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Start: 7:00 pm
Albuquerque consultant and author of the bestselling The Small Business Start-Up Kit Peri Pakroo discusses & signs her new book The Women's Small Business Start-Up Kit (Nolo, $29.99), which retains its focus on women's business-related issues and includes interviews with successful women who have started businesses. Approximately ten million US businesses are currently women-owned, and the number is growing at twice the national average for all businesses, and this book specifically emphasizes concerns for female entrepreneurs. Peri Pakroo manages P-Brain media, consults for businesses and nonprofits, teaches adult education courses at the Women's Economic Self-Sufficiency Team (WESST), a nonprofit whose mission is to facilitate entrepreneurship among women and inorities in the state of New Mexico, and Peri is active in supporting local, independent businesses and is a co-founder of the Albuquerque Independent Business Alliance. | 7
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Start: 7:00 pm
On the eve of the 50th anniversary of To Kill a Mockingbird comes The Queen of Palmyra(Harper, $14.99), a debut novel from Minrose Gwin about a young girl in Civil Rights-era Mississippi and the horrosrs she witnesses one summer. Gwin will discuss and sign her new novel, which has been called "The most powerful and also the most lyrical novel about race, racism, and denial in the American South since To Kill a Mockingbird" (Lee Smith, author of On Agate Hill). Like Kathryn Stockett's breakout novel The Help, The Queen of Palmyra is set in 1960s Mississippi and deals with a segregated society in which black women are paid poorly to raise white people's children - this book will appeal to fans of Stockett and book clubs alike. Gwin teaches contemporary fiction at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and creative writing workshops at the University of New Mexico Taos Writers Conference. Her previous memoir, Wishing for Snow, a memoir that traces her mother's unraveling from a young parent to an emotionally unstable, even dangerous, older woman. "Divert your reader and then "clobber" them, advised Flannery O'Connor. In this bold and brilliant book, Minrose Gwin diverts us with the affecting voice of a child and then clobbers us with the ugly truths of our collective past. I can almost hear O'Connor cheering." | 9
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Start: 3:00 pm
At a time when Arizona's new immigration law has created an intensified national controversy over the value and worth of the people of our border regions, Steven and Reefka Schneider's new collection of poetry and art Borderlines: Drawing Border Lives (Wings Press, $19.95) has the power to make us pause to reflect on the stories and conditions of their lives. Steven and Reefka will sign and present drawings and poetry from the book, a series of 25 moving vignettes of border people and their lives expressed as a page of poetry in English and Spanish opposite its related portrait. Steven P. Schneider is a professor in the Department of English at the University of Texas-Pan American, and is a founding member of the South Texas Literacy Coalition in the Rio Grande Valley. he is the recipient of two Big Read grants from the NEA, and has used Borderlines: Drawing Border Lives traveling exhibit to promote the teaching of culturally relevant literature and creativity. His poems and essays have been published in journals including Tikkun, Prairie Schooner, and Critical Quarterly, and his books include A.R. Ammons and the Poetics of Widening Scope and poetry collections Prairie Air Show and Unexpected Guests. |
