The Ghost Of Milagro Creek

Author : Melanie Sumner
Publisher : Algonquin Books
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2010-07-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781616200138

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The Ghost of Milagro Creek by Melanie Sumner Pdf

"Devastating . . . [Ghost of Milagro Creek] simmers with metaphysical tension."—Time Out Chicago The story of Ignacia Vigil Romero, a full Jacarilla Apache, and the two boys, Mister and Tomás, she raised to adulthood unfolds in a barrio of Taos, New Mexico—a mixed community of Native Americans, Hispanics, and whites. Now deceased, Ignacia, a curandera—a medicine woman, though some say a witch—begins this tale of star-crossed lovers. Mister and Tomás, best friends until their late teens, both fall for Rocky, a gringa of some mystery, a girl Tomás takes for himself. But in a moment of despair, a pledge between the young men leads to murder. When Ignacia falls silent, police reports, witness statements, and caseworker interviews draw an electrifying portrait of a troubled community and of the vulnerable players in this mounting tragedy. Set in a terrain that becomes a character in its own right, The Ghost of Milagro Creek brilliantly illuminates this hidden corner of American society.

Author : Melanie Sumner
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2015-08-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781101873472

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How to Write a Novel by Melanie Sumner Pdf

Aristotle "Aris" Thibodeau is 12.5 years old and destined for greatness. Ever since her father’s death, however, she’s been stuck in the small town of Kanuga, Georgia, where she has to manage her mother Diane’s floundering love life and dubious commitment to her job as an English professor. Not to mention co-parenting a little brother who hogs all the therapy money. Luckily, Aris has a plan. Following the advice laid out in Write a Novel in Thirty Days! she sets out to pen a bestseller using her charmingly dysfunctional family as material. If the Mom-character, Diane, would ditch online dating and accept that the perfect man is clearly the handyman/nanny-character, Penn MacGuffin, Aris would have the essential romance for her plot (and a father in her real life). But when a random accident uncovers a dark part of Thibodeau family history, Aris is forced to confront the fact that sometimes in life—as in great literature—things might not work out exactly as planned.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 514 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2010-07
Category : New Mexico
ISBN : STANFORD:36105134104988

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New Mexico Magazine by Anonim Pdf

Author : John Nichols
Publisher : Holt Paperbacks
Page : 465 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2013-12-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781466859616

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The Milagro Beanfield War by John Nichols Pdf

The Milagro Beanfield War is the first book in John Nichols's New Mexico trilogy (“Gentle, funny, transcendent.” —The New York Times Book Review), later adapted to film by Robert Redford. Joe Mondragon, a feisty hustler with a talent for trouble, slammed his battered pickup to a stop, tugged on his gumboots, and marched into the arid patch of ground. Carefully (and also illegally), he tapped into the main irrigation channel. And so began-though few knew it at the time-the Milagro beanfield war. But like everything else in the dirt-poor town of Milagro, it would be a patchwork war, fought more by tactical retreats than by battlefield victories. Gradually, the small farmers and sheepmen begin to rally to Joe's beanfield as the symbol of their lost rights and their lost lands. And downstate in the capital, the Anglo water barons and power brokers huddle in urgent conference, intent on destroying that symbol before it destroys their multimillion-dollar land-development schemes. The tale of Milagro's rising is wildly comic and lovingly tender, a vivid portrayal of a town that, half-stumbling and partly prodded, gropes its way toward its own stubborn salvation.

Author : Ann Walsh
Publisher : Dundurn
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2006-09-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0888782926

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The Ghost of Soda Creek by Ann Walsh Pdf

After moving to Soda Creek, in the Cariboo region of British Columbia, Kelly Linden and her father try to begin their lives again after a tragic family accident.

Author : Raymond Bial
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2000-04
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1883953286

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The Ghost of Honeymoon Creek by Raymond Bial Pdf

Hank and his 'fraidy-cat buddy Clifford are chased by a host of ghosts through the countryside near Myrtleville and encounter a mysterious old lady who leads them to uncover the secret of the ghost of Honeymoon Creek.

Author : Robert Peterson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2019-03-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1947309684

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The Ghost of White Woman Creek by Robert Peterson Pdf

In Tribune, Kansas, a small, irregular creek runs through the woods just north of the town. It's been known as White Woman Creek for as long as anyone can remember. Most agree that in the 1860s, a local woman was kidnapped in the area and either killed by the Indians who captured her or else freed by nearby Cavalry Troops.

Author : Joan Ramon Resina
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2017-06-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781786948106

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The Ghost in the Constitution by Joan Ramon Resina Pdf

A book that offers new directions in the study of memory in Spain, written by one of the world's leading scholars of contemporary Spanish culture.

Author : Jan Reid
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2004-10-01
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0292706014

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Rio Grande by Jan Reid Pdf

Reid has assembled writings by an astonishing array of leading authors--Larry McMurtry, Woody Guthrie, and more--to explore the politicization, culture, history, and ecology of the vital river.

Author : American Heritage Dictionary
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 1054 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Reference
ISBN : 0618455043

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Author : John Treadwell Nichols
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Fiction
ISBN : STANFORD:36105038592759

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The Milagro Beanfield War by John Treadwell Nichols Pdf

Violence erupts in the poor town of Milagro when one dirt farmer impulsively taps the main irrigation channel.

Author : Joni Adamson,Mei Mei Evans,Rachel Stein
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2002-11
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0816522073

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The Environmental Justice Reader by Joni Adamson,Mei Mei Evans,Rachel Stein Pdf

A collection of essays on the environmental justice movement, examining the various ways that teaching, art, and political action affect change in environmental awareness and policies.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Chalice Press
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2024-05-25
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0827230834

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Preaching Judges (pct) by Anonim Pdf

Judges is crisis literature, reflecting a time of violence and confusion very much like our own. Preachers confronted by the Bible's dark side will discover guidance and inspiration.

Author : Jean F. Andrews
Publisher : Northern State University Press
Page : 103 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1993-01-01
Category : Deaf
ISBN : 1883120012

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The Ghost of Tomahawk Creek by Jean F. Andrews Pdf

Author : Greg Rodgers,Larry Johnson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2008-09-01
Category : Folklore
ISBN : 0981710506

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The Ghost of Mingo Creek by Greg Rodgers,Larry Johnson Pdf

A collection of short stories based on spooky Oklahoma legends.