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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Español 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 468.3 FICTION MCCGerster, Michelle
Summary: "A poignant bilingual YA graphic memoir about a teenage girl's harrowing experience crossing the Mexico-US border. This compelling young adult graphic memoir tells the story of Gricelda, a fifteen-year-old Mexican girl who crosses the border into America with her mother and younger brother in search of a better life. Their treacherous journey is filled with both heartbreak and hope. Will...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Arsenal Pulp Press 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Foreign Language, Call number: YA WORLD SPANISH GERSummary: From the Publisher: Women lighthouse keepers, fur traders, cooks on sailing vessels, missionaries, and fearless travelers all wrote of their lives on the Great Lakes, both publicly and in quiet testimonies such as letters, logbooks, and diaries. Their narratives, which span the centuries from 1789 to the present, are now collected in this anthology. Compiled in response to historical accounts...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ladyslipper Press 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977 WOM1 available in Local Author, Call number: 977 WOM
Vargas, Vincent
Summary: "An inside look at the U.S./Mexican border through the eyes of former U.S. Border Patrol agent, Vincent Vargas, who served in Iraq and Afghanistan with the U.S. Army's 75th Ranger Regiment. Featuring a Foreword by #1 New York Times bestselling author Jocko Willink. The U.S./Mexican border stretches nearly 2,000 miles and is protected by a thin line of overworked and underfunded U.S. Border...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2023
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Summary: "Texas Ranger Luke Caldwell and his young partner, Bobby Howell, have destroyed the outlaw gang that was preying on visitors to Lajitas, deep in the Big Bend country of Texas. However, that's not the end of their problems, it's just the beginning. With all of West Texas rife with outlaws of all stripes, they still have their work cut out for them. When they come across a train of freight wagons...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2024
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Rodrigo Reyes₂ provocative essay film re-imagines the Mexico/U.S. border as a mythical place comparable to Dante₂s purgatory. Leaving politics aside, he takes a fresh look at the brutal beauty of the border and the people caught in its spell. By capturing a stunning mosaic of compelling characters and broken landscapes on the border, Reyes reflects on the flaws of human nature and the powerful...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF PURRonstadt, Linda
Summary: "Feels Like Home is a love letter to Ronstadt's Mexican American roots. It tells of her coming of age in the world between Tucson and the Rio Sonora region of northern Mexico, presented through stories, photographs, and recipes"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Heyday 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 RONSTADT, LINDA RONCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 RonstadtMcDougall, Christopher
Summary: McDougall reveals the secrets of the world's greatest distance runners--the Tarahumara Indians of Copper Canyon, Mexico--and how he trained for the challenge of a lifetime: a fifty-mile race through the heart of Tarahumara country pitting the tribe against an odd band of super-athletic Americans.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 796.42 MCDCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: 796.42 McDBinford, Warren (Wendi Warren H.)
Summary: "A moving picture book for older children and families that introduces a difficult topic, amplifying the voices and experiences of immigrant children detained at the border between Mexico and the US. The children's actual words (from publicly available court documents) are assembled to tell one heartbreaking story, in both English and Spanish (back to back). Each spread is illustrated in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Workman Publishing 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 362.87 BINWebb, Elizabeth
Summary: In the borderlands between the United States and Mexico, America's largest cat--the jaguar--is fighting to regain its kingdom. Added to the endangered species list in 1997, the jaguar has declined in population mainly due to habitat fragmentation created by roads, farms, mines, and most controversially, the border wall. Such human-made barriers prevent free movement of many wild animals for...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Twenty-First Century Books 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 333.95 WEBEichstaedt, Peter H.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Independent Pub Group 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.137 EICBuffett, Howard G
Summary: "From one of America's most prominent philanthropists, an eye-opening, myth-busting new perspective on the crisis at the U.S.-Mexico border. Howard G. Buffett has seen first-hand the devastating impact of cheap Mexican heroin and other opiate cocktails across America. Fueled by failing border policies and lawlessness in Mexico and Central America, drugs are pouring over the nation's southern...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Books 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 363 BUFCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: 363 BUFSummary: The captivating look at the unconventional life of beloved performer Chavela Vargas, whose passionate renditions of Mexican popular music and triumphant return to the stage late in life brought her international fame.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Music Box Films 2018
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC CHAStrickland, Patrick
Summary: "This real-life Western tells the story of how citizens in a small Arizona border town stood up to anti-immigrant militias and vigilantes. The Marauders uncovers the riveting nonfiction saga of far-right militias terrorizing the border towns of southern Arizona. In one of the towns profiled, Arivaca, rogue militia members killed a man and his nine-year-old daughter in 2009. In response, the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Melville House 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.143 STRSivertson, Howard
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lake Superior Port Cities 2001
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: 977.49 SIVSummary: "Although Buffalo Bill has fought Indians and Civil War battles, nothing can prepare him for his newest challenge: show business! His 'Wild West Show' is hugely popular, but when he signs a former enemy, Sioux Chief Sitting Bull, for a featured role, a hysterical clash of cultures reverberates far beyond the boundaries of their sprawling outdoor theater. And the complications only multiply when...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2001
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Summary: "Regina Martínez was no stranger to retaliation. A journalist out of Mexico's Gulf Coast state of Veracruz, Regina's stories for the magazine Proceso laid out the corruption and abuse underlying Mexican politics. She was barred from press conferences, and copies of Proceso often disappeared before they made the newsstands. In 2012, shortly after Proceso published an article on corruption and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Publishing 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.152 CORUrrea, Luis Alberto.
Summary: This is a book of fragments, stories of moments in the lives of people along the Mexican border.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Anchor Books 1993
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 972.2 URRBayless, Rick.
Summary: The co-owners of the Frontera Grill, Topolobampo, and XOCO share recipes for thirty-five new and classic margaritas, guacamoles to sample every month of the year, and nut and vegetable snacks.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.5972 BAYCummins, Jeanine
Summary: 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 cracks are beginning to show in Acapulco because of the drug cartels, her life is, by and large, reasonably comfortable. Even though she knows they'll never sell, Lydia stocks some of her all-time favorite books in her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press Large Print 2020
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC CUMFerguson, Kathryn.
Summary: Changing careers, veteran dancer Ferguson became a filmmaker concentrating on Mexico's Sierra Madre, making many trips into Mexico from her home in Arizona. She writes with great empathy and imagery about the people of Mexico and presents her perspective on the plight of desperate people coming from the south seeking salvation in the north.
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of New Mexico Press 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 FERGUSON, KATHRYN FERVulliamy, Ed.
Summary: Amexica is a street-level portrait of the extraordinary terror unfolding along the U.S.-Mexico border--"a country in its own right, which belongs to both the United States and Mexico, yet neither"--as the narco-war escalates to a fever pitch. In 2009, after reporting from the border for many years, journalist Ed Vulliamy traveled the frontier from the Pacific coast to the Gulf of Mexico, from...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2010