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Fragmented Lives, Assembled Parts

Culture, Capitalism, and Conquest at the U.S.-Mexico Border

by Alejandro Lugo ...

Southwest Book Award, Border Regional Library Association, 2008Association of Latina and Latino Anthropologists Book Award, 2009Established in 1659 as Misión de Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe de los Mansos del Paso del Norte, Ciudad Juárez is the oldest colonial settlement on the U.S.-Mexico border-and one of the largest industrialized border cities in the world. Since the days of its founding, ... Read more

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Southwest Book Award, Border Regional Library Association, 2008Association of Latina and Latino Anthropologists Book Award, 2009Established in 1659 as Misión de Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe de los Mansos del Paso del Norte, Ciudad Juárez is the oldest colonial settlement on the U.S.-Mexico border-and one of the largest industrialized border cities in the world. Since the days of its founding,
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Narrated by Oscar Emmanuel Fabela, Omar Leyva, Cynthia Farrell, Kevin Orduño, Elena Rey, Avi Roque, Christophe Landa, Daisy Guevara, Alejandro Vargas-Lugo, Fernando Monroy ...

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Newbery Honor BookPura Belpré Author AwardPura Belpré Illustrator AwardOdyssey Honor AudiobookA poignant, hilarious, and unforgettable graphic memoir—adapted for audio—about a Mexican-American boy’s family and their adventure-filled road trip to bring their abuelito back from Mexico to live with them.Pedro Martín has grown up hearing stories about his abuelito—his legen... ... Read more

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Newbery Honor BookPura Belpré Author AwardPura Belpré Illustrator AwardOdyssey Honor AudiobookA poignant, hilarious, and unforgettable graphic memoir—adapted for audio—about a Mexican-American boy’s family and their adventure-filled road trip to bring their abuelito back from Mexico to live with them.Pedro Martín has grown up hearing stories about his abuelito—his legen...
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The Feast of the Goat

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WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATUREIn The Feast of the Goat, this 'masterpiece of Latin American and world literature, and one of the finest political novels ever written' (Bookforum), Mario Vargas Llosa recounts the end of a regime and the birth of a terrible democracy, giving voice to the historical Trujillo and the victims, both innocent and complicit, drawn into his deadly orbit.Haunted ... Read more

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WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATUREIn The Feast of the Goat, this 'masterpiece of Latin American and world literature, and one of the finest political novels ever written' (Bookforum), Mario Vargas Llosa recounts the end of a regime and the birth of a terrible democracy, giving voice to the historical Trujillo and the victims, both innocent and complicit, drawn into his deadly orbit.Haunted
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Mexikid Dreams: A Memoir

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In this extraordinary companion to Newbery Honor winner Mexikid, hilarious family hijinks, immigration patrols, and musical daydreams shape a year of growth and change for a Mexican American boy and his family.Pedro Martín is sick of strawberries. Since he was seven, he’s spent every weekend and summer picking berries with his family under the hot sun. Sometimes it’s not so bad—Pedro’s an ace at ... Read more

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In this extraordinary companion to Newbery Honor winner Mexikid, hilarious family hijinks, immigration patrols, and musical daydreams shape a year of growth and change for a Mexican American boy and his family.Pedro Martín is sick of strawberries. Since he was seven, he’s spent every weekend and summer picking berries with his family under the hot sun. Sometimes it’s not so bad—Pedro’s an ace at
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I Am Frida Kahlo

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The famous Mexican painter Frida Kahlo is the 23rd hero in the New York Times bestselling picture book biography series, adapted for audio, from Brad Meltzer and Christopher EliopoulosThis friendly, fun biography series focuses on the traits that made our heroes great--the traits that kids can aspire to in order to live heroically themselves. Each audiobook tells the story of an icon in a lively, ... Read more

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The North Water

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**Now an AMC+ original miniseries event starring Colin Farrell and Jack O'Connell! A nineteenth-century whaling ship sets sail for the Arctic with a killer aboard in this dark, sharp, and highly original tale that grips like a thrillerOne of The New York Times Book Review's 10 Best Books of the Year, and named a Best Book of the Year by The Chicago Tribune, The Wall Street Journal, The Guardian, ... Read more

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You Dreamed of Empires

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**A NEW YORK TIMES TOP TEN BOOK OF 2024A NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY TOP TEN BOOK OF THE YEAR"Short, strange, spiky and sublime.” *—*Dwight Garner, New York Times“Funny, ghastly, eye-opening, marvelous.” —Wall Street JournalFrom the visionary author of Sudden Death, a hallucinatory, revelatory colonial revenge story.**One morning in 1519, conquistador Hernán Cortés enters the city of Tenochtitlan – ... Read more

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Comandante

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Roots of Brazil

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Series series Kellogg Institute Series on Democracy and Development
Sérgio Buarque de Holanda's Roots of Brazil is one of the iconic books on Brazilian history, society, and culture. Originally published in 1936, it appears here for the first time in an English language translation with a foreword, "Why Read Roots of Brazil Today?" by Pedro Meira Monteiro, one of the world's leading experts on Buarque de Holanda.Roots of Brazil focuses on the multiple cultural ... Read more

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Highlighting eleven different topics in separate chapters, the thematic approach of Latin American Politics offers students the conceptual tools they need to analyze the political systems of all twenty Latin American nations. Such a structure makes the book self-consciously comparative, allowing students to become stronger analysts of comparative politics and better political scientists in general
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How did the ancient Maya rule their world? Despite more than a century of archaeological investigation and glyphic decipherment, the nature of Maya political organization and political geography has remained an open question. Many debates have raged over models of centralization versus decentralization, superordinate and subordinate status—with far-flung analogies to emerging states in Europe, ... Read more

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How did the ancient Maya rule their world? Despite more than a century of archaeological investigation and glyphic decipherment, the nature of Maya political organization and political geography has remained an open question. Many debates have raged over models of centralization versus decentralization, superordinate and subordinate status—with far-flung analogies to emerging states in Europe,
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A Miracle, a Universe

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In recent years as countries around the globe have begun to move from dictatorial to more democratic systems of governance, no more traumatic (or dramatic) ethical problem has arisen than what to do with the previous regime’s torturers. In most cases, the security and military apparatuses, responsible for the overwhelming majority of human-rights abuses, still retain tremendous power—and will not ... Read more

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In recent years as countries around the globe have begun to move from dictatorial to more democratic systems of governance, no more traumatic (or dramatic) ethical problem has arisen than what to do with the previous regime’s torturers. In most cases, the security and military apparatuses, responsible for the overwhelming majority of human-rights abuses, still retain tremendous power—and will not
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