This short story collection won the Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction. Ostlund lived in Albuquerque for seventeen years and is the former co-owner of Two Serious Ladies Asian Furniture located in Nob Hill. Because of the author's deep roots in Albuquerque, Ostlund has chosen Albuquerque and Bookworks as the launch event of The Bigness of the World.
The Bigness of the World includes five stories that take place overseas and six stories that take place 'at home.' In the eleven stories in The Bigness of the World we see that wherever you are in the world, where you came from is never far away.

Winners of the Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction include such widely read authors as Ha Jin, Antonya Nelson, Rita Ciresi, and Mary Hood.

3pm Sunday, November 8 the daughter in law of Peggy Pond Church, Kathleen Church, and award winning Santa Fe santero and artist Charlie Carrillo will be here!Kathleen will discuss finding the document, and Charlie will talk about weaving his art into the tale.

When Rosita, the loveliest gal in the Pecos River Valley, offers her delicious rhubarb pie as first prize for the Great Grasshopper Race, a thousand love-struck vaqueros line up for the competition. Of course everyone believes that the legendary cowboy Pecos Bill, riding his giant grasshopper, Hoppy, is a shoo-in for the grand prize. Sure enough, Bill and Hoppy give an impressive performance, crisscrossing the Southwest in a raucous ride. But young Juan, who is hopelessly in love with Rosita, astonishes them all when he and Jack the Jackalope take a miraculous ride around the world and across the Milky Way. The daring pair return, covered in stardust, to claim the beautiful Rosita and her delicious pie. Set in New Mexico, Anaya's fanciful story, coupled with Amy Cordova's vivid illustrations, brings the tradition of Southwestern tall tales to a new generation of young readers.

Monday, November 9 at 7 pm Anne Hillerman and her husband Don will sigs and present images from Tony Hillerman's Landscape: On the Road with Chee and Leaphorn. The book includes an
introduction and comments by Tony Hillerman throughout.

Step into the world of Tony Hillerman's novels with this stunning collection of original documentary photographs of the landscape that was integral to his writing. Alongside these breathtaking photos are brief synopses of Hillerman's novels, descriptive passages from each work, the author's own comments about the sites, and narrative information on the locations pictured. Compiled with remembrances by his eldest daughter, Anne Hillerman, with original photos from Don Strel, "Tony Hillerman's Landscape" is a timely showcase of a hauntingly beautiful region that captured one man's imagination for a lifetime, and is a daughter's loving tribute to her father.

Thursday, November 12 at 7 pm, Margaret Moore Booker will talk and present a slideshow for her book The Santa Fe House.

This book presents in detail forty architecturally rich and picturesque houses, ranging from the earliest one-story adobe structures, with flat roofs and an emphasis on utility and simplicity, to today’s "Santa Fe style," showing deep roots in Pueblo Indian, Spanish, Mexican, and Anglo traditions. It includes the best of the "Territorial style," introduced by newcomers from the East after 1846, as well as a variety of ornate Victorian architectural styles. All-new color photographs show Santa Fe’s most beautiful houses as they have been carefully preserved today. Historic black-and-white photographs, maps, drawings, floorplans, and other original illustrations further enhance the architectural story of this hugely popular tourist destination.

Calpurnia Virginia Tate is eleven years old in 1899 when she wonders why the yellow grasshoppers in her Texas backyard are so much bigger than the green ones. With a little help from her notoriously cantankerous grandfather, an avid naturalist, she figures out that the green grasshoppers are easier to see against the yellow grass, so they are eaten before they can get any larger. As Callie explores the natural world around her, she develops a close relationship with her grandfather, navigates the dangers of living with six brothers, and comes up against just what it means to be a girl at the turn of the century.

Debut author Jacqueline Kelly deftly brings Callie and her family to life, capturing a year of growing up with unique sensitivity and a wry wit.

Fred Hampton was an African-American activist and a member of the Black Panther Party. The Assassination of Fred Hampton is attorney Jeff Haas's personal account of the eighteen-month trial in which he and People's Law Office partner Flint Taylor pursued Hampton's assassins, ultimately prevailing over FBI stonewalling and unlimited government resources bent on hiding the conspiracy that led to Hampton's death. The book not only tells the story of justice delivered but also puts Hampton in a new light as a dynamic community leader whose dedication to his people and to truth telling inspired the young lawyers of the People's Law Office, solidifying their lifelong commitment to fighting injustice.

Jeffrey Haas is a Santa Fe attorney, and will be here to discuss and sign his book November 15 at 3pm.

They're the last individuals" Romain Gary wrote in his magnum opus The Roots of Heaven in 1956. Today, more than twenty years after the 1989 ivory ban, the elephant population is crumbling under the menace of trophy hunters, collectors and poachers who are ransacking the last great herds of the family of Abu for trinkets. Down from 1 million strong in the early 1980's the numbers have dwindled to only 400,000. Can future generations imagine a world without elephants? Within less than a generation the great herds could be gone due to the vanity of curiosity seekers in Asia. It is one of the signature events in biological history. Humanity now walks a tightrope in relation to existence. What happens to the elephant happens to us.

Our Annual Plaza Elegant Autumn Evening

~ Musicians! Refreshments in Every Shop! A Chance to Win Gifts! ~

Between 6-8pm, curators Valerie Verzuh & Antonio Chavarria, from the Museum of Indian Arts & Culture in Santa Fe, will sign their new art book, Painting the Native World: Life, Land, and Animals (Pomegranate $24.95). This book with more than 50 paintings documents the emergence of early 20th century Native American Fine Art as done by the students at The Studio of the Santa Fe Indian School, a school established by the noted educator Dorothy Dunn in 1932.

Join us for an American Girl Party November 21.  We'll have tons of fun, and Contessa Connie will read from the book series.  Also, don't miss the raffle for your very own Samantha doll!  Children will need to enter themselves and be present to win.