{"id":1755,"date":"2019-03-10T09:45:00","date_gmt":"2019-03-10T09:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress.etypegoogle10.com\/?p=1755"},"modified":"2019-03-10T09:45:00","modified_gmt":"2019-03-10T09:45:00","slug":"brla-2018-southwest-book-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.etypegoogle10.com\/?p=1755","title":{"rendered":"BRLA 2018 Southwest Book Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:11pt\"><span style=\"font-family:Calibri,sans-serif\"><span style=\"color:#000000\"><span style=\"font-size:12.0pt\"><span style=\"font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif\">The <\/span><\/span><\/span><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.brla.info\/index.html\" style=\"color:#0563c1; text-decoration:underline\"><span style=\"color:#3498db\"><span style=\"font-size:12.0pt\"><span style=\"font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif\">Border Regional Library Association (BRLA)<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/strong><span style=\"color:#000000\"><span style=\"font-size:12.0pt\"><span style=\"font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif\"> presented the 2018 Southwest Book Awards at their annual banquet on Saturday, February 23 in El Paso.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000\"><span style=\"font-size:11pt\"><span style=\"font-family:Calibri,sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size:12.0pt\"><span style=\"font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif\">The winners are: <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color:#000000\"><span style=\"font-size:11pt\"><span style=\"font-family:Calibri,sans-serif\"><em><span style=\"font-size:12.0pt\"><span style=\"font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif\">Arizona\u2019s Deadliest Gunfight: Draft Resistance and Tragedy at the Power Cabin, 1918<\/span><\/span><\/em><span style=\"font-size:12.0pt\"><span style=\"font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif\"> (University of Oklahoma Press) by Heidi J. Osselaer<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color:#000000\"><span style=\"font-size:11pt\"><span style=\"font-family:Calibri,sans-serif\"><em><span style=\"font-size:12.0pt\"><span style=\"font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif\">Black Sheep, White Crow and Other Windmill Tales: Stories from Navajo Country<\/span><\/span><\/em><span style=\"font-size:12.0pt\"><span style=\"font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif\"> (University of New Mexico Press) by Jim Kristofic, illustrated by Nolan Karras James <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color:#000000\"><span style=\"font-size:11pt\"><span style=\"font-family:Calibri,sans-serif\"><em><span style=\"font-size:12.0pt\"><span style=\"font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif\">Border Spaces: Visualizing the U.S.-Mexico Frontera<\/span><\/span><\/em><span style=\"font-size:12.0pt\"><span style=\"font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif\"> (University of Arizona Press), edited by Katherine G. Morrissey and John-Michael Warner <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color:#000000\"><span style=\"font-size:11pt\"><span style=\"font-family:Calibri,sans-serif\"><em><span style=\"font-size:12.0pt\"><span style=\"font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif\">Chester Nez and the Unbreakable Code: A Navajo Code Talker\u2019s Story<\/span><\/span><\/em><span style=\"font-size:12.0pt\"><span style=\"font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif\"> (Albert Whitman &amp; Company) by Joseph Bruchac, illustrated by Liz Amini-Holmes<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color:#000000\"><span style=\"font-size:11pt\"><span style=\"font-family:Calibri,sans-serif\"><em><span style=\"font-size:12.0pt\"><span style=\"font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif\">Flow<\/span><\/span><\/em><span style=\"font-size:12.0pt\"><span style=\"font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif\"> (Street of Trees Project) by Robin Scofield<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color:#000000\"><span style=\"font-size:11pt\"><span style=\"font-family:Calibri,sans-serif\"><em><span style=\"font-size:12.0pt\"><span style=\"font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif\">Folly Cove: A Smuggler\u2019s True Tale of the Pot Rebellion<\/span><\/span><\/em><span style=\"font-size:12.0pt\"><span style=\"font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif\"> (Cinco Puntos Press) by Kermit Schweidel <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color:#000000\"><span style=\"font-size:11pt\"><span style=\"font-family:Calibri,sans-serif\"><em><span style=\"font-size:12.0pt\"><span style=\"font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif\">Lest We Forget: World War I and New Mexico<\/span><\/span><\/em><span style=\"font-size:12.0pt\"><span style=\"font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif\"> (University of Oklahoma Press) by David Van Holtby <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color:#000000\"><span style=\"font-size:11pt\"><span style=\"font-family:Calibri,sans-serif\"><em><span style=\"font-size:12.0pt\"><span style=\"font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif\">The Line Becomes a River<\/span><\/span><\/em><span style=\"font-size:12.0pt\"><span style=\"font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif\"> (Riverhead Books) by Francisco Cant\u00fa <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color:#000000\"><span style=\"font-size:11pt\"><span style=\"font-family:Calibri,sans-serif\"><em><span style=\"font-size:12.0pt\"><span style=\"font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif\">Spoken Through Clay: Native Pottery of the Southwest: The Eric Dobkin Collection<\/span><\/span><\/em><span style=\"font-size:12.0pt\"><span style=\"font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif\"> (Museum of New Mexico Press) by Charles S. King.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000\"><span style=\"font-size:11pt\"><span style=\"font-family:Calibri,sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size:12.0pt\"><span style=\"font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif\">The Border Regional Library Association (BRLA) is an organization founded in 1966 for the promotion of library service and librarianship in the El Paso\/Las Cruces\/Ju\u00e1rez metroplex. 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