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  • THE SONNY BACA NOVELS
    RUDOLFO ANAYA
    Four suspenseful southwestern mysteries featuring a Chicano PI in New Mexico, by the "extraordinary" author of Bless Me, Ultima ( Los Angeles Times Book Review). These four novels starring detective Sonny Baca are set against the terrain of the American Southwest, blending its Spanish, Mexican, and Native American cultures. Zia Summer: Sonny Baca's cousin Gloria is brutally sla...

    $329.00

  • THE ESSAYS
    RUDOLFO ANAYA
    Fifty-two essays exploring identity, literature, immigration, and politics by the American Book Award winner, one of the godfathers of Chicano literature. Best known for his novel Bless Me, Ultima, which established him as one of the founders of Chicano literature, Rudolfo Anaya displays his gift for storytelling and deep connection to the land and its history in The Essays. Th...

    $229.00

  • MY LAND SINGS
    RUDOLFO ANAYA
    "Filled with ghosts, devils, and tricksters . . . This appealing volume will add diversity to folklore collections." — Library Journal Rich in the folklore of his ancestors, Rudolfo Anaya's tales will delight young readers from across the globe. In stories both original and passed down, this bestselling and American Book Award–winning author incorporates powerful themes of fami...

    $85.00

  • HEART OF AZTLAN
    RUDOLFO ANAYA
    PEN Center West Award Winner: A novel of myth and migration set in a mid-twentieth–century New Mexico barrio, by the author of Bless Me, Ultima. Today is the day Benjie Chávez and his family will leave the town of Guadalupe behind. Far from the land of the eagle and the nopal, they travel west to find a new home of opportunity. But adapting to the big, impersonal city of Albuqu...

    $229.00

  • JEMEZ SPRING
    RUDOLFO ANAYA
    A high-profile murder thrusts a New Mexico PI into a hotbed of political treachery and terrorist threats: "Baca is a fascinating hero." — Edmonton Journal Sonny Baca has learned to see beneath life's observable reality and develop a new kind of sight. But the Chicano PI will need his most powerful guardian spirits when he's called in to investigate the death of the governor of ...

    $229.00

  • TORTUGA
    RUDOLFO ANAYA
    American Book Award Winner: A novel of a New Mexico teenager's journey of physical and spiritual recovery from the author of Bless Me, Ultima. When the story opens, the eponymous hero of Rudolfo Anaya's novel is in an ambulance en route to a hospital for crippled children in the New Mexican desert. A poor boy from Albuquerque, sixteen-year-old Tortuga takes his name from the od...

    $251.00

  • ZIA SUMMER
    RUDOLFO ANAYA
    A Chicano PI hunts his cousin's killer in "a compelling thriller [with] a deep-seated respect for the traditions of a people and a culture" ( Booklist). The great-grandson of a legendary lawman and gunfighter, thirty-year-old Sonny Baca hopes he possesses even a tenth of El Bisabuelo's courage. But instead of cleaning up New Mexico by hunting down dangerous desperadoes, the str...

    $229.00

  • SHAMAN WINTER
    RUDOLFO ANAYA
    A New Mexican shaman and PI is up against a shape-shifting adversary who haunts his worst nightmares, in a "fascinating and absolutely eerie" mystery ( Thrilling Detective). After a savage confrontation with his archenemy, Sonny Baca is confined to a wheelchair. The doctors don't know if he'll ever walk again—and now the Chicano PI is plagued by disturbing dreams of his female ...

    $229.00

  • RIO GRANDE FALL
    RUDOLFO ANAYA
    A New Mexico PI tries to stop a cult leader's murderous rampage in "a fascinating hybrid of detective story, adventure yarn, and shamanistic magic." — Kirkus Reviews The world-famous International Balloon Fiesta of Albuquerque is one of the city's most eagerly anticipated annual events and its biggest moneymaker. But when a woman plunges to her death from one of the balloons—fo...

    $229.00

  • SERAFINA'S STORIES
    RUDOLFO ANAYA
    This innovative novel combines Spanish folktales with Native American legends to create a captivating Southwestern version of The Arabian Nights. Like Scheherezade, who ensured her survival by telling her royal husband stories, the title character in Rudolfo Anaya's creative retelling of The Arabian Nights must entertain the recently widowed governor with legends of Nueva Mexic...

    $229.00

  • JALAMANTA
    RUDOLFO ANAYA
    "A parable for our time. . . . We are in deep need of simple truths, of rediscovering our ancient teachings, and Jalamanta may provide that opportunity." — The Washington Post Book World For thirty years, Fatimah has tended her herd of goats and waited for her lover to return. Amado was banished after leading a revolt against the cruel despots of their village—the Seventh City ...

    $229.00

  • ALBURQUERQUE
    RUDOLFO ANAYA
    From the author of Bless Me, Ultima, a "wonderfully told and mesmerizing" novel of an adopted Mexican-American boxing champion's quest for identity ( New York Times). Abrán González always knew he was different. Called a coyote because of his fair skin, the kid from Barelas found escape through boxing and became one of the youngest Golden Gloves champs. But the arrival of a let...

    $229.00