Josefina hopes to become a "curandera" or healer like Tía Magdalena, and she is tested just before her tenth birthday when a friend receives a potentially fatal snakebite.

Josefina and her sisters distrust learning to read and write, as well as other changes their Tía Dolores is bringing to the household, because they fear they will lose their memories of their mother.

In 1492, the Jewish and Muslim populations of Spain were expelled, and Columbus set sail for America. Luis de Torres, a Spanish Jew, accompanies Columbus as his interpreter. His journey is only the beginning of a long migration, across many generations. Over the centuries, de Torres' descendants travel from Spain and Portugal to Mexico, finally settling in the hills of New Mexico. Five hundred years later, it is in these same hills that Miguel Torres,...

The grand saga of an American ranching family continues in the final, mesmerizing book of Michael McGarrity's gripping and richly authentic American West trilogy, as it steps brilliantly into the mid-twentieth-century world of the new American West. When Matthew Kerney returns to his ranch in the beautiful San Andres Mountains after serving in Sicily during World War II, he must not only fight to recover physically and emotionally from a devastating...

"Manifest Destinies tells the story of the original Mexican Americans--the people living in northern Mexico in 1846 during the onset of the Mexican American War. The war abruptly came to an end two years later, and 115,000 Mexicans became American citizens overnight. Yet their status as full-fledged Americans was tenuous at best. Due to a variety of legal and political maneuvers, Mexican Americans were largely confined to a second class status. How...

In 1898, just after his Bar Mitzvah, thirteen-year-old Elan and his family travel to Albuquerque, New Mexico, where he meets his mother's family and participates in the Pueblo ceremony of becoming a man.

"A travel and reference guide to ancient Arizona and New Mexico. The Grand Circle Tour is a circuit around a collection of National Parks and Native American sites in the Four Corners Region of the Southwest. The book is divided into two parts: Part 1 covers 41 archaeological sites and museums and Part 2 examines the history, culture, and archaeology of the Mogollon, Hohokam, Salado, and Sinagua. The travel guide may be used for individual sites of...