e-Newsletter January 8, 2016

In This Issue
Reading the West 2015 Nominations
Reading the West - Adult Fiction
Reading the West - Adult Nonfiction
Reading the West - Children's
Tattered Cover Seeks LoDo Store Manager
Spring Meeting 2016 - Save the Date!
Storybrooke, Ink Hosts Kellen Cutsforth
Rhyolite Press Releases BLUE GRAY BLACK













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Mark Your Calendar!

Fall Discovery Show (Trade Show) 2016
October 6-8, 2016
The Renaissance
Denver Hotel
Reading the West 2015 Nominated Titles 
RTW Logo 2011
Congratulations to the publishers for these nominated titles!
Adult Fiction
 
Betta Ferrendelli Books

AN INVINCIBLE SUMMER by Betta Ferrendelli. Publication date: September 29, 2015. Paperback $13.99. 978-1-518-61508-5.

 
Daniel and Daniel Publishers/Fithian Press
CANYONS: A Novel by Samuel Western. Publication date: September 7, 2015. Paperback $14.95. 978-1-564-74574-3.
CHARLIE'S PRIDE by Dee Hubbard. Publication date: May 5, 2015. Paperback $15.95. 978-1-564-74568-2.
 
Graywolf Press
HALF AN INCH OF WATER: Stories by Percival Everett. Publication date: September 15, 2015. Paperback $16.00. 978-1-555-97719-1.
 
HarperCollins
THE WOLF BORDER by Sarah Hall. Publication date: 2015. Hardcover $25.99. 978-0-062-20847-7.
 
HarperCollins/Ecco
EPITAPH: A Novel of the O.K. Corral by Mary Doria Russell. Publication date: March 1, 2015. Hardcover $27.99. 978-0-062-19876-1
 
HarperCollins/Harper
A KILLING IN ZION: A Mystery by Andrew Hunt. Publication date: September 8, 2015. Hardcover $25.99. 978-1-250-06462-2.
ROCK WITH WINGS: A Leaphorn, Chee & Manuelito Novel by Anne Hillerman. Publication date: 2015. Hardcover $27.99. 978-0-062-27251-1.
THE BOOKSELLER: A Novel by Cynthia Swanson. Publication date: March 3, 2015. Hardcover $25.99. 978-0-062-33300-1.
 
HarperCollins/Perennial
MIGRATORY ANIMALS: A Novel by Mary Helen Specht. Publication date: January 20, 2015. Paperback $14.99. 978-0-062-34603-2
THE ART OF CRASH LANDING by Melissa DeCarlo. Publication date: September 18, 2015. Paperback $15.99. 978-0-062-39054-7
 
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
BLACK RIVER: A Novel by S.M. Hulse. Publication date: January 20, 2015. Hardcover $24.00. 978-0-544-30987-6
 
Macmillan/St. Martin's Press
DARK RESERVATIONS: A Mystery by John Fortunato. Publication date: October 13, 2015. Hardcover $25.99. 978-1-250-07419-5.
THE LAST MIDWIFE: A Novel by Sandra Dallas. Publication date: September 29, 2015. Hardcover $25.99. 978-1-250-07446-1.
 
Midnight Ink
LAKE OF FIRE: An Allison Coil Mystery by Mark Stevens. Publication date: September 8, 2015. Paperback $14.95. 978-0-738-74363-9.
 
Open Road Media
BITTER CREEK by Peter Bowen. Publication date: April 28, 2015. Paperback $14.99. 978-1-497-68512-3. Adult Fiction/Mystery. Setting/theme: Montana, historical mystery.
MANANA by William Hjortsberg. Publication date: May 12, 2015. Paperback $11.99. 978-1-497-68066-1.
 
PGW/Counterpoint Press
RED LIGHTNING: A Novel by Laura Pritchett. Publication date: June 2015. Hardcover $25.00. 978-1-619-02533-2.
 
Penguin Random House/G.P. Putnam's Sons
ENDANGERED by C.J.Box. Publication date: March 10, 2015. Hardcover $26.95. 978-0-399-16077-6.
 
Penguin Random House/Knopf
OUR SOULS AT NIGHT by Kent Haruf. Publication date: May 26, 2015. Hardcover $24.00. 978-1-101-87589-9.
THE WATER KNIFE by Paolo Bacigalupi. Publication date: 2015. Hardcover $25.99. 978-0-385-35287-1. Adult Fiction. Setting/theme: Arizona, Water Conservation.
 
Penguin Random House/Pantheon
INTO THE SAVAGE COUNTRY: A Novel by Shannon Burke. Publication date: February 24, 2015. Hardcover $24.95. 978-0-307-90892-6.
 
Penguin Random House/Random House
CROW FAIR: Stories by Thomas McGuane. Publication date: March 3, 2015. Hardcover $25.95. 978-0-385-35019-8.
 
Penguin Random House/Riverhead Books
THE LAST BUS TO WISDOM by Ivan Doig. Publication date: August 18, 2015. Hardcover $28.95. 978-1-59463-202-0.
 
Penguin Random House/Viking
THE DYING GRASS: A Novel of the Nez Perce War by William T. Vollmann. Publication date: July 28, 2015. Hardcover $55.00. 978-0-670-01598-6.
THE GIRL WHO SLEPT WITH GOD by Val Brelinski. Publication date: August 4, 2015. Hardcover $27.95. 978-0-525-42742-1.
 
Rare Bird Books
CONTENDERS: A Novel by Erika Krouse. Publication date: March 31, 2015. Paperback $15.95. 978-1-940-20763-6.
 
Simon & Schuster
THE GIVEN WORLD: A Novel by Marian Palaia. Publication date: April 14, 2015. Hardcover $25.00. 978-1-476-77793-1.
 
Simon & Schuster/Atria Books
THE WILD INSIDE: A Novel of Suspense by Christine Carbo. Publication date: June 16, 2015. Paperback $16.00. 978-1-476-77545-6.
 
Workman Publishing/Algonquin Books
DESCENT: A Novel by Tim Johnston. Publication date: January 6, 2015. Hardcover $25.95. 978-1-616-20304-7.
Adult Nonfiction
 
HarperCollins/Harper
AMERICAN GHOST: A Family's Haunted Past in the Desert Southwest by Hannah Nordhaus. Publication date: March 2015. Hardcover $25.99. 978-0-062-24921-0.
 
Leaf Storm Press
THE MAVERICK COOKBOOK: Iconic Recipes & Tales from New Mexico by Lynn Cline. Publication date:September 1, 2015. Hardcover $26.00. 978-0-991-41057-6.
 
Macmillan/Bloomsbury
NABOKOV IN AMERICA: On the Road to Lolita by Robert Roper. Publication date: June 9, 2015. Hardcover $28.00. 978-0-802-74363-3.
 
Macmillan/St. Martin's Press
THE LAST DAYS OF GEORGE ARMSTRONG CUSTER: The True Story of the Battle of the Little Bighorn by Thom Hatch. Publication date: February 3, 2015. Hardcover $29.99. 978-1-250-05102-8.
 
Penguin Random House/Avery
LENTIL UNDERGROUND: Renegade Farmers and the Future of Food in America by Liz Carlisle. Publication date: January 22, 2015. Hardcover $26.95. 978-1-592-40920-4.
 
Penguin Random House/Doubleday
MISSOULA: Rape and the Justice System in a College Town by Jon Krakauer. Publication date: April 21, 2015. Hardcover $28.95. 978-0-385-53873-2.
 
Penguin Random House/Knopf
CUSTER'S TRIALS: A Life on the Frontier of a New America by T.J. Stiles. Publication date: October 27, 2015. Hardcover $30.00. 978-0-307-59264-4.  
 
Penguin Random House/Random House
ON THE BURNING EDGE: A Fateful Fire and the Men Who Fought It by Kyle Dickman. Publication date: May 12, 2015. Hardcover $26.00. 978-0-553-39212-8.
 
Simon & Schuster
THE OREGON TRAIL: A New American Journey by Rinker Buck. Publication date: June 30, 2015. Hardcover $28.00. 978-1-451-65916-0.
 
Texas A&M University Press
UNBRANDED: Four Men and Sixteen Mustangs. Three Thousand Miles Across the American West by Ben Masters. Publication date: January 5, 2015. Hardcover $40. 978-1-623-49280-9.
 
University of Utah Press
WHERE ROADS WILL NEVER REACH: Wilderness and Its Visionaries in the Northern Rockies by Frederick Swanson. Publication date: 2015. Paperback $24.95. 978-1-607-81404-7.
 
W.W. Norton & Co. Inc.
ALL THE WILD THAT REMAINS: Edward Abbey, Wallace Stegner, and the American West by David Gessner. Publication date: April 20, 2015. Hardcover $26.95. 978-0-393-08999-8.
NIGHT AT THE FIESTAS: Stories by Kirstin Valdez-Quade. Publication date: March 23, 2015. Hardcover $25.95. 978-0-393-24298-0.
THE LOST WORLD OF THE OLD ONES: Discoveries in the Ancient Southwest by David Roberts. Publication date: April 13, 2015. Hardcover $27.95. 978-0-393-24162-4.
 
University of Arizona Press
LADIES OF THE CANYONS: A League of Extraordinary Women and Their Adventures in the American Southwest by Lesley Poling-Kempes. Publication date: September 17, 2015. Paperback $24.95. 978-0-816-52494-5.
Children's
 
Abrams Books for Young Readers
IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF CRAZY HORSE by Joseph Marshall; illustrated by James Mark Yellowhawk. Publication date: November 10, 2015. Hardcover $16.95. 978-1-419-70785-8.
 
Albert Whitman/AW Teen
BURN GIRL by Mandy Mikulencak. Publication date: September 1, 2015. Hardcover $16.99. 978-0-807-52217-2.
DOWN FROM THE MOUNTAIN by Elizabeth Fixmer. Publication date: February 1, 2015. Hardcover $16.99. 978-0-807-58370-8.
 
BQB Publishing
THE LOST AZTIKI TRIBE AND THE MYSTERIOUS CAVE OF GOLD by Ed Loffredo. Publication date: April 25, 2015. Paperback $12.95. 978-1-939-37159-1-51295.
 
Boyds Mills Press/Calkins Creek
DIARY OF A WAITRESS: The Not-So-Glamorous Life of a Harvey Girl by Carolyn Meyer. Publication date: March 17, 2015. Hardcover $17.95. 978-1-620-91652-0.
 
Cam Co Publishers
I HATE TO WAIT by Kady Martin; illustrated by Inge Burle. Publication date: October 5, 2015. Paperback $8.00. 978-0-692-47929-2.
 
Candlewick Press
LOOK BOTH WAYS IN THE BARRIO BLANCO by Judith Robbins Rose. Publication date: September 8, 2015. Hardcover $16.99. 978-076-367235-5.
 
Charlesbridge Publishing
(Horrors of History) MASSACRE OF THE MINERS: A Novel by T. Neill Anderson. Publication date: May 12, 2015. Hardcover $16.95. 978-1-580-89520-0.
 
Leaf Storm Press
GO WEST! by Joel Nakamura. Publication date: August 1, 2015. Hardcover $17.95. 978-0-991-41056-9.
 
Mascot Books 
TEXAS FARM GIRL: Reap What You Sow by Rebecca Crownover. Publication date: January 6, 2015. Hardcover $14.95. 978-1-620-86263-6.  
 
Mother's House Publishing
ROSA BLOOMS written and illustrated by Lori Batcheller. Publication date: August 7, 2015. Paperback $13.95. 978-1-618-88135-9.
 
Ooligan Press at Portland State University 
A SERIES OF SMALL MANEUVERS by Eliot Treichel. Publication date: November 1, 2015. Paperback $14.95. 978-1-932-01079-4.  
 
Scholastic Inc./Scholastic Press
RANGER IN TIME #1: Rescue on the Oregon Trail by Kate Messner; illustrated by Kelley McMorris. Publication date: January 6, 2015. Paperback $5.99. 978-0-545-63914-9. 
 
 Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers/Aladdin 
HUNTERS OF CHAOS by Crystal Velasquez. Publication date: June 9, 2015. Hardcover $16.99. 978-1-481-42452-3.  
WILDER BOYS by Brandon Wallace. Publication date: May 5, 2015. Hardcover $16.99. 978-1-481-43264-1.  
 
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers/Atheneum-Richard Jackson Books 
OLD WOLF by Avi; illustrated by Brian Floca. Publication date: August 4, 2015. Hardcover $16.99. 978-1-442-49921-8.  
 
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers/Beach Lane Books 
IN THE CANYON by Liz Garton Scanlon; illustrated by Ashley Wolff. Publication date: August 18, 2015. Hardcover $17.99. 978-1-481-40348-1.  
 
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers /Margaret K. McElderry 
FIG by Sarah Elizabeth Schantz. Publication date: April 7, 2015. Hardcover $17.99. 978-1-481-42358-8.  
 
Sourcebooks/Prufrock Press
Top Secret Files-THE WILD WEST: Secrets, Strange Tales, and Hidden Facts about the Wild West by Stephanie Bearce. Publication date: October 15, 2015. Paperback $8.95. 978-1-618-21462-1.
 
Wisdom Tales Press
WHISPERS OF THE WOLF by Pauline Ts'o. Publication date: October 7, 2015. Hardcover $16.95. 978-1-937-78645-8.
 
 

Tattered Cover Seeks
LoDo Store Manager
Tattered Cover Book Store
Lodo Store Manager
 
Job Description:
This is a leadership position with significant responsibility for coordinating and supporting retail store operations. Additionally, store managers are expected to champion enthusiasm for bookselling among staff, identify ways the store can better meet customer expectations and develop the "Tattered Cover approach" to a variety of situations. Effective communication skills and practices are essential to facilitate the flow of information within his/her store, other stores and other departments. As is true with all jobs at Tattered Cover, creativity, flexibility and adaptability to changing circumstances are crucial.
 
The Store Manager leads and directs the work of the store retail manager teams and booksellers while coordinating with other managers, buyers, personnel, maintenance, marketing and others to achieve store goals regarding the in-store customer experience. Store managers help identify floor coverage requirements, create the weekly floor schedule, engage with inventory presentation and performance, influence store layout and design, offer staff reviews, provide training to managers and booksellers, monitor the physical plant and respond to unexpected needs as they arise. Store managers work with the coffee shop management team to coordinate store and coffee shop operations.
 
Each Tattered Cover store has features specific to its location. As a result they may differ in the composition of their management teams and operations. Therefore, at any given time the store manager position may be tailored to suit the needs of a particular location.
 
Special Requirements:
A willingness to take on responsibility; leadership for the management team as well as a desire to work with a diverse staff; an ability to be sensitive and helpful when dealing with personal issues and therefore respectful of and comfortable with issues of confidentiality; a real interest in all aspects of floor work and customer service; must be willing to handle what are sometimes difficult customer situations and complaints; an ability to provide intermediate and advanced training for staff; fluent in counter procedures and policies; a willingness to monitor the upkeep of the physical plant and provide oversight to building vendors and contractors.
 
Schedule requirements:
This is a full-time, 40 hour, position. The schedule will require a mix of opening and closing shifts, and the flexibility to respond to emergency floor coverage and/or management needs. An exact schedule will be determined in consultation with the Lodo retail management team.
 
Location:
Denver, Colorado
 
How to Apply:
Please visit www.tatteredcover.com/employment-opportunities for an application.

Applications may be turned in to any Tattered Cover location (except DIA) or mailed to:

Tattered Cover Book Store
Personnel Department
2526 E. Colfax Avenue
Denver, CO 80206
 
Applications must be received
by January 15, 2016.
The Tattered Cover is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
 
 

Spring Meeting 2016:
Save the Date!
Spring Meeting 2015 from left: Rinker Buck, author of THE OREGON TRAIL from Simon & Schuster; Tiffany Quay Tyson, author of THREE RIVERS from Macmillan/St. Martin's Press; Lisa Ekelman, The Bookworm of Edwards in Edwards, Colorado 
MPIBA Spring Meeting
Slated for Friday, April 8, 2016
in Boulder, Colorado 
 
Last year's Spring Meeting in Fort Collins, Colorado was a wonderful event that included an ABA presentation, "Exploring New Markets," lunch, and an MPIBA session from member booksellers, "The Best Thing I Did This Year." The day was capped off with a fabulous Author Reception hosted by Old Firehouse Books.

Mark your calendar and plan to join us this year for another exciting day of programming, ideas, authors, and events!
 
Details to follow as they become available. 
 

Storybrooke, Ink
Hosts Kellen Cutsforth
Storybrooke, Ink in Holyoke, Colorado was delighted to host Kellen Cutsforth, editor of BUFFALO BILL, BOOZERS, BROTHELS, AND BARE-KNUCKLE BRAWLERS: An Englishman's Journal of Adventure in America.

The travel journal of the wealthy young Englishman, Evelyn Booth, weaves a factual, enthralling, and entertaining narrative that follows his escapades throughout the United States of the late nineteenth century.

Transcribed and edited (with relevant commentary for contemporary audiences) by Kellen Cutsforth, Booth's journal reveals his career as a young carefree frat boy with unlimited funds, gives first-hand accounts that involve drunken nights, fist fights, illicit sex with prostitutes, sporting events, and full-blown adventures with the most well-known celebrities of the day, including encounters with famous scout and showman William Frederick "Buffalo Bill" Cody and the Wild West Cowboys; bare-knuckled world champions John L. Sullivan and Jack Nonpareil Dempsey; Fred Archer, the most famous horse jockey of the day, and prostitutes, gamblers, and infamous houses.
 
 

Rhyolite Press Releases
BLUE GRAY BLACK
From a first-hand observer of history's monumental events ...    
 
BLUE GRAY BLACK
My Service to Country
by Donald J. Cesare, FBI (Ret)
 
A personal memoir of his forty-plus years of duty in the US Marine Corps, the Central Intelligence Agency, and the Federal Bureau of Investigation, during which time he was a witness to history, having supported U-2 spy planes flying from Turkish airbases, up and over the Soviet Union, investigated the Kennedy assassination and was dead-center of Mississippi during the Civil Rights Movement, actively assisting in the demise of the Ku Klux Klan.

Only a handful of persons in every generation are graced by fate to be first-hand observers of those monumental events which become a part of our shared human history. Even fewer are actual participants in such events, and those who have done both are as rare as unicorns.

BLUE GRAY BLACK: My Service to Country
ISBN 978-1-943829-02-6
$16.95
Available at bookstores everywhere or from the publisher:
also as an eBook
Distributed by Ingram Content Group

For further information:
Contact Lora@Rhyolitepress.com                                                      
719-203-5265