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Author Urrea, Luis Alberto.

Title The devil's highway : a true story / Luis Alberto Urrea.

Imprint New York : Little, Brown, ©2004.

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Location Call No. Status
 Berlin-Peck Memorial Library - Non Fiction  304.873 URREA    Check Shelf
 Colchester, Cragin Memorial Library - Adult Department  304.8 URREA, LUIS ALBERTO    Check Shelf
 Enfield, Main Library - Adult Department  304.8 URR    Check Shelf
 Mansfield, Main Library - Adult Nonfiction  304.873 URREA    Check Shelf
 Middletown, Russell Library - Adult Nonfiction  304.8 URR    Check Shelf
 New Britain, Main Library - Non Fiction  304.873 UR7    Check Shelf
 Newington, Lucy Robbins Welles Library - Adult Department  304.873 URREA    Lost and Paid
 Plainville Public Library - Non Fiction  304.873 URR    Check Shelf
 Rocky Hill, Cora J. Belden Library - Adult Department  304.873 URREA    Check Shelf
Edition 1st ed.
Description xii, 239 pages ; 22 cm
Note Includes index.
Contents Cutting the drag: Rules of the game -- Dead man's sign: In Veracruz ; Coyote and the chicken ; El guía ; Jesús walks among us ; In Sonoita ; Pepsi for the apocalypse ; Bad step at bluebird ; Killed by the light -- In desolation: Long walk ; Their names ; Broken promise ; Trees and the sun ; Helicopters -- Aftermath: Aftermath ; Home.
Summary Describes the attempt of twenty-six men to cross the Mexican border into the desert of southern Arizona, a region known as the Devil's Highway, detailing their harrowing ordeal and battle for survival against impossible odds. Only 12 men came back out. 2 maps.
Subject Undocumented Immigrants. (DNLM)D000069756
Mexico -- Emigration and immigration -- Social aspects.
Illegal immigration -- Mexican-American Border Region.
Mexico. (OCoLC)fst01211700
Noncitizens -- Crimes against. (OCoLC)fst00967155
Genre/Form Creative nonfiction.
Subject Noncitizens -- Crimes against -- Mexican-American Border Region.
Local Subject Undocumented immigration -- Mexican-American Border Region.
Subject Emigration and immigration -- Social aspects. (OCoLC)fst00908722
United States -- Emigration and immigration -- Social aspects.
United States -- Emigration and immigration -- Social aspects.
Genre/Form Creative nonfiction.
Creative nonfiction. (OCoLC)fst01919909
Subject Mexican-American Border Region -- Social conditions.
Mexico -- Emigration and immigration -- Social aspects.
United States -- Immigration and emigration -- Social aspects.
Social conditions. (OCoLC)fst01919811
Human smuggling -- Mexican-American Border Region.
North America -- Mexican-American Border Region. (OCoLC)fst01239966
United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
Human smuggling. (OCoLC)fst00963471
ISBN 0316746711
9780316746717
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