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books:

100 Places Every Woman Should Go (Travelers' Tales)

8 reviews
Stephanie Elizondo Griest

Travelers' Tales, 2007

A Great read
What a great book on travel! I ordered copies for my friends..

Mexican Enough: My Life between the Borderlines

2 reviews
Stephanie Elizondo Griest

Washington Square Press, 2008

Very Gripping work!!!
I found this amazing book to be very compelling. This author always gets to the very core of the people, visiting areas where tourists do not tend to tread. In Mexico, she not only does not hide the bad and ugly, but also takes us into the private lives of the good and the beautiful. Reading her book was like being her travel companion on her personal quest for the holy identity Grail. I ...

Around the Bloc: My Life in Moscow, Beijing, and Havana

19 reviews
Stephanie Elizondo Griest

Villard, 2004

A "coming of age story" sounds just way too cliched for this hombre...lo siento...
Ay, caramba! AROUND THE BLOC is more than a coming of age story, dear Readers. The following is a laundry list of what you're genuinely missing when you ascribe such facile titles to this amazing little read: 1) The wonderful (and many) impactful lines of prose that emanate from the pen of someone so young, yet with so much on the ball (at the time of writing, that is -- the "young" ...