CLEAR LIGHT BOOK GALLERY and NEW MEXICO BOOK CO-OP  
NEW MEXICO
BOOK FIESTA
Over 50 New Mexico authors & publishers 
Saturday, February 21, 10 am to 4 pm

Among the authors who will be present is Victor di Suvero, who will be debuting his brand new book, We Came to Santa Fe, which presents the stories of how and why certain well-known Santa Fe residents came to live here. Some of the 73 people whose stories are included will attend, including actress Ali MacGraw, Cabinet Secretary for Cultural Affairs Stuart Ashman, and The Magazine publisher Guy Cross, who will tell their stories and sign books. Also present with their books will be well-known historian Howard Bryan, renowned Pueblo Indian historian Joe S. Sando, Taos Pueblo artist and author Jonathan Warm Day, Hispanic heritage scholars Paul Rhetts and Barbe Awalt, Bonnie Larson with her Huichol Indian yarn paintings and well-known photographer and author Marcia Keegan, who will sign her books on the Pueblo People.

. Ample parking is available for this free event. Refreshments will be served.

Scheduled are the following authors and books:

Antoinette Austin – The Little Lobo Who Lost His Howl
Barbe Awalt & Paul Rhetts– Our Saints Among Us, The Regis Santos, Charlie Carrillo: Tradition & Soul, and Nicholas Herrera: Visions of My Heart
Ray Michael Baca – Brotherhood of the Light
Nancy Bartlit – Silent Voices Of World War II: When Sons of the Land of Enchantment Met Sons of the Land of the Rising Sun
Robert Bauver – Navajo and Pueblo Earrings 1850-1945
Sandra Benson – The Vanishing Wilderness of Tibet: Eyewitness Accounts of Tibet’s Environment from 1700-1992, English-Tibetan Folktale Reader and Elementary English in Tibetan
Pauline Chavez Bent – Atarque: Now All Is Silent
Sally Bingham – Santa Fe Poet
Robert Blanc – Whatever Happened To Repentance?, The Birth Pangs and Who is
the Anointed One?
Irene Blea – award-winning scholar and lecturer for the New Mexico Humanities Council
Ken Briden – A Place Called Texas, Under a Texas Sky and Tall in the Saddle (forthcoming)
Howard Bryan – Wildest of the Wild West Robbers Rogues & Ruffians, True Tales of the American Southwest and Incredible Elfego Baca
Don Bullis – New Mexico: A Biographical Dictionary, Vols I & II and New Mexico & 
Politicians of the Past
Tym Burkey – Into the Devil’s Den
Charles Carrillo – Saints of the Pueblos, A Tapestry of Kinship (co-author)
Thomas Chavez – Wake for a Fat Vicar, plus numerous other books on New Mexico
Paulle Clark – Wolf Song: A Love Story
Antoinette Claypoole – Who Would Unbraid Her Hair: The Legend of Annie Mae
Denys Cope – Dying: A Natural Passage, A Bedside Manual for Being with Dying
David Corwell – short story writer and storyteller
Dori Dalton – The Shamrock and the Feather
Jerry Davis – Home on the Farm, Tales of the Road and Leafing Through My Family Tree
David DeWitt – Avenging Victorio and Cuisines of the Southwest (plus 34 other cookbooks)
Victor DiSuvero – We Came to Santa Fe
Ruth Drayer – Nicholas & Helena Roerich and Numerology: The Power in Numbers
Analinda Dunn & Napoleon Garcia – The Genizaro & the Artist
Patricia Flasch – Becoming a Love Dog
Kathy Flynn – The New Deal, 75^th Anniversary Celebration
Therese Francis – Representing various authors of Crossquarter Publishing Group
Phaedra Greenwood – Beside the Rio Hondo
Charles James Hall – Millennial Hospitality series
Ron Duncan Hart – A Phoenix Rising
Rick Hendricks – New Mexico in 1801
Michele Henney – My Paper Children
Marcia Keegan -- Pueblo People, Mother Earth Father Sky, Enduring Culture, 
Southwest Indian Cookbook
Daria Labinsky & Stan Hieronymus – Frank Applegate of Santa Fe
Jill Lane – various children’s activity books
Bonnie Larson – When Animals Were People, Watakame’s Journey
Stanford Lehmberg – Holy Faith of Santa Fe
Pat Murphy
Lisa Dale Norton – Hawk Flies Above: Journey To The Heart Of The Sandhills and  
Shimmering Images: A Handy Little Guide To Writing Memoirs
Virginia Ortiz – Tradition & Heritage
Abe Peña – Memories of Cibola and Villages & Villagers
Lexi Petronis – Our Favorite Recipes (editor)
Dolores Valdez de Pong – Life in Los Sauces (co-author)
Natalie Reid – The Spiritual Alchemist
Joseph Sanchez & Larry Miller – Martineztown 1823-1950
Joe S. Sando – Pueblo Nations, Pueblo Profiles, Pueblo Recollections, Nee Hemish and  
Popay: Leader of the First American Revolution (with Herman Agoyo).
Hal Simmons – Magic Lance and Deadly Gold
Jeanne Simonoff – 13, Without Warning: A Los Angeles Childhood and Century, The Novel
Suzanne Smith – Cooking with Lavender
Thomas Steele, S.J. – Archbishop Lamy: In His Own Words, The Regis Santos and 
The Novena to the Santo Nino.
Sabra Steinsiek – Anne’s Song and three other romance novels
John Taylor – Dejad a los Ninos
Robert Torrez – New Mexico in 1876-1877
Orville Unruh – Shadow of the Jicarilla Owl and Dynamite Time
Bernadette Vadurro – America’s Conscience: Facing Threats to Democracy, the Middle Class and Our World.
Jonathan Warm Day – Taos Pueblo Painted Stories
Florence Byham Weinberg – Apache Lance, Franciscan Cross, Seven Cities of Mud, 
Sonora Moonlight and The Storks of La Caridad
Lela Belle Wolfert – author of two novels

The following publishers will be represented: 
AZRO Press, Clear Light Publishing, Enchantment Publications, Golden West Publishers, Light Lines Media, LPD Press, Medallion Press, Montañas Press, Petals & Pages Press, Rio Grande Books, River Daughter Press, SAR Press, Sunstone Press, UNM Press and Whiskey Creek Press

Literacy Volunteers of Santa Fe This is the second of a series of monthly events to promote local authors, publishers and literacy programs. Literacy Volunteers of Santa Fe will be at the event with information for those who would like to tutor basic reading or English as a Second Language students. LVSF promotes reading as the key to personal development, stimulating critical and creative thinking as well as social understanding and economic improvement.

For additional information please contact:
Paul Rhetts, NM Book Coop 505.344-9382 info@nmsantos.com
Jane Price, Clear Light Book Gallery 505-424-9090 jane@clearlightbooks.com