This Week at Bookworks Features Baseball in Post-War ABQ, The Bobby Blog, and More

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

Friday, November 14
7pm • Naomi Shihab Nye • For the New Mexico Humanities Council at the KiMo, 423 Central NW
Poet Naomi Shihab Nye will deliver a FREE 50-60 minute talk (with some poetry reading) about her travels around the world, making observations about "the business of living and the continuity among the world's inhabitants. She will take audience questions and participate in a book signing.

Saturday, November 15
3pm • Toby Smith • Bush League Boys
In Bush League Boys sportswriter Toby Smith relies upon fascinating oral histories to recall the home runs, screen money, and dust storms that characterized the glory days of post-World War II baseball in the Southwest.--Ron Briley, author of The Baseball Film in Postwar America: A Critical Study, 1948-1962. Toby M. Smith is a writer in Albuquerque.

5pm • Hollis Walker • The Booby Blog
How does it feel to find a lump in your breast and know its cancer? What's it like to be told-as you're trying to decide whether to have a lumpectomy or a mastectomy-"Well, it's really up to you." How do you handle the very real and painful treatment process knowing that none of it may actually save your life? How do you stop laughing when friends unwittingly say, "I swear, you look radiant!," or "You're just glowing!" -while you're going through radiation.

Sunday, November 16
3pm • Jerry Mitchell • The Height of Secrecy
Colorado mystery writer Jerry Mitchell returns with his second National Park mystery. High up on a treacherous canyon wall in a mysterious location, a man from the pueblo is stuck on a ledge. Furiously working to rescue him, Ranger Jack Chastain is nearly killed. Now he wants answers.

5:30pm • Elaine Hampton • Solar Noon
From the heart of New Mexico come America's most unique serial killers. Elaine Hampton is a retired Associate Professor of Education at the University of Texas at El Paso. She was an award-winning teacher in communities near the Mexican border and is a researcher in the fields of Mexican and Mexican-American education.

Tuesday, November 18
7pm • Susan Croce Kelly • Father of Route 66
In this engaging biography of a remarkable man, Susan Croce Kelly begins by describing the urgency for "good roads" that gripped the nation in the early twentieth century as cars multiplied and mud deepened.

Wednesday, November 19
7pm • Robert T. Wood • The Post-War Transformation of Albuquerque
From the end of World War II to the closing months of 1972, Albuquerque, New Mexico, underwent as dramatic a transformation as any American city ever has in such a short time.

Thursday, November 20
5pm • Elegant Autumn Evening at the Shops on Rio Grande
Join us at Flying Star Plaza! Fun for the entire family! Gift Baskets! Authors and much more at this annual celebration.

7pm • Katie Singer • Electronic Silent Spring
Over millions of years, living creatures have evolved in relation to the Earth's electromagnetic energy. Now, we're surrounded by man-made frequencies that challenge our health and survival.

Friday, November 21
6:30pm • Kimberley Griffiths Little • Forbidden
A sweeping, epic saga of romance and hardship, set against the dramatic backdrop of ancient Mesopotamia--perfect for fans of Cleopatra's Moon or the adult bestseller The Red Tent.

Saturday, November 22
3pm • Harvey Girls movie premiere at the KiMo Theater with Carolyn Meyer, 423 Central NW •
From the late 1800s through the 1960s,100,000 pioneering young women became a fascinating part of New Mexico and local history, serving as waitresses at Albuquerque's famous Alvarado Hotel, La Castaneda in Las Vegas, La Posada in Winslow, AZ and dozens more Harvey House resturants. Thaddeus Homan, executive producer and editor; Lori Hebert, co-producer and narrator; and Meredith Davidson, a curator at the New Mexico History Museum in Santa Fe will discuss the film and answer questions from the audience.

3pm • Don Usner • Chasing Dichos Through Chimayo
In these reflections on the dichos of the Chimayo Valley in northern New Mexico native son Don J. Usner has written a memoir that is also a valuable source of information on the rich language and culture of the region.

For Kids

Saturday, November 15
4pm • Teen Book Club - Pick an ARC day!
Teen readers are encouraged to attend and pick up a free Advance Readers Copy of a book that interests them. Teen Book Club is open to any and all teen readers.

Wednesday, November 19
4:30pm • American Girl Book Club

Thursday, November 20
10:30am • Thank Goodness for STORY TIME! •
This week's story time is devoted to Thanksgiving stories and pumpkin pie!

Clubs

Friday, November 14
1pm • Second Cup of Coffee Book Club meets at The Coffee Shop, 700 2nd NW • A Street Cat Named Bob: And How He Saved My Life by James Bowen
Free and open to the public! This month's selectoin is A Street Cat Named Bob an Instant New York Times Bestseller! James is a street musician struggling to make ends meet. Bob is a stray cat looking for somewhere warm to sleep. When James and Bob meet, they forge a never-to-be-forgotten friendship.

Looking Ahead

Monday, December 1
7pm • Renato Rosaldo • The Day of Shelly's Death: The Poetry and Ethnography of Grief
This deeply moving collection of "ethnographic poetry" by the renowned cultural theorist Renato Rosaldo focuses on the immediate aftermath of his wife Michelle (Shelly) Rosaldo's sudden death on October 11, 1981, the day after she and her family had arrived in a northern Philippines village where Shelly and Renato were to conduct fieldwork.

Tuesday, December 2
7pm • Rabbi Paul Citrin • Lights in the Forest
Rabbi Paul Citrin has edited a compilation of essays from rabbis as they posit their thoughts on twelve essential Jewish questions. This cross-section of rabbis respond to questions about God, ethics, humanity, suffering, evil, the soul, after-life, interfaith dialogue, and more. For self-study, high school classes, adult learning, and conversion.

Sunday, December 7
1pm • Father Richard Rohr • Eager to Love
Francis of Assisi, one of the most beloved of all saints, was at once very traditional and entirely revolutionary in the ways of holiness. He both stood barefoot on the earth and yet touched the heavens; he was grounded in the church and yet instinctively moved toward the cosmos. Rohr places the tradition as first practiced by Francis, and subsequently by others, within a context not as a historical accounting, but rather a perspective about how the alternative orthodoxy can deepen spiritual life for anyone, whether Catholic, Protestant, Jewish, secular, or spiritual seeker.

Saturday, December 13
7pm • Terry Tempest Williams and Brooke Williams
at The Albuquerque Academy 6400 Wyoming NE •
The Story of My Heart
While browsing a Maine bookstore, Brooke Williams and Terry Tempest Williams discovered a rare copy of an exquisite autobiography by 19th century British nature writer Richard Jefferies, who develops his understanding of a "soul-life" while wandering the wild countryside of Wiltshire, England. In an introduction and essays set alongside Jefferies' writing, the Williams share their personal pilgrimage to Wiltshire.