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Anadarko
A Kiowa Country Mystery
By Tom Holm
The University of Arizona Press
In Anadarko, a small bootlegger town full of corruption and murder, J.D. Daugherty and Hoolie Smith investigate the disappearances of geologist Frank Shotz and community member Louisa Welbourne. Tackling difficult issues involving racial prejudice with ease, Tom Holm weaves a vivid, suspenseful tale of the fight between good and evil.
The Darling
The University of Arizona Press
While classic works of literature inspire Caridad’s longing for love, the wisdom she finds in books helps her to end disastrous relationships. Inspired by fictional heroines, Caridad gradually replaces the models they offer with her own life lessons as she struggles for independence and fulfillment.
Buzzing Hemisphere / Rumor Hemisférico
By Urayoán Noel
The University of Arizona Press
Buzzing Hemisphere / Rumor Hemisférico imagines an alternative to the monolingualism of the U.S. literary and political landscape, and it proposes a geo-neuro-political performance attuned to damaged or marginalized forms of knowledge, perception, and identity. Poet Urayoán Noel maps the spaces between and across languages, cities, and bodies, creating a hemispheric poetics that is both broadly geopolitical and intimately neurological.
Ladies of the Canyons
A League of Extraordinary Women and Their Adventures in the American Southwest
The University of Arizona Press
Ladies of the Canyons is the true story of a group of remarkable women whose lives were transformed by the people and landscape of the American Southwest in the first decades of the twentieth century.
De Grazia
The Man and the Myths
The University of Arizona Press
This is the first comprehensive biography of artist Ted DeGrazia (1909–1982), who was known as much for his colorful paintings of the Southwest and Mexico as his eccentric personality. De Grazia: The Man and the Myths mines private archival sources, memoirs, and interviews to draw an intriguing new portrait of this western legend.
Burton Barr
Political Leadership and the Transformation of Arizona
By Philip VanderMeer; Foreword by Alfredo Gutierrez
The University of Arizona Press
Arizona House Majority Leader Burton Barr’s leadership style not only illuminated his personality and ideas, but also explained the larger political development of Arizona. Barr’s career is instructive because of his considerable success, the criticism it engendered, and the forces he contested, all taking place during an era of significant change.
Border Oasis
Water and the Political Ecology of the Colorado River Delta, 1940–1975
By Evan R. Ward
The University of Arizona Press