Mars on Earth (Tarcher, $27.95) is the incredible true story of a group who began a virtual exploration of Mars through a series of unique missions. Complete with habitat modules, space suits, and next-generation equipment, they lived in the most isolated spots on earth, where they replicated and studied the challenges of the Red Planet. Leading the mission was the man known as the "Christopher Columbus of Mars," renowned astronautical engineer ROBERT ZUBRIN.

  Mars on Earth

GESHE MICHAEL ROACH
Friday, April 2, 7:30 p.m.

In The Tibetan Book of Yoga (Doubleday, $15.95), readers will discover Heart Yoga, which developed over the centuries in the Gelukpa tradition of the Dalai Lamas. GESHE MICHAEL ROACH discovered a number of previously unknown Tibetan works on yoga in the course of his ongoing efforts to find and preserve ancient Tibetan Buddhist texts. To help readers incorporate this ancient wisdom in their daily lives, he provides a specific regime of yoga postures and meditations.

  The Tibetan Book of Yoga

LAURA FLANDERS
Tuesday, April 6, 7:30 p.m.

Invaluable to President Bush, underscrutinized by the press, the Bushwomen—women appointed to the inner circle of the president’s cabinet and subcabinet—are cast in carefully crafted images that tap into stereotypes, while the reality of their records has remained out of sight … until now. Bushwomen (Verso, $22.00), by LAURA FLANDERS, is the first book to investigate Bush’s women, and to report on how they rose to power and what they’ve done.

  Bushwomen

DZOGCHEN PONLOP RINPOCHE
Wednesday, April 7, 7:30 p.m.

Mahamudra and Dzogchen are perhaps the most profound teachings within all of Tibetan Buddhism. These are the two paths that provide practitioners with the most skillful means to experience the fully awakened state. In Wild Awakening (Shambhala, $18.95), Tibetan Buddhist master DZOGCHEN PONLOP RINPOCHE presents these esoteric teachings in a straightforward, informal style that reveals their surprising simplicity and great practical value.

  Wild Awakening

PAMELA WHITE
Thursday, April 8, 7:30 p.m.

Her body and her virginity are to be offered up to a stranger in exchange for her brother's life. Possessing nothing but her innocence and her fierce Irish pride, she has no choice but to comply. But the handsome man she faces in the bedchamber is not at all the monster she expected. And as the long hours of the night pass by, her senses ignite at the heat of their naked flesh in the latest historical romance from PAMELA WHITE (writing as Pamela Clare), Carnal Gift (Dorchester, $5.99).

  Carnal Gift

JENNIFER LAUCK
Monday, April 12, 7:30 p.m.

Carl Jung said, "Children are driven, unconsciously, in a direction that is intended to compensate for everything that was left unfulfilled in the life of their parents." It is this very statement that haunts JENNIFER LAUCK, and inspires Show Me the Way (Atria, $24.00), a marvelous book of honest, funny, and touching stories of motherhood. Having lost both of her parents at an early age, Lauck comes to terms with her past in order to move forward as a mother to her own children.

  Show Me the Way

BOULDER BOOK STORE READING GROUP
Tuesday, April 13, 7:30 p.m.

Join us for the inaugural discussion of the Boulder Book Store's Reading Group, "Boulder Reads Together." We'll be discussing MICHAEL FRAYN's Spies (Picador, $13.95), a novel about one man's remembrance of a childhood summer spent in wartime London, in which a boy's game of spying takes a sinister and unintended turn. This reading group discussion will be moderated by a Boulder Book Store staff member, and will be an open dialogue.

  Spies

LOCAL MOVEON REPRESENTATIVE[S?]
Wednesday, April 14, 7:30 p.m.

With more than 2 million members, MoveOn is at the cutting edge of a new model for political activism and is able to mobilize thousands of volunteers and millions of dollars. Written by MoveOn members across the country, from Hawaii to Maine, from political figures to teachers, the essays in MoveOn's 50 Ways to Love Your Country (Inner Ocean, $10.95) share compelling personal stories and answer the question that more and more citizens are asking: "What can I do?"

  MoveOn's 50 Ways to Love Your Country

DICK LAMM
Thursday, April 15, 7:30 p.m.

The American health care system represents 14 percent of the nation's gross domestic product, making it one of the largest economic segments in the world. Even so, our basic health indicators trail those of other nations. In The Brave New World of Health Care (Fulcrum, $12.95), former three-term governor of Colorado DICK LAMM exposes the problems existing not only in policy and professional circles, but also in public attitudes and expectations.

  The Brave New World of Health Care

DAVID BARSAMIAN
Monday, April 19, 7:30 p.m.

A skillful interviewer can reveal aspects of a writer's voice in simple yet telling ways. As a novelist, Arundhati Roy is known for her lush language and intricate structure. As a political essayist, her prose is searching and fierce. All of these qualities shine through in the interviews collected by DAVID BARSAMIAN for The Checkbook and the Cruise Missile: Conversations with Arundhati Roy (South End, $16.00), recorded from February 2001 to May 2003.

  The Checkbook and the Cruise Missile: Conversations with Arundhati Roy

LEWIS RICHMOND
Tuesday, April 20, 7:30 p.m.

In a continuation of his national bestseller, Work as a Spiritual Practice, LEWIS RICHMOND's latest effort, A Whole Life's Work (Simon & Schuster, $25.00), explores the many facets of work as a means to cultivate inner life and contribute to the developing consciousness of all humanity. He addresses a primary struggle of contemporary life: how to strike a balance between achievement and ambition on the one hand, and happiness and fulfillment on the other.

  A Whole Life's Work

TED KERASOTE
Wednesday, April 21, 7:30 p.m.

What better place to escape our wired world than the far northwestern corner of Canada's Northwest Territories? But what if your canoeing partner brings along a satellite phone and proceeds to use it to check in with his law office, his wife, kids, sisters, father, and friends? In Out There (Voyageur, $16.95), noted wilderness traveler and author TED KERASOTE provides a compelling and humorous take on how travelers from any age adjust to being away from their civilizations.

  Out There

STEPHEN JONES & RUTH CAROL CUSHMAN
Thursday, April 22, 7:30 p.m.

The prairie holds a mythic place in North America's history and sense of place. But even though more than 5 million people visit prairie preserves all across North America, there has yet to be a guide dedicated exclusively to the prairie—until now. North American Prairie (Houghton Mifflin, $20.00) a Peterson Field Guide written by STEPHEN JONES and RUTH CAROL CUSHMAN celebrates the grasslands from Canada south to Texas and from Montana east to Illinois.

  North American Prairie

A NIGHT OUT WITH NAROPA'S DISEMBODIED POETS
Friday, April 23, 7:30 p.m.

For the past thirty years, the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at Naropa University has fostered, educated, and produced a countless number of innovative and imaginative writers, many of whom have gone on to well-deserved acclaim in the writing world. Join us as we acknowledge the latest additions to their ranks with a special celebration of poetry, prose, and translation from ten Naropa graduate students. Come out and support the arts by supporting its artists!

PAUL LEVITT
Tuesday, April 27, 7:30 p.m.

Set in the Southwest against the backdrop of McCarthyism, PAUL LEVITT's novel Dark Matters (University of New Mexico, $24.95) combines the political and the love affairs of Ben Cohen, torn between a wealthy Kentucky belle and a New Mexico union organizer. The book also looks at the political parallels between the McCarthyist United States and the Soviet Union. McCarthyism and Communism had much in common, as this novel shows through two passionate love stories.

  Dark Matters

AUDREY NELSON, Ph.D.
Thursday, April 29, 7:30 p.m.

More than words, it's nonverbal cues that have the power to improve—or impair—our interactions with the opposite sex. In fact, 90% of communication is conveyed through unspoken behaviors, including gestures, facial expressions, eye contact, and proximity. AUDREY NELSON's You Don't Say (Prentice Hall, $15.95) is the first book to explore the misunderstandings that often arise between the sexes due to nonverbal communication.

  You Don't Say

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