Jane Candia Coleman, Author Swallow Press $28.95 (152p) ISBN 978-0-8040-0949-2
In the final story (``Learning the Names of Things'') in this compelling first collection set in the Southwest, the narrator remarks that the pioneer women settlers ``did what they had to do, and if they shed tears over being uprooted and leaving...
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Jane Candia Coleman, Author Swallow Press $28.95 (122p) ISBN 978-0-8040-0964-5
The Garden of Eden isn't lost to us forever; women and men are just too caught up in making compromises and trading true feeling for security to see our way back in. That's the theme of this lyrical, if overly self-conscious, collection of 12...
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Jane Candia Coleman, Author High Plains Press $9.95 (74p) ISBN 978-0-931271-28-1
Coleman's book is a paean to the American West: to its ``sky so large it challenges,'' and to the silence of a monumental landscape where the ``earth drops away/ in tiers, chasms,/ spirals of history.'' Her language is as cleanly sculpted as the...
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Jane Candia Coleman, Author Swallow Press $23 (128p) ISBN 978-0-8040-0972-0
These evocative essays by poet and short-story writer Coleman ( Stories from Mesa County ) cover her personal journey during the years she explored the Chiricahua Mountains in Arizona before she settled permanently in Cochise County. (The time-frame
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Jane Candia Coleman, Author Warner Books $19.95 (325p) ISBN 978-0-446-51825-3
Coleman's first novel (after the short-story collection Discovering Eve) is a spirited fictional biography of Kate Elder, whose adventure-filled life in the Wild West included a long and volatile relationship with one of history's most notorious...
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Jane Candia Coleman, Author Five Star (ME) $21.95 (261p) ISBN 978-0-7862-1841-7
Modest in aim and simple in execution, this pair of diminutive (barely novella-length), well-researched fictionalized biographies by Coleman (Moving On; I, Pearl Hart) bring to life two authentic, true-grit Wild West heroines. The first, Mary...
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