The magic journey: A novel

Boom times came to the forgotten little southwestern town of Chamisaville just as the rest of America was in the Great Depression. They came when a rattletrap bus loaded with stolen dynamite blew sky high, leaving behind a giant gushing hot spring. Within minutes, the town's wheeler-dealers had organized, and within a year, Chamisaville was flooded with tourists and pilgrims. The wheeler-dealers were rich -- and that was only the beginning . . .

The Magic Journey: A Novel

Nichols, John Treadwell

HOLT. RINEHART AND WINSTON

The new and affluent with-it residents of the northern New Mexico town of Chamisaville, a microcosm of American society, are into organic food, eastern mysticism, good dope, and serial monogamy

Nirvana Blues: A Novel

Literature & Fiction

United States

HOLT.

Several years ago, when John Nichols felt his life was out of control, he decided to forge a less complex, and far healthier existence. As part of this process, he used a camera to help himself "stop and smell the flowers." In this way, he soon developed a new sense of proportion which led to a much more balanced lifestyle. Beginning with a Thoreauvian exhortation to simplify, and ending with a series of photographs which comprise a hosanna to the tranquil life, this book is a gentle yet persuasive call to arms for a better environment. About the photographs themselves, Nichols writes: "... the unassuming pictures I made during this time jibed perfectly with my mood. They joined the healing process, reflecting the goals I was striving to achieve. Anthill pebbles or lichens on a gravestone may seem like prosaic fare, yet by paying attention to these matter-of-fact wonders, I sure quieted my soul." In both words and pictures, Nichols details how the struggle to regain his own health led to a much wider understanding of how we all can lead an environmentally compassionate life.

Keep It Simple: A Defense of the Earth

Arts & Photography

Photography & Video

W.W. Norton & Co., Inc.

On location for a grade-B movie, actor, director, poet, and womanizer Bart Darling insists on performing a stunt that may kill him, and Lorraine Waldrum, who carries his child, refuses to stand by and watch him commit suicide

A Ghost in the Music

Contemporary

A moving tribute to the simple life from the highly acclaimed novelist, nature photographer, and environmental activist. Together the prose and photographs comprise a gentle and passionate call to arms for a better world. Second in a trilogy that began with The Sky's the Limit. Nichols also authored The Sterile Cuckoo, The Milagro Beanfield War, and American Blood. 96 full-color photographs.

A writer facing mid-life alone and mourning the loss of the boundless energy he squandered as a young man taps into the vitality of a nineteen-year-old fan who almost seduces him into love until he comes to his senses

An Elegy for September

Henry Holt Co.

Roger and Zelda were lovers. Best friends. Ardent, fun-loving, passionate, they were intellectual and sexual soul mates, a perfect match. And then they got married. How is it that a little piece of paper and a signature in the courthouse records can make such a difference? What happens when love becomes legal is the wellspring of this bawdy, exuberant, all too recognizably familiar tale of modern marriage. As Roger tells it - and does he ever tell it! - Zelda emerges as both ravening monster and glamorous wild woman: jealous, possessive, competitive, greedy . . . yet also fantastical, erotic, and wickedly imaginative. But who is the real Zelda? Little by little, doubts about Roger's version creep in until what began as a comedy of manners (admittedly bad) turns into a wry and telling commentary on true love and the egocentricity of the eternal male. And so the war goes on. Conjugal Bliss is John Nichols' ninth novel. A sexual comedy that will draw blood as well as laughs, it is Nichols at his funniest, most outrageous best.

Conjugal Bliss: A Comedy of Martial Arts

It was a soft, early spring morning with the mist still clinging to the mountain and the blackbirds just starting to swoop low over the alfalfa fields when Jo Mondragon - thirty-six with not much to show for it, a feisty hustler with a talent for trouble - slammed his battered pick-up to a stop, tugged on his gumboots, and marched into the arid patch of ground his father had once cultivated. Carefully, impulsively (and also illegally), he tapped into the main irrigation channel. And so began - though few knew it at the time (least of all Joe) - the great Milagro beanfield war. But like everything else in the dirt-poor town of Milagro, it would be a patchwork war, fought more by tactical retreats than battlefield victories. Gradually, ever so fumblingly, the small farmers and sheepmen began to rally to Joe's beanfield as the symbol of their lost rights and their lost lands. And downstate in the capital, the Anglo water barons and power brokers huddled in urgent conference, intent on destroying that symbol before it destroyed their multimillion-dollar land-development schemes. The tale of Milagro's rising is widly comic and lovingly tender, a vivid portrayal of a town that, half-stumbling and partly prodded, groped its way toward it own stubborn salvation.

The Milagro Beanfield War

The author discusses the film made from his novel The Milagro Beanfield War, and shares his photographs of the people, wildlife, and landscapes of Taos, New Mexico area

A Fragile Beauty: John Nichols' Milagro Country

Biographies & Memoirs

Regional U.S.

Gibbs-Smith

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The Magic Journey: A Novel

The magic journey: A novel

Nirvana Blues: A Novel

Keep It Simple: A Defense of the Earth

A Ghost in the Music

Keep It Simple: A Defense of the Earth

An Elegy for September

Conjugal Bliss: A Comedy of Martial Arts

The Milagro Beanfield War

A Fragile Beauty: John Nichols' Milagro Country