This Week at Bookworks Features Laura Sanchez, Linda Tigges and More

Friday, January 16
7pm • W.C. Bauers • Unbreakable
The colonists of the planet Montana are accustomed to being ignored. Situated in the buffer zone between two rival human empires, their world is a backwater: remote, provincial, independently minded. Even as a provisional member of the Republic of Aligned Worlds, Montana merits little consideration--until it becomes the flashpoint in an impending interstellar war.

Saturday, January 17
3pm • Sage and Jared's Happy Gland Band •

Sunday, January 18
3pm • Laura Sanchez • Killer Miracle
Miraculous images begin appearing in the tiny town of La Cuenta, NM, convincing many devout villagers that they are marks of God's favor. Albuquerque architect Gwen Callendar thinks the images are a cynical scam. All of them are wrong.

Tuesday, January 20
7pm • Linda Tigges • Spanish Colonial Lives
On their return to NM from El Paso after the 1680 Pueblo Revolt, the New Mexican settlers were confronted with continuous raids by hostile Indians tribes, disease and an inhospitable landscape. In spite of this, in the early and mid-eighteenth century, the New Mexicans went about their daily lives as best they could, as shown in original documents from the time.

Wednesday, January 21
7pm • Dee McCaffrey • The Science of Skinny Cookbook: 175 Health Recipes to Help you Stop Dieting
In The Science of Skinny, organic chemist and nutritionist Dee McCaffrey shared the revolutionary eating plan she developed by applying what she'd learned in the lab to what she put on her plate. In the process, she lost more than 100 pounds--and has kept them off for twenty years. What was her secret? Now The Science of Skinny Cookbook offers the answers plus 100 family-friendly recipes for a delicious, realistic way of eating--not dieting--for life.

Thursday, January 22
7pm • Janice Convery • Dogs in the Sun: A Tropical Odyssey
Dogs In The Sun is a tropical odyssey about a boat, a baby and a body that propels a diverse cast of characters to the shores of their new selves. The novel explores what it means to be accepting of doing the thing you think you cannot, but know you must.

Friday, January 23
7pm • Folk Revival Project with Justin Thompson & Friends
The Folk Revival Project Mission Statement is to educate and build community through generating and reinforcing an interest in Americana and Folk music and American and Folk music history, and to preserve and pass on those musical and cultural traditions through lectures, concerts, workshops and other productions. This lecture will be presented by Justin Thompson and will cover and wide variety of folk music history topics, from Women's history in music to the tradition of union and labor songs, songs on equality and injustice, etc. A $12 donation is suggested.

Saturday, January 24
3pm • Zachary Kluckman • Trigger Warning: Poetry Saved My Life
For decades, the coffee houses, darkly shadowed bar stools, inner city apartments, and subway stations have sounded the echo of this phrase -poetry saved my life. Poets worldwide have uttered these words to one another like a scared truth, a shared secret. Not all of them certainly, but enough.

For Kids

Saturday, January 17
4pm • Teen Book Club
We will be discussing 21 Proms to set the stage for our Book Prom In February. Suggested ages 14 to 17.

Wednesday, January 21
4:30pm • American Girl Book Club
We're starting the new year with a fresh look at Classic American Girl stories. We will be talking about Read All About It a Beforever Kit Classic.

Thursday, January 22
10:30am • STORY TIME!
Story time featuring stories about squirrels. Join us for books, crafts and snack.

Saturday, January 24
10:30am • Stories on Saturday for children!
Free and open to all teens.

Clubs

Monday, January 19
7pm • Reading Purls Knitting & Book Club • Sweater Quest My Year of Knitting Dangerously by Adrienne Martini
Bookworks has relaunched its monthly knitting reading group. Please join us and bring your latest project! For Adrienne Martini, and countless others, knitting is the linchpin of sanity. As a working mother of two, Martini wanted a challenge that would make her feel in charge. So she decided to make the Holy Grail of sweaters-her own Mary Tudor, whose mind-numbingly gorgeous pattern is so complicated to knit that its mere mention can hush a roomful of experienced knitters.

Looking Ahead

Sunday, February 15
3pm • James Penner • Timothy Leary: The Harvard Years
The first collection of Leary's writings devoted entirely to the research phase of his career, 1960 to 1965. James Penner, Ph.D., is an assistant professor of English at the University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras. A graduate of Brown University and the University of Southern California, he is the author of "Pinks, Pansies, and Punks: The Rhetoric of Masculinity in American Literary Culture". He lives in San Juan, Puerto Rico.

Thursday, February 19
7pm • Philip Connors • All the Wrong Places
In his debut Fire Season, Philip Connors recounted with lyricism, wisdom, and grace his decade as a fire lookout high above remote New Mexico. Now he tells the story of what made solitude on the mountain so attractive: the years he spent reeling in the wake of a family tragedy.

Wednesday, February 25
7pm • Gabrielle Zevin • The Storied Life of AJ Fikry
In the spirit of The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society and The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry, Gabrielle Zevin's enchanting novel is a love letter to the world of books--and booksellers--that changes our lives by giving us the stories that open our hearts and enlighten our minds.

Saturday, February 28
3pm • Elaine Carey • Women Drug Traffickers
"The first full-length study of female drug traffickers. The lives of these women are fascinating and skillfully analyzed by the author. The book will be pleasurable reading to general readers and specialists alike."--Howard Campbell, author of Drug War Zone: Frontline Dispatches from the Streets of El Paso and Juarez.
Elaine Carey chairs the Department of History at St. John's University in New York City. She is also the author of Plaza of Sacrifices: Gender, Power, and Terror in 1968 Mexico (UNM Press).

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