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03.14.10: Dennis Tedlock - 2000 Years of Mayan Literature

Sun, 07 Feb 2010 17:12:19 -0500

Start: Sun, 03/14/2010 - 3:00pm

End: Sun, 03/14/2010 - 3:00pm

Mayan literature is among the oldest in the world, spanning an astonishing two millennia from deep pre-Columbian antiquity to the present day. Here, for the first time, is a fully illustrated survey, from the earliest hieroglyphic inscriptions to the works of later writers using the Roman alphabet. Dennis Tedlock--ethnographer, linguist, poet, and award-winning author--draws on decades of living and working among the Maya to assemble this groundbreaking book, which is the first to treat ancient Mayan texts as literature. Tedlock considers the texts chronologically. He establishes that women were among the ancient writers and challenges the idea that Mayan rulers claimed the status of gods. 2000 Years of Mayan Literature expands our understanding and appreciation not only of Mayan literature but of indigenous American literature in its entirety.

03.16.10: Anthony Brandt - The Man Who Ate His Boots

Tue, 16 Feb 2010 18:46:02 -0500

Start: Tue, 03/16/2010 - 7:00pm

End: Tue, 03/16/2010 - 7:00pm

In The Man Who Ate His Boots, Anthony Brandt tells the whole
story of the search for the Northwest Passage, from its beginnings
early in the age of exploration through its development into a British
national obsession to the final sordid, terrible descent into scurvy,
starvation, and cannibalism. Sir John Franklin is the focus of the book
but it covers all the major expeditions and a number of fascinating
characters, including Franklin’s extraordinary wife, Lady Jane, in
vivid detail.

“Tony Brandt is a superb and profound writer who leads us through a
tale of such hardship you feel as if you've been aboard ship with them.
It’s no small feat to use a bit of history to illuminate the future,
but Brandt pulls it off. This is narrative history at its absolute
gripping best.”
—Sebastian Junger, author of The Perfect Storm and War

03.20.10: Fundraising for Haiti

Mon, 08 Mar 2010 12:47:22 -0500

Start: Sat, 03/20/2010 - 11:00am

End: Sat, 03/20/2010 - 7:00pm

Open your hearts--ABQ is Generous--show your support by buying a raffle ticket or shopping at Bookworks on March 20th from 11-7--join 7 Seven local bands to raise awareness and funds for Haiti--all store profits and donations will be split between the AMER RED CROSS & PARTNERS IN Health's Haiti relief efforts.

Join Bookworks for a music filled fundraising event for Haiti. All profits from sales at Bookworks & all donations will be given to the American Red Cross and Partners in Health.

Bands will include:

Janny Gamble & Noah Jones
Felix y Los Gatos
The Hounds
The Soul Kitchen Trio
Stan Hirsch
Frank McCulloch
The Rhinestones
Aaron Cummings
Armando Ortega

Silent auction & Raffle prizes provided by: Albuquerque Little Theater, Willow, Pfeifer Studios

03.21.10: Samaritans Panel & Desert Found Art

Sat, 06 Mar 2010 12:58:39 -0500

Start: Sun, 03/21/2010 - 3:00pm

End: Sun, 03/21/2010 - 3:00pm

Volunteers for Samaritans, a humanitarian organization, Kathryn Ferguson, Dr. Norma Price and Ted Parks, and artist Debbi McCullough discuss the book Crossing with the Virgin: Stories from the Migrant Trail, which tells the stories of migrants treated and rescued by Samaritans on desert trails near the Arizona-Mexico border. Art to be displayed was created by Debbi McCullough from items found on the desert - using Levis, shoes, wallets, photos and tuna cans she creates cloth books, sculptures and prayer wheels.

03.23.10: Steven Clevenger - America's First Warriors

Sat, 06 Mar 2010 13:04:11 -0500

Start: Tue, 03/23/2010 - 7:00pm

End: Tue, 03/23/2010 - 7:00pm

Steven Clevenger, a registered member
of the Osage tribe, has documented the role of Native American
soldiers in the war in Iraq, following them into battle and home
again. This book is an evocative collection of rare photographs and
personal interviews that records the warrior tradition and war
experience.

Excerpted:My name is Bill Cody Ayon. I'm Tsitsistas, Southern Cheyenne, a human being. I was brought up and given language, customs, and songs
that honor those who have given their service to America's military,
to my tribe, and to all indigenous people. It is with this
background I follow the military road-like my father, my uncles, and
my ancestors before me. To serve my family, my tribe, and my
country is the greatest honor of all. Tradition has mandated
this for me-from the echoes of warriors from the Little Bighorn to
Iwo Jima to the streets of Baghdad.

03.27.10: Jan Brett - The Easter Egg

Sat, 06 Mar 2010 12:46:58 -0500

Start: Sat, 03/27/2010 - 5:00pm

End: Sat, 03/27/2010 - 7:00pm

Jan Brett arrives at the Albuquerque Little Theater (224 San Pasquale Avenue SW) in her stylish artwork-decorated bus with Hedgie the Hedgehog to celebrate her new book The Easter Egg (Putnam, $17.99).

Everyone is invited to the event & will receive gorgeous signed bookplates for books purchased at Bookworks or at the event.

275 families who purchase the new book will get to meet Jan - tickets will be distributed at Bookworks beginning 3/27 at 9am (bring your receipts if you purchase The Easter Egg in advance).

The first 100 ticketholders get a free signed poster!

03.28.10: Carla Aragon - Dance of the Eggshells

Sun, 07 Mar 2010 13:28:10 -0500

Start: Sun, 03/28/2010 - 3:00pm

End: Sun, 03/28/2010 - 3:00pm

You remember Carla as our NBC news anchor. Now she's writing bilingual kid's books based on family traditions. Join her and explore the Cascarones - confetti filled eggshells, story and dance.

03.30.10: David Corbett - Do They Know I'm Running?

Wed, 24 Feb 2010 15:14:54 -0500

Start: Tue, 03/30/2010 - 7:00pm

End: Tue, 03/30/2010 - 7:00pm

From acclaimed author David Corbett, a stunning and suspenseful novel of a life without loyalties and the borders inside ourselves.

Roque Montalvo is wise beyond his eighteen years. Orphaned at birth, a gifted musician, he’s stuck in a California backwater, helping his Salvadoran aunt care for his damaged brother, an ex-marine badly wounded in Iraq. When immigration agents arrest his uncle, the family has nowhere else to turn. Roque, badgered by his street-hardened cousin, agrees to bring the old man back, relying on the criminal gangs that control the dangerous smuggling routes from El Salvador, through Guatemala and Mexico, to the U.S. border.

04.06.10: VB Price & Robert Reck - The University of New Mexico

Sun, 07 Mar 2010 12:02:55 -0500

Start: Tue, 04/06/2010 - 3:00pm

End: Tue, 04/06/2010 - 3:00pm

This photographic portrait of the University of New Mexico shares the
lure and magic of the campus and its unique architecture. Formally
established in 1889, UNM has evolved into a major American university,
overcoming geographical isolation and the relative poverty and rural
circumstances of much of the state's small population. Since its
founding on the sand hills above downtown Albuquerque in 1889, the
University of New Mexico has graduated countless thousands of students
who have been the mainstays of New Mexico's economic, political, and
cultural life. The heart and soul of Albuquerque, and beloved by its
alumni across the country and around the world, UNM is much more than
an alma mater. It has querencia, a place in our hearts, like a
homeland.

04.11.10: Yehuda Berg - True Prosperity: How to Have Everything

Sun, 07 Mar 2010 12:07:24 -0500

Start: Sun, 04/11/2010 - 3:00pm

End: Sun, 04/11/2010 - 3:00pm

Everyone wants to be financially successful, but great financial
success often brings negative side effects in other areas. In this
exciting new paperback edition of his popular book, Yehuda Berg shows
why the true purpose of our lives is complete happiness and total
fulfillment. Drawing on the lessons of years of study and teaching, True Prosperity
shows how the teachings of Kabbalah, the world’s oldest body of
spiritual wisdom, can be used every day and every moment — not only to
achieve success in one aspect of life, but to avoid the setbacks in
other areas that can render any accomplishment empty and meaningless.
Readers will gain powerful, practical tools for achieving unlimited
abundance in money and finance, health and fitness, family and
relationships, and lifelong spiritual growth. "Success without side
effects" is the ultimate destination of every human being, and True Prosperity is the roadmap for getting there.

04.13.10: Stephen Fried - Appetite for America

Tue, 16 Feb 2010 18:54:09 -0500

Start: Tue, 04/13/2010 - 7:00pm

End: Tue, 04/13/2010 - 7:00pm

Appetite for America is the incredible real-life story of Fred
Harvey—told in depth for the first time ever—as well as the story of
this country’s expansion into the Wild West of Bat Masterson and Billy
the Kid, of the great days of the railroad, of a time when a deal could
still be made with a handshake and the United States was still uniting.
As a young immigrant, Fred Harvey worked his way up from dishwasher to
household name: He was Ray Kroc before McDonald’s, J. Willard Marriott
before Marriott Hotels, Howard Schultz before Starbucks. His eating
houses and hotels along the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe railroad
(including historic lodges still in use at the Grand Canyon) were
patronized by princes, presidents, and countless ordinary travelers
looking for the best cup of coffee in the country. Harvey’s staff of
carefully screened single young women—the celebrated Harvey Girls—were

04.18.10: Erin Hunter - Warriors: Omen of the Stars Fading Echoes

Wed, 17 Feb 2010 14:10:20 -0500

Start: Sun, 04/18/2010 - 12:00am

End: Sun, 04/18/2010 - 12:00am

Further information coming soon!

Out of store venue to be determined.

04.18.10: Joe Sonderman - Route 66 in New Mexico

Tue, 16 Feb 2010 18:59:20 -0500

Start: Sun, 04/18/2010 - 3:00pm

End: Sun, 04/18/2010 - 3:00pm

New Mexico is "The Land of Enchantment," offering a fascinating blend
of Native American, Spanish Colonial, and Western American cultures.
The travelers from the East knew they had arrived in the great
Southwest when they entered New Mexico--the towns along Route 66 were
ablaze in neon, and the motels lured travelers with Western themes,
Pueblo Revival architecture, and Native American trading posts. An
adventure still awaits the traveler today who takes the time to exit
I-40 and leave the franchised blandness behind. The neon still flickers
at the Blue Swallow Motel in Tucumcari, on Central Avenue in
Albuquerque, and at the El Rancho Hotel in Gallup. The "Fat Man" still
smiles at Joseph's Bar and Grill in Santa Rosa. The stories behind
those landmarks are here, as well as the stories behind establishments
that are lost forever or slowly crumbling to dust among the
tumbleweeds.