This Week at Bookworks Features Darynda Jones with Jeffe Kennedy, Father Richard Rohr, and More

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

Friday, December 5
7pm • Darynda Jones with Jeffe Kennedy • Seventh Grave And No Body and Twelve Kingdoms: The Tears of the Rose

Seventh Grave and No Body: Lead me not into temptation. Follow me instead! I know a shortcut! Twelve of the deadliest beasts ever forged in the fires of hell have escaped onto our plane, and they want nothing more than to rip out Charley Davidson's jugular and serve her body to Satan for dinner.
Twelve Kingsdoms: Three sisters. Motherless daughters of the high king. The eldest is the warrior-woman heir; the middle child is shy and full of witchy intuition; and the youngest, Princess Amelia, she is as beautiful as the sun and just as generous.

Saturday, December 6
6pm to 11pm • Albuquerque Center For Peace And Justice Holiday Gala At The Congregational Church • NW Corner of Lomas & Girard
Featuring food, dancing, music, silent auction, nonprofit tables, Raging Grannies, Los Otros, Mala Maña!

7:30pm • Kinky Friedman at the Jewish Community Center 5520 Wyoming NE
Legendary Humorist, writer and musician Kinky Freidman will deliver an evening of song, social commentary and irreverence. Tickets are $36 each and are in limited supply. The evening will also include a live auction of Kinky Friedman memorabilia. All proceeds from this event, which is presented by the Jewish Community Center and Jewish Federation of New Mexico, will benefit the JCC's Jewish Arts and Culture program and the Jewish Federation's 2015 Annual Campaign. For more information call(505) 821-3214.

Sunday, December 7
1pm • Father Richard Rohr • Eager to Love

Francis of Assisi, one of the most beloved of all saints, was at once very traditional and entirely revolutionary in the ways of holiness. As a standing paradox, he both stood barefoot on the earth and yet touched the heavens; he was grounded in the church and yet instinctively moved toward the cosmos; he lived happily inside the visible and tangible, and yet both suffered and rejoiced in the invisible.

Monday, December 8
7pm • Gyasi Ross • How to Say I Love You in Indian

How to Say I Love You in Indian, with a foreword by renowned Native activist, environmentalist, economist and author Winona LaDuke, follows his universally well-received first book, Don't Know Much About Indians. The stories and poems of How to Say I Love You in Indian are filled with humor, heartbreak and wisdom and convey Native love in many forms.

Wednesday, December 10
7pm• Bonnie Weinstein • To the Far Right Christian Hater

From the six-time Nobel Peace Prize nominated Military Religious Freedom Foundation's official archives comes this jaw-dropping collection of hate mail, threats, and criticisms of the MRFF's efforts to ensure that all members of the United States Armed Forces fully receive the Constitutional guarantees of religious freedom to which they and all Americans are entitled by virtue of the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment.

Thursday, December 11
7pm • Bosque The Magazine Issue #4 Launch •

Join editors Lisa Lenard-Cook and Lynn Miller as we celebrate the new publication of Bosque the Magazine with writers' readings and discussion.

Saturday, December 13
10am-4pm • Bookworks Trunk Sale • at the Nob Hill Flying Star 3416 Central Ave SE

Bookworks will feature titles from its Winter Catalog, Autographed books, Local Authors, bestsellers, kids books and great gift ideas and offer free gift wrapping as well.

7pm • Terry Tempest Williams & Brooke Williams •
The Story of My Heart at the Albuquerque Academy
6400 Wyming Blvd NE

While browsing a Stonington, Maine, bookstore, Brooke Williams and Terry Tempest Williams discovered a rare copy of an exquisite autobiography by nineteenth-century British nature writer Richard Jefferies, who develops his understanding of a "soul-life" while wandering the wild countryside of Wiltshire, England.

Thrusday, December 25
Bookworks will be closed on Christmas Day - May one and all have the best holiday season!

For Kids

Saturday, December 6
10:30am • Dr. Seuss GrinchMas Party!
Celebrate Christmas with us and get grinchy!

Sunday, December 7
3pm • Nasario Garcia & Dolores Aragon!
Grandma Lale's Tamales
Tamales are one of the most important holiday traditions in New Mexico. But tamales can be made and eaten all year! This is the story of Junie Lopez and his Grandma Lale. She is known for her tamales and Junie discovers all that goes in to a truly authentic tamale. Junie and his Grandma live in a small, Hispanic village in Northern New Mexico.

Thursday, December 11
10:30am • Celebrate Art for STORY TIME !
Connie celebrates art with a free story time.

Saturday, December 13
4pm • Teen Book Club - Journal Workshop with Sabina Gaynor!
Free and open to all teens who'd like to learn how to journal, with our UNM intern, Sabina Gaynor.

Clubs

Friday, December 12
1pm • Second Cup of Coffee Book Club meets at The Coffee Shop, 700 2nd NW • The Language of Flowers
by Vanessa Diffenbaugh
Free and open to the public! This month's selectoin is The Language of Flowers! The Victorian language of flowers was used to convey romantic expressions: honeysuckle for devotion, asters for patience, and red roses for love. But for Victoria Jones, it's been more useful in communicating mistrust and solitude.

Looking Ahead

Tuesday, January 6
7pm • Paul Grabhorn • Seeking Light
A profoundly moving collection of unforgettable photographs from conflict zones around the world.Paul Grabhorn's stunning four-color photographs tell an amazing, essential story--one of hope in the face of violence and deplorable conditions, of dignity in the midst of degradation, of light in the darkness of war and suffering. Taken on his travels with the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), Grabhorn's captivating images allow readers to witness the activities that occur every day in places that the rest of the world has forgotten or has chosen to ignore.

Thursday, January 15
7pm • Maggie Hall • The Conspiracy of Us
A fast-paced international escapade, laced with adrenaline, glamour, and romance--perfect for fans of Ally Carter. Avery West's newfound family can shut down Prada when they want to shop in peace, and can just as easily order a bombing when they want to start a war. Part of a powerful and dangerous secret society called the Circle, they believe Avery is the key to an ancient prophecy. Some want to use her as a pawn. Some want her dead.

Wednesday, January 21
7pm • Dee McCaffrey • The Science of Skinny Cookbook: 175 Healthy Recipes to Help you Stop Dieting
In The Science of Skinny, organic chemist and nutritionist Dee McCaffrey shared the revolutionary eating plan she developed by applying what she'd learned in the lab to what she put on her plate. In the process, she lost more than 100 pounds--and has kept them off for twenty years. Her secret? Eating natural whole foods and avoiding artificial sweeteners and chemical additives. Now The Science of Skinny Cookbook offers 100 family-friendly recipes for a delicious, realistic way of eating--not dieting--for life.

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