Download or read book Tangle in Tijuana written by Lilla Zuckerman and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-05-11 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Go South of the Border in this hilarious first installment of a sassy, sexy new interactive series, Miss Adventure. Making good on a drunken promise to your wild best friend, Lani, you hop into her beat-up 1970s Mustang and head off for a day of margaritas, men, and mayhem in Tijuana. But there are dozens of shots to call -- and drink! -- along the way. Will you give in to your baser impulses and blow all of your money on over-the-counter Viagra? Will you flash the crowd to win a dance contest? Will you get your hands on a mythic tequila recipe that is sure to make you a millionaire? Will you land yourself in Mexican jail for buying a shopping bag full of M-80 fireworks? Will you party with a group of slightly shady but smoking-hot rich guys on their yacht? And most important, will you find Lani's car where you left it? It doesn't really matter whether you meet the Latin lover of your dreams or the long arm of the law in Tangle in Tijuana -- with thirty-eight possible endings, you can always go back across the border and start all over again!
Download or read book Tijuana written by Federico Campbell and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1995-01-01 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A novella and four stories set in Mexico. In the novella, Everything About Seals, a relationship is revealed through the act of a man stalking a woman. Of the stories, Tijuana Times is on a youth gang, and Anticipating Incorporation is on a man's military service.
Download or read book Beauty Queen Blowout written by Lilla Zuckerman and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-05-11 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mirror, mirror, on the wall, are you the hottest of them all? The next book in the sexy, sassy interactive Miss Adventure series -- following Tangle in Tijuana -- invites you to Reno, Nevada, as a contestant in the Miss Liberty Pageant. There you'll dodge back-stabbing competitors and a lecherous host in a race for the crown on a nationally televised competition. With a Miss Adventure, it's only natural that the choices will be way more fun than selecting an evening gown.... Will you be forced to room with a neurotic pageant lifer -- and her domineering stage mom? Will you team up with the troublemaking Miss Texas to dose the other girls with Ecstasy? Or will you walk away with the crown on your head -- and the hottie son of the wealthy pageant sponsor on your arm? The good news is that you can have as many "do-overs" as it takes to win in Beauty Queen Blowout: simply flip back to the start and make new choices the next time around. So tape up those boobs and get your best elbow-elbow wrist-wrist wave ready -- you're going to the Miss Liberty Pageant!
Download or read book The best of Tijuana in blue written by Tijuana in blue and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Aqui Es Tijuana written by Fiamma Montezemolo and published by Black Dog Pub Limited. This book was released on 2006 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here is Tijuana! looks at the history of Tijuana, and to its future; to its dark side, and to the possibilities it offers through fascinating photographic records and a range of texts that vividly bring the city to life. Tijuana, Mexico is a border town in all respects. It hovers between Mexico and the United States, not just physically, but psychologically. On the one hand it maintains its reputation as a sleazy city, a centre of booze, sex and crime. On the other it aspires to, and is slowly achieving, the sophistication and affluence of California--just a few miles and yet another world away... Here is Tijuana! is a photographic essay that captures the spirit of the city and this dichotomy. The landscape of Tijuana, the streets, alleyways, storefronts, dwellings, bars and cafes are documented in compelling detail. Downtown Tijuana alone is visited by 116,000 people every day and the city's inhabitants, both permanent and temporary are also present in the book. Here is Tijuana! shows them both at work and play. Divided into three sections, the book deals with the socio-cultural issues that surround Tijuana, the urban development of the city as well as questions of morality and cultural practice raised by the collision between Latin and North American values. A collaboration between three editors: an anthropologist, a writer and an architect, Here is Tijuana! is essential reading for anyone interested in either the history or the future of Mexico and Southern California.
Download or read book The Life and Times of Pancho Villa written by Friedrich Katz and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 1998-10-01 with total page 1022 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alongside Moctezuma and Benito Juárez, Pancho Villa is probably the best-known figure in Mexican history. Villa legends pervade not only Mexico but the United States and beyond, existing not only in the popular mind and tradition but in ballads and movies. There are legends of Villa the Robin Hood, Villa the womanizer, and Villa as the only foreigner who has attacked the mainland of the United States since the War of 1812 and gotten away with it. Whether exaggerated or true to life, these legends have resulted in Pancho Villa the leader obscuring his revolutionary movement, and the myth in turn obscuring the leader. Based on decades of research in the archives of seven countries, this definitive study of Villa aims to separate myth from history. So much attention has focused on Villa himself that the characteristics of his movement, which is unique in Latin American history and in some ways unique among twentieth-century revolutions, have been forgotten or neglected. Villa’s División del Norte was probably the largest revolutionary army that Latin America ever produced. Moreover, this was one of the few revolutionary movements with which a U.S. administration attempted, not only to come to terms, but even to forge an alliance. In contrast to Lenin, Mao Zedong, Ho Chi Minh, and Fidel Castro, Villa came from the lower classes of society, had little education, and organized no political party. The first part of the book deals with Villa’s early life as an outlaw and his emergence as a secondary leader of the Mexican Revolution, and also discusses the special conditions that transformed the state of Chihuahua into a leading center of revolution. In the second part, beginning in 1913, Villa emerges as a national leader. The author analyzes the nature of his revolutionary movement and the impact of Villismo as an ideology and as a social movement. The third part of the book deals with the years 1915 to 1920: Villa’s guerrilla warfare, his attack on Columbus, New Mexico, and his subsequent decline. The last part describes Villa’s surrender, his brief life as a hacendado, his assassination and its aftermath, and the evolution of the Villa legend. The book concludes with an assessment of Villa’s personality and the character and impact of his movement.
Download or read book Tijuana Straits written by Kem Nunn and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-09-17 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Kem Nunn, the National Book Award-nominated author of Tapping the Source and The Dogs of Winter, comes an exquisitely written tale of loss and redemption. Nunn renders the dangerous beaches and waters of California's borderland as only the critically acclaimed poet laureate of surf noir can, and Tijuana Straits confirms his reputation as a master of suspense and a novelist of the first rank. When Fahey, once a great surfer, now a reclusive ex-con, meets Magdalena, she is running from a pack of wild dogs along the ragged wasteland where California and Mexico meet the Pacific Ocean -- a spot once known to the men who rode its giant waves as the Tijuana Straits. Magdalena has barely survived an attack that forced her to flee Tijuana, and Fahey takes her in. That he is willing to do so runs contrary to his every instinct, for Fahey is done with the world, seeking little more than solitude from this all-but-forgotten corner of the Golden State. Nor is Fahey a stranger to the lawless ways of the border. He worries that in sheltering this woman he may not only be inviting further entanglements but may be placing them both at risk. In this, he is not wrong. An environmental activist, Magdalena has become engaged in the struggle for the health and rights of the thousands of peasants streaming from Mexico's enervated heartland to work in the maquilladoras -- the foreign-owned factories that line her country's border, polluting its air and fouling its rivers. It is a risky contest. Danger can come from many directions, from government officials paid to preserve the status quo to thugs hired to intimidate reformers. As Magdalena and Fahey become closer, Magdalena tries to discover who is out to get her, attempting to reconstruct the events that delivered her, battered and confused, into Fahey's strange yet oddly seductive world. She examines every lead, never guessing the truth. For into this no-man's-land between two countries comes a trio of killers led by Armando Santoya, a man beset by personal tragedy, an aberration born of the very conditions Magdalena has dedicated her life to fight against, yet who in the throes of his own drug-fueled confusions has marked her for death. And so will Fahey be put to the test, in a final duel on the beaches of his Tijuana Straits.
Download or read book Tijuana Book of the Dead written by Luis Alberto Urrea and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2015-03-17 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the author of Pulitzer-nominated The Devil’s Highway and national bestseller The Hummingbird’s Daughter comes an exquisitely composed collection of poetry on life at the border. Weaving English and Spanish languages as fluidly as he blends cultures of the southwest, Luis Urrea offers a tour of Tijuana, spanning from Skid Row, to the suburbs of East Los Angeles, to the stunning yet deadly Mojave Desert, to Mexico and the border fence itself. Mixing lyricism and colloquial voices, mysticism and the daily grind, Urrea explores duality and the concept of blurring borders in a melting pot society.
Download or read book US Mexico Borderland Narratives written by Rosemary A. King and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For over 150 years, borderland authors from both Mexico and the United States have developed novels which owe their narrative power to compelling relationships between literary constructions of space and artistic expressions of conflicts, characters, and cultural encounter. This study explores those relationships by analyzing representations of the spaces in which characters function-whether barrio, ballroom, or border city as well as the places characters inhabit relative to the border-occupying native or foreign territory, traveling temporarily, or settling permanently. Concomitant with close attention to the conceptualization of space in border literature is a foregrounding of the genres that border writers employ, such as historical romance and the Hispanic bildungsroman, as well as the literary traditions from which they draw, such as travel narratives or utopian literature. Assessing geopoetics in border writing from the Mexican American War to the present, including writers such as Helen Hunt Jackson, Jovita Gonzalez, Ernesto Galarza, Americo Paredes, Harriet Doerr, Cormac McCarthy, Leslie Marmon Silko, and Miguel Mendez provides a paradigm for tracing the development and changes in individual responses to this space as well as a broad range of responses based on class and gender. This corpus of literature demonstrates that the various ways in which characters respond to cultural encounter-adapting, resisting, challenging, sympathizing-depends on artistic rendering of spaces and places around them. Thus, the central argument of this project is that character responses to cultural encounters arise out of geopoetics-the artistic expression of space and place-from the earliest to the most recent border narratives.
Download or read book The Last Puzzle Piece written by Marlie Moses and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2006-07 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Because Genko Ganev's parents chose not to join the Communist Party in Bulgaria, they were prohibited from the smallest hope of advancement for themselves or their only son. In fact, they "etched in his brain" the suggestion that he flee Bulgaria, even though they might never see him again if he succeeded and decidedly would not if he failed. With determination, intelligence, and courage, and with his adopted Christian faith to guide him, Genko defied the Communist law against leaving the country. The adventures that followed rival in intensity the nerve-wracking scenes of an Alfred Hitchcock movie. There is also a puzzle here. Plagued by recurring dreams that would not give him peace, Genko returned to Bulgaria to solve the puzzle. Then in a mystical dream, he found the clue that enabled him to "click in" The Last Puzzle Piece.
Download or read book Let s Go Mexico 22nd Edition written by Let's Go Inc. and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2007-11-27 with total page 752 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offering a comprehensive guide to economical travel in diverse regions of the world, these innovative new versions of the popular handbooks feature an all-new look, sidebars highlighting essential tips and facts, information on a wide range of itineraries, transportation options, off-the-beaten-path adventures, expanded lodging and dining options in every price range, additional nightlife options, enhanced cultural coverage, shopping tips, maps, 3-D topographical maps, regional culinary specialties, cost-cutting tips, and other essentials.
Download or read book Tijuana Mean written by Jesse James Kennedy and published by McCrays. This book was released on 2019-02 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sequel to the author's Missouri homegrown.
Download or read book Tijuana Nights written by Leigh K Hunt and published by Dwell Press. This book was released on 2014-07-25 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Getting shot at was never on McKenna Carmichael's bucket list, but then neither was being hunted by a Mexican Cartel. After missing her flight, and then watching it blow up midair, Mack is stuck in Mexico and the only people she can trust are the ones that put her in this position in the first place. River, Chase, and Gabriel offer Mack protection while they bring the El Diablo Cartel to its knees, and only by assisting them with yet another job will she gain the skills she needs to save her own life. Her trip to Tijuana began as a simple game of distraction. Now it's a game of survival. Enter Mack's world in this action-packed thriller, the first book of Leigh K. Hunt's new Nights Series.
Download or read book Beautiful Flowers of the Maquiladora written by Norma Iglesias Prieto and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2010-07-05 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published originally as La flor mas bella de la maquiladora, this beautifully written book is based on interviews the author conducted with more than fifty Mexican women who work in the assembly plants along the U.S.-Mexico border. A descriptive analytic study conducted in the late 1970s, the book uses compelling testimonials to detail the struggles these women face. The experiences of women in maquiladoras are attracting increasing attention from scholars, especially in the context of ongoing Mexican migration to the country's northern frontier and in light of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). This book is among the earliest accounts of the physical and psychological toll exacted from the women who labor in these plants. Iglesias Prieto captures the idioms of these working women so that they emerge as dynamic individuals, young and articulate personalities, inexorably engaged in the daily struggle to change the fundamental conditions of their exploitation.
Download or read book Tijuana Straits written by Kem Nunn and published by Sonatine. This book was released on 2010 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tijuana Straits, frontière de la Californie et du Mexique. Repris de justice, Sam Fahey mène là une vie solitaire et recluse. Cet ex-surfer, en proie à de fréquents accès de panique, est bien décidé à ne plus se mêler des affaires humaines. Lorsqu’il recueille une jeune femme mexicaine, Magdalena, qu’on a essayé d’assassiner près de chez lui, son existence paisible et solitaire vole en éclats. Activiste en lutte contre les injustices économiques de la région, où les grands groupes étrangers n’hésitent pas à exploiter les travailleurs mexicains et à polluer sans vergogne l’air et les rivières, Magdalena entraîne Sam à la recherche de ceux qui veulent sa mort. Dans ce noman’s-land qu’est la frontière, patrie désolée de la corruption, de l’immigration clandestine, des trafiquants de drogue, où toute apparence s’avère trompeuse, Sam devra aller au bout de lui-même pour, peut-être, trouver la rédemption. Plus encore qu’un thriller mystérieux, complexe et plein d’humanité, Kem Nunn nous donne ici son grand roman américain. Il dresse un portrait édifiant et sans concession de la frontière et, plus largement, un tableau terrifiant des relations entre pays industrialisés et pays du Sud, dont les rapports sont toujours fondés sur le sang. On y retrouve le sens de la nature et la conscience écologique de ses précédents livres, magnifiés par une prose lyrique qui donne à ce récit une force exceptionnelle.
Download or read book Tijuana Noir written by Flores Campbell and published by . This book was released on 2006-05-01 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of 16 crucial topics for every believer to understand eliminate pitfalls of sin and apathy by setting a course toward clearer expectations of life and pacing yourself to finish well. How can you experience a rewarding walk with God if you misunderstand His terminology and the principles they contain. This is the kind of book that will have you nodding yes and wondering why no one explained this this way before. A few of the topics include grace, faith, strongholds and intercession. Jesus spoke in laymen's terms. The definitions given by theologians are very complex compared to the simple direct approach Jesus used. In complicating his words they lose the simple commands to abundant life. If you want joy; simplify your faith and say yes to Jesus!
Download or read book Al Quinn Mysteries Collection 1 written by Russ Hall and published by Red Adept Publishing, LLC. This book was released on 2017-11-28 with total page 581 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
