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Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Tambien de este lado hay suenos. 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 favorite books in her store. And then one...
Author
Language
English
Description
Recounts the author's experiences with the reclusive Tarahumara Indians, whose techniques allow them to run long distances with ease, and describes his training for a fifty-mile race with the tribe and a number of ultramarathoners.
Isolated by Mexico's deadly Copper Canyons, the blissful Tarahumara Indians have honed the ability to run hundreds of miles without rest or injury. In his narrative, award-winning journalist and often-injured runner Christopher...
4) Mexico
Author
Publisher
Children's Press
Pub. Date
c2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Author
Publisher
PowerPlus Books
Pub. Date
2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.3 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
An overview of the history and culture of Mexico and its people including the geography, myths, arts, daily life, education, industry, and government, with illustrations from primary source documents.
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Language
English
Formats
Description
Since 1988, Terry Pindell has been exploring North America, seeking integration of past and present, history and headlines. The result has been three highly acclaimed book spinning a beautiful web of culture, people, travel, and sociology. Now, in his fourth quest for the soul of the continent, Pindell brings us his fullest history and most expansive cultural portrait yet.
Yesterday's Train starts from a twisted tree at the shore near Veracruz-where...
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Language
English
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Culture Smart! Mexico takes you to the heart of Mexican society. It describes how people socialize and meet members of the opposite sex, the dynamics of daily life, the central importance of family, and the annual cycle of Catholic feasts and fiestas. For business travelers there are key sections on the economy and vital insights into the general business culture. The third-largest country in Latin America, Mexico is hugely diverse, having both rural...
11) Burn
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Formats
Description
She escaped the fire--but not the effects of the burn.
Janeal has long felt trapped in her father's Gypsy culture. Then one night a powerful man named Salazar Sanso promises her the life she longs for--if she will help recover a vast sum of money tied to her father.
When the plan implodes, Sanso and his men attack the gypsy settlement and burn it to the ground. During the blaze, Janeal is faced with a staggering choice.
The impact of that moment...
Author
Publisher
Harper Design
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
The creator of the popular Chicano Eats blog and winner of the Saveur Best New Voice People's Choice Award is back and better than ever with new, delicious recipes central to Chicano cuisine, including some of his popular and most requested recipes for desserts, cakes, snacks, and drinks--
Author
Publisher
Vintage Espanol
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
Español
Description
New Year's Eve, 1975: Arturo Belano and Ulises Lima, founders of the visceral realist movement in poetry, leave Mexico City in a borrowed white Impala. Their quest: To track down the obscure, vanished poet Cesarea Tinajero. A violent showdown in the Sonora desert turns search to flight; twenty years later Belano and Lima are still on the run.
La novela narra la busqueda de la poetisa mexicana Cesarea Tinajero, por parte de dos jovenes poetas fundadores...
14) Like water for chocolate: a novel in monthly installments, with recipes, romances, and home remedies
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
1992
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"The first time Abuela held Ni�na, her heart overflowed with tenderness. And as Ni�na grows up, she and Abuela have a lot of fun doing simple things. Abuela decides that she wants to buy Ni�na a special treat, so she saves a little bit of her money every week. But then something terrible happens, and Abuela's dream of a surprise for Ni�na seems impossible. Luckily, the time they spend together and the love they have for each other are the...
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Language
English
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An American classic widely considered to be one of the best novels of the 20th century In 1851, Father Jean Marie Latour becomes the Apostolic Vicar to New Mexico. While the area is American by law, it's still Mexican and Indian by custom and belief. During the years that follow, Latour tirelessly but gently spreads his faith while facing external and internal obstacles. Loosely based on the life of Jean-Baptiste Lamy and the construction of the Cathedral...
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