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PAUL RAY
Thursday, March 1, 7:30 p.m.

Sociologist PAUL RAY draws upon thirteen years of survey research studies on more than 100,000 Americans, plus more than 100 focus groups and dozens of in-depth interviews. In The Cultural Creatives (Harmony, $25.00), Ray reveals who the Cultural Creatives are and tells the fascinating story of their emergence over the last generation.

The Cultural Creatives

DR. RICHARD WARNER
Tuesday, March 6, 7:30 p.m.

There is now a body of evidence suggesting that the occurrence and course of schizophrenia is affected by a variety of environmental factors. The Environment of Schizophrenia (Brunner-Routledge, $24.95) by local resident DR. RICHARD WARNER draws upon our knowledge of these factors to design innovations that will decrease its incidence and severity while enhancing the quality of life for sufferers and their families.

The Environment of Schizophrenia

DR. TIM FLEMING
Wednesday, March 7, 7:30 p.m.

DR. TIM FLEMING from Boulder’s Whole Health Wellness Center will present a workshop designed to allow you to maximize your potential for living. Dr. Fleming will discuss our potential in life and the things that prevent us from reaching that potential. He will also review the five basic categories of interference to health and wellness, give an overview of wellness, and address the importance of a positive state of mind.

DONNA GERSHTEN
Thursday, March 8, 7:30 p.m.

In Kissing the Virgin’s Mouth (HarperCollins, $23.00), DONNA GERSHTEN, winner of the inaugural Barbara Kingsolver Bellwether Prize for a work of socially or politically engaged fiction tells the story of a Mexican woman who climbs from the poor barrio of a Mexican town to American affluence. This is a powerful first novel about love, the power of sex, and the struggles of women.

Kissing the Virgin’s Mouth

AMERICAN POET GREATS LECTURE
Tuesday, March 13, 7:30 p.m.

Time Flies By Like a Great Whale: Ted Berrigan and Friends: a lecture by ANSELM HOLLO. TED BERRIGAN (1934-1983) is one of the true uncrowned Poets Laureate of the United States. Teacher, talker, walker, friend, and champion of younger writers, astute critic of the visual arts, Berrigan created a vortex of poetry on New York’s Lower East Side that keeps radiating outward into the 21st century.

KATHLEEN McCORMICK
Wednesday, March 14, 7:30 p.m.

The Garden Lover’s Guide to the West (Princeton Architectural Press, $21.95) by local resident and certified master gardener KATHLEEN McCORMICK is ideal for weekend gardeners, landscape professionals, and day-trippers alike – everyone who enjoys gardens and America’s garden heritage. This beautiful volume combines practical touring information with extensive commentary about individual gardens and their heritage.

The Garden Lover’s Guide to the West

CHERI HUBER
Thursday, March 15, 7:30 p.m.

In the straightforward, engaging style for which she is known, Zen teacher CHERI HUBER presents a process for getting where you want to go in life in her new book, How to Get from Where You Are to Where You Want to Be (Hay House, $13.95). The process, which is based on Zen awareness training, is explained in ordinary language, and is demonstrably effective for all who are willing to look honestly at themselves.

How to Get from Where You Are to Where You Want to Be

SARAH STEWART & DAVID SMALL
Friday, March 16, 10:00 a.m.

The Journey (FSG, $16.00) by SARAH STEWART and DAVID SMALL tells the story of an Amish girl who sets off for the big city for the first time. The reader receives nightly reports through young Hannah’s diary, in which she relates the significant events of the day. Each experience is new to her, yet in each she finds some universal element that reminds her of home.

The Journey

NUALA O’FAOLAIN
Friday, March 16, 7:30 p.m.

My Dream of You (Riverhead, $25.95) by Irish newspaper columnist NUALA O’FAOLAIN is the story of an Irish woman, a busy travel writer who suddenly realizes that her life is not what she had hoped it would become. She sets out to investigate the true story of a scandalous affair during the latter years of the Famine, and there she encounters a lover who presents her with an ultimate choice that promises to alter the course of her life.

My Dream of You

AMY TAN
Saturday, March 17, 2:00 p.m.

Best-selling author AMY TAN again draws from her own experiences with her new novel, The Bonesetter’s Daughter (Putnam, $25.95), The story of Ruth Young, a ghostwriter of self-help books, who comes across a clipped stack of papers in the bottom of a desk drawer. Young has been caring for her ailing mother, LuLing, who is beginning to show the unmistakable signs of Alzheimer's disease. Written in Chinese by LuLing years earlier, when she first started worrying something was wrong with her memory, the papers contain a narrative of LuLing's life as a girl in China, and the life of her own mother, the daughter of the Famous Bonesetter from the village of Xian Xin - Immortal Heart - near the Mouth of the Mountain. Within the calligraphed pages Ruth finds the truth about a mother's heart, what she cannot tell her daughter yet hopes her daughter will never forget.

The Bonesetter’s Daughter

DANIEL QUINN
Tuesday, March 20, 7:30 p.m.

In After Dachau (Context, $21.95), DANIEL QUINN tells the story of a woman who wakes up after a minor auto accident mute and with no recollection of her past. She receives a message from a man searching for proof of reincarnation, and decides to explore her past with him. But pulling the secret of her true identity proves to be like pulling the pin from a hand grenade. The explosion that follows opens a crack in the smooth surface of the world that no one will ever be able to paper over.

After Dachau

NEAL POLLACK & LAWRENCE KRAUSER
Wednesday, March 21, 7:30 p.m.

The Neal Pollack Anthology of American Literature by NEAL POLLACK and Lemon by LAWRENCE KRAUSER are the first efforts from McSweeney’s Books, the publishing arm of the magazine McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern, “a wildly entertaining journal created by nervous people in relative obscurity.” Pollack’s book tour has taken him such places as a men’s room in an Amtrak station in Philadelphia and Gate G3 at the Baltimore Airport. Krauser is hand illustrating each of the 10,000 book jackets for the novel's initial print run.

ED WEBSTER
Thursday, March 22, 7:30 p.m.

Snow in the Kingdom (Mountain Imagery, $29.95) is the bitter and heroic autobiographical saga of ED WEBSTER's Storm Years on Mount Everest. Webster was part of the smallest team to climb a major new route up Everest, with no oxygen, radios, or Sherpa support. The climb went up Everest’s hardest, most remote, and most dangerous side, the 12,000-vertical-foot Kangshung Face in Tibet.

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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.

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BOOK FAIRS THIS MONTH

This month we are hosting one book fair to help a local school raise funds. Please stop by and support the school 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 receive a discount on book fair purchases. Your discount is “donated” to the school at the end of the fundraiser.

• Friday – Sunday, March 9 - 11, Burbank Middle School
• Friday – Sunday, March 16 – 18, Centennial Middle School

BOULDER CO-OP MARKET

Would you like to see a natural food storefront co-op in Boulder? An effort has been underway for more than a year to start a community-owned food co-op. The organizers now have close to 400 members and need 700 to move forward and rent a site. To receive information about the co-op and membership, please contact the Boulder Cooperative Market, Box 2113, Boulder, CO 80306, call (303) 447-2667, or email bouldercoop@earthlink.net. Thanks!