3380aabe-6f9a-47a4-a7e2-360184dc0b13TrueNewShip2MexicoAmazonLargeBooksreviewrank127132127140826311687http://www.amazon.com/Josey-Wales-Westerns-Texas-Vengeance/dp/0826311687%3FSubscriptionId%3D05ERXYTS89KFGEPQR5G2%26tag%3Dthebookrevi0b-20%26linkCode%3Dxm2%26camp%3D2025%26creative%3D165953%26creativeASIN%3D082631168782762http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51X1RYJC9CL._SL75_.jpg7549http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51X1RYJC9CL._SL160_.jpg160104http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51X1RYJC9CL.jpg475310Forrest CarterPaperbackLawrence Clayton813.5497808263116891200826311687University of New Mexico PressEnglishEnglishEnglish8001795USD$17.95University of New Mexico Press1431Book1989-08-01University of New Mexico PressUniversity of New Mexico Press1205401138USD$11.38355USD$3.551795USD$17.9524221011ATVPDKIKX0DERhttp://www.amazon.com/gp/help/seller/home.html?seller=ATVPDKIKX0DERNewnewWc%2B%2FR%2FMzWGBCPZj3tUsd9k2FYUKLiOgfILnxx39IuOeQS9kSCUf126akcQw654hfMZWYIeRfANLJLa9TZG%2FRAg%3D%3D1221USD$12.21Usually ships in 24 hours5.027608263116875112008-07-28

Gone To Texas

Intrigued by reviewers who placed the novel "Gone To Texas" by Forrest Carter on their top-ten greatest books of all-time list, I purchased an old first-edition copy and proceeded to read it cover to cover. <br /> <br />Having seen the "Josey Wales" movie starring Clint Eastwood on a couple of occasions, the author's descriptive prowess caught me completely by surprise in creating a boldfaced narrative, which seemed fresh and unfamiliar, unrelated in many ways to the more popularized big-screen version. <br /> <br />It begins with Wales being pursued by United States horsemen: <br /> <br />"It was cold. The wind whipped the wet pines into mournful sighing and sped the rain like bullets. It caused the campfires to jump and flicker and the soldiers around them to curse commanding officers and the mothers who gave them birth. <br /> <br />The campfires were arranged in a curious half-moon, forming a flickering chain that closed about these foothills of the Ozark mountains. In the dark, cloud-scudding night the bright dots looked like a net determined to hold back the mountains from advancing into the Neosho River Basin, Indian Nations, just beyond. <br /> <br />Josey Wales knew the meaning of the net. He squatted, two hundred yards back in the hollow of heavy pine growth, and watched ... and chewed with slow contemplation at a wad of tobacco. In nearly eight years of riding, how many times had he seen the circle-net of Yankee Cavalry thrown about him?" <br /> <br />The author seems to have vast knowledge of flora and fauna and in relating indian culture and ways of life. <br /> <br />"Like many of the Cherokees, he was tall, standing well over six feet in his boot moccasins that held, half tucked, the legs of buckskin breeches. At first glance he appeared emaciated, so spare was his frame ... the doeskin shirt jacket flapping loosely about his body, the face bony and lacking in flesh, so that hollows of the cheeks added prominence to the bones and hawk nose that separated intense black eyes capable of a cruel light. He squatted easily on haunches before the fire, turning the mealed fish in the pan with fluid movement, occasionally tossing back one of the black plaits of hair that hung to his shoulders. <br /> <br />The clear call of the nighthawk brought instant movement by the indian. Nighthawks do not call in the light of day. He moved with silent litheness; taking his rifle, he glided to the rear door of the one-room cabin ... dropped to belly and slid quickly into the brush. Again the call came loud and clear." <br /> <br />His decsription of a prostitute in a desolate town in Texas, near the border of Mexico is funny: <br /> <br />"She wasn't ... young that is. Her hair was supposed to be red; the label on the bottle had proclaimed that desired result ... but it was orange where it was not straked with gray. Her face sagged from the years of sin, and her huge breasts were hung precariously in a mammoth halter. There was no competition in Santa Rio. The last stop for Rose. <br /> <br />Rose was like Santa Rio, dying in the sun; used only by desperate men or lost pilgrims stumbling quickly through; refugees from places they couldn't go back to ... watching the clock tick away the time. The end of the line; a good horse jump over Texas ground to the Rio Grande." <br /> <br />Anyone interested in this type of genre, I believe, will love the book. Hell, you'll probably love it anyway -even if you're not. 08263116875002008-07-26

Excellent

Thanks for the quick delivery. Got book in 2 days of ordering. Could not believe it came so quick <br />Thanks <br />Linda08263116875222007-08-13

The real thing.

Forrest Carter did a great job depicting the violence of the post-civil war era. Especially in the South Central part of the country that was never written about in our history books. A very descriptive representation of how things really were. No wonder Clint Eastwood bought the rights to the book for his movie. <br /> <br />Steve Thompson08263116875002007-07-02

This drunken nut could write

Did Forrest Carter have character flaws? Well so did Ricard Wagner. <br /> <br />These are the best two westerns I've ever read. For all his faults, Carter could write. <br /> <br />I loved the movie, but the book was far better. 08263116875332007-03-16

Better than the movie!

Great story. Great action. Much grittier than the movie, this book doesn't pull punches when it comes to blood-lettin' the in the finest traditions of the Missouri guerilla-outlaw turned Texan. The characters are well-developed and the "code" underlying Wales' and Lone Watie's partnership is richly detailed. Louis L'Amour and Zane Grey novels are for politically correct sissies. This book and its two novels tell it like it really was. If you like westerns, you'll find this to be one of the best you've ever read!Two classic westerns in one paperback--The Outlaw Josey Wales and Gone to Texas--the basis of Clint Eastwood's movie The Outlaw Josey Wales. By the author of The Education of Little Tree.038530082408263280910806130563B001BGS16M080329121310198General10197Westerns10134Genre Fiction17Literature & Fiction1000Subjects283155Books713396011General AAS10197Westerns10134Genre Fiction17Literature & Fiction1000Subjects283155Books713411011General AAS9822United States10311World Literature17Literature & Fiction1000Subjects283155Books10129Contemporary17Literature & Fiction1000Subjects283155Books713392011General AAS10125General17Literature & Fiction1000Subjects283155Books713365011General AAS17Literature & Fiction1000Subjects283155Books400272011Paperback394184011Mass Market401237011Trade394174011Binding (binding)388186011Refinements283155Books618083011Printed Books618072011Format (feature_browse-bin)388186011Refinements283155BooksRTCK0RF9VUSKFWestern Books that Inspired the Films1J96GUWWF5RG0Favorite Western ReadingPUWBGUOZ02USLiterature of the American West18381JVJ52TREVery Good Westerns3FOHDDQKKIL5RBooks That Inspired Eastwood Films2CZXC1P49M5VIPowerful Fiction of the American Civil War2S8TERE212DUNation Reading List3F737YWP1A6LRenegades and Rogues--a list with no squeaky clean heroes0945465602http://www.amazon.com/Peoples-Guide-Mexico-Lorena-Havens/dp/0945465602%3FSubscriptionId%3D05ERXYTS89KFGEPQR5G2%26tag%3Dthebookrevi0b-20%26linkCode%3Dxm2%26camp%3D2025%26creative%3D165953%26creativeASIN%3D09454656021406267Lorena HavensPaperback97809454656071500945465602John Muir PublicationsEnglish8301795USD$17.95John Muir Publications1587Book1990John Muir PublicationsJohn Muir Publications1055605USD$0.0501200005.027609454656025002007-12-17

Great book...though dated

I spend several months each year in Mexico and own about 20 books about this fascinating country and it's people. Though the last printing was 1998, I still rate this book as excellent. The reason is it comes from the grounded perspective of a gringo who has lived throughout Mexico for many years. This is not a tourist guide. It's really about the heart and soul of the people and their culture.09454656025462004-12-28

Excellent Resources, Tips & Advice

I take this every time I go to Mexico, as it always seems to have something more to offer. My copy is beat up & worn out but I love it. <br /> <br />Great tips, advice and information - highly recommended for anyone interested in getting beneath the skin of what Mexico has to offer.09454656023682002-10-16

OK, but then again...

It's a very enjoyable read, no doubt about that. What you WON'T find is a bunch of addresses of hotels and restaurants, no maps, and no bus schedules. What you WILL find is a very long series of amusing tips and hints about travel in Mexico. However, the book is a little dated, and it's been many a year since Carl Franz travelled through Mexico in the style here related--his current guided trips through Sonora will cost you in the thousands, which is certainly not what this book was all about!09454656025352002-10-09

Too bad these guys haven't lived in other countries!

Excellent guide to Mexico. We found this to be the best and most readable of many guides on topics that included just getting along; driving, eating, etc. Very readable, humorous. Too bad these guys don' t have similar books for other countries in the manner of the 'Moon' handbooks, Eyewitness guides, etc.<p>Much of the information is old, based as it is on the authors trips to Mexico for the past several decades. Doesn't make the book any less valuable or interesting. If you're going to Mexico on anything other than the sanitized tourist package, you should get and read this book.09454656025342002-07-13

Mexican Magic

Carl Franz's fantastic book is not your typical guide book, nor is it intended to be. If what you're looking for is facts and information, maps and a list of cheap hotels and restaurants this isn't the book for you. If you want to cross the border in your mind and see what Mexico and its people are really like, then go no further. This is a book you can enjoy whether or not you're planning to go anywhere near Mexico. And after you've read it you'll not only feel that you've been there, you'll be packing to go.This savvy South-of-the-Border guide is filled with folksy anecdotes and funky illustrations and cover everything travelers on a budget need to know. 200 illustrations, maps & tables.<I>The People's Guide to Mexico</I> is a different kind of guidebook--one that offers no lists of hotels, restaurants, nightclubs, or beaches. As Carl Franz says in his introduction, "It is not about which hotels to stay in or the most interesting villages to visit. The purpose of this book is to teach you how to find out those things for yourself." Instead of telling visitors <I>where</I> to go in Mexico, this book lets travelers know <I>how</I> to go, whether they want to learn Spanish, retire south of the border, or simply travel as long as possible for the least amount of money. <I>The People's Guide</I> offers up witty anecdotes and sane, reasoned advice about everything from driving in Mexico to dealing with Mexican machismo to making the most of village fiestas. Best of all, the book provides a respectful and well-informed take on Mexican culture. "Wherever you go ... there you are," reads the <I>The People's Guide</I> subtitle, and it's an apt summation of the book's laid-back, roll-with-the-punches attitude. Tuck a copy into your backpack alongside a more conventional guide; it's like having a funny, trusted, and well-traveled friend along to show you the ropes.15559154691741048044156691434515811245700743276353713290011General AAS9History1000Subjects283155Books17041Guidebooks17025Reference & Tips27Travel1000Subjects283155Books67661General17148Mexico17128Latin America27Travel1000Subjects283155Books713835011General AAS17148Mexico17128Latin America27Travel1000Subjects283155Books16252681North America27Travel1000Subjects283155Books400272011Paperback394184011Mass Market401237011Trade394174011Binding (binding)388186011Refinements283155Books618083011Printed Books618072011Format (feature_browse-bin)388186011Refinements283155Books0826334326http://www.amazon.com/Say-Name-Survivors-Prose-Poetry/dp/0826334326%3FSubscriptionId%3D05ERXYTS89KFGEPQR5G2%26tag%3Dthebookrevi0b-20%26linkCode%3Dxm2%26camp%3D2025%26creative%3D165953%26creativeASIN%3D08263343261384294http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51V8QYC2YML._SL75_.jpg7552http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51V8QYC2YML._SL160_.jpg160110http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51V8QYC2YML.jpg500344Judith H. ShermanPaperbackDavid Carrasco940.53180929780826334329600826334326University of New Mexico PressEnglishEnglishEnglish7702195USD$21.95University of New Mexico Press1198Book2005-07-01University of New Mexico PressUniversity of New Mexico Press455202177USD$21.77953USD$9.53470011ATVPDKIKX0DERhttp://www.amazon.com/gp/help/seller/home.html?seller=ATVPDKIKX0DERNewnewUYhHpkzly2tQbu9EOk0xNs%2FkrHoiu4joBGU2leUWe9ac4zzif1yMyWunhWbqjX%2BsboM8gT6kN0WT1KfS8gDkf2fzkNvaMerd2195USD$21.95Usually ships in 24 hours5.025508263343265002007-01-20

Poetry, Prose, and Theodicy

Judith Sherman's Say the Name can be seen as a theodicy that arises out of the Jewish tradition and in response to the events of the Holocaust. In poetry and prose we see, on the one hand, the horror of human evil, and on the other, the hope and meaning that arises out of tragedy in the form of poetic expression and imagination. Sherman a provides vivid and horrific account of physical pain, mental suffering, and moral wickedness. In a moving passage, Sherman recounts: <br /> <br />Today a woman runs suddenly from the Appell line--she runs towards the electrified fence. The dogs get to her before she reaches it. Screaming, she tries to put push the dog away...The animal is not called back, he attacks until there is no more movement. Every horrified one of us wants to rush and help--no one does. Silence. There are so many of us here, how are we so crushed into silence and inaction? The reason right there, in front of us--they watch us closely, provocatively, hand on the trigger and dogs at the ready--hoping for another futile sacrifice...We are filled with rage and pity and helplessness and are paralyzed by their brutality (102). <br /> <br />This passage confronts us with the reality of evil as experienced by Jewish women in German concentration camps. Based on this reality, it is not difficult to see how people who believe in God, and have a particular image of God, can question or call into account the God in whom they believe. Sherman's account reveals a questioning of the divine. Is God not outraged? Does God not hear what is going on? Indeed, where is God? "Where is the judge? Where are you, judge? Is there a judge?" (117). <br /> <br />Her response to these questions is to invoke biblical imagery and to invite God to come and witness, and account for the tragedy that has taken place. In her poem, "The Invitation," she invokes the imagery of Jacob's ladder and asks that God come down the ladder and witness the sights "not fit/ for Godly eyes/ not fit for thee/ is it for me?/ who will make it fit for Thee?" (118). Or again, having experienced so much pain, she requests that God take on her pain, "You have it/ and be/ branded" (122). Does God identify with our pain? Is God in solidarity with those who suffer? It seems that Sherman is inviting God to be present with the women beaten down by guards, chased by dogs, shot to death, and with those who have to witness these events without the ability to respond. It is a moving book in which the author has mustered up the courage to recount her experiences and to "say the name." <br />08263343265002007-01-07

A New Outlook on Life

How can there be so much evil in the world? More pointedly, how can an all powerful and loving God allow such evil? Where is God? These and other tough questions are asked by Judith Sherman as she reflects on her time spent at the Nazi concentration camp Ravensbruck at the young age of fourteen. Combining narrative prose with short poignant poetry, Sherman walks the reader through the painful and emotional events, describing her sense of frustration at a God who has abandoned her and the rest of the Jewish people. Most accounts of the Holocaust elicit deep emotions and feelings and this book certainly does that, but in a unique way. The prose unfolds the details of her story and then all of a sudden you become struck by the overwhelming emotion and powerful insight of a short three or four line poem. This combination has a strong effect and throughout the book the poems remain clearly in your memory and serve to give more meaning to the details and descriptions of the horrendous struggles of a concentration camp. <br /> <br />With detailed descriptions, Sherman focuses on everyday objects, such as a pair of shoes, and transforms them from their ordinary status into things that have a greater significance and meaning. The transformation and emphasis on objects shows how Sherman's outlook on life has changed and through this outlook Sherman has finally been given the voice to tell her story, giving the reader the chance to connect to it in a moving and profound way. Reading this book will give new meaning to the themes of theodocy, family, memory, the human spirit, and most of all will give you a new outlook on life. <br />08263343265002006-12-31

This poetic novel will leave you saying its name

After having learned at length about the atrocities of the Holocaust in history class every year of middle and high school, and after hearing personal accounts from my many Jewish classmates about their grandparents in concentration camps, I felt almost overloaded with news of the horrors and wasn't particularly excited about reading another book about the Holocaust. <br /> <br />But Say the Name is different. Judith Sherman manages to convey the depths of despair and suffering that occurred during her time in hiding, in concentration camps, on a death march without any trace of stridency, but rather with her own quiet and simple words that are humbly defiant and moving. She communicated to me, for the first time really, how it feels to not have any control over what happens to your body, to be stripped of a voice, to be robbed of a name. This poetic novel, more than any other I have read on the topic, speaks to the psychological death as well as the physical one that the Nazis inflicted on so many millions. Judith Sherman resists both, however, and her spirit is evident in the fact that she was able to share in writing her deepest and most agonizing thoughts and memories about her experience. <br /> <br />Another aspect of the book is Sherman's relationship with God, which is a complex and vacillating one. In some passages it almost seems as if she is referring to a lover who has betryaed her, and she is filled with sadness, anger, longing, and ultimately a love that she will not forsake. She does not, however, blindly accept "the will of God," instead demanding over and over, "where are you?" If God should be praised for the blessings he gave her, then he should also be held accountable for his apparent abandonment of his people. <br /> <br />To read this book is to explore memory, theodicy, religion, family, genocide, the human spirit, and will leave you saying its name. <br />08263343265002006-12-13

Read it out loud!

Say the Name is a powerful and poignant account of a young woman's experience in Nazi imprisonment during WWII. After years of silence, Judith Sherman was compelled to come out and tell her story, not only for herself and her family, but for the millions of other who had no voice. The unnamed victims of human suffering in camps like Ravensbruck cannot be put away with the history books. They are people who were made to be things, but they were not things. Sherman describes in her prose and poetry how the life that they had known before the war melted away, and was replaced by a reality that terrorized, brutalized, and destroyed. This reality was the dehumanizing force of the Nazi regime. <br /> <br />I wonder how an author who is so modest with her prose, who even wrote that "words fail" to capture the "monumental horror" of the Holocaust, is able to to move the reader with her words with such remarkable ease. Her voice resonates with the child, the daughter, the mother, the friend, and the person who had to ask God, "Why?". Sherman's writing, and especially her poetry, are evocative and elegant for sure, but I think that it is the place that she is writing from that creates this feeling of "being there' with her. Her pain and the pain of those she names is human pain. Their loss is human loss. As people we have lost something by allowing evil like this to exist in the world. It doesn't have to. <br /> <br />Her tale is not one of Jewish suffering but human suffering and survival. She recalls the ways she resisted the forces that sought to destroy her. Sherman's life was never the name when the war was over, which is to say that the experience never ended. However, she is able to take her pain and wordlessness and make something that helps others understand. I thank her for that. Sherman's book would be good for students of all ages and particularly those interested in the stories and history of the Holocaust. I guarantee this courageous little book will move you no matter what you're looking at it for. Her connections with human suffering are particularly intense regarding family loss, motherhood, friendship, the struggle with divine over the existence of evil, and the loss of the "ordinary things" we take for granted when we're home.08263343265222006-10-24

A woman's perspective

Judith Sherman's Say the Name is a survivor's account of a teenage girl's struggle with God and humanity in Ravensbruck concentration camp during the Holocaust. Sherman, now a wife, mother and grandmother living in the United States, writes her memoir some 50 to 60 years after the Nazi's carried out their "Final Solution." <br /> <br />Sherman's poetry and prose in this book reflect a loss of people, places and things that make up the fabric of a person's life, culture and beliefs. She is, at turns, angry and bewildered. She demands an accounting for these atrocities. But ultimately Sherman's quest for survival and her insistence on remembering the names of women who were killed conveys a sense of humanity and even of hope. This is Sherman's first book, and she is not a polished writer. She writes in fragments and one has the sense of poetry scribbled on napkins over the years and then included in the memoir. Her book is all the stronger for this. Say the Name vividly describes in the voice of a fourteen-year-old the experiences of a Jewish girl who was imprisoned in Ravensbruck Concentration Camp during World War II. Miraculously, Judita Sternova of Kurima, Czechoslovakia, survives persecutions, hiding, flight, capture, deportation, and the Camp. Like the few other surviving Jews, she could not bear to remain in her village emptied of family and other Jews and emigrates to England and, eventually, the United States. After more than fifty years Sherman gets up from her years of memories, private resistance, and public silence to write this book. She is triggered to do so upon hearing a lecture by Professor Carrasco at Princeton on "Religion and the Terror of History." <P>The narrative is interspersed with Sherman's powerful poems that grab the reader's attention. Poignant original drawings made secretly by imprisoned women of Ravensbruck, at risk of their lives, illuminate the text. Sherman courageously bears witness to the terror of man and simultaneously challenges God for answers. <P>This book should "jolt us into remembrance, warning, and action." <P>From Say the Name <P>Survivor's Legacy Wish to Her Children <P>Bread, always bread stars that lighten the heavens not brand your chests always, always—water trains to journeys of delight with seats, windows, tickets of return no accent; fathers to hold your children’s hand children who outgrow their shoes Your mantle of "Jew" of cloth so light so safe so Kol B’Seder; mothers—oh yes—mothers— mothers you can stand up to! Israel to fill your soul. <P>and what of Auschwitz memory? that too is in your legacy.015603059400071498320743264746916612Jewish2365Ethnic & National2Biographies & Memoirs1000Subjects283155Books2393General2376Historical2Biographies & Memoirs1000Subjects283155Books713042011General AAS2376Historical2Biographies & Memoirs1000Subjects283155Books2375General2Biographies & Memoirs1000Subjects283155Books713038011General AAS2Biographies & Memoirs1000Subjects283155Books465200General4954Germany4935Europe9History1000Subjects283155Books713311011General AAS4954Germany4935Europe9History1000Subjects283155Books4976Slovakia4935Europe9History1000Subjects283155Books713308011General AAS4935Europe9History1000Subjects283155Books4994Holocaust4992Jewish5035World9History1000Subjects283155Books10259General10248Poetry17Literature & Fiction1000Subjects283155Books713402011General AAS10248Poetry17Literature & Fiction1000Subjects283155Books400272011Paperback394184011Mass Market401237011Trade394174011Binding (binding)388186011Refinements283155Books618083011Printed Books618072011Format (feature_browse-bin)388186011Refinements283155Books0967741203http://www.amazon.com/Cenotes-Riviera-Maya-Steve-Gerrard/dp/0967741203%3FSubscriptionId%3D05ERXYTS89KFGEPQR5G2%26tag%3Dthebookrevi0b-20%26linkCode%3Dxm2%26camp%3D2025%26creative%3D165953%26creativeASIN%3D0967741203569187Steve GerrardMass Market Paperback97809677412080967741203Steve Gerrard4900USD$49.00Steve Gerrard241Book2000-01-18Steve GerrardSteve Gerrard17500USD$175.000300005.024509677412035342006-05-26

who is selling this for $291+++ dollars? SMOKING DOPE!!

While I admit that this is an EXCELLENT resource for cave diving in the Yucatan, and is definately worth 5 stars and the trouble of purchase, there is NO way I can be advocate for some internet jockey raping people for $291 for this book which I bought brand new for $35.00. These people need to either lay off the dope or learn to share.. because that is OUT OF THIS WORLD!!! If you really want to spend that kind of money, hire a guide or send it directly to steve, but dont buy it here for over $40 usd! <br />Shop before you buy.. this is not the only source! <br />(simple cave diver looking out for the like..) <br />09677412035662001-07-26

An Essential Guide for the Adventurer to the Riviera Maya

This book is a goldmine of information for the traveler to the Riviera Maya. Cave divers, Cavern Divers, Open Water Divers, Snorklers and Swimmers alike will find this book indispensible.<p>While some of the best above and under water cave photography in the world is contained within this book, it is the detailed information that allows the adventurer to veer off the beaten path to some of the most beautiful locales in the Yucatan. <p>As a frequent traveler to the Riviera Maya, this book has led to many locations I would never have found on my own. The author does an excellent job of detailing the many hundreds of cenotes in the area, including location, access, site rating and description, along with a photograph of most all locations. I heartily recommend this book to anyone with an interest in the Riviera Maya.09677412035122001-06-19

Fantastic !!!!!

I just returned from Playa del Carmen and did two cavern dives.Chacmoo and Tajmaha. If only I had more time. This book is as real as it gets. The water IS as clear as Evian. Steve Gerrard has done a splendid job.09677412035132000-07-22

A perfect book

Steve has put together an amazing guide for those divers that want to go to Mexico. It covers everything from where to stay, what sites to go to, what each site has to offer. Steve has done an amazing job. The photos in this book are just breath taking.09677412035442000-05-13

The Cenotes of the Riviera Maya

Five Stars Plus. As a certified cave diver of two years, I have found that Steve's book is the most concise, informative, and conclusive book I've read on cave diving. It not only discussed diving in the Riviera Maya, but provides a succinct overview of the preparation and equipment needed to dive in caves. Not only are the pictures highly professional, but they also capture the true to life experience of diving in the cenotes. As other reviewers have stated, I support the comments that this book allows other non-cave divers (as in my family) to get a feel for the underwater cave experience and help explain why we want to go there. James Yeary, Krum, TXA Complete Guide for Snorkeling, Cavern and Cave Diving the Cenotes of the Riviera Maya. This book includes over 200+ color photographs and provides details of where and how to swim, dive and enjoy these beautiful cenotes located on the Caribbean coast of Mexico's Yucatan peninsula.4882Mayan4873Ancient9History1000Subjects283155Books290119General16667Scuba16645Water Sports26Sports1000Subjects283155Books713779011General AAS16667Scuba16645Water Sports26Sports1000Subjects283155Books394184011Mass Market400272011Paperback394174011Binding (binding)388186011Refinements283155Books618083011Printed Books618072011Format (feature_browse-bin)388186011Refinements283155Books239AHEXL2IWGYGrier's Guide: Cavern and Cave Diving0743292049http://www.amazon.com/Daughters-Juarez-Serial-Murder-Border/dp/0743292049%3FSubscriptionId%3D05ERXYTS89KFGEPQR5G2%26tag%3Dthebookrevi0b-20%26linkCode%3Dxm2%26camp%3D2025%26creative%3D165953%26creativeASIN%3D074329204989671http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/21I4IneantL._SL75_.jpg7549http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/21I4IneantL._SL160_.jpg160104http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/21I4IneantL.jpg180117Teresa RodriguezDiana MontanéPaperbackLisa Pulitzer364.15230972169780743292047900743292049AtriaEnglishEnglishEnglish8401400USD$14.00Atria1336Book2008-03-18AtriaAtria65550515USD$5.15512USD$5.1234140011ATVPDKIKX0DERhttp://www.amazon.com/gp/help/seller/home.html?seller=ATVPDKIKX0DERNewneweeVKHP0vzvnKeUlLzbQtNrduxCenz%2FGqPcpg5%2BbddhxSQdN1cYGFsDaOTC9klOUWv%2FDD4jaJ9WxwMrnhQXumVw%3D%3D1190USD$11.90Usually ships in 24 hours5.024507432920494002008-10-15

Murders Most Foul

Very exciting book which captures the pathos of the poor young girls from Juarez, Mexico. As presented it is inexplixable how this could go on for over a decade. It is an easy read.07432920495002008-07-14

Best Book About Corruption in Mexico

This book is a real eye opener as to the legal system and human rights abuse in Mexico. 07432920493002008-07-09

A Good Source of Information for the Determined Reader

Anyone who doesn't know about the awful murders of women in Juarez and the disgraceful inability of agencies to locate and convict the murderer(s) must read this book. The events are shocking and even more shocking is the ineptness of those charged with investigating or perhaps even their collusion in the crimes. Given that this story so needs to be told, it is unfortunate that it is not more compellingly told in this book. The book would have benefited from reader aids like a timeline and cast of characters or perhaps some diagram of how the justice system works. I really wanted to know more about the young women as individuals and about the heroic people who were/are committed to obtaining justice for them. The emotional hook was lacking from this book. Probably only a determined reader would keep going through the confusing and rather pedestrian narrative--which is a shame. I expected more vivid and engaging writing from an award-winning journalist and a true crime writer.07432920495002008-07-04

Stunning account of the murders of young women

This book both startled and disturbed me to know what is happening in a city just across the Texas border because of the way women are treated. he machilladoras are not helping by hiring young girls to work long evening hours with little way for these girls to be safe. The Mexican govenment is not protecting them either. The drug lords and pedifiles have a field day. The abuse of women has created a "killing field." It is trully sad and pathetic that human being particularly young women are not treated with respect and humanity. When the U.S. diplomats are in Mexico to deal with making momey by way of importing goods, they must have some regulation as to what American companies demand as to the practices of their companies in Mexico. All people should read this book to see what is happening when the poor are desparate for work and will sacrifice their lives to take care of their families. 07432920495112008-04-27

There are now many books on subject, this is the best imho

Daughters of Juarez takes you through the journey of this sad, despoiled human landscape. Women by the hundreds have disappeared, been taken away. Rather than offer a single neat solution, the book goes through the hope and agony of the search for answers. Mysterious and shadowing figures flit away, then are confronted, only to slip away again. Government officials are hopelessly corrupt if not actively blocking any real investigation. Investigators themselves have turned up dead. Right along our border. <br /> <br />This book is not a tome or a treatise...it simply tells the story with raw and soul-felt power. It came out several years ago, but I think it is still the best book covering this horrific type of femicide.For more than twelve years, the city of Juárez, Mexico -- just across the Rio Grande from El Paso, Texas -- has been the center of a horrific crime wave against women and girls. Consisting of kidnappings, rape, mutilation, and murder, most of the atrocities have involved young, slender, and poor victims -- fueling the premise that the murders are not random. As for who is behind the crimes themselves, the answer remains unknown -- though many have speculated that the killers are American citizens, and others have argued that the killings have become a sort of blood sport due to the lawlessness of the city itself. And despite numerous arrests over the last ten years, the murders continue to occur, with the killers growing bolder, dumping bodies in the city itself rather than on the outskirts of town, as was initially the case, indicating a possible growing and most alarming alliance of silence and cover-up by Mexican politicians.<P>Now, in <I>The Daughters of Juárez</i>, the authors provide the first eye-opening and authoritative nonfiction work of its kind, examining the brutal killings and drawing attention to these startling atrocities on the border. The end result will shock readers and become required reading on the subject for years to come.0615140084189399647614165400320743293029B000VUFJ0K11005Criminology11003Crime & Criminals53Nonfiction1000Subjects283155Books3825161Violence in Society11232Social Sciences53Nonfiction1000Subjects283155Books11320Murder & Mayhem11314True Accounts53Nonfiction1000Subjects283155Books11322True Crime11314True Accounts53Nonfiction1000Subjects283155Books271635011Serial Killers11314True Accounts53Nonfiction1000Subjects283155Books11334General11325Women's Studies53Nonfiction1000Subjects283155Books713511011General AAS11325Women's Studies53Nonfiction1000Subjects283155Books400272011Paperback394184011Mass Market401237011Trade394174011Binding (binding)388186011Refinements283155Books618083011Printed Books618072011Format (feature_browse-bin)388186011Refinements283155BooksB0007IV5R2http://www.amazon.com/conquest-Spain-Bernal-Di%C3%8C%C2%81az-Castillo/dp/B0007IV5R2%3FSubscriptionId%3D05ERXYTS89KFGEPQR5G2%26tag%3Dthebookrevi0b-20%26linkCode%3Dxm2%26camp%3D2025%26creative%3D165953%26creativeASIN%3DB0007IV5R25189702Bernal Díaz del CastilloUnknown BindingFolio SocietyEnglishEnglishFolio Society351Book1974Folio SocietyFolio Society0000005.0225B0007IV5R25012008-10-20

Indy Jones who?

You can take all the faux adventure movies cobbled together with computer graphics and franchise action stars, roll them into a wad, and chuck them out the window. This simple book remains one of the most gripping, heart-in-your-mouth adventures ever written. It's history, but it's pure fiction. <br /> <br />The historical part is straightforward. A band of marauding Spaniards conquered the New World for the greater glory of money, slaves, the queen, and god, in that order. They fought off superior numbers, disease, incessant war, mutiny, plots, and desperate odds to subdue and enslave an entire continent. They rammed their foreign gods down the throats of the natives on the point of a sword, and by their victory turned Spain into one of the world's greatest powers. <br /> <br />The fiction is more astounding, of course, than the history. Bernal Diaz truly believes, at least in his old age, that murder, rapine, and enslavement were acts of fealty to Christ. He sees the treachery of Cortes as being more than offset by the horrific practices of human sacrifice practiced by the Aztecs. He sees the subjugation of the New World as the very just price of European progress and civilization. <br /> <br />Between the historical reality of Cortes's military victory and the fictional account that justifies the war and its atrocities lies a gripping narrative that will shock and astound you with its simple prose and matter of fact description of battles won, lives lost, and a continent brought under force of Spanish arms. This is both the best historical work I've ever read and one of the finest tales of pure fancy and imagination in Western literature.B0007IV5R25122008-06-21

More Exciting Than Star Wars & Real Too...

I purchased this book intending to get an unbiased view of the Spanish exploration of the New World. That is a difficult task given the nature of 20th & 21st Century academia. <br /> <br />This text, an eye witness account of what happened on real explorations, more than satisfies my objective. What's more, it's as exciting as can be... kind of like Star Wars... exploring new worlds, defeating the bad guys and establishing new alliances. <br /> <br />Excellent work.B0007IV5R25012008-05-31

First person conquest

If I could rate this work greater than five stars, I would. Not that it's the most erudite of tales but simply because it is the truth as Bernal Diaz experienced it. Almost certainly, it isn't one hundred percent accurate for Diaz' experiences are necessarily modified by the years separating his experiences from his writing of it. Nor was he, or any other member of the Cortez' expedition, an anthropologist, ethnographesr, scientist or even a particularly accurate observer. They were simple men--brave men, brutal men, trapped men--bent on plunder. <br /> <br />Still the Bernal Diaz memoirs are as good as it gets regarding the Conquest of Mexico and, as such, is an invaluable account. I find his account so important that I used it as my primary source in researching my novels--"Skull Rack" and "Hummingbird God"--on the Conquest of Mexico. I loved it when Diaz remarks towards the end of his account that, even in his old age, he wasn't able to sleep the night through. He "had to get up and look around." It's fascinating to note that basic human nature doesn't really change. Bernal Diaz del Castillo was suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder induced by the fearful events of his two year battle in Mexico. Also, I loved it when he commented--also toward the end of his tale--that "although we robbed the Indiains, Cortez robbed his soldiers even more." <br /> <br />Cortez, for all his brillianace, luck and perseveranace, was, at the end, nothing more than a common thief. <br /> <br />Ron Braithwaite <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />B0007IV5R25252007-05-25

The Greatest Adventure of all Time

When I first read the 1800 English translation, I could not put it down. Here are the first lines--a real grabbers! "In the year 1514, I left Castile (Spain) in company with Pedro Arias de Avila, who was then appointed governor of Tierra Firma (east Panama)...but afterwards suspicious that his son-in-law had an intention of revolting, he caused him to be beheaded." <br /> <br />Bernal's description of the Aztec city of Tenochtitlan is amazing: "To many of us it appeared doubtful whether we were asleep of awake; nor is the manner in which I express myself to be wondered at, for it must be considered, that never yet did man see, hear or dream of anything equal to the spectacle which appeared to our eyes on this day." <br /> <br />And how about this magnificent line: "And now, let who can, tell me, where are men in this world to be found, except ourselves, who would have hazarded such an attempt." <br /> <br />And here is the horrific vision the Spaniards beheld when they climbed to the top of the great Aztec temple-pyramid. Remember that nearby, and looming up like a nightmare, was the stupendous "tzompantli," or skull rack. By careful Spanish count, it contained the grinning remains of 136,000 human beings. <br /> <br />"In this place they had a drum of most enormous size, the head of which was made of the skins of large serpents: this instrument when struck resounded with a noise that could be heard to the distance of two leagues, and so doleful that it deserved to be named the music of the infernal regions; and with their horrible sounding horns and trumpets, their great knives for sacrifice, their human victims, and their blood besprinkled altars, I devoted them, and all their wickedness to God's vengeance, and thought that the time would never arrive, that I should escape from this scene of human butchery, horrible smells, and more detestable sights." <br /> <br />The Conquest takes on a different color when seen through the eyes of the Spanish. Yes, they were greedy and cruel, but the scale of human sacrifice practiced by the Aztecs was beyond imagination. It is said that some twenty thousand people were sacrificed for the dedication of the Temple of the Sun. The Aztec priests worked for hours on end cutting out human hearts. They worked until they collapsed from exhaustion. <br /> <br />Bernal's history is also interesting for another entirely different reason. Joseph Smith (born 1805), the Mormon prophet, came of age during the period of English translations of Spanish histories (Bernal's in 1800 in London, and 1803 in the US, and Clevigero's "History of Mexico" in 1806 in Virginia and 1817 in Philadelphia). <br /> <br />Therefore, the golden splendor of the Spanish conquests of Mexico and Peru was fresh on everyone's mind, especially because the Spanish colony of Florida had become an American state (1821). <br /> <br />Thus, any notion that Americans were unaware of the great civilizations of ancient America is without foundation in real history. Ancient civilizations in America were so on the mind of people that in 1816, Solomon Spaulding wrote a history about a white and dark race in ancient America. His novel, "Manuscript Found," had the white race of mound builders destroyed by a darker-skin race. <br /> <br />Read my review of Robert Silverberg's magnificent book, "The Mound Builders of Ancient America: The Archaeology of a Myth." A must-read for anyone interested in the archaeology and myths about ancient America. Click here: Mound BuildersB0007IV5R25442006-12-28

Great Eyewitness account

Diaz was one of the soldiers who accompanied Cortez to invade the Aztec Empire. His account is one of the best we have of the whole affair. It is not written with much bias and was written to discount historical myths after the invasion had taken place. It is very analytical at times and his analysis of what happened is given added authority since he was present at the events. If you want to understand what happened this is a great book to read. Vivid, powerful and absorbing, this is a first-person account of one of the most startling military episodes in history: the overthrow of Montezuma's doomed Aztec Empire by the ruthless Hernan Cortes and his band of adventurers. Bernal Diaz del Castillo, himself a soldier under Cortes, presents a fascinatingly detailed description of the Spanish landing in Mexico in 1520 and their amazement at the city, the exploitation of the natives for gold and other treasures, the expulsion and flight of the Spaniards, their regrouping and eventual capture of the Aztec capital.080705500X03000909430140445625067151104101404421704830General4826Central America4808Americas9History1000Subjects283155Books713296011General AAS4826Central America4808Americas9History1000Subjects283155Books4978Spain4935Europe9History1000Subjects283155Books1594200564http://www.amazon.com/Prison-Angel-Antonias-Journey-Beverly/dp/1594200564%3FSubscriptionId%3D05ERXYTS89KFGEPQR5G2%26tag%3Dthebookrevi0b-20%26linkCode%3Dxm2%26camp%3D2025%26creative%3D165953%26creativeASIN%3D1594200564267012http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41R8HJXSS9L._SL75_.jpg7550http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41R8HJXSS9L._SL160_.jpg160106http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41R8HJXSS9L.jpg500331Mary JordanKevin SullivanHardcover271.9797815942005641101594200564Penguin Press HC, TheEnglishEnglishEnglish9302495USD$24.95Penguin Press HC, The1256Book2005-05-05Penguin Press HC, ThePenguin Press HC, The95630423USD$4.231USD$0.012495USD$24.9520585011ATVPDKIKX0DERhttp://www.amazon.com/gp/help/seller/home.html?seller=ATVPDKIKX0DERNewnewXX1hLxJ4RBjllMNT55X7akjZjX%2BQNzavKjgP5e62f%2B7EEuJN3OszNYkuNLljPu3bKkIODu1n1tFbSiGBaUcVjHQh3te3Yhnl1821USD$18.21In stock soon. Order now to get in line. First come, first served.5.022515942005645002008-10-18

Angels are real and living here with us!

While the authors are amazing, I'm sure they would agree that is Mother Antonia who makes the book a blessing. Just as in her life, this book will teach you that Christ is alive and each of us must only "follow" and He will be revealed. Read this book. Support her mission if you can. She's just a real person, like the rest of us - but her walk is that of a saint. I just wanted to hug her after reading this book. I'm sorry I missed the opportunity to meet her when she visited a large town nearby.15942005645002007-10-11

A Saint amongst us

I read this book in several sittings which is unusual for me. I just couldn't stop and wanted to read some more of this fascinating story. It is a feel good story for the modern ages. If you are reading this you probably know about the former Beverly Hillls mom , twice divorced who was unable to receive Holy Communion from the Catholic Church, circumvented any road blocks and began her service for mankind(the most down and out of low people in La Mesa prison near Tijuana)and our Lord at age fifty. She produced her own habit and eventually was recognized by an official order. She has worked amongst the biggest drug dealers of Mexico, the murderer of Presidential candidate Colosio, the bloodiest of assasins and the peons who are just to poor to live in society and seek refuge in jail(now that is desperate)and the mentally ill. A prison in Mexico is unlike an American prison. Torture is common. She got involded in prison reform as well as changing men. Mother Antonia is unafraid of the toughest and meanest because she is a righteous woman and all who encounter her love and admire her. She lives in prison. She lives the same way the prisoners do. She walks and talks to the hardest of hard core. She gives them hope and transforrms many of their lives through the miracle of faith. This is an inspirational story that will leave you pondering your own existence; it is truly an amazing story that all should read as it will make you feel better about mankind. She is truly a living saint. Oh yes, there is a large print edition of this book available for the visually handicapped. God bless Sister Antonio and all who she touches.15942005645012007-06-10

Truly living a Christian Life

This is a very inspirational book and helps people see how they can still be useful as they get older.15942005645112007-03-20

Great read!

The Prison Angel is one of the most inspiring books I've ever read. Mother Antonia is so amazing that one would question the truth of her story if it weren't for the consistent witness and corroboration provided by all those who come into contact with her. She loves and ministers to everyone without distinction. This is a great book for teaching the golden rule. 15942005645222007-02-24

Inspirational Life

Mother Antonia is an inspiration for us to see all people as fellow humans with similar needs - to be cared for, loved, and accepted. I appreciate that she paved the way to be valuable at an "older" age, and she welcomes women in their later years as valuable and able to serve others. I thoroughly enjoyed this book and passed it around among many friends. The winners of the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for international reporting tell the astonishing story of Mary Clarke. At the age of fifty, Clarke left her comfortable life in suburban Los Angeles to follow a spiritual calling to care for the prisoners in one of Mexico's most notorious jails. She actually moved into a cell to live among drug king pins and petty thieves. She has led many of them through profound spiritual transformations in which they turned away from their lives of crime, and has deeply touched the lives of all who have witnessed the depth of her compassion. Donning a nun's habit, she became Mother Antonia, renowned as "the prison angel," and has now organized a new community of sisters-the Servants of the Eleventh Hour--widows and divorced women seeking new meaning in their lives. "We had never heard a story like hers," Jordan and Sullivan write, "a story of such powerful goodness." <br><br> Born in Beverly Hills, Clarke was raised around the glamour of Hollywood and looked like a star herself, a beautiful blonde reminiscent of Grace Kelly. The choreographer Busby Berkeley spotted her at a restaurant and offered her a job, but Mary's dream was to be a happy wife and mother. She raised seven children, but her two unfulfilling marriages ended in divorce. Then in the late 1960s, in midlife, she began devoting herself to charity work, realizing she had an extraordinary talent for drumming up donations for the sick and poor. <br><br> On one charity mission across the Mexican border to the drug-trafficking capitol of Tijuana, she visited La Mesa prison and experienced an intense feeling that she had found her true life's work. As she recalls, "I felt like I had come home." Receiving the blessings of the Catholic Church for her mission, on March 19, 1977, at the age of fifty, she moved into a cell in La Mesa, sleeping on a bunk with female prisoners above and below her. Nearly twenty-eight years later she is still living in that cell, and the remarkable power of her spiritual counseling to the prisoners has become legendary. <br><br> The story of both one woman's profound journey of discovery and growth and of the deep spiritual awakenings she has called forth in so many lost souls, <i>The Prison Angel</i> is an astonishing testament to the powers of personal transformation. <br><br> From a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporting team, the extraordinary and inspiring story of Mother Antonia, the remarkable woman who at middle age found her life's calling by bringing the transformative power of her spiritual guidance to the most hardened criminals14019089770385520379014303825709647292370385523416713014011General AAS319654011Qualifying Textbooks251254011Custom Stores44258011Specialty Stores283155Books2398Religious2396Leaders & Notable People2Biographies & Memoirs1000Subjects283155Books2445Women2437Specific Groups2Biographies & Memoirs1000Subjects283155Books2375General2Biographies & Memoirs1000Subjects283155Books713038011General AAS2Biographies & Memoirs1000Subjects283155Books12504General22Religion & Spirituality1000Subjects283155Books713609011General AAS22Religion & Spirituality1000Subjects283155Books394181011Hardcover394174011Binding (binding)388186011Refinements283155Books618083011Printed Books618072011Format (feature_browse-bin)388186011Refinements283155BooksR1CBJQ6LV347PDBooks for PrisonersRY848UGUZV873Kelli's Friends for the Journey3W35BG96GVMX3Books of 2005 List Two0528845403http://www.amazon.com/Rand-McNally-2005-Road-Atlas/dp/0528845403%3FSubscriptionId%3D05ERXYTS89KFGEPQR5G2%26tag%3Dthebookrevi0b-20%26linkCode%3Dxm2%26camp%3D2025%26creative%3D165953%26creativeASIN%3D0528845403984092http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/512AJBHMFQL._SL75_.jpg7552http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/512AJBHMFQL._SL160_.jpg160111http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/512AJBHMFQL.jpg500347Rand McNally and CompanyPaperbackRand McNally912.79780528845406Sold Individually390528845403Rand McNally & CompanyEnglishEnglishEnglish15201195USD$11.95Rand McNally & Company1144Book2004-08-15Rand McNally & CompanyRand McNally & Company0706098454011281063359USD$3.59105USD$1.057100011ATVPDKIKX0DERhttp://www.amazon.com/gp/help/seller/home.html?seller=ATVPDKIKX0DERNewnew2hDKWs4%2FRCUfWvz6gcl58AG%2BVdD7KR9cLgqaKs8chRvTSLKv9IxzjvJoSSW%2F9wa5wjssWA7km5iYs4kGo8cUJQ%3D%3D1195USD$11.95Usually ships in 24 hours5.021505288454035002008-02-22

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This isn't your father's road atlas! This one has RADICAL streets, AWESOME rivers, and COOOOL lakes represented in TOTALLY TUBULAR drop-down 2-D! I should warn you that you may LITERALLY BURST INTO FLAMES when you note the 6 - 6!!!! - main thoroughfares out of Gettysburg, PA. That is but one moment of potential spontaneous human combustion in the Northeast. Do not look at panel A-4 on the Vermont map, WHATEVER YOU DO!!!! <br /> <br />The perfect size to place in your rucksack in your cross-country trek, the Rand McNally Road Atlas will give you much "G Love". By which I mean that you will be grody to the max and will blind multiple people with science. Science. The sweet science of geography.With more than 2,000 updates for 2006 — including new highway numbers, exits, and road construction projects — you can count on America's #1 road atlas for reliable pre-trip planning and on-the-road navigation. <P>Features include:<ul> <li>Detailed inset maps of more than 300 cities and 20 U.S. National Parks <li>Annual Rand McNally "Best of the Road™" editorial feature-five new road trips with recommended stops for dining, shopping, sightseeing, and entertainment <li>"50 Years of Interstates" — features Intersate system history and trivia, plus 50 adventures <li>Toll-free numbers and websites for major national hotel and car rental chains <li>Individual road maps, road construction and condition hotline info, and complete list of tourism contacts of every U.S. state and Canadian province <li>One-page overview of Mexico <li>Chart with over 5,400 mileages and a mileage and driving times map <li>Express Access Codes-located throughout the atlas, they offer quick access to detailed information on points of interest, attractions, weather, mileages, and more at randmcnally.com</ul>07922532210899333257052895831309714073630195374517713290011General AAS9History1000Subjects283155Books11450Atlases11448Atlases & Maps21Reference1000Subjects283155Books1043962Canada11448Atlases & Maps21Reference1000Subjects283155Books11457World11448Atlases & Maps21Reference1000Subjects283155Books408268General21Reference1000Subjects283155Books713587011General AAS21Reference1000Subjects283155Books17041Guidebooks17025Reference & Tips27Travel1000Subjects283155Books67661General17148Mexico17128Latin America27Travel1000Subjects283155Books713835011General AAS17148Mexico17128Latin America27Travel1000Subjects283155Books16252681North America27Travel1000Subjects283155Books17232General17228Regions17227United States27Travel1000Subjects283155Books713842011General AAS17228Regions17227United States27Travel1000Subjects283155Books197498011General27Travel1000Subjects283155Books713792011General AAS27Travel1000Subjects283155Books400272011Paperback394184011Mass Market401237011Trade394174011Binding (binding)388186011Refinements283155Books618083011Printed Books618072011Format (feature_browse-bin)388186011Refinements283155Books0385523599http://www.amazon.com/Mexican-High-Novel-Liza-Monroy/dp/0385523599%3FSubscriptionId%3D05ERXYTS89KFGEPQR5G2%26tag%3Dthebookrevi0b-20%26linkCode%3Dxm2%26camp%3D2025%26creative%3D165953%26creativeASIN%3D0385523599435470http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51rutani3YL._SL75_.jpg7549http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51rutani3YL._SL160_.jpg160105http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51rutani3YL.jpg500328Liza MonroyHardcover813.697803855235921800385523599Spiegel & GrauEnglishEnglishEnglish9302195USD$21.95Spiegel & Grau1352Book2008-06-10Spiegel & Grau2008-06-10Spiegel & Grau115620850USD$8.50812USD$8.1238160011ATVPDKIKX0DERhttp://www.amazon.com/gp/help/seller/home.html?seller=ATVPDKIKX0DERNewnewK8rN14LsWpQAqPAlE%2B2bc2ihy1LDlD6viIC%2F11Wi7QVq3AhPOLq8YbVItzBZCASuqJ3zMOqvMZQr8bhVvW6XKw%3D%3D1493USD$14.93Usually ships in 24 hours5.020403855235995002008-09-23

a compelling and exotic coming-of-age novel

Monroy's debut novel, Mexican High, is a dark and wise coming of age novel. The protagonist, Mila Marquez, attends high school in Mexico City, along with the children of drug lords, foreign service officers and Mormon missionaries. <br /> <br />Monroy's vivid descriptions of Mexico City evoke a dark setting perfect for the situations her protagonist finds herself in. She experiments with drugs and sex while trying on several identities. This is more than a rendering of drugs and sex. It's also a story of a young woman struggling for independence from her loving, if distrustful mother. <br /> <br />I read it in one afternoon, unable to put it down. Highly recommended.03855235995002008-09-17

Excellent, but not for the faint of heart

As a non-drug user and one who has spent little time in Mexico, I was not sure how I would like this book. As other reviewers have pointed out, there are lots of drugs featured, and yes, quite a bit of sex too. Yet, this coming of age novel also has a lot of heart, and a real story. The main character, in spite of her indulgences, is likable and very real. I could not put this down.03855235991142008-08-29

drugs drugs and drugs

I started this novel and thought well of the writer's way of putting everything assuming the age of the character and potential readers, and novelties not only of Mexico but life itself until the description of drug experiences overwhelmed me and made me think What made this book so popular? <br />I picked it at the local library marked as New Novel worth reading and glad did not spend a penny on it. Sure doing drugs might be so fun and exciting especially under the "missing Dad" excuses but it does not make it a good piece of literature for me. 03855235995002008-08-24

been there

Same school, different era. Liza Munroy captures a completely familiar high school social scene except for the drugs. I remember that drinking was totally accessible and in excess during my years at "Mexican High." So was fun. With JFK being shot in November of our junior year and worldwide socio-political upheaval gathering momentum, we of the class of '65 still managed to remain self-absorbed except for our fearless president of student council who became boisterously pro-Goldwater. Is that why he still resides in high school (now in upstate New York) as a Spanish teacher? God bless Roberto. I managed only 20 years in a similar teaching role in an equally remote state and am now retired. Although Munroy never mentioned whether or not Young Life continues at our alma mater, I read each page of this riveting tale as a memoir... if not Liza's, mine.03855235995002008-08-15

read and re-read!

a lit. critic i am not, but I LOVE this book! I read it outloud while nursing my newborn, which was a great way to really hear and appreciate Ms. Monoy's voice. Mila is a layered and real character, her adventures made me cringe, laugh and cry...and perhaps slightly nostalgic for my own high school days (and love affair with Nirvana.) The last time I turned pages this quickly, I was reading The Lovely Bones. I will be anxiously awaiting Ms. Monroy's next book! The daughter of an American diplomat, Mila has spent her childhood moving from country to country. When her mother is reassigned to Mexico City for Mila’s senior year of high school, Mila has no idea what to expect. Mexico seems to be a country with the ultimate freedoms: the wealthy students at her private international school—the sons and daughters of Mexico’s ruling class—party hard at exclusive clubs, dress in expensive clothing, and see more of their housekeepers than they do their globe-trotting parents. But Mila has more in common with them than they know: her father, whose identity has been kept from her, is a high-ranking politician with whom Mila’s mother had a one-night stand in her hippie days. Now Mila is determined to discover who he is, whatever the cost may be.<br><br>A novel that covers the same adolescent terrain as <i>Prep</i>,<i> </i>though in an entirely different landscape<i>, Mexican High</i> is an eye-opening, page-turning coming-of-age story about identity, belonging, and first love. In a setting rife with sex, drugs, and political corruption, it is also a revealing look at elite Mexican society, and its freedoms, dangers, and excesses. Monroy’s flawless evocation of the brink of adulthood, in many ways mirrored by the turmoil of Mexico City itself, makes this a truly memorable debut.0061768065031614347203755043380393041654074329011916004691General9822United States10311World Literature17Literature & Fiction1000Subjects283155Books713411011General AAS9822United States10311World Literature17Literature & Fiction1000Subjects283155Books10129Contemporary17Literature & Fiction1000Subjects283155Books10132Literary17Literature & Fiction1000Subjects283155Books713365011General AAS17Literature & Fiction1000Subjects283155Books394181011Hardcover394174011Binding (binding)388186011Refinements283155Books618083011Printed Books618072011Format (feature_browse-bin)388186011Refinements283155BooksROPTGO9VR6HMSPrepsR398RRIK5OJ01Fmy favorite new books0826310168http://www.amazon.com/Shining-Season-True-Story-Baker/dp/0826310168%3FSubscriptionId%3D05ERXYTS89KFGEPQR5G2%26tag%3Dthebookrevi0b-20%26linkCode%3Dxm2%26camp%3D2025%26creative%3D165953%26creativeASIN%3D0826310168794127http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51J0Y7HT7RL._SL75_.jpg7550http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51J0Y7HT7RL._SL160_.jpg160106http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51J0Y7HT7RL.jpg500331William J. BuchananPaperbackNorman Zollinger362.1969949780826310163500826310168University of New Mexico PressEnglishEnglishEnglish8801995USD$19.95University of New Mexico Press1248Book1987-10-01University of New Mexico PressUniversity of New Mexico Press755701197USD$11.9719USD$0.191988USD$19.8823201011ATVPDKIKX0DERhttp://www.amazon.com/gp/help/seller/home.html?seller=ATVPDKIKX0DERNewnewEVFdIhOp9Zgs7dYOfxiqneIwiW5CojZOT%2FJpQiNJwnzshYwLsdNYivOF%2BE2kJVvUf0rVHo8rx7B15duF4vTX%2Bg%3D%3D1556USD$15.56Usually ships in 24 hours5.020408263101685002008-06-25