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2) Santa Fe
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English
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"Whether you want to visit art galleries in Santa Fe, explore Georgia O'Keeffe's studio at Ghost Ranch, or learn about Native American history in Taos, the local Fodor's travel experts in New Mexico are here to help! Fodor's In Focus Santa Fe guidebook is packed with maps, carefully curated recommendations, and everything else you need to simplify your trip-planning process and make the most of your time. This new edition has an easy-to-read layout,...
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English
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In the bright morning of his youth Lewis H. Garrard traveled into the wild and free Rocky Mountain West and left us this fresh and vigorous account, which, says A. B. Guthrie, Jr., contains in its pages "the genuine article-the Indian, the trader, the mountain man, their dress, and behavior and speech and the country and climate they lived in." On September 1, 1846, Garrard, then only seventeen years old, left Westport Landing (now Kansas City) with...
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Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
[1997]
Language
English
Description
Mountain man Titus Bass's vow to live in freedom takes him into encounters with Comanche, Apache, and Arapaho warriors, through the heat of the southwestern desert and the cold of the northern plains, as he helps a family stand against a Mexican army officer, chases horse thieves across the Yellowstone, and stands with a frontier town against the Comanche.
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Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Mona is twenty-six and cleans houses for a living in Taos, New Mexico. She moved there mostly because of a bad boyfriend--a junkie named Mr. Disgusting, long story--and her efforts to restart her life since haven't exactly gone as planned. For one thing she's got another bad boyfriend. She calls this one Dark, and he happens to be married to one of Mona's clients. Dark and his wife aren't the only complicated clients on Mona's roster...there's also...
10) Pretend I'm dead
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Publisher
Scribner, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Jen Beagins funny, moving, fearless debut novel introduces an unforgettable character, Mona--almost 24, cleaning houses to get by, emotionally adrift. Handing out clean needles to drug addicts, she falls for a recipient who proceeds to break her heart in unimaginable ways. Always just under the surface are her memories of growing up in a chaotic, destructive family from which she's trying to disentangle herself. The story of her journey toward a comfortable...
14) Santa Fe
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Publisher
Fodor's Travel, a division of Internet Brands, Inc
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
16) The king of Taos
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Publisher
University of New Mexico Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Set in the late 1950s, the novel tells the stories of sharp-witted Zacharias Chacon, aspiring artist Shaw Spencer, and a circle of characters who drink, fight, love, argue, and--mostly--talk. Readers will enjoy this witty and moving evocation of unforgettable characters as they look for work, love, comfort, dignity, and bottomless oblivion." --
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St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
A portrait of the Standard Oil heiress and legendary American trendsetter Millicent Rogers. Nobody knew how to live the high life like Millicent Rogers. Born into luxury, she lived in a whirl of beautiful homes, European vacations, exquisite clothing and handsome men. Here, Cherie Burns chronicles Rogers's glittering life from her days as a young girl afflicted with rheumatic fever to her Taos finale. A rebellious icon of the age, she eloped with...