Dying to Live: From Heart Transplant to Abundant Life (Pilgrim's Process, $11.95) is the inspiring story of GAEA SHAW, a heart transplant recipient who went on to become a competitive swimmer and gold medal winner at the U.S. and World Transplant games. But her story is much more than that. It chronicles Shaw's sudden and unexpected decline in health and her shift from a fearful, constricted woman to a person filled with gratitude, courage, and trust.

Dying to Live: From Heart Transplant to Abundant Life

MARC DAVID
Thursday, August 11, 7:30 p.m.

The Slow Down Diet: Eating for Pleasure, Energy & Weight Loss (Healing Arts Press, $14.95) draws on MARC DAVID'S 25 years of experience in nutritional medicine, the psychology of eating, and the science of yoga to offer a guide to unlocking your metabolic potential. This eight-week program will teach you how to utilize the interrelationship between the mind, body, and emotions to bring your metabolism to its optimal state of power and efficiency.

The Slow Down Diet: Eating for Pleasure, Energy & Weight Loss

VIVIEN SPITZ
Tuesday, August 16, 7:30 p.m.

VIVIEN SPITZ was the youngest court reporter at the Nuremberg Trials. In Doctors from Hell (Sentient, $23.95), a chilling story of human depravity and ultimate justice, she draws on the accounts of the 23 men who tortured and killed by experimentation—in the name of scientific research and patriotism. This landmark trial resulted in the establishment of the Nuremberg Code, setting the guidelines for medical research involving human beings.

Doctors from Hell

LAURA PRITCHETT
Thursday, August 18, 7:30 p.m.

Thrust into motherhood after convincing her sister not to have an abortion, twenty-two-year-old Libby finds herself in an overwhelming position, but with the help of an array of compelling characters, she learns how a community of strangers can become a family. At a time when abortion and life are flash words, LAURA PRITCHETT'S vivid portrait of western life gives hope that our culture might get beyond slinging slogans, in Sky Bridge (Milkweed, $22.00).

Sky Bridge

BOULDER INTERNATIONAL FRINGE FESTIVAL CHILDREN'S WRITING PRESENTATION
Saturday, August 20, 2:00 p.m.

As part of the first annual Boulder International Fringe Festival, WHERE PEOPLE STAND ON THEIR HEADS is a three-day children's writing workshop running from August 18-20. This reading is an opportunity for the children participating in the workshop to present their creative works to the community! Jack Collom, a Boulder poet and active teacher of children for over 30 years, will be hosting the reading, along with Lilly Harris, MFA in poetry, and a creative writing enrichment teacher.

ROBERT SCAER
Tuesday, August 23, 7:30 p.m.

Over the past 150 years, we have moved from conceiving "trauma" as a purely physical phenomenon to seeing it as a complex set of physiological and psychological experiences. In The Trauma Spectrum: Hidden Wounds and Human Resiliency (W.W. Norton, $32.00), neurologist ROBERT SCAER contends that the cumulative experiences of minor traumas may shape every aspect of our experience, and thus may be no less powerful than the trauma of more horrific events like wars and disasters.

The Trauma Spectrum: Hidden Wounds and Human Resiliency