NEW FROM UNM PRESS

MASSACRE OF THE DREAMERS: Essays on Xicanisma

by Ana Castillo

This new edition of an immensely influential book gives voice to Mexic Amerindian women silenced for hundreds of years by the dual censorship of being female and indigenous. Read on...

GOIN' CRAZY WITH SAM PECKINPAH AND ALL OUR FRIENDS

by Max Evans, as told to Robert Nott

In this enthralling memoir we follow Evans and Peckinpah through conversations in bars, family gatherings, binges on drugs and alcohol, struggles with film producers and executives, and Peckinpah's abusive behavior-sometimes directed at Evans himself. Read on...

SOPHIE'S HOUSE OF CARDS: A Novel

by Sharon Oard Warner

"A deftly woven story textured with beautifully flawed characters who redefine what it means to be a family in an age where love, not blood, connects all creatures-from humans to honeybees. What a charming and deeply compassionate novel.--- B. K. Loren, author of Theft: A Novel Read on...

TORTILLAS: A Cultural History

by Paula E. Morton

In this entertaining and informative account Paula E. Morton surveys the history of the tortilla from its roots in ancient Mesoamerica to the cross-cultural global tortilla. Read on...

THE MEMORY OF STONE: Meditations on the Canyons of the West

by Erv Schroeder

Erv Schroeder's photographs bear witness to the primordial forces of the earth-the raw power that moved and shifted huge hunks of rock to form natural stone sculptures. Read on...

WOMEN DRUG TRAFFICKERS: Mules, Bosses, and Organized Crime

by Elaine Carey

"The first full-length study of female drug traffickers. The lives of these women are fascinating and skillfully analyzed by the author. The book will be pleasurable reading to general readers and specialists alike."-- - Howard Campbell, author of

Drug War Zone: Frontline Dispatches from the Streets of El Paso and Ju�rez Read on...

RAILROAD EMPIRE ACROSS THE HEARTLAND: Rephotographing Alexander Gardner's Westward Journey

by James E. Sherow
photographs by John R. Charlton

This book presents recent photographs by John R. Charlton of the scenes Alexander Gardner recorded, paired with the Gardner originals and accompanied by James E. Sherow's discussion. Read on...

PUBLICITY POSTS

AMIRI BARAKA AND EDWARD DORN: The Collected Letters

Edited by Claudia Moreno Pisano

Thanks to Boston Review for the great review of AMIRI BARAKA AND EDWARD DORN: "Studiously compiled. . . . [The] fundamental conjunction of alternative cultures and social movements is at the heart of the Baraka-Dorn correspondence." For more info about the book, visit unmpress.com

2014 New Mexico-Arizona Book Awards

Twelve UNM Press books are finalists in the 2014 New Mexico-Arizona Book Awards. Good luck to all! For a complete list of finalists, click here

SOPHIE'S HOUSE OF CARDS: A Novel
by Sharon Oard Warner

Good Day New Mexico interviewed Warner about her latest novel that raises questions about the role that fortune plays in our lives. Click here to enter for a chance to win a copy of the novel. Winners will also receive a set of tarot cards similar to the cards used in the novel.

Author Events

A HARVEST OF RELUCTANT SOULS

by Baker H. Morrow

Saturday, October 25, 2014
1:00pm
Carlito Springs Preserve
Tijeras, NM

GOIN' CRAZY WITH SAM PECKINPAH AND ALL OUR FRIENDS

by Max Evans, as told to Robert Nott

Sunday, October 26, 2014
3:00pm
Bookworks
Albuquerque, NM

Saturday, November 1, 2014 4:00-6:00pm
Lea County Museum
Lovington, NM

Sunday, November 9, 2014
2:00pm
Moby Dickens Bookshop
Taos, NM

THE SKY IS SHOOTING BLUE ARROWS

by Glenna Luschei

Monday, October 27, 2014
7:00-9:00pm

International Quilt Study Center and Museum

Lincoln, NE

INSIDE THE NEW MEXICO SENATE

by Dede Feldman

Thursday, October 23, 2014
4:00pm

Octavia Fellin Library

Gallup, NM

THE GOLDILOCKS ZONE

by Kate Gale

Thursday, October 23, 2014
4:00pm
Living Writers Series
Santa Cruz, CA

Sunday, October 26, 2014
2:00pm
op.cit Books
Santa Fe, NM

Thursday, October 30, 2014
7:00pm
Changing Hands Bookstore
Tempe, AZ

Friday, October 31, 2014
7:00pm
Antigone Books
Tucson, AZ

ENDURING ACEQUIAS

by Juan Estevan Arellano

Thursday, October 23, 2014
6:00pm
Collected Works Bookstore
Santa Fe, NM

MASSACRE OF THE DREAMERS

by Ana Castillo

Thursday, October 23, 2014
7:00pm

Anaya Lecture
UNM George Pearl Hall Auditorium
Albuquerque, NM

Friday, October 24, 2014
6:00pm
Collected Works Bookstore
Santa Fe, NM

A CAROL DICKENS CHRISTMAS

by Thomas Fox Averill

Saturday, October 25, 2014
2:00pm
Topeka/Shawnee County Public Library
Topeka, KS

Thursday, October 30, 2014
6:00pm
Watermark Books
Wichita, KS

Saturday, November 1, 2014
Family Reading Festival
Iola, KS

Thursday, November 6, 2014
6:30pm
Pittsburg Public Library
Pittsburg, KS

Monday, November 10, 2014
6:30pm
Wyandotte Public Library
Kansas City, KS

Thursday, November 13, 2014
7:00pm
The Raven Bookstore
Lawrence, KS

MYSTERIOUS NEW MEXICO

by Benjamin Radford

Saturday, October 25, 2014
1:00pm

Barnes and Noble Coronado
Albuquerque, NM

SOPHIE'S HOUSE OF CARDS

by Sharon Oard Warner

Sunday, October 26, 2014
2:00pm
Moby Dickens Bookshop
Taos, NM

EASTER ISLAND'S SILENT SENTINELS

by Kenneth Treister, Patricia Vargas Casanova, and Claudio Cristino

Monday, November 10, 2014
8:00pm
Books and Books
Coral Gables, FL

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