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1) Dinosaurs
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Sedona Public Library - FIC - Fiction Books
MILLET, L.
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MILLET, L.
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"A stunning new novel from the author of A Children's Bible, a National Book Award finalist and one of the New York Times 10 Best Books of 2020. Over twelve novels and two collections Lydia Millet has emerged as a major American novelist. Hailed as "a writer without limits" (Karen Russell) and "a stone-cold genius" (Jenny Offill), Millet makes fiction that vividly evokes the ties between people and other animals and the crisis of extinction. Her exquisite...
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Sedona Public Library - BIO - Biography Collection
BIOGRAPHY RONSTADT, L.
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BIOGRAPHY RONSTADT, L.
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"Feels Like Home is a love letter to Ronstadt's Mexican American roots. It tells of her coming of age in the world between Tucson and the Rio Sonora region of northern Mexico, presented through stories, photographs, and recipes"--
Ronstadt effortlessly evokes the magical panorama of the high desert, offering a personal tour of the place where she came of age. Braiding together her recollections of people and their passions in a region little understood...
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Sedona Public Library - NF - Nonfiction Books
363.285 JONES
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363.285 JONES
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"Late one July night in 2020 in Portland, Oregon, armed men, identified only by the word POLICE stitched onto their uniforms, began snatching people off the street and placing them in unmarked vans. The people targeted were legally protesting as part of a nationwide Black Lives Matter movement. More arrests soon followed. These actions were not done by a group of right-wing terrorists, or the FBI or CIA. They were common practice maneuvers conducted...
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BIOGRAPHY ZAMORA, J.
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BIOGRAPHY ZAMORA, J.
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BIOGRAPHY ZAMORA, J.
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BIOGRAPHY ZAMORA, J.
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"Trip. My parents started using that word about a year ago--'one day, you'll take a trip to be with us. Like an adventure.' Javier's adventure is a three-thousand-mile journey from his small town in El Salvador, through Guatemala and Mexico, and across the U.S. border. He will leave behind his beloved aunt and grandparents to reunite with a mother who left four years ago and a father he barely remembers. Traveling alone except for a group of strangers...
5) Shutter
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Sedona Public Library - MYSTERY - Mystery Collection
MYSTERY EMERSON, R.
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MYSTERY EMERSON, R.
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"Rita Todacheene is a forensic photographer working for the Albuquerque police force. Her excellent photography skills have cracked many cases-she is almost supernaturally good at capturing details. In fact, Rita has been hiding a secret: she sees the ghosts of crime victims who point her toward the clues that other investigators overlook. As a lone portal back to the living for traumatized spirits, Rita is terrorized by nagging ghosts who won't let...
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"First Impressions: A Reader's Journey to Iconic Places of the American Southwest tells the story of fifteen iconic sites across Arizona, Utah, New Mexico, and southern Colorado through the eyes of the explorers, missionaries, and travelers who were the first nonnatives to describe them. Noted borderlands historians David J. Weber and William deBuys lead readers through centuries of historical, cultural, and environmental change at sites ranging from...
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Sedona Public Library - NF - Nonfiction Books
978.9 ALLEN
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978.9 ALLEN
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"In the summer of 1922, Aldo Leopold traveled on horseback up into the headwaters of New Mexico's Gila River and proposed to his bosses at the Forest Service that 500,000 acres of that rough country be set aside as roadless wilderness. Thus was born America's first--and the world's--first designated wilderness. A century later, writer-activists come together to celebrate this vast, rugged landscape and argue for its preservation. First and Wildest...
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972.0816 HERNÁNDEZ
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972.0816 HERNÁNDEZ
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"Rebel historian" Kelly Lytle Hernández reframes our understanding of U.S. history in this groundbreaking narrative of revolution in the borderlands. Bad Mexicans tells the dramatic story of the magonistas, the migrant rebels who sparked the 1910 Mexican Revolution from the United States. Led by a brilliant but ill-tempered radical named Ricardo Flores Magón, the magonistas were a motley band of journalists, miners, migrant workers, and more,...
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364.152 DENTON
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364.152 DENTON
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"A shocking massacre in 2019 sparks a probing investigation into the strange, violent history of a polygamist Mormon outpost in Mexico. A harmless, unassuming caravan of women and children was ambushed by masked gunmen in northern Mexico on November 4, 2019. In a massacre that produced international headlines, nine people were killed and five others gravely injured. The victims were members of the La Mora and LeBaron communities-fundamentalist Mormons...
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SPL in the Village - NF - Nonfiction Books
709.0113 CHILDS
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709.0113 CHILDS
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709.0113 CHILDS
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709.0113 CHILDS
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"Writer and adventurer Craig Childs bears witness to rock art of the Southwest, each depiction one word in a grand story that spans the Colorado Plateau"--
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641.6384 DEWITT
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641.6384 DEWITT
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The Mexican Chile Pepper Cookbook is the first book to explore the glories of Mexican regional cooking by focusing on this single, but endlessly variable, ingredient.
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"What is it about certain places on earth that have the power to change the course of our lives and transform us deeply? The once-frontier mining town of Gallup, bordering the Navajo Nation and sitting on the extreme western edge of New Mexico, is just such a place. With its rugged, violent history and otherworldly landscape, Gallup has ignited the imaginations of an array of famous Americans from John Wayne to Bob Dylan. Tony Hillerman's novels put...
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"Based on a true story, the tale of one girl's perilous journey to cross the U.S. border and lead her family to safety during the Mexican Revolution"--
14) Tumble
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Sedona Public Library - JFIC - Children's Area - Fiction
PÉREZ, C.
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PÉREZ, C.
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Before she decides whether to accept her stepfather's proposal of adoption, twelve-year-old Adela Ramírez reaches out to her estranged biological father--who is in the midst of a career comeback as a luchador--and the eccentric extended family of wrestlers she has never met, bringing Adela closer to understanding the expansive definition of family.
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Sedona Public Library - JEFIC - Children's Area - Easy Books - Fiction
GONZALEZ
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GONZALEZ
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""A grandmother explores her special garden with her granddaughters. Wonder grows everywhere but Grandmother especially loves to show it in her story garden. She invites her granddaughters to join her there in a sweet meditation on the treasures she's brought to that magical place--the rocks, the shells, the crystals, the meteorites : how they came to be, how they were formed, how they each have a story to tell"--Provided by publisher.
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Sedona Public Library - JEFIC - Children's Area - Easy Books - Fiction
GONZALEZ
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GONZALEZ
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""A grandmother explores her special garden with her granddaughters. Wonder grows everywhere but Grandmother especially loves to show it in her story garden. She invites her granddaughters to join her there in a sweet meditation on the treasures she's brought to that magical place--the rocks, the shells, the crystals, the meteorites : how they came to be, how they were formed, how they each have a story to tell"--Provided by publisher.
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Sedona Public Library - JFIC - Children's Area - Fiction
BOWLING, D.
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BOWLING, D.
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"One girl sets out on a journey across the treacherous Arizona desert to rescue a young pilot stranded after a plane crash in this gripping story of survival, friendship, and rescue from a bestselling and award-winning author. Twelve-year-old Jolene spends every day she can at the library watching her favorite livestream: The Desert Aviator, where twelve-year-old "Addie Earhart" shares her adventures flying an ultralight plane over the desert. While...
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"A family honors their living and dead relatives as they celebrate the Day of the Dead with shared food and stories"--