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historian & poet Nasario Garcνa, PhD of Santa Fe, New Mexico
browse books • official website

lots more info on Spirit of America Bookstore's Nasario Garcia Page

writer & editor Daniel B. Gibson of Santa Fe, NM
browse books at Amazon • official website

Kevin Red Star Crow Indian Artist book by Daniel B. Gibson  "Kevin Red Star: Crow Indian Artist" [2014]
by Daniel B. Gibson, Photography by Kitty Leaken

Crow Indian Artist Kevin Red Star lives in Roberts, Montana
Kindle Edition from Gibbs Smith [5/2014] for $9.99
Gibbs Smith 11½x10 hardcover [8/2014] for $50.00

author-activist Chellis Glendinning of Chimayσ, NM
browse books • homepage

writer-teacher Natalie Goldberg of Taos, NM
browse books • official website • Wikipedia

Steven Gould of Albuquerque, NM
browse books • IMDb listing • official website • Wikipedia

Steven Gould entry at Internet Speculative Fiction Database

his wife Laura J. Mixon
browse books • official website {under construction} • Wikipedia

Laura J. Mixon entry at Internet Speculative Fiction Database

Melody Groves {aka Mesa Dean} of Albuquerque, NM
books • official website

Fred R. Harris of Albuquerque, NM
browse books • UNM homepage

Steven F. Havill of Raton, NM
all books • Posadas County mysteries • Wikipedia

historical author Mary Lou Heaphy: official website

historian Jeff Hengesbaugh of Glorieta Pass, NM

Dennis Herrick lives north of Albuquerque, NM
browse all books • official website

Pueblo Mysteries from New Mexico collection by Dennis Herrick  "Pueblo Mysteries: Four Short Stories From New Mexico" [2012]
Four short stories originally available as 99’ Kindle shorts; story titles: "The Ancestor" (2012), "Hunting Season" (won the 2004 Tony Hillerman Mystery Writing Contest), "Missing" (2011), and "The Woman With A Rain Pot" (2012)
Kindle Edition from Amazon Digital Services [11/2012] for 99’ {sic}
CreateSpace 9x6 pb [11/2012] for $3.40 {sic}
Winter of The Metal People book by Dennis Herrick  "Winter of The Metal People: The Untold Story of America's First Indian War" [2013]
The Tiguex War of 1540-42 took place between the Coronado expedition's Spaniards and its Mexican Indian allies and the Pueblo Indians along the Rio Grande, between present-day Albuquerque and Santa Fe in New Mexico. The novel takes place from the Puebloan point of view, telling of a warrior who becomes the reluctanct war leader of several villages and manages to beat back the invaders.
Kindle Edition from Sunbury Press [6/2013] for $6.99
Sunbury Press 9x6 pb [6/2013] for $13.77

Gloria Dial Hightower lives in Albuquerque, NM
browse books (incomplete) at Amazon • no official website found
author cell phone (11/2023) 505-269-9944 • author email

The Cotton Rope Strangler mystery novel by Gloria Hightower  "The Cotton Rope Strangler" mystery novel [2004] by Gloria Hightower
A body turns up in the bosque near Albuquerque and Tom & Ginger Howell, owners of Howell Carpets, are extremely upset when it is identified as one of their employees. They are committed to helping Homicide Detective Pete Lucero and his sidekick Patrick Mahoney, but the situation gets even scarier when the killer seems to be stalking their beautiful daughter, Leslie, as his next victim!
indep 8x5 pb [2/2014] for $12.00
In Total Darkness mystery novel by Gloria Hightower  "In Total Darkness (Albuquerque Murder Mysteries)" [2006] by Gloria Hightower
A series of bad pranks and vandalism start happening to Tom Howell and he can't figure out who is trying to make his life miserable. Then the drop-dead gorgeous waitress at his country club is murdered, and Tom becomes involved in the investigation. But when the harassment starts involving his wife Ginger, and his family, then it is time for Albuquerque Homicide Detectives Pete Lucero and Patrick Mahoney to help find the perpetrator.
CreateSpace 8½x5½ pb [7/2015] for $5.74
Morris Publng pb [2006] out of print/used
The Shadow Mountain Murders mystery novel by Gloria Hightower  "The Shadow Mountain Murders" [2008] by Gloria Hightower
New Mexico Book Awards 2009 finalist; a serial killer begins to murder well-to-do senior citizens in the Shadow Mountain Country Club Community; residents Tom & Ginger Howell are horrified and decide to do what they can to help Homicide Detectives Lucero and Mahoney bring the psychopath to justice; but the Howells soon become the target when the killer realizes that they might know who he is . . .
indep 8½x5½ pb [9/2016] for $5.50
Morris Publng pb [2008] out of print/used
Death Warmed Over mystery novel by Gloria Hightower  "Death Warmed Over - Albuquerque Style" [2016] by Gloria Hightower
After the mass murder of twenty-four people in Albuquerque, Tom & Ginger Howell help Homicide Detectives Pete Lucero and Patrick Mahoney by building profiles, screening security tapes, and making investigative phone calls to identify and locate the shooter before another attack.
CreateSpace 8½x5½ pb [10/2016] for $3.16

"Simon of Cyrene" [2015] by Gloria Hightower
no information found about this book on Amazon or elsewhere

mystery author Tony Hillerman [1925-2008] Page
at 'Readers of The Purple Sage' Western Bookstore

Paul Horgan [1903-95]
published 40 books, won two Pulitzer Prizes for History
books • entry at Wikipedia

"A Distant Trumpet" [1951]
"Great River: The Rio Grande In North American History" [1954]
"Peter Hurd: A Portrait Sketch From Life"
"Lamy of Santa Fe" [1975]

Philip L. Hosford of Albuquerque, NM
books • UNM homepage

Jon Hovis of Rio Rancho, NM
browse books • official website

Allegra Huston of Taos, NM
browse books • official website • credits at IMDb • Wikipedia

daughter of director John Huston [1906-87]
co-owner of Los Rios River Runners [est. 1978]
co-director of The Writing Salon [est. 2004]

UNM history professor Paul A. Hutton
he has appeared in, written or narrated over 150 television documentaries on CBS, NBC, PBS, Discover, Disney Channel,
TBS, TNN, A&E, and the History Channel • won the True Westerner Award in 2021
browse books • official website • incomplete credits at IMDb • entry at Wikipedia

Walter Willard 'Spud' Johnson [1897-1968] of Taos, NM  click here for photograph (in a new window)
hired as secretary to Mabel Dodge Luhan in 1927 • Wikipedia {empty}

'Spud' Johnson Papers at UTexas at Austin
history of Laughing Horse [1922-39] at Davidson College, NC

Spud Johnson & Laughing Horse book by Sharyn Rohlfsen Udall  
"Spud Johnson & Laughing Horse" [1994] by Sharyn R. Udall
author describes Johnson as "the aesthetic and intellectual conscience of Taos".
Sunstone Press 9x6 pb [5/2008] for $26.56
UNM Press 9x6 hardcover [4/94] out of print/used

Oliver La Farge [1901-63]
books • IMDb listing • Wikipedia

Oliver La Farge papers at UTX-Austin

D.H. Lawrence [1885-1930]
Lawrence and his wife Frieda lived in Taos, New Mexico from 1922-25, on the property of Mabel Dodge Luhan
browse books • credits at IMDb • Broadway credits • Wikipedia

D.H. Lawrence Heritage pages on Broxtowe Borough Council, U.K. website
online D.H. Lawrence biography at University of Nottingham, U.K.
GG's U.K. D.H. Lawrence fansite

New Mexico-related Works
"St. Mawr and Other Stories" [1925]
"The Plumed Serpent" [1926]
"Mornings In Mexico" [1927]
"The Woman Who Rode Away and Other Stories" [1928]

"Lorenzo In Taos" [1932] by Mabel Dodge Luhan
http://www.amazon.com/Lorenzo-Taos-Mabel-Dodge-Luhan/dp/0865345945/
"D.H. Lawrence In New Mexico" book [2006]

John LeMay of Roswell, NM
has written books about New Mexico history, about space aliens & UFOs, and about movie monsters
browse books • no official website   he is on Facebook

Lisa Lenard-Cook [1952-2016] of Corrales, NM
browse books • official website { two given up }   memorial page on Facebook

Jane Lindskold of Cedar Crest, NM
browse books • official website

Jane Lindskold entry at Internet Speculative Fiction Database

art critic/feminist/eco-activist Lucy R. Lippard
has lived in Galisteo, NM since 1992
browse books • Wikipedia

Undermining / Land Use, Politics & Art book by Lucy R. Lippard  "Undermining: A Wild Ride Through Land Use, Politics, and Art In The Changing West" [2014] by Lucy R. Lippard
with 'more than two hundred gorgeous color images'
Kindle Edition from The New Press [4/2014] for $9.99
The New Press 8x6 pb [4/2014] for $16.71

http://www.amazon.com/Altered-Landscape-Photographs-Changing-Environment/dp/0847836835/
http://www.amazon.com/Beaten-Track-Tourism-Art-Place/dp/1565846397/
http://www.amazon.com/Center-Lucy-R-Lippard/dp/0525474277/
http://www.amazon.com/Dadas-Art-Duchamp-Others-History/dp/0486456994/
http://www.amazon.com/Different-War-Vietnam-Art/dp/0941104435/
http://www.amazon.com/Down-Country-Galisteo-Basin-1250-1782/dp/0890135665/
http://www.amazon.com/Get-Message-Decade-Social-Change/dp/0525480374/
http://www.amazon.com/I-See-You-Mean-Novel/dp/0933568002/
http://www.amazon.com/Judy-Chicago-Lucy-R-Lippard/dp/082302587X/
http://www.amazon.com/Pop-Art-Lucy-Lippard/dp/B001HWX3AO/
http://www.amazon.com/Pop-Art-Lucy-R-Lippard/dp/B0000BT2AW/
http://www.amazon.com/Pop-Art-World-Lucy-Lippard/dp/0500200521/

Larry Lockridge of Cerrillos, NM
1994 bio of his father, Ross Jr.

Ross Lockridge, Jr. [1914-48] of Illinois
books • credits at IMDb • 'Raintree County' website • Wikipedia

Janice Louise Long of Albuquerque, NM
browse books • official booksite

Dying The Right Way book by Janice Louise Long  "Dying The RIGHT Way: A System of Caregiving
& Planning For Families" [2010]
by Janice Louise Long

Morgan James Publng 9¼x7½ pb [7/2010] for $15.56

Sarah Lovett of Santa Fe, NM
browse books • official website

Tower Lowe {real name Donna Tower Pecherer} lives in Santa Fe, NM
browse books • official website {parked at Wix} • page on Threads • page on Facebook

The main characters of the Cinnamon & Burro mystery novels are: Cinnamon, who became a private detective to to locate her missing mother;
Burro, who suffers recurring visions that move the plot; and 'neurodiverse' family member Spree.

In Gallup, Greed mystery novel by Tower Lowe  "In Gallup, Greed: A Mystery Novel" [2014] by Tower Lowe
First in the Cinnamon & Burro New Mexico Mysteries Series; a woman who blacked out after a party wakes to find her brother stabbed to death and fears that she killed him . . .
CreateSpace 8¼x5½ pb [6/2014] out of print/used
In Dulce, Disturbed mystery novellas by Tower Lowe  "In Dulce, Disturbed ... And Four More New Mexico Short Mysteries" [2015] by Tower Lowe
These are NOT novellas: the five short stories are: 18-page title story [9/2010]: a schoolboy is found on a highway, beaten to death; 16-page "In Zuni, Zymotic" [11/2011]: a friend dies mysteriously and a cast of eccentric characters take credit for the crime; 16-page "In Santa Fe, Salacious" [11/2011]: a hairdresser dies of a blow to the head as he prays quietly in a chapel in downtown Santa Fe; 30-page "In Roswell, Re-Abducted" [7/2012]: Danny believes that he was abducted by aliens and forced to kill his only friend; 32-page "In Carlsbad, Cavernous" [10/2012]: a woman found dead inside the caverns is considered a saint by some, a witch by others
128-page CreateSpace pb [6/2015] out of print/SOLD OUT !
In Albuquerque, Abandoned mystery novel by Tower Lowe  
"In Albuquerque, Abandoned: A Mystery Novel" [2016] by Tower Lowe
Second in the Cinnamon & Burro New Mexico Mysteries Series; starts with an abandoned baby and then a murder . . .
Kindle Edition from Eiffel Tower Publrs [9/2016] for $2.99
CreateSpace 8½x5½ pb [9/2016] for $11.95
Gone On Sunday mystery novel by Tower Lowe  "Gone On Sunday: A Cotton Lee Penn Historical Mystery" [CLP #1 = 1/2017]
by Tower Lowe

Set in Homeville, Virginia in 1972; polio-disabled Cotton Lee concludes that the murder of her friend Little Mary is connected to another murder back in 1932, and that solving one will likely solve the other
Kindle Edition from Eiffel Tower Publrs [1/2017] for $3.99
CreateSpace 8½x5½ pb [1/2017] for $11.95
Premonition mystery novel by Tower Lowe  "Premonition: A Cotton Lee Penn Historical Mystery" [CLP #2 = 1/2019] by Tower Lowe
Anselm Bannon is shot to death while hunting; Anselm’s satchel contains ten gold coins minted during the Civil War, which turn out to be a gift delivered in 1864 by Union soldier Albert Bannon to his southern mistress, Sophie. Albert died an unexplained death and the gold disappeared for more than a century . . . but now the secrets of 1864 begin to leak into 1972
Kindle Edition from Eiffel Tower Publrs [1/2019] for $3.99
CreateSpace 8½x5½ pb [1/2019] for $11.95

"Silencing Sistine" by Tower Lowe will be out in January {sic}

Mabel Dodge Luhan [1879-1962] Page
at Spirit of America Bookstore

Charles Fletcher Lummis [1859-1928] Page
at Spirit of America Bookstore

Jo-Ann Mapson of Santa Fe, NM
books • Wikipedia

Ernesto Antonio 'Tony' Mares [1938-2015] of Albuquerque, NM
Emeritus Professor at U.N.M. English Dept. + poet & playwright aka E.A. Mares
https://www.amazon.com/Astonishing-Light-Conversations-Patroci%C3%B1o-Barela/dp/0826349633/
https://www.amazon.com/Returned-Saw-Under-Sun-Martinez/dp/0826311296/
https://www.amazon.com/Eyes-Raptor-E-Mares/dp/0930324587/
https://www.amazon.com/Padre-Martinez-New-Perspectives-Taos/dp/0960981837/
https://www.amazon.com/Unicorn-Poems-Flowers-Songs-Sorrow/dp/0931122651/
https://www.amazon.com/Resolana-Emerging-Dialogues-Community-Globalization/dp/0816528349/
"Conversations I Never Had With Patrociρo Barela" poetry [Univ of New Mexico Press 2010]
"Rνo del Corazσn" poetry [April 2011]

musical stageplay "Lola's Last Dance" [1979]
https://www.amazon.com/Lolas-Last-Dance-Play-Mares/dp/B011ARHV7G/ [1989]
http://www.teatroparaguas.org/production/lolas-last-dance

George R.R. Martin of Santa Fe, NM
browse books • official website • IMDb listing • Wikipedia

George R.R. Martin entry at Internet Speculative Fiction Database

George R.R. Martin owns/operates:
Jean Cocteau Cinema {closed April 2006; reopened 2014} 418 Montezuma Avenue in Downtown Santa Fe, New Mexico
Beastly Books [open 11/2019], 418 Montezuma Avenue {at the Jean Cocteua Cinema} in Downtown Santa Fe, New Mexico   they are on Facebook
Sky Railway shortline [former S.F.S.R., re-opened 12/2021]

"Game of Thrones" Novels & TV Page at Spirit of America Bookstore

author-activist Demetria Martinez
books • official website

Block Captain's Daughter novel by Demetria Martinez  "The Block Captain's Daughter" [2012] by Demetria Martinez
Guadalupe entered the United States from Mexico illegally, and is now a waitress living in Albuquerque's South Valley and newly pregnant. She is also the new block captain of Sunflower Street, in charge of raising awareness of safety in her neighborhood. Her campaign platform is 'God helps those who help themselves'.
Kindle Edition from Univ Oklahoma Press [8/2012] for $9.99
Univ Oklahoma Press 8x5 pb [8/2012] for $11.66

author Robert Mayer of Santa Fe, NM
browse books • publisher's author page

rancher-author-poet Deanna Dickinson McCall of Timberon (Otero County), New Mexico
browse books • author's official website • no entry at Wikipedia

"Rough Patches: Stories" [6/2015] by Deanna Dickinson McCall
http://www.amazon.com/Rough-Patches-Deanna-Dickinson-McCall/dp/0986249149/

Pulitzer Prize winner Cormac McCarthy of Tesuque (Santa Fe County), NM
browse books • IMDb listing • Wikipedia

Cormac McCarthy Society [est. 1995]
DC's Cormac McCarthy unofficial site

mystery author Michael McGarrity { of Santa Fe, NM } Page
at 'Readers of The Purple Sage' Western Bookstore

Prof. Kevin McIlvoy at N.M.S.U.
browse books • official faculty homepage

poet & radio host Don McIver of Albuquerque, NM
books • official website

playwright & teacher Mark Medoff [1940-2019] of Las Cruces, NM
books • Broadway credits • credits at IMDb • official website • Wikipedia

employed as Artistic Director at N.M.S.U.'s Creative Media Institute

historian Prof. Richard A. Melzer, PhD
browse books • board member H.S.N.M. (2015)
fulltime on CHESS faculty at U.N.M.-Valencia {no homepage} - retired after 40 years 10/2019

"Ernie Pyle in the American Southwest" [1996] by Richard Melzer
http://www.amazon.com/Ernie-American-Southwest-Richard-Melzer-ebook/dp/B005E0CF6S/
http://www.amazon.com/Ernie-American-Southwest-Richard-Melzer/dp/0865342431/

Breakdown / Secret of the Atomic Bomb book by Richard Melzer, PhD  "Breakdown: How The Secret of The Atomic Bomb Was Stolen" [1999]
by Richard Melzer, PhD

Sunstone Press 8½x5¼ pb [12/99] for $16.95
Civilian Conservation Corps in New Mexico book by Richard Melzer  "Coming of Age In The Great Depression: The Civilian Conservation Corps In New Mexico" [2000] by Richard Melzer
Yucca Tree Press 9½x6½ hardcover [4/2000] out of print/used
color headshot photograph of Richard A. Melzer of Valencia County, New Mexico  "Valencia County, New Mexico: History Through the Photographer's Lens" [2002]
by Margaret Espinosa McDonald & Richard Melzer

Donning hardcover [12/2002] out of print/scarce
Images of America Fred Harvey Houses of the Southwest book by Richard Melzer   "Images of America: Fred Harvey Houses of The Southwest" [2008]
by Richard Melzer

Arcadia Publng 9x6½ pb [11/2008] for $14.95

Harvey House Restaurants Page at 'Readers of The Purple Sage' Bookstore

Fred Harvey Houses of the Southwest postcard packet by Richard Melzer  "Fred Harvey Houses of The Southwest" packet of 15 postcards [2008]
by Richard Melzer

Arcadia Publng looseleaf postcards [11/2008] for $7.99
Sunshine & Shadows in New Mexico's Past book edited by Richard Melzer  "Sunshine & Shadows In New Mexico's Past: The Spanish Colonial & Mexican Periods, 1540-1848" [2010]
Edited with an Introduction by Richard Melzer

Rio Grande Books 9x6 pb [3/2010] for $13.83
Sunshine & Shadows in New Mexico's Past book edited by Richard Melzer  "Sunshine & Shadows In New Mexico's Past: The U.S. Territorial Period, 1848‑1912" [2011] Edited with an Introduction by Richard Melzer
Rio Grande Books 9x6 pb [3/2011] for $14.78
Sunshine & Shadows in New Mexico's Past book edited by Richard Melzer  "Sunshine & Shadows In New Mexico's Past: The Statehood Period,
1912-Present" [2012] Edited with an Introduction by Richard Melzer

winner New Mexico-Arizona Book Award 2012
Rio Grande Books 9x6 pb [2/2012] for $19.95
New Mexico, Celebrating The Land of Enchantment book by Richard Melzer  "New Mexico: Celebrating The Land of Enchantment" [2011]
by Richard Melzer

A pictorial celebration of New Mexico’s history and landscape - an official product of the state’s centennial celebration; winner New Mexico-Arizona Book Award 2012
Gibbs Smith 10x9 hardcover [10/2011] for $29.59
True Tales of the Rio Abajo book edited by Richard Melzer & John Taylor  "A River Runs Through Us: True Tales of The Rio Abajo" [2015]
Edited by Richard Melzer & John Taylor

Rio Grande Books 9x6 pb [4/2015] for $21.95

Carolyn Meyer of Albuquerque, NM
browse books on Amazon • official website • Wikipedia

Rio Grande Stories book by Carolyn Meyer  "Rio Grande Stories" [ages 10 & up; 1994] by Carolyn Meyer
28 linked tales; the frame is an elementary school class deciding to raise money by writing stories and selling them as a book; the fictional students are a mix of heritages (as is common in New Mexico).
H.M.H. Books for Young Readers mass pb [6/94] for $6.99
Gulliver/Harcourt 7x4½ hardcover [6/94] out of print/many used
Diary of a Waitress novel by Carolyn Meyer  "Diary of A Waitress: The Not-So-Glamorous Life of A Harvey Girl"
[ages 10 & up; 2015 novel] by Carolyn Meyer

Set in 1926; reports by teenage Kitty Evans of the trials and adventures of herself and fellow Harvey Girls Cordelia and Emmy.
Kindle Edition from Calkins Creek [4/2015] for $7.99
Calkins Creek 8¼x5¾ hardcover [4/2015] for $13.43

Victor Milαn of Albuquerque, NM
also writes under several pseudonyms, including Westerns as J.D. Hardin & Jake Logan
browse books • official website • Wikipedia

Victor Milαn entry at Internet Speculative Fiction Database

John J. Miller
books • IMDb listing • Wikipedia

John J. Miller entry at Internet Speculative Fiction Database

Jonathan Miller: books

Kiowa author N. Scott Momaday of Jιmez Springs, NM
His novel "House Made of Dawn" was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1969
browse books • IMDb listing • Wikipedia
Buffalo Trust bio page

article "Momaday’s Billy The Kid Pistola" by N. Scott Momaday at True West Magazine website
read full text of 10/2012 article

David Morrell of Santa Fe, NM
wrote the 'Rambo' novels {made into movies} and 30 other books
browse books • IMDb listing • official website • Wikipedia

New Mexico political blogger Joe Monahan

Sean Murphy of Taos, NM
books • official website

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Pati Nagle of Albuquerque, NM
browse fantasy books • official fantasy website

writing as P.G. Nagle
browse Western books • official Westerns website

Antonya Nelson
Nelson and her husband novelist Robert Boswell live in Houston, TX and Telluride, CO and Las Cruces, NM
browse books • Wikipedia

Vaunda Micheaux Nelson of Rio Rancho, New Mexico
browse books • no entry at IMDb • Wikipedia
Employed as a youth services librarian at the public library in Rio Rancho,
where she lives with her husband; ten of her books are listed at Amazon

No Crystal Stair novel biography by Vaunda Micheaux Nelson  "No Crystal Stair: A Documentary Novel of The Life and Work of
Lewis Micheaux" [YA 2012]
by Vaunda Micheaux Nelson, Illustrated by R. Gregory Christie

Author often visited her great-uncle Lewis H. Micheaux at his famous bookstore in Harlem;
she spent 15 years researching his life among family members, friends, and libraries.

Kindle Edition from Carolrhoda Lab [12/2011] for $9.99
Carolrhoda Books 10x7 hardcover [2/2012] for $13.10

John Nichols lives in Taos, New Mexico
official website • entry at Wikipedia
Three books by John Nichols are being re-issued in 2014: "American Blood", "Conjugal Bliss", and "Elegy For September"
http://www.amazon.com/American-Blood-Novel-John-Nichols/dp/0826354688/
http://www.amazon.com/Conjugal-Bliss-Comedy-Martial-Arts-ebook/dp/B00KYZYJC6/
http://www.amazon.com/Elegy-September-Novel-John-Nichols/dp/082635470X/

"The Sterile Cuckoo" [1965]
"The Wizard of Loneliness" [1966]
http://www.amazon.com/Voice-Butterfly-Novel-John-Nichols/dp/0811839907/

The Milagro Beanfield War 1974 novel by John Nichols  "The Milagro Beanfield War" [1974]
Farmer Joe Mondragon is fed up with restrictions on watering his fields, so one day he slams his battered pickup truck to a stop, tugs on his gumboots, and illegally taps into the main irrigation channel.
Ballantine Books mass pb [2/87] out of print/170+ used
Owl Books 8¼x5¾ pb [2/2000] for $12.92
Henry Holt & Co. 9½x6½ hardcover [2/94] out of print/used
The Magic Journey 1978 novel by John Nichols   "The Magic Journey" [1978]
The Southwestern village of Chamisaville is gripped by the Great Depression; when a bus loaded with stolen dynamite explodes and opens a gushing hot spring, boom times soon arrive, but not for everyone . . .
Ballantine Books mass pb [4/83] out of print/130+ used
Holt 8½x5½ pb [2/2000] for $16.41
Holt, Rinehart & Winston 9½x6 hardcover [1978] out of print/used
The Nirvana Blues 1981 novel by John Nichols   "The Nirvana Blues: A Novel" [1981]
The village of Chamisaville is gone, but family man Joe Miniver decides to sink his roots deeper by buying a farm; he embarks on a cocaine scam and gets entangled in erotic adventures with three headstrong women . . .
Ballantine Books mass pb [4/83] out of print/150+ used
Holt 8½x5½ pb [2/2000] for $20.25
Henry Holt & Co. 9½x6½ hardcover [6/81] out of print/100+ used
John Nichols's "New Mexico Trilogy" Box Set [1987]
Ballantine Books 3 mass pbs in slipcover [11/87] - overpriced!

writer Sharon Niederman of Raton, NM
browse books • official website

New Mexico Farm Table Cookbook by Sharon Niederman  "The New Mexico Farm Table Cookbook: 100 Homegrown Recipes From The Land of Enchantment" [2015] by Sharon Niederman, Photographs by Kitty Leaken
Kindle Edition from Countryman Press [5/2015] for $9.99
Countryman Press 10x8 pb [5/2015] for $13.30

author / philosopher / revolutionary
G.E. Nordell of Rio Communities, NM

official website • detective novels • weblog {est. 10/2005}

Working Minds Philosophy of Empowerment
Meaning & Purpose website
Reason-Based Taxation website
United Federation of Indentured Servants website

"Backlot Requiem" novel by G.E. Nordell  "Backlot Requiem: A Rick Walker Mystery" [March 2005] by G.E. Nordell
When a long-buried body is discovered at National Pictures Studios, private investigator Rick Walker is called in to identify it. His investigation leads to a thirty-year-old murder case, a dying film director and his wild daughters, a legendary film star of the Silent Era, local gangsters, and a very discreet love affair.
iUniverse 9x6 hardcover [3/2005] for $22.95 at Amazon
iUniverse 9x6 pb [3/2005] for $12.95 at Amazon
Kindle Edition from Amazon [7/2011] for $9.95
also on sale at Amazon Canada, U.K., France, Germany & Japan
click here for excerpt • Croatian-language edition

author-artist Albert Noyer of Sandia Park, NM
browse books • author's website

poet Mary Oishi
author's official blogsite {last update 2/2021}
appointed Albuquerque [NM] Poet Laureate in July 2020 (for 2-year term).
watch 7/2020 announcement/promo video [13:55] online at YouTube

Rock Paper Scissors poetry book by Mary Oishi   "Spirit Birds They Told Me" [2011]
by Mary Oishi & Aja Oishi, Illustrated by Alice Webb

West End Press 8½x5½ pb [2/2011] for $11.95

"Rock Paper Scissors" [2018] by Mary Oishi
Kindle Edition from Amazon Digital Services [9/2018] for $2.99
Swimming With Elephants Publns 8½x5½ pb [4/2018] for $14.95

author Tommy Orange lives in Angels Camp, California
browse books • no author's website found (2018)
teaches creative writing at Institute of American Indian Arts [est. 1962] in Santa Fe, NM

There There first novel by Tommy Orange  "There There: A Novel" [2018] by Tommy Orange
first novel, praised by Sherman Alexie
Kindle Edition from Knopf/Random House [6/2018] for $13.99
Harvill Secker U.K. 9¼x6 pb [7/2018] for $11.93
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poet Simon J. Ortiz: browse books
recommended by author Rudolfo Anaya as an author for essential study about New Mexico

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