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The Bounty Hunter Book On Its Way
 LawFuel.com
Bounty Hunter Duane 'Dog' Chapman is holding off on the release of his biography, entitled You Can Run But You Can't Hide, until August, according to a report carried on Canada.com. The book will cover his childhood, his early run-ins with the law as a member of a biker gang and continue all the way up to the Luster case.
The Kama Sutra: The Corrections
 Mike Sacks & Teddy Wayne
Page 29: The illustration of "Congress of the Cow" misidentifies the main participants. The male is "Rich Prince" (not Richard Prince from Highland, Illinois) and the female is "Compliant Servant" (not Cynthia Servantés from Cincinnati.) We regret the errors.
Kama Sutra: On Homosexuality
 The Kama Sutra of Vatsayayana
Vatsyayana moreover thinks that in all these things connected with love, everybody should act according to the custom of his country, and his own inclination.
New Book: Take Back - How the West was Lost
 Alexander Robles
Alexander Robles writes his first collection of work in the publication of 'Take Back – how the west was lost' in conjunction with Lulu, the world’s fastest-growing provider of print-on-demand books.
Iacocca Bashes Bush in New Book
 Gordon Trowbridge
In a book to be released Tuesday, the former Chrysler CEO - who supported Bush's first campaign in 2000 but backed Sen. John Kerry four years later - accused Bush of leading the nation to war "on a pack of lies" and lacking the basic components of good leadership.
Kurt Vonnegut, Writer of Classics of the American Counterculture, Dies at 84
 Dinitia Smith
Kurt Vonnegut, whose dark comic talent and urgent moral vision in novels like "Slaughterhouse-Five," "Cat's Cradle" and "God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater" caught the temper of his times and the imagination of a generation, died Tuesday night in Manhattan.
Collection, Festival to Honor Icon
 Ramón Rentería
Denise Chávez's novel "Loving Pedro Infante" describes the phenomenon in very blunt terms: "If you're Mejicana or Mejicano and don't know who Pedro Infante is, you should be tied to a hot stove with yucca rope and beaten with sharp dry corn husks as you stand in a vat of soggy fideos."
Book Review: The Children of NAFTA
 Alejandra Juarez
Children of NAFTA chronicles the personal stories of workers who have been directly impacted by NAFTA. Inevitably this journey takes us up north where the agricultural and meatpacking industries of the US are being deeply affected as well as down south to the now expanding maquiladoras in states like Coahuila and Puebla.
Lonely As a #@% Cloud? Wordsworth Raps
 NZPA
It was first published 200 years ago this year and has become England’s most easily-recognised poem. Now, William Wordsworth’s best known work has been given a 21st century upgrade.
Graphic Novel Review La Perdida by Jessica Abel
 Gina Ruiz
La Perdida is the story of Carla Olivares, a Mexican-American woman who decides to live in Mexico knowing virtually nothing about the real Mexico. She doesn't speak Spanish and she has the romantic view that Mexico is somehow perfect.
Pope Says Rich Nations "Plundered" Third World
 Reuters
Rich countries bent on power and profit have mercilessly "plundered and sacked" Africa and other poor regions and exported to them the "cynicism of a world without God," Pope Benedict writes in his first book.
Bolaño in Mexico
 Carmen Boullosa
When I stepped into the literary scene in Mexico City, clutching my first sheaf of poems and hoping to write many more, it was clear in a flash that the young poets had drawn their battle lines. It was 1974; the city's golden years were drawing to a close.
Mexican Poets on a Wild Quest
 Vinnie Wilhelm
When I began reading the Chilean novelist Roberto Bolaño's "The Savage Detectives" last month, I had already devoured the first three of his books to arrive in English and a story collection, and become a devoted fan. But I was still unprepared for "The Savage Detectives."
A Review of John Ross' Book, "Zapatistas"
 Stephen Lendman
John Ross is a Latin American correspondent and activist who's been living in and writing about Mexico for nearly four decades turning out some of the most important and incisive analysis of events there of anyone covering the country, its history, politics and people. Few writers anywhere make the country come alive like he can.
New Details on Famous Literary Fight
 Darcy Crowe
With one right hook, an epochal friendship was destroyed and a rift opened between two of Latin America's most celebrated authors.
Book Offers Tricks to Bring Mexican Style Home
 Claire Whitcomb
The hothouse colors, the hand-painted tiles, the lazy drift of hammocks and mosquito netting: If you visit Mexico, it's hard not to fall in love with the look and the lifestyle. But unlike a craft or curio that you can pack in your suitcase, Mexican style isn't always easy to bring back home.
The Irish Soldiers of Mexico
 Michael Hogan
If you are celebrating St. Patrick's Day here in Vallarta, you should know a bit of Mexican history. One of the least-known stories being that of the Irish battalion that fought on the Mexican side in the US-Mexico War of 1846–1848.
New Cookbook Touts Lighter Side of Mexican Cuisine
 hispanicmpr.com
A recently released cookbook, Mexican Light: Healthy Cuisine for Today’s Cook, focuses on preColumbian low in fat and high in fiber and vitamins diets of Mexico. The recipes and text are included in Spanish on facing pages.
Rumors of Castro Regime’s Imminent Demise Spark Interest in Cuban Diaspora as ‘Broken Paradise’ Hits Bookstores
 Tabitha Berg
Interest in pre-Communist Cuba and Cuban Diaspora issues have caused unprecedented interest in books about Cuba and Cuban Americans. Indeed, a quick Internet search will find an extraordinary 65,396 books currently available about Cuba. The best among them may be the new historical novel, Broken Paradise.
The Uncomfortable Dead
 David Cozy
Because Paco Ignacio Taibo is, in addition to being among the best-selling crime writers in the Spanish-speaking world, an intellectual and an activist makes it slightly less startling to find him collaborating on the latest Belascoaran Shayne novel, "The Uncomfortable Dead," with a real-life revolutionary, Subcomandante Marcos.
New Book Explains Unique Character & Culture of Mexicans & How to Interact with Them
 PRWEB
"Why Mexicans Think & Behave the Way They Do! - The Cultural Factors that Created the Character & Personality of Mexicans" removes the masks that have traditionally obscured the realities of Mexican culture.
Ex-President Fox Signs Book Deal to Publish Memoir 'Revolution of Hope'
 Traci Carl
Former Mexican President Vicente Fox is writing a memoir that will detail his ups and down with world leaders around the globe, from Cuba's Fidel Castro to President Bush, Viking announced Wednesday.
Gringos in Paradise at the Plaza
 PVNN
Author Barry Golson will be signing his new book "Gringos in Paradise," which tells the story of his and wife Thia's experiences as semiretired expatriates in Sayulita, at NVBookstore in Paradise Plaza Shopping Center on March 14th from 10 am-12 noon.
Ancient Tomb May Contain Jesus’ Family
 MSNBC
Since the 1970s, hundreds of tombs and thousands of ossuaries, or ancient bone boxes, have been uncovered in the holy land. But one tomb unearthed in Talpiot in 1980 is being looked at differently now because it once held a box with this inscription: Jesus, son of Joseph.
With One Word, Children’s Book Sets Off Uproar
 Julie Bosman
The word “scrotum” does not often appear in polite conversation. Or children’s literature, for that matter. Yet there it is on the first page of “The Higher Power of Lucky,” by Susan Patron, this year’s winner of the Newbery Medal, the most prestigious award in children’s literature.
Tenet Fires Back at Rice in New Book
 Mark Mazzetti & Julie Bosman
For the past two years, George J. Tenet has maintained a determined silence even as senior White House officials have laid the blame for the prewar mistakes about Saddam Hussein on him. But now Mr. Tenet, the nation's former spy chief, is preparing to return fire.
Heed These Valuable Lessons Before You Retire South of the Border
 Robert DiGiacomo
If a place with beautiful beaches, flowing margaritas and a low cost of living is your idea of retirement paradise, Mexico is within reach. But what would it really be like?
The Green-Zoning of America
 Paul Krugman
One of the best of the many recent books about the Iraq debacle is Rajiv Chandrasekaran's "Imperial Life in the Emerald City." The book tells a tale of hopes squandered in the name of politicization and privatization.
Simpson Transcript Describes Murder
 Russ Buettner & Edward Wyatt
In November O. J. Simpson sat for what would have been one of the most unusual interviews in television history — a hypothetical recounting of how, if he had been the killer, he might have murdered his ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her friend Ronald L. Goldman more than a decade ago.
Indie Books Indulge the Senses in Latin American Life
 Christine Delsol
Those fleeing to southern climes will find that some of the most interesting books about Mexico and other parts of Latin America right now are coming from independent presses; many are self-published.
Everyday He Writes The Book
 Victor Cruz-Lugo
Camilo Lara happens to be a touring music artist following the release of Méjico Máxico, the Latintronica CD released February under his stage name Mexican Institute of Sound. But on lonely quiet evenings at home, the self-described “record junkie” hammers away at his magnum opus, his first novel, tentatively titled Messages to Myself.
Guanajuato: The Death of Heritage
 Doug Bower
San Miguel de Allende is a perfect example of how the influence of such a large, and might I add, excessively demanding American enclave has changed the town from colonial Mexico to Gentrified Mexico.
Modern Mexico... and How It Got That Way
 Kelly Arthur Garrett
Rubén Gallo's "Mexican Modernity" is an unexpected joy to read and to look at. Gallo necessarily writes in the language of the art critic, but his prose is snoot-free, friendly, and never tedious.
Judge Throws Out Libel Charges Against Mexican Journalist Who Wrote Book on Pedophilia
 Associated Press
A Mexican judge has thrown out libel charges against a journalist who wrote a book on pedophilia that sparked a scandal involving several prominent businessmen and a state governor.
A Gathering of Fugitives
 PVNN
Diana Anhalt’s book, "A Gathering of Fugitives," which tells the story of more than sixty American families who sought refuge in Mexico during the so-called McCarthy era, and has been out-of-print for some time, is now available as a free e-book.
'Bluelist': Top Trips Around the World
 Don George
To inspire travelers' adventures in the new year, Lonely Planet has just published the "Bluelist," a 260-page compendium of top places to go and things to do around the world, compiled from our globe-girdling staff, authors and on-the-road travelers.
Going for the Gold ... via Northern Mexico
 Kelly Arthur Garrett
California history is Mexican history. It didn´t stop being so when the flags changed over Sonoma and Los Angeles in the 1840s, and it is still so today. The flow of North American history darts and tacks along both sides of the border like the butterfly in that haiku poem they made you learn in school.
Simpson Sued Again, Over Book Proceeds
 Sharon Waxman
The ghosts of the trial of the century — last century — came haunting on Tuesday, when Fred Goldman, the father of the murder victim Ronald L. Goldman, sued O. J. Simpson in a California court for fraud, alleging that a recent book and television deal were structured to cheat Mr. Goldman out of damages owed him from a civil judgment.
Move Over San Miguel de Allende: Here I Come
 Doug Bower
I’ve written quite a bit about The Ugly American Syndrome. In my columns, print and online magazines, and in every book I’ve written, I’ve mentioned this topic. I get a lot of mail from readers, either praising and agreeing with me or chiding and condemning me.
PV Writers Group Weekend Workshop, February 2-4, 2007
 David Lyons
No matter where your writing interests may lie; whether your focus is poetry, fiction or non-fiction, stage plays or screenplays, you won't want to miss the Puerto Vallarta Writers Group's Second Annual Weekend Workshop from February 2-4, 2007.
Author Takes an Honest Look at Global Insecurity
 Stephanie R. Olson
Reading Eve Ensler's "Insecure at Last" gives you the feeling that she is drawn to disasters like a moth to a flame. She interviews victims of ethnic cleansing in Bosnia, researches how Sri Lankan victims of the 2005 tsunami grieve and travels to such global hot spots as Afghanistan and Kosovo.
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