{"product_id":"hard-line-life-and-death-on-the-us-mexico-border-9781400033676","title":"Hard Line: Life and Death on the US-Mexico Border","description":"The Southwestern border is one of the most fascinating places in America, a region of rugged beauty and small communities that coexist across the international line. In the past decade, the area has also become deadly as illegal immigration has shifted into some of the harshest territory on the continent, reshaping life on both sides of the border. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eHard Line\u003cb\u003e, \u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eKen Ellingwood, a correspondent for the \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e, captures the heart of this complex and fascinating land, through the dramatic stories of undocumented immigrants and the border agents who track them through the desert, Native Americans divided between two countries, human rights workers aiding the migrants\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003eand ranchers taking the law into their own hands. This is a vivid portrait of a place and its people, and a moving story of the West that has major implications for the nation as a whole.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/12\/2005\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781400033676\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 272\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.46lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.10h x 5.24w x 0.61d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e 09\/18\/2005 pg. 28\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKliatt\u003c\/i\u003e 01\/01\/2006 pg. 32\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAccelerated Reader Quiz #\/Name: \u003c\/b\u003e79139 \/ Hard Line: Life and Death on the U.S.- Mexico Border\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReading Level:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.9 \/ \u003cb\u003eInterest Level:\u003c\/b\u003e Upper Grade \/ \u003cb\u003ePoint Value:\u003c\/b\u003e 17\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Ken Ellingwood","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52537418678453,"sku":"9781400033676","price":20.4,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_433e216c-62fc-4324-a60f-2a64e43fc1a4.jpg?v=1779169461","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/hard-line-life-and-death-on-the-us-mexico-border-9781400033676","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}