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Wally Lamb at Bookworks tonight, July10 at 7pm!
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Check out our Facebook contest to give away two tickets to Margaret Atwwod/Graeme Green 11/16!
on Wednesday
November 16, 2009 from 7pm to 9pm
Margaret Atwood and her partner, Graeme Gibson (author of The Bedside Book of Birds), will be in Albuquerque November 16! Tickets for the event will be $10, of which 100% will be donated to the group Wild Earth Guardians. Atwood is the author of m...
on Wednesday
October 10, 2009 from 12pm to 2pm
Official book release party at Bookworks! FREE for all ages and open to the public! Join us for activities, giveaways and Q & A session with live StormTroopers and Darth Vader!
October 1
October 4, 2009 at 5pm to October 5, 2009 at 6pm
A Glass of Water by Jimmy Santiago Baca - Sun Oct 4th at 5pm. - Bookworks 4022 Rio Grande Blvd NW - FREE Award-winning memoirist, poet, and activist, Jimmy Santiago Baca has established himself as an inspiring and important spokesperson for the Ch...
September 29

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Where I Live:
The north valley!
About Me:
Bookworks is YOUR local, independent bookstore! Serving Albuquerque for 24 years, we have a wide selection of books, music, cards and more. Bookworks hosts many monthly events for book lovers, including author talks and signings, slide shows, and movie screenings. Add us as a friend on Duke City Fix to get the inside scoop on all the exciting things we're doing!
Favorite Thing(s) About Albuquerque:
The large number of talented local authors here. Also, how much people love to read!
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It's Complicated
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http://www.bkwrks.com
What I'm Reading:
Anything and everything!
What I'm Listening To:
Local musicians

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Bookworks - YOUR independent local bookstore!

Book reviews - June, 2009

Strong Enough to Die
by Jon Land (Doherty, Tom Assoc LLC $24.95)

Caitlin Strong is a fifth-generation Texas Ranger, proud to wear the badge of her father and grandfather-until a deadly shoot-out along the Mexican border causes her to question her calling. Five years later, Caitlin is still trying to purge herself of guilt from the day that ended her Ranger career. But a shattering discovery will reopen old wounds, and Caitlin's renewed investigation into the truth behind the bloody… Continue

Posted on June 11, 2009 at 10:29am —

Bookworks - YOUR independent local bookstore!

Book reviews - May, 2009

In Milton Lumky Territory
by Philip K. Dick (Doherty, Tom Assoc LLC $14.95
)
In the novels of Philip K. Dick, Kim Stanley Robinson states that "In Milton Lumky Territory . . . is probably the best of Dick's realist novels aside from Confessions of a Crap Artist," and calls it a "bitter indictment of the effects of capitalism." Dick, on the other hand, in his forward, says "This is actually a very funny book, and a good one, too." Milton Lumky territory is both an area of the western… Continue

Posted on May 13, 2009 at 10:31am —

Bookworks - YOUR independent local bookstore!

New videos! Fraser Goff talks about Valles Caldera, Allegra Huston shares her recent reads

We had a great event with Fraser Goff last week, with over 70 people in the store. He had some great things to share about the geologic history of Valles Caldera - see a snippet here:



And, Allegra Huston, Anjelica Huston's sister and daughter of director John Huston, was here this past Sunday talking about her new book, Love Child. She shared a few thoughts with us after her talk.… Continue

Posted on April 22, 2009 at 1:19pm —

Bookworks - YOUR independent local bookstore!

ALA's "Most Challenged Books" list includes NM's own Rudolfo Anaya!

Link to the news article

"Khaled Hosseini has joined the illustrious ranks of Philip Pullman and the authors of a story about gay penguins, after his novel The Kite Runner became one of the books that inspired most complaints in America last year."

Here's the complete list of "most challenged" books:

1. And Tango Makes Three by Justin Richardson and Peter Parnell

Reasons: anti-ethnic, anti-family… Continue

Posted on April 16, 2009 at 12:00pm — 5 Comments

Bookworks - YOUR independent local bookstore!

New videos! Tom Zoellner and The Very Hungry Caterpillar

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Posted on April 13, 2009 at 12:03pm —

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