BOOK NOTES
Jessica Danger will talk about her book 鈥楴o Heroic Measures: A Memoir鈥�
Nathaniel Sharratt to hold workshop and book signing at Garcia Street Books
AT BOOKS ON THE BOSQUE
At 5:30 p.m. Saturday, May 30, Jessica Danger will talk about her book 鈥淣o Heroic Measures: A Memoir.鈥� The author鈥檚 life is shattered when she gets a phone call telling her that her long-estranged father 鈥� the man who once tried to kill her 鈥� is now dying of liver failure.
Her dilemma. Should she abandon her father or care for the man who caused her so much pain and fear? The book is called a powerful story of reckoning, redemption and the complexities of family and love.
Books on the Bosque is located at 6261 Riverside Plaza Lane NW.
AT GARCIA STREET BOOKS
The Santa Fe bookstore presents Nathaniel Sharratt, who is giving a workshop and book signing on his book 鈥淭ranscending: The Practice of Spiritual Living, Vol. 2鈥� at 4:30 p.m. Thursday, May 28.
The book offers practical tools to navigate challenges with grace, to dissolve books to abundance and to infuse divine light into everyday life.
The Garcia Street Books is located at 376 Garcia St. in Santa Fe.
AT OBSCURA GALLERY
Documentary filmmaker and photographer Lynn Adler will sign copies of her book 鈥淎nd So We Moved to Petaca鈥� at 4 p.m. Friday, May 29, at the Santa Fe gallery. The signing will be followed by an artist reception from 5-7 p.m.
The photographs in the book are of residents, their animals and landscapes in the remote Northern New Mexico village that Adler took in the early 1970s.
A number of images in the book are on exhibit at the gallery through June 6.
Obscura Gallery is located at 225 Delgado St. in Santa Fe.
IN TAOS
Three poets will read from their work at 6 p.m. Saturday, May 30, at SOMOS Salon.
The poets are Geoffrey Babbitt, Jami Macarty and Radha Marcum.
Babbitt鈥檚 鈥淎 Grain of Sand in Lambeth鈥� won the 2023 Betsy Joiner Flanagan Poetry Prize.
Macarty teaches creative writing and poetry at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver.
Marcum鈥檚 first poetry collection, 鈥淏loodline,鈥� looked into her grandfather鈥檚 involvement in the building of the first atomic bomb in New Mexico during World War II. It won the New Mexico Book Award for Poetry in 2018.
SOMOS Salon is located at 108 Civic Plaza Drive in Taos.
