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George Johnson, The Ten Most Beautiful Experiments


When: Tuesday, May 13, 2008 7:00 PM
Location: Bookworks
Description: George Johnson, author of The Ten Most Beautiful Experiments (Knopf, $22.95), will join us to discuss what he finds to be the ten most important scientific discoveries.

Publisher's Weekly tells us that Johnson calls readers away from the industrialized mega-scale of modern science to appreciate 10 historic experiments whose elegant simplicity revealed key features of our bodies and our world.

Johnson is a science writer working from his office in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Beath, author of Hiking Alone: Trails Out, Trails Home (UNM Press, $19.95), will join us to talk about her new book, which is a collection of personal essays describing her move from the east westward and remaking her life.

Beath an artist, naturalist, and writer, who lives in Albuquerque. This is her first book.

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The Book of Joby The Book of Joby
by Ferrari, Mark J.
"The Book of Joby" is an epic fantasy complete in one volume. Lucifer and the Creator have entered, yet again, into a wager they've made many times before, but this time, the existence of creation itself is balanced on the outcome. Born in California during the twilight years of a weary millennium, nine year old Joby Peterson dreams of blazing like a bonfire against the gathering darkness of his times, like a knight of the Round Table. Instead, he is subjected to a life of crippling self-doubt and relentless mediocrity inflicted by an enemy he did nothing to earn and cannot begin to comprehend. Though imperiled themselves, the angels are forbidden to intervene. Left to struggle with their own loyalties and the question of obedience, they watch Lucifer work virtually unhindered to turn Joby's heart of gold into ash and stone while God sits by, seemingly unconcerned. And so when he is grown to manhood, Joby's once luminous love of life seems altogether lost, and Lucifer's victory assured. What hope remains lies hidden in the beauty, warmth, and innocence of a forgotten seaside village whose odd inhabitants seem to defy the modern world's most inflexible assumptions, and in the hearts of Joby's long lost youthful love and her emotionally wounded son. But the ravenous forces of destruction that follow Joby into this concealed paradise plan to use these same things to bring him and his world to ruin. As the final struggle unfolds, one question occupies every mind in heaven and in hell. Which will prove stronger, love or rage?"" "The Book of Joby" is an instant classic of contemporary fantasy.
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The Black Book of Secrets The Black Book of Secrets
by Higgins, F. E.
"Young Ludlow escapes his abusive parents and goes to the country, where he meets Joe Zabbidou, the Secret Pawnbroker: People sell him their secrets so they can be at ease. However, the town they are trying to serve pushes Ludlow and Joe toward a violent conflict that may reveal everyone's secrets, for better or worse. This blend of fantasy and history explores how keeping secrets can tear a person apart." --Andrew Owen, Posman Books @ Grand Central, New York, NY
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Check out all our autographed books, ready for purchase, including local favorite Tony Hillerman.

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Please join the Bookworks Reading Group at 7 p.m. the second Wednesday of every month for lively discussion of these wonderful books.
Shantaram
by Roberts, Gregory David

Shantaram

It took me a long time and most of the world to learn what I know about love and fate and the choices we make, but the heart of it came to me in an instant, while I was chained to a wall and being tortured."" So begins this epic, mesmerizing first novel set in the underworld of contemporary Bombay. "Shantaram" is narrated by Lin, an escaped convict with a false passport who flees maximum security prison in Australia for the teeming streets of a city where he can disappear. Accompanied by his guide and faithful friend, Prabaker, the two enter Bombay's hidden society of beggars and gangsters, prostitutes and holy men, soldiers and actors, and Indians and exiles from other countries, who seek in this remarkable place what they cannot find elsewhere. As a hunted man without a home, family, or identity, Lin searches for love and meaning while running a clinic in one of the city's poorest slums, and serving his apprenticeship in the dark arts of the Bombay mafia. The search leads him to war, prison torture, murder, and a series of enigmatic and bloody betrayals. The keys to unlock the mysteries and intrigues that bind Lin are held by two people. The first is Khader Khan: mafia godfather, criminal-philosopher-saint, and mentor to Lin in the underworld of the Golden City. The second is Karla: elusive, dangerous, and beautiful, whose passions are driven by secrets that torment her and yet give her a terrible power. Burning slums and five-star hotels, romantic love and prison agonies, criminal wars and Bollywood films, spiritual gurus and mujaheddin guerrillas---this huge novel has the world of human experience in its reach, and a passionate love for India at its heart. Based onthe life of the author, it is by any measure the debut of an extraordinary voice in literature.

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- W. H. Auden
The Dyer's Hand
From The Quotable Book Lover (Lyons Press)