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HOLLY A. SMITH
Wednesday, October 2, 7:30 p.m.

Fire of the Five Hearts (Brunner-Routledge, $17.95) is HOLLY A. SMITH's unflinching account of her work with victims of incest through Boulder County's Sexual Abuse Team. In stark, elegant prose, Colorado author Smith immerses us in the grueling details of her tiny patient's lives-and relates with utter honesty the emotional toll this work takes on her, as well as the uncompromising passion that has sustained her in this work for two decades.

Fire of the Five Hearts

MARY SOJOURNER
Thursday, October 3, 7:30 p.m.

Through her commentaries on National Public Radio, MARY SOJOURNER has shared her passion for the land and environment, issued powerful calls to action, and tackled delicate topics head on. Now, in Bonelight (University of Nevada, $21.95), she shares a rousing and deeply personal collection of essays ranging from nature and aging to gambling and land development; in these writings, Sojourner reveals her loves, her angers, her flaws: her soul.

Bonelight

BIJA BENNETT
Monday, October 7, 7:30 p.m.

Every day, our food, exercise, sleep, and emotional states continuously move us into and out of balance. Once we recognize we are out of balance and can identify how, we can do something about it-the challenge is to influence our system in the direction of change for the better. Using the dynamic interplay of Emotional Yoga (Fireside, $15.00), Denver author BIJA BENNETT offers profound steps for eliminating stress and restoring balance to our lives.

Emotional Yoga

MELISSA WALKER
Tuesday, October 8, 7:30 p.m.

Having spent her adult life raising children and climbing the academic ladder, MELISSA WALKER decided soon after her fiftieth birthday to leave her suburban life and venture into the backcountry on her first extended solitary trip. Living on Wilderness Time (University of Virginia, $24.95), her account of this and two subsequent trips, is a book for anyone who longs for those places where time is measured differently and human beings are scarce.

Living on Wilderness Time

PAUL MARTIN
Wednesday, October 9, 7:30 p.m.

Athletics were always a part of PAUL MARTIN's life-but it wasn't until the age of 25, when he lost the lower part of one leg, that Martin became truly committed to sport. To read One Man's Leg (GreyCore, $16.00) is to experience the life and passion of a world champion triathlete, to redefine "disability", to learn the true meaning of team spirit, and to come to love the finish line, as it applies to each of us, no matter how far off we fear it might be.

One Man's Leg (Due to a database glitch, this book may show up as a different price, but you will only be charged the $16.00 price)

JULIA CAMERON
Thursday, October 10, 7:30 p.m. at The Flatirons Theater

Ten years ago, JULIA CAMERON published The Artist's Way, a groundbreaking work that offered an original and effective twelve-week course in creative discovery. Now, in Walking in This World (Tarcher, $24.95), Cameron picks up where that work left off to present readers with a second course-the next leg in an amazing journey toward discovering our potential.

This event will be held at The Flatirons Theater, 1089 13th Street. Starting September 25, tickets will be available at Boulder Book Store for $5.

Walking in This World

The Artist's Way ($ 15.95)

JAY BLAKESBERG
Friday, October 11, 7:30 p.m.

Including hundreds of photos never published before, Between the Dark and Light (Backbeat, $35.00) is a rare visual documentation of an unparalleled cultural phenomenon. This collection of JAY BLAKESBERG's Grateful Dead photography-whether of the musicians swept up in a mesmerizing jam, elated dancing fans, or Garcia's soulful gaze-takes fans on a 25-year journey capturing the legendary band's musical, cultural, and personal magic.

Between the Dark and Light

NATALIE GOLDBERG
Monday, October 14, 7:30 p.m.

In this powerful new collection of NATALIE GOLDBERG's writing and artwork, the celebrated author of Writing Down the Bones focuses on the shifting rhythms of interior life in sensual meditations that are both illuminating and insightful. Top of My Lungs (Overlook, $27.95), Goldberg's first poetry collection to be published in twenty-two years, brings to life the integrity and commitment readers have embraced in her books on creativity and writing.

Top of my Lungs

MARGARET COEL
Tuesday, October 15, 7:30 p.m.

Father John O'Malley has a lot on his mind. While his mission is in danger of losing its charter and a young man from his parish has disappeared, his old friend Vicky Holden finds out that her ex-husband was murdered-and that she is the prime suspect. The Shadow Dancer (Berkley, $22.95), the latest from local author MARGARET COEL, follows Father O'Malley and Arapaho attorney Holden as they struggle to stop a self-proclaimed holy man.

The Shadow Dancer

ANNE LAMOTT
Wednesday, October 16, 7:30 p.m.

Beloved for her ability to render the dramas of everyday life with utter candor, spiritual sensitivity, and laugh-out-loud humor, in her long-awaited new novel ANNE LAMOTT tells the story of a contemporary American family, wounded by emotional distance and disturbing secrets, as they reach for wholeness, connection, and a renewal of love. Surprising and heartfelt, Blue Shoe (Riverhead, $24.95) is an exuberant hymn to friendship and family.

Blue Shoe

SUZY MCKEE CHARNAS
Thursday, October 17, 7:30 p.m.

When SUZY MCKEE CHARNAS realized that her aging father-a failed artist living in a squalid Manhattan loft-could no longer care for himself, she invited him to live in the in-law cottage next to her New Mexico home. My Father's Ghost (Tarcher/Putnam, $23.95) is Charnas' moving memoir of the man who was, in many ways, a stranger to her, but whom she came to understand deeply, forming a bond that continued to bloom after his death.

My Father's Ghost

HAL CLIFFORD
Monday, October 21, 7:30 p.m.

In this impassioned expose, lifelong skier HAL CLIFFORD reveals how giant corporations gained control of our most popular winter sport during the last decade, and how they are gutting ski towns, mountain ecology, and the sport itself in the quest for short-term profits. Downhill Slide (Sierra Club, $24.95) suggests an alternative: the return-to-roots movement that is beginning to shift control of the ski business back to the communities that host it.

Downhill Slide

MARC BEKOFF
Tuesday, October 22, 7:30 p.m.

Combining her life's work living among the chimpanzees with her spiritual perspective on the relationship between humans and other animals, world-famous behavioral scientist Jane Goodall and eminent Boulder animal behaviorist MARC BEKOFF set forth The Ten Trusts (HarperSanFrancisco, $23.95) that humans must honor as custodians of the planet. In doing so, Goodall and Bekoff share their hope and vision for humanity and all the earth's creatures.

The Ten Trusts

DANIEL PINCHBECK
Wednesday, October 23, 7:30 p.m.

Participatory journalism at its best, Breaking Open the Head (Broadway, $24.95) is a passionate, multi-layered, and sometimes rashly personal inquiry into the deep division between the modern demonization of psychedelics and their sacred role in tribal cultures worldwide. From Gabon to the Burning Man Festival, it is a scrupulous recording of DANIEL PINCHBECK's wide-ranging investigation into these outlaw substances.

Breaking Open the Head

SYLVIA BOORSTEIN
Thursday, October 24, 7:30 p.m.

According to the Buddha, the path of kindness is the path of happiness. Now, celebrated Buddhist teacher and bestselling author SYLVIA BOORSTEIN has taken the 2500-year-old practice of developing the qualities of a compassionate heart and made it accessible to all in Pay Attention, For Goodness' Sake (Ballantine, $24.95). In her own cheerful and inspirational style, she presents the Paramitas, the Buddha's Ten Perfections of the Heart.

Pay Attention, For Goodness' Sake

GRAHAM HANCOCK
Friday, October 25, 7:30 p.m.

GRAHAM HANCOCK, the real-life Indiana Jones who has fascinated us and unveiled the secrets of our past in books like Fingerprints of the Gods, returns with a new work of archaeological detection. Underworld (Crown, $27.50) is a riveting exploration of now-submerged ruins that may be the remains of great civilizations-the stories of which live on in ancient myths. Hancock joins myth and modern technology to illuminate ancient mysteries.

Underworld

Fingerprints of the Gods ($ 18.95)

T.A. BARRON
Saturday, October 26, 2:00 p.m.

Today more than ever, we need heroes-people whose character enables them to triumph and to make a genuine difference to our world. Combining profiles of heroic young people with insightful commentary, in The Hero's Trail (Philomel, $14.99) local author T.A. BARRON eloquently shows young readers that heroes can act as trail guides on our journeys through life. And best of all, he lets us know that anyone can be a hero and inspire others on the trail. To see his other books, please visit our T.A. Barron page, or visit his website at www.tabarron.com.

The Hero's Trail

DAVE EGGERS
*** Book Signing Only-Not a Reading ***
*** Sunday, October 27, 4:00 - 6:00 p.m. ***

In 2000, DAVE EGGERS burst onto the literary scene with his A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, a wry memoir of Eggers' experiences raising his younger brother. Now, in You Shall Know Our Velocity (McSweeney's Books, $22.00), Eggers turns his considerable talent to fiction as two friends, in the wake of a third friend's death, endeavor to travel around the world in a week and give away a large sum of money, which is not as easy as it sounds.

You Shall Know Our Velocity (This book has limited distribution and is only available through independent bookstores). $22.00 is the price you will be charged. A higher price may show up on your shopping cart.

A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius ($ 14.00)

CRAIG CHILDS
Monday, October 28, 7:30 p.m.

In Soul of Nowhere (Sasquatch, $22.95), CRAIG CHILDS answers the call of fierce places-the more desolate the landscape, the more passionately he is drawn to it. Childs tracks a broad territory: the Sierra Madre mountains, the canyons of New Mexico, the White Mountain Apache Reservation, a deserted island in the Sea of Cortez. In his much-anticipated follow-up to The Secret Knowledge of Water, Childs discovers the passion and grace of desolate places.

Soul of Nowhere

The Secret Knowledge of Water ($ 13.95)

ROGER HOUSDEN
Tuesday, October 29, 7:30 p.m.

Upon discovering a poem by the thirteenth-century Sufi dervish Rumi, a young Greek icon painter is compelled to travel to the land that this poet called home. Inspired by Rumi's magical words, Georgiou leaves his father and their small business in hopes of recapturing the transcendent power of an early childhood vision. Spellbinding and enduring, ROGER HOUSDEN's Chasing Rumi (HarperSanFrancisco, $17.95) will not be soon forgotten.

Chasing Rumi

HOWARD RHEINGOLD
Wednesday, October 30, 7:30 p.m.

Smart Mobs (Perseus, $26.00) reveals how mobile technology is transforming society by changing the ways in which we meet, mate, interact, and create. Technology-and-culture maven HOWARD RHEINGOLD explains how this worldwide techno-cultural shift-illustrated using examples from the amusing to the extraordinary-is as dramatic as the widespread adoption of the personal computer and the Internet in recent decades.

Smart Mobs

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Book Fair This Month

• Friday - Sunday, October 4 - 6, Bridge School

This month we are hosting a book fair to help New Horizons Cooperative Preschool 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.

October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month
Support Boulder County Safehouse on Safe Touch Tuesdays:
October 1, 15, and 29, 6:00 - 8:00 p.m.

Domestic Violence Awareness Month evolved from the first Day of Unity observed in October of 1981 by the National Coalition Against Domestic Violence. The intent was to connect battered women's advocates who were working nationwide to end violence against women and their children. The Day of Unity soon became a special week, which has since become a month featuring a range of activities at the local, state, and national levels.

From 6:00 - 8:00 p.m. on October 1, 15, and 29, visit our Upper North Room to enjoy $10 Chair Massages. All proceeds benefit Boulder County Safehouse.

For more information, visit www.bouldercountysafehouse.org

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