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Welcome to Tattered Cover Book Store

All Tattered Cover stores will close at 4pm today, February 3rd, due to a widespread snowstorm in the Denver Metro area.

❅ Tonight's event with William Landay at Highlands Ranch has been cancelled. Autographed Bookclub members will still receive signed copies.

 

Saturday, February 4th's Handmade Valentine Fundraiser has also been cancelled due to weather.

❅ Please visit the website of this worthy organization supporting childrens' writing if you would like to donate directly. Click the graphic on the left.

 

 

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.
 
 
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 Saturday, February 11, 10am - 2pm, at the PPA Event Center (next to Mile High Stadium). It's the annual event for children ages 2-8 and their families, featuring a day of fun based on favorite children's books and characters. This is an annual fundraiser that benefits Reach Out & Read Colorado. Click for details here.

 

 

 

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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.
 
 
Smut by Alan Bennett
 
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:

 
Running the Rift by Naomi Benaron
(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.

 
 
 
 
 
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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

The Great Enigma: New Collected Poems (Paperback)

By Tomas Transtromer, Robin Fulton
$17.95
ISBN-13: 9780811216722
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: New Directions Publishing Corporation, 10/2006

The Great Enigma: New Collected Poems

In day's first hours consciousness can grasp the worldas the hand grips a sun-warmed stone.Translated into fifty languages, the poetry of Tomas Transtromer has had a profound influence around the world, an influence that has steadily grown and has now attained a prominence comparable to that of Pablo Neruda's during his lifetime. But if Neruda is blazing fire, Transtromer is expanding ice. The Great Enigma: New Collected Poems gathers all the poems Tomas Transtromer has published, from his distinctive first collection in 1954, 17 Poems, through his epic poem Baltics ("my most consistent attempt to write music"), and The Sad Gondola, published six years after he suffered a debilitating stroke in 1990 ("I am carried in my shadow / like a violin / in its black case."), to his most recent slim book, The Great Enigma, published in Sweden in 2004. Also included is his prose-memoir Memories Look at Me, containing keys into his intensely spiritual, metaphysical poetry (like the brief passage of insect collecting on Runmaro Island when he was a teenager). Firmly rooted in the natural world, his work falls between dream and dream; it probes "the great unsolved love" with the opening up, through subtle modulations, of "concrete words."


The Half-Finished Heaven: The Best Poems of Tomas Tranströmer (Paperback)

By Tomas Tranströmer, Robert Bly
$15.00
ISBN-13: 9781555973513
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Graywolf Press, 10/2001
The Half-finished Heaven: The Best Poems of Tomas Tranströmer, translated by Robert Bly A longtime friend and confidant of Tranströmer's, as well as one of his first translators, Robert Bly has carefully chosen and translated what he considers the finest of Tranströmer's poems.

New Collected Poems (Paperback)

By Tomas Transtromer, Robin Fulton
$21.95
ISBN-13: 9781852244132
Availability: Not In Stock - Special Order (Subject to Availability)
Published: Bloodaxe Books, 5/1998
New Collected Poems An updated edition of his Collected Poems (1988), this volume takes readers on a wonderful journey through Tranströmer's forty-year writing career. Included are the poems from his most recent collections, For the Living and the Dead and the Sorrow Gondola (Dedalus/Dufour), which included the first new poems to be written and published after his recent devastating stroke. New Collected Poems also includes "Memories Look at Me", his prose memoir. Transtromer's early work drew on the aesthetic traditions of Swedish nature poetry, while his later work has become more personal, more open and relaxed. In 1990 Tomas Transtromer was awarded the Neustadt International Prize for Literature.

The Sorrow Gondola (Paperback)

By Tomas Transtromer, Michael McGriff, Mikaela Grassl
$11.95
ISBN-13: 9781933382449
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Green Integer, 5/2010
The Sorrow Gondola The great Swedish poet Tomas Tranströmer's was the first collection of poems written after his stroke in 1990, translated by Michael McGriff.

Selected Poems (Paperback)

By Tomas Transtromer
$15.99
ISBN-13: 9780880014038
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Ecco, 7/1999
Other Editions of this Title
Selected Poems: 1954-1986 Winner of many prestigious awards, including the Bonner Award for Poetry, Germany's Petrarch Prize, and the Neustadt International Prize for Literature, Tomas Tranströmer captures the mood of an era which is at once lonely and threatening. Few poets are capable of relating basic truths about the human condition in troubled times with such quiet grace and figurative skill. This volume vitally represents the immense talent and insight of one of the world's finest poets.

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