Exhibit - JONAH REDUX: THE BOOK OF JONAH ACCORDING TO JACK - Jack McCarthy - Through Monday, May 26In JONAH REDUX, Jack McCarthy re-presents the age-old story of the petulant prophet who argues with God and gets away with it. Sort of. This limited edition book combines a witty narrative - taken from the Old Testament with some liberties - and powerful, relief print illustrations to bring the great, albeit misunderstood, story of Jonah to life. The exhibition consists of related prints. Jack McCarthy is an artist and has worked as a printmaker for 35 years. He lives in Santa Fe. Booklaunch/Reception - MAN KILLED BY PHEASANT AND OTHER KINSHIPS - John T. Price - Tuesday, May 13 from 5:00 to 6:00 pmJohn Price's story is one of family and place, rich with wild creatures, with his Swedish ancestors, with neighbors, and with his prairie home. His work, deeply grounded in the grasslands of the Midwest, is, like that of Edward Abbey or Aldo Leopold, tied to place yet elevated by experiences that know no boundaries. John T. Price is the author of the memoirs Man Killed by Pheasant and Other Kinships (Da Capo Press, 2008) and Not Just Any Land: A Personal and Literary Journey into the American Grasslands (U. of Nebraska Press, 2004). Born in Fort Dodge, Iowa, in 1966, he attended the University of Iowa, where he earned his B.A. in Religion, M.F.A. in Nonfiction Writing and Ph.D. in English. A recipient of a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts and other recognitions, his nonfiction writing about nature, family, and spirit has appeared in many journals, magazines, newspapers, and anthologies including Orion, The Christian Science Monitor, Creative Nonfiction, Isotope, and Best Spiritual Writing 2000. He is a Professor of English at the University of Nebraska at Omaha, where he teaches nonfiction writing, and lives with his wife Stephanie and two sons in the Loess Hills of western Iowa. Booklaunch/Reception - TAKING ON GIANTS: FABIAN CHAVEZ JR. AND NEW MEXICO POLITICS - David Roybal & Fabian Chavez Jr. - Friday, May 16 from 5:00 to 6:00 pmTwelve-year-old Fabian Chavez Jr. grabbed a small cardboard suitcase and a few packaged snacks before hitchhiking 1,300 miles across two state lines. His parents in Santa Fe didn't learn of his intentions - or his whereabouts - until he was already midway through his journey to the Hollywood that had captured his imagination. Although his childhood antics suggested he might end up serving time rather than the public, Chavez ultimately dedicated thirty years to a variety of state posts in New Mexico, blazing new trails into civil rights, education, business, government, and politics. Chavez was instrumental in the creation of the University of New Mexico's medical school, pushed legislation that would reform the state's notoriously corrupt liquor laws, and promoted New Mexico tourism. David Roybal's examination of the life and accomplishments of the reform-minded Democrat also explores the broader political history of New Mexico over the last half of the twentieth century. Roybal surveys the back room deals, the trade offs, and the rise of such governors as Bruce King, Jerry Apodaca, and Toney Anaya to create a work that deftly portrays New Mexico's fractious and complicated recent political history. David Roybal is a political journalist and editorial columnist for The Albuquerque Journal. Despite thousands of columns to his credit, this is his first book. Booklaunch/Reception - DEAD IN DESEMBOQUE - Eddy Robert Arellano - Saturday, May 17 at 3:00 pmIn Dead in Desemboque, Hispanic novelist and indie musician Eddy Robert Arellano, collaborating with three gritty American artists, has also written the first historieta in Spanglish - accessible to all ages and all cultures. "When a dama named Juanita calls him down to Sonora, Eddy rides across the Rio Bravo and never looks back. He expects to come up against brawls, rustlers of his dogs, and even the sadistic Amazon. But on his first day in Mexico, with the cacti in flower and the snakes far away in their summer bowers, nobody could have convinced Eddy that, at the end of many ugly and erotic encounters along dusty roads full perils, he would end up...DEAD IN DESEMBOQUE." About the author: Booklaunch and Tea Tasting - THE SPIRIT OF TEA - Frank Hadley Murphy - Saturday, May 24 at 3:00 pmFor the first time, a discussion of tea's transcendental nature and reasons given as to why we keep returning to this Queen of the Camellia's, that offers us a few moments of respite in a world gone mad. Myths about tea are debunked while practical information given, including history, characteristics, and properties of the six classical tea catagories. Frank H. Murphy has been a student of tea for 13 years and is now known as a tea expert and master in the field. he graduated from the American Tea Masters Association's tea mastership program and is the senior student of tea master and Taoist priest, Roy Fong, and is much demand for tea lectures an Santa Fe, New Mexico. Booklaunch and Talk - KASZTNER'S TRAIN: THE TRUE STORY OF AN UNKNOWN HERO OF THE HOLOCAUST - Anna Porter - Tuesday, May 27 from 5:00 to 6:00 pmThe heroic story of the "Hungarian Oscar Schindler" who saved thousands of Hungarian Jews from certain death at the hands of the Nazis, only to be accused of collaboration and assassinated in Israel twelve years after WWII ended. Oscar Schindler's and Raoul Wallenberg's efforts to save people from Nazi extinction are legendary; Rezso Kasztner, by contrast, is practically unknown, even though he may have been the greatest rescuer of Jews during World War II. He was also the most controversial, and that, along with the relative lack of focus on events in Hungary toward the end of the war, has no doubt led to his anonymity. Now, with the publication of Anna Porter's remarkable chronicle, Kasztner's achievements are in full view. Based on interviews with those who were on the train and with family members of those denied a place on it, as well as documents and correspondence not previously published, Anna Porter tells the dramatic full story of one of the heroes of the twentieth century. About the Author Booklaunch/Reception/Reading - THE SAFETY OF SECRETS - DeLaune Michel - Wednesday, May 28 from 5:00-6:00 pm"Now we're just alike." So begins Fiona and Patricia's friendship that warm autumn morning in first grade in Lake Charles, Louisiana, their bond forged ever closer by Fiona's abusive mother and Patricia's neglectful one. Their relationship is a source of continuity and strength through their move to L.A. to become actresses; through Fiona's marriage and Patricia's sudden fame. When husband and career pressures exact a toll, the women wonder if their friendship can survive. Then a dark secret from their past emerges, threatening to destroy not only their bond, but all they've worked for as well. The Safety of Secrets is a beautifully written exploration of the bonds forged in childhood and challenged decades later, of the fulfillment of dreams and the damage they can cause, and of secrets being uncovered and the truth we find inside.
Booklaunch/Reception - CALUMET CITY - Charlie Newton - Sunday, May 4 at 3:00 pmAmong the most self-assured and sharply crafted debuts in recent years, Calumet City detonates a Molotov cocktail of character-driven suspense and ghetto-Chicago intrigue. Meet Patti Black, the most decorated cop in Chicago. On her ghetto beat, Patti Black redefines the word badass. But her steel-plated exterior - solitary, stoic, loveless - belies the wrenching legacy of her orphan childhood. Haunted by the horrifying abuse she suffered at the hands of her foster parents, Patti Black sublimates past torments into a meticulously maintained tough-gal persona. When a series of unrelated cases - a drug bust gone bad, a mayoral assassination attempt, the murder of a state attorney, the exhumation of a long-concealed body from a tenement basement wall - all point in Patti Black's direction, she finds herself facing the dark truth: You can't hide from your history, no matter how far into the fog you run. For Patti Black, that history didn't die in the tenement wall; it's alive - and riding her down. In researching this electrifying thriller, Charlie Newton rode in the squad car with real-life street cop Patti Black. The result is a powerful fiction debut that captures the precise emotional landscape of one cop's hard-bitten life in the trenches. This first-time author joins that rare breed whose fiction is suffused with profound authenticity. About the author: Booklaunch/Reception - CUSTOM MAID KNOWLEDGE FOR NEW WORLD DISORDER - Peter G. de Krassel - Thursday, May 1 from 5:00 to 6:00 pmWe the Maids, For the Maids, By the Maids - we are the maids that clean up and pay for America's geopolitical mess. A political manifesto for our difficult and troubled times, the Custom Maid Trilogy of books is a trenchant analysis of the political, social and moral ills that beset the United States written for anyone with a stake in the future of America. Filled with witty personal anecdotes drawn from his experiences as a lawyer, a businessman and a political activist, de Krassel argues that America desperately needs to reform. He takes particular aim at the country's career politicians, sensationalist media and jingoistic culture. And he suggests ways in which America can put its house in order. A new millennium offers a unique opportunity for change. It is a chance for Americans to retake control of their political system and reassess their values in an increasingly religious, stressed-out, debt-laden, consumerist society. Peter de Krassel was born in England of a Russian father and Palestinian Jewish mother. He has lived all over the world, including Switzerland, Israel and the United States. Currently he lives in Hong Kong. He has a unique perspective on world events both from the influences of the places he's lived in and the people he has met, as well as from his varied career. Booksigning - A RICHER DUST - Amy Boaz - Thursday April 24 at 5:00 pmWhen Doll, a British painter just out of art school at Slade, arrives in New Mexico in 1924, she is certain only of her faith in the man who invited her: social philosopher Abe Bronstone, who has left Britain to found a model society in Taos. Doll has renounced her own aristocratic roots to join the high desert household of Abe and his wife Vera (a scandalous German divorcee). Doll's narration of events moves backward to her childhood in Victorian London, and forward to her solitary life in 1963 Taos, solitary until she meets the much younger Akbar ("He doesn't know how much younger and I don't plan to tell him"). As the community around Abe which loosely incorporates East Coast heiress Janie; her Native American husband, Junior; local Indians from the reservation; and a war-traumatized Chicago poet and his wife unravels, Doll's affair with Akbar, the most fulfilling of her life, intensifies, but it puts her in small-town conflict with Akbar's mother, protective of her sweetly ne'er-do-well son. Inspired by events in the life of the British painter Dorothy Brett, who ventured to Taos with D.H. Lawrence and his wife in the years after World War I (and, unlike the Lawrences, stayed to brave it out), A Richer Dust finds in Doll's life the convulsive shift from the Victorian to the Modern, as aesthetics and sexuality found explosive new forms. It is the story of a woman who remains open to life despite discouragement and disappointments, and whose self-discovery of her art, her body, and her mind is as unceasing as it is unaffected. The Taos landscape, through Doll's eyes (and through the rest of her keen senses, except for her damaged hearing), is vivid and breathtaking, and serves as a magnificent canvas for sketching the arc of her life. AMY BOAZ was born in the Bernalillo County Indian Hospital, Albuquerque. Her short fiction has appeared in the Virgin Fiction collection, sponsored by Salon.com. She lives in New York. This is her first novel. Booksigning & discussion - IN THE SHADOW OF LOS ALAMOS: SELECTED WRITINGS OF EDITH WARNER - Patrick Burns - Friday, April 25 at 5:00 pmEdith Warner (1893-1951), who lived by the Rio Grande at the Otowi Switch in northern New Mexico, has become a legendary figure owing largely to her portrayal in two books: The Woman at Otowi Crossing, by Frank Waters, and The House at Otowi Bridge, by Peggy Pond Church. Because she is famous for her tearoom, where she entertained scientists from the Manhattan Project, few people realize that Edith Warner was a serious writer. Here for the first time she is allowed to speak for herself. The book's title is taken from an autobiographical fragment published here for the first time. Also included are letters, essays published and unpublished, and journal entries (salvaged by various friends from the original, which was burned after Warner's death at her request). The editor provides a useful introduction outlining Edith Warner's life and sets it in local and historical context, along with a wonderful collection of period photographs and a facsimile of Edith's famous chocolate cake recipe. Thousands of readers have been fascinated by this modest woman whose friendships with Pueblo Indians and atomic scientists seem to epitomize the paradoxes of life in New Mexico. To read this book is to hear her own quiet voice, describing pueblo ceremonials, detailing the difficulties of life during the war years, and above all recording her own spiritual relationship with the New Mexico landscape. For Edith Warner her work in the world - building a house, running a restaurant, writing it all down - was a kind of meditation. People still come to New Mexico for the reasons that drew her here eighty years ago, and her response to New Mexico can now take its rightful place in the state's cultural heritage. About the Editor: Booklaunch - THE BOOK OF KINDNESS: POWER OF THE GENTLE PATH - Mary Lou Cook - Saturday, April 26 at 4:00 pmSanta Fe Living Treasure, Mary Lou Cook, celebrates her 90th Birthday by launching THE BOOK OF KINDNESS: POWER OF THE GENTLE PATH, a book of more than 100 inspirational quotations on kindness from simple folks to leading thinkers throughout history. About the author: "Anything that I do with my hands makes me happy," she said. That includes planting trees, designing proclamations as the official calligrapher of the city of Santa Fe, and practicing the simple craft of PastecraftTM, a craft using fabric and paste to cover solid objects, which she developed and now teaches to help people express their creativity. "The feeling of creating something beautiful that never existed before in the world, and creating it from something that was going to be thrown away, is wonderful," Mary Lou said. Born in Chicago in 1918, Mary Lou, with her family moved to El Paso soon after her birth, in hopes the climate there would heal her father's tuberculosis. The young bank president died at age thirty-nine. Spending a great deal of time with her grandparents in Kansas City, Mary Lou then studied fine arts at Kansas University and the Kansas City Art Institute. After marrying Sam Cook, she and her family, including three children moved to many different areas. In several cities Mary Lou joined the Junior League and launched successful volunteer ventures, such as a preschool for blind children in Kansas City and a children's arts program in Milwaukee. "I trust myself. When I have the feeling I want to do something, I just do it. I don't know how to be any other way," she said. With Sam's early retirement, he and Mary Lou settled in Santa Fe in 1969. The list of progressive Santa Fe organizations of which she is a member or founder includes: Concerned Citizens for Nuclear Safety, Business for Social Responsibility, the Greer Garson Theatre Guild, Habitat for Humanity, Community Peace Forum, and Santa Fe Network for the Common Good, which designates the Living Treasures. She was founding director of one of the first minority owned national banks in the US, United Southwest Bank. Diagnosed with chronic leukemia in 1975, Mary Lou has lived with the illness for decades, embracing alternative health care, counseling others with serious illnesses, and following a spiritual path of good works. Booklaunch & reception - BILL MAULDIN: A LIFE UP FRONT and WILLIE & JOE: THE WWII YEARS - Todd DePastino - Saturday, April 5 at 3:30 pmBILL MAULDIN: A LIFE UP FRONT This taut, lushly illustrated biography - the first of two-time Pulitzer Prize winner Bill Mauldin - is illustrated with more than ninety classic Mauldin cartoons and rare photographs. It traces the improbable career and tumultuous private life of a charismatic genius who rose to fame on his motto: "If it's big, hit it." WILLIE & JOE: THE WWII YEARS This is the first of several volumes publishing the best of Bill Mauldin's single panel strips from 1940 to 1991 (when he stopped drawing). His Willie & Joe cartoons will be presented in a deluxe, beautifully designed two-volume slipcased edition of over 600 pages. Willie & Joe contains an introduction and running commentary by editor, Todd DePastino, providing context for the drawings, pertinent biographical details of Mauldin's life, and occasional background on specific cartoons (such as the ones that made Patton howl).
Todd DePastino is the author of Citizen Hobo: How a Century of Homelessness Shaped America (2003). He also edited and introduced a lost classic, The Road by Jack London (2006). He teaches history and writes in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Booklaunch & reception - RED CAR: STORIES - Sallie Bingham - Friday, April 18 at 5:00 pmForty-year veteran of the novel, noted feminist, and author of over ten books, Sallie Bingham returns with Red Car, a collection written in her signature style: discreet, sly prose circling taboo subjects. Her new offering is about love enjoyed, whether alone or with lovers, sensual or familial, comedic or tragic, often with a wry twist. In these twelve stories, Bingham travels from the beaches of Normandy shortly after the second World War, to modern-day Brittany, Santa Fe, Florida, and Southern Colorado to situate her wide range of characters. Her protagonists blunder through relationships, no matter where they happen to live. But somehow we know they'll survive and be wiser for it. Bingham's new collection, with its honed aesthetic of subtlety and honesty is an adventurous read. Acclaimed Santa Fe writer Sallie Bingham published her first novel with Houghton Mifflin in 1961. Since then she has published four collections of short stories, four novels, and a memoir. She was Book Editor for The Courier-Journal in Louisville and has been a director of the National Book Critics Circle. She is the founder of The Kentucky Foundation for Women. Booklaunch - SANTA FE DEAD - Stuart Woods - Wednesday, April 23 at 5:00 pmThis is bestseller Woods's third thriller to feature prominent New Mexican attorney Ed Eagle. Ed and his girlfriend, actress Susannah Wilde, are watching the Los Angeles trial on Court TV of his villainous ex-wife, Barbara, who stands accused of arranging for his murder, when a reporter announces that Barbara has escaped from custody just before the not guilty verdict. Soon, suitably disguised and under an alias, Barbara contrives to meet a recent widower, Palo Alto billionaire Walter Keeler, at a luxury spa and has him proposing marriage and making a new will in her favor. Meanwhile, her hatred for her ex unquenched, Barbara schemes to have Ed and Susannah killed. Stuart Woods lives in Key West, Florida, on Mount Desert Island, in Maine, and in New York City. Booksigning and Reception - TONY DUQUETTE - Hutton Wilkinson - Friday, March 28 at 5:00 pmHutton Wilkinson, LA resident, will make his first visit to Santa Fe to celebrate the recent publication of his sumptuous Abrams book, TONY DUQUETTE, co-authored by Wendy Goodman, Design Editor at New York magazine, with a foreword by Dominick Dunne. American artist and design legend Tony Duquette (1914-1999) was known for his over-the-top style in interiors, jewelry, costumes, and set design. His clients included Elizabeth Arden, the Duchess of Windsor, and Herb Albert. The multi-talented Duquette designed sets for MGM musicals with Arthur Freed and Vincente Minnelli, and designed Tony Award-winning costumes for the original Broadway production of "Camelot." Duquette was the first American to exhibit a one-man show at the Louvre in Paris. Tony Duquette is a lavishly illustrated book with many lost and never-before published photographs from the Duquette archives, including portraits and pictures taken by Man Ray, John Engstead, Fredrich Dapriche, Andre Ostier, George Platt Lynnes, as well as original sketches, designs, and texts by Duquette himself. With commentary, interviews, stories, and contributions from Liza Minnelli, Arlene Dahl, Steven Meisel, Bruce Weber, and others. Hutton Wilkinson is President of Tony Duquette, Inc. and began working for Duquette while still a teenager. He is also president of the Elsie DeWolfe Foundation. Booklaunch, discussion and booksigning - Sheila Key and Peggy Spencer - 50 WAYS TO LEAVE YOUR 40s: LIVING IT UP IN LIFE'S SECOND HALF - Wednesday, March 19 at 5:00 pmIf you're approaching that huge milepost with less than your usual birthday enthusiasm, open this book to discover all the ways in which turning fifty might just be the best thing yet. The authors share a wide range of ideas for making this major life transition a time of opportunity, growth, and celebration. As Sheila Key writes in the introduction: "What Peg and I hope you'll hear among these pages is the irrepressible rustling of joy - joy enough to make you bust out laughing, sure, and the kind that comes from improving your mental outlook and physical habits, even just a little. But also the simple joy of having lived this long, of being able to look back over five full decades and forward to who-knows-how-many more; not to mention...the joy of living more mindfully in the ever-present Now." Bursting with anecdotes, activities, "things to try at least once," advice from a savvy doctor, and clever ways to remember it all, this little volume sparkles like a treasure chest. It's as chock-full of useful and entertaining gems as your life is full of memories, regrets, dreams, and possibilities. Sheila Key is an award winning writer and graphic artist and Peggy Spencer, M.D., practices at the Student Health Center at the University of New Mexico. Both are residents of Albuquerque. Reading and booksigning - TRESPASS: LIVING ON THE EDGE OF THE PROMISED LAND - Amy Irvine - Saturday, March 8 at 4:30 pmAmy Irvine will sign and discuss her just published memoir, TRESPASS: LIVING ON THE EDGE OF THE PROMISED LAND. Trespass is the story of one woman's struggle to gain footing in inhospitable territory. A wilderness activist and apostate Mormon, Amy Irvine sought respite in the desert outback of southern Utah's red-rock country after her father’s suicide, only to find out just how much of an interloper she was among her own people. But more than simply an exploration of personal loss, Trespass is an elegy for a dying world, for the ruin of one of our most beloved and unique desert landscapes and for our vanishing connection to it. Fearing what her father's fate might somehow portend for her, Irvine retreated into the remote recesses of the Colorado Plateau—home not only to the world's most renowned national parks but also to a rugged brand of cowboy Mormonism that stands in defiant contrast to the world at large. Her story is one of ruin and restoration, of learning to live among people who fear the wilderness the way they fear the devil and how that fear fuels an antagonism toward environmental concerns that pervades the region. At the same time, Irvine mourns her own loss of wildness and disconnection from spirituality, while ultimately discovering that the provinces of nature and faith are not as distinct as she once might have believed. Formerly a nationally ranked competitive rock climber, Amy Irvine was for five years the Development Director at the Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance. Reading and booksigning - GOD'S MIDDLE FINGER: INTO THE LAWLESS HEART OF THE SIERRA MADRE - Richard Grant - Thursday, March 13 at 5:00 pmRichard Grant, journalist and award winning travel writer, will discuss his just published, GOD'S MIDDLE FINGER: INTO THE LAWLESS HEART OF THE SIERRA MADRE, a hair raising account of the author's own explorations of the Sierra Madre Mountains, one of the most dangerous and largest drug producing areas in the world. Twenty miles south of the Arizona-Mexico border, the rugged, beautiful Sierra Madre mountains begin their dramatic ascent. Almost 900 miles long, the range climbs to nearly 11,000 feet and boasts several canyons deeper than the Grand Canyon. The rules of law and society have never taken hold in the Sierra Madre, which is home to bandits, drug smugglers, Mormons, cave-dwelling Tarahumara Indians, opium farmers, cowboys, and other assorted outcasts. Outsiders are not welcome; drugs are the primary source of income; murder is all but a regional pastime. The Mexican army occasionally goes in to burn marijuana and opium crops -- the modern treasure of the Sierra Madre -- but otherwise the government stays away. In its stead are the drug lords, who have made it one of the biggest drug-producing areas in the world. Fifteen years ago, journalist Richard Grant developed what he calls "an unfortunate fascination" with this lawless place. Locals warned that he would meet his death there, but he didn't believe them -- until his last trip. During his travels Grant visited a folk healer for his insomnia and was prescribed rattlesnake pills, attended bizarre religious rituals, consorted with cocaine-snorting policemen, taught English to Guarijio Indians, and dug for buried treasure. On his last visit, his reckless adventure spiraled into his own personal heart of darkness when cocaine-fueled Mexican hillbillies hunted him through the woods all night, bent on killing him for sport. With gorgeous detail, fascinating insight, and an undercurrent of dark humor, God's Middle Finger brings to vivid life a truly unique and uncharted world. Booklaunch & reception - THE GERMAN BRIDE - Joanna Hershon - Tuesday, April 15 at 5:00 pmBerlin, 1865. Eva Frank, the daughter of a benevolent Jewish banker, and her sister, Henriette, are having their portrait painted, which leads to a secret affair between young Eva and the mercurial artist. This indiscretion has far-reaching consequences, more devastating than Eva or her family could have imagined. Distraught and desperate to escape her painful situation, Eva hastily marries Abraham Shein, an ambitious merchant who has returned home to Germany for the first time in a decade since establishing himself in the American West. The eighteen-year-old bride leaves Berlin and its ghosts for an unfamiliar life halfway across the world, traversing the icy waters of the Atlantic and the rugged, sweeping terrain of the Santa Fe Trail. Though Eva's existence in the rough and burgeoning community of Sante Fe, New Mexico, is a far cry from her life as a daughter of privilege, she soon begins to settle into the mystifying town, determined to create a home. But this new setting cannot keep at bay the overwhelming memories of her former life, nor can it protect her from an increasing threat to her own safety that will force Eva to make a fateful decision. Joanna Hershon's novel is a gripping and gritty portrayal of urban European immigrants struggling with New World frontier life in the mid-nineteenth century. Vivid and emotionally compelling, The German Bride is also a beautiful narrative on how far one must travel to make peace with the past. Joanna Hershon is the author Swimming and The Outside of August. Her short fiction has been published in One Story and The Virginia Quarterly Review. She lives in Brooklyn with her husband, the painter Derek Buckner, and their twin sons. Cookbook discussion & tasting! - MY BOMBAY KITCHEN, by Niloufer Ichaporia King - Sat. February 23rd at 3:00 pm
Niloufer Ichaporia King, author of MY BOMBAY KITCHEN: TRADITIONAL AND MODERN PARSI HOME COOKING, foreword by Alice Waters, will discuss her recent book, published by University of California Press, and will prepare and serve some of its recipes! The Persians of antiquity were renowned for their lavish cuisine and their never-ceasing fascination with the exotic. These traits still find expression in the cooking of India's rapidly dwindling Parsi population - descendants of Zoroastrians who fled Persia after the Sassanian empire fell to the invading Arabs. The first book published in the United States on Parsi food written by a Parsi, this beautiful volume includes 165 recipes and makes one of India's most remarkable regional cuisines accessible to Westerners. In an intimate narrative rich with personal experience, the author leads readers into a world of new ideas, tastes, ingredients, and techniques, with a range of easy and seductive menus that will reassure neophytes and challenge explorers. Niloufer Ichaporia King, a resident of the San Francisco Bay Area, is an independent scholar interested in tropical food plants and cuisines. She has contributed to the JOURNAL OF GASTRONOMY, FINE COOKING, THE SLOW FOOD GUIDE TO SAN FRANCISCO AND THE BAY AREA, and THE CULTURAL QUARTERLY. What the critics are saying: "Melting-pot cuisine gets a star turn in Niloufer Ichaporia King's My Bombay Kitchen."--Boston Globe "Niloufer Ichaporia King may come from Bombay, or today's Mumbai. But her exuberant My Bombay Kitchen: Traditional and Modern Parsi Cooking gets my vote as the most delightful American cookbook in years. American? Well, where else could it have been conceived and delivered?" --Anne Mendelson, New York Times "Once you get the hang of making ginger and garlic paste (which you can put in almost anything!), your cooking will never be the same. . . . I can also personally testify to King's "Get-Well Soup,'' a broth redolent with cinnamon, lime, turmeric and, yes, more ginger and garlic. It is probably the first known cure for the common cold. Reason enough to buy the book."--Bloomberg News "The book easily transports readers to the household of the Ichaporia family in Bombay (now Mumbai) and submerges them in the scents and tastes of Parsi food. As talented a writer as she is a cook, the author manages this with charm (enhanced by old-time family photographs) but without sentimentality. Her approach to cooking is traditional in the manner of Parsi cooking over the centuries: absorbing new ideas and influences without losing its essential Indo-Persian character. . . . Interesting, reliable and beautifully written."--San Francisco Chronicle "Bringing regional Indian cuisine(s) home for all of us"--Los Angeles Times "Answers a longstanding need in this country for documentation of the foodways of the Parsis, one of India's many ethnic groups. This book, written with knowing wit by an author of Parsi origin and backed by a wealth of scholarship, may be the definitive volume on this great cuisine. [Exudes] lighthearted, breezy confidence from beginning to end without sacrificing its central mission of teaching readers how easy and satisfying it is to bring the genius of Parsi cuisine into their homes."--Madhur Jaffrey, Saveur "Begins with a brief history of the Parsis and an introduction to her grandmother's and mother's kitchens and then presents more than 150 recipes, both sophisticated and homey, many of which will be unfamiliar even to most Indian-food lovers. The headnotes are informative and entertaining, and the book concludes with a selection of menus, a detailed glossary, a source guide, and a bibliography. Highly recommended." (Starred Review)--Library Journal "A lush memoir in the form of a cookbook, by a talented writer and inspired cook who grew up in a Parsi household in Bombay. With pervading wit and droll sense of humor, she tells us what it means to be part of the 3,000-year-old Parsi culture, and how this plays out in a crazy amalgam of India and the West.. . . She brings alive culinary traditions, passed on through generations of beloved household cooks, mothers and grandmothers. This cooking may soon disappear. UNESCO projects that only 25,000 Parsis may exist in the world by 2020 -- one more reason to grab this extraordinary book and start cooking." --Patricia Unterman, San Francisco Examiner "Niloufer King's food is always delicious. Here she unravels her native Parsi cuisine with love and intelligence, revealing its secrets and the little touches that make her dishes stand out. Bravo!"--Paula Wolfert, author of The Slow Mediterranean Kitchen "With clever wit and panache, cook and culinary anthropologist, Niloufer King introduces us to one of India's most exceptional regional cuisines. Her market-inspired dishes have layers of flavor that immediately satiate your palate, yet leave you longing for the next bite. A gift of love from a passionate cook."--Gary Danko, Chef and Principle, Restaurant Gary Danko "Niloufer's Bombay Kitchen is a place of delight and seduction. The stories and recipes are beautifully crafted and spiked with wit and wisdom. From an exotic coconut milk and fish stew to a simple cucumber-ginger salad, to her grilled Thanksgiving turkey, each dish is a treasure."--Judy Rogers, chef and owner, Zuni Cafe "Full of evocative memories, tastes, smells, colors, places, kitchens, family, and friends--This is so much more than a cookbook!"--Diana Kennedy, author of The Essential Cuisines of Mexico "What a seductive book! Niloufer King goes straight to the heart of what food is all about and makes you want to rush to the kitchen to join her. I'd read this fascinating book for the sheer fun of it, even without any recipes-but oh, the recipes!"--Fran McCullough, editor of the Best American Recipes series MICHAEL MCGARRITY - Booklaunch, Reading & Booksigning - DEATH SONG - Saturday, January 5 at 3:00 pmMichael McGarrity, Santa Fe resident and one of America's best-loved crime writers celebrates the publication of his eleventh novel, DEATH SONG. Garcia Street Books is donating 10% of the sales of this book to the Hillerman-McGarrity Endowed Scholarship for the Creative Writing Program at the College of Santa Fe. Michael McGarrity’s eleventh novel in the acclaimed Kevin Kerney series achieves a new depth of masterful storytelling and a plot that will captivate readers. With McGarrity’s rich, personal knowledge of police work displayed on every page, and his stunning visual sense of place in the vast New Mexico landscape, Death Song firmly proves that he deserves his place among the great mystery writers today. The bushwhack killing of a deputy sheriff in Lincoln County and the brutal murder of the deputy’s wife in Santa Fe bring Police Chief Kevin Kerney and his Mescalero Apache son, Sergeant Clayton Istee, back together in a double homicide investigation—an investigation that is soon linked to a major drug trafficking scheme and the cold-blooded slaughter of two women in Albuquerque. With few clues, no known motives, and no suspects, the investigation turns into a search for the son of the slain officer, eighteen-year-old Brian Riley, who left Santa Fe under suspicious circumstances before his father’s death. Due to retire at the end of the month, Kevin Kerney isn’t about to let the murder of a police officer’s wife go unsolved on his watch, especially since the dead woman was the sister of a dear friend; and crime scene facts strongly suggest that the killer may have also ambushed the deputy sheriff. Kerney assumes command of the combined investigation and calls upon Clayton to find Brian Riley, discover what triggered the murders, and give him the ammunition he needs to bring a multiple murderer to justice. Death Song is McGarrity in full stride and at his best. GLORIA LEWIS - Booklaunch/Reception - THE DEVIL'S LEFT HAND - Saturday, January 19 at 4:00 pmSanta Fe author, Gloria Lewis, celebrates the publication of her second novel, THE DEVIL'S LEFT HAND, a novel of suspense. ROBIN ROMM and DON WATERS - Reading and Booksigning for THE MOTHER GARDEN and DESERT GOTHIC - Thursday, January 31 at 5:00 pmAssistant Professor of Creative Writing and Literature at the College of Santa Fe, Robin Romm, and her partner, Don Waters will read from THE MOTHER GARDEN, by Robin Romm and DESERT GOTHIC, by Don Waters. In surreal tales of loss and discovery, Romm explores the broken worlds of men and women surviving the death of a parent, child, or spouse, as well as the painful days leading up to their losses. The stories in Romm's second collection frequently have a hint of magic realism. In one, a long-abandoned daughter walking her dog through the desert discovers a man wrapped in a dirty sheet. Someone has tied a note to his foot that reads: This is your father. Do as you will, so she decides to take him home. In another, after the protagonist's mother dies, pathologists find dozens of colorful beads in her stomach. The daughter makes a necklace of the beads, clinging to a last, inexplicable reminder of her mother's life. Romm also depicts the effect death has on her characters' romantic relationships. Deaths that come too early and conflicts left unsettled leave characters searching, finding, and often losing again. Through it all, a combination of spare prose and fantastic events makes Romm's seemingly simple tales startling and compelling. In Waters' debut story collection, winner of the Iowa Short Fiction Award, a good man is never hard to find. Although, crusted with the grit of the Southwest desert, he may be hard to spot. Waters portrays a crematorium worker, an obsessive ultra-marathoner, a drug dealer, a reclusive writer, an illegal immigrant runner, a vagrant, a cuckold, and a sinning missionary, among others, revealing something redemptive in his peculiar and wonderful characterization of each. The crematorium worker makes a lonely trip across searing hot desert roads to deliver an urn. The ultra-marathoner finds love in the midst of fierce competition. And the drug dealer risks imprisonment to help a nursing home–bound man obtain a prescription from Mexico. In each tale, Waters unveils an unlikely hero up against great odds in a world that often seems bereft of meaning. As their stories unfold in the vast, arid terrain, each character's life forms a grain of truth amid sweeping desert sands. Exhibition/Sale - ELIAS RIVERA and WILLARD CLARK - Runs through Sunday, January 6thSmall paintings by Elias Rivera and prints by Willard Clark. Exhibition runs through Sunday, January 6th. PAMELA MCCORDUCK - The Edge of Chaos - National Booklaunch/Reception - Friday, Nov. 30 from 4:30 to 5:30 pmPamela McCorduck, resident of Santa Fe and New York, and author of eight previous books, including MACHINES WHO THINK, FIFTH GENERATION, and the FUTURES OF WOMEN,will celebrate the publication of her novel, THE EDGE OF CHAOS, set in Santa Fe. An internationally renowned scientist who fears she's taken one scientific risk too many; a distinguished archaeologist who's haunted by taking too few; a world famous financier who's lost everything except his money; an art gallery owner with a heartbreaking burden; a fugitive filmmaker; the head of a battered women's shelter--these are some of the people who find themselves at the end of the Old Santa Fe Trail, at the end of the 20th century. Chance has brought them from all over to beautiful, legendary Santa Fe, New Mexico, where they shape, illuminate, and even deform each other's lives unexpectedly, as if on the very edge of chaos. This edge of chaos, a scientific term for that slender territory between frozen predictability and hopeless disorder, is a dangerously unstable place. Learning and change can only happen there, but always under threat of sliding back to frozen order--or over into the chaotic abyss. And Santa Fe's sons and daughters, even now, keep a precarious foothold on The Edge of Chaos, bringing their own pasts and their city's rich history into an uncertain but exhilarating future. Pamela McCorduck is the author or co-author of nine published books. Three are novels and six are focused on the intellectual impact of computing, especially aspects of artificial intelligence. SHIRLEY MACLAINE - "Sage-ing While Age-ing" - Book signing - Saturday, December 1 at 3:00 pmShirley MacLaine will be signing her eleventh book,SAGE-ING WHILE AGE-ING. The signing will begin at 3:00 pm. Ms.MacLaine has generously offered to discuss her book individually with customers who purchase it at Garcia Street Books. Over the course of ten international bestsellers including The Camino and Out on a Limb, Shirley MacLaine has firmly established herself as a fearless, iconoclastic thinker and seeker of truth. Now, as she confronts the realities and rewards of growing older, MacLaine reflects on where her journey has taken her and the greater understanding of her own place in the universe that her experiences have brought into her life. As she looks back across the remarkable professional and personal milestones she has experienced so far, MacLaine is able to recognize the profound power of synchronicity at work. Sage-ing While Age-ing explores a wealth of issues from health and nutrition, to spirituality, to life on other planets, to MacLaine's views about the greatest mystery of all: what happens to us after death. Filled with her trademark wit and candor, this is a powerful, provocative book that will delight and intrigue MacLaine's legions of fans and fellow travelers everywhere. This book, written in her new home in Santa Fe, will be of special interest to Santa Feans and those who have an interest in matters such as synchronicity,extra terrestrial phenomena, alternative health practices, and religious fanaticism. The author also explains why she chooses to live in the Land of Enchantment (New Mexico) rather than the Land of Enhancement (Hollywood). CARY HERZ - Booklaunch/Reception - New Mexico's Crypto-Jews: Image and Memory - Thursday, December 20thCary Herz, Albuquerque photographer, celebrates the publication of New Mexico's Crypto-Jews: Image and Memory. While photographing the Congregation Montefiore Cemetery in Las Vegas, New Mexico in 1985, Cary Herz first heard whispers about "the other people." Thus began a twenty-year search for descendants of crypto-Jews, the Sephardic Jews who were forced to convert to Catholicism during the Spanish and Portuguese Inquisitions centuries ago. Many openly professed Catholicism, but continued to practice the Jewish faith privately. Herz's photographs and the accompanying essays honor the people whose ancestors, through families' oral histories and genealogical records, knew about their heritage. Other New Mexican Hispanics have recently begun to explore their families' customs and are only beginning to examine their possible blended lineage. To help complete her exploration, Herz sought out symbols - gravesites, artifacts, and icons - that might point toward the presence of the descendants of crypto-Jews who came to the New World. There has recently been a renewed interest in crypto-Jews, as DNA tests have revealed the Jewish heritage of a number of Hispanic New Mexicans. Cary Herz is an award-winning professional photographer specializing in corporate and editorial photography. She is a New Mexico photo correspondent for the New York Times and has worked with a variety of editorial clients, including TIME, PC World, People, Ms., Garden Design, Hispanic Business, The Discovery Channel, The Dallas Morning News, and The Houston Chronicle's Texas Magazine. Michele Zackheim - BROKEN COLORS - Reading, Booksigning and Reception - Sunday November 4 at 3:00 pmIn BROKEN COLORS, Sophie Marks' path to artistic and personal fulfillment takes her from World War II England to post-war Paris and the Italian countryside of Umbria, where she learns that creativity alone is not enough to sustain a rewarding life. She leaves Europe in 1967 and spends the next two decades in the American Southwest. Acclaimed at last as an artist, she returns to England to confront the hidden memories of her childhood and to test the possibilities of a renewed love, a passion ripened by maturity. A beautifully realized saga of a complex, gifted woman, Broken Colors is a rich story, deeply affecting and wise. MICHELE ZACKHEIM worked as a visual artist before turning to writing. Her work has been shown in numerous museums and galleries. Formerly a Santa Fe resident, she now lives in New York. Valerie Plame Wilson - FAIR GAME: MY LIFE AS A SPY, MY BETRAYAL BY THE WHITE HOUSE - Tuesday, November 6th at 6:00 pm - AT THE LENSICValerie Plame Wilson will be reading from and discussing her newly released book, FAIR GAME: MY LIFE AS A SPY, MY BETRAYAL BY THE WHITE HOUSE, (publication date October 22), on Tuesday, November 6th at 6:00 pm at the Lensic Performing Arts Center. Ms. Plame Wilson and her husband, Retired Ambassador Joe Wilson, will be introduced by Jonathan Richards. Books will be sold by Garcia Street Books and Ms. Plame Wilson will sign copies in the lobby of the theater. PLEASE NOTE: Due to time constraints, Ms. Plame will only be able to sign books purchased previously at Garcia Street Books or books purchased at the Lensic. A private reception sponsored by Catherine Oppenheimer and Garrett Thornburg will take place at La Fonda Hotel at 8:00 pm. All proceeds from the ticket sales and the private reception will assist in raising funds for the Wilson Legal Support Trust at www.wilsonsupport.org. Tickets can be purchased by calling the Lensic Box Office, 988-1234, or at www.ticketssantafe.com. STEPHEN YADZINSKI, SUSANNA SPACE & MARTHA COLLINS - An Uncertain Inheritance - Reading and Discussion - Thursday, November 15 at 5:00 pmLocal author, Stephen Yadzinski, together with his wife, writer, Susanna Space, and mother-in-law, poet Martha Collins, will read their essays from the new anthology, AN UNCERTAIN INHERITANCE: WRITERS ON CARING FOR FAMILY, edited by Nell Casey, with a foreword by Frank McCourt. The book is a remarkable array of mostly original essays by talented writers on being cared for themselves and caring for parents, children and spouses with illnesses as varied as depression and brain injuries. November is National Caregivers Month, and approximately 80% of long term care in the US is provided by family members. CAROLYN DODSON & WILLIAM DUNMIRE - Mountain Wildflowers of the Southern Rockies: Revealing Their Natural History - Talk and Signing - Tuesday, November 20 at 5:00 pmSanta Fe residents Carolyn Dodson and William Dunmire will discuss their just published book, MOUNTAIN WILDFLOWERS OF THE SOUTHERN ROCKIES: REVEALING THEIR NATURAL HISTORY. More than a field guide, the book offers cultural and botanical essays that present useful and fascinating facts about seventy-five species of wildflowers, including strategies for survival, plant evolution, origins of common and scientific plant names, family characteristics, and their roles in human history. The Laramie and Medicine Bow Mountains of southern Wyoming, the principal ranges in Colorado, and the Sangre de Cristo, Jemez, and Sandia Mountains in New Mexico are home to over a thousand species of wildflowers. The striking samples included here were selected not only because they are characteristic of this region, but also because they have interesting stories to tell. Grouped by family and arranged in natural order, each featured profile is accompanied by a color photo and most include a drawing by wildflower artist Walter Graf. For both visitors and natural history buffs, this book includes seventy-five examples of some of the most common and conspicuous wildflowers in the Rocky Mountains from southern Wyoming to New Mexico. Carolyn Dodson is retired from the faculty of the University of New Mexico General Library. She has a master's degree in biological sciences from City University of New York and teaches wildflower identification classes in UNM's continuing education division, Albuquerque. William W. Dunmire served twenty-eight years in the National Park Service as a naturalist in parks across the country. He is currently an associate in biology at the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque. SEASONS OF YES, Lorraine Schechter, Friday October 5 at 5:00 PM - EXHIBITION THROUGH OCTOBER 22ndLorraine Schechter's poems, like the seasons, come in cycles. In the twenty plus years she's been writing poetry, she has enjoyed fertile periods filled with words, interspersed with the language of paint, and more recently, the cello. Like the seasons of her beloved New Mexico, her poems offer a rich range of color, mood, and texture. "This collection of poems comes from a six-year period when the need to write was as urgent as the need for water or food," she says. "I wrote almost daily, much of the time in my journal, but also in the language of rhythm and image joined with the pleasure in word and sound that said 'poem.' The themes are those of a woman at mid-life and reveal my passions: art and nature, family and friends, meditation and yoga." Inspired by her close connection to the earth, immersed in her work in the studio, and committed to her meditation/yoga practice, Lorraine Schechter is a woman who says YES to life. The suite of 12 digital prints that accompany the launch of both the standard and collectors editions of the book, The Seasons of Yes, are on exhibit at Garcia Street Books through October 22. The edition is limited to 50 prints of each image plus 10 Artist's Proofs. Each print is signed and numbered by the artist. The prints are available for purchase at $250 each, or the suite of 12 for $2,500. LORRAINE SCHECHTER received an MFA from the University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Fine Arts. She lived in the south of France and the hills of northwestern Connecticut before settling in Santa Fe in 1988. Her mixed media paintings, prints, and constructions are in museum, corporate and private collections throughout the United States. The Museum of Modern Art was the original publisher of her innovative collection of paper sculpture card designs. Her poems have appeared in literary and on-line poetry reviews including the Santa Fe Poetry Broadside, Borderlands: The Texas Poetry Review, Clackamas Literary Review, and numerous poetry anthologies. She is a winner of the Recursos/Southwest Writers Discovery Contest. An arts educator for more than thirty-five years, she recently stepped down as Arts Education Coordinator for the Santa Fe Arts Commission where she developed and directed ArtWorks, a progressive program providing arts education to more than 5,000 Santa Fe elementary school children. She continues to teach and consult in arts education and program development. LET BUSTER LEAD, Deborah Potter, Friday October 19 from 5:00 - 6:30 PMLET BUSTER LEAD is a personal memoir about love, courage and healing. Deborah Potter shares her relationship with her Border Collie, Buster, from the day she met him at the animal shelter until the last moment of his life. This isn’t a typical pet love story; it's an inspirational self-help book wrapped around a dog treat. The author met Buster while in a state of cynicism and grief following the death of her father. Her new pet helped to restore her faith in life. Buster then helped her cope with a high-powered marriage, intense stress and faltering self-esteem. When she suffered major trauma in a horse accident, Buster stayed by her side, his herding dog instincts protecting her vulnerable and broken body from harm. A year after the accident she became too tense to be touched by others or leave her home, unaware that she had developed a severe case of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. She tells us how she discovered she had this disease and how Buster became her official service dog. She describes her struggle with PTSD symptoms, and what it was like to travel on airplanes and function in public with a disability and a therapy dog. Helping to restore her mental health and self-assurance, Buster led her back into a normal life. This is their story. Deborah Dozier Potter was born into an entertainment A-list family. Her mother, Joan Fontaine, her aunt, Olivia de Havilland, and her stepmother, Ann Rutherford, were 1940s era movie stars. Her father, William Dozier, a popular film and television executive, produced and narrated TV's Batman series. Seeking a "regular" environment, Deborah settled in Santa Fe, New Mexico where she continued her international career as an actors’ representative. She and her husband raised two sons, developed a politically charged real estate law firm, and have formed partnerships that own several businesses. Among her many volunteer positions, she has served as the founding organizer of Santa Fe's Plaza Community Stage, a member of the Kennedy Center's President's Advisory Council on the Arts, and as a trustee of a college, an orchestra and two museums. A traumatic accident, an often un-diagnosed disability and a life-changing relationship with her Border Collie inspired her to write their story. Let Buster Lead is her first book, a tribute to her devoted best friend. THE ABSOLUTELY TRUE DIARY OF A PART-TIME INDIAN - Sherman Alexie - Tuesday, October 23 at 5:00 pm AT THE IAIA MUSEUM - 108 CATHEDRAL PLACEGarcia Street Books is proud to announce that we will be co-sponsoring this event with IAIA, The Institute of American Indian Arts Museum, and that it will take place at the IAIA Museum, 108 Cathedral Place. In his first book for young adults, bestselling author Sherman Alexie tells the story of Junior, a budding cartoonist growing up on the Spokane Indian Reservation. Determined to take his future into his own hands, Junior leaves his troubled school on the rez to attend an all-white farm town high school where the only other Indian is the school mascot. Heartbreaking, funny, and beautifully written, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, which is based on the author's own experiences, coupled with poignant drawings by acclaimed artist Ellen Forney, that reflect the character's art, chronicles the contemporary adolescence of one Native American boy as he attempts to break away from the life he was destined to live. An award-winning author, poet, and filmmaker, Sherman Alexie was named one of Granta's Best Young American Novelists and has been lauded by The Boston Globe as "an important voice in American literature." Sherman Alexie is one of the most well known and beloved literary writers of his generation. His five works of fiction have received numerous awards and citations, including the PEN/Malamud Award for Fiction and the Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Award, and have been translated into eleven languages. LEADERSHIP: CARTOONS & SCULPTURE FROM THE BUSH YEARS, Pat Oliphant, Thursday October 25 at 5:00 PM, NATIONAL BOOK LAUNCH AND EXHIBITIONNeither Democrat nor Republican is safe from the influential paintbrush of political commentator and cartoonist Pat Oliphant. A master of what he calls "confrontational art," Oliphant spares no one as he covers Bush's tenure in office—drawing comparisons on the war in Iraq to Vietnam, Kim Jong II's nuclear antics to a circus act, and President George W. Bush's time in office with the reign of The Little King.Oliphant is the most widely syndicated political cartoonist in the world, currently published in more than 500 newspapers and magazines worldwide, including the New York Times, the Washington Post, and the New Yorker. Pat Oliphant occupies a unique position among today's editorial cartoonists. Widely considered the dean of the profession, he is one of its sharpest, most daring practitioners. Oliphant divides his time between Santa Fe, N.M. and Washington, D.C.Pat Oliphant is syndicated by Universal Press Syndicate COCKTAILS, DINNER & A READING - Ann Beattie, Robert Olen Butler, Dan Gerber, Arthur Sze - Saturday, October 13, 2007 from 6:30 to 9:30 pm - AT THE ELDORADO HOTELJoin Narrative Magazine for a celebratory evening of friendship, poetry, and stories, and to help Narrative bring great literature into the digital age, and to provide it for free. In recent years in the United States alone, there has been a loss of twenty million literary readers, mainly between the ages of eighteen to forty. Narrative, with an audience of 30,000 readers, has brought together online readers with the best literary minds in the world to help reverse the downward trend in reading. Please help Narrative to encourage great writing and reading. Books by the authors will be available courtesy of Garcia Street Books. For reservations and information, please contact Narrative Magazine. THE DESERT REMAINS and BROKEN AND RESET: SELECTED POEMS, 1996-2006 - Charles Poling & V.B. Price, Saturday September 22 at 3:00 PMTHE DESERT REMAINS BROKEN AND RESET: SELECTED POEMS, 1966-2006 THE WHALE WARRIORS: THE BATTLE AT THE BOTTOM OF THE WORLD TO SAVE THE PLANET'S LARGEST ANIMALS - Peter Heller - Monday, October 1st at 5:00 pm - National Booklaunch Celebration"Peter Heller has written a funny, angry, explosive book, which is as much high adventure at sea as it is a portrait of our relationship to the world's oceans. You're reminded of Ed Abbey's explosive lyrical prose, the antics of Robin Hood, and the wry eye of John Steinbeck. If you've ever wondered about life aboard a 'vegan attack vessel' The Whale Warriors is your ticket. Heller's world here is so unusual, so wild, that you'd think he'd discovered it across the far-flung seas, and you'd be right." Peter Heller is a longtime contributor to NPR, a contributing editor at Outside Magazine and National Geographic Adventure, and appears frequently in Men’s Journal. He is an award winning adventure travel writer and the author of three books of literary nonfiction. He lives in Denver. GARCIA STREET BOOKS VOTED SANTA FE'S BEST INDEPENDENT BOOKSTORE FOR THE FIFTH CONSECUTIVE YEAR!Garcia Street Books has been voted BEST OF SANTA FE 2007 by participants in the Santa Fe Reporter's annual poll! This is the fifth consecutive year that Garcia Street Books has been awarded BEST OF SANTA FE and we thank our loyal customers for supporting us and making this happen! James Havard - Reception to celebrate the publication of the Deluxe Limited Edition of JAMES HAVARD, and his 70th birthday, as well as the opening of the exhibition, "James Havard Works on Paper" - Friday, June 29th from 5:30 - 7:00 pm.
Exhibition runs through Monday, September 3rd. Details on the Book. Foreword by David Lynch James Havard's highly individual work draws inspiration from American Indian and African tribal cultures, as well as cave paintings and children's drawings-and is often full of inner demons and dark, multicultural symbols. Yet they are also affectingly humorous, endowed with qualities that we recognize immediately as inherent to the human condition. During his early career, Havard was known as one of the leading practitioners of "Abstract Illusionism." In the late 1980s he made a dramatic shift to a unique brand of figuration that recalls art brut in its intentional naivete of line and rigorous and textural manipulation of paint. As art critic Tony Cavanaugh has written, "Havard's figures are raw and elemental. In their utter nakedness of guile and anatomical economy they resemble the works of very young children, albeit with an innate sophistication that can only belong to a mature artist in complete control of his powers." This publication, the first extensive monograph of Havard's work, focuses on the past two decades of his oeuvre, including painting, sculpture, and prints. It includes more than 120 color plates and illuminating texts that describe his process and artistic development, and that situate this body of work in the context of the artist's career as well as his art historical influences. A full, illustrated chronology and documentation of his career complete this comprehensive tome. James Havard's illustrious career has spanned more than fifty years, and his work is included in many private and public collections, including the Guggenheim Museum, New York; the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.; the Museum of Modern Art, Stockholm; the Philadelphia Museum of Art; and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. publication specifications: 240 pages V-Day Event Sponsored by Garcia Books A Success!Click to see Eve Ensler, Jane Fonda, Ali MacGraw, Valerie Plame, Joe Wilson, Val Kilmer, and others read from A MEMORY, A MONLOGUE, A RANT AND A PRAYER edited by Eve Ensler.
Booklaunch and Discussion - Marsha Scarbrough - MEDICINE DANCE: ONE WOMAN'S HEALING JOURNEY INTO THE WORLD OF NATIVE AMERICAN SWEATLODGES, DRUMMING MEDITATIONS AND DANCE FASTS - Saturday August 11 from 5:00 to 6:00 pmMarsha Scarbrough finds herself divorced, middle-aged, living in Los Angeles with a downhill career in film production, and then is given a bad mammogram. After fruitless visits to doctors she hears of a Native American visionary and teacher in town doing private healings, one Joseph Rael, also known as Beautiful Painted Arrow, and goes to him for treatment. When her doctors finally schedule an ultrasound, they find nothing. This is just the beginning of an apprenticeship with Beautiful Painted Arrow to learn more about these ancient ways of healing. Marsha endures a range of treatments including sweatlodges, marathon walking meditations, and a three-day dance-fast. In this fast-paced memoir she shares the wisdom gained from her experiential participation in Native American shamanism and illustrates the relevance of this ancient tradition to contemporary life. Booksigning - LINDA APPLEWHITE'S ARCHITECTURAL INTERIORS - Friday, July 6 at 5:00 pm.Booksigning - Linda Applewhite will sign LINDA APPLEWHITE'S ARCHITECTURAL INTERIORS: TRANSFORMING YOUR HOME WITH DECORATIVE STRUCTURAL ELEMENTS published by Gibbs Smith - Friday, July 6 at 5:00 pm. This book shows how to create a comprehensive building plan to turn your house into a home through the magic of finding and using the right bones. Applewhite introduces readers to the creative opportunities that open up when you can actually change a home's structural elements, enhancing the beauty and uniqueness in each room. The book offers creative solutions such as adding a column or pillar to define a space, installing unusual cabinetry to give structure, adding a set of elaborate moldings for extra elegance, or installing French doors to connect a room to the garden. LINDA APPLEWHITE is an artist, writer, spokesperson and self-taught interior designer. With twenty years of experience, Linda's goal is more comprehensive than just style and the placement of objects; she includes the personal. Linda helps her clients express who they are within the context of their surroundings. With an emphasis on the connection between structure and site, she creates exceptional architectural detailing, uses color for power in unexpected ways and strives to connect indoor and outdoor whenever possible. Booksigning - THE LADY IN BLUE - Monday, July 9 at 5:00 pm.Booksigning/Reading/Discussion - Javier Sierra, internationally acclaimed New York Times Bestselling author, has come from Spain for a national tour for his latest novel, THE LADY IN BLUE - Monday, July 9 at 5:00 pm. An elaborately woven novel of intrigue about one of America's most curious and enduring legends - the enigma of the Lady in Blue. In Los Angeles, Jennifer Narody has been having a series of disturbing dreams involving eerie images of a lady dressed in blue. What she doesn't know is that this same spirit appeared to leaders of the Jumano Native American tribe in New Mexico 362 years earlier, and was linked to a Spanish nun capable of powers of "bilocation," or the ability to be in two places simultaneously. Meanwhile, young journalist Carlos Albert is driven by a blinding snowstorm to the little Spanish town of Agreda, where he stumbles upon a nearly forgotten seventeenth-century convent founded by this same legendary woman. Intrigued by her rumored powers, he delves into finding out more. These threads, linked by an apparent suicide, eventually lead Carlos to Cardinal Baldi, to an American spy, and ultimately to Los Angeles, where Jennifer Narody unwittingly holds the key to the mystery that the Catholic Church, the U.S. Defense Department, and the journalist are each determined to decipher - the Lady in Blue. JAVIER SIERRA, whose works have been translated into thirty-five languages, is the author of the New York Times bestselling novel The Secret Supper. A native of Teruel, Spain, he currently lives in Malaga. Booklaunch - BACK TALK - Tuesday, July 10 at 5:00 pm.National Booklaunch Celebration - Alex Richards, who grew up in Santa Fe and moved to New York, will return to launch her first book, BACK TALK - Tuesday, July 10 at 5:00 pm. Goodbye small town hell . . . hello Big Apple! Sixteen-year-old Gemma Winters couldn't be more ecstatic-and terrified-about scoring a summer internship at one of the hippest daytime TV talk shows, Back Talk with Kate Morgan. To top it off, she's staying in a palatial brownstone in Manhattan with celebutante Dana Cox (a virtual E! True Hollywood Story in the making) and world-weary millionheiress America Vanderbilt. Gemma's corn-fed naiveté melts away as she gets a taste of designer clothes, underclubbing . . . and a cute Johnny Depp look-a-like. The glamour fades by nine a.m. when Gemma becomes slave labor for harried producers. Not even her borrowed Manolo Blahniks can shield her from an office romance turned ugly and backstabbing fellow interns. When someone is unfairly fired and a show is at risk, Gemma goes out of her way to prove this small-town girl is more than just a "photocopy bitch." ALEX RICHARDS has always been a writer, but this her first published work. She's written everything from novels, to short stories, to plays, to an adaptation of Grease performed by her 6th grade class. Having grown up in Santa Fe, Alex moved to New York to pursue short-lived careers in photography, film, and television production. She lives in Manhattan with a physicist and two cats, and makes no-budget horror flicks in her spare time. Booksigning - CHEAP MOTELS AND A HOT PLATE - Wed, July 11 at 5:00 pm.Booksigning/Discussion - Michael D Yates will sign and discuss CHEAP MOTELS AND A HOT PLATE: AN ECONOMIST'S TRAVELOGUE - Wed, July 11 at 5:00 pm. The road trip is a staple of modern American literature. But nowhere in American literature, until now, has an economist hit the road, observing and interpreting the extraordinary range and spectacle of U.S. life, bringing out its conflicts and contradictions with humor and insight. Disillusioned with academic life after thirty-two years teaching economics, Michael Yates took early retirement in 2001, with a pension account that had doubled during the dot.com frenzy of the late 1990s. He and his wife Karen have traveled around the country since then, often spending months at a time on the road. Michael and Karen spent the summer of 2001 in Yellowstone National Park, where Michael worked as a hotel front-desk clerk. They moved to Manhattan for a year, where he worked for Monthly Review. From there they went to Portland, Oregon, to explore the Pacific Northwest. After five months of travel in Summer and Fall 2004, they settled in Miami Beach. Ahead of the 2005 hurricane season, they went back on the road, settling this time in Colorado. Cheap Motels and a Hot Plate is both an account of their adventures and a penetrating examination of work and inequality, race and class, alienation and environmental degradation in the small towns and big cities of the contemporary United States. MICHAEL D. YATES is associate editor of Monthly Review. He was professor of economics at the University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown for many years. He is the author of Naming the System: Inequality and Work in the Global Economy and Why Unions Matter. V-day Event at St. Francis Auditorium at the Museum of Fine Arts - Booklaunch for Eve Ensler's A MEMORY, A MONOLOGUE, A RANT, AND A PRAYER: WRITINGS TO STOP VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN AND GIRLS - Sunday, June 24th at 6:30pm
GARCIA STREET BOOKS PRESENTS Valerie Plame and Joe Wilson will make their first Santa Fe public appearance since relocating here and will read from the book alongside Eve Ensler, Jane Fonda, Ali McGraw, Jonathan Richards, Mary Charlotte Domandi (KSFR) Who: Garcia Street Books and V-Day A Memory, A Monologue, A Rant and A Prayer: Writings To Stop Violence Against Women and Girls, is a groundbreaking collection of monologues by world-renowned authors and playwrights, edited by Eve Ensler and Mollie Doyle and commissioned by V-Day for the first V-Day: UNTIL THE VIOLENCE STOPS festival, which took place June 2006 in New York City. All proceeds from the book will benefit V-Day. These diverse voices rise up in a collective roar to break open, expose, and examine the insidiousness of violence at all levels: brutality, neglect, a punch, even a put-down. These writings are inspired, funny, angry, heartfelt, tragic, and beautiful. But above all, together they create a true and profound portrait of how violence against women affects every one of us. The book includes information on how to organize V-Day events and readings of the book. A MEMORY, A MONOLOGUE, A RANT, AND A PRAYER is a call to the world to demand an end to violence against women. Santa Fe is one of over 45 communities and colleges presenting benefit readings of the book to raise money and awareness to end violence against women and girls. Cities signed up to date include Escondido (CA), Crested Butte (CO), Fort Collins (CO), Middletown (CT), Atlanta (GA), Chicago (IL), Boston (MA), Holyoke (MA), Charlotte (NC), Elmira (NY), New York (NY), Westchester (NY), Santa Fe (NM), Cleveland (OH), Bethlehem (PA), Philadelphia (PA), Chattanooga (TN), Austin (TX), Salt Lake City (UT), Seattle (WA), Ballarat Australia, Sydney Australia, Nova Scotia Canada, Ontario Canada, Jamaica, Mexico, Taipei Taiwan, and London England.
R D Rosen will celebrate A BUFFALO IN THE HOUSE: THE TRUE STORY OF A MAN, AN ANIMAL, AND THE AMERICAN WEST - Friday, June 22nd at 5:00pm
R D Rosen's books include PSYCHOBABBLE and the Edgar Award-winning mystery novel STRIKE THREE YOU'RE DEAD. His career as a humorist spans THE GENERIC NEWS on PBS, SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE, and HBO's NOT NECESSARILY THE NEWS. He is the creator and co-author of the bestselling series of "Bad" books: BAD CAT, BAD DOG, BAD BABY, and BAD PRESIDENT. From Publishers Weekly Sherman Alexie will read and sign his newest novel, FLIGHT - Wednesday, June 20th at 7:00pm
From The Washington Post's Book World/washingtonpost.com The year is 2007; the hero, a throwaway kid named Zits. Half-Native American, half- Irish, an orphan since the age of 6, Zits is a self-proclaimed blank sky, a solar eclipse. He inherited his mother's green eyes and his father's acne. At 15, he has lived in 20 different foster homes, gone to 22 different schools and owns just enough clothing to fill a backpack. Then one day, looking for revenge, he takes a trip back in time and gets a chance at redemption. Where H.G. Wells used a time machine and Jack Finney used hypnosis, Sherman Alexie uses a gun as a mode of transport in his entertaining new novel, Flight. The story opens as Zits wakes up in yet another foster home, has a stare-down contest with his brutish foster father, shoves his whiney foster mother and ends up in juvie, the routine as familiar to him as sunrise. In jail, he meets a wise and well-read white boy, Justice, who apologizes for his race's aggression toward Native Americans and encourages Zits to perform a Ghost Dance, dancing the white people away. Once out of jail, Justice gives Zits two guns, one real, one paint, and Zits ghost dances in a bank, where he gets shot in the head. At the moment of impact, his journey through time begins. Zits's odyssey is actually a vision quest on which he learns that revenge is bloody painful. Landing in 1975, Zits inhabits the body of FBI agent Hank Storm and finds himself suddenly sympathetic with the law as he confronts two traitorous members of a Native American group called Indigenous Rights Now, who have gruesomely tortured a young warrior for not revealing some mysterious and unspecified secrets. Sickened, Zits/Storm falls unconscious, wakes three days later, meets his wife, Mrs. Storm, kisses her and realizes he would kill for her kisses. That thought transports him again, and he lands in a real Indian camp, where Crazy Horse and his band await Custer. Zits witnesses the carnage of Custer's Last Stand through the eyes of a young Indian child and finds he's losing his stomach for revenge. He time-travels several more times, and each trip presents moral dilemmas. He becomes the linchpin for the slaughter of children, innocently befriends a suicide bomber and finally inhabits his own absentee father. The quest for revenge becomes a lesson in empathy, and while "lesson" may not sound like a recipe for good fiction, Zits is extraordinarily good company. Self-mocking without being self-effacing, he seduces us with attitude that seems especially geared to teenage readers: "The skin doctor tells me I have six months to live. I'm exaggerating. I don't have a skin doctor and you can't actually die of zits. But you can die of shame. And, trust me, my zit-shame is killing me." A character who's charmingly cheeky about himself talks well about things like shame and revenge but occasionally embodies the ideas, not the emotions. And the novel's pretty much a one-man show. Even while Zits inhabits other bodies, he rarely loses Zits-consciousness, so we experience "the other" through one spirit, voice and mind. In real time, the secondary characters are more plot props than fully developed people. They range from eloquent philosophers like Justice to cartoons like the foster parents. The foster mother is described as "a short, fat woman. If this were a fairy tale, she'd be the evil stepmother who eats children. This isn't a fairy tale, so she's just a loser who gorges on food like alcoholics drink booze." These caricatures seem deliberate and are arguably appropriate for a novel about a loner like Zits, who defines himself against the world. Why give the world dimension when its orphaned children have none? At any rate, don't look for languid realism or descriptive fluff in Flight. Alexie favors the short-cut transitions of a director, and he choreographs potent, dramatic stand-alone scenes that would play well on stage. Here Zits meditates on the nature of profanity, deciding even a harmless word can be profane when delivered with punch: " 'Don't you look at me that way,' [the foster father] says. 'Don't try to stare me down.' "Of course, I keep staring at him. " 'Stop staring at me,' he says. " 'Plop,' I say. " 'What did you say?' " 'Plopping plop.' "Jesus, I sound like a pissed-off Dr. Seuss character. That thought makes me laugh. " 'Are you laughing at me?' he asks. " 'You bet your plopping ass I'm laughing at you.' " Flight lacks the depth and scope of Alexie's groundbreaking Reservation Blues, but it's original, funny and provocative -- a trip worth taking. -- Ann Cummins is the author of a story collection, "Red Ant House," and a novel, "Yellowcake."
Michael Hamilton Morgan, Santa Fe Resident, will launch LOST HISTORY: THE ENDURING LEGACY OF MUSLIM SCIENTISTS, THINKERS, AND ARTISTS - Friday, June 15th at 5:00pm
What if the alternative to war, terrorism, and the "clash of civilizations" ... LOST HISTORY sweeps the reader through the tumultuous history of a forgotten civilization built on pure genius and innovation ... with a heavy dose of tolerance thrown in. Lost History is gripping reading for anyone seeking to understand how early Muslim breakthroughs in mathematics, astronomy, medicine, science, culture and leadership not only laid the cornerstones of the European Renaissance, but how they reverberate even today -- in computation, digital appliances, surgery and pharmaceuticals, film and books, modern universities and global commerce. Award-winning former diplomat Michael Morgan is both a novelist and nonfiction author. His most recent book is Collision with History: the Search for John F. Kennedy's PT 109, a book and tv documentary released by National Geographic, Simon & Shuster and MSNBC in 2002. His previous book was Graveyards of the Pacific, jointly released in 2001 by National Geographic and Simon & Shuster with Disney's Pearl Harbor feature film. On those books he collaborated with undersea explorer and Titanic discover Robert D. Ballard. Morgan's 1991 international thriller The Twilight War (Dutton/Signet) was set in Eastern Europe, Central America and Washington. National Book Award winner John Casey called it "profound, canny, intelligent and a top echelon thriller", while Stephen Coonts called it "powerful, gripping and will keep you riveted." From 1990 to 2000 Morgan was director and senior consultant for Mobil Corporation's international Pegasus Prize for Literature, and worked with writers like Isabel Allende, Vaclav Havel and Robert Stone and publishers like Penguin and Weidenfeld & Nicholson. Morgan was a panelist at the PEN World Congress in Prague in 1994. He was a keynote speaker at the U.S. National Archives in 1992 on thrillers, and has been interviewed by U.S., European, Asian and Latin American television. Morgan has appeared on the CBS Evening News, ABC Good Morning America, Mutual Radio and others. His editorials and advertisements have appeared in The New York Times, Time, The Washington Post and The Wall Street Journal.
Booklaunch, Exhibition, Sale & Signing 7/1 "ELIAS RIVERA"Booklaunch, Exhibition, Sale & Signing Elias Rivera will sign the new monograph "ELIAS RIVERA", written by the internationally renowned British art historian, Edward Lucie-Smith, with an foreword by Gene Hackman. Garcia Street Books will exhibit 50 of the original paintings that accompany the deluxe limited edition of this book. The exhibition runs through July 12.
Exhibition / Sale "ARTISTS' BOOKS FROM SPAIN AND THE NEW WORLD" Artists' Books Images and Descriptions Here 
BOOKLAUNCH PARTY, Sat., Aug. 5, 4pm. UNTOLD NEW MEXICO: STORIES FROM THE HIDDEN PASTBOOKLAUNCH PARTY, Saturday, August 5, 4:00 pm. 
Booksigning and Talk, 7/15, PROGRAMMING THE UNIVERSEBooksigning and Talk Seth Lloyd, Professor of Mechanical Engineering, MIT, Adjunct Professor, The Santa Fe Institute 
Booksigning and Talk, 7/22, THE HEARTLESS STONEBooksigning and Talk Tom Zoellner will discuss his just published book entitled, The Heartless Stone: a journey through the world of diamonds, deceit, and desire. Tom Zoellner is an award-winning magazine and newspaper journalist who resides in New York. In the summer of 1993 he walked the entire length of the Santa Fe Trail from Missouri to Santa Fe. 
Booksigning 5/27 "THE BIG BOOK OF OUTDOOR COOKING AND ENTERTAINING"Booklaunch/Celebration THE BIG BOOK OF OUTDOOR COOKING AND ENTERTAINING Big is an understatement. The Jamisons have This 544-page volume includes recipes and Description The Jamisons are right. Everyone loves food For more information call: Garcia Street Books @ 505-986-0151 MAY EVENTSBooksigning 4/6 "IRAQ: THE LOGIC OF WITHDRAWL"Booksigning/Discussion Thursday, April 6 at 5:00 pm
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Booksigning 4/7 "SECRET GIRL"Booklaunch/Celebration Friday, April 7 at 5:00 pm
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HELLO STRANGER Virginia Swift In her fourth academic mystery (see BYE, BYE LOVE) Mustang Sally places herself in danger in an effort to prove the innocence of an abuse victim. The story line starts off very interesting as Sally lectures her class of mostly zombies on the Rule of Thumb that fascinatingly is never mentioned by Fundamentalists when quoting scripture as the rationale behind a social poison. The investigation is fun to follow while the heroine's relationship with Hawk is jeopardized by the attention Dave gives her. Fans of strong resourceful female sleuths will enjoy the Professor's latest escapades. --- Harriet Klausner For more information call: Garcia Street Books @ 505-986-0151 Booksigning 3/21 "THE SCAVENGER'S GUIDE TO HAUTE CUISINE"Booklaunch/Celebration
THE SCAVENGER'S GUIDE TO HAUTE CUISINE Steve Rinella Advance praise: "Gary Snyder has pointed out that in America there is a "THE SCAVENGER'S GUIDE TO HAUTE CUISINE For more information call: Garcia Street Books @ 505-986-0151 Booksigning 3/24 "A FIELD GUIDE TO GOOD DECISIONSBooklaunch/Celebration
A FIELD GUIDE TO GOOD DECISIONS Santa Fe resident, lawyer, author, mediator, Mark Developed over twenty years in settings as diverse as hopsital bedsides and corporate boardrooms, A Field Guide to Good Decisions provides the skills to make decisions that reflect your core values while respecting those of others, including the long-term implications for all participants. Illustrated through many real-life examples that will resonate with readers both professionally and personally, A Field Guide to Good Decisions offers practical tools and techniques for identifying individual and common goals, reaching consensus, and communicating the results effectively. The authors also show readers how to overcome common obstacles to good decision-making (psychological, cultural, and organizational). Ultimately, this book is about making decisions which, while not always a matter of life or death, nevertheless have a powerful effect on our sense of self, our credibility in the eyes of others, and the lives of those touched by the choices we make. For more information call: Garcia Street Books @ 505-986-0151 Booksigning 3/28 "MY LIFE ON MARS"Booklaunch/Celebration
MY LIFE ON MARS Alicia Miller An intimate portrait of a compelling family and the magic of love found later in life Digging through her family's belongings, Eliza uncovers secrets that have been buried for years and that offer her startling revelations about her enigmatic parents, as well as insights into the choices she has made for herself. In putting to rest her past, she also finds new love for her mother and brother, and a passion like none she's ever known in the arms of a man from the Moon. For more information call: Garcia Street Books @ 505-986-0151 |
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