Southwest


Desert Solitaire
Death Comes for the Archbishop
The Bean Trees (Greer Family, #1)
The Blessing Way (Leaphorn & Chee, #1)
Dance Hall of the Dead (Leaphorn & Chee, #2)
The Monkey Wrench Gang (Monkey Wrench Gang, #1)
Skinwalkers (Leaphorn & Chee, #7)
Listening Woman (Leaphorn & Chee, #3)
A Thief of Time (Leaphorn & Chee, #8)
Bless Me, Ultima
Spider Woman's Daughter (Leaphorn  & Chee, #19)
Talking God (Leaphorn & Chee, #9)
People of Darkness (Leaphorn & Chee, #4)
The Wailing Wind (Leaphorn  & Chee, #15)
Animal Dreams
Don't Close Your Eyes by Lynessa JamesComplicated Moonlight by Lynessa LayneMad Love by Lynessa LayneAkila's Labyrinth by G. BellControl Switch On by Ira Teller
Best Mysteries Set in the USA
7 books — 7 voters
Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe by Benjamin Alire SáenzCrossing Borders by Sergio TroncosoEverything Begins and Ends at the Kentucky Club by Benjamin Alire SáenzDog Tacos by Terry McChesneyThe Last Tortilla & Other Stories by Sergio Troncoso
Books by El Paso Authors
75 books — 25 voters

Snare by Deborah J. LedfordThe Immigrant and the Golden Coin by Dorothy May MercerVegas and the Mob by Al W. MoeSoWest, So Wild by Deborah J. LedfordSailing an Alien Sea by Cindy L. Gold
New Mexico Arizona Book Awards
79 books — 38 voters

Desert Solitaire by Edward AbbeyPaint the Wind by Alberta Pierson HannumRefuge by Terry Tempest WilliamsNavaho Trading Days by Elizabeth Compton HegemannWEST OF THE THIRTIES by Edward T. Hall
Desert Memoirs
70 books — 5 voters
Gila Monsters Meet You at the Airport by Marjorie Weinman SharmatCindy Ellen by Susan LowellHow the Stars Fell into the Sky by Jerrie OughtonCoyote by Gerald McDermottCactus Hotel by Brenda Z. Guiberson
Southwest Picture Books
165 books — 23 voters

The height of the Chacoan culture lasted from A.D. 1055 to 1083, corresponding to the period of most intense building activity. This period also produced the most startling series of events in the heavens that have taken place within the Iast few thousand years. In July 1054 the supernova which produced the Crab Nebula blazed in the daytime skies for three weeks and remained visible at night for nearly two years. Some twelve years later, in 1066, Halley's Comet appeared, frightening Europeans on ...more
J. McKim Malville, Prehistoric Astronomy in the Southwest

Steven Magee
I knew I had not worked at nuclear facilities, although I do have memories of visiting a nuclear research facility in the UK. Could I have been exposed to nuclear radiation? Perhaps. I was living in the southwest USA. The USA waged a nuclear war with nature in the southwest from July 16, 1945 onward.
Steven Magee

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