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        C.M.
        Mayo's
        The Last Prince of the Mexican Empire (Unbridled Books, 2009)

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    O R D E R 

    Selected
    as one of Library Journal's Best Books of 2009

    "an
    engaging story brimming with majestic ambition." Publisher's
    Weekly

    "a swashbuckling,
    riotous good time" Austin American-Statesman

    "the glittering,
    doomed regime comes to life" Library Journal

    

      

        
        This book is
        available from the publisher, Unbridled Books, as well as
        all major on-line booksellers and fine bookstores throughout
        the United States, Canada, and also many English-language bookstores
        in Mexico. If you don't see it on the shelf, any bookstore can
        order it for you.



        The
        Last Prince of the Mexican Empire (Unbridled Books, Denver, Colorado,
        2009) ISBN978-1-932961-64-5 (hardcover, pp. 430)





        

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    "Mayo's reanimation of a crucial period in Mexican history
    should satisfy history buffs and those in the mood for an engaging
    story brimming with majestic ambition. 

    --
    Publisher's Weekly



    "a swashbuckling, riotous good time, befitting the fairy-tale
    promise of the opening sentence"

    --
    Austin American-Statesman



    "Mayo’s cultural insights are first-rate, and the glittering,
    doomed regime comes to life"

    --
    Library Journal



    "I have read a few sweeping historical novels that have
    remain inside of me forever. Tolstoy's War and Peace is
    one of those, Dickens's A Tale of Two Cities is another,
    Pasternak's Doctor Zhivago is another, and now The
    Last Prince of the Mexican Empire is another."

    --
    Mexico Connect

    

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    Praise
    for C.M. Mayo's Miraculous Air:

    "With elegant
    prose and an artist's eye for detail, Mayo 

    may just have written one of the best books ever 

    about Baja California. Highly recommended"

    Library
    Journal



    "Ay,
    if only I had been at C.M. Mayo's side in her rendezvous through


    Baja California... My recourse is her joyful, intellectually
    sparkling chronicle"

    Ilan
    Stavans,

    author of The Hispanic Condition



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    Praise
    for C.M. Mayo's Sky Over El Nido: 

    "some of the
    most exquisitely fashioned, perfectly 

    measured prose alive in the world today." 

    Naomi
    Shihab Nye



    "The
    haywire circuits of our whole electrically but not ethically

    connected global village stand exposed in Mayo's work. 

    Sky Over El Nido won the 1995 Flannery O'Connor Award
    for 

    Short Fiction. I am not suprised."

    David
    Toolan, S.J., Commonweal



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    Praise
    for C.M. Mayo's 

    Mexico: A Traveler's Literary Companion:

    "This
    delicious volume has lovingly gathered a banquet of pieces

    that reveal Mexico in all its infinite variety, its splendid

    geography, its luminous peoples. What a treat!"

    Margaret
    Sayers Peden, editor, Mexican Writers on Writing

    

    "It will open your eyes, fill you with pleasure 

    and render our perennial vecinos a little less distante." 

    Los Angeles Times Book Review



    

    
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