The ultimate insider's guide to this small but beautiful country, The New Key To Costa Rica (Ulysses, $18.95) is not written by a team of "experts" nor by a writer with ten different guides to ten different locations. It is written by BEATRICE BLAKE and ANNE BECHER—two women with a deep understanding, love, and concern for Costa Rica. It is their only travel guide, and it offers the insight and hints that only someone who has lived in Costa Rica can pass along.

The New Key To Costa Rica

THOMAS ASHLEY-FARRAND
Friday, October 3, 7:30 p.m.

Throughout history, people have revered the Great Feminine power—the shakti—that flows through the body. Centuries ago, the seers and sages of India observed that specific mantras connect us with this goddess energy and increase its potency. Now, with Shakti Mantras: Tapping into the Great Goddess Energy Within (Ballantine, $13.95), we can all benefit from this ancient practice with the help of THOMAS ASHLEY-FARRAND, a Vedic priest.

Shakti Mantras: Tapping into the Great Goddess Energy Within

divide MAGAZINE
Tuesday, October 7, 7:30 p.m.

Boulder is home to a new literary magazine: divide, an annual of creative responses to contemporary social questions, sponsored by the University of Colorado's Program for Writing and Rhetoric, edited by STEVEN WINGATE. Come celebrate the debut of this exciting new journal with Colorado authors JOANNE GREENBERG, poet, essayist, and editor DAVID MASON, and Milkweed Prize-winning fiction writer LAURA PRITCHETT.

DEBORAH HAYNES
Wednesday, October 8, 7:30 p.m.

What does it mean to become an artist—and work as an artist—in today's society? What are the unique challenges facing artists in the twenty-first century, and what skills are required to overcome them? In Art Lessons: Meditations on Being an Artist (Westview, $15.95), DEBORAH HAYNES addresses the mind, body, and spirit of today's artists with her personal reflections on what it takes to succeed and feel creatively and spiritually fulfilled.

Art Lessons: Meditations on Being an Artist

LAIRD HUNT
Thursday, October 9, 7:30 p.m.

One dark and lovely winter evening, Noah Summers sifts through the blown drifts of his memory, trying to make sense of a lifetime of psychic visions and his family's tumultuous stake on an Indiana farmstead. Written by Naropa writing faculty member LAIRD HUNT in a masterful, elegiac style that echoes Faulkner and Steinbeck, Indiana, Indiana (Coffee House, $20.00) is a moonlit American saga told through waking dreams illuminated by a dying fire.

Indiana, Indiana

GARY SCOTT
Monday, October 13, 7:30 p.m.

"Each of us has a 'mountain' we need to climb, a challenge we need to undertake," says mountaineer GARY SCOTT at the beginning of Summit Strategies: Secrets To Mastering the Everest in Your Life (Beyond Words, $13.95). Scott has climbed many mountains, both literal and symbolic, and now, he uses knowledge gained from his years of mountaineering to help readers consider and conquer the challenges in their lives.

Summit Strategies: Secrets To Mastering the Everest in Your Life

DAVE QUERY
Tuesday, October 14, 7:30 p.m.

If you're a fan of Jax, you can now cook more than seventy of the most requested recipes, adapted for home cooking, with Jax Fish House Book of Fish (Pruett, $30.00). Co-author and chef DAVE QUERY takes you through all your favorites, including Jax's infamous Damn Good Crab Cakes with Red Pepper Louie. The book is filled with beautiful color photos shot on location, capturing the spirit and eclectic seafood fare of this critically acclaimed culinary hot spot.

Jax Fish House Book of Fish

JANET LAUREL
Wednesday, October 15, 7:30 p.m.

Seven years ago, Centennial resident JANET LAUREL was diagnosed with Stage IV breast cancer. She was told her only chance for survival would be intense chemotherapy followed by a bone marrow transplant. Laurel rejected this proposal. Instead, she listened to her inner voice, combining conventional cancer treatments with alternative therapies. Eight years later, she gives us Heart and Soul (Fresh Squeezed, $24.95), and talks about what it takes to confront cancer.

MARIA NEMETH
Thursday, October 16, 7:30 p.m.

Thousands of people worldwide have learned how to combine spiritual insight with worldly pragmatism through MARIA NEMETH's dynamic workshops. Now you can, too. Combining a thorough self-discovery process with proven methods of money management, The Energy of Money (Ballantine, $14.95) provides twelve principles for financial success to help you uncover your hidden beliefs about money and harness the energy of money to realize your dreams.

The Energy of Money

JUDY COLLINS
Monday, October 20, 7:30 p.m.

In Sanity and Grace (Tarcher, $22.95), renowned singer/songwriter JUDY COLLINS reveals with unflinching honesty the events leading up to and following the death of her only child, culminating when she picks up the pieces of her shattered heart and gathers the strength to move forward. In the depths of her suffering Collins found relief by reaching out to others for help and support. Now, she extends her hand to comfort others whose lives have been affected by similar tragedy.

Sanity and Grace

IVAN DOIG
Tuesday, October 21, 7:30 p.m.

IVAN DOIG's earlier works have established him as one of America's foremost novelists, and with Prairie Nocturne (Scribner, $26.00), he easily reprises that role. From the gorgeous open prairie to the grit and bustle of the Harlem Renaissance, the tangled lives that Doig depicts reflects all the ways—good and bad—that the past can affect our future, and how barricades sometimes morph into opportunity while we're not even paying attention.

Prairie Nocturne

DEVA PREMAL & MITEN
Wednesday, October 22, 7:30 p.m.

Deva Premal and Miten play music to stir the heart and still the mind—musical journeys into silence. Best known for their top-selling chant albums, the duo express the ancient wisdom of mantra through a contemporary musical voice. Fresh from a European tour, these planetary musicians will be performing many of their renowned favorites along with some new classics from Miten's new solo album, Songs for the Inner Lover (White Swan, $16.99).

JAY HEARST
Thursday, October 23, 7:30 p.m.

Who is Jay Hearst and why should you spend your hard earned money to buy this book? Because he’s been there, starting, running, and eventually selling two successful businesses. In Lead the Charge to Business Success (Wexford College Press, $19.95), local author and entrepreneur Hearst gives the reader the benefit of his years of acquired knowledge and experience, along with practical advice on how to start a business and effectively grow it.

Lead the Charge to Business Success

WIN BLEVINS & MEREDITH BLEVINS
Monday, October 27, 7:30 p.m.

Celebrate the spirit of the adventurer with WIN & MEREDITH BLEVINS. Win's new book, So Wild a Dream (Forge, $24.95) is a brash updating of the traditional Wild West tale, complete with Hispanics, Mormons, self-reliant women, blacks, and other previously ignored groups. Meredith's The Hummingbird Wizard (Forge, $24.95) is a unique, intriguing mystery set amidst the ancient culture and lore of the Gypsy people—and will include a short Gypsy tarot card reading as time permits!

So Wild a Dream

The Hummingbird Wizard

ADRIAN MCKINTY
Tuesday, October 28, 7:30 p.m.

Just over a decade ago, New York was a completely different city than the one we know today. Hundreds were murdered every month, drugs ruled the city, and turf wars broke out constantly between the forces vying for control of the streets. Dead I Well May Be (Scribner, $24.00) is Denver author ADRIAN MCKINTY's fictional snapshot of this pre-Guiliani New York, set in the midst of a struggle between Irish thugs and the rising Dominican powers in Harlem and the Bronx.

Dead I Well May Be

KAROL GRIFFIN
Wednesday, October 29, 7:30 p.m.

Growing up on the periphery of her own family in Laramie, Wyoming, KAROL GRIFFIN believes in the image of the wild, wild West in which she supposedly lives. But it isn't until Karol walks into the Body Art Workshop that she finds what she's looking for: a culture on the fringe of polite society. In Skin Deep (Harcourt, $24.00), she tells the story of becoming a full-time tattoo artist, an occasional outlaw, and a tattooed woman looking for love in all the wrong places.

Skin Deep

ROZ BROWN & ANN LEGGETT
Thursday, October 30, 7:30 p.m.

Haunted Boulder 2, Ghostly Tales from Boulder and Beyond (White Sand Lake Press, $16.95), by Roz Brown and Ann Alexander Leggett is a sequel to their successful first book, Haunted Boulder, Ghostly Tales from the Foot of the Flatirons, 2002. The first book was recognized earlier this year with an award from the Colorado Independent Publishers Association. As its name suggests, the second book includes new ghost stories from Boulder, and also tales of hauntings in Louisville, Longmont, Lafayette, Central City, Denver and Colorado Springs.

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