This Week at Bookworks Includes Donna Blake Birchell, John McWilliams and More

This week at Bookworks includes guests like Judith Fein, Lois Hall and more. To find out more information abotu each event, visit www.bkwrks.com.

Saturday, March 15
3pm • Phong Nguyen •
Pages From the Textbook of Alternate History
Suppose icons of history made diffeent choices and got what they wanted?

5pm • Donna Blake Birchell • Wicked Women of New Mexico
Colorful women characters sought a fresh start in the New Mexico Territory.

Sunday, March 16
3pm • John McWilliams • New Mexico: A Glimpse into an Enchanted Land
Easy, readable reference that is both entertaining and informative.

Tuesday, March 18

10:30am • Lois Hall • Acting for Writers class with Lois Hall
The focus of this class is "breathing more life into the writers characters" by learning the actors secrets. The size of class is limited. RSVP toevents@bkwrks.com.

7pm • Judith Fein • The Spoon from Minkowitz
International travel writer has burning passion and unquenchable curiousity about what remains of the Old World creating a bittersweet roots journey to ancestral lands.

Thursday, March 20
7pm • Sunshine Week Panel with the NM Foundation for Open Government
Sunshine Week sheds light on open government and the New Mexico Foundation for Open Government presents a panel on open government as part of Sunshine Week.

Friday, March 21
8pm • Sera Young • Craving Earth
The urge to eat clay, starch, ice and chalk and other unorthodox food items have been around for more than 2000.
At Hotel Albuquerque.

Saturday, March 22
3pm • Maggi Petton & Stewart Warren • The Necessity of Brokenness
A marvelous thing happens when our hearts break. The authors examine heart break and healing through a collaborative exploration of poetry.

For Kids

Friday, March 14
6pm • Bedtime Math
Come join us for stories, math and fun at our second annual Bedtime Math Event at Bookworks.

Saturday, March 15
10:30am • ABQ Quiltfest Family Event
Celebrate ABQQuilt Day at Bookworks with a family-friendly event featuring the book The Quilt Maker's Gift. Judy Giblin will lead a special quilt related art activity.

Wednesday, March 19
4:30pm • American Girl Book Club
Crafts & refreshments! Join other American Girl fans at Bookworks.

Thursday, March 20
10:30am • Spring Story Time
Celebrate sprinbg with stories, crafts & snacks.

Looking Ahead

Tuesday, April 8
7pm • Laini Taylor • Dreams of Gods and Monsters
In this thrilling conclusion to the Daughter of Smoke & Bone trilogy, Karou is still not ready to forgive Akiva for killing the only family she's ever know.

Thursday, April 10
7pm • Anthony De Sa • Kicking the Sky
It was 1977 when a shoeshine boy, Emanuel Jaques, was brutally murdered in Toronto. As the media unravels the truth, the protangonist sees his immigrant familhy--and his Portuguese neighborhood--with new eyes, aware of the frightening reality that no one is really taking care of him in a big city that puts kids in the kind of danger no parent could dare to imagine.

Monday, April 14
7pm • Stuart Woods • Carnal Curiosity
Stone Barrington seems to have a knack for being in the wrong place at the wrong time. When Manhattan's elite are beset by a series of clever crimes, he and his former partner Dino Bacchetti find themselves drawn into the world of high-end security and fraud.

Tuesday, April 15
7pm • Jessica Helen Lopez • Cunt. Bomb.
These poems transport the reader into the complex landscape of femine power iwth a dynanamic but inarguable force. Honest to the marrow, Lopez never sugarcoats, and yet this work rings with sweetness nonetheless.

Thursday, April 17
7pm • Ana Castillo • Give It To Me
Recently divorced, Palma, a forty-three-year-old Latina, takes stock of her life when she reconnects with her gangster younger cousin recently released from prison. As she checks out her other options, her sexual obsession with her cous' ignites but their family secrets bring them together in unexpected ways. In this wildly entertaining and sexy novel, Ana Castillo creates a memorable character with a flare for fashion, a longing for family, and a penchant for adventure.

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