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USA Multi-City tour for promotion of Shades of Grey. Reading/Q&A/Signing.

e You There, Vodka? It's Me, Chelsea
Stand-up comedian, television host, author and actess Chelsea Handler's first book, My Horizontal Life was a memoir about all of her one night stands, her new book Are You There, Vodka? It's Me, Chelsea follows in suit as a memoir of her life and all ... (more)of the situation she manages to get herself into. Handler currently has a own show on the E! Cable Television Network, Chelsea Lately, and will be at Bookworks to talk about her book before her event at 7pm at Route 66 Casino.

Award winning poet, author, and producer Jimmy Santiago Baca will read from his newest collection of poetry Rita and Julia. Rita and Julia is an extraordinary collection that takes the reader from the depths of mad despair through moral outrage to transcendent joy. Simultaneously political and personal, ... (more)Rita and Julia captures the lives of those on the fringe and places them front and center.

Award winning bilingual Spanish-English storyteller Joe Hayes, author of the classic Southwestern children’s story The Day it Snowed Tortillas retells Cuban folktales in English and Spanish in his newest children’s book Baila, Nana, Baila.

In Baila, Nana, Baila there’s a stingy old lady who owns ... (more)the only fire in the world, yams that talk, a rose bush that sings, and an old devil man who leaves hairy footprints wherever he goes. His tales are full of warmth, laughter, magic and wisdom. Joe Hayes’ bilingual Spanish-English tellings have earned him a distinctive place among America ’s storytellers. In 2005, Joe received the Talking Leaves Literary Award from the National Storytelling Network. His books have received many awards including an Aesop Accolade Award. We’ll have all of Mr. Hayes’ books on-hand for sale at this special event.

From aural historian and recent winner of the Governor’s Award for Excellence in the Arts Jack Loeffler comes an insightful and timely compilation that will appeal to readers interested in environmental issues in the American West. Healing the West explores environmentalism and landscape in the American ... (more)West through myriad voices, including Native American, drawn from a rich archive or interviews, recordings, and writings, conducted by Jack Loeffler over the course of several decades. The book is accompanied by a high-quality audio CD produced by the author featuring rare interviews of key environmental, historical, and Native speakers--including William deBuys, Rina Swentzell, Stewart Udall, and Gary Paul Nabhan juxtaposed with sound collages of Native music and habitats.
Esteemed local musician Frank McCulloch will also perform that evening with his band, Los Amigos.

For more than four hundred years in New Mexico, Pueblo Indians and Spaniards have lived “together yet apart.” Now the preeminent historian of that region’s colonial past offers a fresh, balanced look at the origins of a precarious relationship.
John L. Kessell’s Pueblos,Spaniards, and the Kingdom ... (more)of New Mexico is the first narrative history devoted to the tumultuous seventeenth century in New Mexico. Kessell clearly describes the Pueblo world encountered by Spanish conquistador Juan de Ońate and portrays important but lesser-known Indian partisans, while weaving analysis and interpretation into the flow of life in 17th century New Mexico.

Joy Harjo is an internationally known poet, performer, writer and musician. She has published 7 books of acclaimed poetry including: She Had Some Horses, In Mad Love and War, The Woman Who Fell From the Sky, and How We Became Human, New and Selected Poems from W.W. Norton.
Considered a classic, She Had ... (more)Some Horses is a powerful exploration of womanhood’s intimate moments. Joy is also an accomplished musician and will perform music from her new CD, Winding Through the Milky Way.

Author Gregory McNamee and photographer Stephen Strom will appear.
Full-color images by renowned photographers Stephen Strom and Stephen Capra unite with text by prizewinning nature and geography writer Gregory McNamee to document the subtle landscape of 1.2 million acres of remote Chihuahuan Desert ... (more)grassland in southern New Mexico. “It is a strange and empty place, a place whose contours suggest that those who do not know it are best to leave it alone, as those who do know it will do in all events. And, as with all strange and empty places in this increasingly crowded, increasingly monocultural world, Otero Mesa is an important island in our geography of hope, a place that warrants concern and protection. Rightly, for it is very much under threat.”-Gregory McNamee.

Special Events for the release of the newest Harry Potter book, Tales of Beedle the Bard!
December 4th, 7am-10am
Beedle the Bard’s fables of magic and morality played a major role in the last book of the Harry Potter series, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. Now, you can read these funny and imaginative ... (more)tales for yourself with the release of J.K. Rowling’s latest book, Tales of Beedle the Bard - on sale Thursday, Dec.
4! Bookworks will have a special book release party at 7 a.m. on Thursday, December 4! Get your book, some juice (or coffee) and a muffin and dive into Tales of Beedle the Bard before work or school! Can’t make it that morning? Bookworks will have a special after-school party at 5 p.m. on the 4th where we’ll read a tale from the book, play games, and have a trivia contest! Come to the party in costume and you’ll be entered to win a special Harry Potter prize. RESERVE YOUR COPY TODAY! Pre-payment will reserve you a copy and a spot at the party of your choice. Ask a Bookworks employee, or call 344-8139.
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It’s almost here! The newest book by J.K. Rowling will be available for sale December 4 at midnight. Since that may be past your bedtime, Bookworks will open early on Friday, December 5 so you can get your copy before school! We’ll have something special for you to go with your book. We will also ... (more)have a special reading circle at 5 p.m. on the 5th where we’ll read a tale from the book and talk about it!

The American Civil Liberties Union of New Mexico invites you to the annual Bill of Rights Dinner with special guest and M.C. State Senator-Elect Eric Griego, and keynote speaker Thomas Frank, bestselling author of What’s the Matter with Kansas? and The Wrecking Crew: How Conservatives Rule. Join ... (more)the ACLU on December 6th at the Sheraton Albuquerque Uptown Hotel for an entertaining evening to celebrate the contributions and advancements that have successfully defended our most cherished freedoms over the past year. Tickets are available at www.aclu-nm.org or by calling (505) 266-5915 ext. 1006. Bookworks will be selling Frank’s books at the event.

Betty Smith’s A Tree Grows in Brooklyn captured the imagination of readers in 1943. Now, over sixty years since its publication, thousands of readers of A Tree Grows in Brooklyn still enter its world and identify with Francie Nolan, growing up in a tenement in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Betty Smith admitted ... (more)that Francie was herself and that her mother, father, grandparents, aunts, and uncles were the inspiration for the book’s characters. Here, in the first published biography of Betty Smith, their real-life stories are told. The heroes in Smith’s novels, all working-class women-Francie in A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, the office worker Margy in Tomorrow Will Be Better, the housewife Maggie in Maggie-Now, the aspiring writer Annie in Joy in the Morning-become self-directed and confident. These novels present an insider’s view of a blue collar world, of complex characters and psychological dynamics.

Malibu Book Group meets to discuss Chris Bohjalian's Midwives. This event is free and all are welcome and encouraged to attend.

In this sixth collection of stories and verse, award-winning writer Luci Tapahonso finds sacredness in everyday life. Viewing a sunset in a desert sky, listening to her granddaughter recount how she spent her day, or visiting her mother after her father’s passing, she finds traces of her own memories, ... (more)along with echoes of the voices of her Navajo ancestors. The collection also includes an audio CD of the author reading aloud and her voice is warm and inviting, like the “simmering soup and blue corn meal” of her childhood.

The author of books such as True Tales of the American Southwest; Robbers, Rogues and Ruffians, Wildest of the Wild West; and The Incredible Elfego Baca, Howard Bryan is a New Mexico historian with an incredible depth of knowledge about our region and its people. Come hear him speak about his books and ... (more)some of the experiences he had writing and researching them. Bookworks will have selected works by Bryan available for sale at the event.

Book Group #1 meets to discuss Henry Fielding's Tom Jones. This event is free all are welcome and encouraged to attend.

Why do we see pigeons as lowly urban pests and how did they become such common city dwellers? Courtney Humphries traces the natural history of the pigeon, recounting how these shy birds that once made their homes on the sparse cliffs of sea coasts came to dominate our urban public spaces. While ... (more)detailing this evolution, Humphries introduces us to synanthropy: The concept that animals can become dependent on humans without ceasing to be wild; they can adapt to the cityscape as if it were a field or a forest.
Superdove simultaneously explores the pigeon's cultural transformation, from its life in the dovecotes of ancient Egypt to its service in the trenches of World War I, to its feats within the pigeon-racing societies of today. Because of their fecundity, pigeons were symbols of fertility associated with Aphrodite, while their keen ability to find their way home made them ideal messengers and even pilots.
Their usefulness largely forgotten, today's pigeons have become as ubiquitous and reviled as rats. Superdove is the fascinating story of the pigeon's journey from the wild to the city-the home they'll never leave. Courtney is a former Albuquerquean who now lives in Boston.

Our Second Penguin Pot-Luck Book Club Meeting!

We must bring money back down to earth.
Inquiries into the Nature of Slow Money presents the path for bringing money back down to earth-philosophically, strategically and pragmatically, and with an entrepreneurial spirit that is informed by decades of work by the thousands of CEOs, investors, grant-makers, ... (more)food producers and consumers who are seeding the restorative economy.
The months and years ahead will surely see a flood of books proposing micro- and macro-economic fixes to the financial crises of the day. Inquiries into the Nature of Slow Money brings a different vision-a meta-economic vision, looking above the top tine and below the bottom line, a new way of seeing what is going on in the soil of the economy.
The soil of the economy? Bringing money back down to earth?
This is the path towards a financial system that serves people and place as much at it serves industry sectors and markets. To discover this path, and to begin to walk down it, is the mission of Slow Money.

Liz Crews discusses Dulce: Desserts from Santa Fe Kitchens, a new cookbook
We'll have some yummy samples of recipes from the book to share with you at this event!
The Museum of New Mexico Foundation serves up the third in this celebrated series of cookbooks with Dulce: Desserts from Santa Fe Kitchens, ... (more)which features delectable recipes that infuse the unique flair of Santa Fe to classic favorites. Taken from the distinctive kitchens and homes of Santa Fe, these sweet treats blend Southwestern flavors with traditional confections from various cultures to create exciting - sometimes surprising - dishes, including Pina Colada Cheesecake, Southwestern Harvest Pumpkin Cheesecake, 1800s Baked Fudge, Chocolate-Espresso Lava Cake with Espresso Whipped Cream, Cinnamon Ganache Tart, Chewy Chocolate Gingerbread Cookies, Mocha Pots de Creme, and more. We'll also have the first 2 books in the series, Santa Fe Kitchens and Appetizers ad Beverages from Santa Fe Kitchens.More Events Here

Fans of Cormac McCarthy's No Country for Old Men and Tony Hillerman's Navajo County mysteries will find Michael McGarrity's Dead or Alive a powerful story of the manhunt for a deranged killer in the American Southwest.
Living in London while his wife serves as a military attaché at the American Embassy, ... (more)recently retired Santa Fe Police Chief Kevin Kerney gets an early morning phone call that changes everything and sends him hurrying home to his New Mexico ranch. Riley Burke, his partner in a horsetraining enterprise, has been mowed down on Kerney's doorstep by an escaped prisoner cutting a murderous swath through New Mexico.
As the killings mount, Kerney teams up with his half-Apache son, Lieutenant Clayton Istee of the Lincoln County Sheriff's Department, to hunt for a psychotic murderer with a growing appetite for blood, who has no intention to be taken alive.

Local author Katie Snapp discusses and signs her new book Skirt Strategies Regardless of your achieved level on the corporate ladder, your definition as a woman is broadcast daily by what you do and how you do it. Creating your image as a woman in a leadership role must be intentional. The action is ... (more)personal.
So who are you?
Skirt Strategies is an inspirational book filled with ideas and techniques to convey a feminine influence in the workplace. Approaches vary from light and fun, to ambitious and impacting. Little mandarin oranges in your water are a nice pick-me-up. Building a team through collaboration with other departments can win you big points. Tough situations with male counterparts can be worked through with composure and integrity.
Skirt Strategies finds the simple beauty to defining your feminine voice as a successful leader and a great boss. These reminders and strategies provide a terrific reference list for ongoing encouragement as well as long-term planning to anchor your leadership role. For twenty years, Katie Kessinger Snapp has been designing and delivering leadership techniques in industry, government, Fortune 500 companies and small businesses through her company, Kessinger Consulting, LLC. She cultivates skills in leadership, communications, building and leading teams, supervising others, and strategic thinking. She has worked with such companies as Coca-Cola, Centex Homes, Northrop-Grumman, Commonwealth-Edison, and Bausch & Lomb, as well as senior levels of government, including the US Navy, and the US Air Force. Her involvement with a highly diversified group of clients and an initial career as an electrical engineer has led her to identify common themes and universal truths about the unique position that leaders hold as influencers in their businesses.
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"Levi Romero is a strange kind of wizard. He can walk up a New Mexico arroyo and come back with a mysterious object full of quotidian magic. Like a rusted tobacco can the grand-fathers used to roll their smokes. And when you pry open the lid, you can hear their laughter and gossip coming out. That's ... (more)what he does in poem after poem. I read his work and I learn again how to love this life."--Luis Alberto Urrea
Through familiar details--leaking faucets and lowriders, chicharrones and chicken coops--Levi Romero remembers familia, comunidad, and tradiciones from his upbringing in northern New Mexico's Embudo Valley. Alongside his training and jobs in the building trades and the architectural profession, and now a teacher, his writing has maintained and nurtured his connection to the unique people and land he knows so well and that have seldom been represented in American poetry.

The Fred Harvey name will forever be associated with the high-quality restaurants,hotels, and resorts situated along the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railway in the American Southwest. The Fred Harvey Company surprised travelers, who were accustomed to dingy beaneries staffed with rough waiters, by ... (more)presenting attractive, courteous servers known as the Harvey Girls. Today many Harvey Houses serve as museums, offices, and civic centers throughout the Southwest. Only a few Harvey Houses remain as first-class hotels, and they are located at the Grand Canyon, in Winslow, Arizona, and in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Bookworks is interested in contacting any former "Harvey Girls" that may still be in the area, and would be interested in making an appearance at this event.

This month Farley's Book Club will be reading John Fowles's The Magus. As usual, please meet in the back room of Farley's for stimulating discussion and light refreshments!

Decoding Design explores the work of energy in the universe and how to apply these principles to design for effective, aesthetic and ethical visual communication. In the process of matching universal quality to message you learn to create better design while developing a deeper appreciation for the core ... (more)of human inspiration: Nature. The book opens with an introduction to natural pattern and travels through the qualities and shapes of the single digits up through the quantum leap of the Tenth Power. You are transported from atoms to galaxies in this exciting and visually rich interdisciplinary excursion. Deconstructions of well known logos are also explored, along with international examples of symbolic integration into design.

Nancy will also show examples of colcha embroidery. This is the first comprehensive book on the history and practice of colcha embroidery, a Spanish Colonial style of embroidery. The book is richly illustrated with 96 photos, including many examples of colcha in museum and private collections that have ... (more)never before been displayed to the public.

John Isles’s new book of poems is Inverse Sky; Donald Revell praises it: “The poems of Inverse Sky transpire in a magic climate conducive to old Edens and new evangels. Here are wantoness and water-lights written starkly. And here, too, are tender shades I have not met before, in a further America.” ... (more)John Isles’s first poetry collection was Ark. He received an NEA fellowship and an award from The Los Angeles Review. Rusty Morrison’s new book of poems is the true keeps calm biding its story; winner of the 2007 Sawtooth Prize from Ahasahta Press, it was also chosen by Rae Armantrout, Claudia Rankine, and Bruce Smith for the 2008 James Laughlin Award for most outstanding second book of poetry
published in America that year. Claudia Rankine says of it, “. . .the poem transforms into a machine for transmitting lines across impossible distances. . . .In the end we, as readers, are left with a stunning collection, written into the silence of everlasting loss.” Her first book, Whethering, won the 2004 Colorado Prize for Poetry, and also received the Poetry Society of America’s Alice Fay DiCastagnola Award, among other honors. Rusty Morrison is the co-publisher of Omnidawn.

This month Farley's Book Club will be reading John Fowles's The Magus.
We will be meeting one week later than usual. As usual, please meet in the back room of Farley's for stimulating discussion and light refreshments!

Jill S. Tietjen, P.E., author of Her Story in a book talk and signing Her Story is a vivid documentation of the breadth and diversity of American women's achievements throughout U.S. history. This one-of-a-kind illustrated timeline highlights the awesome, varied, and often unrecognized contributions ... (more)of American women since the 1500s.
There have been women trailblazers throughout American history; women have had a profound impact on the intellectual, social, and political development of our society. But many of their contributions have gone unnoticed. Most people have heard of Susan B. Anthony, Harriet Tubman, Margaret Sanger, and Eleanor Roosevelt. But did you know that a woman microbiologist discovered the bacterium responsible for undulant fever, which then led to the pasteurization of all milk? Or that a woman patented the paper-bag folding machine to make square-bottom bags (the grocery bag)? Or that a female mathematician's work laid the foundation for abstract algebra?
The women featured in Her Story range from writers, artists, actors, and athletes to doctors, scientists, social and political activists, educators, and inventors, and include women of all backgrounds and philosophies. The authors of Her Story, Charlotte S. Waisman and Jill S. Tietjen, have compiled an extraordinary collection of women and events that provides a unique view of history. Part of Her Story's distinctiveness is the inclusion of hundreds of lesser-known women from all walks of life who have broken barriers and created paths of noteworthy and inspiring achievement.
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For better or worse, politics have always played an important part in New Mexico life, beginning with the first Spanish explorers and conquerors in the 16th century. New Mexico Spanish Colonial Governors Juan Bautista de Anza and Fernando de la Concha, made and maintained peace with the Comanche, in ... (more)the later years of the 18th century. Mexican Governor Albino Pérez, on the other hand, was murdered by his constituents in 1837. American Territorial Governor Lew Wallace left New Mexico in favor of Turkey in the face of his inability to deal with the violence of the Lincoln County War. Judge Joab Houghton had no legal training, and it showed. Judge Kirby Benedict consumed enough alcohol that President Abe Lincoln felt compelled to comment. Texas Judge Spruce Baird attempted to singlehandedly claim most of New Mexico for the Lone Star State. Judge David Leahy was shot, but not killed, by newspaper editor Carl Magee in a Las Vegas, New Mexico, hotel lobby. This book is a sampler of New Mexico political figures beginning in 1598. Most are uniquely New Mexican.

This entertaining collection explores some of the forgotten moments and people who have defined New Mexico--and America. From Dennis Hopper to Hispanic civil rights hero Dennis Chávez, Buddy Holly to Martha Graham, Native American artists to Spanish conquistadores, basketball to boxing, volcano experts ... (more)to Pueblo activists, and from Roswell's alien party to Santa Fe's Indian Market, Untold New Mexico offers a relevant and fascinating tour through New Mexico's history. With its stories of mavericks and innovators--Igor Stravinsky, Pancho Villa, and Wile E. Coyote all make appearances--Untold New Mexico will surprise and move you, revealing some of the many ways New Mexico has carved its special place in American culture and history. Also included are commentaries and contributions from Leonard Maltin, Peter Fonda, Jon Bowman, Kathryn Flynn, Steve Terrell, Quintina Deschenie and Larry Crumpler. Author Jason Silverman and his guest, Gabriel Melendez (chair of UNM's American Studies Department) will have a spirited discussion about topics related to the book at Bookworks on Feb. 3.

DIESEL, A Bookstore in Oakland is pleased to welcome the award-winning author, Yiyun Li, as she discusses and signs her beautiful new novel, The Vagrants. The San Francisco Chronicle named Yiyun's previous book, A Thousand Years of Good Prayers the "Best Book of 2005", and her newest novel is set to ... (more)be just as intriguing. Don't miss your chance to meet this highly-acclaimed author as she presents her fantastic new novel!

You're invited to join DIESEL, A Bookstore in Brentwood as we host the Book Launch Party for George Mastras and his thrilling new novel, Fidali's Way! ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
George Mastras has worked as a criminal investigator for the public defender service, a counselor at a juvenile correctional facility, ... (more)and a litigator in New York and Los Angeles. After ten years of practicing law, he quit his job, sold his belongings, and spent several years backpacking around the globe and trekking in the Himalayas, Karakorams, and Hindu Kush. Since returning to the United States, he has worked as a screenwriter and has written for several television series, including The Evidence, The Dresden Files, and currently the Emmy Award-winning drama Breaking Bad, for which he was nominated for a Writers Guild Award in 2008. Born in Boston, he is a graduate of Yale, UCLA Law, and Outward Bound. He was awarded the competitive Disney-ABC Writing Fellowship for Television Drama in 2005. He lives in Los Angeles.

For the first time in history CBS’s 60 Minutes aired a third profile on the same subject! Thirteen year-old Malibu resident Rex Lewis-Clack, who was first profiled by the celebrated newsmagazine when he was only 7, recently completed the filming for his third profile which aired on CBS on November ... (more)16, 2008. A portion of the segment was filmed at Malibu Middle School, where Rex is in eighth grade. His third profile ran in conjunction with the recent release of his mother Cathleen Lewis’ book, REX: A Mother, Her Autistic Child, and the Music that Transformed their Lives. Rex has been labeled a musical savant, with an extremely rare combination of blindness, autism, and musical genius. The complexity of his development simultaneously as a child and musician takes the study of the brain along with the associated humanity and societal implications of it into uncharted territory. Show your support for a fellow Malibu resident and mother by joining us at DIESEL, A Bookstore in MALIBU on Sunday, February 8 at 3pm!

Woody Tasch discusses his book Inquiries Into the Nature of Slow Money
We must bring money back down to earth.
Inquiries into the Nature of Slow Money presents the path for bringing money back down to earth-philosophically, strategically and pragmatically, and with an entrepreneurial spirit that is informed ... (more)by decades of work by the thousands of CEOs, investors, grant-makers, food producers and consumers who are seeding the restorative economy.
The months and years ahead will surely see a flood of books proposing micro- and macro-economic fixes to the financial crises of the day. Inquiries into the Nature of Slow Money brings a different vision-a meta-economic vision, looking above the top tine and below the bottom line, a new way of seeing what is going on in the soil of the economy.
The soil of the economy? Bringing money back down to earth?
This is the path towards a financial system that serves people and place as much at it serves industry sectors and markets. To discover this path, and to begin to walk down it, is the mission of Slow Money.
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Step into the bare-knuckle world of a high-tech entrepreneur and venture capitalist and meet Dave Durgin. Dave evolved from engineer to bootstrap businessman to high-tech entrepreneur in a challenging business environment. The knowledge he shares in this book will be an inspiration to fellow entrepreneurs. ... (more)Deal by deal, small investment to large investment, Dave built a successful portfolio as an angel investor and co-founded a successful venture capital firm. In the process, he honed his model of money and mentoring, as he guided startups and their eager but inexperienced founders. Outside his own businesses, he labored with other visionaries to improve the business environment in his state, New Mexico. This book allows you to get inside the head of a successful entrepreneur and investor and understand how he thinks, how he weighs opportunities, how he copes with adversity. He's clear about his values: people count, and friendships come first. There is practical advice on business plans, marketing, hiring, boards, teams, partners and commercialization. His venture evaluation criteria can help investors and allow entrepreneurs to size up their operations before they seek venture capital. The book also offers a ringside seat in the hidden arena of defense contracting as it expanded during the Cold War. Durgin is frank about why technology transfer, after 30 years, still hasn't lived up to its hype. About the Author
David L. Durgin grew up in New England and moved to New Mexico in 1961 to join Sandia Laboratory as it ramped up during the Cold War. In 1967 he became one of the first to transfer Sandia technology. His first start-up company didn't survive, but it provided a lifetime of lessons and many credits toward his MBR (Master's in Business Reality). He spent twenty years in defense contracting, building businesses within both BDM International and Booz Allen Hamilton. In the 1980s, with the Cold War winding down, technology transfer looked like a golden life preserver. Durgin and his partners launched Quatro Corp., the first company in New Mexico to focus on transferring technologies from government laboratories. Quatro started and incubated companies and provided manufacturing and financing for them. In 1996 the partners parted, and Durgin retained the manufacturing and investment entities. Through Quatro and as an angel investor, he built a successful portfolio of 11 companies. In 2003 he and two partners co-founded Verge Fund, the first New Mexico-based venture fund dedicated to financing New Mexico companies. Today Albuquerque, New Mexico has 21 companies that bear his fingerprints and his investments.

Conceptual artist, novelist, essayist, and journalist, Jonathon Keats has written a daring, original new work: THE BOOK OF THE UNKNOWN: Tales of the Thirty-six. Marked by lean, powerful prose, these stories, loosely drawn from Jewish folklore, re-imagine the Lamedh-Vov—the thirty-six anonymous saints ... (more)whose virtues sustain the world. A fictional Foreword and Afterword set up a mystical narrator and frame the stories. Imaginative and bold with startlingly beautiful conclusions, these unconventional fables will transport you to another time while their unlikely heroes linger in your mind. As provocative as it is intelligent, Keats’s book explores not only the uncertainty of morality, but also the limits of judgment.

Join us for our monthly Penguin Pot-Luck Book Club Meeting!

Come here the authors of this fascinating book speak and sample some free chocolate - just before Valentine's Day! Chocolate: Pathway to the Gods takes readers on a journey through 3,000 years of the history of chocolate. It is a trip filled with surprises. And it is a beautifully illustrated tour, featuring ... (more)132 vibrant color photographs and a captivating sixty-minute DVD documentary. Along the way, readers learn about the mystical allure of chocolate for the peoples of Mesoamerica, who were the first to make it and who still incorporate it into their lives and ceremonies today. Although it didn’t receive its Western scientific name, Theobroma cacao—“food of the gods”—until the eighteenth century, the cacao tree has been at the center of Mesoamerican mythology for thousands of years. Not only did this “chocolate tree” produce the actual seeds from which chocolate was extracted but it was also symbolically endowed with cosmic powers that enabled a dialogue between humans and their gods. From the pre-Columbian images included in this sumptuous book, we are able to see for ourselves the importance of chocolate to the Maya, Aztecs, Olmecs, Mixtecs, and Zapotecs who grew, produced, traded, and fought over the prized substance. Through archaeological and other ethnohistoric research, the authors of this fascinating book document the significance of chocolate—to gods, kings, and everyday people—over several millennia. The illustrations allow us to envision the many ancient uses of this magical elixir: in divination ceremonies, in human sacrifices, and even in ball games. And as mythological connections between cacao trees, primordial rainforests, and biodiversity are unveiled, our own quest for ecological balance is reignited. In demonstrating the extraordinary value of chocolate in Mesoamerica, the authors provide new reasons—if any are needed—to celebrate this wondrous concoction.

In the poet Brian Culhane’s The King’s Question, fragments of the ancient past emerge from contemporary life to reveal rich and resonant correspondences. So the glow of a writer’s desk lamp evokes the torchlight of Viking raiders at Lindisfarne; a father’s scattered library summons the lost Library ... (more)of Alexandria; the voice of a psychotherapist echoes the murmur of the Delphic oracle. With skilled craft, erudition, and daring intelligence, Culhane grapples with profound questions of time and existence, while the gods, as always, deny any certitude. Selected by the Poetry Foundation from more than 1,600 submissions, The King’s Question is the winner of the Emily Dickinson First Book Award, which recognizes an American poet over the age of fifty who has yet to publish a book of poetry.

William A. Keleher (1886-1972) observed first hand the changing circumstances of people and places of New Mexico. Born in Lawrence, Kansas, he arrived in Albuquerque two years later, with his parents and two older brothers. The older brothers died of diphtheria within a few weeks of their arrival. As ... (more)an adult, Keleher worked for more than four years as a Morse operator, and later as a reporter on New Mexico newspapers. Bidding a reluctant farewell to newspaper work, Keleher studied law at Washington & Lee University and started practicing law in 1915. He was recognized as a successful attorney, being honored by the New Mexico State Bar as one of the outstanding Attorneys of the Twentieth Century. One quickly observes from his writings, and writings about him, that he lived a fruitful and exemplary life. His books from Sunstone Press – including Turmoil in New Mexico, 1846-1868; Maxwell Land Grant; The Fabulous Frontier, 1846-1912; and more, have just been reissued by Sunstone Press. Michael Keleher will share his recollections of his father’s researches and experiences writing these wonderful books about New Mexico.

Book Group #3 meets to discuss Junot Diaz's The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao. All are welcome and encouraged to attend.

The development of the modern world has brought with it rampant light pollution, destroying the ancient mystery of night and exacting a terrible price--wasted energy, damage to human health, and the sometimes fatal interruption of the life patterns of many species of wildlife. In Let There Be Night, ... (more)twenty-nine writers, scientists, poets, and scholars share their personal experiences of night and help us to understand what we miss when dark skies and nocturnal wildness vanish. They also propose ways by which we might restore the beneficence of true night skies to our cities and our culture.
Let There Be Night is an engaging examination, both intimate and enlightening, of a precious aspect of the natural world. The diverse voices and perceptions gathered here provide a statement of hope that he ancient magic of night can be returned to our lives.
Paul will speak at Bookworks and have a special visual presentation about how light pollution affects our lives.

For most modern day citizens of Albuquerque, Martineztown has always been a mysterious place. The histories of Albuquerque and large land grants that occupied the valley from Bernalillo to Isleta have long overshadowed the role of Martineztown in the development of the city. In the late Spanish Colonial ... (more)period, settlers from Old Town and neighboring land grants used the pasturelands east of the plaza to graze their livestock. By the 1820s, the earliest landowners in what came to be known as Martineztown occupied properties there. Historical changes occurred after the acquisition of the Greater Southwest by the United States by dint of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidaldgo in 1848 following the war with Mexico. The coming of the railroad in the 1880s, in particular, encouraged the development of Albuquerque’s New Town and lands east of Old Town. For nearly 100 years, from 1850-1950, Martineztown was at its zenith as a desireable place to invest. Historically, little is known about Martineztown, save for a few reports in which brief histories of Martineztown are covered in a few paragraphs. The present study adds new historical perspectives of Martineztown by emphasizing, not its rich cultural history, but land tenure patterns that emerged from 1850 to 1950. Certainly, Martineztown is deserving of a fuller history, for even though upstanding citizens invested in lands within the community, the Hispanic people who lived there were largely looked down upon socially and discriminated against politically and economically by the citizens of greater Albuquerque. By the 1960s, Martineztown was considered by city authorities to be a blighted area. The origins of such sentiments, which were at least ethnocentric and historical, resulted from a time when disdain for all things Mexican were common and vocal. In the 1960s, Martineztown suffered through urban renewal and emerged as a checkerboarded area that is largely zoned as both commercial and residential. The history of land tenure in Martineztown follows a predictable pattern from 1850 to 1950. Today, Martineztown is a place where old stigmas have disappeared but not forgotten. It is a place that represents diversity, more than any other part of Albuquerque. It is a place with a historical past that must be remembered and celebrated.

The author of Dead in Desamboque returns to discuss and sign his new book, Havana Lunar!
One hungry, hallucinatory night in the dark heart of Havana, Mano Rodriguez, a young doctor with the revolutionary medical service, comes to the aid of a teenage jinetera named Julia. She takes refuge in his clinic ... (more)to break away from the abusive chulo who prostituted her, and they form an unlikely allegiance that Mano thinks might save him from his twin burdens: the dead-end hospital assignment he was delegated after being blacklisted by the Cuban Communist Party and a Palo Monte curse on his love life commissioned by a vengeful ex-wife. But when the pimp and his bodyguards come after Julia and Mano, the violent chain-reaction plunges them all into the decadent catacombs of Havana's criminal underworld. Inspired by fifty years of Cuban noir, from the Cold Tales of Virgilio Pinera to Reinaldo Arenas' Before Night Falls, Arellano's Havana Lunar intertwines an insider testimony on the collapse of socialist Cuba with a psychological mystery that climaxes in the eye of Hurricane Andrew. Robert Arellano's parents fled Havana in 1960. He has been working on Havana Lunar since 1992 when, as a student in Brown University's graduate writing program, he visited Cuba on a research fellowship. He has returned ten times, chronicling the Revolution in journalism, essay, and song.

DIESEL, A Bookstore in Brentwood invites you to join us for a discussion and signing by local authors, Karen Mack and Jennifer Kaufman (authors of the bestselling Literacy and Longing in L.A.) as they join us for the paperback edition of their delightful new novel, A VERSION OF THE TRUTH. It's a lyrical, ... (more)wise, and mesmerizing story about love, learning, friendship, rare birds and other forces of nature. Set in the wilds of Topanga Canyon, the story is narrated by Cassie Shaw, a nature lover with innate intelligence and charm who reinvents herself with unexpected consequences. The result? An honest, funny and uplifting novel--a modern, provocative twist on the theme of appearance versus reality and the resulting mysteries, difficulties and disadvantages of telling the truth.

In A Necessary Engagement, the CIA's former point man on Islam makes a vigorous case for a renewal of American public diplomacy in the Muslim world. Offering a unique balance between in-depth analysis, personal memoir, and foreign policy remedies, the book injects much-needed wisdom into the public discussion ... (more)of long-term U.S.-Muslim relations. Intelligence insider Emile Nakhleh argues that an engagement with the Muslim world benefits the national interest of the United States. Therefore, the next administration should discard the terrorism prism through which the country has viewed political Islam since 9/11 and focus instead on the common interests of America and mainstream Muslims. Nakhleh investigates recent U.S. policy toward Islamic nations and offers the new administration a ten-point plan for rebuilding America's relationship with the Muslim world.
Emile Nakhleh was a senior intelligence service officer and director of the Political Islam Strategic Analysis Program in the Directorate of Intelligence at the Central Intelligence Agency. He holds a PhD in international relations and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.

Rudolfo will be at Bookworks March 1 at 1 p.m. to celebrate the reissue of his book Shaman Winter by UNM Press. This third installment of Rudolfo Anaya's Sonny Baca mystery series has the private detective confined to a wheelchair. Brutal battles with his nemesis Raven have taken their toll and Baca ... (more)is struggling to regain his health. Nights of fitful sleep and intermittent dreams introduce Owl Woman, one of Sonny's ancestors and the sixteenth-century daughter of a shaman. As Sonny sleeps, Raven abducts Owl Woman and soon, one by one, each of Sonny's forebears begin to disappear. Immobilizing Sonny physically was Raven's first goal; now he wants to destroy Sonny's soul by erasing his history. Be aware that if you only skate on the surface, you will miss the depth of the story. You have to dive head-first, literally, into the waves of poetic prose to catch a glimpse of the forces that keep our universe together."--La Voz "Shaman Winter is a creative, entertaining, spiritual, and wonderful mystery."--BookReview.com "The fast-paced story line of Shaman Winter is fascinating and absolutely eerie as the master paints a vivid picture of the spirituality of another culture."--Harriet Klausner, ThrillingDetective.com Rudolfo Anaya, widely acclaimed as one of the founders of modern Chicano literature, is professor emeritus of English at the University of New Mexico. Anaya was presented with the National Medal of Arts for literature in 2001 and his novel Alburquerque (the city's original Spanish spelling) won the PEN Center West Award for Fiction. He has also received the Premio Quinto Sol, the national Chicano literary award, the American Book Award from The Before Columbus Foundation, the Mexican Medal of Friendship from the Mexican Consulate, and the Western Literature Association’s Distinguished Achievement Award. He is best known for the classic Bless Me Ultima.

Ty will also share slides of his photographs in addition to signing the book.
In 1706, Spanish colonists founded the Villa de Alburquerque on the wooded banks of the Rio Grande. Three hundred years later, that once quiet farming community has grown to become Albuquerque, the largest city in the state ... (more)of New Mexico. Over the centuries, this fascinating city’s identity has metamorphosed many times. In 1862, it briefly became the western capital of the Confederate States of America, before Confederate hopes for the territory were destroyed at the Battle of Glorieta Pass. In 1880, the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railroad brought industry and wealth from the east, as well as tuberculosis-infected “lungers” who came by the thousands to seek a cure in “the Heart of Health Country.” Then, in 1926, Route 66 transformed the city into a neon-decked oasis for automobile travelers journeying through the newly accessible West. Though many of these identities have faded, their legacy lives on in the beating heart of an ever-changing city.

New book The Naked Rainbow and Other Stories is being published by UNM Press.
Author, poet, linguist, and oral historian Nasario García turns to his childhood home, the Río Puerco Valley southeast of Chaco Canyon in northern New Mexico, for the setting of this collection of fictional short stories. ... (more)These tales are based on García's personal experiences or stories he heard about people or events while growing up in his valley. They illustrate the vibrant culture of rural northern New Mexico and its inhabitants with a cast of common characters, above all women, whose compassion, willfulness, humor, observation, and spirit reflect the rich heritage of the environment that inspired their creation. Some of García's characters proclaim their own goodness and live on to enjoy that righteousness; others fall victim to the shortcomings of human nature. Regardless, laughter, empathy, and introspection are the common threads that connect these wonderful stories to one another. García originally wrote these tales in his native tongue, Spanish, and later translated them into English. Both versions appear here with a bilingual glossary that places regional terms and local idioms side-by-side for those unfamiliar with northern New Mexico Spanish.

“With a flair for the outdoors,”(Rocky Mountain News) the Mary Higgins Clark Award-winning author returns with BLM agent Jamaica Wild. Tracking a wounded mountain lion, Jamaica comes across an old Indian School, where children were “Americanized” after being taken from their homes. As a snowstorm ... (more)sweeps the canyon, Jamaica must take refuge in the abandoned school. Exploring, Jamaica discovers the desecrated body of an elderly Anglo woman, frozen on the floor. This discovery, combined with the troubled history of the abandoned school, haunts Jamaica throughout the night with the howling wind. When the FBI takes over the murder investigation she continues searching for the wounded she-lion and her cubs. As the dead of winter settles, arctic temperatures threaten the survival of the mountain lions—and Jamaica herself, as she is stalked by an unidentified killer…

Twenty years ago Natalie Goldberg's classic, Writing Down the Bones, broke new ground in its approach to writing as a practice. Now, Old Friend from Far Away -- her first book since Writing Down the Bones to focus solely on writing -- reaffirms Goldberg's status as a foremost teacher of writing, and ... (more)completely transforms the practice of writing memoir. To write memoir, we must first know how to remember. Through timed, associative, and meditative exercises, Old Friend from Far Away guides you to the attentive state of thought in which you discover and open forgotten doors of memory. At once a beautifully written celebration of the memoir form, an innovative course full of practical teachings, and a deeply affecting meditation on consciousness, love, life, and death, Old Friend welcomes aspiring writers of all levels and encourages them to find their unique voice to tell their stories. Goldberg's enormously popular workshops have given countless students the ability to heed the call to write. Old Friend from Far Away recreates her trademark workshop style with its terse, demanding writing "sprints" that train the hand and mind to quicken their pace and give up conscious control. These exercises divert the eye from the obvious and redirect it to the tactile details we miss, the embarrassments we pass over, and the complications we overlook in the blur of everyday living. Goldberg writes, "No one says it, but writing induces the state of love." Old Friend from Far Away guides us into that state of love, where heightened attention and a rhythm of focus allow the patterns and details of the past to emerge on the page. Millions of Americans want to write about their lives. With Old Friend as the road map for getting started and following through, writers and readers will gain a deeper understanding of their own minds, learn to connect with their senses in order to find the detail and truth that give their written words power and authenticity, and unfold the natural structure of the stories they carry within. An absolute joy to read, it is a profound affirmation of the capacity of the written word to remember the past, free us from it, and forever transform theway we think about ourselves and our lives. Like Writing Down the Bones, it will become an old friend to which readers return again and again.

We're thrilled to welcome Steve McKee, local marketing genius to Bookworks to talk about his new book, When Growth Stalls. This is a timely book about what to do to re-energize your business in times of trouble.
One of the toughest lessons every business leader learns is how hard it is to generate sustained ... (more)growth. Stalled growth is the rule, not the exception--even for the best-managed companies. That's especially true in unpredictable economic environments such as the one we're experiencing today. McKee has a unique understanding of what happens when growth stalls. His firm commissioned a study of 700 companies that had at one time been among the nation's fastest-growing businesses. Developed in concert with Decision Analyst, a leading national research and consulting firm, the study probed areas as diverse as corporate structure, competition, branding, finance, and strategy. The target respondent profile were CEOs, owners, principals, presidents, managing directors or chairmen of the board. In-depth follow-up interviews yielded fascinating stories and personal comments from executives who had been living on the front lines of real-life growth crises. McKee presents compelling knowledge about how and why companies lose their way, and offers practical advice about how they can rekindle growth. When Growth Stalls demonstrates that sluggish growth is generally produced not by mismanagement or strategic blundering but by natural market forces and management dynamics that are often unrecognized--and widespread. The book presents seven characteristics that commonly correlate with stalled growth and what to do about them. Some are external forces to which countless companies have fallen victim: economic upheavals, changing industry dynamics, and increased competition. What McKee points out, however, is how often they catch companies off-guard. More surprising are four subtle and highly destructive internal factors that conspire to keep companies down: lack of consensus among the management team, loss of nerve, loss of focus, and marketing inconsistency. McKee makes the case that, regardless of what's going on outside of an enterprise, it's what's inside that counts.

March 1st marks the 15th anniversary of the “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy banning open gays from the military. New attention has focused on this explosive culture war issue, as Democrats renew promises to lift the ban, perhaps as soon as this year.
 
With UNFRIENDLY FIRE: How the Gay Ban Undermines ... (more)the Military and Weakens America, Dr. Nathaniel Frank, the mostly widely-recognized expert on gays in the military and the writer who broke the story of the firing of gay Arabic linguists, has written the definitive story of “don’t ask, don’t tell” at a pivotal moment in the debate on gay service.  Dr. Frank, an historian and Senior Research Fellow at the Palm Center, has spent ten years explaining the ins and outs of this policy on television, radio, blogs and in print, and now more than ever, his expertise is in demand to help the nation understand this complex, fast-moving issue.
 
Based on hundreds of exclusive interviews, this much-anticipated book reveals behind-the-scenes discussions by the top players responsible for the current policy, and shows how a campaign of misinformation by military officials and the religious right conspired to steamroll the gay ban into place. UNFRIENDLY FIRE also answers pressing questions people are now asking about what lies ahead: How is the current policy really working? How do gay and straight troops currently get along? What happened when other nations lifted their gay bans? What will happen if the U.S. follows suit?  And more.
The new book shows that:
·         Military officials admit they misrepresented the threat posed by gays to unit cohesion, while minimizing the true source of resistance to gay service: religious and cultural opposition to homosexuality.
·         Evidence was repeatedly concealed or suppressed by the military when research concluded there was no rationale for the gay ban.
·         The team of military generals that created “don’t ask, don’t tell” did not even understand what “sexual orientation” meant when they were tasked with formulating the policy. The general who headed that team now opposes the policy and admits in the book that the group “didn’t have any empirical data” about gay service and its position was based on fear, politics and prejudice.
·         The former Navy Judge Advocate General reversed his support for a gay ban and now calls the policy a “moral passing of the buck.”
·         Members of the Joint Chiefs of Staff circulated an inflammatory anti-gay video produced by the religious right, and used it to argue that openly gay service would undermine the military.
 
Clearly and lucidly argued, UNFRIENDLY FIRE is a lively and compelling narrative that is sure to play an important role in the debate over this policy.  As a new presidential administration takes office, and our country’s military commitments around the globe continue to expand, the issue of gays serving in the military is certain to be a key topic of debate. Join Dr. Frank at Lambda Rising in DC as he answers your questions and discusses his insightful work on this vital issue. NATHANIEL FRANK is a senior research fellow at the Palm Center at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and teaches history on the adjunct faculty at New York University’s Gallatin School of Individualized Study.  His publications on gays in the military and other topics have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The New Republic, Slate, the Los Angles Times, The Huffington Post, and other publications.  His research and opinions have been cited on the Congressional floor and in syndicated columns, the blogosphere, the New York Post, The National Review Online, the AP, and other venues.

Mary Stuever works as a forester for the state of New Mexico. Her syndicated column "The Forester's Log" appears in newspapers in communities scattered throughout the U.S. and Canada. She has published essays in such works as A Mile in Her Boots and was co-author of the Philmont Fieldguide, which inspired ... (more)Field Guide to the Sandia Mountains.

Book Group #3 meets to discuss Anil's Ghost by Michael Ondaatje. This event is free and all are welcome and encouraged to attend!

About the author: Tom Zoellner is a contributing editor at Men’s Health magazine and has worked as a reporter at the San Francisco Chronicle, The Salt Lake Tribune, and The Arizona Republic. He is the 2002 recipient of the Knight Fellowship in specialized reporting.

REBECCA RULE signing and discussing LIVE FREE AND EAT PIE : A STORYTELLER’S GUIDE TO NEW HAMPSHIRE, her hilarious interpretation of the state’s history, culture, climate, attractions, vernacular, and more!

Suzie Gilbert tells the story of how she turned her family life upside down to pursue her unusual passion for rehabilitating wild birds.

About the Author
Teresa J. Wilkins is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of New Mexico, Gallup. A weaver herself, she is a former student of weaving authority Joe Ben Wheat.

Grandparents are our teachers, our allies, and a great source of love. They supply endless stories that connect us to a past way of life and to people long gone--people who led ordinary lives, but were full of extraordinary teachings. This is the subject of Sweet Nata, a memoir about familial traditions ... (more)and the joys and hardships the author experienced in her youth. Set during the 1950s and 1960s in Mora and Corrales, New Mexico, Zamora reveals her interaction with her parents, grandparents, and other extended family members who had the greatest influence on her life. She paints a picture of native New Mexican culture and history for younger generations that will also be nostalgic for older generations. "Zamora offers a unique and authentic perspective on the Hispanic experience in New Mexico. As a memoir, it's a rare glimpse into the daily living of a family and a community."--Ana Baca, author of Mama Fela's Girls

Diesel, A Bookstore in Oakland and the Institute of European Studies at UC Berkeley proudly present Persis M. Karim as part of a year-long public outreach program on Women, Islam and the West. The program aims to place intellectuals, activists, artists, writers and academics
in conversation with informed ... (more)an informed public to explore the relationship
between Islam and Western secularism, particularly as it manifests
itself in the lives of women. Ms. Karim's lecture is titled, Beyond Memoir: Women, Writing and the Making of Iranian Diaspora Identities.About Persis M. Karim:
Persis Karim was born and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area by her French mother, Evelyne M. Karim and her late Iranian father, Alexander Karim. She grew up feeling a little “different” and spent a good deal of her childhood explaining an identity she couldn’t fully grasp. During the 1979 hostage crisis, she had a kind of awakening. After graduating from college at UC Santa Cruz, she felt an immense longing to learn more about her Iranian heritage. In the early 1980s she began learning Persian and got involved with a group of Iranian expatriates who were working to raise American awareness about the Iran-Iraq War. As the 1980s wore on, she felt a longing to become more familiar with Persian language and literature as well as the politics of the Middle East. In 1990 (on the eve of Perisan Gulf War I), she started graduate work at the University of Texas in Middle Eastern Studies. She followed her master’s degree, with a Ph.D. in comparative literature.

Los Ranchos native, NBC correspondent, former Time editor, and international relations expert Joshua Cooper Ramo discusses and signs his new book, The Age of the Unthinkable: Why the New World Disorder Constantly Surprises Us And What We Can Do About It. Joshua Cooper Ramo is Managing Director at Kissinger ... (more)Associates, a strategic advisory firm. He is the youngest Managing Director in the history of the firm. Prior to entering the advisory business, Ramo was a journalist. He was the youngest Senior Editor and Foreign Editor in the history of TIME Magazine. Among his nearly two-dozen time cover stories were the 1997 Man of the Year profile of Andy Grove and an award-winning profile of Kofi Annan. Ramo, a Mandarin speaker, divides his time between Beijing and New York City. The World Economic Forum has called him "one of China's leading foreign-born scholars." His papers have been widely distributed in China and abroad. He is the author of two other books, No Visible Horizon: Surviving the World's Most Dangerous Sport and The Beijing Consensus.

April is National Poetry Month! Local poet Jason Yurcic and his friend Angelo Jaramillo will read from their works at Bookworks to celebrate poetry.
Jason Yurcic's poems reveal the heart of a survivor. His new book is titled Odes to Anger and is available from UNM Press. In the title section, the poet, ... (more)caught in "the unspoken language of pain," escapes his beginnings only to find that the culture of violence has followed him. In the second section, "Meditations on Breath," he charts his journey to survival. In the last section, "Walking into My Mind," he contrasts the backbreaking manual labor of his day job with his real work, "to write/Love/Hold my children while rocking them to sleep/Children of the flesh/Children of the word." V. B. Price has written of Yurcic's work, "Anyone who has been saved by writing . . . will feel a heartening kinship with these startlingly honest and beautiful poems."
Angelo Jaramillo is the author of The Darker: Tales of a City Different and Psalms of Anarchy, both published by Sunstone Press of Santa Fe, NM. Mr. Jaramillo is also a film and stage actor, professional educator, and amateur pseudo-insurrectionist. Recently he was thrown out of St. John's College and was banished from the Santa Fe Reporter for writing bad theatre reviews.

In 1968, Mark Rudd lead the occupation of five buildings at Columbia University. He then went on to found the Weatherman faction of Students for a Democratic Society, and then was forced to go underground after a string of nonlethal bombings committed by the organization. In 1977, Mark turned himself ... (more)into the authorities, and in 1978, he moved to New Mexico, where he teaches at Central New Mexico Community College. At Bookworks on April 7 he will discuss his new book, Underground: My Life With SDS and the Weathermen, and the radical student politics of the 1960s and how that spirit extends into today's student world.

Simon J. Ortiz is widely regarded as one of the literary giants of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries with more than two dozen volumes of poetry, prose fiction, children's literature, and nonfiction work to his credit and his being anthologized around the world. This edited volume is devoted to ... (more)the depth and range of Ortiz's contribution to contemporary Native American literature and literary scholarship. Including interviews with Ortiz, short creative nonfiction essays by Native women writers and scholars, and innovative critical discussions by a dozen scholars of Native literatures, the volume shows his role in the development of cultural studies and Native American literatures on a number of fronts, garnering tribal, regional, national, hemispheric, and global levels of awareness and appreciation. The range of scholarship herein sheds light on the larger historical, cultural, and political factors that have shaped Native writing over the last four decades. This volume reveals the insights and aesthetics of Ortiz's indigenous lens, which provides invaluable contributions to literary studies that turn to the postcolonial, the ecocritical, the globally indigenous and comparative as indigenous geographies of belonging are found to inform an aesthetics of inclusion and authenticity.

Birdwatchers and nature lovers won't want to miss this great event! Eldon Remy’s fascination with birds began early in his life and continues to this day. From his perch on the south shore of Lake Ontario, he followed the annual spectacle of the spring migration, recording his findings and asking questions ... (more)of experienced birders. The result is a wonder: a soaring look at the remarkable return, every year, of millions of small birds to their ancestral nesting grounds. Eldon Remy lives in upstate New York, where he has a perfect view of the Great Pageant.

The Valles Caldera consists of a twelve-mile-wide collapsed volcanic crater and more than ten postcollapse volcanic domes in New Mexico's Jemez Mountains. For over a century, it was safeguarded within the 89,000-acre Baca Ranch. In the year 2000, Congress passed the Valles Caldera Preservation Act, creating ... (more)the Valles Caldera Trust to purchase the ranch and create a nine-member board of trustees responsible for the protection and development of the Valles Caldera National Preserve. With special permission, qualified geologists interested in volcanic processes and hydrothermal systems have been allowed to conduct research on the preserve. One of those volcanologists, Fraser Goff, collaborated with the Valles Caldera Trust to provide an accessible scientific overview of the caldera's geologic wonders.Presented in two parts, Valles Caldera first offers a summary of significant geologic events that have taken place in the Valles Caldera area. Then Goff presents the geology, volcanology, and geothermal characteristics of the Caldera and the Jemez volcanic field. Geologic terms and names unfamiliar to all but professional geologists are defined in a summarizing glossary.

QUINCY WHITNEY discussing and signing THE HIDDEN HISTORY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE an intriguing compilation of 60 stories about unique New Hampshire history, many of which are “firsts in the nation”.

When Allegra Huston was four years old, her mother was killed in a car crash. Soon afterward, she was introduced to an intimidating man wreathed in cigar smoke -- the legendary film director John Huston -- with the words, "This is your father." So began an extraordinary odyssey: from the magical Huston ... (more)estate in Ireland to the Long Island suburbs to a hidden paradise in Mexico -- and, at the side of her older sister, Anjelica, into the hilltop retreats of Jack Nicholson, Ryan O'Neal, and Marlon Brando. Allegra's is the penetrating gaze of an outsider never quite sure if she belongs in this rarefied world and of a motherless child trying to make sense of her famous, fragmented family. Then, at the age of twelve, Allegra's precarious sense of self was shattered when she was, once more, introduced to her father -- her real one this time, the British aristocrat and historian John Julius Norwich. At the heart of Love Child is Allegra's search through the unreliable certainties of memory for the widely adored mother she never knew -- the ghost who shadowed her childhood and left her in a web of awkward and unwelcome truths. With clear-eyed tenderness, Allegra tells of how she forged bonds with both her famous fathers, transforming her mother's difficult legacy into a hard-won blessing. Beautifully written and forensically honest, Love Child is a seductive insight into one of Hollywood's great dynasties and the story of how, in a family that defied convention, one woman found her balance on the shifting sands of conflicting loyalties.

Amy Goodman is the host and executive producer of Democracy Now!, a national, daily, independent, award-winning news program airing on over 750 TV and radio stations in North America. Time Magazine named Democracy Now! its "Pick of the Podcasts," along with NBC's Meet the Press. Goodman is the first ... (more)journalist to receive the Right Livelihood Award, widely known as the 'Alternative Nobel Prize' for "developing an innovative model of truly independent grassroots political journalism that brings to millions of people the alternative voices that are often excluded by the mainstream media."
Goodman is the co-author with her brother, journalist David Goodman, of three New York Times bestsellers, Standing Up to the Madness: Ordinary Heroes in Extraordinary Times (2008), Static: Government Liars, Media Cheerleaders, and the People Who Fight Back (2006) and The Exception to the Rulers: Exposing Oily Politicians, War Profiteers, and the Media That Love Them (2004). She writes a weekly column (also produced as an audio podcast) syndicated by King Features, for which she was recognized in 2007 with the James Aronson Award for Social Justice Reporting.
Amy will speak at Woodward Hall on the UNM campus on Sunday, April 19 at 7 p.m. Tickets are available at Bookworks - general admission tickets are $15 and include a copy of the new paperback, and student tickets (must show a school ID) are $5 but do not include a copy of the book. You can also call Bookworks at 344-8139 and purchase tickets over the phone with a credit card - we will have your ticket (and book, if applicable) for you at Woodward Hall the night of the event.

Birth Day takes the reader on a remarkable journey, from the dawn of human history to the quiet efficiency of a modern operating room; from Aristotle and Julius Caesar to a trailblazing, cross-dressing British army surgeon; from a recent past filled with the horrors of childbirth gone wrong to a present ... (more)day, in which every pregnancy is expected to end happily. Some of Birth Day’s many topics include • The evolution of human childbirth—or, why do gorillas have it so easy?
• The first five minutes of life—scuba divers, astronauts, and the amazing adaptations that transform a fetus into an air-breathing, out-in-the-world baby
• Cesarean section—a look at its origins, its future, and how it came to be the most frequently performed operation in American hospitals
• Pain and politics—the age-old quest for painless childbirth, starring Adam and Eve, Queen Victoria, a nineteenth-century medical brawl, and the rise of today’s “epidural monoculture”
• Daddies—raging paternal hormones, hidden anxieties, and the emotional evolution of men (including the author, his father, and grandfather) as they approach fatherhood
• The five senses at birth—does light enter the womb? how loud is it in there? what is a newborn baby searching for with those first anxious glances?
• A tour of the newborn body—springy skulls, hairy ears, innies and outies, the advantages (and disadvantages) of looking like your father, and why the United States is one of the world’s most circumcised nations Delightfully instructive and entertaining, Birth Day offers a fresh, sometimes irreverent take on a universally familiar topic. Warm, reassuring, and packed with stories from the author’s work and life, this unique book is one pediatrician’s meditation on the hiding-in-plain-sight marvels of human birth.

The author of the wildly popular Friday Night Knitting Club joins us at Bookworks for a reading of her new book, Comfort Food. Free tasty goodies from Cake Fetish provided!
About the book: Shortly before turning 50, TV cooking show personality Augusta “Gus” Simpson discovers that the network wants ... (more)to boost her ratings by teaming her with a beautiful, young new co-host. But Gus isn’t going without a fight—whether it’s off-set with her two demanding daughters, on-camera with the ambitious new diva herself, or after-hours with Oliver, the new culinary producer who’s raising Gus’s temperature beyond the comfort zone. Now, in pursuit of higher ratings and culinary delights, Gus might be able to rejuvenate more than just her career.

News of Maria of Agreda's exceptional attributes spread from her cloistered convent in seventeenth-century Agreda (Spain) to the court in Madrid and beyond. Without leaving her village, the abbess impacted the kingdom, her church, and the New World; Spanish Hapsburg king Felipe IV sought her spiritual ... (more)and political counsel for over twenty-two years. Based upon her transcendent visionary experiences, Sor Maria chronicled the life of Mary, mother of Jesus of Nazareth, in Mystical City of God, a work the Spanish Inquisition temporarily condemned. In America, reports emerged that she had miraculously appeared to Jumano Native Americans - a feat corroborated by witnesses in Spain, Texas, and New Mexico, where she is honored today as the legendary 'Lady in Blue'. Lauded in Spain as one of the most influential women in its history, and in the United States as an inspiring pioneer, Sor Maria's story will appeal to cultural historians and to women who have struggled for equality against all odds. Marilyn Fedewa's biography of this fascinating woman integrates voluminous autobiographical, historical, and literary sources published by and about Maria of Agreda. With liberal access to Sor Maria's papal delegate in Spain and convent archives in Agreda, Fedewa skillfully reconstructs a historical and spiritual backdrop against which Sor Maria's voice may be heard.

Diesel, A Bookstore in Oakland is pleased to present local author, Marin resident and 2007 banjo champ John Pedersen, as he discusses and signs his first novel, Scroll and Curl. This event is free and all are welcome and encouraged to attend!About the Book:
When the old time string band "Sweet Evening ... (more)Breeze" leaves Saratoga Springs, New
York on their two week tour of the east coast, fiddler Dan Munroe thinks that his only
headache will be controlling his band-mates tendencies for excess. That is until he
buys a unique fiddle at a sidewalk sale in New York and hears the story of the previous
owner’s entanglement with the underworld of the 1930's. After he gets the special fiddle
appraised by a reclusive dealer in Pennsylvania, dangerous and mysterious forces suddenly curl
and swirl through his life.About the Author:
As the grandson of a noted Heldeberg Mountain fiddler and a master luthier, John Pedersen portrays the touring string band life based on
hard-won first-hand knowledge about the shifting nature of relationships and the
dynamics of people on the road whose main connection to each other is the music.
Also, running a retail music store, doing repairs and buying and selling rare instruments
have given him insight into the eclectic and occasionally bizarre world of instrument
buyers and collectors and their motivations. The patrons of the store, run by John and his
wife, range from limos full of rock stars to the lowliest of street people and everyone in
between. As a musician John has won many fiddle contests, playing in the “old time”
style, as well as the California State Old Time Banjo championships in 2007.

Dumped by his glamorous Russian girlfriend during dinner at Elaine’s, and running low on cash, Stone Barrington is having a bad week. So his luck seems to be improving when he’s hired to locate the missing son of a very wealthy man—lucky because the job pays well, and because the son is hiding ... (more)in the tropical paradise of Key West. But when Stone and his sometime running buddy Dino Bacchetti arrive in the sunny Keys, it appears that someone has been lying in wait. When Stone very nearly loses his life after being blindsided at a local bar, he realizes that the young man he’s been hired to track may have good reason for not wanting to be found. Suddenly Key West is looking less like Margaritaville and more like the mean streets of New York. . . .

New Mexico's own Jane Butel is back at Bookworks in April talking about and signing her new book, the all-new revised edition of Chili Madness. Jane is a New Mexico favorite and her cookbooks have been a "must have" for home cooks for decades. Join Jane at Bookworks on April 30 for a special book talk ... (more)and signing.

Join Bruce Foxworthy as he retells stories from his new book, "Making Do and Hanging On: Growing Up in Apple Country Through the Great Depression

This great new mystery/thriller from Steven Havill is set in New Mexico and is just as intriguing as his other books the Posadas County mystery series.

Two UNM professors - Nancy K. Morrison and Sally Severino - have written a wonderful new book called Sacred Desire: Growing in Compassionate Living. Come hear them talk about their motivations for writing the book and how we can integrate compassionate living into our daily lives.

Amanda Eyre Ward has written some great novels, including No One You Know and Forgive Me. Meet Amanda and hear all about her latest collection of short fiction, Love Stories in This Town.

Throughout the development of the American West, prostitution grew and flourished within the mining camps, small towns, and cities of the nineteenth-century Rocky Mountains. Whether escaping a bad home life, lured by false advertising, or seeking to subsidize their income, thousands of women chose or ... (more)were forced to enter an industry where they faced segregation and persecution, fines and jailing, and battled the hazards of disease, drug addiction, physical abuse, pregnancy, and abortion. They dreamed of escape through marriage or retirement, but more often found relief only in death. An integral part of western history, the stories of these women continue to fascinate readers and captivate the minds of historians today.

Dave is a fascinating guy and he has a fascinating book! Don't miss him at Bookworks!
About the author: David Stuart, the first student in the State of West Virginia to earn a degree in Anthropology, came to UNM in '67/'68 where he earned the Masters and Ph.D. and, later, an honorary doctorate from WVa ... (more)Wesleyan College. He has conducted fieldwork in Mexico, Alaska, Ecuador, and the American Southwest, where he continues to publish in both Anthropology and Archaeology. He served the University of New Mexico as a senior academic administrator for many years, and still teaches the Archaeology of New Mexico.

Due to a scheduling conflict, this event will now be held at 6 p.m. on May 12. We apologize for any inconvenience. Amanda Eyre Ward has written some great novels, including How To Be Lost. Meet Amanda and hear all about her latest collection of short fiction, Love Stories in This Town.

PLEASE NOTE: The start time on this event has changed from 7 to 7:30. "Freeganism" is about living off what others throw away. In this great new book, Going Green: True Tales from Gleaners, Scavengers, and Dumpster Divers, you'll hear how people are using an established concept - good ol' fashioned thrift ... (more)- to live a greener life. Ruth Friesen of the Albuquerque chapter of Habitat for Humanity will speak about the book along with Laura Paskus, one of the contributors to the book.

Lucien Niemeyer traveled extensively in the Sudan researching this amazing book. We all know about the tragedies in Darfur - hear Lucien speak about what he saw there, and get a copy of his book of stunning photographs.

This book is a must-read if you are pregnant, or thinking about conceiving!
At this event, I will conduct a workshop about how spirits communicate with human beings and how you can build your ability to better "hear" what they are trying to tell you! I will also channel for random members of the audience ... (more)and you can ask a question on any topic! Join us on May 9, and you'll be entered into a drawing to win a FREE one hour private telephone channeling session by Kim O'Neil—to be given away at the end of this event! Kim was voted Best Psychic in Houston by Houston Press Magazine

We love Rick's books and we know you will too! Rick's books are set in New Mexico and Publisher's Weekly says they are "sure to appeal to fans of Tony Hillerman and Sherman Alexie." That's some great company, right there! Join Rick at Bookworks when he reads from and signs his new novel, Madewell Brown.

Deborah Madison, esteemed author of many fine cookbooks, including the forthcoming What We Eat When We Eat Alone, will be at Bookworks May 17! In addition to doing a book signing, we are setting up a special dinner event with Deborah - details to come. Don't miss seeing this wonderful chef/author at ... (more)Bookworks!

Diesel, A Bookstore in Oakland is pleased to present Anneli Rufus and Kristan Lawson as they discuss and sign The Scavengers' Manifesto. This event is free and all are welcome and encouraged to attend!About the Book:
Call it scavenging, freeganism, or just plain affordable living. A movement is afoot, ... (more)one that marries the tenets of affordable living with green living. And with the economic downturn, scavenging is no longer just the province of treasure seekers and do-it-yourselfers. Instead, it has become a fun, creative lifestyle choice for families and individuals looking to do less with more.
Combining tips and strategies with science and philosophy, The Scavengers' Manifesto traces the evolution of scavenging — dissolving ancient prejudices that have long tainted it and reclaiming it as a wise, crucial practice in a nation that discards more than 250 million tons of trash every year.About the Authors:
Anneli Rufus and Kristan Lawson live the scavenging life. Almost everything in their home has been swapped, thrifted or found — that is, not bought new or full-price. Even their garden blooms with a mix of flowers, vegetables and herbs, all from seeds obtained for free.
Rufus and Lawson are also critically acclaimed authors. Rufus is best known for writing Party of One: A Loner’s Manifesto and, recently, Stuck: Why We Can’t (or Won’t) Move On. She has also written for many publications, including the San Francisco Chronicle and Salon.com. Lawson's award-winning book, Darwin and Evolution for Kids, has been published in five languages.

Ever wondered what happens after we die? So did David Eagleman - and then he collected 40 different stories of what the afterlife might be like. The result is his book Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives. This is a charming and thought-provoking read that manages to be spiritual and funny all ... (more)at the same time. Don't miss David at Bookworks.

Ellen Bass is co-author of the million-seller Courage to Heal. She edited one of the first anthologies of female poets, No More Masks!, and is author of several collections of poetry and nonfiction. Bass teaches creative writing across the United States.

The SF&F discussion group, meets every 2nd
& 4th Wednesday monthly, talks about the books they have read recently. Open to older teens and adults. Ends around 8:30 p.m.

Favorite local author (and doctor) is back with his newest novel, The Right of Thirst! We're thrilled to have Frank at Bookworks. Don't miss this great event!

Join Tomas Atencio and E.A. "Tony" Mares - two local authors - for a spirited discussion about Chicano traditions of community and what they mean in a world where globalization concepts are increasingly important.

Life on the Rocks: One Woman's Adventures in Petroglyph Preservation (UNM Press, $21.95) Katherine Wells's obsession with petroglyphs (images pecked on stone) began in the 1960s. Three decades later, after careers as a teacher, a businessperson, and an artist in Southern California, Wells and Lloyd Dennis, ... (more)her partner, purchased almost two hundred acres near Espanola in northern New Mexico. The large boulders on the property contained many examples of rock art from previous Native inhabitants and the lure was overwhelming.
Wells describes the beginning of her new life and her exploration of the petroglyphs on her new land. Meeting New Mexico archaeologists and local rock art aficionados, and locating previously published information about petroglyphs and the prehistoric inhabitants of the Espanola area, Wells learned to identify the time periods when the glyphs were made and to understand many of the motifs found among the more than six thousand petroglyphs on the site.

The Last Prince of the Mexican Empire is a sweeping historical novel of Mexico during the short, tragic, at times surreal, reign of Emperor Maximilian and his court. Even as the American Civil War raged north of the border, a clique of Mexican conservative exiles and clergy convinced Louis Napoleon to ... (more)invade Mexico and install the Archduke of Austria, Maximilian von Habsburg, as Emperor. A year later, the childless Maximilian took custody of the two year old, half-American, Prince Agustan de Iturbide y Green, making the toddler the Heir Presumptive. Maximilian s reluctance to return the child to his distraught parents, even as his empire began to fall, and the Empress Carlota descended into madness, ignited an international scandal. This lush, grand read is based on the true story and illuminates both the cultural roots of Mexico and the political development of the Americas. But it is made all the more captivating by the depth of Mayo's writing and her understanding of the pressures and influences on these all too human players. Her prose makes the reader taste the foods, smell the spices and flowers and feel the heat of Mexico. Mayo writes for the senses. And for the ages. The Last Prince of the Mexican Empire is a story both sweeping and intimate, of geopolitics, the glamour of royalty, and the grit of military command, of the arrogance of power, the dark labyrinths of ambition, and, above all, of a child who was not, in the end, a prince, but a little boy who belonged to his parents.

Diesel, A Bookstore in Oakland is excited to present award-winning author Elana Dykewomon as she discusses and signs her new novel, Risk, a beautifully told story that spans the years from the mid-eighties to
the post-9/11 world and explores changing times and values in America.
This event is free and ... (more)all are welcome and encouraged to attend!For more on Elana, visit her website.

Traveling at My Desk: Stories for 52 Weekends (REPertory Publishing, $15)
Richard Peck's columns take you from Father's Day in Italy to reveille in China. . . from tree-climbing Kauai chickens to salt-smuggling in Switzerland - a champagne cocktail of little adventures, all of them deftly crafted, warm ... (more)and funny. Perfect armchair travel, recalling memorable trips you've taken, mixed with tantalizing visits to places you've never seen. And addictive: you can't stop at just one. Don't miss him at Bookworks!

Anne Hillerman speaks about her new cookbook Santa Fe Flavors: Best Restaurants and Recipes (Gibbs Smith, $9.99) and talks dining out in Santa Fe with Rene Kimball of the Albuquerque Journal North! In a city known for its fine dining, Santa Fe boasts countless restaurants for the food lover. Restaurant ... (more)critic Anne Hillerman takes connoisseurs on a whirlwind tour through some of the most delectable restaurants Santa Fe has to offer. She gives impeccable recommendations on the best eateries throughout the area and even provides diners the chance to re-create some of their favorite dishes. Recipes from both celebrated and undiscovered chefs include Bonnie's Coleslaw from Bobcat Bites, Aguacate from El Farol, Lobster Salad from The Pink Adobe, and Basil Ice Cream from Blue Heron at Sunrise Springs. Bring back the flavor of Santa Fe's finest to your own home. From sweet treats to savory entrees, Santa Fe Flavors has something to tickle every taste bud.
In more than twenty years as a journalist, Anne Hillerman has worked as editorial page editor for the Albuquerque Journal North and the Santa Fe New Mexican, and an arts editor for both papers. She has been the Santa Fe restaurant reviewer for the Albuquerque Journal and Journal North since 2001 and works as a writing coach on fiction and nonfiction projects. Anne is the author of four other books: The Insiders Guide to Santa Fe, Children's Guide to Santa Fe, Done in the Sun, and Ride the Wind: USA to Africa. She is currently a director of Wordharvest Writers' Workshops and the Tony Hillerman Writers' Conference: Focus on Mystery, both of which she helped to establish in 2001.
Anne and her good friend Rene will also share tips for dining out in Santa Fe - where to go, how to get the most for your money, and exciting places you may not have heard about.

In To Change the World, the legendary writer and poet Margaret Randall chronicles her decade in Cuba from 1969 to 1980. Both a highly personal memoir and an examination of the revolution's great achievements and painful mistakes, the book paints a portrait of the island during a difficult, dramatic, ... (more)and exciting time.
Randall gives readers an inside look at her children's education, the process through which new law was enacted, the ins and outs of healthcare, employment, internationalism, culture, and ordinary people's lives. She explores issues of censorship and repression, describing how Cuban writers and artists faced them. She recounts one of the country's last beauty pageants, shows us a night of People's Court, and takes us with her when she shops for her family's food rations. Key figures of the revolution appear throughout, and Randall reveals aspects of their lives never before seen.
More than fifty black and white photographs, most by the author, add depth and richness to this astute and illuminating memoir. Written with a poet's ear, depicted with a photographer's eye, and filled with a feminist vision, To Change the World-neither an apology nor gratuitous attack-adds immensely to the existing literature on revolutionary Cuba.

WITH SLIDESHOW!
The New Adobe Home presents the sophisticated, elevated use of adobe through a variety of elegant homes in New Mexico, Arizona, California, and Mexico. These homes comprise a combination of history, furnishings, art, and interior and exterior spaces with adobe construction, adobe style, ... (more)or detailing.
This beautiful volume features examples of luxurious adobe or adobe-style homes, including a centuries-old renovated hacienda, once the home of a past president of Mexico; a mid-century Clifford May masterpiece; a luxurious estate that pairs Southwestern style with Asian influences; a contemporary dwelling that sits like a sculpture in the Sonoran Desert; and many others.
Adobe is one of the "greenest" building materials available.
Because its components (earth, clay, and straw) are so readily available and it is very efficient to heat and cool, adobe has been used as a building material for thousands of years all around the world.
Half of the world's population lives in buildings constructed of earth.

When a shady character offers him $25,000 to steal a thousand-year-old pot from the Valle del Rio Museum, Hubert Schuze knows he should turn it down. His pot digging may be illegal, but it s a big step from that to robbery. But he figures it can t hurt just to visit the museum and assay his chances. ... (more)He figured wrong. After deciding the museum is impregnable, he returns to his shop to find a BLM agent who accuses him of stealing the rare pot. Theft charges escalate to murder, and Hubert must solve the crime to clear himself. His powerful deductive skills and weak nerves are put to the test as he creates a hoax to get the pot out of the museum and solves both the first murder and a second one whose victim turns out to be the person Schuze thought was murdered to begin with!

An autumn evening in 1937. A German engineer arrives at the Warsaw railway station. Tonight, he will be with his Polish mistress; tomorrow, at a workers' bar in the city's factory district, he will meet with the military attaché from the French embassy. Information will be exchanged for money. So begins ... (more)The Spies of Warsaw, the brilliant new novel by Alan Furst, lauded by The New York Times as "America's preeminent spy novelist."
War is coming to Europe. French and German intelligence operatives are locked in a life-and-death struggle on the espionage battlefield. At the French embassy, the new military attaché, Colonel Jean-Francois Mercier, a decorated hero of the 1914 war, is drawn into a world of abduction, betrayal, and intrigue in the diplomatic salons and back alleys of Warsaw. At the same time, the handsome aristocrat finds himself in a passionate love affair with a Parisian woman of Polish heritage, a lawyer for the League of Nations.
Colonel Mercier must work in the shadows, amid an extraordinary cast of venal and dangerous characters-Colonel Anton Vyborg of Polish military intelligence; the mysterious and sophisticated Dr. Lapp, senior German Abwehr officer in Warsaw; Malka and Viktor Rozen, at work for the Russian secret service; and Mercier's brutal and vindictive opponent, Major August Voss of SS counterintelligence. And there are many more, some known to Mercier as spies, some never to be revealed.
The Houston Chronicle has described Furst as "the greatest living writer of espionage fiction." The Spies of Warsaw is his finest novel to date-the history precise, the writing evocative and powerful, more a novel about spies than a spy novel, exciting, atmospheric, erotic, and impossible to put down.

DIESEL, A Bookstore in Oakland is pleased to welcome David Carr as he discusses and signs The Night of the Gun: A Reporter investigates the Darkest Story of His Life. His Own. This event is free and all are welcome!

This month, our book club is reading and discussing Michael Pollan’s In Defense of Food. The author’s summation of the book appears on the cover: Eat food, not too much, mostly plants. This book ties in beautifully to the eating and buying local movements gaining momentum across the country. Join ... (more)us to discuss it!

From the age of three, Norman Ollestad was thrust into the world of surfing and competitive downhill skiing by the intense, charismatic father he both idolized and resented. While his friends were riding bikes, playing ball, and going to birthday parties, young Norman was whisked away in pursuit of wild ... (more)and demanding adventures. Yet it were these exhilarating tests of skill that prepared "Boy Wonder," as his father called him, to become a fearless champion-and ultimately saved his life.
Flying to a ski championship ceremony in February 1979, the chartered Cessna carrying Norman, his father, his father's girlfriend, and the pilot crashed into the San Gabriel Mountains and was suspended at 8,200 feet, engulfed in a blizzard. "Dad and I were a team, and he was Superman," Ollestad writes. But now Norman's father was dead, and the devastated eleven-year-old had to descend the treacherous, icy mountain alone.

What if there had been an intelligent race of dinosaurs, gone dormant when the world’s climate changed? And what if the climate changed back to the climate in which they had flourished? James Stambaugh has written a science fiction novel with the answers and will be in the store to discuss ... (more)it. Come join us!

Bring your lunch and have a great hour with Maggie Sefton, New York Times bestselling author. Her new book is Dropped Dead Stitch, a mystery set in the fictional town of Fort Connor, although you might recognize spots like the Back Porch Café or the Lambspun Knitting Shop.

Diesel, A Bookstore in Brentwood is pleased to present Gregg Hurwitz as he discusses and signs his new novel, Trust No One. This event is free and all are welcome and encouraged to attend!About the Author:Gregg Hurwitz is the critically acclaimed, internationally bestselling author of The Tower, Minutes ... (more)to Burn, Do No Harm, The Kill Clause, The Program, Troubleshooter, Last Shot, and most recently, The Crime Writer, an instant international bestseller that was shortlisted for best novel of the year by International Thriller Writers and nominated for the Ian Fleming Steel Dagger. His novels have been feature selections for all four major literary book clubs, chosen as Book Sense Picks, and translated into fifteen languages. He has written screenplays for Jerry Bruckheimer Films, Paramount Studios, MGM, and ESPN, developed TV series for Warner Studios, written Wolverine, Punisher, and Foolkiller for Marvel, and published numerous academic articles on Shakespeare. He has taught fiction writing in the USC English Department, and guest lectured for UCLA, and for Harvard in the United States and Europe. In the course of researching his thrillers, he has sneaked onto demolition ranges with Navy SEALs, swam with sharks in the Galápagos, and gone undercover into mind-control cults.Hurwitz grew up in the Bay Area. While completing a BA from Harvard and a master's from Trinity College, Oxford in Shakespearean tragedy, he wrote his first novel. He was the undergraduate scholar-athlete of the year at Harvard for his pole-vaulting exploits, and played college soccer in England, where he was a Knox fellow. He now lives in L.A. where he continues to play soccer, frequently injuring himself.

To Walk in Beauty: A Navajo Family's Journey Home, presents readers with an intimate portal into a culture not often seen by outsiders. The Begay family has opened their lives over the past decade to photographer Stacia Spragg-Braude, who presents over 80 selected black-and-white photographs illustrating ... (more)four generations of the family along their path of healing. Interwoven with the images are the Begays' memories, family stories, beliefs, philosophies, and their hopes and fears for the next generation of Navajo. The book also features an afterward by N. Scott Momaday.

Diesel, A Bookstore in Malibu is excited to welcome Norman Ollestad to the shop to discuss and sign his book, Crazy fo the Storm: A Memoir of Survival. This event is free and all are welcome and encouraged to attend!

The Last Gifts tells the stories of 17 dying patients, whom Jillian Brasch cared for as an occupational therapist. Brasch shows that providing care to someone who is dying isn't depressing-it is awe-inspiring and fosters a profound sense of love. No other book on the market deals with issues of death ... (more)and dying from the functional and creative viewpoint of an occupational therapist.
According to a recent AARP report, 34 million people offer care to a loved one. With more than 30 years spent as a caregiver, a motivator, and a coach, Brasch shares her reflections as an occupational therapist and a hospice worker in this harrowing and heartfelt collection.
Mingling her own anecdotes and personal revelations with poetry and prose from those patients she has assisted, Brasch creates a dialogue that shows caregivers how to acknowledge their fears and learn the tools to dispel them, while also providing caregivers with strength and courage. The stories give both guidance and the permission to be creative and vulnerable. A wealth of knowledge learned (and earned) through experience exists between these pages.
A manual of the heart for those working with the terminally ill, The Last Gifts shows how to get past the physical unpleasantness to see the blossoming of a soul as it sheds its earthly limitations.

Alisa's new book is The Husband Habit ($24.99, St. Martin's Press) and we are having the official Albuquerque release party for her book! Come chat with Alisa, get a copy of her BRAND NEW book, have some snacks and virgin cocktails, and have a great time! Here's a description of the book:
Why does Vanessa ... (more)keep falling for married men?
Not that she knows she does. At least not at first. But every man who seems like he might be the one turns out to be someone else's. So maybe the right thing to do is take a vow to stay single, to keep away from all men, until she can figure things out.
At least work is a bright spot: It's an anchor to be so good at something, to lose yourself in your job, and Vanessa is a whiz of a chef, so good she makes her grandstanding boss, Hawk -of Albuquerque's chic Nuevo American restaurant hawk -look good. After all, it's his name on the awning above the door. If only her friends and family would get on board with Vanessa's plan and stop trying to fix her up. If she can't fix her life, nobody else is going to get the chance to try-not her parents, not her friends, and certainly not her ultra-well-meaning but just-not-getting-it sister, Larissa.
And nothing could be more with the plan than helping out at her parents' house-gardening, keeping them fed, getting them organized with her loyal pet Red Dog by her side. Red Dog is all the companionship she needs. Until Vanessa meets Paul, her parents' neighbor-he's all wrong on paper, but he's got great manners and certainly seems safe. Not bad in the kissing department, either. But just when Vanessa's guard goes down, the red flag goes up: Could Paul be yet another married man?
Bursting with Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez's trademark wit and originality, The Husband Habit introduces a rich and complex heroine in chef Vanessa. You're not going to want to leave her world when the novel comes to an end.

Wally is a huge author and we are so honored to be hosting him at Bookworks. Wally will speak about his newest book, The Hour I First Believed (Harper, $29.95). Please read below for details on how this signing will be handled.
Wally Lamb is the author of several bestselling books, most notably his three ... (more)novels She's Come Undone, I Know This Much is True and 2008's The Hour I First Believed.
She's Come Undone was a #1 New York Times bestseller, a New York Times Notable Book of the Year, and a pick for Oprah's Book Club. I Know This Much is True repeated those same accomplishments. The Hour I First Believed, which a fictionalized account of the school shooting at Columbine High School, spent many weeks in 2008 and 2009 at the number-one position on the New York Times bestseller list.
Lamb was the director of the Writing Center at Norwich Free Academy, Norwich, Connecticut from 1989-1998, and is currently an Associate Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Connecticut's English Department. He holds a B.A. and an M.A. in Education from the University of Connecticut and an M.F.A. in Writing from Vermont College. Lamb lives in Mansfield, Connecticut with his wife and three sons.
Bookworks will sell copies of all Lamb's books and will allow line-ups for the signing to begin at 5:30 p.m. on July 10. Numbers will be given out to those in line to ensure an orderly process for the signing.

Joshua Cooper Ramo is Managing Director at Kissinger Associates, a strategic advisory firm. He is the youngest Managing Director in the history of the firm. Prior to entering the advisory business, Ramo was a journalist. He was the youngest Senior Editor and Foreign Editor in the history of TIME Magazine. ... (more)Among his nearly two-dozen time cover stories were the 1997 Man of the Year profile of Andy Grove and an award-winning profile of Kofi Annan. Ramo, a Mandarin speaker, divides his time between Beijing and New York City. The World Economic Forum has called him "one of China's leading foreign-born scholars." His papers have been widely distributed in China and abroad. He is the author of two other books, No Visible Horizon: Surviving the World's Most Dangerous Sport and The Beijing Consensus.
About the book: Today the very ideas that made America great imperil its future. Our plans go awry and policies fail. History's grandest war against terrorism creates more terrorists. Global capitalism, intended to improve lives, increases the gap between rich and poor. Decisions made to stem a financial crisis guarantee its worsening. Environmental strategies to protect species lead to their extinction.
The traditional physics of power has been replaced by something radically different. In The Age of the Unthinkable, Joshua Cooper Ramo puts forth a revelatory new model for understanding our dangerously unpredictable world. Drawing upon history, economics, complexity theory, psychology, immunology, and the science of networks, he describes a new landscape of inherent unpredictability--and remarkable, wonderful possibility.

Mariachi(Gibbs Smith, $30)
Patricia Greathouse played with Mariachi Azteca for nine years. She is a restaurant reviewer and food feature writer for the Santa Fe New Mexican and other publications. This is a great book about Mariachi! Patricia will also play some music for us at this great event!
About ... (more)the book: MARIACHI IS MORE THAN THE MUSIC of trumpets and violins: it is the makings of a celebration, a party, a wedding, a festival, or a concert. The author's narrative captures the world of mariachi and its development through her interviews with many mariachis, who give unique perspectives on the culture. Tales of life as a mariachi are interwoven with enlightening biographies of mariachi greats, favorite song lyrics, and forty recipes from the mariachi culture.
PROFILES OF CLASSIC AND CONTEMPORARY PERFORMERS, FEATURING LYRICS FROM THEIR SONGS, INCLUDE:
Jorge Negrete, Pedro Infante, Miguel Aceves Mejía, Javier Solís, José Alfredo Jiménez, Miguel Martínez and Mariachi Tolteca, Jesús Rodríguez de Híjar, Rubén Fuentes, Nati Cano, Rigoberto Alfaro, Heriberto Molina, - and more!

Bring your knitting project and join hostess Patty Poisson for an informal evening of chatting, knitting and tea. Exquisite tea is generously provided by Danielle Beaudette of The Cozy Tea Cart in Brookline. (www.thecozyteacart.com). Please note that the group is open to all experienced knitters. They ... (more)meet on the 2nd Monday each month.

Diesel, A Bookstore in Oakland presents Dean Kuipers as he discusses and signs his new book, Operation Bite Back: Rod Coronado's War to Save American Wilderness, an insider's look at the environmental movement's radical wing and its uneasy relationship with the mainstream.
Dean Kuipers is an editor at ... (more)the Los Angeles Times. Burning Rainbow Farm, about the 2001 FBI shooting of two libertarian pot activists on a farm in Michigan, was published in 2006. His work has also recently appeared in the 2008 titles, The Contenders, in which he wrote on Al Gore, and Red State Rebels, where the Rainbow Farm book is excerpted. He is the co-author of I Am A Bullet, a collaboration with photographer Doug Aitken on the acceleration of global culture. As a former editor at Spin and Raygun magazines, he wrote extensively on radical movements and rock’n’roll, with cover stories on Marilyn Manson, David Bowie, Neil Young, Iggy Pop, Smashing Pumpkins, Cypress Hill, the Rolling Stones and many others. As author and editor of the 1997 graphics/pop culture book, Ray Gun Out Of Control, he worked with contributors David Bowie, REM's Michael Stipe, cyberpunk writer William Gibson and the world's foremost graphic designers. His work has appeared in Playboy, Rolling Stone, the Los Angeles Times, Interview, Travel & Leisure, Outside, Spin, LA Weekly, and others.

Bring in your own vintage linens to share!
About the book: Gather 'round! The endearing follow-up to The Apron Book is now served. EllynAnne Geisel graces us with her new treasure, The Kitchen Linens Book. It's a lovely treat.Family kitchens are where our days begin and end. And one constant is threaded ... (more)among the people, the stories, and the moments: America's kitchen linens. If only these prized pieces could talk.
The Kitchen Linens Book invites women of all ages to visit with the past. In this book, Geisel gives us an up-close look at tablecloths, dishtowels, and napkins with details and histories as fine as the stories themselves. Embroidered or hemstitched, linens or oilcloths--these are the fabrics and the memories of our mothers and grandmothers. And each one has an endearing story and a vivid history.
About the Author: EllynAnne Geisel, who lives at Pueblo, CO, is the author of The Apron Book and the creator of Apron Chronicles, the traveling exhibit. Her apron designs have appeared in Vogue and have been worn by Bree in Desperate Housewives. She's been a guest on both NPR's All Things Considered and CBS News' Sunday Morning. She continues to make nationwide appearances to promote her books and exhibit.

Our esteemed friend and author Rudolfo Anaya will return to Bookworks in July to sign two very special books! The first is his new book of stories from Oklahoma University Press, titled Rudolfo Anaya: The Essays ($24.95). We will also have the VERY LAST copies of the Farolitos of Christmas available ... (more)for sale - this book has gone out-of-print and we have the last copies produced! Come get signed copies of both these great books and spend time with one of New Mexico's greatest authors.
About Rudolfo Anaya: The Essays
The first published collection of Rudolfo Anaya's essays "The storyteller's gift is my inheritance," writes Rudolfo Anaya in his essay "Shaman of Words." Although he is best known for Bless Me, Ultima and other novels, his writing also takes the form of nonfiction, and in these 52 essays he draws on both his heritage as a Mexican American and his gift for storytelling. Besides tackling issues such as censorship, racism, education, and sexual politics, Anaya explores the tragedies and triumphs of his own life.
Collected here are Anaya's published essays. Despite his wide acclaim as the founder of Chicano literature, no previous volume has attempted to gather Anaya's nonfiction into one edition. A companion to The Man Who Could Fly and Other Stories, the collection of Anaya's short stories, The Essays is an essential anthology for followers of Anaya and those interested in Chicano literature.
Pieces such as "Requiem for a Lowrider," "La Llorona, El Kookoóee, and Sexuality," and "An American Chicano in King Arthur's Court" take the reader from the llano of eastern New Mexico, where Anaya grew up, to the barrios of Albuquerque, and from the devastating diving accident that nearly ended his life at sixteen to the career he has made as an author and teacher. The point is not autobiography, although a life story is told, nor is it advocacy, although Anaya argues persuasively for cultural change. Instead, the author provides shrewd commentary on modern America in all its complexity. All the while, he employs the elegant, poetic voice and the interweaving of myth and folklore that inspire his fiction. "Stories reveal our human nature and thus become powerful tools for insight and revelation," writes Anaya. This collection of prose offers abundant new insight and revelation.

About the book: Recipient of the 1995 All-American City from the National Civic League, Jemez Springs had a long rich history showcased here in the newest title by Arcadia Publishing. Written by local journalists, photographers and authors, Kathleen Wiegner and her husband Robert Borden, Jemez Springs ... (more)boasts more than 200 vintage images.
In 1849, James Hervy Simpson, a lieutenant and engineer in the Army Corps of Topographical Engineers, was ordered to survey a wagon road as a southern alternative to the Santa Fe Trail from Fort Smith, Arkansas, to Santa Fe, New Mexico. Simpson hired two brothers, Edward "Ned" and Richard Kern, to provide survey sketches that included the pueblo ruins of Giusewa and natural hot springs of Ojo Caliente, which are known today as Jemez Springs. Prior to incorporation in 1955, Jemez Springs, like many frontier towns, was supported by ranching, logging, and mining. It also had an influx of tourists who enjoyed the hot springs or one of the many dude ranches in the area.
Highlights of Jemez Springs:
· Explores the history of railroads and logging in Jemez.
· It is the first book written exclusively about Jemez Springs.
· Features a section on present-day local artists.
*A portion of the profits from the sale of this book will be donated to the Jemez Springs Library.

Lucille Lang Day's new book of poems is The Curvature of Blue; Alicia Ostriker enthuses about it, "Intelligence enjoying itself, awareness at play, attentiveness dancing through life's minefields smiling at itself in its new black car. . . a wonderful book and I feel lucky to have read it." Lucille Day ... (more)has published four previous books of poetry, including Infinities, Wild One, and Self-Portrait with a Hand Microscope, her first, for which she won the Joseph Henry Jackson Award. She is the founder and director of Scarlet Tanager Books, a literary press in the Bay Area. Roz Spafford's new book of poems is Requiem, winner of the 2008 Gell Poetry Prize, with a foreword by Carl Dennis: "All the poems in Requiem may be read as attempts to confront the presence of death in our lives. . . What is remarkable about this steady focus, which offers no easy consolations, is that it leads to a book that is more challenging than it is querulous or elegiac. . . a book that confronts our limitations in a way that makes us feel larger rather than diminished." Spafford has been a writer, teacher, and activist for the last three decades. She wrote book reviews and a newspaper column of media and cultural criticism called 'Mediations' for much of that time. Her poetry and fiction have been widely published in literary magazines.

Douglas Brinkley is the Presidential historian and just wrote a cover article for Vanity Fair about Johnny Depp's private island. Come see him at Bookworks for his new book about Teddy Roosevelt's conservation efforts! In this groundbreaking epic biography, Douglas Brinkley draws on never-before-published ... (more)materials to examine the life and achievements of our "naturalist president." By setting aside more than 230 million acres of wild America for posterity between 1901 and 1909, Theodore Roosevelt made conservation a universal endeavor. This crusade for the American wilderness was perhaps the greatest U.S. presidential initiative between the Civil War and World War I. Roosevelt's most important legacies led to the creation of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and passage of the Antiquities Act in 1906. His executive orders saved such treasures as Devils Tower, the Grand Canyon, and the Petrified Forest.
Tracing the role that nature played in Roosevelt's storied career, Brinkley brilliantly analyzes the influence that the works of John James Audubon and Charles Darwin had on the young man who would become our twenty-sixth president. With descriptive flair, the author illuminates Roosevelt's bird watching in the Adirondacks, wildlife obsession in Yellowstone, hikes in the Blue Ridge Mountains, ranching in the Dakota Territory, hunting in the Big Horn Mountains, and outdoor romps through Idaho and Wyoming. He also profiles Roosevelt's incredible circle of naturalist friends, including the Catskills poet John Burroughs, Boone and Crockett Club cofounder George Bird Grinnell, forestry zealot Gifford Pinchot, buffalo breeder William Hornaday, Sierra Club founder John Muir, U.S. Biological Survey wizard C. Hart Merriam, Oregon Audubon Society founder William L. Finley, and pelican protector Paul Kroegel, among many others. He brings to life hilarious anecdotes of wild-pig hunting in Texas and badger saving in Kansas, wolf catching in Oklahoma and grouse flushing in Iowa. Even the story of the teddy bear gets its definitive treatment.
Destined to become a classic, this extraordinary and timeless biography offers a penetrating and colorful look at Roosevelt's naturalist achievements, a legacy now more important than ever. Raising a Paul Revere–like alarm about American wildlife in peril—including buffalo, manatees, antelope, egrets, and elk—Roosevelt saved entire species from probable extinction. As we face the problems of global warming, overpopulation, and sustainable land management, this imposing leader's stout resolution to protect our environment is an inspiration and a contemporary call to arms for us all.

Children's Poet Laureate, New York Times Bestselling Author. Bring the kids, hear him perform & read poems from his latest book The Swamps of Sleethe - poems from beyond the universe. Check out our large display of Jack's poetry, select some to be signed if you can't make it to the event. Have you read ... (more)Jack's Albuquerque Turkey poem?

Discuss fantasy fiction at its best. Featuring their new books Nine Gates in which characters with the traits of animals of the Chinese Zodiac inhabit our world, & The Betrayal, a romantic fantasy with vampiric elves.

In The Shortest Distance Between Two Women, Kris takes the emotional measure of mothers, daughters, sisters and friends in her wise and wonderful novel of a woman unsure if she's on the verge of a breakdown or a breakthrough...Kris is so much fun! We're throwing a Virgin Margarita Party with give-aways ... (more)and drawings for loads of goodies. We've sold nearly 2,000 copies of Kris' novels, including The Elegant Gathering of White Snows.

FREE! Rafe Esquith the only teacher to EVER receive the National Medal of Arts award. In his first book, NYT Bestseller, Teach Like Your Hair's on Fire, The Methods and Madness Inside Room 56, readers were introduced to his amazing and inspiring classroom techniques. Lighting Their Fire - Raising Extraordinary ... (more)Children in a Mixed-up, Muddled-up, Shook-up World, Rafe offers parents and teachers techniques for raising great kids. Rafe and 7 of his students visit from L.A. Sponsored by Albuquerque/Bernalillo County Library System, Albuquerque Federated Teachers & UNM Education Department. Pre-purchase the new book at Bookworks for VIP seating.

(Phoenix Jade $15.95) In her latest novel, Gail Graham explores how overwhelming grief triggered by an unexpected death can blend the differences between reality and sanity. Sarah, widowed at a young age, finds herself without anchor or focus. Deserted by friends and accused of a murder she did not commit, ... (more)Sarah is left to make sense of events that seem impossibly unreal. Is she losing her mind? Her journey through grief and back to reality is quite convincing maybe because Graham herself was widowed at a young age.

(Cinco Puntos $17.95) Benjamin Alire Saenz has written a bilingual book for kids, dogs and event their parents. Like all kids, Little Diego and his big sister Gabriela argue over their new dog Sofie. She belongs to me, says Diego. No, she's mine, says Gabriela. It's only when Sofie gets really sick that ... (more)they find out who their tortilla-loving pup really belongs to. Once again, Saenz shows he understands the chemistry and dynamics of family, this time with a dog stirring up the recipe. This will be fun for the whole family.

(Univ of Oklahoma $34.95) Slideshow - Teresa Wilkins shares the history of Navajo weaving by exploring the relationship between weavers and their Anglo-American trading partners. She documents the changes weavers made in their traditional designs as a result of this partnership. Teresa J. Wilkins is ... (more)Associate Professor of Anthropology at the UNM, Gallup campus. A weaver herself, she is a former student of weaving authority Joe Ben Wheat.

(Dutton Books $16.99) Don't miss dinner, but don't miss Judy Schachner talk about Skippyjon Jones' exploits. This cat lives life as a Chihuahua who speaks a Spanish/English lingo all his own. Where did Schachner get the idea for such a character! We will have books, toys, CDs and tons of fun for all.

Talk & Signing - The Bigness of the World includes five stories that take place overseas and six stories that take place 'at home.' In the eleven stories in The Bigness of the World we see that wherever you are in the world, where you came from is never far away. Winner of the Flannery O'Connor Award ... (more)for Short Fiction.

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Talk, Photo Presentation & Signing Tony Hillerman's Landscape: On the Road with Chee and Leaphorn Bookworks welcomes back Anne Hillerman for a book talk and signing of her recent book release. She will be joined by her husband and photographer, Don Strel. This book takes readers on a journey through ... (more)the Indian Country landmarks where Jim Chee and Joe Leaphorn, Hillerman's Navajo detectives, solved crimes and often stopped to admire the scenery.
Step into the world of Tony Hillerman with this stunning collection of original photographs of the landscape that was integral to his writing and played a major role in the Indian country mysteries. Alongside these breathtaking photos are brief synopses of the Chee/Leaphorn novels, descriptive passages from each work, comments from Tony Hillerman about the sites, and narrative information on the locations pictured. Compiled with remembrances by his eldest daughter, Anne Hillerman, Tony Hillerman's Landscape is "a timely showcase of a hauntingly beautiful region that captured one man's imagination for a lifetime, and is a loving tribute from a daughter to her father.

Diesel, A Bookstore in Brentwood is very excited to welcome Mark Weiss to the shop to discuss and sign the anthology of poetry he edited, The Whole Island: Six Decades of Cuban Poetry.
Cuba's cultural influence throughout the Western Hemisphere, and especially in the United States, has been disproportionally ... (more)large for so small a country. This landmark volume is the first comprehensive overview of poetry written over the past sixty years. Presented in a beautiful Spanish-English en face edition, The Whole Island makes available the astonishing achievement of a wide range of Cuban poets, including such well-known figures as Nicolás Guillén, José Lezama Lima, and Nancy Morejón, but also poets widely read in Spanish who remain almost unknown to the English-speaking world - among them Fina García Marruz, José Kozer, Raúl Hernández Novás, and Ángel Escobar-and poets born since the Revolution, like Rogelio Saunders, Omar Pérez, Alessandra Molina, and Javier Marimón. The translations, almost all of them new, convey the intensity and beauty of the accompanying Spanish originals. With their work deeply rooted in Cuban culture, many of these poets - both on and off the island - have been at the center of the political and social changes of this tempestuous period. The poems offered here constitute an essential source for understanding the literature and culture of Cuba, its diaspora, and the Caribbean at large, and provide an unparalleled perspective on what it means to be Cuban.

Diesel, A Bookstore in Oakland is pleased to present David Swanson as he discusses and signs his new book, Daybreak: Undoing the Imperial Presidency and Forming a More Perfect Union.
Swanson holds a master's degree in philosophy from the University of Virginia. He has worked as a newspaper reporter and ... (more)as a communications director, with jobs including press secretary for Dennis Kucinich's 2004 presidential campaign, media coordinator for the International Labor Communications Association, and three years as communications coordinator for ACORN, the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now.