This Week at Bookworks Features Lynne Hinton, Cea Sunrise Person, Maggie Hall and More

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

Saturday, January 10
3pm • John Kremer • Book Publicity 101
John Kremer talks about the best ways to market and publicize your book. Free and open to all writers and interested book people. John's event will be workshop-style gathering and discussion. Please RSVP toevents@bkwrks.com.

Sunday, January 11
3pm • Lynne Hinton • Sister Eve, Private Eye
Sister Eve knows God moves in mysterious ways. And Eve adores a good mystery. Especially a murder. Two decades into her calling at a NM monastery, Sister Evangeline Divine breaks her daily routine when a police officer appears, carrying a message from her father. Sister Eve is no stranger to the law, having grown up with a police captain turned private detective. She's seen her fair share of crime--and knows a thing or two about solving mysteries.

5pm • Cea Sunrise Person • North of Normal
Sex, drugs, and . . . bug stew? In the vein of The Glass Castle and Wild, Cea Sunrise Person's compelling memoir of a childhood spent with her dysfunctional counter-culture family in the Canadian wilderness--a searing story of physical, emotional, and psychological survival.

Tuesday, January 13
7pm • Juvenile Justice Panel •
Panel discussing misconceptions and successes of the juvenile justice system. Participants include Judge John J. Romero, therapists with incarcerated youth, Lenore BaeliWang and Chelly Weiss, Gerri Bachicha and Shira Greenberg of Keshet. Event is FREE and open to all interested parties. Books on juvenile justice will be available.

Thursday, January 15
7pm • Maggie Hall • The Conspiracy of Us
A fast-paced international escapade, laced with adrenaline, glamour, and romance--perfect for fans of Ally Carter.Avery West's newfound family can shut down Prada when they want to shop in peace, and can just as easily order a bombing when they want to start a war. Part of a powerful and dangerous secret society called the Circle, they believe Avery is the key to an ancient prophecy. Some want to use her as a pawn. Some want her dead.

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.

Friday, January 9
1pm • Our World Home School Book Club
We are changing the format slightly. Each family will be reading a book of their choice at home and then we all will share an activity from our books.

Saturday, January 10
10:30am • Stories on Saturday for children!

Thursday, January 15
10:30am • STORY TIME!
Stories about dragons.

Saturday, January 17
4pm • Teen Book Club
We will be discussing 21 Proms by David Levithan to set the stage for our Book Prom In February. Suggested ages 13 to 18.

Monday, January 12
5pm • Vamos a Leer Book Club • Caminar
by Skila Brown ages 10 & up
Every month, educators, teachers, librarians, and community members from all over Albuquerque come together. Drop in for any of our meetings! No need to have read the entire book or even a chapter...we welcome conversation, your classroom endeavors, and whatever other related musings you care to share. Set in 1981 Guatemala, a lyrical debut novel tells the powerful tale of a boy who must decide what it means to be a man during a time of war.

Wednesday, January 14
7pm • Bookworks Book Club •The Hangman's Daughter
by Oliver Potzsch, Lee Chadeayne
Magdalena, the clever and headstrong daughter of Bavarian hangman Jakob Kuisl, lives with her father outside the village walls and is destined to be married off to another hangman's son-except that the town physician's son is hopelessly in love with her. And her father's wisdom and empathy are as unusual as his despised profession. It is 1659, the Thirty Years' War has finally ended, and there hasn't been a witchcraft mania in decades.

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.

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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