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1	The Devil's Highway: A True Story more books like this by Luis Alberto Urrea add to wishlist Describes the attempt of twenty-six men to cross the Mexican border into the desert of southern Arizona, a region known as the Devil's Highway, detailing their harrowing ordeal and battle for survival against impossible odds. see all copies from $2.66! new only from $7.42! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
2	The Hummingbird's Daughter more books like this by Luis Alberto Urrea add to wishlist This epic novel tells the story of the illegitimate daughter of a Mexican nobleman named Don Tomàs Urrea. Teresita, who was conceived when Urrea raped a young Indian woman known as "the Hummingbird," becomes a healer who, at one point, dies and comes back to life. The miraculous girl is eventually adopted by her father, becoming educated, ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
3	Into the Beautiful North more books like this by Luis Alberto Urrea add to wishlist Nineteen-year-old Nayeli works at a taco shop in her Mexican village and dreams about her father, who journeyed to the US when she was young. Recently, it has dawned on her that he isn't the only man who has left town. In fact, there are almost no men in the village - they've all gone north. While watching The Magnificent Seven, Nayeli decides to ... see all copies from $8.57! new only from $12.49! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
4	In Search of Snow more books like this by Luis Alberto Urrea add to wishlist Mike McGurk is a sort of blue-collar Don Quixote whose search for love, and a life, in the Arizona desert takes him on a journey that leads from one unlikely adventure to the next. Mike struggles with the sometimes comic dilemma of manhood. Luis Alberto Urrea is the author of "Across the Wire". see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.00! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
5	By the Lake of Sleeping Children more books like this by Luis Alberto Urrea add to wishlist Sixteen portraits of people trapped between the worlds of Mexico and the United States--and ignored on both sides of the border. These are coupled with Urrea's own autobiographical reflections on his experiences coming of age in a Tijuana brothel, serving as a missionary, and shuttling illegals back to Mexico from the United States. see all copies from $3.65! new only from $7.26! \| signed copies \| SVS
6	Across the Wire: Life and Hard Times on the Mexican Border more books like this by Luis Alberto Urrea, John Lueders-Booth (Photographer) add to wishlist Much has been written about the hardships faced by Mexicans who have illegally crossed over into the United States, but until now almost no attention has been paid to the terrible living conditions these people suffer "across the wire" (behind the Mexican border), which forces so many of them to make the dangerous journey to the U.S. 15 photos. see all copies from $2.76! new only from $7.93! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
7	Nobody's Son: Notes from an American Life more books like this by Luis Alberto Urrea add to wishlist This memoir, the last of a literary trilogy by Luis Alberto Urrea, exposes the violence and tenderness that goes along with multiculturalism. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.64! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
8	Six Kinds of Sky: A Collection of Short Fiction more books like this by Luis Alberto Urrea add to wishlist "Home isn't just a place, it is also a language." Born in Tijuana, the son of an Anglo woman and a Mexican father, Urrea says that "Home isn't just a place, it is also a language." In these six stories--each wandering beneath different kinds of sky, from the thick Mazatlan starry night to the wide open spaces of the Sioux Nation in South Dakota- ... see all copies from $3.47! new only from $12.14! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
9	La Hija de La Chuparrosa more books like this by Luis Alberto Urrea, Enrique Hubbard Urrea (Translator) add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.94! \| SVS
10	Bordertown: The Odyssey of an American Place more books like this by Dr. Benjamin Heber Johnson, Jeffrey Gusky (Photographer), Luis Alberto Urrea (Foreword by) add to wishlist Mexico and America have met for eight generations on their shared border. In this compelling book, photographer Jeffrey Gusky and historian Benjamin Johnson capture this encounter through their mesmerizing portrayal of Roma, Texas. European culture left its mark here, but it was brought by mixed-race, Spanish-speaking pioneers who practiced Muslim ... see all copies from $25.00! new only from $32.88! \| first editions
11 view cover	Vatos more books like this by Luis Alberto Urrea, Jose Galvez, Benjamin Alire Saenz (Foreword by) add to wishlist One evening, Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer JosA(c) Galvez heard Luis Alberto Urrea read "Hymn to Vatos Who Will Never Be in a Poem" with its chant-like repetitions and its evocation of Chicano manhood. As Luis read each line, an image clicked in JosA(c)'s memory, and he knew that he had already taken that photograph. The result of that ... see all copies from $2.76! new only from $11.93! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
12 view cover	The Buried Sea: New and Selected Poems more books like this by Rane Arroyo, Luis Alberto Urrea (Foreword by) add to wishlist A poem is a living library, a hospitable planet in black space, a bell waiting to wear the music of motion across stilled lands. Writers are the carriers of the voices around us. We are writers and readers in dark times when words are correctly understood as powerful weapons. aFrom the Introduction Reading Rane Arroyoas poems is a little like ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.95! \| first editions \| SVS
13 view cover	Wandering Time: Western Notebooks more books like this by Luis Alberto Urrea add to wishlist Fleeing a failed marriage and haunted by ghosts of his past, Luis Alberto Urrea jumped into his car several years ago and headed west. Driving cross-country with a cat named Rest Stop, Urrea wandered the West from one Spring through the next. As nature opened Urrea's eyes, writing opened his heart. In journal entries that sparkle with discovery, ... see all copies from $2.25! new only from $22.94! \| signed copies \| first editions
14 view cover	Inherit the Land more books like this by Jack Lueders-Booth (Photographer), Professor Frank Gohlke (Afterword by), Luis Alberto Urrea (Foreword by) add to wishlist This wrenching photo essay by Jack Lueders-Booth provides a rare and intimate view of the personal lives, dwellings and struggles of families who live and work in the garbage dumps of Tijuana, Mexico. Lueders-Booth's penetrating photographs, made over a six-year period, are further illuminated in a personal way with an essay by prize-winning ... see all copies from $6.00! new only from $24.35! \| SVS
15 view cover	A World of Turtles: A Literary Celebration more books like this by Gregory McNamee (Editor), Luis Alberto Urrea (Editor) add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $14.00!
16 view cover	The Fever of Being more books like this by Luis Alberto Urrea add to wishlist "The Fever of Being" is a series of poems, some written entirely or partly in Spanish, ranging in mood from comic to tragic and dealing with Urrea's life within the Hispanic-Anglo border culture. see all copies from $4.65! signed copies \| first editions
17 view cover	Ghost Sickness: A Book of Poems more books like this by Luis Alberto Urrea add to wishlist Luis Urrea confronts head-on the ghosts and contradictions of his being -- his father, a dark and crazy macho Mexicano who Luis admired and dreaded as a young boy; his proud and lonely Anglo mother, so out of place in the heat of Tijuana; and the conflict of cultures and languages in his psyche. Ghost Sickness drives into that confusion with the ... see all copies from $8.53! signed copies \| first editions
18 view cover	The Voices of Hope/Las Voces de La Esperanza: Poems, Stories, and Drawings by the Children of La Esperanza, Guatemala/Poemas, Cuentos y Dibujos de Los Ninos de La Esperanza, Guatemala more books like this by Carolyn Alessio (Editor), Luis Alberto Urrea (Foreword by) add to wishlist Collected and translated by Carolyn Alessio, this bilingual anthology of poems, stories, memories, and philosophies was written and illustrated by the children of La Esperanza, Guatemala. Drawing upon the fortitude of their mothers, who began hand-sewing crafts to sell in the United States in order to survive the hardships of this war-torn, ... see all copies from $7.52! new only from $9.44!
19	Many Mountains Moving Vol. 2 No. 1: Burning Issues by Luis Alberto Urrea (Editor) add to wishlist see all copies from $3.46!
20	Gipsy Secret by Lourdes Urrea, Luis Alberto Montiel Villegas (Illustrator) add to wishlist There is a terrible secret menacing the Moliner family; it has been kept for 15 years and it returns to torment the life of this family. see all copies from $129.52!
21 view cover	Rumbo Al Hermoso Norte more books like this by Luis Alberto Urrea, Enrique Hubbard Urrea (Translator) add to wishlist Nayeli es una chica de diecinueve anos que trabaja en una taqueria de tres Camarones, un poblado mexicano. Ve en suenos a su padre, que emigro al norte cuando era nina. Recientemente se ha dado cuenta de que su padre no es el unico hombre que se ha ido del pueblo, de hecho ya casi no quedan hombres, todos se han ido al otro lado, a los Estados ... see all copies from $7.94! new only from $7.94! \| SVS
22	The Chinese Dragon by Lourdes Urrea, Luis Alberto Montiel Villegas (Illustrator) add to wishlist You can still find treasures hiding in the surroundings of old mine towns. Mariana, an old woman, had the gift to communicate with dead people, and her grandson Fernando went to a ranch looking for an ancient treasure and discovered an unknown family mystery. see all copies from $8.89!
23	Looking for Dancu by Lourdes Urrea, Luis Alberto Montiel Villegas (Illustrator) add to wishlist Inspector Rodriguez is trying to solve the mysteries case of some dead women. But he doesn't know that while he is looking for the murderer, his daughter will be trapped by an evil vampire. see all copies from $204.72!

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