Best Border Crossing Into Mexico - April 2024

The Border

Perfect for readers of This Is Where it Ends, The Border is a gripping drama about four teens, forced to flee home after a deadly cartel rips apart their families. They must now face life-threatening danger and unimaginable sacrifice as they attempt to cross the U.S. border."Thrilling... often brilliant."―Kirkus One moment changed their lives forever. A band plays, glasses clink, and four teens sneak into the Mexican desert, the hum of celebration receding behind them. Crack. Crack. Crack. Not fireworks―gunshots. The music stops. And Pato, Arbo, Marcos, and Gladys are powerless as the live... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1492646830
• UPC: 760789263255
• ASIN: 1492646830
• ISBN: 1492646830
• Manufacturer: Sourcebooks Fire

Retablos: Stories From a Life Lived Along the Border

Recommended by the New York Times and NBC News, and called one of the Best Books of the Year by Buzzfeed! The New York Times directs readers to Retablos if you want to know "what's life really like on the Mexican border." "Solis grew up just a mile from the Rio Grande in El Paso, Texas, and he tells stories about his childhood and coming of age, including his parents migration to the United States from Mexico, his first encounter with racism and finding a Mexican migrant girl hiding in the cotton fields."—Concepción de León, New York Times Seminal moments, rites of passage, crystalline vig... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0872867862
• ASIN: 0872867862
• ISBN: 0872867862
• Manufacturer: City Lights Publishers

All the Pretty Horses (The Border Trilogy, Book 1)

The national bestseller and the first volume in Cormac McCarthy's Border Trilogy, All the Pretty Horses is the tale of John Grady Cole, who at sixteen finds himself at the end of a long line of Texas ranchers, cut off from the only life he has ever imagined for himself.  With two companions, he sets off for Mexico on a sometimes idyllic, sometimes comic journey to a place where dreams are paid for in blood.  Winner of the National Book Award for Fiction.

• ASIN: 0679744398
• ASIN: 0679744398
• ISBN: 9780679744399
• Brand: Vintage
• Manufacturer: Vintage

Cartel Land

• ASIN: B078SDYF83
• ASIN: B078SDYF83

Signs Preceding the End of the World

Signs Preceding the End of the World is one of the most arresting novels to be published in Spanish in the last ten years. Yuri Herrera does not simply write about the border between Mexico and the United States and those who cross it. He explores the crossings and translations people make in their minds and language as they move from one country to another, especially when there’s no going back.Traversing this lonely territory is Makina, a young woman who knows only too well how to survive in a violent, macho world. Leaving behind her life in Mexico to search for her brother, she is smuggle... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1908276428
• UPC: 783324934564
• ASIN: 1908276428
• ISBN: 9781908276421
• Brand: And Other Stories
• Manufacturer: And Other Stories

Into the Beautiful North: A Novel

Nineteen-year-old Nayeli works at a taco shop in her Mexican village and dreams about her father, who journeyed to the US when she was young. Recently, it has dawned on her that he isn't the only man who has left town. In fact, there are almost no men in the village--they've all gone north. While watching The Magnificent Seven, Nayeli decides to go north herself and recruit seven men--her own "Siete Magníficos"--to repopulate her hometown and protect it from the bandidos who plan on taking it over. Filled with unforgettable characters and prose as radiant as the Sinaloan sun, Into the Beaut... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0316025267
• ASIN: 0316025267
• ISBN: 0316025267
• Brand: Back Bay Books
• Manufacturer: Back Bay Books

Enrique's Journey: The Story of a Boy's Dangerous Odyssey to Reunite with His Mother

An astonishing story that puts a human face on the ongoing debate about immigration reform in the United States, now updated with a new Epilogue and Afterword, photos of Enrique and his family, an author interview, and more—the definitive edition of a classic of contemporary America   Based on the Los Angeles Times newspaper series that won two Pulitzer Prizes, one for feature writing and another for feature photography, this page-turner about the power of family is a popular text in classrooms and a touchstone for communities across the country to engage in meaningful discussions about thi... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0812971787
• ASIN: 0812971787
• ISBN: 0812971787
• Brand: Random House Trade
• Manufacturer: Random House Trade Paperbacks

The Empathy Exams: Essays

From personal loss to phantom diseases, The Empathy Exams is a bold and brilliant collection, winner of the Graywolf Press Nonfiction PrizeA Publishers Weekly Top Ten Essay Collection of Spring 2014Beginning with her experience as a medical actor who was paid to act out symptoms for medical students to diagnose, Leslie Jamison's visceral and revealing essays ask essential questions about our basic understanding of others: How should we care about each other? How can we feel another's pain, especially when pain can be assumed, distorted, or performed? Is empathy a tool by which to test or even ... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1555976719
• ASIN: 1555976719
• ISBN: 1555976719
• Brand: Graywolf Press
• Manufacturer: Graywolf Press

The Distance Between Us: A Memoir

“In this poignant memoir about her childhood in Mexico, Reyna Grande skillfully depicts another side of the immigrant experience—the hardships and heartbreaks of the children who are left behind.” —Sonia Nazario, Pulitzer Prize winner, and author of Enrique's JourneyReyna Grande vividly brings to life her tumultuous early years in this “compelling . . . unvarnished, resonant” (BookPage) story of a childhood spent torn between two parents and two countries. As her parents make the dangerous trek across the Mexican border to “El Otro Lado” (The Other Side) in pursuit of the Ameri... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1451661789
• ASIN: 1451661789
• ISBN: 1451661789
• Brand: Washington Square Press
• Manufacturer: Washington Square Press

The Devil's Highway: A True Story

From the Pulitzer Prize finalist, "the single most compelling, lucid, and lyrical contemporary account of the absurdity of U.S. border policy" (The Atlantic). In May 2001, a group of men attempted to cross the Mexican border into the desert of southern Arizona, through the deadliest region of the continent, the "Devil's Highway." Three years later, Luis Alberto Urrea wrote about what happened to them. The result was a national bestseller, a Pulitzer Prize finalist, a "book of the year" in multiple newspapers, and a work proclaimed as a modern American classic.

• ASIN: 0316010804
• ASIN: 0316010804
• ISBN: 0316010804
• Brand: Luis Alberto Urrea
• Manufacturer: Little Brown

The Line Becomes a River: Dispatches from the Border

• ASIN: B072SSGP1K
• ASIN: B072SSGP1K
• Manufacturer: Riverhead Books

Cities of the Plain: Book 3 of Border Trilogy (The Border Trilogy)

• ASIN: B003YJEXRU
• ASIN: B003YJEXRU
• Manufacturer: Vintage

Looking for Esperanza

Literary Nonfiction. Latino/Latina Studies. Inspired by a story about an immigrant mother who walked the desert from Mexico to the USA with the dead body of her baby strapped to her own, Adriana Páramo immersed herself in the underground world of undocumented women toiling in the Florida fields. This fieldwork and the anonymous voices of the women she encountered while looking for the mother in the story are captured in LOOKING FOR ESPERANZA, winner of the 2011 Social Justice and Equality Award in creative nonfiction."A timely and stunning project, Adriana Páramo's LOOKING FOR ESPERANZA is a... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0984462988
• ASIN: 0984462988
• ISBN: 0984462988
• Manufacturer: Benu Press

Mexico: Mexico Travel Guide: The 30 Best Tips For Your Trip To Mexico - The Places You Have To See (Mexico Travel, Cancun, Mexico City, Los Cabos, Oaxaca Book 1)

★ ★ ★ This Book is FREE – for Kindle Unlimited Users ★ ★ ★Make Your Journey To Mexico The Best PossibleYou want to exactly know where to go and what to do? You found the right bookAn adventure for your senses, from unbridled energy, passion, dance, blazing colors, feisty music, mouthwatering food and more – Mexico is a world-class travel destination, with history and culture that remain untarnished. If this is your first time in this beautiful country, you should plan your trip in detail. If not, you most certainly will miss out on some of the best places to be and things to se... [Read More]

• ASIN: B074DGFMTF
• ASIN: B074DGFMTF

Everyone Knows You Go Home

An International Latino Book Award winner.“Everyone Knows You Go Home is prescient, tackling issues of family division, the arduous journey of crossing from one country into the next, and the sacrifices we make in exchange for a better future.” —Houston ChronicleThe first time Isabel meets her father-in-law, Omar, he’s already dead—an apparition appearing uninvited on her wedding day. Her husband, Martin, still unforgiving for having been abandoned by his father years ago, confesses that he never knew the old man had died. So Omar asks Isabel for the impossible: persuade Omar’s fam... [Read More]

• ASIN: 154204636X
• ASIN: 154204636X
• ISBN: 154204636X
• Manufacturer: Little A

Our 50-State Border Crisis : How the Mexican Border Fuels the Drug Epidemic Across America

"From one of America's leading philanthropists-- and now a sheriff-- an eye-opening, myth-busting new perspective on the crisis at the U.S.-Mexico border"--Front jacket

• UPC: 367016500

The Sexuality of Migration : Border Crossings and Mexican Immigrant Men

Winner of the 2010 Distinguished Book Award from the American Sociological Association, Sociology of Sexualities Section Winner of the 2010 Distinguished Book Award in Latino Studies Honorable Mention from the Latin American Studies AssociationThe Sexuality

• UPC: 10081680

Border Crossings : Mexican and Mexican-American Workers

The history of Mexican and Mexican-American working classes has been segregated by the political boundary that separates the United States of America from the United States of Mexico. As a result, scholars have long ignored

• UPC: 965446523

A Life Crossing Borders: : Memoir of a Mexican-American Confederate / Las Memorias de Un Mexicoamericano En La Confederacin

A powerful autobiography that reclaims the history of Latinos during a time of continually shifting borders and

• UPC: 11550779

The Sexuality of Migration : Border Crossings and Mexican Immigrant Men

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• UPC: 10077594

Crossing Borders with the Santo Niño de Atocha

In this thoroughly researched work, Juan Javier Pescador traces the history of popular devotion to the Santo NiAo de Atocha, one of the the most prominent religious figures for households between Zacatecas, Mexico, and Santa

• UPC: 11975189

Crossing Borders, Reinforcing Borders : Social Categories, Metaphors, and Narrative Identities on the U.S.-Mexico Frontier

Along the U.S.-Mexico frontier, where border crossings are a daily occurrence for many people, reinforcing borders is also a common activity. Not only does the U.S. Border Patrol strive to "hold the line" against illegal

• UPC: 25681874

Clandestine Crossings: Migrants and Coyotes on the Texas-Mexico Border Paperback

Clandestine Crossings...

• UPC: 11315393

Border States of Mexico : Sonora, Sinaloa, Chihuahua and Durango: With a General Sketch of the Republic of Mexico, and Lower California, Coahuila, New Leon and Tamaulipas: A Complete Description of the Best Regions for the Settler, Miner and the Advance G

Border States of Mexico: Sonora, Sinaloa, Chihuahua and Durango: With a General Sketch of the Republic of Mexico, and Lower California,

• UPC: 820928074

Border States of Mexico : Sonora, Sinaloa, Chihuahua and Durango. with a General Sketch of the Republic of Mexico, and Lower California, Coahuila, New Leon and Tamaulipas. a Complete Description of the Best Regions for the Settler, Miner and the Advance Gu

Border States of Mexico: Sonora, Sinaloa, Chihuahua and Durango. with a General Sketch of the Republic of Mexico, and Lower California,

• UPC: 773138293