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Robert W. Larson is retired as Professor of History at the University of Northern Colorado, Greeley, and the author of numerous articles and books, including Red Cloud: Warrior - Statesman of the Lakota Sioux. The Denver Posse of Westerners honored him in 2006 with its Fred A. Rosenstock Award for Lifetime ... (mere)Achievement in Western History. Larson will discuss and sign his new book Gall: Lakota War Chief ($24.95 Univ. of Oklahoma Press), the first-ever scholarly biography of the man said to have killed Custer, and winner of the 2008 Spur Award for Best Western Nonfiction Biography.Request a signed copy: books@tatteredcover.com

We will be discussing "Emma" by Jane Austen.

Local author Daniel Grandbois' writing has appeared in Fiction, Web Conjunctions, The Greensboro Review, Double Room, and Sentence. He is also a musician who plays or has played in three of the pioneering bands of “The Denver Sound” - Slim Cessna's Auto Club, Tarantella, and Munly. Grandbois will ... (mere)read from and sign his “Book Sense Notable Book,” Unlucky Lucky Days ($14.00 Boa Editions), an inventive, disconcerting, and hilarious collection of 73 tales that might well be termed Dr. Seuss for adults. “Absurdist and surreal, witty and ironical. . . [a]nimist epiphanies comprise Grandbois's folkloric debut.” --Publishers Weekly Local band Munly and the Lepercalians will perform at this event.Request a signed copy: books@tatteredcover.com

British author Rhys Bowen's mysteries have been nominated for every major mystery award, including the Edgar for best novel, and have won seven of them. Bowen will join us to read from and sign A Royal Pain ($23.95 Berkley), another hilarious mystery featuring penniless aristocrat Lady Georgie, “a ... (mere)feisty new heroine to delight a legion of Anglophile readers” (Jacqueline Winspear). Guests are invited to join us for a truly royal event featuring English goodies and a prize for the best royal hat!Request a signed copy: books@tatteredcover.com

Howard Goldblatt, the foremost translator of contemporary Chinese literature in the West, will present his edition of Jiang Rong's award-winning, best-selling novel Wolf Totem ($26.95 Penguin). An epic Chinese tale in the vein of The Last Emperor, Wolf Totem depicts the dying culture of the Mongols, ... (mere)and the parallel extinction of the animal they believe to be sacred: the fierce and otherworldly Mongolian wolf. Part period epic, part fable for modern days, Wolf Totem is a stinging social commentary on the dangers of China's over-accelerated economic growth as well as a fascinating immersion into the heart of Chinese culture. Goldblatt is making U.S. appearances on behalf of the author. Bookplates signed by Jiang Rong will be available at the event.Request a signed copy: books@tatteredcover.com

Local author Deborah Rohan is a frequent speaker and writer on the Palestinian/Israeli situation, and teaches listening and dialogue skills to the victims of conflicts worldwide. Rohan will read from and sign The Olive Grove ($16.95 Saqi), a compassionate account of a Palestinian family's transition ... (mere)from wealth and comfort to statelessness and poverty. Rohan documents the Moghrabi family's fight for survival, set amidst the political turmoil of the first half of the twentieth century and their struggle against Turkish and British domination and the following Zionist occupation. This deeply moving family saga is a universal depiction of Palestinian life and culture, told without rancor, with a warm and engaging love story at its heart.Request a signed copy: books@tatteredcover.com

Ann Westerberg will discuss and sign her new book Castles of Colorado: Scandals, Hauntings, and Tales of the Past ($22.95 Johnson Books). Perhaps the most romantic idea in the world is a castle, along with all its baggage. Unlike the original goal of a castle as fortification, Colorado castles were erected ... (mere)as the solidification of a dream as well as a declaration of power and wealth. This book examines twenty of the most extravagant castles to be found in Colorado, with all their colorful history included.Request a signed copy: books@tatteredcover.com

Howard Fineman is Newsweek’s senior Washington correspondent and columnist and one of our best-known and most trusted political journalists. Fineman will discuss and sign his important new book The Thirteen American Arguments: Enduring Debates That Define and Inspire Our Country ($25.00 Random House). ... (mere)“A spectacular feat, a profound book about America that moves with ease from history to recent events. A talented storyteller, Howard Fineman provides a human face to each of the core political arguments that have alternately separated, strengthened, and sustained us from our founding to the present day.” --Doris Kearns Goodwin, author of Team of RivalsRequest a signed copy: books@tatteredcover.com

Jill Tietjen & Charlotte Waisman will speak and sign HER STORY: A TIMELINE OF THE WOMEN WHO CHANGED AMERICA.

Laurie Notaro, the bestselling author of a slew of hilarious books, including The Idiot Girls' Action-Adventure Club, Autobiography of a Fat Bride, We Thought You Would Be Prettier, and the novel There's a (Slight) Chance I Might Be Going to Hell, will discuss and sign her new book The Idiot Girl and ... (mere)the Flaming Tantrum of Death: Reflections on Revenge, Germophobia, and Laser Hair Removal ($20.00 Ballantine). Notaro has an uncanny ability to attract insanity - and leave readers doubled over with laughter. Need proof? Check out The Idiot Girl and the Flaming Tantrum of Death and try not to bust a gut!Request a signed copy: books@tatteredcover.com

Stephen Cannell is the bestselling author of twelve novels, including the critically acclaimed Shane Scully series. And, in a highly successful career that spans three decades, Cannell has created or cocreated more than forty television shows, including The Rockford Files, The A-Team, 21 Jump Street, ... (mere)Wiseguy, and The Commish. Cannell will read from and sign his new novel At First Sight ($25.95 Vanguard Press). In his newest and most distinctive novel, Cannell channels his insider experiences into a tautly drawn noir look at the materialistic Hollywood lifestyle. Fast paced, filled with wry humor, murder, lust, and dead-on L.A. characterizations, Cannell has written his most readable novel yet.Request a signed copy: books@tatteredcover.com

Michael Dahlie won the 2006 Pirate's Alley Faulkner Society's Creative Writing Contest, and his fiction has appeared in Ploughshares, The Kenyon Review, and Mississippi Review. Dahlie will discuss and sign his novel A Gentleman's Guide to Graceful Living ($23.95 W.W. Norton), a darkly hilarious and moving ... (mere)tale of a bumbling Manhattan blueblood who must rebuild his life after his marriage and business fail. Digging into the consciousness of a self-doubting everyman, Dahlie shows us a man who, with a little inspiration, just might become something of a brilliant success.Request a signed copy: books@tatteredcover.com

Jeffrey Buckner Ford, the eldest son of Ernie and Betty Ford, will discuss and sign River of No Return: Tennessee Ernie Ford and the Woman He Loved ($26.95 Cumberland House). In the final ten or so years before Tennessee Ernie Ford's death, the press and music industry had referred to him as “legendary.” ... (mere)This book is, in part, an accounting of the price the Ford family paid for that title and a record of the cost it ultimately exacted from Jeffrey and his brother, who paid the greatest price. It is also the story of a simple man blessed with an extraordinary talent, and the complex and beautiful woman Ernie fell in love with and married.Request a signed copy: books@tatteredcover.com

William McKeen is a professor of journalism at University of Florida, Gainesville, and the author of Highway 61 and editor of Rock and Roll Is Here to Stay. McKeen will discuss and sign his new book Outlaw Journalist: The Life and Times of Hunter S. Thompson ($27.95 W.W. Norton). McKeen, who was a friend ... (mere)of Thompson's, interviewed many of Thompson's associates who wouldn't speak before, to get behind the drinking and drugs to show the man and the writer - one who was happy to be considered an outlaw but took the calling of journalism as his life.Request a signed copy: books@tatteredcover.com

William McKeen will speak and sign OUTLAW JOURNALIST.

Robert Thurman has dedicated his life to the study and preservation of Tibet's spiritual and cultural heritage. He is the cofounder of Tibet House US, the Jey Tsong Khapa Professor of Buddhist Studies at Columbia University, the translator and author of several key works of Tibetan literature and analysis, ... (mere)and the first American to be ordained as a Tibetan monk. All this along with his forty-five-year friendship with the Dalai Lama makes him a strong voice for Tibet. Thurman will discuss and sign his new book Why the Dalai Lama Matters: His Act of Truth as the Solution for China, Tibet, and the World ($24.00 Beyond Words).Request a signed copy: books@tatteredcover.com

Naturalist, author, and creative writing teacher Sharman Apt Russell will discuss and sign her new book Standing in the Light: My Life as a Pantheist ($25.00 Basic Books). Perhaps no other religious philosophy is as simple and inclusive as pantheism. What is, right now, is divine; there is no god apart ... (mere)from the universe itself. In Standing in the Light, Russell explores the history of this tradition from the Stoic philosophers to the Transcendentalists while reflecting on her own life during a year spent in the mountains and desert of southwestern New Mexico.Request a signed copy: books@tatteredcover.com

Robert Thurman will speak and sign WHY THE DALAI LAMA MATTERS.

New York Times bestselling author and Edgar Award nominee Stephen Singular will discuss and sign his new book When Men Become Gods: Mormon Polygamist Warren Jeffs, His Cult of Fear, and the Women Who Fought Back ($24.95 St. Martin's). One of the women profiled in Singular's book, Laura Chapman, a former ... (mere)FLDS member who escaped polygamy and was profiled recently on CBS' 48 Hours, will make a few remarks at this event.Request a signed copy: books@tatteredcover.com

Noelle Oxenhandler will speak and sign THE WISHING YEAR.

David Iglesias served as United States Attorney for the District of New Mexico from 2001 to 2007. He headed a panel that advised former Attorney General John Ashcroft on border security issues. A former White House Fellow, he is also a captain in the U.S. Navy Reserve. Iglesias will discuss and sign ... (mere)his new book In Justice: Inside the Scandal That Rocked the Bush Administration ($25.95 Wiley). The Bush administration's drive to politicize the Justice Department reached a new low with the wrongful firing of seven U.S. Attorneys in late 2006. Their action has ignited public outrage on a scale that far surpassed the reaction to any of the Bush administration's other political debacles. David Iglesias was one of those federal prosecutors, and now he tells his story.Request a signed copy: books@tatteredcover.com

Lucinda Franks will speak and sign MY FATHER'S SECRET WAR.

Former Senator David Boren, a Rhodes Scholar, was the longest-serving chair of the U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee. A former Governor of Oklahoma, he has served as President of the University of Oklahoma for the past fourteen years. Boren will discuss and sign his inspiring new book A Letter to America ... (mere)($14.95 University of Oklahoma Press). With only 6 percent of the world's population, how long will the United States remain a global superpower? The answer, Boren tells us, depends on asking ourselves tough questions. In A Letter to America, he explains with unsparing clarity why the country is at a crossroads and why decisive action is urgently needed and offers us an ambitious, hopeful plan.Request a signed copy: books@tatteredcover.com

Lisa Lillien is not a nutritionist, she's just hungry. She is the founder of www.hungry-girl.com, and close to half a million loyal fans receive her daily emails containing guilt-free recipes, food and product reviews, dieting news, shockers, and more. Lillien will discuss and sign her new book Hungry ... (mere)Girl: Recipes and Survival Strategies for Guilt-Free Eating in the Real World ($17.95 St. Martin's). From breakfast ideas and chopped salads to guilt-free junk food and cocktails, Hungry Girl recipes taste great but are low in fat and calories.Request a signed copy: books@tatteredcover.com

Dr. John Demartini, founder of the Concourse of Wisdom School of Philosophy of Healing, breathes new life into his audiences with his enlightening perspectives, humorous observations of human nature, and practical action steps. His philosophy and revolutionary understanding of the power of unconditional ... (mere)love is reshaping psychology as we know it and his revolutionary personal transformation methodologies are transforming the lives of millions of people all over the world. Dr. Demartini will discuss and sign his book The Riches Within: Your Seven Secret Treasures ($14.95 Hay House).Request a signed copy: books@tatteredcover.com

Pulitzer Prize winning journalist and critically acclaimed, bestselling author David Maraniss is an associate editor at The Washington Post. Maraniss will discuss and sign his incredible new book Rome 1960: The Olympics That Changed the World ($26.00 Simon & Schuster). This groundbreaking book weaves ... (mere)sports, politics, and history into a tour de force about the 1960 Rome Olympics - eighteen days of theater, suspense, victory, and defeat.Request a signed copy: books@tatteredcover.com

PHILLIP MOFFIT will speak & sign DANCING WITH LIFE: BUDDHIST INSIGHTS FOR FINDING MEANING AND JOY IN THE FACE OF SUFFERING.

Stefan Fatsis will speak and sign A FEW SECONDS OF PANIC.

Patricia Bray at Denvention 3 - World Science Fiction Convention

Denvention 3- Annual World Science Fiction Convention

Diana DeGette will speak and sign SEX, SCIENCE, AND STEM CELLS.

Diesel's Malibu Book Group will be gathering to discuss The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic and Madness at the Fair that Changed America, by Erik Larson. All are welcome!

Linda Hogan will speak and sign PEOPLE OF THE WHALE.

Alison Wright will speak and sign LEARNING TO BREATHE.

Julia Alvarez will speak and sign ONCE UPON A QUINCEANERA.

"Bill Press, author and well known political commentator, will discuss his new book and, we hope, his many opinions on the political scene at a reading at Cameron Church, followed by a reception at Book Buffs on Sunday, August 24, 2008. Please check (the events) web site for exact time as well as information ... (mere)on other sponsors of this event.

Daniel Levitin will speak and sign THE WORLD IN SIX SONGS.

Stacey O'Brien will speak and sign WESLEY THE OWL.

Steven Wingate will speak and sign WIFESHOPPING.

David Roberts will speak and sign DEVIL'S GATE.

Greg Melville will speak and sign GREASY RIDER.