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« Thursday October 14, 2010 »
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An Afternoon with Stories on Stage
Start: 12:00 pm
Historic LoDo: Stories on Stage—an award-winning performing arts organization celebrating its tenth anniversary—combines theater with literature to bring short stories to life. Exceptional actors from local and national stage, film and television make the experience heart-felt and great entertainment. Two regular Stories on Stage performers will offer a sample of the exciting upcoming season, including the stories “Grand Old Party” and “Tomorrow is Too Far.” "Grand Old Party" by Michael Knight. The peaceful world of an affluent suburb is turned upside down when a cuckolded hardware salesman shows up on the doorstep of his wife's lover with rifle in hand. Ridiculous complications ensue in this funny, oddly romantic cliff-hanger of a tale. Read by Michael Bouchard "Tomorrow is Too Far" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie.  A lie told in childhood still reverberates almost two decades and several continents away. This is a moving story about how one family wrestles with long-held secrets and hard-to-face truths. Read by Candy Brown Visit the Stories on Stage website.  
Cherie Priest - Dreadnought
Start: 7:30 pm
Highlands Ranch: Acclaimed novelist Cherie Priest, famed for her southern gothic ghost story novels Four and Twenty Blackbirds, Wings to the Kingdom, and Not Flesh Nor Feathers, will read from and sign Dreadnought ($14.99 Tor), the second novel in her Clockwork Century series. In the Clockwork Century, an alternate-history world setting, it is 1880 (or thereabouts). The Civil War is still underway, drawn out by English interference, a different transportation infrastructure, and a powerful Republic of Texas that discovered oil at Spindletop some fifty years sooner than real life allowed. “An intimate, well-crafted portrait of a nurse on a mission adds depth to this exceptional Civil War steampunk thriller, the self-contained sequel to 2009’s Locus Award-winning Boneshaker.” —Publishers Weekly, starred review Visit Cherie Priest’s website. Request a signed copy: books@tatteredcover.com
Vicki Myron - Dewey’s Nine Lives: The Legacy of the Small-Town Library Cat Who Inspired Millions
Start: 7:30 pm
Historic LoDo: Librarian Vicki Myron, author of the bestselling book Dewey: The Small-Town Library Cat Who Touched the World, will read from and sign her new book Dewey’s Nine Lives: The Legacy of the Small-Town Library Cat Who Inspired Millions ($19.95 Dutton). Myron’s new book offers nine funny, inspiring, and heartwarming stories about cats. The amazing felines in this book include Dewey, of course, whose further never-before-told adventures are shared, and several others who Vicki found out about when their owners reached out to her. She learned, through extensive interviews and story sharing, what made these cats special, and how they fit into Dewey’s community of perseverance and love. From a divorced mother in Alaska who saved a drowning kitten on Christmas Eve to a troubled Vietnam veteran whose heart was opened by his long relationship with a rescued cat, these Dewey-style stories will inspire readers to laugh, cry, care, and, most importantly, believe in the magic of animals to touch individual lives. Request a signed copy: books@tatteredcover.com
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