Border

Sweet (and sugar-addicted) programmer Kippei is an invaluable part of his team! But when a client's case regarding a long-lost heir suddenly brings the bright young boy into the spotlight, everyone is

Yamato is man with a darkly dramatic past. Perhaps it is no surprise that he now runs his own detective agency. With a staff of three misfits that are practically family to him, he does whatever it ta

Border is the eleventh work of fiction written by the author Judith Lea Koretsky. These stories tell of shipping and trade in the Puerto Rico islands, commerce with the United States, and border cust

Two worlds collide when the corruption and crime from one of Mexico's most violent cartels spreads over the border. Taylor Woodall, a sophomore at the University of Texas, has been kidnapped in Cancun

Under the current cartographies of globalism, where frontiers mutate, vacillate, and mark the contiguity of discourse, questioning the Spanish border seems a particularly urgent task. The volume engag

Border Ransom is the account of fifteen-year-old Cooper Harrison's first weeks in El Paso in August 1914, where she's joined her estranged paternal grandparents after the death of her parents. As she

Winner of the 1993 Baltic Assembly PrizeAn immediate sensation upon its 1993 publication in Europe, already translated into more than a dozen languages, Border State is a brilliantly realized account

Border Bandits is an account of the many, many stories of back and forth skirmishes between the Mexicans and Texans during the late 1800s and early 1900s. There practically wasn't a border, which caus

A guide to owning the overachiever of the dog world?eager to please, and a?glutton for more work or play?Border collies are a working breed and excel in agility as well as obedience training. This gui

The editors of this book distributed digital cameras and return envelopes to 600 people--a combination of Mexicans migrating to the U.S. and the American volunteer border watchmen known as Minutemen--

Border Health offers a wide range of studies involving health care and health promotion on the US - Mexican border.

Border Bang is a passionate love letter to the Tijuana and US border, documenting the bootleg artifacts sold to locals and tourists alike. Reappropriating the bombardment of pop culture images is the

A timely thriller about US law enforcement officers on the Mexican border by TV broadcaster Lou DobbsThe border is a tough place to work, especially for FBI agent Tom Eriksen, and when an investigatio

Are you a border hoarder -you're not quite a hoarder but you're right on the border? In today's world, we own too much stuff and seem to have too little room to put it. This book will help you under

The land border between Russia and the European Union is one of the longest land borders in the world, with very considerable trade flowing across the border in both directions. This book examines the

The border between the United States and Mexico, despite attempts at containment, remains a vast and uniquely malleable yet indefinable region. With "Border Culture," Ilan Stavans has collected essays

Brandon Vanderkool’s severe dyslexia and six-foot-eight height give him an unusual perspective on his new job with the American Border Patrol, along the Washington/BC border — just

“U.S. residents are largely unaware that Mexicans also view their northern border with concern, and at times even alarm. Border communities, such as Ciudad Juarez and Tijuana, have long been subjected

From award-winning author Mitali Perkins comes her timely debut picture book about love overcoming the border fences between Mexico and the United States.It's almost time for Christmas, and Maria is traveling with her mother and younger brother, Juan, to visit their grandmother on the border of California and Mexico.For the few minutes they can share together along the fence, Maria and her brother plan to exchange stories and Christmas gifts with the grandmother they haven't seen in years. But when Juan's gift is too big to fit through the slats in the fence, Maria has a brilliant idea. She makes it into a kite that soars over the top of the iron bars.Here is a heartwarming tale of multicultural families, and the miracle of love.

The instant New York Times bestseller, "A must-read for anyone who thinks 'build a wall' is the answer to anything." --EsquireFor Francisco Cantú, the border is in the blood: his mother, a park ranger and daughter of a Mexican immigrant, raised him in the scrublands of the Southwest. Haunted by the landscape of his youth, Cantú joins the Border Patrol. He and his partners are posted to remote regions crisscrossed by drug routes and smuggling corridors, where they learn to track other humans under blistering sun and through frigid nights. They haul in the dead and deliver to detention those they find alive. Cantú tries not to think where the stories go from there.Plagued by nightmares, he abandons the Patrol for civilian life. But when an immigrant friend travels to Mexico to visit his dying mother and does not return, Cantú discovers that the border has migrated with him, and now he must know the whole story. Searing and unforgettable, The Line Becomes a River goes behind the headlines

A father reluctantly crosses the Mexican border to rescue his estranged son mixed up in the drug trade. It will take everything they have to make it back alive.

A father reluctantly crosses the Mexican border to rescue his estranged son mixed up in the drug trade. It will take everything they have to make it back alive.

A bittersweet farewell to the world and the word by the Australian master“The mind is a place best viewed from borderlands . . .”Border Districts, purportedly the Australian master Gerald Murnane’s fi

Perfect for readers of This Is Where it Ends, The Border is a gripping drama about four teens, forced to flee home after a deadly cartel rips apart their families. They must now face life-threatening

"For Hâector and Lilia, pursuit of the American Dream became every parent's worst fear: their infant daughter vanished in the midst of their border crossing from Mexico to the United States. With grea

The several essays that comprise Border Towns chase, worry, and trouble ideas about situation and reference. As a group, the essays’ topics—color, lycanthropy, African-Canadian history, cooking, publi

This project presents a unique collaboration between photographer Richard Misrach and composer and performer Guillermo Galindo. Misrach has been photographing the 2,000-mile border between the US and

A TOWN OF SURVIVORSNestled on the border of New Mexico since long before there was a New Mexico, the small town of San Ildefonso had survived a lot. Marauding Indians, bandoleros, soldiers in blue and

"This book presents a distinctive theoretical approach to the problem of borders in the study of global politics. It turns from current debates about the presence or absence of borders between states

From the author of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize—nominated Bad Traffic, a fast-paced adventure novel about two young backpackers who find themselves in serious trouble in the jungle of Southeast As

The drug war that has turned Juarez, Mexico, into a killing field that has claimed more than 7,000 lives since 2008 captures headlines almost daily. But few accounts go all the way down to the streets

The Tea Party and its allies celebrate the rogue states of the Southwest as a modelfor the nation in their go-it-alone posturing and tough immigration-enforcement talk. In BorderWars, dogged investiga

During the 1840s and 1850s, a dangerous ferment afflicted the North-South border region, pitting the slave states of Maryland, Virginia, Kentucky, and Missouri against the free states of New Jersey, P

Set in the previously sleepy hinterlands straddling Washington state and British Columbia, Border Songs is the story of Brandon Vanderkool, six foot eight, frequently tongue-tied, severely dyslexic, a

The mixed-race son of apple pickers, Manz lives with his hard-drinking mother and her truck-driver boyfriend in the hardscrabble world of dusty Rockhill, Texas. Forced to take a summer job rebuilding

First published in 1934, Border Town brings to life the story of Cuicui, a young country girl coming of age during a time of national turmoil. Like any teenager, Cuicui dreams of romance and finding t

Six foot eight and severely dyslexic, Brandon Vanderkool has always had an unusual perspective - which comes in handy once his father pushes him off their dairy farm and into the Border Patrol. He us

In the sequel to Border Lord, Lady Alpin MacKay storms Kildalton Castle, determined to reclaim the property that had been stolen by her childhood nemesis, the handsome Scottish lord Malcolm Kerr. Orig

The twelve chapters presented here by Vizcaya (colonial studies, Hofstra U.) and Doubleday (history, Hofstra U.) are united in their understanding of Spanish "borders" as historical and ideological co

This collection of poems rooted in the wild and beautiful lands that lie between England and Scotland describes a traditionally lawless area whose inhabitants owed allegiance first to kin and laird an