Colfax Avenue: Our guest panelists with be middle grade & young adult authors: Nancy Oswald, Denise Vega, Traci Jones, Terri Clark, and Amy Kathleen Ryan

Established in 1919, Children's Book Week (www.bookweekonline.com) is the longest-running literacy initiative in the country. Each year, books for young people and the joy of reading are feted for a full week with author and illustrator appearances, storytelling, parties, and other book-related events at schools, libraries, bookstores, museums, and homes from coast to coast! In honor of Children's Book Week 2012, the Rocky Mountain Chapter of the Society of Children's Book Writers & Illustrators join us in presenting a middle grade and young adult writers' panel discussion. 

The Virtual Staff Recommends Bookshelf is currently being dusted and updated. Please stay tuned for new reviews COMING SOON

Pete S. recommends:

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"

 

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Joel B. Recommends:

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)

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.

 Judy's Favorite Young Adult Reads of 2011:

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. 

Six books on Colorado
by Cathy Langer
Photos by Chad Chisholm

Tattered Cover’s recommended local reads in the latest EnCompass magazine 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

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.