Events

Award-winning adventure travel writer Jayme Moye discusses how to turn any trip into a captivating narrative using the basic elements of story. And if you’re so inclined, how to get paid to have those stories published in magazines.

Jayme is the managing editor at Elevation Outdoors in Boulder, an editor-at-large for Women's Adventure, and freelances for Outside, Backpacker, Men’s Journal, Women’s Health, Sunset, and 5280, among others.

THIS WORKSHOP IS SOLD OUT! Stay tuned for Jayme's next workshop in April!

Award-winning local journalist Amy Herdy spares no detail in this gripping account of Denver serial rapist Brent Brents and the effects that covering his brutal case had on her life. Much more than true crime, Diary of a Predator gives the reader an inside look into both the twisted mind of Brents and every step of Herdy’s journey as a reporter who uncovers truths that will change her life forever.

*Diary of a Predator is now in the process of becoming a movie directed by Kevin Lewis - Congrats, Amy! Meet the author and read the book before you see the movie*

For nearly twenty years, Amy Herdy has specialized in covering crime for both television and print newsrooms. She is now a writer and media consultant who lives outside of Boulder.

This event is FREE and open to the public!

Matthew Fox is a spiritual theologian, an Episcopal priest and an activist. Fox’s interests have been the renewal of education and of religion, having established both the Institute in Culture and Creation Spirituality and the University of Creation Spirituality.

In Christian Mystics, Fox offers a wide-ranging collection of quotations from Christianity’s greatest mystics and prophets of the past two thousand years.

The Pope's War offers a provocative look at three decades of corruption in the Catholic Church, focusing on Josef Ratzinger, Pope Benedict XVI.

Vouchers are $5 and get you $5 off the author’s featured book or a purchase on the day of the event. Vouchers can be purchased in advance and over the phone.

BBS is joining with Reading Village and 100 Book Day for a Story-a-Thon, where local personalities and authors share their passion for books with children of all ages for 7 hours of fun and storytelling in both English and Spanish. Proceeds will benefit Reading Village's work in Guatemala. 

Clementine Art Studio will also offer a Bookmark Project Station where kids can make their own, or create a bookmark for kids in Guatemala. And attendees will have an opportunity to win a fabulous door prize, containing lots of goodies (and a BBS gift card)!

Schedule of Readings:
10:00am—David Dadone (Executive Director, BMoCA) - Reading in Spanish
10:30am—Guillermo Medina (Principal of Columbine Elementary) - Reading in Spanish
11:00am—Mark Megibow (Beat-boxer for vocal band Face)
11:30am—Jeff Kagan & Paige Doughty (Environmental musicians and performers)
12:00pm—Sonny Zinn (Principal of Horizons K-8)
12:30pm—Beth Osnes (Professor of Theater, founder of the Striking the Match Initiative)
  1:00pm—Congressman Jared Polis (Representative for Colorado's 2nd Congressional District)
  1:30pm—Laura Resau (Author, The Queen of Water, The Ruby Notebook
  2:00pm—Lee Shainis (Intercambio) & Shawn Camden (Founder and President of The Spanish Institute and 100% Mexicano) - Reading in Spanish
  2:30pm—Lisa Holub (Director of Education, Clementine Studio / OpenArts)
  3:00pm—Kerry MacLean (Author, Pigs Over Colorado, Peaceful Piggy Meditation)
  3:30pm—Nicole de Boom (Triathlete, Founder of Skirts Sports)
  4:00pm—Xiuhtezcatl Martinez (Earth Guardians)
  4:30pm—Melanie Borski-Howard (Youth Services Specialist at Boulder Public Library)

This is a FREE Storytime event, open to all, whether you only have time to stop by for a few stories or plan to stick around all day! Donations to Reading Village are encouraged.
Reading Village provides leadership development training and scholarships for Guatemalan teenagers to finish high school. In return, these teens lead story-time activities for young children, teaching them to read, imparting a love of books and the chance to dream. 

Join us for an afternoon of readings and discussion with local authors Swami Parameshwarananda, author of In the Path of Light with Maa and Inside Tips, James Fontaine, author of Never Mad Again, Mark Andreas, author of Sweet Fruit from the Bitter Tree, and Jay Valusek, author of The Secret Sorrow.

From Our Shelves, the BBS In-store bookclub will be reading The Marriage Plot by Jeffrey Eugenides.

Are the great love stories of the nineteenth century dead? Or can there be a new story, written for today and alive to the realities of feminism, sexual freedom, prenups, and divorce? With devastating wit and an abiding understanding of and affection for his characters, Jeffrey Eugenides revives the motivating energies of the Novel, while creating a story so contemporary and fresh that it reads like the intimate journal of our own lives.

From Our Shelves Fiction Bookclub is open to the public and meets at 7pm on the fourth Tuesday of every month in the Upper North Room of Boulder Book Store. Unless otherwise noted, the author will not be present at the discussion. Please join us!

Eli Gottlieb’s previous novels, Now You See Him and The Boy Who Went Away, were widely acclaimed by reviewers. With The Face Thief, he’s written a novel that probes the wellsprings of greed and loyalty beset by temptation. Margot is a grifter making her living preying on the weaknesses of men. She is an expert in the Chinese art of face reading, and can rearrange her look and persona to fit any social situation. The Face Thief swirls a hypnotic dance of predator and prey, creating a contemporary landscape where the educated are violent, the beautiful ugly, and the well-intentioned hapless.

Vouchers are $5 and get you $5 off the author’s featured book or a purchase on the day of the event. Vouchers can be purchased in advance and over the phone.

“You’ve got 5 minutes; pitch me what you’ve got.” That's what the entertainment industry movers & shakers will tell you. But to get that meeting or a reply to your query letter, you must first have an interesting title and logline. Ms. English has developed a method for finding that great, eye-catching title and a sizzling short logline to go with it. You'll leave this workshop knowing how to “dress” your script or film for success.

Ms. English is the founder and executive director for the Moondance International Film Festival. She’s also a filmmaker, with 3 short films, one of which won awards across the US & Europe, and was screened during the Cannes film festival.  Ms. English is a professional screenwriter, with 35 feature screenplays, 3 TV pilots, and 2 stageplays. Check out her screenplay & film evaluation & editing service at www.mermaid7seas.com.

Tickets are $50 and space is limited, so sign up today! 

Fiction, nonfiction,
both old and new,
we’ll share our favorite
books for bookclubs with you!

Join us for refreshments, gifts, & great conversation with publisher representatives, BBS booksellers, & local author Hannah Nordhaus (The Beekeeper's Lament)

Vouchers are $5 and include reserved seating, refreshments, gifts, and are good for $5 off any single purchase on February 6th.

In local author Eleanor Brown’s The Weird Sisters, three sisters have returned to their childhood home, reuniting the eccentric Andreas family. Here, books are a passion (there is no problem a library card can't solve) and TV is something other people watch. Their father named them after the Bard's heroines and it's a lot to live up to. The sisters have a hard time communicating with their parents and their lovers, but especially with one another. Now, faced with their parents' frailty and their own personal disappointments, not even a book can solve what ails them.

 Vouchers are $5 and get you $5 off the author’s featured book or a purchase on the day of the event. Vouchers can be purchased in advance and over the phone.

Media representations of climate issues are powerful links between people's everyday experiences, and the ways in which they are discussed by scientists and policymakers. A dynamic mix of influences shape what becomes a climate 'story'. Providing a bridge between academic considerations and real world developments, Who Speaks for the Climate? by CU Professor Maxwell Boykoff helps students, academic researchers and members of the public make sense of media reporting on climate change as it explores 'who speaks for climate' and what effects this may have on the spectrum of possible responses to contemporary climate challenges.

Vouchers are $5 and get you $5 off the author’s featured book or a purchase on the day of the event. Vouchers can be purchased in advance and over the phone.