This Week at Bookworks Includes Judy Chicago, Star Wars Reads Day and More

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

Friday, October 3
7pm • Cass McMain • Watch
When Corky inherits her Uncle Moony's diary, she finds he had a strange & frightening obsession about his brother--a brother with his own disturbing practices. A scintillating, beautiful novel about difference, suspicion, & acceptance of ones's own nature.

Saturday, October 4
3pm • Judy Chicago • Institutional Time & The Dinner Party
In Institutional Time, a revered teacher and the most influential feminist artist of our time provides an autobiographical look at higher education in art. The Dinner Party is the official publication celebrating an iconic feminist art masterpiece at the Brooklyn Museum.

Sunday, October 5
3pm • Sharon Warner • Sophie's House of Cards
When sixteen-year-old Sophie Granger suspects she is pregnant, she digs out her mother Peggy's tarot cards. Peggy hasn't read fortunes since her hippie days in Taos, but as soon as she flips the cards, Peggy sees both her daughter's predicament and the family crisis that will ensue.

Monday, October 6
7pm • Steve Larese • Balloons Over Albuquerque
From the festival founder's boast at a party in 1971 that he could fly his newly bought balloon, to an annual celebration that now draws more than half a million people to New Mexico, the Balloon Fiesta is a story of good times and friendships formed over decades of ballooning.

Tuesday, October 7
7pm • Rebecca Gordon • Mainstreaming Torture
The terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 reopened what many people in this country had long assumed was a settled ethical question: Is torture ever morally permissible?

Thursday, October 9
7pm • Poetry Night hosted by Public Academy of the Performing Arts Student Poetry Club •
Poet sign up is at 6:30. 5 minute limit per poet for the first round and for subsequent rounds to follow, as time allows. Open to all youth in the community.

Friday, October 10
7pm • Franklin Veaux & Eve Rickert • More Than Two: A Practical Guide to Ethical Polyamory
In recent years, as more people have discovered polyamory as a legitimate option for their relationships, Franklin Veaux and his partner Eve Rickert saw a growing need for a comprehensive guide to the lifestyle.

Saturday, October 11
3pm • Valerie Petersen • Hand Me Down Sins
A novel of broken family relationships, misdeeds, revenge, punishments, and finally, redemption of sorts. The author warns us at the very beginning of the book that "revenge comes in many forms and that some payoffs are sweeter than others."

For Kids

Friday, October 3
10:30am • STORY TIME
Read for the Record Special Story Time. This year's book is Bunnycakesby Rosemary Wells.

Saturday, October 4
10:30am • Read Aloud for Mid Readers
Read Aloud for those a little older with books using a few more words. Kids 7-9 years old welcome. More »

Wednesday, October 8
4:30pm • Whoo Did It? Mystery Book Club
The October selection is The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place.

Thursday, October 9
10:30am • STORY TIME: Up, Up and Away with Hot Air Balloons! More

Friday, October 10
1pm • Our World Home School Book Club!
Our monthly meeting of the Our World Home School Book Club.

Saturday, October 11
10:30 • Star Wars Reads Day •
Our annual celebration of the national holiday Star Wars Reads. With stories, snacks, and crafts. Open to Star Wars fans young, and old.

Clubs

Monday, October 6
5pm • Vamos a Leer Book Club • La Linea by Ann Jaramillo
Vamos a Leer book club meets the first Monday of the month and is open to educators and the general public, especially those interested in dynamic Hispanic young adult literature. In Ann Jamillo's new book Miguel has dreamed of joining his parents in California since the day they left him behind in Mexico six years, eleven months, and twelve days ago. On the morning of his fifteenth birthday, Miguel's wait is over.

Wednesday, October 8
7pm • Bookworks Book Club • Courting Greta
by Ramsey Hootman
Free and open to all readers interested in joining a book club and all book club leaders who would like to come and talk about their group and invite new members. Samuel Cooke knows most women wouldn't give him a second glance because he's a cripple with crutches, a nerdy computer genius every female past puberty feels compelled to mother. So when he leaves his lucrative career to teach programming to high schoolers, romance definitely isn't on his radar.

Friday, October 10
1pm • Second Cup of Coffee Book Club meets at The Coffee Shop, 700 2nd NW • People of the Abyss by Jack London
There is erosion and deterioration of all that was won through hard-fought battles: people are working two jobs and still not making ends meet; children work more than an 8 hour day.

Looking Ahead

Wednesday, November 5
7pm • Tony Hoagland • Twenty Poems That Could Save America and Other Essays
Live American poetry is absent from our public schools. The teaching of poetry languishes, and that region of youthful neurological terrain capable of being ignited only by poetry is largely dark, unpopulated, and silent, like a classroom whose shades are drawn. From Twenty Poems That Could Save America

Thursday, November 6
7pm • Valerie Plame & Sarah Lovett • Burned
Covert CIA ops officer Vanessa Pierson has dedicated her career to capturing one man: Bhoot, the world's most notorious nuclear arms dealer. That mission has been impeded by the murders of her assets, who were betrayed by a mole within her own agency.

Sunday, November 9
5pm • CB McKenzie • Bad Country
The newest winner of the Tony Hillerman Prize, a debut mystery set in the Southwest starring a former rodeo cowboy turned private investigator, told in a transfixingly original style.

Sunday, November 16
3pm • Jerry Mitchell • The Height of Secrecy
High on a treacherous canyon wall, a man from the pueblo clings to a ledge. Furiously working to rescue him, Ranger Jack Chastain is nearly killed. Now he wants an explanation and the man refuses to talk.