Laura Ayrey Burnett Executive Director MPIBA
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435.649.6079 office
435.649.6105 fax
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Association Information Send publisher catalogs, author information, ARCs, and publicity to Laura:
3278 Big Spruce Way Park City, UT 84098 |
Kathy Keel Project Manager MPIBA
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970.484.3939 970.484.0037 fax 800.752.0249 toll-free
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Administration/ProjectsSend project-related questions (Fall Discovery Show, Winter Catalog, Reading the West Book Awards, Website) plus bills, invoices, and payments to:
MPIBA Administration c/o Kathy Keel 208 E. Lincoln Avenue
Fort Collins, CO 80524 |
Mark Your Calendar!
Fall Discovery Show (Trade Show) 2016
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October 6-8, 2016 The Renaissance Denver Hotel
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Spring Meeting 2016 Bookseller Registration Deadline March 15!
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The Spring Meeting is open to current MPIBA and ABA member booksellers. Lunch is provided.
Programming:
Boulder Creek Meeting Room Boulder Public Library 1001 Arapahoe Avenue Boulder, Colorado 80302
10:00 am - 11:30 am
ABA Educational Session: "Indie Bookstores and the New Localism: What You Can Do"
Data from a recent study, commissioned by ABA, suggests that the localism movement is now at a transition point, and that indie booksellers, indie retailers, and our colleagues in the Shop Local/Local First movement have an opportunity to refocus their efforts and bring about real change in public policy and perception.
During this session, ABA will report on the Civic Economics study "Amazon and Empty Storefronts: The Fiscal and Land Use Impact of Online Retail," and provide important resources and data to empower everyone connected with independent bookselling to communicate the "new" localism message to colleagues, customers, community members, elected officials, and the media.
11:45 am - 1:00 pm
ABA Lunch and Booksellers Forum
The ABA Booksellers Forum provides members with the opportunity to share ideas, examine industry issues, and receive updates on various association projects.
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
MPIBA Programming
2:00 pm - 3:30 pm MPIBA Advisory Council Meeting
Open to current members of the MPIBA Advisory Council.
The 10th & Walnut - St. Julien Hotel parking garage is across Boulder Canyon Drive from the library on Arapahoe, and down the street from Boulder Book Store on Pearl Street, so you should be able to park in this facility for the entire event.
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Author Reception
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Boulder Book Store
1107 Pearl Street
Boulder, Colorado 80302
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Workman Publishing
Algonquin Books
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THE ATOMIC WEIGHT OF LOVE: A Novel
by Elizabeth J. Church
Elizabeth Church's stirring debut novel about ambition, identity, and sacrifice will ring true to every woman who has had to make the impossible choice between who she is and who circumstances demand her to be.
| Elizabeth J. Church's father, a research chemist, was drafted out of Carnegie Mellon University and was sent to join other scientists working in secret on the Manhattan Project. Church's mother, a biologist, eventually joined her husband in Los Alamos. While this book is not their story, it is the story of many of the women who sacrificed their careers so that their husbands could pursue unique opportunities in scientific research. | | |
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HarperCollins Publishers William Morrow
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A spellbinding and darkly humorous coming-of-age story about an unusual boy whose family lives on the fringes of society and struggles to survive in a hostile world that shuns and fears them. MONGRELS alternates between past and present to create an unforgettable portrait of a boy trying to understand his family and his place in a complex and unforgiving world.
| Stephen Graham Jones is the author of fifteen novels and six story collections. He has received numerous awards including an NEA Fellowship in Fiction, the Texas Institute of Letters Jesse Jones Award for Fiction, the Independent Publishers Award for Multicultural Fiction, and three This is Horror Awards. Raised in West Texas, he now lives in Boulder, Colorado, with his wife and children. | | |
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Simon & Schuster Scribner
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NOTHING SHORT OF DYING: A Clyde Barr Novel
by Erik Storey
Hailed by the bestselling writer William Kent Krueger as "the year's best thriller debut," this rollercoaster read features a Jack Reacher-like drifter protagonist with lethal skills whose mission to rescue his abducted sister pits him against a meth kingpin seeking to control all the trade in the Western United States.
| Erik Storey is a former ranch hand, wilderness guide, dogsled musher, and hunter. NOTHING SHORT OF DYING is his first novel. Erik's short fiction has been published by such online magazines as Waving Hands Review and Literary Erosion. He and his family live in Rangely, Colorado | | |
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Penguin Random House G.P. Putnam's Sons
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THE LIGHT OF PARIS: A Novel
by Eleanor Brown
The miraculous new novel from Eleanor Brown, whose debut, THE WEIRD SISTERS, was a sensation beloved by critics and readers alike.
Margie and Madeleine's stories intertwine to explore the joys and risks of living life on our own terms, of defying the rules that hold us back from our dreams, and of becoming the people we are meant to be.
| Eleanor Brown teaches writing workshops at The Writers' Table in Highlands Ranch, Colorado, and at Lighthouse Writers Workshop in Denver, Colorado. Born and raised in the Washington, D.C. area, Eleanor lives in Colorado with her partner, writer J.C. Hutchins. | | |
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Macmillan Flatiron Books
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THE FIRE LINE:
The Story of the Granite Mountain Hotshots and One of the Deadliest Days in American Firefighting
by Fernanda Santos
Exhaustively researched, heart-wrenching, and, against all odds, an uplifting portrait of the human spirit, THE FIRE LINE brings to life the men who put their lives on the line every summer to bring safety and hope to those in the crosshairs of natural disaster.
| Fernanda Santos covers Arizona and New Mexico as the Phoenix bureau chief for the New York Times. This is her first book. Stationed in Phoenix at the time, Santos tried to reach Yarnell to cover the fire for the Times. Unable to get into the city due to roadblocks she filed her first story from her car, filling it with the stories of people who were fleeing the city as the fire encroached on their homes and businesses. | | |
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Workman Publishing
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DEAR COUNTY AGENT GUY: Calf Pulling, Husband Training, and Other Curious Dispatches from a Midwestern Dairy Farmer
by Jerry Nelson
Jerry Nelson is a humorist whose beat is the American heartland, a small-town world of pickup trucks and Sunday night pancake dinners, dropping in on neighbors and complaining about the county agent. Knee-slappingly funny one moment, poignant the next, it's a very special look at a distinctly American way of life.
| Jerry Nelson and his wife, Julie, live in Volga, South Dakota, on the farm that Jerry's great-grandfather homesteaded in the 1880s. In addition to his weekly column, his writing has also appeared in the nation's top agricultural magazines, including Successful Farming, Farm Journal, Progressive Farmer, and Living the Country Life. | | |
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