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  • The Smell of Rain on Dust

    Grief and Praise

    Learn to grieve out loud, and discover why mourning is the deepest praise we can offer our love."Beautifully written and wise … [Prechtel] offers stories that are precious and life-sustaining. Read carefully, and listen deeply."—Mary Oliver, National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize winnerOur culture treats grief as a problem to manage: private, quiet, and over as quickly as possible. Martín Prechtel ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Rescuing the Light

    Quotes from the Oral Teachings of Martín Prechtel

    A collection of quotes and sayings from the oral teachings of a leading thinker, writer and teacher of Indigenous spirituality.Martín Prechtel is widely recognized as a profound and beloved teacher for our times. Raised in the Tzutujil Maya shamanic tradition, he has dedicated his life to the preservation and promulgation of indigenous spirituality. Rescuing the Light is a collection of Prechtel's ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • The Unlikely Peace at Cuchumaquic

    The Parallel Lives of People as Plants: Keeping the Seeds Alive

    Martín Prechtel’s experiences growing up on a Pueblo Indian reservation, his years of apprenticing to a Guatemalan shaman, and his flight from Guatemala’s brutal civil war to life in the U.S. inform this lyrical blend of memoir, cultural commentary, and spiritual call to arms. The Unlikely Peace at Cuchumaquic is both an epic story and a cry to the heart of humanity based on the author’s ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • The Mare and the Mouse

    Stories of My Horses Vol. I

    Series series Stories of My Horses
    A tapestry of horse stories woven with Native American wisdom and the soul of the Southwest.Meant to be read aloud around campfires, especially to people who think only rich people or rednecks ride horses, Prechtel credits both his own physical and spiritual survival in "modernity's mad rush to nowhere" with the sanity of riding and living with his Southwestern horses. These little horses took him ... Read more

    $15.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Disobedience of the Daughter of the Sun

    A Mayan Tale of Ecstasy, Time, and Finding One's True Form

    Author and illustrator Martín Prechtel is internationally known for his explorations of ancient folklore and uncovering the lessons therein for modern readers. In The Disobedience of the Daughter of the Sun, he revives a hitherto unknown Guatemalan Tzutujil Mayan tale of the beginnings of the world with a poetic retelling of the story, 28 evocative drawings, and a critical analysis that both ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    The Mare and the Mouse

    Narrated by Martín Prechtel ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 13 min

    Beautiful and hilarious, tearful and rambunctious, very real, ironic and magic-filled, Martín Prechtel’s book 'The Mare and the Mouse' is a series of lyrical sagas in tribute to each of the native New Mexican horses that carried him through his youth on the Reservation and then again during the difficult times following his return home after over a decade in the Mayan Highlands of Guatemala. First ... Read more

    $21.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Stealing Benefacio's Roses

    Following the acclaimed Secrets of The Talking Jaguar and Long Life, Honey in the Heart, this is an expansive, lyrical novel in the tradition of indigenous oral storytelling. Based on the author's many years of living in a Guatemalan village, Stealing Benefacio's Roses interweaves dramatic recountings of village life and the political horrors of civil war with lyric retellings of sacred Mayan ... Read more

    Was $13.99 USD Now $8.99 USD

  • The Canyon Wren

    Stories of My Horses Vol. III

    Series series Stories of My Horses
    The Canyon Wren is the continuation and beautiful punchline of the full tale of Martí n Prechtel' s trilogy, The Story of My Horses, and picks up right where The Wild Rose leaves off. The Wild Rose ends with the dramatic Barn Fire Incident in which the author and his steady new young Barb stallion, Punk, pull a flame stunned mare out of a burning barn just seconds before the whole burning ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Audiobook

    The Canyon Wren

    Narrated by Martín Prechtel ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 45 min

    The Canyon Wren is the continuation and beautiful punchline of the full tale of Martín Prechtel’s trilogy, The Story of My Horses, and picks up right where The Wild Rose leaves off.The Wild Rose ends with the dramatic Barn Fire Incident in which the author and his steady new young Barb stallion, Punk, pull a flame stunned mare out of a burning barn just seconds before the whole burning structure ... Read more

    $20.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Audiobook

    Mayan Myth and Legend

    Narrated by Michael Toms ...

    Unabridged

    57 min

    Prechtel mixes Mayan myths with a first-person account of his efforts to escape from Guatemala with his family intact during the 1980s civil war that tore the country apart. In this dialogue you will get a privileged and rare glimpse into the complex and spiritually rich life of the Mayan culture, with tales filled with enchantment, danger, passion, and hope. ... Read more

    $0.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Wild Rose

    Stories of My Horses

    Series Book 2 - Stories of My Horses
    A mystical memoir of horses, healing, and heritage in the American Southwest.In this second installment of the Stories of My Horses trilogy, Martín Prechtel continues his saga of re-finding the Mesta horses of his youth, long thought extinct. This is the account of his struggle to gather a herd of these old-time Barb horses, who in the process become counselors and co-conspirators in the cause. ... Read more

    $15.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Audiobook

    The Smell of Rain on Dust

    Grief and Praise

    Narrated by Martín Prechtel ...

    Unabridged

    4 hours 33 min

    Learn to grieve out loud, and discover why mourning is the deepest praise we can offer our love."Beautifully written and wise … [Prechtel] offers stories that are precious and life-sustaining. Read carefully, and listen deeply."—Mary Oliver, National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize winnerOur culture treats grief as a problem to manage: private, quiet, and over as quickly as possible. Martín Prechtel ... Read more

    $29.95 USD