Hundreds of hardy people have tried to carve a living in the Alaskan bush, but few have succeeded as consistently as Heimo Korth. Journalist JAMES CAMPBELL has spent two years documenting the lives of Heimo, his wife, and their teenage daughters, and he paints their portraits in vivid detail. By turns inspiring and downright jolting, The Final Frontiersman (Atria, $25.00) reveals a life in a stunning wilderness that for now, at least, remains the final frontier.

The Final Frontiersman

CHRIS CARMICHAEL
Thursday, September 2, 7:30 p.m.

The coach of one of the world's greatest athletes—Lance Armstrong—outlines his incredible nutritional program in Chris Carmichael's Food for Fitness (Putnam, $25.95), a book that will help anyone take his or her fitness to the next level of peak performance. CHRIS CARMICHAEL provides the nutritional information you need to achieve your goals, as he outlines a revolutionary eating program for everyone from weekend warriors to those just trying to be more fit.

Chris Carmichael's Food for Fitness

MARK SPRAGG
Tuesday, September 7, 7:30 p.m.

Jean Gilkyson is living in a trailer house with yet another brutal boyfriend when she realizes this kind of life has got to stop, especially for the sake of her daughter. But the only place they can go is to Wyoming, where Jean’s loved ones are dead and her father-in-law, the only person who can take them in, wishes that she was too. Rich in character, landscape, and compassion, An Unfinished Life (Knopf, $23.00) shows novelist MARK SPRAGG in the fullness of his powers.

An Unfinished Life

SUSAN SKOG
Wednesday, September 8, 7:30 p.m.

Peace in Our Lifetime (Cliffrose, $15.00) offers a sweeping message of hope and optimism during these difficult and violent times. Who isn't longing for a calmer, more humane world? Who doesn't want evidence that the hot spots of the world—and our own chronic conflicts—can be resolved peacefully? Through the lessons of 50 exceptional peacemakers working in war zones and high-conflict areas, SUSAN SKOG shows how to create peace, personally and globally.

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RICHARD FREEMAN
Thursday, September 9, 7:30 p.m.

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Ever thought about getting involved in yoga but never quite found the time? Join us for this special event with RICHARD FREEMAN, renowned local yoga instructor. He's studied yoga since 1968, including nine years spent in Asia studying various traditions, which he incorporates into his Ashtanga practice. He'll be promoting the 9th Annual Yoga Journal Conference in Estes Park, September 27 to October 3, 2004, at which he and many other yoga masters will be teaching.

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NATALIE GOLDBERG
Tuesday, September 14, 7:30 p.m.

NATALIE GOLDBERG has inspired millions to write to develop an intimate relationship with their minds and a greater understanding of the world in which they live. Now, Goldberg puts her teachings to work to create this wry, nimble memoir. Filled with Goldberg's trademark gifts for both humor and teaching, The Great Failure (HarperCollins, $23.95) touches our hearts and minds as we come to recognize the ways in which we fail to confront our illusions.

The Great Failure

MOZZ
Wednesday, September 15, 10:00 a.m.

If you became exceedingly wise from reading The Pearls of Wisdumb, then you are indeed ready to run away with the rhyme and rhythm wizard MOZZ on another adventure, to the wackiest world ever imagined in Runaway Road (Goofy Guru, $17.95). Run, run, run with Mozz down Runaway Road to discover a land so sensationally silly, so enormously entertaining, so nuttily new, that you will never want to return to the reality you once called home. For every child from five to five thousand years young.

The Pearls of Wisdumb ($ 17.95)

MARIANNE WESSON
Thursday, September 16, 7:30 p.m.

In Chilling Effect (University Press of Colorado, $23.95), Boulder attorney Lucinda Hayes agrees to represent a mother whose child was murdered by a mentally ill killer as he reenacted an adult film. Hayes must prove beyond doubt that the filmmakers are liable, without arguing for restrictions on free speech. Chilling Effect is MARIANNE WESSON's most provocative mystery to date, suggesting that the power of speech can inspire the best and worst human behavior.

Chilling Effect

MARK TEAGUE
Saturday, September 18, 2:00 p.m.

Ike the beloved canine investigator is back for round two in MARK TEAGUE's hilarious sequel to Dear Mrs. Larue: Letters From Obedience School. In Detective Larue: Letters from the Investigation (Scholastic, $15.95), the Hibbins' cats are missing and Ike is taking the blame—and with Mrs. LaRue vacationing in France, Ike will have to take matters into his own paws and start an investigation. Will Ike be able to solve the crime and preserve his spotless reputation?

Detective Larue: Letters from the Investigation

Dear Mrs. Larue: Letters From Obedience School ($ 15.95)

ARON RALSTON
Monday, September 20, 7:30 p.m.

Between a Rock and a Hard Place (Simon & Schuster, $26.00) is ARON RALSTON's searing account of his six days trapped in one of the most remote spots in America. Aron was climbing down off an 800-pound wedged boulder when the rock suddenly, and terrifyingly, came loose. The falling stone pinned his right hand and wrist against the canyon wall. And so began six days of hell for Aron Ralston—and one of the most extraordinary survival stories ever told.

Between a Rock and a Hard Place

BOULDER BOOK STORE READING GROUP
Tuesday, September 21, 7:30 p.m.

For this month's installment of the Boulder Book Store reading group, Boulder Reads Together, we invite you to join us for a discussion of Vernon God Little (Harcourt, $13.00). When sixteen kids are shot on high school grounds, Vernon Little is pinned as an accomplice—after his best friend, the shooter, turns the gun on himself. DBC Pierre's Booker Prize-winning novel is a provocatively satirical, riotously funny look at violence, materialism, and the American media.

Vernon God Little

BRIGITTE MARS
Wednesday, September 22, 7:30 p.m.

A raw food diet means you don't have to cook—and raw foods strengthen the immune system, slow the aging process, increase energy, and help people achieve their optimum weight. But can one live on raw alone? Herbalist and nutritional consultant BRIGITTE MARS converted from a vegetarian to a raw food diet three years ago, and in Rawsome! (Basic Health, $17.95), she shares the science behind the raw food diet and presents more than 200 kitchen-tested raw food recipes.

Rawsome!

TRACY KIDDER
Thursday, September 23, 7:30 p.m.

TRACY KIDDER, winner of the Pulitzer Prize, has crafted a powerful and inspiring new book in Mountains Beyond Mountains (Random House, $14.95), the true story of a gifted doctor who is in love with the world and has set out to do all he can to cure it. This magnificent book shows how radical change can be fostered, as Paul Farmer—a leader in international health and a doctor makes house calls in Boston and the mountains of Haiti—blasts through convention to get results.

Mountains Beyond Mountains

R. TODD MICHAEL
Monday, September 27, 7:30 p.m.

In this uplifting work, R. TODD MICHAEL retranslates the parable of the loaves and fishes, and makes an astonishing discovery: Deep within the subtleties of the original Greek lies a carefully hidden layer of information. Here, the actual technique of the miracle is revealed. Scholarly, inspiring, and consistent with contemporary metaphysical thought, The Twelve Conditions of a Miracle (Tarcher, $13.95) is essential reading if you want to work a transformation in your own life.

The Twelve Conditions of a Miracle

JULIAN RUBINSTEIN
Tuesday, September 28, 7:30 p.m.

During the 1990s, while playing for the biggest hockey team in Budapest, Attila Ambrus took up bank robbery to make ends meet. Hot on his trail was a detective who had learned the ropes by watching dubbed Colombo episodes. In an Eastern Europe slipping off communism and replacing it with leopard-skin hot pants, a legend would be born. Welcome to JULIAN RUBINSTEIN's Ballad of the Whiskey Robber (Little, Brown, $23.95) —a story so outrageous that it could only be true.

Ballad of the Whiskey Robber

BARON BAPTISTE
Wednesday, September 29, 7:30 p.m.

Yoga master BARON BAPTISTE, international best-selling author of Journey into Power and 40 Days to Personal Revolution, has transformed and de-mystified adult yoga in the US with his unique style of power vinyasa yoga. Baptiste's innovative and accessible approach is now available to a brand new audience—parents and kids! My Daddy is a Pretzel (Barefoot, $16.99) is a clever, colorful and educational introduction to yoga for adults and children from all walks of life.

My Daddy is a Pretzel

Journey into Power ($ 15.00)

40 Days to Personal Revolution ($ 17.00)

ALAN TENNANT
Thursday, September 30, 7:30 p.m.

In this extraordinary narrative, ALAN TENNANT, a passionate observer of nature, recounts his all-out effort to radio-track the transcontinental migration of the peregrine falcon—an investigation no one had ever taken to such lengths. On the Wing (Knopf, $26.95) is an amazing encounter with these majestic birds—the icons of pharaohs, Oriental emperors, and European nobility—whose fierce mien, power, and swiftness have fired the human imagination for centuries.

On the Wing

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