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  • A Shadow in the City: Confessions of an Undercover Drug Warrior by Bowden, Charles
    Charles Bowden

    A Shadow in the City: Confessions of an Undercover Drug Warrior

    Joey O'Shay is a cop with a genius for the drug bust. But after more than two decades undercover, he's no longer so certain who the heroes of the drug war are, or what the fight is for. Still, he never feels so alive...
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  • Blood Orchid: An Unnatural History of America by Bowden, Charles
    Charles Bowden

    Blood Orchid: An Unnatural History of America

    Through 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 nightmarish fever dream that turns out to be our own reality, Bowden visits dying friends in...
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  • Blue Desert by Bowden, Charles
    Charles Bowden

    Blue Desert

    Published in 1986, Blue Desert was Charles Bowden's third book-length work and takes place almost entirely in Arizona, revealing Bowden's growing and intense preoccupation with the state and what it represented as a symbol of America's "New West." Bowden presents a view of the...
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  • Blue Desert by Bowden, Charles
    Charles Bowden

    Blue Desert

    In the promised land of the Sunbelt, people come by the thousands to escape the crush of Eastern cities and end up duplicating the very world they have fled. Can the land remain unchanged? In Blue Desert, Charles Bowden presents a view of the...
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  • Blues for Cannibals: The Notes from Underground by Bowden, Charles
    Charles Bowden

    Blues for Cannibals: The Notes from Underground

    Cultivated from the fierce ideas seeded in Blood Orchid, Blues for Cannibals is an elegiac reflection on death, pain, and a wavering confidence in humanity's own abilities for self-preservation. After years of reporting on border violence, sex crimes, and the devastation of the land,...
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  • Dakotah: The Return of the Future by Bowden, Charles
    Charles Bowden

    Dakotah: The Return of the Future

    "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 beasts...
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  • Desierto: Memories of the Future by Bowden, Charles
    Charles Bowden

    Desierto: Memories of the Future

    "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 Desert, Bowden peoples the harsh land on both sides of the US-Mexican...
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  • Down by the River: Drugs, Money, Murder, and Family by Bowden, Charles
    Charles Bowden

    Down by the River: Drugs, Money, Murder, and Family

    Lionel Bruno Jordan was murdered on January 20, 1995, in an El Paso parking lot, but he keeps coming back as the key to a multibillion-dollar drug industry, two corrupt governments -- one called the United States and the other Mexico -- and a...
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  • Dreamland: The Way Out of Juarez by Bowden, Charles
    Charles Bowden

    Dreamland: The Way Out of Juarez

    This striking work of graphic journalism pairs previously unpublished creative nonfiction by Charles Bowden with provocative scratchboard drawings by Alice Leora Briggs to create a vignette of daily life in Ju疵ez, Mexico, in all its surreal brutality and beauty. Winner, Southwest Book Award, Border...
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  • Exodus/Éxodo by Bowden, Charles
    Charles Bowden

    Exodus/ﾉxodo

    Immigration 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 Mexicans who cross the border illegally each year...
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  • Frog Mountain Blues by Bowden, Charles
    Charles Bowden

    Frog Mountain Blues

    The Santa Catalina Mountains north of Tucson--whose summit is called Frog Mountain by the Tohono O'odham--offers up to the citizens of the basins below a wilderness in their own backyard. When it was first published in 1987, Frog Mountain Blues documented the creeping sprawl...
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  • Jericho by Bowden, Charles
    Charles Bowden

    Jericho

    When 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 the cycles of destruction and rebirth that have defined the ancient biblical city...
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  • Killing the Hidden Waters by Bowden, Charles
    Charles Bowden

    Killing the Hidden Waters

    In 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 of readers to both the wonder and the tragedy of humanity's relationship with...
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  • Mezcal by Bowden, Charles
    Charles Bowden

    Mezcal

    Praise 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 industry and development to rape and savage it in the name of...
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  • Murder City: Ciudad Juarez and the Global Economy's New Killing Fields by Bowden, Charles
    Charles Bowden

    Murder City: Ciudad Juarez and the Global Economy's New Killing Fields

    Ciudad 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 exceeds that of Baghdad. In Murder City, Charles Bowden-one of the...
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  • Red Line by Bowden, Charles
    Charles Bowden

    Red Line

    "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 Red Line is a look at America through the window of...
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  • Some of the Dead Are Still Breathing: Living in the Future by Bowden, Charles
    Charles Bowden

    Some of the Dead Are Still Breathing: Living in the Future

    The 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 can a person live a moral life in a culture of death?" As...
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  • Sonata by Bowden, Charles
    Charles Bowden

    Sonata

    "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 sixth and final installment of Charles Bowden's towering "Unnatural...
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  • The Charles Bowden Reader by Bowden, Charles
    Charles Bowden

    The Charles Bowden Reader

    "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 Bowden Reader in hand you get a...
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  • The Red Caddy: Into the Unknown with Edward Abbey by Bowden, Charles
    Charles Bowden

    The Red Caddy: Into the Unknown with Edward Abbey

    A 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 Solitaire and The Monkey Wrench Gang that continue to inspire environmental activists. In this eloquent memoir, his...
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  • Zeke's Guide to Travel and Life: China/Tibet Stories From the Road and All You Need to Know to Embark on Your Own Adventure Travels by Bowden, Charles
    Charles Bowden

    Zeke's Guide to Travel and Life: China/Tibet Stories From the Road and All You Need to Know to Embark on Your Own Adventure Travels

    Zeke's Guide to Travel and Life is a true adventure travel book of wanderlust and discovery that takes readers on unforgettable hiking, backpacking, and local transport treks to exotic cultural locations in China and the Himalayas in Tibet.Based on author C. Bowden's fifty years...
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  • Zeke's Guide to Travel and Life: Mexico Stories From the Road and All You Need to Know to Embark on Your Own Adventure Travels by Bowden, Charles
    Charles Bowden

    Zeke's Guide to Travel and Life: Mexico Stories From the Road and All You Need to Know to Embark on Your Own Adventure Travels

    ZEKE'S GUIDE to TRAVEL and LIFE: MEXICO Zeke's Guide to Travel and Life is a true adventure travel book of wanderlust and discovery that takes readers on unforgettable hiking, backpacking, and local transport treks to exotic cultural locations in Mexico.Based on author C. Bowden's...
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