Join ABC Libraries and The Guild Cinema in our first annual celebration of literature and cinema. Shows are free but seating is limited, so pick up your tickets beginning Dec.1st at The Guild Box Office or Main Library on Copper and 5th

Bookworks will have books on which the films are based for sale in our store.  For more information, visit www.cabq.gov/library

January 8: The Shawshank Redemption: 1pm (rated R) 

An astonishing, hotly anticipated new novel from the great literary fantasist and creator of Thursday Next, Jasper Fforde. As long as anyone can remember, society has been ruled by a Colortocracy. From the underground feedpipes that keep the municipal park green to the healing hues viewed to cure illness to a social hierarchy based upon one's limited color perception, society is dominated by color. In this world, you are what you can see. Part satire, part romance, part revolutionary thriller, this is the new world from the creative and comic genius of Jasper Fforde.

A former Hollywood film exec, Jasper Fforde has switched from the silver screen to the page, earning a reputation as a "grown up J. K. Rowling" with his literary fantasies The Eyre Affair and Lost in a Good Book.

Join us at the Marble Brewery January 13 at 7pm.

Join us the second Wednesday of every month for the Bookworks Book Club meeting at 7pm!  This month, we're reading the incredibly popular The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, by Stieg Larsson, the first in a trilogy of mysteries.  You may have read the Vanity Fair piece about Larsson (maybe a little farfetched, but a great article nonetheless), or one of the numerous pieces about the controversy surrounding Larsson's will.

It should promise to be a great night - feel free to drop by, no RSVP necessary. 

Join ABC Libraries and The Guild Cinema in our first annual celebration of literature and cinema. Shows are free but seating is limited, so pick up your tickets beginning Dec.1st at The Guild Box Office or Main Library on Copper and 5th

Bookworks will have books on which the films are based for sale in our store.  For more information, visit www.cabq.gov/library

January 15: Stand By Me (rated R) 

Join ABC Libraries and The Guild Cinema in our first annual celebration of literature and cinema. Shows are free but seating is limited, so pick up your tickets beginning Dec.1st at The Guild Box Office or Main Library on Copper and 5th

Bookworks will have books on which the films are based for sale in our store.  For more information, visit www.cabq.gov/library

January 22: Slaughterhouse 5 (rated R) 

Our monthly knitting circle is every first Thursday at 10:30 am.  See Connie's blog for what we'll cover!

Curious about what your neighbors have been writing?  Join us for our monthly local author fair - it's been a great success, and we love showcasing local talent.  This month's lineup includes Nancy King, Ray Michael Baca, Robert Wasserman, Alfred Planco, and Pamela Christie.

February 7 at 3pm 

The Bookworks Book Club meets every second Wednesday at 7pm.  This month, they're reading Julie and Julia and My Life in France - come discuss these with us!

After the first atomic bomb burst over the New Mexican desert in 1945 and as the Cold war developed, the American myth of the Wild West expanded to encompass atomic sheriffs saving the world for democracy.  Jon Hunner's brisk, engaging biography documents the emergence of the Atomic West and the life of J. Robert Oppenheimer, who came to feel at home in the American West.  Against the backdrop of the physicist's life twining with the region's history, Hunner explores the promise and peril of the atomic age.

If there was ever a 'ring-tailed roarer' of the backwoods of New Mexico, he was Quentin Hulse, who lived and worked most of his life in the Gila River country of southwestern New Mexico - but his reputation spread far and wide.  Hulse led a lion hunt, witnessed a point-blank shooting, and appeared on a tourist postcard and souvenir license plate in the 1950s.  With compassion, Nancy Coggeshall tells the compelling biography of a rural western rancher constantly adjusting to the inroads of modernity in his traditional way of life.  She brings this unique westerner, and New Mexican to life.

Greg Mortenson, author of Three Cups of Tea and Stones into Schools, is donating $5,000 of his books to APS libraries!  Bookworks will present his gift after a screening of Pennies for Peace, a short film about building girls' schools in Pakistan and Afghanistan.  We'll also offer 10% off any of Greg's books and audiobooks during this event.  Join us and help continue Greg's message: Books - not bombs.