This Week at Bookworks Features Farewell Aleppo, Kadampa Meditation, Wildflowers, Laguna Pueblo and More

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

Friday, Aug 14
7pm • Jeffrey Smith • Mesabi Pioneers
Here is the highly readable account of one of the remarkable achievements of the 19th century: how a remote tree-covered area of northern Minnesota became America's greatest source of iron ore.

Saturday, Aug 15
2pm • Megan Feldman Bettencourt at the Center for Spiritual Living 2801 Louisiana NE • Triumph of the Heart: Forgiveness in an Unforgiving World
Veteran journalist Megan Feldman had never considered herself a forgiving person. She'd just gone through a breakup and felt perfectly justified in hating her ex forever. But then she encountered a man who had truly forgiven the teenager who murdered his only son. How could anyone forgive that? Was there something wrong with him? Or was there something wrong with her?

Sunday, Aug 16
1pm • David Harshada Wagner • Backbone: The Modern Man's Ultimate Guide to Purpose, Passion & Power
What does it mean to be a powerful, happy man in today's world? What does it take for a man to know himself, know his mission in life, and live a life of strength, honor, and wisdom?

3pm • Irene Blea • Daughters of the West Mesa
This novel is based on a true story. In 2009 eleven female remains and an unborn fetus were discovered on the West Mesa outside of Albuquerque, New Mexico. Irene Blea has synthesized what she experienced while living in the region and introduces us to Dora, a single mother, and her two daughters, Luna and Andrea. Luna has been missing for several months.

Tuesday, Aug 18
7pm • Claudette Sutton • Farewell Aleppo
The author's grandfather decided that safety in the face of rising anti-Semitism in Syria required him to "export his sons," beginning with the oldest, Claudette's father. She tells both her own father's unique story and the captivating larger tale of how a people once battered by history have in the end survived and thrived.

Wednesday, Aug 19
7pm • Kadampa Meditation Group Book Talk • Modern Buddhism by Geshe Kelsang Gyatso
Come join our local Kadampa Meditation group to discuss Geshe Kelsang Gyatso's book Modern Buddhism.

Thursday, Aug 20
7pm • Larry Littlefield & Pearl Burns • Wildflowers of the Northern and Central Mountains of New Mexico: Sangre de Cristo, Jemez, Sandia & Manzano
This unique reference work describes over 350 wildflowers and flowering shrubs that grow in New Mexico's Sangre de Cristo, Jemez, Sandia, and Manzano Mountains, as well as neighboring ranges, including the Manzanita, San Pedro, Ortiz, and other lower-elevation mountains in central portions of the state.

Saturday, Aug 22
3pm • Tom Corbett & Lee Marmon • Laguna Pueblo
The distinguished American Indian photographer Lee Marmon has documented over sixty years of Laguna history: its people, customs, and cultural changes. Here more than one hundred of Marmon's photos showcase his talents while highlighting the cohesive, adaptive, and independent character of the Laguna people.

For Kids

Saturday, Aug 15
10:30am • We're building dioramas!
Bring a shoe box if you can and we will have paper, fabric and such on hand. Pick a theme and dig in. The event is free and open to the public, all ages. Our inspiration for this event is a new book by Tara Altebrando entitled My Life in Dioramas. Authors and others around the country are taking up the challenge to create a diorama. Join the fun!

4:30pm • Teen Book Club
The book selection for the month is Me and Earl and the Dying Girl by Jesse Andrews.

Wednesday, Aug 19
4:30pm • American Girl Book Club! Sunlight & Shadow
New members welcome. We will talking about Sunlight and Shadow, a Josefina Classic vol. 1. It is part of the American Girl Beforever books. The book club is free and open to the public. We also have a craft activity and snack.

Thursday, Aug 20
10:30am • Story Time • Art!
Our theme for this week is art. We will will have stories, songs, snack and of course an art project.

Saturday, Aug 22
10:30am • Stories on Saturday with Caroline Rose StarrOver in the Wetlands
Publishing in time for the tenth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, here is a beautiful read-aloud about animal families preparing for an impending storm in their bayou habitat.

Clubs

Monday, Aug 17
7pm • Reading Purls Knitting Group • Love in Every Stitch: Stories of Knitting & Healing
by Lee Grant
Bring whatever knit or crochet project you are working on and join us for book and yarn talk. We will be talking about a book entitled, Love in Every Stitch by Lee Grant.

Monday, Aug 24
7pm • Austen Project Book 2 • Northanger Abbey
by Val McDermid
This month we will be discussing Northanger Abbey by Val McDermid. We are reading and talking about the books in the Austen Project which pairs six contemporary authors with the six complete Austen novels.

Looking Ahead

Tuesday, Sept 1
7pm • Adrienne Celt • Daughters
Lulu can't sing. Since the traumatic birth of her daughter, the internationally renowned soprano hasn't dared utter a note. She's afraid that her body is too fragile and that she may have lost her talent to a long-dreaded curse afflicting all of the mothers in her family. In incandescent prose, debut novelist Adrienne Celt skillfully intertwines the sensuous but precise physicality of both motherhood and music.

Thursday, Sept 3
7pm • Tony Hoagland • Application for Release from the Dream
Are we corrupt or innocent, fragmented or whole? Are responsibility and freedom irreconcilable? Do we value memory or succumb to our forgetfulness? Tony Hoagland's fifth collection of poems, pursues these questions with the hobnailed abandon of one who needs to know how a citizen of twenty-first-century America can stay human.

Saturday, Sept 5
5pm • Sarah Maas • Queen of Shadows
Everyone Celaena Sardothien loves has been taken from her. But she's at last returned to the empire-for vengeance, to rescue her once-glorious kingdom, and to confront the shadows of her past. She has embraced her identity as Aelin Galathynius, Queen of Terrasen. But before she can reclaim her throne, she must fight. She will fight for her cousin, a warrior prepared to die just to see her again. She will fight for her friend, a young man trapped in an unspeakable prison. And she will fight for her people.

Sunday, Sept 13
3pm • Katha Pollitt • Pro: Reclaiming Abortion Rights
In this controversial and necessary book, Pollitt reframes abortion as a common part of a woman's reproductive life, one that should be accepted as a moral right with positive social implications. In clear, concise arguments, Pollitt takes on the personhood argument, reaffirms the priority of a woman's life and health, and discusses why terminating a pregnancy can be a force for good for women, families, and society. By whole-heartedly defending abortion rights, Pollitt argues, we reclaim the lives and the rights of women and mothers.

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