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Download or read book Gordo and Chico written by Elizabeth Hope and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2019-11-14 with total page 47 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Gordo, a gopher—or so he thinks—embarks on an epic journey to the National Park to flee the destruction of his home, he is joined by his newfound friend Chico, a feisty caterpillar, who is en route to Mexico to find his long-lost family. Along the way, they encounter odd creatures, make new friends, and escape from all sorts of dangers. And in the end, they make the greatest discovery of all, that their friendship is beyond appearances and comes straight from their hearts.
Download or read book The Mission written by John Turnure and published by Jota Press. This book was released on 2021-09-02 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lost and broken souls are lured by a supernatural force to a mysterious jungle sanctuary. Will they find safety at The Mission or die lonely deaths? For over 200 years, missionaries, adventurers, slaves, scientists, guerrillas, and narcos encounter natural and supernatural wonders on their separate journeys through an unforgiving, sometimes surreal, and often deadly landscape as they flee brutal persecutors and their own demons. Hidden deep in Colombia's Amazon jungle lies The Mission, a paradisical refuge for the lost established by outlaw Jesuit missionaries in the 18th century. The Mission has thrived over the centuries, and all are welcome there. But not everyone will find the path. Who will discover the secret that leads to The Mission?
Book Synopsis Ring Around the Sun by : Nelson Martin
Download or read book Ring Around the Sun written by Nelson Martin and published by Sunstone Press. This book was released on 2013-12-15 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Coot Boldt and Narlow Montgomery sauntered across the wooden bridge into Juarez. Coot was dead set on honoring a lifelong friend’s resolve that the pair aid him in running munitions to Pancho Villa, while Narlow held back. A legless lad on a board with skate wheels in the gritty dust of Juarez Avenue tugged at Narlow’s trousers whose galluses must have been tied to his heartstrings. He bent to drop a dollar in the boy’s cup. The boy’s death-glaze-black eyes gleamed up, demanded more for Mexico than a coin. Coot and Narlow began shipping German-made Mausers and cartridges by rail to their contact in Tornillo, Texas, downstream from El Paso on the Rio Grande. German spies and operatives along the border were busy assuring that Uncle Sam embroiled itself in Mexico’s revolution and kept its long blue nose out of the European War. President Wilson’s munitions embargo dried up Villa’s supply, but the “Federales” sources were limited only by the government’s ability to crank their presses. Coot and Narlow ignored the embargo, flying munitions deep into Chihuahua in a Curtiss Pusher biwing. Would they be caught by US border guards and be the government’s guest at Leavenworth, or shot while fleeing from an arranged “Federale” escape?
Book Synopsis We Are Not from Here by : Jenny Torres Sanchez
Download or read book We Are Not from Here written by Jenny Torres Sanchez and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2021-05-18 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A poignant novel of desperation, escape, and survival across the U.S.-Mexico border, inspired by current events. A Pura Belpré 2021 Young Adult Author Honor Book! A BookPage Best Book of 2020! A Chicago Public Library Best of the Best of 2020! A School Library Journal Best Book of 2020! A New York Public Library 2020 Top 10 Best Book for Teens! Pulga has his dreams. Chico has his grief. Pequeña has her pride. And these three teens have one another. But none of them have illusions about the town they've grown up in and the dangers that surround them. Even with the love of family, threats lurk around every corner. And when those threats become all too real, the trio knows they have no choice but to run: from their country, from their families, from their beloved home. Crossing from Guatemala through Mexico, they follow the route of La Bestia, the perilous train system that might deliver them to a better life--if they are lucky enough to survive the journey. With nothing but the bags on their backs and desperation drumming through their hearts, Pulga, Chico, and Pequeña know there is no turning back, despite the unknown that awaits them. And the darkness that seems to follow wherever they go. In this striking portrait of lives torn apart, the plight of migrants at the U.S. southern border is brought to light through poignant, vivid storytelling. An epic journey of danger, resilience, heartache, and hope. Praise for We Are Not From Here: “A fierce and tender story...Relevant, timely, and perceptive.” --Margarita Engle, winner of the Pura Belpre Award and Newbery Honor "With poignant, exhausting lyricism and heart wrenching poetic prose, Jenny Torres Sanchez digs deep and shows us the throbbing, aching corazón--the hopeful, unbreakable spirit of the embattled immigrant. A book for the starving, lost soul." --Guadalupe García McCall, Pura Belpré Award-winning author of Under the Mesquite "An incredibly powerful, soul-searing YA. [I]mportant and necessary.... I could not put this book down." --Padma Venkatraman, award-winning author of The Bridge Home "One of the most relevant and needed young adult novels of the year, a must-read." --Jennifer Mathieu, critically acclaimed author of The Liars of Mariposa Island and Moxie "An achingly beautifully story...masterfully told...Jenny Torres Sanchez is a true leader within young adult fiction." --Christina Diaz Gonzalez, award-winning author of The Red Umbrella "We Are Not From Here is absolutely stunning. It's raw and real, gritty and gorgeously told. A story that's painfully relevant today, and told with such precision and beauty, you can feel it. It's breathtaking and left me absolutely breathless." --Lauren Gibaldi, author of This Tiny Perfect World "[This] is a book that will mark your heart. Jenny Torres Sanchez challenges us to feel, empathize and understand. A searing, necessary and ultimately beautiful book." --Alexandra Villasante, critically acclaimed author of The Grief Keeper * "A brutally honest, not-to-be-missed narrative...gripping, heart-wrenching, and thrilling." --Kirkus Reviews, STARRED REVIEW * "A candid, realistic story that will leave readers thinking about the characters--and about our own world--long after the last page." --SLJ, STARRED REVIEW * "Gripping, poignant...this soul-shaking narrative [recalls] the works of Gabriel García Márquez." --Booklist, STARRED REVIEW * "A devastating read that is difficult to put down, this unforgettable book unflinchingly illuminates the experiences of those leaving their homes to seek safety in the United States." --Publishers Weekly, STARRED REVIEW
Book Synopsis The Chicken Coop Gang by : Robert W. Millner
Download or read book The Chicken Coop Gang written by Robert W. Millner and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2011-03-26 with total page 127 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What makes the Chicken Coup Gang interesting and fun is that it is based upon true stories that actually happened to the author Robert W. Millner and his two sisters Nancy and Ginny. These three people are portrayed in the book as Eric, the eldest, Mindy, three years younger, and Cindy, the baby of the family, a year younger than Nancy. The children have a mother who doesn’t have to work and a father who is a band director as well as a professional accordionist. The family leaves Long Island every summer to spend the entire summer vacation at a family resort in the Catskill Mountains. The children believed the stories about old Rip Van Winkle bowling in the mountains with the Dutch sailors every time there was a thunder storm. Two more girls came to Pleasant View Lodge with their mother Mildred and father, a saxophone player and violinist named Peter. The children would often explore the lodge and found several fun places to play; the old barn full of fresh hay, the rec. room with ping pong tables and pinball machines and the old chicken coup at the edge of the woods. It was here they met and formed the Chicken Coup Gang. These five children were very creative. After all, what do you do all summer at a summer resort? This book is about those funny and sometimes scary adventures including the Masquerade Ball, the whimsical talent show, the lady in the closet, the moving tea cup, free money and much more. At the end of the book is a chapter entitled “Personal Growth”. When the author was a boy and watched t.v., he especially enjoyed a story with a meaningful ending. The same holds true for this book. The Personal Growth page is designed to ask you roughly five thought questions. See what answers you would come up with. Compare them with the answers of your brother, sister or best friend. Also included is a page to help you with words you may not be familiar with. It’s titled “Words and Their Meaning”. What words don’t you know? This is the first in a series of books about the exciting adventures of Eric, Mindy and Cindy.
Download or read book It's All in a Word written by Vivian Cook and published by Profile Books. This book was released on 2010-12-09 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cross words, crass words, kind words, bad words, first words, rude words, new words, weazel words, teen words, rap words, power words, colour words, Indian words, Brit words, Blairwords, war words, ad words, p-c words, borrowed words, Shakespeare's amazing words, false words, fine words, wine words, American words, name words, last words, even lost for words - this book has them all. Vivian Cook takes us on a series of excursions down the curious byways of word history and meaning, mingling the fare with games, lists, tests, and quotes. Discover the theojollylogical joys of infixation. Find out if you're a charva, what it means to be nithered, and how to hoy. Delve into the hidden nature of words. Consider how they're born, why they change, and how they die. Learn about the words that are never spoken and others that don't get written. Here's a book overflowing with words and about every kind and variety of word. It offers an irresistible cornucopia of information and entertainment.
Book Synopsis Using Spanish Synonyms by : R. E. Batchelor
Download or read book Using Spanish Synonyms written by R. E. Batchelor and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2006-04-06 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written for those with a basic competence in Spanish, this comprehensive synonyms guide is designed to help the learner find the right word for the right context - thus improving their vocabulary and enabling them to communicate more precisely and fluently. It contains around 900 lists of synonyms, each one classified according to its level of formality. Every synonym is illustrated with authentic examples, and the subtle shades of difference between them are clearly explained. The book contains four clear indexes: Spanish-Spanish, Argentinean-Spanish, Mexican-Spanish and English-Spanish, enabling the reader to instantly locate any word. This second edition has been thoroughly revised and updated, and includes new material on Argentinean and Mexican varieties, including a useful comparison of Mexican and Iberian Spanish. It will continue to be an essential reference for college and undergraduate students, their teachers, and other language professionals seeking a clear, user-friendly guide to Spanish synonyms and their usage.
Book Synopsis Undercover War: Black OPS - Book 1 by : Michael Kasner
Download or read book Undercover War: Black OPS - Book 1 written by Michael Kasner and published by Caliber Books. This book was released on 2022-10-15 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Action/Adventure novelist Michael Kasner comes a covert military thriller series! Formed by an elite cadre of government officials, the five member Black OPS team goes where the law can’t - to seek retribution for acts of terror directed against Americans anywhere in the world. BLACK OPS - BOOK ONE: AMERICA CAUGHT IN A CARIBBEAN UPRISING! The strident call to action comes from Cuba as an unprecedented wave of violence against Americans that Castro’s inheritors can’t-or won’t- control. When the U.S. offers of military support are turned down, the five member Black OPS force is dispatched on a clandestine down and dirty mission... In the tradition of Don Pendleton's Executioner Mack Bolan and Warren Murphy's Destroyer classic paperback book series!
Book Synopsis Predicting the Unthinkable, Anticipating the Impossible by : Georgie Anne Geyer
Download or read book Predicting the Unthinkable, Anticipating the Impossible written by Georgie Anne Geyer and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-09-04 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the 1980s, most Americans scoffed at the idea that the Communist empire could collapse - but Georgie Anne Geyer was already outlining that probability. In the 1990s, the world was stunned by wars that raged across post-Yugoslavia and their viciousness - but Geyer on a trip to Belgrade in 1989, interviewed top officials and anticipated the conflicts. When 9/11 occurred, she used common sense and said, 'This was inevitable - the terrorists had already attacked the World Trade Center in 1993 and criminals always return to the scene of the crime.'Geyer argues that while the United States was being praised everywhere during this era of 'indispensable power' as the 'greatest power the world has known,' it actually had started on the road to decline. It had won the Cold War, but had immediately embarked upon more Vietnam-like small wars of tremendous cost in Iraq and Afghanistan. Across the board, it was no longer paying its way, while its domestic culture was being vulgarized at every turn.This book explains how, when, and where these declines happened. Geyer studies the history of nations and of peoples, observes human nature, particularly as influenced by religion and ideology; and is a close analyst of the acts of men and women when they perceive they have been humiliated by others or by history. She warns Americans and journalists that we must anticipate the changes in the world before they are upon us and that we must employ predictions to strengthen our nation and its principles.
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Book Synopsis Chapter of Report of the State Mineralogist Covering Mining in California and the Activities of the State Mining Bureau by :
Download or read book Chapter of Report of the State Mineralogist Covering Mining in California and the Activities of the State Mining Bureau written by and published by . This book was released on 1886 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Using Spanish Vocabulary by : R. E. Batchelor
Download or read book Using Spanish Vocabulary written by R. E. Batchelor and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2003-08-07 with total page 708 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, first published in 2003, provides a comprehensive and structured vocabulary for all levels of undergraduate Spanish courses. It offers a broad coverage of the concrete and abstract vocabulary relating to the physical, cultural, social, commercial and political environment, as well as exposure to commonly encountered technical vocabulary. The accompanying exercises for private study and classroom use are designed to promote precision and awareness of nuance and register, develop good dictionary use, and encourage effective learning. The book includes both Iberian and Latin American vocabulary, and clearly identifies differences between the two varieties. • Consists of twenty units each treating a different area of human experience • Units are divided into three levels which allows core vocabulary in each area to be learned first, and more specialised or complex terms to be added at later stages • Vocabulary is presented in alphabetical order for ease of location.
Download or read book The Salt War written by Ira Compton and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2001-04 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gregorio Montoya does not want to become involved but when the Mexicans challenge Charlie Howard's authority to place a tariff on the pure white crystals of salt that nature has deposited in the dry lakes at the foot of Guadalupe Peak, he cannot help himself. He risks everything, including his future with Maria. Even the infamous Billy the Kid tries to keep Gregorio out of trouble, but it is to no avail. Although acceptable under American law, the Mexicans feel that no one person should own a mineral deposit that is supposed to be for everyone. It should stay as it was under Spanish law—the commodity was placed there by God and is free to whoever wants to haul it to market. For generations, it is the way Mexican peasants obtain cash when the Rio Grande River washes out their crops or the locusts come. Whenever their harvests fail, they travel the seventy miles for cart loads of the crystals. A newly organized Texas Ranger detachment tries to stop the onrush of battle, but, for the first and only time in Texas history, the commander surrenders to the enemy, and Judge Charles Howard, along with two of his confederates, is executed by the mob. The three executions end the skirmish and send Gregorio and Maria fleeing into Mexico.
Book Synopsis Agave Spirits: The Past, Present, and Future of Mezcals by : Gary Paul Nabhan
Download or read book Agave Spirits: The Past, Present, and Future of Mezcals written by Gary Paul Nabhan and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2023-05-16 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A manifesto…[and] a positive spin on the future of mezcal.” —Florence Fabricant, New York Times The agave plant was never destined to become tasteless, cheap tequila. All tequilas are mezcals; all mezcals are made from agaves; and every bottle of mezcal is the remarkable result of collaborations among agave entrepreneurs, botanists, distillers, beverage distributors, bartenders, and more. How these groups come together in this “spirits world” is the subject of this fascinating new book by the acclaimed ethnobotanist Gary Paul Nabhan and the pioneering restauranteur David Suro Piñera. Join them as they delight in the diversity of the distillate agave spirits, as they endeavor to track down the more distant kin in the family of agaves, and as, along the way, they reveal the stunning innovations that have been transforming the industry around tequilas and mezcals in recent decades. The result of the authors’ fieldwork and on-the-ground interviews with mezcaleros in eight Mexican states, Agave Spirits shows how traditional methods of mezcal production are inspiring a new generation of individuals, including women, both in and beyond the industry. And as they reach back into a rich, centuries-long history, Nabhan and Suro Piñera make clear that understanding the story behind a bottle of mezcal, more than any other drink, will not only reveal what lies ahead for the tradition—including its ability to adapt in the face of the climate crisis—but will also enrich the drinking experience for readers. Essential reading for mezcal connoisseurs and amateurs interested in unlocking the past of a delightful distillate, Agave Spirits tells the tale of the most flavorful and memorable spirits humankind has ever sipped and savored. Featuring twelve illustrations by René Alejandro Hernández Tapia and indices that list common and scientific names for agave species, as well as the names of plants, animals, and domesticated agaves used in the production of distillates.
Book Synopsis Giraffes in the Garden of Italian Literature by : Deborah Amberson
Download or read book Giraffes in the Garden of Italian Literature written by Deborah Amberson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-12-02 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Writing in 1926, Carlo Emilio Gadda (1893-1973) acknowledges his peculiarity within the Italian literary field by describing himself as a giraffe or a kangaroo in Italy's beautiful garden of literature. Gadda's self-characterization as exotic and even ungainly animal applies in equal measure to Italo Svevo (1861-1928) and Federigo Tozzi (1883-1920), authors who, like Gadda, thwarted efforts at critical classification. Yet the ostensible strangeness of these three Italian authors is diminished when their writing is considered within the framework of modernism, a label traditionally avoided by the Italian critical establishment. Indeed, within a modernism preoccupied with human embodiment, these Italian literary giraffes find their kin. Here, the central nexus of body, subjectivity and style that informs and binds the writing of Svevo, Tozzi and Gadda resonates with a modernist renegotiation and revalorization of a human body whose dignity and epistemological authority have been contested by social and technological modernity."
Book Synopsis When Law Was in the Holster by : John Boessenecker
Download or read book When Law Was in the Holster written by John Boessenecker and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2012-09-28 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the great lawmen of the Old West, Bob Paul (1830–1901) cast a giant shadow across the frontiers of California and Arizona Territory for nearly fifty years. Today he is remembered mainly for his friendship with Wyatt Earp and his involvement in the stirring events surrounding the famous 1881 gunfight near the OK Corral in Tombstone, Arizona. This long-overdue biography fills crucial gaps in Paul’s story and recounts a life of almost constant adventure. As told by veteran western historian John Boessenecker, this story is more than just a western shoot-’em-up, and it reveals Paul to be far more than a blood-and-thunder gunfighter. Beginning with Paul’s boyhood adventures as a whaler in the South Pacific, the author traces his journey to Gold Rush California, where he served respectively as constable, deputy sheriff, and sheriff in Calaveras County, and as Wells Fargo shotgun messenger and detective. Then, in the turbulent 1880s, Paul became sheriff of Pima County, Arizona, and a railroad detective for the Southern Pacific. In 1890 President Benjamin Harrison appointed him U.S. marshal of Arizona Territory. Transcending local history, Paul’s story provides an inside look into the rough-and-tumble world of frontier politics, electoral corruption, Mexican-U.S. relations, border security, vigilantism, and western justice. Moreover, issues that were important in Paul’s career—illegal immigration, smuggling on the Mexican border, youth gangs, racial discrimination, ethnic violence, and police-minority relations—are as relevant today as they were during his lifetime.
Book Synopsis La fuerza del destino by : Iván Babiano Nieto
Download or read book La fuerza del destino written by Iván Babiano Nieto and published by Odisea Editorial. This book was released on 2011-11 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
