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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.

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CAROLINE MYSS to speak & sign Sacred Contracts Friday, February 1, 7:00 p.m. at Unity Church, 2855 Folsom Street.

CAROLINE MYSS has found that people generally do not understand their divine potential or purpose in life, which has lead to an epidemic spiritual illness. This spiritual disease leads in turn to depression, fatigue, anxiety, and eventually physical illness. In Sacred Contracts, Myss explains how to discover one’s mission, or sacred contract, resulting in clarity of purpose, improved emotional health, and better relationships.
Tickets will be available at the Boulder Book Store for $7 and include a $5 rebate toward the cost of Sacred Contracts.

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Sacred Contracts

MANIL SURI
Monday, February 4, 7:30 p.m.

In a Bombay apartment building, Vishnu, the resident handyman, lies dying on the staircase, while his neighbors bicker over who will pay for an ambulance. From here, MANIL SURI’s debut novel The Death of Vishnu (Perennial, $13.95) spirals upward through the building’s floors, the dramas of the residents’ varied lives unfolding along the way.

The Death of Vishnu

ROBERT SCAER, M.D.
Tuesday, February 5, 7:30 p.m.

In The Body Bears the Burden (Haworth, $39.95), DR. ROBERT SCAER discusses evidence that traumatic events negatively affect both the emotional and physical health of the victim. Scaer proposes that body, brain, and mind are a continuum, opening new avenues for treating sufferers of both psychological trauma and poorly understood but related physical complaints.

The Body Bears the Burden

DEREK CABRERA
Wednesday, February 6, 7:30 p.m.

Remedial Genius (Project N, $19.95), from local author DEREK CABRERA, reveals the principles we humans use to create knowledge and to generate new ideas and innovations. Cabrera’s engaging mix of stories and uncomplicated descriptions result in a lively paradigm for thinking and learning, applicable to professionals, teachers, and students alike.

MARK MACY
Thursday, February 7, 7:30 p.m.

Miracles in the Storm (New American Library, $16.00), by local author MARK MACY, explores a groundbreaking revolution in the field of spiritual contact: Instrumental Transcommunication, which utilizes modern technical equipment such as computers, phones, and televisions—rather than a human medium—to make contact with the “other side”.

Miracles in the Storm

CARRIE SCHNEIDER
Monday, February 11, 7:30 p.m.

The practice of yoga is in no way confined to the borders of the mat. By examining a typical yoga practice with an eye toward the inspiration of each posture and what each asana inspires in us, CARRIE SCHNEIDER offers novices and seasoned practitioners alike a visceral journey into the state of yoga in Yoga Within (Stewart, Tabori & Chang, $17.95).

Yoga Within

HOWARD MARKMAN, Ph.D.
Tuesday, February 12, 7:30 p.m.

The new and revised edition of the invaluable Fighting for Your Marriage (Jossey-Bass, $16.95), by local author HOWARD MARKMAN, is fully updated and expanded with new information and workable advice, including guidance on managing couples’ expectations, and the keys to relationship success: devotion, friendship, teamwork, and acceptance.

Fighting for Your Marriage

ANTHONY BOURDAIN
Wednesday, February 13, 7:30 p.m.

At once a culinary pilgrimage and spicy travelogue, A Cook’s Tour (Bloomsbury, $25.95) carries readers along on a gonzo journey through cultures and cuisines. Brash ANTHONY BOURDAIN celebrates exiting locales, good company, and extreme food and drink, from cobra hearts in Vietnam to toasted grasshoppers and hallucinogenic pilque in Mexico.

A Cook’s Tour

SARAH WATERS
Thursday, February 14, 7:30 p.m.

Fingersmith (Riverhead, $25.95) begins as the narrative of Susan Trinder, a teenage orphan and resident, along with an assortment of pickpockets and confidence persons, of a sort of reverse halfway house for criminals. SARAH WATERS’ brilliant and impudent novel, reminiscent of Dickens, comprises a series of unpredictable twists and reversals.

Fingersmith

AMERICAN POET GREATS LECTURE
Tuesday, February 19, 7:30 p.m.

GARY ALLEN will discuss JAMES SCHUYLER, Pulitzer Prize winner and Fellow of the Academy of American Poets. Most famously associated with the poets John Ashberry and Frank O’Hara, Schuyler’s effortlessly elegant style is characterized by both sparkling wit and a keen appreciation for the nuances of thought, perception, and the phenomenal world.

DAN WHIPPLE
Wednesday, February 20, 7:30 p.m.

Rated by the Rocky Mountain News as one of the five best mysteries of 2001, local author DAN WHIPPLE’s Click (University of Colorado, $16.95) is the sly and clever story of photographer Mick McClary’s entanglement, together with an ambitious reporter and a belligerent police detective, in the investigation of an acquaintance’s murder.

Click

JOHN WINSOR
Thursday, February 21, 5:30 p.m.

The stories in Love of the Hunt (Lyons, $24.95), varying from earthy humor to vivid backwoods adventure, combine to shape an entertaining and fascinating account of JOHN WINSOR’s fifty-year love affair with hunting and the outdoors. With great wit and emotion, as well as skilled storytelling, Winsor shares a lifetime of adventures and misadventures.

Love of the Hunt

SHAMBHALA, SACRED PATH OF THE WARRIOR
Thursday, February 21, 7:30 p.m.

Inspired by the ancient legend of the kingdom of Shambhala, the teachings of Shambhala are concerned with how we can lead open and genuine lives that inspire wakefulness and confidence by following the path of enlightened warriorship. Directors of Shambhala Training, a program of study and practice founded by Chogyam Trungpa will give this new series of talks, based on the book by Trungpa.

SHAMBHALA, SACRED PATH OF THE WARRIOR ($ 13.95)

WOMEN IN TRANSITION: LIFE CHANGES AND THEIR LEGAL IMPLICATIONS
Monday, February 25, 7:00 p.m.

In this seminar, Morgan Stanley Financial Advisors DANA WEISS and LILI COOPER will discuss the legal implications of life transitions such as divorce, career change, and loss of a significant other or
parent. Future seminars, to be held on March 25 and April 22, will discuss creating a new financial future and taking the steps to financial independence.

CHRISTOPHER LOCKE
Tuesday, February 26, 7:30 p.m.

Irreverent and cuttingly insightful, local author CHRISTOPHER LOCKE is internationally known for his business and technical writing, as well as for his acclaimed and infamous webzine, Entropy Gradient Reversals. In his latest books, Gonzo Marketing (Perseus, $25.00), a groundbreaking critique of mass marketing and broadcast media, and The Bombast Transcripts (Perseus, $25.00), in which Locke’s alter-ego RageBoy sounds off on popular media, thermodynamics, and very many things in between, he takes on the subjects of mass marketing and, well, just about everything else the modern world has to offer.

Gonzo Marketing

The Bombast Transcripts

DEBUT WOMEN’S FICTION
Wednesday, February 27, 7:30 p.m.

Join us for a panel discussion, to be followed by a question-and-answer session and a book signing, with three first-time, highly successful women authors: ERIKA KROUSE (Come Up and See Me Sometime, Scribner, $22.00), DANA SPIOTTA (Lightning Field, Scribner, $23.00), and ANDREA O’REILLY HERRERA (The Pearl of the Antilles, Bilingual, $16.00). In addition to reading passages from her work, each author will discuss her “writing life”: how she began her career, how she got her first book published, the important influences on her work, and what she was trying to accomplish in her fiction. A question and answer period and a book signing will follow the panel discussion. All aspiring writers, as well as those interested in the shape and direction of contemporary American fiction, are welcome and encouraged to join us for this unique glimpse into the work and creative processes of these acclaimed, up-and-coming authors.

Come Up and See Me Sometime

Lightning Field

The Pearl of the Antilles

MATTHEW COOPERMAN
Thursday, February 28, 7:30 p.m.

Award-winning local poet MATTHEW COOPERMAN weaves in his collection A Sacrificial Zinc (Louisiana State University, $12.00) a sense of identity from places, lovers, influences, and natural objects; a journey into the nature of place, the landscape of Cooperman’s poetry is the beautifully realized and endlessly varied American West.

A Sacrificial Zinc

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.

WRITING WORKSHOP
Wednesdays, February 20 – April 10, 6:30 – 8:30 p.m.
Writing Workshop--For writers of fiction, nonfiction and creative nonfiction, beginners or advanced, who would like to learn more about the craft of writing and refine their work for publication. Facilitated by David Hicks, Ph.D, Director of Writing at Regis University, freelance editor and Colorado Council on the Arts Fiction Award recipient. The class will meet in the Upper North Room. Fee: $80 for 8 weeks, contact David at (303) 964-3677 to reserve a space.

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