The House at Otowi Bridge: The Story of Edith Warner and Los Alamos
8 best books like The House at Otowi Bridge: The Story of Edith Warner and Los Alamos (Peggy Pond Church): Death Comes for the Archbishop, The Anthropology of Turquoise: Reflections on Desert, Sea, Stone, and Sky, Dead Man Walking: The Eyewitness Account of the Death Penalty That Sparked a National Debate, Year of the Monkey, Red Sky at Morning, I Shall Not Hate: A Gaza Doctor's Journey on the Road to Peace and Human Dignity, The Indifferent Stars Above: The Harrowing Saga of a Donner Party Bride, Learning to Walk in the Dark
| Author | Willa Cather |
| ISBN | 0679728899 |
There is something epic—and almost mythic—about this sparsely beautiful novel by Willa Cather, although the story it tells is that of a single human life, lived simply in the silence of the desert. In 1851 Father Jean Marie Latour comes as the Apostolic Vicar to New Mexico. What he finds is a vast...
| Author | Ellen Meloy |
| ISBN | 0375708138 |
In this invigorating mix of natural history and adventure, artist-naturalist Ellen Meloy uses turquoise—the color and the gem—to probe deeper into our profound human attachment to landscape.
From the Sierra Nevada, the Mojave Desert, the Yucatan Peninsula, and the Bahamas to her...
Dead Man Walking: The Eyewitness Account of the Death Penalty That Sparked a National Debate
| Author | Helen Prejean |
| ISBN | 0679751319 |
In 1982, Sister Helen Prejean became the spiritual advisor to Patrick Sonnier, the convicted killer of two teenagers who was sentenced to die in the electric chair of Louisiana’s Angola State Prison. In the months before Sonnier’s death, the Roman Catholic nun came to know a man who was as terrified...
| Author | Patti Smith |
| ISBN | 0525657681 |
From the National Book Award-winning author of Just Kids and M Train, a profound, beautifully realized memoir in which dreams and reality are vividly woven into a tapestry of one transformative year.
Following a run of New Year’s concerts at San Francisco’s legendary Fillmore, Patti...
| Author | Richard Bradford |
| ISBN | 0060931906 |
4**** and a ❤
A coming-of-age story set in a small mountain town in New Mexico during WW II. 17-year-old Josh has to become the man of the household when his father goes into the Navy and moves the family from Mobile to New Mexico where they'll be safer. Josh's mom cannot deal with the change in social...
I Shall Not Hate: A Gaza Doctor's Journey on the Road to Peace and Human Dignity
| Author | Izzeldin Abuelaish |
| ISBN | 0802779174 |
By turns inspiring and heart-breaking, hopeful and horrifying, I Shall Not Hate is Izzeldin Abuelaish's account of an extraordinary life. A Harvard-trained Palestinian doctor who was born and raised in the Jabalia refugee camp in the Gaza Strip and "who has devoted his life to medicine and reconciliation...
The Indifferent Stars Above: The Harrowing Saga of a Donner Party Bride
| Author | Daniel James Brown |
| ISBN | 0061348104 |
In April of 1846, twenty-one-year-old Sarah Graves, intent on a better future, set out west from Illinois with her new husband, her parents, and eight siblings. Seven months later, after joining a party of emigrants led by George Donner, they reached the Sierra Nevada Mountains as the first heavy snows...
Learning to Walk in the Dark
| Author | Barbara Brown Taylor |
| ISBN | 0062024353 |
From the New York Times bestselling author of An Altar in the World, Barbara Brown Taylor’s Learning to Walk in the Dark provides a way to find spirituality in those times when we don’t have all the answers.
Taylor has become increasingly uncomfortable with our tendency to associate all...
