Bestselling Colorado author CLAIRE WALTER delights in discovering “authentic and honest food”, and shares her many taste discoveries in this new compendium of great venues for both food-loving Coloradoans and visitors to the state. Culinary Colorado (Fulcrum, $18.95) clearly establishes Colorado’s richness in great fresh-food experiences, spotlighting the abundance of organic fruits and vegetables, great cheeses, yummy pastries and breads, and first-rate chefs who have helped Coloradoans’ dining satisfaction to an all-time high.

Culinary Colorado

AARON NAPARSTEK
Thursday, August 7, 7:30 p.m.

A soccer mom steals your parking spot. A guy who may have been simultaneously eating, shaving, and talking on his mobile phone just cut you off on the turnpike. Take a deep breath. Try to relax. Write traffic haiku. Distilling the daily horrors of America’s car culture into a time-honored verse form, Honku: The Zen Antidote to Road Rage (Villard, $12.95) transforms infuriating moments behind the wheel into sly, witty poetry, leaving you in a state of enlightenment and bliss. Well, at the very least it’ll keep you non-violent.

JASON KERSTEN
Tuesday, August 12, 7:30 p.m.

For best friends Raffi Kodikian and David Coughlin, an overnight camp-out en route to California devolved into a three-day nightmare—during which Raffi killed David in what he would later swear was an act of mercy. In Journal of the Dead (HarperCollins, $24.95), journalist JASON KERSTEN recreates the complete story of those haunting events of August 1999 and the subsequent murder investigation. It is a gripping, beautifully wrought blend of true crime and wilderness adventure writing that is both an exploration of the bonds of friendship and a cautionary tale about the merciless power that the wilderness can wield over those not prepared to face it.

Journal of the Dead

TOM GRONEBERG
Wednesday, August 13, 7:30 p.m.

At the age of twenty-two, TOM GRONEBERG eschewed the corporate fast track for a chance at an American dream. Starting leading horseback tours through Breckenridge, Groneberg later moves to Montana, works as a ranch hand, and eventually buys his own ranch; he endures bitter-cold winters, ribbing from career cowboys, and his own doubts of whether his dream will ever be realized. The Secret Life of Cowboys (Scribner, $24.00) offers a masterfully detailed and unflinchingly honest look at the modern American West.

The Secret Life of Cowboys

KENT NELSON
Thursday, August 14, 7:30 p.m.

In the aftermath of her husband’s accidental death, Mattie enlists her daughter Shelley and Dawn, a hired hand, to keep their Black Hills alfalfa ranch running. A fourteen-year-old runaway Native American boy joins the three women, and together they forge an unlikely family, facing together everything from the trials of the ranch to the arrival of a former lover bent on revenge. Colorado author KENT NELSON’s Land That Moves, Land That Stands Still (Viking, $24.95) is a remarkable exploration of home, grief, and renewal.

Land That Moves, Land That Stands Still

WENDY KNIGHT
Tuesday, August 19, 7:30 p.m.

Making Connections: Mother-Daughter Travel Adventures (Seal Press, $16.95) is a collection of essays from such authors as Terry Tempest Williams, Mary Morris, Susan Spano and Ariel Gore that explore the mother-daughter relationship in the context of travel and the outdoors. At times irreverent and funny, at others, thought-provoking and reflective, these stories, edited by WENDY KNIGHT, reveal what happens when mother and daughter step out of the complacent familiarity of routine into uncharted territory.

Making Connections: Mother-Daughter Travel Adventures

DANIEL ROBINSON
Wednesday, August 20, 7:30 p.m.

Colorado author DANIEL ROBINSON delivers powerful first novel of loss, guilt, and recovery in After the Fire (The Lyons Press, $19.95). Barnes, the supervisor of a wildfire crew, is haunted by the season past, when many members of his team were killed in a Colorado forest fire that went all wrong, scorching the Hot Shots as they fled. But as Barnes comes to the aid of a little neighbor girl and her family, he understands that the weight of responsibility for the lost lives may be lifted.

After the Fire

JASMIN LEE CORI
Tuesday, August 26, 7:30 p.m.

Tarot cards have been used for centuries by people seeking insight and counsel about situations in their lives. Now, local author and psychotherapist JASMIN LEE CORI and Willow Arlenea, a visionary artist and Naropa graduate in transpersonal psychology, have updated this age-old system for the 21st century. The Tarot of Transformation (Red Wheel/Weiser, $39.95) book and cards set allows readers to use the cards as a mirror to reveal hidden or emerging aspects of the self, inviting further exploration.

The Tarot of Transformation

THICH NHAT HANH
This is a Talk Only—Not a Book Signing
Sunday, August 31, 2:00 – 3:00 p.m. at First United Methodist Church, 1421 Spruce Street

Thich Nhat Hahn will speak for a short time and then answer questions. Free tickets for this event will be available at Boulder Book Store beginning August 4, 2003 (limit two per person).

A limited number of signed copies of Creating True Peace will be available for purchase (unsigned copies will also be available). You may prepay for and reserve a signed copy starting August 4 at Boulder Book Store (limit two per person, no phone or internet orders). Any remaining signed copies will be available for purchase after the event.

Nominated by Martin Luther King, Jr., for a Nobel Prize in 1967, THICH NHAT HANH is one of the world’s most revered activists for peace, engaged Buddhism, and mindful living. Having survived two wars in his native Vietnam, he works tirelessly to prevent conflict of all kinds. Now, Nhat Hanh offers a distillation of his years of scholarship and teaching, to people seeking hope and meaningful action in a turbulent world. Creating True Peace (Free Press, $23.00) shows violence to be an inappropriate response that we can no longer afford on a personal or global level; Nhat Hanh teaches us to create peace by looking more deeply at ourselves, our nation, and our world.

Creating True Peace

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