Tattered Cover presents...
Past, Present, Future
History, Memoir, & Biography Events
October 2018
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History Book Talk & Signing
Tuesday, October 2, 7:00 pm, Colfax Avenue
Author Susan Schulten will discuss and sign
A History of America in 100 Maps
($35.00 University of Chicago Press), in which she uses maps to explore five centuries of American history, from the voyages of European discovery to the digital age. With stunning visual clarity, this book showcases the power of cartography to illuminate and complicate our understanding of the past.
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Memoir Book Talk & Signing
Wednesday, October 3, 7:00 pm, Historic LoDo
Taylor Pendergrass, lawyer and activist, and Mateo Hoke, journalist and co-editor of
Palestine Speaks: Narratives of Life Under Occupation
, will discuss and sign
Six by Ten: Stories from Solitary
($19.95 Haymarket Books), which examines the darkest hidden corners of America's mass incarceration culture and illustrates how solitary confinement inflicts lasting consequences on families and communities far beyond prison walls. They will be joined by Brian Nelson, who is featured in the book. Nelson was taken from solitary cell to solitary cell in prisons across Illinois for more than seven years. He now works as a paralegal at the Uptown People's Law Center in Chicago.
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History Book Talk & Signing
Wednesday, October 10, 7:00 pm, Aspen Grove
Tom Clavin, the
New York Times
bestselling author of
Dodge City
and
The Heart of Everything That Is
, will discuss and sign
Valley Forge
($30.00 Simon & Schuster), an inspiring, page-turning account of the Continental Army winter camp where George Washington turned the tide of the American Revolution.
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History Book Talk & Signing
Tuesday, October 16, 7:00 pm, Colfax Avenue
Author John Schuttler will discuss and sign
Liberated Spirits: Two Women Who Battled Over Prohibition
($28.00 Berkley), a provocative new take on the women behind a perennially fascinating subject.
Liberated Spirits
describes how the fight to pass and later to repeal Prohibition was driven by women, as exemplified by two remarkable women in particular.
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History Book Talk & Signing
Wednesday, October 17, 7:00 pm, Colfax Avenue
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History Book Talk & Signing
Thursday, October 18, 7:00 pm, Colfax Avenue
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History Book Talk & Signing
Sunday, October 21, 2:00 pm, Colfax Avenue
Pulitzer Prize-winning author Doris Kearns Goodwin will discuss and sign
Leadership: In Turbulent Times
($30.00 Simon & Schuster). In this culmination of five decades of acclaimed studies in presidential history, Goodwin offers an illuminating exploration into the early development, growth, and exercise of leadership.
Tickets on sale now!
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Biography Book Talk & Signing
Tuesday, October 23, 7:00 pm, Historic LoDo
Jane Leavy is an award-winning former sportswriter and feature writer for the
Washington Post
. She is the author of the comic novel
Squeeze Play
, which was called "the best novel ever written about baseball" by
Entertainment Weekly
. Leavy will discuss and sign
The Big Fella: Babe Ruth and the World He Created
($32.50 Harper).
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Memoir Book Talk & Signing
Wednesday, October 24, 7:00 pm, Historic LoDo
Author Angie Cavallari will discuss and sign
Trailer Trash: An '80s Memoir
($14.95 Retro Publishing LLC), about her childhood in the '80s growing up in trailer parks. In this book, Cavallari describes the negative connotations of the world "trailer park" and what it represents in the minds of most Americans.
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History Book Talk & Signing
Thursday, October 25, 7:00 pm, Historic LoDo
Author Tim Mohr will discuss and sign
Burning Down the Haus: Punk Rock, Revolution, and the Fall of the Berlin Wall
($28.95 Algonquin Books). Rollicking, cinematic, deeply researched, highly readable, and thrillingly topical,
Burning Down the Haus
brings to life the young men and women who successfully fought authoritarianism three chords at a time--and is a fiery testament to the irrepressible spirit of resistance.
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Political Science Book Talk & Signing
Friday, October 26, 7:00 pm, Colfax Avenue
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History Book Talk & Signing
Sunday, October 28, 2:00 pm, Historic LoDo
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Tuesday, October 9, 12:30 pm, Aspen Grove
Join Active Minds to dive into the world of bees and examine the factors that are affecting these important species.
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Tuesday, October 23, 5:00 pm, Colfax Avenue
Join Active Minds for a review of aviation in the United States beginning with the story of the Wright Brothers and ending with a look at the airline industry today.
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Upcoming Events
Sunday, November 4, 2:00 pm, Historic LoDo
Monday, November 5, 7:00 pm, Historic LoDo
Sunday, November 11, 2:00 pm, Colfax Avenue
Tuesday, November 13, 7:00 pm, Historic LoDo
Saturday, November 17, 7:00 pm, Colfax Avenue
Sunday, December 2, 2:00 pm, Colfax Avenue
Sunday, December 2, 2:00 pm, Historic LoDo
Wednesday, December 12, 7:00 pm, Colfax Avenue
Wednesday, January 16, 2019, 7:00 pm, Colfax Avenue
Thursday, January 17, 2019, 7:00 pm, Aspen Grove
Wednesday, February 20, 2019, 7:00 pm, Colfax Avenue
Sunday, March 24, 2019, 2:00 pm, Colfax Avenue
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The Fossil Wars: On the Battle Between Paleontolog...
In the summer of 2009, I came across a newspaper item about a Montana man convicted of stealing a dinosaur. The idea sounded preposterous. How was stealing a dinosaur even possible? And who would want to?
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Karl Ove Knausgaard: "Living Is Being Greedy For Days"
August 29, 2011. 2:12. I am in the flat in Malmö, which shows signs of having been empty for close on three months: all the plants have withered, the air is dry, dusty, and there is a foul smell in the bathroom; water must somehow have been left...
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