Events

Living Poets Society, the BBS in-store poetry bookclub, will be reading and discussing Doubters and Dreamers by Janice Gould.

Janice WILL be present at this bookclub meeting to discuss her work! 
One poem and vignette at a time, Doubters and Dreamers explores what it means to be a mixed-blood Native American who grew up urban, lesbian, and middle class in the West.

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. 

Garth Sundem will speak about and sign his new book, Brain Trust, on Wednesday, March 14th at 7:30pm.

About the book:
How much better would your life be if you had an army of Nobel Laureates, MacArthur ‘geniuses’ and National Medal of Science winners whispering tips in your ear? With this tome, you can have the next best thing! Brain Trust is packed with bite-sized wisdom on our everyday challenges, delivered to you from the galaxy’s biggest brains. Based on interviews with an incredible lineup of luminaries from the fields of neuroscience, economics, anthropology, music, mathematics, and more, Brain Trust is full of cutting-edge science that’ll help you see the real world better—and smarter.

Vouchers are $5 and get you $5 off the author’s featured book or a purchase on the day of the event. Vouchers can be purchased in advance and over the phone.

Alice Renouf will speak about and sign her new book, Yin-Yang, on Thursday, March 15th at 7:30pm.

About the book:
This unique collection of letters offers a rarely seen, intimate, and refreshingly honest view of living and working in China. In Yin-Yang, ordinary people recount their experiences in venues ranging from classrooms to marketplaces to holy mountains. The writers are genuine participants in the daily life of their adopted country, and woven throughout their correspondence is the compelling theme of outsiders coping in a culture that is vastly foreign to them and the underlying love-hate struggle it engenders.

Contributors John & Bev McGee and Brian Vick will join Alice for this event!

This event is FREE and open to the public

Listen to some of Boulder's local children's authors as they discuss and read from their books.

Authors TBA. This event is FREE and open to the public! 

Local authors will be here to speak about and sign their books:

J. Tamar Stone, author of Selves in a Box •  Selves in a Box® is a cutting-edge model of self-exploration integrating the psychological and the spiritual. This 52-card deck and guidebook include collaged images of 52 Selves, a detailed Portrait for each, and multiple draws and spreads enabling each Self to become intimately known and embraced.

Ian Thomas Healy, author of Just Cause • A 3rd-generation superhero, Mustang Sally's life changes forever when she fights and loses to the notorious villain Destroyer, who killed her father. She dedicates herself to tracking him down so she can even the score. Can even the fastest girl in the world run quick enough to save her teammates' lives from Destroyer and his growing parahuman army?

Paul Kendel, author of Walking the Tiger’s Path •   Sent to Iraq in 2005, Paul found himself confronted with the dilemma of when to pull the trigger. Having emailed the Shambhala Buddhist community, he connected with a spiritual instructor, Margot Neuman of the Ratna Peace Initiative’s Veterans Peace of Mind Project in Boulder. This is a unique story that’s both a soldier’s eye view of 21st century war and a personal account of spiritual awakening.

Emily Kemme, author of In Search of Sushi Tora • We all have days when the world as we know it is falling apart. Family togetherness battles everyone’s viewpoint of how they thought it worked. Or did it ever really work as well as it seemed? How much of life is forced illusion? What might happen if we relinquish our preconceptions and break the chains of habit?

This event is FREE and open to all

THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELED due to Dr. Estes Illness.

About the book:
With Untie the Strong Woman, Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estés invites us to reconnect with "the fierce and loving Blessed Mother who is friendly, but never tame—she who flies to our aid when the road is long and our hearts are broken, ever ready to rekindle the inner fire of our creative souls." In her first book in more than a decade, Dr. Estés illuminates Our Lady through blessings, images, and narrative. Untie the Strong Woman opens a channel to this sacred and nurturing force.

Vouchers are $5 and get you $5 off the author’s featured book or a purchase on the day of the event. Vouchers can be purchased in advance and over the phone.

Amy Reading will speak about and sign her new book, The Mark Inside, on Thursday, March 22nd at 7:30pm.

About the book:
In 1919, Texas rancher J. Frank Norfleet lost everything in a stock market swindle. He went home, borrowed more money from his family, and returned for another round of swindling. We he lost the second fortune, he vowed to hunt down the men who had conned him. Armed with a revolver and a suitcase full of disguises, Norfleet crisscrossed the country from Texas to Florida to California to Colorado, gathering evidence on his enemies. Within four years, Frank Norfleet had become famous for his quest to out-con the con men. The Mark Inside is Amy Reading’s account of con artistry in America and Frank Norfleet’s wild caper.

Vouchers are $5 and get you $5 off the author’s featured book or a purchase on the day of the event. Vouchers can be purchased in advance and over the phone.

Have  you read the series? Did you love it as much as we did? The movie will be out in theaters starting Friday, March 23rd. Now if only we can convince publishers to get Catching Fire and Mockingjay out in paperback...

From Our Shelves, the BBS In-store bookclub will be reading  A Gate at the Stairs by Lorrie Moore.

Twenty-year-old Tassie Keltjin, the daughter of a gentleman farmer, has come to a university town as a student. When she takes a job as a part-time nanny for a mysterious and glamorous family, she finds herself drawn deeper into their world and forever changed.

From Our Shelves Fiction Bookclub is open to the public and meets at 7pm on the fourth 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. Please join us!

Barbara Wright will speak about and sign her new middle reader book, Crow, on Wednesday, March 28th at 6:30pm.

About the book:
In local author Barbara Wright's middle reader novel Crow, we follow 11-year-old Moses in the summer of 1898. He's growing apart from his best friend, his superstitious grandmother butts heads constantly with his pragmatic, educated father, and his mother is reeling from the discovery of a family secret. Yet there are good times, too. He's teaching his grandmother how to read. For the first time she's sharing stories about her life as a slave. And his father and his friends are finally getting the respect and positions of power they've earned in their community. But not everyone is happy with the political changes at play and some will do anything to maintain the status quo.

 This event is FREE and open to the public! 

Kirk Johnson & Ian Miller will speak about and sign their new book, Digging Snowmastodon, on Thursday, March 29th at 7:30pm.

About the book:
On October 14, 2010, a heavy equipment operator working at the base of the Snowmass Mountain ski area in Colorado drove his machine through the skeleton of a young female mammoth, a find that initiated the Snowmastodon dig. Told by the two lead scientists on the dig, Digging Snowmastodon is the story of the next eleven months and the resulting excavation that would yield more than 5,000 bones of more than forty kinds of animals and would change forever our understanding of alpine life in the ice ages.

Vouchers are $5 and get you $5 off the author’s featured book or a purchase on the day of the event. Vouchers can be purchased in advance and over the phone.

Eben Weiss will speak about and sign his new book, The Enlightened Cyclist, on Sunday, April 1st at *3:00pm.*

About the book:
The joys of commuting by bike attract scores of new converts every year. In this follow-up to the best-selling Bike Snob, Eben Weiss (aka BikeSnobNYC) takes on the trials and triumphs of bike commuting with snark, humor, and enthusiasm, asking the question: If we become better commuters, will that make us better people? This primer on bike travel is a must-read for cyclists new and seasoned alike.

Bike with Eben from Vecchio’s at 2:00pm to the bookstore or meet everyone at BBS for the event after the ride!

Vouchers are $5 and get you $5 off the author’s featured book or a purchase on the day of the event. Vouchers can be purchased in advance and over the phone.

Peter Beal will speak about and sign his new book, Bouldering: Movement, Tactics, and Problem Solving, on Tuesday, April 3rd at 7:30pm.

About the book:
The latest addition to the Mountaineers Outdoor Expert Series, Bouldering: Movement, Tactics, and Problem Solving demonstrates not just the basics of how to boulder, but also how to get better at it and take it to the next level. Whether you're a beginning climber who just started at the local gym, a competitive sport climber looking for a new challenge, or an aging alpinist who needs to take a season off from high-altitude, this guidebook offers something for everyone pursuing the art of bouldering. 
Dave Graham, Jamie Emerson, and Daniel Woods, all contributors to the book will be guests at this event!

Vouchers are $5 and get you $5 off the author’s featured book or a purchase on the day of the event. Vouchers can be purchased in advance and over the phone.

Frank Berliner will speak about and sign his new book, Falling in Love with a Buddha, on Wednesday, April 4th at 7:30pm.

About the book:Frank Berliner came of age in the turbulent and exciting era of 1960s America, and met the authentic spiritual master Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche just as the Western cultural door opened to receive the ancient wisdom of Tibetan Buddhism. In Falling in Love with a Buddha, Frank recalls the world of Rinpoche’s life and teachings. In vivid and often humorous first-person accounts of the founding and evolution of Shambhala, he evokes the powerful and enigmatic presence of this unique teacher.
"Frank Berliner’s spiritual memoir is beautifully crafted and written. It is a tale about love, and the great longing that springs from there—to learn, to grow, to be real, and to forge a genuine connection with oneself and others, with life, and with death. I highly recommend it."
—John Welwood, author of Toward a Psychology of Awakening

This is a FREE event!

Ellen Sweets will speak about and sign her new book, Stirring It Up with Molly Ivins, on Thursday, April 5th at 7:30pm.

About the book:
You probably knew Molly Ivins as a civil libertarian who used her wit and Texas horse sense to excoriate political figures she deemed unworthy of our trust. But did you also know that Molly was one helluva cook? In Stirring It Up with Molly Ivins, her longtime friend and frequent sous-chef Ellen Sweets takes us into Molly’s kitchen and introduces us to the private woman behind the public figure. She serves up favorite stories about Ivins as she recalls the fabulous meals they shared, complete with recipes for 35 of Molly's signature dishes.

Vouchers are $5 and get you $5 off the author’s featured book or a purchase on the day of the event. Vouchers can be purchased in advance and over the phone.

Living Poets Society, the BBS in-store poetry bookclub, will be reading and discussing Come On All You Ghosts by Matthew Zapruder.

Matthew Zapruder's third book mixes humor and invention with love and loss. Zapruder's poems are direct and surprising, and throughout the book he wrestles with the desire to do well, to make art, and to face the vast events of the day.

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.

Lindy Hough will speak about and sign her new book, Wondrous Child, on Tuesday, April 10th at 7:30pm.

About the book:A Santa Cruz postpartum doula, a New Hampshire flute-maker, a Zen teacher, a dance therapist, a Sri Lankan film director—these are a few of the grandparents who share their stories in Wondrous Child. The essays cover a wide range of experiences as they examine the marrow of this often undervalued relationship from both the grandparent and the grandchild point of view, highlighting the special importance of these relationships, which are often as complex and rewarding as the parent-child connection.

Vouchers are $5 and get you $5 off the author’s featured book or a purchase on the day of the event. Vouchers can be purchased in advance and over the phone.

Erica Chenoweth will speak about and sign her new book, Why Civil Resistance Works, on Wednesday, April 11th at 7:30pm.

About the book:
For more than a century, campaigns of nonviolent resistance were twice as effective as their violent counterparts in achieving their goals. Combining statistical analysis with studies of specific countries, Erica Chenoweth details in her new book Why Civil Resistance Works the factors enabling such campaigns to succeed. She compares violent and nonviolent outcomes in different historical periods and geographical contexts, debunking the myth that violence occurs because of structural and environmental factors and that it is necessary to achieve certain political goals.

Vouchers are $5 and get you $5 off the author’s featured book or a purchase on the day of the event. Vouchers can be purchased in advance and over the phone.

Jonah Lehrer will speak about and sign his new book, Imagine: How Creativity Works, on Thursday, April 12th at 7:30pm.

About the book:From the best-selling author of How We Decide comes a sparkling and revelatory look at the new science of creativity. Shattering the myth of muses, higher powers, even creative “types,” Jonah Lehrer demonstrates that creativity is not a single gift possessed by the lucky few. It’s a variety of distinct thought processes that we can all learn to use more effectively. Collapsing the layers separating the neuron from the finished symphony, Imagine reveals the deep inventiveness of the human mind, and its essential role in our increasingly complex world.

Vouchers are $5 and get you $5 off the author’s featured book or a purchase on the day of the event. Vouchers can be purchased in advance and over the phone.