This November at Bookworks Includes Valerie Plame, Poetry, Winner of the Tony Hillerman Award and More

This November's events at Bookworks are below. For more information on any event, visit bkwrks.com/event.

Sunday, November 2
3pm • Christopher Kelly • America Invades: How We've Invaded or Been Militarily Involved with Almost Every Country on Earth
Christopher Kelly and Stuart Laycock take you on a global tour of America's military activity around the world from the halls of Montezuma to the shores of Tripoli and everywhere in-between. This is a history of gallantry and sacrifice as the mighty American eagle has spread its power and influence worldwide.

Tuesday, November 4
7pm • Laura Kasinof • Don't be Afraid of the Bullets
Laura Kasinof studied Arabic in college and then moved to Yemen a few years later and became the only American reporter based in the country when antigovernment protests broke out. She managed to elude the authorities but found herself increasingly isolated--and even more determined to report on what she saw.

Wednesday, November 5
7pm • Tony Hoagland • Twenty Poems that Could Save America & Other Essays
"Live American poetry is absent from our public schools. The teaching of poetry languishes, and that region of youthful neurological terrain capable of being ignited only by poetry is largely dark, unpopulated, and silent, like a classroom whose shades are drawn." From Twenty Poems That Could Save America and Other Essays More »

Thursday, November 6
7pm • Valerie Plame & Sarah Lovett • Burned
Covert CIA ops officer Vanessa Pierson has dedicated her career to capturing one man: Bhoot, the world's most notorious nuclear arms dealer. That mission has been impeded by the murders of her assets, who were betrayed by a mole within her own agency.

7pm • ACLU APD Forward Event with Radley Balko at the South Broadway Cultural Center, 1025 Broadway SE •
Rise of the Warrior Cup
The last days of colonialism taught America's revolutionaries that soldiers in the streets bring conflict and tyranny. As a result, our country has generally worked to keep the military out of law enforcement. But according to investigative reporter Radley Balko, over the last several decades, America's cops have increasingly come to resemble ground troops.

Friday, November 7
7pm • Ron Pevny • Conscious Living, Conscious Aging
We financially plan for our retirement, but do we plan for our wellbeing? Here is an empowering guide with practical tools to help you live a passionate, fulfilling second half of life.

Saturday, November 8
3pm • Gayle Lauradunn • Reaching for Air
Reaching for Air, Gayle Lauradunn's debut poetry collection, tells the story of a childhood spent in a landscape full of beauty, hardship, and violence.

5pm • Max Early • Ears of Corn Listen
Poetry. Native American Studies. Art. In Ears of Corn: Listen renowned Native American potter and poet Max Early gracefully details both the everyday and the extraordinary moments of family and community life, work and art, sadness and celebration at the Laguna Pueblo of New Mexico.

Sunday, November 9
5pm • CB McKenzie • Bad Country
The newest winner of the Tony Hillerman Prize, a debut mystery set in the Southwest starring a former rodeo cowboy turned private investigator, told in a transfixingly original style.

Tuesday, November 11
7pm • Lois Abraham • Circus Girl
A little girl discovers the power of the creative impulse. A woman remembers her first confusing sexual encounter. An aging flower child travels to Mexico to save her daughter. A baby is born with blue feet. A man ponders his ex-wife's last word.

Wednesday, November 12-15
9am • Quivira Coalition Conference at the Embassy Suite Hotel •
"Back to the future" is part of the burgeoning regenerative agriculture movement, whose aim is to restore soil, land, ourselves and our communities to health and happiness via naturally renewing processes.

Thursday, November 13
7pm • Heather Strang • The Quest: A Tale of Desire and Magic
Think true love and spirituality can't be hot? Think again. For 30-year-old Kathryn Casey, merging the two has developed into a lifelong quest. A mind-blowing psychic prophecy sends Kathryn on a journey that melds meditation and wine, the Amazon and New Zealanders, hot sex and dark chocolate, and psychic healings complete with strappy sandals.

Friday, November 14
7pm • Naomi Shihab Nye • For the New Mexico Humanities Council at the KiMo, 423 Central NW
Poet Naomi Shihab Nye will deliver a FREE 50-60 minute talk (with some poetry reading) about her travels around the world, making observations about "the business of living and the continuity among the world's inhabitants. She will take audience questions and participate in a book signing.

Saturday, November 15
3pm • Toby Smith • Bush League Boys
In Bush League Boys sportswriter Toby Smith relies upon fascinating oral histories to recall the home runs, screen money, and dust storms that characterized the glory days of post-World War II baseball in the Southwest.--Ron Briley, author of The Baseball Film in Postwar America: A Critical Study, 1948-1962. Toby M. Smith is a writer in Albuquerque.

5pm • Hollis Walker • The Booby Blog
How does it feel to find a lump in your breast and know its cancer? What's it like to be told-as you're trying to decide whether to have a lumpectomy or a mastectomy-"Well, it's really up to you." How do you handle the very real and painful treatment process knowing that none of it may actually save your life? How do you stop laughing when friends unwittingly say, "I swear, you look radiant!," or "You're just glowing!" -while you're going through radiation.

Sunday, November 16
3pm • Jerry Mitchell • The Height of Secrecy
Colorado mystery writer Jerry Mitchell returns with his second National Park mystery. High up on a treacherous canyon wall in a mysterious location, a man from the pueblo is stuck on a ledge. Furiously working to rescue him, Ranger Jack Chastain is nearly killed. Now he wants answers.

5:30pm • Elaine Hampton • Solar Noon
From the heart of New Mexico come America's most unique serial killers. Elaine Hampton is a retired Associate Professor of Education at the University of Texas at El Paso. She was an award-winning teacher in communities near the Mexican border and is a researcher in the fields of Mexican and Mexican-American education.

Tuesday, November 18
7pm • Susan Croce Kelly • Father of Route 66
In this engaging biography of a remarkable man, Susan Croce Kelly begins by describing the urgency for "good roads" that gripped the nation in the early twentieth century as cars multiplied and mud deepened.

Wednesday, November 19
7pm • Robert T. Wood • The Post-War Transformation of Albuquerque
From the end of World War II to the closing months of 1972, Albuquerque, New Mexico, underwent as dramatic a transformation as any American city ever has in such a short time.

Thursday, November 20
5pm • Elegant Autumn Evening at the Shops on Rio Grande
Join us at Flying Star Plaza! Fun for the entire family! Gift Baskets! Authors and much more at this annual celebration.

7pm • Katie Singer • Electronic Silent Spring
Over millions of years, living creatures have evolved in relation to the Earth's electromagnetic energy. Now, we're surrounded by man-made frequencies that challenge our health and survival.

Friday, November 21
6:30pm • Kimberley Griffits Little • Forbidden
A sweeping, epic saga of romance and hardship, set against the dramatic backdrop of ancient Mesopotamia--perfect for fans of Cleopatra's Moon or the adult bestseller The Red Tent.

Saturday, November 22
3pm • Harvey Girls movie premiere at the KiMo Theater with Carolyn Meyer, 423 Central NW •
From the late 1800s through the 1960s,100,000 pioneering young women became a fascinating part of New Mexico and local history, serving as waitresses at Albuquerque's famous Alvarado Hotel, La Castaneda in Las Vegas, La Posada in Winslow, AZ and dozens more Harvey House resturants. Thaddeus Homan, executive producer and editor; Lori Hebert, co-producer and narrator; and Meredith Davidson, a curator at the New Mexico History Museum in Santa Fe will discuss the film and answer questions from the audience.

3pm • Don Usner • Chasing Dichos Through Chimayo
In these reflections on the dichos of the Chimayo Valley in northern New Mexico native son Don J. Usner has written a memoir that is also a valuable source of information on the rich language and culture of the region.

Sunday, November 23
3pm • Dick Bakken • The Whiskey Epiphanies
Arizona poet Dick Bakken is one of the most dynamic performers of poetry in this country. His readings are intense, mesmerizing. His poetry has appeared in a variety of journals and has been recorded on radio and CD. He is a poet in the true oral tradition.

Tuesday, November 25
7pm • Jamie Anderson • Drive All Night
The life of a touring musician - the glamour, the groupies, the high life. Jamie Anderson would love to know where that life is. In her memoir of a life on the road, she tells the truth, and if it weren't the truth it wouldn't be nearly so funny.

Saturday, November 29
All day • First Small Business Saturday & Indies First Campaign •
Bookworks celebrates local business with festivities for Small Business Saturday. Bookworks will be part of the American Express Shop Small campaign, where you can receive a $10 credit on your American Express Card for a purchase of $10 or more. We will also host author-employees in our store as part of the Indies First Campaign started last year by Sherman Alexie. Our author-employees will work the floor suggesting books to customers in their efforst to support independent booksellers as part of this special campaign. Authors TBA.

3pm • Mark Stevens • Tapline
Intrigue and murder in the Rocky Mountains. A badly chewed-up corpse high in the Flat Tops Wilderness Area leaves Colorado hunting guide Allison Coil mystified and wary. Obvious signs suggest the dead man is the victim of a mountain lion attack, but Allison's wilderness-savvy bones scream otherwise.

Sunday, November 30
1pm • Jennifer Jacobson reads Tarot Cards •
$10 for a 10 to 15 minute glimpse into those things most important to you.

For Kids

Saturday, November 1
10:30am • Day of the Dead STORY TIME celebration for families!
Costumes welcome. We will read books related to Dia de los Muertos and do a craft.

Thursday, November 6
10:30am • Fly Away for STORY TIME !
This story time is devoted to planes. November is Aviation History Month, so we will read books about planes and do a craft.

Saturday, November 8
10:30am • BOA - Big on Animals with Dachshunds!
Big on Animals (BOA) brings animals to Bookworks on the occasional Saturday. This Saturday, local author Karen Glinski will talk about her first book, Stranded at Sheep Camp, about a lost dacnshund. Karen will bering her own doggie dachshund to visit.

6:30pm • Author Skype with Claudia Gray • A Thousand Pieces of You
Join us to talk to Claudia Gray about her fun and though provoking book, A Thousand Pieces of You, a mysery, advancture, travel-betweenp-dimencsions romance.

Tuesday, November 11
4:30pm • New Graphic Novel Book Club!
This month we launch a new book club for middle readers devoted to graphic novels. The first book we will read is Around the World by Matt Phelan.

Wednesday, November 12
4:30pm • Whoodunit Mystery Book Club for Middle Grades!
The Whoodunit Mystery Book Club is for readers ages 8-12. This month's slection is Who Stole the Wizard of Ozby Avi.

Thursday, November 13
10:30am • STORY TIME! Gingerbread!
Fun plus a craft activity and snack.

Friday, November 14
1pm • Our World Home School Book Co-op Meets

Saturday, November 15
4pm • Teen Book Club - Pick an ARC day!
Teen readers are encouraged to attend and pick up a free Advance Readers Copy of a book that interests them. Teen Book Club is open to any and all teen readers.

Wednesday, November 19
4:30pm • American Girl Book Club

Thursday, November 20
10:30am • Thank Goodness for STORY TIME! • Forbidden
This week's story time is devoted to Thanksgiving stories and pumpkin pie!

Tuesday, November 25
4:30pm • Magic Treehouse Book Club! Thanksgiving on Thursday MT #27
Our monthly meeting of theMagic Treehouse Book Club.

Sunday, November 30
5pm • Harry Potter Book Club!
Our monthly meeting of the Harry Potter Book Club.

Clubs

Monday, November 3
5pm • Vamos a Leer Book Club • The Tequila Worm
by Viola Canales ages 12 & up
Sofia comes from a family of storytellers. Here are her tales of growing up in the barrio, full of the magic and mystery of family traditions: making Easter cascarones, celebrating el Dia de los Muertos, preparing for quincea-era, rejoicing in the Christmas nacimiento, and curing homesickness by eating the tequila worm. When Sofia is singled out to receive a scholarship to an elite boarding school, she longs to explore life beyond the barrio, even though it means leaving her family to navigate a strange world of rich, privileged kids. More»

Wednesday, November 12
7pm • Bookworks Book Club • The Marseille Caper
by Peter Mayle
Free and open to all readers interested in joining a book club and all book club leaders who would like to come and talk about their group and invite new members. Lovable rogue and sleuth extraordinaire Sam Levitt is back in another beguiling, as-only-Peter-Mayle-can-write-it romp through the South of France.

Friday, November 14
1pm • Second Cup of Coffee Book Club meets at The Coffee Shop, 700 2nd NW • A Street Cat Named Bob: And How He Saved My Life by James Bowen
Free and open to the public! This month's selectoin is A Street Cat Named Bob an Instant New York Times Bestseller! James is a street musician struggling to make ends meet. Bob is a stray cat looking for somewhere warm to sleep. When James and Bob meet, they forge a never-to-be-forgotten friendship.

Looking Ahead

Monday, December 1
7pm • Renato Rosaldo • The Day of Shelly's Death: The Poetry and Ethnography of Grief
This deeply moving collection of "ethnographic poetry" by the renowned cultural theorist Renato Rosaldo focuses on the immediate aftermath of his wife Michelle (Shelly) Rosaldo's sudden death on October 11, 1981, the day after she and her family had arrived in a northern Philippines village where Shelly and Renato were to conduct fieldwork.

Tuesday, December 2
7pm • Rabbi Paul Citrin • Lights in the Forest
Rabbi Paul Citrin has edited a compilation of essays from rabbis as they posit their thoughts on twelve essential Jewish questions. This cross-section of rabbis respond to questions about God, ethics, humanity, suffering, evil, the soul, after-life, interfaith dialogue, and more. For self-study, high school classes, adult learning, and conversion.

Sunday, December 7
1pm • Father Richard Rohr • Eager to Love
Francis of Assisi, one of the most beloved of all saints, was at once very traditional and entirely revolutionary in the ways of holiness. He both stood barefoot on the earth and yet touched the heavens; he was grounded in the church and yet instinctively moved toward the cosmos. Rohr places the tradition as first practiced by Francis, and subsequently by others, within a context not as a historical accounting, but rather a perspective about how the alternative orthodoxy can deepen spiritual life for anyone, whether Catholic, Protestant, Jewish, secular, or spiritual seeker.

Saturday, December 13
7pm • Terry Tempest Williams and Brooke Williams
at The Albuquerque Academy 6400 Wyoming NE •
The Story of My Heart
While browsing a Maine bookstore, Brooke Williams and Terry Tempest Williams discovered a rare copy of an exquisite autobiography by 19th century British nature writer Richard Jefferies, who develops his understanding of a "soul-life" while wandering the wild countryside of Wiltshire, England. In an introduction and essays set alongside Jefferies' writing, the Williams share their personal pilgrimage to Wiltshire.

To post a comment, you must register and login.