Mexico: Stories, Hardcover

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

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

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...

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

Reducere. A cross-cultural, comparative study of contemporary life writing by women who migrated to the United States from Mexico, Ghana, South Korea, and Ir...

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...

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

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

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

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 ...

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. 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. 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. 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...

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...

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

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

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

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...

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...

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

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...

Reducere. Indigenous women migrants from Central America and Mexico face harrowing experiences of violence before, during, and after their migration to the U...

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...

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 ...

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

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. 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. 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...

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

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

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...

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

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...

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. 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...

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

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...

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

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...

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

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

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. "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...

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

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. 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. 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...

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...

DescriptionMeetings with remarkable activists since the 1960s American social change movements dominated the 1960s and 1970s, an era brought about ...

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

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

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. 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 ...

Contributor(s): Author: Ramesh SrinivasanA call to action to include marginalized, non-western communities in the continuously expanding digital re...

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

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

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. 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. 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...

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

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

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

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