Psychology Today contributor Eileen Garvin's memoir How to Be a Sister: A Love Story with a Twist of Autism explores the simultaneously awkward, hilarious, and heartbreaking situations she (The Experiment, $15.00) experienced as a younger sister to Margaret, diagnosed with severe autism at age 3.

Meta Chaya Hirschl, founder of Gold Street's YogaNow, finally has a book!  Join her at Bookworks for an off-the-mat yoga demonstration and relaxing homemade chai.

Bookworks will be hosting a poetry reading featuring several local poets, lots of coffee, and a moderated discussion focusing on the current state of poetry - developments and challenges facing the genre.

Patricipants will include V.B. Price, Rebecca Aronson, Anne Valley-Fox, and Myria Mandell.  Please call Bookworks with questions.

Seasoned New Mexico anthropologist and psychotherapist Stephen Powell's Apocalyptic Grace: The Evolution of Culture and Consciousness (Ocean Tree, $24.00) illuminates the hunter/gatherer, horticultural, agrarian, and industrial/technological Worlds that have prevailed until the present moment.

As he turns 40, Rouse (Confessions of a Prep School Mommy Handler,
2007) admits to becoming “the ultimate cliché”: he’s mentally and
physically exhausted, hates his job, and realizes there is a void in
his life that the city is no longer filling. He and his partner, Gary,
take a vacation in Saugatuck, Michigan, “a Midwestern Martha’s
Vineyard,” and on the spot decide to sell their home in St. Louis and
move to the woods. Rouse vows to become a “modern-day Thoreau” and sets
out to follow 10 life goals, roughly along the tenets espoused by
Thoreau in Walden, Rouse’s favorite book. Rouse chronicles the
hilarious escapades of these “two neurotic urbanites” as they ensconce
themselves in the woods without magazine subscriptions, malls, Trader
Joe’s, HGTV, or lattes. Rouse feels like a Martian confronting the
locals at the general store, and suffers extreme anxiety when
attempting ice fishing and karaoke. Gay or straight, any reader who has

Beloved writer Rudolfo Anaya returns to Bookworks for a storytime and signing of his newest children's book Juan and the Jackalope (UNM Press, $18.95).

Known for his position as news anchor for PBS News Hour, and frequent moderator ofpresidential debates, Jim Lehrer is also a prolific writer!  Lehrer returns to Bookworks to discuss andsign his new novel Super (RandomHouse, $25.00).  This book, his twentiethwork of fiction is one of his most captivating. It’s a story set on the SantaFe railroad’s famous Super Chief – “The Train of theStars.”  Like Murder on the Orient Express, Superbrings together a fascinating cast of characters – including Clark Gable andHarry Truman – and as the train gains speed, a series of deadly events unfolds.

Watch the PBS NewsHour on KNME 5.1  Monday through Friday at 5:30pm. 

Water-Wise Plants for the Southwest (Cool Springs Press, $19.95) is a must have resource for any Southwest gardener facing water-shortages, and it's filled with expert advice from proven low-water gardeners, including New Mexico's Judith Phillips!  

The book features inspirational photos of low-water residential landscapes and more than 100 plant recommendations with helpful icons for ease of use. Also included is an extensive reference guide with listings of botanical and water conservation demonstration gardens, educational opportunities, irrigation suppliers, technical support, websites, and professional organizations. Recommend to any gardener facing limited water resources, it's especially applicable to New Mexico gardeners.

Bookworks presents our monthly local author fair. New Mexico is full of creative people; come see what your neighbors have been writing!
 
Trish Porter: Rekindle Your Dreams($12.99). Today's women are discovering they want to fulfill their dreams, in addition to raising a family or after theirchildren leave home. In this book, Trish Porter encourages and shows busy women how to live their dream, even if they think it is too late or they can't find the time. Provided in her book are the tools to successfully pursue your passion. 

A New York Times bestseller for over seven years, The Four Agreements provides the foundation for breaking thousands of agreements that create needless suffering.  International bestselling author and teacher don Miguel Ruiz has a new book, written in collaboration with his son don Jose Ruiz.  Incorporating a new agreement, "Be skeptical, but learn to listen," The Fifth Agreement (Amber Allen, $19.95) prepares us to return to our innate wisdom, and live our lives based on truth.

Hampton Sides discusses & signs his new book Hellhound on His Trail: The Stalking of Martin Luther King, Jr. and the International Hunt for His Assassin (Doubleday, $28.95). Sides' research on this subject forms much of the basis for PBS's documentary Road to Memphis, which originally aired on May 3. Sides illuminates not only the forces that culminated in King's assassination; he also reveals the largely forgotten story of how his death led to the largest manhunt in American history.

His research included hundreds of thousands of unpublished documents including crime scene photos, police reports, unexpurgated FBI files, and audio tapes - all from a retired Memphis cop who has compiled the most comprehensive digital archive about the assassination. Sides says, "Every non-fiction writer needs to find a guy named Vince."