What We're Reading: Blood Mountain
LOOKING TO GET IN TOUCH with northern New Mexico culture? Dive into the second book in Alisa Lynn Valdés’s bestselling thriller series starring state game warden Jodi Luna. In Blood Mountain (Thomas &…
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The Anatomy of Zozobra at 100
SANTA FE’S FAVORITE 50-foot marionette, Zozobra, is gussying up to attend a special 100th celebration in his honor this month. How little he’s learned after all these years! In the time-honored…
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Take an Immersive Culture Tour
El Rancho de las Golondrinas. The 500-acre historic rancho on the Camino Real is a living history site dedicated to 18th- and 19th-century New Mexico heritage. Daily tours at 10:30 a.m. are guided by…
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The Sky's the Limit at Acoma Pueblo
ONE DAY IN THE 1960S, four men with identical suits and haircuts walked into a house at Acoma Pueblo’s Sky City. Tour ambassador Brandon “Turtle” Valdo, whose family began guiding visitors around…
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What We're Reading: A Luminous Uplift
NORTHERN NEW MEXICO poet John Brandi traverses three continents and 40 years in A Luminous Uplift: Landscape & Memory (White Pine Press). Brandi divides his tome into travelogues of places he’s…
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A Ranch on the Ruidoso
A LONE MAN ON HORSEBACK crosses a dry wash, approaching a bare-bones ranch with a couple of shade trees. Before him, a broad chiaroscuro mosaic of rolling golden foothills, distant purple mountains…
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Tales of the Southwest
MANY BOOKSTORES throughout the state have a Southwest section. But Books of the Southwest, in the original Las Vegas, is completely devoted to the special category of used and rare regional…
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What We're Reading: Lost Birds
AT THE OUTSET of Lost Birds (Harper), Anne Hillerman’s gripping ninth novel in the Leaphorn, Chee, and Manuelito series, a man rings up retired detective-turned-private-eye Joe Leaphorn for help. As…
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The Ultimate Summer Adventure Guide
MY FAMILY ROAD-TRIPPED throughout New Mexico in the summers when I was growing up, tent-camping out of a Ford Econoline van. Opportunities for outdoor fun seemed to await us around every corner: We’d…
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What We're Reading: Wandering Stars
JUDE STAR SURVIVED THE 1864 Sand Creek Massacre, when the U.S. Army slaughtered Cheyenne and Arapaho people in present-day western Colorado. Then he was remanded to a POW fortress in Florida. His son…
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