 THE DARING FLIGHT OF MY PEN: Cultural Politics and Gaspar Pérez de Villagra's Historia de La Nueva México, 1610 by Genaro M. Padilla has received Honorable Mention for the Modern Language Association (MLA) Prize in United States Latina and Latino and Chicana and Chicano Literary and Cultural Studies.The prize is one of eighteen awards that will be presented on January 7, 2012 during the association's annual convention in Seattle.
Genaro Padilla is a professor of English and associate dean of Letters and Science at the University of California, Berkeley.
 CANYON GARDENS: The Ancient Pueblo Landscapes of the American Southwest by V. B. Price and Baker H. Morrow received a 2011 Design Award from the New Mexico Chapter of the American Society of Landscape Architects. The award was presented at a gala on December 3, 2011.
V. B. Price is an award-winning Albuquerque journalist, poet, novelist, and teacher. Baker H. Morrow, FASLA, is a landscape architect in Albuquerque and a professor at the University of New Mexico. He is the author or editor of several books and is also the founding director of the master's program in landscape architecture at the University of New Mexico. |
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Saturday, December 17 at 11:30am: Thomas Fox Averill discusses and signs rode at the Kansas Author's Club, District 1 meeting at McFarland's Restaurant in Topeka, KS.
Saturday, December 17 at 2pm: Robert Julyan discusses and signs his new novel, SWEENEY, at Treasure House Books in Albuquerque, NM.
Tuesday, December 20 at 12pm: Mary Zeiss Stange reads from and signs HARD GRASS: Life on the Crazy Woman Bison Ranch at the Miles City Public Library in Miles City, MT.
Thursday, December 22 from 2-5pm: E. B. Held signs A SPY'S GUIDE TO SANTA FE AND ALBUQUERQUE at Collected Works in Santa Fe, NM.
Thursday, January 5 from 6-7:30pm: Book launch for Pauline Eisenstadt's memoir, A WOMAN IN BOTH HOUSES: My Career in New Mexico Politics, at Collected Works in Santa Fe, NM.
Saturday, January 7 at 3pm: Enrique Lamadrid and illustrator Amy Córdova read, discuss, and sign AMADITO AND THE HERO CHILDREN: Amadito y los Niños Héroes at Bookworks in Albuquerque, NM.
Sunday, January 8 from 2-4pm: Rick Carver discusses and signs A YEAR OR SO IN THE LIFE OF NEW MEXICO: An Uncensored Look at Life in the Land of Enchantment at Treasure House Books in Albuquerque, NM.
Monday, January 9 at 6pm: V. B. Price discusses and signs THE ORPHANED LAND: New Mexico's Environment Since the Manhattan Project at Collected Works in Santa Fe, NM.
Thursday, January 12 at 7pm: Pauline Eisenstadt discusses and signs A WOMAN IN BOTH HOUSES: My Career in New Mexico Politics at Bookworks in Albuquerque, NM.
More event information available here.
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 A WOMAN IN BOTH HOUSES: My Career in New Mexico Politics by Pauline Eisenstadt
Pauline Eisenstadt's memoir takes readers to the floors of the House and Senate, offering an insider's view of how New Mexico's government operates -- or doesn't. RE-CREATING THE CIRCLE: The Renewal of American Indian Self-DeterminationLaDonna Harris, editor & mentor
Stephen M. Sachs and Barbara Morris, general authors
Deborah Esquibel Hunt, Gregory A. Cajete, Benjamin Broome, Phyllis M. Gagnier, and Jonodev Chaudhuri, contributing authors A collaboration between Native activists, professionals, and scholars, Re-Creating the Circle brings a new perspective to the American Indian struggle for self-determination.  AMERICAN MILITARY SHOULDER ARMS, VOLUME III: Flintlock Alterations and Muzzleloading Percussion Shoulder Arms, 1840-1865 by George D. Moller
Like the first two volumes of American Military Shoulder Arms, this exhaustive reference work will be a must for serious arms collectors, dealers, and museum specialists. |
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