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January 2016
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Love mysteries? Can't get enough science fiction? Need ideas for your next book club read? Want to know when your child's favorite author is coming to sign? Easy! Manage your e-mail preferences to stay informed about the books and author events that interest you most.
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Saturday, January 30, 2016
8:45 am
Historic Oxford Hotel
Tickets are $75.00 per person, and include continental breakfast, boxed lunch, and an afternoon reception and booksigning. Ticket sales begin Monday, January 4, at 8:00 am, on our website with a credit card.
See you in January!
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A
club for the true collector, the ardent bibliophile, and all lovers of the printed word. Members of the
ABC Club
receive one signed first edition chosen by our buyers and events staff each month. Our January 2016 ABC Club selection is yet to be determined.
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TC-VIB
Our Tattered Cover V.I.B. selections are books that are staff favorites and true stand-outs in a world of many excellent and compelling new books.
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Dom's Book Club
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 favorites with you. Check out his reviews on
his blog
, and happy reading!
by Rex Pickett
Mention Dom's Book Club when making your purchase
in-store to receive 20% off the current selection.
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7News Book Club
Meteorologist Lisa Hidalgo not only knows the weather, she
knows great books, and is an avid reader! Each month she shares her picks on the
7News website
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This month's book is
Lila
by Marilynne Robinson
Mention the 7News Book Club when making your purchase
in-store to receive 20% off the current selection.
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January 2016
Young Children's Storytimes
Tuesdays at 10:30 am, Colfax Avenue
Saturdays at 10:30 am, Historic LoDo
Tuesdays at 10:30 am & Saturdays at 10:30 am, Aspen Grove
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Sunday, January 3 1:00 pm, Sie FilmCenter
This month we'll see the 1974 Louis Malle classic
Place de la République
.
Tickets are $1.00, and are available at the box office one hour before showtime.
Monday, January 4, 7:00 pm, Aspen Grove
Wednesday, January 6, 7:00 pm, Colfax Avenue
Brad Taylor, the
New York Times
bestselling author of six previous
Pike Logan
novels, will read from and sign his latest heart-stopping thriller
Forgotten Soldier
($26.95 Dutton).
Thursday, January 7, 7:00 pm, Colfax Avenue
Chris Bohjalian, the
New York Times
bestselling author whose books include
Midwives
(an Oprah Book Club pick), and
The Sandcastle Girls
, will read from and sign his new novel
The Guest Room
($25.95 Doubleday).
Friday, January 8, 7:00 pm, Colfax Avenue
Tuesday, January 12, 12:30 pm, Colfax Avenue
Wednesday, January 13, 7:00 pm,
Colfax Avenue
Award-winning slap poet, writer, performer, educator, and activist Dominique Christina will read from, discuss and sign her new book
This is Woman's Work: Calling Forth Your Inner Council of Wise, Brave, Crazy, Rebellious, Loving, Luminous Selves
($19.95 Sounds True).
Heather Sappenfield
Wednesday, January 13, 7:00 pm, Aspen Grove
Colorado author Heather Sappenfield, whose debut novel for young adults
The View from Who I Was
, offered a direct, tender, and insightful look at teen suicide, will read from and sign her second novel
Life at the Speed of Us ($11.99 Flux).
Thursday, January 14, 7:00 pm, Colfax Avenue
Thursday, January 14, 7:00 pm, Aspen Grove
Friday, January 15, 7:00 pm, Colfax Avenue
Sunday, January 17, 2:00 pm, Colfax Avenue
Monday, January 18, 7:00 pm, Aspen Grove
Thursday, January 21, 7:00 pm, Historic LoDo
Thursday, January 21, 7:00 pm, Aspen Grove
Friday, January 22, 7:00 pm, Colfax Avenue
Alexandra Bracken, the
New York Times
bestselling author of the
Darkest Minds
series, and author of the recent
Star Wars
tie-in for young readers,
Star Wars: A New Hope - The Princess, the Scoundrel, and the Farm Boy
, will read from and sign her new romantic, time-traveling adventure story
Passenger
($17.99 Disney-Hyperion).
Monday, January 25, 7:00 pm, Colfax Avenue
Monday, January 25, 7:00 pm, Historic LoDo
Janice Y. K. Lee, author of the bestselling debut novel
The Piano Teacher
, will read from and sign her long-awaited new novel
The Expatriates
($27.95 Viking).
Tuesday, January 26, 10:30 am, Colfax Avenue
Tuesday, January 26, 5:00 pm, Colfax Avenue
Wednesday, January 27, 6:30 pm, Colfax Avenue
Thursday, January 28, 7:00 pm, Colfax Avenue
Acclaimed, award-winning novelist Stewart O'Nan will read from and sign the new paperback edition of his bestselling novel
West of Sunset
($16.00 Penguin), his graceful, subtle, and and haunting novel of F. Scott Fitzgerald's last years in Hollywood.
Family Friday Night
Friday, January 29, 6:00 pm, Colfax Avenue, Historic LoDo, and Aspen Grove
Peter Heller, Judith Claire Mitchell, T. Geronimo Johnson, & Cristina Henríquez
Saturday, January 30, 8:45 am, Oxford Hotel
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January 2016 Indie Next List
by Katarina Bivald
(Sourcebooks Landmark $16.99)
"One of the conundrums facing a true bibliophile has always been: books or people? Sara has spent her entire life in Sweden working in a bookshop and her answer has always been obvious: books. An unexpected pen pal relationship with Amy - an older book lover from Iowa - challenges that easy answer and forces her to reconsider her view of herself and the world. After months of corresponding, trading books and sharing details of one another's lives, Amy invites Sara to come visit her one-stoplight town, Broken Wheel, for a summer of reading and getting to know small-town America. However, when Sara arrives, she is greeted by Amy's funeral procession. Thousands of miles from home, with a return ticket dated two months hence, Sara is at a loss for what to do. So, naturally, with Amy's collection of books, she opens a bookstore. Filled with familiar literary references, charming and quirky townsfolk, and plenty of scheming, plotting, and shenanigans that could only occur in a place like Broken Wheel, Bivald's feel-good novel explores that ever-present question: books or people? Read the book and enjoy reaching your own conclusions." - Erin Figel, pages: a bookstore, Manhattan Beach, CA
by Sunil Yapa
(Lee Boudreaux Books, $26)
"Yapa's debut novel is a raw orchestra of voices needing to be heard. Bringing to life the 1999 World Trade Organization protests in Seattle, all those present are both dedicated and at a loss: the organizers and protesters, the police and their chief, the delegates and politicians, and the young unintended participant who is searching for meaning, purpose, and hope amid the brutality. From the personal to the political, within a single fraught day the whole world is blown wide open. Yapa has captured the chaos - and the beauty - with both fierceness and heart." -Melinda Powers, Bookshop Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA
by Natasha Solomons
(Plume, trade paper, $16)
"Three brothers return to Hartgrove Hall after World War II to find their beloved home hard-used by military forces and greatly in need of repair. Their efforts are complicated by the introduction of the oldest brother's fiancé, Edie Rose, whose beautiful voice instilled hope in the British citizenry during the darkness of war. Soon, all three brothers are in love with Edie, but only one will ultimately win her hand. Fast-forward to present times and Edie has just passed away, leaving Fox reeling from his wife's death and mired in grief. Called upon to babysit his four-year-old grandson one day, he discovers that the lad is a prodigy at the piano with an uncanny ability to impart through his grandfather's musical compositions the emotions Fox felt when writing them. This novel is a joy to read and fills readers with a hope of restoration in the face of loss." -Vicki Burger, Wind City Books, Casper, WY
by Elizabeth Strout
(Random House, $26)
"Strout has the incredible ability to take ordinary, even mundane situations and use them to make acute observations on the human condition. A mother's visit to her daughter in the hospital becomes the vehicle for an astute examination of daily needs, desires, yearnings, wishes, and dreams that become so much of the remembered experience. Using spare, precise, but beautiful language, she has produced another masterpiece in a growing list of impressive work." -Bill Cusumano, Square Books, Oxford, MS
by Tom Hart
(St. Martin's Press, $19.99)
"Rosalie Lightning is a haunting and beautiful memoir that lays bare the love parents can have for their children. Hart's simple renditions of his life before and after the death of his young daughter are successful symbols, lucidly conveying the widest range of emotions and thoughts. It would be a disservice to say Rosalie Lightning just made me cry - it also burrowed into my heart. Hart describes the most unthinkable, painful event that can happen to a parent, and even more extraordinarily, he describes the love and the life that is still available afterwards. Rosalie was a joy to read about, and even on the darkest pages, I am glad he gave this gift of a memoir." -Lyla Wortham, Whistle-Stop Mercantile, Douglas, WY
by Helen Ellis
(Doubleday, $24)
"American Housewife is a little arsenic cupcake of a book: adorable and lethal! Each of the stories features a housewife who does all the usual hausfrau things, but with a homicidal twist. Each of these ladies stand by their man - and sometimes they kill for him. I was spellbound and loved every vicious one of them, from their perfectly coiffed hair and gel-manicured fingers to their coal-black hearts! This is the guiltiest of guilty pleasures!" -Lauren Peugh, Changing Hands Bookstore, Tempe, AZ
by Jessica Chiarella
(Touchstone, $25.99)
"This intriguing novel explores the age-old body/soul relationship from a fresh angle by introducing us to four participants in a pilot program that gives terminally ill patients new, genetically perfect bodies. Will these four - a beautiful actress, a womanizing congressman, a talented artist, and a beloved mother - simply resume their lives as they were before disease or accident struck? Or will they make new starts, make different choices? Can their new bodies incorporate what they have learned in the past? A fascinating literary debut." -Ellen Sandmeyer, Sandmeyer's Bookstore, Chicago, IL
by Taylor Brown
(St. Martin's Press, 9781250077974, $25.99)
"Fallen Land by debut novelist Brown is like a blend of Charles Frazier's Cold Mountain and Cormac McCarthy's The Road. In the setting of the southern Appalachians and crossing Georgia during Sherman's March to the Sea, Brown shares the beautifully written story of Callum, a young Irish immigrant, and Ava, the orphan daughter of a Carolina doctor who perished in the war. Together they stay one step ahead of a loosely formed band of vicious bounty hunters at the trailing end of Sherman's scorching destruction of the South. Determination, survival, and love all combine to form a thrilling and romantic story set during the final days of the Civil War." -Doug Robinson, Eagle Eye Book Shop, Decatur, GA
by Simon Sylvester
(Melville House, $18.95)
"Neil Gaiman meets Tana French in this debut thriller that takes place on a remote island off the coast of Scotland. Flora is as independent, vulnerable, and anxious for adulthood yet yearning for magic in all of its guises as any teen you're likely to meet in literature. It is no surprise that she is drawn into the mystery of a man and his daughter moving into the abandoned Dog Cottage next door. The braiding of Scottish myth into this tale of suspicious disappearances adds a compelling twist to the wonderfully evocative setting and great cast of supporting characters." -Sarah Hinckley, Hudson Booksellers, Marietta, GA
by Michel Bussi
(Hachette Books, $26)
"This old-fashioned crime novel by a French geography professor considers the miraculous survival of a three-month-old infant girl in an airplane crash in the Jura Mountains in which all perished - including a second three-month-old baby. An 18-year struggle is unleashed between two rival sets of grandparents on opposite ends of the economic scale, one of which is accorded custody of the child. Does she really belong to that family? Is her brother really her brother? As the age of majority of the survivor approaches, the questions become more urgent and the private detective who has been on the case for 18 years tries to bring some closure." -Darwin Ellis, Books on the Common, Ridgefield, CT
by Tessa Hadley
(Harper, $26.99)
"A novel about a family vacation is often used as a device to bring out the worst flaws of the characters; here, it is used to bring out the best of Hadley's writing talent. She brings the family together, introducing them one by one: Harriet, the outdoorsy one; Alice, the dramatic one; Fran, the motherly one; Roland, the scholarly brother. The siblings, along with assorted children, spouses, and a young friend, spend three weeks in the crumbling house that belonged to their grandparents, trying to decide what must be done with it. Readers who enjoy character-driven novels, such as ones by Kate Atkinson, Margaret Drabble, or Jane Gardam, will welcome this novel." -Yvette Olson, Magnolia's Bookstore, Seattle, WA
by Janice Y.K. Lee
(Viking, $27.95)
"The Expatriates focuses on three very different American women whose lives in wealthy and privileged modern-day Hong Kong merge in an astounding way. Margaret, Hilary, and Mercy come from different backgrounds, and as their inner struggles first collide in this glamorous new world and then with each others', tough decisions are made that have a rippling effect. An unthinkable tragedy occurs that makes two women wish they could turn back the clock. Lee writes beautifully, with each woman's story unfolding in sequenced chapters. A fantastic read!" -Joanne Doggart, Where the Sidewalk Ends, Chatham, MA
by Chris Bohjalian
(Doubleday, $26.95)
"From the explosive beginning all the way to the adrenaline rush of its conclusion, The Guest Room packs an emotional punch that will leave the reader gasping. When a bachelor party goes terribly wrong and two Russian mobsters wind up dead in his home, financier Richard Chapman finds himself struggling to save his job and marriage. Intertwined with Richard's story is the tale of Alexandra, a young sex slave with a narrative voice that will break your heart. Nobody does domestic drama quite like Bohjalian. Once again he proves himself a master of page-turning literary fiction." -Pamela Klinger-Horn, Excelsior Bay Books, Excelsior, MN
by Ed Tarkington
(Algonquin Books, $25.95)
"Tarkington's debut novel feels positively Shakespearean in its sense of family dynamics and the sometimes destructive power of love, but it speaks with the deceptively plain, poignant language of a Neil Young song. Set in the 1980s in a small Virginia town, the book tells the coming-of-age story of Rocky Askew as he copes with fraternal abandonment, dangerous liaisons, caregiving, and one town scandal after another with little help other than his brother Paul's old vinyl collection. Only Love Can Break Your Heart speaks to anybody working to function, however imperfectly, in any type of family." -Andrew Hedglin, Lemuria Bookshop, Jackson, MS
by Ruth Wariner
(Flatiron Books, $27.99)
"This is a memoir made extraordinary simply by the fact that the author lived to tell the tale. Wariner grew up in a polygamist cult across the Mexican border, the 39th of her father's 41 children. Surrounded by crushing poverty and repeated tragedy, little Ruth was taught that girls are born to be used by callous men and an angry God. However, she had just enough contact with her maternal grandparents and the outside world to realize the bizarre practices at home didn't match up with the rest of civilization. With quiet persistence, she grew into an adolescent and began to consider the possibility of escape. Riveting and reminiscent of Jeannette Walls' The Glass Castle." -Mary Laura Philpott, Parnassus Books, Nashville, TN
by Paul Kalanithi
(Random House, $25)
"With a message both mournful and life-affirming, When Breath Becomes Air chronicles a young doctor's journey from literature student to promising neurosurgeon and finally to a patient in his own hospital after being diagnosed with Stage IV lung cancer. Always profound, never sentimental, this important book refuses to take refuge in platitudes, instead facing mortality with honesty and humility. Written in engaging prose and filled with penetrating insights, this story is relevant to everyone and will captivate fans of memoir, literature, philosophy, and popular science alike. Lyrical passages of great beauty and vulnerability are deftly balanced by bright, candid moments of joy and even humor. Come prepared with plenty of tissues; over and over again this exquisite book will break your heart." -Carmen Tracey, Loganberry Books, Shaker Heights, OH
by Samantha Hunt
(Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $24)
"When Cora's Aunt Ruth, whom she hasn't seen since childhood, shows up on her doorstep, mute yet demanding Cora follow her, Cora makes a split-second decision to do that to escape her dead-end job and the father of the baby she is carrying. The tale of the road trip that follows and the details of Ruth's past are told in alternating chapters until they merge. The cast of characters and settings are mysterious and creepy, like something out of a David Lynch movie. Readers will be compelled to keep the pages turning until the secrets are revealed." -Kelley Drahushuk, The Spotty Dog Books & Ale, Hudson, NY
by Fuminori Nakamura, Allison Markin Powell (Trans.)
(Soho Crime, $25.95)
"Alienation and obsession are dissected in this unsettling, spare novel. Nishikawa, a listless college student, happens upon a dead man during a nighttime walk. He inexplicably picks up the pistol lying by the body and brings it to his apartment. From this precipitous moment, the weapon becomes an obsession. Nishikawa finds his tedious reality taking on new meaning through the possibilities of an object that was designed to kill, and yet he must conceal his fetish from his classmates, lovers, and - most importantly - the police, who suspect that he has the gun. This award-winning noir novel, translated from Japanese, is an unflinching, dark story of one man's expanding consciousness - and threat." -Cindy Pauldine, the river's end bookstore, Oswego, NY
by Charles Lambert
(Scribner, $24)
"Tragically disfigured and reclusive, Morgan lives in a secluded country estate with only his housekeeper, Engel, to keep him company - until the children start to arrive. The first, an infant named Moira, is left in a basket on the doorstep; others soon follow - including the oddly precocious David - the eldest at five years old. But what does the children's enigmatic presence portend for Morgan and the world in which he lives? Through lyrical prose, Lambert creates an absorbing and dream-like narrative that recalls both the pastoral gothic of Shirley Jackson and the dystopic vision of John Wyndham." -Dan Doody, University Book Store, Seattle, WA
by Eric Weiner
(Simon & Schuster, $26.95)
"In his latest quest, acclaimed travel writer Weiner takes readers on a journey to discover creative places that inspire and cultivate geniuses. Time-traveling from ancient Athens to modern Silicon Valley with Hangzhou, Florence, Edinburgh, Calcutta, and Vienna as stops along the way, Weiner conducts a grand tour of those places thought to be conducive to ingenuity. He asks, What was in the air, and can we bottle it? A fascinating and entertaining literary treat connecting culture and creativity." -Kathleen Dixon, Fair Isle Books, Washington Island, WI
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