“I BEG GOD FOR MY MEMORY,” begins the Spanish ballad “Corrido de Plácida Romero.” On August 8, 1881, Romero was captured at her home near Grants, in one of the last Apache war raids into the…
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A CAVERS’ MAP IS DOTTED WITH QUESTION MARKS, indicating where other cavers have spotted a crack or crevasse that offers a possible unexplored passage. Some become impassably small. Some dead-end in…
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HOBBS NATIVE C.W. SMITH rolls out the inaugural novel in the University of New Mexico Press’s Lynn and Lynda Miller Southwest Fiction series, Girl Flees Circus, which rockets readers into a 1920s…
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Brennen Matthews, his wife Kate, and son Thembi needed a vacation after a difficult move from Nairobi to Toronto. So they took a road trip west across the U.S., driving from Chicago to California. In…
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A DOUBLE MURDER ANCHORS MARTHA BURNS’S debut novel, Blind Eye (Atmosphere Press), but the mystery of its perpetrator fits into larger dramas of generational abuse and a community’s reluctance to…
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reVOlution Charles S. King (Museum of New Mexico Press) Author Charles S. King places Virgil Ortiz's creativity in the context of his Cochiti Pueblo artistic lineage. First & Wildest: The Gila…
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LITERARY Finding Querencia: Essays from In-Between Harrison Candelaria Fletcher (Mad Creek Books) Raised in Albuquerque’s North Valley, Harrison Candelaria Fletcher struggled to divine his identity…
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RITA TODACHEENE, RAISED IN TOHATCHI, is a forensic photographer working for the Albuquerque police. She also sees dead people. Both skills come in handy when she’s called to the scene of a grisly…
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IN HISTORIC CHURCHES OF NEW MEXICO TODAY (Oxford University Press, 2017), Frank Graziano travels throughout the state to detail the history of churches and the people who care for them today…
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AT A FICTIONAL MEDITATION CENTER near Taos, all is not Zen. A record snowstorm closes roads, people fall dead, and Sheriff Ulysses Walker suspects … murrderr. Dixon-based behavioral therapist C.R…
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