All My Relations Stories by ChristopherMcilroy Paperback, 208 Pages, Published 2008 by University Of Georgia Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8203-3309-0, ISBN: 0-8203-3309-3
"Set against the stark but seductive landscape of the American Southwest, the stories in "All My Relations" explore the inner landscape of mind and heart, where charting the simplest course is subject to a complex constellation of relationships. In the title story of the collection, a Pima Indian hires on with a rancher in an attempt to quit drinking and to win back the wife and son who have left him. His efforts to master land and horse ..."
"HERE I AM A WRITER contains poems and stories produced by teacher Christopher "Kit" McIlroy's Native American students involved in the school ArtsReach program in Arizona. A decade or more after these intensive writing sessions took place, McIlroy went in search of the young writers who'd opened their hearts in his classes, to see how they'd fared in the intervening years and if they were still writing at all. What he chronicles is as ..."
All My Relations Stories by ChristopherMcilroy Hardcover, 208 Pages, Published 1994 by University Of Georgia Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8203-1602-4, ISBN: 0-8203-1602-4
"Set against the stark but seductive landscape of the American Southwest, the stories in All My Relations explore the inner landscape of mind and heart, where charting the simplest course is subject to a complex constellation of relationships. In the title story of the collection, a Pima Indian hires on with a rancher in an attempt to quit drinking and to win back the wife and son who have left him. His efforts to master land and horses ..."
"These stories offer layered, perceptive takes on what home means to us. The people we meet in these stories are often traveling to and from home―thinking about where they have come from, where they are headed, and how that journey will impact their futures. Although the stories approach homecoming and homesickness through varied moods and styles, they all come around to confronting a shared need: a place to call home."
"Christopher McIlroy. delay. Papa had forgotten to send in the film, and then
processing had taken longer than anyone could ... He was covering a basketball
invitational in Phoenix, because the sports editor was sick, he said, and of course
she ..."
"Susan Chernak McElroy, author of the New York Times bestseller Animals As Healers and Teachers, has long believed that animals offer solace as well as lessons in living to anyone willing to listen. In her bestseller Animals As Teachers and Healers, she told others' stories of the healing power of animals. In this book, she tells her own stories. Described by the author as a kind of prayer, the ten stories here explore concepts of owner ..."
"Terra Australis - the southern land - was one of the most widespread concepts in European geography from the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries, although the notion of a land mass in the southern seas had been prevalent since classical antiquity. Despite this fact, there has been relatively little sustained scholarly work on European concepts of Terra Australis or the intellectual background to European voyages of discovery and expl ..."
Here I Am a Writer(2nd Edition) by ChristopherMcilroy Paperback, 250 Pages, Published 2011 by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform ISBN-13: 978-1-4818-7665-0, ISBN: 1-4818-7665-1
"Here I Am a Writer contains poems and stories produced by teacher Christopher “Kit” McIlroy’s Native American students involved in the school ArtsReach program in Arizona. A decade or more after these intensive writing sessions took place, McIlroy went in search of the young writers who’d opened their hearts in his classes, to see how they’d fared in the intervening years and if they were still writing at all. What he chronicles is as ..."