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Best of the Cookbooks
 Lesley Chesterman
Where do you turn to for recipes? Mom... the Internet... newspapers and magazines...or the back of the Chipits package? 'All of the above' is my answer, yet my primary source is still cookbooks.
20 Nigger Laws and Other Difficult Truths
 Robert A. Kezelis
Offended yet? You should be. But, I'll bet you didn't know that every Confederate State passed "20 nigger laws" intended to exempt men from military service when they oversaw 20 or more slaves.
Immigrant Teenager Writes Book About Her American Dream
 Canadian Press
"Mi sueno de America/My American Dream," tells the story of the obstacles Yuliana Gallegos had to overcome in her first year in the United States and offers lessons for other young people who may feel like outsiders.
American Xenophobes Need Mexican Immigration Facts, Not Fences
 Bill Murray
The immigration debate is as pointless as it is emotive, Los Angeles Times columnist Gregory Rodriguez argues in "Mongrels, Bastards, Orphans and Vagabonds," a book that traces more than 300 years of Hispanic influence on North American culture and politics
Royalties Trump Loyalties
 Matt Apuzzo
White House press secretaries, who speak for the president and appear before the nation on his behalf, have traditionally kept their secrets while their bosses are in office. That unwritten rule has faded in the face of big advances for political tell-all books.
The End of America? Naomi Wolf Thinks It Could Happen
 ENTBK-BYLINE
An interview with author Naomi Wolf, whose new book, "The End of America: Letter of Warning to a Young Patriot," may confirm your worries about democracy in America.
Former Aide Confirms: Bush Lied
 Agence France-Presse
In "What Happened: Inside the Bush White House and What's Wrong with Washington" due to published on April 21, Scott McClellan names Bush and Cheney as among the officials responsible for allowing him to mislead the public over a CIA leak.
On Mexican Time
 Janna Cawrse
Did you ever read that book, On Mexican Time? It's about an American couple who goes through the slow, painstaking, but ultimately satisfying process of building a house in Mexico. My girlfriend loved the book so much she reads it every time she takes a trip south of the border.
Resourceful Traveler: Guidebooks and Narrative Travel
 June Sawyers
Here's a quick look at some of the newest destination guides to help you plan getting the most out of the time you travel, and your hard-earned travel dollars.
'Mongrels, Bastards, Orphans, and Vagabonds,' by Gregory Rodriguez
 Yxta Maya Murray
Gregory Rodriguez's brilliant book on Mexican and Mexican American identity, "Mongrels, Bastards, Orphans, and Vagabonds: Mexican Immigration and the Future of Race in America," threatens my secret dream that I am a direct descendant of some feather-clad Aztec warrior princess who ruled over a Mexica queendom circa 1500.
Biblioteca Higuera Holiday Fundraiser
 Pamela Thompson
Get a jump-start on your Christmas shopping and help support the Children's Library in El Pitillal at the same time! With Christmas just around the corner, you won't want to miss the Biblioteca Higuera Holiday Boutique Benefit on November 26th.
Travel Classics Writers Conference 2008
 PVNN
Professional travel writers who've published a minimum of three major magazine articles within the last 18 months are invited to the 2008 Travel Classics Writers Conference at the Grand Hotel Villa Serbelloni in Bellagio, Italy April 17-20, 2008.
Civilisation Ends With a Shutdown of Human Concern. Are We There Already?
 George Monbiot
Cormac McCarthy's book The Road considers what would happen if the world lost its biosphere, and the only living creatures were humans, hunting for food among the dead wood and soot.
Revealing the Fox
 Paul D. Perry
I was a little concerned about the title that former President of Mexico Vicente Fox chose for his book, “Revolution of Hope: The Life, Faith, and Dreams of a Mexican President.” Ironically, this autobiography’s first printing is available in English only. Obviously we in the United States are the target audience.
After Applause, Mexico's Mega-Library Sinks in the Rain
 DPA
It seems a bit of rain was enough to jeopardize Mexico's most modern library, the Jose Vasconcelos "mega-library" in Mexico City, opened in great pomp last year at a cost of some 120 million dollars, but it was only open for 10 months and will now most likely remain closed until late January 2008.
'¡Ask a Mexican!' Walks a Bold but Delicate Satirical Line
 Sam McManis
What began as a lark, a total journalistic goof, in the pages of the alternative OC Weekly three years ago has unexpectedly catapulted the career of Gustavo Arellano. Arellano, 28, pens the satirical "¡Ask a Mexican!" column that now appears in 28 papers, and reaches an estimated 1.8 million readers.
Fuentes Discusses Mexican Identity
 Tasnim Shamma
Carlos Fuentes, a renowned Mexican novelist, scholar and diplomat, presented his view of Mexican history and national identity at a recent lecture at Princeton University.
Plame Book Criticizes Bush, Journalists
 Matt Apuzzo
Four years after her CIA cover was blown in a newspaper column, Valerie Plame is settling scores with the Bush administration, Republican lawmakers and the journalists involved in the White House leak scandal.
Edward James Olmos LA Latino Book Festival Immigration Forum
 Hispanic PR Wire
Award winning actor Edward James Olmos hosts Immigration Forum at annual Book Festival with high profile Hispanic leaders Hector Flores, Alex Nogales, Margaret Donnelly, Ruben Navarrette, and others.
Bush Was 'So Deeply, Deeply Wrong,' Says Fox
 Excerpts from new book 'Revolution of Hope,' by Vicente Fox and Rob Allyn
"... I said that the United States needed our workers because there is no doubt that Mexicans are doing jobs that not even blacks want to do there in the United States. Bad wording. Bad day at Los Pinos."
Manifest Destinies: The Making of the Mexican American Race
 Laura E. Gómez
In Manifest Destinies: The Making of the Mexican American Race, Laura Gómez sets out to write “an antidote to historical amnesia about the key nineteenth-century events that produced the first Mexican Americans.”
Dallas Consultant Says Telling Fox's Story Long but Easy Process
 Laurence Iliff
Vicente Fox left office Dec. 1 as the first president from an opposition party in 71 years. Three days later, he sat down at his Guanajuato ranch with Dallas political consultant Rob Allyn to write a political memoir now making waves.
Katz’s “The Face of Pancho Villa”
 Jenny Shank
The Face of Pancho Villa is the latest title in the Cinco Puntos Press Mexican Revolution Collection, and it’s aptly named: Villa’s immediately recognizable face stares out of from almost every photo in the book, with his heavy moustache, round cheeks and chin, and mischievous dark eyes.
Vicente Fox Admits That He and George W. Bush have ’Agreed’ on Common Currency, North American Union
 WebWire
Speaking on the Larry King show, former Mexican President Vicente Fox confirmed every assertion made by Jerome Corsi in his new book, NY Times bestseller "The Late Great U.S.A: The Coming Merger with Mexico and Canada."
Vicente Fox Outlines a 'Revolution of Hope'
 Reed Johnson
Here's some unsolicited advice for Mexico's former president Vicente Fox: When you write an autobiography in which you lambaste your political predecessors as "kleptopresidents," it's best not to publish it shortly after appearing with your wife in a magazine photo spread featuring your lavish, multimillion-dollar ranch estate.
Book Review: 'Seizing Destiny'
 David M. Kinchen
Avant la lettre – before it had a name – "Manifest Destiny" was an integral part of the American ethos, argues Richard Kluger in "Seizing Destiny: How America Grew from Sea to Shining Sea."
Did Fox Call Bush Cocky? He's Mum
 Hugh Dellios
In an interview with Tribune editors Tuesday, former Mexican President Vicente Fox refused to confirm or deny reports that he calls President Bush "the cockiest guy I have ever met in my life" in his new memoirs, scheduled to come out next month.
Author James "Tad" Geiger MD Sets Sail on World’s Biggest Book Launch Party
 PR.com
James Geiger MD, author of The Sweet Smell of Success, will sign books aboard the ms Oosterdam. Geiger will join other authors who have recently written books. The 7-day Mexican Riviera Cruise is hosted by Bob Proctor, one of the stars of the hit movie The Secret.
Another Take on Tradition
 Karen Nitkin
In Hanukkah Moon, a new book by writer Deborah Clayman, a child dreams of a moon "shaped like a giant dreidel that pops open showering the world with Hanukkah gifts."
Women of the World, Unite!
 Jann Huizenga
Move over all you Marco Polos, Ernest Shackletons, Bruce Chatwins — you armies of men who long ago defined wanderlust as an all-male preserve. We itchy-footed women are laying our own claim to the big wide world. And now, to cheer us on and offer us direction, we’ve got Stephanie Elizondo Griest’s 100 Places Every Woman Should Go.
Bush's "War on Terror" Tactics Make America Less Safe, Less Free
 William Fisher
In a new book, "Less Safe, Less Free: Why America Is Losing the War on Terror," law professors David Cole and Jules Lobel argue that the problem lies in the aggressive "preventive paradigm" the Bush administration adopted in the wake of 9/11.
Letters Reveal Mother Teresa's Doubt About Faith
 Daniel Trotta
A book of letters written by Mother Teresa of Calcutta reveals for the first time that she was deeply tormented about her faith and suffered periods of doubt about God.
Oaxaca: A Sign of What May Be to Come for the Rest of Mexico
 Paul Bocking
The People Decide is a diary-like compilation by Nancy Davies of day to day first-person news stories chronicling the movement led by the Popular Assembly of the Peoples of Oaxaca (APPO) and the state local of the national teacher’s union.
Frida Kahlo's Last Secret Finally Revealed
 Javier Espinoza
The artist's confessions to her doctor were locked up for 50 years. Now the details of her misery at not being able to bear children have been exposed.
OJ Simpson Blames Ghost Author Over Murder Book
 Steve Gorman
Former U.S. football star O.J. Simpson said on Tuesday his hypothetical account of killing his ex-wife in his aborted memoir "If I Did It" was crafted by a ghost writer and was full of errors.
San Miguel de Allende Authors Sala Celebrates 4th Anniversary with 22-Author Book Fair Aug. 4
 Carol Schmidt
Four years ago local authors organized the San Miguel Authors Sala to support and encourage San Miguel writers and bring their works to a broader audience. To celebrate its fourth anniversary, the Sala will host a 22-author Book Fair Saturday, Aug. 4, 5-7 pm at the Hotel Posada de San Francisco.
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