Events

Anthony Swofford will speak about and sign his new book, Hotels, Hospitals, and Jails: A Memoir, on Tuesday, June 19th at 7:30pm.

About the book:
Following the success of Jarhead, Anthony Swofford assumed he had exorcised his military demons—but as veterans know, that isn’t how it works. Consumed by drugs, booze, fast cars, and the wrong women, Swofford almost lost everything and everyone who mattered to him. Embarking on a series of road trips with his dying father, a Vietnam vet, Swofford begins to grapple with his volatile past and forge a path toward redemption. Hotels, Hospitals, and Jails is a must-read memoir that raises essential questions about masculinity, about fathers and sons, and about love.

Vouchers to attend 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.

CU Mathematics Professor Karl Gustafson will speak about and sign his new book, The Crossing of Heaven: Memoris of a Mathematician, on Wednesday, June 20th at 7:30pm.

About the book:
Among the group of physics honors students huddled in 1957 on a Colorado mountain watching Sputnik bisect the heavens, one young scientist was destined, three short years later, to become a key player in America’s own top-secret spy satellite program. One of our era’s most prolific mathematicians, Karl Gustafson was given just two weeks to write the first US spy satellite’s software. The project would fundamentally alter America’s Cold War strategy, and The Crossing of Heaven, Karl’s autobiographical account of a remarkable academic life spent in the top flight, tells this fascinating inside story for the first time.

This is a FREE event, open to all!

Amanda Padoan will speak about and sign her new book, Buried in the Sky, on Thurday, June 21st at 7:30pm.  ***Eric Meyer and Chhiring Dorje will be her special guests at this event!***

About the book:
When Edmund Hillary first conquered Mt. Everest, Sherpa Tenzing Norgay was at his side. For as long as Westerners have been climbing the Himalayas, Sherpas have been the unsung heroes in the background. In 2008, when 11 climbers lost their lives on K2, the world’s most dangerous peak, two Sherpas survived. They had emerged from poverty and political turmoil to become two of the most skillful mountaineers on earth. Based on unprecedented access and interviews, Buried in the Sky reveals their story.

Vouchers to attend 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.

Christopher Ransom will speak about and sign his new book, Killing Ghost, on Monday, June 25th at 7:30pm.

About the book:
James Hastings once enjoyed a career pretending to be someone else. But when his wife Stacey dies, James finds himself spiraling into grief. Salvation comes in the form of Annette, a beautiful widow who moves into the house next door. James and Annette bond quickly over the spousal losses they have suffered, but as their romance escalates, Annette begins to exhibit uncanny manners and desires that belong to Stacey. Killing Ghost is at once a descent into psychological terror, a midnight meditation of the addictive nature of love, and a novel that redefines the ghost story for a culture obsessed with dark entertainments.

This is a FREE event, open to all!

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!

We will be discussing Train Dreams by Denis Johnson.

Tsoknyi Rinpoche will speak about and sign his new book, Open Heart, Open Mind, at UNITY OF BOULDER on Tuesday, June 26th at *7:00pm*.

About the book:
In Open Heart, Open Mind, Tsoknyi Rinpoche explains that a life free of fear, pain, insecurity, and doubt is not only possible, it’s our birthright. We long for peace, for the ability to love and be loved openly and freely, and for the confidence and clarity to meet the various challenges we face in our daily lives. As he recounts his own efforts to strike a balance between the promptings of his heart and an obligation to preserve and protect the teachings of Tibetan Buddhism, Rinpoche provides a bridge between ancient wisdom and modern life, and encourages each of us to rediscover the openness, fearlessness, and love that is the essence of our own life.

This is a FREE event happening at Unity of Boulder Church (2855 Folsom Street  Boulder, CO 80304).

Alex Cequea, Editor-in-Chief of iPhone Life Magazine, will be here on Thursday, June 28th at 7:30pm to discuss the future of mobile technology.

About Alex's Presentation:
What will mobile technology look like in the future? Join Alex Cequea, Editor in Chief of iPhone Life magazine, as he dissects the mobile trends that will shape our lives in the coming years. Take a peek at the future of augmented reality, mobile payments, location-based technology, publishing, and much more. This talk will explore the underlying motivations behind mobile innovation, and what we can expect to see in the next few years. 

About Alex:
Boulder local Alex Cequea is the Editor in Chief of iPhone Life magazine and a Managing Partner at Mango Life Media. He holds an MBA in Sustainable Business, and he writes and speaks about mobile technology, business, and activism.
This is a FREE event!

Bobbie Louise Hawkins will be speaking about and signing her books Fifteen Poems and Selected Prose of Bobbie Louise Hawkins on Tuesday, July 3rd at *6:00pm*.

More about Bobbie's books:

Fifteen Poems is a republication of a lyrical sequence of poems that Bobbie Louise Hawkins wrote in 1971 in Bolinas.

"Bobbie Louise Hawkins is a remarkable master of the witty understated prose sentence...she is also a fabulous storyteller with a great ear for the 'very thing': quip or bon mot...This collection is a terrific revival!" —Anne Waldman (about Selected Prose)

Hawkins has written more than twenty books of fiction, non-fiction, poetry, and performance monologues, and has performed her work all over the world. Anne Waldman and Alan Ginsberg invited her to begin a prose concentration in the writing program at Naropa University where she taught for twenty years.

This event is FREE and open to the public! 

In recognition of the holiday, Boulder Book Store will be open only from 11am until 7pm on the 4th of July/Independence day.

The Used Books office will NOT be open but they will accept drop-offs at the front counter. Nothing will be processed, however, until at least Thursday. 

We apologize for any inconvenience but hope you have a fun and safe July 4th!

Nathan Kumar Scott will use traditional Indonesian puppets to help narrate his newly published children’s book, The Great Race, on Saturday, July 7th at *11:00am*.

The story is an Indonesian variation of the tortoise-and-hare fable, and features the trickster character Kanchil the mouse deer. 

Rather than simply read from the books, Nathan will be on his feet, enlivening the story of Kanchil. After story time, the author will discuss the relationship between Indonesian puppetry and storytelling, and will offer kids a chance to play with the puppets. 

Recommended for ages 4 to adult

This is a FREE children's event, open to all!

Robert Zubrin will speak about and sign his new book, Merchants of Despair, on Wednesday, July 11th at 7:30pm.

About the book:
There was a time when humanity looked in the mirror and saw something worth protecting and liberating. But now, we are beset by propaganda promoting the viewpoint that human beings are a cancer upon the Earth, a horde of vermin whose appetites are endangering the natural order. This is the core of antihumanism. Robert Zubrin traces the pedigree of this ideology and exposes its consequences in horrifying detail. Combining riveting tales from history with powerful policy arguments, Merchants of Despair provides scientific refutations to antihumanism's major pseudo-scientific claims.

Vouchers to attend 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, over the phone, or at the door.

Robert Moss will speak about and sign his new book, Dreaming the Soul Back Home, on Thursday, July 12th at 7:30pm.

About the book:
The greatest contribution of the ancient shamans to modern healing is the understanding that in the course of any life we are liable to suffer soul loss—the loss of parts of our vital energy and identity—and that to be whole and well, we must find the means of soul recovery. Dreaming the Soul Back Home teaches that our dreams give us maps we can use to find and bring home our lost or stolen soul parts. Robert Moss shows us how to recover animal spirits and ride the windhorse of spirit to places of healing and adventure in the larger reality. We discover how to heal ancestral wounds and open the way for cultural soul recovery.

Vouchers to attend 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, over the phone, or at the door.

Due to a family medical emergency, Priscilla Gilman has had to cancel her event with us on July 17th. We apologize for the inconvenience.