Books
*** Local Authors
NOTE: To obtain these books, please go to the author's website. You may also see if they are available at Antigone Books, Powell's, your preferred book provider or our local Tubac State Historic Park Visitor Center.
Classic Fiction
The Tortilla Curtain by T.C. Boyle 1995
Boyle's classic recounts middle-class values, illegal immigration, xenophobia, poverty, and environmental destruction, all set in Southern California.
The Tortilla Curtain by T.C. Boyle 1995
Boyle's classic recounts middle-class values, illegal immigration, xenophobia, poverty, and environmental destruction, all set in Southern California.
Classic Non-Fiction
Enrique's Journey by Sonia Nazario 2014
Nazario has revised and updated her 2006 bestseller. "Enrique is a teenager from Honduras who sets out on a journey, braving hardship and peril, to find his mother, who had no choice but to leave him when he was a child and go to the United States in search of work."
*** The Death of Josseline: Immigration Stories from the Arizona Borderlands by Margaret Regan 2010
Regan has reported on the escalating chaos along the Arizona-Mexico border, ground zero for immigration, since 2000. Fourteen-year-old Josseline, a young girl from El Salvador, who was left to die alone on the migrant trail, was just one of thousands to perish in its deserts and mountains.
Devil's Highway: A True Story by Luis Urrea 2005
Urrea wrote, "In May 2001, a group of men attempted to cross the border into the desert of southern Arizona, through the deadliest region of the continent, a place called the Devil's Highway."
Enrique's Journey by Sonia Nazario 2014
Nazario has revised and updated her 2006 bestseller. "Enrique is a teenager from Honduras who sets out on a journey, braving hardship and peril, to find his mother, who had no choice but to leave him when he was a child and go to the United States in search of work."
*** The Death of Josseline: Immigration Stories from the Arizona Borderlands by Margaret Regan 2010
Regan has reported on the escalating chaos along the Arizona-Mexico border, ground zero for immigration, since 2000. Fourteen-year-old Josseline, a young girl from El Salvador, who was left to die alone on the migrant trail, was just one of thousands to perish in its deserts and mountains.
Devil's Highway: A True Story by Luis Urrea 2005
Urrea wrote, "In May 2001, a group of men attempted to cross the border into the desert of southern Arizona, through the deadliest region of the continent, a place called the Devil's Highway."
Fiction
Jumping by Dana Wildsmith 2016
Wildsmith weaves a story about the relationship between a Mexican boy, who eventually jumps the border, and an American teacher. It was inspired by the author’s visits to Nogales, Sonora with the Samaritans.
The Jaguar's Children by John Vaillant 2015
Valillant writes a harrowing story about crossing the U.S. and Mexico border, based on a dreadful 2003 tragedy in Texas, weaving together multiple current themes.
Highwire Moon by Susan Straight 2013
Straight presents a new edition of the 2001 original, with a new introduction by the author. The story of a young mother deported and separated from her child, and the pair's efforts to locate each other years later.
Non-Fiction
*** A Stranger at My Door by Peg Bowden 2019 Bowden, struggling with fear and compassion, challenges us to consider how we treat the stranger in our midst. |
The Death and Life of Aida Hernandez: A Border Story by Aaron Bobrow-Strain 2019
Bobrow-Strain captures the profound personal price paid by human beings caught in cross-border dynamics and immigration policy.
Sand and Blood - America's Stealth War on the Mexico Border by John Carlos Frey 2019
Frey paints a dire portrait of the human consequences of border militarization over 30 years, including the roles of defense and technology contractors and the U.S. government.
*** Empire of Borders by Todd Miller 2019
Miller, using investigative journalism, reveals how the United States has built a worldwide enforcement network that is highly militarized and profoundly dehumanizing.
Desperately Seeking Asylum: Testimonies of Trauma, Courage and Love by Helen Boursier 2019
Boursier presents firsthand accounts from refugees, fleeing their homelands, in writing, photographs and artwork, preserving their harrowing journeys.
***No More Deaths: Humanitarian Aid is Never a Crime: Saving Lives of Migrants by Sue Lefebvre 2019
Lefebvre chronicles the humanitarian response of No More Deaths since 2004 to the evolving, changing and seemingly never-ending border crises.
*** The Line Becomes a River by Francisco Cantú 2018
Cantú's experience as a Border Patrol agent reveals the complexity and the inhumanity of immigration policy in a personal way.
*** Storming the Wall: Climate Change, Migration, and Homeland Security by Todd Miller 2018
Miller chronicles climate-change's endgame with vast numbers of people on the move running up against militarized borders where people are armed, trained and paid to keep them out.
Tell Me How It Ends - An Essay in Forty Questions by Valeria Luiselli 2017
Luiselli was a volunteer court translator for undocumented migrant children from Central America. Her narrative non-fiction piece is based on the intake questionnaire.
The Far Away Brothers by Lauren Markham 2017
Markham became close to twin brothers from El Salvador, unaccompanied minors, who made their way to Oakland, California, forging lives for themselves.
*** Migrant Deaths in the Arizona Desert: La vida no vale nada
by Editors Rubio-Goldsmith, Fernandez, Finch and Masterson-Algar 2016
This collection addresses migrant deaths and disappearances in the U.S.-Mexico borderlands as they reflect on the startling realities of death, migration, and public policy.
Human Cargo: A Journey Among Refugees by Caroline Moorehead 2016
Moorehead presents a new edition of a 2005 book, an arresting portrait of the lives of today's refugees.
*** Detained and Deported by Margaret Regan 2016
Regan offers an intimate look at the people ensnared by the U.S. detention and deportation system, the largest in the world.
A Land of Open Graves by Jason De Leon 2015
DeLeon, an anthropologist, sheds light on one of the most pressing political issues of our time—the human consequences of U.S. immigration policy
*** A Land of Hard Edges by Peg Bowden 2014
Bowden, a retired nurse, tells true stories and shares personal reflections from her volunteer time at a migrant shelter on the Mexico side of the border.
Undocumented: How Immigration Became Illegal by Aviva Chomsky 2014
Chomsky explores what it means to be undocumented in a legal, social, economic and historical context.
*** Border Patrol Nation by Todd Miller 2014
Miller gives a vision of what the military-industrial complex looks like once it's transported, jobs and all, to the U.S.-Mexican border and turned into a consumer mall for the post-9/11 era.
Fresh Fruit, Broken Bodies by Seth Holmes, MD, PhD 2013
Dr. Homes writes an intimate examination of the everyday lives and suffering of Mixtec migrants in our contemporary food system.
Continental Divide by Krista Schlyer 2012
Schlyer presents stunning and poignant photography, interspersed with cogent writing, that shows us the damage being done to the fauna and flora of the borderlands by our misguided border security policies in general and the border wall in particular.
Moving Millions: How Coyote Capitalism Fuels Global Immigration by Jeffrey Kaye 2010
Kaye knocks down myth after myth, challenging the view that immigrants themselves motivate immigration, rather than the policies of businesses and governments in both rich and poor nations.
*** Crossing With The Virgin: Stories From The Migrant Trail by Kathryn Ferguson, Dr. Norma Price, Ted Parks 2010
This collection contains stories heard from migrants about these treacherous treks—firsthand accounts told to volunteers for the Tucson Samaritans, a humanitarian group that seeks to prevent such unnecessary deaths by providing these travelers with medical aid, water and food.
Dying to Cross: The Worst Immigrant Tragedy in American History by Jorge Ramos 2006
Ramos recounts a tragic story about the death of nineteen people, the final hours of their incredible ordeal, and the network of individuals and countries who profit from such events.
Bobrow-Strain captures the profound personal price paid by human beings caught in cross-border dynamics and immigration policy.
Sand and Blood - America's Stealth War on the Mexico Border by John Carlos Frey 2019
Frey paints a dire portrait of the human consequences of border militarization over 30 years, including the roles of defense and technology contractors and the U.S. government.
*** Empire of Borders by Todd Miller 2019
Miller, using investigative journalism, reveals how the United States has built a worldwide enforcement network that is highly militarized and profoundly dehumanizing.
Desperately Seeking Asylum: Testimonies of Trauma, Courage and Love by Helen Boursier 2019
Boursier presents firsthand accounts from refugees, fleeing their homelands, in writing, photographs and artwork, preserving their harrowing journeys.
***No More Deaths: Humanitarian Aid is Never a Crime: Saving Lives of Migrants by Sue Lefebvre 2019
Lefebvre chronicles the humanitarian response of No More Deaths since 2004 to the evolving, changing and seemingly never-ending border crises.
*** The Line Becomes a River by Francisco Cantú 2018
Cantú's experience as a Border Patrol agent reveals the complexity and the inhumanity of immigration policy in a personal way.
*** Storming the Wall: Climate Change, Migration, and Homeland Security by Todd Miller 2018
Miller chronicles climate-change's endgame with vast numbers of people on the move running up against militarized borders where people are armed, trained and paid to keep them out.
Tell Me How It Ends - An Essay in Forty Questions by Valeria Luiselli 2017
Luiselli was a volunteer court translator for undocumented migrant children from Central America. Her narrative non-fiction piece is based on the intake questionnaire.
The Far Away Brothers by Lauren Markham 2017
Markham became close to twin brothers from El Salvador, unaccompanied minors, who made their way to Oakland, California, forging lives for themselves.
*** Migrant Deaths in the Arizona Desert: La vida no vale nada
by Editors Rubio-Goldsmith, Fernandez, Finch and Masterson-Algar 2016
This collection addresses migrant deaths and disappearances in the U.S.-Mexico borderlands as they reflect on the startling realities of death, migration, and public policy.
Human Cargo: A Journey Among Refugees by Caroline Moorehead 2016
Moorehead presents a new edition of a 2005 book, an arresting portrait of the lives of today's refugees.
*** Detained and Deported by Margaret Regan 2016
Regan offers an intimate look at the people ensnared by the U.S. detention and deportation system, the largest in the world.
A Land of Open Graves by Jason De Leon 2015
DeLeon, an anthropologist, sheds light on one of the most pressing political issues of our time—the human consequences of U.S. immigration policy
*** A Land of Hard Edges by Peg Bowden 2014
Bowden, a retired nurse, tells true stories and shares personal reflections from her volunteer time at a migrant shelter on the Mexico side of the border.
Undocumented: How Immigration Became Illegal by Aviva Chomsky 2014
Chomsky explores what it means to be undocumented in a legal, social, economic and historical context.
*** Border Patrol Nation by Todd Miller 2014
Miller gives a vision of what the military-industrial complex looks like once it's transported, jobs and all, to the U.S.-Mexican border and turned into a consumer mall for the post-9/11 era.
Fresh Fruit, Broken Bodies by Seth Holmes, MD, PhD 2013
Dr. Homes writes an intimate examination of the everyday lives and suffering of Mixtec migrants in our contemporary food system.
Continental Divide by Krista Schlyer 2012
Schlyer presents stunning and poignant photography, interspersed with cogent writing, that shows us the damage being done to the fauna and flora of the borderlands by our misguided border security policies in general and the border wall in particular.
Moving Millions: How Coyote Capitalism Fuels Global Immigration by Jeffrey Kaye 2010
Kaye knocks down myth after myth, challenging the view that immigrants themselves motivate immigration, rather than the policies of businesses and governments in both rich and poor nations.
*** Crossing With The Virgin: Stories From The Migrant Trail by Kathryn Ferguson, Dr. Norma Price, Ted Parks 2010
This collection contains stories heard from migrants about these treacherous treks—firsthand accounts told to volunteers for the Tucson Samaritans, a humanitarian group that seeks to prevent such unnecessary deaths by providing these travelers with medical aid, water and food.
Dying to Cross: The Worst Immigrant Tragedy in American History by Jorge Ramos 2006
Ramos recounts a tragic story about the death of nineteen people, the final hours of their incredible ordeal, and the network of individuals and countries who profit from such events.