Rudolfo A. Anaya

While Sonny Baca and friends are enjoying Albuquerque's famed hot air balloon festival, a woman plummets from the sky. Four black feathers surround her body -- the calling card of Sonny's nemesis from "Zia Summer," Raven. Raven possesses powers no mortal can match; and Sonny knows that he is the only one who can defeat him. Drawing on his own guardians, and with the help of a "curandera," Sonny risks his life for his city -- and the survival of the...

A collection of ten original and traditional stories set in New Mexico, including "Lupe and la Llorona, " "The Shepherd Who Knew the Language of Animals, " and "Coyote and Raven."

When he was a young man, Randy Lopez left his village in northern New Mexico to seek his fortune. Since then, he has learned some of the secrets of success in the Anglo world and even written a book called Life Among the Gringos. But something has been missing. Now he returns to Agua Bendita to reconnect with his past and to find the wisdom the Anglo world has not provided. In this allegorical account of Randy s final journey, master storyteller Rudolfo...

In order to marry Sage, the girl he loves, Young Eagle must leave his home in New Mexico and undertake a long and perilous journey to the land of the Aztecs to bring back chile seeds for Sage's father. Includes glossary of Spanish terms.

With Christmas only days away, it snows so heavily that don Jacobo the wood carver and his visiting grandson are afraid the roads will not be cleared in time for the rest of the family to come from the city, and that a sick neighbor will not get the helphe needs.

Confronting greedy businessmen, driven politicians, and bitter bigots, Abrán will battle for the city's future, gain insight into its vanishing past, and discover his own soul.