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« Wednesday April 07, 2010 »
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Henry Mulvihill - The Elliot Legacy
Start: 7:30 pm
Highlands Ranch: Parker, Colorado, author Henry Mulvihill will read from and sign The Elliot Legacy ($25.00 Hank’n’em Press), a thriller which begins in Hong Kong in the 1840s, then moves dramatically through Texas and into Colorado in the 1980s. The story begins with the theft of 40 tons of opium in Canton, moves to Hong Kong where the ill-gotten goods are packed aboard a British clipper ship and transported to St. Louis and then to Georgetown, with an interesting side trip to San Francisco. With quite a few killings and mishaps along the way, the Chinese tongs—ages old, vicious and violent—fight for possession of the treasure of priceless drugs and drag a Denver attorney into the melee. Request a signed copy: books@tatteredcover.com
Rebecca Skloot - The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
Start: 7:30 pm
Historic LoDo: Award-winning science writer Rebecca Skloot will discuss and sign her new book The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks ($26.00 Crown). Known as HeLa to scientists, Henrietta Lacks was a poor Southern tobacco farmer, yet her cells—taken without her knowledge—became one of the most important tools in medicine. The first “immortal” human cells grown in culture, they are still alive today, though she has been dead for more than sixty years. In her book, Skloot takes us on an extraordinary journey, from the “colored” ward of Johns Hopkins Hospital in the 1950s to stark white laboratories with freezers full of HeLa cells; from Henrietta’s small, dying hometown of Clover, Virginia—a land of wooden slave quarters, faith healings, and voodoo-to East Baltimore today, where her children and grandchildren live and struggle with the legacy of her cells. Visit Rebecca Skloot’s website. Request a signed copy: books@tatteredcover.com
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