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The Active Side of Infinity
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Carlos Castaneda
This book is a collection of Castaneda's key experiences organized in an accessible way. They provide an insight into this tradition and elucidate ideas that occur in Castaneda's previous books. He has learned that these events, when collected together, form a device that powerfully stirs energy inside the self that has lain dormant. Our daily ...
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Wyatt Earp: The Life Behind the Legend
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Casey Tefertiller
A biography of the legendary frontier marshall in Dodge City, Oklahoma, whose famous gunfight at the O.K. Corral was depicted in John Ford's 1946 Western, "My Darling Clementine."
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The Three Little Javelinas
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Susan Lowell
A retelling of "The Three Little Pigs," this time set in the American Southwest. In this version, the three pigs are javelinas--wild cousins of domesticated pigs, and the big bad wolf is a hungry coyote. Color illustrations accompany the text.
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House made of dawn
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Natachee Scott Momaday
In Momaday's first novel, Abel is a Jemez Indian returning to his tribe after World War II. An outsider among his own people because of his war experiences and because of the fact that he is the illegitimate offspring of a Navajo, Abel is humiliated at a ceremony, then he murders the man who offended him. After serving an eight-year sentence, Abel ...
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The Secret Knowledge of Water: Discovering the Essence of the American Desert
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Craig Childs
Like the highest mountain peaks, deserts are environments that can be inhospitable even to the most seasoned explorers. Craig Childs, who has spent years in the deserts of the American West - as an adventurer, a river guide, and a field instructor in natural history - has developed a keen appreciation for these forbidding landscapes: their beauty, ...
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The Fallen Man
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Tony Hillerman
Even though Joe Leaphorn has retired from the Navajo tribal police, his curiosity gets the better of him when a skeleton is discovered on a mountain sacred to his people. A "New York Times" Notable Book of 1996.
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Thief of Time
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Tony Hillerman
Navajo tribal policeman Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn and Officer Jim Chee investigate a string of murders committed at an ancient Native American burial site.
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The Spanish Frontier in North America
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David J Weber
In 1513, when Ponce de Leon stepped ashore on a beach of what is now Florida, Spain gained its first foothold in North America. For the next 300 years, Spaniards ranged through the continent building forts, missions and farms, ranches and towns to reconstruct the Iberian world. This illustrated book presents an overview of the Spanish colonial ...
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Talking God
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Tony Hillerman
A body is found beside the railway track in the deserts of New Mexico with a note in the pocket bearing the location of an old woman and an obscure Navajo ceremony, Yeibichai or "Talking God". There is also the name of Henry Highhawk, a sinister campaigner for Navajo rights.
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Sacred Clowns
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Tony Hillerman
Officer Jim Chee is making little headway in finding a Pueblo teenager who's gone missing from his boarding school, and feels resentment at being asked to play truant officer by his new boss, Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn. Hillerman is the author of "Coyote Waits", "Talking God" and "Skinwalkers".
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Blessing Way
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Tony Hillerman (Read by)
When Lt. Joe Leaphorn of the Navajo Tribal Police discovers a corpse with a mouth full of sand at a crime scene seemingly without tracks or clues, he is ready to suspect a supernatural killer. And what he must stalk is the Wolf-Witch along a chilling trail between mysticism and murder.
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Don't Start the Revolution Without Me!: From the Minnesota Governor's Mansion to the Baja Outback: Reflections and Revisionings
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Jesse Ventura, Dick Russell
Ventura--former governor, wrestler, and Navy SEAL--discusses what's wrong with the Democrats, the Republicans, and politics in America. He also reveals why he left politics, and why he is now considering reentering the arena with a possible independent run for the presidency in 2008.
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Coyote Waits
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Tony Hillerman
A novel which combines strands of ancient Navajo mythology with modern politics, ambition and greed. A poor and elderly Indian is charged with the murder of a tribal policeman, and the star witness is Jim Chee - best friend of the murdered man. The author's other books include "The Dark Wind".
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First Eagle
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Tony Hillerman
Navajo detectives Joe Leaphorn and Jim Chee must race against time to find out who murdered a fellow officer, and who is trying to spread the bubonic plague across the land. The only lead they have is a fiery young female biologist, except she hasn't been seen since the day of the murder.
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Brules
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Harry Combs
This is an epic tale of one man's search for justice in the Old West. It tells the story of Cat Brules, cowboy and legend, who fought his own private war against the Comanche nation and rode hell-bent toward a tragedy that would either make him an outlaw or a hero.
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Skinwalkers
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Tony Hillerman
Three apparently motiveless murders unite the protagonists of the Navajo thriller series for the first time in 15 years. An investigation takes them into the world of Navajo witchcraft in the American Southwest and into the clan society of America's biggest tribe.
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The Dancing Healers: A Doctor's Journey of Healing with Native Americans
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Dr. Carl A Hammerschlag
Author Carl A. Hammerschlag once described himself as medical purist, but after working with Native Americans, he began to see the value in healing ceremonies and rituals. This Yale-educated physician's work with Native American patients in the Southwest taught him to reconsider his education, and start implementing traditional Native American ...
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Dance Hall of the Dead
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Tony Hillerman
When two boys disappear--one a Zumi, the other a Navajo--tribal rivalries flair as Lt. Joe Leaphorn tries to unravel the mystery.
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Almanac of the Dead
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Leslie Marmon Silko
Silko deals with American Indian issues in this novel, particularly their near-extermination by white conquest and culture.
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Billy the Kid: The Endless Ride
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Michael Wallis
Award-winning historian Michael Wallis has spent several years recreating the rich, anecdotal saga of "Billy the Kid" (1859-1881), a deeply mythologised young man who became a legend in his own time and yet remains an enigma to this day. With the Gilded Age in full swing and the Industrial Revolution reshaping the American landscape, 'the Kid', ...
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In Search of the Old Ones
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David Roberts
A rich, popular account of America's great prehistoric mystery--the sudden disappearance of the Anasazi, the cliff-dwelling Indians who vanished from the Southwest, leaving behind America's most enduring archaeological monuments. Roberts speculates on the reasons for the disappearance of this great tribe, including drought, plague, and enemy ...
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Listening Woman
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Tony Hillerman
The state police and FBI are baffled when an old man and a teenaged girl are brutally murdered. The blind Navajo Listening Woman speaks of ghosts and witches. But Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn knows his people and begins an investigation that leads to the most violent confrontation of his career.
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The Exploration of the Colorado River and Its Canyons
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John W Powell
In 1869, Civil War veteran John Wesley Powell and nine other men undertook a hazardous three-month excursion down the unmapped Colorado River. Three of them survived famine, Indian attacks, mutiny, and dangerous rapids, and Powell told their harrowing story in this 1874 account.
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Men to Match My Mountains: The Opening of the Far West, 1840-1900
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Irving Stone
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Apache Gold&yaqui Silver
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J Frank Dobie
Buried vaults stacked with gold bars, secret caches of coins and jewels plundered from the Spaniards and the Church, exposed veins of ore with nuggets the size of turkey eggs. Guarded by the bones of dead men, the legendary treasures of the Southwest still wait for those foolhardy or desperate enough to seek them. Death is the cure for gold ...
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