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New and Upcoming Titles
September 2023

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The Woman at Otowi Crossing
By Frank Waters

This is the story of Helen Chalmer, a person in tune with her adopted environment and her neighbors in the nearby Indian pueblo and also a friend of the first atomic scientists. The secret evolution of atomic research is a counterpoint to her psychic development.

Fiction | Indigenous · Fiction · Literature · Western Americana · Western and Pacific States

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The Man Who Killed the Deer
A Novel of Pueblo Indian Life
By Frank Waters

The story of Martiniano, the man who killed the deer, is a timeless story of Pueblo Indian sin and redemption, and of the conflict between Indian and white laws; written with a poetically charged beauty of style, a purity of conception, and a thorough understanding of Native American values.

Fiction | Indigenous · Fiction · Literature · Western Americana · Western and Pacific States

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People of the Valley
A Novel
By Frank Waters

One of Frank Waters’s most popular novels, People of the Valley takes place high in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains where an isolated Spanish-speaking people confront a threatening world of change.

Fiction | Indigenous · Fiction · Literature · Western Americana · Western and Pacific States

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Mexico Mystique
The Coming Sixth World of Consciousness
By Frank Waters

In Mexico Mystique Frank Waters draws us deeply into the ancient but still-living myths of Mexico. To reveal their hidden meanings and their powerful symbolism, he brings to bear his gift for intuitive imagination as well as a broad knowledge of anthropology, Jungian psychology, astrology, and Eastern and esoteric religions. He offers a startling interpretation of the Mayan Great Cycle — our present Fifth World — whose beginning has been projected to 3113 B.C.,

History | Latin America | Pre-Columbian · Philosophy | Eastern · Spirituality · Mexico · Latin American Studies

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Melodramatic Imperial Writing
From the Sepoy Rebellion to Cecil Rhodes
By Neil Hultgren

Melodrama is often seen as a blunt aesthetic tool tainted by its reliance on improbable situations, moral binaries, and overwhelming emotion, features that made it a likely ingredient of British imperial propaganda during the late nineteenth century. Yet, through its impact on many late-Victorian genres outside of the theater, melodrama developed a complicated relationship with British imperial discourse.Melodramatic

Literary Criticism | European | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh · Victorian Studies

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Culture and Money in the Nineteenth Century
Abstracting Economics
Edited by Daniel Bivona and Marlene Tromp

Grounded in literary studies and spanning the Americas, India, England, and Scotland, this book explores the relationship between economic concepts and culture in the period, focusing on how economic tropes were abstracted into other discourses in fields as diverse as evolutionary science, business, and literary narrative.

Literary Criticism | European | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh · Economic History · Literature · Victorian Studies

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Pumpkin Seed Point
Being Within the Hopi
By Frank Waters

Frank Waters lived for three years among the Hopi people of Arizona and was quickly drawn into their culture. Pumpkin Seed Point is a beautifully written personal account of Waters’s inner and outer experiences among the Hopi.

Native American Studies · Memoir · Arizona · Western Americana · Social Science | Anthropology | Cultural & Social


That’s it for September. If you’re curious about what’s coming out next month, you can get a sneak peek at October.