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 Hanging with Bats: Ecobats, Vampires, and Movie Stars by Karen Taschek, part of the Barbara Guth Worlds of Wonder Science Series for Young Readers, is the third place winner of the 2011 Zia Book Award from New Mexico Press Women.
Ms. Taschek will read from Hanging with Bats at an award luncheon on Saturday, April 9 in Las Cruces, New Mexico, during the New Mexico Press Women 2011 Conference.
The Zia Award was started in 1953 to honor an outstanding woman in New Mexico media. Each year the award rotates to one of three categories: nonfiction, fiction and children's literature.
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Saturday, March 26 at 2pm: Nasario García (Bolitas de Oro and The Naked Rainbow and Other Stories) discusses his more than 30 years as an oral historian at the National Hispanic Cultural Center in Albuquerque, NM.
Sunday, March 27 from 4-6pm: Book launch for Ian Graham's The Road to Ruins at the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology in Cambridge, MA.
Thursday, March 31 at 7pm: Benjamin Radford discusses Tracking the Chupacabra: The Vampire Beast in Fact, Fiction, and Folklore at the Corrales Community Library in Corrales, NM.
Tuesday, April 5 at 7pm: Benjamin Radford discusses and signs Tracking the Chupacabra: The Vampire Beast in Fact, Fiction, and Folklore at Bookworks in Albuquerque, NM.
Wednesday, April 6 at 7pm: Renny Golden reads and signs Blood Desert: Witnesses, 1820-1880 at Bookworks in Albuquerque, NM.
Saturday, April 9 at 1pm: Ana Baca reads and signs Tía's Tamales as part of Educator Appreciation Week at Barnes & Noble (Coronado Mall) in Albuquerque, NM.
Saturday, April 9 at 1pm: Michele Sequeira and Michael Westphal discuss and sign Cell Phone Science: What Happens When You Call and Why as part of Educator Appreciation Week at Barnes & Noble (Coronado Mall) in Albuquerque, NM.
Wednesday, April 13 at 12pm: Renny Golden reads and signs Blood Desert: Witnesses, 1820-1880 at the University of New Mexico Bookstore in Albuquerque, NM.
Sunday, April 17 at 2pm: Renny Golden reads and signs Blood Desert: Witnesses, 1820-1880 at Alamosa Books in Albuquerque, NM.
Sunday, April 17 at 3pm: Joan Logghe reads and signs The Singing Bowl at Acequia Booksellers in Albuquerque, NM. | | |
Saturday, April 16 at 9am MST: Michele Sequeira and Michael Westphal discuss Cell Phone Science: What Happens When You Call and Why on "The Children's Hour," KUNM-FM.
Benjamin Radford discusses Tracking the Chupacabra: The Vampire Beast in Fact, Fiction, and Folklore on the following programs:
Monday, March 28 from 10:20-11:45pm EST on FATE Radio's "The Grand Dark Conspiracy."
Wednesday, April 6 from 8:00-9:00pm EST on ParaNexus Universe Radio.
Sunday, April 10 from 9:00-10:00pm EST on Maine Ghost Hunters.
...and shows you may have missed:
"The Skeptic's Guide to the Universe." Listen here. (Podcast #295) KRQE News 13 Watch here. |
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 TRACKING THE CHUPACABRA: The Vampire Beast in Fact, Fiction, and Folklore
by Benjamin Radford
Combining five years of careful investigation (including information from eyewitness accounts, field research, and forensic analysis) with a close study of the creature's cultural and folkloric significance, Radford's book is the first to fully explore and try to solve the decades-old mystery of the chupacabra.
 AGAIN THE FAR MORNING: New and Selected Poems
by N. Scott Momaday This first book of Momaday's poems to be published in over a decade, Again the Far Morning comprises a varied selection of new work along with the best from his four earlier books of poems.
 THE SACRED ORAL TRADITION OF THE HAVASUPAI: As Retold By Elders and Headmen Manakaja and Sinyella 1918-1921
edited by Frank D. Tikalsky, Catherine A. Euler, and John Nagel This collection of forty-eight stories is one of the earliest, most complete translations of an entire Native American oral tradition.  SECRET WARS AND SECRET POLICIES IN THE AMERICAS, 1842-1929
by Friedrich E. Schuler
The intrigue and subterfuge revealed in this revisionist study add a fascinating new dimension to our understanding of transpacific and transatlantic politics following World War I. |
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