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Here are some of the latest books by New Mexico authors.

Fiction

"The Dynamite Campaign" by Melvin Eisenstadt (PublishAmerica, $19.95, 224 pages). Pollution-poisoned water, an exploding building, a trial and the assassination of a candidate spice up a race for a congressional seat in northern New Mexico.

Eisenstadt is a former professor of engineering and a former municipal court judge. He lives in Corrales with his wife, Pauline.

Eisenstadt signs copies of his book at 7 p.m. Dec. 7 at the Corrales Library, 84 West La Entrada in Corrales.

"The Shape Shifter" by Tony Hillerman (HarperCollins, $26.95, 276 pages). Joe Leaphorn, retired Navajo tribal policeman, investigates one of his old, unsolved cases, which involves a priceless Navajo rug and, of course, murder.

Popular Albuquerque author Hillerman is a recipient of Mystery Writers of America Edgar and Grand Master awards.

Smiles, Giggles & Laughs" by Ronn Perea (Publish America, $19.95, 155 pages). The adventures of comedy producer Ronn Greco and the comics who come into and go out of his life as they work clubs along famed Route 66.

Ronn Perea has produced comedy shows from Florida to California and around the world. He lives in Albuquerque.

"TV Comes to New Mexico: A Romantic History" by George Morrison (iUniverse, $10.95, 109 pages). A fictionalized account of actual events in New Mexico - from the unsolved 1949 murder case of Ovida "Crickett" Coogler in Do¤a Ana County to a 1955 airliner crash in the Sandias east of Albuquerque.

Morrison is a former Albuquerque TV anchorman and a former assistant Bernalillo County district attorney. He lives in Albuquerque.

Nonfiction

"David Pearson" by Wolf Schneider (Fresco Fine Art Publications, $50, 96 pages). Lavishly illustrated account of the career of a Santa Fe-area sculptor best known for his elongated bronzes of the female form.

Schneider is a Santa Fe writer about the arts, entertainment and lifestyles.

"Governing New Mexico" edited by F. Chris Garcia, Paul L. Hain, Kim Seckler, Gilbert K. St. Clair (University of New Mexico Press, $24.95, 328 pages). A revision of "New Mexico Government, Third Edition," this volume updates information and compares New Mexico's governmental institutions and practices with other states.

Garcia is a professor of political science at UNM, Seckler is associate professor of government at New Mexico State University, St. Clair is lecturer emeritus of political science at UNM, and Hain is dean emeritus of arts and humanities at Texas A&M, Corpus Christi.

"Linda J. Ging: Paintings" essay by Eugenia Parry, foreword by Stuart Ashman (Fresco Fine Art Publications, $60, 100 pages, 38 color reproductions). Explores the work of American transcendentalist painter Parry, whose work is rooted in immense spaces and changing skies.

Parry has written extensively about American and European art and photography.

Ashman is secretary of cultural affairs for New Mexico.

"The Navajo People and Uranium Mining" edited by Doug Brugge, Timothy Benally and Esther Yazzie-Lewis (University of New Mexico Press, $29.95, 184 pages). Drawn from the Navajo Uranium Miner Oral History and Photography Project, this book explores the Navajo experience working in uranium mines in the Navajo Nation, including health hazards faced by Navajo miners.

Benally, a Navajo, is retired director of the Office of Navajo Uranium Workers; Yazzie-Lewis, also Navajo, recently completed her master's degree in American Studies at UNM; Brugge, is associate professor of community health at the Tufts University School of Medicine in Boston.

"Stone: A Substantial Witness" photographs by David Scheinbaum, essay by Jo Anne Van Tilburg (Museum of New Mexico Press, $50, 144 pages, 114 photographs). The enduring quality and various uses of stone around the world are explored. Here you will find Stonehenge, the Great Wall of China and Pompeii.

Scheinbaum is director of the Marion Center of Photographic Arts at the College of Santa Fe.

Van Tilburg directs the UCLA Rock Art Archive, which preserves and documents rock art on archaeological sites around the world.

"A Tropical Place Like That: Stories of Mexico" by Baker H. Morrow (University of New Mexico Press, $16.95, 168 pages). Eleven short stories - some funny, some mournful - about villagers and young, wandering Americans in rural Mexico.

Morrow is an Albuquerque landscape architect and an associate professor at UNM. His other books include "Horses Like the Wind," a collection of stories, and "Best Plants for New Mexico Gardens and Landscapes."

Poetry

"Adobe Odes," by Pat Mora (University of Arizona Press, $25 cloth, $15.95 paperback, 152 pages). Forty-nine poems about family gossip, beauty secrets, women darning, bodies carried across borders and a lot more.

Mora is an educator and literary advocate. She lives in Santa Fe.

Children

"Coyote and the Sky: How the Sun, Moon, and Stars Began" story by Emmett "Shkeme" Garcia, illustrations by Victoria Pringle (University of New Mexico Press, $17.95, 32 pages, 15 color illustrations). Retelling of a Santa Ana Pueblo story about how the animal spirits - including the mischievous Coyote - caused the creation of the heavenly bodies.

Garcia is a member of Santa Ana Pueblo and lead singer of Native Roots, an Albuquerque roots-reggae band.

Pringle is a student at Bennington College in Vermont.