Bookworks Albuquerque Releases Full Schedule of May Events

ALBUQUERQUE-Bookworks is pleased to offer fans of literary fiction, serious nonfiction, and kids and teen reads many quality events to choose from in May.

Sherman Alexie headlines in May with an evening event at the KiMo Theater May 26. Alexie will be on tour for his new children's picture book, Thunder Boy Jr. and participating in the fourth installment of A Word with Writers, Bookworks' fundraiser with the Albuquerque Library Foundation. Tickets are $25 and $50 and include a library donation and a signed copy of Thunder Boy Jr. Tickets and more information is available at bkwrks.com/sherman-alexie.

Stephen Graham Jones, one of the preeminent Native American writers of sci-fi, fantasy, and other literary forms, comes to Bookworks May 9 with new werewolf fiction, Mongrels. Mongrels is more than a monster story; it explores how a family of outsiders learns to live with difference and with their own sometimes horrific identities.

Longmire creator Craig Johnson returns May 17 for an evening event at the Main Library downtown. Johnson will talk about his new Longmire novella, The Highwayman, in the library auditorium and will sign books afterward. The event is free and open to the public.

On May 7, Bookworks hosts Elizabeth Church for her new literary novel of Los Alamos, The Atomic Weight of Love. Katarina Bivald, Swedish author of Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend visits May 13. Santa Fe author James Reich explores the character of Heart of Darkness's Mr. Kurtz in his new literary novel, Mistah Kurtz, reading at Bookworks May 19.

Other literary delights for adults this month include a memoir workshop on May 10with editor Pamela Yenser and author EM Sloan; painter and author Anita Rodriguez reads from Coyota in the Kitchen, new from UNM Press, on May 29.

On the nonfiction front, Bob Julyan visits with Hiking to History on May 21. Mark Lee Gardner returns May 14 with a new book on Teddy Roosevelt, Rough Riders.

Kids events are plentiful in May. Children's Book Week is May 2-8. A Children's Book Week kickoff with refreshments and discussion is May 2 at 4:30. Bookworks hosts a May the Fourth be With You Star Wars party May 4 at 4, a story time May 5 at 10:30, and a reading of Barbara Bean's Otto and the Octopus on May 17 at 10:30. Shivers! The Pirate Who's Afraid of Everything, authors Annabeth Bondor-Stone and Connor White return with Shivers! book #2 on May 14 at 10:30am. Big on Animals features and Teen Book Club are both on May 21, at 10:30 and 4:30 respectively. More info on kids events via email at kids@bkwrks.com.

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