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« Tuesday December 01, 2009 »
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William Scott & Michael Coumatos - Counterspace: The Next Hours of World War III
Start: 7:30 pm
Highlands Ranch: William Scott, a former bureau chief for Aviation Week and Space Technology magazines and a U.S. Air Force Test Pilot School flight test engineer graduate, served as a space communications security engineer at the National Security Agency. He coauthored Space Wars: The First Six Hours of World War III with Michael Coumatos. Coumatos, a former U.S. Navy test pilot, search-and-rescue helicopter pilot during the Vietnam War, ship’s captain, and Commodore of U.S. and coalition naval task groups, served as Director of Wargaming for U.S. Space Command. Scott and Coumatos will discuss and sign their new book Counterspace: The Next Hours of World War III ($25.99 Tor), another chilling fictionalized look at America’s most catastrophic fears. Request a signed copy: books@tatteredcover.com
Richard Starks & Miriam Murcutt - Along the River That Flows Uphill
Start: 7:30 pm
Historic LoDo: Journalist, author and traveler Richard Starks and writer and editor Miriam Murcutt will present a slideshow and sign their fascinating new book Along the River That Flows Uphill: From the Orinoco to the Amazon ($19.95 Haus). The Casiquiare is unique. There is no other river like it on the planet. Somehow it manages to unite the two river systems of the Orinoco and the Amazon that should, by rights, be entirely separate, and the Casiquiare performs the astonishing feat of flowing up and over the watershed that divides them. Starks and Murcutt traveled along the Casiquiare at the behest of the Royal Geographical Society to gather information about the river and the fierce Yanomami tribe that still maintains its austere and primitive lifestyle in the region. Request a signed copy: books@tatteredcover.com
Cornelia Nixon - Jarrettsville
Start: 7:30 pm
Colfax Avenue: Cornelia Nixon will read from and sign her debut novel Jarrettsville ($15.95 Counterpoint Press), which was chosen as the Tattered Cover’s second V.I.B. (Very Impressive Book). Based on the author’s family history, Jarrettsville begins in 1869, amid chaos and confusion in the moments following Martha Jane Cairnes’s murder of her fiancé in front of fifty witnesses and former union militia members. The novel is a masterful reimagining of a tragic love affair and murder in a rural Maryland town still divided by the Civil War.’ Request a signed copy: books@tatteredcover.com
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