This Week at Bookworks Includes Chimayo Dichos, a Poetry Performance, Small Business Saturday and More

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

Saturday, November 22
3pm • Harvey Girls movie premiere at the KiMo Theater with Carolyn Meyer, 423 Central NW •
From the late 1800s through the 1960s,100,000 pioneering young women became a fascinating part of New Mexico and local history, serving as waitresses at Albuquerque's famous Alvarado Hotel, La Castaneda in Las Vegas, La Posada in Winslow, AZ and dozens more Harvey House resturants. Thaddeus Homan, executive producer and editor; Lori Hebert, co-producer and narrator; and Meredith Davidson, a curator at the New Mexico History Museum in Santa Fe will discuss the film and answer questions from the audience.

3pm • Don Usner • Chasing Dichos Through Chimayo
In these reflections on the dichos of the Chimayo Valley in northern New Mexico native son Don J. Usner has written a memoir that is also a valuable source of information on the rich language and culture of the region.

Sunday, November 23
3pm • Dick Bakken • The Whiskey Epiphanies
Arizona poet Dick Bakken is one of the most dynamic performers of poetry in this country. His readings are intense, mesmerizing. His poetry has appeared in a variety of journals and has been recorded on radio and CD. He is a poet in the true oral tradition.

Tuesday, November 25
7pm • Jamie Anderson • Drive All Night
The life of a touring musician - the glamour, the groupies, the high life. Jamie Anderson would love to know where that life is. In her memoir of a life on the road, she tells the truth, and if it weren't the truth it wouldn't be nearly so funny.

Wednesday, November 26
7pm • Manuel Gonzales • But My Friends Call Me Burque
New poetry from Manuel Gonzales published by Swimming with Elephants Press. "Manuel Gonzalez's poetry is authentic, genuine, revolutionary, and infused with the vibrant fire-language of the Mexica." - Jessica Helen Lopez

Saturday, November 29
All day • First Small Business Saturday & Indies First Campaign •
Bookworks celebrates local business with festivities for Small BusinessSaturday. Bookworks will be part of the American Express Shop Small campaign, where you can receive a $10 credit on your American Express Card for a purchase of $10 or more. We will also host author-employees in our store as part of the Indies First Campaign started last year by Sherman Alexie. Our author-employees will work the floor suggesting books to customers in their efforst to support independent booksellers as part of this special campaign. Authors TBA.

3pm • Mark Stevens • Trapline
Intrigue and murder in the Rocky Mountains. A badly chewed-up corpse high in the Flat Tops Wilderness Area leaves Colorado hunting guide Allison Coil mystified and wary. Obvious signs suggest the dead man is the victim of a mountain lion attack, but Allison's wilderness-savvy bones scream otherwise.

Sunday, November 30
1pm • Jennifer Jacobson reads Tarot Cards •
$10 for a 10 to 15 minute glimpse into those things most important to you.

For Kids

Tuesday, November 25
4:30pm • Magic Treehouse Book Club! Thanksgiving on Thursday MT #27
We are meeting on Tuesday this month, instead of Wednesday and reading the Magic Treehouse Book #27, Thanksgiving on Thursday.

Sat, November 29
10:30am • Alayna Roche • Fiona the Funkadelic Freckle Fairy
Albuquerque children's author Alayna Roche reads from her new kids' book just published by Community Publishing.

Sunday, November 30
5pm • Harry Potter Book Club!
Our monthly meeting of the Harry Potter Book Club.

Looking Ahead

Monday, December 1
7pm • Renato Rosaldo • The Day of Shelly's Death: The Poetry and Ethnography of Grief
This deeply moving collection of "ethnographic poetry" by the renowned cultural theorist Renato Rosaldo focuses on the immediate aftermath of his wife Michelle (Shelly) Rosaldo's sudden death on October 11, 1981, the day after she and her family had arrived in a northern Philippines village where Shelly and Renato were to conduct fieldwork.

Tuesday, December 2
7pm • Rabbi Paul Citrin • Lights in the Forest: Rabbis Respond to Twelve Essential Jewish Questions
Rabbi Paul Citrin has edited a compilation of essays from rabbis as they posit their thoughts on twelve essential Jewish questions. This cross-section of rabbis respond to questions about God, ethics, humanity, suffering, evil, the soul, after-life, interfaith dialogue, and more. For self-study, high school classes, adult learning, and conversion.

Sunday, December 7
1pm • Father Richard Rohr • Eager to Love
Francis of Assisi, one of the most beloved of all saints, was at once very traditional and entirely revolutionary in the ways of holiness. He both stood barefoot on the earth and yet touched the heavens; he was grounded in the church and yet instinctively moved toward the cosmos. Rohr places the tradition as first practiced by Francis, and subsequently by others, within a context not as a historical accounting, but rather a perspective about how the alternative orthodoxy can deepen spiritual life for anyone, whether Catholic, Protestant, Jewish, secular, or spiritual seeker.

Saturday, December 13
7pm • Terry Tempest Williams and Brooke Williams
at The Albuquerque Academy 6400 Wyoming NE •
The Story of My Heart
While browsing a Maine bookstore, Brooke Williams and Terry Tempest Williams discovered a rare copy of an exquisite autobiography by 19th century British nature writer Richard Jefferies, who develops his understanding of a "soul-life" while wandering the wild countryside of Wiltshire, England. In an introduction and essays set alongside Jefferies' writing, the Williams share their personal pilgrimage to Wiltshire.

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