• To see information about this months Bookfair, click HERE
• To see information on TV Turn Off Week 2002, click HERE
• For more information on the latest CREATIVE WRITING WORKSHOP, click HERE

NEWS FROM THE BOULDER CO-OP MARKET
The co-op now has a location at 1906 Pearl St. in Boulder, and plans a May, 2002 opening. Your membership support would be greatly appreciated at this time. Call (303) 447-2667 or visit www.bouldercoop.com.

JOHN RAPOZA
Wednesday, April 3, 7:30 p.m.

In Living, Loving, and Leaving (Gibbs Associates, $14.95), local poet JOHN RAPOZA offers a touching and inspirational collection of poems that will bring joy and understanding to the reader’s life, and comfort during challenging times. His words of life, love, and the hereafter will pluck at your heartstrings.

DAVID WHYTE
Thursday, April 4, 7:30 p.m.

How often do you trudge through your workweek, finding ways to nurture your soul only during your free time? Poet and consultant DAVID WHYTE reveals how work can be an invaluable opportunity for discovery and growth; Crossing the Unknown Sea (Riverhead, $14.00) demonstrates how poetry and practicality can mesh in finding career fulfillment.

Crossing the Unknown Sea

CHRIS BUTLER
Friday, April 5, 1:00 p.m.

Strange things happen at The Moon & Riddles Diner and the Sunnyside Cafe (Harcourt, $17.00). That’s why Shoofly Sally and her Everything Dog set out for the diner’s silver door. It’s a place where a spoon and a teapot read menus at the counter, where a frog and a bear and a buffalo cook pancakes, and CHRIS BUTLER’s charming illustrations bring it all to life.

The Moon & Riddles Diner and the Sunnyside Cafe

JULIA BUTTERFLY HILL
Saturday, April 6, 2:00 p.m.

The Legacy of Luna described JULIA BUTTERFLY HILL’s two-year battle to save an American forest. In One Makes the Difference (Harper San Francisco, $14.95), she provides the link between her heroic activism and the environmental activism we can all do daily; using simple actions, facts, and examples, she shows how easily one can make a real difference.

One Makes the Difference

The Legacy of Luna ($14.00 )

ROGER EBERT
Monday, April 8, 7:30 p.m.

ROGER EBERT is consistently on the frontlines of modern cinema—as the Pulitzer Prize-winning film critic of the Chicago Sun-Times and longtime host of syndicated top-rated cinematic review television shows, millions of devotees look to him for judgment on upcoming films. For the past several years, however, Ebert has also written a biweekly series of essays that revisit the gems of classic cinema, dusting them off, revealing their facets, and allowing them to be appreciated by new generations of movie lovers. In The Great Movies (Broadway, $27.50), Ebert has collected 100 of these titles, revising and lengthening the pieces to provide an entertaining mix of critical appreciation, analysis, and history for each of these cinematic landmarks. Always informative and engaging, Ebert’s take on The Great Movies is not to be missed.

The Great Movies

BYRON KATIE
Tuesday, April 9, 7:30 p.m.

For a decade, BYRON KATIE struggled with depression, rage, despair, and even thoughts of suicide; when she woke up one morning in a state of joy, she realized just how her suffering had ended. Loving What Is (Harmony, $24.00) introduces The Work, a simple method Katie has devised for viewing what is troubling you in a new light and thereby finding peace.

Loving What Is

ALISTAIR MACLEOD
Wednesday, April 10, 7:30 p.m.

ALISTAIR MACLEOD has honed his famously beautiful narrative voice over thirty years; author of the acclaimed recent novel No Great Mischief, it was his spectacular short fiction, rarely straying from his beloved Cape Breton, which first garnered him praise. Island (Vintage, $14.00) collects, for the first time in a single volume, MacLeod’s sixteen short stories.

Island

No Great Mischief ($13.00 )

SARA HALL
Thursday, April 11, 7:30 p.m.

Drowning in the midst of her outwardly fulfilling but internally stifling life, SARA HALL glimpsed a rower gliding along the tidal flats of Lloyd Neck; it was here that she discovered the calling that would transform her body and her mind. Drawn to the Rhythm (W.W. Norton & Co, $24.95) chronicles Hall’s ardent reclamation of her self worth and her life.

Drawn to the Rhythm

PETER STEINHAUER
Friday, April 12, 7:30 p.m.

Magnificent and intensely personal, Boulder photographer PETER STEINHAUER’s Vietnam: Portraits and Landscapes (Edition Stemmle, $60.00), the culmination of seven years’ immersion in the culture, chronicles the daily lives of people from all walks of life, as well as the power and beauty of the Vietnamese landscape, from the lush northern mountains to the Mekong Delta.

Vietnam: Portraits and Landscapes

KATHLEEN NORRIS
Monday, April 15, 7:30 p.m.

When KATHLEEN NORRIS, a sheltered teen from the Midwest, applied to Bennington College, she was completely unprepared for the campus in the sixties, rife with drugs, sex, and bohemianism. In The Virgin of Bennington (Riverhead, $13.00), Norris offers a dramatic coming-of-age account, from Bennington to her immersion in Manhattan’s poetry scene.

The Virgin of Bennington

DR. HELEN CALDICOTT
Tuesday, April 16, 12:00 p.m.

The world’s leading spokesperson for the anti-nuclear movement, DR. HELEN CALDICOTT has devoted 25 years to an international campaign to educate the public about the medical hazards of the nuclear age, and the necessary changes in human behavior to stop environmental destruction. Her new book, The New Nuclear Danger (WW Norton, $16.95), reveals how our current nuclear policy places us at risk of the unimaginable horrors of nuclear holocaust.

The New Nuclear Danger

AMERICAN POET GREATS LECTURE
Tuesday, April 16, 7:30 p.m.

Esteemed avant-garde filmmaker STAN BRAKHAGE will reel together the lives of poets on both coasts and points between that influenced the artist and his highly praised experimental work. In his lecture Poetry Has Helped Me Make Films, Brakhage will discuss his close associations with poets such as Rexroth, Creeley, Olson, and Ginsberg.

JOHN STAUBER
Wednesday, April 17, 7:30 p.m.

Destined to be hated by corporations everywhere, Trust Us, We’re Experts! (J.P. Tarcher, $14.95) is an eye-opening account of how these entities manufacture “independent experts” in order to reshape our reality
and manufacture our consent. JOHN STAUBER’s revelations will forever alter the way we look at news, information, and the people who serve it up to us.

Trust Us, We’re Experts!

GREG CHILD
Thursday, April 18, 7:30 p.m.

The harrowing true story of four American climbers captured by terrorists in the mountains of Central Asia, Over the Edge (Villard, $24.95) finally tells the complete story of their nightmarish ordeal. GREG CHILD re-creates the entire hour-by-hour drama, resulting in an astounding book about loyalty and the unshakable human will to survive.

Over the Edge

LINDA REIBEL
Friday, April 19, 7:30 p.m.

You don’t have to petition, march, or sit-in to save the world—you can help make the earth a better place every time you eat or buy groceries. Industrialized agriculture has resulted in a spate of environmental damage, but with Eating to Save the Earth (Celestial Arts, $9.95), LINDA REIBEL demonstrates how easy it can be to choose foods that are earth-friendly.

Eating to Save the Earth

WOMEN IN TRANSITION:
TAKING STEPS TOWARD FINANCIAL INDEPENDENCE
Monday, April 22, 7:00 p.m.

In this seminar, Morgan Stanley Financial Advisors DANA WEISS and LILI COOPER will discuss taking the steps necessary to achieve financial independence in the wake of life transitions such as divorce, job or career change, or loss of a parent or significant other.

TODD SHIMODA & LINDA SHIMODA
Tuesday, April 23, 7:30 p.m.

In Berkeley, a young Japanese-American woman studies a calligraphy teacher after his stroke; in Kyoto, two decades earlier, a married Zen master and his student fall in love. In The Fourth Treasure (Doubleday, $24.95), TODD SHIMODA intertwines these two seemingly disparate plot strands into an enchanting whole, with illustrations by LINDA SHIMODA.

The Fourth Treasure

TOM NOEL
Wednesday, April 24, 7:30 p.m.

Just what was so peculiar about Colorado’s 1904 gubernatorial election? TOM NOEL’s The Colorado Almanac (Graphic Arts Center, $12.95) has the answer to this question and many more you hadn’t thought to ask. From the highest point in the state to the best place to spot a jackalope, fascinating facts on the geology, economy, history, and people of our state abound.

The Colorado Almanac

JUDITH SHERVEN & JAMES SNIECHOWSKI
Thursday, April 25, 7:30 p.m.

No matter how much two people have in common, they soon discover all the ways they are different. Contrary to popular belief, however, JUDITH SHERVEN and JAMES SNIECHOWSKI demonstrate in Be Loved For Who You Really Are (Renaissance, $24.95) that differences are not the problem, but rather the means to a deeper connection with one another.

Be Loved For Who You Really Are

DAVID LIFE
Monday, April 29, 7:30 p.m.

Jivamukti Yoga (Wellspring, $16.00) provides a foundation on the practices and principles of this uniquely American style of vigorous yoga in which the postures flow into each other. Going beyond the postures to their origins in yoga’s ancient traditions, DAVID LIFE and Sharon Gannon also explain the liberating spiritual power that is released with steady practice.

Jivamukti Yoga

IRINI ROCKWELL
Tuesday, April 30, 7:30 p.m.

The Five Wisdom Energies (Shambhala, $13.95) invites us to celebrate our strengths and work with our weaknesses by learning to identify and utilize five basic personal styles, or energies. With engaging exercises, IRINI ROCKWELL shows us how to find the energies active in our lives and how we can work with them to improve self-awareness and creative expression.

The Five Wisdom Energies

Author events are also supported by your purchase of the author's books. These purchases are tracked and used by the publishers in decisions about other authors who might visit.

All events are free and open to the public unless otherwise noted. Events are subject to change or cancellation. Please call us to confirm on the day of the event. For more information, call 447-2074. If you are unable to use the stairs to the second floor where our events are held, please call and ask about our closed circuit television service on the main floor.

CREATIVE WRITING WORKSHOP: POETRY MATTERS
Tuesdays, April 9-May 14, 6:30-8:30
or, Thursdays, April 11-May 16, 6:30-8:30

John Frederick Nims once said, “Poetry is what it is because we are what we are.” Take time to write about what you know and who you are, to make a poem that “is what it is”. In this workshop for all levels of writing experience, we will write, read, and discuss all kinds of poetry and poem-making in a supportive and stimulating way. The workshop will be led by Gayle Nosal, MFA, Creative Writing and published poet, and will meet in the Upper North Room. The cost for the workshop is $55. Call Gayle at (303) 449-6882 to reserve a space.

BOOK FAIR THIS MONTH
This month we are hosting a book fair to help a local school raise funds. Please stop by and show your support by mentioning to the bookseller at the register that you are here for the Book Fair.
Members of our Frequent Buyer and Teacher Discount Programs will not receive a discount on book fair purchases. Your discount is “donated” to the school at the end of the fundraiser.

• Friday – Sunday, April 5-7, Whittier Elementary School
• Friday – Sunday, April 19-21, Alaya Preschool
• Friday – Sunday, April 26-28, Columbine Elementary School

Turn off TV & Turn on Life
TV Turn Off Week 2002
April 22-28

Americans watch an average of four hours of television every day; each year, American children spend more time in front of the TV screen than they spend in school. Numerous studies have shown that our national television habit undermines academic achievement and promotes an unhealthy, sedentary, passive, and isolated lifestyle. The time our children spend watching television eats into the practice time and reading experience necessary to develop literacy, as well as forming lifelong habits of isolation and passive observation, strongly linked to such behavioral effects as depression and obesity. The time we choose to spend watching television is a direct drain on the time we might otherwise spend becoming involved in groups, interacting socially, and engaging in pursuits that require our active mind or body.

This month, join millions of Americans in breaking free from TV for one week, April 22-28. Instead of watching the tube, read, exercise, visit with family and friends, invest time in your community, and have some real-life fun!