Anne Hillerman to discuss, sign 'Lost Birds' at Collected Works, op.cit

AT COLLECTED WORKS

Anne Hillerman will discuss and sign copies of her new novel “Lost Birds,” at 6 p.m. Monday, April 22. It features Navajo police officers Jim Chee and Bernadette Manuelito, and the return of Joe Leaphorn in a major problem-solving role. Leaphorn is himself a former member of the Navajo police and a current private investigator.

Hillerman will be in conversation with fellow Santa Fe author John Sandford.

Anne Hillerman to discuess, sign 'Lost Birds' at Collected Works, op.cit

Santa Fe’s Douglas Preston is working double time this spring. He is author of the new thriller “Extinction” and co-editor of the new collaborative novel “14 Days.” And he’ll be discussing and signing both books at 6 p.m. Wednesday, April 24.

“Extinction” is set deep in the Colorado Rockies, where a resort offers guests the chance to view woolly mammoths and giant ground sloths in their native habitat. They’ve been brought back from extinction through genetic manipulation. A billionaire and his son and his new wife are kidnapped and murdered in the backcountry by what is believed to a band of eco-terrorists. But the killings mount and the town is evacuated. State investigators suspect an evil presence is bent on ancient animal extinction.

Preston will also present “Fourteen Days,” a collaborative novel with a twist. It is set in a former tenement house on New York’s Lower East Side. Each character in this diverse cast is secretly written by a different major literary voice. Among the literary contributors are Diana Gabaldon, Hampton Sides, Ishmael Reed, Tommy Orange, Celeste Ng, John Grisham and Scott Turow. Preston co-edited the book with Margaret Atwood.

Collected Works is located at 202 Galisteo St. in Santa Fe.

AT TREASURE HOUSE BOOKS & GIFTS

Treasure House Books & Gifts hosts two author events this week.

From 1:30-3:30 p.m. Sunday, April 21, Albuquerque’s Patricia Smith Wood signs her biography of her mother, “Raising Ruby.”

On Saturday, April 27, from 1:30-3:30 p.m., David Ryan of Albuquerque will talk about and sign his new book “Wandering in the Clear Light of New Mexico.” It is subtitled “A book about the state’s special places.”

Treasure House is located at 2012 South Plaza St. NW, in Old Town.

AT OP.CIT BOOKS

Anne Hillerman will discuss and sign “Lost Birds” at 2 p.m. Wednesday, April 24, at op.cit.books, 157 Paseo de Peralta, Santa Fe.

AT BOOKWORKS

Deborah Taffa, Ramona Emerson and Brandon Hobson will give readings and are in conversation about “How Indigenous Storytellers are changing the Narrative of History” at 6 p.m. Thursday, April 25, at Bookworks, 4022 Rio Grande Blvd. NW. Shawn Spruce will moderate the discussion.

— David Steinberg/For the Journal