Teresa of the New World

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From the bestselling author of "An Obsession with Butterflies" comes a magical story of America in the time of the conquistadors. In 1528, the real-life Spanish conquistador Cabeza de Vaca shipwrecked in the New World, where he lived for eight years as a slave, trader, and shaman. In this magical novel, the adventurer takes his four-year-old daught

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Sharman Apt Russell has lived in the numinous deserts of the American Southwest for most of her life. She is a longtime professor at Western New Mexico University and Antioch University in L.A. and the award-winning author of numerous essays, short stories, and books, including Hunger and An Obsession with Butterflies.