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."

Illustrator Juan Wijngaard joins us for a storytime featuring his newest book Cloud Tea Monkeys (Candlewick, $15.99), a Junior Library Guild Selection with sumptuous illustrations inspired by a centuries-old legend of tea picking monkeys. Wijngaard will also discuss the process of illustration, and answer any questions!.

Tashi lives in a tiny village at the foot of the mountains, below the tea plantations where her mother works. When her mother falls ill, Tashi goes alone to the plantation, hoping to earn money for the doctor, but she is far too small to harvest the tender shoots, and her clumsy efforts anger the cruel Overseer. She is desolate, until something extraordinary happens.

This is a richly told tale full of vivid characters: the heartless Overseer, the enigmatic Royal Tea Taster, and - far away - an empress with a penchant for tea.

With Cuba off limits to Americans and large fines served to some defiant travelers, many have given up on seeing the 'buena vista' of this controversial Caribbean isle. World bicycle traveler Lynette Chiang (The Galfromdownunder) presents a slideshow and talk based on her book, The Handsomest Man in Cuba (Globe Pequot, $14.95), an apolitical, no-bucket-baths spared tale of what it is like to eat, drink and be cautiously merry among ordinary Cubans.

Hailed by Australian critics as 'one of the best on-the-road travel books of this generation', the USA edition won a Silver Award for Travel Essays in Foreword Magazine's Book of the Year 2004. It features a foreword by acclaimed USA author and bicycle adventurer The Metal Cowboy. Lynette presented this book on Good Morning Australia and Forbes.com 'Rugged Individualists'.

Novelist Brady Udall, whose The Miracle Life of Edgar Mint Newsweek writes is"like nothing you've ever read," discusses and signs his new book The Lonely Polygamist (Norton, $26.95), the story of a plural Mormon family that rivals the work of John Irving - and is also like nothing you've ever read. Easily a contender for book awards this year, we're very excited to share this book, and it's store owner Nancy's favorite novel of 2010 so far!

Brady Udall's family includes former Arizona US Representative Stewart Udall and current New Mexico Senator Tom Udall.

"The Lonely Polygamist is the story of 45-year-old Golden Richards, a hapless soul, whose four wives, 28 children, and one paramour run his life. By turns laugh-out-loud funny and hauntingly sad, this novel is a big, fat, satisfying read that will make you reconsider what it means to be part of a family. Plus, it contains the naughtiest, goofiest 11 year old boy will ever break your heart."