Books with title Extra Ordinary People

The fourth title in New Mexico Magazine's Artist Series showcases the work of Roxanne Swentzell, one of the most intriguing and acclaimed contemporary sculptors in the Southwest. Roxanne was born in 1962, the daughter of Rina Swentzell, a potter, architect, writer, and scholar from Santa Clara Pueblo, and Ralph Swentzell, a New Jersey-born philosophy professor at St. John's College in Santa Fe. For her last two years of high school Roxanne attended the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe, where she was given the first exhibition of her clay figures. Later she studied at the Portland Museum Art School in Oregon. Today Roxanne's work, much of which is also produced in bronze limited editions, is collected internationally. It has earned numerous honors, including many first place and best of class awards at Santa Fe Indian Market and the Heard Museum Guild Indian Fair and Market. Her work is extensively exhibited in museums and galleries, and in 1997, Emergence of the Clowns was part of an exhibition of Native American sculpture at the White House.In this generously illustrated art book, Santa Fe writer Gussie Fauntleroy explores with Roxanne the ideals and beliefs that underpin her work. Her sculptures of human figures capture beauty that is unspoiled by glamour and enhanced by dignity, self-awareness, and humor. Along with her Pueblo community, she cherishes memory--the continuum of the ancestral past with present and future--which nourishes the wisdom to look beyond contemporary pop-culture idolatry and choose a more fundamental humanity. Her figures exalt the small, ordinary, everyday choices we make that define our integrity and enable us to become extra-ordinary.Roxanne's many admirers love her art for its simplicity, humanity, humor and superior craftsmanship. This book enables readers to enjoy Roxanne's artwork in the company of her quiet and observant spirit.

When you go hunting for ghosts be prepared to find them. Ryder Carlsson may have an incredible sixth sense, or she's losing her mind. Either way she sees things no one else can, and she wants to know why. In the dim corridors of Clarendon House, hunting for what truly haunts her, Ryder discovers a place far more alien and far more dangerous than she ever imagined. What hides in the shadows could destroy the life she thought she led, and a world she thought she knew. As extraordinary events draw her closer to her true ghosts, Ryder, and the people she loves, find themselves on the front lines of a terrifying preternatural clash. Ryder will need all six of her senses, and every drop of her courage, to survive what is coming. Extra|Ordinary is set in hauntingly beautiful Tasmania, Australia, and is the first book in Danielle K Girl's gripping YA sci-fi trilogy.

Being a fairy tale princess is all about frilly dresses, balls, and finding that special, happily-ever-after prince, right? Ha. As a princess that wields a sword rather than a sewing needle, uncommon is a lifestyle choice for Princess Alcina, second in line to the throne. When news of the crown prince’s murder arrives, Alce grimly goes out into the world bent on revenge for her brother, expecting to meet danger at all turns.What she doesn’t expect is meeting a semi-friendly, all snarky stranger in the woods, or needing an eccentric witch to find her brother’s murderer. What’s a princess to do but battle her way through life?