OMG! It’s Shakespeare for Generation Text
May 12, 2015
Every now and then, we get a small box of books delivered to use from Random House. They are usually
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Great Books About New Mexico: The House at Otowi Bridge
April 17, 2015
The House at Otowi Bridge: The Story of Edith Warner and Los Alamos by Peggy Pond Church (UNM) New Mexico
Edward Abbey, Wallace Stegner and the rise of modern Western nature writing
March 17, 2015
The one hundredth meridian, the longitudinal line which divides the green, moist, eastern U.S. from the drier plains and the
Great Books About New Mexico: Mountain Villages
February 11, 2015
Mountain Villages, by Alice Bullock “Amateur” historians and history buffs have long made substantial contributions to our understanding and preservation
Great Books About New Mexico: The Missions of New Mexico
January 13, 2015
The Missions of New Mexico, 1776: a description by Fray Francisco Atanasio Domínguez; translated by Eleanor B. Adams and Fray
Great Books About New Mexico: Romance of a Little Village Girl
December 15, 2014
Romance of a Little Village Girl (UNM Press, 2000) by Cleofas M. Jaramillo Founder of La Sociedad Folklórica de Santa Fe,
New in Southwest, November 2014
November 18, 2014
New in the NMSL Southwest Collection: “Owen’s Daughter” (New York: Bloomsbury, 2014) Readers of “Owen’s Daughter” by Jo-Ann Mapson, will recognize the
Great Books about New Mexico: Ceremony
November 10, 2014
Ceremony (Penguin Classics, 2006, anniversary edition) by Leslie Marmon Silko Angst, alienation, despair, feeling like a stranger in a strange
Great Books about New Mexico: Songs of the Cowboys
October 20, 2014
By Patricia Hewitt Jack Thorp’s Songs of the Cowboys (Museum of New Mexico Press 2008 Centennial edition, with CD) Cowboys
Professional Collection: Multicultural Storytime Magic
October 21, 2013
Recently added to the State Library’s Professional Collection: Multicultural Storytime Magic by Kathy MacMillan and Christine Kirkner Chicago, IL: ALA