October at Bookworks Features Craig Johnson with Longmire Short Stories; Lincoln Peirce Visits with a New Big Nate Book, and More!

Bookworks' October calendar is full of events for all ages and range of literary taste. Biographies, mysteries, local nonfiction, poetry, and art are among the mix, as are events for kids and book clubs. The whole calendar can be found atbkwrks.com/event.

New York Times best-selling author of the series that inspired the Longmire television series, Craig Johnson, visits Albuquerque on Halloween day for a reading from his new paperback collection of short stories, Wait for Signs. Co-sponsored by ABC Library, the event is free and will take place Saturday, October 31, 3pm, at the auditorium at the Main Library downtown. Attendees can park in the city garage across the street and bring their parking stubs into the library for free, validated parking.

Bookworks is pleased to partner with Bosque School October 28 for a school fundraiser and talk with ABC news correspondent John Quinones. A range of ticketing prices will be available and will include a signed copy of Quinones' book What Would You Do? Visit the Bosque School website at http://www.bosqueschool.org/ for more details and to purchase a ticket.

TJ English provides a definitive account of gangster Whitey Bulger in his new book, Where the Bodies are Buried, one of Harper Collins lead titles for the season. English visits Albuquerque and talks about the book at Bookworks on October 8.

Balloon Fiesta is October 3-11, and events with local flavor grace the calendar that week. On October 3, Leslie Poling Kempes, author of Ladies of the Canyon, chronicles the lives of the educated, restless, and inquisitive, Natalie Curtis, Carol Stanley, Alice Klauber, and Mary Cabot Wheelwright whose lives were transformed in the first decades of the twentieth century by the people and the landscape of the American Southwest. October 4, Dawn-Marie and Juan Lopez talk about their book Turquoise Trail.Then on October 6, Barbe Awalt presents the Hot Air Balloon Bucket List.

On the children's front, October is full of fun fall events. October 10 Bookworks hosts its annual Star Wars Reads Day festivities at10:30. On October 15, Lincoln Peirce, author of the Big Nate series of books for middle readers, appears at Bookworks at 6pm.

During the month of October, Bookworks joins independent book stores across the country to help collect food for hungry children. The Nationwide Crenshaw Food Drive will benefit local food pantries. The author of the fabulous, One and Only Ivan, Katherine Applegate, has recently published a book entitled Crenshaw with Macmillan Children's Publishing Group. In the story the family of fifth grader Jackson is living in a vehicle, and money and food are scarce. The tagline of the campaign is "Crenshaw is imaginary. Childhood hunger isn't." Please help Bookworks help bring real life help to hungry children in New Mexico by donating non-perishable food items in October.

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