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Book Santa Fe Sister

    Book Details:
  • Author : Jeannie Weiner
  • Publisher : iUniverse
  • Release : 2009-02-09
  • ISBN : 1440120242
  • Pages : 261 pages

Download or read book Santa Fe Sister written by Jeannie Weiner and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2009-02-09 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jeannie Weiners compelling novel weaves quirky, yet believable characters, through the ordeal of a fathers haunting past. The Jewish community in Santa Fe, New Mexico, is unaware of the secret of one of its leaders, Zoltan Klein. Zoltans dark rages could tear apart his new life as his daughter, Mitzi, tries to break free of her fathers old world traditions. Mitzis rebellion leads to a dramatic turn from her family and unexpected results. The authors years in Santa Fe provide a loving description of the tiny Jewish community. Santa Fe Sister is original, a page-turner. Tony Hillerman, New Mexicos most endearing writer of Navajo mysteries, after reading Santa Fe Sister, told the author, You have talent!

Book At the End of the Santa Fe Trail

Download or read book At the End of the Santa Fe Trail written by Sister Blandina Segale and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2019-11-22 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the End of the Santa Fe Trail, first published in 1932 (and reprinted in 1948), is Sister Blandina Segale's account of her life in the southwestern U.S. from 1872 to 1892. Sister Blandina (1850-1941), born in Italy and emigrating with her family to Cincinnati when she was a child, worked with the poor, the sick, immigrants, prisoners, and Native Americans while in Trinidad, Colorado, and in Santa Fe and Albuquerque, New Mexico (and later in Ohio). The book is based in large part on her journal and on the letters she exchanged with her sister Justina, who was also a religious sister in Ohio. At a time when lawlessness and brutality were the norm, Sister Blandina displayed courage, tough-mindedness, and a deep religious faith in service to the less-fortunate. Recent efforts have been made by the Archdiocese of Santa Fe to have Sister Blandina made a saint.

Book Brother  Sister  Mother  Explorer

Download or read book Brother Sister Mother Explorer written by Jamie Figueroa and published by Catapult. This book was released on 2023-10-03 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Longlisted for the Center for Fiction Debut Novel prize, this fableistic, "beautifully crafted, poetic" debut novel about a sister trying to hold back her brother from the edge of the abyss is for readers of Jesmyn Ward and Tommy Orange (The New York Times Book Review). In the tourist town of Ciudad de Tres Hermanas, in the aftermath of their mother's passing, two siblings spend a final weekend together in their childhood home. Seeing her brother, Rafa, careening toward a place of no return, Rufina devises a bet: if they can make enough money performing for privileged tourists in the plaza over the course of the weekend to afford a plane ticket out, Rafa must commit to living. If not, Rufina will make her peace with Rafa's own plan for the future, however terrifying it may be. As the siblings reckon with generational and ancestral trauma, set against the indignities of present-day prejudice, other strange hauntings begin to stalk these pages: their mother's ghost kicks her heels against the walls; Rufina's vanished child creeps into her arms at night; and above all this, watching over the siblings, a genderless, flea-bitten angel remains hell-bent on saving what can be saved.

Book Santa Fe

    Book Details:
  • Author : Elizabeth West
  • Publisher : Sunstone Press
  • Release : 2012
  • ISBN : 0865348766
  • Pages : 386 pages

Download or read book Santa Fe written by Elizabeth West and published by Sunstone Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This question-and-answer book contains 400 reminders of what is known and what is sometimes forgotten or misunderstood about a city that was founded more than 400 years ago. Not a traditional history book, this group of questions is presented in an apparently random order, and the answers occasionally meander off topic, as if part of a casual conversation.

Book The Saint of Santa Fe

    Book Details:
  • Author : Sirias, Silvio
  • Publisher : Anaphora Literary Press
  • Release : 2015-03-12
  • ISBN : 1681140446
  • Pages : 200 pages

Download or read book The Saint of Santa Fe written by Sirias, Silvio and published by Anaphora Literary Press. This book was released on 2015-03-12 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1968, a young, recently ordained Colombian priest leaves behind everything to start a new parish in the jungles of Panama. Father Héctor Gallego soon discovers that his parishioners live as indentured servants. Inspired by liberation theology, he sets into motion a plan to liberate them. Father Gallegos is successful, but his work places him on a collision course with General Omar Torrijos, the nation’s absolute ruler. On January 9, 1971, military operatives abduct the priest. He is never seen or heard from again, but he remains very much alive in the minds of Panamanians who, still today, clamor for his case to be brought to justice. Although The Saint of Santa Fe is a work of fiction, the novel is based on the real-life experiences of Héctor Gallego and the campesinos who worked alongside him to create a just society. This sweeping novel tells many stories, including that of Edilma, the priest’s sister who since age eleven has been searching for the meaning of his death. The Saint of Santa Fe is a story of faith, heroism, and sacrifice that’s reminiscent of Graham Greene’s The Power and the Glory and Miguel de Unamuno’s San Manuel Bueno, mártir.

Book Charity s Sister

Download or read book Charity s Sister written by Mari Graña and published by Sunstone Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1951, when Sister of Charity Mary Joaquin Bitler was called to Santa Fe, New Mexico to be the Supervisor of Nursing at Santa Fe's antiquated St. Vincent Hospital, she remarked that the 1910 Catholic hospital was surviving on "nerve and hope." Later, as Administrator (1960 - 1976), she was lauded locally and nationally for her achievements in health care and for bringing that care to the poor of New Mexico. Considered by many a brilliant businesswoman, she turned St. Vincent's into a state-of-the art facility in its time, managed by a community corporation. Sister Mary Joaquin's story tells of a very complex personality. A tough hospital administrator, she had many admirers as well as some enemies; a devout nun, she drew strength from her religion to open her heart to the poor and the sick, while she herself suffered a chronic and debilitating illness. In 1977, after succeeding in her goal to build Santa Fe a new and greatly expanded community-owned hospital, Sister Joaquin retreated to a life of contemplation and prayer in a little hermitage in central Mexico. Appalled by the poverty and sickness around her-the distended stomachs of hungry children, the heart-breaking number of infant deaths from dysentery and other parasitic diseases-she opened a small clinic in her hermitage to treat the villagers, most of whom had never seen a doctor or had any access to health care. Her last years were spent living as a hermit in New Mexico's Christ in the Desert Benedictine Monastery until her death in 2003. "Charity's Sister" is a book that will appeal to students of medicine, Southwest history and women's history, as well as being a testament to one woman's profound strength of will, to one who always sought divine guidance in dealing with adversities in her own life and in the many lives she touched. Mari Gra a has published books on New Mexico history and on western women in medicine. Her memoir, "Begoso Cabin," won the Willa Cather Award from Women Writing the West for best memoir of 2000, and the biography of her physician grandmother, "Pioneer Doctor," was a finalist for the same award in 2006. "Charity's Sister" is the third in a series on women in medicine. She lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

Book The Catholic Directory  Almanac and Clergy List

Download or read book The Catholic Directory Almanac and Clergy List written by and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 1446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Hoffmann s Catholic Directory  Almanac and Clergy List

Download or read book Hoffmann s Catholic Directory Almanac and Clergy List written by and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 1458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Official Catholic Directory and Clergy List

Download or read book The Official Catholic Directory and Clergy List written by and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 1568 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Official Catholic Directory for the Year of Our Lord

Download or read book The Official Catholic Directory for the Year of Our Lord written by and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 1596 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book At the End of the Santa Fe Trail

Download or read book At the End of the Santa Fe Trail written by Sister Blandina Segale and published by . This book was released on 2019-08-20 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2019 Reprint of 1948 Edition. Illustrated with photographs. Full facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition software. Here, in the tersely recorded journal of Sister Blandina, a Sister of Charity, is an valuable picture of the Southwest from 1872 to 1892; an authentic piece of local Americana revealing twenty years of struggle against lawlessness, mob rule, Indian threats, bigotry and violence of all sorts. It is a tale of the life and work of Sister Blandina mostly in Santa Fe and Albuquerque from 1872 to 1892. The story is told for the most part by means of extracts from Sister Blandina's journal and her letters to her sister. They reveal a very human figure, with a well-developed sense of humor and a fine measure of moral courage to buttress her religious faith. The southwest in that period was characterized by lawlessness, mob rule and Indian raids. Life was rough and life was raw. But this unassuming woman was equal to it. She could play politics and administer schools and social institutions tough-mindedly. But above all she was the humanitarian meeting the needs of her people and the religionist ministering to their souls. Catholics particularly would be interested in her views on the formation of the state of New Mexico.

Book Buried Treasures

    Book Details:
  • Author : Richard Melzer
  • Publisher : Sunstone Press
  • Release : 2007
  • ISBN : 0865345317
  • Pages : 477 pages

Download or read book Buried Treasures written by Richard Melzer and published by Sunstone Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 477 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Melzer offers an impressive new book about famous New Mexico gravesites, usually the only monuments left to honor the human treasures who helped shape state, national, and often international history.

Book New Mexico Educational Directory

Download or read book New Mexico Educational Directory written by New Mexico. Department of Education and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Educational Bulletin

    Book Details:
  • Author : New Mexico. State Board of Education
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1915
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 434 pages

Download or read book Educational Bulletin written by New Mexico. State Board of Education and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book El Delirio

Download or read book El Delirio written by Gregor Stark and published by Southwest History and Culture. This book was released on 1998 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Richly illustrated with many previously unpublished photographs, El Delirio offers an appealing glimpse into a fascinating period of Santa Fe history. It is also a loving portrait of the remarkable, energetic, and strong-willed Elizabeth White, described by a friend as "one of the great women of the Southwest in a very small body."

Book The Silver Swan

Download or read book The Silver Swan written by Sallie Bingham and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2020-04-07 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Men who inherit great wealth are respected, but women who do the same are ridiculed. In The Silver Swan, Sallie Bingham rescues Doris Duke from this gendered prison and shows us just how brave, rebellious, and creative this unique woman really was, and how her generosity benefits us to this day.” —Gloria Steinem A bold portrait of Doris Duke, the defiant and notorious tobacco heiress who was perhaps the greatest modern woman philanthropist In The Silver Swan, Sallie Bingham chronicles one of the great underexplored lives of the twentieth century and the very archetype of the modern woman. “Don’t touch that girl, she’ll burn your fingers,” FBI director J. Edgar Hoover once said about Doris Duke, the inheritor of James Buchanan Duke’s billion-dollar tobacco fortune. During her lifetime, she would be blamed for scorching many, including her mother and various ex-lovers. She established her first foundation when she was twenty-one; cultivated friendships with the likes of Jackie Kennedy, Imelda Marcos, and Michael Jackson; flaunted interracial relationships; and adopted a thirty-two year-old woman she believed to be the reincarnation of her deceased daughter. This is also the story of the great houses she inhabited, including the classically proportioned limestone mansion on Fifth Avenue, the sprawling Duke Farms in New Jersey, the Gilded Age mansion Rough Point in Newport, Shangri La in Honolulu, and Falcon’s Lair overlooking Beverly Hills. Even though Duke was the subject of constant scrutiny, little beyond the tabloid accounts of her behavior has been publicly known. In 2012, when eight hundred linear feet of her personal papers were made available, Sallie Bingham set out to probe her identity. She found an alluring woman whose life was forged in the Jazz Age, who was not only an early war correspondent but also an environmentalist, a surfer, a collector of Islamic art, a savvy businesswoman who tripled her father’s fortune, and a major philanthropist with wide-ranging passions from dance to historic preservation to human rights. In The Silver Swan, Bingham is especially interested in dissecting the stereotypes that have defined Duke’s story while also confronting the disturbing questions that cleave to her legacy.

Book Sadliers  Catholic Directory  Almanac and Ordo

Download or read book Sadliers Catholic Directory Almanac and Ordo written by and published by . This book was released on 1883 with total page 1082 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "With a full report of the various dioceses in the United States and British North America, and a list of archbishops, bishops, and priests in Ireland.