• BOOK FAIRS THIS MONTH

JOHN HAGELIN & ROBERT ROTH
Sunday, October 1, 1:00 p.m.

Physicist, educator, and Natural Law Party Presidential candidate JOHN HAGELIN, author of Manual for a Perfect Government (Maharishi Univ. Mgmt. Press, $15.00) and ROBERT ROTH, author of A Reason to Vote (Griffin, $14.95) will discuss the future of third party candidates in the United States, and the need to forge coalition relationships between previously neglected alternative political voices.

Manual for a Perfect Government

A Reason to Vote

ALAN McHUGHEN
Monday, October 2, 7:30 p.m.

In Pandora’s Picnic Basket (Oxford, $25.00), ALAN McHUGHEN explains the technologies underlying genetically modified food, comparing them with other “natural” methods of plant breeding and production, then offers fair-minded, well-informed accounts of issues of concern, particularly environmental issues, and outlines ways in which consumers can avoid GM food if they so choose.

Pandora’s Picnic Basket

MATTHEW FOX
*** CANCELLED *** Tuesday, October 3, 7:30 p.m. *** CANCELLED ***

According to MATTHEW FOX, we get to the core of religion by going to the heart experience, not by dwelling on doctrines that so easily divide even within religious traditions. Fox masterfully distills the common principles of the world’s religions and shows how the different fingers of the world’s faiths connect to a single hand in his new book, One River, Many Wells (Tarcher, $29.95).

One River, Many Wells

CHRISTOPHER RICE
Wednesday, October 4, 7:30 p.m.

A Density of Souls (Hyperion, $23.95) is the story of five young friends in New Orleans whose lives are pulled in different directions after they enter high school. Two violent deaths then further disrupt the core of their friendship. Five years later, they are drawn back together as what was held to be a tragic accident is discovered to be murder. This is a stunning debut novel by CHRISTOPHER RICE, son of New Orleans novelist Anne Rice.

A Density of Souls

PETER LANE TAYLOR
Thursday, October 5, 7:30 p.m.

Whether hanging from suspension bridges to track the flight of raptors, scuba diving into the crushing cores of moving glaciers, or exploring the burning cauldrons of active volcanos, there is a special breed of scientist willing to do whatever it takes to get the data they need. In Science at the Extreme (McGraw-Hill, $29.95), PETER LANE TAYLOR follows these daring men and women of science.

Science at the Extreme A

KENT HARUF
Friday, October 6, 7:30 p.m.

KENT HARUF’s award-winning Plainsong (Vintage, $13.00) interweaves the stories of a pregnant high school girl, a lonely teacher, a pair of boys abandoned by their mother, and a couple of crusty bachelor farmers. From these unsettled lives emerges a vision of life, of the small eastern Colorado town they live in, and of the landscape that binds them together.

Plainsong

PHILIP RUBINOV-JACOBSON
Tuesday, October 10, 7:30 p.m.

In Drinking Lightning (Shambhala, $50.00), PHILIP RUBINOV-JACOBSON describes his encounters with a number of remarkable mystics and artists through his imaginative paintings done in the Viennese Fantastic Realism style. Combining wisdom and wit, Jacobson helps to enlarge our belief in our own inherent creativity, providing us with an inspired sense of spiritual direction in both art and life.

Drinking Lightning

COMMUNITY CO-OP PRESENTATION
Wednesday, October 11, 7:30 p.m.

The cooperative movement has been building the dream of economic democracy for over 150 years. Boulder residents, seeking an alternative to the corporate health food stores, are using this model to create the Boulder Cooperative Market and other local co-op groups. Join organizer THEO HORESCH for an exploration of how the budding anti-corporate movement might find roots in the cooperative vision of the future.

ROGER PLUNK
Thursday, October 12, 7:30 p.m.

The Wandering Peacemaker (Hampton Roads, $13.95) is an engaging, on-the-road memoir of one mans use of spirituality in his attempts to resolve age-old disputes in the lion’s den of international politics. ROGER PLUNK relates the spiritual insights gained from serving as a mediator to the Dalai Lama, working in Beijing with Chinese policy makers, in New Delhi helping to draft a constitution for Kashmir, and as advisor to the president of Kabul.

The Wandering Peacemaker

HA JIN
Sunday, October 15, 2:00 p.m.

In The Bridegroom (Pantheon, $22.00), HA JIN vividly brings to life the daily dramas of Chinese men and women who are starting to feel the influence of the West while still immersed in a society that attempts to control their every move and thought. The 1999 National Book Award and PEN/Faulkner Award recipient for Waiting (Vintage, $13.00) will also discuss that novel as it is released in paperback.

The Bridegroom

AMERICAN POET GREATS LECTURE
Tuesday, October 17, 7:30 p.m.

Orpheus in the Echo Chamber: Jack Spicer’s Poetics of Community. MARK DUCHARME will discuss the work and life of JACK SPICER, focusing on community as a figure both for and in Spicer’s poetics. Co-sponsored by The Museum of American Poetics. Visit their web page at www.poetspath.com.

DAVID HAYS
Wednesday, October 18, 7:30 p.m.

Today I Am a Boy (Simon & Schuster, $23.00) follows DAVID HAYS as he, at the age of sixty-six, studies with a group of twelve-year-old boys for his bar mitzvah. As he struggles to learn Hebrew alongside his
rowdy classmates (“the hormone hurricane”), his long dormant love of learning is rekindled. At the stage of life when most of us begin to slow down, Hays feels more alive than ever.

Today I Am a Boy

PHILIP PULLMAN
Friday, October 20, 6:30 p.m.

ATTENTION HARRY POTTER FANS!

If you like Harry and his friends, you’ll love PHILIP PULLMAN and the His Dark Materials trilogy.

The Amber Spyglass (Knopf, $20.00) brings the intrigue of The Golden Compass and The Subtle Knife to a heartstopping close, making the third and final volume the most powerful of the three. Along with the return of familiar characters, Pullman introduces a host of new ones, including a powerful hand-high spy-master, a fierce and mighty angel, and mysterious creatures with the power to see the mysterious Dust. The final volume also brings startling revelations and a final battle that will finally reveal the secret of Dust.

The Amber Spyglass

The Golden Compass ($ 6.99)

The Subtle Knife ($ 6.99)

WRITING SEMINAR: TURNING LIFE INTO LITERATURE
Sunday, October 22, 1:00 p.m.

Humor, honesty, imagination, invention, attention, surprise, intent – these are a few of the tools used in creating literature. Join poet, travel writer, and novelist LINDA WANTANABE McFERRIN in a two-hour seminar designed to acquaint participants with the implements of the writer’s craft and demonstrate the many ways to turn personal experience into literature.

Emphasis will be placed on the forms that your stories might take and markets for publication. Examples of how to turn Life into Literature will be drawn from McFerrin’s latest book, The Hand of Buddha (Coffee House Press, $13.95), as well as other great reads. Come with ideas, energy, and an inquiring mind. Call Susan at (303) 447-2074 for reservations or more information.

The Hand of Buddha

WILLIAM URY
Monday, October 23, 7:30 p.m.

According to local author WILLIAM URY, it takes two sides to fight, but a third to stop. Distilling the lessons of two decades of experience in family struggles, labor strikes, and wars, he presents a bold new strategy for stopping fights. In The Third Side (Penguin, $13.00), he describes ten practical roles that each of us can play every day to prevent destructive conflict.

The Third Side

ARMISTED MAUPIN
Tuesday, October 24, 7:30 p.m.

In The Night Listener (HarperCollins, $26.00), American literary icon ARMISTED MAUPIN introduces us to Gabriel Noone, a teller of tales and writer whose night radio serial brings him into the homes of millions, including an ailing thirteen-year-old boy. Noone develops a remarkable relationship with the boy that evolves into a profound mystery that will blur the lines between truth and illusion, and lead him to confront all of his life’s relationships.

The Night Listener

MICHAEL LERNER
Wednesday, October 25, 7:30 p.m.

Spirit Matters (Hampton Roads, $22.95) shows how deeply we’ve been hurt personally, emotionally, ecologically, and politically by living in a world that systematically represses our spiritual needs – and how we might create a personal life and a society that embodies what MICHAEL LERNER describes as an “Emancipatory Spirituality,” a new vision for global healing and change.

Spirit Matters

CANDACE BUSHNELL
Thursday, October 26, 7:30 p.m.

With her first book and the ensuing HBO series Sex and the City, CANDACE BUSHNELL rocketed to international fame. In her new book 4 Blondes (Atlantic Monthly Press, $24.00), she returns to the playgrounds of New York’s powerful and beautiful to tell the stories of four women caught at crossroads in their lives, facing choices and realizations that will redefine them forever.

4 Blondes

NANCY COBB
Monday, October 30, 7:30 p.m.

With the curiosity of a child and the wisdom of an old soul, NANCY COBB meets death in the most vital of places: in the lives of everyday people. In doing so, she has found a way to infuse this darkest of subjects with light and wit. In Lieu of Flowers (Pantheon, $19.95) proves that what makes us cry can also make us laugh, what depresses us can also enlighten us. Cobb encourages us to accept and honor the “divine intersections” where the living meet the dying.

In Lieu of Flowers

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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, October 6 - 8, Casey Middle School
• Friday - Sunday, October 13 - 15, University Hill Elementary School
• Friday - Sunday, October 20 - 22, Centennial Middle School