This Week at Bookworks Includes Star Wars Reads Day, Valerie Petersen, and More

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

Friday, October 10
7pm • Franklin Veaux & Eve Rickert • More Than Two: A Practical Guide to Ethical Polyamory
In recent years, as more people have discovered polyamory as a legitimate option for their relationships, Franklin Veaux and his partner Eve Rickert saw a growing need for a comprehensive guide to the lifestyle.

Saturday, October 11
3pm • Valerie Petersen • Hand Me Down Sins
A novel of broken family relationships, misdeeds, revenge, punishments, and finally, redemption of sorts. The author warns us at the very beginning of the book that "revenge comes in many forms and that some payoffs are sweeter than others."

Sunday, October 12
11am • Local Food Festival at the Hubbell House •
The Local Food Festival and Field Day is an annual event highlighting local food and agriculture in our region. The festival is organized by the MRCOG Agriculture Collaborative in partnership with Bernalillo County Open Space and a variety of local groups and organizations.

3pm • Juan Estevan Arellano • Enduring Acequias
For generations the Río Embudo watershed in northern New Mexico has been the home of Juan Estevan Arellano and his ancestors. From this unique perspective Arellano explores the ways people use water in dry places around the world.

Monday thru Wednesday, October 13-15
9-5pm • SIMPLE (Symposium of Integrative Medicine Professionals) • SIMPLE Conference with the UNM Center for Life, Featuring Andrew Weil
Sponsored by UNM School of Medicine Section of Integrative Medicine, Continuing Medical Education & Professional Development, Arizona Center for Integrative Medicine and Gaples Institute for Integrative Cardiology. For the first time, SIMPLE is open to our patients and community at a rate of $150! Register on-line.

Monday, October 13
7pm • Rebecca Coffey • Hysterical: Anna Freud's Story
FACTS: Anna Freud (1895-1982) was her father Sigmund 's sounding board and chief collaborator. Yet she harbored secrets that could have shaken the foundations of his growing legacy. Suspecting as much, Sigmund psychoanalyzed his daughter.

Tuesday, October 14
7pm • Art Schreiber • Out of Sight
Art Schreiber is a high level radio news broadcast executive who suddenly loses his eyesight. At the top of his career as a radio station general manager, Art awakes one morning at a resort near Santa Fe, NM, unable to see. His world is in complete darkness. After facing total despair, Art plots his return to the top while learning to live life in a new way in a new world.

Wednesday, October 15
7:30am • Bullying Conference • at UNM Science & Technology Park, $85 includes lesson plans; 1st Floor-East - Rotunda & lunch
Sheriff Dan Houston and the Bernalillo County Sheriff's Department are proud to sponsor a limited number of scholarships to cover substitutes for Health Education teachers from schools in Bernalillo County on a first come first served basis.

7pm • Johanna Skibsrud • Quartet for the End of Time
Giller Prize-winning author Johanna Skibsrud spins a masterful tale about memory and war. Inspired by and structured around the chamber piece of the same title by the French composer Olivier Messiaen, Quartet for the End of Time is a mesmerizing story of four lives irrevocably linked in a single act of betrayal.

Wednesday thru Sunday, October 15 - 19
National Wilderness Conference at the Hyatt Regency •
The first national gathering of the wilderness community in 25 years will be filled with diverse plenary sessions, presentations, panels, exhibits, field learning, and skill development workshops, all culminating in the public, outdoor 'Get Wild' Festival.

Thursday, October 16
7pm • Dimitry Samarov • Where To?
Dmitry Samarov's illustrated memoir captures encounters with drunken passengers, overbearing cops, unreasonable city bureaucracy, his fellow cabdrivers, a few potholes, and other unexpectedly beautiful moments.

Friday, October 17
7pm • Maggie Romero with Merimee Moffitt • A Mother's Story
A Mother's Story is a searing and intimate portrait of addiction and how it has been passed down in Maggie Romero's family from generation to generation. Maggie is herself an addict, and when Angie's drug addiction, at age twenty-two, became apparent to her, she jumped into a recovery program to cope with her daughter's illness.

For Kids

Friday, October 10
1pm • Our World Home School Book Club!
Our monthly meeting of the Our World Home School Book Club.

Saturday, October 11
10:30 • Star Wars Reads Day •
Our annual celebration of the national holiday Star Wars Reads. With stories, snacks, and crafts. Open to Star Wars fans young, and old.

Wednesday, October 15
4:30pm • American Girl Book Club!
Our monthly meeting of the American Girl Book Club. All American Girl fans are invited to attend for stories, snacks, and crafts.

Thursday, October 16
10:30am • Leave it to Reading!
Story Time features stories about leaves as we fall into autumn!

Saturday, October 18
3pm • Rudy Anaya, Nicholas Otero & Nasario Garcia •
How Chile Came to New Mexico
The exciting tale of how New Mexico's premier crop came to the Land of Enchantment. The story shows the importance of Native Americans who helped bring chile to New Mexico through a long journey with many dangers.

4pm • Teen Book Club
Free, new members ages 13 to 16 welcome. This month's book selection is Mortal Engines by Phillip Reeve. We're going into Halloween season via Steampunk! Costumes encouraged.

5pm • Tawni Waters • Beauty of the Broken
In this lyrical, heart-wrenching story about a forbidden first love, a teen seeks the courage to care for another girl despite her small town's bigotry and her father's violent threats.

Clubs

Friday, October 10
1pm • Second Cup of Coffee Book Club meets at The Coffee Shop, 700 2nd NW • People of the Abyss by Jack London
There is erosion and deterioration of all that was won through hard-fought battles: people are working two jobs and still not making ends meet; children work more than an 8 hour day.

Looking Ahead

Wednesday, November 5
7pm • Tony Hoagland • Twenty Poems That Could Save America and Other Essays
Live American poetry is absent from our public schools. The teaching of poetry languishes, and that region of youthful neurological terrain capable of being ignited only by poetry is largely dark, unpopulated, and silent, like a classroom whose shades are drawn. From Twenty Poems That Could Save America

Thursday, November 6
7pm • Valerie Plame & Sarah Lovett • Burned
Covert CIA ops officer Vanessa Pierson has dedicated her career to capturing one man: Bhoot, the world's most notorious nuclear arms dealer. That mission has been impeded by the murders of her assets, who were betrayed by a mole within her own agency.

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.

Sunday, November 16
3pm • Jerry Mitchell • The Height of Secrecy
High on a treacherous canyon wall, a man from the pueblo clings to a ledge. Furiously working to rescue him, Ranger Jack Chastain is nearly killed. Now he wants an explanation and the man refuses to talk.

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