Doug Brown, a feature writer for The Denver Post, reads from and discusses his memoir Just Do It: How One Couple Turned Off the TV and Turned On Their Sex Lives for 101 Days (No Excuses!). Creeping into middle-age and saddled with work deadlines, child-rearing, homemaking, and fourteen years of togetherness, an ordinary, happy [...]

Brad Meltzer, author of the New York Times bestseller The Book of Fate, reads from and discusses his new novel The Book of Lies, his most thrilling and emotionally powerful novel to date. What does Cain, history’s greatest villain, have to do with Superman, the world’s greatest hero? And what do two murders, committed [...]

Bestselling author Stephen Coonts discusses his new thriller The Assassin. Abu Qasim, the ruthless and cunning Al Qaeda leader who nearly succeeded in blowing up a meeting of the G-8 in Paris, has escaped from the grasp of the Americans and is plotting his next move. A small band of powerful men, highly placed [...]

Former Tattered Cover staff member William Dewey reads from and discusses his new novel Without a Soul to Move. In Denver, Colorado, three men are trying, with strange elegance, to extract meaning from their wilting lives: Howie struggles with the demise of a love that was never quite whole to begin with; Wayne [...]

Nancy Pelosi became Speaker of the House in 2007 after serving twenty years in Congress. She and her husband Paul have been married for forty-five years, and she is the mother of five children and the grandmother of seven. Pelosi speaks with Denver Mayor John Hickenlooper about her new book Know Your Power: A [...]

New York Times columnist David Carr reads from and discusses The Night of the Gun: A Reporter Investigates the Darkest Story of His Life. His Own. In his book, Carr redefines memoir with the revelatory story of his years as an addict and chronicles his journey from crack-house regular to regular columnist for The [...]

J. Maarten Troost is the author of Getting Stoned with Savages and The Sex Lives of Cannibals, and his essays have appeared in the Atlantic Monthly, the Washington Post, and the Prague Post. Troost reads from and discusses his new travel tale Lost on Planet China: The Strange and True Story of One Man’s [...]

Australian journalist Kate Veitch reads from and discusses her debut novel Without a Backward Glance, a deeply felt novel of family, choices, and coming to terms with the past. On a stifling Christmas Eve in 1967 the lives of the McDonald children–Deborah, Robert, James, and Meredith–changed forever. Their mother, Rosemarie, told them she was [...]

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 discusses her new book Hungry Girl: Recipes and Survival Strategies for Guilt-Free Eating [...]

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 discusses his new book In Justice: [...]

Political organizer and nationally syndicated newspaper columnist David Sirota’s first book, Hostile Takeover, was a New York Times bestseller. Sirota blogs at credoaction.com/sirota, and his column runs weekly in the Denver Post, San Francisco Chronicle, and Seattle Times, as well as in other newspapers. He is a senior fellow at the Campaign for America’s [...]

Darin Strauss, the acclaimed author of Chang and Eng, discusses his new novel More Than It Hurts You. This literary showstopper is a beautifully realized novel that at its heart is the story of a woman who will risk everything to feel something; a doctor whose diagnosis brings her entire life into question; and [...]

Andre Dubus III, the author of the New York Times bestseller and Oprah’s Book Club selection House of Sand and Fog, reads from and discusses his new novel The Garden of Last Days. This big-hearted, painful, page-turning novel, set in the seamy underside of American life, juxtaposes lust for domination with hunger for connection, [...]

David Guterson, the author of the best-selling Snow Falling on Cedars, reads from and discusses his long-awaited new novel The Other. Riveting and deeply humane, this dazzling new novel is about youth and idealism, adulthood and its compromises, and two powerfully different visions of what it means to live a good life. ($24.95) [...]

David Sedaris is a regular contributor to The New Yorker and Public Radio International’s This American Life, and is the bestselling author of Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim, Me Talk Pretty One Day, Naked, and Barrel Fever. Sedaris reads from and discusses his new book When You Are Engulfed in Flames. Culminating [...]

New York Times bestselling author Jeff Shaara, America’s premier author of military historical fiction, reads from and discusses his new book The Steel Wave: A Novel of World War II, the centerpiece of his epic trilogy of the Second World War. Taking us from G.I. to general, this story carries the reader through the [...]

Colorado author David Wroblewski reads from and discusses his critically acclaimed debut novel The Story of Edgar Sawtelle. Wroblewski is a master storyteller, and his breathtaking scenes create a riveting family saga, a brilliant exploration of the limits of language, and a compulsively readable modern classic. “I flat-out loved The Story of Edgar Sawtelle. [...]

Mark Bowden, the bestselling author of Black Hawk Down, discusses his new book The Best Game Ever: Giants vs. Colts, 1958, and the Birth of the Modern NFL. Published to coincide with the 50th anniversary of the game, this remarkable story of the 1958 NFL Championship game between the Colts and the Giants-considered by [...]

Simon Winchester, the bestselling author of The Professor and the Madman and Krakatoa, discusses his new book The Man Who Loved China: The Fantastic Story of the Eccentric Scientist Who Unlocked the Mysteries of the Middle Kingdom. In sumptuous and illuminating detail, Winchester brings to life the extraordinary story of Joseph Needham, the brilliant [...]

Leif Enger, the acclaimed, bestselling author of Peace Like a River, reads from and discusses his new novel So Brave, Young, and Handsome, a touching, nimble, and rugged story of an aging train robber on a quest, and the failed writer who goes with him. With its smooth mix of romanticism and gritty reality, [...]

Five years after publication of the #1 international blockbuster bestseller, The South Beach Diet, renowned cardiologist, Arthur Agatston, M.D. releases The South Beach Diet Supercharged: Faster Weight Loss and Better Health for Life. In the original South Beach Diet book, Dr. Agatston changed the way America eats, with his right carbs, right fats approach. Now [...]

Elizabeth George, the New York Times bestselling author of fourteen novels of psychological suspense, reads from and discusses her new mystery Careless in Red. In this eagerly anticipated novel, George brings back Scotland Yard’s Thomas Lynley to investigate a ruthless crime. ($26.95) HarperCollins ISBN #978-0-06-116087-5. You can visit Elizabeth George’s official web [...]

Mary Roach, “the funniest science writer in the country” (Burkhard Bilger of The New Yorker), is the author of Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers and Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife. Her writing has appeared in such publications as Salon, GQ, Vogue, and the New York Times Magazine. Roach discusses her new book [...]

Frances Richey reads from and discusses The Warrior: A Mother’s Story of a Son at War, her stunning, urgent, and heart-wrenching memoir, written in verse, about a mother who sees her son, a Green Beret and captain in the Army, go off for two tours of duty in Iraq. The Warrior centers around a [...]

Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Jane Smiley reads from and discusses the new paperback edition of her bestselling book Ten Days in the Hills. With its breathtaking passion and sexy irreverence, Ten Days in the Hills is “a blazing farce, a fiery satire of contemporary celebrity culture and a rich, simmering meditation on the price of [...]

Award-winning novelist Isabel Allende reads from and discusses her new book The Sum of Our Days, the sequel to her bestselling memoir Paula. In this heartfelt memoir, Isabel Allende reconstructs the painful reality of her own life in the wake of tragic loss-the death of her daughter, Paula. Narrated with warmth, humor, exceptional candor, [...]

Relationship expert and non-fiction author Lisa Daily reads from and discusses Fifteen Minutes of Shame, a hilarious debut novel that will delight fans of Jane Green and Sophie Kinsella. What happens when America’s favorite dating expert finds out on national television that her husband is cheating on her? Darby Vaughn’s fifteen minutes of fame [...]

Pam Anderson, the author of The Perfect Recipe, which won a Julia Child Award, CookSmart, and Perfect Recipes for Having People Over, discusses her new book The Perfect Recipe for Losing Weight and Eating Great. Filled with voice-of-experience tips for curbing appetite (she is still maintaining her forty-pound weight loss), no-nonsense shortcuts for getting [...]

Benjamin Black is the pen name of acclaimed author John Banville, whose novels have won numerous awards, most recently the Man Booker Prize in 2005 for The Sea. Black reads from his new mystery, The Silver Swan, his sequel to Christine Falls. In this haunting, masterfully written, and utterly mesmerizing story, Quirke, the irascible, [...]

Manil Suri’s critically acclaimed first novel The Death of Vishnu was a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award. Suri reads from his long awaited new novel The Age of Shiva, a mesmerizing story of modern India, richly layered with themes from Hindu mythology. The Age of Shiva is at once a powerful story of a [...]

Travel guru, bestselling author, and PBS personality Rick Steves offers travel tips and discusses his many books, including Europe Through the Back Door 2008 and Europe 101: History and Art for the Traveler. ($21.95) Avalon Travel ISBN #1-56691-853-7. You can visit Rick Steves’s official web site as well. author [...]

Local author Carleen Brice reads from her debut novel Orange Mint and Honey. “The marriage of historical confidence with creativity brings forth the first novel by Carleen Brice. Orange Mint and Honey makes use of the oldest of relationships: mothers and daughters. Looking at the plights of love, forgiveness, understanding and redemption brings to [...]

Russell Banks, the acclaimed author whose works include Cloudsplitter and Continental Drift, reads from his new novel The Reserve. Part love story, part murder mystery, set on the cusp of the Second World War, Banks’s sharp-witted and deeply engaging new novel raises dangerous questions about class, politics, art, love, and madness-and explores what [...]

Boulder, Colorado author Eli Gottlieb’s The Boy Who Went Away won the prestigious Rome Prize and the 1998 McKitterick Prize from the British Society of Authors. It also received extraordinary notices and was a New York Times Notable Book. Gottlieb reads from his critically acclaimed new novel Now You See Him. In this ambitious [...]

John Gray, Ph.D., is an internationally recognized expert in the fields of communication and relationships, and the author of fifteen books, including the internationally bestselling Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus. Gray discusses his new book Why Mars and Venus Collide: Improving Relationships by Understanding How Men and Women Cope Differently [...]

Anne Byrn, known to millions of fans through her Cake Mix Doctor and Dinner Doctor cookbooks, shares tips for entertaining year-round and discusses her new cook book What Can I Bring? Cutting through menu block-a condition familiar to everyone who cooks-Byrn offers over 200 delicious suggestions for crowd-pleasing food that’s designed to travel. And, [...]

Bestselling mystery novelist and Emmy Award-winning television writer Stephen Cannell discusses his new Shane Scully novel Three Shirt Deal. In Cannell’s latest heart-pounding thriller, Shane is tried in ways he has never been, risking his family, his job, and his life. ($24.95) St. Martin’s ISBN #0-312-36627-2. You can visit Stephen Cannell’s [...]

Former Secretary of State and bestselling author Madeleine Albright discusses her new book Memo to the President Elect: How We Can Restore America’s Reputation & Leadership. The next president, whether Democrat or Republican, will face the daunting task of repairing America’s core relationships and tarnished credibility after the damage caused during the past seven [...]

Joanne Harris, the bestselling author whose adult books include Chocolat and Five Quarters of the Orange, reads from and discusses her new novel for young readers Runemarks. Seven o’clock on a Monday morning, five hundred years after the end of the world, and goblins had been at the cellar, again. Not that anyone would [...]

Kurt Andersen, the co-founder of Spy magazine, and author of the brash and brilliant debut novel Turn of the Century, reads from and discusses the paperback edition of his new novel Heyday. A fresh, impeccable portrait of an era startlingly reminiscent of our own times, Heyday is by turns tragic and funny and sublime, filled [...]