University of Arizona Press
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With the River on Our Face
$18.00 Add to cartEmmy P駻ez’s poetry collection With the River on Our Face flows through the Southwest and the Texas borderlands to the river’s mouth in the Rio Grande Valley/El Valle. The poems celebrate the land, c… [more below]
- Series: Camino del Sol
- Author: Pérez, Emmy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 104
- Publish Date: October 04 2016
- ISBN10: 081653344X
- Language: English
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Natural Landmarks of Arizona
$26.95 Read moreNatural Landmarks of Arizona celebrates the vast geological past of Arizona’s natural monuments through the eyes of a celebrated storyteller who has called Arizona home for most of his life. David Yet… [more below]
- Series: Southwest Center
- Author: Yetman, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: November 02 2021
- ISBN10: 0816542457
- Language: English
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Eating the Landscape: American Indian Stories of Food, Identity, and Resilience
$19.95 Add to cart“Eating is not only a political act, it is also a cultural act that reaffirms one’s identity and worldview,” Enrique Salm? writes in Eating the Landscape. Traversing a range of cultures, including the
- Series: First Peoples: New Directions in Indigenous Studies
- Author: Salm?n, Enrique
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: May 01 2012
- ISBN10: 0816530114
- Language: English
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Ancient Light: Poems
$18.00 Read moreElegiac and powerful, Ancient Light uses lyric, narrative, and concrete poems to give voice to some of the most pressing ecological and social issues of our time.
With vision and resilience, Kimberly- Series: Sun Tracks
- Author: Blaeser, Kimberly
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 120
- Publish Date: January 16 2024
- ISBN10: 0816552177
- Language: English
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Corpse Whale: Volume 73
$18.00 Add to cartA self-proclaimed “vessel in which stories are told from time immemorial,” poet dg nanouk okpik seamlessly melds both traditional and contemporary narrative, setting her apart from her peers. The resu
- Series: Sun Tracks: An American Indian Literary (Paperback) #73
- Author: Okpik, Dg Nanouk
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: October 11 2012
- ISBN10: 0816526745
- Language: English
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The Desert Smells Like Rain: A Naturalist in O’Odham Country
$21.95 Add to cartPublished more than forty years ago, The Desert Smells Like Rain remains a classic work about nature, how to respect it, and what transplants can learn from the longtime residents of the Sonoran Deser… [more below]
- Author: Nabhan, Gary Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: August 30 2022
- ISBN10: 0816546894
- Language: English
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The Nature of Desert Nature
$19.95 Read moreIn this refreshing collection, one of our best writers on desert places, Gary Paul Nabhan, challenges traditional notions of the desert. Beautiful, reflective, and at times humorous, Nabhan’s extended… [more below]
- Series: Southwest Center
- Author: Nabhan, Gary Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: November 10 2020
- ISBN10: 0816540284
- Language: English
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The Saguaro Cactus: A Natural History
$24.95 Read moreThe saguaro, with its great size and characteristic shape–its arms stretching heavenward, its silhouette often resembling a human–has become the emblem of the Sonoran Desert of southwestern Arizona … [more below]
- Series: Southwest Center
- Author: Yetman, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: February 25 2020
- ISBN10: 0816540047
- Language: English
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Tequila!: A Natural and Cultural History
$18.95 Add to cartThe array of bottles is impressive, their contents finely tuned to varied tastes. But they all share the same roots in Mesoamerica’s natural bounty and human culture.
The drink is tequila–more prop- Author: Valenzuela-Zapata, Ana G.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 113
- Publish Date: March 01 2004
- ISBN10: 0816519382
- Language: English
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All They Will Call You
$19.95 Add to cartAll They Will Call You is the harrowing account of “the worst airplane disaster in California’s history,” which claimed the lives of thirty-two passengers, including twenty-eight Mexican citizens–far
- Series: Camino del Sol
- Author: Hernandez, Tim Z.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: January 23 2018
- ISBN10: 0816537372
- Language: English
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Drowning in Fire: Volume 48
$24.95 Add to cartJosh Henneha has always been a traveler, drowning in dreams, burning with desires.
As a young boy growing up within the Muskogee Creek Nation in rural Oklahoma, Josh experiences a yearning for someth
- Series: Sun Tracks #48
- Author: Womack, Craig S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: September 01 2001
- ISBN10: 0816521689
- Language: English
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Mañana Means Heaven
$19.95 Add to cartIn this love story of impossible odds, award-winning writer Tim Z. Hernandez weaves a rich and visionary portrait of Bea Franco, the real woman behind famed American author Jack Kerouac’s “The Mexican… [more below]
- Series: Camino del Sol
- Author: Hernandez, Tim Z.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: September 27 2016
- ISBN10: 0816533938
- Language: English
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The Last Tortilla: And Other Stories
$22.95 Add to cart“She asked me if I liked them. And what could I say? They were wonderful.” From the very beginning of Sergio Troncoso’s celebrated story “Angie Luna,” we know we are in the hands of a gifted storytell… [more below]
- Series: Camino del Sol
- Author: Troncoso, Sergio
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 220
- Publish Date: July 01 1999
- ISBN10: 0816519617
- Language: English
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Blonde Indian: An Alaska Native Memoir Volume 57
$19.95 Add to cartIn the spring, the bear returns to the forest, the glacier returns to its source, and the salmon returns to the fresh water where it was spawned. Drawing on the special relationship that the Native pe… [more below]
- Series: Sun Tracks: An American Indian Literary (Paperback) #57
- Author: Hayes, Ernestine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: September 21 2006
- ISBN10: 0816525374
- Language: English
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When Language Broke Open: An Anthology of Queer and Trans Black Writers of Latin American Descent
$30.00 Read moreWhen Language Broke Open collects the creative offerings of forty-five queer and trans Black writers of Latin American descent who use poetry, prose, and visual art to illustrate Blackness as a geopol… [more below]
- Series: Camino del Sol
- Author: Pelaez Lopez, Alan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: December 12 2023
- ISBN10: 0816549966
- Language: English
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The Hatak Witches: Volume 88
$19.95 Add to cartAfter a security guard is found dead and another wounded at the Children’s Museum of Science and History in Norman, Oklahoma, Detective Monique Blue Hawk and her partner Chris Pierson are summoned to … [more below]
- Series: Sun Tracks
- Author: Mihesuah, Devon A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: April 20 2021
- ISBN10: 0816541183
- Language: English
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The Sonoran Desert: A Literary Field Guide
$21.95 Add to cartA land of austerity and bounty, the Sonoran Desert is a place that captures imaginations and hearts. It is a place where barbs snag, thorns prick, and claws scratch. A place where lizards scramble and… [more below]
- Author: Magrane, Eric
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: February 25 2016
- ISBN10: 0816531234
- Language: English
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Ladies of the Canyons: A League of Extraordinary Women and Their Adventures in the American Southwest
$24.95 Add to cartLadies of the Canyons is the true story of remarkable women who left the security and comforts of genteel Victorian society and journeyed to the American Southwest in search of a wider view of themsel… [more below]
- Author: Poling-Kempes, Lesley
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: September 17 2015
- ISBN10: 0816524947
- Language: English
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Aina Hanau / Birth Land: Volume 92
$18.00 Add to cart‘Āina Hānau / Birth Land is a powerful collection of new poems by Kanaka ʻŌiwi (Native Hawaiian) poet Brandy Nālani McDougall. ‘Āina hānau–or the land of one’s birt… [more below]
- Series: Sun Tracks
- Author: McDougall, Brandy Nalani
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: June 13 2023
- ISBN10: 0816548358
- Language: English
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Extended Stay
$21.95 Add to cartIn a rundown neighborhood in the heart of Las Vegas, the Alicia hotel awakens and beckons to the most vulnerable-those with something to hide.
After his parents are killed in a horrific roadside exec- Series: Camino del Sol
- Author: Martinez, Juan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: January 17, 2023
- ISBN10: 0816547971
- Language: English
