Due to the uncertain nature of airline flights at the moment, any of our events may be cancelled on fairly short notice. Please call us to verify all events at (303) 447-2074. Sebastian Junger's event on the 14th has been cancelled as he has been "called overseas".

As always, we offer free parking validation & meter tokens to our customers. There are three city parking structures, at 15th and Pearl, 11th and Walnut, and directly behind the book store on Spruce Street between Broadway and 11th Street.

• To see information about the this month's Book Fair click HERE

SABRINA WARD HARRISON
Monday, October 1, 7:30 p.m.

After the success of her memoir Spilling Open, SABRINA WARD HARRISON found that with recognition came a certain pressure to uphold her new image. She decided to head out on her own, to Italy, a place she had always dreamed and written about, a place she felt she could go to "recolor.” Brave on the Rocks (Villard, $22.95) is a compilation of her “spillings” from that time: a collection of color, words, drawings, photos, and other forms of self-discovery.

Brave on the Rocks

DOUG LANSKY
Tuesday, October 2, 7:30 p.m.

Nationally syndicated travel columnist DOUG LANSKY takes the reader on a global odyssey in Last Trout in Venice (Traveler’s Tales, $14.95). From the dangerous to the cultural, the tourist-y to the everyday, there’s nothing that Lansky won’t try at least once. Here are 46 of his wackiest adventures, including sumo wrestling lessons in Tokyo, a visit to the Kit Kat Club in Berlin, and working as an underwater bellhop off Key Largo.

Last Trout in Venice

TODD BRYANT MERCER
Wednesday, October 3, 7:30 p.m.

“Ride hard; drink well.” That’s the goal of Bike and Brew America: Rocky Mountain Region (Brewer’s Publications, $16.95). TODD MERCER provides trail and brewpub information on 34 cities and towns through five states including Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Utah, and Wyoming. Also available is Mercer’s new Bike and Brew guide to the 12-state Midwest region

Bike and Brew America: Rocky Mountain Region

ANDREW COHEN
Thursday, October 4, 7:30 p.m.

ANDREW COHEN, spiritual teacher, author, and founder of What Is Enlightenment? magazine, will discuss the radical spiritual inquiry that he teaches and that is the lifeblood of the magazine. About his passion for inquiry, Cohen says, “What does it mean to be a human being in this world in the context of enlightened understanding? This question has become the driving force of my own life and this magazine.”

SUSAN EDWARDS
Tuesday, October 9, 7:30 p.m.

The Wild West Wind / Remembering Allen Ginsberg (Baksun Books, $17.00) is a Ginsberg memoir by local author SUSAN EDWARDS, who worked with him at Naropa University for more than two decades. While touching on many facets of a complex man, the book focuses on the sometimes outrageous efforts by the famed Beat poet to bring the meditative practices of Tibetan Buddhism to the poet’s path.

TERRY TEMPEST WILLIAMS
Wednesday, October 10, 7:30 p.m.

Red: Passion and Patience in the Desert (Pantheon, $23.00) combines TERRY TEMPEST WILLIAMS’ best writing on the terrain she knows so well – the desert – in a collection of new essays. In it are meditations on the astounding rock formations that have haunted her imagination for decades, as well as startling encounters with the face and soul of the desert.

Red: Passion and Patience in the Desert

STAN BRAKHAGE
Thursday, October 11, 7:30 p.m.

In the course of making some 340 films over the past 48 years, STAN BRAKHAGE has become synonymous with independent American filmmaking, particularly its avant-garde component. In Essential Brakhage: Selected Writings on Filmmaking (McPherson & Co., $18.00), he examines many aspects of filmmaking, drawing primarily upon his long out-of-print books Metaphors on Vision and Brakhage Scrapbook.

CHILDREN’S STORYTIME
Friday October 12, 10:00 a.m.

Gymboree Play and Music and Boulder Book Store are partnering to bring the wonderful world of books to children. Join us on the second Friday of each month for children’s storytime in our children’s room. Storytime is for children 1-6 years old.

*** Cancelled*** SEBASTIAN JUNGER*** Cancelled***
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*** Cancelled***Fire (WW Norton, $24.95), SEBASTIAN JUNGER’s first book since The Perfect Storm, brings us face to face with one of nature’s most ruthless and unpredictable elements and with the men and women who risk their lives to bring that force under control. This new collection of Junger’s nonfiction captures the essence of danger, taking readers where they would not dare to go themselves.*** Cancelled***

Fire

The Perfect Storm ($14.00)

KELLY JAMES
Monday, October 15, 7:30 p.m.

KELLY JAMES draws us into the mystery that is Africa in Dancing with the Witchdoctor (Wm. Morrow, $25.00), a series of moving and powerful stories based on her experiences as a private investigator. James propels us through harsh cultures and brutal lands navigating among warring political factions, poachers, tribesmen, and witchdoctors, exposing the resilience of the human spirit.

Dancing with the Witchdoctor

AMERICAN POET GREATS LECTURE
Tuesday, October 16, 7:30 p.m.

SUSAN EDWARDS will discuss Allen Ginsberg, with the publication of her new book The Wild West Wind / Remembering Allen Ginsberg. Edwards’s personal reminiscences of a twenty-five year collegial relationship with Ginsberg is an invitation into the raw heart of the twentieth century’s greatest visionary American poet.

BOB LEVIN & JOE ROSSE
Wednesday, October 17, 7:30 p.m.

In order to be successful, companies must keep their best employees. This has never been more important than today, with employees looking for better alternatives and every downturn in the economy spelling layoffs. In Talent Flow (John Wiley, $29.95), BOB LEVIN and JOE ROSSE offer a resource that explains how to keep quality employees and effectively manage those whose performance is less than acceptable.

Talent Flow

SHAMBHALA, SACRED PATH OF THE WARRIOR
Thursday October 18, 7:30 p.m.

Inspired by the ancient legend of the kingdom of Shambhala, the teachings of Shambhala are concerned with how we can lead open and genuine lives that inspire wakefulness and confidence by following the path of enlightened warriorship. Directors of Shambhala Training, a program of study and practice founded by Chogyam Trungpa will give this new series of talks, based on the book by Trungpa.

SHAMBHALA, SACRED PATH OF THE WARRIOR ($ 13.95)

TA BARRON
Friday, October 19, 10:00 a.m.

Anna doesn’t know how she lost her mother, or when. For as long as she can remember, she has lived in a lonely cottage by the sea with only cranky old Mellwyn, the fisherman. Anna longs to find out more about her past and her mother, but to do that, she must go to the far side of the forest, where Mellwyn found her under the High Willow as a baby, but the forest is haunted by deadly tree ghouls. Tree Girl (Philomel, $14.99) is TA BARRON’s newest book, suitable for young middle-grade readers. To see all of Mr. Barron's books, click HERE.

Tree Girl

GREGORY MAGUIRE
Sunday, October 21, 2:00 p.m.

In GREGORY MAGUIRE’s new novel Lost (HarperCollins, $26.00), a woman writer is haunted by a ghostly presence in a nineteenth-century London rowhouse once owned by her great-great-grandfather. Is the presence the spirit of that ancestor, who may be Charles Dickens’s inspiration for Ebenezer Scrooge? Could it be the remains of Jack the Ripper? Or a phantasm derived from a more arcane and insidious origin?

Lost

GEN KELSANG LOSEL
Monday, October 22, 7:30 p.m.

Western Buddhist nun GEN KELSANG LOSEL will speak on behalf of Buddhist meditation master GESHE KELSANG GYATSO, author of Transform Your Life (Tharpa Publ., $19.95). With the book, Gyatso has given us a complete and essential handbook for integrating timeless, liberating spiritual wisdom into our daily lives, in order to make each day meaningful and enjoyable.

Transform Your Life

MARK SALZMAN
Tuesday, October 23, 7:30 p.m.

MARK SALZMAN’s novel Lying Awake (Vintage, $12.00), tells the story of a nun whose life of peace and prayer has been electrified by ever more frequent visions of God’s radiance. When her doctor tells her an illness may be responsible for her gift, she faces a wrenching choice: to risk her intimate glimpses of the divine in favor of a cure, or to continue her visions at any cost.

Lying Awake

GREGORY CROUCH
Wednesday, October 24, 7:30 p.m.

GREGORY CROUCH has made seven pilgrimages to Patagonia, the vast tract of land shared by Argentina and Chile where every endeavor, from mountain climbing to farming, is made in the face of hellish South Seas gales. Enduring Patagonia (Random House, $24.95) chronicles Crouch’s obsession with the wind-swept mountains and steppes of this strange part of the world.

Enduring Patagonia

AMANDA CASTRO
Thursday, October 25, 7:30 p.m.

AMANDA LIZET CASTRO, recipient of the Poeta Laureada International Poetry Prize and Assistant Professor of Spanish at CSU, has edited several poetry anthologies and published four books of poetry. Her reading is a highlight of Art Triumphs Over Domestic Violence, a month-long series of literary and art events hosted by Boulder County Safehouse in honor of Domestic Violence Awareness Month.

CAROL GURNEY
Monday, October 29, 7:30 p.m.

The human/animal spiritual connection is a powerful one. In The Language of Animals (Dell, $12.95), renowned animal communicator CAROL GURNEY offers animal lovers a simple, effective method for listening to and communicating with their animals, providing exercises to heighten our natural empathetic/intuitive capacities and techniques for making the connection with any animal in our life.

The Language of Animals

ERIK WEIHENMAYER
Tuesday, October 30, 7:30 p.m.

On May 25, 2001, at 11:30 a.m., Erik Weihenmayer made history, becoming the first blind climber to summit Mount Everest. Touch the Top of the World (Dutton, $23.95) is the story of Weihenmayer’s struggle to reach the top. Born with retinoscheses, a degenerative eye disorder, Weihenmayer learned at an early age that his eyesight would vanish by his thirteenth birthday. As pieces of his vision deteriorated, his desire to live an adventurous life became a reality. After enrolling in the outdoors program at the Carroll Center for the Blind in Massachusetts, he was soon climbing New Hampshire’s rock faces. After moving to Phoenix to work as a teacher, he began climbing in earnest, and, in 1995, on the anniversary of Helen Keller’s birthday, he became the first blind man to summit Mount McKinley. His goal is to summit the highest peaks on all seven continents. Touch the Top of the World is about having the vision to dream big; the courage to reach for near impossible goals; and the grit, determination, and ingenuity to transform our lives into something miraculous.

Touch the Top of the World

Author events are also supported by your purchase of the author's books. These purchases are tracked and used by the publishers in decisions about other authors who might visit.

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.

BOOK FAIR THIS MONTH

This month we are hosting a book fair to help a local nonprofit 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, October 5 - 7, Casey Middle School
• Friday – Sunday, October 12 – 14, New Horizons Preschool
• Friday – Sunday, October 19 – 21, Nederland Secondary School
• Friday – Sunday, October 26 – 28, Friends’ School