Tattoos on the Heart by Fr. Greg Boyle
Read the book or see the man in person...Fr. Boyle is a humorist at heart. With his low key mannerisms in real life or his stark presentation in the book, Fr. Boyle is truly an enjoyable character. His dedicated compassion and understanding to those who seek to escape the gangs and the underlife is revealed in this heartwarming book.
The Closing of the American Border by Edward Alden
"The Closing of the American Border" is an important and timely study of the difficulties Americans face when determining "who gets in and who stays out". Edward Alden, the Bernard L. Schwartz Senior Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relation, paints an accurate picture of the fear and mistrust that is created by the aggressive tactics to squash the influx of foreign visitors and future citizens. This is an important reading that helps the reader understand the new American Post 9/11 paranoia.
ISBN: 978-0-06-155839-9
ISBN: 978-0-06-155839-9
The Devil's Highway by Luis Alberto Urrea
Luis Alberto Urrea's book on border crossing should convince just about anyone that attempting the journey is out of the question. Environmental exposure...lack of water and food...bandits and killers...all await the unfortunate desert crosser. But what if your family was starving...and $5.00 a day earning wasn't enough to feed them? In his book, Urrea reconstructs the catastrophic trip by 2 dozen men in May 2001. Excellent reading by a Pulitzer Prize finalist.
ISBN-13: 978-0316010801
ISBN-13: 978-0316010801
East Side Stories by Luis Rodriquez
Good insiders look into the ganglife of East Los Angeles. Loaded with plenty of undoctored photographs, East Side Stories opens up the reality of ganglife for viewers who wouldn't want to be "caught dead" in a slurry world of threats, fear, boundaries, betrayal, blind allegiance, and death.
ISBN-13: 978-1576870723
ISBN-13: 978-1576870723