Location: Albuquerque, NM

Every vine has a story, and nearly four hundred years ago, New Mexico's wine journey began when the first Mission grapes were planted in 1629. Taste this rich legacy, the oldest in the United States, in Donna Blake Birchell's account of the turmoil and triumph that shaped today's burgeoning industry. Despite greedy Spanish monarchs, prim teetotalers and the one-hundred-year flood's gift of root rot and alkaline deposits, New Mexico winemakers continue to harvest the fruits of sun-soaked volcanic soils and clear skies, blending their family stories with the vines and traditions of the Old World.

Location: Street: 4022 Rio Grande Blvd NW City: Albuquerque, Province: New Mexico Postal Code: 87107-3157 Country: United States (added from IndieBound)… (more)

The Bookworks American Girl Club will meet. The book we have chosen to discuss is Saige Paints the Sky. This is the second book in the pair of stories about Saige. She is an Albuquerque girl whose interests include art and horses. Please join us even if you have not read the book. We will also do an art project and have a New Mexico style snack. Free and open to the public. More info: kids@bkwrks.com.

Location: Street: 4022 Rio Grande Blvd NW City: Albuquerque, Province: New Mexico Postal Code: 87107-3157 Country: United States (added from IndieBound)… (more)

Escaping Nazi-controlled Germany, Werner struggles to create a new life in New York City, his goal being to get a foothold in America and a home. His Father promises that he and Werner's little sister would follow, giving Werner an ember of hope to light his way. In Werner's struggle to find a safe home in the U.S.A., he travels across the city from Second Avenue to Central Park to Harlem and back again. Forced Journey: the Saga of Werner Berlinger was inspired by true accounts of children who fled Nazi-held Europe and came to America. The book is the second of a series titled Far and Away, which features young people displaced and relocated between 1939 - 1945.

Location: Street: 4022 Rio Grande Blvd NW City: Albuquerque, Province: New Mexico Postal Code: 87107-3157 Country: United States (added from IndieBound)… (more)

Have you ever wondered where the ideas for baking red velvet cupcakes, brownies, birthday cake, Girl Scout cookies, and other dessert recipes came from? Discover the history behind America's most popular and nostalgic desserts with popular CakeSpy blogger and self-proclaimed "dessert detective" Jessie Oleson Moore. Moore has put her sweet-sleuthing skills to work uncovering the fascinating histories and tastiest recipes for America's favorite sweets, including whoopee pies, chocolate chip cookies, Baked Alaska, and New York cheesecake. From romantic musings on how desserts got their names to sugar-fueled scandals, these classic recipes and photographs are guaranteed to offer food for thought and leave you with plenty of room for dessert. The author will bring sweet samples for us!

Location: Street: 4022 Rio Grande Blvd NW City: Albuquerque, Province: New Mexico Postal Code: 87107-3157 Country: United States (added from IndieBound)… (more)

Janni Lee Simner (Bones of Faerie, Thief Eyes, Faerie Winter, Faerie After)

Janni Lee Simner lives in the Arizona desert, where the plants know how to bite and even the dandelions have thorns. In spite of these things--or perhaps because of them--she's convinced she lives in one of the most stunning places on Earth. Janni has written the three books of the Bones of Faerie Trilogy--Bones of Faerie, Faerie Winter, and Faerie After--as well as a contemporary Icelandic fantasy, Thief Eyes. She's also published four books for younger readers and more than thirty short stories, including one in the Welcome to Bordertown anthology. (added from Random House)… (more)

Denise Kiernan, The Girls of Atomic City, at the National Museum of Nuclear Science & History, 601 Eubank Blvd NE, Albuquerque, NM. Admission is $5 and gives ticket holders discounted access to museum exhibits and a seat at Kiernan's talk, as well as a $5 voucher toward the purchase of the book on the night of the event. Book buyers are also welcome to attend the event upon showing a Bookworks receipt of purchase of the book. Buy vouchers here. Kiernan traces the astonishing story of the unsung World War II workers in Oak Ridge, Tennessee--one of the Manhattan Project's secret cities. Like The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks this is history and science made fresh and vibrant--a beautifully told, deeply researched story that unfolds in a suspenseful and exciting way. At the height of World War II, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, was home to 75,000 residents, consuming more electricity than New York City. But to most of the world, the town did not exist. Thousands of civilians--many of them young women from small towns across the South--were recruited to this secret city, enticed by solid wages and the promise of war-ending work. Kept very much in the dark, few would ever guess the true nature of the tasks they performed each day in the hulking factories in the middle of the Appalachian Mountains. That is, until the end of the war--when Oak Ridge's secret was revealed. Drawing on the voices of the women who lived it--women who are now in their eighties and nineties-- The Girls of Atomic City rescues a remarkable, forgotten chapter of American history from obscurity. Denise Kiernan captures the spirit of the times through these women: their pluck, their desire to contribute, and their enduring courage. Combining the grand-scale human drama of The Worst Hard Time with the intimate biography and often troubling science of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, The Girls of Atomic City is a lasting and important addition to our country's history. MEDIA: Jim Lehrer’s NewsHour with Ray Suarez: http://video.pbs.org/video/2354691667/ NPR: http://www.npr.org/2013/03/03/172908135/secretly-working-to-win-the-war-... Washington Post: http://articles.washingtonpost.com/2013-04-26/opinions/38840185_1_clinto... USA Today: http://books.usatoday.com/book/%27girls-of-atomic-city-is-fascinating-bu... Science News: http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/350502/description/BOOK_REVIE... The Tennessean: http://www.tennessean.com/article/20130512/LIFE01/305120025/-Girls-Atomi... REVIEWS: "Denise Kiernan recreates, with cinematic vividness and clarity, the surreal Orwell-meets-Margaret Atwood environment of Oak Ridge as experienced by some of the women who were there: secretaries, technicians, a nurse, a statistician, a leak pipe inspector, a chemist, and a janitor."--DailyBeast.com "I love these kinds of books, and this is a great one....It's a phenomenal story."--Jon Stewart, "The Daily Show" The Girls of Atomic City is the best kind of nonfiction: marvelously reported, fluidly written, and a remarkable story about a remarkable group of women who performed clandestine and vital work during World War II. Denise Kiernan recreates this forgotten chapter in American history in a work as meticulous and brilliant as it is compulsively readable."--Karen Abbott, New York Times bestselling author of Sin in the Second City Denise Kiernan is the author of several books, including The Girls of Atomic City, Signing their lives away, and Signing their rights away. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Discover, Ms., and other national publications. Visit her at DeniseKiernan.com.

Location: Street: National Museum of Nuclear Science & History Additional: 601 Eubank Blvd NE City: Albuquerque, Province: New Mexico Postal Code: 87107-3157 Country: United States (added from IndieBound)… (more)

Meet local author Kimberley Griffiths Little. Her latest book is, When the Butterflies Came. In addition to the book talk and signing, we will be making butterfly necklaces. A small materials fee will be charged. Kimberley's new book for young adults is a mystery that begins to unfold after the death of the main character's grandmother. More info: kids@bkwrks.com

Location: Street: 4022 Rio Grande Blvd NW City: Albuquerque, Province: New Mexico Postal Code: 87107-3157 Country: United States (added from IndieBound)… (more)

Farm and Table Restaurant partners with Bookworks and Deborah Madison to bring alive recipes from Madison's latest vegetarian cookbook. Tickets are $60. Each ticket admit one to brunch with Ms. Madison at Farm & Table and a signed hardcover copy of Vegetable literacy.

EVENT IS SOLD OUT

In her latest cookbook, Deborah Madison, America's leading authority on vegetarian cooking and author of Vegetarian Cooking for Everyone, reveals the surprising relationships between vegetables, edible flowers, and herbs within the same botanical families, and how understanding these connections can help home cooks see everyday vegetables in new light.

For over three decades, Deborah Madison has been at the vanguard of the vegetarian cooking movement, authoring classic books on the subject and emboldening millions of readers to cook simple, elegant, plant-based food.

This groundbreaking new cookbook is Madison’s crowning achievement: a celebration of the diversity of the plant kingdom, and an exploration of the fascinating relationships between vegetables, edible flowers, herbs, and familiar wild plants within the same botanical families.

With more than 300 classic and exquisitely simple recipes, Madison brings this wealth of information together in dishes that highlight a world of complementary flavors. Griddled Artichokes with Tarragon Mayonnaise, Tomato Soup and Cilantro with Black Quinoa, Tuscan Kale Salad with Slivered Brussels Sprouts and Sesame Dressing, Kohlrabi Slaw with Frizzy Mustard Greens, and Fresh Peas with Sage on Baked Ricotta showcase combinations that are simultaneously familiar and revelatory.

PRAISE:

"Inspiring improvisation in the kitchen and curiosity in the garden, Vegetable literacy—an unparalleled look at culinary vegetables and plants—will forever change the way we eat and cook.“I have long been a fan of both Deborah’s vibrant food and her many thorough, thoughtful cookbooks. In Vegetable literacy she offers, with abundant warmth and generosity, observations from years of garden-to-table cooking. Filled with fascinating botanical notes and inspired recipes that really explore vegetables from the ground up—it is a pleasure to read. The writing is beautiful and the lessons are astutely down to earth.” —David Tanis, author of Heart of the Artichoke and Other Kitchen Journeys

“Deborah Madison has taken vegetables to a whole new level. You’ll want to know what she knows—about botany, family pairings, and companion flavors on the plate. In cooking, Madison excels, but she’s also a natural with observation in the garden. Her passion is palpable, her scholarship tops, and her prose exquisite.” —Amy P. Goldman, PhD, author of The Heirloom Tomato: From Garden to Table

“The are few people equipped with the curiosity, skill, and eye for observation required to construct a volume of this size and scope—and Deborah does it masterfully. Vegetable literacy will shift the way both home and professional cooks think about the relationship between ingredients, and vegetables in particular. Using this book has felt like a missing puzzle piece snapping into place—inspiring, intimate, informative, and beautifully illustrated.” —Heidi Swanson, author of Super Natural Every Day

“In her most exciting and innovative book to date, Deborah Madison shows us how the botany in our gardens can inform and guide our preparation and cooking of meals that will both delight and nourish us all. Come directly from the garden to the kitchen with Deborah, and you will never observe or use vegetables in an uninspired way again. This book feeds our imaginations and souls with more insights per page than any cookbook I know.” —Gary Paul Nabhan, ethnobotanist and author of Coming Home to Eat and Desert Terroir

Location: Street: 4022 Rio Grande Blvd NW City: Albuquerque, Province: New Mexico Postal Code: 87107-3157 Country: United States (added from IndieBound)… (more)

Adrian Johnston and Catherine Malabou defy theoretical humanities' deeply-entrenched resistance to engagements with the life sciences. Merging three distinct disciplines—European philosophy from Descartes to the present, Freudian-Lacanian psychoanalysis, and affective neuroscience—Johnston and Malabou triangulate the emotional life of subjects as conceptualized in philosophy and psychoanalysis with neuroscience. At stake in this exchange are some of philosophy's most important claims concerning the relationship between the subjective mind and the objective body, the structures and dynamics of the unconscious dimensions of mental life, the role emotion plays in making us human, and the functional differences between philosophy and science.

Location: Street: 4022 Rio Grande Blvd NW City: Albuquerque, Province: New Mexico Postal Code: 87107-3157 Country: United States (added from IndieBound)… (more)

In The Exchange, poet Sophie Cabot Black explores the surprising interplay between mortality and money, between the next world and this one, between the language of disease and the language of finance. Following a beloved friend through long illness and eventual loss, these poems confront in stark emotion the aftermath, even as the outside world—the world of debts paid and collected, of power and dominion—intrudes. What is gained and what is sacrificed, and how can those profits and losses be measured, when the currency involved is love?

Location: Street: 4022 Rio Grande Blvd NW City: Albuquerque, Province: New Mexico Postal Code: 87107-3157 Country: United States (added from IndieBound)… (more)

Set against the backdrop of the Great Plains during the years just preceding the Civil War, Crossing Purgatory deals with questions of unprincipled ambition, guilt, and the price one man is willing to pay for atonement. Beautifully scripted, spare and powerful, this is a story of relationships, of human frailties, and, ultimately, of redemption.

“Schanbacher’s unflinching prose is lyrical; it lays bare the deepest of emotions of the human heart.” (Rocky Moutain News )

Gary Schanbacher was born in the Midwest, raised in Southeast Virginia, and lives just outside Denver, Colorado. His short story collection, Migration Patterns, received a PEN/Hemingway Honorable Mention for distinguished first works of fiction and won the Colorado Book Award, the High Plains First Book Award and the Eric Hoffer General Fiction Award. He has been a Hemingway Fellow at Ucross Foundation, serves on the board of directors of Lighthouse Writers Workshop, a non-profit writing center, and is a founding partner of The Writers Block, a writing co-community.

Location: Street: 4022 Rio Grande Blvd NW City: Albuquerque, Province: New Mexico Postal Code: 87107-3157 Country: United States (added from IndieBound)… (more)

Las Vegas, New Mexico is the subject and muse of this provocative case study of place, exploring its history and geography, nature and character through explorations of town and landscape and encounters with Las Vegans.

Location: Street: 4022 Rio Grande Blvd NW City: Albuquerque, Province: New Mexico Postal Code: 87107-3157 Country: United States (added from IndieBound)… (more)

A breakout stand-alone thriller from Harvey, Chicago's best-known crime writer and the beloved author of the Michael Kelly P.I. series. The wire-taut thriller begins in an ordinary classroom at Northwestern's renowned journalism school but quickly spirals into the grittiest corners of Chicago.

Location: Street: 4022 Rio Grande Blvd NW City: Albuquerque, Province: New Mexico Postal Code: 87107-3157 Country: United States (added from IndieBound)… (more)

This collaboration is a real literary event: the first publication of letters from one of America's most consistently admired writers. Cather, wanting only her work to speak for her, clearly forbade the publication of her letters in her will. But now, more than 65 years after her death, the letters have become available for publication.

Location: Street: 4022 Rio Grande Blvd NW City: Albuquerque, Province: New Mexico Postal Code: 87107-3157 Country: United States (added from IndieBound)… (more)

Bone Horses is a novel about history lost and found, and the real and imagined stories that bind one generation to the next. A Southwestern mystery that incorporates archaeology, Leslie Poling Kempes’ first novel takes readers on a hunt they are sure to remember.

New York school teacher Charlotte Lambert is practical and predictable, and never allows life to veer off course. Until she comes to New Mexico. During one summer in Agua Dulce, a village haunted by a phantom herd of wild horses and where ravens embody the spirits of ancestors, Charlotte’s world is upended as she unearths the details of her mother’s forbidden love affair, chilling murder, and courageous last act of redemption. Pursued by a madman hell-bent on killing her, Charlotte finds shelter, romance, and her own misplaced soul at the desert camp of a surprisingly sophisticated cowboy, and learns how love in its myriad forms is the only path to lasting salvation.

PRAISE FOR BONE HORSES

“…an exquisitely beautiful and haunting read, which tells a moving story of love, murder, and redemption. "Bone Horses" is a novel of large ambitions and sweep, with vivid characters and big American themes, written in crisp, sculptured prose. I highly recommend "Bone Horses" for anyone who loves the landscapes and people of New Mexico.”--Douglas Preston, New York Times #1 Bestselling author of "Two Graves" and "The Monster of Florence"

“Lesley Poling-Kempes is deservedly known for her beautiful non-fiction books about Abiquiu and the Ghost Ranch area of northern New Mexico. Her second novel, BONE HORSES, can only enhance her reputation. Her love of the land and its wild spirit shines through this tragic story with redemption at the end. It is a fine mystery, with complex twists and turns. BONE HORSES is also a paean to the land and especially to its rare wild horses who symbolize all that is wonderful about our high desert country and all that needs our love and protection.”--John Nichols, "The Milagro Beanfield War," "The Nirvana Blues," and fifteen other books

“BONE HORSES unfolds like a desert sunrise—lifting from the Southwest landscape with a well-crafted storyline that keeps the reader on the path tracking romance, family legends, unsolved murders, buried bones, and elusive wild horses. I found myself drawn into the colorful and mysterious world of Agua Dulce much like I’m drawn into the vibrant and deceptively simple landscape of a Georgia O’Keeffe painting. And, like BONE HORSES’ heroine Charlotte, I found myself not wanting to leave.”--Page Lambert, "In Search of Kinship"

Lesley Poling-Kempes was born in upstate New York, and spent her childhood in Buffalo and Pleasantville, New York, and in Bartlesville, Oklahoma. Family vacations to Ghost Ranch in the 1960s introduced Lesley to the place that would become her permanent home: Abiquiu, New Mexico. Lesley attended the College of Wooster and the University of New Mexico, and earned degrees in journalism and film. She worked as an editorial intern at New Mexico Magazine after graduation from UNM, but declined a permanent staff position so that she could pursue her own muse. Since 1977, Lesley has worked as a writer and author of both fiction and non-fiction works. With her husband, Jim Kempes, a teacher and sculptor, Lesley built a solar adobe home on the high desert near Abiquiu. Lesley and Jim have two children, Christopher and Marianne.

Location: Street: 4022 Rio Grande Blvd NW City: Albuquerque, Province: New Mexico Postal Code: 87107-3157 Country: United States (added from IndieBound)… (more)

What is Bedtime Math? It’s a nonprofit website that sends out a fun daily math problem via email for parents to do with their kids before bed (a bedtime math problem instead of a bedtime story!)

The website has received a quarter of a million unique website visitors in just their first year, and there are now 30,000 families now following the daily emails. Feiwel and Friends is publishing a series of Bedtime Math books, the first of which launches June 25.

Bookworks is hosting a Bedtime Math Pajama Party, where we will celebrate the launch of the book and do some math together!

Kids are encouraged to wear their pajamas, and if their parents want to wear PJs, that's cool too!

Location: Street: 4022 Rio Grande Blvd NW City: Albuquerque, Province: New Mexico Postal Code: 87107-3157 Country: United States (added from IndieBound)… (more)

Wahls, who spoke at the 2012 Democratic National Convention talks about his book, which recounts growing up with two lesbian parents. Pride weekend special at North Fourth Art Center, 4904 4th St NW. Tickets are the cost of the book $16 and available online, via phone, at Bookworks, or at the door.

Zach Wahls, the son of two moms who made history with his memorable speech to politicians and the nation, visits Albuquerque during Pride Parade weekend for a talk at the North Fourth Art Center.

On January 31, 2011, Zach Wahls addressed the Iowa House Judiciary Committee in a hearing regarding a proposed constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage in Iowa.

The 19-year-old son of a same-sex couple, Wahls proudly proclaimed, “the sexual orientation of my parents has had zero effect on the content of my character.” This speech went viral on YouTube, and Wahls went on to speak at the 2012 Democratic National Convention.

Same-sex marriage continues to be a major issue in the election cycle, and Wahls speaks to that, but also to a broader issue: acceptance.

Despite being handsome and athletic, an environmental engineering student, and an Eagle Scout, growing up with two moms, Wahls knows what it’s like to feel different and to fear ridicule, or worse.

In the inspirational spirit of the “It Gets Better” campaign, My Two Moms also delivers a reassuring message to same-sex couples, their kids, and anyone who’s ever felt like an outsider:

“You are not alone.”

Location: Street: North Fourth Art Center Additional: 4904 4th St NW City: Albuquerque, Province: New Mexico Postal Code: 87107-3157 Country: United States (added from IndieBound)… (more)

“A stunning meditation on the body we live in, Detailing Trauma wraps love tight to life, insisting we prepare for the departure of both."—Terese Svoboda, author, Black Glasses Like Clark Kent

In a series of linked lyric essays, Detailing Trauma explores in vivid, sometimes graphic detail the many types of wounds from which the human body and spirit may suffer—and heal. Mapping the diseases and injuries that can afflict the body, the author asks how we can continue to live and love in the face of the great potential for suffering and loss. She names each section of the book for body parts or processes, then juxtaposes the functions and failures of human anatomy with experiences in her own life and those of people she knows and loves, meticulously stitching together life’s fractures and ruptures with skillful narrative. Each essay offers glimpses of hope and reasons for living with the likelihood of chaos and pain, reasons for choosing to love despite the risks. Zwartjes’s beautifully crafted poetic prose humanizes the technical descriptions of medical conditions and illuminates the scientific understanding of emotional states. Far more than a popularization of science, Detailing Trauma explores the wondrous anatomy and physiology of the human body, a geography of our human frailties—and also our wealth, as humans, of love and hope and the capacity for meditative thought.

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“One of the most original, startling memoirs I have seen in the past ten years, Sabatini Sloan’s The Fluency of Light charts an entirely fresh course through the tangled territory of race and class in modern-day America. Each page offers fresh insight, unexpected information, crystal-clear thinking on the current cultural moment—a nation about to turn more brown than white, more mixed than ‘pure.’”—Dinty W. Moore, author, Between Panic & Desire

In these intertwined essays on art, music, and identity, Aisha Sabatini Sloan, the daughter of African American and Italian American parents, examines the experience of her mixed-race identity. Embracing the far-ranging stimuli of her media-obsessed upbringing, she grasps at news clippings, visual fragments, and lyrics from past and present in order to weave together a world of sense. Art in all forms guides the author toward understanding concepts like blackness, jazz, mortality, riots, space, time, self, and other without falling prey to the myth that all things must exist within a system of binaries. Recalling her awkward attempts at coolness during her childhood, Sabatini Sloan evokes Thelonious Monk’s stage persona as a metaphor for blackness. Through the conceptual art of Adrian Piper, the author is able to understand what is so quietly menacing about the sharp, clean lines of an art gallery where she works as an assistant. The result is a compelling meditation on identity and representation.

Location: Street: 4022 Rio Grande Blvd NW City: Albuquerque, Province: New Mexico Postal Code: 87107-3157 Country: United States (added from IndieBound)… (more)

Where’s Waldo? Today is the first day of the area search for Waldo, that famous globe trotting fellow in the red and white stripped shirt. Bookworks and other local businesses will again this summer participate in a Where's Waldo game around Albuquerque. Collect sighting cards and win prizes. Join us for a Celebration Party Saturday, August 3, 10:30 a.m.

Location: Street: 4022 Rio Grande Blvd NW City: Albuquerque, Province: New Mexico Postal Code: 87107-3157 Country: United States (added from IndieBound)… (more)

The Beautiful Contradictions is an awe-inspiring vortex of mythology, history, and anthropology that pushes the lyric to its upper limit, just reissued from New Directions.

A vast ecopoem for a dying Earth, a socially radical poem, a matrilineal drama, a Judeo-Mayan-Buddhist initiation, a transatlantic epic ending as a transamerican arrival, and a testament uniting science and imagination, the collection gives us some of the best work of one of New Mexico’s most beloved poets.

Born in Paris in 1928, Nathaniel Tarn has lived outside Santa Fe, New Mexico, for nearly thirty years. He has published an incredible range of books as a poet,anthropologist, editor, translator, and essayist. His most recent collection of poems is Ins and Outs of the Forest Rivers.

Location: Street: 4022 Rio Grande Blvd NW City: Albuquerque, Province: New Mexico Postal Code: 87107-3157 Country: United States (added from IndieBound)… (more)

A poet of “epic perception” and “subtle music,” Mei-mei Berssenbrugge opens form into long, shimmering lines of profound emotional intensity and multivalent voices, splintered with space, silence, and desert light. Her new collection of poems, Hello, the Roses, is composed of three parts. The opening poems delve into an array of unities, of myth and landscape, fashion and culture, experience and forgetting, boys and ravens. The central poems explore an invisible world where plants, animals, and the self communicate and coexist. The final part contemplates the individual’s relationship to night, weather, and cosmological time as Berssenbrugge limns a karmic temporal continuum, a mandala of perception. Hello, the Roses is poetry enraptured with the phenomenal fullness of the world.

Mei-mei Berssenbrugge was born in Beijing, China, and grew up in Massachusetts. She has been publishing poetry for forty years. Her books include Empathy and four books from Kelsey Street Press: Sphericity, Endocrinology, Four Year Od Girl, and Nest. Among her many awards are two Asian American poetry prizes and a Western States Book Award. Hiddenness, a collaboration with artist Richard Tuttle, was published by the Whitney Museum Library Fellows in 1997. Berssenbrugge lives with Tuttle and their daughter, Martha, in rural New Mexico and New York City.

Location: Street: 4022 Rio Grande Blvd NW City: Albuquerque, Province: New Mexico Postal Code: 87107-3157 Country: United States (added from IndieBound)… (more)

Journalist Doug Fine returns to Bookworks to launch the paperback of his popular look at marijuana policy, Too High to Fail. Too High to Fail covers everything from a brief history of hemp to an insider’s perspective on a growing season in Mendocino County, where cannabis drives 80 percent of the economy (to the tune of $6 billion annually). Investigative journalist Doug Fine follows one plant from seed to patient in the first American county to fully legalize and regulate cannabis farming. He profiles an issue of critical importance to lawmakers, media pundits, and ordinary Americans—whether or not they inhale. It’s a wild ride that includes swooping helicopters, college tuitions paid with cash, cannabis-friendly sheriffs, and never-before-gained access to the world of the emerging legitimate, taxpaying “ganjaprenneur.” MEDIA FOR Too High to Fail Conan O'Brien: http://www.dougfine.com/media-appearances/ New York Times: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/05/books/review/too-high-to-fail-by-doug-... C-Span/Book TV: http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/TooHi Book Talk:http://www.mendocoasttv.org/CoastCurrents_23.html#featured CBS News:http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-504367_162-57507439-504367/too-high-to-fail-cannabis-and-the-new-green-economic-revolution-by-doug-fine/?tag=socsh Daily Beast: http://www.thedailybeast.com/videos/2012/08/12/too-high-to-fail.html MSNBC: http://tv.msnbc.com/2012/12/08/is-the-war-on-drugs-finally-going-to-pot/ Huffington Post Live: http://live.huffingtonpost.com/r/segment/506b11f002a76025c20003e7 Salon: http://www.salon.com/2012/11/01/marijuana_prohibition_hanging_by_a_thread/ BBC: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-19336816 ReasonTV:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uI22wehAl7Y PRAISE FOR Too High to Fail “Fine has written a well-researched book that uses the clever tactic of making the moral case for ending marijuana prohibition by burying it inside the economic case.”--Bill Maher in The New York Times “Fine examines how the American people have borne the massive economic and social expenditures of the failed Drug War, which is ‘as unconscionably wrong for America as segregation and DDT.’ A captivating, solidly documented work rendered with wit and humor.”--Kirkus (Starred Review) "A well-researched journey into the world of legal cannabis farming and a funny, maddening account of American farmers’ travails under federal persecution on an island of legality."--Outside “In his entertaining new book…(Fine) successfully illuminates an unusual world where cannabis growers sing ‘Happy Birthday’ to (friendly law enforcement) while crossing their fingers against the threat of federal raids.This informative book will give even hardened drug warriors pause.”--Publisher’s Weekly “An important book.”--Michael Pollan

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