Madam Millie

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Publisher : UNM Press
ISBN 13 : 0826327842
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (263 download)

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Book Synopsis Madam Millie by : Max Evans

Download or read book Madam Millie written by Max Evans and published by UNM Press. This book was released on 2013-02-15 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mildred Clark Cusey was a whore, a madam, an entrepreneur, and above all, a survivor. The story of Silver City Millie, as she referred to herself, is the story of one woman's personal tragedies and triumphs as an orphan, a Harvey Girl waitress on the Santa Fe railroad, a prostitute with innumerable paramours, and a highly successful bordello businesswoman. Millie broke the mold in so many ways, and yet her life's story of survival was not unlike that of thousands of women who went West only to find that their most valuable assets were their physical beauty and their personality. Petite at five feet tall with piercing blue eyes, Millie captured men's attention by her very essence and her unmistakable joie de vivre. Born to Italian immigrant parents near Kansas City, she and her sister were orphaned early and separated from each other. Millie learned hard lessons on the streets, but she never gave up and she vowed to protect and support her ailing older sister. Caught in a domestic squabble in her foster home, Millie wound up in juvenile court with Harry Truman as her judge. This would be only the first of many brushes in her life with prominent politicians. When physicians diagnosed her sister with tuberculosis and recommended she move West to a Catholic home in Deming, New Mexico, Millie moved with her. Expenses ran high and after a brief stint waiting tables as a Harvey Girl, Millie found that her meager tips could easily be augmented by turning tricks. Thus, out of financial need and devotion to her sister, Mildred Cusey turned to a life of prostitution and a career at which she soon excelled and became both rich and famous.

Hypnotizing Chickens and Other Stories

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Publisher : Peckin' Order Press
ISBN 13 : 9780985066727
Total Pages : 130 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (667 download)

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Book Synopsis Hypnotizing Chickens and Other Stories by : Jan Sherman

Download or read book Hypnotizing Chickens and Other Stories written by Jan Sherman and published by Peckin' Order Press. This book was released on 2016-06-01 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A memoir by Jan Heyne Sherman about growing up with her brother, Bud, in the near-ghost town of Mogollon, New Mexico, during the 1920s and '30s. Illustrated with many family photos from the same era.

Our Search For Meaning

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ISBN 13 : 9781685642976
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (429 download)

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Book Synopsis Our Search For Meaning by : Katherine Oubre

Download or read book Our Search For Meaning written by Katherine Oubre and published by . This book was released on 2022-01-18 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Our Search For Meaning examines the intellectual history of western civilization as it is portrayed in literature and philosophy within the context of the ALAS Questions: What is truth? What is justice? What does it mean to be human? What is the good life? History, literature, and philosophy seek to help humans as a species explain the world, the world around them as well as the world within. And they all do so through narratives, stories that help us try to understand and explain our purpose in our very mortal existence. This anthology examines texts within the western literary tradition in conversation.

Within Our Grasp

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Publisher : Pantheon
ISBN 13 : 1524747254
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (247 download)

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Book Synopsis Within Our Grasp by : Sharman Apt Russell

Download or read book Within Our Grasp written by Sharman Apt Russell and published by Pantheon. This book was released on 2021-04-06 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An important, hopeful book that looks at the urgent problem of childhood malnutrition worldwide and the revolutionary progress being made to end it. A healthy Earth requires healthy children. Yet nearly one-fourth of the world’s children are stunted physically and mentally due to a lack of food or nutrients. These children do not die but endure a lifetime of diminished potential. During the past thirty years, says Sharman Russell, we have seen a revolution in how we treat these sick children and in how—with a new understanding of the human body and approach to nutrition, and new ways to reach out to hungry mothers and babies—we have gone from unwittingly killing severely malnourished children to bringing them back to health through the “miracle” of ready-to-eat therapeutic food. Intertwined with stories of scientists and nutrition experts on the front lines of finding ways to end malnutrition for good, Russell writes of her travels to Malawi, one of the poorest and least-developed countries in the world and also the site of pathbreaking, cutting-edge research into childhood malnutrition. (Eighty percent of Malawians are farmers subsisting on less than an acre of land and coping with erratic weather patterns due to global warming; fifty percent live below the poverty line; and forty-two percent of Malawi’s children are affected by a lack of food or nutrients.) As she writes of her personal exploration of new friendships and insights in a country known as “the warm heart of Africa,” Russell describes the programs that are working best to reduce childhood stunting and explores how malnutrition in children is connected to climate change, how vitamins and minerals are preventing these harmful effects, why the empowerment of women is the single most effective factor in eliminating childhood malnutrition, and what the costs of ending childhood malnutrition are. Sharman Russell, much-admired writer of luminous prose and humane heart, whose writing has been called, “elegant” (The Economist) and “extraordinarily well-crafted, far-reaching, and heart-wrenching” (Booklist), winner of the John Burroughs Medal for distinguished natural history writing, has written an illuminating, inspiring book that makes clear the promise of what is today, gratefully, within our grasp.

Fortunate Son

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Publisher : University of New Mexico Press
ISBN 13 : 082636246X
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (263 download)

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Download or read book Fortunate Son written by Rick Bass and published by University of New Mexico Press. This book was released on 2021-03-15 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rick Bass’s Fortunate Son is a literary tour of the Lone Star State by a native Texan of exceptional talent. The essays encompass a Texas that is both lost and found, past and present. The stories reach from Galveston Bay to the Hill Country outside Austin, and from Houston in the 1960s to today. They are bound together by a deep love and a keen eye for the land and its people and by an appreciation for what is given, a ruefulness for what is lost, and a commitment to save what can be saved. “This is a journalist’s Texas scrapbook, then: a firefighting story, a musical pilgrimage, a ramble in Texas’s tiniest public wilderness (one of only five in the entire state). Fishing with my father and uncle on a lake that is partly in Texas and partly in Louisiana; flying around the borders of Texas—usually defined by water, a resource that will vanish in much of the state within our lifetime; hanging out at my parents’ cattle farm down near Goliad; reading the work of Texans before me.”—from the Introduction

Gila Country Legend

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Publisher : University of New Mexico Press
ISBN 13 : 0826348254
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (263 download)

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Book Synopsis Gila Country Legend by : Nancy Coggeshall

Download or read book Gila Country Legend written by Nancy Coggeshall and published by University of New Mexico Press. This book was released on 2014-10-29 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The compelling biography of a unique western rancher constantly adjusting to the inroads of modernity into his traditional way of life.

Nepantla Familias

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Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
ISBN 13 : 162349964X
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (234 download)

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Book Synopsis Nepantla Familias by : Sergio Troncoso

Download or read book Nepantla Familias written by Sergio Troncoso and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2021-04-19 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A deeply meaningful collection that navigates important nuances of identity."—Kirkus Reviews, starred review 2021 Texas Book Festival Featured Book Nepantla Familias brings together Mexican American narratives that explore and negotiate the many permutations of living in between different worlds—how the authors or their characters create, or fail to create, a cohesive identity amid the contradictions in their lives. Nepantla—or living in the in-between space of the borderland—is the focus of this anthology. The essays, poems, and short stories explore the in-between moments in Mexican American life—the family dynamics of living between traditional and contemporary worlds, between Spanish and English, between cultures with traditional and shifting identities. In times of change, family values are either adapted or discarded in the quest for self-discovery, part of the process of selecting and composing elements of a changing identity. Edited by award-winning writer and scholar Sergio Troncoso, this anthology includes works from familiar and acclaimed voices such as David Dorado Romo, Sandra Cisneros, Alex Espinoza, Reyna Grande, and Francisco Cantú, as well as from important new voices, such as Stephanie Li, David Dominguez, and ire’ne lara silva. These are writers who open and expose the in-between places: through or at borders; among the past, present, and future; from tradition to innovation; between languages; in gender; about the wounds of the past and the victories of the present; of life and death. Nepantla Familias shows the quintessential American experience that revives important foundational values through immigrants and the children of immigrants. Here readers will find a glimpse of contemporary Mexican American experience; here, also, readers will experience complexities of the geographic, linguistic, and cultural borders common to us all. Includes the work of David Dorado Romo Reyna Grande Francisco Cantú Rigoberto González Alex Espinoza Domingo Martinez Oscar Cásares Lorraine M. López David Dominguez Stephanie Li Sheryl Luna José Antonio Rodríguez Deborah Paredez Diana Marie Delgado Diana López Severo Perez Octavio Solis ire'ne lara silva Rubén Degollado Helena María Viramontes Daniel Chacón Matt Mendez

Tony Hillerman

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Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 0806178655
Total Pages : 492 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (61 download)

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Download or read book Tony Hillerman written by James McGrath Morris and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2021-10-14 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2022 Mystery Writers of America Edgar Award Finalist The author of eighteen spellbinding detective novels set on the Navajo Nation, Tony Hillerman simultaneously transformed a traditional genre and unlocked the mysteries of the Navajo culture to an audience of millions. His best-selling novels added Navajo Tribal Police detectives Joe Leaphorn and Jim Chee to the pantheon of American fictional detectives. Morris offers a balanced portrait of Hillerman’s personal and professional life and provides a timely appreciation of his work. In intimate detail, Morris captures the author’s early years in Depression-era Oklahoma; his near-death experience in World War II; his sixty-year marriage to Marie; his family life, including six children, five of them adopted; his work in the trenches of journalism; his affliction with PTSD and its connection to his enchantment with Navajo spirituality; and his ascension as one of America’s best-known writers of mysteries. Further, Morris uncovers the almost accidental invention of Hillerman’s iconic detective Joe Leaphorn and the circumstances that led to the addition of Jim Chee as his partner. Hillerman’s novels were not without controversy. Morris examines the charges of cultural appropriation leveled at the author toward the end of his life. Yet, for many readers, including many Native Americans, Hillerman deserves critical acclaim for his knowledgeable and sensitive portrayal of Diné (Navajo) history, culture, and identity. At the time of Hillerman’s death, more than 20 million copies of his books were in print, and his novels inspired Robert Redford to adapt several of them to film. In weaving together all the elements of Hillerman’s life, Morris drew on the untapped collection of the author’s papers, extensive archival research, interviews with friends, colleagues, and family, as well as travel in the Navajo Nation. Filled with never-before-told anecdotes and fresh insights, Tony Hillerman will thrill the author’s fans and awaken new interest in his life and literary legacy.

The Five Wounds: A Novel

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Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393242846
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (932 download)

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Download or read book The Five Wounds: A Novel written by Kirstin Valdez Quade and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2021-03-30 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2021 Center for Fiction First Novel Prize Winner of the 2022 Rosenthal Family Foundation Award Finalist for the 2022 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction • Finalist for the 2022 PEN/Hemingway Award for Debut Novel • Finalist for the 2022 Aspen Words Literary Prize • Finalist for the 2022 Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Fiction One of NPR's Best Books of the Year • A Publishers Weekly and Library Journal Best Book of the Year in Fiction • A Kirkus Reviews Best Fictional Family of the Year • A Booklist Top Ten Book-Group Book of the Year • A Goodreads Choice Awards Best Debut Novel Nominee From an award-winning storyteller comes a stunning debut novel about a New Mexican family’s extraordinary year of love and sacrifice. "Masterly…Quade has created a world bristling with compassion and humanity. The characters and the challenges they face are wholly realized and moving; their journeys span a wide spectrum of emotion and it is impossible not to root for [them]." —Alexandra Chang, New York Times Book Review It’s Holy Week in the small town of Las Penas, New Mexico, and thirty-three-year-old unemployed Amadeo Padilla has been given the part of Jesus in the Good Friday procession. He is preparing feverishly for this role when his fifteen-year-old daughter Angel shows up pregnant on his doorstep and disrupts his plans for personal redemption. With weeks to go until her due date, tough, ebullient Angel has fled her mother’s house, setting her life on a startling new path. Vivid, tender, funny, and beautifully rendered, The Five Wounds spans the baby’s first year as five generations of the Padilla family converge: Amadeo’s mother, Yolanda, reeling from a recent discovery; Angel’s mother, Marissa, whom Angel isn’t speaking to; and disapproving Tíve, Yolanda’s uncle and keeper of the family’s history. Each brings expectations that Amadeo, who often solves his problems with a beer in his hand, doesn’t think he can live up to. The Five Wounds is a miraculous debut novel from a writer whose stories have been hailed as “legitimate masterpieces” (New York Times). Kirstin Valdez Quade conjures characters that will linger long after the final page, bringing to life their struggles to parent children they may not be equipped to save.

Hunger

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Publisher : Basic Books
ISBN 13 : 0786722398
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (867 download)

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Book Synopsis Hunger by : Sharman Apt Russell

Download or read book Hunger written by Sharman Apt Russell and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2008-08-01 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every day, we wake up hungry. Every day, we break our fast. Hunger explores the range of this primal experience. Sharman Apt Russell, the highly acclaimed author of Anatomy of a Rose and An Obsession with Butterflies, here takes us on a tour of hunger, from eighteen hours without food to thirty-six hours to seven days and beyond. What Russell finds-both in our bodies and in cultures around the world-is extraordinary. It is a biological process that transcends nature to shape the very of fabric of societies. In a fascinating survey of centuries of thought on hunger's unique power, she discovers an ability to adapt to it that is nothing short of miraculous. From the fasting saints of the early Christian church to activists like Mahatma Gandhi, generations have used hunger to make spiritual and political statements. Russell highlights these remarkable cases where hunger can inspire and even heal, but she also addresses the devastating impact of starvation on cultures around the world today. Written with consummate skill, a compassionate heart, and stocked with facts, figures, and fascinating lore, Hunger is an inspiring window on history and the human spirit.

This is Western New Mexico University in Silver City

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Total Pages : 24 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (438 download)

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The Challenging Child

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Publisher : Da Capo Lifelong Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Challenging Child written by Stanley I. Greenspan and published by Da Capo Lifelong Books. This book was released on 1995-01-20 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Identifying five "difficult" child personality types--sensitive, withdrawn, defiant, inattentive, and active/aggressive--a guide explains development from the child's perspective and offers strategies on how to make such differences positive.

Damnificados

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Publisher : Spectacular Fiction
ISBN 13 : 9781629631172
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (311 download)

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Book Synopsis Damnificados by : J. J. Wilson

Download or read book Damnificados written by J. J. Wilson and published by Spectacular Fiction. This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Damnificados is loosely based on the real-life occupation of a half-completed skyscraper in Caracas, Venezuela, the Tower of David. In this fictional version, six hundred "damnificados"--vagabonds and misfits--take over an abandoned urban tower and set up a community complete with schools, stores, beauty salons, bakeries, and a rag-tag defensive militia. Their always heroic (and often hilarious) struggle for survival and dignity pits them against corrupt police, the brutal military, and the tyrannical "owners." Taking place in an unnamed country at an unspecified time, the novel has elements of magical realism: avenging wolves, biblical floods, massacres involving multilingual ghosts, arrow showers falling to the tune of Beethoven's Ninth, and a trash truck acting as a Trojan horse. The ghosts and miracles woven into the narrative are part of a richly imagined world in which the laws of nature are constantly stretched and the past is always present.

The Algorithm of I

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ISBN 13 : 9781638483250
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (832 download)

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Book Synopsis The Algorithm of I by : Jack Crocker

Download or read book The Algorithm of I written by Jack Crocker and published by . This book was released on 2021-09-16 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Algorithm of I is a reflective journey of intellectual prowess that spins nostalgia with purpose and wonders about life, faith, and human evolution. It reflects Jack's journey of self-examination incorporating his influences and influencers. It questions chance, randomness, and the universe itself. It transcends the era of Jack's physical journey to the culmination of the ultimate journey of inward thought and consciousness that makes us human.

Anatomy Of A Rose

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Publisher : Basic Books
ISBN 13 : 0786730994
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (867 download)

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Download or read book Anatomy Of A Rose written by Sharman Apt Russell and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2009-04-24 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Anatomy of a Rose , Sharman Apt Russell eloquently unveils the "inner life" of flowers. From their diverse fragrances to their nasty deceptions, Russell proves that, where nature is concerned, "wonder is not only our starting point, it can also be our destination." Throughout this botanical journey, she reveals that the science behind these intelligent plants-how they evolved, how they survive, how they heal-is even more awe-inspiring than their fleeting beauty. Russell helps us imagine what a field of snapdragons looks like to a honeybee, and she introduces us to flowers that regulate their own temperature, attract pollinating bats, even smell like a rotting corpse. She also delves into cutting-edge research on everything from flower senses to their healing power. Long used to ease everything from depression to childbirth, flowers are now our main line of defense against childhood leukemia and the deadly Ebola virus. In this poetic rumination, which combines graceful writing with a scientist's clarity, Russell brings together the work of botanists around the globe, and illuminates a world at once familiar and exotic.

A History of the Italians in New Mexico

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Book Synopsis A History of the Italians in New Mexico by : Frederick G. Bohme

Download or read book A History of the Italians in New Mexico written by Frederick G. Bohme and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

This is Western New Mexico in Silver City

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Total Pages : 24 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (438 download)

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Download or read book This is Western New Mexico in Silver City written by New Mexico. Western New Mexico University, Silver City and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: