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Established in 1929, the University of New Mexico Press publishes creative works and scholarship in several disciplines, including anthropology, archaeology, indigenous studies, Native studies, Latin American studies, art, architecture, and the history, literature, ecology, and cultures of the American West. UNM Press is the largest publisher in New Mexico and seeks to represent the culture, history, and stories of the Southwest.

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War and Music

A Medley of Love

University of New Mexico Press

An unlikely group of characters attempt to carve out a normal existence at a French country estate in the midst of World War II.

  • Copyright year: 2010
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Louis Owens

Writing Land and Legacy

University of New Mexico Press

Louis Owens: Writing Land and Legacy explores the wide-ranging oeuvre of this seminal author, examining Owens's work and his importance in literature and Native studies.

  • Copyright year: 2019
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Living in Silverado

Secret Jews in the Silver Mining Towns of Colonial Mexico

University of New Mexico Press

In this thoroughly researched work, David M. Gitlitz traces the lives and fortunes of three clusters of sixteenth-century crypto-Jews in Mexico's silver mining towns.

  • Copyright year: 2019
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For the Love of a Horse

University of New Mexico Press

Favorite horse stories from one of the West's favorite writers.

  • Copyright year: 2007
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Headed into the Wind

A Memoir

University of New Mexico Press

Loeffler, a former jazz musician, fire lookout, museum curator, bioregionalist, and self-taught aural historian, shares his humor and imagination, his adventures, observations, reflections, and meditations along the trail in his retelling of a life well lived.

  • Copyright year: 2019
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Guide to the Plants of Arizona's White Mountains

University of New Mexico Press

George C. West provides a simple and quick guide written especially for amateur plant lovers, nature enthusiasts, interested hikers, tourists, and botanists who want to learn more about the plants of the White Mountains in east-central Arizona.

  • Copyright year: 2019
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The Music of Her Rivers

Poems

University of New Mexico Press

"Her rivers are urgent witnesses; her rivers sing truths, shimmer in the darkness. Here are songs pure as water to nourish and cleanse us in the season of lies."--Sandra Cisneros, author of The House on Mango Street

  • Copyright year: 2019
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Take Daily as Needed

A Novel in Stories

University of New Mexico Press

"Never a false note, never a line of dialogue that didn't feel heartbreakingly real, the work seems to open a seam in the experience of parenting that has never been pulled open before."--Ashley Shelby, author of South Pole Station: A Novel

  • Copyright year: 2019
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La Santa Muerte in Mexico

History, Devotion, and Society

Edited by Wil G. Pansters
University of New Mexico Press

This book examines La Santa Muerte's role in people's daily lives and explores how popular religious practices of worship and devotion developed around a figure often associated with illicit activities.

  • Copyright year: 2019
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to cleave

poems

University of New Mexico Press

In this stunning collection Rockman explores the themes of aging; our relationships to our bodies; marriage; and the surprises, griefs, and joys of motherhood.

  • Copyright year: 2019
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