Tag: Mexico
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Into the Beautiful North
By Luis Alberto Urrea Place: Publisher & Year: New York: Back Bay Books, 2009 Genre: General fiction ISBN: 9780316025263 Audience: Adult, young adult Number of pages: 338 Setting: Tres Camarones & Tijuana, Mexico, San Diego, CA, & Kankakee, IL Time period: Contemporary Plot summary: When narcos come to the sleepy town of Tres Camarones, nineteen…
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Nobody’s son: notes from an American life
By Luis Alberto Urrea Place: Publisher & Year: Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1998 Genres: Non-fiction, autobiography, memoir Series: Camino del Sol ISBN: 9780816518654 Audience: Adults Number of pages: 189 Setting: Various locations in Mexico and the US, including Tijuana and San Diego Time period: late 1950s – 1990s Description: Urrea describes key moments of…
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The Hummingbird’s Daughter
By Luis Alberto Urrea Place: Publisher & Year: New York: Little, Brown, and Company, c2005, 2006 Genres: Historical fiction, magical realism Series: Not a series, but the author is currently working on a sequel to this book. ISBN: 9780316154529 Intended audience: Adult Number of pages: 499 Setting: Ocoroni, Sinaloa & Cabora (near Alamos), Sonora, Mexico…
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So This is How it Ends
By Tui T. Sutherland Place: Publisher & Year: New York: Eos, 2006 Genre: Fantasy, time travel fantasy, adventure, mythic fiction, science fiction Series: Avatars; 1 ISBN: 9780060750299 Intended audience: Young adult Number of pages: 480 Settings: Many various settings including: Los Angeles, NYC, Chile, Mexico Time periods: 2003 – 2012, 2087 Plot summary: Five teenagers…
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If I Die in Juárez
By Stella Pope Duarte Place: Publisher & Year: Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2008 Genres: General fiction, suspense Series: Camino del Sol ISBN: 0816526672 Intended audience: Adult Number of pages: 328 Setting: Ciudad Juárez and the village of Montenegro, Mexico (located in the Chihuahuan desert) Time period: 1995- 96 Plot summary: Since 1993, the bodies…
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Che : a graphic biography
By Spain Rodriguez ; edited by Paul Buhle Place: Publisher,Year: New York : Verso, 2008 Genres: Non-fiction, biography, history Format: Graphic novel ISBN: 1844671682 Intended audience: Adult Number of pages: 106 Setting: Argentina, Peru, Mexico, Cuba, Congo, and Bolivia Time period: 1928 – 1967 and beyond Plot summary: The story of Ernesto “Che” Guevara’s life…
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