February, 2000 Schedule of Events

Columbine Elementary School Book Fair February 25 - 27

OUR TOP SELLERS FOR 1999 are your favorites on the list??

ROBERT KAPLAN will speak and sign The Nothing that Is: A Natural History of Zero (Oxford University Press, $22.00). Part detective story, part biography, part history, and complete fun, KAPLAN traces the development of the name, symbol, and concept of zero from ancient through recent times. His investigative approach intriguingly combines historical, etymological and mathematical perspectives.

The Nothing that Is: A Natural History of Zero

ROBERT McBREARTY
Thursday, February 3, 7:30 p.m.

Local author ROBERT McBREARTY will speak and sign his collection of short stories, A Night at the Y (John Daniel & Co., $12.00). The twelve stories, all previously published in distinguished literary magazines, appear to be about real-life situations, except that the reality has been turned up a notch. In the process of exaggeration, these people and situations have become, in a sense, all the more real.

A Night at the Y

SHAUNA RIES, L.C.S.W. and GENNA MURPHY, L.P.C.
Tuesday, February 8, 7:30 p.m.

Local residents SHAUNA RIES and GENNA MURPHY will discuss their new book, Quality of Life: How to Get It, How to Keep It (Eagle Brook/William Morrow, $22.00). Using case studies and anecdotes, and focusing on "modern inconveniences" such as fax machines and cell phones, RIES and MURPHY present exercises and strategies for getting the quality of life that you are seeking, then keeping it by following the seven principles of a quality life.

Quality of Life: How to Get It, How to Keep It

RACHEL SNYDER
Wednesday, February 9, 7:30 p.m.

Just in time for Valentine's Day, local author RACHEL SNYDER will discuss her new collection, What There is to Love About a Man (Sourcebooks, $10.95), a book that unabashedly and occasionally breathlessly honors and celebrates all things male - body, mind, and spirit. Guaranteed to inspire new appreciation for any man you know, and a reicher, deeper affection for any man you love.

What There is to Love About a Man

ROBERT VENOSA
Thursday, February 10, 7:30 p.m.

Local artist ROBERT VENOSA will present Illuninatus (Craftsman House/G&B Arts, $50.00), a retrospective of his celestial, mythological, futuristic, and surreal work. Filled with more than 150 full-color reproductions fo his luminous landscape and figurative work as well as sculpture and newly created computer art, Illuminatus also contains a foreword by Terrence McKenna and essays by Ernst Fuchs and painter/film designer H.R. Giger.

Illuninatus **NOTE**

JOAN BORYSENKO
Tuesday, February 15, 7:30 p.m.

Please join us for a special evening with local resident and renowned author JOAN BORYSENKO, who will discuss her latest book, A Woman's Journey to God: Finding the Feminine Path (Riverhead Books, $23.95). BORYSENKO provides a personal, scientific, historical, and practical look at the unique ways in which women approach ritual, spirituality, and God. Seating is limited. Line numbers for the book signing will be given out at 6:30 p.m.

A Woman's Journey to God: Finding the Feminine Path

CHIP WARD
Wednesday, February 16, 7:30 p.m.

CHIP WARD will speak and sign his new book, Canaries on the Rim (Verso, $25.00), in which he tells the story of how he and his Grantsville Utah neighbors uncovered the hidden history of military atomic testing, and it's dire impact on public health. Canaries on the Rim is not only a warning and a call to arms, but also a compelling drama and a lively primer on environmental activism.

Canaries on the Rim

AMERICAN POET GREATS LECTURE
Tuesday, February 22, 7:30 p.m.

Rhythm, Pound said, "is a form cut into TIME, as design is determined SPACE." This talk, by Jack Greene, Parables of Time/Space in the Poetry of Wallace Stevens, WC Williams, and Robert Creeley, will explore the different means by which being achieved, how form is "cut into TIME," into space by these three poets. Co-sponsored by The Museum of American Poetics. Visit their web page at www.poetspath.com.

THE CLUETRAIN MANIFESTO
Wednesday, February 23, 7:30 p.m.

The Cluetrain Manifesto (Perseus, $23.00), burst upon the scene in March 1999 with 95 theses nailed up on the Web. Within days, www.cluetrain.com had ignited a vibrant global conversation challenging sacred corporate assumptions about the very nature of business in a digital world. Soon, executives across the country were lining up to sign the manifesto. This is the book that delivers on that buzz..

The Cluetrain Manifesto

ENCYCLOPEDIA OF POPULAR HERBS
Thursday, February 24, 7:30 p.m.

ROBERT McCALEB, EVELYN LEIGH, and KRISTA MORIEN will discuss and sign the Herb Research Foundation's Encylopedia of Popular Herbs (Prima Publishing, $29.95), an authoritative guide to using medicinal plants in the prevention and treatment of common ailments. The book includes both scientific and traditional information on herb effects, dosage, safety data, advice on choosing herbal supplements, and more.

Herb Research Foundation's Encylopedia of Popular Herbs

ROBERT OLEN BUTLER
Monday, February 28, 7:30 p.m.

Pulitzer prize winning author ROBERT OLEN BUTLER will speak and sign his latest novel, Mr. Spaceman (Grove Press, $24.00), in which a kind-hearted alien beams a tour bus and it's eleven passengers up to his spaceship. Having observed us for 30 years from space, he hopes to use his visitors to understand humanity before making his long-planned descent to the earth on New Year's Eve.

Mr. Spaceman

VINE DELORIA, JR.
Tuesday, February 29, 7:30 p.m.

CU professor VINE DELORIA, JR. will discuss his new compendium, Spirit & Reason: The Vine Deloria, Jr., Reader (Fulcrum, $17.95). The collection is culled from his expansive career, including several works never before published. DELORIA challenges theories of religion and science, examines the problems of modern education, and expounds on our understanding of the world.

Spirit & Reason: The Vine Deloria, Jr., Reader

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BOOK FAIR FEBRUARY 25 - 27

We are hosting a book fair to help Columbine Elementary School raise funds. Please stop by and support Columbine 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 recieve a discount on book fair purchases. Your discount is "donated" to the school at the end of the fundraiser.

OUR TOP SELLERS FOR 1999

are your favorites on the list??

BOOKS (more information is available for the underlined titles)

1. Memoirs of a Geisha, Arthur Golden
2. Harry Potter & The Sorcerer's Stone, JK Rowling
3. Angela's Ashes, Frank McCourt
4. Harry Potter & The Chamber of Secrets, JK Rowling
5. The Art of Happiness, H.H. The Dalai Lama
6. The Poisonwood Bible, Barbara Kingsolver
7. Tuesdays With Morrie, Mitch Albom
8. Widow for One Year, John Irving
9. Colorado 1870-2000, John Fielder
10. The Lost Years of Merlin, T.A. Barron
11. Charming Billy, Alice McDermott
12. Under the Tuscan Sun, Frances Mayes
13. 'Tis, Frank McCourt
14. God of Small Things, Arundhati Roy
15. Harry Potter & The Prisoner of Azkaban, JK Rowling
16. The Pilot's Wife, Anita Shreve
17. First Eagle, Tony Hillerman
18. Summer Sisters, Judy Blume
19. Boulder Heart & Soul, People & Place, Robert L. Castellino
20. Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood, Rebecca Wells
21. I Know This Much is True, Wally Lamb
22. Where the Heart Is, Billie Letts
23. Our Dumb Century, Scott Dikkers
24. Passionate Marriage, David Schnarch
25. Boulder Hiking Trails, Ruth Carol Cushman

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