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Salman Ahmad - Rock & Roll Jihad: A Muslim Rock Star’s Revolution

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 16:27:35 -0500

Start: March 17, 2010 - 7:30pm

End: March 17, 2010 - 7:30pm

Colfax Avenue: The Hasan Family Foundation and the ACLU join us in presenting Salman Ahmad as he discusses and signs his book Rock & Roll Jihad: A Muslim Rock Star’s Revolution ($24.99 Simon & Schuster). With 30 million record sales under his belt, and with fans including Bono and Al Gore, Pakistan born Salman Ahmad is renowned for being the first rock & roll star to destroy the wall that divides the West and the Muslim world. Rock & Roll Jihad is the story of his incredible journey.

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Anthony Brandt - The Man Who Ate His Boots: The Tragic History of the Search for the Northwest Passage

Fri, 19 Feb 2010 14:58:56 -0500

Start: March 18, 2010 - 7:30pm

End: March 18, 2010 - 7:30pm

Colfax Avenue: Anthony Brandt is the editor of the Adventure Classics series published by National Geographic Society Press, and the books editor at National Geographic Adventure magazine. Brandt will discuss and sign his new book The Man Who Ate His Boots: The Tragic History of the Search for the Northwest Passage ($28.95 Knopf) In his book, Brandt tells the whole story of the search for the Northwest Passage, from its beginnings early in the age of exploration through its development into a British national obsession to the final sordid, terrible descent into scurvy, starvation, and cannibalism. Sir John Franklin is the focus of the book but it covers all the major expeditions and a number of fascinating characters, including Franklin’s extraordinary wife, Lady Jane, in vivid detail. The Man Who Ate His Boots is a rich and engaging work of narrative history that captures the glory and the folly of this ultimately tragic enterprise.

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William Schoolcraft - First You Don’t Conceive

Fri, 19 Feb 2010 15:01:46 -0500

Start: March 18, 2010 - 7:30pm

End: March 18, 2010 - 7:30pm

Historic LoDo: William Schoolcraft, MD, HCLD, a fertility specialist and researcher, is the director of the Colorado Center for Reproductive Medicine, one of the most successful fertility clinics in the world. Dr. Schoolcraft will answer questions and discuss and sign his book If at First You Don’t Conceive: A Complete Guide to Infertility from One of the Nation’s Leading Clinics ($21.99 Rodale).

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Ted Conover - The Routes of Man

Fri, 19 Feb 2010 15:04:57 -0500

Start: March 19, 2010 - 7:30pm

End: March 19, 2010 - 7:30pm

Colfax Avenue: Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Ted Conover is the author most recently of the National Book Critics Circle Award Nominee Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing. Conover will read from and sign his new book The Routes of Man: How Roads Are Changing the World and the Way We Live Today ($26.95 Random House), an absorbing book about roads and their power to change the world. Roads bind our world—metaphorically and literally—transforming landscapes and the lives of the people who inhabit them. Roads have unparalleled power to impact communities, unite worlds and sunder them, and reveal the hopes and fears of those who travel them. This spirited, urgent book reveals the costs and benefits of being connected—how, from ancient Rome to the present, roads have played a crucial role in human life, advancing civilization even as they set it back.
Visit Ted Conover’s website.

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Cool Coyote Storytime

Mon, 22 Feb 2010 13:27:26 -0500

Start: March 20, 2010 - 10:30am

End: March 20, 2010 - 10:30am

Highlands Ranch: Our young guests are invited to join us for a howling good time with Park Ranger Megan who will talk about cool coyotes in the Ranch.

Robert Melillo - Disconnected Kids

Mon, 22 Feb 2010 13:30:42 -0500

Start: March 22, 2010 - 7:00pm

End: March 22, 2010 - 7:00pm

Highlands Ranch: Dr. Robert Melillo is a world-renowned chiropractic neurologist, professor, and researcher in childhood neurological disorders. Melillo will discuss and sign the new paperback edition of his book Disconnected Kids: The Groundbreaking Brain Balance Program for Children with Autism, ADHD, Dyslexia, and Other Neurological Disorders ($15.95 Penguin).

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Mario Acevedo - Werewolf Smackdown

Mon, 22 Feb 2010 13:34:38 -0500

Start: March 22, 2010 - 7:30pm

End: March 22, 2010 - 7:30pm

Colfax Avenue: Local author Mario Acevedo is the bestselling author of The Nymphos of Rocky Flats, Jailbait Zombie, X-Rated Bloodsuckers, and The Undead Kama Sutra. Acevedo will read from his hilarious and creepy new mystery Werewolf Smackdown ($14.99 HarperCollins). Felix Gomez, Latino vampire detective extraordinaire, tackles a dangerous werewolf cabal in the fifth installment in Acevedo’s satirical supernatural series. A sure-to-be-bloody civil war is brewing between rival werewolf factions, and P.I. Felix Gomez will do anything he can to make sure it doesn’t explode into a vicious battle that engulfs all creatures, living and dead. Between that, the sudden reappearance of an ex-girlfriend, and a gang of other vampires trying to take off his head, this is one rumble even a fanged detective extraordinaire may not be able to handle.
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Tom Noel & Debra Faulkner - Mile High Tourism: Denver’s Convention and Visitor History

Mon, 22 Feb 2010 14:09:22 -0500

Start: March 22, 2010 - 7:30pm

End: March 22, 2010 - 7:30pm

Historic LoDo: Local authors and historians Tom Noel and Debra Faulkner will offer a PowerPoint presentation and sign their new book Mile High Tourism: Denver’s Convention and Visitor History ($39.95 Visit Denver). Tourism is now Denver and Colorado’s second most important industry after manufacturing. Scenery and climate alone do not explain Colorado’s successful courtship of tourists. This book is the story of a remarkable cast of builders and boosters—saloonkeepers and journalists, hotel keepers and museum guides, stagecoach drivers and 747 pilots, mayors and businesspeople—who tirelessly promoted the Highest State. It is also the story of how Denver’s hundred-year old convention and tourist bureau has grown into one of the most respected and professional organizations of its kind in the country.

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Active Minds Lecture: Water in Colorado

Mon, 22 Feb 2010 14:12:43 -0500

Start: March 23, 2010 - 5:30pm

End: March 23, 2010 - 5:30pm

Colfax Avenue: Water may well become the most disputed natural resource of the 21st century. Population growth, climate change, urbanization and other factors have put increasing pressure on a finite resource. Competing water interests have affected Colorado’s history for over 100 years. The legal right to divert and use water in Colorado has been debated, legislated and litigated since before the time of statehood in 1876. Join Active Minds as we seek to understand our water history, the current challenges, and what the future holds for our use of this precious resource.

PDF of the Active Minds Lecture Series.

David Corbett - Do They Know I’m Running?

Mon, 22 Feb 2010 14:17:19 -0500

Start: March 23, 2010 - 7:30pm

End: March 23, 2010 - 7:30pm

Highlands Ranch: David Corbett is the author of three critically acclaimed novels: The Devil’s Redhead, Done for a Dime (a New York Times Notable Book), and Blood of Paradise—nominated for numerous awards, including the Edgar, and named one of the Top Ten Mysteries and Thrillers of 2007 by the Washington Post and a San Francisco Chronicle Notable Book. Corbett will read from and sign his new mystery Do They Know I’m Running? ($15.00 Random House). “With lyrical yet muscular prose, an ahead-of-the-headlines plot, and utterly believable characters, David Corbett’s Do They Know I’m Running? is nothing short of superb. This is not just a thriller, but an elegant novel, full of heart, soul, music, food, cruelty, betrayal, poverty and love.” —John Lescroart, author of A Plague of Secrets
Visit David Corbett’s website.

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Roy Morris, Jr. - Lighting Out for the Territory: How Samuel Clemens Headed West and Became Mark Twain

Mon, 22 Feb 2010 14:26:12 -0500

Start: March 24, 2010 - 7:30pm

End: March 24, 2010 - 7:30pm

Colfax Avenue: Acclaimed literary biographer Roy Morris, Jr., will discuss and sign his new book Lighting Out for the Territory: How Samuel Clemens Headed West and Became Mark Twain ($26.00 Simon & Schuster). With a pitch-perfect blend of appreciative humor and critical authority, Morris sheds new light on this crucial but still largely unexamined period in Mark Twain’s life. He carefully sorts fact from fiction—never an easy task when dealing with Twain—to tell the story of a young genius finding his voice in the ramshackle mining camps, boomtowns, and newspaper offices of the wild and woolly West, while the Civil War rages half a continent away. Lighting Out for the Territory is a fascinating, even inspiring, account of how an unemployed riverboat pilot, would-be Confederate guerrilla, failed prospector, neophyte newspaper reporter, and part-time San Francisco aesthete reinvented himself as America’s most famous and beloved writer. It’s a good story, and mostly true—with some stretchers thrown in for good measure.

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John McPhee - Silk Parachute

Mon, 22 Feb 2010 14:32:40 -0500

Start: March 25, 2010 - 7:30pm

End: March 25, 2010 - 7:30pm

Historic LoDo: John McPhee, acclaimed author and staff writer at The New Yorker, will read from and sign his new book Silk Parachute ($25.00 FS&G). The brief, brilliant essay “Silk Parachute,” which first appeared in The New Yorker a decade ago, has become John McPhee’s most anthologized piece of writing. In the nine other pieces collected here—highly varied in length and theme—McPhee ranges with his characteristic humor and intensity through a variety of themes, each containing somewhere a personal aspect in which McPhee suggests why he was attracted to write about the subject. Free numbered tickets for a place in line for the booksigning will be available at 6:30 pm. Seating for the presentation prior to the booksigning is limited, and available on a first-come, first-served basis to ticketed customers only.
Visit John McPhee’s website.

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Family Friday Night

Mon, 22 Feb 2010 15:10:08 -0500

Start: March 26, 2010 - 6:30pm

End: March 26, 2010 - 6:30pm

Highlands Ranch: Kids can wear their favorite jammies and enjoy stories, a fun activity, and healthy snacks provided by local Whole Foods Markets. Parents can pick up coupons and enjoy specials at the coffee shop.

Stephen Cannell - The Pallbearers

Mon, 22 Feb 2010 15:20:05 -0500

Start: March 26, 2010 - 7:30pm

End: March 26, 2010 - 7:30pm

Colfax Avenue: In his thirty-five-year career, Emmy Award-winning writer Stephen Cannell has created over forty TV series, including The Rockford Files, Silk Stalkings, The A-Team, 21 Jump Street, Hunter, The Greatest American Hero, Renegade, Wiseguy, and The Commish. Cannell, also a perennial New York Times bestselling author, will read from and sign his new novel The Pallbearers ($25.99 St. Martin’s), a powerful new novel in which Detective Shane Scully, who grew up as an orphan, must revisit his painful childhood to find out who murdered the kind and charismatic man who became a father to him.
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Christopher Moore - Bite Me

Mon, 22 Feb 2010 15:27:13 -0500

Start: March 28, 2010 - 2:00pm

End: March 28, 2010 - 2:00pm

Historic LoDo: Christopher Moore, the acclaimed, bestselling author whose works include Lamb, Fool, and Practical Demonkeeping, will read from and sign his new novel Bite Me ($23.99 William Morrow), the third book in his wonderfully twisted vampire saga. Joining his farcical gems Bloodsucking Fiends and You Suck, Moore’s latest in the continuing story of young, urban, nosferatu style love, is no Twilight—but rather a tsunami of the irresistible outrageousness that has earned him the appellation “Stephen King with a whoopee cushion and a double-espresso imagination” from the Atlanta Journal-Constitution and inspired Denver’s Rocky Mountain News to declare him “the 21st century’s best satirist.” Free numbered tickets for a place in line for the booksigning will be available at 1:00 pm. Seating for the presentation prior to the booksigning is limited, and available on a first-come, first-served basis to ticketed customers only.
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Recorder Faire

Mon, 22 Feb 2010 15:22:38 -0500

Start: March 28, 2010 - 2:00pm

End: March 28, 2010 - 4:00pm

Colfax Avenue: March is National Play the Recorder Month! Small recorder ensembles will play every 15 or 20 minutes, offering samples of a variety of recorder music. From jazz to Renaissance music, hear it all on the recorder.

John Thorndike - The Last of His Mind: A Year in the Shadow of Alzheimer’s

Mon, 22 Feb 2010 15:31:04 -0500

Start: March 31, 2010 - 7:30pm

End: March 31, 2010 - 7:30pm

Colfax Avenue: John Thorndike is the author of two novels, Anna Delaney’s Child and The Potato Baron, and a previous memoir, Another Way Home. Thorndike will read from and sign his new memoir The Last of His Mind: A Year in the Shadow of Alzheimer’s ($24.95 Swallow Press), the story of the year he spent caring for his aging father. It’s the ordeal of Alzheimer’s that draws father and son close, closer than they have been since John was a boy. At the end, when his father’s heart stops beating, John’s hand is on his chest, and a story of painful decline has become a portrait of deep family ties, caregiving, and love.
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Rocky Mountain Land Series with Erin McKittrick

Mon, 22 Feb 2010 15:56:02 -0500

Start: March 31, 2010 - 7:30pm

End: March 31, 2010 - 7:30pm

Historic LoDo: Erin McKittrick has an MS in molecular biology from the University of Washington, but left academia to pursue more wilderness experiences and to concentrate on environmental activism. McKittrick will offer a PowerPoint presentation and sign her new book A Long Trek Home: 4,000 Miles by Boot, Raft and Ski ($18.95 Mountaineers Books). In June 2007, McKittrick and her husband, Hig, embarked on a 4,000-mile expedition from Seattle to the Aleutian Islands, traveling solely by human power. This is the story of their unprecedented trek along the edge of the Pacific Ocean—a year-long journey through some of the most rugged terrain in the world—and their encounters with rain, wind, blizzards, bears, and their own emotional and spiritual demons.
Visit Erin and Hig’s Ground Truth Trekking blog.

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