This Week at Bookworks Features Folk Revival Project, Rebecca Scherm's Debut of UNBECOMING and More

Below are this week's events at Bookworks. For more information, visit bkwrks.com/event.

Friday, January 23
7pm • Folk Revival Project with Justin Thompson & Friends
The Folk Revival Project Mission Statement is to educate and build community through generating and reinforcing an interest in Americana and Folk music and American and Folk music history, and to preserve and pass on those musical and cultural traditions through lectures, concerts, workshops and other productions. This lecture will be presented by Justin Thompson and will cover and wide variety of folk music history topics, from Women's history in music to the tradition of union and labor songs, songs on equality and injustice. A $12 donation is suggested.

Saturday, January 24
3pm • Zachary Kluckman • Trigger Warning: Poetry Saved My Life
Join Bookworks and Swimming With Elephants Publications as we celebrate local poetry and the ability of poetry to affect positive change!
Contributors to two SWEP books, TRIGGER WARNING: POETRY SAVED MY LIFE and LIGHT AS A FEATHER, will read their works.

Sunday, January 25
1pm • Jennifer Jacobson • Readings from Tarot Soul Cards
Jennifer reads soul cards in 10-15 minutes session for $10 a reading.

Sunday, January 25
3pm • Dennis Herrick • A Brother's Cold Case
When the murder of Andy Cornell's brother is still unsolved after two and a half years, Andy enters the hidden worlds of cartel violence, street people, and Pueblo secrets to find justice. He and Rick were inseparable as boys. So Andy is determined as a newspaper's police reporter to help the cold-case unit find a breakthrough on the murder of his detective brother.

Tuesday, January 27
7pm • Susan Washburn • My Horse, My Self
My Horse, My Self: Life Lessons from Taos Horsewomen is a collection of intimate interviews with eighteen passionate and self-reliant horsewomen living in Northern New Mexico. Speaking from the heart, they describe the ways their horses have sustained them through trauma, forced them to discover strengths---and weaknesses---they didn't know they had, and helped them develop the confidence to become more truly themselves.

Wednesday, January 28
7pm • Jann Arrington-Wolcott • Brujo
Sexual obsession turns to terror as Lee struggles to save her family and her soul. Her only hope lies in the power within herself . . . because the brujo, who claims to have loved her and lost her centuries ago, has found Lee again. This time, he intends to keep her.

7pm • KNME hosts a FREE Movie, A Path Appears, at the KiMo, 419 Central NW • by Nicholas Kristof
In their number one New York Times best seller Half the Sky, husband-and-wife team Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn brought to light struggles faced by women and girls around the globe, and showcased individuals and institutions working to address oppression and expand opportunity. A Path Appears is even more ambitious in scale: nothing less than a sweeping tapestry of people who are making the world a better place and a guide to the ways that we can do the same.

Thursday, January 29
7pm • Sylvia Wilkinson • Big Cactus
Sixteen-year-old Benny Foushee, deemed by his father as going-nowhere-fast, embarks on a trip from North Carolina across the United States with his 84 year old Aunt Lucy, his dog Polar and his 1965 GMC pickup. Benny's quest, a challenge both overwhelming but irresistible, is to deliver Aunt Lucy to the big cactus, the giant saguaro in Arizona that she had dreamed of seeing since her own daddy put images of the American West into her teenage brain.

Friday, January 30
7pm • Rebecca Scherm • Unbecoming
A major new debut thriller about a daring art heist, a cat-and-mouse waiting game, and a small-town girl's mesmerizing transformation.

Saturday, January 31
3pm • Paul Secord • Pecos
There is no greater range of history in NM than that found within 15 miles surrounding the village of Pecos. This book explores the last 1,000 years of that history, which includes many cultures and events, such as Native Americans, Spanish explorers, a Civil War battle, the Santa Fe Trail, railroads, and Route 66, as well as miners, saloon keepers, archaeologists, tourists, important architects, and even Hollywood stars.

Saturday, January 24
10:30am • Stories on Saturday for children!
Free and open to all teens.

Monday, January 26
6:30pm • Young Writers' Showcase
Young Writers are celebrated at Bookworks. The works of writers between the ages of 4 and 18 will be featured. Teachers and parents are encouraged to contact Children's Book Specialist Connie Griffinkids@bkwrks.com for more information. We will have a Sign up sheet at the event for writers to save his or her space on the program. Fiction, non fiction, prose and poetry are all welcome.

Wednesday, January 28
4:30pm • Magic Treehouse Book Club!
We will be talking about book #40 Eve of the Emperor Penguin. It Is also National Kazoo Day! so we will be humming merrily along.

Thursday, January 29
10:30am • STORY TIME!
We feature artful stories and crafts in recognition of Inspire your heart with art day!

Sunday, February 15
3pm • James Penner • Timothy Leary: The Harvard Years
The first collection of Leary's writings devoted entirely to the research phase of his career, 1960 to 1965. James Penner, Ph.D., is an assistant professor of English at the University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras. A graduate of Brown University and the University of Southern California, he is the author of "Pinks, Pansies, and Punks: The Rhetoric of Masculinity in American Literary Culture". He lives in San Juan, Puerto Rico.

Thursday, February 19
7pm • Philip Connors • All the Wrong Places
In his debut Fire Season, Philip Connors recounted with lyricism, wisdom, and grace his decade as a fire lookout high above remote New Mexico. Now he tells the story of what made solitude on the mountain so attractive: the years he spent reeling in the wake of a family tragedy.

Wednesday, February 25
7pm • Gabrielle Zevin • The Storied Life of AJ Fikry
In the spirit of The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society and The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry, Gabrielle Zevin's enchanting novel is a love letter to the world of books--and booksellers--that changes our lives by giving us the stories that open our hearts and enlighten our minds.

Saturday, February 28
3pm • Elaine Carey • Women Drug Traffickers
"The first full-length study of female drug traffickers. The lives of these women are fascinating and skillfully analyzed by the author. The book will be pleasurable reading to general readers and specialists alike."--Howard Campbell, author of Drug War Zone: Frontline Dispatches from the Streets of El Paso and Juarez.
Elaine Carey chairs the Department of History at St. John's University in New York City. She is also the author of Plaza of Sacrifices: Gender, Power, and Terror in 1968 Mexico (UNM Press).