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Robert Leonard
In 2001, anthropology professor Robert Leonard began moonlighting as a cabdriver; Yellow Cab is a portrait of the city he found as he drove the streets of nighttime Albuquerque, picking up everyone from business people and drunken college kids to …
Andy Remic
Tom Doherty Associates
A war is being waged in an impossible world. The Skogsgra and the Naravelle have launched their final offensive, and Private Jones and his companions are caught in the melee.Tens of thousands will die before the battle is over.They travel …

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A Novel of the Irish Rebellion
Morgan Llywelyn
Tom Doherty Associates
First in the Irish Century historical fiction series, 1916: A Novel of the Irish Rebellion begins the saga of the Halloran family during Ireland's long struggle fror independence. At age fifteen, Ned Halloran lost both of his parents--and almost his …

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A Patient's Deep Dive into Stem Cells, Faith, and the Future
Richard M. Cohen
Penguin Publishing Group
After more than four decades living with multiple sclerosis, New York Times bestselling author Richard M. Cohen finds a flicker of hope in a groundbreaking medical procedure.Richard Cohen struggles with failing limbs and is legally blind. He has survived two …

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Transformations in American Poetry since 1950
Peter Middleton
Expanding Authorship collects important essays by Peter Middleton that show the many ways in which, in a world of proliferating communications media, poetry-making is increasingly the work of agencies extending beyond that of a single, identifiable author. In four sectionsSound, …

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A Guide to Snow Sports in the Land of Enchantment
Daniel Gibson, Jean Mayer
This invaluable book tells you everything there is to know about skiing and snowboarding in the Land of Enchantment, with thousands of helpful details on the states downhill ski resorts and cross-country and backcountry venues.Each ski area is profiled in …

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Silver Mines and Golden Saloons
Sherry Monahan, Bob Boze Bell
Sherry Monahan is an authority on "the city that wouldn't die" and its history. In Tombstone's Treasure, she focuses on the silver mines, one reason for the city's founding, and the saloons, the other reason the city grew so quickly.When …
Hannah Adams Burque, Bechara Choucair, Emily Mendenhall, B01
Mark struggled at school and became depressed because he was bullied. Ana Maria feared leaving her home after dark due to gun violence. Mario and his family benefited from an intervention to prevent the spread of avian flu in his …
Catherine Lloyd Burns
Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
Catherine Lloyd Burns's The Half-True Lies of Cricket Cohen is an outlandish tale of a grandmother and her granddaughter whose us-against-the-world friendship teaches them both about what it means to tell the truth.Cricket Cohen is not a liar. She just …
Stacy B. Schaefer
For centuries the Huichol (Wixarika) Indian women of Jalisco, Mexico, have been weaving textiles on backstrap looms. This West Mexican tradition has been passed down from mothers to daughters since pre-Columbian times. Weaving is a part of each womans identityallowing …
Richard Benke
Richard Benke, author of The Ghost Ocean, returns to southern New Mexico and the U.S.-Mexico border for an action-packed mystery involving a lost cache of gold that has trapped guilty and innocent alike in a web of intrigue and murder …
Amanda Hocking
St. Martin's Press
Read a sneak peek of Between the Blade and the Heart, the first in the new Valkyrie duology by bestselling author, Amanda Hocking!
V. E. Schwab
Tom Doherty Associates
Witness the fate of beloved heroes and notorious foes in the heart-stopping conclusion to V.E. Schwabs New York Times bestselling Shades of Magic trilogy. *Kirkus' Best Fiction of 2017*As darkness sweeps the Maresh Empire, the once precarious balance of power …
Rosamunde Pilcher
St. Martin's Press
From #1 New York Times bestselling author Rosamunde Pilcher, Winter Solstice (the basis for the TV movie) is the story of five unforgettable characters, lonely and haunted strangers who find love and loyalty as a reborn family of friends during …

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Chiricahua Apaches and Priests on the Spanish Colonial Frontier
nrietta Henrietta Stockel
In her latest work, H. Henrietta Stockel examines the collision of the ethnocentric Spanish missionaries and the Chiricahua Apaches, including the resulting identity theft through Christian baptism, and the even more destructive creation of a local slave trade. The new …
Claudia Moreno Pisano
From the end of the 1950s through the middle of the 1960s, Amiri Baraka (b. 1934) and Edward Dorn (192999), two self-consciously avant-garde poets, fostered an intense friendship primarily through correspondence. The early 1960s found both poets just beginning to …
John Bisney, J. L. Pickering
Winner of the Bronze Medal for Science in the 2016 Independent Publisher (IPPY) Book AwardsIn this companion volume to John Bisney and J. L. Pickerings extraordinary book of rare photographs from the Mercury and Gemini missions, the authors now present …

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Photographs and Poetry from the US-Mexico Border
Bruce Berman, Ray Gonzalez, Lawrence Welsh, David Dorado Romo, Lisa McNiel
Cutting the Wire, a masterful collaboration between photographer Bruce Berman and poets Ray Gonzalez and Lawrence Welsh, offers us a way to look again, to really look, at the border between Mexico and the United States. Berman, who has photographed …
Patricia L. Crown
Chaco Canyon has one of the most significant concentrations of archaeological remains in North America. Pueblo Bonito, the largest and best known of Chacos great houses, was largely excavated in the late 1890s and early 1920s, but then no extensive …
Yiyun Li
Winner of the 2023 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction Long-listed for the 2023 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in FictionA New York Times Book Review Editors ChoiceA Slate Top Ten Book of the YearA TIME Best Fiction Book of 2022Named a …

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Conversations with Native American Photographers
Suzanne Newman Fricke
In As We See It, Suzanne Newman Fricke invites readers to explore the work and careers of ten contemporary Native American photographers: Jamison Banks, Anna Hoover, Tom Jones, Larry McNeil, Shelley Niro, Wendy Red Star, Beverly Singer, Matika Wilber, William …

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Mariquita Sanchez, Juan Manuel de Rosas, and the Beginnings of Argentina
Jeffrey M. Shumway
In 1837 Mariquita Sanchez de Mendeville was so fed up with governor Juan Manuel de Rosas that she chose to leave her beloved city of Buenos Aires. Leaving was especially hard because Mariquita felt that she had played an influential …
Thom Gunn
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
A great poet's freshest, most provocative book.He dreams at the center of a closed system,Like the prison system, or a system of love,Where folktale, recipe, and household customRefer back to the maze that they are of.--from "A System: PCP, or …

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The Art of Performative Transgression
Teresa Eckmann
From his provincial origins in the small northern Mexico town of Muzquiz, Coahuila, to his meteoric rise in Manhattan's East Village art scene, to having achieved international standing at the time of his early death at forty-seven, Julio Galan was …

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Guarani, Spaniards, and Africans in Paraguay
Shawn Michael Austin
In Colonial Kinship: Guarani, Spaniards, and Africans in Paraguay, historian Shawn Michael Austin traces the history of conquest and colonization in Paraguay during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Emphasizing the social and cultural agency of Guaranione of the primary indigenous …
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