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Established in 1929, the award-winning trade and scholarly publishing unit of the University of New Mexico.
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Advocates for the Oppressed: Hispanos, Indians, Genízaros, & Their Land in New Mexico. "Ebright is the only scholar who could have conducted the depth of research needed for this book." José A. Rivera, author of La Sociedad: Guardians of Hispanic Culture Along the Río Grande tinyurl.com/3trnryny
Book cover for Advocates for the Oppressed Hispanos, Indians, Genízaros, and Their Land in New Mexico by Malcolm Ebright shows a woodcut-type illustration of 17th century document signing ceremony attended by Spaniards, natives.
November 14, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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Four Square Leagues: Pueblo Indian Land in New Mexico, by Malcolm Ebright, Rick Hendricks and Hughes W. Richard, is the most detailed and up-to-date account of the complex history of Pueblo Indian land in NM, beginning in the late 17th century and continuing to the present day. tinyurl.com/5twzf77y
Book cover for Four Square Leagues: Pueblo Indian Land in New Mexico by Malcolm Ebright, Rick Hendricks and Hughes W. Richard
November 14, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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Pablo Abeita: The Life and Times of a Native Statesman of Isleta #Pueblo, 1871–1940, by Malcolm Ebright and Rick Hendricks, is the first biography of a Pueblo leader, Pablo Abeita, a man considered as the most important Native leader in the Southwest in his day.

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Black and white photo portrait of Pueblo leader Pablo Abeita, a man considered as the most important Native leader in the Southwest in his day.
November 14, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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Green Fire Times has devoted their Nov./Dec. 2025 issue to UNM Press author Malcolm Ebright. "(He) was a champion for the land and water rights of the Indigenous, Spanish and Mexican land grants in New Mexico..." #NewMexico writers and historians reflect on Ebright’s impact. www.greenfiretimes.com
Cover of Green Fire Times November/December 2025 issue
November 14, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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In a new blog post, author Jehanne Dubrow discusses her mother's traumas, the power of poetry, and how instead of leaning away from our traumas or inner workings we should lean in. (DuBrow's mother pictured here)
Check it out here: tinyurl.com/mr2s5k3k
A vintage photo of a smiling woman with short dark hair smiling.
November 12, 2025 at 10:47 PM
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It's publication day for this edited collection featuring leading scholars in #criminology, #sociology, and #politicalscience that offers an unprecedented global analysis of how the world’s most lucrative illicit market operates today.

Learn more here: www.unmpress.com/978082636820...
Cover of Cocaine: The Global Reach of the World's Most Lucrative Illicit Drug, edited by Sebastian A. Cutrona and Jonathan D. Rosen. Image behind the text is stacked white bags. “With cocaine production reaching record levels and expanding well beyond traditional core markets, this timely volume usefully updates our understanding of an ever-evolving illicit transnational industry... especially welcome and unusual is the volume’s truly global coverage. The wide-ranging mix of contributors—representing a nice combination of veteran drug-trade analysts and younger scholars—cross not only geographic and disciplinary borders but also the borders between academia and the policy world.”—Peter Andreas, author of Killer High: A History of War in Six Drugs
November 11, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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The Connecticut Horticultural Society planted the seed for further exploration in their lovely review of Judith Taylor's "Women & Gardens: A History From the Victorian Era to Today."

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The Connecticut Horticultural Society reviewed Judith Taylor's book "Women and Gardens, A History From the Victorian Ear to Today." In the review they noted "This detailed introduction to the influence of gender and class...in what has now become a female-dominated field provides direction for future reading to those wo=ho want to explore specific topics in-depth."
November 10, 2025 at 10:47 PM
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Bookworks welcomes Nasario García for a reading and book signing of his new memoir, Martíneztown, 1945: Tales of Life and Loss in an #Albuquerque Barrio.

November 6 at 6 pm, at @bkwrks.bsky.social

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Nasario Garcia at Bookworks, Nov 6 — 6 pm, Book Reading and Signing. Cover image of Martineztown, 1945 featuring a young Nasario sitting on the hood of a truck. Author photo of Nasario as an older man to the side.
November 5, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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Time to celebrate the release of Martineztown, 1945 by Nasario Garcia!🎉 This memoir tells the story of moving from his family ranch in the Río Puerco to Albuquerque’s oldest barrio, Martíneztown, home and refuge for Nuevomexicanos seeking better lives during World War II. #booksky
Nasario Garcia's poignant memoir. new from UNM Press. Cover image of Martineztown, 1945 featuring a young Nasario sitting on the hood of a truck. Author photo of Nasario as an older man to the side.
November 4, 2025 at 10:47 PM
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New month, new books! Today we're releasing The Wounded Line by Jehanne Dubrow🎉 It is the first craft-based writing book of its kind, grounded not only in research but also in the heart, and in the belief that even our deepest hurts can find a lyrical form. 📖✒️ #booksky
New from UNM Press, The Wounded Line: A Guide to Writing Poems of Trauma by Jehanne Dubrow. Cover is red with white text.
November 4, 2025 at 10:10 PM
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How Haiku Healed a Broken Spirit, a guest blog by Philip Connors, discusses the enormous impact of a get well gift from a friend, Connors' exploration of #haiku, and why he started incorporating the poetic form into the diary he kept as a fire lookout.

#booksky #poetrysky

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A man with glasses and a white beard (Philip Connors) holds a microphone in one hand and a copy of "Haiku" in the other, with the cover facing toward the audience.
October 27, 2025 at 9:51 PM
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This week we've been mixing and mingling at the New Mexico Library Assn. conference, where we have been offering a sneak peak at a beautiful Spring 2026 title: Seventh and Central — #Lowriders, a book of stunning photographs by Nathaniel Tetsuro Paolinelli. Check it out: tinyurl.com/4skzn89e
October 24, 2025 at 9:47 PM
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WHERE THE NORTH ENDS by Hugo Moreno made the Most Anticipated October 2025 Releases from Latinx in Publishing! This surreal novel weaves between dreamscapes and reality, modern day and 17th century colonial New Mexico. #booksky latinxinpublishing.com/blog/most-an...
October 23, 2025 at 9:47 PM
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Look at what's sitting at the top of several Amazon Bestseller categories today! It's VENOMOUS RIVER by Eli Greenbaum, the true story of a scientist's quest through the Congo. #booksky #BIOsky

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Amazon Best Sellers list for Biology of Reptiles and Amphibians from October 23, 2025. Venomous River by Eli Greenbaum is #1.
October 23, 2025 at 9:00 PM
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This Sunday at @booksonthebosque.bsky.social in Albuquerque, artist Dale DeForest will be discussing and signing his latest graphic novel! JOHNNY GERONIMO is a Native Noir set in the arts district of Santa Fe. #booksky #comicsky #NewMexico

More info here: www.booksonthebosque.com/events-page
October 23, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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Out October 28th! An original look at the gardens and gardeners of the Chacoan World, internationally acclaimed ethno-anthropologist David E. Stuart’s Ancient Women Gardeners explores the ecological, demographic, and human dynamics that led to Chaco’s rise and fall.

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“In this groundbreaking new study, anthropologist David Stuart makes a compelling case for the Chacoan people of a thousand years ago as the developers of the earliest garden systems in New Mexico, a breakthrough that made Chaco society possible for hundreds of years.”—Baker H. Morrow, coeditor of Canyon Gardens: The Ancient Pueblo Landscapes of the American Southwest
October 21, 2025 at 8:41 PM
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Published October 21st! Writer and film historian @chrisyogerst.com takes us on a deep-dive of THE MAN WHO SHOT LIBERTY VALANCE, exploring the myth of the Old West and the ways we choose to tell stories about the past. #booksky #Westerns

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The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance by Chris Yogerst "...A groundbreaking, thoroughly researched book-length study of John Ford's last masterpiece. It is an essential read for anyone interested in Ford's films or the career of John Wayne." —W.K. Stratton, author of The Wild Bunch: Sam Peckinpah, a Revolution of Hollywood, and the Making of a Legendary Film
October 21, 2025 at 8:41 PM
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Available October 21st! VENOMOUS RIVER by Eli Greenbaum is the harrowing true story of a biodiversity scientist’s successful quest to discover several new amphibian and reptilian species in the remotest heart of Africa. #booksky #SnakeSky

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"Greenbaum recounts how he and his team, with the help of locals, collected a wide variety of organisms, including species new to science... Readers will be captivated." —Publishers Weekly Venomous River by Eli Greenbaum
October 21, 2025 at 8:41 PM
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WHERE THE NORTH ENDS by Hugo Moreno is a time-travel saga that weaves together history, mysticism, and existential mystery in the tale of a writer transported from modern times into the body of a seventeenth-century Franciscan novice accused of being a crypto-Jew.

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A dramatic story of love, fate, and redemption in a time travel adventure filled with mysticism as our hero moves between twentieth-century and New Mexico during the Spanish Inquisition. Where the North Ends by Hugo Moreno
October 21, 2025 at 8:41 PM
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Out on October 21st! THE POWER OF THE INVISIBLE by Paula Moreno is a memoir that tells the story how a twenty-eight-year-old Black woman rose to become Colombia’s Minister of Culture, an unprecedented event in the history of the country. #booksky #Blacksky

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"Paula Moreno is one of the luminous forces in the world..." —Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Alphonse Fletcher University Professor, Harvard University
October 21, 2025 at 8:41 PM
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Published October 21st! THE LLANO COUNTY MERMAID CLUB by @kathleenmrodgers.bsky.social is a novel that walks the line between mystery and literary fiction as a woman returns to her hometown to figure out what led to her best friend’s tragic and mysterious end. 💙📚

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"Small-town dreamers populate Kathleen M. Rodgers' welcoming new novel... The characters, living or dead, present or past, feel so authentic." —Albuquerque Journal The Llano County Mermaid Club by Kathleen M. Rodgers
October 21, 2025 at 8:41 PM
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Released on October 7th! Written by journalist and film historian Angela Aleiss, BROKEN ARROW investigates the portrayal of Native Americans in the Delmer Daves film. #booksky #filmsky #Westerns

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Broken Arrow by Angela Aleiss. "A concise breakdown of fact and fiction in the classic Western Broken Arrow, which widened the door to more balanced depictions of Indigenous people in movies." —Library Journal
October 21, 2025 at 8:41 PM
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We welcome several new books to our shelves today, and we hope they'll find their way to your bookshelves as well!

Find more about these and the rest of our Fall titles at www.unmpress.com/fall-2025/

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New This Month: Venomous River, The Power of the Invisible, Broken Arrow, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, The Llano County Mermaid Club, Where the North Ends, Ancient Women Gardeners
October 21, 2025 at 8:41 PM
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Preorder here: www.unmpress.com/978082636873...
Cover of Voces del Pueblo: Artists of the Levantamiento Chicano in New Mexico, by Ray Hernandez-Duran and Irene Vasquez
October 16, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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We are setting up at #WHA2025 -- Acquisitions Editor Sonia Dickey is at the conference, with Call for Proposals information for two of our series: The West in Context and the New Century Gardens and Landscapes of the American Southwest.
We are setting up our booth at #WHA2025 and we can't wait to hob nob with you! Come visit UNM Press in Booth 2. While supplies last, we are giving away copies of Jack Rittenhouse's Guide Book to Highway 66! Acquisitions Editor Sonia Dickey is at the conference, with Call for Proposals information for two of our series: The West in Context and the New Century Gardens and Landscapes of the American Southwest. Welcome to Albuquerque, Western History Association!
October 15, 2025 at 4:30 PM