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The Hawk's Done Gone: And Other StoriesThe stores of Mildred Haun, collected here for the first time, are unique in the annals of American literature. Set in the Smoky Mountains of East Tennessee and covering a span of family history from the Civil War to 1940, these tales achieve the...
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No More Bingo, Comadre!: StoriesIt takes all kinds to populate Northern New Mexico, and this book has every one: from gypsies and gamblers to ranchers and criminals. Noted author Nasario García introduces us to some of these people and the challenges they face. The title character, Adelfa, flirts...
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Woodswork: New and Selected Stories of the American WestThese stories from four decades are grounded in the geographical, cultural, and psychological American West. Ranging from realism to fables, from childhood to senescence, from a faltering rancher to the rich and rocky road of fatherhood, Woodswork is filled with indelible characters keenly rendered....
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Kingdom of the Sun: StoriesSet in southwestern New Mexico, the stories in James Terry's stunning debut explore the joys, insecurities, and failures of memorable characters as they attempt to connect with--or disconnect from--others around them. The elderly landlady of the Darling Courts apartments hires a reclusive handyman who...
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Sweet MedicineThis sequel to Seals's acclaimed novel The Powwow Highway recounts the further adventures of Philbert Bono, Buddy Red Bird, and Bonnie Red Bird in a soul-searching vision quest for self-discovery that is by turns exhilarating, hilarious, profane, and achingly beautiful.Author: David SealsPublisher: University of...
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Secrets of the Tsil CaféRaised in the traditional kitchen from which his mother runs her Buen AppeTito catering service, Weston Tito Hingler's childhood is shaped by the foods he eats, especially those he must try before he is allowed to enter the Tsil Caf where his father invites--and...
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Gentlemen Preferred Dry Flies: The Dry Fly and the Nymph, Evolution and ConflictThe author has fished with flies all over the world. His knowledge of the art and sport of catching trout with feathered imitations of native insects has been imparted to countless students in his annual Fly-Fishing Basics classes since 1978. But this book far...
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Sor Juana's Second DreamThis bold novel unravels the mystery and complexity of the woman Carlos Fuentes calls the first great Latin American poet. Sor Juana In s de la Cruz (1648-1695), poet, playwright, rhetorician, and musician, is often equated with Sappho, the lesbian poet whom Plato baptized...
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The Jewish Gauchos of the PampasJewish Latin American literature in Spanish begins with The Jewish Gauchos of the Pampas, a series of vignettes about shtetl life in Argentina first published in 1910 and now available for the first time in an English-language paperback edition as the inaugural volume in...
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Cuentos Chicanos: A Short Story Anthology (Revised)The twenty-one stories in this collection typify the phenomenal growth Chicano literature has undergone during the past two decades. The stories range from those complex narratives, from depictions of a childlike innocence to world-weary knowledge, from accounts of migrant life to middle-class anxieties, and...
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Hold Autumn in Your Hand"The Texas January day was all blue and gold and barely crisp. Only the absence of leaves and sap, the presence of straggling bands of awkward crows, the gray-yellow flutter of field larks, and the broad, matter-of-fact hibernation of the earth said it was...
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Love's DwellingGod always had a plan. But how could falling in love with an Englischer be God's plan for one young Amish woman? Young Cassie Weaver only wants what is expected of an Amish woman: a good Amish husband and a large family. But she's...
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Winning Miss Winthrop"A touching, charming tale of love won and lost and won again. . . . Brings the Regency period to vivid life."--Julianna Deering, author of the Drew Farthering Mysteries Years ago, the man who stole Catherine Winthrop's heart rejected her--and she's never recovered from...
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The Elusive Miss EllisonForeword INDIES Book of the Year Award Winner Handsome appearance counts for naught unless matched by good character and actions. That's the firm opinion of not-so-meek minister's daughter Lavinia Ellison. So even though all the other villagers of St. Hampton Heath are swooning over...
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A Trail of Crumbs: A Novel of the Great DepressionWinner 2018 INSPY Award "The writing is solid and as compelling as the first novel, and Pearl is as charming a narrator as ever. " - Historical Novel Society "I believed it would have been a sin to stay inside when God had sent...
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Sherlock in Shanghai: Stories of Crime and Detection by Cheng XiaoqingShanghai in the 1920s and 1930s--"the Paris of the Orient"--was both a glittering metropolis and a shadowy world of crime and social injustice. It was also home to Huo Sang and Bao Lang, fictional Chinese counterparts to Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes and Dr....
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Kisses in the NederendsIn the best Rabelaisian tradition, this brilliant satire weaves a tale of improbabilities around the seat of the last great taboo. Oilei Bomboki wakes one morning with an excruciating pain that sends him anxiously searching for a cure. Unsuccessful treatments at the hands of...
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Five Years on a RockMilton Murayama returns to the places and people of his earlier fiction - to the sugar plantation company towns and sleepy villages of Maui, and to the resilient Oyama family. Five Years on a Rock is the story of Sawa Oyama, the mother who...
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Big RedA devoted, courageous dog always stands by the boy who loves him in this genuine classic, in print for 75 years. A timeless, not-to-be-missed classic. --Katherine Applegate, Newbery Award winning author of The One and Only Ivan Before Old Yeller or Where the Red...
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The Blues Walked inIn 1936, life on the road means sleeping on the bus or in hotels for blacks only. After finishing her tour with Nobel Sissel's orchestra, nineteen-year-old Lena Horne is walking the last few blocks to her father's hotel in Pittsburgh's Hill District. She stops...
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