This Week at Bookworks Includes Sera Young, Stephan Pastis and More

This week at Bookworks includes many great things like Sera Young with Craving Earth, Dime Stories 4th Anniversary Reading, Stephan Pastis with Pearls Fall Fast and more--plus activites for kids. Check out their website for more information on all the events.

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.

Sunday, March 23
3pm • Dime Stories 4th Anniversary Reading •
Duke City Dime Stories celebrates 4 years of 3-minute prose readings at Bookworks with contributors reading from their work.

Tuesday, March 25
7pm • Stephan Pastis • Pearls Falls Fast
Enjoy a new treasury of cartoons from the creator of Pearls Before Swine.

Wednesday, March 26
7pm • Eric Thompson & Sarah McCarty •
Melinda Miles: Passages
Striking paintings from Melinda Miles' signature collections: portraiture, a series of interiors, a majot body of still life that she was best known for, and a late series of train imagery that became of summation of her life's work.

Thursday, March 27
7pm • Clifton Ross & Marcy Rein • Until the Rulers Obey
Bringing together voices from the movements behind the wave of change that swept Latin America at the turn of the century. Unique collection of interviews features five dozen leaders and grassroots activists from 15 countries

Friday, March 28
7pm • Craig Nelson • The Age of Radiance
Riveting narrative of the atomic age at the National Museum of Nuclear Science & History.

Saturday, March 29
3pm • Eric Gustafson • Last Guy Waltzing
Recalling the life of an observer of the international world.

Sunday, March 30
1pm • 10-15 minute Tarot readings for $10 by Jennifer Jacobson.

3pm • Kat Duff • The Secret Life of Sleep
Unlocking the astonishing facts, myths & benefits of sleep.

For Kids

Saturday, March 22
10:30am • Origami Event for Families
A family-friendly event for origami lovers, which will include a origami-folding workshop. Please RSVP to kids@bkwrks.com.

Thursday, March 27
10:30am • Birthday Story Time
Happy Birthday! Come celebrate birthdays with books, snacks, and crafts.

Saturday, March 29
10:30am • Betty Birney Story Time!
Celebrate the 10th anniversary of Humphrey books at with story time and a visit from a hamster that looks like Humphrey.

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, becoming 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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