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Events
10 / 1
Start: 7:30 pm
Colfax Avenue: Robert Greer is author of the popular CJ Floyd mystery series, as well as two medical thrillers. He is a practicing pathologist and professor of medicine at the University of Colorado, and he owns a cattle ranch in Wyoming. Greer will read from and sign his new novel Spoon ($24.95 Fulcrum). A novel of the contemporary American West, Spoon tells the story of Arcus Witherspoon, a mysterious half-black, half-Indian, oddly clairvoyant man searching the West for his roots. Request a signed copy: books@tatteredcover.com Start: 7:30 pm
Historic LoDo: Ralph Nader, consumer advocate and two-time candidate for President of the United States, is a relentless force for grassroots activism and democratic change in America. Nader will discuss and sign his new novel “Only the Super-Rich Can Save Us!” ($27.50 Seven Stories), a vivid fictional account that answers the question “What if?” What if a cadre of super-rich individuals tried to become a driving force in America to organize and institutionalize the interests of the citizens of this troubled nation? Request a signed copy: books@tatteredcover.com | ||
10 / 2
Start: 7:30 pm
Historic LoDo: Denver lawyer Steve Farber, who received a kidney donation from his son Greg, and coauthor Harlan Abrahams will discuss and sign their new book On the List: Fixing America’s Failing Organ Transplant System ($24.99 Rodale), in which they examine the ethical, legal, political, and economic debates over organ transplant policies. An informative and inspiring guide for those who face transplant operations, On the List is also a call to reform a system that is truly, and fatally, flawed. Request a signed copy: books@tatteredcover.com Start: 7:30 pm
Highlands Ranch: M. E. (Betsy) Harrigan worked for the National Security Agency for 27 years in a variety of positions. At the time of her retirement, she was the Technical Director of the Defense Special Missile and Astronautics Center (DEFSMAC), a joint NSA/DIA organization and one of the most vital and proficient providers of intelligence information at the NSA complex. Harrigan will read from and sign 9800 Savage Road: A Novel of the National Security Agency ($24.99 Tor). In 9800 Savage Road, reality and fiction intersect in a terrifying story of the events leading up to 9/11 from deep within the cloistered walls of the NSA. Request a signed copy: books@tatteredcover.com | ||
10 / 3
Start: 2:00 pm
Historic LoDo: Dyana Z. Furmansky is coauthor of These American Lands: Parks, Wilderness, and the Public Lands, and her articles on nature and the environment have appeared in the New York Times, American Heritage, Audubon, High Country News, Sierra, Wilderness, and many other publications. In 1986 she was part of the team of High Country News reporters that won a George Polk Award for Environmental Reporting, for the series “Western Water Made Simple.” Furmansky will discuss and sign her new book Rosalie Edge, Hawk of Mercy: The Activist Who Saved Nature from the Conservationists ($28.95 Univ. of Georgia Press), the first American woman to achieve national renown as a conservationist. Request a signed copy: books@tatteredcover.com Start: 3:00 pm
Highlands Ranch: A former Denver Broncos captain and All-Pro, Karl Mecklenburg rose from being a college walk-on and a 12th-round draft pick to a pro career that included six Pro Bowl and three Super Bowl appearances. Considered the NFL’s most versatile player, Karl played all seven defensive front positions. Since retiring from pro football in 1995, Karl divides his time between family, motivational speaking, and his ongoing charity involvements. Mecklenburg will discuss and sign Heart of a Student Athlete: All-Pro Advice for Competitors and Their Families ($14.95 Bernard Publishing). This book “not only gives great advice to young athletes, families, and coaches trying to get the most of their sports experiences, but it also tells some of the untold stories of our 1980’s championship teams.’’ —John Elway Request a signed copy: books@tatteredcover.com Start: 7:00 pm
Starz FilmCenter: Join the Tattered Cover Book Store, UCD’s College of Arts & Media, Colorado Public Radio, and the Starz FilmCenter for an exploration of the world of classic movies, hosted by Colorado Public Radio film critic Howie Movshovitz at the Starz FilmCenter at the Tivoli. All programs begin at 7:00 pm at the Starz FilmCenter at the Tivoli. Admission is free, but tickets are required from the box office. Tickets are available one hour before screening. Validated parking is avilable in the parking lot directly in front of the Tivoli. This month we’ll feature the 1934 King Vidor classic Our Daily Bread. In the depths of The Great Depression, a young, naïve city couple are given an abandoned farm by a rich uncle. To make it work, they must recruit a cross-section of America. In a number of his films (The Big Parade, The Crowd), Vidor had interesting ideas about the relationship between individuals and their society. He was also a master of grand sequences—as when the frantic inexperienced farmers dig the emergency irrigation ditch. The print will be a fine 35mm restoration preceded by a brief, filmed interview with Vidor. (74 minutes)
For information on the Starz FilmCenter go to starzfilmcenter.com | ||
10 / 4
Start: 2:00 pm
Historic LoDo: Critically acclaimed, multiple award-winning author Margaret Atwood’s novels include The Handmaid’s Tale, Cat’s Eye, The Robber Bride, Alias Grace, The Blind Assassin, and most recently Oryx and Crake, a finalist for The Giller Prize, the Governor General’s Award, the Orange Prize, and the Man Booker Prize. Atwood will read from and sign her new novel The Year of the Flood ($26.95 Nan Talese), a dystopic masterpiece that is by turns dark, tender, violent, thoughtful, and uneasily hilarious. 275 free tickets for the event will be available on Tuesday, September 22, beginning at 9:00 am, with the purchase of The Year of the Flood at any Tattered Cover location. Each ticket will admit one person to the event hall for the presentation and will reserve one numbered place in the signing line. Additional tickets for the booksigning line only will be available beginning at 1:00 pm on the day of the event. Those who do not get one of the first 275 tickets should still be able to hear Ms. Atwood, though not see her presentation. They will be able to get books signed. Request a signed copy: books@tatteredcover.com | ||
10 / 5
Start: 7:30 pm
Historic LoDo: Kay Redfield Jamison, the internationally acclaimed author of the memoir An Unquiet Mind, will read from and sign her new book Nothing Was the Same: A Memoir ($25.00 Knopf). Perhaps no one but Jamison—who combines the acute perceptions of a psychologist with a writerly elegance and passion—could bring such a delicate touch to the subject of losing a spouse to cancer. In direct, straightforward, and at times strikingly lyrical prose, Jamison looks back at her relationship with her husband, Richard Wyatt, and with her characteristic honesty, candor, wit, and simplicity, she describes his death, her own long, difficult struggle with grief, and her efforts to distinguish grief from depression. Request a signed copy: books@tatteredcover.com | ||
10 / 6
Start: 10:30 am
Colfax Avenue & Highlands Ranch: Young children are invited to join us for a special Winnie the Pooh storytime in honor of the 80th anniversary of this classic story’s publication. Start: 7:30 pm
Historic LoDo: Jesse Sheidlower is Editor-at-Large of the Oxford English Dictionary. Recognized as one of the foremost authorities on obscenity in English, he has written about language for the New York Times, Atlantic Monthly, Harper’s, Slate, and many other publications. Sheidlower will discuss and sign his book The F-Word ($16.95 Oxford University Press). In this thoroughly updated third edition of The F-Word, Sheidlower offers a rich, revealing look at the f-bomb and its illimitable uses. Since the fifteenth century, no other word has been adapted, interpreted, euphemized, censored, and shouted with as much ardor or force. Request a signed copy: books@tatteredcover.com | ||
10 / 7
Start: 7:30 pm
Colfax Avenue: Joseph Kanon, the acclaimed, bestselling author of The Good German and Los Alamos, will read from and sign his new novel Stardust ($27.95 Atria). In his most absorbing and accomplished novel yet, Kanon tells a mesmerizing tale of Hollywood, post-war political intrigue, and one man’s determination to learn the truth about his brother’s death. Request a signed copy: books@tatteredcover.com
Start: 7:30 pm
Historic LoDo: Prize-winning children’s author and illustrator David Small will present a slideshow and sign his amazing new book Stitches: A Memoir ($24.95 WW Norton), a searing yet redemptive graphic memoir. “David Small’s Stitches is aptly named. With surgical precision, the author pierces into the past and, with great artistry, seals the wound inflicted on a small child by cruel and unloving parents. Stitches is as intensely dramatic as a woodcut novel of the silent movie era and as fluid as a contemporary Japanese manga. It breaks new ground for graphic novels.” —Françoise Mouly, Art Editor of The New Yorker Visit NPR's website for a recent interview with David Small.
Request a signed copy: books@tatteredcover.com | ||
10 / 8
Start: 7:30 pm
Colfax Avenue: At age fifty-two, after years of working her way up the corporate ladder, Clara Villarosa found herself out of a job. But she didn’t let that get her down. Instead, she put her gifts to the test and started her own business, which became one of the country’s best-known independent specialty bookstores—The Hue-Man Bookstore. Now, twenty years and two successful stores later, Clara is a highly sought-after business coach and expert in the industry. Villarosa will offer a mini-seminar based on her new book Down to Business: The First 10 Steps to Entrepreneurship for Women ($17.00 Penguin). Request a signed copy: books@tatteredcover.com Start: 7:30 pm
Historic LoDo: David Sibley, the preeminent bird-guide author and illustrator, will discuss and sign his new book The Sibley Guide to Trees ($39.95 Knopf). Monumental in scope but small enough to take into the field, this book is an astonishingly elegant guide to a complex subject. It condenses a huge amount of information about tree identification—more than has ever been collected in a single book—into a logical, accessible, easy-to-use format. With more than 4,100 meticulous, exquisitely detailed paintings, the guide highlights the often subtle similarities and distinctions between more than 600 tree species—native trees as well as many introduced species. No other guide has ever made field identification so clear. Request a signed copy: books@tatteredcover.com Start: 7:30 pm
Highlands Ranch: Hollywood film developer Stephen Schwartz will read from and sign his debut novel Boulevard ($24.99 Forge). Boulevard is a “…terrific police thriller. It’s fast-paced and convincingly told. The streets of L.A. have never been meaner or seamier. Schwartz is gifted with clear vision and a knowing heart and a way with words. Wonderful.” —T. Jefferson Parker, New York Times bestselling author of The Renegades Request a signed copy: books@tatteredcover.com | ||
10 / 9
Start: 7:30 pm
Colfax Avenue: Local lawyer and bestselling true-crime writer Harry MacLean will discuss and sign his new book The Past Is Never Dead: The Trial of James Ford Seale and Mississippi’s Struggle for Redemption ($25.95 Basic Books). On May 2, 1964, Klansman James Ford Seale picked up two black hitchhikers and drowned both young men in the Mississippi River. Seale spent more than forty years a free man, before finally facing trial in 2007. In The Past Is Never Dead, MacLean follows Seale’s trial, the legal difficulties of prosecuting kidnapping and murder charges decades after the fact, and the strain on a state contending with a past that can’t be forgiven. Request a signed copy: books@tatteredcover.com Start: 7:30 pm
Highlands Ranch: Colorado author Sue Frederick is a career intuitive (medium) who has been called the “Emeril of Enlightenment.” She’s a frequent guest on radio shows and has presented workshops at venues such as The Crossings Retreat Center, New Hope, American Business Women’s Association and the National Career Development Association. Frederick will discuss and sign her new book I See Your Dream Job: A Career Intuitive Shows You How to Discover What You Were Put on Earth to Do ($19.99 St. Martin’s). As part of the event, ten lucky guests will receive a complimentary mini-reading from Sue. Request a signed copy: books@tatteredcover.com | ||
10 / 10
Start: 10:30 am
Highlands Ranch: We may not see them, but there are bats in Highlands Ranch! Park Ranger Megan will discuss these spooky creatures that hang out in the trees during the day and come out only at night. Start: 7:00 pm
Colfax Avenue: National Book Award-finalist Julie Anne Peters will read from and sign her new novel Rage: A Love Story ($16.99 Knopf). Offering an illuminating portrait of an abusive lesbian teen relationship, Rage takes readers to the precarious place where attraction and need collide, as a teenager experiences the dark side of a first love, and struggles to find her way into a new light. Request a signed copy: books@tatteredcover.com | ||
10 / 11
Start: 2:00 pm
Highlands Ranch: Recent health care reform headlines about end-of-life planning can be frightening and confusing if you’re not informed. Pamela Wilson, CSA, MS, BS/BA with www.thecarenavigator.com, will discuss end-of-life decision making, legal documents, and options that will ensure your choices are respected. | ||
10 / 12
Start: 7:00 pm
Historic LoDo: Michael Madigan, the editor of Heroes, Villians, Dames & Disasters: 150 Years of Front Page Stories from the Rocky Mountain News ($29.95 Mad Ideas), will join us in a celebration of the Rocky Mountain News. Heroes, Villains, Dames & Disasters is a souvenir collection of historic front pages and stories from Colorado’s oldest newspaper, which closed 55 days short of what would have been its 150th anniversary on April 23, 2009. Request a signed copy: books@tatteredcover.com Start: 7:00 pm
Highalnds Ranch: Peter Yarrow, a member of the iconic ‘60s folk trio Peter, Paul & Mary, who found blockbuster success with the picture book version of his famous song Puff, the Magic Dragon, will perform and sign his new picture book, Day Is Done ($16.95 Sterling). As night falls, animal and human parents everywhere tenderly tuck their children into bed. In the darkness, each child—raccoon, doe, rabbit, field mouse, and a little boy—wonders: Will I be safe? Will you be there for me? And every mommy and daddy responds with the comforting words of Yarrow’s refrain: “I am here.” Caldecott Honor-winning artist Melissa Sweet has created gorgeous images that celebrate the loving bond between parent and child, as well as the connection between all creatures of the earth. Free numbered tickets for a place in the booksigning line will be available at 6:00 pm; one ticket per family. Seating for the presentation prior to the signing is limited, and available on a first-come, first-served basis to ticketed customers only. Request a signed copy: books@tatteredcover.com | ||
10 / 13
Start: 12:30 pm
Highlands Ranch: Join Active Minds for a discussion of the history of North Korea and the development of the North Korean nuclear program. We will cover the successes and shortcomings of diplomatic efforts between North Korea, the United States, and other countries. North Korea’s place in the world relative to global issues such as international trade and human rights issues will also be addressed, as well as their current leadership issues. Start: 7:30 pm
This event has been CANCELLED. Colfax Avenue: Victoria Hislop, the internationally bestselling author of The Island, will read from and sign her new novel The Return ($14.99 HarperCollins). Already a bestseller in the UK, The Return is a captivating novel of family, love, and betrayal set against a backdrop of civil war, flamenco, and fiery Spanish passion. In this book, Hislop transports the reader to Granada, Spain, in a time of historic turmoil to tell a colorful and spellbinding saga of a family inspired by music and dance, only to be torn apart by fragile hearts and divided loyalties during the bitter war that brought the dictator Generalissimo Francisco Franco to power. Request a signed copy: books@tatteredcover.com Start: 7:30 pm
Historic LoDo: National Book Award-winning author Sherman Alexie will read from and sign his new adult book War Dances ($23.00 Grove), a heartbreaking and hilarious collection of stories that explore the precarious balance between self-preservation and external responsibility in art, family, and the world at large. Brazen, and wise, War Dances takes us to the heart of what it means to be human. The new beginnings, successes, mistakes, and regrets that make up our daily lives are laid bare in this wide-ranging and provocative new work that is Alexie at the height of his powers. Free numbered tickets for a place in the booksigning line will be available at 6:30 pm; one ticket per customer in line. Seating for the presentation prior to the signing is limited, and available on a first-come, first-served basis to ticketed customers only. Request a signed copy: books@tatteredcover.com | ||
10 / 14
Start: 7:30 pm
Colfax Avenue: Laura Day is the New York Times bestselling author of Practical Intuition and has spent over two decades helping companies as well as individuals use the power of intuition to achieve their dreams. Her global clientele includes celebrities, scientists, business executives, and other professionals. Day will discuss and sign her new book How to Rule the World from Your Couch ($24.00 Atria). In her new book, Day teaches readers how to create success in any area by using their brains in unique and compelling ways so that their innate intuition can propel them ahead to successful solutions. Request a signed copy: books@tatteredcover.com Start: 7:30 pm
Highlands Ranch: Charles Durrett is a principal at McCamant & Durrett in Nevada City, CA, a firm that specializes in affordable cohousing. Durrett will discuss and sign the second edition of his book The Senior Cohousing Handbook ($34.95 New Society), a comprehensive guide to joining or creating a cohousing project. The author deals with all the psychological and logistical aspects of senior cohousing, and addresses common concerns, fears, and misunderstandings. Request a signed copy: books@tatteredcover.com | ||
10 / 15
Start: 7:30 pm
Colfax Avenue: Andrew Harvey is an internationally renowned religious scholar, writer, and teacher, and the author of over 30 books, including the critically acclaimed Way of Passion: A Celebration of Rumi. Harvey will discuss and sign his new book The Hope: A Guide to Sacred Activism ($16.95 Hay House). Based on Harvey’s concepts of Sacred Activism—a global initiative designed to save the world from its downward spiral of greed, pain, and self-destruction—the book is an enlightening text tht offers not only a guide to discovering your divine purpose but also his blueprint for a better world. Request a signed copy: books@tatteredcover.com Start: 7:30 pm
Historic LoDo: Renowned nature photographer John Fielder will discuss and sign his new book Ranches of Colorado ($95.00 Westcliffe) which celebrates not only the scenic beauty of these rural landscapes and the western heritage that we all treasure, but also makes a statement about the Colorado that we will all enjoy in the future. Fielder photographed 50 working Colorado ranches in 2007 and 2008. From the eastern plains to mountain valleys of the Rockies to western slope river canyons, this book depicts with 300 photographs the Colorado very few have seen. Request a signed copy: books@tatteredcover.com John Fielder discusses Ranches of Colorado Start: 7:30 pm
Highlands Ranch: Reyna Grande came to the United States at age nine to join her father, who had left her behind in Mexico for several years. She went on to become the first person in her family to obtain a higher education. She holds a B.A. and an M.F.A. in creative writing. Her first novel, Across a Hundred Mountains, received the El Premio Aztlan Literary Award in 2006 and an American Book Award in 2007. Grande will read from and sign her new novel Dancing with Butterflies ($16.00 Washington Square), the story of four very different women whose lives interconnect through a common passion for their Mexican heritage and a dance company called Alegría. Request a signed copy: books@tatteredcover.com | ||
10 / 16
Start: 7:30 pm
Colfax Avenue: Susan Barry is a professor of neurobiology in the Department of Biological Sciences at Mount Holyoke College. She speaks regularly to scientists, eye doctors, and educators on the topic of neuronal plasticity, and has been featured on NPR and in a New Yorker article by renowned neurologist Oliver Sacks entitled “Stereo Sue.” Barry will discuss and sign her new book Fixing My Gaze: A Scientist’s Journey into Seeing in Three Dimensions ($26.00 Basic Books). Request a signed copy: books@tatteredcover.com Start: 7:30 pm
Highlands Ranch: Vince Flynn is the New York Times bestselling author of nine previous thrillers, including Consent to Kill, Act of Treason, and Protect and Defend. Flynn will read from and sign his new book Pursuit of Honor ($27.95 Atria), his most exhilarating political thriller to date—a pulse-pounding tale of espionage, covert intelligence, and counterterrorism. Request a signed copy: books@tatteredcover.com | ||
10 / 17
Start: 2:00 pm
Historic LoDo: Award-winning journalist Susan Marks spent more than 12 years at the Denver Post, primarily as Sunday business editor and special projects editor. Marks will discuss and sign her important new book Aqua Shock: The Water Crisis in America ($24.95 Bloomberg Press). The lack of water is no longer just a problem in the arid West. Drought, contaminated groundwater, overuse, and more have affected water supplies from Massachusetts to California, from Georgia to Wisconsin. Aqua Shock is a clear-eyed, objective look at how we arrived at this crisis point. It outlines the problems, the players, the complexities, and the possible solutions. Request a signed copy: books@tatteredcover.com Start: 4:00 pm
Highlands Ranch: Cinda Williams Chima, author of the bestselling young adult fantasy series that includes The Warrior Heir, a modern young adult fantasy set in Ohio, The Wizard Heir, and The Dragon Heir, will read from and sign The Demon King ($17.99 Disney). The first in a new series, The Demon King is set in a traditional fantasy world of medieval technology, swordplay, castles and keeps. Request a signed copy: books@tatteredcover.com | ||
10 / 18
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10 / 19
Start: 7:30 pm
Colfax Avenue: Peter Kilborn, a longtime reporter for The New York Times, will discuss and sign his new book Next Stop, Reloville: Life Inside America’s New Rootless Professional Class ($26.00 Henry Holt), his eye-opening investigation of the growing phenomenon of “Relos,” the professionals for whom relocation is a way of life. Next Stop, Reloville is “…an extraordinary account of people who can’t stay put, who sacrifice community and friendship and stability and roots for the next promotion, the next raise, the next move, which they believe takes them one step closer to the top.” —Minneapolis Star-Tribune Request a signed copy: books@tatteredcover.com Start: 7:30 pm
Historic LoDo: Michael Chabon, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author whose works include The Mysteries of Pittsburgh, Wonder Boys, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, and The Yiddish Policemen’s Union, will read from and sign his new book Manhood for Amateurs: The Pleasures and Regrets of a Husband, Father, and Son ($25.99 Ecco). Chabon’s major work of nonfiction, Manhood for Amateurs is a memoir as inventive, beautiful, and powerful as his acclaimed, award-winning fiction. In these insightful, provocative, slyly interlinked essays, Chabon presents his autobiography and his vision of life and explores what it means to be a man today. Free numbered tickets for a place in the booksigning line will be available at 6:30 pm; one ticket per customer in line. Seating for the presentation prior to the signing is limited, and available on a first-come, first-served basis to ticketed customers only. Request a signed copy: books@tatteredcover.com | ||
10 / 20
Start: 7:30 pm
Colfax Avenue: Local author Stephanie Barron, a.k.a. Francine Mathews, is the author of nine bestselling Jane Austen mysteries. Barron will read from and sign The White Garden: A Novel of Virginia Woolf ($15.00 Random House). Rich with historical detail, The White Garden is an enthralling novel of literary suspense that explores the many ways the past haunts the present—and the dark secrets that lurk beneath the surface of the most carefully tended garden. Request a signed copy: books@tatteredcover.com Start: 7:30 pm
Historic LoDo: Though honored as a writer—with the National Book Award for the Whole Earth Catalog, Eliot Montroll Award for The Media Lab, and the Golden Gadfly Award for his years as editor of CoEvolution Quarterly—Steward Brand is primarily an inventor/designer. He has created a number of lasting institutions, including New Games Tournaments, the Hackers Conference, and The WELL, a bellwether computer conference system. He is co-founder of Global Business Network, a futurist research organization fostering “the art of the long view.” Brand will present a slideshow and sign his new book Whole Earth Discipline: An Ecopragmatist Manifesto ($25.95 Viking), in which he outlines his provocative approach for reclaiming our planet. Request a signed copy: books@tatteredcover.com Start: 7:30 pm
Highlands Ranch: Journalist Jeannette Walls, author of the critically acclaimed memoir The Glass Castle, will read from and sign her new novel Half Broke Horses: A True-Life Novel ($25.00 Scribner), the story of her grandmother, told in a first-person voice that is authentic, irresistible, and triumphant. Lily Casey Smith, Jeannette Walls’s no nonsense, resourceful, and spectacularly compelling grandmother, lived a life of adventure, toil, heartbreak and triumph. Half Broke Horses is Laura Ingalls Wilder for adults, as riveting and dramatic as Isak Dinesen’s Out of Africa or Beryl Markham’s West with the Night. Free numbered tickets for a place in the booksigning line will be available at 6:30 pm; one ticket per customer in line. Seating for the presentation prior to the signing is limited, and available on a first-come, first-served basis to ticketed customers only. Request a signed copy: books@tatteredcover.com | ||
10 / 21
Start: 7:00 pm
Highlands Ranch: Rob Franek with the Princeton Review will present a talk entitled “How to Choose the College That’s Right for You, and How to Pay for It.” Franek will answer questions and present the Review’s two helpful resource books The Best 371 Colleges, 2010 Edition ($22.99 Princeton Review), and Paying for College Without Going Broke ($20.00 Princeton Review). Request a signed copy: books@tatteredcover.com Start: 7:30 pm
This event has been cancelled. Colfax Avenue: Twenty million podcast downloads say it all: Mignon Fogarty’s kicky, practical, and easy-to-remember advice about style and usage has won her fans across the globe. Her first book, Grammar Girl’s Quick and Dirty Tips for Better Writing, hit the New York Times bestseller list, and her weekly grammar podcast has been hailed by USA Today as “authoritative but warm.” Mignon will discuss and sign her new book The Grammar Devotional: Daily Tips for Successful Writing from Grammar Girl ($15.00 Henry Holt). Start: 7:30 pm
Historic LoDo: In honor of the 10th Anniversary of the popular cooking show America’s Test Kitchen, Chris Kimball, founder and host of America’s Test Kitchen and founder and editor of Cook’s Illustrated magazine, will discuss and sign the new Complete America’s Test Kitchen TV Show Cookbook ($39.95 America’s Test Kitchen). Free numbered tickets for a place in the booksigning line will be available at 6:30 pm; one ticket per customer in line. Seating for the presentation prior to the signing is limited, and available on a first-come, first-served basis to ticketed customers only. Request a signed copy: books@tatteredcover.com | ||
10 / 22
Start: 7:30 pm
Colfax Avenue: James Ellroy, author of the internationally bestselling L.A. Quartet novels—The Black Dahlia, The Big Nowhere, L.A. Confidential, and White Jazz—as well as many other bestselling mysteries and a critically acclaimed memoir, will read from and sign his new book Blood’s a Rover ($28.95 Random House). Summer, 1968. Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy are dead. The assassination conspiracies have begun to unravel. And fate has placed three men at the vortex of history. Ellroy’s new story is political noir as only he can write it. Blood’s A Rover is a novel of astonishing depth and scope, a massive tale of corruption and retribution, of ideals at war and the extremity of love. Request a signed copy: books@tatteredcover.com | ||
10 / 23
Start: 7:30 pm
Highlands Ranch: Paul Myrant, a graduate of Talbot Seminary, received his Master of Arts degree in biblical studies. He has served as a senior pastor, teacher, and coach for over three decades, and his wide range of experiences and interactions with people has prepared him to understand and address the complexities of creationism and evolution. Myrant will discuss and sign his new book The Challenge of Evolution: Is There a Creator? What is He Like, and How Did He Create the Universe? ($14.99 Tate). Request a signed copy: books@tatteredcover.com | ||
10 / 24
Start: 7:00 pm
Historic LoDo: Eoin Colfer is the author of the internationally best-selling Artemis Fowl series. His books have won several awards, including the British Children’s Book of the Year, the German Children’s Book of the Year, and a Betelgeusean Bloater award for shortest newcomer, which he keeps in his head as it is radioactive and scares the children. Colfer will read from and sign And Another Thing… ($25.99 Hyperion), the rather unexpected, but very welcome, sixth installment in the late Douglas Adams’ Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy series. It features a pantheon of unemployed gods, everyone’s favorite renegade Galactic President, a lovestruck green alien, an irritating computer, and at least one very large slab of cheese. 275 free tickets for the event will be available Monday, October 12, beginning at 9:00 am, with the purchase of And Another Thing… at any Tattered Cover location. Each ticket will admit one person to the event hall for the presentation and will reserve one numbered place in the signing line. Additional tickets for the booksigning line only will be available beginning at 6:30 pm on the day of the event. Those who do not get one of the first 275 tickets should still be able to hear Mr. Colfer, though not see his presentation. They will be able to get books signed. Request a signed copy: books@tatteredcover.com | ||
10 / 25
Start: 2:00 pm
Colfax Avenue: Edible Front Range, Slow Food Denver, Denver Urban Gardens, and the Rocky Mountain Farmers Union join the Rocky Mountain Land Library in presenting David Mas Masumoto as he discusses and signs his new book The Wisdom of the Last Farmer: Harvesting Legacies from the Land ($25.00 Free Press). “The only voice from within farming that sings of both its pleasures and its pains, Mas Masumoto’s words are so deeply rooted in his farmwork that they sweat, sting, and shine all at the same time. America’s most articulate orchard-keeper, its most earthy writer, Mas eloquently captures the everyday beauty, heartbreak, and moral complexity of a multigenerational family intent on ‘bearing fruit’ despite insurmountable odds.” —Gary Paul Nabhan, author of Renewing America’s Food Traditions Request a signed copy: books@tatteredcover.com Start: 2:00 pm
Historic LoDo: In Egyptian Alexandria (founded as a Greek city), both Egyptian and Greek architectural elements are found in its monumental tombs. Dr. Marjorie Venit, PhD, University of Maryland, Department of Art History and Archaeology, will walk us through the history of these combined decorative elements and the “end of the world” theological climate existing at the time which allowed for this convergence.
PDF of the AIA Lecture Series. | ||
10 / 26
Start: 7:30 pm
Historic LoDo: Thomas Cathcart and Daniel Klein, the authors of the bestselling Plato and a Platypus Walk into a Bar, will discuss and sign their new book Heidegger and a Hippo Walk Through Those Pearly Gates: Using Philosophy (and Jokes!) to Explore Life, Death, the Afterlife, and Everything in Between ($19.95 Viking). Philosophers such as Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, Camus, and Sartre have been wrestling with the meaning of death for as long as they have been wrestling with the meaning of life. Fortunately, humorists have been keeping pace with the major thinkers by creating gags about dying. Death’s funny that way—it gets everybody’s attention. Death has gotten a bad rap. It’s time to take a closer look at what the Deep Thinkers have to say on the subject, and there are no better guides than Cathcart and Klein. Request a signed copy: books@tatteredcover.com | ||
10 / 27
Start: 5:30 pm
Colfax Avenue: Earlier this year, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said of Indonesia, “It’s important to listen as well as talk to a country that has demonstrated that Islam, democracy and modernity cannot only coexist, but thrive.” Join Active Minds as we examine what’s working in the world’s largest Islamic country. Start: 7:30 pm
Colfax Avenue: Paul Polak is the founder of IDE, and organization which uses a market oriented development model to increase the income of the rural poor by improving market access, increasing agricultural production, and creating sustainable local businesses. To date, the hard work and vision of IDE staff throughout the world have helped more than 19 million farmer-entrepreneurs lift themselves permanently out of poverty. Polak will discuss and sign the paperback edition of his book Out of Poverty: What Works When Traditional Approaches Fail ($19.95 Berrett-Koehler). Request a signed copy: books@tatteredcover.com Start: 7:30 pm
Historic LoDo: Mike Dooley, an international tax accountant turned entrepreneur turned writer for “Notes from the Universe,” and now one of the teachers for the best-selling book and DVD The Secret, will discuss and sign his new book Infinite Possibilities: The Art of Living Your Dreams ($25.00 Beyond Words). With stunning insights and striking sincerity, Dooley’s spiritual revelations illuminate the truth behind our desires, human nature, and “Divine Intelligence,” while providing a manual on how to bring what we most want into our lives. 275 free tickets for the event will be available Thursday, October 1, beginning at 9:00 am, with the purchase of Infinite Possibilities at any Tattered Cover location. Each ticket will admit one person to the event hall for the presentation and will reserve one numbered place in the signing line. Additional tickets for the booksigning line only will be available beginning at 6:30 pm on the day of the event. Those who do not get one of the first 275 tickets should still be able to hear Mr. Dooley, though not see his presentation. They will be able to get books signed. Request a signed copy: books@tatteredcover.com | ||
10 / 28
Start: 12:00 pm
Historic LoDo: Greg Carpenter, General Director of Opera Colorado, and the stars and artistic team of The Tales of Hoffmann will lead an interactive discussion about this upcoming production of Offenbach’s vivid fantasy inspired by the tales of the German Romantic poet E.T.A. Hoffmann. Start: 7:30 pm
Colfax Avenue: This event has been cancelled due to snow. Alliance Française de Denver joins us in presenting Dorothy Stapleton, wife to the former American Ambassador in Paris, as she discusses and signs her new book Elegant Entertaining: Seasonal Recipes from the American Ambassador’s Residence in Paris ($45.00 Rizzoli), written with Philippe Excoffier, who has been the master chef to the American Ambassadors for nearly a decade. In the heart of Paris’s exclusive Faubourg St. Honoré neighborhood, the magnificent nineteenth-century residence of the American ambassador to France is the center of Franco-American relations and the site of elegant entertaining. Nearly every day of the year, master chef Philippe Excoffier prepares dazzling meals and parties for foreign dignitaries, French friends of America, and Americans in Paris. In this beautifully illustrated volume, Stapleton and Excoffier share forty of their favorite recipes. Request a signed copy: books@tatteredcover.com Start: 7:30 pm
Highlands Ranch: This event has been cancelled due to snow. William Scott, a former bureau chief for Aviation Week and Space Technology magazines and U.S. Air Force Test Pilot School flight test engineer graduate, served as a space communications security engineer at the National Security Agency. He coauthored Space Wars: The First Six Hours of World War III with Michael Coumatos. Coumatos, a former U.S. Navy test pilot, search-and-rescue helicopter pilot during the Vietnam War, ship’s captain, and Commodore of U.S. and coalition naval task groups, served as Director of Wargaming for U.S. Space Command. Scott and Coumatos will discuss and sign their new book Counterspace: The Next Hours of World War III ($25.99 Tor), another chilling fictionalized look at America’s most catastrophic fears. Request a signed copy: books@tatteredcover.com | ||
10 / 29
Start: 7:30 pm
Historic LoDo: In The Worst Hard Time, bestselling author Timothy Egan put the environmental disaster of the Dust Bowl at the center of a rich history, told through characters he brought to indelible life. Now he will join us to discuss and sign his new book The Big Burn: Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire that Saved America ($26.00 Houghton Mifflin), the story of the largest-ever forest fire in America and the tragedy that cemented Teddy Roosevelt’s legacy in the land. This timely new book tells an epic story, paints a moving portrait of the people who lived it, and offers a critical cautionary tale for our time. Free numbered tickets for a place in the booksigning line will be available at 6:30 pm; one ticket per customer in line. Seating for the presentation prior to the signing is limited, and available on a first-come, first-served basis to ticketed customers only. Request a signed copy: books@tatteredcover.com Start: 7:30 pm
Colfax Avenue: Between 2007 and 2009, Rich Benjamin, a journalist-adventurer, packed his bags and embarked on a 26,909-mile journey throughout the heart of white America, to some of the fastest-growing and whitest locales in our nation—enclaves he calls “Whitopias” (pronounced: “White-o-pias”). Benjamin will discuss and sign his new book Searching for Whitopia: An Improbable Journey to the Heart of White America ($24.95 Hyperion), in which he reveals what Whitopias are like and explores the urgent social and political implications of this startling phenomenon. Request a signed copy: books@tatteredcover.com | ||
10 / 30
Start: 6:30 pm
Highlands Ranch: Local author Caroline Stutson will join us for a very special Halloween edition of our Family Friday Night. Caroline will read and sign the new edition of her her classic picture book By the Light of the Halloween Moon ($16.99 Marshall Cavendish). In this “catchy, lilting cumulative tale with glorious comical/scary illustrations” (Kirkus Reviews), a little girl’s toe taps a tune as her legs dangle from a footbridge that has all sorts of creatures hidden underneath. There are cats and witches, bats and ghosts. Kids are invited to wear their Halloween costumes or favorite jammies and join us for a great story and healthy snack provided by Whole Foods Markets. Request a signed copy: books@tatteredcover.com Start: 7:30 pm
Colfax Avenue: Jonathan Lethem, the acclaimed author of Motherless Brooklyn and The Fortress of Solitude, will read from and sign his new book Chronic City ($27.95 Doubleday), a gorgeous, searing portrayal of Manhattanites wrapped in their own delusions, desires, and lies. Like Manhattan itself, Lethem’s newest masterpiece is beautiful and tawdry, tragic and forgiving, devastating and antic, a stand-in for the whole world and a place utterly unique. Request a signed copy: books@tatteredcover.com | ||
10 / 31
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