Crossing with the Virgin: Stories from the Migrant Trail By Kathryn Ferguson, Norma A. Price, and Ted Parks The University of Arizona Press, Tucson: 2010 Available from Amazon Books: Paperback Crossing with the Virgin: Stories from the Migrant Trail is a powerful book! Four thousand people — men, women, and children — over the past ten years have died […]
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By “Mexico” Mike Nelson The University of Texas-Pan American Press Edinburg, Texas 2010 Available from Amazon Books: Paperback “Mexico” Mike Nelson writes a working-man prose, sturdy, usually direct, often repetitive, sometimes rambling… but usually interesting. I like his books and have found them useful, and I particularly like the “human touch” that is one of Mike’s […]
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Paradise Valley A Novel By Dale Cramer Bethany House, 2011 Available from Amazon Books: Paperback I grew up in “Amish country,” in Ashland County, Ohio, a county adjacent to Holmes County, home to the world’s largest population of Amish (more than a third of Holmes county residents speak Pennsylvania German or German at home). I now […]
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Revolutionary Days: A Chronology of the Mexican Revolution By Ray Acosta Editorial Mazatlán, 2010 Available from the publisher and from Amazon Books: Hardcover Ray Acosta is a second generation Mexican-American His grandparents came from four different parts of Mexico… having fled during the height of the Mexican Revolution. After watching Ken Burns’ TV epic on the […]
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San Miguel de Allende: A Place in the Heart – Expatriates Find Themselves Living in Mexico By John Scherber Outskirts Press, Inc., 2010 Available from Amazon Books: Paperback I like to read about the daily lives of ordinary people, why they live where they do, what they do with their days, how place — sometimes new place — affects them, […]
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The Mango Orchard: The Extraordinary True Story of Family Lost and Found By Robin Bayley Random House UK, 2012 Available from Amazon Books: Paperback I suspect that more than a few readers of MexConnect have fantasized about discovering a fascinating ancestor who lived in turbulent times and exotic places and then, by literally following in his […]
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In a God’s Eye By Elizabeth Kelly www.createspace.com, 2011 Available from Amazon Books: Paperback This book begins well but it does not end well. Our protagonist, now living in Cholula — “the oldest living city in the western world” — is a kindly old lady named Gina. She is a “good deal older” than her circle […]
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San Miguel de Allende, Guanajuato & The Bajío By Julie Doherty y Meade A Moon Handbook First Edition Avalon Travel, 2011 Available from Amazon Books: Paperback I like the Moon Handbooks and I own several of them — well used, I might add. They are sturdy, easy to read, compact and therefore easily packable whether in luggage or […]
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Moving to Mexico’s Lake Chapala: Checklists, How-To’s, and Practical Information and Advice for Expats and Retirees By Lisa L. Jorgensen Mexico Expat Press, 2012 Available from Amazon Books: Paperback This book really does tell you about everything you need to know if you are planning to move to Lake Chapala, one of the most popular retirement […]
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Migration (an anthology of poems) By Bill Frayer Margarita Publishing, 2011 Available from Available from Amazon Books: Kindle edition Bill Frayer just can’t stop cranking out poems based on his two favorite themes: his new life in Mexico and his old life — particularly family memories — in the States. Migration is his third book in a little […]
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