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November 2011

 

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 UPCOMING EVENTS

Wednesday, November 16 at 7pm: Thomas Fox Averill discusses and signs his novel, rode, at Bookworks in Albuquerque, NM.


Thursday, November 17 at 7pm: David Stuart discusses and signs PUEBLO PEOPLES ON THE PAJARITO PLATEAU: Archaeology and Efficiency as part of the Authors Speak Series at the Mesa Public Library in Los Alamos, NM.


Thursday, November 17 at 7pm: Nasario García signs BOLITAS DE ORO: Poems of My Marble-Playing Days as part of An Elegant Autumn Evening at Bookworks in Albuquerque, NM.

 

Saturday, November 19 at 2pm: Lawrence Welsh reads from and signs BEGGING FOR VULTURES: New and Selected Poems, 1994-2009 at Alamosa Books in Albuquerque, NM.

 

Saturday, November 19 at 2pm: Richard and Shirley Cushing Flint discuss THE LATEST WORD FROM 1540: People, Places, and Portrayals of the Coronado Expedition at the Manzano Mountain Art Council Art Center in Mountainair, NM. 

 

Sunday, November 20 at 2pm: Lawrence Welsh (BEGGING FOR VULTURES: New and Selected Poems, 1994-2009) and Joan Logghe (THE SINGING BOWL) read from and sign their works at Gerald Peters Gallery in Santa Fe, NM.

 

Monday, November 21 at 7pm: V. B. Price discusses and signs THE ORPHANED LAND: New Mexico's Environment Since the Manhattan Project at Bookworks in Albuquerque, NM.

 

Wednesday November 30 from 1-3pm: Thomas Fox Averill discusses and signs rode at the Washburn University Bookstore in Topeka, KS. 

 

Thursday, December 1 at 7pm: David Sánchez discusses and signs his memoir, DON'T FORGET THE ACCENT MARK, at the Corrales Community Library in Corrales, NM.    

 

Friday, December 2 from 12-2pm: Enrique Lamadrid (AMADITO AND THE HERO CHILDREN), V. B. Price (THE ORPHANED LAND), and Em Hall (REINING IN THE RIO GRANDE) sign their works as part of Faculty and Staff Appreciation Day at the UNM Bookstore in Albuquerque, NM.  

 

Sunday, December 4 at 2pm: Rudolfo Anaya signs LA LLORONA: The Crying Woman at Budagher Hall on the Bosque School campus in Albuquerque, NM. The event is hosted by Bookworks.

 

Monday, December 5 at 4pm: Thomas Fox Averill discusses and signs rode at Washburn University's Mabee Library in Topeka, KS.  

 

Thursday, December 8 from 5-7pm: The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Center for Health Policy will host a reception for AMADITO AND THE HERO CHILDREN: Amadito y los niños héroes by Enrique Lamadrid and featuring an exhibit of the illustrations by Amy Córdova. The event will take place at the RWJF Center on the UNM campus in Albuquerque, NM.  

 

Saturday, December 17 at 11:30am: Thomas Fox Averill will discuss and sign rode at the Kansas Author's Club, District 1 meeting at McFarland's Restaurant in Topeka, KS.

 

Saturday, December 17 at 2pm: Robert Julyan will discuss and sign his new novel, SWEENEY, at Treasure House Books in Albuquerque, NM. 

  

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 NEW FROM UNM PRESS
 Orphaned Land THE ORPHANED LAND: New Mexico's Environment Since the Manhattan Project by V. B. Price
photographs by Nell Farrell 

Viewing New Mexico as a microcosm of global ecological degradation, Price's is the first book to give the general public a realistic perspective on the problems surrounding New Mexico's environmental health and resources.   

  

South American Expeditions THE SOUTH AMERICAN EXPEDITIONS, 1540-1545by Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca 

translated with notes by Baker H. Morrow
This book is one of the great first-person accounts of the Spanish conquest of the Americas in the sixteenth century. Morrow's new translation makes Cabeza de Vaca's adventures available to a wide English-speaking audience for the first time.
 AUTHORS ON THE AIR
Sunday, November 20 at 6pm MST: Gloria Zamora reads from and discusses her memoir, SWEET NATA: Growing Up in Rural New Mexico, on KKOB's "Reading Albuquerque."

Friday, December 9 at 8am MST: V. B. Price discusses THE ORPHANED LAND: New Mexico's Environment Since the Manhattan Project on KUNM's "New Mexico People, Places, and Ideas."

Evan Balkan discusses THE WRATH OF GOD: Lope de Aguirre, Revolutionary of the Americas on WYPR's "Maryland Morning." Listen here.

V. B. Price discusses THE ORPHANED LAND on KNME's "New Mexico In Focus." Watch here
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