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The Charles Bowden Reader by Charles Bowden
RRP: $29.66Booksplease Price: $25.95"I will make bold to say that Bowden is America's most alarming writer. Just when you think you've heard it all you learn you haven't in the most pungent manner possible. . . . With The Charles... -
Mezcal by Charles Bowden
RRP: $18.05Booksplease Price: $17.63Praise for Mezcal:"Mezcal is also a lyrical meditation upon the ultimate strength of the land, specifically the desert Southwest, and how that land prevails and endures despite every effort of modern... -
Sonata by Charles Bowden
RRP: $25.79Booksplease Price: $22.52"I believe every sunrise and I remember the smell of wet grass, the color of robins, and rustle of leaves on the big oaks that outlive nations, all this comes with each sunrise."Sonata marks the... -
Jericho by Charles Bowden
RRP: $25.79Booksplease Price: $22.24When Charles Bowden died in 2014, he left behind an archive of unpublished manuscripts. Jericho marks the fifth installment in his venerable "Unnatural History of America" sextet. In it he invokes... -
Inferno by Charles Bowden 9780292713307
RRP: $46.44Booksplease Price: $40.42One of America's foremost environmental writers joins with an acclaimed landscape photographer to create an unmatched portrait of the Sonoran Desert in all its harsh beauty. Winner, Southwest Book... -
Red Line by Charles Bowden 9781477316610
RRP: $18.05Booksplease Price: $16.23"At its best, Red Line can read like an original synthesis of Peter Matthiessen and William Burroughs . . . a brave and interesting book." -David Rieff, Los Angeles Times Book Review"Charles Bowden's... -
Desierto: Memories of the Future by Charles Bowden
RRP: $18.05Booksplease Price: $16.23"A dark, troubling vision of life in the desert, defined broadly; of mountain lions and drug kingpins, Mexican hopes and Indian feuds."-Los Angeles Times"In these powerful epic tales of the Sonora... -
Exodus/Exodo by Charles Bowden 9780292718142
RRP: $51.60Booksplease Price: $45.47Immigration has become one of the most important and contentious issues of our time. But even as policy makers in the United States and Mexico argue over what to do about the half million or more... -
Blue Desert by Charles Bowden 9780816537914
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $21.52Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780816537914Author Charles BowdenFormat PaperbackPage Count 184Imprint -
Blue Desert by Charles Bowden 9780816510818
Booksplease Price: $19.41Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780816510818Author Charles BowdenFormat PaperbackPage Count 179Imprint -
Frog Mountain Blues by Charles Bowden 9780816537921
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $21.25Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780816537921Author Charles BowdenFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint -
Killing the Hidden Waters by Charles Bowden 9780292743069
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $17.49In the quarter-century since his first book, Killing the Hidden Waters, was published in 1977, Charles Bowden has become one of the premier writers on the American environment, rousing a generation... -
Dakotah: The Return of the Future Charles Bowden 9781477334300
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $21.25"On a bend, I will see it, a piece of ground off to the side. I will know the feel of this place: the leaves stir slowly on the trees, dry air smells like dust, birds dart and the trails are made by... -
The Red Caddy: Into the Unknown with Edward Abbey by Charles Bowden
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $17.25A passionate advocate for preserving wilderness and fighting the bureaucratic and business forces that would destroy it, Edward Abbey (1927-1989) wrote fierce, polemical books such as Desert... -
El Sicario: The Autobiography of a Mexican Assassin by Charles Bowden 9781568586588
Booksplease Price: $16.82In this unprecedented and chilling monologue, a repentant Mexican hitman tells the unvarnished truth about the war on drugs on the American. El Sicario is the hidden face of America's war on drugs... -
Blood Orchid: An Unnatural History of America by Charles Bowden 9781477316849
RRP: $18.05Booksplease Price: $16.23Through stark observations and visceral experiences, Blood Orchid begins Charles Bowden's dizzying excavation of the brutal, systemic violence and corruption at the roots of American society. Like a... -
Some of the Dead Are Still Breathing: Living in the Future by Charles Bowden
RRP: $18.05Booksplease Price: $16.23The third book in Charles Bowden's "accidental trilogy" that began with Blood Orchid and Blues for Cannibals, Some of the Dead Are Still Breathing attempts to resolve the overarching question: "How... -
Down by the River: Drugs, Money, Murder, and Family by Charles Bowden
Booksplease Price: $20.00Offers an illuminating tour of the drug war, revealing the dark, troubling recesses of drug lords, high-level corruption, and ultra-violence that respects no borders.Book InformationISBN... -
A Shadow in the City: Confessions of an Undercover Drug Warrior by Charles Bowden 9780156032537
RRP: $23.21Booksplease Price: $18.37Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780156032537Author Charles BowdenFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint -
Murder City: Ciudad Juarez and the Global Economy's New Killing Fields by Charles Bowden
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $17.83Ciudad Juarez lies just across the Rio Grande from El Paso, Texas. A once-thriving border town, it now resembles a failed state. Infamously known as the place where women disappear, its murder rate... -
America's Most Alarming Writer: Essays on the Life and Work of Charles Bowden by Bill Broyles 9781477319901
RRP: $30.95Booksplease Price: $26.95The author of more than twenty books and a revered contributor to numerous national publications, Charles Bowden (1945-2014) used his keen storyteller's eye to reveal both the dark underbelly and the... -
El Sicario: Confessions of a Cartel Hit Man by Molly Molloy
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $16.96MEET EL SICARIO.A fugitive in the US with a $250,000 price tag on his head.He has executed hundreds of people, is an expert in torture, spent years working for the state police, and received training... -
Wrenched from the Land: Activists Inspired by Edward Abbey by ML Lincoln 9780826361523
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $21.25Wrenched from the Land features sixteen interviews with some of the most iconic eco-warriors to put themselves on the line for their beliefs. The activists featured in this book are inspired by the... -
The Opal Desert: Explorations of Fantasy and Reality in the American Southwest by Peter Wild
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $21.52The opalescent deserts of the American Southwest have become romantic icons in the public imagination through the words of writers, the images of artists and photographers, and the visual... -
Drug Cartels Do Not Exist: Narcotrafficking in US and Mexican Culture by Oswaldo Zavala
Booksplease Price: $37.23Through political and cultural analysis of representations of the so-called war on drugs, Oswaldo Zavala makes the case that the very terms we use to describe drug traffickers are a constructed... -
Worlding the Western: Contemporary US Western Fiction and the Global Community by Neil Campbell
RRP: $45.15Booksplease Price: $38.36Worlding the Westerntakes the fiction of the Western United States as a focal point for a re-examination of the consequences of exceptionalism and closed borders in the Trump Era. At a time of... -
The Daughters of Juarez: A True Story of Serial Murder South of the Border by Teresa Rodriguez 9780743292047
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $17.34The Daughters of Juarez will be the first, major non-fiction work to examine the Juarez murders. In it, authors Rodriguez, Montane and Pulitzer will focus on retelling the stories of these missing... -
Killing the Story: Journalists Risking Their Lives to Uncover the Truth in Mexico by Temoris Grecko
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $19.96A harrowing and unforgettable look at reporting in Mexico, one of the world's most dangerous countries to be a journalist In 2017, Mexico edged out Iraq and Syria as the deadliest country in... -
Abecedario de Juarez: An Illustrated Lexicon by Julian Cardona 9781477324073
RRP: $36.11Booksplease Price: $31.30Southwest Book Awards, Border Regional Library Association (BRLA) Uses key words and striking images to explore violence and everyday life in JuArez, Mexico. JuArez, Mexico, is known for violence... -
Ensouling Language: On the Art of Nonfiction and the Writer's Life by 9781594773822
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $22.51he first comprehensive work on nonfiction as an art form * Shows how nonfiction, especially how-to and self-help, can take on the same power and luminosity as great fiction * Develops processes to... -
Border Patrol Nation: Dispatches from the Front Lines of Homeland Security Todd Miller 9780872866317
RRP: $23.21Booksplease Price: $16.77"In his scathing and deeply reported examination of the U.S. Border Patrol, Todd Miller argues that the agency has gone rogue since the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, trampling on the dignity and rights...