Between the Covers Summer 2018 Woman Reading in a Garden” by Barbara Jaskiewicz A Summer Evening for Bookclubs Wednesday, August 29th, 2018 Page 1 Between the Covers – Bookclub Night Summer 2018 Boulder’s Bookclub Bestsellers Less Trickster Feminism by Andrew Sean Greer by Anne Waldman A wedding invitation arrives in How do we investigate the the mail: your boyfriend of the psyche of our playful past nine years is engaged to resistance to assumptions and someone else. On your desk norms through poetry? In this are a series of invitations to collection, mythopoetics, shape half-baked literary events shifting, and chance operation around the world. QUESTION: play inside the field of How do you arrange to skip intertwined poems, which town? ANSWER: You accept coalesced out of a year of them all. What would protest with some texts possibly go wrong? F penned in the streets. P Artemis Killers of the Flower Moon by Andy Weir by David Grann Set in the first moon colony and With a compelling narrative and featuring a charming smuggler- extensive years of research, inventor antihero, the plot is David Grann recounts the fun, clever, and riveting. I was events of the Osage murders in deeply impressed by the the 1920s, following the trail of amount of thought and evidence unearthed by the FBI respectful research that went and then researching further in into the crafting of the setting tireless pursuit of the truth. This and characters, and I absolutely book is heart-wrenching, loved the main character, profound, and deeply Jazz. ~Genevieve F affecting. ~Genevieve NF Magpie Murders Calypso by Anthony Horowitz by David Sedaris When an author of a popular Sedaris sets his formidable detective series is found dead, powers of observation toward his editor starts looking for middle age and mortality. His clues and the missing pages of powers of observation have his latest book. Agatha Christie never been sharper, but much references abound and the of the comedy here is born out whole set-up is wonderfully of that moment when your own clever and delightful. Great for body betrays you and you fans of British mysteries, both realize that the story of your modern and vintage. life is made up of more F NF H ~Liesl past than future. There There How to Change Your Mind by Tommy Orange by Michael Pollan There There deals with the How to Change Your Mind is a dilemma of Urban Indians in brilliant and brave Oakland, California, people investigation into the medical who are estranged from their and scientific revolution taking ancestral cultures, but equally place around psychedelic at a loss when dealing with drugs. A unique and elegant mainstream society. It has one blend of science, memoir, of the best first chapters I’ve travel writing, history, and read in years, and it builds to a medicine, this is a triumph of sledge-hammer ending. participatory ~Harry F H journalism. NF H Page 2 Between the Covers – Bookclub Night Summer 2018 Upcoming Events for Bookclubs Gwen Florio Adam Cayton-Holland September 4th, 7:30pm, $5 September 6th, 7:30pm, $5 In 2001, Kabul is suddenly a Adam Cayton-Holland chose to place of possibility as people meet life’s tough breaks with fling off years of repressive stand-up comedy; his youngest Taliban rule. Silent Hearts is an sister, Lydia, struggled with absorbing, complex portrayal mental illness and ultimately of two very different but took her own life. Tragedy Plus equally resilient women caught Time is a heartbreaking, in the conflict of a war and its honest, and darkly funny aftermath that will test them in memoir about trying your ways they never hardest to choose life imagined. F H in the wake of loss. NF H Radha Agrawal Chris Hedges September 20th, 7:30pm, $5 September 21st, 7:30pm $10 at *First Congregational Church* After suffering a bout of community confusion, Radha America, says Chris Hedges, is Agrawal co-founded convulsed by an array of Daybreaker, events where pathologies that have arisen people get up at the crack of out of profound hopelessness dawn, meet in event spaces and a civil society that has around the world, and dance. ceased to function. Belong is her highly energetic With America: The Farewell guide to discovering where Tour, Hedges seeks to jolt us and with whom you out of our complacency fit. NF H while there is time. NF H Leif Enger Dominique Christina October 10th, 7:30pm, $5 October 16th, 7:30pm, $5 After a car accident, In Anarcha Speaks, the life of Midwestern movie house Anarcha is personally owner Virgil Wander begins to reenvisioned. Anarcha was an piece together his personal enslaved Black woman who history and the lore of his endured experimentation at the broken town, with the help of hands of Dr. Marion Sims, a cast of affable and curious commonly known as the father locals. Leif Enger conjures a of modern gynecology. These remarkable portrait of a region poems provide a proper way to and its residents. remember Anarcha. F H P On Sale 10/2 On Sale 10/16 Lisa S. Gardiner Chelsea Clinton October 23rd, 7:30pm, $5 October 25th, *6:00pm*, $18.50/ $23.50, Visit our website for Weaving scientific facts and more information! research together with humor and emotion, Tales from an With information on problems Uncertain World explores large and small, Start Now! human responses to erosion, breaks down the concepts of earthquakes, fires, invasive health, climate change, species, floods, and other endangered species, and more, natural disasters to illuminate so that readers can learn how why we find it so challenging to they can make a difference in their communities. deal with climate change. NF On sale 10/2 NF H Page 3 Between the Covers – Bookclub Night Summer 2018 Our Booksellers Recommend... Sacred Hunger Refuge by Barry Unsworth by Dina Nayeri Sacred Hunger is the story of Refuge is a lyrical, memorable, an 18th-century slave ship and and meaningful story about the people of distant origins what happens to a family when who fall prey to it. What I most some escape and some remain love about it is how Unsworth behind. It is a stunning portrait builds out the story, so that of what it means to be a the Liverpool Merchant itself refugee, what it means to be an becomes a tiny agent of doom immigrant, what it means to with the bloodstream of world feel displaced, lost, and in trade. I return to this novel between two worlds. again and again. ~Julia F. F ~ Olivia F The Rings of Saturn How to Build a Girl by W. G. Sebald by Caitlin Moran Sebald captures the vibrant Moran perfectly captures the pastoral nature of the English naïve, yet hopeful nature of countryside in this lavish and adolescence and crafts a beautiful wander through time character that is both relatable and place. With photographs and flawed. Set amongst the throughout, a sense of moving English working class, the through history as well as young protagonist aspires to across the Suffolk countryside become a glamorous music permeates Sebald's fictional critic. Look for the sequel, and journey in an almost the upcoming movie! dreamlike way. ~Katie F ~Savannah F Spill Zone The Woman in the Woods by Scott Westerfeld, illus. by by John Connolly Alex Puvilland Connolly is a very rare thing, a No one knows what caused the literary genre writer. His Spill, but the result is a writing and characters are as Chernobyl-like isolation zone, compelling as the mystery. This complete with mysterious is a supernatural story that creatures, dangerous follows a detective helping a landscapes, and a government women fleeing danger. But who blockade. Addison risks her is the ancient being stalking safety to photograph the Zone them and what is the book of for elite collectors. Book 2 fairy tales she left is out now too! ~Julia A. G behind? ~Cynthia F H We Have Always Lived in the Give Me Your Hand Castle by Shirley Jackson by Megan Abbott If you’re looking for a writer to Diane Fleming. Brilliant, chill your bones, you’d be beautiful Diane. Kit has been hard-pressed to find a more tormented by Diane’s secret competent master than Shirley for more than 10 years. Just Jackson. We Have Always Lived when she has a chance to in the Castle delivers an forget the past, Diane comes unsettling tale about two sisters strolling back into her life, living with their uncle, years determined more than ever to after one of the sisters poisoned hide their past. What is this the rest of the family. secret, you ask? Read ~Trevor F to find out. ~Christina F H Page 4 Between the Covers – Bookclub Night Summer 2018 Our Booksellers Recommend... Underground I’ll Be Gone in the Dark by Haruki Murakami by Michelle McNamara Underground tells the stories of For fans of true crime, it survivors of a horrendous and doesn’t get much better than senseless attack, with insight this. The late McNamara on how they were ostracized by constructs a perfect balance society simply for having been between investigative traumatized by something out journalism and personal of their control. Sound familiar? antidote in her quest to find Cyclical history stares you in the Golden State Killer. Her the face in this prescient and dedication eventually lead to unbelievably somber book. the murderer’s arrest. NF NF H ~Nick ~Savannah The Right Stuff The Death of Truth by Tom Wolfe by Michiko Kakutani What did it take to become an Kakutani, through an expert astronaut in the 1960s, when grasp of complex concepts and the term was being defined? theories that gave birth to Tom Wolfe went in-depth postmodernism, details for the researching the incredible reader how truth and an bravery and courage of those understanding of what reality is who became the first in space.