Tattered Cover Book Store Announces May 2013
Tattered Cover Autographed Book Club
The Carrion Birds, by critically acclaimed author Urban Waite, is our Autographed Book Club selection for May 2013. Members of the Tattered Cover Autographed Book Club enjoy the privilege of owning many valuable signed first editions. There is no cost to join the club. Visit us atwww.tatteredcover.com or give us a call for more information.
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Presentation & Booksigning
Mary Roach
Wednesday, May 1, 7:30 pm
Colfax Avenue
Humorous science writer Mary Roach, author of the bestsellers Stiff and Packing for Mars, will discuss and sign her newest in-depth look at an unlikely subject, Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal ($26.95 W.W. Norton ISBN 9780393081572). "Roach's approach is grounded in science, but the virtuosic author rarely resists a pun, and it's clear she revels in giving readers a thrill-even if it is a queasy one. Adventurous kids and doctors alike will appreciate this fascinating and sometimes ghastly tour of the gastrointestinal system." - Publishers Weekly (starred review)
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Presentation & Booksigning
Peter Eichstaedt
Wednesday, May 1, 7:30 pm
Historic LoDo
Veteran journalist and Colorado author Peter Eichstaedt, who worked most recently as the Afghanistan country director of the Institute for War and Peace Reporting, will discuss and sign his new book Above the Din of War: Afghans Speak About Their Lives, Their Country, and Their Future-and Why America Should Listen ($26.95 Lawrence Hill Books ISBN 9781613745151). This thought-provoking title from a journalist's point of view adds a human element to this complex international situation.
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Presentation & Booksigning
Elizabeth Scarboro
Thursday, May 2, 7:30 pm
Colfax Avenue
Award-winning novelist Elizabeth Scarboro will read from and sign her My Foreign Cities: A Memoir ($24.95 Liveright Publishing ISBN 9780871403384), her fresh, wrenching story of young love and mortality. Scarboro's story, told in intimate prose, reveals the ephemerality of her too short marriage to a man with Cystic Fibrosis. My Foreign Cities is an astonishing portrait of a young couple approaching mortality with reckless abandon, gleefully outrunning it for as long as they can.
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Presentation & Booksigning
Richard Lamm & Andy Sharma
Thursday, May 2, 7:30 pm
Historic LoDo
Richard D. Lamm is the codirector of the Institute for Public Policy Studies at the University of Denver, a nationally recognized expert on healthcare issues, and the former three-term governor of Colorado. Andy Sharma is a political economist who was the recipient of the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill Future Faculty Fellowship and Weiss Urban Livability Fellowship, as well as the former recipient of the Carolina Population Center Fellowship. Lamm and Sharma will discuss and sign the new their book Brave New World of Healthcare Revisited: What Every American Needs to Know about Our Healthcare Crisis (16.95 Fulcrum ISBN 9781555918545).
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Presentation & Booksigning
Jeff Chu
Friday, May 3, 7:30 pm
Colfax Avenue
Award-winning journalist Jeff Chu graduated magna cum laude from Princeton, earned a master's degree from the London School of Economics, and received French-American Foundation and Harvard Divinity School fellowships. Chu will discuss and sign his timely new book Does Jesus Really Love Me? A Gay Christian's Pilgrimage in Search of God in America ($26.99 HarperCollins ISBN 9780062049735). Part memoir and part investigative analysis, Chu's book explores the explosive and confusing intersection of faith, politics, and sexuality in Christian America.
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Tattered Cover Film Series
Sunday, May 5, 2:00 pm
Sie FilmCenter
UCD's College of Arts & Media, Colorado Public Radio, and the Sie FilmCenter join us in presenting an exploration of the world of classic movies with film critic Howie Movshovitz. This month we'll see the 1953 Max Ophüls classic The Earrings of Madame de.... Free tickets are available one hour before the screening from the box office.
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Presentation & Booksigning
Andrew Jewell
Monday, May 6, 7:30 pm
Colfax Avenue
Editor Andrew Jewell will discuss and sign the new book The Selected Letters of Willa Cather($35.00 Knopf ISBN 9780307959300), the first publication of the letters of one of America's most consistently admired writers. The voice heard in these letters is one we already know from her fiction: confident, elegant, detailed, openhearted, concerned with profound ideas, but also at times funny, sentimental, and sarcastic. Unfiltered as only intimate communication can be, they are also full of small fibs, emotional outbursts, inconsistencies, and the joys and sorrows of the moment.
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Presentation & Booksigning
Jim Wallis
Monday, May 6, 7:30 pm
Historic LoDo
Bestselling author, public theologian, president and CEO of Sojourners, editor-in-chief of Sojournersmagazine, and leading Christian activist Jim Wallis will discuss and sign his new book On God's Side: What Religion Forgets and Politics Hasn't Learned about Serving the Common Good ($21.99 Brazos Press ISBN 9781587433375). Publishing in the wake of the 2012 election cycle, this book seeks to move beyond the current media and political warfare and bring together a divided country. Wallis explores how Jesus's agenda can serve the common good, what it takes to sustain a lifelong commitment to social justice, and how reading the Bible as well as the culture can shape our lives for genuine transformation.
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Presentation & Booksigning
Rory Freedman
Tuesday, May 7, 7:30 pm
Colfax Avenue
Vegan Life Colorado joins us in presenting Rory Freedman, the co-author of the New York Timesmega-seller Skinny Bitch, who will discuss and sign her new book Beg: A Radical New Way of Regarding Animals ($18.00 Running Press ISBN 9780762449545). Freedman's book is an unapologetically sappy "ode" to how animals can enrich our lives, as well as a no holds-barred treatise on how we can better protect them. Just as Skinny Bitch inspired millions to change their diets to improve the lives of factory farm animals, Beg will galvanize readers to return some of the love, trust, and loyalty they receive from their pets, and to change their choices and actions to improve the lives of ALL domestic animals.
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An Evening with Michael Pollan
Wednesday, May 8, 7:00 pm
University of Denver, Sturm Hall
DU's College Enrichment Program joins us in presenting acclaimed author and real food expert Michael Pollan. The author whose bestselling books included The Omnivore's Dilemma andFood Rules will discuss and sign his new book Cooked: A Natural History of Transformation($27.95 Penguin ISBN 9781594204210). In Cooked, Pollan explores the previously uncharted territory of his own kitchen. Here, he discovers the enduring power of the four classical elements-fire, water, air, and earth-to transform the stuff of nature into delicious things to eat and drink.
Tickets for this event are $35.00 each and include a copy of Cooked in the ticket price. Please visit our website (www.tatteredcover.com) for a registration link to purchase tickets.
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Presentation & Booksigning
Benjamin Percy
Wednesday, May 8, 7:30 pm
Colfax Avenue
Acclaimed, award-winning author Benjamin Percy will read from and sign his new novel Red Moon ($25.99 Grand Central ISBN 9781455501663), an epic and terrifying thriller set in the American West. "With Red Moon one of our most blazingly gifted young writers stakes his claim to national attention. Benjamin Percy has one great advantage over most writers who attempt 'literary horror': he understands the literature of real horror from the inside out, and he speaks it like a native. This is a novel with the power to thrill and transport, also to lead the reader well out of her comfort zone and into emotional territory few people have ever seen." - Peter Straub
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Presentation & Booksigning
David Levithan & Andrea Cremer
Thursday, May 9, 7:00 pm
Highlands Ranch
Critically acclaimed and bestselling authors Andrea Cremer, author of the Nightshade series, and David Levithan, who wrote Every Day and co-wrote Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist with Rachel Cohen and Will Grayson, Will Grayson with John Green, will read from and sign their new young adult fantasy Invisibility ($18.99 Penguin ISBN 9780399257605). This magical romance between a boy cursed with invisibility and the one girl who can see him is a remarkable story about the unseen elements of attraction, the mortal risks of making yourself known, and the invisible desires that live within us all.
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Presentation & Booksigning
Peter Lovesey
Thursday, May 9, 7:30 pm
Colfax Avenue
Peter Lovesey, author of the beloved Peter Diamond mysteries, will read from and sign the new book in the series The Tooth Tattoo ($25.95 Soho Press ISBN 9781616952303). Peter Diamond, head of the Criminal Investigation Division in scenic Bath, England, is investigating the murder of a young woman whose body has been found in the canal, the only clue to her identity a tattoo of a music note on one of her teeth. For Diamond, who wouldn't know a Stradivarius from a French horn, the investigation is his most demanding ever.
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Presentation & Booksigning
Joe Hill
Thursday, May 9, 7:30 pm
Historic LoDo
Joe Hill, the acclaimed, award-winning author of the New York Times bestsellers Heart-Shaped Box and Horns, will read from and sign his new novel NOS4A2 ($28.99 William Morrow ISBN 9780062200570). Disturbing, mesmerizing, and full of twisting thrills, Hill's phantasmagoric, devilishly playful masterpiece is a terrifying high-octane ride.
Free numbered tickets for a place in the signing line will be handed out at 6:00 pm. Seating for the presentation prior to the signing is limited, and available on a first-come, first-served basis to ticketed customers only.
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Presentation & Booksigning
Michael Hainey
Friday, May 10, 7:30 pm
Colfax Avenue
Michael Hainey, the deputy editor of GQ magazine, will discuss and sign his new book After Visiting Friends: A Son's Story ($26.00 Scribner ISBN 9781451676563), the haunting saga of his quest to understand the mystery of his father's death. Hainey's book is a stirring portrait of a family and its legacy of secrets. It is the tale of a son who goes in search of the truth and finds not only his father, but a rare window into a world of men and newspapers and fierce loyalties that no longer exists.
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Rocky Mountain Land Series Presentation & Booksigning
Lon Abbott & Terri Cook
Saturday, May 11, 2:00 pm
Historic LoDo
Geoscientists Lon Abbott and Terri Cook will offer a PowerPoint presentation and sign their new book Geology Underfoot along Colorado's Front Range ($24.00 Mountain Press ISBN 9780878425952). The transition from the relatively flat Great Plains to the craggy peaks of Colorado's Front Range is one of North America's most abrupt topographical contrasts. The epic, 1,800-million-year geologic story behind this amazing landscape is even more awe inspiring. InGeology Underfoot along Colorado's Front Range, Abbott and Cook narrate the Front Range's tale, from its humble beginnings as a flat, nondescript seafloor through several incarnations as a towering mountain range
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Children's Book Week Kick-Off Event, Presentation & Booksigning
Trevor Pryce
Monday, May 13, 6:00 pm
Highlands Ranch
Former Denver Bronco Trevor Pryce, who helped to lead the team to their Super Bowl victory in 1999, will join us to kick off Children's Book Week (www.bookweekonline.com) by reading and signing his debut book for young readers An Army of Frogs ($15.95 Abrams ISBN 9781419701726). With cool animals, thrilling action, and a bit of natural science, this novel-co-written with author Joel Naftali, and illustrated in full color by acclaimed comics artist Sanford Greene-is the first in what will certainly be a popular new series for middle grade readers.
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Presentation & Booksigning
Urban Waite
Monday, May 13, 7:30 pm
Colfax Avenue
Urban Waite, author of the highly acclaimed The Terror of Living, will read from and sign his new novel The Carrion Birds ($25.99 William Morrow ISBN 9780062216885), a remarkable work of literary noir. Hired gun Ray Lamar is ready to put his past behind him. He wants to see his twelve-year-old son and start a new life-away from the violence of the last ten years. One last heist will take him there. But when things start to go very wrong, Ray realizes the path to redemption isn't always easy. A soulful tale of violence, vengeance, and contrition, The Carrion Birds is an elegant depiction of one man's last chance to make things right.
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Presentation & Booksigning
Eric Orton
Monday, May 13, 7:30 pm
Historic LoDo
Featured in the bestselling book Born to Run, coach and performance guru Eric Orton has spent a lifetime learning and thinking about running and about the limitless possibilities of the human body and mind. Orton will discuss and sign The Cool Impossible: The Coach from Born to RunShows How to Get the Most from Your Miles - and fromYourself ($26.95 NAL ISBN 9780451416339). In this new book, Orton shares his wealth of knowledge in an inspiring step-by-step guide that will open up a new world of achievement for runners of all levels of ability and experience.
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Children's Book Week Sock Puppet Storytime
Tuesday, May 14, 10:30 am
Colfax Avenue
In honor of Children's Book Week (www.bookweekonline.com) we'll host a special sock puppet storytime! Our young guests will make their very own sock puppets, and we'll read One Shoe Blues by Sandra Boynton, in addition to some other children's favorites.
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Active Minds Lecture: U.S. Immigration Policy
Tuesday, May 14, 12:30 pm
Colfax Avenue
Join Active Minds for a look at the history of immigration in the U.S. and how this issue is currently playing out at both the federal and state level. We will discuss the economics and politics of various aspects of U.S. immigration policy and how these elements are viewed by various constituencies within the U.S.
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DCTC @ the TC: The Art of Making Art
Tuesday, May 14, 12:00 noon
Historic LoDo
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Presentation & Booksigning
Kevin Fedarko
Tuesday, May 14, 7:30 pm
Historic LoDo
Kevin Fedarko works as a part-time river guide in Grand Canyon National Park. In addition to his travel narratives in Outside, where he worked as a senior editor, Fedarko's work has appeared inEsquire, National Geographic Adventure, and other publications. Fedarko will discuss and sign his thrilling new nature adventure The Emerald Mile: The Epic Story of the Fastest Ride in History Through the Heart of the Grand Canyon ($30.00 Scribner ISBN 9781439159859).
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Presentation & Booksigning
Susan Palwick
Wednesday, May 15, 7:30 pm
Colfax Avenue
Susan Palwick's debut novel, Flying in Place, won the Crawford Award for best fantasy debut, and her second novel, The Necessary Beggar, won the American Library Association's Alex Award. Palwick will read from and sign her new novel Mending the Moon ($24.99 Tor ISBN 9780765327581). Shot through with feeling and inventiveness, this is a novel of the odd paths people find that lead them home.
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Presentation & Booksigning
Dina Bennett
Wednesday, May 15, 7:30 pm
Historic LoDo
Dina Bennett will read from and sign her memoir Peking to Paris: Life and Love on a Short Drive Around Half the World ($24.95 Skyhorse Publishing ISBN 9781620878002). In May 2007, leaving China's Great Wall is Car 84, one of 128 antique autos racing in the Peking to Paris Motor Challenge. It's guided by one Dina Bennett, the world's least likely navigator: a daydreamer prone to carsickness, riddled with self-doubt, and married to a thrill-seeking perfectionist who is half-human, half-race car. What could possibly go wrong?
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Presentation & Booksigning
Suzanne Rindell
Wednesday, May 15, 7:30 pm
Highlands Ranch
Suzanne Rindell will read from and sign her critically acclaimed debut novel The Other Typist($25.95 Penguin ISBN 9780399161469). "Take a dollop of Alfred Hitchcock, a dollop of Patricia Highsmith, throw in some Great Gatsby flourishes, and the result is Rindell's debut, a pitch-black comedy about a police stenographer accused of murder in 1920s Manhattan.... A deliciously addictive, cinematically influenced page-turner, both comic and provocative." - Kirkus Reviews, starred review
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Children's Book Week Middle Grade/Young Adult Author Panel Discussion
Thursday, May 16, 7:00 pm
Colfax Avenue
The Rocky Mountain Chapter of the Society of Children's Book Writers & Illustrators joins us in hosting a panel discussion and signing with five local authors. Our panelists include Darby Karchut, author of the middle grade fantasy Finn Finnigan ($9.95 Spencer Hill Press); Jeannie Mobley, author of the middle grade historical novel Katerina's Wish ($15.99 Margaret K. McElderry Books); Emily Hainsworth, author of the magical young adult novel Through to You ($17.99 Balzer & Bray); Donna Cooner, author of the powerful young adult novel Skinny ($17.99 Scholastic); and Phyllis J. Perry, author of Bold Women in Colorado History ($12.00 Mountain Press), a collection of biographies for middle grade readers. Guests at this event can enter to win some great prizes!
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Children's Book Week Presentation & Booksigning
Brandon Sanderson
Thursday, May 16, 7:00 pm
Highlands Ranch
Acclaimed fantasy author Brandon Sanderson, who recently completed Robert Jordan's bestselling The Wheel of Time series with the long-awaited A Memory of Light, will help us celebrate Children's Book Week with a reading and signing of his first book for young readers The Rithmatist ($17.99 Tor ISBN 9780765320322). "Brimming with wit, mystery, and enough ideas to make ten other books jealous, The Rithmatist is boldly entertaining and wildly original. Armedius Academy is the first magic school that really teaches magic-the chalk-based Rithmatics, both a mystic science and a delightful visual art-and I have never had more fun learning anything. The creepy climax had me on the edge of my seat, and the slam-bang finish made me stand up and cheer."-Dan Wells, author of I Am Not a Serial Killer and Partials
Free numbered tickets for a place in the signing line will be handed out at 6:00 pm. Seating for the presentation prior to the signing is limited, and available on a first-come, first-served basis to ticketed customers only.
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Presentation & Booksigning
David Gillham
Friday, May 17, 7:30 pm
Colfax Avenue
David Gillham will read from and sign the new paperback edition of his acclaimed debut novel City of Women ($16.00 Berkley ISBN 9780425252963). It is 1943-the height of the Second World War. With the men away at the front, Berlin has become a city of women. On the surface, Sigrid Schröder is the model German soldier's wife. But behind this façade is an entirely different Sigrid, and she is not the only one with secrets-she soon finds herself caught between what is right and what is wrong, and what falls somewhere in the shadows between the two.
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Children's Book Week Group Storytime & Signing
Saturday, May 18, 10:30 am
Highlands Ranch
In honor of Children's Book Week, the Rocky Mountain Chapter of the Society of Children's Book Writers & Illustrators joins us in presenting a picture book writers' and illustrators' group reading. Our guest authors include Claudia Cangilla McAdam, with her book A, B, See Colorado: An Alphabet Book of the Centennial State ($14.95 John Fielder Publishing); Leslie Ann Clark, author of Peepsqueak Wants a Friend ($15.99 HarperCollins); Carmela LaVigna Coyle, presenting her book Do Super Heroes Have Teddy Bears? ($15.95 Taylor Trade); and Julie Danneberg, author of Monet Paints a Day ($15.95 Charlesbridge). Guests at this event can enter to win some great prizes!
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Rocky Mountain Land Series Presentation & Booksigning
Matthew Wolpe
Saturday, May 18, 2:00 pm
Historic LoDo
Matthew Wolpe is the co-owner of Just Fine Design/Build, a studio that produces original handmade furniture and small structures. In 2010, Matthew and his partner, Kevin McElory, designed a chicken coop called "Chick in a Box" that won an Editor's Choice award for design at the Bay Area Maker Faire. Wolpe will offer a PowerPoint presentation and sign his new book Reinventing the Chicken Coop: 14 Original Designs with Step-by-Step Building Instructions ($19.95 Storey ISBN 9781603429801).
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Presentation & Booksigning
Nathaniel Philbrick
Monday, May 20, 7:30 pm
Colfax Avenue
Nathaniel Philbrick, the bestselling author of In the Heart of the Sea and Mayflower, will discuss and sign his new history Bunker Hill: A City, a Siege, a Revolution ($32.95 Viking ISBN 9780670025442), the story of the Boston battle that ignited the American Revolution. With passion and insight, Philbrick reconstructs the revolutionary landscape-geographic and ideological-in a mesmerizing narrative of the robust, messy, blisteringly real origins of America.
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Presentation & Booksiging
Deborah Coonts
Monday, May 20, 7:30 pm
Highlands Ranch
Deborah Coonts, author of the bestselling Lucky O'Toole Las Vegas mysteries, will read from and sign the fifth book in the series Lucky Bastard ($25.99 Tor ISBN 9780765335463). Lucky O'Toole, the newly promoted vice president of Customer Relations for the Babylon, Las Vegas's primo Strip property, has never met a problem she couldn't handle. But when a young woman is found dead, sprawled across the hood of a new, bright red Ferrari California in the Babylon's on-site dealership, a Jimmy Choo stiletto stuck in her carotid, Lucky's skills may finally be maxed out.