Self-taught artist and author Marcia Muth captures on canvas some of the places and activities of the 1930s, the decade in which she grew up. It was a time of new inventions, new technology and freedom to explore. There was a general feeling of neighborliness and mutual respect.
Native American arts have long been considered as being in the realm of fine arts. People have become interested in the history and development of the native arts, especially in the field of ceramics. This short bibliography provides a good deal of information on Native American pottery.
Was Sheriff Pat Garrett shot by Wayne Brazel or by hired killer Jim Miller? Brazel confessed, but few believed his story, and he was acquitted. Colin Rickards’ book sheds light on this unhappy affair, which still remains a source of controversy.
This is the story of David Marion Barker, of the famous Barker family of New Mexico, which also included Elliott Barker and S. Omar Barker. David Marion served in World War I and was the Attorney for the city of Farmington, New Mexico. He was being groomed to run for governor when he died in 1928.
The poetry collection THE SUN IS A WANDERING HUNTER collection is born from James McGrath’s decades-long friendship with the Hopi and particularly with his collaborator, the artist Otellie Loloma.
This is a novel about the shrinking west, greed, love, devotion and murder. Its perspective is that all mankind should have the right to live the way they choose and can work through their differences if serious effort is made.
This poetry collection reflects a longing to experience the treasure of divine love, that grace longing to be unveiled and made actively conscious in the hearts of all human beings.
LLANTARNAM by Muriel Maddox is the exciting story of a family’s greed, a world that is no more, and of a woman who survives. We follow her life through marriages, love affairs and a career. She searches for her vanished father, finds him, and then wishes she had not.
The introspective poems of GRAVEN IMAGES do not always honor mankind (God-Men) or womankind (Goddess-Women), but recognize men and women as only being human. Women and men share a propensity to commit a varied assortment of human (inhuman) acts.
The title of this collection of “quick takes” in poetic form refers to the writer’s intent to catch within a limit of five minutes a moment, a dream, a memory; to articulate the fugitive, to net the particles of a stream.
THE CURSE OF DESTINY, a gripping blend of fact and fiction from best-selling author Romain Wilhelmsen, opens the door to the private world of the famous general George Armstrong Custer, his loves, his family, his friends, and his enemies.
The poems in CAUGHT HEART by Noreen Norris offer a poignant look at how heart and mind cannot be separated. Norris’s words integrate the familiar with the surreal.
YELLOW BEAR LODGE by Bryant Blewett and Ellen Marshall is a romantic novel set in Montana and laced together with soft sex, violence, humor, and tall tales. The setting is a dude ranch in the Montana Absaroka-Beartooth Wilderness forty-two miles from the closest town.
“A poem can begin anywhere,” Jay Udall says, “with the smallest object or image—a wildflower, a weed, a face, a scrap of memory—yet it should move into unexpected terrain.”
This novel is the story of a man, a woman, and a mountain. The woman must go to the mountain to discover who she is after her husband’s death from cancer. The man must go to the mountain and to a shrine from the bones of the horse his wife was riding when she was killed by lightning.
When someone dies, others are left to cope with that loss. Each mourner’s grief is different. The tasks of grieving have been studied thoroughly, and the professional literature is summarized here and presented in five readable lessons. This book is easy to use as well as to read. Ebook available.
Oliver Milton Lee, a pioneer, rancher and New Mexico state legislator, was responsible for the deaths of several men, including politician and judge Albert Jennings Fountain and Sheriff Pat Garrett of Billy the Kid fame. In every case, Lee got away with murder.
In the crucible of 17th century New Spain, a New Mexico family’s legacy is forged amidst rebellion, reconquest, and relentless struggle. From the revolt in 1680 to the contributions of the founding families that have lasted into the 21st century, the author tells the epic story of his ancestors.
Scattered across New Mexico are over 500 scenic historic markers that give brief historical facts about the area and provide interesting clues to New Mexico’s vividness. This comprehensive guide gives their locations, the information as it appears on each one, and further information.
Did you ever wonder what your puppy is trying to tell you? With those eyes so piercing? So sincere? Prepare to feel a special puppy’s eyes peering directly at you as Schultze tells his special stories, wanting to be sure you understand him, and making another friend of you as he speaks.
A beautiful Santa Fe spring as four uneasy couples trample each other’s lives in the search for love. MAKING CRAZY, the second novel in Michael Scofield’s Santa Fe trilogy, explores the emptiness of love under false pretenses. The dance forces everyone to abandon compromise in hope of a fresh start.
The third volume of poems from a well-known Southwestern US poet.
I like the challenge of developing a beginning to a composition with the theme in the middle, and then putting the idea across with an ending in four or five pages. I even love reading stories myself, especially on a rainy afternoon.
Dare to be the Who you were Meant to Be
The second volume of poems from a Southwestern poet.
This is a practical book about business, ideas, and “complexity.” Complexity is a new science that shows how interactions among individuals, environments, chance events, and evolution produce the variety and unpredictable outcomes of the world.
Frances “Tip” DeQuill—affluent housewife, mother, and sometimes newspaper writer—was mortified when the iron door clanked shut.
"This book gives heart precisely because it takes in so much, affirming the poet's--and our--struggle for more bountiful life.”
--Jay Udall, Poet/Teacher
In this epic novel spanning three generations of the Schneider family, Leonard Schonberg unfolds the lives of three unforgettable women: Hannah, Pearl, and Sarah.
Young Simon Gomez is strong minded, ambitious and courageous as he strives to turn a meager land inheritance into an eventual empire. The action in this historical novel begins in the 1840s when Simon’s breathtaking adventures begin to fulfill his obsessive dream for success.
