This Week at Bookworks Includes Ryan Winfield with the Land of Enchantment Romance Writers of America, Margaret Randall and More

This week at Bookworks includes many events like Ryan Winfield with the Land of Enchantment Romance Writers of America, Margaret Randall with About Charlie Lindbergh & Other Poems, Lois Rudnick with Intimate Memories, and more. There are also events for children, like BOA - Big on Animals!, Carolyn Meyer with Victoria Rebels and more. For more information, visit bkwrks.com/event.

Saturday, Aug 9
3:30pm • Ryan Winfield with the Land of Enchantment Romance Writers of America • Jane's Harmony
Starting over is hard to do.That's what forty-year-old Jane McKinney learns when she quits her job, sells her home, and leaves Seattle behind to start a new life and pursue the man she loves in Austin. After the death of her daughter, Melody, Jane never thought she would find happiness again--until she met Caleb Cummings.

Sunday, Aug 10
3pm • Margaret Randall • About Charlie Lindbergh & Other Poems
Albuquerque-writer-activitist Mrgaret Randall returns with a new book of poems from Wings Press.

Tuesday, Aug 12
7pm • Lois Rudnick • Intimate Memories
Mabel Dodge Luhan's Intimate Memories offers the brilliantly edited memoirs of one woman's rebellion against "the whole ghastly social structure" under which the United States had been buried since the Victorian era.

Thursday, Aug 14
7pm • Benjamin Radford • Mysterious New Mexico: Miracles, Magic, and Monsters in the Land of Enchantment
New Mexico's twin traditions of the scientific and the supernatural meet for the first time in this long-overdue book by a journalist known for investigating the unexplained.

Friday & Saturday, Aug 15 & 16
7pm • 24 hours of Art at the Rail Yards

Friday, Aug 15
7pm • Blair Stocker • Wise Craft
Based on the popular blog of the same name, this guide focuses on creating ahomemade atmosphere that reflects your family without spending a fortune.

Saturday, Aug 16
3pm • John Nichols • Conjugal Bliss, American Blood, An Elegy for September
Conjugal Bliss: This takeoff on matrimony will make you laugh, scream, or grind your teeth in recognition. If you are hitched yourself, take three Valiums before reading!

Sat, Aug 9
10:30am • BOA - Big on Animals!
Welcome the folks from Albuquerque Alpacas and a couple of their alpacas.

Monday, Aug 11
7pm • Carolyn Meyer • Victoria Rebels
Queen Victoria's personal journals inform this "intimate and authentic portrait" (Booklist) of one of history's most prominent female leaders.

Tuesday, Aug 12
3:30pm • Our World Home School Book Club
Our World Home School Book Club kicks off another season of books and conversation. We will consider book titles, meeting formats and scheduling.

Wednesday, Aug 13
4:30pm • Sammy Keyes Book Club!
Mystery readers! We are reading the second book in the Sammy Keyes series, Sammy Keyes and the Skelton Man. Group members will follow a list of clues at the beginning of the meeting. Book club purchases receive 10% off.

Thursday, Aug 14
10:30am • Story Time

Saturday, Aug 16
4pm • Teen Book Club
This months book is As Easy As Falling Off the Face of the Earth by Lynn Rae Perkins. Summer Camp has been cancelled and Ry's plans change dramatically. Bring a pair of flip-flops. In honor of Ry's lost shoe we are going to be decorating flip-flops to see us through the next month or so of warm weather.

Friday, Aug 8
1pm • Second Cup of Coffee Book Club meets at the Coffee Shop, 700 2nd NW
New members are most welcome. This month's selection is Behind the Beautriful Forevers by Katherine Boo. Purchase the book at Bookworks and recieve at 10% discount. This is the dramatic story of families striving toward a better life in Annawadi, a makeshift settlement in the shadow of luxury hotels near the Mumbai airport.

Wednesday, Aug 13
7pm • Bookworks Book Club
New members are most welcome. This month's selection is And the Mountains Echoed by Khaled Hosseini. Purchase the book at Bookworks and recieve at 10% discount. How we love, how we take care of one another, and how the choices we make resonate through the generations.

Saturday, Sept 6
11am • Brunch with Deborah Madison at the State Street Cafe 515 Slate St. NW • The New Vegetarian Cooking for Everyone
Orginally published in 1997, Deborah Madison's Vegetarian Cooking for Everyone was both ahead of its time and an instant classic. It has endured as one of the world's most popular vegetarian cookbooks, winning both a James Beard Foundation award and the IACP Julia Child Cookbook of the Year Award. A $35 ticket includes the meal & a choice of cookbooks.

Sunday, Sept 7
3pm • Lisa Lenard-Cook • Dissonance
A Los Alamos piano teacher inherits the journals & scores of composer Hana Weissova and is mystified by this bequest.

Tuesday, Sept 16
7pm • Mark Tatulli • Desmond Puckett and the Mountains Full of Monsters
Desmond has been waiting his whole life for this day. It is the sixth-grade field trip to Crab Shell Pier, home to the world's most awesomely fantastic ride, and Desmond has one goal: to convince Tina Schimsky to ride it with him.

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