In his reflective autobiography, Transcendent Summits (Fulcrum, $17.95), GERRY ROACH takes us back to his roots to re-discover a lifelong passion for climbing. This candid memoir reveals an often amusing ascent from a young boy’s ambitions to Denali, the first step in his quest for the Seven Summits. Join Gerry and his Summit Club as they enjoy the view from the top of North America’s most famous peaks and a few places that are likely to surprise you.

Transcendent Summits

ELENI SIKELIANOS
Thursday, November 4, 7:30 p.m.

ELENI SIKELIANOS, Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at Naropa, has a distinguished history of luminous work, including her National Poetry Series award-winning collection The Monster Lives of Boys and Girls. Winner of numerous other awards, including a Fulbright Fellow Writer's Award, Sikelianos graces us this fall with two new works: a collection entitled The California Poem (Coffee House, $16.00) and a memoir, The Book of Jon (City Lights, $11.95).

The California Poem

The Book of Jon

BOULDER MEDIA WOMEN LITERARY EXCHANGE
Sunday, November 7, 4-6 p.m.

The Boulder Book Store is proud to welcome back the BOULDER MEDIA WOMEN as they give a voice to women writers everywhere at their 8th Literary Exchange, entitled Write On! How I Do It and You Can Too. Why do writers write? How do they create articles, books, or poetry? What keeps them going even after rejections? Come meet a panel of published women writers who are ready to share the secrets of their craft, their inspiration, their ideas, and their passion for writing.

JERRY MEEHL
Monday, November 8, 7:30 p.m.

In this new book by JERRY MEEHL and Rex Allan Smith, the history of the War in the Pacific comes vividly to life in the words of those who witnessed it firsthand. Pacific War Stories (Abbeville, $27.50) creates for the reader, as the veterans themselves recall it, what that war was like—how it looked, felt, smelled, and sounded. The stories collected here are a unique portrayal of the mundane, exotic, terrifying, life-altering events that made up the soldiers' wartime experiences.

Pacific War Stories

DENNY KERCHER
Tuesday, November 9, 7:30 p.m.

Everyone is looking for balance, wholeness, and meaning in life, but the stresses of everyday living are sapping people of enthusiasm, energy, and satisfaction. Through stories, examples, and analogies, I'm Juggling as Fast as I Can (Chrysalis, $19.99) provides insights on the origins of stress, how stress can lead to burnout, and ways to cope with stress to achieve balance. DENNY KERCHER helps readers to discover new ways to create meaning in all areas of life.

DOUGALD MACDONALD
Wednesday, November 10, 7:30 p.m.

The colorful history, unique ecosystems, and stupendous views are framed from many angles, and experiences are shared by many individuals to offer a portrait of this complex mountain in Longs Peak: The Story of Colorado's Favorite Fourteener (Westcliffe, $24.95). No mountain in Colorado has seen a livelier parade of visitors than Longs Peak, and DOUGALD MACDONALD's photography and text allow armchair adventures to view the mountain's many moods.

Longs Peak: The Story of Colorado's Favorite Fourteener

BRIAN WEISS
Thursday, November 11, 7:30 p.m.

Noted psychiatrist BRIAN WEISS made headlines with his pioneering research on the healing power of past-life therapy in his million-copy bestseller, Many Lives, Many Masters. Now, in his groundbreaking new book Same Soul, Many Bodies (Free Press, $25.00), Dr. Weiss reveals how our future lives can actually transform us in the present. The book takes Dr. Weiss's discoveries about the past and shows readers an individual and collective future that they themselves will create.

Same Soul, Many Bodies

Many Lives, Many Masters ($ 13.00)

T.A. BARRON
Saturday, November 13, 2:00 p.m.

Nationally beloved local author T.A. BARRON's books shine with his love of family, the great outdoors, and the possibility for every person to be a hero. In his new picture book High as a Hawk (Philomel, $16.99), he tells the true story of a brave young girl and a wise mountain guide who climbed Longs Peak in 1908. And in The Great Tree of Avalon: Book One (Philomel, $19.99), he presents the first of an exciting new trilogy that he calls his most ambitious literary project yet.

The Great Tree of Avalon: Book One

High as a Hawk

ALAN LIGHTMAN
Monday, November 15, 7:30 p.m.

When ALAN LIGHTMAN's Einstein's Dreams (Vintage, $12.00) was first published, it was met with international acclaim. The popularity of this imaginary re-creation of Einstein's discovery of the nature of time continues to this day. Lightman fans will also be pleased to learn that Reunion (Vintage, $13.00) is now available in paperback. Written with crystalline prose, at once precise and mysterious, Reunion explores the pain of self-examination and the clay-like nature of memory.

Einstein's Dreams

Reunion

BOULDER BOOK STORE READING GROUP
Tuesday, November 16, 7:30 p.m.

This month, come down for another meeting of the Boulder Book Store's reading group, "Boulder Reads Together." Our selection this month is Khaled Hosseini's The Kite Runner (Riverhead, $14.00), an epic tale of fathers and sons, of friendship and betrayal, that takes us from Afghanistan in the final days of the monarchy to the atrocities of the present—a beautifully crafted novel set in a country that is in the process of being destroyed. Read it and join us!

The Kite Runner

MAY-LEE CHAI
Wednesday, November 17, 7:30 p.m.

MAY-LEE CHAI, an award-winning novelist, short story writer and distinguished writer of nonfiction, saw her family memoir The Girl from Purple Mountain nominated for a National Book Award. Now, in a lyrical collection of short stories and essays entitled Glamorous Asians (University of Indianapolis, $16.95), she explores the diversity of the Asian-American experience, challenging stereotypes while experimenting with form, language, metaphor, and myth.

Glamorous Asians

The Girl from Purple Mountain ($ 14.95)

JEFF SHAARA
Thursday, November 18, 7:30 p.m.

In his new novel To the Last Man (Ballantine, $27.95), bestselling author JEFF SHAARA brings to life the sweeping, emotional story of World War I as told through four men with very different points of view, involved in the war from four very different perspectives. In bringing the story to life, and telling the story of America's heroic and often overlooked involvement in the war, Shaara has created a vivid, bold, historically authentic, and deeply moving work of literature.

To the Last Man

JOHN FIELDER
Monday, November 22, 7:30 p.m.

Though he has published hundreds of mountain photos in previous books, Mountain Ranges of Colorado (Westcliffe, $79.95) will prove to be JOHN FIELDER's definitive photographic essay about Colorado's mountains. Fifteen years in the making, the images were created on the most remote and strenuous backpacking excursions of Fielder's career. For the first time in any publication, this book delineates the 28 distinct mountain ranges that define Colorado's Southern Rockies.

Mountain Ranges of Colorado

KERRY MACLEAN
Tuesday, November 23, 7:30 p.m.

A meditation instructor for well over 20 years, KERRY MACLEAN is an expert in bringing meditation practice to the whole family. In The Family Meditation Book (On the Spot, $12.95), she uses her own firsthand experience to show how important it is for families to regroup and bring a stillness of mind to all they experience. In Peaceful Piggy Meditation (Albert Whitman, $15.95), a picture book, she shows how young piggies find a peaceful place in a busy world.

Peaceful Piggy Meditation

DANIELA KUPER
Monday, November 29, 7:30 p.m.

DANIELA KUPER is the recipient of five literary fellowships, has published short stories in numerous anthologies, and was nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Now, in her remarkable debut novel Hunger and Thirst (St. Martin's, $23.95), which Joyce Carol Oates has called "one of the most vividly imagined and moving novels I've read in years," Kuper breaks myths and cultural stereotypes in her exploration of a family's life in the Chicago Jewish culture of the 1950s.

Hunger and Thirst

RICHARD RHODES
Tuesday, November 30, 7:30 p.m.

In the first major biography of John James Audubon in 40 years, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian RICHARD RHODES illuminates fully the private and family life of the master illustrator of the natural world. John James Audubon: The Making of an American (Knopf, $30.00) explores Audubon's legacy of acute observation—the sonorities of a wilderness now lost, the brash life of a new nation just inventing itself. Here is a revelation of Audubon, both the artist and the man.

John James Audubon: The Making of an American

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