This Week at Bookworks Includes New Young Adult Novel by Kiera Cass, 100 Things to do in ABQ, Finding Abbey, and More!

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

Saturday, May 9
1pm • Shirley Peterson & Susan Cho • Turning Points in Women's Lives / A La Vida Llena Anthology
Turning Points in Women's Lives is a compilation of 41 stories by women, born in the early 20th century and now living in a retirement community in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

3pm • Michaela Carter • Further Out Than You Thought
From award-winning poet Michaela Carter comes a taut and erotically charged literary debut, set against the chaos of the 1992 L.A. riots, about three twentysomethings searching for meaning in their lives.

Tuesday, May 12
6:30pm • Kiera Cass • The Heir
New young adult fiction. Princess Eadlyn has grown up hearing endless stories about how her mother and father met. Eadlyn has always found their fairy-tale story romantic, but she has no interest in trying to repeat it. If it were up to her, she'd put off marriage for as long as possible.

Thursday, May 14
7pm • Ashley Biggers • 100 Things to Do in Albuquerque Before You Die
Albuquerque may be (well deservedly) known for Route 66, Breaking Bad, and its famous green chile. But there's much more to know-and love-about this lively Southwestern city.

Friday, May 15
7pm • Jamie Bianchini • A Bicycle Built for Two Billion
Jamie Bianchini needed a lift. A big one. After a series of spectacular business flops drove him into bankruptcy and the love of his life kissed him goodbye, Jamie knew he needed a world of help. But instead of seeking assistance from a counselor or support group, Jamie sought comfort where he'd always found it...on his bicycle.

Saturday, May 16
3pm • Sean Prentiss • Finding Abbey
When the great environmental writer Edward Abbey died in 1989, four of his friends buried him secretly in a hidden desert spot that no one would ever find. In this book a young writer who went looking for Abbey's grave combines an account of his quest with a creative biography of Abbey.

For Kids

Monday - Sunday, May 4-10
all week • Children's Book Week
Established in 1919, Children's Book Week is the longest-running national literacy initiative in the country. Every year, commemorative events are held nationwide at schools, libraries, bookstores, homes -- wherever young readers and books connect!

Saturday, May 9
10:30am • BOA (Big on Animals) with Slim Randles!
Ol' Jimmy Dollar
A humorous, rhyming look at the life of Jimmy Dollar, who happily lives in a cabin with his coondogs Utensil, A-Frame, and Awesome, and hunts with them along the Rio Grande.

Thursday, May 14
10:30am • Story Time - Read About Trees!
Story Time - tall, short, thin, big around, leaves and needles we are going to be reading about trees. We'll do a craft activity and snack. More »

Saturday, May 16
10:30am • BOA (Big on Animals)

Clubs

Monday, May 13
7pm • Bookworks Book Club • I Remember Nothing
by Norah Ephron
Free and open to the public! Nora Ephron returns with her first book since the astounding success of I Feel Bad About My Neck, taking a hilarious look at the past, the present, and the future, bemoaning the vicissitudes of modern life, and recalling with her signature clarity and wisdom everything she hasn't (yet) forgotten.

Monday, May 18
7pm • Reading Purls Knitting Group • A Knitter's Home Companion by Michelle Edwards, Jen Gotch
A Knitter's Home Companion is an illustrated collection of stories, patterns, and recipes from beloved knitter and essayist Michelle Edwards. Bring your knitting joys and woes to Reading Purls.

Looking Ahead

Tuesday, June 1
7pm • Diane Thomas • In Wilderness
After she is diagnosed with a terminal illness, Katherine abandons her successful advertising firm and seeks refuge in the solitude of her wilderness cabin. Living off the land in complete isolation brings Katherine peace--until the day she realizes she is not alone, and never was. Katherine's sudden and unanticipated arrival at the cabin unsettles Danny, a Vietnam veteran tormented by the demons of his past, who has been squatting in the previously abandoned cabin.

Thursday, June 4
6pm • Poetry Night at Bookworks •
Bookworks sells books at a Night of Poetry, part of this year's Albuquerque Film and Media Experience. Authors include Jimmy Baca, Jessica Helen Lopez, Adam Jones, Hawah Kasat, Jose Ponce, Nicole Gramlich, Hakim Bellamy, Lucia Ortega.

Tuesday, June 9
7pm • Deborah Harkness at the new Central & Unser Library I40 at Central • The Book of Life
Bookworks in conjunction with ABC Library features Deborah Harkness on paperback tour for her novel, The Book of Life, at the new state of the art library located at I-40 and Central at Unser. After traveling through time inShadow of Night, the second book in Deborah Harkness's enchanting series, historian and witch Diana Bishop and vampire scientist Matthew Clairmont return to the present to face new crises and old enemies. More »

Saturday, June 13
7pm • A Word With Writers Mira Jacob & Kirstin Valdez Quade at the KiMo Theatre 423 Central NW •
The Sleepwalker's Guide to Dancing by Mira Jacob and
Night at the Fiestas by Kirstin Valdez Quade

About the Books: The Sleepwalker's Guide to Dancing is an epic, irreverent testimony to the bonds of love, the pull of hope, and the power of making peace with life's uncertainties.

With intensity and emotional precision, Kirstin Valdez Quade's unforgettable stories in Night at the Fiestas plunge us into the fierce, troubled hearts of characters defined by the desire to escape the past or else to plumb its depths.

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