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Author George Ovitt will be at Alamosa Books at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 19 to sign his book ‘The Snowman” (Blue Mustang Press). A former solider comforts a dying comrade, a young couple copes with their first marital crisis and a teenager learns lessons about work and how to get by in life. Ovitt lives in Albuquerque, where he teaches history at Albuquerque Academy.
Also at Alamosa, Ralph Estes will sign his book “The Autobiography of Billy the Kid” (Black Rose Writing) at 7 p.m. Friday, Feb. 22. The book looks at what Billy the Kid’s feelings and intentions were as his saga unfolded.
Sandra Toro will be at Alamosa at 2 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 23 to sign her book “Secrets Behind Adobe Walls” (Gaon Books). It is the third novel in a trilogy about the Spanish Inquisition and conversos, or hidden Jews, set in the mid-18th century in colonial New Mexico.
Alamosa Books is at the corner of Paseo del Norte and Ventura NE.
AT UNDER CHARLIE’S COVERS BOOKSTORE: Jim Thompson will sign his latest book “The Ethics of Chaos: Finding Happiness in a World Gone Crazy” at from 11 a.m.-2 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 23 the bookstore located at 120 E. Highway 550 in Bernalillo.
The book draws on Biblical insights, chaos theory, quantum physics, Taoist wisdom and ancient Gnostic documents to offer a plan for living in uncertain times.
AT PAGE ONE: Eleanor Stewart, a former United Nations volunteer for an asylum camp in the Philippines, will be at the bookstore at 3 p.m. today to talk about her memoir, “Not Only a Refugee: An American UN Volunteer in the Philippines.”
Andrea Millenson Penner, a local poet, will be at Page One at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 20 to talk about her collection of works “When East Was North.” Penner sees the world through the places she has lived, from Connecticut, Southern California and northern Arizona to central and northwest New Mexico.
Ted Kerasote, a nature essay writer and photographer from Wyoming, will be at Page One at 7 p.m. Friday, Feb. 22 to talk and sign his latest nonfiction book, “Pukka’s Promise: The Quest for Longer-Lived Dogs.”
When Kerasote was ready for a new dog after losing his beloved Merle, he knew that he would want to give his puppy Pukka the longest life possible. But how to do that?
He is the author of the nationally best-selling “Merle’s Door: Lessons from a Freethinking Dog” and “Out There,” which won the National Outdoor Book Award.
Linda J. Martin, local personal food coach, will be at the bookstore at 3 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 23 to talk and sign her new book on weight loss, “Lighten Up: Diets Don’t Work, You Do.”
Page One is at 11018 Montgomery NE.
AT BOOKWORKS: Sandra Toro returns to Bookworks at 3 p.m today to launch her book “Secrets Behind Adobe Walls.” Her meticulously researched book is part medical mystery, part high adventure and part love story that revolves around crypto-Jews in colonial New Mexico.
At 7 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 21 Monika Ghattas talks about her new book “Los Arabes of New Mexico.” Ghattas, a historian who has lived in New Mexico for more than 50 years, explores the region’s rich Arab history.
Betta Ferrendelli, former Rio Rancho Observer editor, signs “The Friday Edition: A Samantha Church Mystery” at 7 p.m. Friday, Feb. 22. A beautiful young woman who happens to be an assistant county district attorney tumbles from her apartment balcony to her death on Christmas Eve. Her death is ruled a suicide but the DA’s sister, newspaper reporter Samantha Church, isn’t buying it.
At 3 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 23, authors Dave DeWitt (“Growing Medical Marijuana”) and Martin Lee (“Too High to Fail”) join marijuana advocates, researchers and other interested parties for a pan on medical marijuana.
Bookworks is at 4022 Rio Grande NW.
END OF LIFE: Gail Rubin, author of “A Good Goodbye: Funeral Planning for Those Who Don’t Plan to Die,” and Merri Rudd, author of “Life Planning in New Mexico,” will give a joint presentation on cremation issues titled “Ashes to Ashes: Dust in Your Face” at 1 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 19. The OASIS event will be at the Albuquerque Mennonite Church, 1300 Girard NE.
The cost is $7. To reserve a space call 889-0927.
COLLECTED WORKS: The bookstore will present “Muse Times Two” featuring poets D.A. Powell with his latest work “Useless Landscape, or a Guide for Boys” and dg nanouk okpik with her first full-length book of poetry, “Corpse Whale,” at 6 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 21. The event is free. Collected works is at 202 Galisteo St., Santa Fe.
