September's Featured Events at Bookworks Includes Deborah Madison Brunch, Lisa Lenard-Cook and More

Below are Bookworks' featured events for the month of September. For more information on any of the events, visit bkwrks.com/event.

Tuesday, September 2
7pm • Bill Nevins • Heartbreak Ridge
Albuquerque poet and teacher Bill Nevins shares new work and a new book at Bookworks.

Wednesday, September 3
7pm • Carol Macflie Lange • Invisible Child
After his parents are arrested, alone and distrustful, a young boy escapes to a cave in the high Sierra mountains.

Thursday, September 4
7pm • Ruth Zaporah • Notes From On & Off the Stage
Directed not only toward performing artists who draw upon improvisation, this Zen-infused memoir of a life lived creatively will pique the interest of all.

Friday, September 5
7pm • Eriq LaSalle • Laws of Wrath
The butchered body of a transvestite is found in a dumpster. It seems the victim just so happens to be the brother of Detective Phee Freeman.

Saturday, September 6
11am • Brunch with Deborah Madison at the Slate Street Cafe, 515 Slate St NW • The New Vegetarian Cooking for Everyone
Join us at the Slate Street Cafe! A $75 single ticket or a $110 ticket for couples includes the meal & a copy of the cookbook of choice, both $40 hardcover cookbooks.

3pm • Dave DeWitt • Dishing Up New Mexico
An irresistible collection of 150 recipes, many contributed by chefs, farmers, and small food producers from around the state, that celebrate the rich diversity of New Mexico's cuisine.

5pm • Dr. Ruth, Planned Parenthood Fundraiser • at the Hyatt Regency 330 Tijeras NW
Bookworks is proud to sell books for Dr. Ruth Westheimer at Planned Parenthood's 50th Anniversary Gala and fundraiser.?Tickets are $50 and available online. A cocktail reception will be from 5-6:30; dinner from 6:30 with the program and a signing to follow.

Sunday, September 7
3pm • Lisa Lenard Cook • Dissonance
When Anna Kramer, a Los Alamos piano teacher, inherits the journals and scores of composer Hana Weissova, she is mystified by this bequest from a woman she does not know. Hana's music, however, soon begins to uncover forgotten emotions.

Monday, September 8
7pm • Dominic Sedillo • Mr. Wormfood and the Zombabies
Story of a lovable dead-ish boy and his dead-ish pals who are looking to make friends with their neighbors in a nearby town. You'll laugh, you'll cry.

Tuesday, September 9
7pm • Simon Chokoisky • The 5 Dharma Types
Chokoisky reinterprets the traditional Dharma system of ancient India as a map for revealing one's true purpose.

Thursday, September 11
5pm • Tech Fiesta at the Special Collections Library with Daniel Abraham & Ty Franck celebrating their new James SA Corey Novel • Cibola Burn
Albuquerque sci-fi/fantasy authors Daniel Abraham and Ty Franck talk about their collaboration as James SA Corey at the Albuquerque Tech Fiesta at the Special Collections Library.

7pm • Book Club Night Out & Rep Picks at Slate Street Cafe Meg Sherman, W. W. Norton & Michele Sulka, Penguin Random House at the Slate Street Cafe, 515 Slate NW
Book Club Night Out gives existing & potential book club members a chance to mingle, learn how to join clubs, and select titles to read. Publisher sales reps, Meg Sherman and Michele Sulka, will present forthcoming titles that are good book club selections.

Friday, September 12
7pm • Steven Gould • Exo
This sequel to Impulse, blends the drama of high school with world shattering consequences.

Saturday, September 13
3pm • Eleni Bastea • Venice Without Gondolas
Eleni Bastéa was born and raised in Greece. She studied art history at Bryn Mawr College and architecture and architectural history at the University of California at Berkeley. She teaches at the University of New Mexico.

Sunday, September 14
3pm • Seth Hoffman & Friends • Music Performance
Hoffman performs with Kimo & Felix of Felix Y Los Gatos.

Monday, September 15
7pm • Sarah Bird • Above the East China Sea
Teenagers, one American and the other Okinawan, find their lives connected across seventy years by the shared experience of profound loss, the enduring strength of an ancient culture, and the redeeming power of family love.

Wednesday, September 17
7pm • Pamela Windo • Him Through Me
In the fall of 1969, two months after the Woodstock festival, a young man leaves America and returns home to England. He knocks at the door of a girl he'd known in school.

Thursday, September 18
7pm • Ira Jaffe • Slow Movies
Slow Movies investigates movies by acclaimed international directors who in the past three decades have challenged mainstream cinema's reliance on motion and action.

Friday, September 19
7pm • Nick DePascal • Before You Become Improbable
Before You Become Improbable (2014), won the inaugural West End Press Poetry Prize. Born in Tucson, DePascal received a BA in creative writing from the University of Arizona and an MFA in creative writing from the University of NM.

Saturday, September 20
3pm • David Wagner • Death in the Dolomites
Albuquerque author David Wagner presents his new Rick Montoya mystery from Poisoned Pen Press. Rick Montoya is looking forward to a break from his translation business by skiing in the Italian Alps with old college buddy Flavio. But Rick's success helping the Italian police with a murder in Tuscany sends the Campiglio cops his way.

Sunday, September 21
3pm • Lilian Ukadike • Basic Computing Steps
User friendly content with materials presented in simple English that a beginner in computer technology can easily understand.

Monday, September 22
7pm • Laila Lalami • The Moor's Account
In 1527, the conquistador Panfilo de Narvaez sailed from the port of Sanlucar de Barrameda and his goal was to claim what is now the Gulf Coast of the United States for the Spanish crown and, in the process, become as wealthy and famous as Hernan Cortes.

Tuesday, September 23
7pm • Jen Sincero • You Are a Badass
In this refreshingly blunt how-to guide, Sincero, serves up 27 bite-sized chapters full of hilariously inspiring stories, life-changing insights, easy exercises and the occasional swear word.

Wednesday, September 24
7pm • Erika Wurth • Crazy Horse's Girfriend
She hates the burnout, futureless kids surrounding her and dreams that she and her unreliable new boyfriend can move far beyond the bright lights of Denver that float on the horizon before the daily suffocation of teen pregnancy eats her alive.

Thursday, September 25
7pm • Michael Maddox • Porter & Ike Stockton: Colorado & New Mexico Border Outlaws
Take hold of this book like you would the reins of a skittish horse, find the sweet spot in the saddle, or better yet your easy chair, and settle in for a hell of a ride.

Friday, September 26
7pm • Wildewood CD Release Party •

Saturday, September 27
1pm • Bob Odenkirk, AKA Saul Goodman from Breaking Bad • A Load of Hooey (signing only)
Bob Odenkirk has won two Emmy Awards for his work on Saturday Night Live and The Ben Stiller Show. He cocreated and starred in Mr. Show with Bob and David, which ran on HBO and has been called the American Monty Python. Odenkirk has become known as Saul Goodman on Breaking Bad and the new spin-off, Better Call Saul.

3pm • Laura Prichett • Stars Go Blue
Elderly spouses living on opposite ends of their sprawling ranch are faced with the particular decline of a fading farm and Ben's struggle with Alzheimer's disease.

Sunday, September 28
1pm • Jennifer Jacobson Reads Tarot •
$10 for a 10 or 15 minute reading with her Soul Cards.

3pm • Debra Bloomfield • Wilderness
Her photographs do not describe a particular place. Instead, her photographs and soundscapes bring us to the experience of wilderness.

Tuesday, Sept 30
7pm • Mike Smith • Reading From the Tin House
Albuquerque writer Mike Smith reads from new work just published in Tin House.

Thursday, September 4
10:30am • STORY TIME with rabbits!
Story Time with Contessa Connie, featuring stories, crafts, and snacks. This week we celebrate National Rabbit Month. From Peter to Marshmallow, story book characters will hop into our hearts.

Saturday, September 6
10:30am • BOA - Big on Animals!
Big on Animals welcomes rabbit vistiors and a couple of people who help care for and teach people about rabbits. Featuring the book The Forgotten Rabbit.

Tuesday, September 9
4:30pm • Our World Home School Book Club meets

Wednesday, September 10
4:30pm • Whoo Did? Mystery Book Club!
We premier our Whoo Did It Mystery Book Club for young readers aged
8-12. This month's selection is Spy School.

Thursday, September 11
10:30am • STORY TIME - Make Your Bed!
Story Time with Contessa Connie, featuring stories, crafts, and snacks. This week we celebrate Make Your Bed Day, with stories about jumping monkeys, monsters hiding, and the counting down to snooze time stories.

Saturday, September 13
10:30am • Caryl McHarney talks about cranes!
Poet & artist Caryl McHaney joins us to talk about cranes.

Tuesday, September 16
7pm • Mark Tatulli, Desmond Pucket & the Mountain Full of Monsters!
It's the sixth-grade field trip to Crab Shell Pier, home to the world's most awesome ride. Desmond hopes to convince Tina Schimsky to ride it with him, but once in the park he finds that executing his master plan will be no simple feat.

Wednesday, September 17
4:30pm • American Girl Book Club!
Our monthly meeting of the American Girl Book Club. All American Girl fans are invited to attend for stories, snacks, and crafts.

Thursday, September 18
10:30am • STORY TIME with Hats!
What kind of hat do you prefer? Story Time with Contessa Connie, featuring stories, crafts, and snacks.

Saturday, September 20
4pm • Teen Book Club

Wednesday, September 24
4:30pm • Magic Treehouse Book Club
We will be talking about book three in the series Mummies in the Morning.
Get ready for the Middle Ages! If you have any craft materials you think
would be perfect to construct a castle, bring them along. We will have a
sort of pot luck castle construction project.

Thursday, September 25
10:30am • STORY TIME with elephants
Story Time with Contessa Connie, featuring stories, crafts, and snacks. This week, we will read stories about elephants.

Saturday, September 27
10:30am • BI-LINGUAL STORY TIME
Featuring books in both English & Spanish. Free storytime, all families welcome.

1pm • Holly Schindler Skype
Today we will be talking middle grade and teen books with author Holly Schindler in a Skype visit.

Sunday, September 28
5pm • Harry Potter Book Club
Open to all Harry Potter fans and readers ages 13-17.

Clubs

Monday, September 8
5pm • Vamos a Leer Book Club • Yaqui Delgado Wants To Kick Your Ass by Meg Medina
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 Meg Medina's new book a Latina teen is targeted by a bully at her new school - and must discover resources she never knew she had.

Friday, September 12
1pm • Second Cup of Coffee Book Club meets at The Coffee Shop, 700 2nd NW • The Girl's Guide to Homelessness: A Memoir by Brianna Karp
Brianna Karp entered the workforce at age ten, supporting her mother and sister throughout her teen years in Southern California. Although her young life was scarred by violence and abuse, Karp stayed focused on her dream of a steady job and a home of her own. By age twenty-two her dream became reality. Karp loved her job as an executive assistant and signed the lease on a tiny cottage near the beach. And then the Great Recession hit. Karp, like millions of others, lost her job.

Wednesday, September 10
7pm • Bookworks Book Club • My Journey to Lhasa: The Classic Story of the Only Western Woman Who Succeeded in Entering the Forbidden City by Alexandra David-Neel
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. In order to penetrate Tibet and reach Lhasa, Madame Alexandra David-Neel used her fluency of Tibetan dialects and culture, and inked skin and tackled some of the roughest terrain and climate in the World. This title presntes her intensive study and daring adventure in mysterious territories of the East.

Looking Ahead

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, Judy Chicago provides an autobiographical look at higher education in art, a must-read for aspiring artists and educators in studio art programs. The Dinner Party is the official publication celebrating Judy Chicago's feminist art masterpiece installed at the Brooklyn Museum. This iconic piece is an introduction to outstanding women in history.

Saturday, October 18
3pm • Rudy Anaya, Nasario Garcia & Nicholas Otero • How Chili Came to New Mexico
How Chile Came to New Mexico is 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. Intertwined in the book is love and romance and the story of the influence of many cultures in New Mexico's history.

Thursday, October 23
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. As her handsome stranger helps her ring in the New Year-over and over again-Ellie finds herself blissfully losing all of her inhibitions.

Monday, October 27
7pm • Chuck Palahniuk • Beautiful You at UNM's Student Union Ballrooms B & C
Bookworks and the University of New Mexico English Department and the Creative Writing Department are proud to bring you cult favorite author Chuck Palahniuk, on a national tour for his new novel, Beautiful You. InBeautiful You, a billion husbands are about to be replaced. From the author of Fight Club, the classic portrait of the damaged contemporary male psyche, now comes this novel about the apocalyptic marketing possibilities of female pleasure. Tickets are available now.