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The Book of Havoc
With a successful challenge to the Accords behind her, and her relationship with Malcolm Campbell made public, Helena Davies’ life seems perfect. Then the attacks begin. As the enemy magi known as the Mercy wreak havoc on Warden strongholds, Helena and the oracular bookstore Abernathy’s play their role in guiding the Wardens. But the oracle knows a deadly secret, one Helena struggles to interpret while the enemy draws nearer. And the one question she needs the answer to is the one question the oracle will not answer: who are the weavers?
Clandestine Crossings
Clandestine Crossings delivers an in-depth description and analysis of the experiences of working-class Mexican migrants at the beginning of the twenty-first century as they enter the United States surreptitiously with the help of paid guides known as coyotes. Drawing on ethnographic observations of crossing conditions in the borderlands of South Texas, as well as interviews with migrants, coyotes, and border officials, Spener details how migrants and coyotes work together to evade apprehension by U.S. law enforcement authorities as they cross the border. In so doing, he seeks to dispel many of the myths that misinform public debate about undocumented immigration to the United States. The hi...
Chicano Writers
Devoted to literature produced by writers of Mexican descent born in the United States, living here permanently, or having lived in the territory which until 1848 was part of Mexico.
Rose in the Darkness
Rose Sanchez verlässt ihren gewalttätigen Ehemann und taucht in Philadelphia unter. Sie schlägt sich mit Gelegenheitsjobs durch, bis ihr eines Tages die Möglichkeit eröffnet wird, Kurierfahrerin zu werden. Als sie versteht, dass sie damit zum Muli eines der größten mexikanischen Kartelle geworden ist, ist es bereits zu spät, um auszusteigen. Einzig Julio, die rechte Hand des mächtigen Bosses, kümmert es, was in Rose vorgeht. Doch als das Kartell auf einen Krieg mit seinem größten Feind zusteuert, gerät Rose zwischen die Fronten und Julio muss sich entscheiden. Verrät er sein Herz oder das Kartell?
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Northward Bound
". . . provides a valuable service of not only gathering and presenting from 5,000 song texts a wide variety of ballads with full translation but also placing them all in a succinct historical context extending from the Mexican War to the present." —Journal of American Ethnic History " . . . [a] stunning achievement, not only because it is an intelligent and comprehensive study of Mexican immigrant ballads, but because analysis gives way to, steps aside respectfully for, a multitude of immigrants who sing their experiences of crossing the border into the U.S. with astonishing clarity and historical perspicacity." —Western Folklore "Herrera-Sobek's folk-song collection is impressive, as a...
