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

Fiction

"Desert Gothic" by Don Waters (University of Iowa Press, $16 paperback, 166 pages). Ten stories populated by weird, well-drawn characters - limo drivers, ultra-marathoners, misfit transients - and set in bars, mortuaries, nursing homes, truck stops and run-down motels on the sunburnt edges of Nevada and Arizona.

Waters, a Reno, Nev., native, now lives in Santa Fe.

"Listen to the Mockingbird" by Penny Rudolph (Poisoned Pen Press, $14.95 paperback, 306 pages). In 1861 New Mexico, a stranger dies in Matty Summerhayes' barn, Texas Confederates invade her valley, rumors about a lost gold mine run rampant and Matty's best friend is about to be stoned for doing voodoo. If all that wasn't bad enough, Matty's greatest secret is exposed, forcing her to find a killer or lose her horse ranch. And there's apparently mockingbirds, too. Whew!

Rudolph lives in Albuquerque.

Poetry

"Aqua Santa (Holy Water)" by Pat Mora (University of Arizona Press, $15.95 paperback, 144 pages). Poems that celebrate women, mythology, history and the Mexican-American experience.

Mora lives in Santa Fe.

Nonfiction

"Chinese Style: Living in Beauty and Prosperity" by Sunamita Lim (Gibbs Smith, $39.95, 160 pages) and "Japanese Style: Designing with Nature's Beauty" also by Lim (Gibbs Smith, $29.95, 160 pages). Lim's handsome books use lavish photographs and concise text to explain how to incorporate the elegance and simplicity of Chinese and Japanese decor into contemporary home decorating.

Lim lives in Santa Fe.

"Coyotes Always Howl at Midnight: Tales of a '70s Rancher's Wife" by Audrey Keen-Hansen (Trafford Publishing, $10.95 paperback, 92 pages). An account of the challenges and adventures facing a city girl transplanted to rural Colorado.

Keen-Hansen lives in Albuquerque.

"Historic New Mexico Churches" text by Annie Lux, photographs by Daniel Nadelbach (Gibbs Smith, $29.95, 141 pages). A colorful survey of New Mexico churches - from massive missions to adobe chapels to Gothic and Romanesque structures.

Lux lives in Santa Fe, and Nadelbach is based there.

"Living Through the Generations: Continuity and Changes in Navajo Women's Lives" by Joanne McCloskey (University of Arizona Press, $50 hardback, $24.95 paper; 240 pages, nine photographs). A detailed study of how women in one Navajo community confronted the changes, stresses and opportunities of change through an adaptive community.

McCloskey is research assistant professor with the Department of Family and Community Medicine at the University of New Mexico.

"Moving On: The Art of Steve Hanks" by Hanks (Greenwich Workshop Press, $85, 176 pages, 160 full-color paintings). For decades, Hanks, who thinks of himself as an emotional realist rather than a photo-realist, has produced a large body of figure paintings - mostly of women and children - that has won both awards and the attention of collectors.

Hanks lives in Albuquerque.

"Remembering a Massacre in El Salvador: The Insurrection of 1932, Roque Dalton and the Politics of Historical Memory" by Héctor Lindo-Fuentes, Erik Ching and Rafael A. Lara-Mart¡nez (University of New Mexico press, $29.95 paperback, 416 pages, 11 halftones, one map). An examination of an armed uprising by Salvadoran peasants in 1932 and of the brutal retaliation by military and paramilitary forces. The book also analyzes "Miguel M rmol," Roque Dalton's influential narrative account of the tragedy.

Lindo-Fuentes is a history professor at Fordham University in New York.

Ching is associate professor of history at Furman University in Greenville, S.C.

Lara-Mart¡nez is professor of foreign languages at the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology in Socorro.

"You Are Here: A Treatise on the Universe" by M. Beau Spivey (RoseDog Books, $12 paperback, 76 pages). This brief book is described as an intensely guided journey through the whole of existence that explains - scientifically and spiritually - who, what and where we are.

A native of New York state, Spivey now lives in Rio Rancho.

Afterwords

Events related to New Mexico books and authors.

Thirty dealers in rare and antiquarian books from five states are expected to take part in a Santa Fe Antiquarian Book Fair, 4-9 p.m. today and 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Saturday, Museo Cultural, 1615 Paseo de Peralta, in Santa Fe's Railyard District. Admission is $10 for both days or $6 for Saturday only.

Artist/author Marilyn Stablein opens an exhibit of her collage journals, "Microcosm: Collages and Assemblages," and reads from her collections of short stories and poems, 5-8 p.m. today (reading at 6:30 p.m.), Outpost Performance Space, 210 Yale Blvd. S.E.

Santa Fe author Johnny D. Boggs has received the Milton F. Perry Best Book Award from the national James-Younger Gang for "Northfield: A Western Story" (Five Star, $25.95, 229 pages), a fictional retelling of the original James-Younger gang's 1876 raid on Northfield, Minn. Boggs' book is the first novel to win the award presented by the nonprofit organization of writers, historians and family descendants of the James-Younger outlaws.