Events

Marcia Dechen Wangmo will be speaking about and signing copies of her new book Confessions of a Gypsy Yogini on September 14th at 7:30pm.

 Confessions of a Gypsy Yogini is a collection of teachings taken
from the author’s own life, gained from “experience through mistakes,
learning the hard way.” After an early life as a “quasiradical, hippie,
horse trainer, and environmentalist,” Marcia Dechen Wangmo became a
Buddhist. Over the next three decades, through encounters with respected
Tibetan masters and an enduring student-teacher relationship with a
famed yogi, she moved deep into the hidden world of Vajrayana Buddhism.

Vouchers are $5 and are good towards $5 off Confessions of a Gypsy Yogini or $5 off any single purchase on the day of the event.  Vouchers can be purchased in advance and over the phone.

Margaret Coel will be speaking about and signing copies of her new book The Perfect Suspect on September 15th at 7:30pm.

After a candidate for governor is murdered, and his estranged wife is
arrested for first-degree homicide, journalist Catherine McLeod receives
a call from an anonymous woman claiming she saw the real killer leave
the scene of the crime but is afraid to confide in the police. To
uncover the truth, Catherine must risk her career-and her life-to find
the witness who can identify the candidate's murderer: Detective Ryan
Beckman.

Vouchers are $5 and are good towards $5 off The Perfect Suspect or $5 off any single purchase on the day of the event.  Vouchers can be purchased in advance and over the phone.

Join local University of Colorado Professor James Palmer as he interviews local Jungian Analyst, esteemed author, and film buff Linda Leonard about her books, and her philosophical background and its intersection with Jung.       Linda Leonard, Ph.D., is a Zurich-trained Jungian Analyst and the author of several best-selling books, including The Wounded Woman: Healing the Father-Daughter Relationship, and Witness to the Fire:  Creativity and the Veil of Addiction which has been translated into twelve languages.  She is a founding member of the inter-Regional Society of Jungian Analysts and is in private practice in Boulder and Aspen, Colorado.     James Palmer, Ph.D is the Director of the University of Colorado’s World Affairs Conference and the Farrand Academic Program.  He is co-author of The Films of Joseph Losey and a contributing editor to Literature/Film Quarterly.      The Boulder Friends of Jung was founded as a non-profit volunteer organization whose purpose is to provide informational and participatory programs oriented to the depth psychology of Carl Jung as it relates to personal development and contemporary society.      Suggested Donation of $10 for non-members of the Boulder Friends of Jung 

Whether your book is still a gleam in your eye or several drafts in, you’ll need a professional proposal to attract agents and publishers. This workshop is for nonfiction writers, including memoirists and authors of how-to books. It gives you the tools and guidance to do your book justice. You will explore the elements of a book proposal, including the hook, cover letter and synopsis. We’ll reverse engineer some examples, help you pinpoint your market and perfect your prose. You’ll leave with lots of handouts.

 Tickets are $30 and space is limited!

Lori DeBoer (www.lorideboer.com) is the founder and the executive director of The Boulder Writers’ Workshop. As a writing coach, she has helped hundreds get published and win awards in memoir, fiction, screenwriting and journalism, including a finalist slot for the Flannery O’ Connor Award. She has an MA in United States History and an MFA in Creative Writing. Her essays and articles have appeared in Creative Nonfiction, The New York Times, Arizona Highways, Black Enterprise, Mamaphonic and elsewhere. Her awards include a top-25 finalist from Glimmer Train for short fiction.

Julia Colwell will be speaking about and signing copies of her new book The Relationship Ride on September 21 at 7:30pm.

This event is FREE and open to the public. 

This usable, unusual, transformative book takes you on a journey where
you will explore relationships in a whole new way. A miraculous world of
endless creativity and expansion awaits you, where possibility and
potential replace pathology and dysfunction. Take the ride of
relationship and discover new inner and outer worlds!

Robert Dresner will be speaking about and signing copies of his new book Kshatriya on September 22 at 7:30pm.

This event is FREE and open to the public. 

 Kshatriya is the story of three friends who went East in search of
something miraculous and found murder and mayhem in the shadows of their
quest. On the road to India, circa 1969, we meet Max Rild, Diane Appel,
and Shunya, all fearing for their lives. Through their perilous
experience, we witness the dawn of the New Age: the emergence of many
great teachings that have long since migrated to the West, and the loss
of myriad souls on the harrowing path to enlightenment. In the
end, past and present merge when these dear old friends are finally
reunited in New York. Looking back at their lives, they measure the
ideals of their youth against the practical reality of middle age. Going
forward, they are confronted with the life experience of their
children, finding their own way through an increasingly harsh world.
After all, it is the burden of life to bind the inequites and heal the
heart in the relentless effort to know itself.
Kshatriya pays homage to that noble
quest.

Tashi loves listening to Popola, her grandfather, sing Tibetan chants to the click, click of his prayer beads. She also loves hearing Popola’s stories about the village in Tibet where he grew up. But recently Popola has been sick, and Tashi is worried. Lyrically told and illustrated with impressionistic paintings, Tashi and the Tibetan Flower Cure shines a tender light on the universal bond between grandchild and grandparent. 

Learn to make your own Tibetan Mask during Naomi’s craft session following storytime!

This event is FREE and open to the public! 

Award-winning adventure travel writer Jayme Moye discusses how to turn any trip into a captivating narrative using the basic elements of story. And if you’re so inclined, how get paid to have those stories published in magazines. Jayme is the managing editor at Elevation Outdoors in Boulder, an editor-at-large for Women's Adventure, and freelances for Outside, Backpacker, Men’s Journal, Women’s Health, Sunset, and 5280, among others.

Tickets are $30 and space is limited!  

In 2005, Brad Feld and Jason Mendelson, managing directors at Foundry Group, wrote a series of blog posts describing all the parts of a typical venture capital Term Sheet: a document outlining key terms of a proposed investment. Since then, they've seen the series used as the basis for college courses, and have been thanked by thousands of people who have used the information to gain a better understanding of the venture capital field. Venture Deals: Be Smarter Than Your Lawyer and Venture Capitalist discusses all facets of the venture capital fundraising process.  Come see Brad and Jason during their “Office Hours” at Boulder Book Store! No appointment necessary. Drop in, (buy a book), (get it signed), ask questions, get feedback, or just say hi.

From Our Shelves, the BBS In-store bookclub will be reading Chike and the River by Chinua Achebe. 

This bookclub will be moderated by one of our staff members. This bookclub is free and open to the public.  We will meet in the Upper North Room of the Boulder Book Store. Unless otherwise noted, the author will not be present at the discussion. Please join us!

About Chike and the River:
Eleven-year-old Chike longs to cross the Niger River to the city of Asaba, but he doesn’t have the sixpence he needs to pay for the ferry ride. With the help of his friend S.M.O.G., he embarks on a series of adventures to help him get there. Along the way, he is exposed to a range of new experiences that are both thrilling and terrifying. Chike and the River is a magical tale of boundaries, bravery, and growth, by Chinua Achebe, one of the world’s most beloved and admired storytellers. 

From local author and nurse Linda Weber, Life Choices is a bold exploration of the spiritual essence of abortion, the historical context for it, and how it leads us to live with more awareness. Abortion has lessons to teach everyone about making conscious choices in our lives and opens the way to a greater connection with love, death, power, and all life. The essentially pro-life nature of abortion asks us to accept death as part of the flow of life. The failure to understand this contributes to the ferocious abortion wars.

Vouchers are $5 and are good towards $5 off Life Choices or $5 off any single purchase on the day of the event.  Vouchers can be purchased in advance and over the phone.

Garrett Oliver will be speaking about and signing copies of his new book The Oxford Companian to Beer on September 28th at 7:30pm.

After water and tea, beer is the most popular drink in the world. The first major reference work to investigate the history and vast scope of beer, The Oxford Companion to Beer features more than 1,100 A-Z entries written by 166 of the world's most prominent beer experts.

Garrett Oliver is the Brewmaster of the Brooklyn Brewery and author of The Brewmaster's Table, has won many awards for beers, is a frequent judge for international beer competitions, and has made numerous appearances as a spokesperson for craft brewing.

The fine folks at Avery will be providing beer samples for age appropriate attendees!

***Photo courtesy of Brooklyn Brewery*** 

Vouchers are $5 and are good towards $5 off The Oxford Companion to Beer or $5 off any single purchase on the day of the event.  Vouchers can be purchased in advance and over the phone. 
And there’s BEER!

Elliot lives in America, and Kailash lives in India. They are pen pals. By exchanging letters and pictures, they learn that they both love to climb trees, have pets, and go to school. Their worlds might look different, but they are quite similar. Through an inviting point-of-view and colorful, vivid illustrations, this story shows how two boys living oceans apart can be the best of friends.

Following Storytime, Jenny Sue will show us how to make our own Picture Postcards to exchange with each other!

This event is FREE and open to the public.

Jon Scieszka, the National Ambassador for Children's Literature emeritus and the bestselling author of more than 25 books for kids, including The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales and The True Story of the 3 Little Pigs, will be here for the newest installment in the SPHDZ series!
Michael K., Venus, TJ, and the SPHDZ are working hard to keep kids signing up to be Spaceheadz. But Agent Umber of the AAA (Anti Alien Agency) is relentless, and the unseen leader of Spaceheadz is not who anyone expected! The third book in the out-of-this-world series is full of twists and turns—and a bigger mystery is about to be revealed.

This event is FREE and open to the public! 

Many stories lie hidden until the right person arrives to tell them. In rescuing the story of her now 90-year-old inspirational grandmother and her mother, actress and political activist Yangzom Brauen has given us a book full of love, courage, and triumph, as well as allowing us a rare and vivid glimpse of life in rural Tibet before the arrival of the Chinese. Most importantly, though, Across Many Mountains is a testament to three strong, determined women who are linked by an unbreakable family bond.

Vouchers are $5 and are good towards $5 off Across Many Mountains or $5 off any single purchase on the day of the event.  Vouchers can be purchased in advance and over the phone.

This event is co-sponsored by KGNU Independent Radio!
http://www.kgnu.org/

In the final installment of the Star Trilogy by local author Donald Samson, Prince Corin prefers sewing to sword fighting. To make matters worse, his cousin Elinor has the eagerness and talent for skills at arms which he lacks. By a stroke of luck, she uncovers a plot to overthrow the crown. The cousins are befriended and guided by a marketplace magician. The queen, suspicious that he is a master of the black arts and the cause of their Luck Dragon’s illness, forbids the cousins from having anything to do with him. When their lives and the destiny of the kingdom are at stake, Corin must choose either to trust this enigmatic old man or heed the warnings of his parents. He needs to call on all of the Luck Dragon’s deepest teachings if he is to survive and remain true to himself.

This event is FREE and open to the public!

Meet Karou. She fills her sketchbooks with monsters that may or may not be real; she's prone to disappearing on mysterious "errands"; she speaks many languages, not all of them human; and her bright blue hair actually grows out of her head that color. Who is she? That is the question that haunts her, and she's about to find out. When beautiful, haunted Akiva fixes his fire-colored eyes on her in an alley in Marrakesh, the result is blood and starlight, secrets unveiled, and a star-crossed love whose roots drink deep of a violent past. But will Karou live to regret learning the truth about herself? Laini Taylor is also the author of the hit teen series, Dreamdark.

This event is FREE and open to the public!

Part map, part travelogue, part chronicle, part autobiography, Never-Ending Birds explores a variety of landscapes from Midwestern villages to the boroughs of big cities. Steeped in story—divorce, loss, raising a child, uncovering old worlds and new loves—these poems are gracefully lived in, lived through, with mystery and beauty.

The Living Poets Society Bookclub is open to the public and meets at 7pm on the second Tuesday of every month in the Upper North Room of Boulder Book Store.  Unless otherwise noted, the author will not be present at the discussion.

In Unimagined Gifts, a seasoned Grand Canyon raft guide shares the stories of ordinary people who came to the Grand Canyon for an adventure vacation and found themselves accomplishing extraordinary feats, forever changing their awareness of what is possible. Local author Charly Heavenrich transports you on a Grand Canyon adventure through the eyes of his former passengers. The compelling tales in Unimagined Gifts demonstrate that all who travel through the Grand Canyon will come out on the other side having learned more about themselves — and their capabilities — than they could have imagined.

This event is FREE and open to the public!