This Week at Bookworks Features Pam Uschuk, Linda Mason & Beth Pratt, and More!

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

Friday, Saturday & Sunday, April 24, 25 & 26
all day • NM Press Women's Conference at Ghost Ranch, Abiquiu, NM •
This year's conference provides opportunities to expand your storytelling skills at awe-inspiring Ghost Ranch located in Abiquiu, NM. Valerie Plame and her writing partner Sarah Lovett will be our desert reception speakers on Friday, April 24th, and Bruce McKenna (writer of multiple episodes of the HBO series The Pacific and Band of Brothers) will be our banquet keynote speaker on Saturday, April 25th.

Saturday, April 25
3pm • Ellen Roberts Young • Made and Remade
The poems in Made and Remade respond to William Paley's book, Natural Theology, published in 1802. The book presents Paley's case for creation by design, based on the intricacies of eye, ear, and other parts of the body and of nature.

5pm • Pam Uschuk • Blood Flower
In Blood Flower, passionate imagery married to music bursts from each line pushing out the boundaries of Uschuk's earlier poems. It continues the themes found in Uschuk's American Book Award winner, Crazy Love.

Sunday, April 26
3pm • Linda Mason & Beth Pratt • Storage World Anthology
Anthology of fantastical stories set within the universe of Storage World, edited by Beth Bernier Pratt. Beth Bernier Pratt has written two novels, Emotimancers and the Impending Feline Overmind, and Toast Points of View.

Tuesday, April 28
7pm • James Anderson • The Never Open Desert Diner
Ben Jones, the protagonist of James Anderson's haunting debut novel, is on the verge of losing his small trucking company. Facing the possible loss of everything that matters to him, he then finds himself at the heart of a horrific crime that was committed forty years earlier and now threatens to destroy the lives of those left in its wake.

Wednesday, April 29
7pm • Nancy Rivest Green • On the Brink of Shards
Over-consumptive lifestyle, environmental degradation, overpopulation, drought and changing weather conditions - sounds like headlines ripped from today's newspapers, doesn't it?

Thursday, April 30
7pm • Sarah Kotchian • Camino
Local author Sarah Kotchian reads poetry from her book, Camino, which reflects on her pilgrimage to Camino de Santiago.

For Kids

Saturday, April 25
4:30pm • Teen Book Club •
Join us for character charades and title trivia. Topic of discussion, What would it take to have a "querque" teen book festival? If you were on the planning committee for a teen book festival in Albuquerque who would you invite and what activities would you include?

Thursday, April 30
10:30am • Story Time •
Celebrate Dia de Los Ninos / Dia de Los Libros! We will read one of Pat Mora's books. She is the person who brought this book holiday to life and continues to pour hours of energy, creativity and enthusiasm into creating a reading world for all children and families.

Looking Ahead

Saturday, May 2
3pm • David Thurlo • Grave Consequences
Charlie Henry, former Special Forces operative and newly minted pawnbroker, thinks that he's finally turned a corner and the calm, quiet life he's always wanted is just ahead. But life never really works out that way. More »

Tuesday, May 5
7pm • Anne Hillerman at the South Broadway Cultural Center 1025 Broadway SE • Rock With Wings
Navajo Tribal cops Jim Chee and Bernadette Manuelito, and their mentor, the legendary Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn, investigate two perplexing cases in this exciting Southwestern mystery from the New York Times bestselling author of Spider Woman's Daughter. A $5 tickets admits one. All proceeds benefit the Albuquerque Library Foundation.

Saturday, May 9
3pm • Michaela Carter • Further Out Than You Thought
From award-winning poet Michaela Carter comes a taut and erotically charged literary debut, set against the chaos of the 1992 L.A. riots, about three twentysomethings searching for meaning in their lives. In the Neverland that is Los Angeles, where make-believe seems possible, three dreamers find themselves on the verge of transformation.

Wednesday, May 20
7pm • Craig Smith • A Vision of Voices: John Crosby and the Santa Fe Opera
A destination for thousands of opera lovers every year and the anchor of Santa Fe's thriving arts scene, the Santa Fe Opera owes its existence to the vision and hard work of one man: John O'Hea Crosby (1926-2002), who created the company when he was only thirty years old and guided its fortunes for the next forty-five years. This book, the first in-depth exploration of Crosby's career, shows how the Opera reflected his passions for music and the arts.

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