Catalog Search Results
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Those who do not remember family history are condemned to repeat it...Haunted by a failed marriage, a resentful son left deaf by a bout of meningitis, and the slow death of her artistic aspirations, Margaret Yearwood takes refuge in Blue Dog, New Mexico. There, in the shadow of Shiprock Mountain, and in the unlikely arms of Owen Garrett, she finds the courage to love again, and to be loved. And she comes to realize that even the most primal wounds...
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
The Milagro Beanfield War is the first book in John Nichols's New Mexico trilogy ("Gentle, funny, transcendent." —The New York Times Book Review), later adapted to film by Robert Redford.
Joe Mondragon, a feisty hustler with a talent for trouble, slammed his battered pickup to a stop, tugged on his gumboots, and marched into the arid patch of ground. Carefully (and also illegally), he tapped into the main
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Charlie is on vacation. A cozy cabin, a diner that serves delicious guilty-pleasures, and Drake--all Charlie needs to relax and enjoy herself. But the town of Watson's Lake has a little unsolved mystery. Four years ago, a showplace home--beautiful and serene and tucked away on the mountain--blew sky high, due to an apparent gas leak. A young woman died. The owner disappeared. His gold-digging wife wants the insurance money, and his daughter wants...
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Page Murdock has been sent to the tough New Mexico of 1881 to track down a man and bring him to justice. But more than a trail of revenge, Murdock finds himself on a desperate odyssey. For in the Southwest a friend can turn out to be one's cruelest enemy, an enemy one's finest friend. And the woman Murdock loves will be as voluptuous as Venus and wicked as sin.
City of Widows shows western author Loren D. Estleman at the top of his game.
At the...
Author
Series
Ella Clah mysteries volume 14
Language
English
Formats
Description
Ella Clah, a Special Investigator with the Navajo Police is called in to investigate when the son-in-law of a powerful Navajo businesswoman and politician is attacked, and when Ella uncovers evidence of Navajo witchcraft, she fears she is exposing herself to skinwalker magic by searching for the culprit.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
The fiery midnight crash of a Stealth fighter on a New Mexico reservation and the disappearance of a young Navajo woman put psychologist Ben Pecos and tribal police officer Tommy Spottedhorse on a sinister and mysterious trail. Tribal police lock horns with air force personnel over jurisdiction and the right to search for the missing woman. The murder of a local park ranger and several livestock mutilations complicate the whole picture and take the...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Years ago, Abby Reynolds was given the letters written by her great-great-grandmother who traveled from Virginia to New Mexico in a covered wagon just after the Civil War. Now, at a crossroads in her life, Abby reads Abigail's letters and follows her ancestor's trail westward where she seeks to understand the other woman's life in a land that was so foreign to her family, they all but forgot her.
Between Earth and Sky records two journeys-Abby's...
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Three days before the start of the Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta, balloon pilot Rachael Fairfield walks into the offices of RJP Investigations. She received a threatening note, which she believes came from her father, a convicted felon whom she sent to prison 15 years earlier. To complicate matters, her brother has initiated a huge publicity campaign for the world altitude record Rachael plans to attempt on the final Sunday of the fiesta....
11) So far from God
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.4 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Formats
Description
Sofia and her fated daughters, Fe, Esperanza, Caridad, and la Loca, endure hardship and enjoy love in the sleepy New Mexico hamlet of Tome, a town teeming with marvels where the comic and the horrific, the real and the supernatural, reside. -- Back cover.
12) Yellowcake
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
For her acclaimed collection of stories, Red Ant House, Joyce Carol Oates hailed Ann Cummins as "a master storyteller." The San Francisco Chronicle called her "startlingly original." Now, in her debut novel, Cummins stakes claim to rich new literary territory with a story of straddling cultures and cheating fate in the American Southwest.
Yellowcake introduces us to two unforgettable families-one Navajo, one Anglo-some thirty years after the closing...
13) The ancients
Author
Series
Forbidden doors volume 10
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
Becka Williams, Scott Williams, and Becka's boyfriend, Ryan Riordan, go to a Native American tribe in New Mexico, where the witch doctor Dark Bear is trying to show his tribe members the Christian religion is no match for the powers of the Native American gods. When Becka, Scott, and Ryan arrive, they are met by Swift Arrow, a Christian who has been trying to convince his people that Dark Bear's magic is a lie. As Becka and Scott work with Swift Arrow...
Author
Series
Lee Nez novels volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Formats
Description
A string of gruesome deaths in the Shiprock area has attracted the attention of FBI agent Diane Lopez. The killer is unmistakably a vampire-but the only vampire Diane knows of is State Police officer Lee Nez. One of the good guys. The victims worked for a secret government lab that was studying a captured vampire, Stewart Tanner. Driven mad, Tanner broke free and took revenge on his tormenters. Now he's threatening to kill a powerful judge unless...
15) Saving Sky
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
620L
Language
English
Formats
Description
In an America that has suffered continual terrorist attacks since 9/11, seventh-grader Sky stands up for what is right and helps a classmate of Middle Eastern descent, although doing so places her and her family at great risk.
17) Dead mountain
Author
Series
Nora Kelly novels (Preston & Child) volume 4
Language
English
Description
"In 2008, nine mountaineers failed to return from a winter backpacking trip in the New Mexico mountains. At their final campsite, searchers found a bizarre scene: something had appeared at the door of their tent so terrifying that it impelled them to slash their way out and flee barefoot to certain death in a blizzard. Despite a diligent search, only six bodies were found, two violently crushed and inexplicably missing their eyes. The case, given...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Formats
Description
Sister Agatha is an extern nun in the cloistered order at the Our Lady of Hope Monastery near a small New Mexican desert town. As such, Sister Agatha is the link between her cloistered sisters and the outside world. Usually this means running errands in the monastery's slowly dying car (dubbed the Anti-Chrystler) or their motorcycle, with Pax, the order's German Shepard, in the sidecar. But sometimes it means something a bit more, like now when the...
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Five years after the death of Comanche leader Cuerno Verde, cautious diplomacy between the tribe and the colonists is underway to end Comanche raids into New Mexico. Husband and wife Marco and Paloma Mondragón life is hectic between two toddlers and a newborn son and Marco's spring planting. Unknown to him, Marco has peculiar enemies plotting his downfall. When Paloma and a friend set out on a visit to Marco's sister, meant to give Paloma relief...
20) Blood secret
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
Fourteen-year-old Jerry Luna, mute since her mother's disappearance, is sent to her great-great aunt Constanza's house, where she discovers a trunk that draws her into the world of her ancestors during the Spanish Inquisition.
Didn't find it?
Can't find what you are looking for? Try our Materials Request Service. Submit Request