This Week at Bookworks Features Maggie Romero with Merimee Moffitt, Allen Salkin and More

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

Friday, October 17
7pm • Maggie Romero with Merimee Moffitt • A Mother's Story
A Mother's Story is a searing and intimate portrait of addiction and how it has been passed down in Maggie Romero's family from generation to generation. Maggie is herself an addict, and when Angie's drug addiction, at age twenty-two, became apparent to her, she jumped into a recovery program to cope with her daughter's illness.

Sunday, October 19
3pm • Allen Salkin • The Uncensored History of the Food Network at the JCC Book Fest, 5520 Wyoming NE
Big personalities, high drama--the extraordinary behind-the-scenes story of the Food Network, now about to celebrate its twentieth anniversary: the business, media, and cultural juggernaut that changed the way America thinks about food.

3pm • Cousin Vinny • The Devil's Glove
Before he wastes his time and efforts on this ploy, Satan needs to test God to make sure that he will condemn the offender to eternal damnation for this particular mortal sin. He needs to find a suitable subject to be the focus of his evil experiment.

5pm • Carrie LaSuer • The Home Place
A successful lawyer is pulled back into her troubled family's life in rural Montana in the wake of her sister's death in this mesmerizing, emotionally evocative, and atmospheric literary novel.

Tuesday, October 21
7pm • Craig Collins • Thunder in the Mountains: A Portrait of American Gun Culture
In this beautifully written and powerful memoir, author Craig K. Collins ushers readers down a remarkable path - one that wends from the American frontier to present-day suburbia. Along the way, he explores the meaning of a history - of his family's and his country's - that is infused with the culture of the gun.

Wednesday, October 22
7pm • Molly Antopol The UnAmericans: Stories at the JCC Book Fest, 5520 Wyoming NE •
Stories which explore characters shaped by the forces of history. This debut work of fiction is authored by a 2013 National Book Foundation "5 Under 35" Honoree.

7pm • Glenna Luschei • The Sky is Shooting Blue Arrows: Poems
This new book shines with Luschei's view of the world. Luschei is the author of more than 25 books and is the founder and publisher of Solo Press.

Thursday, October 23
7pm • Nicole Mones • Night in Shanghai at the JCC Book Fest, 5520 Wyoming NE
In 1936, classical pianist Thomas Greene is recruited to Shanghai to lead a jazz orchestra of fellow African-American expats. From being flat broke in segregated Baltimore to living in a mansion with servants of his own, he becomes the toast of a city obsessed with music, money, pleasure and power, even as it ignores the rising winds of war.

7pm • Katie Lane • Ring in the Holidays
Psychologist Ellie Simpson is about to get a healthy dose of sex therapy. Leaving her cheating boyfriend behind, she has everything she needs for a quick rebound: Vegas, plenty of champagne, and a proposition from the sexiest man she's ever seen.

Friday, October 24
7pm • Kale Soup for the Soul: Portuguese writers sharing stories about food, family & culture •
Readers at the Albuquerque Kale Soup reading include:
Carlo Matos (Chicago, Illinois), the author of three books of poetry. He holds a PhD in Modern Drama and teaches writing at the City Colleges of Chicago.
Millicent Borges Accardi is the author of three poetry books.
She is the recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the arts (NEA), CantoMundo, the California Arts Council, Fundação Luso-Americana (FLAD), and Barbara Deming Foundation's Money for Women.
Celia Cordeiro was born on the Azorean island of Saint Michael, Portugal. Her disseration deals with the recreation of Azorean opoular culture in the southern part of Brazil.

Friday - Saturday, October 24 & 25th
9am-5pm • Handsprings Conference • A Conference for Writers & Illustrators of Children's Books at the Ramada Albuquerque East, 10300 Hotel Ave NE
Scheduled activities include a social event on Friday evening, and a full day on Saturday starting with a First Impressions Panel, individual presentations by our faculty of publishing professionals, and the opportunity to attend two of five breakout sessions.

Saturday, October 25
3pm • Jeremy Tolbert • Talking with the Devil About Love
Jeremy Tolbert is a poet and writer from Washington State and lives north of Seattle in Lynnwood, WA. Tolbert's poetry speaks to the struggle and hardships of the everyday and what it is like to feel truly alone even when surrounded by society.

For Kids

Saturday, October 18
3pm • Nicholas Otero & Nasario Garcia •
How Chile Came to New Mexico
The exciting tale of how New Mexico's premier crop came to the Land of Enchantment. The story shows the importance of Native Americans who helped bring chile to New Mexico through a long journey with many dangers.

4pm • Teen Book Club
Free, new members ages 13 to 16 welcome. This month's book selection is Mortal Engines by Phillip Reeve. We're going into Halloween season via Steampunk! Costumes encouraged.

5pm • Tawni Waters • Beauty of the Broken
In this lyrical, heart-wrenching story about a forbidden first love, a teen seeks the courage to care for another girl despite her small town's bigotry and her father's violent threats.

Wednesday, October 22
4:30pm • Magic Tree House Book Club!
October's book selection is Haunted Castle on Halloween. Free, new members welcome.

Thursday, October 23
10:30am • Cozy Up at STORY TIME!
With cooler weather right around the corner, blankets are the theme for this story time. More »

Saturday, October 25
10:30am • Bilingual Story Time

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.

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