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The Iguana Tree

Author : Michel Stone
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,2 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Domestic fiction
ISBN : 9781891885884

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Set amid the perils of illegal border crossings, The Iguana Tree is the suspenseful saga of Lilia and Hector, who separately make their way from Mexico into the United States, seeking work in the Carolinas and a home for their infant daughter. Michel Stone s harrowing novel meticulously examines the obstacles each faces in pursuing a new life: manipulation, rape, and murder in the perilous commerce of border crossings; betrayal by family and friends; exploitation by corrupt officials and rapacious landowners on the U.S. side; and, finally, the inexorable workings of the U.S. justice system. Hector and Lilia meet Americans willing to help them with legal assistance and offers of responsible employment, but their illegal entry seems certain to prove their undoing. The consequences of their decisions are devastating. In the end, The Iguana Tree is a universal story of loss, grief, and human dignity.

Border Child

Author : Michel Stone
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 39,97 MB
Release : 2017-04-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0385541651

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For Héctor and Lilia, pursuit of the American Dream became every parent's worst fear when their infant daughter vanished as they crossed from Mexico to the United States—now they must try to get her back. With great empathy and a keen awareness of current events, Michel Stone delivers a novel of surpassing sensitivity and heart. Young lovers Héctor and Lilia dreamed of a brighter future for their family in the United States. Héctor left Mexico first, to secure work and housing, but when Lilia, desperate to be with Héctor, impetuously crossed the border with their infant daughter, Alejandra, mother and child were separated. Alejandra disappeared. Now, four years later, the family has a chance to reunite, but the trauma of the past may well be permanent. Back in their sleepy hometown of Oaxaca, the couple enjoys a semblance of normal life, with a toddler son and another baby on the way. Then they receive an unexpected tip that might lead them to Alejandra, and both agree they must seize this chance, whatever the cost. Working increasingly illegal jobs to earn money for his journey north, Héctor seeks more information about his long-absent daughter. Meanwhile, a bedridden Lilia awaits the birth of their third child, but cannot keep herself from reliving the worst mistakes of her past. In luminous, compassionate prose, Michel Stone drops readers into the whirlwind of the contemporary immigrant experience, where a marriage is strained to the breaking point by the consequences of wanting more for the next generation.

Mañana, Iguana

Author : Ann Whitford Paul
Publisher : Lerner Publishing Group
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 19,68 MB
Release : 2018-01-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1430130261

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"A comical takeoff on the familiar Little Red Hen story, this upbeat read-along is brought vividly to life through Brian and Rosi Amador's tandem narration. ...Soft Latin background music is a lilting accompaniment." -Booklist

Chomp

Author : Carl Hiaasen
Publisher : Knopf Books for Young Readers
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 49,53 MB
Release : 2012-03-27
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0375898956

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In this hysterical #1 New York Times bestseller, one kid has to wrangle gators, snakes, bats that bite, and a reality show host gone rogue! This is Carl Hiaasen's Florida—where the creatures are wild and the people are wilder! When Wahoo Cray’s dad—a professional animal wrangler—takes a job with a reality TV show called Expedition Survival!, Wahoo figures he'll have to do a bit of wrangling himself to keep his father from killing Derek Badger, the show's inept and egotistical star. But the job keeps getting more complicated: Derek Badger insists on using wild animals for his stunts; and Wahoo's acquired a shadow named Tuna—a girl who's sporting a shiner courtesy of her father and needs a place to hide out. They've only been on location in the Everglades for a day before Derek gets bitten by a bat and goes missing in a storm. Search parties head out and promptly get lost themselves. And then Tuna's dad shows up with a gun . . . It's anyone's guess who will actually survive Expedition Survival. . . “Only in Florida—and in the fiction of its native son Carl Hiaasen—does a dead iguana fall from a palm tree and kill somebody.” —New York Post “Chomp is a delightful laugh-out-loud sendup of the surreality of TV that will be enjoyed by readers of all ages.” —Los Angeles Times

Sliced Iguana

Author : Isabella Tree
Publisher : Tauris Parke Paperbacks
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 39,29 MB
Release : 2008-01-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN :

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Behind the facade of sombreros and tequila, tourist traps and holiday resorts, there lies a very different Mexico. In Sliced Iguana, Isabella Tree finds a town controlled by arm-wrestling matriarchs and party-mad transvestites and in war-torn Chiapas she discovers shamans worshipping Mayan gods inside Catholic churches and conducting exorcisms with the aid of Pepsi. This is a story of Mexico like no other, capturing the essence of its psyche and illuminating the struggles and hopes of a people and a country on the cusp of change.

The Iguana Tree

Author : Michel Stone
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 18,4 MB
Release : 2013-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781891885167

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Set amid the perils of illegal border crossings, The Iguana Tree is the suspenseful saga of Lilia and Hector, who separately make their way from Mexico into the United States, seeking work in the Carolinas and a home for their infant daughter. Michel Stone s harrowing novel meticulously examines the obstacles each faces in pursuing a new life: manipulation, rape, and murder in the perilous commerce of border crossings; betrayal by family and friends; exploitation by corrupt officials and rapacious landowners on the U.S. side; and, finally, the inexorable workings of the U.S. justice system. Hector and Lilia meet Americans willing to help them with legal assistance and offers of responsible employment, but their illegal entry seems certain to prove their undoing. The consequences of their decisions are devastating. In the end, The Iguana Tree is a universal story of loss, grief, and human dignity.

The Flight of the Iguana

Author : David Quammen
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 32,92 MB
Release : 1998-02-16
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0684836262

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The author brings to life the weird and wonderful pageant of nature in essays ranging from tales of vegetarian piranha to dogs without voices.

I Wanna Iguana

Author : Karen Kaufman Orloff
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 34 pages
File Size : 28,44 MB
Release : 2004-09-09
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0399237178

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Hilarious notes between a son and his mom show how kid logic can be very persuasive. Alex just has to convince his mom to let him have an iguana, so he puts his arguments in writing. He promises that she won't have to feed it or clean its cage or even see it if she doesn't want to. Of course Mom imagines life with a six-foot-long iguana eating them out of house and home. Alex's reassures her: It takes fifteen years for an iguana to get that big. I'll be married by then and probably living in my own house His mom's reply: How are you going to get a girl to marry you when you own a giant reptile? Kis will be in hysterics as the negotiations go back and forth through notes, and the lively, imaginative illustrations showing their polar opposite dreams of life with an iguana take the humor to even higher heights.

Grumpy the Iguana

Author : Susan Marie Chapman
Publisher :
Page : 38 pages
File Size : 25,36 MB
Release : 2019-10
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780578568607

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THIS IS A TRUE STORY ABOUT AN IGUANA THAT LIVES IN FLAMINGO PARK IN MIAMI BEACH. GRUMPY IS A HAPPY IGUANA UNTIL ONE DAY WHEN SOMETHING GOES TERRIBLY WRONG. IT IS NOT UNTIL GRUMPY MAKES A NEW FRIEND THAT HE IS ABLE TO PUT HIS LIFE BACK TOGETHER

The Iguana Killer

Author : Alberto Ríos
Publisher : UNM Press
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 16,56 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780826319227

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Set along the Southwestern border, these stories explore growing up Hispanic and weaving together three distinct worlds--Mexico, the United States, and childhood.