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AUTHOR EVENTS


Wednesday, April 17 at 7:00pm: Felecia Caton Garcia reads from and signs Say That at Bookworks in Albuquerque, NM.
 
Saturday, April 20 from 12:00-1:30pm: George Fischbeck and Randy Roach discuss and sign Dr. George: My Life in Weather at Barnes & Noble in Santa Clarita, CA.
 
Saturday, April 20 from 2:00-3:30pm: C.S. Merrill discusses and signs Weekends with O'Keeffe at Moby Dickens Bookshop in Taos, NM.
 
Wednesday, April 24 at 7:00pm: Hakim Bellamy reads from and signs Swear at Bookworks in Albuquerque, NM.
 
Friday, April 26 at 7:00pm: George Fischbeck and Randy Roach discuss and sign Dr. George: My Life in Weather at Vroman's Bookstore in Pasadena, CA.
 
Sunday, April 28 at 4:00pm: George Fischbeck and Randy Roach discuss and sign Dr. George: My Life in Weather at Laguna Beach Books in Laguna Beach, CA.
 
Saturday, May 4 from 1:00-3:00pm: C. S. Merrill discusses and signs Weekends with O'Keeffe at Treasure House Books in Albuquerque, NM.
 
Saturday, May 4 from 2:00-3:30pm: Jack Loeffler and Celestia Loeffler discuss and sign Thinking Like a Watershed at Moby Dickens Bookshop in Taos, NM.

Sunday, May 5 from 1:00-3:00pm: Nasario García discusses and signs Grandma's Santo on Its Head at Treasure House Books in Albuquerque, NM.
 
Sunday, May 5 at 2:00pm: George Fischbeck and Randy Roach discuss and sign Dr. George: My Life in Weather at Barnes & Noble in Thousand Oaks, CA.
 
Friday, May 10 - Sunday, May 12: Join UNM Press at the Southwest Book Fiesta. For information, visit SouthwestBookFiesta.com.
 
Saturday, May 11 at 7pm: Lois Rudnick discusses and signs The Suppressed Memoirs of Mabel Dodge Luhan at the Fort Burgwin Library, SMU-in-Taos, in Ranchos de Taos, NM.
 

 

AUTHORS ON THE AIR

Dr. George
Dr. George Fischbeck discusses Dr. George: My Life in Weather on KTLA


Protecting Yellowstone  
Michael Yochim discusses Protecting Yellowstone on KPCW's "Community Voices."
 

Begging for Vultures
Lawrence Welsh discusses Begging for Vultures in an interview with Borderzine.


 
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NEW FROM UNM PRESS

 

by George Fischbeck with Randy Roach
For twenty-three years, George Fischbeck was a schoolteacher in Albuquerque, and for the last thirteen of those years taught science on a public television station that was beamed all over New Mexico. 

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49 Trout Streams 49 TROUT STREAMS OF SOUTHERN COLORADO

by Mark D. Williams and W. Chad McPhail

Anyone planning a fishing trip to beautiful southern Colorado needs this book to locate the best fly-fishing streams.  

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imagining geronimo IMAGINING GERONIMO: An Apache Icon in Popular Culture

by William M. Clements

His face has appeared on T-shirts, postage stamps, jigsaw puzzles, posters, and an Andy Warhol print. A celebrity and a tourist attraction who attended three World's Fairs and rode in President Theodore Roosevelt's inaugural parade, he is a character in such classic westerns as Stagecoach and Broken Arrow.

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CLOSE TO HOME: Photographs Close to Home

by Richard S. Buswell

For over four decades, Richard Buswell has trained his camera on the landscape of Montana, with its abandoned and overgrown homesteads and majestic, never-ending skies.

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Losing the Ring in the RiverLOSING THE RING IN THE RIVER

by Marge Saiser

Spare and incisive, the poems in Losing the Ring in the River deal with three strong women-Clara, Emma, and Liz, women who are tough, often sassy, and have dreams that aren't quelled by the realities they face. 

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No Mere ShadowsNO MERE SHADOWS: Faces of Widowhood in Early Colonial Mexico

by Shirley Cushing Flint

Three generations of women in one family are the characters in this intimate historical study of what it meant to be a widow in sixteenth-century Mexico City.

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Frontier Cavalry TrooperFRONTIER CAVALRY TROOPER: The Letters of Private Eddie Matthews, 1869-1874

edited by Douglas C. McChristian

During his five years in the army, Private Edward L. Matthews wrote a series of exceptionally detailed and engaging letters to his family back home in Maryland describing his life in the Arizona and New Mexico Territories.

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KUDOS AND SALUDOS

 

Dr. George

Los Angeles City Councilman Tom LaBonge declared April 10 Dr. George Day in the city of Los Angeles. 
Watch KABC-TV's coverage of the event here.
 
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Sing my Whole Life LongTaos resident Jenny Vincent, subject of the 2007 UNM Press biography

Sing My Whole Life Long: Jenny Vincent's Life in Folk Music and Activism by Craig Smith, marks her 100th birthday on April 22. At the March 26 Taos Town Council meeting Jenny Vincent was given a proclamation from Mayor Darren Cordova naming her 100th birthday as Jenny Vincent Day.

SoledadCrucifixion

 The Soledad Crucifixion by Nancy Wood has made the shortlist for the 2012 Reading the West Book Awards for Adult Fiction. Winners will be announced on May 30, 2013.

 

 

 

 

Frontier Naturalist Frontier Naturalist: Jean Louis Berlandier and the Exploration of Northern Mexico and Texas by Russell M. Lawson was named a finalist for the Texas Institute of Letters Award for Most Significant Scholarly Book.