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Stephanie Elizondo Griest

Desperate to escape South Texas, Stephanie Elizondo Griest dreamed of becoming a foreign correspondent. So she headed to Russia looking for some excitement--commencing what would become a four-year, twelve-nation Communist bloc tour that shattered her preconceived notions of the "Evil Empire." In Around the Bloc, Griest relates her experiences as a volunteer at a children's shelter in Moscow, a propaganda polisher at the office of the Chinese Communist Party's English-language mouthpiece in Beijing, and a belly dancer among the rumba queens of Havana. She falls in love with an ex-soldier who narrowly avoided radiation cleanup duties at Chernobyl, hangs out with Cuban hip-hop artists, and comes to difficult realizations about the meaning of democracy. is the absorbing story of a young journalist driven by a desire to witness the effects of Communism. Along the way, she learns the Russian mathematical equation for buying dinner-party vodka (one bottle per guest, plus an extra), stumbles upon Beijing's underground gay scene, marches with 100,000 mothers demanding Elian Gonzalez's return to Cuba, and gains a new appreciation for the Mexican culture she left behind.From the Trade Paperback edition.

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Ross McSwain

Tales From out Yonder is a mixture of stories about people, places, and things-from frontiersman-rancher-fugitive Humpy Jackson, who drove Col. Randald Mackenzie and his 4th Cavalry soldiers crazy; to the Earl of Aylesford, an English nobleman who settled in Big Spring, bought a ranch and businesses, then drank himself to death; to Pancho Villa's war for the movie cameras; to Mason County's "Hoodoo" War. Read about aviation, outlaws, rainmakers, ghost towns, painted rocks, barbed wire, Nazi prisoners, Buffalo Soldiers, cedar choppers, madstones, gold, salt, onions, and more.

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Linda Jakobson

First as a teacher and then as a Finnish foreign correspondent living in China, author Linda Jakobson describes the changes that have been taking place over the past ten years. A result of hundreds of interviews with Chinese of all ages and of all ranks, this personal, wide-reaching, and intelligent book speaks on several topics with some startling conclusions.

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David Geraghty

David Geraghty taught English and travelled in Japan for three years in the late 1990s. This is an account of some of his experiences.