This March at Bookworks Sue Monk Kidd, Charlotte Gullick, and More

Come join Bookworks for their exciting line-up of events this week, featuring Sue Monk Kidd at The Albuquerque Academy Simms Auditorium. Learn more about these events at www.bkwrks.com.

Featured Events

Friday & Saturday, February 14 & 15
Organic Farming Conference • at the Marriott Albuquerque Pyramid.

Friday, February 14 at The Albuquerque Academy Simms Auditorium
7pm • Sue Monk Kidd • The Invention of Wings
From the celebrated author of the Secret Lives of Bees a magnificent novel about two unforgettable women. $5 tickets good for $5 off the hardcover.

Saturday, February 15
1pm • Sage & Jared's Happy Gland Band • Flooded Away
Bookworks' favorite quirky musical duo Sage Harrington and Jared Putnam perform songs from their new album Flooded Away. Free & open to the public. Donations welcome..

3pm • Charlotte Gullick • By Way of Water
Novel addresses the devastating effects of poverty on rural families during the 1970s who worked the logging industry in northern California. It is also a unique look a the Jehovah Witnesses in rual western U.S.

Sunday, February 16
3pm • George Morgan • Rocket Girl
Extraordinary true story of American's first female rocket scientist as told by her son who went to great lengths to uncover his mother's lost legacy. Mary Sherman Morgan made crucial contributions to launching American's first satellite.

Tuesday, February 18
7pm • Gabe Galambos • The Nation by the River
What if there existed a secret people part of a secret nation?.

Wednesday, February 19
7pm • Edward Mendez • One Calamitous Spring
Visit to sister in Albuquerque sets off murder, kidnapping and secrets.

Thursday, February 20
7pm • Bosque the Magazine Issue 3 Launch

Saturday, February 22
3pm • Lauren Camp • The Dailiness
Poems of precision paired with attention to all human senses.

For Kids

Saturday, February 15
10:30am • National Gum Drop Day
Sweet! Join us for a gum drop party! Stories, arts and crafts and gum drop estimation candy jar.

Wednesday, February 19
4:30pm • American Girl Book Club
During this month's meeting we will celebrate Addy. Join us for crafts and refreshments.

Thursday, February 20
10:30am • Story Time! It is Love Our Pet Day!
Story time goes to the dogs and cats and goldfish! It is Love our Pet Day. Stories about pets, sock puppet crafting and refreshments (cherry pie). Bring a sock to made a puppet!

5pm • Jennifer Nielsen author of the Ascendance Trilogy visits Bookworks!
Author of The False Prince, The Runaway King and The Shadow Thronewill be a Bookworks. This is your chance to meet the author of this series and other novels for young adults. Don't miss it!!

Saturday, February 22
10:30am • Thinking Story Time!
We take a cue from the Girl Scouts and take time to think, appreciate the Girl Scout traditional observance day, come up with ideas and reading stories and having refreshments.

Looking Ahead

Wednesday, March 5
7pm • Moshin Hamid • How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia
Riveting tale of a man's journey from rags to riches.

Saturday, March 8
1pm • Marjorie Agosin • I Lived on Butterfly Hill
Based on many true events, this multicultural ode to the power of revolution, words & love is brave & graceful at the National Hispanic Cultural Center.

Sunday, March 9
3pm • TaraShea Nesbit • The Wives of Los Alamos
Light shed on one of the strangest and most monumental research projects in modern history.

Tuesday, March 25
7pm • Stephan Pastis • Pearls Fall Fast
Cartoonist Stephan Pastis vists with the latest in his New York Times best-selling series.

Friday, March 28
7pm • Craig Nelson • The Age of Radiance
Riveting narrative of the atomic age at The National Museum of Nuclear Science and History.

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