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All the Pretty Horses
by Cormac McCarthy

ISBN 0679744398 (0-679-74439-8)
Softcover, Random House Inc

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Part bildungsroman, part horse opera, part meditation on courage and loyalty, this beautifully crafted novel won the National Book Award in 1992. The plot is simple enough. John Grady Cole, a 16-year-old dispossessed Texan, crosses the Rio Grande into Mexico in 1949, accompanied by his pal Lacey Rawlins. The two precocious horsemen pick up a sidekick--a laughable but deadly marksman named Jimmy Blevins--encounter various adventures on their way south and finally arrive at a paradisiacal hacienda where Cole falls into an ill-fated romance. Readers familiar with McCarthy's Faulknerian prose will find the writing more restrained than in Suttree and Blood Meridian. Newcomers will be mesmerized by the tragic tale of John Grady Cole's coming of age. [via]
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Ancient Ruins of the Southwest: An Archaeological Guide
by David Grant Noble, Brad Melton

ISBN 0873587243 (0-87358-724-3)
Softcover, Northland Pub

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No region of this continent and few areas in the world can boast a collection of archaeological ruins equal to that of the American Southwest. An indispensable guide to over 50 sites throughout the region, this title includes 90 photos and 18 maps and diagrams. [via]
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Animal Dreams
by Barbara Kingsolver

ISBN 1568496923 (1-56849-692-3)
Hardcover, Buccaneer Books

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"Animals dream about the things they do in the day time just like people do. If you want sweet dreams, you've got to live a sweet life." So says Loyd Peregrina, a handsome Apache trainman and latter-day philosopher. But when Codi Noline returns to her hometown, Loyd's advice is painfully out of her reach. Dreamless and at the end of her rope, Codi comes back to Grace, Arizona to confront her past and face her ailing, distant father. What the finds is a town threatened by a silent environmental catastrophe, some startling clues to her own identity, and a man whose view of the world could change the course of her life. Blending flashbacks, dreams, and Native American legends, Animal Dreams is a suspenseful love story and a moving exploration of life's largest commitments. With this work, the acclaimed author of The Bean Trees and Homeland and Other Stories sustains her familiar voice while giving readers her most remarkable book yet.
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The Bean Trees
by Barbara Kingsolver

ISBN 0060915544 (0-06-091554-4)
Softcover, Harpercollins

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STANDARD GOOD USED CONDITION WITH ANY FLAWS NOTED. [via]
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Blood Meridian
by Cormac McCarthy, Harold Bloom

ISBN 0679641041 (0-679-64104-1)
Hardcover, Random House Inc

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"The men as they rode turned black in the sun from the blood on their clothes and their faces and then paled slowly in the rising dust until they assumed once more the color of the land through which they passed." If what we call "horror" can be seen as including any literature that has dark, horrific subject matter, then Blood Meridian is, in this reviewer's estimation, the best horror novel ever written. It's a perverse, picaresque Western about bounty hunters for Indian scalps near the Texas-Mexico border in the 1850s--a ragged caravan of indiscriminate killers led by an unforgettable human monster called "The Judge." Imagine the imagery of Sam Peckinpah and Heironymus Bosch as written by William Faulkner, and you'll have just an inkling of this novel's power. From the opening scenes about a 14-year-old Tennessee boy who joins the band of hunters to the extraordinary, mythic ending, this is an American classic about extreme violence. [via]
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- Blood Meridian: ISBN 0844667935 (0-8446-6793-5)
  Hardcover, Peter Smith Pub Inc
- Blood Meridian: ISBN 0679641041 (0-679-64104-1)
  Hardcover, Random House Inc
Blood Meridian, Or, the Evening Redness in the West
by Cormac McCarthy

ISBN 0679728759 (0-679-72875-9)
Softcover, Vintage Books

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"The men as they rode turned black in the sun from the blood on their clothes and their faces and then paled slowly in the rising dust until they assumed once more the color of the land through which they passed." If what we call "horror" can be seen as including any literature that has dark, horrific subject matter, then Blood Meridian is, in this reviewer's estimation, the best horror novel ever written. It's a perverse, picaresque Western about bounty hunters for Indian scalps near the Texas-Mexico border in the 1850s--a ragged caravan of indiscriminate killers led by an unforgettable human monster called "The Judge." Imagine the imagery of Sam Peckinpah and Heironymus Bosch as written by William Faulkner, and you'll have just an inkling of this novel's power. From the opening scenes about a 14-year-old Tennessee boy who joins the band of hunters to the extraordinary, mythic ending, this is an American classic about extreme violence. [via]
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Cerdos En El Cielo/Pigs in Heaven
by Barbara Kingsolver, Margara Averbach

ISBN 0060951222 (0-06-095122-2)
Softcover, Harpercollins

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The Spanish-language edition of the New York Times best-seller tells the story of six-year-old Turtle Greer and what happens after she witnesses a freak accident at Hoover Dam. [via]
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The Dark Wind
by Tony Hillerman

ISBN 0061000035 (0-06-100003-5)
Softcover, Harpercollins

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A corpse whose palms and soles have been "scalped" is only the first in a series of disturbing clues: an airplane's mysterious crash in the nighttime desert, a bizarre attack on a windmill, a vanishing shipment of cocaine. Sgt. Jim Chee of the Navajo Tribal Police is trapped in the deadly web of a cunningly spun plot driven by Navajo sorcery and white man's greed. [via]
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Death Comes for the Archbishop
by Willa Cather

ISBN 1417904232 (1-4179-0423-2)
Softcover, Kessinger Publishing, LLC

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In 1851 Bishop Latour and his friend Father Valliant are despatched to New Mexico to reawaken its slumbering Catholicism. Moving along the endless prairies, Latour spreads his faith the only way he knowsgently, although he must contend with the unforgiving landscape, derelict and sometimes openly rebellious priests, and his own loneliness. Over nearly 40 years, they leave converts and enemies, crosses, and occasionally ecstasy in their wake. But it takes a death for them to make their mark on the landscape forever.
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Desert Solitaire
by Edward Abbey

ISBN 0345326490 (0-345-32649-0)
Softcover, Ballantine Books

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With language as colorful as a Canyonlands sunset and a perspective as pointed as a prickly pear, Cactus Ed captures the heat, mystery, and surprising bounty of desert life. Desert Solitaire is a meditation on the stark landscapes of the red-rock West, a passionate vote for wilderness, and a howling lament for the commercialization of the American outback. [via]
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- Desert Solitaire: ISBN 0816510571 (0-8165-1057-1)
  Hardcover, Univ of Arizona Pr
- Desert Solitaire: ISBN 0345326490 (0-345-32649-0)
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Desert Solitaire: A Season in the Wilderness
by Edward Abbey

ISBN 0671695886 (0-671-69588-6)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster

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With language as colorful as a Canyonlands sunset and a perspective as pointed as a prickly pear, Cactus Ed captures the heat, mystery, and surprising bounty of desert life. Desert Solitaire is a meditation on the stark landscapes of the red-rock West, a passionate vote for wilderness, and a howling lament for the commercialization of the American outback. [via]
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- Desert Solitaire: A Season in the Wilderness: ISBN 0879050705 (0-87905-070-5)
  Hardcover, Peregrine Smith
- Desert Solitaire: A Season in the Wilderness: ISBN 0671695886 (0-671-69588-6)
  Softcover, Simon & Schuster
Fallen Man
by Tony Hillerman

ISBN 0061092886 (0-06-109288-6)
Softcover, Harpercollins

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First Eagle
by Tony Hillerman

ISBN 0061097853 (0-06-109785-3)
Softcover, Harpercollins

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Flowers of the Southwest Deserts
by Natt Noyes Dodge, Janish

ISBN 0911408657 (0-911408-65-7)
Softcover, Western Natl Parks Assoc

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- Flowers of the Southwest Deserts: ISBN 0911408045 (0-911408-04-5)
  Hardcover, Southwest Parks and Monuments Association
- Flowers of the Southwest Deserts: ISBN 0911408657 (0-911408-65-7)
  Softcover, Western Natl Parks Assoc
Ghostway
by Tony Hillerman

ISBN 006100345X (0-06-100345-X)
Softcover, Harpercollins

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Listening Woman
by Tony Hillerman

ISBN 1562870599 (1-56287-059-9)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster

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The Milagro Beanfield War
by John Treadwell Nichols

ISBN 0805063749 (0-8050-6374-9)
Softcover, Owl Books

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Joe Mondragon, thirty-six, is a feisty hustler with a talent for trouble, who slammed his battered pickup to a stop one day, tugged on his gumboots, and marched into an arid patch of ground. Then, illegally, he tapped into the main irrigation channel. And so began John Nichols' classic tale of the little guy against the big guy -- THE MILAGRO BEANFIELD WAR. [via]
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Milagro Beanfield War
by John Nichols

ISBN 0345282450 (0-345-28245-0)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group

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Joe Mondragon, thirty-six, is a feisty hustler with a talent for trouble, who slammed his battered pickup to a stop one day, tugged on his gumboots, and marched into an arid patch of ground. Then, illegally, he tapped into the main irrigation channel. And so began John Nichols' classic tale of the little guy against the big guy -- THE MILAGRO BEANFIELD WAR. [via]
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The Milagro Beanfield War
by Ned Rorem

ISBN 0030122511 (0-03-012251-1)
Hardcover, Holt, Rinehart and Winston

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Fiction [via]
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The Mind-Body Problem
by Rebecca Goldstein

ISBN 0394524748 (0-394-52474-8)
Hardcover, Random House Inc

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Wonderful book from perhaps the greatest living author today. Volume One of his "Border Trilogy." Hardcover. Original jacket. Stated First Edition. Light bumping. PO writing on front end page. Jacket price intact. Looks great. Very Good/Near Fine condition. [via]
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The Monkey Wrench Gang
by Edward Abbey

ISBN 1568490836 (1-56849-083-6)
Hardcover, Buccaneer Books, Incorporated

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Ed Abbey called The Monkey Wrench Gang, his 1975 novel, a "comic extravaganza." Some readers have remarked that the book is more a comic book than a real novel, and it's true that reading this incendiary call to protect the American wilderness requires more than a little of the old willing suspension of disbelief. The story centers on Vietnam veteran George Washington Hayduke III, who returns to the desert to find his beloved canyons and rivers threatened by industrial development. On a rafting trip down the Colorado River, Hayduke joins forces with feminist saboteur Bonnie Abbzug, wilderness guide Seldom Seen Smith, and billboard torcher Doc Sarvis, M.D., and together they wander off to wage war on the big yellow machines, on dam builders and road builders and strip miners. As they do, his characters voice Abbey's concerns about wilderness preservation ("Hell of a place to lose a cow," Smith thinks to himself while roaming through the canyonlands of southern Utah. "Hell of a place to lose your heart. Hell of a place... to lose. Period"). Moving from one improbable situation to the next, packing more adventure into the space of a few weeks than most real people do in a lifetime, the motley gang puts fear into the hearts of their enemies, laughing all the while. It's comic, yes, and required reading for anyone who has come to love the desert. --Gregory McNamee [via]
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National Audubon Society Field Guide to the Southwestern States: Arizona, New Mexico, Nevada, Utah
by Peter Alden, National Audubon Society, Jonathan D. Kahl, Wendy B. Zomlefer, Peter Friederici, Brianbon Society Cassie, Patrick Leary, Amy Leventer

ISBN 067944680X (0-679-44680-X)
Softcover, Random House Inc

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  Softcover, Random House Inc
People of Darkness
by Tony Hillerman

ISBN 1562870572 (1-56287-057-2)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster

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Pigs in Heaven
by Barbara Kingsolver

ISBN 0060922532 (0-06-092253-2)
Softcover, Harpercollins

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Six-year-old Turtle Greer witnesses a freak accident at the Hoover Dam, leading to a man's dramatic rescue. But Turtle's moment of celebrity draws her into a crisis of historical proportions that will envelop not only her and her mother, Taylor, but everyone else who touched their lives in a complex web connecting their future with their past. With this wise, compelling novel, the acclaimed New York Times bestselling author of The Poisonwood Bible, The Bean Trees, and Animal Dreams vividly renders a world of heartbreak and redeeming love as she defines and defies the boundaries of family, and illuminates the many separate truths aboutthe ties that bind us and tear us apart.
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The Shape Shifter
by Tony Hillerman

ISBN 0061119911 (0-06-111991-1)
Softcover, HarperCollins Canada, Limited

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- The Shape Shifter: ISBN 0060563451 (0-06-056345-1)
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- The Shape Shifter: ISBN 0061119911 (0-06-111991-1)
  Softcover, HarperCollins Canada, Limited
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Skinwalkers
by Tony Hillerman

ISBN 0061000175 (0-06-100017-5)
Softcover, Harpercollins

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Three shotgun blasts explode into the trailer of Officer Jim Chee of the Navajo Tribal Police. But Chee survives to join partner Lt. Joe Leaphorn in a frightening investigation that takes them into a dark world of ritual, witchcraft, and bloodall tied to the elusive and evil "skinwalker." Brimming with Navajo lore and sizzling suspense, Skinwalkers brings Chee and Leaphorn, Hillerman's bestselling detective team, together for the first time.
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Talking God
by Tony Hillerman

ISBN 0896218953 (0-89621-895-3)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr

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Thief of Time
by Tony Hillerman

ISBN 0061000043 (0-06-100004-3)
Softcover, Harpercollins

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A noted anthropologist vanishes at amoonlit Indian ruin where "thieves of time" ravage sacred ground for profit. When two corpses appear amid stolen goods and bones at an ancient burial site, Navajo Tribal Policemen Lt. Joe Leaphorn and Officer Jim Chee must plunge into the past to unearth the astonishing truth behind a mystifying series of horrific murders. [via]
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Wailing Wind
by Tony Hillerman

ISBN 0061098795 (0-06-109879-5)
Softcover, Harpercollins

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To Officer Bernadette Manuelito, the man curled up on the truck seat was just another drunk -- which got Bernie in trouble for mishandling a crime scene -- which got Sergeant Jim Chee in trouble with the FBI -- which drew Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn out of retirement and back into the old "Golden Calf" homicide, a case he had hoped to forget.Nothing had seemed complicated about that earlier one. A con game had gone sour. A swindler had tried to sell wealthy old Wiley Denton the location of one of the West's multitude of legendary lost gold mines. Denton had shot the swindler, called the police, confessed the homicide, and done his short prison time. No mystery there.Except why did the rich man's bride vanish? The cynics said she was part of the swindle plot. She'd fled when it failed. But, alas, old Joe Leaphorn was a romantic. He believed in love, and thus the Golden Calf case still troubled him. Now, papers found in this new homicide case connect the victim to Denton and to the mythical Golden Calf Mine. The first Golden Calf victim had been there just hours before Denton killed him. And while Denton was killing him, four children trespassing among the rows of empty bunkers in the long-abandoned Wingate Ordnance Depot called in an odd report to the police. They had heard, in the wind wailing around the old buildings, what sounded like music and the cries of a woman.Bernie Manuelito uses her knowledge of Navajo country, its tribal traditions, and her friendship with a famous old medicine man to unravel the first knot of this puzzle, with Jim Chee putting aside his distaste of the FBI to help her. But the questions raised by this second Golden Calf murder aren't answered until Leaphorn solves the puzzle left by the first one and discovers what the young trespassers heard in the wailing wind. [via]
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- Wailing Wind: ISBN 0060194448 (0-06-019444-8)
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De Si Jolis Cheveaux
by McCarthy

ISBN 2020309610 (2-02-030961-0)
Softcover, Distribooks Inc

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338pages. poche. Broché. [via]
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  Softcover, Distribooks Inc

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Unos Caballos Muy Lindos
by Cormac McCarthy, Pilar Giralt Gorina

ISBN 8432206733 (84-322-0673-3)
Softcover, Planeta Pub Corp

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