Sevigny, Melissa L.
Summary: "The riveting tale of two pioneering botanists and their historic boat trip down the Colorado River and through the Grand Canyon. In the summer of 1938, botanists Elzada Clover and Lois Jotter set off to run the Colorado River, accompanied by an ambitious and entrepreneurial expedition leader, a zoologist, and two amateur boatmen. With its churning waters and treacherous boulders, the Colorado...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2023
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Summary: Oak Flat tells the story of a race-against-time struggle for a swath of American land, which pits one of the poorest communities in the United States against the federal government and two of the world's largest mining conglomerates. The book follows the fortunes of two families with profound connections to the contested site: the Nosies, an Apache family whose teenage daughter is an activist...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 970.5 REDSterling, Terry Greene.
Summary: Arizona's violent border is the busiest cross-over point for illegal immigants to the United States. No state is as hostile to undocumented immigrants as Arizona, yet the city of Phoenix is home to thousands of people who live in the shadows. Sterling brings to light the invisible people who continue to live and work there despite all the hardships involved, and she exposes the fabric of a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lyons Press 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.137 STEStrickland, Patrick
Summary: "This real-life Western tells the story of how citizens in a small Arizona border town stood up to anti-immigrant militias and vigilantes. The Marauders uncovers the riveting nonfiction saga of far-right militias terrorizing the border towns of southern Arizona. In one of the towns profiled, Arivaca, rogue militia members killed a man and his nine-year-old daughter in 2009. In response, the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Melville House 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.143 STRSummary: "Bisbee '17 is a nonfiction feature film by award-winning filmmaker Robert Greene set in Bisbee, Arizona, an eccentric old mining town just miles away from both Tombstone and the Mexican border. Radically combining collaborative documentary, western and musical elements, the film follows several members of the close knit community as they attempt to reckon with their town's darkest hour. In...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF BISSummary: Allison Dubois works in the Phoenix District Attorney's office. She uses her psychic abilities to help crack criminal cases. Her dreams often give her clues to the whereabouts of missing people and by touching someone she often gets to see beneath the facade into the person's soul. Allison juggles her job with her role as wife and mother, including a daughter who seems to be developing similar...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Pictures 2006
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD MEDSummary: In the summer heat of a small Arizona border town, sparks fly for three generations of women. 17-year-old Blanca discovers romance for the first time with the new bad boy in town. Lolita, her mother, had hit a dry spell until the husband of one of her customers husband pays her a visit. Blanca's grandmother, Doña Genoveva enlists her gardener Don Pedro to give her driving lessons and learns...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Maya Entertainment 2008
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1 available in Romance DVDs, Call number: DVD ROMANCE HOWLubet, Steven.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Yale University Press 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 EARP, WYATT LUBBrowning, Matson
Summary: "In THE HATE NEXT DOOR, retired police officer and founder of the Skinhead Intelligence Network, Matson Browning, tells the incendiary story of his time undercover in hate groups across Arizona. He also traces the rise and fall of J.T. Ready, a white supremacist, militia member, and later, elected official and murderer. Through it all, Browning illuminates the sociopolitical factors shaping the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sourebooks 2023
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Summary: Milt Dale takes shelter at an old log cabin in the forest. It is here he overhears vengeful men scheming to kidnap Helen, the niece and heiress of a prominent rancher in poor health, and take over her uncle's vast property themselves. Determined to thwart the men, Milt springs into action. After narrowly escaping, Milt leads Helen and her kid sister away from manmade danger and deep into the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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Summary: On the Line takes readers inside a bold five-year campaign to bring a union to the dangerous industrial laundry factories of Phoenix, Arizona. Workers here wash hospital, hotel, and restaurant linens and face harsh conditions: routine exposure to bio-hazardous waste, injuries from surgical tools left in hospital sheets, and burns from overheated machinery. Broken U.S. labor law makes it nearly...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 331.88 PITSummary: Wyatt Earp is the sturdy lawman who sets about the task of shaping up the disorderly Arizona town of Tombstone, with the help of the boozy, tubercular gambler and gunman Doc Holliday. Though initially at cross-purposes, the pair ultimately team up to confront the violent Clanton gang.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Arizona Press 1992
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 979.1 SHESummary: Allison Dubois is a strong-willed, devoted young wife and mother of three girls, who has gradually come to grips with her extraordinary ability to talk to dead people, see the future in her dreams, and read people's thoughts. This season, Allison and her family's world is turned upside down after her abilities are publicly exposed, resulting in sweeping changes both professionally and personally.
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Publisher / Publication Date: CBS Paramount Network Television 2010
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD MEDSummary: Arizona Territorial Prison inmate Paris Pittman is a schemer, a charmer and quite popular among his fellow convicts. Especially with $500,000 in stolen loot hidden away and a plan to escape and recover it. New warden Woodward Lopeman has other ideas about Pittman. Each man will have the tables turned on him in a twisting, turning Wild West tale of brawls, chases, shootouts and wry wit.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2006
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1 available in Western DVDs, Call number: DVD WESTERN THEGrey, Zane
Summary: After a Texan stole another man's woman, a feud errupted into war. A son and daughter of the feuding clans fell in love, becoming pawns in a bloodbath that raged until no one was left to kill.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.J. Black, Inc. 1950
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Books 1999
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ALLClavin, Thomas
Summary: "The true story of the Earp brothers, Doc Holliday, and the famous Battle at the OK Corral, by the New York Times bestselling author of Dodge City and Wild Bill. On the afternoon of October 26, 1881, nine men clashed in what would be known as the most famous shootout in American frontier history. Thirty bullets were exchanged in thirty seconds, killing three men and wounding three others. The...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2020
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Summary: Documents the life story of the trauma surgeon who helped save Congresswoman Gabby Giffords, describing his upbringing in South Korea and Africa, his selection as President Clinton's personal physician, and his wartime service.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 RHEE, PETER RHEKingsolver, Barbara
Summary: At the end of her rope, Codi Noline returns to her Arizona home to face her ailing father, with whom she has a difficult, distant relationship. There she meets handsome Apache trainman Loyd Peregrina, who tells her, "If you want sweet dreams, you've got to live a sweet life."
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2018
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC KINSummary: "Explore the Bright Angel Trail down to the Colorado River and Phantom Ranch. If you're adventurous, take the steep and dry South Kaibab Trail. For the most awe inspiring views from the main trails, creep along the towering cliffs of the North Kaibab Trail. Learn about permits, techniques, and skills that you need to camp in the inner canyon. Find out what to expect when you reach Indian...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Real World Productions 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 917 BACJohnstone, William W.
Summary: "The Cattle Raisers Association of Tonto Basin, Arizona, hired two range detectives to catch a murdering rustler. Stovepipe Stewart and Wilbur Coleman look like a pair of high plains drifters, but with their razor-sharp detective skills and rare talent for trouble, they're the last remaining hope for one young cowboy who's been arrested for the murders"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2019
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1 available in Stacks, Call number: LP Western Johnstone 2019Zimmerman, Emma
Summary: "The Miller's Daughter is a cookbook at the forefront of America's heritage grain movement with 80 glorious recipes and beautiful, candid stories that celebrate community, agriculture, sustainability, and the place of grains at every table. Emma Zimmerman with her father, Jeff, is a rebel and a dreamer on the outskirts of rural Phoenix. In a country overrun by corporate, homogenised grain...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hardie Grant Books 2022