March, 1999 Schedule of Events

Matthieu Ricard
Monday, March 1, 7:30 p.m.

Join us for a panel discussion featuring Matthieu Ricard, co-author of The Monk and the Philosopher: A Father and Son Discuss the Meaning of Life (Schocken hardcover, $24.00), written from a conversation with his father, French intellectual Jean-Francois Revel. "East meets West, religion meets science, and son meets father in this endlessly engaging encounter." – Jack Miles, author of God: A Biography

The Monk and the Philosopher: A Father and Son Discuss the Meaning of Life

. Charly Heavenrich
Tuesday, March 2, 7:30 p.m.

Boulder author Charly Heavenrich will do a multi-media presentation and discuss Dancing on the Edge: A Veteran River Guide Shares the Transforming Power of the Grand Canyon (Beyond the Edge paperback, $13.00), in which he blends his inner journey of self-discovery with a raft adventure through the natural wonders and human history of the Grand Canyon.

Dancing on the Edge: A Veteran River Guide Shares the Transforming Power of the Grand Canyon

David Chadwick
Thursday, March 4, 7:30 p.m.

David Chadwick will discuss and sign Crooked Cucumber: The Life and Zen Teaching of Shunryu Suzuki (Broadway hardcover, $26.00). Suzuki created the San Francisco Zen Center and founded the Zen Buddhist Monastery, Tassajara. Drawing on Suzuki's words and the recollections of students, friends, and family, Crooked Cucumber portrays his education and dramatic life events.

Crooked Cucumber: The Life and Zen Teaching of Shunryu Suzuki

Anne Cushman & Jerry Jones
Monday, March 8, 7:30 p.m.

Yoga Journal editor Anne Cushman and co-author Jerry Jones will present a slide show about their fascinating travels and meetings with the remarkable swamis, sages and saints of India, and sign their book From Here to Nirvana: The Yoga Journal Guide to Spiritual India (Riverhead paperback, $15.00).

From Here to Nirvana: The Yoga Journal Guide to Spiritual India

John O'Donohue
Thursday, March 11, 7:30 p.m.

John O'Donohue, Irish scholar and author of Anam Cara: A Book of Celtic Wisdom, will speak and sign Eternal Echoes: Exploring Our Yearning to Belong (HarperCollins hardcover, $25.00), in which he explores the divine restlessness in the human heart, our eternal echo of longing that lives deep within us and never lets us settle for what we have or where we are.

Eternal Echoes: Exploring Our Yearning to Belong
Anam Cara: A Book of Celtic Wisdom ($24.00 )

Rudolph Ballentine
Monday, March 15, 7:30 p.m.

Join us when Rudolph Ballentine, M.D., director of New York's Center for Holistic Medicine, speaks and signs Radical Healing: Integrating the World's Great Therapeutic Traditions to Create a New Transformative Medicine ( Randon House hardcover$27.50). Radical Healing offers nothing less than a new vision of medical care, a unique, integrative blending of the primary holistic schools of healing that is far more potent than any of these alone.

Radical Healing: Integrating the World's Great Therapeutic Traditions to Create a New Transformative Medicine

American Poet Greats Lecture
Tuesday, March 16, 7:30 p.m.

Laura Wright will present "New Narratives: The Work of Carla Harryman." Harryman, author of Vice, Animal Instincts, and There Never Was a Rose Without a Thorn, was active in creating the Poet's Theater in San Francisco. The event is co-sponsored by The Museum of American Poetics. For information, contact Jim Cohn at (303) 492-5602.

Robert Thurman & Tad Wise
Thursday, March 18, 7:30 p.m.

Join us for a slide show and talk with the co-authors of Circling the Sacred Mountain: A Spiritual Adventure Through the Himalayas (Bantam hardcover, $25.95). Thurman, Buddhist scholar and author of Inner Revolution, leads a group of Westerners on an unforgettable trek around Mount Kailash. Wise, one of the student trekkers, acts as Thurman's foil, offering his own view of the trip as he struggles to acclimatize both physically and spiritually.

Circling the Sacred Mountain: A Spiritual Adventure Through the Himalayas
Inner Revolution ($24.95 )

Winifred Gallagher
Monday, March 22, 7:30 p.m.

In Working on God (Random House hardcover, $24.95), Winifred Gallagher offers an intelligent, personal exploration of the "neoagnostic' – the well-educated American who's skeptical and ambivalent about religion – for a spiritual life that accommodates what's true, resonates with personal experience, and is enriched by different viewpoints.

Working on God

Brian Hodge
Tuesday, March 23, 7:30 p.m.

Boulder author Brian Hodge will read from and sign Wild Horses (Morrow hardcover, $24.00), a sexy, high-energy thriller about an unwitting woman chased by a diverse cast of misfits through Nevada, Texas, and Florida. Hodge has been compared to Elmore Leonard, James Lee Burke, and even David Lynch, and called "a writer of spectacularly unflinching gifts."

Wild Horses

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Thank you for supporting the 1999 Boulder Book Store Reading Series!

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.

IAll 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.

Book Fairs This Month

This month we are hosting book fairs to help a local school and community group raise funds. Support the group of your choice by mentioning at the register that you are here for their book fair. (To schedule a book fair for your school or non-profit, please contact Lisa Gesner. During the fair, we track purchases of book fair participants. Your school earns funds based on the total dollar amount of purchases made over the three-day period.) Please note: members of our Frequent Buyer program will not receive a discount on book fair purchases. The 10% is "donated" to the school at the end of the fundraiser.

FRIDAY - SUNDAY, MARCH 5 - 7 Burbank Middle School

FRIDAY - SUNDAY, MARCH 12 - 14 Centennial Middle School

FRIDAY - SUNDAY, MARCH 19 - 21 Shepherd Valley Waldorf School