Brave Every Day (HB) by Trudy Ludwig
Category: Children's
From social-emotional learning expert Trudy Ludwig and award-winning picture book illustrator Patrice Barton (co-creators of The Invisible Boy) comes a story about managing anxiety and finding the courage to stand up for yourself and others. Most kids love hide-and-seek, but Camila just wants to hide. H ...Show more
Weaving Sundown in a Scarlet Light - Fifty Poems for Fifty Years by Joy Harjo; Sandra Cisneros (Foreword by)
Category: Poetry
Over a long, influential career in poetry, Joy Harjo has been praised for her "warm, oracular voice" (John Freeman, Boston Globe) that speaks "from a deep and timeless source of compassion for all" (Craig Morgan Teicher, NPR). Her poems are musical, intimate, political, and wise, intertwining ancestral ...Show more
Tracing Time - Seasons of Rock Art on the Colorado Plateau by Craig Childs
Category: Nonfiction
"An engaging glimpse into a world both fascinating and fundamentally unknowable to those who aren't born into it." --R. E. BURRILLO, author of Behind the Bears Ears Craig Childs bears witness to rock art of the Colorado Plateau--bighorn sheep pecked behind boulders, tiny spirals in stone, human figures ...Show more
The River Between Hearts by Heather Mateus Sappenfield
Category: Young Readers
On an ordinary Monday, Rill Kruse left for third grade with a dad, but when she came home, he'd been stolen. By a river. One year and thirteen days later--on the first morning of summer vacation--Rill still insists he's trudging home. Her mom has become a practical woman. Her older brother, Eddy, now ca ...Show more
Abuela, Don't Forget Me by Rex Ogle
Category: Young Readers | Series: Emersion: Emergent Village Resources for Communities of Faith Ser.
In his award-winning Free Lunch and Punching Bag, Rex Ogle charted a coming of age marked by poverty and domestic violence. Here, in his debut poetry collection, he pays tribute to his abuela, the woman who gave him unconditional love throughout it all and the one adult he could count on when he was a c ...Show more
Woman of Light - A Novel by Kali Fajardo-Anstine
Category: Fiction
NATIONAL BESTSELLER - A "dazzling, cinematic, intimate, lyrical" (Roxane Gay) epic of betrayal, love, and fate that spans five generations of an Indigenous Chicano family in the American West, from the author of the National Book Award finalist Sabrina & Corina "Sometimes you just step into a bo ...Show more
The Big Texas Cookbook - The Food That Defines the Lone Star State by Editors of Editors of Texas Monthly
Category: cooking
The editors of Texas Monthly celebrate the ever-evolving culinary landscape of the Lone Star State in this stunning cookbook, featuring more than 100 recipes, gorgeous color photos, and insightful essays. When it comes to food, Texas may be best known for its beloved barbecue and tacos. But at more t ...Show more
When I Was Red Clay - A Journey of Identity, Healing, and Wonder by Jonathan T. Bailey
Category: Memoir & Biography
33rd Annual Reading the West Book Award Winner for Memoir, 2023 Foreword INDIES Award Silver Winner, LGBTQ+, and New Mexico-Arizona Book Awards Finalist for Memoir and LGBTQ "Readers will find hope and peace on these beautifully written pages."--LIBRARY JOURNAL (starred review) A young person's ...Show more
Calling for a Blanket Dance by Hokeah Oscar
Category: Debut Fiction
Winner of the PEN America/Hemingway Award for Debut Novel * Finalist for the 2023 Aspen Words Literary Prize * Finalist for the L.A. Times Book Prize/Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction "A profound reflection on the intergenerational nature of cultural trauma... Hokeah's characters exist at the int ...Show more
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