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"También de este lado hay sueños. On this side, too, there are dreams. Lydia Quixano Perez lives in the Mexican city of Acapulco. She runs a bookstore. She has a son, Luca, the love of her life, and a wonderful husband who is a journalist. And while there are cracks beginning to show in Acapulco because of the drug cartels, her life is, by and large, fairly comfortable. Even though she knows they'll never sell, Lydia stocks some of her all-time...
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A mysterious gunman has just arrived in San Miguel, a grim and dusty border town where two rival bands of smugglers are terrorizing the impoverished citizens. A master of the "quick-draw", the stranger soon receives lucrative offers of employment from each gang. He accepts both offers, setting in motion a plan to destroy the criminals.
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xii, 391 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
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"The U.S.-Mexico border has earned an enduring reputation as a site of violence. During the past twenty years in particular, the drug wars -- fueled by the international movement of narcotics and vast sums of money -- have burned an abiding image of the border as a place of endemic danger into the consciousness of both countries. By the media, popular culture, and politicians, mayhem and brutality are often portrayed as the unavoidable birthright...
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197 pages ; 23 cm
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"From the author of Pulitzer-nominated The Devil's Highway and national bestseller The Hummingbird's Daughter comes an exquisitely composed collection of poetry on life at the border. Weaving English and Spanish languages as fluidly as he blends cultures of the southwest, Luis Urrea offers a tour of Tijuana, spanning from Skid Row, to the suburbs of East Los Angeles, to the stunning yet deadly Mojave Desert, to Mexico and the border fence itself....
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"Powerful. . . impressive. . . [an] epic of the 1840s frontier." -Dallas Morning News
With soaring and masterful prose, James Carlos Blake brings to life an enthralling historical time and place-and a cast of memorable characters-in a stunning tale of dark instinct, blood reckoning, and fates forged in the zeal of America's "Manifest Destiny."
The offspring of a whore mother and a homicidal father, Edward and John Little are driven from their home...
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193 pages ; 20 cm
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"Short stories set in the cracks of the Texas-Mexico borderland"--
"No one captures the border--its history and imagination, its danger, contradiction, and redemption--like Fernando A. Flores, whose stories reimagine and reinterpret the region's existence with peerless style. In his immersive, uncanny borderland, things are never what they seem: a world where the sun is both rising and setting, and where conniving possums efficiently take over an...
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xi, 290 pages ; 22 cm
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This anthology combines writings about the impact of drug violence on life and culture along the U.S.-Mexico border. It reveals how this fragile way of life between two cultures, languages, and countries, has been undermined by the drug trade and the crime that accompanies it, with ramifications far beyond the border region.
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300 pages ; 23 cm
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In a landmark anthology, acclaimed author Gabino Iglesias presents 15 stories from an incredibly talented and diverse roster of authors that look at one of the most controversial issues of our time: The Border. Borders of all kinds, including the ones you have not heard about in the news. Thought-provoking, shocking, violent, raw, emotional, and unforgettable, BOTH SIDES will make you rethink everything you thought you knew about borders, both domestic...
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xiv, 142 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 31 cm.
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"Robert Kaiser's photographs and Levi Romero's poems find grace in tragedy, elegance in seediness, pride in despair, and moments of joy along the border between the U.S. and Mexico. Spencer Herrera provides narrative context for the photographs and poetry, and together these pieces will form a tightly unified story of the borderlands"--
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79 pages ; 23 cm.
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"Soul Over Lightning is a book of poems that arises from the power of landscape of the desert Southwest. It deals with cultural and political realities in recent years of growing tension on the U.S.-Mexican border as it celebrates the desert, the mountains, and the unique experiences of living along the border"--
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xi, 124 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 26 cm
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Cutting the Wire, a masterful collaboration between photographer Bruce Berman and poets Ray Gonzalez and Lawrence Welsh, offers us a way to look again, to really look, at the border between Mexico and the United States. Berman, who has photographed and lived in El Paso for decades, is a documentarian who uses his camera to record what's in front of him rather than for, as he puts it, "mere self-expression." Berman's visual investigations of the everyday...
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1 videodisc (approximately 86 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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Three border patrol agents man a check point on a remote highway. Rookie Davis and seasoned Flores work with the callous, world-weary Hobbs, to round out the trio. On what feels like another routine stop, the contents of one car will throw their lives out of control. As dark secrets are revealed, each passing hour will bring them closer to a nightmarish conclusion that could cost them their lives, in a world where the line between right and wrong...
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