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Start: 3:00 pm
Photographer David Grant Noble presents a slideshow and signs In the Places of the Spirits(SAR Press, $$30 paper & 60.00 cloth), a collection of photography interwoven with personal reflections and historical and anthropological information that represents the culmination of Noble's forty-year career as a fine arts photographer and writer. It features images of the land, people, and deep past of the Southwest, most published here for the first time. "Explorer, writer, and photographer extraordinaire David Grant Noble leads us on an archaeological odyssey through the Southwestern landscape. The spirituality of the places and the Native American inhabitants, both contemporary and ancient, are splendidly captured by Noble's elegant prose and vivid photographs. In the Places of the Spirits is a very personal chronicle by one of the Southwest's most sensitive and insightful observers." Start: 5:30 pm
5:30pm Sunday, July 25International Teacher of Toltec Wisdom don Jose Ruiz: The Fifth Agreement 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, who will discuss the new lesson at Bookworks. 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. Don Jose Ruiz was born in Mexico City, Mexico and was raised in Tijuana, Mexico. When he was 21 he came to live in the U.S. with his father, don Miguel Ruiz. In his early twenties, don Jose lost his eyesight, and through surrender and faith in concert with modern medicine, Jose recovered his vision. | 26
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Start: 7:00 pm
Melanie Sumner discusses and signs her new novel The Ghost of Milagro Creek (Algonquin, $13.95), a convincing, despairing portrait of Taos, NM that is reminiscent of Rudolfo Anaya'sBless Me, Ultima. The story of Ignacia Vigil Romero, a full Jacarilla Apache, and the two boys she raised to adulthood, Mister and Tomas, unfolds in a barrio of Taos, NM - a mixed community of Native Americans, Hispanics, and whites. Now deceased, Ignacia, a curandera - a medicine woman - begins this tale of starcrossed lovers. Sumner's cast and a strong sense of Native American and Latino spirituality create a fascinating portrait of a community, wrapping issues of alcoholism, friendship, parental neglect, and conflicted identity around a miltidimensional tragedy, and Sumner captures the pain - and the humor - of a particular hardscrabble life and the voices of people who do not ordinarily frequent the pages of American fiction. Sumner received an NEA grant this year and her short stories have appeared in the New Yorker and Harper's. Her previous books include The School of Beauty and Charm, a novel, andPolite Society, stories. In 1995 she received a Whiting award for fiction, and she teaches creative writing at Kennesaw State University in Georgia. On writing The Ghost of Milagro Creek, she says: | 28
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Start: 7:00 pm
Naseem Rakha, who as a reporter covered state run executions, discussess and signs her debut novel The Crying Tree (Broadway, $22.95), which has been praised as this year's Lovely Bonesand won the 2010 Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association Book Award. Rakha tells a story of a mother who must overcome the hate, grief, and secrets that surround the murder of her 15 year old son, and defy church and family as she attempts to stop the execution of the man who killed her boy. Naseem explores the death penalty and forgiveness with her audience through the lens of our justice system, her experiences as a reporter for public radio, as well as subsequent interviews with crime victims, inmates, corrections officials and exonerated death row prisoners. Rakha is an award winning broadcast journalist who is intrigued by the capacity to forgive the unforgiveable - a quality she has witnessed in her work as a teacher and consultant for Native American tribes, as a mediator in the clean up of the nuclear site that created the Nagasaki bomb, and as a reporter covering state run executions. Prior to journalism Naseem taught Holistic Resource Management to farmers, ranchers and tribes throughout the US and Canada. Her stories have been heard on NPR's All Things Considered, Morning Edition, Marketplace Radio, Christian Science Monitor, and Living on Earth. | 30
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Start: 3:00 pm
Canning, fermenting, freezing, drying - just a few of the many ways eaters can preserve the fantastic flavors of locally grown foods. Whether you're a canning novice or preservation pro, this book gives eaters all the information they need to put 'em up. Eating locally is on everybodys mind, and nothing is more local than Heirloom Salsa made from vine-fresh tomatoes or a quick batch of Ice-Box Berry Jam saved from the seasons last berries. Real food advocate Sherri Brooks Vinton offers recipes with exciting flavor combinations to please contemporary palates and put preserved fruits and vegetables on dinner-party menus everywhere. Pickled Asparagus and Wasabi Beans are delicious additions to holiday relish trays; Sweet Pepper Marmalade perks up cool-weather roasts; and Berry Bourbon is an unexpected base for a warming cocktail - and the best versions of tried-and-true favorites are all here too! "Sherri Brooks Vinton's new book Put 'em Up is exactly what a lot of us need right now - some good guidance on how to preserve that summer harvest we've grown to love and want to experience throughout the year. What a delicious way to eat locally even when the snow is falling." Sherri's first book The Real Food Revival: Aisle by Aisle, Morsel by Morsel offers practical tips for eaters who want a more delicious sustainable future. She is a member of Women Chefs and Restaurateurs, the International Association of Culinary Professionals, the Northeast Organic Farmers Association, and Chefs Collaborative. |
