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Books
 Ahhhh, vacation . . . Vacations provide us with an ocean of free time, time to rest, relax - and catch up on your reading! There's nothing quite like sitting on the beach with a good book, and deciding what to read on vacation is half the fun. If you are looking for some good "beach reading" for your Puerto Vallarta vacation, you've come to the right place!
In Puerto Vallarta there are many bookstores, sidewalk coffee shops and cyber cafes scattered around Old Town, where you can find used books in English for sale and/or exchange. "Page In the Sun," across the street from Playa Los Arcos Hotel, has a good selection, "The Book Store" on Carranza offers newly released English books and magazines, and the Los Mangos Public Library on the road to Pitillal has a nice English-language section plus quite a few magazines and newspapers.
If you are staying in Nuevo Vallarta, stop by NVBookstore on the second floor of the Paradise Plaza Shopping Center for Best Sellers and newly released books in English.
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Little Pieces of Los Angeles, Done His Way
 Janet Maslin
He wrote a book but it was bad, liar bad, faker bad, it got him in trouble. A million little pieces. It was the name of the book. It was also how hard he got hit. He had to sit there on the couch. Everybody saw. The television celebrity book club woman got mad, she let him have it. He had to sit there on the couch. He squirmed, he cringed. Everybody watched, everybody blamed him. Then it was over. Then he was gone.
Poet Fined for Insulting Mexican Flag, Calls Ruling Threat to Free Speech
 Associated Press
Mexican poet Sergio Witz Rodriguez, has been fined about US $5 for desecrating the country's flag by writing a poem in 2000 about using it to wipe up urine and excrement.
The New Frontier
 Zane Fischer
Historietas - pocket-sized comic books - have been popular and widely available in Mexico for many years, but Arellano’s may be the first hybrid historieta, bridging the US and Mexico on paper in a way that has yet to manifest in real life.
Mexico Votes for Fixed Prices
 Barbara Casassus
The Mexican Senate or upper house of parliament has voted by a massive majority to introduce fixed book prices. The law was adopted by the Senate on 29th April by 107 votes in favour, two against and five abstentions.
"Puerto Vallarta 2008"
 Judy Babcock Wylie
This is an unusually good guidebook that goes beyond the usual listings of restaurants and activities to include background on culture, food and the history of the people who live here.
Brenda Martin Called Scapegoat
 Brookes Merritt
Brenda Martin should never have stayed in Mexico after her boss's empire of fraud started crumbling, says Canadian Roger Harrison who's penned a book about the infamous $60-million TriWest Internet Ponzi scheme.
Noted Mexican Novelist Scoffs at Need for Fences
 Sandra Dibble
In a talk titled “Globalization: A New Deal for a New Age,” Carlos Fuentes predicted yesterday that “frontiers are going to be erased and new communities are going to rise up” that transcend existing borders.
How Many Earth Days Do We Have Left?
 Terrence McNally
Of all the resources needed to build an economy that will sustain economic progress, none is more scarce than time. That is one of the key messages of PLAN-B 3.0: Mobilizing to Save Civilization, the newest book by Lester Brown.
ˇAsk a Mexican!
 Gustavo Arellano
Dear Readers: The paperback version of my book is out in stores now, cheap enough so that even a Guatemalan can afford it. Buy it, por favor! Now, on to the preguntas...
Writers & Company Continues Its Special on Contemporary Mexican Writers
 Words At Large
Eleanor Wachtel explores the literary landscape of our other NAFTA partner in the special "Mexico Unmasked." Her conversations with some of that country’s most influential writers counter the stereotypes many continue to hold about the place.
Diego Rivera: The Complete Murals
 Jane Ure-Smith
The great pleasure of Diego Rivera: the Complete Murals, published last November in Spanish to mark the 50th anniversary of the artist's death - and now, finally, available in English - is that you can pore over every detail of the artist's work, the details you inevitably miss if you see the works in situ.
Mexico Marks Octavio Paz Anniversary
 Reed Johnson
This week marks the 10th anniversary of the death of Octavio Paz, the Nobel Prize-winning Mexican poet, writer and diplomat.
Hemingway´s Home... in Cuba
 Brian Hicks
He was an old man who worked alone in a house on a hill outside Havana, and it is here that he wrote the story of a great fish. And today, it is not so different from when he left it.
Jehovah's Witness Has Crisis of Conscience
 David A. Reed
The author, Raymond Franz, had been under ban by the Watchtower Society since 1981, when he was excommunicated for eating a meal with a previously banned individual, his landlord. Five million Jehovah's Witnesses are now forbidden to speak to Franz, read his book, or even say "Hello" if they pass him on the street.
Intimidating the Press
 Dan Froomkin
The publication of a new book by Eric Lichtblau is calling attention to how the White House successfully persuaded the Times to suppress its expose of the Bush administration's warrantless surveillance program in the fall of 2004 - when it might have had a profound effect on President Bush's reelection hopes.
Book Review: Behind Colombian Coal
 Jeffery R. Webber
Two of the editors, Aviva Chomsky and Steve Striffler, are scholar-activists, and Garry Leech is a journalist, author, activist and editor of the on-line publication, Colombia Journal.
Meet Vallarta's Authors at NVBookstore in Nuevo Vallarta
 PVNN
Five of Vallarta's favorite published authors will get together at the NVBookstore in Paradise Plaza Mall in Nuevo Vallarta for a group book signing symposium on Wednesday, April 9th from 10:30 am until 12 Noon (Jalisco time.)
Try Reading a Book Before You Ban It
 Bill Maxwell
Here we go again. Parents are upset with language or a specific word in the books their children are reading at school. This time, as in many other instances nationwide, the offender is the N-word.
In Mexico: On the Lam With Ken Kesey
 Lawrence Downes
I am in the ocean, doing nothing, just bobbing. I said I was doing nothing, but I’m actually trying to summon somebody: Ken Kesey, novelist, psychedelic prophet, leader of the Merry Pranksters, hero of “The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test.” It was here, on this beach, that he took to the waves as I did, back in 1966.
Book Details U.S. Pressure On Allies Before War
 Colum Lynch
In the months leading up to the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq, the Bush administration threatened trade reprisals against friendly countries who withheld their support, spied on its allies, and pressed for the recall of U.N. envoys that resisted U.S. pressure to endorse the war, according to an upcoming book by a top Chilean diplomat.
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