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I found this book first, and loved it. Then I went and found his other two (so far) books, "Raven Stole the Moon" and "How Evan Broke His Head and Other Secrets," and was equally knocked out. I sent him an e-mail commenting that no one of his books could predict either of the other two: each one's different in subject matter, tone, everything but his simple and readable style. He tells me he's got another book coming out in October - I'll be watching for it. No business relationship with him - just a very satisfied reader!

This is a thoughtful, emotional book on the lives of people, black and white, in the immediate aftermath of the Civil War. It's distinctly written from the black and abolitionist viewpoint, but that's just fine; that's what Leonard Pitts wanted to talk about. One of the cores around which the book is written is the search, by many of those who'd recently been slaves, for the families - wives, husbands, mothers, fathers, sons and daughters - who'd been sold away from them (or vice versa). You won't regret reading this book; you may, as I did, find yourself weeping at the end, but also impressed by the resilience of the characters.

A nice visit to 1950s science fiction, with some added twists. What it might be like for our world to get caught in an interstellar dogfight.

The continuing story of the friendship between Charlie Moon, retired Ute police officer, and Scott Parris, Chicago transplant to Ute country and small-town police chief, takes a twist here with a riddle of a story: someone who bets that Charlie and Scott can't prevent his murder. If you like word play and gentle humor, you should like this series of books.

One in a series of excellent books set on the Arapaho reservation in Wyoming, this book examines the lasting effects and attitudes of the Arapaho toward the American Indian Movement. This is a murder mystery series, but, like all good murder mysteries, the murder is just a hook on which to hang the examination of relationships and, in the case of this series, the tensions between Arapaho and white culture, and the sometimes uneasy compromises the Arapaho make in living in a white-dominated world while trying to maintain the core of their culture. Way too much sentence there... If you liked Tony Hillerman's books, you'll like these.

Hillerman's books are characterized as murder mysteries, but they're actually very perceptive observations of the impact of living in two cultures at the same time, and beautiful stories of the relationship between young men and women still learning about the world and their elders.