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SUNSTONE PRESS, established in 1971, is an Independent Publisher located in historic Santa Fe, New Mexico. www.sunstonepress.com

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Sunstone Press @sunstonepress.bsky.social · 3h
At 92, James McGrath offers poetry in A Temporary Silence as a response to the 2019, 2020, 2021 coronavirus threats and opportunities to change and celebrate our lives.
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Sunstone Press @sunstonepress.bsky.social · 3h
LEGACY: Sarah, attending college in New York City on a scholarship, has her plans for a literary career derailed when she marries Roger Delaney, an advertising executive. She becomes progressively more unhappy with her job and marriage.
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Sunstone Press @sunstonepress.bsky.social · 3h
THE MAHLER MAYHEM: The bronze bust of composer/conductor Gustav Mahler is blown up at the Vienna State Opera, causing Megan Crespi to investigate a spate of anti-Semitic vandalisms and finally murder in the “Waltz Capital.”
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Sunstone Press @sunstonepress.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
A woman who sounded like she was in the Philippines contacted Sunstone Press trying to reach one of our authors. She said she was with Indie Lit Catalogue. This company is a scam. If any Sunstone authors are contacted about getting a listing in their online bookstore, call us first!
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Sunstone Press @sunstonepress.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
In honor of Indigenous Peoples’ Day: NEITHER RED NOR WHITE: The stories in this book reflect the author’s feelings and understanding of the world of the Native American.
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Sunstone Press @sunstonepress.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
In honor of Indigenous Peoples’ Day: PUEBLO INDIAN WISDOM: Anyone interested in mythology and legends will enjoy these stories which have been passed down orally for generations by the Pueblo Indians of the American Southwest.
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Sunstone Press @sunstonepress.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
In honor of Indigenous People’s Day: MYTHS OF MAGICAL NATIVE AMERICAN WOMEN: . The Native American storytellers who shared their myths with the author were taught by their Elders who lived in a place and culture altered from that of today.
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Sunstone Press @sunstonepress.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
In honor of tomorrow’s Indigenous Peoples’ Day. In this fast-paced and well-researched historical novel, a Chiricahua Apache girl vows revenge on the Mexican colonel whose unit attacked and decimated her band’s village in 1866.
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Sunstone Press @sunstonepress.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
These stories are based on Pueblo Indian legends collected by the author over a ten-year period. Most of the stories were told to her in Tewa, the Pueblo language she learned while working in her family-owned trading post, the San Juan Mercantile at the San Juan Pueblo in New Mexico.
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Sunstone Press @sunstonepress.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
In honor of tomorrow's Indigenous Peoples' Day. This book addresses the right of Indian high school students to see themselves in their education, which is necessary to ensure their academic success. The arguments made in this book are rooted in a sacred commitment to protect Indian children.
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Sunstone Press @sunstonepress.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
CONGRATULATIONS to Albuquerque poet Linda Bairstow, whose book CATCH A TWINKLE won the 2026 New Mexico Book Award for the best Philosophy / Religion / New Age book. It was also a finalist in the Nature, Fiction-Literary, Poetry, and Young Adult categories. Odds are it will leave you “twinkling.”
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Sunstone Press @sunstonepress.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
This unique book tells the story of the American Southwest, and specifically New Mexico, through the eyes of its children. Drawing on oral histories, the stories are often told in the subjects’ own words, and the richness of detail tells as much about the past as it does about childhood.
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Sunstone Press @sunstonepress.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
WOODY PLANTS OF THE SOUTHWEST by Samuel H. Lamb is an encyclopedia-like discussion covering trees and shrubs of portions of the southwestern United States and a narrow strip of adjoining Mexico. Winner of the Border Regional Library Association Award for literary excellence.
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Sunstone Press @sunstonepress.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
This novel about baseball in the 19th century moves deftly between the field and the stands at actual games. It centers on John Ward, pitcher turned shortstop, author, lawyer and president of the first union for professional athletes. For fans of baseball, theater and American history.
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Sunstone Press @sunstonepress.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Writing is an art. My imagination took me to a place where I wanted to create something unusual which would include images connecting to and enhancing the beauty and depth of my writings.
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Sunstone Press @sunstonepress.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
A chronicle of the struggle of New Mexico villages to sustain a rural way of life in the face of modern day economic and social pressures.
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Sunstone Press @sunstonepress.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Bingo climbed the great African mountain called Kilimanjaro
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Sunstone Press @sunstonepress.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
In this superbly researched WWII novel, award-winning writer, Tori Warner Shepard, captures the mood of remote Santa Fe, New Mexico as it waits out WWII for the return of her men held in Japanese prison camps
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Sunstone Press @sunstonepress.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
The complete geologic story of New Mexico’s magnificent Sandia Mountain.
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Sunstone Press @sunstonepress.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
These authentic stories that focus on cowboy life, past and present are historic and rich with unforgettable characters
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Sunstone Press @sunstonepress.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
COLORING CALENDAR COOKBOOK FOR KIDS: This “perpetual” write-in calendar has a recipe for each month that can be easily prepared by kids from common kitchen ingredients.
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Sunstone Press @sunstonepress.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
WE ARE HOPE: Women Living Beyond the Violence of of Ciudad Juárez, Essays: Violence. Drugs. Murder. Poverty. These words flash across headlines to describe the U.S. Mexico border city of Juarez.
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Sunstone Press @sunstonepress.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Poems!
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Sunstone Press @sunstonepress.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
THE GREAT KIVA: The legends of the American Southwestern world, along with man's relationship and reactions to his natural habitat and to his universe are set into this compelling poetry of Phillips Kloss.
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Sunstone Press @sunstonepress.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Johnny Redarrow, the son of Johnny Redfeather, leaves his railroad job in Evanston, Wyoming in 1889 to seek his father’s spirit and, along with Mary White Eagle, renews his tribal spirituality by participating in a Cheyenne renewal ceremony.
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Sunstone Press @sunstonepress.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
A collection of poems in tandem with the images that inspired them, postcard photos from indigenous Mexico by a group of nine photographers.
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Sunstone Press @sunstonepress.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
A chronicle of two women’s cross-America bike trip to fulfill a common dream.
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Sunstone Press @sunstonepress.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Story of a female lawyer in Post-War II Albuquerque, New Mexico
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Sunstone Press @sunstonepress.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
As time goes by, there are too many clocks in my house. If the power goes off, besides the time pieces themselves, there are those embedded in our refrigerator, stove, telephones, car, you name it. All awaiting a resetting. Our lives do, too.
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Sunstone Press @sunstonepress.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
NEW TITLE! This is a collection of poems mainly written for and about the poet’s family. She says, “I am sharing them with readers beyond my family as a possible inspiration for going beyond photographs to create a family story.”
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Sunstone Press @sunstonepress.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
The vital history of New Mexico and Arizona during the formative years between the American Occupation and the coming of the railroad has been compressed by the author into this volume. Many famous men walk through these pages, including Kearny, Doniphan, Baylor, Carleton, Sibley, and many others.
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Sunstone Press @sunstonepress.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
THE ZONE OF HOLINESS by Linda Norwood is your ticket to ride the waves of Holiness. It will help you avoid the rip tide of profane events created by the negative events and circumstances in your life that the author calls the “Adversary.” This book provides help with detailed information.
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Sunstone Press @sunstonepress.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Who was Ernie Pyle, aside from one of the greatest war correspondents in American history? Historian Richard Melzer describes Pyle’s joys and struggles from Ernie’s perspective, in candid, straightforward terms, in this rich, detailed biography.
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Sunstone Press @sunstonepress.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
How will a pile of cash from their parents help the dysfunctional Corley family—Jeff’s gambling, Ida’s promiscuity, and Junior’s drinking—solve their woes and get their lives back on track? How do hundreds of prairie dogs get in the way of Mom’s plan? Find out in this entertaining page-turner.
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Sunstone Press @sunstonepress.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
This chronicle depicts Las Vegas, New Mexico as a lawless town in the late 1800s. The citizens of San Miguel County lived in fear of the outlaw Vicente Silva and his bandits, whose crimes included arson, rape, robbery and murder. New translation from the 1896 Spanish text by Manuel Cabeza de Baca.
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Sunstone Press @sunstonepress.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
As the Confederacy celebrates its victory over Fort Sumter, Socrates Best and his wife, Ellen, are living in Northeast Texas where Socrates has been teaching school for five years.
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Sunstone Press @sunstonepress.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Retired art historian Megan Crespi must determine why Expressionist artist Oskar Kokoschka’s many depictions of his lover Alma Mahler have become the objects of theft and defacement across Europe and Japan.
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Sunstone Press @sunstonepress.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
In this firsthand account of life in the United States over a period of nearly a hundred years, the only constant is change. World War I brought to an abrupt end the society in which the author had grown up, leaving in its place a society whose values were the antithesis of the old.
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Sunstone Press @sunstonepress.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
A mystery -- What Sidney Reardon had thought would be a delightful week as a tourist turns into a nightmare as she is pursued by jewel thieves, kidnappers—and murderers.
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Sunstone Press @sunstonepress.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Green River Saga narrates a classic Western struggle in the canyon country of Wyoming in 1866-67 for land and water between a rapacious cattle baron, Brent Tompkin, and a band of Southern Cheyenne that Sheriff James Talbot.
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Sunstone Press @sunstonepress.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The year is 1835, the place New Mexico, the hero or villain, depending upon your view is Don Albino Perez. Perez, the newly appointed Mexican governor, is more of an idealist than a politician.
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Sunstone Press @sunstonepress.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Love: Tender. Spiritual. Lustful. Liberating. Suffocating. A different truth, a different quest for each of these lovers, dreamers and schemers.
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Sunstone Press @sunstonepress.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Young Simon Gomez is strong minded, ambitious and courageous as he strives to turn a meager land inheritance into an eventual empire. The action in this historical novel begins in the 1840s when Simon’s breathtaking adventures begin to fulfill his obsessive dream for success.
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Sunstone Press @sunstonepress.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
This is a story of how Runs Like The Wind learns about trustworthiness, and is the fourth book in a series written to help children learn about good character traits.
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Sunstone Press @sunstonepress.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The Great Houses of Chaco are in turmoil as the last survivors uncover the mystery and truth at the heart of their civilization. Lovers, warriors and rival clans born of an ancient American culture are catapulted to the brink of destruction by one warrior’s urgent quest.
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Sunstone Press @sunstonepress.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
When Santa Fe musician Danny Ortiz is murdered, Private Investigator Fernando Lopez is hired by Ortiz’s wife to find the killer. His investigation takes Lopez to mysterious Painted Skull Ranch in Taos, a 200-year-old haunted ranch where Lopez uncovers a viper’s nest of greed, treachery, and murder.
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Sunstone Press @sunstonepress.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The murals fronting the entrance of Skip Maisel’s Indian Jewelry and Crafts store at 510 Central Avenue SW, Albuquerque, are a treasure of Native American painting and are of national importance.
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Sunstone Press @sunstonepress.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
THE GREAT KIVA: The legends of the American Southwestern world, along with man's relationship and reactions to his natural habitat and to his universe are set into this compelling poetry of Phillips Kloss.
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Sunstone Press @sunstonepress.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Little Daniel was a very special child. Some say he was “blessed” since he was born during an eclipse and on the same day as his father. Daniel’s special gift guides his family throughout his life. Why?
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Sunstone Press @sunstonepress.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The daughter of a famous mystery writer takes on the massive undertaking of completing a book he started before his death, plunging her into more drama than she bargained for.
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