July 2011

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Spanish Market July 30 & 31
UNM Press is proud to be a part of the 60th Annual Spanish Market in Santa Fe. Stop by our tent on the Plaza Saturday, July 30 and Sunday, July 31
(see a list of author signings below)


KUDOS AND SALUDOS
ACROSS THE GREAT DIVIDE: A Photo Chronicle of the Counterculture by Roberta Price

Gold Medal Winner for Photography, ForeWord Reviews 2010 Book of the Year Awards





COME UP AND GET ME: An Autobiography of Colonel Joe Kittinger by Joe Kittinger and Craig Ryan


Silver Medal Winner for Autobiography / Memoir ForeWord Reviews 2010 Book of the Year Awards


UPCOMING EVENTS
Authors at Spanish Market

Saturday, July 30:

11am: Carla Aragón signs DANCE OF THE EGGSHELLS: Baile de los Cascarones

1pm: Illustrator Amy Córdova signs various titles, including THE FIRST TORTILLA and THE SANTERO'S MIRACLE

2pm: Tony Mares signs ASTONISHING LIGHT: Conversations I Never Had with Patrociño Barela

3pm: Nasario García signs various works, including his most recent poetry collection, BOLITAS DE ORO: Poems of My Marble-Playing Days

Sunday, July 31:

11am: Ana Baca and illustrator Noel Chilton sign TIA'S TAMALES

1pm: Gloria Zamora signs SWEET NATA: Growing Up in Rural New Mexico

2pm: Demetria Martínez and Rosalee Montoya-Read sign GRANDPA'S MAGIC TORTILLA


Thursday, August 4 at 7pm: Thomas Fox Averill discusses and signs rode at Bookworks in Albuquerque, NM.

Saturday, August 13 from 2-4pm: Melody Groves discusses and signs HOIST A COLD ONE! Historic Bars of the Southwest at Treasure House Books in Albuquerque, NM.

Wednesday, August 24 at 6pm: Paul Berkowitz discusses and signs THE CASE OF THE INDIAN TRADER: Billy Malone and the National Park Service Investigation at Hubbell Trading Post at Collected Works in Santa Fe, NM.

Saturday, August 27 at 2pm: Thomas Fox Averill discusses and signs rode at Barnes & Noble in Topeka, KS.

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NEW FROM UNM PRESS

rode by Thomas Fox Averill
Averill's novel captures the spriit of the ballad "Tennessee Stud" while telling the story of Robert Johnson, a man who holds love in his heart though adventure rules his time. Pursued by a bounty hunter, Indians, and his conscience, Johnson and his horse are tested, strengthened, and made resolute.


HOIST A COLD ONE! Historic Bars of the Southwest
by Melody Groves
photographs by Myke Groves
This lively travelogue, complete with driving directions, will inspire visitors to the West's old mining camps, railroad towns, and ranching centers to stop in and belly up to the bar.

REINING IN THE RIO GRANDE: People, Land, and Water
by Fred M. Phillips, G. Emlen Hall, and Mary Black
This study examines human interactions with the Rio Grande from prehistoric time to the present day and explores what possibilities remain for the desert river.



RUINS by Margaret Randall
In this poetry collection, Margaret Randall uses the metaphor of ruins to meditate on time's movement--through memory, through cities, through the leavings of history, and through the bodies of people who have experienced time's transformations and traumas.



MARVELS AND MIRACLES IN LATE COLONIAL MEXICO: Three Texts in Context by William B. Taylor
Consisting of three rare documents about miracles from this period, each accompanied by an introductory essay, this study serves as a source book and complement to the author's Shrines and Miraculous Images: Religious Life in Mexico Before the Reforma.


SLAVERY, FREEDOM, AND ABOLITION IN LATIN AMERICA AND THE ATLANTIC WORLD by Christopher Schmidt-Nowara
Why slavery was so resilient and how people in Latin America fought against it are the subjects of this compelling study.


AUTHORS ON THE AIR
Jim Kristofic discusses his memoir NAVAJOS WEAR NIKES: A Reservation Life on thereporteronline.com.

Ben Radford discusses TRACKING THE CHUPACABRA: The Vampire Beast in Fact, Fiction, and Folklore on Skeptically Speaking.
Wednesday, July 20 at 10:30am MST:
Carla Aragón discusses DANCE OF THE EGGSHELLS: Baile de los Cascarones on KSJE-FM's "Write On Four Corners."

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