Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

With contributions from seven of Mexico's finest journalists, this is reportage at its bravest and most necessary - it has the power to change the world's view of their country, and by the force of its truth, to start to heal the country's many sorrows.

Supported the Arts Council Grant's for the Arts Programme and by PEN Promotes

Veering between carnival and apocalypse, Mexico has in the last ten years become the epicentre of the international drug trade. The so-called "war on drugs" has been a brutal and chaotic failure (more than 160,000 lives have been lost). The drug cartels and the forces of law and order are often in collusion, corruption is everywhere. Life is cheap and inconvenient people - the poor, the unlucky, the honest or the inquisitive - can be "disappeared" leaving not a trace behind (in September 2015, more than 26,798 were officially registered as "not located"). Yet people in all walks of life have refused to give up.

Diego Enrique Osorno and Juan Villoro tell stories of teenage prostitution and Mexico's street children. Anabel Hernández and Emiliano Ruiz Parra give chilling accounts of the "disappearance" of forty-three students and the murder of a self-educated land lawyer. Sergio González Rodríguez and Marcela Turati dissect the impact of the violence on the victims and those left behind, while Lydia Cacho contributes a journal of what it is like to live every day of your life under threat of death. Reading these accounts we begin to understand the true nature of the meltdown of democracy, obscured by lurid headlines, and the sheer physical
and intellectual courage needed to oppose it.

The Sorrows of Mexico

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Cover and spine are worn but does not affect readability. #paperback #fiction #action #barbarakingsolver #art #kingsolver #fridakahlo #mexico 

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Oregon

A Novel

In this powerfully imagined, provocative novel, Barbara Kingsolver takes us on an epic journey from the Mexico of artists Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo to the America of Pearl Harbor, FDR, and J. Edgar Hoover. The Lacuna is the poignant story of a man pulled between two nations as well as an unforgettable portrait of the artist—and of art itself.

The Lacuna

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Great for anyone interested in Mexican history. In great condition with very little wear and minimal highlighting. #paperback #nonfiction #nonfic #mexico #history #mexicanhistory #inquisition #historical 

Texas

A Case from the Mexican Inquisition

On July 21, 1578, a small Mexican town awoke to the news of a scandal. Nailed to the door of its church was a double-faced effigy denouncing a neighbor as a Jew who should burn at the stake. Nine trials over the course of four years revealed a story of dishonor, revenge, and the Inquisition's relentless determination to defend its symbols.

Death by Effigy

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#paperback #fiction #sciencefiction #scholastic #mexico #dystopian

Arkansas

The House of the Scorpion

#hardcover #botm #horror #fiction #paperback #gothichorror #historicalfiction #gothic #mexico


Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

The Hacienda

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Oversized Hardcover (4 to 6 lbs)

California

Su Gastronomía 

Las Mañanitas 

#paperback #fiction #signsprecedingtheendoftheworld #mexico #latinx

A streetwise heroine crosses from Mexico to USA to find her brother in this mythologizing novel by Juan Rulfo's heir.

Signs Preceding the End of the World (extra lined paper notebook)

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Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

Florida

American journalist Norman Clay's assignment in Mexico leads him to uncover his fascinating Mexican ancestry, set against the backdrop of 1,500 years of the country's history

Mexico

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Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

A Book of Miracles

Let the ancient power of milagros work miracles for you! Based on traditional Latin American talismans, these tiny silver charms are reminders that a miracle can fit in the palm of your hand. Throughout Latin America and the American Southwest, milagros are offered at shrines and sacred sites by believers as requests for divine assistance, or as thanks for blessings received. Modern day milagros may be carried in a pocket to protect from illness or harm, kept in the office to insure success, or placed in the car to avoid accidents--whenever you need a little magic in your life.

Milagros: A Book of Miracles is a wonderful introduction to this ancient tradition. Filled with beautiful milagro-inspired imagery, thoughtful meditations and reflections to enhance your daily life, and inspiring true stories of real people who have been touched by the magic of these ancient charms, this book proves that miracle do happen!

IF YOU BELIEVE ...

A young newlywed pins a milagro to a statue of St. Francis after her husband suffers a near-fatal accident. After his miraculous full recovery, she returns every year to give thanks. A heartbroken man carries a heart-shaped milagro in his pocket after losing the love of his life-shortly after, they are reunited. A surgery patient fastens a milagro above his heart and is restored to better health than his doctors ever anticipated.

Milagros--Spanish for miracles--come in an endless variety of shapes and sizes. Since before recorded history, these offerings to the gods have been an essential part of Latin American culture. More than just symbolic gifts, milagros are thought to be magical: if you believe and make your desire known with good faith, the milagro may work its wondrous power. This book is an inspiring introduction to the beauty anddivine blessings of these ancient talismans.

Milagros

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Some Travels and Travelers There

Recounting her decade-long obsession with Mexico, the author describes Mayan ruins, the misery of Mexico City, Mexican art, and the magic of the country's landscape and people.

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#paperback #ya #ethnography #mexico #culture #rain #forest

Oklahoma

The Lacandon Mayas of the Mexican Rain Forest

The Last Lords of Lalenque is an extraordinary firsthand account of life among the Lacandon Indians of Nahá in southern Mexico. A community of 250 whose genealogy has been obscured by the absence of a written tradition, the Lacandones may nevertheless be traced back linguistically and culturally to the great Maya civilization. They are the sole inheritors of an oral tradition that preserves-more than 400 years after the Spanish Conquest-a cosmology, a morality and a psychology as sophisticated as our own. Journalist and novelist Victor Perera and linguist Robert Bruce have lived among the Lacandones, chronicling their imperiled Mayan culture.

The Last Lords of Palenque

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Crossing the Line by Simone Elkeles.

A high-stakes story of star-crossed lovers from Simone Elkeles, the New York Times #bestselling author.

To escape his abusive stepdad, bad boy Ryan Hess runs from his tiny Texas border town to Mexico. But his plans to keep his head down & stay out of trouble are shattered the minute he meets the beautiful & totally out of his league Dalila Sandoval.

Dalila Sandoval shouldn’t even know someone like Ryan Hess. The daughter of 1 of the wealthiest #lawyers in #Mexico, Dalila is focused on studying & planning for her bright future. Ryan is only a distraction from her #dreams, but she’s never felt more alive than when she’s by his side.

Ryan & Dalila are wrong for each other in every way. And yet they can’t resist the sparks that fly when they’re together. But their #love is like a flame burning too close to the fuse. 

Something is going to explode. Will their love be strong enough to survive? Or will it burn them both?
#YA #Youngadult #Youngadultfiction #fiction #Book  #hardcover

Georgia

Crossing the Line

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“Anybody who reads the present book will make a mistake if he takes everything literally," Dobie writes in his preface. "The characters are inventions, patched up from reali-ties. I invented a slight string of experiences on which to thread tales and people. I tried to weave the life of the Mexican earth into a pattern. It is truer, I think, than a literal chronicle of what I saw, whom I heard, and where I rode or slept would have been." Indeed, Tongues of the Monte rings true. Dobie has captured in lines of haunting beauty the myths, the folkways, the simple earthy wis-dom, and the elemental passions of the Mexican people. 

The Mexico I Like

Tongues of the Monte

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Small marks on top edge. Pages are perfect. book is unread.

Women and Other Aliens: Essays from the U.S.-Mexico Border

North Carolina

The Aztec Metropolis in the Twenty-First Century

MEXICO CITY, with some 20 million inhabitants, is the largest city in the Western Hemisphere. Enormous growth, raging crime, and tumultuous politics have also made it one of the most feared and misunderstood. Yet in the past decade, the city has become a hot spot for international business, fashion, and art, and a magnet for thrill-seeking expats from around the world. In 2002, Daniel Hernandez traveled to Mexico City, searching for his cultural roots. He encountered a city both chaotic and intoxicating, both underdeveloped and hypermodern. In 2007, after quitting a job, he moved back. With vivid, intimate storytelling, Hernandez visits slums populated by ex-punks; glittering, drug-fueled fashion parties; and pseudo-native rituals catering to new-age Mexicans. He takes readers into the world of youth subcultures, in a city where punk and emo stand for a whole way of life—and sometimes lead to rumbles on the streets. Surrounded by volcanoes, earthquake-prone, and shrouded in smog, the city that Hernandez lovingly chronicles is a place of astounding manifestations of danger, desire, humor, and beauty, a surreal landscape of “cosmic violence.” For those who care about one of the most electrifying cities on the planet, “Down & Delirious in Mexico City is essential reading” (David Lida, author of First Stop in the New World).

Down and Delirious in Mexico City

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You Can Learn to Speak, Read, and Write Spanish Quickly and Easily 

For almost four decades, Made Simple books have set the standard for continuing education and home study. In answer to the changing needsof today's marketplace, the Made Simple series for the '90s presents a thoroughly up-to-the-minute portfolio of skills, information, and experience, with revised and updated editions of bestselling titles, plus a whole range of new subjects from personal finance to office management to desktop publishing. B & W illustrations throughout

Spanish Made Simple

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#poetry #chicano #mexico Tight, unmarked copy--a little cover wear.

Connecticut

Chicano Poet in the Lowlands of America

In a variety of narrative voices, poems, and a play, set at different times in history, the author presents a journey to the Maya Lowlands of Chiapas on a quest for his Indio heritage and a vision of the multicultured identity emerging in America, envisioning the disappearance of borders and evoking a fluid American self that needs no fixed identity or location.

Mayan Drifter

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#paperback #ya #santa #fe #history #america #new #mexico 

History of an Ancient City

In 2010, Santa Fe officially turns 400--four centuries of a rich and contentious history of Indian, Spanish, and American interactions. Pueblo Indians settled along the banks of the Rio Santa Fe as long ago as the sixth century CE. By 1610, Spanish colonists had established the town as a distant outpost in Spain's expanding empire. Drawing on recent archaeological discoveries and historical research, this updated edition of a classic history details the town's founding, its survival through revolt and reconquest, its turbulent politics, its lively trade with Mexico and the United States, and the lives of its most important citizens, from the governors Peralta, Vargas, and Armijo to the madam dona Tules. The origins and transformations of the very building blocks of Santa Fe, from the iconic Palace of the Governors to the city's acequia irrigation system, are revealed in these pages.

Santa Fe

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Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

Utah

Seasoned travel writer Bruce Whipperman covers the best of Oaxaca, from bargaining at the Mercado Juárez to exploring the Castillo de Moctezuma Aztec pyramid. Whipperman offers up unique trip strategies, including Best Beaches and Local Festivals & Native Markets, as well as experienced advice on where to go and what to see. Complete with information on visiting craft villages near Ocotlan and enjoying the vistas and fresh seafood of Puerto Ángel,Moon Oaxaca gives travelers the tools they need to create a more personal and memorable experience.


Moon Oaxaca

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This book is in very good condition considering some of the pages have come loose. Please see photos. #carloscastaneda #donjuan #sociology #mexico #religion #mythology #firstedition #hardcover 

The Second Ring of Power

#hardcover #botm #gothichorror #gothic #historicalfiction #mexico #greatread #horror 

Published 1961, 1st Printing #vintage #hardcover #nonfiction #firstedition #mexico #anthropology #classics #sociology

New Jersey

Autobiography of a Mexican Family 

The Children of Sanchez

Dust and small marks on top edge. pages are perfect. book is unread.

Reports from a Disappearing Line

Collection of sixteen essays documenting some unique form of border experience and, by doing that, illuminating fundamental changes that have occurred in the region.

The Late Great Mexican Border

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#fiction #paperback #Mexico #border #suspense 

Missouri

After the slaughter of their families in Northern Mexico, teens Pato, Arbo, Marcos, and Gladys narrowly escape into the Sonoran Desert, pursued by the La Frontera gang.

The Sorrows of Mexico

Barbara Kingsolver

The Lacuna

Luis R. Corteguera

Death by Effigy

Nancy Farmer

The House of the Scorpion

Isabel Cañas

The Hacienda

Ignacio Urquiza

Las Mañanitas

Yuri Herrera; Lisa Dillman (Translator)

Signs Preceding the End of the World (extra lined paper notebook)

James A. Michener

Mexico

Helen Thompson

Milagros

Alice Adams; Jan Morris (Introduction by)

Mexico

Victor Perera; Robert D. Bruce

The Last Lords of Palenque

Simone Elkeles

Crossing the Line

J. Frank Dobie

Tongues of the Monte

Debbie Nathan

Women and Other Aliens: Essays from the U.S.-Mexico Border

Daniel Hernandez

Down and Delirious in Mexico City

Eugene' Jackson; Antonio Rubio; Robert D. Vanderslice (Revised by)

Spanish Made Simple

Juan Felipe Herrera

Mayan Drifter

Francis Levine; Stanley M. Hordes (Introduction by); Joseph P. Sanchez; John L. Kessell; Adrian H. Bustamante; Janet Lecompte; John P. Wilson; Marc Simmons; Carrie F. Arnold; David G. Noble (Editor)

Santa Fe

Bruce Whipperman

Moon Oaxaca

Carlos Castaneda

The Second Ring of Power

Isabel Cañas

The Hacienda

Oscar Lewis

The Children of Sanchez

Bobby Byrd (Editor)

The Late Great Mexican Border

Steve Schafer

The Border