Zack is a crawler. He's been crawling all his life. Zack's ditch—sometimes a tunnel, a corridor, or the interior of a blood blister—leads him effortlessly through childhood memories and present experiences alike. In his debut novel Ditch-Crawl (Comma, $19.95), JOHN LATHAM constructs an Escher-like maze of characters real and only half-real. It is a psychological warren of memories and what-if—as well as a victory for experimental writing and adventurous reading.

Ditch-Crawl

MARC BEKOFF
Wednesday, February 2, 7:30 p.m.

What it is it like to be a dog? A chimpanzee? An ant? How do animals communicate? Can animals feel emotions like empathy and grief? These and many other questions will be answered at this special event featuring MARC BEKOFF, celebrated author of Minding Animals, Nature's Life Lessons, The Smile of a Dolphin, and The Ten Trusts, co-authored with Jane Goodall, and, for the serious fan, a new, three-volume set which he edited, titled Encyclopedia of Animal Behavior (Greenwood, $349.95).

Encyclopedia of Animal Behavior

Minding Animals ($ 15.95)

Nature's Life Lessons ($ 10.00)

The Smile of a Dolphin ($ 35.00)

The Ten Trusts ($ 13.95)

PETER DELEO
Thursday, February 3, 7:30 p.m.

When PETER DELEO set out one Sunday morning on a sightseeing and photography trip over the central Sierra Nevada mountains in California, he had no idea that he would soon be fighting for his life. DeLeo's single-engine plane encountered turbulence, and he and his two passengers crashed in the mountains. All three survived the accident but sustained multiple injuries. Now, in, Survive! (Simon & Schuster, $24.00), DeLeo tells his remarkable story in gripping detail.

Survive!

ANDREW SCHELLING
Monday, February 7, 7:30 p.m.

Graceful and yet remarkably playful, intensely passionate, and at times hinting of divine transcendence, the poems translated in Erotic Love Poems from India (Shambhala, $16.95) offer poignant glimpses into the many faces of erotic love. This collection is to this day the most popular book of love poetry ever written in India. Poet and translator ANDREW SCHELLING has done an extraordinary job of rendering into English verses that sound fresh and immediate.

Erotic Love Poems from India

THERESA SZCZUREK
Tuesday, February 8, 7:30 p.m.

In Pursuit of Passionate Purpose (Wiley, $24.95), self-help guru THERESA SZCZUREK reveals that the real key to a successful and happy life is in knowing what it is that you truly desire and pursuing it with determination. Based on the everyday wisdom of eighty successful people from all walks of life, along with the practical strategies she used to pursue her own passion, Szczurek presents a proven, step-by-step plan for effectively pursuing whatever your passionate purpose is.

Pursuit of Passionate Purpose

BRIAN LUKE SEAWARD
Wednesday, February 9, 7:30 p.m.

With graceful wisdom and gentle humor, BRIAN LUKE SEAWARD helps you see past the limitations of the ego to the highest potential of the human spirit at the core of your very being. Through a unique alchemy of the ancient Chinese philosophy of Taoism and the timeless insights of the visionary Joseph Campbell, Quiet Mind, Fearless Heart (Wiley, $14.95) shows you how to harness this potential so that you may find the courage to be a victor, not a victim of life's problems.

Quiet Mind, Fearless Heart

CRAIG CHILDS
Thursday, February 10, 7:30 p.m.

CRAIG CHILDS is lost. In a labyrinth of canyons in the American Southwest where virtually nothing else is alive, Childs and his friend Dirk undertake a fortnight's journey with as much food and gear as they can carry, and little else but their wiles. As a chronicle of adventure, as an emotionally charged human drama, and as a confessional memoir, The Way Out (Little, Brown, $23.95) is a transcendent book, a work destined to earn a lasting place in the literature of extremes.

The Way Out

BOULDER BOOK STORE READING GROUP
Tuesday, February 15, 7:30 p.m.

Join us for February's installment of the Boulder Book Store's reading group, "Boulder Reads Together." We'll be discussing Love, Toni Morrison's audacious exploration into the nature of love— its appetite, its sublime possession, its dread. It's the story of Bill Cosey and the women who love him, fight over him, make him miserable, and finally drive him to his grave. As always, our reading group is open to everyone—just read the book and come down for the discussion.

Love

ROBERT THURMAN
Wednesday, February 16, 7:30 p.m.

Few teachers in the West possess both the training and the scholarship to lead us along the path to enlightenment. ROBERT THURMAN is one such teacher. Now, in his first experiential course on the essentials of Tibetan Buddhism, adapted and expanded from a popular retreat he led, Thurman—the first Westerner ordained by His Holiness the Dalai Lama himself—shares the centuries-old wisdom of the great Tibetan masters in The Jewel Tree of Tibet (Free Press, $25.00).

The Jewel Tree of Tibet

JOHN B. WELLER
Thursday, February 17, 7:30 p.m.

In Great Sand Dunes National Park: Between Light and Shadow (Westcliffe, $19.95), JOHN WELLER takes us on a compelling and comprehensive journey into America's newest National Park. Weller chronicles his numerous treks across the fragile landscape of the park, illuminating its veiled beauty and treacherous climate with stunning photography and vivid prose. The book not only celebrates the adaptability of natural life, but also cautions against its disruption.

Great Sand Dunes National Park: Between Light and Shadow

ROB SHEELY
Tuesday, February 22, 7:30 p.m.

In 2003, Boulder Weekly Press published the first volume of The People's Republic, ROB SHEELY's weekly fiction installment for the Boulder Weekly. The book quickly became the local #1 best-selling fiction paperback, according to the Daily Camera. Now, Sheely is back with another collection of humorous and affectionate stories about the little town "nestled between the mountains and reality," entitled The People's Republic, Vol. 2 (Boulder Weekly, $16.95).

PASQUALE SCATURRO
Wednesday, February 23, 7:30 p.m.

At the beginning of the 21st century, it seemed incredible that no one had ever made a complete descent of the Nile. Scores of explorers had tried, and more than a dozen had died. But on April 28, 2004, two men—expedition leader PASQUALE SCATURRO and filmmaker Gordon Brown—finally achieved what no other human beings had previously accomplished. Mystery of the Nile (Penguin, $25.95) is their story, told by Scaturro and acclaimed outdoor writer Richard Bangs.

Mystery of the Nile

SIR ROGER PENROSE
Thursday, February 24, 7:30 p.m.

From one of our greatest living scientists, SIR ROGER PENROSE, comes a magnificent book that provides, for the serious lay reader, the most comprehensive account we have yet had of the physical universe and the essentials of its underlying mathematical theory. In The Road to Reality (Knopf, $40.00), Penrose has given us a work of enormous scope and achievement—an essential work of science that addresses a wealth of issues, controversies, and phenomena.

The Road to Reality

GAY SALISBURY
Friday, February 25, 7:30 p.m.

In 1925, a deadly diphtheria epidemic swept through icebound Nome, Alaska. The life-saving serum was a thousand miles away, and a blizzard was brewing. Airplanes could not fly in such conditions: only the dogs could do it. Racing against death, twenty dog teams relayed the serum. Their heroic dash to Nome, the inspiration for the annual Iditarod Dog Sled Race, is the subject of GAY SALISBURY's The Cruelest Miles (Norton, $14.95), the greatest dog story never fully told.

The Cruelest Miles

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