This Week at Bookworks Includes Concscious Living, Conscious Aging, Tony Hillerman Prize Winner and More

This week at Bookworks includes Concscious Living, Conscious Aging, Renowned Native American Poet, Tony Hillerman Prize Winner and more. For more information, please visit bkwrks.com/event.

Friday, November 7
7pm • Ron Pevny • Conscious Living, Conscious Aging
We financially plan for our retirement, but do we plan for our wellbeing? Here is an empowering guide with practical tools to help you live a passionate, fulfilling second half of life.

Saturday, November 8
3pm • Gayle Lauradunn • Reaching for Air
Reaching for Air, Gayle Lauradunn's debut poetry collection, tells the story of a childhood spent in a landscape full of beauty, hardship, and violence.

5pm • Max Early • Ears of Corn Listen
Poetry. Native American Studies. Art. In Ears of Corn: Listen renowned Native American potter and poet Max Early gracefully details both the everyday and the extraordinary moments of family and community life, work and art, sadness and celebration at the Laguna Pueblo of New Mexico.

Sunday, November 9
5pm • CB McKenzie • Bad Country
The newest winner of the Tony Hillerman Prize, a debut mystery set in the Southwest starring a former rodeo cowboy turned private investigator, told in a transfixingly original style.

Tuesday, November 11
7pm • Lois Abraham • Circus Girl
A little girl discovers the power of the creative impulse. A woman remembers her first confusing sexual encounter. An aging flower child travels to Mexico to save her daughter. A baby is born with blue feet. A man ponders his ex-wife's last word.

Wednesday, November 12-15
9am • Quivira Coalition Conference at the Embassy Suite Hotel •
"Back to the future" is part of the burgeoning regenerative agriculture movement, whose aim is to restore soil, land, ourselves and our communities to health and happiness via naturally renewing processes.

Thursday, November 13
7pm • Heather Strang • The Quest: A Tale of Desire and Magic
Think true love and spirituality can't be hot? Think again. For 30-year-old Kathryn Casey, merging the two has developed into a lifelong quest. A mind-blowing psychic prophecy sends Kathryn on a journey that melds meditation and wine, the Amazon and New Zealanders, hot sex and dark chocolate, and psychic healings complete with strappy sandals.

Friday, November 14
7pm • Naomi Shihab Nye • For the New Mexico Humanities Council at the KiMo, 423 Central NW
Poet Naomi Shihab Nye will deliver a FREE 50-60 minute talk (with some poetry reading) about her travels around the world, making observations about "the business of living and the continuity among the world's inhabitants. She will take audience questions and participate in a book signing.

Saturday, November 15
3pm • Toby Smith • Bush League Boys
In Bush League Boys sportswriter Toby Smith relies upon fascinating oral histories to recall the home runs, screen money, and dust storms that characterized the glory days of post-World War II baseball in the Southwest.--Ron Briley, author of The Baseball Film in Postwar America: A Critical Study, 1948-1962. Toby M. Smith is a writer in Albuquerque.

5pm • Hollis Walker • The Booby Blog
How does it feel to find a lump in your breast and know its cancer? What's it like to be told-as you're trying to decide whether to have a lumpectomy or a mastectomy-"Well, it's really up to you." How do you handle the very real and painful treatment process knowing that none of it may actually save your life? How do you stop laughing when friends unwittingly say, "I swear, you look radiant!," or "You're just glowing!" -while you're going through radiation.

For Kids

Saturday, November 8
10:30am • BOA - Big on Animals with Dachshunds!
Big on Animals (BOA) brings animals to Bookworks on the occasionalSaturday. This Saturday, local author Karen Glinski will talk about her first book, Stranded at Sheep Camp, about a lost dacnshund. Karen will bering her own doggie dachshund to visit.

6:30pm • Author Skype with Claudia Gray • A Thousand Pieces of You
Join us to talk to Claudia Gray about her fun and though provoking book, A Thousand Pieces of You, a mysery, advancture, travel-betweenp-dimencsions romance.

Tuesday, November 11
4:30pm • New Graphic Novel Book Club!
This month we launch a new book club for middle readers devoted to graphic novels. The first book we will read is Around the World by Matt Phelan.

Wednesday, November 12
4:30pm • Whoodunit Mystery Book Club for Middle Grades!
The Whoodunit Mystery Book Club is for readers ages 8-12. This month's slection is Who Stole the Wizard of Oz by Avi.

Thursday, November 13
10:30am • STORY TIME! Gingerbread!
Fun plus a craft activity and snack.

Friday, November 14
1pm • Our World Home School Book Co-op Meets

Saturday, November 15
4pm • Teen Book Club - Pick an ARC day!
Teen readers are encouraged to attend and pick up a free Advance Readers Copy of a book that interests them. Teen Book Club is open to any and all teen readers.

Clubs

Wednesday, November 12
7pm • Bookworks Book Club • The Marseille Caper
by Peter Mayle
Free and open to all readers interested in joining a book club and all book club leaders who would like to come and talk about their group and invite new members. Lovable rogue and sleuth extraordinaire Sam Levitt is back in another beguiling, as-only-Peter-Mayle-can-write-it romp through the South of France.

Friday, November 14
1pm • Second Cup of Coffee Book Club meets at The Coffee Shop, 700 2nd NW • A Street Cat Named Bob: And How He Saved My Life by James Bowen
Free and open to the public! This month's selectoin is A Street Cat Named Bob an Instant New York Times Bestseller! James is a street musician struggling to make ends meet. Bob is a stray cat looking for somewhere warm to sleep. When James and Bob meet, they forge a never-to-be-forgotten friendship.

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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