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Melissa Pritchard, The Odditorium: Stories (Bellevue Literary Press, $14.95)
Start: 3:00 pm

In each of these eight genre-bending tales, Melissa Pritchard overturns the conventions of mysteries, westerns, gothic horror, and historical fiction to capture surprising and often shocking aspects of her characters' lives.

In one story, Pritchard creates a pastiche of historical facts, songs, and tall tales, contrasting the famed figures of Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show, including Annie Oakley and Sitting Bull, with the real, genocidal history of the American West. In other stories, she explores the mysterious life of Kaspar Hauser, a haunted Victorian Hospital where the wounded of D-Day are taken during WWII, the courtyard where Edgar Allen Poe played as a child, and from Robert LeRoy Ripley, of "Ripley's Believe It or Not," and his beguiling "odditoriums."

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Fred M. Phillips, G. Emlen Hall, and Mary E. Black for Reining in the Rio Grande: People, Land and Water (UNM Press, $34.95)
Start: 7:00 pm

The Rio Grande was ancient long before the first humans reached its banks. These days, the highly regulated river looks nothing like it did to those early settlers. Alternately viewed as a valuable ecosystem and life-sustaining foundation of community welfare or a commodity to be engineered to yield maximum economic benefit, the Rio Grande has brought many advantages to those who live in its valley, but the benefits have come at a price.

This study examines human interactions with the Rio Grande from prehistoric time to the present day and explores what possibilities remain for the desert river. From the perspectives of law, development, tradition, and geology, the authors weigh what has been gained and lost by reining in the Rio Grande.

Fred M. Phillips directs the hydrology program in the department of earth and environmental sciences at the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology.

G. Emlen Hall is professor emeritus in the School of Law at the University of New Mexico. His most recent book is High and Dry (UNM Press).

Mary Black is a researcher with SAHRA, the NSF Science and Technology Center for Sustainability of Semi-Arid Hydrology and Riparian Areas, University of Arizona.

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Story Time at Bookworks!!
Start: 10:30 am

Start the year reading with your young children. Bookworks resumes our weekly Story Time! We will gather every Thursday morning at 10:30 in our children's book corner. Stories, snacks and just a little bit of singing!

Maggie Macnab, Design by Nature
Start: 7:00 pm

In Design by Nature: Using Universal Forms and Principles in Design, author Maggie Macnab takes you on an intimate and eclectic journey examining the unending versatility of nature, showing how to uncover nature's ingenuity and use it to create beautiful and compelling designed communications.
Written for designers and creative thinkers of all types, this book will guide you through a series of unexpected a-ha! moments that describe relationships among nature, art, science, technology, and design. Through explanation and example, you will learn about natural processes, consisting of everyday patterns and shapes that are often taken for granted, but that can be used effectively in visual messaging. Explore the principles all human beings intuitively use to understand the world and learn to incorporate nature's patterns and shapes into your work for more meaningful design.
By recognizing and appreciating a broad range of relationships, you can create more aesthetic and effective design, building communications that encompass the universal experience of being part of nature, and that are relevant to a worldwide audience.
Maggie Macnab has been creating iconic logos and graphic design since the early 1980s, fueled by her passion for nature and her love of design and the creative problem-solving process. Maggie's work has been recognized by Communication Arts, Print magazine, Step-by-Step Graphics, the American Advertising Federation, the New York Art Directors Club, and the AIGA. She speaks at conferences and schools in the United States and abroad, has owned Macnab Design since 1981, and teaches design theory at the University of New Mexico and Santa Fe University of Art and Design. She is the author of Decoding Design: Understanding and Using Symbols in Visual Communication.

To download a free chapter of the book, go to www.designbynaturebook.com

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Sit and Sign with Carol Olmstead
Start: 7:00 pm

February is associated with romance, and whether you want to attract love or rev up the love you have, a little Feng Shui goes a long way. Stop by the store when Feng Shui Master Practitioner Carol Olmstead answers your questions about Feng Shui and romance. Meet Carol, receive her free tip sheet "27 Ways to Rev Up Your Love Life," and ask your questions. When you purchase Carol's award-winning book, the "Feng Shui Quick Guide For Home and Office: Secrets For Attracting Wealth, Harmony, and Love," you receive a certificate for a free 30-minute Feng Shui phone consultation.

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Sidewalk Sale at Bookworks!
Start: 9:00 am
End: 9:00 pm

We've just brought out a TON of sale books and marked down a lot of our non-book merchandise, so come by and check it out on Saturday - we're open from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m.! Buy two, get one FREE on ALL of the books and merchandise on our outside sale carts! And, all 2012 calendars in the store are marked down 50%. Plus, come see Cherie Burns speak about Millicent Rogers at 3 p.m.!

 

 

Cherie Burns, Searching for Beauty: The Life of Millicent Rogers
Start: 3:00 pm

Nobody knew how to live the high life like Millicent Rogers. Born into luxury, she lived in a whirl of beautiful homes, European vacations, exquisite clothing and handsome men. In Searching for Beauty, Cherie Burns chronicles Rogers's glittering life from her days as a young girl afflicted with rheumatic fever to her debutante debut and her Taos finale. A rebellious icon of the age, she eloped with a penniless baron, danced tangos in European nightclubs, divorced, remarried and romanced, among others, Clark Gable. Her romantic conquests, though, paled in comparison to her triumph in the fashion world where she electrified the fashionistas by becoming the muse to designer Charles James, appearing in Vogue and Harper's Bazaar and - at the end of her life - retreating to Taos, New Mexico where she popularized Southwestern style. With Searching for Beauty, Millicent Rogers enters the pantheon of great American women who, like Diana Vreeland and Babe Paley, put their distinctive stamp on American Style.
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