The
Secret of Laurel Oaks is a ghost story sliding (sometimes jumping) from
the present to the 1840’s and back. In today’s world, Albuquerque
sister and brother, Lila and Gabe, have the eerie pleasure of staying
at a genuinely haunted plantation in Louisiana. In fact, the real
plantation this story is based upon made the Smithsonian’s list of the
ten most haunted houses in America. Lots of ghosts buzz around,
settling old debts and resolving unfinished business. (Starscape)
Lois Ruby lives in Albuquerque.
SATURDAY • NOVEMBER 1 • 3-5 PM • SPECIAL EVENT IN THE CAFE SELF-PUBLISHING AND LOCAL AUTHOR FAIR
Authors
are invited to bring their books to promote independently and sell at
Page One’s Self-Publishing Fair. This excellent networking opportunity
occurs the first Saturday of every month from 3 - 5 PM in the Page One
Cafe.
FRIDAY • NOVEMBER 7 • 6 PM • TALK AND BOOK SIGNING Laurie Brooks SELKIE GIRL
Elin
Jean has always known she was different from the others on their remote
island home. She is a gentle soul, and can’t stand the annual tradition
of killing seal babies to thin the population. Even Tam McCodron, the
gypsy boy to whom she is strangely drawn, seems to belong more than she
does.
It’s just a matter of time until Elin Jean discovers the
secret of her past: her mother, Margaret, is a selkie, held captive by
her smitten father, who has kept Margaret’s precious seal pelt hostage
for 16 years. Soon Elin Jean faces a choice about whether to free her
mother from her island prison. And, as the child of this unusual union,
she must make another decision. Part land, part sea, she must explore
both worlds and dig deep inside herself to figure out where she
belongs, and where her future lies.
Poignant, meaningful, and romantic, Selkie Girl is a lyrical debut about a mesmerizing legend. (Knopf)
Laurie
Brooks is a playwright whose work includes The Wrestling Season, a
young adult play. This is her first novel. She lives in Phoenix,
Arizona.
Dave
Durgin, co-founder of Verge Fund, offers his life and experience as a
lesson to others on the same path in this autobiography. Written with
Sherry Robinson, Entrepreneur to Investor The Hard Way provides tips
for startups, discusses obstacles to tech transfer, looks at New
Mexico’s evolving business climate, and presents a recent history of
Albuquerque. (Sunstone Press)
Durgin
came to Albuquerque in 1961 to work for Sandia and became one of the
first to attempt tech transfer. He spent 20 years with BDM and Booz
Allen Hamilton before founding Quatro Corp. Durgin’s long, bootstrapped
business and investment career parallels Albuquerque’s evolution from a
government town to a modern city with a diversified economy. Today
Albuquerque has 21 companies that bear his fingerprints and his
investments.
In
this dynamic, information-packed, and entertaining talk, Kenneth Cohen
will share cross-cultural perspectives on the principles, ethical
values, and practice of Native American medicine. He will explore
Native American medicine not as a thing of the past but as a living and
still-evolving tradition. He will discuss common misconceptions and
stereotypes promoted by media, Hollywood, and the highly “imaginative”
New Age Movement. Information will be presented from traditional and
modern perspectives. Interspersed with songs and stories, Ken will
share his understanding of health and disease, the purpose of common
healing methods, such as counseling, vision-seeking, and ritual, and
the connection between western and indigenous science.
Kenneth
Cohen health educator and practitioner of indigenous medicine, has
trained with Native American, African, and other indigenous elders for
more than thirty years. Of Russian-Jewish ancestry, Ken is a member of
several medicine societies, and his work is strongly endorsed by his
adoptive Cree family from Sturgeon Lake First Nation in Canada. Ken was
one of nine “exceptional healers” studied by the Menninger Institute
and is considered a world leader in the dialogue between ancient wisdom
and modern science. He is the winner of the leading international award
in energy medicine, the Alyce and Elmer Green Award for Innovation and
Lifetime Achievement. Ken is the author of the Random House classics
Honoring the Medicine: The Essential Guide to Native American Healing
and The Way of Qigong, as well as best-selling Sounds True audio and
DVD courses, and more than 200 journal articles on spirituality and
health. (www.kennethcohen.com) (Ballantine Books)
SATURDAY • NOVEMBER 15 • 7 PM • TALK AND BOOK SIGNING Jane Lindskold THIRTEEN ORPHANS
As
evocative and moving as Charles de Lint’s Newford books, with the
youthful protagonists and exciting action of Mercedes Lackey’s
fantasies, Thirteen Orphans makes our world today as excitingly strange
and unfamiliar as any fantasy realm. . . and grants readers a glimpse
of a fantasy world founded by ancient Chinese lore and magic.
As
far as college freshman Brenda Morris knows, there is only one Earth
and magic exists only in fairy tales. But Brenda is wrong.
A
father-daughter weekend turns into a nightmare when Brenda’s father is
magically attacked before her eyes. Brenda soon learns that her
ancestors once lived in world of smoke and shadows, of magic and
secrets. When that world’s Emperor was overthrown, the Thirteen Orphans
fled to our earth and hid their magic system in the game of mah-jong.
Each Orphan represents an animal from the Chinese Zodiac. Brenda’s
father is the Rat. And her polished, former child-star aunt, Pearl—that
eminent lady is the Tiger.
Only a handful of Orphans remain to
stand against their enemies. The Tiger, the Rooster, the Dog, the
Rabbit . . . and Brenda Morris. Not quite the Rat, but not quite human
either. (Tor Books)
Jane Lindskold is the
bestselling author of the Firekeeper series, which began with Through
Wolf’s Eyes and concluded with Wolf’s Blood, as well as many other
fantasy novels. She lives in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
Do
you think you have to travel great distances to see exciting wild
birds? Would you like to set up a birdfeeder in your yard, but feel
overwhelmed by the choices in your local store? Puzzled by how to
attract cardinals without attracting squirrels? Are you confused about
whether it’s best to feed birds in winter or summer?
For the
Birds answers all these questions and more! In this accessible,
easy-to-use guide, you’ll learn how to attract beautiful wild birds to
your own backyard, year-round. Authors Anne Schmauss, Mary Schmauss,
and Geni Krolick, three sisters who own and manage Wild Bird Unlimited,
draw on combined decades of experience to show you how to make your
backyard into a bird oasis. The unique month-by-month format gives you
the information you want when you need it, explaining what birds are
looking for in terms of food, habitat, water, and nesting every month
of the year.
The authors cover every area of bird essentials,
from basics such as types of birdseed to more exotic food choices like
mealworms; from the correct depth for a birdbath to where to place
nesting boxes. For the Birds is like having three bird experts on-call
to answer your questions at any moment, sharing their time-tested tips
and tricks for attracting the most interesting variety of birds to your
backyard. (Stewart, Tabori & Chang)
Anne Schmauss,
Mary Schmauss, and Geni Krolick are sisters and bird experts.
Originally from Northern Illinois, where their interest in backyard
birds began, the sisters have honed their backyard birding skills in
Minnesota, Missouri, and New Mexico. They now live in Albuquerque
and Santa Fe, New Mexico, where they own and manage Wild Birds
Unlimited stores.
The
Invisible Border is the first book to examine the Latino’s intellectual
and emotional relationship to work, family life, identity, friendships,
romance, religion, morality, thinking and reasoning and to the Anglo
community.
Through side-by-side comparisons authors Roll and
Irwin help deconstruct Latino and Anglo cultural differences, showing
the reader how core Latino values such as the hierarchical family unit
and intuitive decision-making shape behavior and compare to more common
Anglo ways. (Intercultural Press)
Samuel Roll is professor
emeritus of psychology at the University of New Mexico, where he
has taught for 35 years. Previously Dr. Roll taught at the University
of Pittsburgh and Yale University. He now maintains an active clinical
practice while also consulting in Colombia and Mexico.
