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The New Mexico Book Co-op offers books from its participating members. Your book order will be shipped by the author or publisher and should usually be completed within four (4) days of your order. If there will be any delay on shipping, we will email you about any needed changes on this shipping schedule.
We are offering a variety of books by New Mexico authors or publishers, books on the Southwest, as well as other New Mexico products. Please check us out. We have several pages of items indexed so have fun browsing!
Thank you.
Saints of the Pueblos
Charles M. Carrillo
Reg. price $39.95 hardcover; $19.95 softcover
ISBN 1-890689-30-0/1-890689-07-6
LPD Press, 2004. 96 pages, 78 color illustrations
Awards
Winner, 2007 INDIE Excellence Book Award
Winner 2005 Ralph Emerson Twitchell Award from Historical Society of NM
Finalist, 2004 National Best Books Award
2004 Southwest Books of the Year, Tucson-Pima Library System
Saints have always been a part of mission-building in the Southwest. Each of the Pueblos in New Mexico has a patron saint. Dr. Carrillo has documented these saints along with the various Pueblo ceramic traditions to create this exciting new book. In addition to the 19 New Mexican Pueblos there are 4 abandoned pueblos featured in the exhibit. The book has pictures of all the Patron Saints, the pottery of the Pueblos, a map, and the explanation behind the paintings. This is the first book to bridge the two major cultures of New Mexico — Native American and Hispanic. Book has essays by Archbishop Michael Sheehan, Pueblo historian Joe Sando, and Indian Pueblo Cultural Center Director Ron Solimon.
REVIEWS
For those who can't understand the close connection between the Pueblo people and the Catholic Church, this book is a must-read. -- Santa Fe New Mexican
Saints of the Pueblos offers readers a glimpse into the rich Hispanic and Native American art and history of the Mission Pueblos of the Southwestern United States. A beautiful full color title that you will want to keep in your permanent library. — USABookNews.com
This book documents the Pueblo Patron Saints in the pottery traditions that made them famous. In addition to the 19 New Mexican Pueblos there are abandoned pueblos featured in the book. This book pictures all of the Patron Saints, the pottery of the Pueblos, a map and the explanation behind the paintings. This is the first book to bridge the two major cultures of New Mexico — Native American and Hispanic. -- People of God
Saints of the Pueblos by Dr. Charles M. Carrillo will become a treasure for readers whose interests are the Pueblo and Hispanic cultures and arts of New Mexico. Carrillo combines the Catholic saint of a pueblo and design elements from that Pueblos early pottery and creates a unique retablo. Every Pueblo and the four abandoned Pueblos are honored with their own piece. The Indian Pueblo Culture Center in Albuquerque, New Mexico will host the opening of the exhibit. Saints of the Pueblos has beautiful color photographs of each retablo, pictures of the pottery, and black and white photographs from some of the Pueblos. I highly recommend this book and look forward to seeing the exhibit in August 2004. Museums across the country should consider inquiring about having this exhibit. -- Reviewers Consortium
In Saints of the Pueblos, prizewinning santero Dr. Charles Carrillo combines artistic tradition with historical research to create a visual testament to the role patron saints have played in linking New Mexico's Hispanic and Pueblo cultures. This is the first time Hispanic New Mexican retablos have been used to represent the patron saints of the Land of Enchantment's 19 active pueblos along with their pottery styles. -- Santa Fean
Charles M. Carrillo
Reg. price $39.95 hardcover; $19.95 softcover
ISBN 1-890689-30-0/1-890689-07-6
LPD Press, 2004. 96 pages, 78 color illustrations
Awards
Winner, 2007 INDIE Excellence Book Award
Winner 2005 Ralph Emerson Twitchell Award from Historical Society of NM
Finalist, 2004 National Best Books Award
2004 Southwest Books of the Year, Tucson-Pima Library System
Saints have always been a part of mission-building in the Southwest. Each of the Pueblos in New Mexico has a patron saint. Dr. Carrillo has documented these saints along with the various Pueblo ceramic traditions to create this exciting new book. In addition to the 19 New Mexican Pueblos there are 4 abandoned pueblos featured in the exhibit. The book has pictures of all the Patron Saints, the pottery of the Pueblos, a map, and the explanation behind the paintings. This is the first book to bridge the two major cultures of New Mexico — Native American and Hispanic. Book has essays by Archbishop Michael Sheehan, Pueblo historian Joe Sando, and Indian Pueblo Cultural Center Director Ron Solimon.
REVIEWS
For those who can't understand the close connection between the Pueblo people and the Catholic Church, this book is a must-read. -- Santa Fe New Mexican
Saints of the Pueblos offers readers a glimpse into the rich Hispanic and Native American art and history of the Mission Pueblos of the Southwestern United States. A beautiful full color title that you will want to keep in your permanent library. — USABookNews.com
This book documents the Pueblo Patron Saints in the pottery traditions that made them famous. In addition to the 19 New Mexican Pueblos there are abandoned pueblos featured in the book. This book pictures all of the Patron Saints, the pottery of the Pueblos, a map and the explanation behind the paintings. This is the first book to bridge the two major cultures of New Mexico — Native American and Hispanic. -- People of God
Saints of the Pueblos by Dr. Charles M. Carrillo will become a treasure for readers whose interests are the Pueblo and Hispanic cultures and arts of New Mexico. Carrillo combines the Catholic saint of a pueblo and design elements from that Pueblos early pottery and creates a unique retablo. Every Pueblo and the four abandoned Pueblos are honored with their own piece. The Indian Pueblo Culture Center in Albuquerque, New Mexico will host the opening of the exhibit. Saints of the Pueblos has beautiful color photographs of each retablo, pictures of the pottery, and black and white photographs from some of the Pueblos. I highly recommend this book and look forward to seeing the exhibit in August 2004. Museums across the country should consider inquiring about having this exhibit. -- Reviewers Consortium
In Saints of the Pueblos, prizewinning santero Dr. Charles Carrillo combines artistic tradition with historical research to create a visual testament to the role patron saints have played in linking New Mexico's Hispanic and Pueblo cultures. This is the first time Hispanic New Mexican retablos have been used to represent the patron saints of the Land of Enchantment's 19 active pueblos along with their pottery styles. -- Santa Fean
Saints of the Pueblos
Charles M. Carrillo
Reg. price $39.95 hardcover; $19.95 softcover
ISBN 1-890689-30-0/1-890689-07-6
LPD Press, 2004. 96 pages, 78 color illustrations
Awards
Winner, 2007 INDIE Excellence Book Award
Winner 2005 Ralph Emerson Twitchell Award from Historical Society of NM
Finalist, 2004 National Best Books Award
2004 Southwest Books of the Year, Tucson-Pima Library System
Saints have always been a part of mission-building in the Southwest. Each of the Pueblos in New Mexico has a patron saint. Dr. Carrillo has documented these saints along with the various Pueblo ceramic traditions to create this exciting new book. In addition to the 19 New Mexican Pueblos there are 4 abandoned pueblos featured in the exhibit. The book has pictures of all the Patron Saints, the pottery of the Pueblos, a map, and the explanation behind the paintings. This is the first book to bridge the two major cultures of New Mexico — Native American and Hispanic. Book has essays by Archbishop Michael Sheehan, Pueblo historian Joe Sando, and Indian Pueblo Cultural Center Director Ron Solimon.
REVIEWS
For those who can't understand the close connection between the Pueblo people and the Catholic Church, this book is a must-read. -- Santa Fe New Mexican
Saints of the Pueblos offers readers a glimpse into the rich Hispanic and Native American art and history of the Mission Pueblos of the Southwestern United States. A beautiful full color title that you will want to keep in your permanent library. — USABookNews.com
This book documents the Pueblo Patron Saints in the pottery traditions that made them famous. In addition to the 19 New Mexican Pueblos there are abandoned pueblos featured in the book. This book pictures all of the Patron Saints, the pottery of the Pueblos, a map and the explanation behind the paintings. This is the first book to bridge the two major cultures of New Mexico — Native American and Hispanic. -- People of God
Saints of the Pueblos by Dr. Charles M. Carrillo will become a treasure for readers whose interests are the Pueblo and Hispanic cultures and arts of New Mexico. Carrillo combines the Catholic saint of a pueblo and design elements from that Pueblos early pottery and creates a unique retablo. Every Pueblo and the four abandoned Pueblos are honored with their own piece. The Indian Pueblo Culture Center in Albuquerque, New Mexico will host the opening of the exhibit. Saints of the Pueblos has beautiful color photographs of each retablo, pictures of the pottery, and black and white photographs from some of the Pueblos. I highly recommend this book and look forward to seeing the exhibit in August 2004. Museums across the country should consider inquiring about having this exhibit. -- Reviewers Consortium
In Saints of the Pueblos, prizewinning santero Dr. Charles Carrillo combines artistic tradition with historical research to create a visual testament to the role patron saints have played in linking New Mexico's Hispanic and Pueblo cultures. This is the first time Hispanic New Mexican retablos have been used to represent the patron saints of the Land of Enchantment's 19 active pueblos along with their pottery styles. -- Santa Fean
Charles M. Carrillo
Reg. price $39.95 hardcover; $19.95 softcover
ISBN 1-890689-30-0/1-890689-07-6
LPD Press, 2004. 96 pages, 78 color illustrations
Awards
Winner, 2007 INDIE Excellence Book Award
Winner 2005 Ralph Emerson Twitchell Award from Historical Society of NM
Finalist, 2004 National Best Books Award
2004 Southwest Books of the Year, Tucson-Pima Library System
Saints have always been a part of mission-building in the Southwest. Each of the Pueblos in New Mexico has a patron saint. Dr. Carrillo has documented these saints along with the various Pueblo ceramic traditions to create this exciting new book. In addition to the 19 New Mexican Pueblos there are 4 abandoned pueblos featured in the exhibit. The book has pictures of all the Patron Saints, the pottery of the Pueblos, a map, and the explanation behind the paintings. This is the first book to bridge the two major cultures of New Mexico — Native American and Hispanic. Book has essays by Archbishop Michael Sheehan, Pueblo historian Joe Sando, and Indian Pueblo Cultural Center Director Ron Solimon.
REVIEWS
For those who can't understand the close connection between the Pueblo people and the Catholic Church, this book is a must-read. -- Santa Fe New Mexican
Saints of the Pueblos offers readers a glimpse into the rich Hispanic and Native American art and history of the Mission Pueblos of the Southwestern United States. A beautiful full color title that you will want to keep in your permanent library. — USABookNews.com
This book documents the Pueblo Patron Saints in the pottery traditions that made them famous. In addition to the 19 New Mexican Pueblos there are abandoned pueblos featured in the book. This book pictures all of the Patron Saints, the pottery of the Pueblos, a map and the explanation behind the paintings. This is the first book to bridge the two major cultures of New Mexico — Native American and Hispanic. -- People of God
Saints of the Pueblos by Dr. Charles M. Carrillo will become a treasure for readers whose interests are the Pueblo and Hispanic cultures and arts of New Mexico. Carrillo combines the Catholic saint of a pueblo and design elements from that Pueblos early pottery and creates a unique retablo. Every Pueblo and the four abandoned Pueblos are honored with their own piece. The Indian Pueblo Culture Center in Albuquerque, New Mexico will host the opening of the exhibit. Saints of the Pueblos has beautiful color photographs of each retablo, pictures of the pottery, and black and white photographs from some of the Pueblos. I highly recommend this book and look forward to seeing the exhibit in August 2004. Museums across the country should consider inquiring about having this exhibit. -- Reviewers Consortium
In Saints of the Pueblos, prizewinning santero Dr. Charles Carrillo combines artistic tradition with historical research to create a visual testament to the role patron saints have played in linking New Mexico's Hispanic and Pueblo cultures. This is the first time Hispanic New Mexican retablos have been used to represent the patron saints of the Land of Enchantment's 19 active pueblos along with their pottery styles. -- Santa Fean
Santa Fe Christmas
Christine Mather
$14.95
ISBN 0-89013-463-4
Museum of New Mexico Press, 1993. 96 pages
REVIEWS
This is a cute little stocking stuffer that has recipes, art, traditions, great photos, and the feel of old New Mexico. It is an especially nice book to give to folks who live out of New Mexico. There is a nice Source Guide in the back for those visiting Santa Fe or want to call and get specific items. Wrap it up with a box of pinon and cedar incense and you have the sights and smells of Christmas. -- Tradicion Revista
Christine Mather
$14.95
ISBN 0-89013-463-4
Museum of New Mexico Press, 1993. 96 pages
REVIEWS
This is a cute little stocking stuffer that has recipes, art, traditions, great photos, and the feel of old New Mexico. It is an especially nice book to give to folks who live out of New Mexico. There is a nice Source Guide in the back for those visiting Santa Fe or want to call and get specific items. Wrap it up with a box of pinon and cedar incense and you have the sights and smells of Christmas. -- Tradicion Revista
Santa Fe Hispanic Culture: Preserving Identity in a Tourist Town
Santa Fe Hispanic Culture: Preserving Identity in a
Tourist Town
Andrew Leo Lovato
Santa Fe Hispanic Culture: Preserving Identity in
a Tourist Town
Andrew Leo Lovato
$24.95
ISBN 0-8263-3225-0
UNM Press, 2004.160 pages, all black & white with some archival photos
A native resident of Santa Fe discusses the impact of tourism on the City Different and the cultural identity of its Hispanic citizens.
REVIEWS
We all know that Santa Fe isn’t the city we all knew even a few years ago. Andrew Lovato interviewed a number of prominent Santa Feans to find information in this book. Included are: Charlie Carrillo, AnaMaria Samaniego, Ramon Jose Lopez, Mayor Larry Delgado, and others. In the section on Spanish Market the author explains that Hispanic artists are frozen in time for the medium they use and they resent that no artists in Market are on the Board. Good points. The book is a good beginning. -- Tradicion Revista
Andrew Leo Lovato
$24.95
ISBN 0-8263-3225-0
UNM Press, 2004.160 pages, all black & white with some archival photos
A native resident of Santa Fe discusses the impact of tourism on the City Different and the cultural identity of its Hispanic citizens.
REVIEWS
We all know that Santa Fe isn’t the city we all knew even a few years ago. Andrew Lovato interviewed a number of prominent Santa Feans to find information in this book. Included are: Charlie Carrillo, AnaMaria Samaniego, Ramon Jose Lopez, Mayor Larry Delgado, and others. In the section on Spanish Market the author explains that Hispanic artists are frozen in time for the medium they use and they resent that no artists in Market are on the Board. Good points. The book is a good beginning. -- Tradicion Revista
Santa Fe Kitchens: Delicious Recipes from the Southwest
Santa Fe Kitchens: Delicious Recipes from the
Southwest
by The Museum of New Mexico Foundation
Santa Fe Kitchens: Delicious Recipes from the
Southwest
by The Museum of New Mexico Foundation
$24.95
ISBN: 1-4236-0018-5
Ancient City Press, 2005. 248 pages
For centuries, Santa Fe has charmed visitors and captured the imagination and spirit of its residents. A central ingredient in the making of Santa Fe’s charm has been the kitchens of the city and the surrounding area. Whether in the home or in restaurants, Santa Fe kitchens reflect the diversity of its residents and visitors, and blend the diverse cultures of New Mexico. Now, The Museum of New Mexico Foundation has collected more than 300 recipes from its membership, local chefs, artists and dignitaries to help create this exciting new cookbook.
Unique and delicious recipes from some of New Mexico’s most renowned chefs reflect the balance of Santa Fe’s cultures and lifestyle.
Featuring recipes from the most renowned kitchens of New Mexico, including:
Coyote Café—Mark Miller, proprietor and chef; Bradley Borchardt, chef
El Farol—David Salazar, proprietor; James C. Caruso, chef
Fuego Restaurant—Bouneou Maxime
Harry’s Roadhouse—Harry Shapiro, proprietor
Jane Butel Cooking School—Jane Butel, proprietor and author
Jinja Café—Lesley Allin, proprietor and chef
Los Pinos Guest Ranch, Pecos—Alice M. McSweeney, proprietor and chef
Osteria D’Assisi—Lino Pertusini, proprietor; F. Ventricini, chef
Santa Fe School of Cooking—Nicole Ammerman
Paula Lambert, author, The Cheese Lover’s Cookbook and Guide
by The Museum of New Mexico Foundation
$24.95
ISBN: 1-4236-0018-5
Ancient City Press, 2005. 248 pages
For centuries, Santa Fe has charmed visitors and captured the imagination and spirit of its residents. A central ingredient in the making of Santa Fe’s charm has been the kitchens of the city and the surrounding area. Whether in the home or in restaurants, Santa Fe kitchens reflect the diversity of its residents and visitors, and blend the diverse cultures of New Mexico. Now, The Museum of New Mexico Foundation has collected more than 300 recipes from its membership, local chefs, artists and dignitaries to help create this exciting new cookbook.
Unique and delicious recipes from some of New Mexico’s most renowned chefs reflect the balance of Santa Fe’s cultures and lifestyle.
Featuring recipes from the most renowned kitchens of New Mexico, including:
Coyote Café—Mark Miller, proprietor and chef; Bradley Borchardt, chef
El Farol—David Salazar, proprietor; James C. Caruso, chef
Fuego Restaurant—Bouneou Maxime
Harry’s Roadhouse—Harry Shapiro, proprietor
Jane Butel Cooking School—Jane Butel, proprietor and author
Jinja Café—Lesley Allin, proprietor and chef
Los Pinos Guest Ranch, Pecos—Alice M. McSweeney, proprietor and chef
Osteria D’Assisi—Lino Pertusini, proprietor; F. Ventricini, chef
Santa Fe School of Cooking—Nicole Ammerman
Paula Lambert, author, The Cheese Lover’s Cookbook and Guide
The Santero’s Miracle: A Bilingual Story
The Santero’s Miracle: A Bilingual Story
Rudolfo Anaya with illustrations by Amy Cordova and
Spanish translations by Enrique Lamadrid
The Santero’s Miracle: A Bilingual Story
Rudolfo Anaya with illustrations by Amy Cordova and Spanish translations by Enrique Lamadrid.
$16.95
ISBN 0-8263-2847-4
UNM Press, 2004. hardback, 30 pages, 19 color illustrations
This bilingual story of a grandfather's and grandson's faith, hope, and love is to be enjoyed by readers of all ages.
REVIEWS
This kid’s book came out in December and a lot of people missed it. It is a perfect book for a kid or an adult learning Spanish because it is bilingual. The illustrations are beautiful and bright. It is the story of San Isidro told by someone who should know. There is a glossary. It is the best book for this Christmas if you didn’t get it last Christmas. -- Tradicion Revista
Rudolfo Anaya with illustrations by Amy Cordova and Spanish translations by Enrique Lamadrid.
$16.95
ISBN 0-8263-2847-4
UNM Press, 2004. hardback, 30 pages, 19 color illustrations
This bilingual story of a grandfather's and grandson's faith, hope, and love is to be enjoyed by readers of all ages.
REVIEWS
This kid’s book came out in December and a lot of people missed it. It is a perfect book for a kid or an adult learning Spanish because it is bilingual. The illustrations are beautiful and bright. It is the story of San Isidro told by someone who should know. There is a glossary. It is the best book for this Christmas if you didn’t get it last Christmas. -- Tradicion Revista
Santos: Sacred Art of Colorado
Santos: Sacred Art of Colorado
edited by Paul Rhetts, Barbe Awalt, and Thomas J.
Steele, S.J.
Santos: Sacred Art of Colorado
edited by Paul Rhetts, Barbe Awalt, and Thomas J. Steele, S.J.
Reg. price $4.00 softcover
ISBN 0-9641542-5-0
LPD Press, 1997. 40 pages, 27 color, 17 b/w photos
Santos aren’t just made in New Mexico. Meet some of the contemporary artists of Colorado.
REVIEWS
The making of bultos, retablos, altarscreens, and tin work is usually considered a New Mexican art form. Northern New Mexico and southern Colorado share an identity of place, culture, and history independent of the states’ boundary line. This brings together the santeros and santeras working today in Colorado. -- Willy Sutton, O’Sullivan Arts Center
edited by Paul Rhetts, Barbe Awalt, and Thomas J. Steele, S.J.
Reg. price $4.00 softcover
ISBN 0-9641542-5-0
LPD Press, 1997. 40 pages, 27 color, 17 b/w photos
Santos aren’t just made in New Mexico. Meet some of the contemporary artists of Colorado.
REVIEWS
The making of bultos, retablos, altarscreens, and tin work is usually considered a New Mexican art form. Northern New Mexico and southern Colorado share an identity of place, culture, and history independent of the states’ boundary line. This brings together the santeros and santeras working today in Colorado. -- Willy Sutton, O’Sullivan Arts Center
Santos al Desnudo
Mediavilla de Toste
Reg. price $50.00
ISBN# 1-933352-26-4
Ediciones Puerto, San Juan, PR, 2005.305 pages. 25 illustrations and 61 color photographs
Written in Spanish with English translation at the end of each chapter. The book has 18 chapters. The author educates the reader in the style characteristics of 16 santeros from Puerto Rico from the 18th to the 21st century. In this way collectors and curators can learn how to identify the artists that carved the santos since normally the carvings were not signed by the santero. The book also includes the most comprehensive bibliography on the "santos de palo de Puerto Rico" compiled by Francisco Toste Santana.
Mediavilla de Toste
Reg. price $50.00
ISBN# 1-933352-26-4
Ediciones Puerto, San Juan, PR, 2005.305 pages. 25 illustrations and 61 color photographs
Written in Spanish with English translation at the end of each chapter. The book has 18 chapters. The author educates the reader in the style characteristics of 16 santeros from Puerto Rico from the 18th to the 21st century. In this way collectors and curators can learn how to identify the artists that carved the santos since normally the carvings were not signed by the santero. The book also includes the most comprehensive bibliography on the "santos de palo de Puerto Rico" compiled by Francisco Toste Santana.
A Scandal in Yvonsk and Other Stories
A Scandal in Yvonsk and Other Stories
Avrum Organick
A Scandal in Yvonsk and Other Stories
Avrum Organick
Reg. price $22.95
ISBN 0-9671068-6-9
Red Lake Press, 2004. 195 pages
This series of stories begins in Yvonsk, a small Polish town at the turn of the last century, and sweeps forward in time and place from New York City into the vast landscape of the American West. From the first, and throughout many of the stories, the Jewish experience and the Jewish consciousness of the writer emerges. Yet the writer's sensitivity to and love of the larger world, his interaction with its people and his empathetic response to their joys and tragedies, mark him as a writer of broader range. While these stories, in aggregate, can also be seen as the writer's autobiography, as individual pieces, the stories make a new contribution to the literature of American life of the twentieth century.
Avrum Organick
Reg. price $22.95
ISBN 0-9671068-6-9
Red Lake Press, 2004. 195 pages
This series of stories begins in Yvonsk, a small Polish town at the turn of the last century, and sweeps forward in time and place from New York City into the vast landscape of the American West. From the first, and throughout many of the stories, the Jewish experience and the Jewish consciousness of the writer emerges. Yet the writer's sensitivity to and love of the larger world, his interaction with its people and his empathetic response to their joys and tragedies, mark him as a writer of broader range. While these stories, in aggregate, can also be seen as the writer's autobiography, as individual pieces, the stories make a new contribution to the literature of American life of the twentieth century.
The Secundus Papyrus
Albert Noyer
Reg. price $14.95
ISBN 1-59264-034-6
Toby Press, 2003. 300 pages
November, A.D. 439, at Ravenna, Italy: surgeon Getorius Asterius and his wife Arcadia examine the body of Behan, a monk seemingly drowned in a penitential rite. A prophecy text they find in his hut suggests that a document of earthshaking importance will soon be revealed. Shortly after, during a visit with Galla Placidia, the emperor's mother, to a new mausoleum, a hidden niche violently reveals "the Last Will and Testament of Jesus Christ." The stunning terms of the will, if implemented by the Bishop of Rome, will bring apocalyptic chaos to the twin Roman empires.
Placidia suppresses the papyrus while authenticity is tested. After three witnesses are murdered, Getorius suggests that Rabbi David ben Zadok evaluate the text. His prediction of what will occur if the papyrus is released: empire-wide civil war. When Getorius is arrested on a false charge of dissecting the body of a monk, Arcadia is left alone to deal with the papyrus.
Late in December, Brenos, abbot of Behan's monastery, delayed by winter storms, arrives from Gaul, ostensibly to bury his dead monk but actually to reveal the will at the Nativity Mass. Frantic at discovering that the papyrus has been permanently discovered, Brenos meets with "Smyrna" his mysterious contact in Ravenna, in an effort to locate the document.
In the last late hours December 24, it is still not certain that fanatical members of a religious order will not succeed in establishing a theocracy designed to supplant the dying Western Empire.
REVIEWS
Albert Noyer is a novelist who knows how to make history come alive and seem important. [He] has an artist's eye for color and a scholar's passion for accuracy. -- DR. RONALD MODRAS / ST. LOUIS UNIVERSITY
Noyer has an almost musical yet tight style of writing. Building suspense. . . he leads the reader to a surprise ending. Noyer, an art historian, uses a detailed knowledge of the Romans to entice the reader with descriptive passages on the religions, politics, food, medicine and day-to-day life of the time. -- THE ALBQUERQUE SUNDAY JOURNAL
The Secundus Papyrus, a historical mystery, is a welcome break from the deluge of beach-reading currently clogging up the bookshelves. Now don’t roll your eyes like that…yes, I know what you’re thinking. Historical mysteries…yawn…well not this time. The Secundus Papyrus is as potent as Umberto Eco’s The Name of the Rose, and with the same mix of interesting characters, historical setting and creepy atmosphere… With illuminating insights into fifth century medicine, religion and culture, The Secundus Papyrus is a highly intriguing story that breathes life and color into the twilight years of the Roman Empire. -- Lisa Polisar, abqARTS
This is a satisfying book to read. Noyer beautifully and effortlessly blends the many small details of daily life at the time into a really good mystery plot. With no effort on your part, you are smoothly transported to 5th century Ravenna, Italy, riding along on a bumpy cart, for example, with Getorius and Arcadia, enjoying the fragrant smells of baking bread and…roasting meat and fish. Noyer has obviously logged a good number of research hours for this book. He teaches us medicine as practiced then: the theory and the actual practices. He shows us the cultures, the religions, the minutiae of daily life. He also makes real for us the old saying the more things change, the more they stay the same. The religious arguments against dissection of a dead body mirror the arguments against such things as stem cell research today. He details the political maneuvering among the rulers and would-be rulers and the cultural gap between rich and poor_very much the same today.
This is the second historical mystery for Noyer; the first was The Saint’s Day Deaths, which in Noyer’s words,“…is in a sense a prequel to [Secundus] set at what is now Mainz, Germany, in AD 406, 33 years previously. The protagonists are Treverius and Blandina, the parents of Getorius. The Secundus Papyrus is the first of an already written trilogy that continues the sleuthing activities of Getorius and Arcadia.
I, for one, shall be waiting for the next book. ***1/2 -- Kay De Wit, Deadly Pleasures Mystery Magazine
Well written, serious, and excellently researched…. Getorius Asterius, orphaned by the murder of his parents in Moguntiacum and adopted by the physician Nicias…palace surgeon to the empress Galla Placidia, has been brought to Ravenna and trained as a physician, a man with an inquiring mind. He is married to Arcadia Valeriana, a beautiful but headstrong young Roman woman, determined to become a’ medica’ herself. Getorius is called in by the young emperor Valentinian III to examine the drowning death of a Hibernian hermit monk and the story takes off from there.
At the center of the story is a document, the ‘SecundusPapyrus,’ purported to be from the ‘Nazarene’ as Christ is called by the heretics. Revealed at its planned time, it would destroy the Roman world as known. Several peopleare involved in the discovery of the papyrus and resercah on its authenticity are found murdured or dead under suspicious circumstances, and it is a race against time for Getorius and Arcadia to assist the Empress in keeping the papyrus hidden and finding out who is behind the signs of the red rooster cropping up in connection with the document and the extent of a possible conspiracy.
Along the way, cleverly woven into the story, we are treated to descriptions of the imperial library and given a treatise on 5th century medicine, as well as all the divisions in the Church and apocalyptic view and not to forget, 5th century cuisine.It is not an easy read as mysteries go, especially with a time period not well known even to Roman history buffs, but wholly satisfying. Mr. Noyer has the ability to bring characters and their environment to life and build up a satisfying suspense…
This book is the first of a planned trilogy. I eagerly await the next one, titled The Cybelene Conspiracy. It will be released in Spring 2005. --Irene Hahn, The Roman History Reading Group
Albert Noyer
Reg. price $14.95
ISBN 1-59264-034-6
Toby Press, 2003. 300 pages
November, A.D. 439, at Ravenna, Italy: surgeon Getorius Asterius and his wife Arcadia examine the body of Behan, a monk seemingly drowned in a penitential rite. A prophecy text they find in his hut suggests that a document of earthshaking importance will soon be revealed. Shortly after, during a visit with Galla Placidia, the emperor's mother, to a new mausoleum, a hidden niche violently reveals "the Last Will and Testament of Jesus Christ." The stunning terms of the will, if implemented by the Bishop of Rome, will bring apocalyptic chaos to the twin Roman empires.
Placidia suppresses the papyrus while authenticity is tested. After three witnesses are murdered, Getorius suggests that Rabbi David ben Zadok evaluate the text. His prediction of what will occur if the papyrus is released: empire-wide civil war. When Getorius is arrested on a false charge of dissecting the body of a monk, Arcadia is left alone to deal with the papyrus.
Late in December, Brenos, abbot of Behan's monastery, delayed by winter storms, arrives from Gaul, ostensibly to bury his dead monk but actually to reveal the will at the Nativity Mass. Frantic at discovering that the papyrus has been permanently discovered, Brenos meets with "Smyrna" his mysterious contact in Ravenna, in an effort to locate the document.
In the last late hours December 24, it is still not certain that fanatical members of a religious order will not succeed in establishing a theocracy designed to supplant the dying Western Empire.
REVIEWS
Albert Noyer is a novelist who knows how to make history come alive and seem important. [He] has an artist's eye for color and a scholar's passion for accuracy. -- DR. RONALD MODRAS / ST. LOUIS UNIVERSITY
Noyer has an almost musical yet tight style of writing. Building suspense. . . he leads the reader to a surprise ending. Noyer, an art historian, uses a detailed knowledge of the Romans to entice the reader with descriptive passages on the religions, politics, food, medicine and day-to-day life of the time. -- THE ALBQUERQUE SUNDAY JOURNAL
The Secundus Papyrus, a historical mystery, is a welcome break from the deluge of beach-reading currently clogging up the bookshelves. Now don’t roll your eyes like that…yes, I know what you’re thinking. Historical mysteries…yawn…well not this time. The Secundus Papyrus is as potent as Umberto Eco’s The Name of the Rose, and with the same mix of interesting characters, historical setting and creepy atmosphere… With illuminating insights into fifth century medicine, religion and culture, The Secundus Papyrus is a highly intriguing story that breathes life and color into the twilight years of the Roman Empire. -- Lisa Polisar, abqARTS
This is a satisfying book to read. Noyer beautifully and effortlessly blends the many small details of daily life at the time into a really good mystery plot. With no effort on your part, you are smoothly transported to 5th century Ravenna, Italy, riding along on a bumpy cart, for example, with Getorius and Arcadia, enjoying the fragrant smells of baking bread and…roasting meat and fish. Noyer has obviously logged a good number of research hours for this book. He teaches us medicine as practiced then: the theory and the actual practices. He shows us the cultures, the religions, the minutiae of daily life. He also makes real for us the old saying the more things change, the more they stay the same. The religious arguments against dissection of a dead body mirror the arguments against such things as stem cell research today. He details the political maneuvering among the rulers and would-be rulers and the cultural gap between rich and poor_very much the same today.
This is the second historical mystery for Noyer; the first was The Saint’s Day Deaths, which in Noyer’s words,“…is in a sense a prequel to [Secundus] set at what is now Mainz, Germany, in AD 406, 33 years previously. The protagonists are Treverius and Blandina, the parents of Getorius. The Secundus Papyrus is the first of an already written trilogy that continues the sleuthing activities of Getorius and Arcadia.
I, for one, shall be waiting for the next book. ***1/2 -- Kay De Wit, Deadly Pleasures Mystery Magazine
Well written, serious, and excellently researched…. Getorius Asterius, orphaned by the murder of his parents in Moguntiacum and adopted by the physician Nicias…palace surgeon to the empress Galla Placidia, has been brought to Ravenna and trained as a physician, a man with an inquiring mind. He is married to Arcadia Valeriana, a beautiful but headstrong young Roman woman, determined to become a’ medica’ herself. Getorius is called in by the young emperor Valentinian III to examine the drowning death of a Hibernian hermit monk and the story takes off from there.
At the center of the story is a document, the ‘SecundusPapyrus,’ purported to be from the ‘Nazarene’ as Christ is called by the heretics. Revealed at its planned time, it would destroy the Roman world as known. Several peopleare involved in the discovery of the papyrus and resercah on its authenticity are found murdured or dead under suspicious circumstances, and it is a race against time for Getorius and Arcadia to assist the Empress in keeping the papyrus hidden and finding out who is behind the signs of the red rooster cropping up in connection with the document and the extent of a possible conspiracy.
Along the way, cleverly woven into the story, we are treated to descriptions of the imperial library and given a treatise on 5th century medicine, as well as all the divisions in the Church and apocalyptic view and not to forget, 5th century cuisine.It is not an easy read as mysteries go, especially with a time period not well known even to Roman history buffs, but wholly satisfying. Mr. Noyer has the ability to bring characters and their environment to life and build up a satisfying suspense…
This book is the first of a planned trilogy. I eagerly await the next one, titled The Cybelene Conspiracy. It will be released in Spring 2005. --Irene Hahn, The Roman History Reading Group
Secrets in the Fields
Roger Burbridge
Reg. price $12.95
ISBN 1-890109-80-0
Cross Quarter Publishing Group, 2005. 147 pages, trade paper
A waking dream leads Jillian Truscott to – of all things – a job with a travel agency. Little does she know that her first assignment could lead to her own assassination, unless she discovers the truth in the fields of the English countryside. This romance thriller will hold your attention!
Roger Burbridge
Reg. price $12.95
ISBN 1-890109-80-0
Cross Quarter Publishing Group, 2005. 147 pages, trade paper
A waking dream leads Jillian Truscott to – of all things – a job with a travel agency. Little does she know that her first assignment could lead to her own assassination, unless she discovers the truth in the fields of the English countryside. This romance thriller will hold your attention!
Seeds of Struggle — Harvest of Faith: History of the Catholic Church in New Mexico-hardcover
Seeds of Struggle — Harvest of Faith: History of the
Catholic Church in New Mexico
edited by Paul Rhetts, Barbe Awalt, & Thomas J.
Steele
Seeds of Struggle — Harvest of Faith: History of
the Catholic Church in New Mexico
edited by Paul Rhetts, Barbe Awalt, & Thomas J. Steele
Reg. price hardcover $29.95; softcover $19.95
ISBN 1-890689-00-9 hardcover; 1-890689-01-7 softcover
LPD Press, 1998. 436 pages; 88 b/w photos
1998 was the cuarto centennial of the settlement of the American SW and the founding of the Catholic Church in what became New Mexico, Arizona, southern Colorado, southern Utah, and western Texas. Seeds of Struggle - Harvest of Faith features twenty-three essays from some of the leading scholars and historians.
REVIEWS
Although more a mosaic than a comprehensive narrative, Seeds of Struggle, Harvest of Faith provides the best overview of New Mexican Catholicism now available. -- New Mexico Historical Review
edited by Paul Rhetts, Barbe Awalt, & Thomas J. Steele
Reg. price hardcover $29.95; softcover $19.95
ISBN 1-890689-00-9 hardcover; 1-890689-01-7 softcover
LPD Press, 1998. 436 pages; 88 b/w photos
1998 was the cuarto centennial of the settlement of the American SW and the founding of the Catholic Church in what became New Mexico, Arizona, southern Colorado, southern Utah, and western Texas. Seeds of Struggle - Harvest of Faith features twenty-three essays from some of the leading scholars and historians.
REVIEWS
Although more a mosaic than a comprehensive narrative, Seeds of Struggle, Harvest of Faith provides the best overview of New Mexican Catholicism now available. -- New Mexico Historical Review
Seeds of Struggle — Harvest of Faith: History of the Catholic Church in New Mexico-softcover
Seeds of Struggle — Harvest of Faith: History of the
Catholic Church in New Mexico
edited by Paul Rhetts, Barbe Awalt, & Thomas J.
Steele
Seeds of Struggle — Harvest of Faith: History of
the Catholic Church in New Mexico
edited by Paul Rhetts, Barbe Awalt, & Thomas J. Steele
Reg. price hardcover $29.95; softcover $19.95
ISBN 1-890689-00-9 hardcover; 1-890689-01-7 softcover
LPD Press, 1998. 436 pages; 88 b/w photos
1998 was the cuarto centennial of the settlement of the American SW and the founding of the Catholic Church in what became New Mexico, Arizona, southern Colorado, southern Utah, and western Texas. Seeds of Struggle - Harvest of Faith features twenty-three essays from some of the leading scholars and historians.
REVIEWS
Although more a mosaic than a comprehensive narrative, Seeds of Struggle, Harvest of Faith provides the best overview of New Mexican Catholicism now available. -- New Mexico Historical Review
edited by Paul Rhetts, Barbe Awalt, & Thomas J. Steele
Reg. price hardcover $29.95; softcover $19.95
ISBN 1-890689-00-9 hardcover; 1-890689-01-7 softcover
LPD Press, 1998. 436 pages; 88 b/w photos
1998 was the cuarto centennial of the settlement of the American SW and the founding of the Catholic Church in what became New Mexico, Arizona, southern Colorado, southern Utah, and western Texas. Seeds of Struggle - Harvest of Faith features twenty-three essays from some of the leading scholars and historians.
REVIEWS
Although more a mosaic than a comprehensive narrative, Seeds of Struggle, Harvest of Faith provides the best overview of New Mexican Catholicism now available. -- New Mexico Historical Review
Seeing True – The Way of Spirit
Ronald Chapman
Reg. price $24.95 (CD Set, 3 CDs included)
UPC 183716000035
Magnetic North, 2005
Seeing True – The Way of Spirit promotes an experience of the ways and means by which Spirit weaves in and through our lives. With this unique framework for insight and understanding, we learn to see and to express with a certainty that the Divine is intimately intertwined with us every moment of our lives.
REVIEWS
Clarity is an aspect of love, it seeing clearly. Ronald Chapman sees with those eyes. He pays attention as few do to the miracles around us. He tells the One Story in all its permutations as a way of drawing us closer to the warmth of our heart. -- Stephen Levine, Author of Healing into Life and Death, Who Dies? and Gradual Awakening
Ronald Chapman
Reg. price $24.95 (CD Set, 3 CDs included)
UPC 183716000035
Magnetic North, 2005
Seeing True – The Way of Spirit promotes an experience of the ways and means by which Spirit weaves in and through our lives. With this unique framework for insight and understanding, we learn to see and to express with a certainty that the Divine is intimately intertwined with us every moment of our lives.
REVIEWS
Clarity is an aspect of love, it seeing clearly. Ronald Chapman sees with those eyes. He pays attention as few do to the miracles around us. He tells the One Story in all its permutations as a way of drawing us closer to the warmth of our heart. -- Stephen Levine, Author of Healing into Life and Death, Who Dies? and Gradual Awakening
Seeing True – The Way of Success in Leadership
Seeing True – The Way of Success in Leadership
Ron Chapman
Seeing True – The Way of Success in Leadership
Ron Chapman
Reg. price $24.95 (CD Set, 3 CDs included)
UPC 183716000028
Magnetic North, 2005
Experience a breakthrough in the perception and practice of leadership with Seeing True – The Way of Success in Leadership. Receive insight through engaging and entertaining vignettes that can result in personal, professional and organizational transformation.
REVIEWS
Enjoyable and informative with fresh perspectives and insights for all types of organizations. -- Jim Key, 2003 World Champion of Public Speaking
Thought provoking, inspirational and practical. -- Peter Holter, CEO, Holter Company
Ron knows how to tell a good story. -- Hallie Preskill, Ph.D., Claremont Graduate University
Ron Chapman
Reg. price $24.95 (CD Set, 3 CDs included)
UPC 183716000028
Magnetic North, 2005
Experience a breakthrough in the perception and practice of leadership with Seeing True – The Way of Success in Leadership. Receive insight through engaging and entertaining vignettes that can result in personal, professional and organizational transformation.
REVIEWS
Enjoyable and informative with fresh perspectives and insights for all types of organizations. -- Jim Key, 2003 World Champion of Public Speaking
Thought provoking, inspirational and practical. -- Peter Holter, CEO, Holter Company
Ron knows how to tell a good story. -- Hallie Preskill, Ph.D., Claremont Graduate University
Segenswunsche: Ein Roman und vier Kurzgeschichten
Segenswunsche: Ein Roman und vier Kurzgeschichten
Avrum Organick
Segenswunsche: Ein Roman und vier Kurzgeschichten
Avrum Organick
Reg. price $19.95
ISBN 0-9671068-7-7
Red Lake Press, 2005. 295 pages
German language translation of Blessings.
In the mid-1950s, when a young Jewish doctor and a Navajo girl meet, their love and eventual marraige bring into conflict the differing world-views of the two societies from which they come. Together they face down the prejudices they encounter and in moments of happiness they express their joy in the form of the blessings of their respective people.
Avrum Organick
Reg. price $19.95
ISBN 0-9671068-7-7
Red Lake Press, 2005. 295 pages
German language translation of Blessings.
In the mid-1950s, when a young Jewish doctor and a Navajo girl meet, their love and eventual marraige bring into conflict the differing world-views of the two societies from which they come. Together they face down the prejudices they encounter and in moments of happiness they express their joy in the form of the blessings of their respective people.
Self Help Law Information Manual
Sammy Sorrell
Reg. price $99.95
American Trend Publishing. 2002. Approximately 500 pages E-Book format.
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A giant self help law library collection written for the layman to understand. Learn the secrets of the American Judicial system. Learn how to survive a lawsuit and even appeal your own case if needed. Learn how to exercise your constitutional right to represent yourself in court without a lawyer.
Sammy Sorrell
Reg. price $99.95
American Trend Publishing. 2002. Approximately 500 pages E-Book format.
[The is an eBook and buyer must provide an email address. The necessary information to download the book will be sent to that address.]
A giant self help law library collection written for the layman to understand. Learn the secrets of the American Judicial system. Learn how to survive a lawsuit and even appeal your own case if needed. Learn how to exercise your constitutional right to represent yourself in court without a lawyer.
Sex True or False: The Pleasures, Perils, and Passion of Sexual Intimacy
Sex True or False: The Pleasures, Perils, and Passion
of Sexual Intimacy
Michelle Rios Rice Hennelly and R. Kevin
Hennelly
Sex True or False: The Pleasures, Perils, and
Passion of Sexual Intimacy
Michelle Rios Rice Hennelly and R. Kevin Hennelly
Reg. price $10.95
ISBN 087516784-5
DeVorss Publications; 105 pages
This timely gem, which will appeal to lovers of all ages, will deepen your understanding of the relationship between love and sexual energy, the most powerful force we carry within us. Providing an excellent and much-needed introduction to this vital force, it argues persuasively for a reevaluation of the role of sexual energy in our lives and its relationship with sexual intimacy. It offers the reader practical guidance on the power of sexual energy and its role for us as spiritual beings; the physical, emotional, psychological, and spiritual effects of its uses and misuses; and romantic relationship and love-making as a higher calling. A pioneering work, it is an indispensable road map through the often confusing and sometimes perilous pathways encountered in sexual relationship and marriage.
REVIEWS
Provocative and uncompromising, this unassuming little book could change the world as we know it if its concepts were full embraced. -- Southwest BookViews
This book should be in the hands of every teenager in this country. -- Dr. Robyn Benson, DOM
Michelle Rios Rice Hennelly and R. Kevin Hennelly
Reg. price $10.95
ISBN 087516784-5
DeVorss Publications; 105 pages
This timely gem, which will appeal to lovers of all ages, will deepen your understanding of the relationship between love and sexual energy, the most powerful force we carry within us. Providing an excellent and much-needed introduction to this vital force, it argues persuasively for a reevaluation of the role of sexual energy in our lives and its relationship with sexual intimacy. It offers the reader practical guidance on the power of sexual energy and its role for us as spiritual beings; the physical, emotional, psychological, and spiritual effects of its uses and misuses; and romantic relationship and love-making as a higher calling. A pioneering work, it is an indispensable road map through the often confusing and sometimes perilous pathways encountered in sexual relationship and marriage.
REVIEWS
Provocative and uncompromising, this unassuming little book could change the world as we know it if its concepts were full embraced. -- Southwest BookViews
This book should be in the hands of every teenager in this country. -- Dr. Robyn Benson, DOM
The Shadow of Venus: A Claire Reynier mystery
The Shadow of Venus
A Claire Reynier mystery
Judith Van Gieson
The Shadow of Venus
A Claire Reynier mystery
Judith Van Gieson
Reg. price $5.99
ISBN 0-451-21134-0
Signet in February, 2004. 262 pages
Awards
Nominated for the Barry Award for best paperback original of 2004
Winner of the Zia Award given by New Mexico Press Women for best work of fiction by a New Mexico woman 2001-2004
When a young woman is found dead in the basement of UNM library with an illustration from a valuable book beside her, librarian Claire Reynier recognizes the victim as someone she had met, but whose name she never knew. To learn more, Claire must descend into the haunting world of the homeless in Albuquerque, where the dead woman was known simply as Maia. It is a name with special meaning, the same as that of a mythical Greek woman who fled into the sky to escape her attacker. The illustration leads Claire to a secretive commune in Taos where Maia grew up and may have suffered terrible abuse. But someone doesn't want Claire to shed too much light on the shadows of the past and will do anything to stop her investigation.
REVIEWS
Van Gieson's got a flair for encapsulating Southwestern mystique and her plotting is skillful, but what distinguishes The Shadow of Venus is her character's underpinnings. This is an involving read at an irresistible price. And Van Gieson nails the ending, too . . . -- Wolf Schneider, The Santa Fe New Mexican
A gripping crime novel that evokes a wide range of emotions . . . Van Gieson's likable heroine, compelling story line and vivid descriptions make this book a winner. -- The Albuquerque Journal
Another compelling and intriguing mystery . . . This is a wonderful series, each entry stronger than the last . . . Van Gieson makes the southwest come alive and makes me yearn to explore places I've not yet visited. -- Maggie Mason, Deadly Pleasures Magazine
A savvy and thoroughly likable sleuth. -- Margaret Coel
A Claire Reynier mystery
Judith Van Gieson
Reg. price $5.99
ISBN 0-451-21134-0
Signet in February, 2004. 262 pages
Awards
Nominated for the Barry Award for best paperback original of 2004
Winner of the Zia Award given by New Mexico Press Women for best work of fiction by a New Mexico woman 2001-2004
When a young woman is found dead in the basement of UNM library with an illustration from a valuable book beside her, librarian Claire Reynier recognizes the victim as someone she had met, but whose name she never knew. To learn more, Claire must descend into the haunting world of the homeless in Albuquerque, where the dead woman was known simply as Maia. It is a name with special meaning, the same as that of a mythical Greek woman who fled into the sky to escape her attacker. The illustration leads Claire to a secretive commune in Taos where Maia grew up and may have suffered terrible abuse. But someone doesn't want Claire to shed too much light on the shadows of the past and will do anything to stop her investigation.
REVIEWS
Van Gieson's got a flair for encapsulating Southwestern mystique and her plotting is skillful, but what distinguishes The Shadow of Venus is her character's underpinnings. This is an involving read at an irresistible price. And Van Gieson nails the ending, too . . . -- Wolf Schneider, The Santa Fe New Mexican
A gripping crime novel that evokes a wide range of emotions . . . Van Gieson's likable heroine, compelling story line and vivid descriptions make this book a winner. -- The Albuquerque Journal
Another compelling and intriguing mystery . . . This is a wonderful series, each entry stronger than the last . . . Van Gieson makes the southwest come alive and makes me yearn to explore places I've not yet visited. -- Maggie Mason, Deadly Pleasures Magazine
A savvy and thoroughly likable sleuth. -- Margaret Coel