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The Age of Innocence
by Edith Wharton
A well-born New Yorker is engaged to the "ideal" companion but becomes attracted to his married cousin, conflicting with his puritanical values as well as society’s mores. |
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Bless Me, Ultima
by Rudolfo A. Anaya
This bildungsroman follows Mexican American Antonio Marez in his attempt to achieve balance between self and community in New Mexico. |
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Animal Dreams
by Barbara Kingsolver
(also available in Spanish)
A powerful story of love and courage in a fictional mining town based on Clifton-Morenci, Arizona. |
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The Brave Cowboy
by Edward Abbey
The traditional cowboy meets the contemporary West in this presentation of battles and stock characters – the settler, his supportive wife, and their silent child. |
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Beloved
by Toni Morrison
The narrator of this novel serves up the minds of 19th-century Ohio, affirming the community’s critical role in supporting the oppressed while examining slavery’s imprint on humanity. |
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The Bronc People
by William Eastlake
A rancher’s son and his intellectual foster brother roam the high country of New Mexico between the Pueblo lands and the Navajo Reservation, searching for meaning in the past. |
