Böcker av Susan Cummins Miller

The fifty-three poems in Deciphering the Desert by Susan Cummins Miller, award-winning author of fiction, nonfiction and poetry, arise from the mysteries that surround us in the intersections of landscape, science, history, prehistory, and Time. These poems excavate what lies behind, beneath, and beyond surface observations and experiences-the extraordinary in the commonplace-and they capture the healing power and renewal to be found in the desert West.

The poems in Making Silent Stones Sing by Susan Cummins Miller, award-winning author of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry, capture a geoscientist's contemplation of, discoveries in, and wisdom gained from the changing landscape of her life and history. Individual poems explore universal themes: wonder, joy, loss, love, Deep Time, and the healing power and renewal to be found in the solitude and silence of the desert West.

Southeastern Arizona is a tinderbox. Down Under Copper's plans to explore for minerals pit landowners, worried about their water supply and land values, against those hoping to profit from the mining venture. Someone snaps.

Frankie suspects that a serial killer may be on the loose, a man who is so good at assuming new identities that he almost resembles the shape-changers of Native American myth. When Frankie is asked to join a expedition into the Mojave desert, she jumps at the chance to get away from the mayhem, but trouble follows her, with near-fatal results.

Jorge was the brother of the MacFarlane family's longtime fishing guide; Carla, girlfriend of Frankies brother. But when the Tucson murder victims turn out to be Frankies colleague, Frankie joins the hunt for the killers, bringing her geologists eye and analytical skills to aid sheriffs detective Toni Navarro and private investigator Philo Dane.