Laura Ayrey Burnett
Executive Director
MPIBA

435.649.6079 office

435.649.6105 fax  

 


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
970.484.3939
970.484.0037 fax
800.752.0249 toll-free


Administration/Projects
Send 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
October 6-8, 2016
The Renaissance
Denver Hotel








Spring Meeting 2016
Bookseller Registration Deadline March 15!     
Boulder Public Library

The Spring Meeting is open to current MPIBA and ABA member booksellers. Lunch is provided.


Programming:  
10:00 am - 2:00 pm   
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.
 
 

Boulder Book Store 
Author Reception 
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm 
Boulder Book Store  
1107 Pearl Street  
Boulder, Colorado 80302



Workman Publishing 
Algonquin Books 
 
 
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.     


HarperCollins Publishers
William Morrow
 
 
MONGRELS: A Novel  

by Stephen Graham Jones  

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.   


Simon & Schuster 
Scribner 
 
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
  


Penguin Random House
G.P. Putnam's Sons
 
 
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.    


Macmillan
Flatiron Books
 
 
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.    


Workman Publishing 
 
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