Harry Potter 7!
July 23, The New York Times reported the sales of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows in the United States during the first 24 hours of the book’s release to be at 8.3 million copies. “Across the pond,” the BBC News reported 2.7 million copies sold in the same time period in the UK. J.K. Rowling is said to have signed 250 copies per hour between midnight and dawn at the Natural History Museum in London on that day!
Check out a copy for yourself from the SJC Library!
Call #: PZ 7 .R79835 Dea
Write On 4 Corners Features Richard Etulain
Tune in to KSJE 90.0 FM to catch
Write On 4 Corners with Connie Gotsch
Wednesday, July 18 at 10:30am MDT
Friday, July 20 at 2:30pm MDT
This week’s guest is UNM Professor Emeritus of History, Richard Etulain, discussing his book, Beyond the Missouri: The Story of the American West (University of New Mexico Press, 2006).
Stop by the SJC Library to check out this title!
Call number: F591 .E85 2006
Mama Fela’s Girls
A new New Mexican novel in the SJC Library Southwest Room [SW PS 3552 .A2535 M36 2006] Mama Fela’s Girls by Ana Baca (University of New Mexico Press, 2006).
The year is 1934; the setting: a small town on Route 66…
The first line: “One August afternoon as the cicadas strummed their summer melody, Mama Fela and her granddaughter Cipriana strolled up the dirt road hand in hand, shaded by a black umbrella…”
