This Week at Bookworks Includes Atrocities of the Mob, Science of Open Spaces, Art of Forgiving and More

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

Tuesday, Aug 11
7pm • Greg Comer • Winner Takes None
Can a 14-year-old orphan out-con a heartless bunch of rustlers, hustlers and railroad thugs? When Deuter Seebea loses his family and only friend on the way to Oregon in 1879, he has no place to go, and nobody to turn to.

Thursday, Aug 13
7pm • Charles Curtin • The Science of Open Spaces: Theory and Practice of Conserving Large Complex Systems
Since the days of the American Frontier, our management policies have promoted a one-size-fits-all mentality for large, complex landscapes. Landscape ecologist Charles Curtin argues that instead we need a science-based approach that accounts for the dynamic nature of complex systems and gives local stakeholders a say in their futures.

Friday, Aug 14
7pm • Jeffrey Smith • Mesabi Pioneers
Here is the highly readable account of one of the remarkable achievements of the 19th century: how a remote tree-covered area of northern Minnesota became America's greatest source of iron ore.

Saturday, Aug 15
2pm • Megan Feldman Bettencourt at the Center for Spiritual Living 2801 Louisiana NE • Triumph of the Heart: Forgiveness in an Unforgiving World
Veteran journalist Megan Feldman had never considered herself a forgiving person. She'd just gone through a breakup and felt perfectly justified in hating her ex forever. But then she encountered a man who had truly forgiven the teenager who murdered his only son. How could anyone forgive that? Was there something wrong with him? Or was there something wrong with her?

For Kids

Saturday, Aug 8
10:30am • Bad Kitty Birthday Party!
We are planning to be purrfectly silly at our party for book character Bad Kitty. It's his birthday year and we are joining in the fun! Please feel welcome to come dressed as a cat.

Thursday, Aug 13
10:30am • Story Time! Something's fishy!
We will be reading stories about fish. Get in the swim and join us for stories, songs and snack.

Saturday, Aug 15
10:30am • We're building dioramas!
Bring a shoe box if you can and we will have paper, fabric and such on hand. Pick a theme and dig in. The event is free and open to the public, all ages. Our inspiration for this event is a new book by Tara Altebrando entitled My Life in Dioramas. Authors and others around the country are taking up the challenge to create a diorama. Join the fun!

4:30pm • Teen Book Club
The book selection for the month is Me and Earl and the Dying Girl by Jesse Andrews.

Clubs

Monday, Aug 10
7pm • Coloring Coffee Klatch and Conversation •
Because of the popularity of coloring books we are starting aColoring Coffee Klatch and Conversation group. A customer talking about the great interest in artist Johanna Basford's books suggested it and we said," Let's try it!' Bring a cup of coffee, or tea, pencils, crayons or markers and coloring book, or buy one here.

Wednesday, Aug 12
7pm • Bookworks Book Club • Finding Flow
by Mihaly Csikszentimihalyi
Part psychological study, part self-help book, Finding Flow is a prescriptive guide that aims to help us reclaim ownership of our lives. Based on a study of thousands of individuals, this handbook contends that we often walk through our days unaware and out of touch with our emotional lives.

Monday, Aug 17
7pm • Reading Purls Knitting Group • Love in Every Stitch: Stories of Knitting & Healing
by Lee Grant
Bring whatever knit or crochet project you are working on and join us for book and yarn talk. We will be talking about a book entitled, Love in Every Stitch by Lee Grant.

Monday, Aug 24
7pm • Austen Project Book 2 • Northanger Abbey
by Val McDermid
This month we will be discussing Northanger Abbey by Val McDermid. We are reading and talking about the books in the Austen Project which pairs six contemporary authors with the six complete Austen novels.

Looking Ahead

Tuesday, Sept 1
7pm • Adrienne Celt • Daughters
Lulu can't sing. Since the traumatic birth of her daughter, the internationally renowned soprano hasn't dared utter a note. She's afraid that her body is too fragile and that she may have lost her talent to a long-dreaded curse afflicting all of the mothers in her family. In incandescent prose, debut novelist Adrienne Celt skillfully intertwines the sensuous but precise physicality of both motherhood and music.

Thursday, Sept 3
7pm • Tony Hoagland • Application for Release from the Dream
Are we corrupt or innocent, fragmented or whole? Are responsibility and freedom irreconcilable? Do we value memory or succumb to our forgetfulness? Tony Hoagland's fifth collection of poems, pursues these questions with the hobnailed abandon of one who needs to know how a citizen of twenty-first-century America can stay human.

Saturday, Sept 5
5pm • Sarah Maas • Queen of Shadows
Everyone Celaena Sardothien loves has been taken from her. But she's at last returned to the empire-for vengeance, to rescue her once-glorious kingdom, and to confront the shadows of her past. She has embraced her identity as Aelin Galathynius, Queen of Terrasen. But before she can reclaim her throne, she must fight. She will fight for her cousin, a warrior prepared to die just to see her again. She will fight for her friend, a young man trapped in an unspeakable prison. And she will fight for her people.

Sunday, Sept 13
3pm • Katha Pollitt • Pro: Reclaiming Abortion Rights
In this controversial and necessary book, Pollitt reframes abortion as a common part of a woman's reproductive life, one that should be accepted as a moral right with positive social implications. In clear, concise arguments, Pollitt takes on the personhood argument, reaffirms the priority of a woman's life and health, and discusses why terminating a pregnancy can be a force for good for women, families, and society. By whole-heartedly defending abortion rights, Pollitt argues, we reclaim the lives and the rights of women and mothers.