This March at Bookworks Features Kim Gordon, Lisa See, Hannah Nordhaus and More

Below are March's events at Bookworks. For more information visit, bkwrks.com/event.

Sunday, March 1
7pm • Kim Gordon • Girl in a Band at UNM's Sudent Union Ballrooms B & C in cooperation with UNM's Creative Writing Program
Kim Gordon, founding member of Sonic Youth, fashion icon, and role model for a generation of women, now tells her story--a memoir of life as an artist, of music, marriage, motherhood, independence, and as one of the first women of rock and roll, written with the lyricism and haunting beauty of Patti Smith's Just Kids. Tickets at bkwrks.com/kim-gordon are $27.99 include a hardcover copy of the book.

Tuesday, March 3
7pm • Joaquin Zihuatenejo • Like & Share
Like and Share is a new collection of stories, poems, and statuses from award winning poet, Joaquin Zihuatanejo. All were inspired by, or in some instances taken word for word from pieces written and then posted on his social media over the last two years.

Wednesday, March 4
11am • NM Breastfeeding Task Force Preconference • Sheraton Uptown
Our Preconference and Quarterly Meeting are free of charge. Join us as we discuss ways to facilitate breastfeeding in our communities. Registration is not necessary, however we encourage you to register so we have an accurate headcount for meals.

Wednesday, March 4
7pm • Women of the World Poetry Slam Showcase •
Albuquerque WOW representatives and local Albuquerque Women of the World poets and organizers will preview the March 18-21 Women of the World Poetry Slam happening in downtown Albuquerque.

Thursday, March 5
7pm • Michael Gray • Falling on the Bright Side
Like its residents, Larry is not thrilled to be working at a warehouse for the old and disabled. He barely notices the flow of life around him. Then he meets Bill, a clinical psychologist, lying comatose after a left hemisphere stroke, as Philip, his patient, listens attentively to his moans. Falling on the Bright Side, inspired by Michael's work with the disabled, reflects the stories of many people who are spending their final days in a nursing home.

Saturday, March 7
3pm • Courtney White • The Age of Consequences: A Chronicle of Concern & Hope
Our planet is approaching a critical environmental juncture. Across the globe we continue to deplete the five pools of carbon - soil, wood, coal, oil, and natural gas - at an unsustainable rate. When these sources of energy-rich carbon go into severe decline, as they surely will, society will follow.

Sunday, March 8
3pm • Paddy Rawal • Raaga Cookbook
Indian chef Paddy Rawal presents Indian food recipes and some samples from his new Raaga Cookbook of recipes from his restaurant of the same name.

Tuesday, March 10
7pm • Lisa See • China Dolls
It's 1938 in San Francisco: a world's fair is preparing to open on Treasure Island, a war is brewing overseas, and the city is alive with possibilities. Grace, Helen, and Ruby, three young women from very different backgrounds, meet by chance at the exclusive and glamorous Forbidden City nightclub.

Thursday, March 12
7pm • Hannah Nordhaus with Sharon Niederman • American Ghost
The award-winning journalist and author of The Beekeeper's Lamentattempts to uncover the truth about her great-great-grandmother, Julia--whose ghost is said to haunt an elegant hotel in Santa Fe--in this spellbinding exploration of myth, family history, and the American West.

Saturday, March 14
1pm • Jeaninne Grayson • Meditation Short & Simple
Designed to be a quick and easy way to guide people through the practice of meditation.

3pm • Melanie Rubin • What Women Really Want from Men: A Step by Step Dating Manual
What Women Really Want from Men: A Step-by-Step Dating Manual offers a road map for smart, straight men who want to create ongoing, satisfying relationshipswith attractive women they enjoy and respect.

Sunday, March 15
1pm • Catherine Spude • Saloons, Prostitutes & Temperance in Alaska Territory
Catherine Holder Spude explores the rise and fall of these enterprises in Skagway, Alaska, between the gold rush of 1897 and the enactment of Prohibition in 1918. Her gritty account offers a case study in the clash between working-class men and middle-class women, and in the growth of women's political and economic power in the West.

3pm • Julianne Newmark • The Pluralist Imagination from East to West in American Literature
The first three decades of the twentieth century saw the largest period of immigration in U.S. history. This immigration, however, was accompanied by legal segregation, racial exclusionism, and questions of residents' national loyalty and commitment to a shared set of "American" beliefs and identity.

Tuesday, March 17
7pm • Nate Maxson • Age of Jive
Maxson's voice is the perfect tour guide for this strange world of poetics. He invents a new form with which to capture the chaos and subtlety of a language on fire-it's full of surprise followed by shock, and shock followed by quiet awe.

Wednesday, March 18
6pm • Jerry Zimmerman • A Curse at Squaw Creek Farm
Labeled a cripple, Jerry relates how he made a success out of failure and negative stigmas with dramatic and tender stories of his youth. This memoir chronicles generations of his family and their triumphs, tragedies and curses as they endured the greatest drought in Kansas and the loss of the family farm.

Wednesday thru Saturday, March 18-21
Women of the World Poetry Slam in downtown Albuquerque
We are excited to welcome over 70 amazing poets to Albuquerque for the 8th annual Women of the World Poetry Slam!

Wednesday thru Sunday, March 18-22
Bookworks is the bookseller for the Sigma Tau DeltaInternational English Honor Society Convention at the Hyatt Regency downtown 330 Tijeras Ave NW. •

Thursday, March 19
7pm • Gary Dop, Micah Dean Hicks & Donna Decker read from their new works • Father, Child Water / Electricity & Other Dreams
Three writers visiting for the Sigma Tau Delta conference read at Bookworks.

Saturday, March 21

3pm • Stanley Crawford • The Canyon
Summers at the Rocky Mountain lodge in Colorado are idyllic for Scotty and his cousin Mickey. The grown-ups are dealing with the complications of business and adult dysfunction, but the boys are more interested in the complications of puberty, especially when Rosalind, the teenage daughter of family friends, is on hand.

Sunday, March 22
1pm • Carlos Blanton • George I. Sanchez: The Long Fight for Mexican American Integration
George I. Sanchez was a reformer, activist and intellectual, and one of the most influential members of the Mexican American Generation (1930-1960). The author honours Sanchez's efforts, hitherto mostly unrecognized, in the struggle for equal opportunity, while not shying away from his subject's personal faults and foibles.

3pm • Olive Balla • An Arm and a Leg
Albuquerque divorcee Frankie O'Neil dreams of having a normal life. However, given her penchant for making the worst possible decisions about men and the fact she hoards food and hears the voices of dead relatives who hint at a dark family secret, her life is anything but normal. When her brother is shot minutes after leaving a package in her freezer, the police suspect her of murder and order her not to leave town.

Monday, March 23
7pm • Stephen Ausherman • Walking Albuquerque: 30 Tours of the Duke City's Historic Neighborhood, Ditch Trails, Urban Nature & Public Art
The art of walking has not met its demise here. A resurgence in plans and efforts to make Albuquerque walkable again indicates that the city is on the verge of a pedestrian renaissance. In the meantime Walking Albuquerque comes in handy with 30 routes covering the city.

Tuesday, March 24
7pm • Megan McKenna • Listen Here
"God is listening. What are we saying?" With these words Megan McKenna begins this inspiring, accessible, and practical guide to finding and building the spiritual connection that brings God's love into our life and our world.

Wednesday thru Friday, March 25-27
all day • Advocacy in Action Conference • at the Albuquerque Marriot Pyramid North
This conference is designed for professionals from all sectors of the criminal justice system, victim assistance, and mental health field who provide services to victims and families. The conference offers three days of skill enhancing information on national, state and tribal issues. In addition, this conference will increase awareness and strengthen capacity of attendees to effectively serve victims of crime.

7pm • Kirstin Valdez Quade • Night at the Fiestas
With intensity and emotional precision, Kirstin Valdez Quade's unforgettable stories plunge us into the fierce, troubled hearts of characters defined by the desire to escape the past or else to plumb its depths.

Thursday, March 26
7pm • Michael Finkelstein • Slow Medicine: Hope & Healing for Chronic Illness
In this warm, reassuring, enlightening book, Dr. Finkelstein takes you beyond conventional medicine to examine the intricate network of factors that lie behind many common illnesses--and empowers you to take your health back. It's time to walk down the Slow Medicine path, one where the answers are in the questions.

Saturday, March 28
3pm • Jason Carney • Starve the Vulture
A lyrical, mesmerizing debut from Jason Carney who overcomes his own racism, homophobia, drug addiction, and harrowing brushes with death to find redemption and unlikely fame on the national performance poetry circuit.

Sunday, March 29
3pm • Gina Marselle • A Fire of Prayer
Gina reads her poetry at local coffee shops, art galleries, and has been a featured poet at the Church of Beethoven (now known as Sunday Chatter). She has one chapbook (self published) titled 'Round Midnight (2012). Currently, she is honored to be part of the collective La Palabra: The Word is a Woman, which is a writer's collective founded by poet Jessica Helen Lopez.

Tuesday, March 31
7pm • JR Conway • Greyhound Therapy
Greyhound Therapy takes the reader on a fast paced journey of crime fighting, tragic life changing experiences and mysteries yet to be explained.

Thursday, March 5
10:30am • Story Time! Tea Time!
Just for fun, we are going to have a tea party. We will read books with a tea party theme, do a craft project, and have a teatime snack.

Saturday, March 7
10:30am • Stories on Saturday - Happy Birthday Dr. Seuss!
We will have a belated 111th birthday celebration for Dr. Seuss (born March 2, 1904). We will read a couple of Seuss's tongue twisting stories, do a craft, and have a birthday snack. Costumes are welcome and encouraged!

Thursday, March 12
10:30am • Story Time! Plant a Flower Day!
It's Plant a Flower day! Spring must be on the way. We will read books about gardening, then we will spread out the plastic table cloth and plant a flower.

Friday, March 13
1pm • Our World Home School Book Co-op Meets •
The Secret Garden
Our World School Book Club, for kids ages 6 to 8, continues for another season of books and conversation. This year we will be reading children's classics and even some comic books! Join us for reading, crafts and snacks.This month's selection is The Secret Garden.

Saturday, March 14
10:30am • BOA (Big on Animals) -- Butterflies!
Big on Animals is our semi-regular Saturday morning story time devoted to animals. Today we will read stories about butterflies.

Wednesday, March 18
4pm • American Girl Bok Club
Join us for the monthly meeting of our American Girl Book Club. Free and open to all American Girl fans. Today we will take a look back in history to the time of the historic American Girl Samantha Parkington who was growing up when roles for women were just beginning to change and women marched for the right to vote.

Thursday, March 19
10:30am • Story Time! Spring Equinox Edition!
We'll be celebrating spring through stories, songs, and a craft. Free for the whole family.

Saturday, March 21
10:30am • Stories on Saturday--National Quilting Day
Today is National Quilting Day. We'll be making paper and fabric quilt squares and reading books about quilts.

Wednesday, March 25
4:30pm • Magic Treehouse Book Club • Leprechaun in Late Winter
Open to all Magic Treehouse fans. Today we'll be discussing Magic Treehouse Book #43, Leprechaun in Late Winter, and consturcting treehouse models from cardboard. New members are welcome.

Thursday, March 26
10:30am • Story Time • Birthday Time!
Today we'll be celebrating birthdays with stories, snacks, and crafts. Birthday cake and books--what a happy combination!

Saturday, March 28
10:30am • Rachel Brown • Postcard from Copenhagen • A Bilingual Tale for Kids
Santa Fe author Rachel Brown shares her new Spanish-English bilingual tale, A Postcard from Copenhagen, illustrated by Alejandra Bize.

Monday, March 2
5pm • Vamos a Leer Book Club • He Forgot to Say Goodbye
by Benjamin Alire Saenz
Every month, educators, teachers, librarians, and community members from all over Albuquerque come together. No need to have read the entire book or even a chapter...we welcome conversation and your classroom endeavors.
On the surface, Ramiro Lopez and Jake Upthegrove couldn't live more different lives. Ram is Mexican-American, lives in the poor section of town, and is doing his best to keep his mother sane while his brother fights off a drug-induced coma. Jake is a WASP who drives a nice car, lives in a mansion, has a mother who drinks a bit too much and a step-father who cheats on her.

Wednesday, March 11
7pm • Bookworks Book Club • Harriet & Isabella
by Patricia O'Brien
Free and open to the public! It is 1887, and Henry Ward Beecher lies dying. Reporters from around the world, eager for one last story about the most lurid scandal of their time, descend on Brooklyn Heights, their presence signaling the beginning of the voracious appetite for fallen celebrities we know so well today.

Monday, March 16
7pm • Reading Purls Knitting Group • At Knit's End: Meditations for Women Who Knit Too Much
by Stephanie Pearl-McPhee
If you palpitate when you see a knit store, if you plan your vacations around yarn store locations, you are at risk of becoming an obsessive knitter. This totally incurable condition is sure to be helped by Stephanie Pearl-McPhee's humorous and heart-felt "meditations." Her tangled reflections on the knitter's life will keep you in stitches and unravel your tensions for many warm and woolly moments to come. Bring your latest project and join us for good times, good conversation and a good read.

Thursday, April 2
7pm • Jim Kristofic • The Hero Twins: A Navajo-English Story of the Monster Slayers
The Hero Twins tells the story of two brothers born to Changing Woman and trained by the Holy People to save their people from the naayee', a race of monsters. But the naayee' can't be beaten alone. Family and friends and wise mentors must lead any warrior down the good path toward victory. Colorful illustrations show the action as the twins seek out their father to receive the weapons they need to face the greatest monster of them all: Ye'iitsoh.

Wednesday, April 15
7pm • Santiago Vaquera Vasquez • One Day I'll Tell You the Things I've Seen
The stories in Santiago Vaquera-Vasquez's intimate conversational narrative take readers around the world, from the orchards of California to the cornfields of Iowa, from the neighborhoods of Madrid and Mexico City to the Asian shore of Istanbul.

Thursday, April 16
7pm • Stuart Woods • Hot Pursuit: A New Stone Barrington Novel
It's not often that Stone Barrington finds a woman as accustomed to the jet-set lifestyle as he, so he's pleasantly surprised when he meets a gorgeous pilot who's soon moving to New York, and available for closer acquaintance. Their travels together lead them from Wichita to Europe, but trailing them is some unwanted baggage: his new lady love's unstable, criminal ex-boyfriend.

Friday, April 17
7pm • Alexander McCall Smith • Emma: A Modern Retelling
at the KiMo Theatre 423 Central NW
The bestselling and beloved author of the No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agencyseries now gives us his charming take on Jane Austen with this modern-day retelling of Emma at this FREE event presented in conjunction with ABC Library. Reserve your seat at bkwrks.com/alexander-mccall-smith.

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