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AUTHOR EVENTS

Saturday, June 22 at 3:00pm: Sue Boggio and Mare Pearl discuss and sign A Growing Season at Barnes & Noble in West Des Moines, IA.

Sunday, June 23 at 1:00pm: Emmett "Shkeme" Garcia reads and signs  Sister Rabbit's Tricks at Treasure House Books and Gifts in Albuquerque, NM.

Thursday, June 27 at 7:00pm: John Nichols reads from and signs On Top of Spoon Mountain as part of the Mesa Public Library Authors Speak Series in Los Alamos, NM.

 

Saturday, June 29 at 1:00pm: Marge Saiser reads from and signs Losing the Ring in the River at The Bookworm in Omaha, NE.

Monday, July 8 from 11:30am - 1:00pm: George Fischbeck signs Dr. George: My Life in Weather at the Alvarado Transportation Center in Albuquerque, NM.

 

Tuesday, July 9: George Fischbeck signs Dr. Geroge: My Life in Weather at Albuquerque Isotopes Park. Gates open at 6:05pm.

 

Thursday, July 11 at 2:00pm: George Fischbeck signs Dr. George: My Life in Weather at the New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science in Albuquerque, NM.

 

Saturday, July 13 at 3:00pm: Nasario García reads from and signs Grandma's Santo on Its Head at Bookworks in Albuquerque, NM.
 
Saturday, July 20 at 2:00pm: Nasario García reads from and signs Grandma's Santo on Its Head at the Silver City Museum in Silver City, NM. 
 
Tuesday, July 23 at 6:00pm:
Nasario García reads from and signs Grandma's Santo on Its Head at Collected Works Bookstore in Santa Fe, NM.
 
AUTHORS ON THE AIR

imagining geronimo

Dr. Bill Clements discusses Imagining Geronimo on KASU's "Spotlight on the Arts."


 
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NEW FROM UNM PRESS

 

Archaeology of Architecture
Page by page, this book takes us on a journey through the built world that ranges from Greece to Guatemala and from New York to San Francisco. Tedlock practices what he calls photowriting, a creative process that brings photographer and writer together in the same person. 

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Indigenous Religion

by Garrett W. Cook and Thomas A. Offit
contribution from Rhonda Taube

Based on more than thirty years of ethnographic fieldwork in Highland Guatemala, this study of Maya diviners, shamans, ritual dancers, and religious brotherhoods describes the radical changes in traditional Maya religious practice wrought by economic globalization and political turmoil. 

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KUDOS AND SALUDOS

 

Creating Mexican Consumer Culture

Creating Mexican Consumer Culture in the Age of Porfirio Díaz by Steven B. Bunker has won the LASA Mexico 2013 Humanities Book Award. 

 

Bunker's study shows how goods and consumption embodied modernity in the time of Porfirio Díaz, how they provided proof to Mexicans that "incredible things are happening in this world."

 

SoledadCrucifixion

The Soledad Crucifixion by Nancy Wood has won the gold medal for West-Mountain Regional Fiction in the 2013 Independent Publisher (IPPY) Book Awards.

 

This gripping novel tells the story of Father Lorenzo Soledad from his boyhood in a Texas bordello to his final day in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains.

 

City of Slow DissolveCity of Slow Dissolve by John Chávez has won the gold medal for Poetry in the 2013 Independent Publisher (IPPY) Book Awards.

 

Before recovery comes the preparation to recover. In City of Slow Dissolve, John Chávez takes readers through this journey--the "slow dissolve," the unpacking and re-packing of self that must take place before healing can begin.