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Welcome to Tattered Cover Book Store
Celebrating 40 Years: 1971-2011
The Tattered Cover Book Store began as a small store with only 950
square feet of retail space in the Cherry Creek North
district of 
Denver, Colorado. It has grown for 40 years into one of the
premier independent bookstores in America with 3 expansive locations in the greater
Denver Metro area. Find store locations & hours here. For a complete history with lots of pictures, visit our 40th Anniversary page here.
Denver, Colorado. It has grown for 40 years into one of the
premier independent bookstores in America with 3 expansive locations in the greater
Denver Metro area. Find store locations & hours here. For a complete history with lots of pictures, visit our 40th Anniversary page here.Take a virtual tour
of our Historic Lower Downtown store here.
Our exciting new venture is up and running! For more about "print on demand" book sales and services click here.
Browse Our Virtual Staff Recommends Shelf
Our Virtual Staff Recommends Shelf
Pete S. recommends:The Sense of An Ending by Julian Barnes
(add it to your wish list here)
"I guess curiosity got the best of me. I wanted to read the novel that beat out my beloved Sisters Brothers for the 2011 Man Booker prize, and am pleased to report that Julian Barnes is a well-deserving award winner. Congratulations!
The
late scholar Joseph Campbell once said something to the effect of 'If
you look back upon your life, you will see that it played out just
as it should have.' However, I don't recommend you bringing up this
tidbit at cocktail parties, and if you do please blame Joseph Campbell
and not me. The reason I write that is
because I'm afraid you will encounter much resistance, such as...Read the full review here.
Pssst! Wanna read some Smut?I thought as much. It was obvious to me. But please consider that this smut is not wrapped in dark plastic, hidden behind the check out counter, or tucked beneath some teenager's mattress. No, the smut of note is easily accessible, more specifically located in the new paperback fiction section. Smut by Alan Bennett, consists of two...read the full review here"
Pete's Favorite Reads of 2011:
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Joel B. Recommends:
(add it to your wish list here)
"To put it simply, Running the Rift
is one of the most riveting, unforgettable books that I have ever
read. While the plot develops slowly, it progresses to an immensely
captivating, shocking, and awe-inspiring apex as it nears its end, full
of love, horror, hope, and sadness—in a word:
bittersweet. It is centered on the fictional life of Jean Patrick, a
gifted runner full of bounding enthusiasm, extraordinary intelligence
and naïve innocence. Jean Patrick lives in a Rwanda on the verge of
civil war, rife with racial tension between the country’s two main
ethnic groups, Hutus and Tutsis. Born a Tutsi under Hutu rule, Jean
Patrick’s only chance for social and economic mobility is to perform at
the very top of his class and receive extraordinary marks on
standardized tests—which he does. But when Hutu-Tutsi tensions escalate...Read the full review here.
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Jackie B. Recommends:
Ghost Buddy: Zero to Hero by Henry Winkler & Lin Oliver
(add it to your wish list here)
"Henry Winkler and Lin Oliver have had a 
smashing success with their
Hank Zipper series (17 books!), but now they are trying out a new
series called Ghost Buddy. It stars Billy Broccoli, an eleven-going-on-twelve year old, about to start junior high, and moving into a big new house with
his mother and his new step-dad and step-sister, who is a year older
than him. And to top it all off, his new bedroom is haunted! But by whom?...Read the full review here.
When She Woke by Hillary Jordan
(add it to your wish list here)
"I am amazed at this book. It's topics are
sooooo 'right now'—religious fundamentalism, women's rights,
reproductive rights, the struggle to manage crime and the situation in
prisons, the roll of technology in controlling people and the privacy
issues that go along with that. When She Woke is going to create a stir—I
foresee outrage"...read the full review here.
Among Jackie's Favorite Reads of 2011:
...See the rest of her favorites here.
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Joe E. Recommends:
The Face Thief by Eli Gottlieb
(add it to your wish list here)
"This is a novel where nothing is as it seems. Following three characters whose lives are linked through deceit, failed trust, and crime. There is Margot, a woman who
knows how to use her beauty and
men's desire to get ahead in life. But has her luck run out? She fell
(or was she pushed?) down a staircase and is recuperating in a hospital,
visited by a man who may be helping her, just as he may be falling in
love with her. Then there is the Lawrence, the man who teaches Margot
how to read faces. After his marriage is nearly ruined, does he realize
that she doesn't really need the lessons, and he's the one being played.
And finally, there's John Potash, who, in an effort to increase his
sizable nest egg, ends up losing everything to Margot's deceit....read the full review here.
Arcadia by Lauren Groff
(coming in March, available for preorder or add it to your wish list here)
"As
I devoured the final 150 pages of Arcadia, unable to put it down,
unwilling to leave the fantastic & beautiful world that Lauren Groff created,
a storm was coming in. On high winds and ever-darkening skies, it
seemed tailor-made to the darkening world of Bit Stone, the main
character in this amazing novel. Bit was raised in a utopian world, a
commune in upstate New York, with his parents and their fellow utopians,
eager for the hard work necessary to create an ideal world; a world
without anger, or jealousy, or"...Read the full review here.
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Judy's Favorite Young Adult Reads of 2011:
...See the rest of her favorites here.
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Cathy's Favorite Reads of 2011
...See all of her favorites here.
☞ And you can find all the books Cathy recommended in her appearances on News7 at 11am with Bertha Lynn here.
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Lynn F. Recommends:
News for All the People: The Epic Story of Race and the American Media by Juan Gonzalez and Joseph Torres
"The history of how media in this country has systematically excluded (and occasionally learned from) voices of color is nearly dizzying in its ambition, but its stories give rich context to a history long neglected in the body politic. From the earliest publications during colonial
times that spawned both racist mob violence and the abolitionist
movement to the current debates over net neutrality's open sourcing vs
privatization of the internet, there has been a steady tug of war
between the status quo's consolidation and maintenance of power and
advantage via media control and the muscular insistence on being heard,
not just herded...Read the full review here.
The End of Growth: Adapting to Our New Economic Reality by Richard Heinberg
(add it to your wish list here)
"That
what is covered in this book isn't daily fare in the news both is and
isn't in the least astonishing. 
Quarterly profits and political
attention to election cycles trump the seemingly quaint calls for
consideration of the next 7 generations. But fortunately, even for those
whose eyes glaze over at the idea of reading an economics book, there
are pleasant surprises to be found in 'The End of Growth'. Sure it has
lots of charts and graphs and the thesis might appear initially too
pessimistic to appeal to any but dyed-in-the-wool Cassandras, but I
assure you this is no tedious "dismal science" text, nor is it a rant"...Read the full review here.
2011 Nobel Prize for Literature
Contemporary Swedish poet Tomas Tranströmer is the 2011 Nobel
Prize-winner for Literature
On April 15, 1931, Tomas Tranströmer was born in Stockholm, Sweden. He attended the University of Stockholm, where he studied psychology and poetry.
One of Sweden's most important poets, Tranströmer has sold thousands of volumes in his native country, and his work has been translated into more than fifty languages. His books of poetry in English include The Sorrow Gondola (Green Integer, 2010); New Collected Poems, edited by Robin Fulton (Bloodaxe Books, 1998, 2011); The Great Enigma: New Collected Poems, edited by Robin Fulton (New Directions, 2003); The Half-Finished Heaven, translated by Robert Bly (Graywolf, 2001); For the Living and the Dead (1995); Selected Poems, edited by Robert Hass (Ecco, 1987) Baltics (1974); Paths (1973); Windows and Stones (1972), an International Poetry Forum Selection and a runner-up for the National Book Award for translation; The Half-Finished Sky (1962); and Seventeen Poems (1954).
His work has gradually shifted from the traditional and ambitious nature poetry written in his early twenties toward a darker, personal, and more open verse. His work barrels into the void, striving to understand and grapple with the unknowable, searching for transcendence.
"I am the place / where creation is working itself out," he declares in his poem "The Outpost," about which he wrote "This kind of religious idea recurs here and there in my poems of late, that I see a kind of meaning in being present, in using reality, in experiencing it, in making something of it."
Tranströmer is the recipient of the 2011 Nobel Prize for Literature. His other honors and awards include the Aftonbladets Literary Prize, the Bonnier Award for Poetry, the Neustadt International Prize for Literature, the Oevralids Prize, the Petrach Prize in Germany, and the Swedish Award from International Poetry Forum. ~Poets.org
