This Week at Bookworks Includes Beth Howard, Jonathan Miller and More

This week at Bookworks includes many things for all ages. Highlights include Beth Howard with buttery pie recipes from American Gothic, World Book Night, Jonathan Miller with a Rattlesnake Lawyer's Memoir and more. Go www.bkwrks.com/event for more information on all of these events.

Friday, April 18
7pm • Beth Howard • Ms. American Pie
Beth has made pies for celebrities including Barbra Streisand, Dick Van Dyke & Steven Spielberg before moving back home to rural Iowa & into the American Gothic house. Tasty morsals of FREE PIEwill be served.

Saturday, April 19
3pm • Cecelia Dardanes • Salad maker extraordinaire presents a few of her favorite salads.

Sunday, April 20
3pm • Jonathan Miller • Laws & Loves
Laws & Loves contains the real stories of the Rattlesnake Lawyer. Jonathan Miller is a practicing criminal defense attorney in New Mexico and the author of eight books. These are the chronicles of his early years, how he learned to balance the law with literature, all while looking for love in all the wrong courtrooms.

Tuesday, April 22
7pm • David Caffey • Chasing the Santa Fe Ring
The Santa Fe Ring has never really been described before and to this day it remains a kind of black hole in NM's territorial history.

Wednesday, April 23
World Book Night •
Bookworks had 48 givers sign up to distribute books throughout Albuquerque! Thank you and join us for a reception at our store for youApril 24.

5:30pm • David Wrobel • Global West, American Frontier
Travel, empire and exceptionalism from Manifest Destiny to the Great Depression. This thoughtful examination of a century of travel writing about the American West overturns a variety of popular and academic stereotypes.

7pm • Slim Randles • Saddle Up: A Cowboy Guide to Writing
Straight forward steps to successful writing techniques to capture the memories and stories that fill our lives.

Thursday, April 24
7pm • World Book Night Reception •
All givers are invited to attend to share WBN giving experiences, some snacks, and special entertainment to be announced.

Friday, April 25
7pm • Marjane Ambler • Yellowstone Has Teeth
Written with grace and intimacy, Yellowstone Has Teeth shares the untold stories of the men and women who live and work in Yellowstone National Park and are forever changed by their experiences.

Saturday, April 26
3pm • Rachel Ballentine • Recipoetry of a Kitchen Mystic: A Cookbook Scrapbook
Originally a handmade book of collages of vintage handwritten recipes, original poetry about food and cooking, original recipes, and collages of images of women. It looks like a book you might have inherited from your great-grandmother.

5pm • Ken Arkind • Denver Performance Poet reads fromCoyotes
Ken Arkind is a National Poetry Slam Champion and full time touring artist who has performed his work in almost all of the lower 48, Hawaii and Canada.

For Kids

Saturday, April 19
10:30am • Dia de los Ninos / Dia de los Libros Celebration
Join us for this special celebration of all things books and reading, for the kiddos. All families are invited to attend and help us put a local spin on a celebration held around the U.S. This is a family event with reading, crafts and snacks.

Thursday, April 24
10:30am • Story Time with ducks & geese!
Story Time today is all about ducks and geese. Join us! Free fun for the whole family. A lot of quacking, honking and singing will be the sounds of the morning here at Bookworks story time. Preschool field trips are always welcome just let us know in advance how many children you will be bringing.

Looking Ahead

Thursday, May 1
7pm • Nathaniel Philbrick • Bunker Hill
Nathaniel Philbrick, the bestselling author of In the Heart of the Sea and Mayflower, brings his prodigious talents to the story of the Boston battle that ignited the American Revolution.

Sunday, May 4
3pm • Natalie Goldberg • Living Color: Painting, Writing, and The Bones of Seeing
From fill-in art journals to self-help books on creativity, more than ever the public is striving to bring artistic enlightenment into their everyday lives. In Living Color, one of the country's most celebrated writers expounds on her own path to artistic inspiration.

Wednesday, May 7
7pm • Michael McGarrity • Backlands
An expansive, epic tale like Philipp Meyer's The Son, and in the wonderful storyteller vein of Larry McMurtry's Lonesome Dove, McGarrity's Backlands showcases his keen eye for historical detail, awe-inspiring scenery, and the bitter harshness of life on the last vestiges of the twentieth-century frontier West.

Thursday, May 8
7pm • Piper Kerman • Women's Justice Project Fundraiser
Orange is the New Black / at UNM's Woodward Hall / $5 donation required
When Piper Kerman was sent to prison for a ten-year-old crime, she barely resembled the reckless young woman she'd been when she committed the misdeeds that would eventually catch up with her.

Saturday, May 10
7pm • A Word with Writers with George RR Martin & Diana Gabaldon • At the KiMo Theater / Tickets for the event are $7 for open seating. The first seven rows of the theater witll be sold for $20
Bookworks and the Albuquerque Public Library Foundation are collaborating on a new literary series, a Word with Writers, which will feature writers in conversation with one another. Proceeds from ticket sales will benefit the Albuquerque Public Library Foundation.

Wednesday, May 28
7pm • Darynda Jones & Jeffe Kennedy launch new novels! Sixth Grave on the Edge & The Twelve Kingdoms
Join these born storytellers as they present their novels.

To post a comment, you must register and login.