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Rudolfo A. Anaya
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
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"Antonio Marez is six years old when Ultima comes to stay with his family in New Mexico. Ultima is a curandera, one who cures with herbs and magic. Under her wise wing, Tony will probe the family ties that bind and rend him as he discovers himself in the magical secrets of the pagan past-a mythic legacy as palpable as the Catholicism of Latin America. And at each life turn, there is Ultima, who delivered Tony into the world . . . and will nurture...
2) Alburquerque
Author
Publisher
Warner Books
Language
English
Description
Focusses on an ex-Golden Glove champion who meets up with a writer in Albuquerque, New Mexico, while searching for his father.
3) Zia summer
Author
Series
Sonny Baca mysteries volume 1
Publisher
Warner Books
Pub. Date
c1995
Language
English
Description
In Albuquerque, Chicano PI Sonny Baca, who normally pursues absentee fathers, goes after the killers of a former girlfriend whose blood was drained while she was still alive, a probe that takes him through the many cultures of the Southwest. By the author of Bless Me, Ultima.
Author
Publisher
Hyperion Books for Children
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
With her father away fighting in World War II and her grandfather too sick to create the traditional luminaria, Luz helps create farolitos, little lanterns, for their Christmas celebration instead.
Author
Publisher
Warner Books
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
After being exiled for thirty years, Jalamanta returns to the Seventh City of the Sun and the woman who has waited for him, teaching lessons he has learned about the freedom of the soul and once again stirring up jealousy in the heart of his supposed friend Iago.
Author
Series
Publisher
University of Oklahoma Press
Language
English
Description
The nameless narrator, a writer, shares his most intimate thoughts about his wife, their life together, and her death. But jus as death is inseparable from life, his wife seems still to be with him. Her memory and words permeate his days. It is a tale of a lifelong love that ultimately transcends death. - taken from book flap.
7) Jemez Spring
Author
Series
Sonny Baca mysteries volume 4
Publisher
University of New Mexico Press
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
When the governor of New Mexico is found drowned in the Bath House at Jemez Springs, Albuquerque private eye Sonny Baca is called in to investigate. As he soon learns, murder is only the beginning of the evil that Sonny must sort out. Someone has planted a bomb in the Valles Caldera, not far from the Los Alamos National Laboratories and it is set to detonate in just a few hours. Is this the work of terrorists or is Sonny's old nemesis, Raven, mixed...
Author
Series
Sonny Baca mysteries volume 3
Publisher
Warner Books
Pub. Date
c1999
Language
English
Description
A mystery fantasy on PI Sonny Baca of Albuquerque, New Mexico, as he tries to outwit the evil spirit, Raven. The spirit has abducted some girls and the parents have asked Baca to get them back. The struggle plays out in Baca's dreams
Author
Publisher
Hyperion Books for Children
Pub. Date
[2000]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Because Rattlesnake has taken over the road and will not let any of the people or animals in the village use it, Desert Woman enlists the aid of the other animals to create a strange new creature with the necessary tools to overcome Rattlesnake.
12) Maya's children
Author
Publisher
Hyperion Books for Children
Pub. Date
[1997]
Language
English
Description
In ancient Mexico, the beautiful and magical grandchildren of the Sun God are endangered by the threat of Señor Tiempo who, jealous of their immortality, plots to destroy them.
Author
Publisher
Rio Grande Books
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
A fanciful folk tale that helps explain the beautiful flowers that can be seen in all parts of New Mexico in the summer and fall. Escaping Herod's wrath, the Holy Family accepts the offer of the angel Sueño to fly them from Bethlehem to Egypt. On the way, true to his name, Sueño falls asleep and brings them to New Mexico instead. Safe from Herod, Jesus and his parents live peacefully and happily for a time with the Native peoples of the land....
Author
Publisher
University of New Mexico Press
Pub. Date
2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
"New Mexico's master storyteller creates a southwestern version of the Arabian Nights in this fable set in seventeenth-century Santa Fe. In January 1680 a dozen Pueblo Indians are charged with conspiring to incite a revolution against the colonial government. When the prisoners are brought before the Governor, one of them is revealed as a young woman. Educated by the friars in her pueblo's mission church, Serafina speaks beautiful Spanish and surprises...
Author
Publisher
Rio Grande Books, an imprint of LPD Press
Pub. Date
2014, 2019
Language
English
Description
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.
18) Bless Me, Ultima
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
In New Mexico in the time of WWII, a young man goes to an aged medicine woman and forms a relationship which helps him challenge the fight amid the good and the evil that storms through his village.
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