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Events
04 / 28
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04 / 29
Start: 7:00 pm
As he turns 40, Rouse (Confessions of a Prep School Mommy Handler, | ||
04 / 30
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05 / 1
Start: 3:00 pm
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). | ||
05 / 2
Start: 3:00 pm
Do we own our possessions, or do they own us? That's one of the questions pondered in Tracy's memoir Objects of Our Affection (Bantam, $25.00) Following their mother's death, Tracy and her sister were faced with the daunting task of sifting through her belongings - acres of heirlooms, from an elegant, satin-bottomed chair that might have once been occupied by George Washington to a pair of dueling pistols purportedly owned by Aaron Burr. But were these worth anything more than the stories they contained? When the sisters decide to put selected pieces up for auction, they are both sobered-and occasionally surprised-by the prices they fetch and the remorse they feel when the deals are done. Have they sold their family's soul? | ||
05 / 3
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05 / 4
Start: 7:00 pm
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. | ||
05 / 5
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05 / 6
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05 / 7
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05 / 8
Start: 3:00 pm
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. | ||
05 / 9
Start: 3:00 pm
Bookworks presents our monthly local author fair. New Mexico is full of creative people; come see what your neighbors have been writing! | ||
05 / 10
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05 / 11
Start: 7:00 pm
David Deardorff and Kathryn Wadsworth present a slideshow, diagnose your sick plants and sign their new book What's Wrong with My Plant?(Timber Press, $24.95). Dealing with a sick plant is one of the most frustrating situations a gardener can face, and more often than not, we have no idea what is causing the problem, or how to fix it. What's Wrong With My Plant?(And How Do I Fix It?) provides an easy system for visually diagnosing any problem, and matching it to the right cure. This innovative and easy-to-use guide is split into three parts: easy-to-follow flow charts, 100% organic solutions to your problem, and photographs of stressed, damaged, and diseased plants. If you can see it, you can fix it! | ||
05 / 12
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05 / 13
Start: 7:00 pm
Laura Bell discusses and sign her new book about the modern WestClaiming Ground (Knopf, $24.95). | ||
05 / 14
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05 / 15
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05 / 16
Start: 3:00 pm
Diana Joseph is a debut memoirist whose new book I'm Sorry You Feel That Way: The Astonishing but True Story of a Daughter, Sister, Slut, Wife, Mother, and Friend to Man and Dog(Berkely, $15.00) was called scrappy and wisecracking by O Magazine. It has brazen sexuality, a golden heart, and a hard-boiled sense of humor - and is ultimately a memoir about what it's like to be a modern, smart woman making her way in the world. Joseph's mordant sense of humor will endear her to fans of Dave Sedaris and Sarah Vowell. Start: 5:30 pm
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. | ||
05 / 17
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05 / 18
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05 / 19
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05 / 20
Start: 7:00 pm
Debut mystery writer Deborah Coonts is self-proclaimed proof-positive that sex sells, and an overnight success! With her new book Wanna Get Lucky?(Forge,$24.99) , Coonts starts off a series in the spirit of Janet Evanovich that revolves around Las Vegas casino intrigue and a fun, independent female character named Lucky O'Toole. Deborah lives in Las Vegas, and has plenty of insider stories that pepper Lucky's adventures: she must manage the Babylon Hotel's onslaught of outrageous festivities, solve a murder, and struggle to keep her life and libido from spinning out of control... not to mention keep her balance in six inch heels. "Paints a dead-on portrait of Las Vegas that is somehow dark, outrageous, and hilarious at the same time. Lucky O'Toole is wise, witty, and brimming with cheery cynicism. Wanna Get Lucky? goes down faster than an ice-cold Bombay martini-very dry, of course, and with a twist." | ||
05 / 21
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05 / 22
Start: 3:00 pm
New Mexico authors Melinda Snodgrass and Ian Tregillis, who have worked with George R.R. Martin on the imaginative Wild Cardseries, both have new solo books! Snodgrass's The Edge of Ruin (Tor, $27.99), sequel to 2008's The Edge of Reason continues the war of science vs. magic as Albuquerque cop Richard Oort struggles to take charge of the forces of reason. In 1984 she and George R.R. Martin cooked up the Wild Cardseries, a shared world anthology with a focus on the real impact of super heroes in our world. The series was nominated for a Hugo award, and three new installments have just been published! | ||
05 / 23
Start: 3:00 pm
UNM School of Medicine faculty Dora Calott Wang discusses and signs her new book The Kitchen Shrink(Riverhead, $25.95), a personal story of how a psychiatrist confronts the profound changes sweeping the medical establishment as they reshape her life and career. In the past two decades, a seismic shift has occurred within the walls of our nation's hospitals and doctor's offices. The medical profession- once considered a sacred, cherished vocation-has devolved into a business motivated by a desire for profits. Even psychiatry, once the mainstay of the human interaction between doctor and patient, has fallen victim to rising costs and dictates by insurance sources. Part personal story and part rallying cry, The Kitchen Shrink is an unflinchingly honest, passionate, and humane inside look at the unsettling realities of free-market medicine in today's America. | ||
05 / 24
Start: 7:00 pm
Author Sabra Brown Steinsiek and illustrator Noel Chilton will tell the story of The Pronghorned Cantaloupe (Rio Grande Books, $17.95), a bilingual children’s book that will make you look at breakfast a little differently! Cantaloupe is a great fruit for breakfast or a snack…at least they are now. But there was a time when wild pronghorned cantaloupe roamed the land and you had to get past sharp, ripping horns to get one if you wanted that sweet treat. Follow Andy and his boy in the time of the great cantaloupe roundups for a great story about the wildest – and tastiest – things alive! Sabra Brown Steinsiek is a life-long librarian turned author. She has written award-winning romance novels for adults and a book of haiku poetry. The Tale of the Pronghorned Cantaloupe is her first children’s book. Steinsiek is the founder of ReadingNewMexico.com, the only website devoted to reviewing New Mexico books. | ||
05 / 25
Start: 7:00 pm
Further information coming soon! | ||
05 / 26
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05 / 27
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05 / 28
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05 / 29
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05 / 30
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05 / 31
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06 / 1
Start: 7:00 pm
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." | ||
06 / 2
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06 / 3
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06 / 4
Start: 10:00 pm
Start: Fri, 06/04/2010 - 10:00pm
End: Sat, 06/05/2010 - 12:00am
Preorder your copy of Stephanie Meyer's new novella spin-off from the Twilight series The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner.
Time is running out. Her life so brief, fleeting, she will be gone before the zombies beginning their dead-eye wandering, before the ghosts rise in cloudy form and circulate among the tombstones. Time is running out for Bree Tanner, but Stephenie Meyer has captured her brief life on paper – a novella that goes on sale at 12:01 a.m. June 5th. Bookworks is going to brave the dark, laugh at the shivery chills, and search the sky for moonlight to count the very short minutes between 10 p.m and 12:01. Please don't make us go to the scary realms alone! We need your company for two hours of graveyard goulishness - two hours of creepy, bloody goings on until we can present to you the newest Stephenie Meyer book, The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner, filled with contests, music, scares, and lots of prizes! Activities:
At ten o'clock you will be asked to search high and low for as many vampire faces as you can on the floor, on shelves, on books... small, fiendish faces staring up at you.
Collect them, count them, and the one with most wins a book that won’t be published until October: Nightshade, by Andrew Cremer.
But don't forget time is running out! Sharpen your memory fangs to be prepared to name as many Twilight characters as you can write out in red ink in an hour glass minute.
Costumes will be awarded. If you come as a vampire you will win a prize, if you come as a zombie you will win a prize, and if you come dress beautifully in black and red you will win a prize - but time is running out, plan your costume quickly and don't be late!
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06 / 5
End: 12:00 am
Start: Fri, 06/04/2010 - 10:00pm
End: Sat, 06/05/2010 - 12:00am
Preorder your copy of Stephanie Meyer's new novella spin-off from the Twilight series The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner.
Time is running out. Her life so brief, fleeting, she will be gone before the zombies beginning their dead-eye wandering, before the ghosts rise in cloudy form and circulate among the tombstones. Time is running out for Bree Tanner, but Stephenie Meyer has captured her brief life on paper – a novella that goes on sale at 12:01 a.m. June 5th. Bookworks is going to brave the dark, laugh at the shivery chills, and search the sky for moonlight to count the very short minutes between 10 p.m and 12:01. Please don't make us go to the scary realms alone! We need your company for two hours of graveyard goulishness - two hours of creepy, bloody goings on until we can present to you the newest Stephenie Meyer book, The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner, filled with contests, music, scares, and lots of prizes! Activities:
At ten o'clock you will be asked to search high and low for as many vampire faces as you can on the floor, on shelves, on books... small, fiendish faces staring up at you.
Collect them, count them, and the one with most wins a book that won’t be published until October: Nightshade, by Andrew Cremer.
But don't forget time is running out! Sharpen your memory fangs to be prepared to name as many Twilight characters as you can write out in red ink in an hour glass minute.
Costumes will be awarded. If you come as a vampire you will win a prize, if you come as a zombie you will win a prize, and if you come dress beautifully in black and red you will win a prize - but time is running out, plan your costume quickly and don't be late!
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06 / 6
Start: 11:00 am
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. Start: 3:00 pm
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'. | ||
06 / 7
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06 / 8
Start: 7:00 pm
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." | ||
06 / 9
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06 / 10
Start: 7:00 pm
Joseph Traugott is Curator of Twentieth Century Art at the New Mexico Museum of Art and author of Gustave Baumann's Southwest and The Art of New Mexico. He presents a slideshow of his newest book Sole Mates: Cowboy Boots and Art (Museum of New Mexico Press, $34.95), which takes a serious and ironic look at popular icons in western American culture - cowboy boots and masterpieces in western art - to explore American cultural values and pervasive themes in twentieth century art. | ||
06 / 11
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06 / 12
Start: 3:00 pm
Join Carolyn Meyer for an 18th century tea to celebrate her newest addition to the Young Royals series for young adults. The Bad Queen: Rules and Instructions for Marie Antoinette (Houghton Mifflen Harcourt, $18.00) explores the dizzying rise and horrific downfall of the last Queen of France, Marie Antoinette. In celebration of Marie's name day (June 13th), the Feast of St. Anthony, we'll have a costume that illustrates women's royal attire of the time, and a contest for best hairstyle befitting Marie Antoinette - so wear your most lavish style! We'll also have live period music from cellist Christien Beeuwkes and violist Laura Kuechenmeister, and will learn how to do the minuet! This event will be a history lesson wrapped in elegance! | ||
