Sunstone Press: 235 books
Los Arabes of New Mexico
Compadres from a Distant Land
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2016
At the outset, Los Arabes (Arabic-speaking individuals) were peddlers, carrying a variety of wares that often included exotic items from the Holy Land. These skilled cross-cultural traders expected to strike it rich in the United States and then return to
Blackwater Draw
Three Lives, Billy the Kid and the Murders That Started the Lincoln County War
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2014
On March 9, 1878, three men were murdered in isolated Blackwater Canyon in New Mexico. The suspects were Billy the Kid and a number of his Regulators. This action, almost assuredly taken in retaliation for the death of the Kid’s friend, John Henry Tunstall, became the real catalyst in the Lincoln...
by Den Galbraith
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2011
Revolutions, native conspiracies and subsequent insurrections, filthy mountain men sleeping on the dirt and wrestling with grizzlies, radical priests, belligerent American soldiers, betrayal, violence, early forms of commerce, and other enthralling accounts are part of this small New Mexico town’s...
End of the Trail
A Novel of the Philippines in World War II
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2017
On April 3rd, 1942, the Japanese infantry staged a major offensive against Allied troops in Bataan in the Philippine Islands. The invasion was led by General Masaharu Homma, who had already forced General Douglas MacArthur’s troops from Lingayen. The Japanese began to fire every half hour, increasing...
A Civil General
A Novel based on the actual life and career of General George Henry Thomas, an American Civil War hero
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2014
George Henry Thomas was once considered the most successful general in the Civil War. Now, however, he has been nearly forgotten by historians. Born and raised in Virginia, Thomas graduated from West Point and without hesitation fought for the North, only to be disowned by his Southern family and...
Seven Steps for Handling Grief
Because You Care
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2014
“Let me know if there is anything I can do.” This well-meaning offer is frequently expressed when a relative or friend suffers a death or other heart-wrenching loss such as divorce, termination of a job, having to put a parent in a nursing home or Alzheimer’s facility, loss of one’s home,...
The Sisterhood
The Inside Story of the Women's Movement and the Leaders Who Made it Happen
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
In this epic drama of personality and politics, passion and ambition, courage and betrayal, Marcia Cohen tells the fascinating inside story of the feminist revolution through the lives of the women who made it—and were sometimes unmade by it. Focusing on Betty Friedan, Gloria Steinem, Germaine Greer,...
Did I Really Change My Underwear Every Day?
One Geezer's Handbook for (Temporary) Survival
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2012
Recent retirees have a lot of adjustments to make, and we’re not talking only pant size here. This entertaining book on aging offers hilarious suggestions for handling some of life’s more daunting challenges--from prostate cancer to keeping fit, from overly complicated TV remotes to night driving....
Hispano Homesteaders
The Last New Mexico Pioneers, 1850-1910
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
After Santa Fe was founded in 1610, the Hispano people were restless to expand their colony. They slowly pushed their borders to the north, establishing little villages along the Rio Grande and dozens of its tributaries. Their progress was often interrupted, first by the Pueblo Revolt of 1680 and...
Falling Into Enchantment
Poems from the 1970s in Santa Fe, New Mexico
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2015
Although Eleanor Grogg Stewart has written poetry for many years, she did not choose to publish for two reasons: first, she thinks that poetry is meant to be heard; and second, she was a teacher of college freshmen for forty-odd years and some of the poems did not seem appropriate for her students...
Red Shirt
The Life and Times of Henry Lafayette Dodge
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2015
Henry Lafayette Dodge has long been a familiar name in 19th century American Southwestern history. As one of the earliest and most effective Indian agents to the Navajo, he has been portrayed as a congenial, sympathetic and compassionate advocate for the tribe—a veritable role model. The Navajo...
Doris Fleeson
Incomparably the First Political Journalist of Her Time
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011
"She was my idol," said columnist Mary McGrory. McGrory, in writing of women, referred to Doris Fleeson as "incomparably the first political journalist of her time." Fleeson was, in fact, the first woman in the United States to become a nationally syndicated political columnist....
Dancing On One Foot: Growing Up In Nazi Germany, A Memoir
Growing Up In Nazi Germany, A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2012
“Dancing On One Foot” confronts a major issue—World War II observed during the author’s childhood in Nazi Germany. It explores the psychological imprint of that experience and the healing in later years after the author settles in the High Desert of the American Southwest. The book is also...
by Julie Behrend Weinberg
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2012
“Growing Food in the High Desert County” is a comprehensive gardening book with emphasis on growing vegetables. The author seeks to help the high desert dweller cope with the problems of raising plants in a dry land. From practical experience, she learned that her familiar East coast gardening...