Find Me
By: Bruce Kawin
Book: Fiction, 130 pages
Summary: A book of stories, the longest story, “Find Me,” is set in Los Angeles in 2005. It’s about a couple who meet a powerful Chinese man and the young woman he is sure he loved many years ago; it is a story of love and reincarnation that is gripping, moving and funny. The other stories are based in reality, but many of them take a surrealistic turn. One tells a tale of how a 6-year-old girl makes and names a brilliant sculpture. One is about an FBI investigation in the early 1970s — an investigation that Kafka would recognize and that is almost entirely true. One is a fable of innocence and violence in an elementary school menagerie.
Author: Bruce Kawin was born in Los Angeles and moved to Boulder almost 50 years ago. He worked at the University of Colorado Boulder for 40 years in the English Department and the Film Studies program, where he taught film history, modern literature and creative writing. His first book was about repetition in literature, film, human experience and nature. Now, he has written his first book of stories. The publisher is PB&J Books (Peter Schneider, Bruce Kawin and Janet Kaplan).
Kawin will read from his book at the Boulder Book Store at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday.
Where The Shadows Are Shown
By: Josh Schlossberg
Book: Horror, 281 pages
Summary: In this book of short horror stories: A hiker stumbles on a gruesome species undiscovered by science. An injury triggers an appalling new ability. A domestic pet holds a household in thrall. A human monster finally meets his match. Crimes against nature birth an abomination. These and 15 more tales make up “Where the Shadows are Shown,” a short story collection by Josh Schlossberg, who guides readers on a trek through the shadowy realms of biological and folk horror, supernatural and weird fiction.
Author: Josh Schlossberg’s biological horror fiction has been published in numerous magazines and anthologies. He’s the author of the eco-horror novel “Charwood,” the cosmic-folk-horror novella “Malinae,” editor of “The Jewish Book of Horror,” lead editor of “Terror at 5280,” co-founding member of Denver Horror Collective and creator of Josh’s Worst Nightmare, where he surveys the dark landscape of bio-eco horror fiction.
Why Yellow Matters
By: Lyle Smith
Book: Nonfiction, 148 pages
Summary: In short, “Why Yellow Matters” is about the importance of taking the time to ask “Why?” It’s about thinking things, deciding things and writing things. What is it that makes things matter to people? And how do you tap into the power of that meaning? Words mean things — to the speaker and writer and to the reader and listener. But they also hold meaning, inherently. They have history and carry original intent whether you’re paying attention to it or not. And they combine to tell stories. And those stories touch people in ways that matter and enable them to communicate facts and feelings to other humans. “Why Yellow Matters” endeavors to answer these questions and help you make your things matter more.
Author: Born and raised in the Garden State, Lyle Smith has a substantial northeastern small state chip on his shoulder about most things but loves everybody anyway. He’s been a daily newspaper reporter, editor, in-house marketing executive, agency creative director and, for more than the past decade, chief of his own consulting brand story agency. He’s been a runner, a caddie, a grave-digger and he believes if everyone worked in a service job at some point in their careers, the world would be a much happier and more agreeable place. He currently resides in Boulder Valley, drawing daily inspiration from his wife, Heather, and his son, Aiden.
The Regeneration Handbook: Transform Yourself to Transform the World
By: Don Hall
Book: Nonfiction, 256 pages
Summary: The Regeneration Handbook offers an abundance of insights, stories, tools, practices and resources for experienced and aspiring changemakers to step into their full power at this time of unprecedented global crisis. While none of us can change the world alone, we all have an important part to play in the Great Transition. By starting wherever we are and leaning into this historic challenge, we’ll discover our deepest purpose, realize our highest potential and learn how to harness the power of regeneration to radically transform our lives, our communities, and our world.
Author: Don Hall has served in a variety of capacities throughout the Transition Towns Movement over the past 15 years and is currently training coordinator for the International Transition Network. Hall holds a master’s degree in environmental leadership from Naropa University, is a certified permaculture designer and lives in Boulder.
Thresholds of Change: The Way through Transformational Times
By: Rebecca Reynolds
Book: Nonfiction, 292 pages
Summary: “Thresholds of Change” offers a timely and hopeful approach to how we think about change, based on the author’s 30-year career bringing about change in hundreds of projects, crossing disciplines, locations and people. Instead of approaching change from whether we like it or want it, Reynolds suggests looking for what it wants from us. Change, like the seasons, is a distinct process with its own sequence of phases. She offers a clear picture of how the process works — the mechanics that operate no matter where change happens or how we react to it. This underlying process can be learned and with it, our innate ability to adapt increases. With this universal process, we’re able to navigate change with greater ease, confidence and purpose. And we’re able to use the changes in our lives as they’re intended: the way to reach our human potential.
Author: Rebecca Reynolds has pioneered new methods and models to bring about change in diverse and far-reaching projects under the auspices of her Colorado-based firm, Rebecca Reynolds Consulting. She works with organizations and leads multi-entity projects, advises executives, coaches teams and individuals and mentors emerging entrepreneurs. She writes fiction and nonfiction.
Reynolds will read from her book at the Boulder Book Store at 6:30 p.m. Thursday.
Interested local authors can submit new books to the Author Spotlight at bit.ly/BoulderCountyAuthors.
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