For our list of the May '03 bookfairs, click HERE.

The New York Times bestselling author of Mystic River, DENNIS LEHANE, returns with a new noir novel set in the heart of the Cold War. In Shutter Island (William Morrow & Co., $25.95), two U.S. Marshals arrive at a federal institution for the criminally insane to search for an escaped patient—but as their investigation deepens and a storm threatens to strand them, the they begin to discover the true nature of Ashcliffe’s “treatments”.

Shutter Island

Mystic River ($ 7.99)

ARTHUR FROMMER
Saturday, May 3, 2:00 p.m.

Ever since the groundbreaking publication of The GI’s Guide to Traveling Europe and its civilian companion, Europe on $5 a Day, ARTHUR FROMMER’s guides have been widely known and well-trusted. Now, with Frommer’s Rome Past & Present (Frommer, $18.99), he offers a guide that brings Rome’s ancient world to life for modern travelers; Frommer will speak on this unique guide, as well as current trends in travel and traveling after 9/11.

Frommer’s Rome Past & Present

LUCY BARBER
Monday, May 5, 7:30 p.m.

A California state archivist, LUCY BARBER explores how Marching on Washington (University of California Press, $34.95) became a legitimate political strategy and changed conceptions of D.C. as a public space. In six historic demonstrations on the capital between 1894 and 1971, organizers challenged the government and claimed the capital as a political space where citizens could voice their concerns to elected leaders.

Marching on Washington

JOHN DERBYSHIRE
Tuesday, May 6, 7:30 p.m.

In 1859, mathematician Bernhard Riemann posed a deceptively simple question: Is there a pattern to the distribution of prime numbers? JOHN DERBYSHIRE offers a fascinating and fluent account of Reimann’s quest to prove his hypothesis—a proof that remains elusive to this day. Prime Obsession (Joseph Henry, $27.95) is the tale of perhaps the greatest unsolved problem in mathematics, and of the mathematicians whom it has consumed.

Prime Obsession

Dr. JEANNE KING
Wednesday, May 7, 7:30 p.m.

Dr. JEANNE KING, psychologist and author of All But My Soul: Abuse Beyond Control (Mind Matters, $19.95), tells the true story of un-arrested domestic violence maintained through a social political scandal. Drawing from her personal experience, Dr. King reveals the most dangerous myths about family violence and provides insights on recognizing intimate abuse before its insidious cycle spirals out of control.

MARJORIE LEET FORD
Thursday, May 8, 7:30 p.m.

Originally published under the title Do Try to Speak as We Do, The Diary of an American Au Pair (Anchor, $13.00) draws on MARJORIE LEET FORD’s experience as an American au pair in London to take us on a hilarious, heartwarming, and sometimes horrifying tour of the British Isles. Ford tells the story of a 22-year-old woman—naive, quirky, and tremendously endearing—shepherding her charges and finding sunny romance in not-so-sunny London.

The Diary of an American Au Pair

GOURMET CHOCOLATE TASTING
Saturday, May 10, 2:00 – 4:00 p.m., $5 per person

You’ve come to rely on Boulder Book Store as your source for reading material from Jane Austen to Zadie Smith, from classic works on Buddhism to the latest in science and ecology—but did you know that we also offer a mouthwatering variety of gourmet chocolates? From milk to 85% dark, with caramel, ginger, or chai seasonings, and many crafted from organic and single varieties of cocoa, explore our chocolate selection at this delicious event!

Dr. HENRY GRAYSON
Monday, May 12, 7:30 p.m.

Mindful Loving: Ten Practices for Creating Deeper Connections (Gotham, $25.00) puts aside traditional methods of family counseling and shows readers a clear, simple, and yet profound way to heal their relationships. By combining Western psychology, Eastern philosophy, and the most current scientific thinking, HENRY GRAYSON, Ph.D. offers powerful tools to embrace a fresh and healthy way of communicating with loved ones.

Mindful Loving: Ten Practices for Creating Deeper Connections

FRANCES MOORE LAPPE
Tuesday, May 13, 7:30 p.m.

Thirty years ago, FRANCES MOORE LAPPE wrote the groundbreaking Diet for a Small Planet—a book that started a revolution in the way Americans think about food and hunger. Now, Lappe and her daughter, Anna Lappe, pick up where Diet for a Small Planet left off with Hope’s Edge (J.P. Tarcher, $14.95), exploring and illuminating efforts worldwide toward safe, sustainable, and abundant agriculture.

Hope’s Edge

Diet for a Small Planet ($ 15.00)

DOUGLAS RUSHKOFF
Wednesday, May 14, 7:30 p.m.

Acclaimed writer and thinker DOUGLAS RUSHKOFF, author of Coercion and the groundbreaking open-source novel Exit Strategy, has written perhaps the most important—and most controversial—work on Judaism in a generation. Nothing Sacred (Crown, $24.95) tears down our preconceptions about Judaism and builds in their place a religion made relevant for the future, offering startling and clearheaded solutions based on Judaism’s core values.

Nothing Sacred

TAMA KIEVES
Thursday, May 15, 7:30 p.m.

If you’re successful doing work you don’t love, what could you do with work you do love? TAMA J. KIEVES left her practice with one of Denver’s largest law firms to pursue a writing career and embolden others to follow their dreams. An accomplished alternative career coach, in This Time I Dance (J.P. Tarcher, $19.95) Kieves shares with readers the wisdom and inspiration she has taught for years in her popular workshops.

This Time I Dance

MATT RIDLEY
Friday, May 16, 7:30 p.m.

Urging readers to abandon entrenched notions about instinct, intelligence, and natural talent, Nature via Nurture (HarperCollins, $25.95) makes a compelling case for the integral, intertwined force of both nature and nurture on the development of every unique individual. Drawing on the cutting-edge work of geneticists and empiricists, MATT RIDLEY presents genes in a whole new light, open to being continually shaped by everyday life.

Nature via Nurture

BILL BRYSON
Saturday, May 17, 2:00 p.m.

In A Walk in the Woods, BILL BRYSON walked the Appalachian Trail—well, most of it. In In a Sunburned Country, he confronted some of the most lethal wildlife in Australia. Now, in A Short History of Nearly Everything (Broadway, $26.00), he turns his attention to everything else. From the Big Bang to the rise of civilization, Bryson’s latest is the record of his quest to understand how we got from there being nothing at all to there being us.

A Short History of Nearly Everything

RABBI ZALMAN SCHACHTER SHALOMI
Monday, May 19, 7:30 p.m.

Begun early in the 18th century, the Hasidic movement thrived on parables and stories promulgating joy, the potential for personal transformation, and the infusion of daily life with loving exultation. RABBI ZALMAN SCHACHTER SHALOMI, a Hasidic scholar and teacher for over fifty years, collects rare stories and offers an innovative introduction to the meaning and value of these classic teachings in Wrapped in a Holy Flame (Jossey-Bass, $27.95).

Wrapped in a Holy Flame

GARY FERGUSON
Tuesday, May 20, 7:30 p.m.

Hawks Rest (National Geographic, $16.00) chronicles a 140-mile walk from his home in Montana to the Upper Meadows of the Yellowstone, where GARY FERGUSON served as cabin patrol for the isolated but buzzing Hawks Rest Guard Station near the southern boundary of the national park. From the region’s colorful history to encounters with wildlife and outlandish outfitters, Ferguson celebrates this magnificent American wilderness.

Hawks Rest

KEITH KACHTICK
Wednesday, May 21, 7:30 p.m.

A thirty-nine year old East Village bachelor, Carter is a dissipated photojournalist and struggling Buddhist; at a meditation retreat in upstate New York, he meets Mia Malone—thirteen years his junior, a determined virgin and devout Catholic. Hungry Ghost (HarperCollins, $24.95) follows the two through a Moroccan photo shoot that compounds their emotional crisis in KEITH KACHTICK’s provocative and entertaining debut novel.

Hungry Ghost

LORRAINE TARTASKY
Thursday, May 22, 7:30 p.m.

During Zep Tepi, the First Time, nature’s forces were in balance. Light and dark, masculine and feminine existed in harmony; but as time progressed, Egypt’s priests, corrupted by power and wealth, shifted the fulcrum. Local author LORRAINE TARTASKY sets the struggle of Sekhmet, Lioness of the Sun (Publish America, $19.95), to right the inequity between Gods and men against a backdrop of Pharaonic intrigue in Egypt’s 18th dynasty.

Lioness of the Sun

CHRISTINE WICKER
Wednesday, May 28, 7:30 p.m.

Each year, twenty thousand visitors travel to Lily Dale, the oldest and largest community of Spiritualists in the world. The main attraction of this New York State Victorian village is to consult one of the town’s 450 mediums. In Lily Dale (HarperSanFrancisco, $24.95), CHRISTINE WICKER, an award-winning and wry journalist, captures the life and spirit of the 122-year-old city populated solely by people who believe the dead live among them.

Lily Dale

Dr. SUSAN ALBERS
Thursday, May 29, 7:30 p.m.

Conscious eating is healthy eating, according to Denver eating disorders specialist Dr. SUSAN ALBERS. Her Eating Mindfully (New Harbinger, $13.95) introduces concepts of acceptance and awareness of one’s eating behaviors, and new exercises based in Buddhist practices for healing negative approaches to eating. These practical instructions help readers cut through the mind’s chatter and reach a new tranquility in their relationship to food, weight, and health.

Eating Mindfully

SPECIAL EVENT NOTICE
TURNING THE MIND INTO AN ALLY MEDITATION WORKSHOP
Saturday, May 24, 9:30 a.m. – 5:30 p.m. at the Boulder Shambhala Center

“When we relax deeply into how things are, without wanting to change them, the mind of enlightenment naturally flows. Turning the mind into an ally is a matter of learning to be present for the moment and beginning to see ourselves as we are.”
Based on the bestselling book by SAKYONG MIPHAM, this one-day workshop will include meditation instruction, talks by senior teachers in the Shambhala Buddhist lineage, readings from the book, discussion, and social time.
This Boulder Shambhala Center event will be held at 1345 Spruce Street. Cost is $35; call (303) 444-0190 for ticketing and details.

Turning the Mind Into an Ally ($ )

IF YOU CANNOT ATTEND AN EVENT, BUT WOULD LIKE AN AUTOGRAPHED COPY, please call us to order one (personalized copies must be prepaid). All events are free and open to the public unless otherwise noted. If you are unable to use the stairs to the second floor ballroom where our events are held, please call ahead to arrange for the closed-circuit television service available on the main floor. Events are subject to change or cancellation. Please call us to confirm on the day of the event: (303) 447-2074. Books not purchased at Boulder Book Store will be signed only if time permits.

BOOK FAIRS THIS MONTH
This month we are hosting several book fairs to help local schools and non-profit organizations raise funds. Please stop by and show your support 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, May 2 – 4, Columbine Elementary School
• Friday – Sunday, May 9 – 11, Waldorf Kindergarten