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Honoring the 75th Anniversary of Aldo Leopold’s A Sand County Almanac.   A thoughtful and practical exploration of Aldo Leopold’s Land Ethic, tracing its roots in the landscape of northern […]

First-time author Jeffrey M. Hills invites readers to take a journey with him “over the bridge” as he builds careers in Dentistry, Inventing, and Furniture Building all while building bonds […]

This work, featuring a new introduction by scholar and doughBelly fan James J. O’Donnell, is reprinted from the original book by the author, which sold for $1 and appeared in […]

Part memoir, part history, “No One Came to Taos to Be Jewish” is an extraordinary story of personal and communal transformation. The narrative documents a spiritual awakening among a group […]

We are the Aspen Song Kids from Taos Pueblo, a beautiful place in Northern New Mexico. Our mission is to preserve our culture, our heritage, our tradition, and our language. […]

The World in which we live is, to say the least, a world of great troubles, trepidation, and despair: social and political polarity, home- grown terrorism, assaults for sport—or for […]

Ten years ago, while skiing in Colorado, Lucy Herrman’s husband, Dirk, suffered an aortic dissection, an almost always fatal tearing of the lining of the aorta. The survival rate of […]

The authors describe and illustrate experiences of Aldo and Estella Leopold’s legacy in Tres Piedras, New Mexico. As Carson National Forest Supervisor and daughter of a founding New Mexico family, […]

Musings on current and personal events, in haiku format, with haibun commentary.

“Lorraine Lener-Ciancio’s poems invite us to linger in her world briefly as she ponders love, loss, hunger, age, and longing. She makes it all seem like a comforting, knowable place. […]

Annette and Richard provide inspiration in this book about their retirement pursuit of Rewilding practices for ecological service. In raconteur style, they describe their Taos, New Mexico Homescape cultures and […]

Oikos: Ecology of Northern New Mexico is the fruit of the author’s nearly three decades of wildlife service in New Mexico, Colorado, Arizona, Oregon, Minnesota, and Wisconsin. In it, Steve […]

This short book about the history of Walden, Colorado, chronicles a typical history of a rural community but is still a very different story of small-town Americana. Back to Walden […]

From the view of a retired physician and educator spouse, we share many life stories from over fifty years’ experience with the diverse cultures of Taos, living the shared cultures […]

In the final years of World War II, the Blessed Virgin Mary appears to Roswell, New Mexico, teenagers Antonio and Sixtus. She entrusts them to deliver a letter to a […]

For Bonnie Lee Black, writing and cooking have always been analogous. Both involve the thoughtful and loving preparation of something good for another’s consumption. This cookbook is a compilation of […]

Martin Torres was born on January 30, 1929, to Onesimo Valentin and Ana Torres and raised on a ranch in Arroyo Seco, New Mexico. Martin was encouraged by his wife, […]

Weird Santa & other Xmas Tales is magic realism with a dash of erotic spiciness. The ten independent stories in this collection range from “A Doggie’s Tale,” a boy-and-his-dog story […]

Thirty-eight plus one fascinating stories!   Two women chiropractors, Drs. Karen and Margaret, also life partners, happen into a small Iowa town called Wellman in 1986, just thirty-five minutes from […]

“The Magic of Kindness” is magic realism with a dash of erotic spiciness. Like the author’s previous collection of tales, it is a “novel in short stories.” The eight quirky […]

This is the extraordinary story of four ordinary men from Northern New Mexico—the roots they planted, their history, and the legacy they left in the Land of Enchantment. “ROOTS OF […]

Dr. Loretta Ortiz y Pino, a beloved small-town pediatrician, was asleep one night when she awoke with a sense of intolerable restlessness. The voice of a friend who had recently […]

Shoot Me, Jesus is a “novel in short stories,” what writer Jane Lawless called “erotic magic realism with a Southwestern spiciness.” Humor is an essential element of each story. The […]

The lost history of Bonnie Lee Black’s Scottish great-grandmother, Helen, has haunted the author for years. Why, as young newlyweds, did Helen and William Black leave their hometown, Kirriemuir, Angus, […]

Written for fellow Parkinson’s patients, their families, and their friends, Keepin’ On chronicles a life of love, loss, longing, work, sports, travel, friendship, and intimacy—all against the backdrop of progressive […]

Those of us women who were blessed with good and loving mothers, who taught us by example how to be good and loving mothers in turn, can scarcely imagine a […]

From Salt to Sage is a collection of personal essays that captures the arc of a colorful American life, beginning with the author’s Italian family in New York through her […]

After hitchhiking from Paris to Jerusalem, Jordan in 1967, Iris Keltz had to wait three days for permission to cross a U.N. checkpoint into Jerusalem, Israel. That was enough time […]

In “WOW 2: The Memoirito Continues,” David is in high school, a top student and athlete. But as the tumultuous 70’s set in, David is pulled by partying and getting […]

As a young boy, Antonio is inspired by his Abuelito’s “Libro de Dichos” (Book of Proverbs), and by his family’s generations-long connection to their beanfield in Peñasco, New Mexico. But […]

Larry Schreiber’s life story is a love poem to Northern New Mexico and to all its inhabitants, as well as to Larry’s own children—so many of them adopted—and to his […]

This biography encompasses the life and career of an Australian physician who at 36 years of age sought to succeed in the competitive world of Academic Medicine in America. We […]

This exciting young adult book is the second to feature Emerson, his dog Lucky and his grandpa Charlie, a Navajo elder. This time, all three are headed to a week-long […]

This seminal book highlights reading clouds and flying mountain weather. It’s a stick and rudder text, including full color photographs printed to art-quality standards. The material explains airplane crashes in […]

De La Tierra: The Natural World of Northern New Mexico is a fact-filled guide to the wildlife, plants, and unique habitats of Northern New Mexico. Written by Steve Tapia, a […]

Coming of Age: Come Rain or Come Shine took more than ten years to write. The author, finding herself alone, her marriage of forty-two years imploding, examines each piece of […]

Written by Cindy Brown, hiking columnist for The Taos News, this all new Taos Hiking Guide has the most up to date information on 31 of the best trails near […]

Gringo Lessons: Twenty Years of Terror in Taos is a tale of modern adventure about a young man who experienced the local culture from 1966 to 1987. There he met […]

Eleven-year-old Emerson resents spending the summer at sheep camp with his Navajo grandfather. He is a misfit in a culture and lifestyle alien to him. Then he befriends a lost […]

The Place Where Wildness Dreams enters Earth’s dream, offers a new sensibility of who we are as part of an integral community, and opens our minds to the consciousness of […]

This is a timeless, archetypal tale of going into the realm of death, into the grave, and resurrecting into a new, burnished life. Like The Pilgrim’s Progress and Dante’s Divine […]

Steve Fox had just started his second semester of graduate English study at the University of Texas in January, 1967, when he was drafted to serve in the voracious Vietnam […]

  A collection of real life episodes, poems and essays from women who view nature through the lens of their experience. This book will transport the armchair traveler to the […]

NOW AVAILABLE At the age of forty, Ethel, who grew up in Los Angeles, California, decided to take possession of her true name, Hannah—the name on her Israeli birth certificate. […]

“Eileen Wiard’s debut novel hums with a rich understanding of the challenges kids face daily around identity, acceptance, and tough life choices. As 13-year-old Crystal navigates the difficult terrain of […]

I didn’t set out to be a terrorist. As a student activist, I moved from ­protesting the war in Vietnam to waging guerrilla warfare to overthrow the government. A bank […]

Tributes and Tirades: Taos Life and American Politics is a collection of commentaries and opinions on events in a troubled period in American politics and life in Taos, a storied […]

SOMOS, a Taos non-profit organization known as the literary heart of Taos, has created Storied Recipes—an attractive 200-page cookbook that features 84 short stories with accompanying recipes submitted by friends of […]

A “year-end report” commemorating the Remarkable Women of Taos 2012 Project, a yearlong celebration honoring outstanding historic and contemporary women of Taos. The book includes profiles for 167 historic and contemporary women in 6 categories: Legends (women past), Arts, Outdoors, Business, Well-Being, and Community Profiles. Over 400 women participated in events and exhibitions throughout the 2012 Project which won the Best Campaign of 2012 TIARA Award (Tourism Industry Association Recognition Awards) at the recent 2013 Governor’s Conference on Tourism. More than 770 women are named in the exhaustive index to the work.

A work of historical fiction, The Story of Saint Sister Angelica follows a young French woman at the time of the Renaissance who is orphaned but finds her calling in service to God. She creates an orphanage in Meaux and travels to Italy and with her brother.

How do we stitch cultural differences, join disparate worlds, to create something both beautiful and useful? Bonnie Lee Black subtly addresses these universal questions through vivid stories of her life-changing experience living and working in the fabled city of Ségou, Mali, in West Africa.

Joining the Peace Corps at the age of fifty and posted to the tiny town of Lastoursville in the thickly rain-forested interior of Gabon, Central Africa, Bonnie taught health, nutrition and cooking. She developed her own healthy recipe for a purposeful life, made in equal measures of good food, safe shelter, meaningful work, and unexpected love.