Bookworks Announces Authors and Events in October

In October, Bookworks hosts nationally-touring and local authors whose work will pique readers' varied interests in history and mystery, fiction and the stranger-than-fiction.

In October, Bookworks is bookseller for Anne Hillerman for her first novel, Spider Woman's Daughter, on October 1 at an Albuquerque Library Foundation fundraiser at the KiMo Theater and again on October 4 at a UNM Law School scholarship fundraiser at the Law School Forum.

Bookworks is pleased to host internationally acclaimed ground-breaking African American novelist, Terry McMillan, on October 10 for her new novel, Who Asked You, at South Broadway Cultural Center. Co-sponsored by ABC Libraries, McMillan's talk requires a pre-purchase of the hardcover of Who Asked You (Viking, $27.95) available online @bkwrks.com/terry-mcmillan, or at Bookworks "Add-one" tickets are available for $5 for those who have already purchased a hardcover. Who Asked You continues McMillan's tradition of writing about strong black female protagonists that made her previous books Waiting to Exhale and How Stella Got Her Groove Back best-sellers.

On October 27, Bookworks and the UNM Department of Psychiatry partner for an event with renowned author, cultural observer, and National Book Award winner, Andrew Solomon, for his award-winning book, Far from the Tree. Tickets are the cost of the paperback, (Crown, $21.50) and are available online @ bkwrks.com/andrew-solomon or at Bookworks. Far from the Tree looks at the idea of difference in families, and each chapter targets a common difference that children and their families must learn to cope with, deafness, dwarfism, autism, Down's Syndrome, homosexuality, and criminality among them.

Another National Book Award winner, Bob Shacochis, visits Bookworks October 8 for his new novel, The Woman Who Lost her Soul. Renowned for his four award-winning books on the Caribbean, Shacochis returns to occupied Haiti in this magnum opus that sweeps across time and continents to unravel tangled knots of romance, espionage, and vengeance. Set over fifty years and in four countries enveloped by war, The Woman Who Lost Her Soul that uses the mystique and allure of history to create a portrait of catastrophic events that led up to the war on terror and the America we are today.

Speaker of terror, CIA-operative-turned-author Valerie Plame visits the store for her new spy thriller, Blowback, with her co-author Sarah Lovett October 29 at 7pm. In Blowback, covert CIA officer Vanessa Pierson goes after the world's most dangerous international nuclear arms dealer. Despite the risks, she refuses to halt her pursuit of the terrorists, and she puts her cover, her career, and her life at risk. The novel has received rave reviews in Publishers Weeklyand Library Journal. Bookworks will donate proceeds from sales of the novel at the event to the New Mexico Library Foundation.

The borderlands-at war and at peace-continue to be a focus of Bookworks programs, with events with Oscar Martinez, author of The Beast who chronicles his treks withnarcotraficantes, on October 2 and an evening of culture October 30 with Levi Romero, Spencer Herrera and Robert Kaiser for their new UNM Press book Sagrado: A Photopoetics Across the Chicano Homeland.

For kids and families, Star Wars Reads Day is October 5 and Bookworks is celebrating with a Star Wars Party at 11am. This free event will feature Star Wars trivia and games, books, and a visit from a special garrison of Star Wars characters. The PLAY Repertory Theater will perform a scene from William Shakespeare's Star Wars. This family-friendly event is free and open to the public and will include numerous publisher freebies for Star Wars fanatics.

On October 26, Bookworks welcomes back to the store Richard Rohr, Franciscan scholar and popular writer, for his new book Yes, And... Daily Meditations.Rohr is founder of the Center for Action and Contemplation in Albuquerque and a popular speaker on spirituality. Rohr and other local authors, as always, are a focus in October, with events with Robert Gish (October 10, River of Ghosts), Paul DeBlassie (October 12, The Unholy, a novel), Nicky Leach (October 20, New Mexico Off the Beaten Path), and Lester Libo (October 23, The Finishing Touch, a novel).