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.

MARY TAYLOR YOUNG
Wednesday, September 4, 7:30 p.m.

A nature columnist and the author of eight books on bird and wildlife watching, Denver author MARY TAYLOR YOUNG brings her naturalist’s background and eloquent prose style to this new collection of narratives about the prairie and her very personal connection to this vanishing landscape. Land of Grass and Sky (Westcliffe, $14.95) examines the natural landscape we inhabit and the history of human encroachment on this delicate ecosystem.

Land of Grass and Sky

ANDREW LANGE
Thursday, September 5, 7:30 p.m.

A source for reflection on the philosophy of healing, homeopathy, and the medicine of transformation, Getting at the Root (North Atlantic, $16.95) explores how medicines can be used to address the deepest causes of disease. Local author ANDREW LANGE, N.D. explores the limitations of a symptomatic approach to healing, through which both western and alternative medicine have often ignored the healing power of the body’s own defenses.

Getting at the Root

ALISON MCMILLEN
Monday, September 9, 7:30 p.m.

When I Loved Myself Enough (St. Martin’s Press, $14.95) began as one woman’s labor of love—written locally by Kim McMillen, it was initially hand-made and distributed after her death by her daughter, Boulder’s ALISON MCMILLEN. As word spread, its simplicity and heartfelt honesty won it a growing following. It voices profound and undeniable truths: our time on earth is limited, we are never alone, and loving others begins with loving ourselves.

When I Loved Myself Enough

OULOOOK AND OPPORTUNITY: PLANNING FOR THE RECOVERY
Tuesday, September 10, 7:00 p.m.

DANA WEISS and LILI COOPER, Financial Advisors with Morgan Stanley will discuss stock market cycles, the main factors that have created recent down trends and how to mitigate volatility in your investments while taking advantage of long-term trends in the market. Included will be highlights from Jeremy Siegel's book, Stocks For The Long Run and ideas on how to plan for the recovery. Seating is limited; please RSVP to Dana at 720-562-6233.

Stocks For The Long Run

SEPTEMBER 11, 2002: WHERE HAVE WE BEEN, WHERE ARE WE GOING?

Wednesday, September 11, 7:30 p.m.

One year has passed since the attacks of September 11. We will each recall September 11^th in our own way. But, as day breaks on the first anniversary of that terrifying day, the desire will be universal to share our feelings and experiences with those around us. Join moderator DAVID BARSAMIAN of Alternative Radio for an open microphone followed by a discussion period and share your perspectives and outlook for the future.

FRANCESCA HOWELL
Tuesday, September 17, 7:30 p.m.

A Greenpeace activist, Wiccan High Priestess, and faculty member at Naropa University, local author FRANCESCA HOWELL has been involved in magical traditions and wildlife preservation since childhood. In Making Magic With Gaia (Red Wheel/Weiser, $16.95), she shares her everyday suggestions for spiritual renewal, based in an ancient Pagan tradition blending deep ecology, magic, and activism to bring the reader into harmony with the Earth.

Making Magic With Gaia

SALLY MCCLAIN
Wednesday, September 18, 7:30 p.m.

In the wake of the attack on Pearl Harbor, it became clear that the success of the Allies’ South Pacific campaign would depend on creating a code indecipherable to the Japanese Navy’s highly proficient codebreakers. In Navajo Weapon (Rio Nuevo, $16.95), SALLY MCCLAIN describes the remarkable story of the code—based on the complex Navajo language—that proved to be our ultimate top-secret medium for transmitting combat intelligence.

Navajo Weapon

SUSAN WINTER WARD
Thursday, September 19, 7:30 p.m.

Yoga for the Young at Heart (New World Library, $14.95) teaches poses that build strength, energy, and flexibility for people of all ages and fitness levels. In addition to the thirty-two poses that comprise an accessible hatha yoga practice, SUSAN WINTER WARD provides specific poses for menopause, restoration poses to revive ourselves from our hectic lives, and postures that can be done seated, at your desk, on a plane, or by those with limited mobility.

Yoga for the Young at Heart

DEBRA MAGPIE EARLING
Monday, September 23, 7:30 p.m.

Coming of age on a Montana reservation, Louise White Elk dreams of both belonging and escape, of love and freedom on her terms. She is red-haired, tough, and beautiful, but she is also doomed—three men, each more dangerous than the last, struggle to possess her. Perma Red (BlueHen, $24.95) is DEBRA MAGPIE EARLING’s tragic and breathtaking story of the dangers of longing, and the consequences of one young woman’s often-contradictory desires.

Perma Red

SHARON SALZBERG
Tuesday, September 24, 7:30 p.m.

From the biblical days of Abraham to today’s world of turbulence in Afghanistan, the Middle East, and the Catholic Church, people have been divided and driven to war over the issue of faith. One of the world’s most respected Western Buddhist teachers and acclaimed author of Lovingkindness, SHARON SALZBERG looks at this coveted and condemned quality in a whole new light in Faith: Trusting Your own Deepest Experience (Riverhead, $22.95).

Faith: Trusting Your own Deepest Experience

Lovingkindness ($12.95)

CHUCK PALAHNIUK
Wednesday, September 25, 7:30 p.m.

“Imagine a plague you catch through your ears…imagine an idea that occupies your mind like a city.”

A tightly wound thriller and blackly comic tour de force, Lullaby (Doubleday, $24.95) is the story of widower, reporter, and involuntary serial killer Carl Streator, who joins with a haunted house broker, a Wiccan, and an ecoterrorist on an odyssey to destroy a lethal—and disturbingly catchy—song. From CHUCK PALAHNIUK, author of the bestselling Choke and the cult classic Fight Club, this novel reinvents the apocalyptic thriller for the 21^st century. Carl Streator, a solitary widower and reporter assigned to do a series of articles on Sudden Infant Death Syndrome, discovers an ominous thread in the course of his investigation: the presence of the same anthology of lullabies, opened to the same song, at each of the death scenes. This song turns out to be lethal when spoken or even thought in anyone’s direction—and once it lodges in Streator’s mind, he finds himself becoming an involuntary serial killer.

Lullaby

Fight Club ($13.00)

Choke ($13.00 )

ED SANDERS
Thursday, September 26, 7:30 p.m.

To explore a branch of historical and biographical poetry with roots that reach back to the Iliad and the Odyssey, ED SANDERS developed Investigative Poetry. He has used this technique to write a number of works, including a verse biography of Anton Chekov and the series America: A History in Verse, two volumes of which have been published thus far. In his lecture Real Time Verse, Sanders will discuss the principles of writing poetry based on actual events.

MICHAEL TOMS
Friday, September 27, 7:30 p.m.

Events of the last year have led to a crisis in American values. With the passage of the so-called Patriot Act and the presidential edict establishing military tribunals, and with Congress and the mass media championing the government party line, civil liberties are in grave jeopardy. In A Time for Choices (New Society, $16.95), MICHAEL TOMS and others discuss these contemporary challenges to the founding democratic principles of the United States.

A Time for Choices

AURA READINGS

• Saturday, September 28, 1:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m.
• Sunday, September 29, 1:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.

Watch your colors unfold as the Aurastar 2000 illustrates specific qualities and attributes of your physical, emotional, and spiritual energies. At one glance you will be able to see a holistic picture of your personality, the vitality of your phyiscial body as well as the energy flowing through each of your charkas. CRISTY and KEVIN SNYDER will provide a printout of your full body aura, chakra analysis, insightful interpretations and wellness tips for only $20.

MARILYN MITCHELL
Monday, September 30, 7:30 p.m.

Dancing on Quicksand (Johnson, $16.00), is a spirited, often-rollicking memoir about a remarkable relationship between author MARILYN MITCHELL and an elderly Denver man in the early stages of dementia. No dreary, sentimental tale of heartbreak and darkness, this books unveils the universal nature of truth and respect while illustrating that even in troubled times, there are opportunities for laughter and understanding the essence of being human.

Dancing on Quicksand

IF YOU CANNOT ATTEND AN EVENT, BUT WOULD LIKE AN AUTOGRAPHED COPY, please call us to order one (personalized copies must be prepaid). All events are free and open to the public unless otherwise noted. If you are unable to use the stairs to the second floor ballroom where our events are held, please call ahead to arrange for the closed-circuit television service available on the main floor. Events are subject to change or cancellation. Please call us to confirm on the day of the event: (303) 447-2074. Books not purchased at Boulder Book Store will be signed only if time permits.

Book Fair This Month

• New Horizons Cooperative Preschool Friday-Sunday, September 27-29

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.

Let Freedom Read!

Celebrate Banned Books Week
September 21 – 28

“Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech.”
--Benjamin Franklin

 “Don’t join the book burners. Don’t think you’re going to conceal faults by concealing evidence that they ever existed.”
--Dwight D. Eisenhower

When John Steinbeck’s classic novel The Grapes of Wrath was introduced in 1939, it received a rocky reception; though widely lauded, it was burned by a public library in Illinois, and barred or banned from libraries in New York, Missouri, and California. Today, Stenbeck’s books continue to be praised, and to be challenged—according to the ALA, Of Mice and Men was the second most challenged book in 2001. Most-challenged were the books of the Harry Potter series, themselves burned as “evil” on several occasions last year.

Sex, profanity, and racism remain the primary categories of objections; frequently, challenges are motivated by the desire to protect children. While the cause is noble, censorship is far more hazardous than exposure to the “evil” against which the protection is leveled. Children are thinkers, and they can only grow if we give them the opportunity to read all types of literature.

For more information, and tips for parents sharing banned books with kids, visit the American Library Association’s website at www.ala.org/bbooks/.