Download or read book The Tale Of Gringo El Loco written by H.L. Dowless and published by BookRix. This book was released on 2015-07-27 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The following tale is one of Christmas. Santiago has lived for years far away from his birth home land. He knew what he was called to do. He was determined to accomplish his undertaking, no matter who it was that designed to stand in his way. In the end, his task was completed, and he could rest easily as he returned into his long departed mother's arms ...and the home that he had been gone from for so many years. Find out what Santiago came to the tropics to do, what his obsticles were, and how his saga related to Chirstmas. Get your copy today

Download or read book The Tales of an Enchanted Twelve written by H. L. JD. Dowless and published by eBookIt.com. This book was released on 2013-05-22 with total page 503 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work is a collection of twelve fantasy/horror short stories, like few that are written this day and time. Read at your own risk!

Download or read book Tales From The Wild Blue Yonder Recipes For Disaster written by John Quinn Olson and published by Dust Devil Press. This book was released on 2007-09 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Welcome to the adventures and misadventures from a quarter century of hang gliding and travel. Huck yourself off cliffs, soar into the Wild Blue, and land where no human has landed before, all from the comfort and safety of your easy chair. Visit exotic lands and foreign skies, experience the thrill of foot-launched human flight and never even risk your neck. Come along with a wild cast of characters, who fly like their lives depend upon it. Realize mankind's most ancient dream, FLY WITH THE BIRDS!

Download or read book Tales From The Wild Blue Yonder TAKING MEXICO FLYING written by John Quinn Olson and published by Dust Devil Press. This book was released on 2009-11 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Welcome to the adventures and misadventures from a quarter century of hang gliding and travel. Huck yourself off cliffs, soar into the Wild Blue, and land where no human has landed before, all from the comfort and safety of your easy chair. Visit exotic lands and foreign skies, experience the thrill of foot-launched human flight and never even risk your neck. Come along with a wild cast of characters, who fly like their lives depend upon it. Realize mankind's most ancient dream, FLY WITH THE BIRDS!

Download or read book Yucatan Land written by Jonathan Ellis and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2013-10-08 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mexico is an enchanting land full of many secrets. Some wonderful to behold, and some best kept secret. Deep in the heart of the Yuctan, in a steamy, forgotten jungle, lies one. In 1962, the Mexican government conducted clandestine operations to test an herbicide designed to compete with agent orange, the American militarys herbicide of choice. It was staged over a long abandoned eco-attraction called Yucatanland. It was a failure, in that it didnt kill the plants, but mutated the animals. One, in particular, rose to the top of the food chain. A horrible manifestation of the ancient Mexican God, Quetzalcoatl. In Southern California, a young couple named Midas and Kelly Soloman, he a lawyer, and she a teacher, decided that they needed a vacation. Somewhere close, not too expensive, but interesting none the less. Midas always had an interest in history, so they decided to travel to Mexico to relax and soak up some local culture. Little did they know, their travels would be more adventurous than they could imagine. Join Midas and Kelly as they race for their lives against impossible odds; the Mexican military wants to kill them, Narcoterroristas try to kidnap them, and an incredible evil pursues them all in its own backyard.

Download or read book Splendors of Latin Cinema written by R. Hernandez-Rodriguez and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2009-11-19 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This insightful account analyzes and provides context for the films and careers of directors who have made Latin American film an important force in Hollywood and in world cinema. In this insightful account, R. Hernandez-Rodriguez analyzes some of the most important, fascinating, and popular films to come out of Latin America in the last three decades, connecting them to a long tradition of filmmaking that goes back to the beginning of the 20th century. Directors Alejandro Inarritu, Guillermo del Toro, Alfonso Cuaron, and Lucretia Martel and director/screenwriter Guillermo Arriaga have given cause for critics and public alike to praise a new golden age of Latin American cinema. Splendors of Latin Cinema probes deeply into their films, but also looks back at the two most important previous moments of this cinema: the experimental films of the 1960s and 1970s, as well as the stage-setting movies from the 1940s and 1950s. It discusses films, directors, and stars from Spain (as a continuing influence), Mexico, Cuba, Brazil, Argentina, Peru, and Chile that have contributed to one of the most interesting aspects of world cinema.

Download or read book A Dishonorable Few written by Robert N. Macomber and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2012-03-19 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Robert Macomber's Honor series of naval fiction follows the life and career of Peter Wake in the U.S. Navy during the tumultuous years from 1863 to 1901. Dishonorable Few is the fourth in the series. It is 1869. The United States is painfully recovering from the Civil War, and Lt. Peter Wake concludes the first shore duty of his career at Pensacola Naval Yard to become the executive officer of the USS Canton. Headed to turbulent Central America to deal with a former American naval officer turned renegade mercenary, Wake discovers that no one trusts anyone in that deadly part of the world—with good reason. As the action unfolds in Colombia and Panama, Wake realizes that his most dangerous adversary may be a man on his own ship, forcing him to make a decision that will lead to his court-martial in Washington when the mission has finally ended. This historical thriller will take the reader from the sinister streets of Cartagena to the reef-strewn coast of Nicaragua to the halls of power in Washington, D.C. Along the way, the ambitions of European empires, Latin American dictatorships, and American politics form a dark background to Wake's desperate search for a maniacal killer—and his own trial.

Download or read book The Holy Grail written by Ken Kuhlken and published by Hickey & McGee. This book was released on 2022-04-21 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Holy Grail concludes the For America saga with Otis finding in an island prison a measure of peace, which then is disturbed by baseball and the rape of a woman he loves. He escapes from prison and flees Mexico to settle with the rapist and with the resurrected Enemy, and with the deranged and relentless Cynthia Jones. And after Otis once again falls in love and renews his pursuit of a baseball career, a team of screwball Charles Manson worshippers come seeking revenge against his dear friend Nancy, once a Manson family girl.

Download or read book The Cartels written by George W. Grayson Professor Emeritus and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2013-11-26 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An up-to-date examination of Mexico's version of the "War on Drugs" that exposes the evolution of major cartels and their corruption of politicians, law-enforcement agencies, and the Army. What can President Enrique Peña Nieto do to curb the narcotics-induced mayhem in Mexico, and what would be the consequences to the United States if he fails? This book analyzes Mexico's transition from a relatively peaceful kleptocracy controlled by the Tammany-Hall style Institutional Revolutionary Party/PRI (1929–2000) to a country plagued by rural and urban enclaves of grotesque violence. The author examines the major drug cartels and their success in infiltrating American and Mexican businesses; details the response from the Obama administration; assesses the threat that the continuing bloodshed represents for the United States; and emphasizes the constraints on America's ability to solve Mexico's crisis, despite U.S. contributions of intelligence, military equipment, training, and diplomatic support.

Download or read book La Perdida written by Jessica Abel and published by Pantheon. This book was released on 2008-05-20 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the Harvey and Lulu award–winning creator of Artbabe comes a riveting story of a young woman’s misadventures in Mexico City. Carla, an American estranged from her Mexican father, heads to Mexico City to “find herself.” She crashes with a former fling, Harry, who has been drinking his way through the capital in the great tradition of his heroes, William S. Burroughs and Jack Kerouac. Harry is good—humored about Carla’s reappearance on his doorstep—until he realizes that Carla, who spends her days soaking in the city, exploring Frida Kahlo’s house, and learning Spanish, has no intention of leaving. When Harry and Carla’s relationship of mutual tolerance reaches its inevitable end, she rejects his world of Anglo expats for her own set of friends: pretty-boy Oscar, who sells pot and dreams of being a DJ, and charismatic Memo, a left-wing, pseudo–intellectual ladies’ man. Determined to experience the real Mexico, Carla turns a blind eye to her new friends’ inconsistencies. But then she catches the eye of a drug don, el Gordo, and from that moment on her life gets a lot more complicated, and she is forced to confront the irreparable consequences of her willful innocence. Jessica Abel’s evocative black–and–white drawings and creative mix of English and Spanish bring Mexico City’s past and present to life, unfurling Carla’s dark history against the legacies of Burroughs and Kahlo. A story about the youthful desire to live an authentic life and the consequences of trusting easy answers, La Perdida—at once grounded in the particulars of life in Mexico and resonantly universal—is a story about finding oneself by getting lost.

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Download or read book Spanish Lingo for the Savvy Gringo written by M. F. Jones-Reid and published by Sunbelt Publications, Inc.. This book was released on 2003 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on the Spanish that is spoken in Mexico, and most frequently in the United States, this book teaches the language and provides insights into Mexican culture and its customs.

Download or read book The Empress Is a Man written by Michael R Gorman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-01-02 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You may be familiar with the tremendous life achievements of José Sarria, an integral player in the gay rights movement, but never before have you heard the intimate details of his incredible life as they are portrayed here. In The Empress Is a Man: Stories from the Life of José Sarria (winner of the Lammy Award in the transgender category), Michael Gorman exposes Sarria’s life in a frank manner and with a unique storytelling ability that simultaneously causes amusement and sadness. Sarria’s amazing life story tells of his perserverance to advance the cause of equality for gay citizens. At a time when gays were arrested, institutionalized, and castrated, Sarria did not try to hide his beliefs and convictions. Sarria was ahead of his time, becoming a significant figure in gay history and culture. You’ll find The Empress Is a Man fascinating as you read about the life of this truly courageous, outrageous, and remarkable man. Some of Sarria’s experiences and achievements you’ll read about include: being the first openly gay male to run for political office being one of America’s most important female impersonators entertaining throughout the world, live and on film postitively affecting the gay community founding an extremely successful charity fundraising organization being featured in a PBS documentary serving in the Army in The Battle of the Bulge in WWII Until recently, gay and lesbian stories were published in very limited venues and often at great personal risk, forcing knowledge of this history to be passed down orally. The Empress Is a Man reflects this tradition by telling much of the story in Sarria’s own words. Adding to the enjoyment and originality of this book is a structure similar to the dramatic style of a play or novel. Each section ends with an exciting climax, although the book is chronological in order. The Empress Is a Man is an untraditional book about an untraditional man.

Download or read book A Mexican Tale written by Tom Marlow and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2014-02 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Love, life, death, renewal; a story made possible by the unwitting influence of the Spirits of the Sierra Madre. Tragedy lashes out at four fast friends in a traditional and idyllic Mexican Village. Is it luck or fate that brings the four together - and then rips them apart?

Download or read book A Peace Corps Profile written by Kirk A. Hackenberg and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2002 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a detailed account of one man's experiences serving, not one, but two tours in the Peace Corps as a volunteer. He takes you from the beginning of what prompted him to join the Peace Corps and leaves nothing out of the next four years of his service. Being a volunteer in a foreign country, living at the level of those being served, provides a lifetime of experiences wrapped up in a short amount of time. Each day brought new challenges, some humorous, some rather horrific, but life lessons as never predictable. From the jungles of Nicaragua, through the civil war there, to working on the coast of Chile, the author takes you on a journey that will leave you amazed at what one person can do.

Download or read book Empire of Shadows written by Jacquelyn Benson and published by Crimson Fox Publishing. This book was released on 2024-04-02 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nice Victorian ladies don’t run off to find legendary lost cities. One trifling little arrest shouldn’t have cost Ellie Mallory her job, but it’s only the latest in a line of injustices facing any educated woman with archaeological ambitions. When Ellie stumbles across the map to a mysterious ancient city, she knows she’s holding her chance to revolutionize Pre-Colombian history. There’s just one teensy complication. A ruthless villain wants it, and Ellie is all that stands in his way. To race him to the ruins—and avoid being violently disposed of—she needs the help of maverick surveyor Adam Bates, a snake-wrangling rogue who can’t seem to keep his dratted shirt on. But there’s more than Ellie’s scholarly reputation (and life) on the line. Her enemies aren’t just looters. They’re after an arcane secret rumored to lie in the heart of the ruins, a mythical artifact with a power that could shake the world. Between stealing trousers, plummeting over waterfalls, and trying not to fall in love with her machete-wielding partner, will Ellie be able to stop the oracle of a lost empire from falling into the wrong hands? Empire of Shadows is the first book in the Raiders of the Arcana series, rip-roaring historical fantasy adventures perfect for fans of Romancing the Stone and The Mummy. "Sassy banter and sizzling romantic tension sparkle throughout the fast-paced action ... Fans of Indiana Jones-style historical fantasies will be eager for the next adventure." - Booklist of the American Library Association "A feminist, anti-colonialist tour-de-force, a pulse-pounding adventure tale, and a compelling, spirited romance all in one." - Charlotte English, author of the House of Werth series "A page-turning historical fantasy romp ... Adam Bates somehow becomes more attractive with every extra layer of dirt." - Olivia Atwater, author of Half a Soul