Only Once In A Lifetime - A Novel by Alejandro Grattan
The Stuff Of Dreams By Alejandro Grattan
Carl Franz on learning Spanish
Peoples Guide To Mexico by Carl Franz
Book Reviews In Access Mexico Connect
Since 1995, Mexico Connect has featured books about Mexico, new and old. Here are links to the growing list.
read moreMexico - Travel Books And Retirement/living Guides
Reference article about Mexico travel and retirement books
read moreThe Mexican Kitchen, A Taste For All Seasons
Mexican Cookbooks: A Holiday Wish List
The Hungry Traveler: Mexico - A Book Review
Early Fusion Food: Inside A Colonial Mexican Kitchen
Dane Chandos Books
Reader Advisory - A Book Review
Patzcuaro - Recommended Reading
Head For Mexico: The Renegade Guide
The latest - Don Adams' Head for Mexico: The Renegade Guide stands out from the rest of the herd. Adams, a Texas-born Vietnam vet who whiled away his working years as a truck driver, insurance adjuster and teacher, actually lived full-time in Mexico for more than five years before setting out to write his book. He still lives in Mexico, and he's here for the long haul. And his experience is not limited to a single area or transient accommodations.
read moreLive Better South of the Border & Spas and Hot Springs of Mexico
Visiting Mexico is one thing. Living here is another. Basking amid sweet breezes and swaying palms, marimba rhythms, strains of Eres Tu, and romantic vistas, the tourist's Mexico is temporary, amid room-serviced luxury or experiential trysts with simple-pleasured paradise. For most of us, neither is an option for a permanent lifestyle. Reality lands, bringing mundane concerns and excess baggage of money, medical care, reliable phone service, the mail, and nearly every other aspect of Peoria as home becomes Mexico.
read moreCrossing Over: A Mexican Family On The Migrant Trail
Great books are the hardest kind to review. There's just too much temptation to toss out the usual lauds and accolades which make for fine back cover blurbs. And then there's the trap of comparison to other great authors and works. CROSSING OVER: A Mexican Family on the Migrant Trail is one of those great books.
read moreMexico, The Trick is Living Here
The Line/La Línea
Notes from Exile
Viva La Baja! Relocation and Real Estate Guide to the Baja California Peninsula by Molly McHugh
Sometimes in Mexico, the devil's in the details of how to do something.
read moreOasis of Stone: Visions of California Sur
Although the Baja coast has attracted thousands of visitors, among them some fine photographers, few have really journeyed to the interior
This exquisite coffee table book is a collaboration between two friends, both of whom are award-winning artists: photographer Miguel Angel de la Cueva and essayist (and poet and musician) Bruce Berger.
read moreSpanish at Your Fingertips By Clark M. Zlotchew, Ph.D.
For this old brain of mine -- that threatens to retire before I do -- a book that makes simple what has always been somewhat complicated to me is a book that I will cherish.
Clark M. Zlotchew, Ph.D., has taught Spanish language at SUNY College at Fredonia in New York State since 1975. He has published more than a dozen books including translations of Spanish poetry and fiction as well as Alpha Teach Yourself Spanish in 24 Hours.
read moreChanging Dreams: A Generation of Oaxaca's Woodcarvers
The Pearl: a novella by John Steinbeck
In film or fiction, The Pearl is a good story. It is one of those stories so simple that it becomes profound.
read moreNotes from Exile By T. M. Spooner Floricanto Press, 2006
Mexico is a haven for exiles where the braver or weaker or more foolish can find themselves or re-create themselves or… lose themselves.
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