Download or read book Los Comancheros written by Kwame Shauku and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2008-09-09 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Simon Spencer continues his Journey through manhood, as a Private Investigator and Finder of Missing Persons. Simon is hired by a long time friend to find her granddaughter who was kidnapped from her train coming home for Summer Vacation from a Texas University. Los Comancheros are a gang of renegade bikers who terrorize Interstate Highway 10 along the Texas, New Mexico and Arizona borders from Mexico. After rescuing his friend's granddaughter, he partners with the sister of a slain undercover policeman to free the Raramuri Slaves used by the Mexican Drug Cartel to process Cocaine. Heading home to San Francisco, Simon finds he is being hunted by the Mexican Mafia who follow him to San Francisco for a major gun battle at the San Francisco Airport. There are many action packed twists to this adventure.

Download or read book Can t You Get Along with Anyone written by Allan C. Weisbecker and published by Bandito Books, LTD.. This book was released on 2007 with total page 505 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Allan Weisbecker penned the last sentence ofIn Search of Captain Zero,most readers assumed the full scope of the tale had been told. But apparently, life had other plans. In his latest offering,Can't You Get Along With Anyone? A Writer's Memoir and a Tale of a Lost Surfer's Paradise,Weisbecker chronicles the bizarre and convoluted circumstances that drove him from his adopted home in Costa Rica.

Download or read book El P Jaro Escritor written by Manolo Yag E. and published by Palibrio. This book was released on 2012-09 with total page 107 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: El pájaro escritor es único en su especie: se trata de un hombre diminuto que vive encerrado en una pajarera y se pasa el día, muy a su pesar, escribiendo. El pájaro escritor se compone de trece relatos de sorprendente factura: la conducta insensata de dos ancianos japoneses ante el desastre de Fukushima; un hombre que a todas horas escucha caer una gota y cuya mujer incuba un feto de dos cabezas; un niño que desaparece durante el juego del escondite; un barrendero que vive en el interior de una baldosa por temor a cruzar líneas en el suelo; un padre fallecido que se le aparece a su hijo en la forma de una ridícula..., en fin, mejor que lo lean. Ejemplos de personajes cotidianos o risibles, a los que les sucede por un momento algo extraordinario o simplemente extraño: el arte de la literatura lo transforma en una metáfora de sus vidas. El humor, a veces negro, pero siempre compasivo, está entretejido de forma inevitable con la tragedia o el drama, como nos demuestran estos relatos ingeniosos y de fácil lectura, aunque no simples. Son, muy al contrario, cuentos cargados de profundidad emocional y humana.

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Download or read book First Spanish Reader written by Angel Flores and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2012-04-18 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Delightful stories, other material based on works of Don Juan Manuel, Luis Taboada, Ricardo Palma, other noted writers. Complete faithful English translations on facing pages. Exercises.

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Download or read book La maldici n gitana written by Daniel Arce and published by Caligrama. This book was released on 2018-12-15 with total page 606 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cuatro almas, un único destino: imponer su ley en las calles. Un osado expresidiario, un ladrón de guante blanco, un «marquesito» de buena familia y un macarra de barrio bajo deciden unirse y formar una cooperativa. Juntos, regentarán un grupo de empresas con la intención de camuflar su verdadero negocio: la venta de drogas al por mayor. Con la ayuda de sus fieles capos, un contable, tres entrañables ancianas y un brujo, tratarán de abrirse paso hacia la cima del crimen organizado. El intrépido cuarteto tendrá que lidiar con las consecuencias de su propia ambición.

Download or read book Flamenco written by William Washabaugh and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2021-02-25 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Flamenco is renowned for its passion and flamboyance. Yet because it generates such visceral responses, it is often overlooked as a site for subtler discourses. This absorbing book articulates powerful and convincing arguments on such key subjects as ethnicity, irony, authenticity, the body and resistance. Franco's 'politics of original sin' had left its mark on every aspect of Spanish life between 1936 and 1975, and flamenco music was no exception. Although widely portrayed as an apolitical, even frivolous form of entertainment, flamenco is shown here to have played a role in both the strategies of Franco's supporters and of those who opposed him. The author explores how the meaning of flamenco shifts according to the social, cultural and historical contexts within which it appears. In so doing, he demonstrates that flamenco is an ideal subject for analyzing the construction and appropriation of popular culture, given the way in which it was developed for middle-class audiences, converted into grand spectacle, and conscripted to serve political ends.

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Download or read book The Enchanted Quest of Dana and Ginger Lamb written by Julie Huffman-klinkowitz and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2009-10-20 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bestselling authors, sensational lecturers, documentary filmmakers, amateur archaeologists, spies for FDR—Dana and Ginger Lamb led the life of Indiana Jones long before the movie icon was ever scripted. “We blaze the trail,” Ginger said, “and the scientists follow.” The Enchanted Quest of Dana and Ginger Lamb is the first biography of this captivating, entrepreneurial couple. In southern California, they started married life in 1933 by building a canoe. With only $4.10 in their pockets, they paddled to Central America and through the Panama Canal. Three years later they returned triumphant, bearing a photographic record of the amazing trek that made them famous. After releasing their bestselling book, Enchanted Vagabonds, the two became exactly that. They relentlessly lectured for the public and mooned for the media until they were able to fund more exotic voyages to remote jungles and rivers. So convincing were they on the circuit that their most powerful fan, President Franklin Roosevelt, coerced J. Edgar Hoover into hiring the Lambs as spies in Mexico. After World War II, they launched their Quest for the Lost City, which yielded another book and documentary. Drawing on historical records, the Lambs' books and letters, and recently declassified espionage documents, biographers Julie Huffman-klinkowitz and Jerome Klinkowitz show how the Lambs succeeded in marketing their conquests and films to armchair explorers around the world and how they became, in popular imagination, the quintessential American adventurers.

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Download or read book Snowdon s Don and Other Stories written by Grace Moore and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2019-09-08 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These stories are based on episodes and materials from my personal life, and are widely varied. Most are set in Montreal, between 1967 and 2012, while a few are set in Newfoundland, and 1 is set in Africa. They are about women, men, children, politics and community, and the conflicts, as well as the harmony, that arise from all of these.

Download or read book Travels with a Mexican Circus written by Katie Hickman and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2014-08-28 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: _______________ 'A wonderful writer ... An adventure hard to beat in terms of sheer exotic allure' - Guardian 'Mexico will not have been portrayed more vividly since Graham Greene's The Lawless Roads ... Enchanting' - Daily Telegraph 'Magic is at the heart of Hickman's narrative, not just in the fabulous illusions of the acts themselves or the superstitions of the circus people, but in the fantastic stories of the characters she presents' - Sunday Times _______________ The delightfully beguiling account of novelist Katie Hickman's adventures with a Mexican circus Katie Hickman went to Mexico looking for magic. She found it in the circus – Big Top, clowns, elephants and all – where cheap, torn materials and tarnished sequins are transformed into nights of glittering illusion. Gradually adjusting to the harsh ways of the circus's nomadic lifestyle, she soon became absorbed into this hypnotic new world, at first as a foreigner but later as 'La Gringa Estrella', a performer in her own right. Travels with a Mexican Circus is an unforgettable account of a year-long journey through an extraordinary and bizarrely beautiful country. _______________ 'A delight... The stories of the cirqueros themselves read like tales by Gabriel Garcia Marquez' - Harpers & Queen 'The most ambitiously imaginative sort of travel writing' - Patrick Skene Catling

Download or read book Divination on stage written by Folke Gernert and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2021-02-08 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Magicians, necromancers and astrologers are assiduous characters in the European golden age theatre. This book deals with dramatic characters who act as physiognomists or palm readers in the fictional world and analyses the fictionalisation of physiognomic lore as a practice of divination in early modern Romance theatre from Pietro Aretino and Giordano Bruno to Lope de Vega, Calderón de la Barca and Thomas Corneille.

Download or read book The Mexican Filmography 1916 through 2001 written by David E. Wilt and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2024-10-17 with total page 785 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mexican cinema has largely been overlooked by international film scholars because of a lack of English-language information and the fact that Spanish-language information was difficult to find and often out of date. This comprehensive filmography helps fill the need. Arranged by year of release and then by title, the filmography contains entries that include basic information (film and translated title, production company, genre, director, cast), a plot summary, and additional information about the film. Inclusion criteria: a film must be a Mexican production or co-production, feature length (one hour or more, silent films excepted), fictional (documentaries and compilation films are not included unless the topic relates to Mexican cinema; some docudramas and films with recreated or staged scenes are included), and theatrically released or intended for theatrical release.

Download or read book La Venganza de Renata written by Abraham DeSantander and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2008-12-15 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Me instruyeron para un destino y entrenaron para matar, desenmascare a los traidores... !Monta y paga carajo, tu cabeza, el precio de mi venganza!