• BOOK FAIRS THIS MONTH

MARC BEKOFF
Wednesday, November 1, 7:30 p.m.

In The Smile of a Dolphin (Random House, $35.00), MARC BEKOFF gathers accounts from more than fifty researchers who have spent their careers observing animals ranging from great apes to guppies. These stories offer compelling evidence that humans are not the only creatures with rich, emotional lives. Features 120 photographs from some of the world’s best wildlife photographers.

The Smile of a Dolphin

BRIAN FROUD
Thursday, November 2, 7:30 p.m.

The Faerie’s Oracle (Simon & Schuster, $25.00) is a refreshing new approach to tapping into the connections between the natural world and the course of human events. BRIAN FROUD has compiled a magical kit with an elegant deck of sixty-six divination cards, and an engaging book that introduces the most powerful and important members of the faery kingdom. To visit our page on the Faerie's Oracle webring, click HERE.

The Faerie’s Oracle

ART WOLFE
Monday, November 6, 7:30 p.m.

Internationally acclaimed nature and wildlife photographer ART WOLFE has turned his lens upon Colorado to find new compositions in light, pattern, and color in the majestic Rocky Mountains in his stunning new work Colorado (Sasquatch Books, $40.00 hardcover, $29.95 paperback). Wolfe captures these colors – the saturated blue skies and pure white snow, a hundred shades of rust red on a rock formation, a yellow that shimmers in a grove of aspens. Wolfe also captures on film many members of the state’s wildlife community: bighorn sheep, boreal owl, elk, black bear, pronghorn, and black-tailed prairie dog. These magnificent images interpret and record the state’s fast-disappearing wildlife and landscapes, and are an inspiration to those who seek to preserve them.

Colorado (hardcover)

Colorado (paperback)

BROOKE MEDICINE EAGLE
Wednesday, November 8, 7:30 p.m.

Through prayer, music, dance, and the power of sacred intention, The Last Ghost Dance (Ballantine, $16.00) teaches us how to confront our fears, overcome our resistance to change, and renew our lives. Native American metis teacher BROOKE MEDICINE EAGLE shares her philosophy of spiritual transformation and ushers us into the next stage of our human evolution through initiation into the practices of Earth Magic and Spiritual Ascension.

The Last Ghost Dance

FRANCES MAYES
Thursday, November 9, 7:30 p.m.

From FRANCES MAYES, whose memoirs have captured the voluptuousness of Italian life, comes a lavishly illustrated ode to the joys of Tuscany’s people, food, landscapes, and art. In Tuscany (Broadway, $35.00) celebrates the abundant pleasures of life in Italy as it is lived at home, at festivals, feasts, restaurants, and markets, in the kitchen and on the piazza, in the vineyards, fields, and olive groves through new essays by Mayes, a chapter by her husband, poet Edward Mayes, more than 200 full-color photos, and dozens of mouth-watering recipes and Italian menus. In her bestselling memoirs, Under the Tuscan Sun and Bella Tuscany, FRANCES MAYES shared with the world the experience of finding, fixing up, and feeling at home in a foreign land. Her readers shared her joy upon first seeing Bramasole, laughed with her at the trials of building a stone wall or replacing a cistern, ached with her as she returned in the evenings after back-breaking work in the garden, and salivated over the elaborate Tuscan meals she prepared in the kitchen full of fresh herbs and traditional pottery.

Sally Mohr of the Boulder Wine Merchant will join Frances for a sampling of the wines of Tuscany.

In Tuscany

MARC BARASCH
Friday, November 10, 7:30 p.m.

In his new book Healing Dreams (Riverhead, $24.95), MARC BARASCH offers us a new, multidimensional method of dreamwork that can help us achieve greater wholeness and authentic living through understanding of our “larger-than-life” dreams. Going beyond Freud and Jung, Barasch takes us through the new fundamentals of dream interpretation, helping us understand our dreams and embrace their essential mystery.

Healing Dreams

CHRIS HOFFMAN
Monday, November 13, 7:30 p.m.

According to CHRIS HOFFMAN, we carry within us a blueprint for wholeness and connection that is reflected in the symbols of The Tree, the vertical, growing core of individuality, and The Hoop, the circular representation of our relationship with all others and with the earth. The Hoop and the Tree (Council Oak, $14.95) shows readers how to develop and balance both parts of the whole to lead a happier, more contented, complete existence.

The Hoop and the Tree

HARRIET PECK TAYLOR
Tuesday, November 14, 10:00 a.m.

HARRIET PECK TAYLOR’s Secrets of the Stone (FSG, $16.00) tells the story of Coyote and Badger, friends who hunt together in the southwestern desert. In their pursuit of Jackrabbit, they come upon an amazing sight: the walls of a cave, covered with pictures of their ancient ancestors. In a dream, Coyote goes back to the time where the creatures in the rock art roamed the land. Illustrated in her inimitable batik, Peck Taylor’s book introduces young readers to the art of early humans and to the concept of timeless behavior.

Secrets of the Stone

AMERICAN POET GREATS LECTURE
Tuesday, November 14, 7:30 p.m.

MARY ANGELINE will discuss the poetry of LORINE NIEDECKER, whose poetry in all probability moved Louis Zukovsky and others to a singular clarity of definition of the art of poetry as “a state of music wherein the ideas present themselves sensuously and intelligently and are of no predatory intention.” Co-sponsored by The Museum of American Poetics. Visit their web page at www.poetspath.com.

DAN SIMMONS
Wednesday, November 15, 7:30 p.m.

Darwin’s Blade (Morrow, $25.00) is the new suspense novel by Hugo Award-winning author DAN SIMMONS that ensnares Darwin Minor, a cynical ex-marine who works as an accident reconstruction specialist in an international conspiracy of intimidation and murder. The deeper Minor digs, the more enemies he seems to make, until he is marked for elimination himself and is forced to rely on sills and instincts crafted in the jungles of Vietnam.

Darwin’s Blade

T.A. BARRON
Thursday November 16, 6:30 p.m.

For centuries, writers have told stories about the powerful wizard Merlin as an old man, but T.A. BARRON explores how Merlin grew to be the white-bearded mentor of King Arthur. In his Lost Years of Merlin epic, Barron follows the young boy from Wales as he travels through time and space, fights dragons and demons, and learns about his own strength and spirit. The Wings of Merlin (Philomel, $19.99) is the fifth and final volume of this compelling young adult series.

To visit our page listing all of Mr. Barron's books click HERE.

The Wings of Merlin

STUART KAUFFMAN
Tuesday, November 21, 7:30 p.m.

STUART KAUFFMAN’s Investigations (Oxford Univ. Press, $30.00) examines not only how life organizes itself, but proposes a new, simple definition of “life”. This is a tour-de-force exploration of the very essence of life itself, with conclusions that radically undermine the scientific approaches on which modern science rests – the approaches of Newton, Boltzman, Bohr, and Einstein.

Investigations

CAMERON TUTTLE
Wednesday, November 22, 7:30 p.m.

The Bad Girl’s Guide to Getting What You Want (Chronicle, $14.95), CAMERON TUTTLE’s hilarious follow-up to her wildly popular Bad Girl’s Guide to the Open Road is the ultimate guide to getting it—anything and everything—in Bad Girl style. Delayed gratification is a thing of the past with this inspired collection of tips and tricks for scoring love, fame, money, power, parking spaces, and other essentials.

The Bad Girl’s Guide to Getting What You Want

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BOOK FAIRS THIS MONTH
This month we are hosting several book fairs to help local schools raise funds. Please stop by and support the school of you choice 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, November 3 – 5, Bridge School
• Friday – Sunday, November 10 – 12, Friends’ School
• Friday – Sunday, November 17 – 19, Jarrow Montessori School

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