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SUMMARY:NHCC Book Club
DESCRIPTION:6:00 pm – 7:30 pm \nNHCC | HLA Conference Room \nThe NHCC invites lovers of literature\, folks who love to read\, and those who enjoy talking about the history and vast the array of identities that contribute to Latinidad/Hispanidad to join us! We will meet on the fourth Wednesday of every month in the Center’s HLA Conference Room. \nIn April\, we will be reading The Great Divide\, by Cristina Henríquez. This powerful novel explores the construction of the Panama Canal\, casting light on the unsung people who lived\, loved\, and labored there. \nFree community event. Please let us know who will be attending by registering below.
URL:https://nhccnm.org/event/nhcc-book-club-26/
LOCATION:HLA Conference Room
CATEGORIES:Book Club,Education,History and Literary Arts,Workshops
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SUMMARY:NHCC Book Club (Canceled)
DESCRIPTION:Note: This event has been canceled due to staffing limitations. The program will resume as scheduled later this summer. We apologize for any inconvenience. \n6:00 pm – 7:30 pm \nNHCC | HLA Conference Room \nThe NHCC invites lovers of literature\, folks who love to read\, and those who enjoy talking about the history and vast the array of identities that contribute to Latinidad/Hispanidad to join us! We will meet on the fourth Wednesday of every month in the Center’s HLA Conference Room. \nIn May\, we will be reading Street of Too Many Stories\, by New Mexican author Denise Chávez. In this new book\, Chávez has woven the lives of four families intersecting in the New Mexican town Encantada and living on Encantada Street. \nFree community event. Please let us know who will be attending by registering below.
URL:https://nhccnm.org/event/nhcc-book-club-27/
LOCATION:HLA Conference Room
CATEGORIES:Book Club,Education,History and Literary Arts,Workshops
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250625
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250626
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SUMMARY:NHCC Book Club: The Five Wounds by Kirstin Valdez Quade
DESCRIPTION:6:00 pm – 7:30 pm \nNHCC | HLA Conference Room \nThe NHCC invites lovers of literature\, folks who love to read\, and those who enjoy talking about the history and the vast array of identities that contribute to Latinidad/Hispanidad to join us! We will meet on the fourth Wednesday of every month in the Center’s HLA Conference Room. \nIn June\, we will be reading The Five Wounds\, the debut novel by author Kirstin Valdez Quade. The story takes place in the small town of Las Penas\, New Mexico\, following the Padilla family. Amadeo Padilla will play the part of Jesus in the Good Friday procession\, but five generations of his own family’s wounds also need healing. \nFree community event. Please let us know who will be attending by registering below.
URL:https://nhccnm.org/event/nhcc-book-club-28/
LOCATION:HLA Conference Room
CATEGORIES:Book Club,Education,History and Literary Arts,Workshops
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250723
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250724
DTSTAMP:20260406T002631
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LAST-MODIFIED:20250628T180805Z
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SUMMARY:NHCC Book Club: The Seventh Veil of Salome by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
DESCRIPTION:6:00 pm – 7:30 pm \nNHCC | HLA Conference Room \nThe NHCC invites lovers of literature\, folks who love to read\, and those who enjoy talking about the history and vast the array of identities that contribute to Latinidad/Hispanidad to join us! We will meet on the fourth Wednesday of every month in the Center’s HLA Conference Room. \nFor the month of July\, we will be reading Silvia Moreno-Garcia’s The Seventh Veil of Salome. In 1950s Hollywood\, when an unknown Mexican ingenue is cast as Salome\, a star-making role in a big-budget movie about the legendary heroine\, she becomes the object of envy of Nancy Hartley\, a bit player who will do anything to win the fame she believes she richly deserves. \nFree community event. Please let us know who will be attending by registering below.
URL:https://nhccnm.org/event/nhcc-book-club-29/
LOCATION:HLA Conference Room
CATEGORIES:Book Club,History and Literary Arts,Workshops
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250827
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250828
DTSTAMP:20260406T002631
CREATED:20250612T202746Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250628T182008Z
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SUMMARY:NHCC Book Club: Nuclear Nuevomexico by Myrriah Gomez
DESCRIPTION:6:00 pm – 7:30 pm \nNHCC | HLA Conference Room \nThe NHCC invites lovers of literature\, folks who love to read\, and those who enjoy talking about the history and vast the array of identities that contribute to Latinidad/Hispanidad to join us! We will meet on the fourth Wednesday of every month in the Center’s HLA Conference Room. \nThis month\, will be the rescheduled reading of Nuclear Nuevo México: Colonialism and the Effects of the Nuclear Industrial Complex on Nuevomexicanos by Myrriah Gomez. This book tells the story of the Manhattan Project\, and its displacement of Nuevomexicanas/os and Tewa people. Contrary to previous works that suppress Nuevomexicana/o presence throughout U.S. nuclear history\, Nuclear Nuevo México focuses on recovering the voices and stories that have been lost or ignored in the telling of this history. \nFree community event. Please let us know who will be attending by registering below.
URL:https://nhccnm.org/event/nhcc-book-club-30/
LOCATION:HLA Conference Room
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250924
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250925
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SUMMARY:NHCC Book Club: The Last Cuentista/La Ultima Cuentista by Donna Barba Higuera
DESCRIPTION:6:00 pm – 7:30 pm \nNHCC | HLA Conference Room \nThe NHCC invites lovers of literature\, folks who love to read\, and those who enjoy talking about the history and the vast array of identities that contribute to Latinidad/Hispanidad to join us! We will meet on the fourth Wednesday of every month in the Center’s HLA Conference Room. \nThe Last Cuentista/La Ultima Cuentista by Donna Barba Higuera is September’s book:\nA girl named Petra Peña wanted nothing more than to be a storyteller\, like her abuelita. But Petra’s world is ending. Earth has been destroyed by a comet\, and only a few scientists and their children – among them Petra and her family – have been chosen to journey to a new planet. They must carry on the human race. \nHundreds of years later\, Petra wakes to this new planet – discovering that she is the only person who remembers Earth. A sinister Collective has purged the memories of all aboard\, taken over the ship during its journey\, bent on erasing the sins of humanity’s past. \nPetra alone now carries the stories of our past\, and with them\, any hope for our future. Can she make them live again? \nFree community event. Please let us know who will be attending by registering below.
URL:https://nhccnm.org/event/nhcc-book-club-31/
LOCATION:HLA Conference Room
CATEGORIES:Book Club,History and Literary Arts,Workshops
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251022
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251023
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SUMMARY:NHCC Book Club: Street of Too Many Stories\, by Denise Chavez
DESCRIPTION:6:00 pm – 7:30 pm \nNHCC | HLA Conference Room \nThe NHCC invites lovers of literature\, folks who love to read\, and those who enjoy talking about the history and vast the array of identities that contribute to Latinidad/Hispanidad to join us! We will meet on the fourth Wednesday of every month in the Center’s HLA Conference Room. \nStreet of Too Many Stories by Denise Chávez is a novel of magical realism about four families on Encantada Street in a New Mexican town\, exploring themes of love\, pain\, dysfunction\, hope\, mercy\, and the healing of families. The story uses the street and its spirited inhabitants\, including dancing spirits\, to reveal the complex\, layered realities of humanity and the liminal space between challenge and hope. \nFree community event. Please let us know who will be attending by registering below.
URL:https://nhccnm.org/event/nhcc-book-club-32/
LOCATION:HLA Conference Room
CATEGORIES:Book Club,History and Literary Arts,Workshops
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260225
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260226
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SUMMARY:NHCC Book Club: Malas by Marcela Fuentes
DESCRIPTION:Wednesday\, February 25\, 2026\n6:00 pm \nThe NHCC invites lovers of literature\, folks who love to read\, and those who enjoy talking about the history and the vast array of identities that contribute to Latinidad/Hispanidad to join us! We will meet on the fourth Wednesday of every month in the Center’s HLA Conference Room. \nFor the month of February 2026\, the NHCC Book Club will be featuring Malas by Marcela Fuentes. \nPLEASE MAKE YOUR RESERVATION HERE! \nA story full of passion and revenge\, following one family living on the Texas Mexico border and a curse that reverberates across generations–“Fuentes has achieved something rare and indelible with this story of complex women.” (Erika L. Sánchez) \nIn 1951\, a mysterious old woman confronts Pilar Aguierre in the small border town of La Cienega\, Texas. The old woman is sure Pilar stole her husband and\, in a heated outburst\, lays a curse on Pilar and her family. \nMore than forty years later\, Lulu Muñoz is dodging chaos at every turn: her troubled father’s moods\, his rules\, her secret life as singer in a punk band\, but most of all her upcoming quinceañera. When her beloved grandmother passes away\, Lulu finds herself drawn to the glamorous stranger who crashed the funeral and who lives on the alone and shunned on the edge of town. \nTheir unexpected kinship picks at the secrets of Lulu’s family’s past. As the quinceañera looms—and we move between these two strong\, irascible female voices—one woman must make peace with the past\, and one girl pushes to embrace her future. \nRich with cinematic details—from dusty rodeos to the excitement of a Selena concert and the comfort of conjunto ballads played at family gatherings—this memorable debut is a love letter to the Tejano culture and community that sustain both of these women as they discover what family means. (Goodreads). \nThis book is available at the NM State Library: 1 ebook\, 1 audiobook; the Albuquerque Public Library: 1 audio on Libby\, 1 Kindle\, 2 hardbacks\, 5 Large Type\, 2 in Spanish. \nThis is a free community event. Please let us know who will be attending by registering below. \nPLEASE MAKE YOUR RESERVATION HERE!
URL:https://nhccnm.org/event/nhcc-book-club-malas-by-marcela-fuentes/
LOCATION:HLA Conference Room
CATEGORIES:Book Club,History and Literary Arts
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260325
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260326
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SUMMARY:NHCC Book Club: The Bewitching by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
DESCRIPTION:6:00 – 7:30 pm  \nThe NHCC invites lovers of literature\, folks who love to read\, and those who enjoy talking about the history and the vast array of identities that contribute to Latinidad/Hispanidad to join us! We will meet on the fourth Wednesday of every month in the Center’s HLA Conference Room.  \nFor the month of March 2026\, the NHCC Book Club will feature The Bewitching by Silvia Moreno-Garcia. Three women in three different eras encounter danger and witchcraft in this eerie multigenerational horror saga from The New York Times bestselling author of Mexican Gothic. \nPLEASE MAKE YOUR RESERVATION HERE! \n“Back then\, when I was a young woman\, there were still witches”: That was how Nana Alba always began the stories she told her great-granddaughter Minerva—stories that have stayed with Minerva all her life. Perhaps that’s why Minerva has become a graduate student focused on the history of horror literature and is researching the life of Beatrice Tremblay\, an obscure author of macabre tales. \nIn the course of assembling her thesis\, Minerva uncovers information that reveals that Tremblay’s most famous novel\, The Vanishing\, was inspired by a true story: Decades earlier\, during the Great Depression\, Tremblay attended the same university where Minerva is now studying and became obsessed with her beautiful and otherworldly roommate\, who then disappeared under mysterious circumstances. \nAs Minerva descends ever deeper into Tremblay’s manuscript\, she begins to sense that the malign force that stalked Tremblay and the missing girl might still walk the halls of the campus. These disturbing events also echo the stories Nana Alba told about her girlhood in 1900s Mexico\, where she had a terrifying encounter with a witch. \nMinerva suspects that the same shadow that darkened the lives of her great-grandmother and Beatrice Tremblay is now threatening her own in 1990s Massachusetts. An academic career can be a punishing pursuit\, but it might turn outright deadly when witchcraft is involved. (Goodreads)  \nThe book is available at the Albuquerque Public Library: 5 regular copies\, 5 Large Type copies\, Libby audiobook\, Kindle  \nThis is a free community event. Please let us know who will be attending by registering below.  \nNHCC Book Club | New Mexico Department of Cultural Affairs
URL:https://nhccnm.org/event/nhcc-book-club-the-bewitching-by-silvia-moreno-garcia/
LOCATION:HLA Conference Room
CATEGORIES:History and Literary Arts
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DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260423
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SUMMARY:NHCC Book Club: The Anatomy of Magic by J.C. Cervantes
DESCRIPTION:6:00 – 7:30 pm  \nThe NHCC invites lovers of literature\, folks who love to read\, and those who enjoy talking about the history and the vast array of identities that contribute to Latinidad/Hispanidad to join us! We will meet on the fourth Wednesday of every month in the Center’s HLA Conference Room.  \nFor the month of April 2026\, the NHCC Book Club will feature: The Anatomy of Magic by J.C. Cervantes:   \nPLEASE MAKE YOUR RESERVATION HERE! \nA young woman learns to embrace all the messy imperfections of life and love with some help from her magical family in this next novel by New York Times bestselling author J.C. Cervantes. \nLilian Estrada seemingly has it all: an ob-gyn star on the rise\, a master at balancing work with whirlwind romances and part of a family of fiercely loyal and exceptional women\, all bound together by an extraordinary secret. The Estrada women each possess a unique power\, and Lily shines with the rare gift to manipulate memories. Yet not even her mystical abilities can shield her from a harrowing event at the hospital\, one that sends her powers—and her confidence—spiraling out of control. \nSeeking solace\, Lily retreats to her family’s ancestral home in Mexico\, only to find herself face-to-face with a ghost from her past—Sam\, the first love she never forgot. Nearly a decade since she last saw him\, Sam is hardly the boy she once knew\, and as old flames spark to life\, Lily must navigate the mysteries of their shared history and the depths of her own heart if she hopes to control her unpredictable magic. (Goodreads)  \nThis book is available at the Albuquerque Public Library: 3 copies plus 1 audiobook on Libby\, 1 ebook at NM State Library  \nThis is a free community event. Please let us know who will be attending by registering below.  \nNHCC Book Club | New Mexico Department of Cultural Affairs
URL:https://nhccnm.org/event/nhcc-book-club-the-anatomy-of-magic-by-j-c-cervantes/
LOCATION:HLA Conference Room
CATEGORIES:Book Club,History and Literary Arts
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260527
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260528
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SUMMARY:NHCC Book Club: Anita de Monte Laughs Last by Xochitl Gonzales
DESCRIPTION:Wednesday\, May 27\, 2026\n6:00 pm – 7:30 pm \nThe NHCC invites lovers of literature\, folks who love to read\, and those who enjoy talking about the history and the vast array of identities that contribute to Latinidad/Hispanidad to join us! We will meet on the fourth Wednesday of every month in the Center’s HLA Conference Room. \nFor the month of May\, the NHCC Book Club will feature Anita de Monte Laughs Last by Xochitl Gonzales. \nPLEASE MAKE YOUR RESERVATION HERE! \nThe New York Times bestselling author Xochitl Gonzalez delivers a mesmerizing novel about a first-generation Ivy League student who uncovers the genius work of a female artist decades after her suspicious death Anita de Monte\, a rising star in the art world\, is found dead in New York City; her tragic death is the talk of the town. Until it isn’t. By 1998 Anita’s name has been all but forgotten—certainly by the time Raquel\, a third-year art history student is preparing her final thesis. On College Hill\, surrounded by privileged students whose futures are already paved out for them\, Raquel feels like an outsider. Students of color\, like her\, are the minority there\, and the pressure to work twice as hard for the same opportunities is no secret. \nBut when Raquel becomes romantically involved with a well-connected older art student\, she finds herself unexpectedly rising up the social ranks. As she attempts to straddle both worlds\, she stumbles upon Anita’s story\, raising questions about the dynamics of her own relationship\, which eerily mirrors that of the forgotten artist. \nMoving back and forth through time and told from the perspectives of both women\, Anita de Monte Laughs Last is a propulsive\, witty examination of power\, love\, and art\, daring to ask who gets to be remembered and who is left behind in the rarefied world of the elite. (Goodreads) \nThis book is available at the Albuquerque Public Library: 7 copies on Kindle\, 3 audiobooks via Libby\, 5 Large Type copies\, 4 regular type \nThis is a free community event. Please let us know who will be attending by registering below. \nNHCC Book Club | New Mexico Department of Cultural Affairs \n 
URL:https://nhccnm.org/event/nhcc-book-club-anita-de-monte-laughs-last-by-xochitl-gonzales/
LOCATION:HLA Conference Room
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260624
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260625
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SUMMARY:NHCC Book Club: Liliana's Invincible Summer: A Sister's Search for Justice by Cristina Rivera Garza
DESCRIPTION:Wednesday\, June 24\, 2026\n6:00 – 7:30 pm \nThe NHCC invites lovers of literature\, folks who love to read\, and those who enjoy talking about the history and the vast array of identities that contribute to Latinidad/Hispanidad to join us! We will meet on the fourth Wednesday of every month in the Center’s HLA Conference Room.  \nFor the month of July\, we will be reading Cristina Rivera Garza’s Puliter Prize Winning Memoir Liliana’s Invincible Summer: A Sister’s Search for Justice. \nPLEASE MAKE YOUR RESERVATION HERE! \nCan you enjoy yourself while you are in pain? The question\, which is not new\, arises over and over again during that eternity that is mourning. \nIn the early hours of July 16\, 1990\, Liliana Rivera Garza was murdered by her abusive ex-boyfriend. A life full of promise and hope\, cut tragically short\, Liliana’s story instead became subsumed into Mexico’s dark and relentless history of domestic violence. With Liliana’s case file abandoned by a corrupt criminal justice system\, her family\, including her older sister Cristina\, was forced to process their grief and guilt in private\, without any hope for justice. \nIn luminous\, poetic prose\, Rivera Garza tells a singular yet universally resonant story: that of a spirited\, wondrously hopeful young woman who tried to survive in a world of increasingly normalized gendered violence. It traces the story of her childhood\, her early romance with a handsome–but possessive and short-tempered–man\, through the exhilarating weeks leading up to that fateful July morning\, a summer when Liliana loved\, thought\, and traveled more widely and freely than she ever had before. \nUsing her remarkable talents as a scholar\, novelist\, and poet\, Cristina Rivera Garza returns to Mexico after decades of living in the United States to collect and curate evidence–handwritten letters\, police reports\, school notebooks\, architectural blueprints–in order to render and understand a life beyond the crime itself. Tracing the full arc of their childhood and adolescence in central Mexico\, through the painful and confusing years after Liliana’s death\, Rivera Garza confronts the trauma of losing her sister\, and examines from multiple angles how this tragedy continues to shape who she is–and what she fights for–today.  \n“In this gut-wrenching blend of memoir and reportage\, Rivera Garza (No One Will See Me Cry)\, a Hispanic studies professor at the University of Houston\, investigates her younger sister Liliana’s 1990 murder by an abusive ex-boyfriend\, who remains at large. Placing her sister’s death in the context of the femicide crisis in Mexico\, Rivera Garza interweaves startling facts and statistics (an average of 10 women are killed per day in Mexico) with lyrical meditations on her family life and Liliania’s efforts to break away from her obsessive high school boyfriend\, Ángel González Ramos.” (Goodreads)  \nThis book is available at the Albuquerque Public Library: 2 copies available\, plus Kindle ebook and Libby Audiobook  \nThis is a free community event. Please let us know who will be attending by registering below.  \nNHCC Book Club | New Mexico Department of Cultural Affairs
URL:https://nhccnm.org/event/nhcc-book-club-lilianas-invincible-summer-a-sisters-search-for-justice-by-cristina-rivera-garza/
LOCATION:HLA Conference Room
CATEGORIES:Book Club,History and Literary Arts
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