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Book Club Notes
October 2017
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Literary Events for October...
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These events may be of particular interest to book clubs. Bring your group to meet an author you've read, or discover new books to add to your reading list.
Check out our
Event Calendar
for more information on upcoming events and follow us on Flowh to stay up-to-date!
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Monday, October 2, 7:00 pm, Colfax Avenue
James McBride, the National Book Award-winning author of
The Good Lord Bird
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will discuss and sign his short story collection
Five-Carat Soul
($27.00 Riverhead Books). The stories in
Five-Carat Soul
--none of them ever published before--spring from the place where identity, humanity, and history converge.
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Tuesday, October 3, 7:00 pm
Historic LoDo
There are so many great books being published, it can be difficult to decide what to read with your book club. We have the perfect solution for this admittedly good problem - Book Club Happy Hour! Join us as Tattered Cover staff members offer their favorite choices for book club reading and discussing. Find out what other book clubs are reading and mingle while enjoying wine and light refreshments.
Free registration available now!
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Wednesday, October 4, 7:00 pm, Colfax Avenue
Robin Sloan, author of the bestselling
Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore
, will present his triumphant return to the literary world
Sourdough
($26.00
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
), the story of a woman who inherits a sourdough starter and discovers a secret market that aims to fuse food and technology. Grateful Bread Bakery will provide sourdough samples.
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Tuesday, October 10, 7:00 pm, Historic LoDo
Author Bradford Morrow will discuss and sign
The Prague Sonata
($27.00 Atlantic Monthly), a novel more than a dozen years in the making, about a young musicologist seeking to solve the mystery behind an eighteenth-century sonata manuscript.
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Wednesday, October 18, 7:00 pm, Historic LoDo
Local author Randi Samuelson-Brown will discuss and sign
The Beaten Territory
($25.95 Five Star Publishing), about a woman running a second-rate brothel in 1890's Denver with an eye toward expansion.
Samuelson-Brown will give directions to old, infamous watering holes, brothels and gaming dens in Downtown Denver.
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Friday, October 20, 7:00 pm, Colfax Avenue
Joyce Maynard, the acclaimed, bestselling author of sixteen books including the novel
To Die For
and the bestselling memoir
At Home in the World
, will discuss and sign her new memoir
The Best of Us
($27.00 Bloomsbury). Charting the course through a whirlwind romance and a marriage cut short by tragedy,
The Best of Us
is a heart-wrenching, ultimately life-affirming reflection on coming to understand true love through the experience of great loss.
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Sunday, October 22, 2:00 pm, Colfax Avenue
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Lisi Harrison, bestselling author of
The Clique
series, will read and sign
The Dirty Book Club
($25.99 Gallery Books), her humorous novel about the importance of friendship, and, of course, the pleasure of a dirty book. We'll mix and mingle with wine and refreshments beginning at 6:30 pm, where guests can meet fellow book lovers and pick up book club reading lists. Then at 7:00 pm, Lisi Harrison will present
The Dirty Book Club.
Free registration available now!
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Thursday, October 26, 6-7:00 pm, Aspen Grove
Join us for our monthly tradition of group book talks with the booksellers of Aspen Grove! On the last Thursday of every month, we'll discuss our favorite new books.
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Writers Respond to Readers!
Join us as we celebrate the 20th Anniversary of this beloved event on
Saturday, February 3, 2018,
at the historic, newly renovated McNichols Building in Civic Center Park. We'll be announcing guest authors and information on ticketing in the coming months. Stay tuned!
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April 16 to 24, 2018
Madrid & Barcelona
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Tattered Cover is delighted to introduce you to Endless Travel Literary Tours, as they invite you and your favorite traveling partner on a Spanish Literary Tour which begins in Spain’s modern capital, Madrid, and ends with a celebration on April 23 of World Book Day and the Day of Books and Roses in Barcelona, a UNESCO City of Literature!
Monday, October 9, 9:30 am, Colfax Avenue, Orchestra Pit
Tattered Cover and Literary Tours are going to Spain! The deadline for making a deposit is fast approaching (10/15), so if you are interested in this amazing trip and want to hear more, join us for coffee and questions with our friends from Endless Travel. We'll go over the remarkable itinerary of tours, fabulous meals, and beautiful sights, discuss costs and registration, and answer all of your questions. Please reserve your spot for the meeting by sending us a note to:
newsletter@tatteredcover.com
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Every now and then we encounter a new book that we're so excited about we want to shout it from the rooftops, so we have this special designation to distinguish it from the rest:
TC V.I.B. (very impressive book)
!
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October V.I.B...
by Juan Gabriel Vasquez
"Columbian political cartoonist Javier Mallarino is at the pinnacle of his 40 year career. He’s known as the conscience of a nation, and holds the power to influence national events and make or break political fortunes. A chance encounter with a young woman he knew when she was a child triggers a memory of an event that occurred many years earlier, an event so repugnant to him that his reactive cartoon leads to a death. Now he wonders if his eyes and heart had deceived him. The existential crisis that follows is as gripping as a thriller and as emotionally powerful as one of my all-time favorites, Julian Barnes’s The Sense of an Ending." --
Cathy Langer, director of buying
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On shelves 10/10...
by Lisi Harrison
"Having grown up reading
The Clique
series, I could not contain my excitement when I found out Lisi Harrison is publishing an adult novel.
The Dirty Book Club
was everything I imagined it would be - funny, touching and relatable. The story follows M.J. Stark who moves from New York to California after a betrayal from her boss. Living with her boyfriend in a new place, she doesn't have any female friendships. That is until her neighbor, Gloria, embarks for Paris and leaves behind the legacy of The Dirty Book Club to M.J. and three other women. Through this book club M.J. slowly starts to develop the close bonds she needs to be at peace with her life. The characters are in their mid-thirties, a bit older than myself, but the way these women were depicted, the way they spoke, and the way they thought about life comforted me as I prepare to move further into adulthood. I could see myself in them, especially M.J., and I'm so glad that Lisi Harrison is the one who could provide me with such a story.
The Dirty Book Club
is one of my favorite books so far this year." --
Ashley Lyons, Marketing Communications Associate
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On shelves now...
by Gabrielle Zevin
"Young Jane Young is my new favorite book. Gabrielle Zevin is an outstanding writer, who writes not only with flair and humor, but gets to the essential of what it means to be an authentic woman and person. She tells
our
story through the quirky stories of four women; Aviva, Rachael, Jane, Ruby, and Embeth - yes; that is a list of
four
women! In the telling of their stories, Zevin asks if it's possible in today's culture to reinvent ourselves and remain who we are at our core. I loved the book---you will, too!" --
Kathy Coble, Colfax retail manager
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On shelves now...
by Ben Blum
"BRILLIANT DEBUT ALERT!
In Ranger Games, Colorado author, Ben Blum, tries to understand why his straight-laced cousin, (and US Army Ranger) Alex Blum would become involved in a bank robbery just before his first deployment to Iraq. As he tries to find answers for his family, Blum questions the information he’s gathering and the compassion towards his cousin seeps through Blum’s deliberations. Ranger Games paints an intense picture of the psyche of an army ranger and the emotional and societal factors that could influence someone like Alex to assist in a violent crime. An insightful and important book!" --
Stephanie Coleman, Lead Book Buyer
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Meteorologist Lisa Hidalgo not only knows the weather, she knows great books, and is an avid reader! Check out her picks each month and read along with Lisa!
This month's selection is
Celine
by Peter Heller.
Mention the 7News Book Club when making your
purchase in-store to receive 20% off the current selection.
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Dom Testa is an author, advocate for children's education and the host of Dom in the Morning on Mix 100.3. He loves reading and we love sharing his book reviews with you. Check out
his blog
and happy reading!
This month's selection is
Heart-Shaped Box
by
Joe Hill.
Mention Dom's Book Club when making your purchase in-store to receive 20% off the current selection.
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Our in-store book clubs are open to everyone, and you are welcome to drop in on one meeting, or join us for every discussion.
Check out the upcoming reading selections
here.
Happy Reading!
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