During June, find these titles in a display
near the library's main entrance
From the Museum of New Mexico Press, Immortal Summer: A Victorian Woman's Travels in the Southwest by Mary J. Straw Cook.
In 1897, two sisters embark from Pennsylvania in search of soul-broadening experiences in the Indian Southwest, newly opened to intrepid travellers. Their letters and photographs are the heart of this brilliantly reassembled grand tour.
synopsis from The Museum of New Mexico Press Catalog/Gazelle Book Services Limited
Call number SW F786 .H76 2002
Leonid Tsypkin's little novel, about a single summer in the life of Fyodor Dostoyevsky, stands to change the way we think of 20th-century Russian fiction. It is, in more ways than one, a chronicle of fevered genius.
from The Washington Post Book World, reviewed by Marie Arana.Call number PG3489 .S976 L4813 2001
A Summer Life explores a young boy's life as he grows up in Fresno, California. In this three-part book, broken into thirteen short chapters in each part, Gary Soto covers everything from The Computer Date to The Drive-In Movies.
from the author's website
Call number PS 3569 .O72 Z475 1991
Small-time private eye Sonny Baca is investigating his cousin Gloria's murder. Her body is found drained of blood, and on her stomach has been carved the Zia sun symbol, which makes Sonny suspect brujería—witchcraft.
excerpt from Bilingual Review Press
Call number SW PS 3551 .N27 Z35 1995
In this new [1996] novel by the author of The Women's Room and Her Mother's Daughter, a hugely successful, middle-aged writer of romance novels encounters the possibility of romantic love in her own life. from a review at borders.com.au
Fogelson Library call number PS3556 .R42 M9 1996
"This book is about rising vulnerability. It is the 15,000-year story of how, time and again, humans in their relationship with climate reached a threshold and, without hesitation, crossed it."
from the introduction, by the author
Call number QC981.8 .C5 F34 2004
Prodigal Summer weaves together three stories of
human love within a larger tapestry of lives inhabiting
the forested mountain and struggling small farms of
southern Appalachia.
from the book's jacket
Call number PS 3561 .I496 P76 2000
