Nina Amir to give talk at Books on the Bosque on Jan. 31

AT BOOKS ON THE BOSQUE

Nina Amir will talk about her book “Change the World One Book at a Time: Make a Positive and Meaningful Difference with Your Words” at 1 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 31, at the bookstore. 

Amir supports writers on their journey to successful authorship as an author coach, a nonfiction development editor, transformational coach and a certified high performance coach.

Books on the Bosque is located at 6261 Riverside Plaza Lane NW.

AT BOOKWORKS

Bjorn Fredrickson will discuss his book “Wild Water: Passport to New Mexico’s Rivers” at 6 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 29, at the bookstore, 4022 Rio Grande Blvd. NW.

Fredrickson is conservation director of New Mexico Wild.

AT GERONIMO’S BOOKS

The poets Nathan Brown and John Roche will read from their work at 4 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 31, at the Santa Fe bookstore.

Brown, a Santa Fe resident, is a former poet laureate of Oklahoma.

Roche, who lives in Albuquerque, helps Jules Nyquist run the Poetry Playhouse in Placitas.

Geronimo’s Books is located at 3018 Cielo Court, Suite D in Santa Fe.

ANNIVERSARY REPRINT

Amador Publishers of Albuquerque is celebrating its 40th anniversary with the reprinting of Adela Amador’s book “Undercurrents: New Mexico Stories. Then and Now.”

Amador’s stories “are based on her own life experiences, though they are often intimately familiar tales exploring the paradoxical ups and downs of life itself. She draws parallels between her own existence and the deceptively calm undercurrents that run through the everyday lives of human beings,” said Zelda Leah Gatuskin, Amador’s editor-in-chief since 2010.

Gatuskin said Amador was born and raised in La Madera. She died in 2012.

“Undercurrents” was first released by Amador Publishers in 1999.

Copies of the reprinted edition are available at local and online booksellers, Gatuskin said.

For more information, email zelda@amadorbooks.com.

AT GARCIA STREET BOOKS

Author Barry Pearce will chat about his debut book “The Plan of Chicago: A City in Stories” at 4:30 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 31, at the Santa Fe bookstore.

New Mexico author Antonya Nelson praised the book, writing “O favored it, one story at a time, the way I do the masters of the genre. … Like them Pearce creates in each short story a novel’s worth of rich characterization with deft artistic impression, and like the masters of geographically linked collections - (James) Joyce and (Sherwood) Anderson - Pearce renders contemporary Chicago in loving and brutal complexity from a myriad of vivid voices.”

Pearce will be in conversation with Santa Fe author Robert Wilder.

Garcia Street Bookstore is at 376 Garcia St. in Santa Fe.