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"This book explores how Zayas defies Spanish hegemony by manipulating and transforming the ideals of courtly masculinity. She elaborates a non-official discourse through plots that subvert patriarchal hierarchy to empower women who are no longer willing to remain silent and oppressed by masculine domination. By inverting the male gaze, Zayas destabilizes manly superiority as a basic universal reality, empowering Spanish women to liberate Iberian culture from the repressive future she forebodes"--

"Set in the wasteland of post-apocalyptic Las Vegas, Hammer of the Dogs is a literary dystopian adventure starring 21-year-old Lash. With her high-tech skill set and warrior mentality, Lash helps to shield the Las Vegas valley's survivors and protect her younger classmates at a paramilitary school holed up in Luxor on the Las Vegas Strip. After graduation, she'll be alone in fending off the deadly intentions/desires of the school's most powerful opponents. When she's captured by the enemy warlord, she's surprised by two revelations: He's not the monster her headmaster wants her to believe he is and the one thing she can't safeguard is her own heart"--

"Joyful Orphan is a book of witness: species and habitat extinction, war, poverty, technology, history, and race. In this collection, Mark Irwin attempts to find how these worlds interface and affect one another. There are many different ways to become orphaned in the contemporary world, but often it is an attempt to understand the meaning of love continuously translated into languages that one does not know"--

"The Weight of Gold tells the story of the rise of Canadian gold mining and its environmental consequences in the Abitibi region of northern Ontario in the early twentieth century. It connects Canadian gold mining to its international context and demonstrates how mining companies redistribute the harms associated with extraction to nearby communities"--

"Matt Solberg is an academic who moonlights as a search-and-rescue leader. He is tasked with finding eleven-year-old Linda, who has gone missing after a pair of fires burned down her family home. After finding the girl-badly injured, but alive-Matt becomes convinced the fires that harmed little Linda were arson. Working with FBI agent Bernie Katz, Matt's investigation ultimately leads him to suspect three people: Tabish, a legendary smokejumper; Fleming, a ne'er-do-well hell-bent on enacting a kind of eco-justice in order to gain the esteem of the men he respects; and ultimately Matt's longtime friend and a leading expert in fire and dendrochronology, Bill Knight. As it turns out, while Fleming and Tabish lit the fires that set the novel's events in action, Bill Knight has a long-game vision not only to burn out the California transplants who are marring Montana but also to exact revenge on a man who, three years ago, accidently killed Knight's wife in a vehicle accident that he caused when he was texting and driving. Through the eyes of the characters in Fire Scars, John B. Wright explores what it takes to overcome grief, the deep fire scars each of the people who inhabit this story carry with them, through fast-paced, ripping action from an author who clearly understands the tragedy and the necessity of wildfires"--

"Vegas strong is a collection of personal essays that reflect upon the 1 October 2017 Route 91 Harvest Music Festival mass shooting in Las Vegas, where fifty-eight people were shot to death on site, two more later died of their injuries, and 526 victims were physically wounded, with untold numbers suffering psychologically. The book shares a broad diversity of perspectives, voices, and formats, shedding light on the scope of this tragedy, the largest mass shooting to date in American history. The collection is important, as it demonstrates to the world how one community responded to a horrific event that is becoming far too common in our nation"--

During the pandemic and in the wake of his father's death, Daniel A. Olivas reviewed almost 25 years' worth of his short stories and chose his favorites. The result is How to Date a Flying Mexican: New and Collected Stories. This collection brings together some of his most unforgettable strange tales that will be enjoyed, again, by his fans, and introduce new readers to Olivas's distinct--and very Chicano--short stories.

To the North/Al norte is part of a growing field of narratives told by formerly undocumented or undocumented writers in the United States. It is a hybrid book of poetry written in Spanish by the Nicaraguan poet León Salvatierra, who mixes lyric and prose poems to explore migration, exile, violence, dislocation, among other themes that stem from the transnational experience of the Central American diaspora that emerged from the civil wars in the 1980s.

Selected as one of the San Francisco Chronicles' 15 best books of 2021 From critically acclaimed author Maceo Montoya comes an inventive and adventurous satirical novel about a Mexican-American artist's efforts to fulfill his vision: to paint masterful works of art. His plans include a move to Paris to join the ranks of his artistic hero, Gustave Courbet--except it's 1943, and he's stuck in the backwoods of New Mexico. Penniless and prone to epileptic fits, even his mother thinks he's crazy. Ernie Lobato has just inherited his deceased uncle's manuscript and drawings. At the urging of his colleague, an activist and history buff (Lorraine Rios), Ernie sends the materials to a professor of Chicanx literature (Dr. Samuel Pizarro). Throughout the novel, Dr. Pizarro shares his insights and comments on the uncle's legacy in a series of annotations to his text and illustrations. As Ernie's uncle battles a world that is unkind to "starving artists," he runs into other tormented twentieth-century artists, writers, and activists with ambitions to match his own: a young itinerant preacher (Reies López Tijerina); the "greatest insane artist" (Martín Ramirez); and Oscar Zeta Acosta who is hellbent on self-destruction. Will the fortuitous encounters with these prophetic figures result in his own genius being recognized? Or will his > Told through a combination of words and images in the tradition of classic works such as Don Quixote and Alice in Wonderland, Preparatory Notes for Future Masterpieces features fifty-one vivid black-and-white pen drawings. This complex and engaging story also doubles as literary criticism, commenting on how outsiders' stories fit into the larger context of the Chicanx literary canon. A unique and multilayered story that embraces both contradiction and possibility, it also sheds new light on the current state of Chicanx literature while, at the same time, contributing to it. Propulsive, humorous, and full of life, this candid novel will be loved not only by Beat fiction fans but by contemporary fiction lovers as well.

Imposing Order without Law examines the history surrounding nineteenth century American settlers in two remote regions--the slopes of the Eastern Sierra Nevada and the Honey Lake Valley--who used extralegal means to establish order in their communities. The book reveals the use and effects of group violence used to enforce community edicts which transformed the Native People's world into colonial outposts.

Foreword by Jeff Kelley. Nevada's open spaces have long inspired complex responses from a population largely shaped by European sensibilities toward land and its uses. In Mapping the Empty Fox considers how eight of the state's most distinguished and innovative contemporary artists have responded to the harsh, enigmatic landscapes of the Great Basin and how, through their work, they have expressed and helped to define our attitudes toward the space we call the West. The artists are Jim McCormick, Rita Deanin Abbey, Dennis Parks, Walter McNamara, Robert Beckmann, Michael Heizer, Bill Barker, and Mary Ann Bonjorni.

Haslam divides the state into five regions, selecting prose and poetry from each that reflects their history, terrain, and culture. Many Califonias features sixty-seven authors ranging from Jack London to Maxine Hong Kingston, making it the most diverse general-interest anthology available.

Worlding the Western takes the fiction of the Western United States as a focal point for a re-examination of the consequences of exceptionalism and closed borders in the Trump Era. At a time of bounded individualism, new nativism, climate emergency, and migration crises, author Neil Campbell argues that fiction offers opportunities to put the world back in ways that challenge the dark side of globalization and proposes worlding as a different and more open form of politics.

Skins is Adrian C. Louis's realistic novel of life on Pine Ridge Reservation, the story of two brothers--one a rez cop, the other an alcoholic--and their relationship with each other, with their people, with their environment.

Going It Alone is the story of the conflict between joy and loneliness Tim Hauserman discovered on a series of backpack trips in the wilderness: a tale of self-induced misadventures and overwhelming sadness but also many moments of sublime rapture. It is a humorous, humble take on the experience of spending time alone in the wilderness--part exquisite nature journal, part Bill Bryson in the woods--with a unique voice and take on the world.

Thomas Savage (1915-2003) was one of the best of the Intermountain West novelists for several decades of the twentieth century. His thirteen novels received high critical praise but low sales throughout his career. O. Alan Weltzien's insightful and detailed literary biography chronicles the life and work of this neglected but talented novelist.

Amidst the evolving scientific knowledge of epidemic diseases during the mid-to-late 19th century, Guarding the Golden Gate narrates the development of the Quarantine Station on Angel Island in the San Francisco Bay and illuminates the everyday activities of the station's personnel as they met both political and public health challenges.

A photographic showcase of the largest Basque festival in the US, held in Boise, Idaho, every five years. The photography of Jon Hodgson, combined with the writing of Basque-American expert Nancy Zubiri, captures the essense of the ancient Basque people who have adapted their culture to the Western American landscape.

Presents a collection of articles John Glionna wrote as a journalist for the Los Angeles Times and as a freelance writer for the Las Vegas Review-Journal. These stories introduce readers to the 'real Nevada', revealing hidden subcultures, offbeat tales, and the diverse spirit and character of the state's rural people and the land they inhabit.

Drawing upon literature, film, websites, journals, public policy documents, and other writing, this innovative study models an interdisciplinary approach to water governance that reinvigorates our imagination to foster a more sustainable and equitable Colorado River water ethic

Explores the middle-class African American-led movement to challenge housing discrimination, gain equal access to twentieth-century Los Angeles, and ward off resegregation.

With fearless and playful language, Katherine Factor's debut collection reveals agony, humour, and the necessary voices of the female oracle through time. The oracle's message is apparent - she is not dead. Her words are cryptic but contemporary, offering caution along with guidance to a society interested only in using prophecy for profit.

Las Vegas has a long and rich history that extends far beyond the cliches of 'sin city', the Mafia, Elvis, or mindless urban sprawl. This book provides a series of maps with accompanying text that goes beyond the usual tales of the city and illustrates the history of the city and surrounding region.

Though his books have been taught in colleges and high schools across the country for over two decades, this collection brings together some of Daniel Olivas' most unforgettable strange tales that will be enjoyed, again, by his fans, and anew for readers who have not, as yet, experienced Olivas's distinct-and very Chicano-fiction.

Public health physician Dr Maya Summer faces a myriad of medical challenges as she comes to grips with her uneasy past. Helped by faculty physician Alex Reddish, who withstands his own identity trials, she uncovers the grave truth behind a series of illnesses as she and Reddish draw close to one another.

Nevada's politics are in large measure the result of its turbulent history and harsh environment. Michael Bowers's concise volume explains the dynamics of the political formation process, which is strikingly unique among the fifty states.

Lyman ""Bean"" Wilson, a half-breed Nevada Indian and middle-aged professor of journalism is reassesing his life. The result is a string of family reconnections, sexual adventures, crises at work, sweat-lodge ceremonies, and political activism, culminating in a successful plot to blow the nose off of the George Washington statue on Mt Rushmore.

Combining the lyrical writing from Paul Bogard with night-sky photography from Beau Rogers, To Know A Starry Night explores the powerful experience of being outside under a natural starry sky.

The Devils Hole pupfish is one of the rarest vertebrate animals on the planet; its only natural habitat is a ten-by-sixty-foot pool near Death Valley, on the Nevada-California border. As this book explores, what has made the species a survivor is its many surprising connections to the people who have studied, ignored, protested or protected it.