Carlene O'Connor to sign copies of her recent books at Barnes and Noble

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Published March 1, 2025 - 10:00 a.m. Modified March 1, 2025 - 10:00 a.m.

AT COLLECTED WORKS

Collected Works presents three author events this week.

Poets Bill O’Neill and Hakim Bellamy will be in conversation — in verse and reflection — at 4:30 p.m. Sunday, March 2. O’Neill is a former New Mexico state senator, and Bellamy was the inaugural poet laureate of Albuquerque.

At 6 p.m. Wednesday, March 5, Alexander Heffner will talk about his book “A Documentary History of the United States,” about rebuilding civic trust in the digital age and overcoming divisiveness, disinformation and filter bubbles.

At 6 p.m. Friday, March 7, Mary Morris will talk about her book “Lanterns in the Night Market,” a love letter to the world, and Rebecca Aronson will chat about “Anchor,” her latest collection of poems and about what “anchor” means to us, literally and figuratively.

Collected Works is at 202 Galisteo St., Santa Fe.

AT GERONIMO’S BOOKS

Deborah Jackson Taffa will discuss her 2024 memoir “Whiskey Tender” at 4 p.m. Saturday, March 8, at Geronimo’s Books. Taffa’s memoir details her life from age 3 to 18 growing up with a Native American father and a Catholic Latin American mother. Taffa is a member of the Quechan and Laguna Pueblo tribes.

The memoir was a National Book Award finalist. The bookstore is located at 3018 Cielo Court, Suite D, Santa Fe.

AT BARNES AND NOBLE

Carlene O’Connor of Albuquerque will sign copies of her recent books “Murder in an Irish Garden” and “You Have Gone Too Far: A County Kerry Novel” at noon Saturday, March 8, at Barnes and Noble in Coronado Shopping Center, 6600 Menaul Blvd. NE.

AT THE JCC

Lauren Grodstein discusses her novel “We Must Not Think of Ourselves” at 3 p.m. Sunday, March 9, at the Jewish Community Center of Greater Albuquerque.

The story is set in 1940 when Adam Paskow, a prisoner in the Warsaw Ghetto, joins a secret group of archivists working to preserve the truth of what is happening behind the ghetto walls. The book is described as a story of love, determination and sacrifice.

Grodstein teaches creative writing at the Camden campus of Rutgers University.

Tickets are $12 at jccabq.org/bookfest or call 505-418-4469. The JCC is located at 5520 Wyoming Blvd. NE.

IN TAOS

Reema Datta of Taos will discuss her book “The Yogi’s Way: Transform Your Mind, Health and Reality” at 4 p.m. Sunday, March 2, at SOMOS Salon, 108 Civic Plaza Drive, Taos. Datta says the lessons and practices in the book show how they are rooted in yogic wisdom, cutting-edge science and modern life.