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Book Launch & Signing w/ James McGrath Morris

New York Times Best Selling Author James McGrath Morris, visits OFPL on Wednesday, December 8th from 4:30 PM to 6:00 PM.

Wednesday, December 8th
Starts at 4:30 PM

Main Library
115 West Hill Ave.

Join OFPL in welcoming the author of Tony Hillerman: A Life the first major biography of the groundbreaking mystery writer. The author of eighteen spellbinding detective novels set on the Navajo Nation, Tony Hillerman simultaneously transformed a traditional genre and unlocked the mysteries of Navajo culture to an audience of millions. His best-selling novels added Navajo Tribal Police detectives Joe Leaphorn and Jim Chee to the pantheon of American fictional detectives.

Author’s talk, book signing, and light refreshments.

Email tmoe@gallupnm.gov or call (505) 863-1291 for more information.

Book Signing with Author

Visiting Author: Jeffrey Hass

Join us at the Main Library on Saturday, February 8th at 4:30 p.m., for a book signing and discussion of The Assassination of Fred Hampton: How the FBI and the Chicago Police Murdered a Black Panther by Jeffrey Haas.

Discover Haas’s personal account of how he and People’s Law Office partner Flint Taylor pursued Hampton’s assassins, ultimately prevailing over unlimited government resources and FBI conspiracy.

Email bmartin@gallupnm.gov or call 505-863-1291 for more information.

Book Signing with Author: Farina King

Join us at the Main Library on Saturday, January 18th at 4:00 p.m., for a book signing and discussion of: The Earth Memory Compass: Diné Landscapes and Education in the Twentieth Century.

The Diné, or Navajo, have their own ways of knowing and being in the world, a cultural identity linked to their homelands through ancestral memory. The Earth Memory Compass traces this tradition as it is imparted from generation to generation.

The book follows Farina King’s search for her own Diné identity as she investigates the interconnections among Navajo students, their people, and Diné Bikéyah—or Navajo lands—across the twentieth century. Farina King, a citizen of the Navajo Nation, is an Assistant Professor of History and affiliated faculty of Cherokee and Indigenous Studies at Northeastern State University in Tahlequah, OK.

Email bmartin@gallupnm.gov or call 505-863-1291 for more information.

Book Signing with Local Author: Dee Thompson

Join us at the Main Library on Saturday, January 11th at 3:00 p.m., for a book signing of: Shattered Dreams, Bondage and Hope.

Dee Thompson describes the turbulent and often traumatic past of a woman who struggled to overcome her past traditions and establish her own identity as a scholar. Growing up in the early 1900’s on the Navajo Reservation, her life was largely influenced and dominated by ancient teachings and practices of her culture until she was introduced to an ominous evil that held her captive for many years.

Thompson was born on the Navajo Reservation in Pinedale and is a native of New Mexico now living in Gallup.  The inspiration behind her book will be presented along with a book signing.

Email bmartin@gallupnm.gov or call 505-863-1291 for more information.

Book Signing with Local Author

John Lewis Taylor

Join us on Tuesday, September 10th at 6:30 p.m., Main Library for a book signing of: Navajo Scouts During the Apache Wars.

John Lewis Taylor explores the question of why, so soon after the Navajo War, the Long Walk and imprisonment at Fort Sumner, young Navajos volunteered to join the United States military? The relationship between the Navajo Nation and the United States military in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries will be presented along with a book signing.

John Lewis Taylor featured in Albuquerque the Magazine, September 2019 edition.

https://www.daily-times.com/story/news/local/navajo-nation/2019/08/31/navajo-scouts-during-us-army-apache-wars-chronicled-book/2168710001/

John Lewis Taylor featured in the Farmington Daily Times, online edition

Email bmartin@gallupnm.gov or call 505-863-1291 for more information.