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The Complete History of New Mexico

Author : Kevin McIlvoy
Publisher : Graywolf Press
ISBN 13 : 1555970478
Total Pages : 177 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (559 download)

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Download or read book The Complete History of New Mexico written by Kevin McIlvoy and published by Graywolf Press. This book was released on 2012-10-02 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Compelling and complex . . . Strange and wonderful." —The New York Times Book Review, in praise of McIlvoy's previous fiction I am going to write about the state of New Mexico and put in some maps and stuff from the encyclopedia. My theme is the Don Juan Onate trail and the Jornada Del Muerto. But I might write some other important things which as it turns out my stepmother got angry about and said she wouldn't type this until my Dad said "Dammit now it is history" and told her maybe there weren't commas in those days. "The Complete History of New Mexico" is no ordinary research paper, and this is no ordinary collection of short stories. Eleven-year-old Chum's "history" unfolds over three distinctive and increasingly disturbing sections. He writes that "Coronado explored around and found Santa Fe in 1610"; that "William Becknell was tracking wagons over everyplace in 1821"; and that every day his best friend, Daniel, is afraid to go home. Kevin McIlvoy intersperses the title novella with equally distinctive stories set in New Mexico. Laura, a plain, overweight nurse, encounters a terrified young man on his way to the Vietnam War and takes matters into her own hands. Zach spends time with his "white-trash" relatives and finds love's terrible and true face. The Complete History of New Mexico is a stunningly original collection that will further McIlvoy's growing reputation.

Stories from Hispano New Mexico

Author : Ann Lacy
Publisher : Sunstone Press
ISBN 13 : 0865348855
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (653 download)

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Download or read book Stories from Hispano New Mexico written by Ann Lacy and published by Sunstone Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fourth volume in the New Mexico Federal Writers' Project Book series records authentic accounts of life in the early days of New MexicoNdetailed descriptions of village life, battles with Indians, encounters with Billy the Kid, witchcraft, marriages, festivals, and floods.

The Book of Archives and Other Stories from the Mora Valley, New Mexico

Author : A. Gabriel Meléndez
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 0806158638
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (61 download)

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Download or read book The Book of Archives and Other Stories from the Mora Valley, New Mexico written by A. Gabriel Meléndez and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2017-04-20 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the shadow of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains, New Mexico’s Mora Valley harbors the ghosts of history: troubadours and soldiers, Plains Indians and settlers, families fleeing and finding home. There, more than a century ago, villagers collect scraps of paper documenting the valley’s history and their identity—military records, travelers’ diaries, newspaper articles, poetry, and more—and bind them into a leather portfolio known as “The Book of Archives.” When a bomb blast during the Mexican-American War scatters the book’s contents to the wind, the memory of the accounts lives on instead in the minds of Mora residents. Poets and storytellers pass down the valley’s traditions into the twentieth century, from one generation to the next. In this pathbreaking dual-language volume, author A. Gabriel Meléndez joins their ranks, continuing the retelling of Mora Valley’s tales for our time. A native of Mora with el don de la palabra, the divine gift of words, Meléndez mines historical sources and his own imagination to reconstruct the valley’s story, first in English and then in Spanish. He strings together humorous, tragic, and quotidian vignettes about historical events and unlikely occurrences, creating a vivid portrait of Mora, both in cultural memory and present reality. Local gossip and family legend intertwine with Spanish-language ballads and the poetry of New Mexico’s most famous dueling troubadours, Old Man Vilmas and the poet García. Drawing on New Mexican storytelling tradition, Meléndez weaves a colorful dual-language representation of a place whose irresistible characters and unforgettable events, and the inescapable truths they embody, still resonate today.

The Five Wounds: A Novel

Author : Kirstin Valdez Quade
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393242846
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (932 download)

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Download or read book The Five Wounds: A Novel written by Kirstin Valdez Quade and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2021-03-30 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2021 Center for Fiction First Novel Prize Winner of the 2022 Rosenthal Family Foundation Award Finalist for the 2022 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction • Finalist for the 2022 PEN/Hemingway Award for Debut Novel • Finalist for the 2022 Aspen Words Literary Prize • Finalist for the 2022 Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Fiction One of NPR's Best Books of the Year • A Publishers Weekly and Library Journal Best Book of the Year in Fiction • A Kirkus Reviews Best Fictional Family of the Year • A Booklist Top Ten Book-Group Book of the Year • A Goodreads Choice Awards Best Debut Novel Nominee From an award-winning storyteller comes a stunning debut novel about a New Mexican family’s extraordinary year of love and sacrifice. "Masterly…Quade has created a world bristling with compassion and humanity. The characters and the challenges they face are wholly realized and moving; their journeys span a wide spectrum of emotion and it is impossible not to root for [them]." —Alexandra Chang, New York Times Book Review It’s Holy Week in the small town of Las Penas, New Mexico, and thirty-three-year-old unemployed Amadeo Padilla has been given the part of Jesus in the Good Friday procession. He is preparing feverishly for this role when his fifteen-year-old daughter Angel shows up pregnant on his doorstep and disrupts his plans for personal redemption. With weeks to go until her due date, tough, ebullient Angel has fled her mother’s house, setting her life on a startling new path. Vivid, tender, funny, and beautifully rendered, The Five Wounds spans the baby’s first year as five generations of the Padilla family converge: Amadeo’s mother, Yolanda, reeling from a recent discovery; Angel’s mother, Marissa, whom Angel isn’t speaking to; and disapproving Tíve, Yolanda’s uncle and keeper of the family’s history. Each brings expectations that Amadeo, who often solves his problems with a beer in his hand, doesn’t think he can live up to. The Five Wounds is a miraculous debut novel from a writer whose stories have been hailed as “legitimate masterpieces” (New York Times). Kirstin Valdez Quade conjures characters that will linger long after the final page, bringing to life their struggles to parent children they may not be equipped to save.

La Ranfla and Other New Mexico Stories

Author : Martha Egan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)

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Download or read book La Ranfla and Other New Mexico Stories written by Martha Egan and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seven short stories that reveal the quirkiness of the Land of Enchantment.

New Mexico Ghost Stories Vol. I

Author : Antonio R. Garcez
Publisher : eBookIt.com
ISBN 13 : 0974098884
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (74 download)

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Book Synopsis New Mexico Ghost Stories Vol. I by : Antonio R. Garcez

Download or read book New Mexico Ghost Stories Vol. I written by Antonio R. Garcez and published by eBookIt.com. This book was released on 2012-01-10 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This award winning true ghost story book is a unique collection of interview sessions between myself and the individuals who have actually experienced, first hand paranormal experiences throughout the entire state of New Mexico. The author creatively conveys fully the person's state of mind, their beliefs and ultimately their ghost encounters.

Forty-Seventh Star

Author : David V. Holtby
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 0806187867
Total Pages : 567 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (61 download)

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Download or read book Forty-Seventh Star written by David V. Holtby and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2012-09-28 with total page 567 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New Mexico was ceded to the United States in 1848, at the end of the war with Mexico, but not until 1912 did President William Howard Taft sign the proclamation that promoted New Mexico from territory to state. Why did New Mexico’s push for statehood last sixty-four years? Conventional wisdom has it that racism was solely to blame. But this fresh look at the history finds a more complex set of obstacles, tied primarily to self-serving politicians. Forty-Seventh Star, published in New Mexico’s centennial year, is the first book on its quest for statehood in more than forty years. David V. Holtby closely examines the final stretch of New Mexico’s tortuous road to statehood, beginning in the 1890s. His deeply researched narrative juxtaposes events in Washington, D.C., and in the territory to present the repeated collisions between New Mexicans seeking to control their destiny and politicians opposing them, including Republican U.S. senators Albert J. Beveridge of Indiana and Nelson W. Aldrich of Rhode Island. Holtby places the quest for statehood in national perspective while examining the territory’s political, economic, and social development. He shows how a few powerful men brewed a concoction of racism, cronyism, corruption, and partisan politics that poisoned New Mexicans’ efforts to join the Union. Drawing on extensive Spanish-language and archival sources, the author also explores the consequences that the drive to become a state had for New Mexico’s Euro-American, Nuevomexicano, American Indian, African American, and Asian communities. Holtby offers a compelling story that shows why and how home rule mattered—then and now—for New Mexicans and for all Americans.

Heroes and Villains of New Mexico

Author : Bud Russo
Publisher : Sunstone Press
ISBN 13 : 1611395526
Total Pages : 157 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (113 download)

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Download or read book Heroes and Villains of New Mexico written by Bud Russo and published by Sunstone Press. This book was released on 2019-09-07 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Some of these tales are about genuine heroes. Some are about dastardly villains. Others you’ll have to decide for yourself: hero or villain? You’ll recognize these people, even if you don’t remember their names. They are Spanish colonials, Mexicans, and Anglos all the way to the present. They are even aboriginal Americans predating the arrival of Europeans. These are personal tales—gossip, you might say—and, when you finish a story, if you’re like me, you’ll be able to say, “I didn’t know that!” Now, don’t you think knowing the quirks and grit of those who peopled the pages of your history textbooks—rather than all those dates and places—is more interesting? The author always thought so. After a dozen years writing travel stories about New Mexico, he undertook writing yarns of adventure, intrigue, failure, and even death. Open the book to Elfego Baca’s story and learn why one Mexican had no fear of American cowboys. Or how Navajo Chester Nez, who was denied the right to speak his native language, used Navajo words to help win World War II. Or even how the haughty wife of a colonial governor was falsely denounced to the Inquisition as a Crypto-Jew. Fact or imagination? Sometimes it’s hard to know which it is, but these, at least, are true life episodes. Includes Readers Guide.

Tierra Amarilla

Author : Sabine R. Ulibarrí
Publisher : UNM Press
ISBN 13 : 0826314384
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (263 download)

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Download or read book Tierra Amarilla written by Sabine R. Ulibarrí and published by UNM Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bilingual collection of short stories in English and Spanish about rural life in northern New Mexico.

Myth of the Hanging Tree

Author : Robert J. Tórrez
Publisher : UNM Press
ISBN 13 : 0826343791
Total Pages : 197 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (263 download)

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Download or read book Myth of the Hanging Tree written by Robert J. Tórrez and published by UNM Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Torrez studies the gritty role of hangings in frontier New Mexico.

Inside the New Mexico Senate

Author : Dede Feldman
Publisher : UNM Press
ISBN 13 : 0826354394
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (263 download)

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Download or read book Inside the New Mexico Senate written by Dede Feldman and published by UNM Press. This book was released on 2014-01-15 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Completely honest and highly informative. To look at a legislative body is to observe democracy in the raw—with all its diverse characters and influences and its many conflicts, compromises, and achievements. Dede Feldman, a first-rate observer and chronicler, shows us the insides of the New Mexico State Senate.”—Fred Harris, former U.S. Senator and professor emeritus of political science, University of New Mexico Elected to New Mexico’s state senate in 1996, Dede Feldman faced the challenges that confront state legislators around the country along with some that are uniquely New Mexican. In this forthright account of the workings of New Mexico’s legislature, she reveals how the work of governing is actually accomplished. In New Mexico’s part-time citizen legislature, Spanish may be spoken in the halls of the capitol as often as English, and Native American issues are often pivotal. But each year the Land of Enchantment’s legislators, like those in other states, must balance revenues and expenditures, tangle with lobbyists, and struggle with redistricting and campaign finance reform. State legislatures’ approaches to air pollution, drunk driving, and chronic disease, Feldman’s book reveals, find their way into national law after they’ve been road tested on the highways of various states.

Mysteries and Miracles of New Mexico

Author : Jack Kutz
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780936455020
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (55 download)

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Download or read book Mysteries and Miracles of New Mexico written by Jack Kutz and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Discover the haunted mesas, the eerie, bloodthirsty canyons, and the scorching wastelands that are beyond the freeways, away from the cities in surreal New Mexico"--Cover

Grandpa Lee's Stories

Author : Helen Najera Reyes
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781735121000
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (21 download)

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Download or read book Grandpa Lee's Stories written by Helen Najera Reyes and published by . This book was released on 2020-11-16 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Reading Grandpa Lee's Stories: New Mexico to California is like listening to a child's account of their life in which they can only remember the best parts. What a JOY this was to read! Told through her own words and her mother's memory, Helen Najera Reyes is clearly a gifted storyteller in her own right who regales us with stories that not only capture her family's love for Grandpa Lee but also document histories of the Mexican American experience in both New Mexico and California. Accounts of housing discrimination and racial tensions are nested into the more prominent narratives of joy, generosity, and loving banter that make this book a memorable, soul-pleasing collection." - Larissa Mercado-Lopez Associate professor in the Department of Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies, California State University, Fresno; editor of Voices of Resistance: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Chican@ Children's Literature; and Book Review Editor for Chicana/Latina Studies: The Journal of Mujeres Activas en Letras y Cambio Social "Grandpa Lee's Stories: New Mexico to California by Helen Najera Reyes leaves one feeling good. She lovingly shares her family history via the life of her multitalented grandfather. This is also a bonding story. Najera Reyes became firmly bonded to her Grandpa Lee and he was firmly bonded to his family. This is a migration story, for Grandpa Lee takes his family from New Mexico to California and forms a life that allows Najera Reyes to relate the saga in a song she wrote and recorded. The lyrical nature in which she describes her grandmother is a tribute to the social flexibility required by women of husbands seeking a better life. Most telling is how some New Mexico traditions combined with those of California. Yes. This book leaves one feeling good." - Dr. Irene Blea Professor Emeritus California State University-Los Angeles, Chairperson of Chicano Studies; sociologist; and Chicana feminist author of many articles, textbooks, poetry and novels

Antes

Author : Esther V. Cordova May
Publisher : Sunstone Press
ISBN 13 : 0865348405
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (653 download)

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Download or read book Antes written by Esther V. Cordova May and published by Sunstone Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume chronicles the city of Cuba, New Mexico, first settled in 1769, through the end of World War II.

New Mexico's Tasty Traditions

Author : Sharon Niederman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781934480052
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book New Mexico's Tasty Traditions written by Sharon Niederman and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A great gift for any New Mexican or anyone who appreciates the varied cultures and cuisine of the state.

The Genízaro & the Artist

Author : Napoleón Garcia
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781890689285
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (892 download)

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Download or read book The Genízaro & the Artist written by Napoleón Garcia and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The village of Abiquiu, New Mexico, is easily missed by the casual traveler who might think that Abiquiu consists of only the post office and a few stores along Highway 84, about 46 miles northwest of Santa Fe. If one were to go up the road, pass the post office, onto the above mesa, one would be stepping back into an era of early Spanish and Native American history. Abiquiu is established on the site of an old abandoned Indian Pueblo. In the mid-18th century it became a settlement of Spaniards and Genizaros. (A Genizaro claims ancestry of both the Colonial Spanish settlers and Native American Indian tribes of the area.) Like many northern New Mexico villages, Abiquiu has attracted various artists who come to this part of the world to capture the beauty of the landscape One such artist was Georgia O'Keeffe, who first came to this area in early 1930s. She bought a home in the village of Abiquiu in the mid-1940s and lived there for over 40 years. Many journalists and authors have come to the village, interviewed some of the locals and then returned to their big city desks and written about the quaint village life, its inhabitants and its famous world-renowned artist. However, there has never been a book written from the perspective of a native from the village. Not only is Napoleon Garcia a native of Abiquiu, he knew and worked for Georgia O'Keeffe over the 40 years that she made Abiquiu her home, living "around the corner" from his home on the plaza in the pueblo. Napoleon has been interviewed by many of the big city journalists; but has always felt that the resulting work never truly told the story of his village and what it was like having such a famous resident as a fellow villager. With the help of his friend, Analinda, he now has that opportunity to tell his own story."

The Story of Mining in New Mexico

Author : Paige W. Christiansen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Story of Mining in New Mexico written by Paige W. Christiansen and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: