This Week at Bookworks Features Meditation Short & Simple with Jeaninne Grayson, Catherine Spude and More

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

Saturday, March 14
1pm • Jeaninne Grayson • Meditation Short & Simple
Designed to be a quick and easy way to guide people through the practice of meditation.

3pm • Melanie Rubin • What Women Really Want from Men: A Step by Step Dating Manual
What Women Really Want from Men: A Step-by-Step Dating Manual offers a road map for smart, straight men who want to create ongoing, satisfying relationshipswith attractive women they enjoy and respect.

Sunday, March 15
1pm • Catherine Spude • Saloons, Prostitutes & Temperance in Alaska Territory
Catherine Holder Spude explores the rise and fall of these enterprises in Skagway, Alaska, between the gold rush of 1897 and the enactment of Prohibition in 1918. Her gritty account offers a case study in the clash between working-class men and middle-class women, and in the growth of women's political and economic power in the West.

3pm • Julianne Newmark • The Pluralist Imagination from East to West in American Literature
The first three decades of the twentieth century saw the largest period of immigration in U.S. history. This immigration, however, was accompanied by legal segregation, racial exclusionism, and questions of residents' national loyalty and commitment to a shared set of "American" beliefs and identity.

Tuesday, March 17
7pm • Nate Maxson • Age of Jive
Maxson's voice is the perfect tour guide for this strange world of poetics. He invents a new form with which to capture the chaos and subtlety of a language on fire-it's full of surprise followed by shock, and shock followed by quiet awe.

Wednesday, March 18
6pm • Jerry Zimmerman • A Curse at Squaw Creek Farm
Labeled a cripple, Jerry relates how he made a success out of failure and negative stigmas with dramatic and tender stories of his youth. This memoir chronicles generations of his family and their triumphs, tragedies and curses as they endured the greatest drought in Kansas and the loss of the family farm.

Wednesday thru Saturday, March 18-21
Women of the World Poetry Slam in downtown Albuquerque
We are excited to welcome over 70 amazing poets to Albuquerque for the 8th annual Women of the World Poetry Slam!

Wednesday thru Sunday, March 18-22
Bookworks is the bookseller for the Sigma Tau DeltaInternational English Honor Society Convention at the Hyatt Regency downtown 330 Tijeras Ave NW. •

Thursday, March 19
7pm • Gary Dop, Micah Dean Hicks & Donna Decker read from their new works • Father, Child Water / Electricity & Other Dreams
Three writers visiting for the Sigma Tau Delta conference read at Bookworks.

Saturday, March 21
3pm • Stanley Crawford • The Canyon
Summers at the Rocky Mountain lodge in Colorado are idyllic for Scotty and his cousin Mickey. The grown-ups are dealing with the complications of business and adult dysfunction, but the boys are more interested in the complications of puberty, especially when Rosalind, the teenage daughter of family friends, is on hand.

For Kids

Saturday, March 14
10:30am • BOA (Big on Animals) -- Butterflies!
Big on Animals is our semi-regular Saturday morning story time devoted to animals. Today we will read stories about butterflies.

Wednesday, March 18
4pm • American Girl Bok Club
Join us for the monthly meeting of our American Girl Book Club. Free and open to all American Girl fans. Today we will take a look back in history to the time of the historic American Girl Samantha Parkington who was growing up when roles for women were just beginning to change and women marched for the right to vote.

Thursday, March 19
10:30am • Story Time! Spring Equinox Edition!
We'll be celebrating spring through stories, songs, and a craft. Free for the whole family.

Saturday, March 21
10:30am • Stories on Saturday--National Quilting Day
Today is National Quilting Day. We'll be making paper and fabric quilt squares and reading books about quilts.

Clubs

Monday, March 16
7pm • Reading Purls Knitting Group • At Knit's End: Meditations for Women Who Knit Too Much
by Stephanie Pearl-McPhee
If you palpitate when you see a knit store, if you plan your vacations around yarn store locations, you are at risk of becoming an obsessive knitter. This totally incurable condition is sure to be helped by Stephanie Pearl-McPhee's humorous and heart-felt "meditations." Her tangled reflections on the knitter's life will keep you in stitches and unravel your tensions for many warm and woolly moments to come. Bring your latest project and join us for good times, good conversation and a good read.
Looking Ahead

Thursday, April 2
7pm • Jim Kristofic • The Hero Twins: A Navajo-English Story of the Monster Slayers
The Hero Twins tells the story of two brothers born to Changing Woman and trained by the Holy People to save their people from the naayee', a race of monsters. But the naayee' can't be beaten alone. Family and friends and wise mentors must lead any warrior down the good path toward victory. Colorful illustrations show the action as the twins seek out their father to receive the weapons they need to face the greatest monster of them all: Ye'iitsoh. More »

Wednesday, April 15
7pm • Santiago Vaquera Vasquez • One Day I'll Tell You the Things I've Seen
The stories in Santiago Vaquera-Vasquez's intimate conversational narrative take readers around the world, from the orchards of California to the cornfields of Iowa, from the neighborhoods of Madrid and Mexico City to the Asian shore of Istanbul.

Thursday, April 16
7pm • Stuart Woods • Hot Pursuit: A New Stone Barrington Novel
It's not often that Stone Barrington finds a woman as accustomed to the jet-set lifestyle as he, so he's pleasantly surprised when he meets a gorgeous pilot who's soon moving to New York, and available for closer acquaintance. Their travels together lead them from Wichita to Europe, but trailing them is some unwanted baggage: his new lady love's unstable, criminal ex-boyfriend.

Friday, April 17
7pm • Alexander McCall Smith • Emma: A Modern Retelling
at the KiMo Theatre 423 Central NW
The bestselling and beloved author of the No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agencyseries now gives us his charming take on Jane Austen with this modern-day retelling of Emma at this FREE event presented in conjunction with ABC Library. Reserve your seat at bkwrks.com/alexander-mccall-smith.

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