This Week at Bookworks Includes Indian Market Weekend, Panel Discussion Go Set a Watchman, Mighty Rio Grande and More

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

Saturday, Aug 22
3pm • Tom Corbett & Lee Marmon • Laguna Pueblo
The distinguished American Indian photographer Lee Marmon has documented over sixty years of Laguna history: its people, customs, and cultural changes. Here more than one hundred of Marmon's photos showcase his talents while highlighting the cohesive, adaptive, and independent character of the Laguna people.

Sunday, Aug 23
3pm • Jonathan Miller • Navajo Repo
Right as he's about to propose, Sam Marlow's fiance Selena Mondragon is kidnapped by her ex-husband. With the help of Heidi Hawk and her plucky crew from Navajo Repo ("Sometimes we repo people"), Marlow has to rescue Selena and escape the bad guys as they hide out through reservations of the southwest.

5pm • Joy Harjo • Conflict Resolution for Holy Beings: Poems
In these poems, the joys and struggles of the everyday are played against the grinding politics of being human. Beginning in a hotel room in the dark of a distant city, we travel through history and follow the memory of the Trail of Tears from the bend in the Tallapoosa River to a place near the Arkansas River.

Tuesday, Aug 25
7pm • Panel Discussion - Go Set a Watchman •
by Harper Lee
Join literary experts for a panel on the new, revived Harper Lee book, Go Set a Watchman. Panelists include Sharon Oard Warner, professor of creative writing at the University of New Mexico and director of the Taos Writers Conference; Lisa Walden, University of New Mexico bookstore manager and long time bookseller; Carolyn Flynn, Southern writer of short storie and longtime newspaper editor for women's issues; Hakim Bellamy, inaugural Albuquerque poet laureate and Tom Robinson in the 2014 production of To Kill a Mockinbird in Albuquerque.

Wednesday, Aug 26
7pm • Nan Weber • Singing in the Saddle: The Life & Times of Yellowstone Chip & Mattie
After finding traces of Yellowstone Chips writing at the historic OTO Dude Ranch north of Yellowstone National Park, Nan Weber tracked Chips history. In the course of her research, she found Chips memoirs, his music, his cartooning, and his family. Chips story follows his travels from his Illinois childhood home to the majesty of the Western United States. His lively journey encompasses music, cowboy life, and, most of all, people. His is the story of a true singing cowboy.

Thursday, Aug 27
7pm • Fred Phillips & G. Emlen Hall • Reining in the Rio Grande
The Rio Grande was ancient long before the first humans reached its banks. These days, the highly regulated river looks nothing like it did to those early settlers. Alternately viewed as a valuable ecosystem and life-sustaining foundation of community welfare or a commodity to be engineered to yield maximum economic benefit, the Rio Grande has brought many advantages to those who live in its valley, but the benefits have come at a price.

Saturday, Aug 29
3pm • Sage & Jared's Happy Gland Band •
Join our favorite indie folk duo Sage Harrington and Jared Putnam of the Happy Gland Band. Donations are welcome!

Sunday, Aug 30
1pm • Jennifer Jacobson • Reads Soul Tarot Cards
Jennifer Jacobson reads tarot Soul Cards. $10 for a 10-15 minute session.

3pm • Paul Goldman • Upon Your Canvas
In this new collection of ecstatic poetry, Paul Goldman, through a collaboration with Intuitive Artist Natosha Keefer (www.natoshakeefer.com), creates a sacred space where you may again feel free to fall into the ocean of your own longing for solace, for peace, for hope and - at the deepest measure of your humanity - an enriched connection to your own personal Divinity.

For Kids

Saturday, Aug 22
10:30am • Stories on Saturday with Caroline Rose StarrOver in the Wetlands
Publishing in time for the tenth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, here is a beautiful read-aloud about animal families preparing for an impending storm in their bayou habitat.

Wednesday, Aug 26
4:30pm • Magic Treehouse Book Club!
Our book will be Dolphins at Daybreak. We talk about the book, do a craft activity and have snack. The club is free and open to the public.

Thursday, Aug 27
10:30am • Story Time! Ships Ahoy!
We are going to read books that feature boats. Set sail in search of stories, songs and snacks. Ahoy!

Saturday, Aug 29
10:30am • Stories on Saturday with award winning author Jacqueline Kelly!
Jacqueline Kelly will talk about and sign her new book The Curious World of Calpurnia Tate. This is a great time for children and teachers to meet at talk with the author of The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate. Join us to see how she has continued the story of the Tate family.

Clubs

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.

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