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Camelback Falls: A David Mapstone Mystery 8 reviews
Jon Talton, 2003
This desert gem deserves a national audience
+ The Return of David Mapstone in "Camelback Falls"
+ An enjoyable read.
+ interesting police procedural
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Gardening in the Desert: A Guide to Plant Selection and Care6 reviews
Mary F Irish
University of Arizona Press, 2000
desert gardening
+ Gardening in the Desert: A Guide to Plant Selection & Care
+ a good narrative
+ Desert gardening made easy
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60 Hikes within 60 Miles: Phoenix, Including Tempe, Scottsdale, and Glendale (60 Hikes - Menasha Ridge) (60 ... 4 reviews
Charles Liu
Menasha Ridge Press, 2006
Fantastic, detailed hiking guide
+ Great book for local hikers
+ Great Book, and easy to follow
+ For a Rigorous Off Season Workout, Call...
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High Tide in Tucson: Essays from Now or Never 43 reviews
Barbara Kingsolver
Harper Perennial, 1996
Art to Move Mountains (or Hermit Crab Shells)
+ High tide everywhere
+ All time favourite
+ Best book ever
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The Desert Is Theirs3 reviews
Byrd Baylor
Aladdin, 1987
Life in the desert.
+ .Sands Of Life Time
+ ALL TEACHERS MUST READ IT!
This children's book describes the animal- and plant-life found in the desert in the southwest U.S., including the Papago Indians. Children learn more about what it is like to live in such an environment. The book was illustrated by Peter Parnall and was a 1976 Caldecott Honor book (i.e., a ...
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The Monkey Wrench Gang (P.S.)104 reviews
Edward Abbey
Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 2006
Transgressional Fiction at it's Best.
+ Evergreen of Desert Lit
+ Where the hell do all these people come from?
+ fantastic
+ A Book to be Read Again and Again
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Blue Horses Rush In: Poems and Stories (Sun Tracks , Vol 34)1 review
Luci Tapahonso
University of Arizona Press, 1997
Beautiful and Familiar
Luci Tapahonso delivers another beautiful collection of poems and stories centered around her Navajo culture. Like most of her works, her emphasis is on family and community, and on the ties that bind us invisibly and lovingly to each other and to our homeland. The stories and poems are at times ...
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The Bean Trees385 reviews
Barbara Kingsolver
Harper Perennial, 1989
Bean Trees a treat
+ Bean Trees
+ A beautiful story
+ Nice Read
+ One of the Best Books of the '80's
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A Dynamic God: Living an Unconventional Catholic Faith1 review
Nancy Mairs
Beacon Press, 2007
Rich, risky, startling
The ten remarkable essays of A Dynamic God continue the interior journey Nancy Mairs began in her spiritual memoir, Ordinary Time: Cycles in Marriage, Faith, and Renewal (1993). In that book, Mairs introduced us to her understanding of belief, faith, conversion, and social conscience, maturing ...
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Paradise Lost (Joanna Brady Mysteries, Book 9) 30 reviews
J.A. Jance
Avon, 2002
J.A. Jance series is good.
+ Girl Scout Camp Is Not The Place To Be
+ My Review of Paradise Lost
+ I couldn't put it down
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A Full Life in a Small Place and Other Essays from a Desert Garden1 review
Janice Emily Bowers
University of Arizona Press, 1992
One of my all-time favorite books
A wonderful tome by Janice Emily Bowers. These essays combine gardening, ecology and self reflection with a wonderful use of vocabulary. Thoroughly enjoyable; definitely not a one-read book!
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The Cowboy Rides Away3 reviews
Betsy Thornton
Dell, 1997
I Love It!
+ Realistic setting, authentic participants, you'll want more!
+ A well written mystery with vivid characters.
This book was a quick read with a plot that holds you and references to the '60's that I truely identified with. I hope Ms. Thornton keeps 'em comming!!!!
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Blood Brother2 reviews
Elliott Arnold
University of Nebraska Press, 1979
Excellent piece of historical fiction
+ Arnold's story of Cochise and Tom Jeffords
As far as historical fiction goes this is as good as it gets. Based upon the actual relationship between Cochise and a white US Army scout - Tom Jeffords - the author pours into the novel his own extensive research into the 1856-1872 era of what is now Arizona. This is not fluff writing and it is ...
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Hawk, I'm Your Brother5 reviews
Byrd Baylor
Aladdin, 1986
A Child Learns the Meaning of Being Free
+ Hawk, I'm Your Brother
+ Caldecott for line drawings; text for imagination
+ Powerful
+ educational ,sensitive and magical
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Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands (Vol. 1): Guiding Principles to Welcome Rain into Your Life And Landscape20 reviews
Brad Lancaster
Chelsea Green Publishing Company, 2006
Save the World One Drop at a Time
+ Great water book!
+ a MUST READ!
+ Not just for drylands
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Gathering the Desert2 reviews
Gary Paul Nabhan
University of Arizona Press, 1986
The author is not just an Ethnobotanist, he's a Poet!
+ Desert Bsh Tucker
Quite simply, read this book. It turns the subject of "ethnoecology" (sounds dull, doesn't it?!) into a poetic duet of plants and the relationship native peoples developed with them. Nabhan, in this book, profiles several individual species (found in his beloved Sonoran desert) as intimately as a ...
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The Star Garden: A Novel of Sarah Agnes Prine13 reviews
Nancy E. Turner
Thomas Dunne Books, 2007
engaging historical tale
+ Stars for "Star Garden"
+ Sarah Prine forever
+ Good Book
+ the star garden
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Saanii Dahataat: The Women Are Singing : Poems and Stories (Sun Tracks, Vol 23)1 review
Luci Tapahonso
University of Arizona Press, 1993
A journey of love...
Luci Tapahonso's voice is one of the most beautiful in contemporary Native American literature. Her poetry usually revolves around family, community, interpersonal relationships -- those things which my dear uncle says are the only things that really matter in this life anyway. When reading this ...
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Territory25 reviews
Emma Bull
Tor Books, 2007
Audio Book Review Very Satisfying Listen
+ My first book by Bull; but not the last
+ Hoodoo in the old West
+ Delightful historical fantasy, but incomplete
+ Creative Twist on History
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Sedona Hikes, 130 Day Hikes & 5 Vortex Sites around Sedona, Arizona, Revised 9th Edition20 reviews
Richard K. Mangum and Sherry G. Mangum
Hexagon Press, Inc., 2006
Great Guide, but also buy a map
+ Great Book
+ Sedona Hikes
+ Good hiking book!
+ GET THIS BOOK
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