— F EATURED E VENTS — Colorado Matters Mary Doria Russell Thomas McGuane at the Tattered Monday, March 16, 7:00 pm, Monday, March 30, 7:00 pm, Cynthia Swanson Colfax Avenue Douglas County Library, Tuesday, March 3, 7:00 pm, Mary Doria Russell, the bestselling, award- James H. LaRue Branch Colfax Avenue winning author of The Sparrow, will read The Douglas County Library joins us in from and sign her highly anticipated new presenting critically acclaimed author Colorado Public Radio joins us in novel Epitaph ($27.99 Ecco). An American Thomas McGuane reading from and presenting local author Cynthia Iliad, this richly detailed and meticulously signing his new collection of stories Crow Swanson, in conversation with Colorado researched historical novel continues the Fair ($25.95 Knopf). This event is free but Matters host Ryan Warner, to discuss her story she began in Doc, following Wyatt registration is required. Visit our website to debut novel The Bookseller ($25.00 Earp and Doc Holliday to Tombstone, find a library registration link. Books will be HarperCollins). A provocative and Arizona, and to the gunfight at the O.K. available for sale at the event for the booksiging. hauntingly powerful novel reminiscent Corral. At its heart is the woman behind This book is our Autographed Book Collector’s of the film Sliding Doors, The Bookseller the myth: Josephine Sarah Marcus, who Club selection for March. Members follows Kitty, a bookshop owner in the loved Wyatt Earp for almost half a century enjoy the privilege of owning many 1960s, who must reconcile her reality and who carefully chipped away at the truth valuable signed first editions. For with the tantalizing alternate world of until she had crafted the heroic legend that information on joining, visit tatteredcover.com her dreams. would become her husband’s epitaph. and click on Explore the Shelves. 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Jamie Metzl is Senior Advisor Tickets are $1.00, and are available one hour to a New York-based global before the screening from the box office. investment firm and a Senior Fellow of the Dimity McDowell Monday, March 2, 7:00 pm, Colfax Avenue A dedicated runner, local author Dimity McDowell writes regularly about sports and fitness for a range of magazines, including Runner’s World and ESPN: The Magazine. McDowell will discuss and sign her new book Tales from Bringing People & Books Together since 1971 Colfax Avenue 303-322-7727 • Historic LoDo 303-436-1070 • Highlands Ranch 303-470-7050 Visit us at Union Station and Denver International Airport • 24 hours a day at www.tatteredcovercom Colorado Matters ($26.95 Dutton). In her new book, Active Minds Lecture: Chiaverini imagines the inner life of Julia at the Tattered Grant, beloved as a Civil War general’s wife The Panama Canal Cynthia Swanson and the First Lady, yet who grappled with Tuesday, March 10, 12:30 pm, Tuesday, March 3, 7:00 pm, a profound and complex relationship with Colfax Avenue Colfax Avenue the slave who was her namesake—until she One hundred years after the opening of Please see front page for event information. forged a proud identity of her own. the Panama Canal, this major trade route is set for a historic expansion. The original Stacy Robinson Dr. Allen Bowling construction of the canal is an incredible Friday, March 6, 7:00 pm, engineering triumph, as well as a story of Wednesday, March 4, 7:00 pm, challenge and conflict. Join Active Minds Colfax Avenue Colfax Avenue Allen Bowling, MD, PhD, is Physician as we discuss the creation of the Panama Local author Stacy Robinson will read from Canal, the role of the United States in its and sign her new novel Surface ($15.00 Associate at the Colorado Neurological Institute (CNI). He is also Clinical Professor origins, and its continued importance to Kensington Publishing). In this powerfully global commerce. written and insightful novel, Robinson of Neurology at the University of Colorado. explores the consequences of flawed Dr. Bowling has more than 100 lay and professional publications, including five Tim Johnston choices, the complex nature of betrayal and Tuesday, March 10, 7:00 pm, forgiveness—and the intriguing possibility books on MS. In honor of MS Awareness of second acts. “I can’t remember the last Month, Dr. Bowling will discuss and sign his Colfax Avenue time I devoured a book so eagerly. From new book Optimal Health with Multiple Prize-winning, critically acclaimed author the first page, readers will want to dig Sclerosis: A Guide to Integrating Tim Johnston will read from and sign his deeper and deeper beneath the Surface Lifestyle, Alternative, and Conventional debut novel Descent ($25.95 Algonquin to discover the secrets of the Montgomery Medicine ($24.95 Demos Health). Books). Written with a precision that family. Magnificent!” —Elin Hilderbrand, captures every emotion, every moment of New York Times bestselling author of The John Boyne fear, as each member of a family searches for Matchmaker and Winter Street Saturday, March 7, 2:00 pm, answers after one goes missing, Descent is Colfax Avenue a perfectly crafted thriller that races like Andrea Pakieser John Boyne, the author whose acclaimed an avalanche toward its heart-pounding books include The Boy in the Striped conclusion, and heralds the arrival of Wednesday, March 4, 7:00 pm, a master storyteller. “Johnston has a Historic LoDo Pajamas, will read from and sign his new novel A History of Loneliness ($26.00 poet’s eye for the majestic and forbidding Leda Rafanelli (1880–1971) was one of nature of the Rockies, and a sociologist’s the most prolific propagandists in early FS&G). “The complex architecture of this haunting novel is seamlessly constructed. understanding of how people act under twentieth century Italy. She began working pressure. He also has a knack for creating as a typesetter in her teens, and went on to No writer today handles guilt with as much depth and sadness as John Boyne. This is characters that the reader will come to found and run several publishing houses. care about . Combining domestic drama Her own body of work included scores of John Boyne’s most important novel, and of vital importance to Irish history; it is also a with wilderness adventure, Johnston has novels, pamphlets, short stories, children’s created a hybrid novel that is as emotionally books, essays, and poems. A comrade of gripping story, one no reader can put down until its devastating ending.” —John Irving satisfying as it is viscerally exciting.” — Benito Mussolini before he was a fascist, Publishers Weekly, starred review she converted to both anarchism and Book Club Happy Hour Islam at the age of twenty, a combination Monday, March 9, 6:00 pm, Cat Warren characteristic of her iconoclastic approach Wednesday, March 11, 7:00 pm, to life and politics. Writer and translator Colfax Avenue Andrea Pakieser will discuss and sign her With so many great books being published, Colfax Avenue new biography of Rafanelli, I Belong Only it can be difficult to decide what to read with Cat Warren is a university professor with an to Myself: The Life and Writings of your book club. We have the perfect solution admittedly odd hobby: She and her German Leda Rafanelli ($16.95 AK Press). for this admittedly good problem to have— shepherd have spent the last seven years Book Club Happy Hour! Join us as Tattered searching for the dead. Solo is a cadaver Jennifer Chiaverini Cover staff members and a publisher’s sales dog. What started as a way to harness Solo’s representative offer their favorite choices unruly energy and enthusiasm soon became Thursday, March 5, 7:00 pm, a calling that introduced Warren to the Colfax Avenue for book club reading and discussing. Find out what other book clubs are reading and hidden and fascinating universe of working Jennifer Chiaverini, the New York Times mingle while enjoying wine and light dogs, their handlers, and their trainers. bestselling author of Mrs. Lincoln’s refreshments. There is no cost to attend, Warren will discuss and sign her fascinating Dressmaker and Mrs. Lincoln’s Rival, but reservations are required. Please call new book What the Dog Knows: The will read from and sign her new historical 303-322-1965 ext. 2739 to make a reservation. Science and Wonder of Working Dogs novel Mrs. Grant and Madame Jule ($16.00 Touchstone Books). How to Order Autographed Books: Although we cannot make any guarantees, we always try to get extra books signed by our many visiting authors. If you can’t attend an author appearance, but would like to purchase a signed copy of the author’s book, please call one of our stores and ask for assistance or e-mail us at [email protected]. All events are subject to changes beyond our control. For complete and up-to-date information visit our web site at www.tatteredcover.com. Visit us on Twitter, Facebook, Between the Covers (our blog on BlogSpot), GoodReads, YouTube, Jonathan Waldman Joshua Ferris Queen’s University Belfast (Northern Ireland) and the University of Sussex Thursday, March 12, 7:00 pm, Saturday, March 14, 2:00 pm, (England).