Sunstone Press: 235 books
Disturbing Art Lessons
A Memoir of Questionable Ideas and Equivocal Experiences
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2016
Some art lessons can inspire. Others are useless or even harmful. Eli Levin has written an amusing recollection of his art-student years and subsequent development. We witness his struggles to overcome the clichés and bombast so prevalent in the art world from 1950 to 1990. From every lesson the...
Winter in Taos
Facsimile of Original 1935 Edition
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2013
"Winter in Taos" starkly contrasts Luhan's memoirs, published in four volumes and inspired by Marcel Proust's "Remembrances of Things Past." They follow her life through three failed marriages, numerous affairs, and ultimately a feeling of "being nobody in myself," despite...
Artists
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2017
Artists is a brilliant exploration of the world of art, past and present, and two of its contemporary practitioners. They are a father and son team, although ‘team’ is a misnomer, as the father is by far the more brilliant of the two, with an increasingly
Honor and Defiance
A History of the Las Vegas Land Grant in New Mexico
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2015
In 1835, a petition for land far from Santa Fe, New Mexico was awarded to pobladores (settlers) willing to relocate to the eastern edge of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains. Founded along the Gallinas River, the settlement became the Las Vegas Land Grant. The history of this grant is the history of New...
Twenty Years on Graysheep Bay
A Microcosmic Look at a Macrocosm of Human and Natural Life: Chesapeake Bay
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2019
Through a variety of literary genres—half of which consists of poetry, the other half a mixture of short stories, essays, dialogues, letters, even lists—this book digs into the human interface with one of the largest estuaries in the world. The Bay does not represent an escape to Nature. It has...
by Robert Turner Wood, PhD
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2015
From the end of World War II to the closing months of 1972, Albuquerque, New Mexico, underwent as dramatic a transformation as any American city ever has in such a short time. Its population exploded from about 50,000 to more than five times that number, and the median income of its citizens adjusted...
The Romance Diet
Body Image and the Wars We Wage On Ourselves
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2015
Brave, raw, and unflinchingly honest, this book is a weight loss journey, a love story, a heart beating loudly on the page. Every day we battle against something—injustice, our spouses, our weight. Seldom do we acknowledge the real wars we wage. Repressing feelings and silencing our voices, we suffer...
Don Jose
An American Soldier's Courage and Faith in Japanese Captivity
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2012
In 1941 the Japanese invaded the Philippines with overwhelming force and forced the surrender of American troops at Bataan and Corregidor. Prisoners of war were subjected to brutal captivity and thousands did not survive. This is the story of an American soldier who survived and became a hero. When...
An American in California
A Historical Novel
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2018
Legendary mountain man Jedediah Smith crosses the desert and finds amidst the lushness of the Spanish missions suspicious Mexican officials, the brutal life of mission Indians, and a simmering insurrection. Two American ship captains who trade along the Pacific coast introduce Jedediah to a Mexican...
Old Spain in Our Southwest
Facsimile of the Original 1936 Edition
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
Nina Otero-Warren’s book, Old Spain in Our Southwest (1936), recorded her memories of the family hacienda in Las Lunas, New Mexico.
Tramping to Jerusalem
The End Game of All or Nothing at All, A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2016
Walking in the proverbial shoes of Arabs, Jews and misfits the world over, the author immerses himself in the “Holy Land” like no other walker/writer before him. Sailing to Israel with his wife, perennial innocents abroad, and broke, they become volunteers on various communes and kibbutzim in...
Skid Row
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2011
The bum who put the touch on JoJo was just like any other bum on Skid Row—red-faced, in clothes that didn’t fit, and with the shakes, a condition that only a drink could still. The line was the same with all of them and they always targeted JoJo for his big heart. “I ain’t et in two days,”...
Culture Clash
Environmental Politics in New Mexico Forest Communities
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2016
The Culture Clash story begins in the 1970s in the village of Placitas, New Mexico at the north end of the Sandia Mountains, where author Kay Matthews built a house and began a family while involved in disputes with the Forest Service over forest management and with real estate developers bent on...
Beyond His Mercy
An American Civil War Novel
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2017
The American Civil War claimed and destroyed lives, stealing fathers and sons from those they loved. The horror caused many returning to cry out for death. They carried the festering scars of battle and were unable to overcome the torment of their souls. This is the story of Thomas Wilson, a soldier...