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Recent books by NMSU faculty members and alumni

The Tintinnabulating Quantum Jump Machine: A Novel of Higher Education by Frank Thayer  

Writer’s Cramp Press, 2004
Frank Thayer’s novel places a newly hired teacher at a fledgling community college near Toronto, Ontario. The teacher, American Mike Stratford, tries to teach journalism while he makes his way through the Canadian way of life, bureaucracy, and the more general temptations and distractions of the 1960s.

Thayer is head the Journalism and Mass Communications Department.

 

 

 

 

The Buenavida Dilemma: Whether to Become “Gringos” by Jose Uranga  

iUniverse, 2003
The Buenavida Dilemma captures the essence of the Hispanic experience in the American Southwest. Written by NMSU alumnus Jose N. Uranga, this narrative combines a historical framework with the stories from five generations of the Buenavida family. The odyssey draws from specific cultural and social experiences of Mexican-Americans, including assimilation and racial discrimination. The Buenavida Dilemma offers a dynamic starting point for those who wish to lean more about the Southwest and Mexican-American culture.

 

 

 

Vegas Centennial by Lynette Baughman  

Wings ePress, 2004
Set in Las Vegas, Nevada, Vegas Centennial features a mystery writer – Olivia Wright – who is in the midst of writing the memoirs of 100-year-old family matriarch Clara McNamara. Wright is drawn against her will into McNamara family intrigue and even a murder when the extended family gathers to disperse the McNamara Centennial Trust.

Lynette Baughman, who graduated from NMSU in 1966 with a bachelor’s degree in English, has written three other mysteries, all set in the southwest United States. She is a former newspaper editor with the Los Alamos Monitor in Los Alamos, N.M.

 

 

Que es un soplo la vida: trilogia de la frontera by Ricardo Aguilar Melantzón  

Ediciones y Gráficos Eón, 2003
Que es un soplo la vida: trilogia de la frontera is NMSU Spanish Professor Ricardo Aguilar Melantzon's latest work. The trilogy contains the novel "Madreselvas en Flor," a short story collection titled "Aurelia," and personal essays titled "A Barlovento." Que es un soplo la vida: trilogia de la frontera focuses on the experience of the U.S./Mexico border through an immigrant's point of view. It is currently available as a Spanish language text.

 

 

 
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