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190 pages ; 22 cm
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English
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"When a young child is brutally murdered by his father, New Mexico journalist Myra Whitehawk is drawn into the unfolding drama. Recently separated from her husband and struggling with alcohol dependency, her flawed intuition is her only guide into the mind of a psychotic killer" - cover p.4.
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185 pages ; 24 cm
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English
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After learning that his father was adopted, Ace Hobart joins him in a journey from New York to New Mexico, during which they meet Ace's great-grandmother, a circus performer, his grandfather, a Tewa Indian, and other relatives he never knew existed.
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40 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
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English
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A mute Indian child has an extraordinary experience one Christmas when, following a figure who seems to be his beloved dead grandfather, he becomes part of a circle in which he, animals, nature, and all the world join in a moment of peace and good will.
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Mimbreño cousins help their community during a drought and welcome a new boy to the pueblo, knowing that even though he acts rashly, he will learn to use his talents in a positive way. Includes instructions for making talking sticks and lightning sticks.
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184 pages ; 21 cm
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English
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In 1881, after sixteen-year-old Bin-daa-dee-nin, an Apache fugitive, prays for help to survive in the mountains of New Mexico, he encounters a unique horse, and the path of his life with that horse crosses the life path of fourteen-year-old Sarah Chilton.
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108 pages ; 22 cm
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English
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"In the last years of the 19th century in the western territory that would become New Mexico, young Elijah falls in love with a girl who has strange insights and abilities with animals. Together, they come of age in a land of mountains and ravens, where witches terrorized both white men and Apache Indians"--
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39 pages : color illustrations ; 27 cm
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English
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In order to marry Sage, the girl he loves, Young Eagle must leave his home in New Mexico and undertake a long and perilous journey to the land of the Aztecs to bring back chile seeds for Sage's father. Includes glossary of Spanish terms.
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111 pages : color illustrations ; 22 cm
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English
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When eleven-year-old Raymundo, of Spanish colonial New Mexico, overcomes his fear and asks a Native American woman to teach him to make clay pots, his faith and hard work lead to a miracle that saves both of their villages. Includes a glossary of Spanish terms.
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232 pages ; 23 cm.
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English
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In a pickup-camper, Grandfather, a shaman, and his granddaughter, Hollow-Woman, the last descendants of the Pecos people, embark on a trip from New Mexico to Boston to retrieve the sacred bones of their ancestors. These remains had been stolen in 1915 from their ancestral home, the Pecos pueblo archaeological site, by academics intent on medical research. In his mind the old man has heard the bones crying, longing for home. So in order to convince...
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
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English
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Cody is worried when his family on a New Mexico Navajo reservation runs out of water, but Darlene Arviso, called "The Water Lady," is on the way with her tanker truck. Includes glossary of Navajo terms and notes about and from Arviso and life on a reservation.
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