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The July 2009 issue of New Mexico Magazine features Ghost Ranch and the Faraway Nearby by Craig Varjabedian. Links to the article and to an interview with Varjabedian are all available on the New Mexico Magazine homepage.
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Cave, City, and Eagle's Nest:
An Interpretive Journey through the Mapa de Cuauhtinchan No. 2, edited by Davíd Carrasco and Scott Sessions, was recently the subject of a feature article in
The New York Review of Books. Read the article, "A Lost World on the Map," on the Review's website.
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A Sandhills Ballad by Ladette Randolph was selected as an Editor's Choice in the New York Times Book Review, May 24, 2009.

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Sixty years ago, the United States turned to the tiny atom to unleash the most destructive force known to mankind and bring an end to World War II. Ironically, the uranium used to create the most technologically advanced weapon ever invented came from the land of the most traditional indigenous people of North America, and was dug from the earth with picks and shovels.
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Angel of Vilcabamba by David E. Stuart won the 2009 PEN Southwest Book Award for Fiction.

Kenneth Milton Chapman by Janet Chapman and Karen Barrie won the Evans Biography Award, 2009, from Utah State University's Mountain West Center for Regional Studies.

The Welcome Table by Jay Udall won the New Mexico Book Award for Poetry, 2009.

To Honor the Dead by Joseph Shaw won the New Mexico Book Award for a Novel--adventure or drama, 2009.

The Pasó por Aquí Series on the Nuevomexicano Literary Heritage was awarded the 2009 State Historian's Award for Excellence in New Mexico Heritage Scholarship. To view all books in the series, go to the Browse page and search by series.

The Historical Society of New Mexico has honored two UNM Press books: No Settlement, No Conquest by Richard Flint was awarded the Fray Francisco Atanasio Dominguez Award for historic survey and research for 2008, and Cricket in the Web by Paula Moore received the Gaspar Pérez de Villagrá Award for outstanding publication for 2008.

Patricia Santana won a 2009 American Book Award for Ghosts of El Grullo from the Before Columbus Foundation. The book was also awarded the the Premio Aztlán Literary Prize for 2008 from the National Latino Writers Conference and the History and Literary Arts program of the National Hispanic Cultural Center. It also won the San Diego Book & Writing Award for General Fiction from the San Diego Book Awards Association (SDBAA).

Two UNM Press authors were honored at the Zia Award luncheon recently as part of the New Mexico Press Women's Association annual conference in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Paula Moore won the 2009 Zia Award for her account
of the Cricket Coogler case, Cricket in the Web: The 1949 Unsolved Murder that Unraveled Politics in New Mexico. Also, Mary Beath received the first ever Zia Chair Award for her book, Hiking Alone: Trails Out Trails Home.

New Mexico's Crypto-Jews was named
Best Nonfiction Book--Religion for 2008 by
the National Federation of Press Women. Cary Herz was also presented with the
New Mexico Press Women's Communicator
of Achievement Award, 2008, for exceptional achievement in the communications field
and service to the community.

Sam Quinones, author of Antonio' s Gun and Delfino's Dream and True Tales from Another Mexico, has been awarded a Maria Moors Cabot Prize for Outstanding Reporting on Latin America and the Caribbean for 2008.

Discarded Pages: Aracelli Cab Cumí,
Maya Poet and Politician by Kathleen R. Martin has won the A. B. Thomas Award
for best book on Latin America from the Southeastern Council of Latin American Studies (SECOLAS).

Jack Loeffler, author of Survival Along the Continental Divide, Adventures with Ed, and La Musica de los Viejitos has been awarded a 2008 Governor's Award for Excellence in the Arts for ethnomusicology and writing.

The Voyage of the Beetle was featured
at the 2008 National Book Festival in Washington D.C. by the New Mexico Library Association.

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