Celebrate Bookworks' Teacher Appreciation Day with Santa Fe teacher and author Rob Wilder, who will start off the school year with anecdotes from his bestselling Tales from the Teacher's Lounge (Delta, $14.00) and a new compilation What I Would Tell Her (Harlequin, $13.95), which collects essays on father/daughter relationships.  Teachers will receive 25% off all books including Rob's between 11am and 1pm. 

Tales from the Teacher's Lounge is a series of irreverent, wickedly observant essays about what it really means to be a teacher today.  With brutal candor he chronicles his own lively adventures in modern education, from navigating cutthroat kindergarten sign-ups to subbing for a class experiment gone wrong-and dares to tell about it.  He shares the surprising lessons he's learned in the trenches of his profession, including how to bribe a four-year-old (his own) to stop swearing in a Lutheran preschool and the best way to teach moody teenagers...manage "helicopter" parents...and cope with bullies-whether of the school-yard, Internet, or parental kind. 

Rob Wilder lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico, with his wife, artist Lala, and their two children, Poppy and London.  Wilder is a graduate of the Warren Wilson MFA Program for Writers, New Mexico State University (M.A.), and Wesleyan University (B.A.). He has published essays in Newsweek, Details, Salon, Creative Nonfiction, Working Mother, El Palacio, The Greensboro Review, The Colorado Review, and elsewhere. He has been a commentator for NPR's Morning Edition, On Point and many other regional and national radio programs. His Daddy Needs a Drink Minute airs twice weekly on KBAC FM. He is the former director of the Southwest Literary Center of Recursos de Santa Fe, which includes the Writers Reading Series and the Santa Fe Writers Conference. His column, "Daddy Needs a Drink," is published monthly in the Santa Fe Reporter.