Akron Public Library

The heroine is Jane Endicott -- a spirited young woman who travels to Arizona with her father. She falls in love with this rough and rugged frontier -- not to mention the eligible young cowboys.

"Esther is a stowaway. She's hidden herself away in the Librarian's book wagon in an attempt to escape the marriage her father has arranged for her-a marriage to the man who was previously engaged to her best friend. Her best friend who she was in love with. Her best friend who was just executed for possession of resistance propaganda. The future American Southwest is full of bandits, fascists, and queer librarian spies on horseback trying to do the...

Design, Color Coordination and Jewelry Arrangements by Ethel Branson.

In this deeply affecting novel Scott O'Dell envelops the reader in the heroic world of the conquistadors - a world that is at once somber and many-colored. Though they may have been ruthless, these steel-helmeted young men of Spain lived their lives on the very edge of eternity with style and uncommon courage.

From the author of The Secret Knowledge of Water and Atlas of a Lost World comes a deeply felt essay collection focusing upon a vivid series of desert icons—a sheet of virga over Monument Valley, white seashells in dry desert sand, boulders impossibly balanced. Craig Childs delves into the primacy of the land and the profound nature of the more–than–human.

"An amiable southern Negro, driving through the Southwest after getting out of the Army, stops to help four German refugee nuns build a church."

A historical and cultural overview, including discussions of present-day racial, conservation, and economic problems.

History of the American Southwest, vividly recreating its 400 years of bloodshed, betrayal, and violence.