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Author: John DeMers Publisher: ISBN: 9781933979816 Category : Indians of North America Languages : en Pages : 0
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"Brett Baldwin is a Texas chef who keeps his life, his emotions, and especially his restaurant--a hip, cutting edge destination called Mesquite in the timy town of Marfa--under careful control. He arranges most of the things that matter to him in color-coded folders in his office. That control lasts only as long as it takes Meridyth Morgan--Marfa girl, high school love interest and now Hollywood star--to walk into his dining room and beg him to help locate her missing brother. Almost as soon as Brett reluctantly agrees to ask around, Meridyth finds herself kidnapped. And Brett finds himself drawn into a violent world he's always taken pains to avoid: the nearby Tex-Mex frontier of drug smuggling, human trafficking, corruption, extortion and murder. Nothing in Brett's personality, nothing in his marriage and divorce, and absolutely nothing in his recipe books help him deal with this" --Cover, p. 2.
Author: John DeMers Publisher: ISBN: 9781933979816 Category : Indians of North America Languages : en Pages : 0
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"Brett Baldwin is a Texas chef who keeps his life, his emotions, and especially his restaurant--a hip, cutting edge destination called Mesquite in the timy town of Marfa--under careful control. He arranges most of the things that matter to him in color-coded folders in his office. That control lasts only as long as it takes Meridyth Morgan--Marfa girl, high school love interest and now Hollywood star--to walk into his dining room and beg him to help locate her missing brother. Almost as soon as Brett reluctantly agrees to ask around, Meridyth finds herself kidnapped. And Brett finds himself drawn into a violent world he's always taken pains to avoid: the nearby Tex-Mex frontier of drug smuggling, human trafficking, corruption, extortion and murder. Nothing in Brett's personality, nothing in his marriage and divorce, and absolutely nothing in his recipe books help him deal with this" --Cover, p. 2.
Author: Hipolito Acosta Publisher: Simon and Schuster ISBN: 1451632894 Category : True Crime Languages : en Pages : 273
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Living under an assumed identity and risking his life were all in a day’s work for U.S. Government Agent Hipolito Acosta. He worked regularly in high-stakes undercover operations infiltrating Mexico’s murderous immigrant smuggling rings and drug cartels. Acosta’s investigations are legendary, both inside law enforcement and the crime cartels he helped neutralize. He had himself smuggled from Mexico to Chicago with a truckload of poor immigrants; worked his way into the confidences of a gang of international counterfeiters; socialized with some of Mexico’s most vicious drug lords; arrested a female smuggler by luring her across the U.S. border for an amorous rendezvous; and was the target of multiple murder plots by the criminals he put in jail. For three decades, Hipolito Acosta’s work routinely made national headlines, and he quickly gained a reputation as a daring crime fighter who used his intelligence and audacity to stay one step ahead of those who would kill him if his cover were ever blown. Acosta’s stories read like chapters from a page-turning crime novel, but The Shadow Catcher is more than a front-seat ride through the criminal underworld along the U.S./Mexico border. This heartbreaking exposé goes beyond sensational headlines and medals of honor to divulge what an agent endures in order to ensure that U.S. law is enforced and to reveal the unseen human side of illegal immigration.
Author: Joseph Wambaugh Publisher: Bantam ISBN: 0804150699 Category : True Crime Languages : en Pages : 382
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The true story only Joseph Wambaugh could tell. A band of California cops set loose in no-man’s-land to come home heroes. Or come home dead. Not since Joseph Wambaugh’s bestselling The Onion Field has there been a true police story as fascinating, as totally gripping as Lines and Shadows. The media hailed them as heroes. Others denounced them as lawless renegades. A squad of tough cops called the Border Crime Task Force. A commando team sent to patrol the snake-infested no-man’s-land south of San Diego. Not to apprehend the thousands of illegal aliens slipping into the U.S., but to stop the ruthless bandits who preyed on them nightly—relentlessly robbing, raping, and murdering defenseless men, women, and children. The task force plan was simple. They would disguise themselves as illegal aliens. They would confront the murderous shadows of the night. Yet each time they walked into the violent blackness along the border, they came closer to another boundary line—a fragile line within each man. And crossing it meant destroying their sanity and their lives. Praise for Lines and Shadows “With each book, it seems, Mr. Wambaugh’s skill as a writer increases. . . . In Lines and Shadows he gives an off-trail, action-packed true account of police work and the intimate lives of policemen that, for my money, is his best book yet.”—The New York Times Book Review “A saga of courage, craziness, brutality and humor. . . . One of his best books, comparable to The Onion Field for storytelling and revelatory power.”—Chicago Sun-Times
Author: David W. Keller Publisher: Texas A&M University Press ISBN: 1623497353 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 368
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Winner, 2020 Al Lowman Memorial Prize for Best Book on Texas County or Local History There is a deep and abiding connection between humans and the land in Pinto Canyon—a remote and rugged place near the border with Mexico in the Texas Big Bend. Here the land assumes a certain primacy, defined not by the ephemera of plants and animals but by the very bedrock that rises far above the silvery flow of Pinto Creek— looming masses that break the horizon into a hundred different vistas. Yet, over time, people managed to survive and sometimes even thrive in this harsh environment. In the Shadow of the Chinatis combines the rich narratives of history, natural history, and archeology to tell the story of the landscape as well as the people who once inhabited it. Settling the land was difficult, staying on it even more so, but one family proved especially resilient. Rising above their meager origins, the Prietos eventually amassed a 12,000-acre ranch in the shadow of the Chinati Mountains to become the most successful of Pinto Canyon’s early settlers. But starting with the tense years of the Great Depression, the family faced a series of tragedies: one son was killed by a Texas Ranger, and another by the deranged son of Chico Cano, the Big Bend’s most notorious bandit. Ultimately, growing rifts in the family forced the sale of the ranch, marking the end of an era. Bearing the hallmarks of an epic tragedy, the departure of the Prieto family signaled a transition away from ranching towards a new style of landownership based on a completely different model. Today, Pinto Canyon’s scenic and scientific value increasingly overshadows the marginal economics of its past. In the Shadow of the Chinatis reveals a rich tapestry of interaction between humans and their environment, providing a unique examination of the Big Bend region and the people who call it home.
Author: Judith Ypeij Publisher: Lulu.com ISBN: 1257758470 Category : Travel Languages : en Pages : 129
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Ever since she was a young girl Judith Ypeij was intrigued by the USA. In 2006 she finally decided to give up everything in The Netherlands and cross the United States by herself. It became a bicycle ride from Florida to California. During her trip she turned out to be one of the few who rode the route from east to west, into the wind. She had to deal with steep hills, great ranges in temperature and a limited budget but thanks to the limitless hospitality of the Americans she encountered during her trip it became an experience of a lifetime.
Author: Joan Bingham Publisher: Simon and Schuster ISBN: 0671695851 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 324
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From Simon & Schuster, More Haunted Houses is a guide to cryptic hangouts and ghostly locales in the United States. From a robber's cave that echoes with voices of its past to America's own Loch Ness Monster to a vampire-infested cemetery, this fascinating companion volume to Haunted Houses USA takes us on a tour of some of America's spookiest places.
Author: Olga Maiorova Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press ISBN: 0299235939 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 293
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As nationalism spread across nineteenth-century Europe, Russia’s national identity remained murky: there was no clear distinction between the Russian nation and the expanding multiethnic empire that called itself “Russian.” When Tsar Alexander II’s Great Reforms (1855–1870s) allowed some freedom for public debate, Russian nationalist intellectuals embarked on a major project—which they undertook in daily press, popular historiography, and works of fiction—of finding the Russian nation within the empire and rendering the empire in nationalistic terms. From the Shadow of Empire traces how these nationalist writers refashioned key historical myths—the legend of the nation’s spiritual birth, the tale of the founding of Russia, stories of Cossack independence—to portray the Russian people as the ruling nationality, whose character would define the empire. In an effort to press the government to alter its traditional imperial policies, writers from across the political spectrum made the cult of military victories into the dominant form of national myth-making: in the absence of popular political participation, wars allowed for the people’s involvement in public affairs and conjured an image of unity between ruler and nation. With their increasing reliance on the war metaphor, Reform-era thinkers prepared the ground for the brutal Russification policies of the late nineteenth century and contributed to the aggressive character of twentieth-century Russian nationalism.
Author: Jeremy Slack Publisher: University of Arizona Press ISBN: 0816538409 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 281
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Mass deportation is at the forefront of political discourse in the United States. The Shadow of the Wall shows in tangible ways the migration experiences of hundreds of people, including their encounters with U.S. Border Patrol, cartels, detention facilities, and the deportation process. Deportees reveal in their heartwrenching stories the power of family separation and reunification and the cost of criminalization, and they call into question assumptions about human rights and federal policies. The authors analyze data from the Migrant Border Crossing Study (MBCS), a mixed-methods, binational research project that offers socially relevant, rigorous social science about migration, immigration enforcement, and violence on the border. Using information gathered from more than 1,600 post-deportation surveys, this volume examines the different faces of violence and migration along the Arizona-Sonora border and shows that deportees are highly connected to the United States and will stop at nothing to return to their families. The Shadow of the Wall underscores the unintended social consequences of increased border enforcement, immigrant criminalization, and deportation along the U.S.-Mexico border. Contributors Howard Campbell Josiah Heyman Alison Elizabeth Lee Daniel E. Martínez Ricardo Martínez-Schuldt Emily Peiffer Jeremy Slack Prescott L. Vandervoet Matthew Ward Scott Whiteford Murphy Woodhouse
Author: Charles Bowden Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt ISBN: 9780156032537 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 340
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Joey O'Shay is not the real name of the narcotics agent in an unnamed city in the center of the country. But Joey O'Shay exists. The nearly three hundred drug busts he has orchestrated over more than two decades are real, too; if the drug war were a declared war, O'Shay would have a Silver Star. With nerves and mastery worthy of his subject, Charles Bowden follows O'Shay as he sets in motion his latest conquest, a $50 million heroin deal that originates in Colombia and has federal agents sitting at attention from Los Angeles to Washington, D.C., to New York City. As it unfolds, O'Shay reveals the unerring instinct and ceaseless vigilance that have led him through minefields and brought down kingpins. But now they have led him to a place where it isn't so clear who the heroes are or what the fight has been for. And still the warrior fights on, in a murky and unforgiving landscape readers will not be able to forget.
Author: Gerlinde Pyron Publisher: Outskirts Press ISBN: 197720323X Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 270
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Growing up in rural Bavaria, Gerlinde didn’t know about Hitler’s regime in the way Americans learn about it in school. All she knew was the beauty and tragedy of daily life on the farm where she lived with her brother and sister, her mother, and her stepfather—she never knew her father, who was killed in the Siege of Leningrad. Experience country life in Germany in the 1940s and 1950s, through the eyes of an observant, imaginative child who watched as defeated German soldiers and their families tried to reinvent their lives after the war. From elaborate childhood games to the sobering reality of exhausting daily work, from the love and care of friends and neighbors to the heartbreak of a traumatized family, this compelling memoir is a testimony to the courage and grit of a girl who eventually came to America, fulfilling her own great-grandmother’s dream.
Author: John DeMers
Author: John DeMers
Author: Hipolito Acosta
Author: Joseph Wambaugh
Author: David W. Keller
Author: Judith Ypeij
Author: Joan Bingham
Author: Olga Maiorova
Author: Jeremy Slack
Author: Charles Bowden
Author: Gerlinde Pyron