Author to discuss Navajo foods, dietary practices

AT BOOKWORKS: Charlotte

Johnson Frisbie will sign “Food Sovereignty the Navajo Way: Cooking with Tall Woman” at 3 p.m. today.

This is the first book to focus on the dietary practices of the Navajos from the earliest known times into the present and relate them to the Navajo Nation’s participation in the food sovereignty movement. She will also sign at 4 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 18, at Page One, 5850 Eubank NE.

Alfred Corchado will sign and discuss “Homelands” at 6 p.m. Monday, Aug. 13.

The book merges the political and the personal, telling the story of the last great Mexican migration through the eyes of four friends at a time when the Mexican population in the U.S. swelled from 700,000 during the 1970s to more than 35 million today. It is the narrative of the U.S. in a painful economic and political transition.

Dos Gatos Press conducts “Wingbeats,” its free monthly poetry writing workshop, at 6 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 14.

Jerry Mitchell will sign “Killing Godiva’s Horse” at 6 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 16.

Ranger Jack Chastain returns in “Killing Godiva’s Horse,” set in national parks on opposite sides of the world. What’s at stake? Lives, heritage and truth. Chastain is pulled into battle by a man trying to start a Western lands rebellion. Chastian is sent to Kenya to finish the research of a scientist killed by rhino poachers.

Bookworks is at 4022 Rio Grande NW. Call 344-8139.

AT TREASURE HOUSE BOOKS &

GIFTS: Rudy J. Miera will read from “The Fall and Rise of ‘Champagne’ Sanchez” from 1 to 3 p.m. today.

Trouble always came for “Champagne” Sánchez. This time, the law was on trouble’s side. Whether it is his attempts to make a living selling fireworks, vacuum cleaners or burritos, things can, and do, go terribly wrong. “The Fall and Rise of ‘Champagne’ Sánchez” is a fast-paced modern story set in Albuquerque.

Gloria Casale will sign “Bioterror: The Essential Threat” from 1 to 3 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 18.

Yuri Bushinikov, a renowned Russian genetics engineer, has vanished, along with two vials from the Russian smallpox stockpile. Dr. Anne Damiano has feared this scenario for many years.

Treasure House Books and Gifts is at 2012 South Plaza NW in Old Town. Call 242-7204.