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• Off the Air

  Estes, Christina,

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  (One Book Yuma 2025) Jolene Garcia is a local TV reporter in Phoenix, Arizona, splitting her time between covering general assignments--anything from a monsoon storm to a newborn giraffe at the zoo--and special projects. Stories that take more time…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Bless Me, Ultima

  Anaya, Rudolfo A.

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  (One Book Yuma 2003 - pilot program) Antonio Marez is six years old when Ultima comes to stay with his family in New Mexico. She is a curandera, one who cures with herbs and magic. Under her wise wing, Tony will probe the family ties that bind and…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Devil's Highway

  a True Story

  Urrea, Luis Alberto

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  (One Book Yuma 2006) In May 2001, a group of men attempted to cross the Mexican border into the desert of southern Arizona, through the deadliest region of the continent, the "Devil's Highway." Three years later, Luis Alberto Urrea wrote about what…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• They Poured Fire on Us From the Sky

  the True Story of Three Lost Boys From Sudan

  Deng, Alephonsion

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  (One Book Yuma 2007) This is a captivating memoir of the Lost Boys of Sudan and a powerful portrait of war as seen through the eyes of children. And it is, in the end, an inspiring and unforgettable tribute to the tenacity of even the youngest human…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Enrique's Journey

  Nazario, Sonia

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  (One Book Yuma 2008) Enrique’s Journey recounts the unforgettable quest of a Honduran boy looking for his mother, eleven years after she is forced to leave her starving family to find work in the United States. Braving unimaginable peril, often…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Nickel and Dimed

  on (not) Getting by in America

  Ehrenreich, Barbara

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  (One Book Yuma 2009) Author Barbara Ehrenreich decides to see if she can scratch out a comfortable living in blue-collar America. What she discovers is a culture of desperation, where workers often take multiple low-paying jobs just to keep a roof…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Working in the Shadows

  a Year of Doing the Jobs (most) Americans Won't Do

  Thompson, Gabriel

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  (One Book Yuma 2011) What is it like to do the back-breaking work of immigrants? To find out, Gabriel Thompson spent a year working alongside Latino immigrants, who initially thought he was either crazy or an undercover immigration agent. He stooped…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Women Who Live in Coffee Shops

  Duarte, Stella Pope

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  (One Book Yuma 2012) Winner of the University of Californias Chicano / Latino Literary Prize, this collection of short stories set in Phoenix, Arizona, reveals the hard-scrabble lives of big-hearted people living on the razor-edge of city life.

• The Art of Racing in the Rain

  a Novel

  Stein, Garth

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  (One Book Yuma 2013) Nearing the end of his life, Enzo, a dog with a philosopher's soul, tries to bring together the family, pulled apart by a three year custody battle between daughter Zoe's maternal grandparents and her father Denny, a race car…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Blue Tattoo

  the Life of Olive Oatman

  Mifflin, Margot, 1960-

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  (One Book Yuma 2014) In 1851 Olive Oatman was a thirteen-year old pioneer traveling west toward Zion, with her Mormon family. Within a decade, she was a white Indian with a chin tattoo, caught between cultures. The Blue Tattoo tells the harrowing…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Lady at the O.K. Corral

  the True Story of Josephine Marcus Earp

  Kirschner, Ann

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  (One Book Yuma 2015) For nearly fifty years, she was the common-law wife of Wyatt Earp: hero of the O.K. Corral and the most famous lawman of the Old West. In Lady at the O.K. Corral, you'll learn how this aspiring actress and dancer--a flamboyant,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Falling From Horses

  Gloss, Molly,

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  (One Book Yuma 2016) In 1938, nineteen-year-old ranch hand Bud Frazer sets out for Hollywood. His little sister has been gone a couple of years now, his parents are finding ranch work and comfort for their loss where they can, but for Bud, Echol…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Cold Dish

  Johnson, Craig, 1961-

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  (One Book Yuma 2017) After twenty-five years as sheriff of Absaroka County, Walt Longmire's hopes of finishing out his tenure in peace are dashed when Cody Pritchard is found dead near the Northern Cheyenne Reservation. Two years earlier, Cody has…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Mythical River

  Chasing the Mirage of New Water in the American Southwest

  Sevigny, Melissa L., 1986-

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  (One Book Yuma 2018) As population growth and climate upheaval strain the Southwest's water resources, Mythical River uncovers the folly of modern water policies and illuminates a way forward: recognizing the rights of ecosystems.

• Where Have All the Sheep Gone?

  Sheepherders and Ranchers in Arizona, a Disappearing Industry

  Jaquay, Barbara G.

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  (One Book Yuma 2019) By the 1890s, sheepherding was a major enterprise in Arizona. Today, just over 180,000 sheep live in the state. Where Have All the Sheep Gone? details the untold story of the sheep industry in Arizona starting in the 1500s when…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Indianapolis

  the True Story of the Worst Sea Disaster in U.S. Naval History and the Fifty-year Fight to Exonerate An Innocent Man

  Vincent, Lynn,

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  (One Book Yuma 2020) For the better part of a century, the story of USS Indianapolis has been understood as a sinking tale. The reality, however, is far more complicated. Following a decade of original research and interviews with 107 survivors and…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Falling

  Newman, T. J.,

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  (One Book Yuma 2022) There are one hundred and forty-three other passengers on your flight. What you don't know is that your pilot's family was kidnapped. The only way the family will survive is if the pilot follows his orders and crashes the plane.…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• A Dream Called Home

  A Memoir

  Grande, Reyna,

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  (One Book Yuma 2023) From bestselling author Reyna Grande—whose remarkable memoir, The Distance Between Us, has become required reading in schools across the country—comes an inspiring account of one woman’s quest to find her place in…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Brave the Wild River

  the Untold Story of Two Women Who Mapped the Botany of the Grand Canyon

  Sevigny, Melissa L., 1986-

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  (One Book Yuma 2024) Brave the Wild River is an evocative and beautifully written chronicle of botanists Elzada Clover and Lois Jotter’s history-making journey through the Grand Canyon in the summer of 1938. Driven by boundless curiosity and…Read moreRead more of this annotation