Events
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Start: 3:00 pm
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. | 15
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Start: 7:00 pm
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. | 19
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Start: 3:00 pm
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. |




