and customs surrounding Cajun cuisine and offers a tantalizing slew of classic dishes." --Publis...

Reducere. Gholson Brothers in The Thick of It True Stories of Early Texas as Told by Two Who Lived It is Donna Gholson Cook's fourth book. Donna is a sixth-G...

Reducere. New Mexico Book AwardsWinner of more than 30 awards, and endorsed by 3 Presidents and 3 Nobel Peace Prize winners, Great Peacemakers is an entertai...

Reducere. "Former ICE Special Agent Victor Avila's story of survival and courage is a harrowing must read. His dedication to obtaining justice for his partne...

Reducere. "Dramatic, engrossing, and spirited, What Girls Are Good For takes the reader straight to the heart of an unsung American hero--a feminist icon who...

Reducere. Do UFOs exist? Was there a cover up? Discover these questions and more High-interest topics, real stories, engaging design and astonishing photos a...

Reducere. DescriptionFor decades, stories of alien abductions, UFO encounters, flying saucer sightings, and Area 51 have led millions of people to believe th...

Reducere. Jim Kempton has spent his life traveling and surfing the world, along the way learning to cook the world's best beach-loving dishes. Now he's shari...

Reducere. Across four centuries, Apache (Ndé) peoples in the North American West confronted enslavement and forced migration schemes intended to exploit, sub...

Reducere. The first book-length account of a story too long overlooked Claro Solis wanted to win a gold star for his mother. He succeeded--as did seven other...

Reducere. By universal acclaim, Diana Kennedy is the world's authority on the authentic cuisines of Mexico. For decades, she has traveled the length and brea...

Reducere. Corpus Christi - A History documents the stories of the people who strove to make South Texas their home. Adventurers, outlaws, settlers, cowboys, ...

The forty-nine traditional Osage narratives presented here, collected in Oklahoma between 1910 and 1923 for the Bureau of American Ethnology, have ...

This strikingly beautiful, large-format book showcases Guy Harvey's around-the-world fishing and diving adventures. Drawing from meticulous notes, ...

Reducere. "Citizen Illegal is right on time, bringing both empathy and searing critique to the fore as a nation debates the very humanity of the people who b...

Reducere. "Now, in his vivid memoir, Wait for Me, True Stories of War, Love and Rock & Roll, Bill Gentile turns back the clock to the 1980s and thrusts us in...

DescriptionTexas singer-songwriter Hayes Carll declared, "Ray would be at the top of the list if I were gonna read about somebody's life." In The M...

Reducere. Almost one hundred years of personal short stories and full color photographs chronicling the life of a 20th Century American pioneer. The stories ...

DescriptionLives in Transit chronicles the dangerous journeys of Central American migrants in transit through Mexico. Drawing on fieldwork in human...

Los Angeles is home to the largest population of people of Middle Eastern origin and descent in the United States. Since the late nineteenth centur...