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Elegance of the Hedgehog, , by Muriel Barbery by

Told in journal entries, this is the "Thirteen linked tales present a story of a two unlikely friends - a heart-wrenching, penetrating rich, 12-year-old genius and a portrait of ordinary coastal middle-aged self-taught concierge. Mainers living lives of quiet grief When a new tenant moves into intermingled with flashes of their building, it forces them to human connection. The collection stop hiding behind books and bridge the is easy to read and impossible to forget.” generational gap. A moving story of friendship —Publishers Weekly, starred review and art, this book offers much for discussion.

Cutting for Stone, The Healing of America, by Abraham Verghese by T.R. Reid

A sweeping, emotionally riveting Washington Post correspondent first novel, this is an enthralling Reid explores health-care systems family saga of Africa and America, around the world in an effort to doctors and patients, exile and understand why the U.S. remains home. An epic story about the the only first world nation to refuse power, intimacy, and curious its citizens universal health care. beauty of the work of healing The only non-fiction book to make our list of others. bookclub bestsellers, The Healing of America explains complex issues in a clear, engaging way.

The Guernsey Literary & People of the Book, Potato Peel Pie Society, by Geraldine Brooks by Mary Ann Shaffer & Annie Barrows When an Australian rare-book expert is offered a job analyzing The Guernsey Literary and Potato and conserving the famed Sarajevo Peel Pie Society—born as a spur- Haggadah, she discovers a series of-the-moment alibi when its of tiny artifacts in its ancient members were discovered binding and begins to unlock the breaking curfew by the Germans book’s mysteries. This is a novel of occupying their island—boasts a charming, funny, sweeping historical grandeur and emotional deeply human cast of characters. intensity.

Little Bee, by Chris Cleave Half Broke Horses,

Chris Cleave's Little Bee works by Jeannette Walls

because the unflinching, brutal Drawing on family stories, Walls story balances an outwardly writes about her grandmother, Lily political motive with rich, deep Smith. Spunky, no-nonsense, and character development (and fearless, Lily was a true woman of even some welcome humor), the West and her story is made all focusing narrowly on events the more captivating by Walls' before broadening to reveal descriptive writing. This “true-life some larger truths. novel” will capture fans of Wall’s memoir, The Glass Castle.

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The Help, The Faith Club, by Ranya by Kathryn Stockett Idliby, Suzanne Oliver, and Priscilla Warner Seemingly as different from one another as can be, three women Destined to spawn interfaith will come together for a discussion groups, The Faith Club clandestine project that will put is a memoir of spiritual reflections them all at risk. The Help is a in three voices. As the authors timeless and universal story about reveal their beliefs, readers watch the lines we abide by, and the the blossoming of a profound ones we don't. interfaith friendship and a new way of relating to others. —Recommended by Judy

The Girl with the Dragon The Big Burn, Tattoo, by Timothy Egan by Steig Larsson Timothy Egan, National Book A spellbinding amalgam of murder Award winner for The Worst Hard mystery, family saga, love story, Time, spins a tremendous tale of and financial intrigue. This novel Progressive-era America out of the explores the intimate lives of a 1910 blaze that burned across brilliantly realized cast of Montana, Idaho and Washington characters forced to face the darker aspects of and put the fledgling U.S. Forest Service through their world. —Wine, Women, and Words a veritable trial by fire.

Hotel on the Corner of Bitter Lit: A Memoir, & Sweet, by Mary Karr

by Jamie Ford Lit is about getting drunk and

getting sober; becoming a mother In his first novel, Ford expertly nails by letting go of a mother; learning the innocence of first love, the to write by learning to live. cruelty of racism, the blindness of Written with Karr's relentless patriotism, the astonishing honesty, unflinching self-scrutiny, unknowns between parents and and irreverent, lacerating humor, their children, and the sadness and it is a truly electrifying story of satisfaction at the end of a life. The result is a how to grow up—as only Mary Karr can tell it. vivid picture of a confusing and critical time in

American history. —AKA Bookclub

Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand, Going Bovine, by Libba Bray by Helen Simonson (Paperback November 2010) When he’s diagnosed with mad cow disease, Cameron decides to In her charming debut, Simonson take a road trip to save the world. tells the tale of Maj. Pettigrew as His passengers, a hypochondriac he befriends a widow and attempts dwarf and a Norse God turned to acquire an antique gun. The yard gnome, offer tons of fodder author's descriptive prose for existential musings and crude eventually takes on true page- teenage boy humor. This is a turner urgency. A vastly enjoyable traipse quirky, thought-provoking book that is good for through the English countryside. teens or adults.

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Tinkers, , by by Winner of the Winner of the 2010 Man An old man lies dying. As time Jacobson's wry, devastating novel collapses into memory, he travels examines the complexities of deep into his past where he is identity and belonging, love, and reunited with his father and his grief through the lens of impoverished New England youth. contemporary Judaism. Jacobson's At once heartbreaking and life prose is witty and heartbreaking, affirming, Tinkers is an elegiac meditation on and the Jewish question becomes a metaphor for love, loss, and the fierce beauty of nature. all of us.

The Life You’ve Imagined, Wench, by Dolen Perkins- by Kristina Riggle Valdez (Paperback Feb 2011)

Have you ever asked yourself, This debut eloquently plunges into "What if??" Here, four women face a dark period of American history, the decisions of their lifetimes in chronicling the lives of four slave this stirring and unforgettable women who are their masters' novel of love, loss, friendship, and mistresses. The women meet family. The Life You've Imagined when their owners vacation at the takes a provocative look at the choices we same resort in Ohio. This novel is heart- make—and the courage we must have to change. wrenching, original and suspenseful.

Await Your Reply, Too Much Happiness: Stories, by Dan Chaon by Alice Munro

How would it feel to be a 'ghost'? With clarity and ease, Alice Munro What would it be like to start over, once again renders complex, to change lives on a whim? Chaon difficult events and emotions into cleverly weaves together the stories that shed light on the strands of four stories whose unpredictable ways in which men narratives subtly begin to form the and women accommodate and pattern of a larger whole. Await Your Reply is a often transcend what happens in their lives. Too masterful meditation on identity, a literary page- Much Happiness is a compelling, provocative— turner perfect for your book group. even daring—collection.

Water for Elephants, Both Ways Is The Only Way by Sara Gruen I Want It, by Maile Meloy

This book is an old bookclub Meloy returns with an extraordinary favorite but I highlight it here collection of stories demonstrating because there is a movie version the emotional power and the clean coming out in 2011, starring Reese style for which she's become Witherspoon and Robert Pattinson famous. Set mostly in the American (of Twilight fame). This is a West, the stories explore the moral poignant and entertaining book about a boy who quandaries of love, family, and friendship. drops out of college and joins a circus.

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Man Who Loved Books Too Cheap Cabernet, Much, by Allison Bartlett by Cathie Beck

Unrepentant book thief John Gilkey A newly-dumped empty nester at has stolen a fortune in rare books. only 39, Beck had no social life, so Perhaps equally obsessive is Ken she placed an ad in a Colorado Sanders, the "bibliodick" who's paper to form a "smart, sassy driven to catch him. Following this women's group." One of the eccentric cat-and-mouse chase women would change her life with suspense and humor, Bartlett plunges the forever, and their friendship is the reader deep into a world of fanatical book lust. subject of Beck's funny and poignant memoir.

Eating Animals, Where Men Win Glory, by Jonathan Safran Foer by Jon Krakauer

Foer's first foray into nonfiction Jon Krakauer, who requires no forces us to examine our physical introduction, turns his amazing and cultural attachment to eating journalistic talents to the war in meat. For meat eaters , this book Afghanistan, as told alongside the may not be an easy read, but it is odyssey of Pat Tillman. The impossible to put down. Well intensely personal story of researched and compellingly written, Eating Tillman's life creates a stark contrast to the Animals is a must-read for anyone who cares atrocities that led up to, and occurred during, the about what they consume. war.

Made in Hungary, Stones Into Schools, by Maria Krenz by Greg Mortenson

Krenz’s memoir of her childhood in The author of the #1 bestseller Nazi-occupied and then Communist Three Cups of Tea offers the Hungary sings praise to the continuing story of this determined unfailing goodness that shapes humanitarian's efforts to promote even tragedy. A tale of fear, peace through education. Filled hunger, violent intolerance, and with rich, personal stories and loss, it also conveys the powers of fearless insights into the Middle East, this book is an attention, fierce intelligence, and above all loving inspiration and a call to action. faith that inspire every page.

Stitches, Just Kids, by Patti Smith

by David Small Patti Smith and Robert Mapplethorpe weren't always This illustrated novel is David famous, but they always thought Small's harrowing account of they would be. They found each growing up under the watchless other on the streets of New York eyes of parents who gave him City in the late '60s and made a cancer (his radiologist father pact to keep each other afloat subjected him to unscrupulous x- until they found their voices. rays for minor ailments) and let it develop Smith's memoir of their friendship is tender and untreated for years. artful, open-eyed but surprisingly decorous.

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Randy Hickernell is a sales representative from Hachette Book Group.

Infinite Jest, The Cradle, by David Foster Wallace by Patrick Somerville

The late David Foster Wallace is A magical debut novel, The Cradle best known for his novel Infinite radiates with wry wisdom and Jest, an insightful, hilarious, and candor as it takes the reader on a often sad story about a tennis surprising journey into the heart of academy and a halfway house marriage, parenthood, and what it where the characters each means to be a family.—New York struggle with their addiction and Times Review recovery.

The Good Sister, The Girl She Used to Be, by Drusilla Campbell by David Cristofano

Cathartic, lyrical, and unflinchingly After 20 years in the Witness honest, The Good Sister is a novel Protection Program, Melody hardly of four generations of women knows who she really is. This is a struggling to overcome a legacy of compulsively readable, skillfully violence, lies and secrecy, constructed first novel that delves ultimately finding strength and into issues of identity, family, and courage in their love for each other. government policy, marking Cristofano as a writer to watch.

Girls In Trucks, God Is Not Great, by Katie Crouch by Christopher Hitchens Sarah’s life has been shaped by In the tradition of Bertrand the demands of Southern Russell's Why I Am Not a Christian traditions and etiquette. So when and Sam Harris's The End of Faith, she heads to college, Sarah is Hitchens makes the ultimate case determined to leave her past against religion. With a close and behind. After she ruins every erudite reading of the major chance at happiness, she heads religious texts, he documents the back home to find that you can't always escape ways in which religion is a man-made wish, a your roots. This seemingly clichéd plot is made cause of dangerous sexual repression, and a brilliant by crazy plot twists and amusing distortion of our origins in the cosmos. characters.—Recommended by Mandy

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Ron Smith is a sales representative from Random House, Inc.

Commencement, The Bolter, by J. Courtney Sullivan by Frances Osborne

It isn't quite love at first sight when In an age of bolters—women who Celia, Sally, Bree and April meet as broke the rules and fled their freshmen at Smith College. But as marriages—Idina Sackville was the the girls try out their first days of most celebrated of them all. Her independence together, the group affairs and brazen flaunting of forms an intense bond that is put convention shocked and inspired to the test after graduation. This is a smart, many. The Bolter is a fascinating look at a discerning book about school years. woman whose energy still burns bright.

One Day, After the Fire, A Still Small by David Nicholls Voice, by Evie Wyld

The hilarious and emotionally Wyld chronicles the stories of two riveting story takes place during a Australian men and the shards of single day each year for two trauma that have made up both decades in the lives of Dex and lives. The narratives begin with Em. Total opposites, the two meet Leon's father in the Korean War, the day they graduate from and, years later, with an adult university in 1988 and run circles Frank living in a beachfront shack. around one another for the next 20 years. Wyld's book is ruminative, dramatic, and full of masculine rage.

Mr. Toppit, The Glass Room, by Charles Elton by Simon Mawer

In this excellent debut, Elton tells When a famous architect builds a the story of a complicated family house for honeymooners Viktor and stretched to its limits by sudden Liesel Landauer, the house fame. When we first meet Luke becomes an instant masterpiece. Hayman and his troubled sister, But the Landauers must flee their Rachel, they are dealing with the house before Viktor’s Jewish roots emotional fallout of living their attract the Nazis. As the Landauers lives in the public eye as the children of Arthur struggle for survival abroad, their home slips from Hayman, posthumously famous author of a Czech to Nazi to Soviet , with new universally series of British children's inhabitants always falling under the fervent books. influence of the house.

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Jeffery Cope is a sales representative from Macmillan.

Wolf Hall, The Three Weissmann’s of by Hillary Mantel Westport, by Cathleen Schine Henry VIII's challenge to the (Paperback February 2011) church's power set off a tidal wave of religious, political and societal Jane Austen’s beloved Sense and turmoil that reverberated Sensibility has moved to Westport, throughout 16th-century Europe. Connecticut, in this enchanting Mantel boldly captures this from modern-day homage to the classic the perspective of Thomas Cromwell, the lowborn novel. Cathleen Schine has been crowned “a man who became one of Henry's closest advisers. modern-day Jewish Jane Austen.”

One Good Dog, Valeria’s Last Stand, by Susan Wilson by Marc Fitten (Paperback February 2011) The Soviets have left, and the Fans of Marley and Me will find a villagers of Zivatar are warming to new dog to cheer for in Wilson's the blessings of capitalism and insightful heart-tugging novel change. It's all too much for about Adam , a Boston man Valeria, the village grouch. Then recovering from the shame of a Valeria's routine trip to the market foolish crime, and Chance, a leads to unexpected love, and sets scrappy pit bull mix trying to escape the illegal off a chain reaction through the entire village. dogfight circuit. This debut novel contemplates love, lust, tradition, and transition with wisdom and warmth.

Skippy Dies, Freedom, by Paul Murray by Jonathan Franzen

Why does Skippy, a fourteen-year- Jonathan Franzen has given us an old boy at Dublin’s venerable epic of contemporary love and Seabrook College, end up dead on marriage. His new novel, Freedom, the floor of the local doughnut comically and tragically captures shop? Why Skippy dies and what the temptations and burdens of happens next is the subject of this liberty: the thrills of teenage lust, dazzling and uproarious novel from the compromises of middle age, the wages of a talented young writer. Skippy Dies is a portrait suburban sprawl, and the heavy weight of empire. of the pain, joy, and occasional beauty of Franzen has produced an indelible and deeply adolescence, and a tragic depiction of a world moving portrait of our time. always happy to sacrifice its weakest members.

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The Heroine’s Bookshelf

An exploration of classic heroines and their equally admirable authors, The Heroine’s Bookshelf shows today’s women how to tap into their inner strengths and live life with intelligence and grace.

Jo March, Scarlett O’Hara, Scout Finch—the literary canon is brimming with intelligent, feisty, never-say-die heroines and celebrated female authors. Like today’s women, they placed a premium on personality, spirituality, career, sisterhood, and family. When they were up against the wall, authors like Jane Austen and Louisa May Alcott fought back—sometimes with words, sometimes with gritty actions. In this witty, informative, and inspiring read, their stories offer much-needed literary intervention to modern women.

Lauded as everything from “a frothy literary latte” to “like having a friend with you on your literary journey,” The Heroine’s Bookshelf has been featured in the New York Times, Ms. Magazine, The Denver Post, and more.

About Erin Erin Blakemore is a writer, a marketing consultant, and a native Californian turned happy Boulder, Colorado transplant. She completed her coursework at Smith College and graduated with a B.A. in history at UCLA. In 1996, she was awarded the Congress-Bundestag Scholarship and spent a year as an exchange student in Fulda, Germany. She now co-owns VOCO Creative, a social media, marketing, and brand strategy firm in Boulder.

12 chapters. 12 heroines. 12 incredible authors.

Use The Heroine’s Bookshelf as a starter for your next book club meeting! Find the bookclub guide at: http://theheroinesbookshelf.com/goodies/book-clubs/

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Christine Digs

“I have been working at the “I am just a poor philosopher bookstore for just a little who, knowing that I know over two years now. I was nothing, loves books. I practice an English major so I like and teach t'ai chi, learned reading all kinds of books... literary Chinese just to read the classics mostly, but Lao Tzu, and love working here lately have been reaching because they let me borrow for a lot of memoirs and essays (I think to make books. From noir to gnostics, I’m your guy." me feel like I'm still learning something).”

Let The Great World Spin, Storm of the i, by Tina Collen by Colum McCann "Blogs and social networking sites A masterful novel set on a day in offer only a facsimile of a classic 1974 when a tightrope walker memoir…. Boulder artist Tina crossed between the Twin Towers. Collen's memoir…is the antithesis McCann focuses on the people on of such drive-by shallowness. A project five the ground. The connections he years in the making, Collen's slick, clever, draws between an Irish monk, a refreshingly unpredictable labor of love is like no prostitute, and the judge who other book you're likely to read any time soon." hears the tightrope walker’s case is nothing —Clay Evans, Daily Camera review short of magical.

Brooklyn, Neurosis & Human Growth, by Colm Toibin by Karen Horney

In Dr. Horney's "morality of Toibin writes beautifully and evolution," health is growth, and through his remarkable details we neurosis is identified as "what come to understand both Brooklyn blocks growth." By looking at and Ireland as well as the behavior in terms of function, she pressures of Eilis Lacey’s life in the showed me trends in human 1950s. It's a quiet novel but it activity (especially my own) that builds up to an almost unbearable point of seemed so clear and obvious I was astonished I tension as Eilis must make a decision about her had never noticed them before. future. The Republic of Plato, Geek Love, translated by Allan Bloom by Katherine Dunn

What the Chicago Tribune says Long regarded as the most about Geek Love is a pretty accurate rendering of Plato's concise description of the novel , Republic, this widely acclaimed "Unrelentingly bizarre...perverse work is the first strictly literal but riveting." This book was translation of a timeless classic. assigned to me in a college In addition to the correct text course, and the basic plot outline itself there are also essays, is this: A circus couple attempts to breed their indexes and a glossary of terms which will own freaks. Abandon all moral standings before better enable the reader to approach the heart even cracking the cover. of Plato's intention.

Page 9 hÇwxÜ à{x VÉäxÜá „ UÉÉ~ VÄâu a|z{à ECDC Staff Recommendations Arsen Mandy Arsen has worked at the Mandy has been working in Boulder Book Store since 1992 bookstores since 2001 and and has been buying the new started at Boulder Book titles since 1997. He runs in 2005. She is bookstore's poetry group. He currently the Events has recently started a blog, Manager, and runs the Kash's Reading Corner, that Fiction Bookclub and the features new fiction titles. Teen Advisory Board.

The Lemon Tree, The Mountain Lion, by Sandy Tolan by

Both Palestinians and Israelis are This gem of a novel is an humanized in this story of two unconventional coming-of-age people connected through a stone story, in which a brother and sister house in Israel. Bashir's family learn what it means to grow up was expelled from the home they and grow apart. Stafford's writing built in the late 1940s. Dalia's is eerie, delightfully descriptive, family occupies that house after and evocative of a simpler time. surviving the holocaust in Eastern Europe. When Stafford lived in Boulder in the 1940s where she the two meet in 1967 they form an unusual attended the University of Colorado. alliance.

Undercover, Old Filth, by Jane Gardam by Beth Kephart

Old Filth is the story of Edward Elisa ghostwrites love letters for Feathers as he looks back upon his boys at school so, unless she's life in retirement. Feathers, a giving them a love letter for barrister who spent much of his life their current girlfriend, they in Hong Kong, is alone with his don't notice her. Shy, clumsy, memories which span the late totally-un-girly Elisa surrounds history of the British Empire. The herself with writing and learning Man in the Wooden Hat tells the to ice skate. The lyrical passages in this book same story from his wife's point of view. will delight teen and adult readers.

New World Monkeys, The Book Thief, by Nancy Mauro by Markus Suzak

A rollicking novel about two city Set in Nazi Germany during World slickers who inherit a rural house War II, Liesel's penchant for with disastrous consequences stealing books will affect her life (they run over mascot— and the lives of everyone she a wild boar—on their initial knows. When the family hides a journey to the home) as they cling Jew in the basement, Liesel to their deteriorating marriage. realizes that the world is not so Lily digs up her ancestor's missing maid while black and white, and that words have power Duncan works on a sexist ad campaign that beyond anything she could have imagined. mocks the Vietnam War. Liesel's story will resonate with any booklover.

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Beatrice & Virgil, Hester, by (February 2011) by Paula Reed (January 2011)

In Yann Martel's award winning Life In The Scarlet Letter, Hawthorne of Pi, he explored issues of God hints that after Hester Prynne's and human nature by writing about husband and lover die, Hester and a boy, a tiger, and a raft. Now her daughter travel abroad. In her Martel tackles the Holocaust and inventive debut, Reed takes this the face of evil by giving us a suggestion and runs wild with it. In taxidermy shop and unfinished revisiting this classic, Reed has play about a monkey and a donkey. created an entertaining sequel.

The Postmistress, Shades of Grey, by Sarah Blake (February 2011) by Jasper Fforde (March 2011)

WWII was a time when traditional As long as anyone can remember, gender lines became blurred and society has been ruled by a women worked jobs originally held Colortocracy and hierarchy is based by men. This is the story of three upon one's limited color perception. such women: Frankie, an In this world, you are what you can announcer broadcasting from the see. Part satire, part romance, part Blitz, Iris, a postmistress who fails revolutionary thriller, this is the to deliver a letter containing bad news, and new world from the creative and comic genius of Emma, a doctor's wife who works during her Jasper Fforde. husband's absence overseas.

The Immortal Life of The Butterfly Mosque, by G. Henrietta Lacks, by Rebecca Willow Wilson (Summer 2011) Skloot (March 2011) A fascinating and intensely In the 1950s, a poor black woman personal account of a local young was diagnosed with a rare form of woman's journey from Boulder to cervical cancer, and samples of Cairo and atheism to Islam. When both her cells were taken. Wilson marries an Egyptian man, However, unlike any other cell line she is incorporated into in history, her cancerous cells kept growing in and Egyptian society. She beautifully articulates culture, leading to incredible treatments for polio, the joys, frustrations and contradictions of cancers, and other research—a fascinating story. adopting her new roles as a wife, a Muslim and a de facto Egyptian woman.

The Girl Who Fell From the The Bread of Angels, Sky, by Heidi Durrow by Stephanie Saldana (February 2011) (January 2011)

When Rachel is thrust into a mostly In lovely prose and with elements black community, her light brown of foreshadowing, Saldana, a skin, blue eyes, and beauty bring a journalist in the Middle East, shares constant stream of attention her her struggles to become religious way. This is a heartwrenching again and overcome feelings that portrait of a young biracial girl dealing with God has abandoned her. An Eat, society's ideas of race and class. Pray, Love for the intellectual set, Saldana's beautiful memoir should not be missed.

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Here are some great resources for your bookclubs, complete with tips, reading recommendations, and discussion questions. Please note that some of these sites link to chain stores—if you find something you like, remember that we can order it for your bookclub at a discount! Support the community your bookclub lives in!

IndieBound for Reading Groups: www.indiebound.org/reading-group-indie-next-list LitLovers: www.litlovers.com/index.html Book Club Girl: www.bookclubgirl.com/ Oprah's Bookclub: www.oprah.com/book_club.html Jewish Bookclub Lists: www.jewishlibraries.org/ajlweb/resources/bookclub_lists.htm Mother/Daughter Bookclub: motherdaughterbookclub.com/

And here are some great guides from the publishers:

Random House: www.randomhouse.com/rgg/ Penguin: www.us.penguingroup.com/static/pages/bookclubs/index.html Simon & Schuster: http://community.simonandschuster.com/ HarperCollins: www.harpercollins.com/Readers/readingGroups.aspx W.W. Norton: http://books.wwnorton.com/books/reading-guides-list.aspx?tid=3288 Hachette: http://www.hachettebookgroup.com/books_reading-group-guides.aspx Macmillan: http://us.macmillan.com/all/editorslist/General/ReadingGroupGold

Info About Local Authors:

The following are local authors who may be interested in visiting your bookclub. The best way to contact these authors is to visit their websites.

John Shors, Marilyn Krysl, Janis Hallowell, Jeff Long, Robert Dresner, Joyce Lebra, Carrie Vaughn, Ezra Rose, Lynda Hilburn, Elisabeth Hyde, Carrie Host, Brett King, Paula Reed

Look for more local authors here: http://www.coloradopoets.org/coloradopoets.html http://www.coloradobook.org/booc_authorspeaker.htm

Good luck and happy reading!

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