Featured Events in Colfax in July, 2025 (June Updated)

Join #1 New York Times and internationally bestselling author Alex Aster in conversation about her newest book, Summer in the Cityon Tuesday, July 1st at 6:00 PM at our Colfax location. Registration includes the following options: A signed Deluxe Limited Edition copy of the book … ORA $5 Gift Card to Tattered Cover Book StoreThere will be a 2 book limit for attendees, plus up to 3 additional SUMMER IN THE CITY editions signed. We will have a limited supply of additional books for guests to purchase in store. Only a book ticket guarantees you a copy of the book. If you are unable to attend the event after purchasing a ticket, you are required to pick up your copy of the book (with proof of purchase from your event registration) within 7 days after the event date. If the book is not picked up by that date, you relinquish your copy to Tattered Cover Book Store. ABOUT THE BOOK DELUXE LIMITED EDITION includes gorgeous sprayed edges with stenciled artwork, illustrated color endpapers, and special design features on the case. From #1 New York Times bestselling author Alex Aster comes her adult debut novel Summer in the City—a swoony, fast-paced rom-com set in New York City in which a screenwriter and a sexy tech CEO go from lovers to enemies and back to lovers again… Twenty-seven-year-old screenwriter Elle has the chance of a lifetime to write a big-budget movie set in New York City. The only problem? She’s had writer’s block for months, and her screenplay is due at the end of the summer. In a desperate attempt at inspiration, Elle ends up back in the city she swore she would never return to, in an apartment she could never afford (floor-to-ceiling windows, skyline views, and a new coffee shop to haunt included). It’s the perfect place to write her screenplay…until she realizes her new neighbor is tech “Billionaire Bachelor” Parker Warren, her stairwell hookup from two years ago. It’s been a lovers-to-enemies situation ever since. When seeing him again turns into a full night of hate-fueled writing, Elle realizes her enemy/twisted muse might just be the key to finishing her screenplay... if she can stand being around her polar opposite. She writes anonymously, and he’s on the cover of every business magazine. He frequents fancy red carpeted events, and she doesn’t like leaving her emotional support five block radius. One summer. One wall apart. He needs to fake a buzzy relationship during his company’s precarious acquisition. She needs to write a movie around a list of NYC locations. Both need a break from their unrelenting schedules, and a chance to rediscover the skyscraper glimmering, pizza crusted, sunlit charms of the city. Summers always end, and so will this agreement. It’s all pretend. Promise. Until it isn’t. ABOUT THE AUTHOR Alex Aster is a #1 New York Times and internationally bestselling author. She studied creative writing at the University of Pennsylvania, lives in New York, and is never too far from a coffee shop. Information Source: Tattered Cover Book Store | eventbrite

Join this inspiring conversation about the radically inventive excavation of one man’s life and our relationship to the earth as critically acclaimed author Justin Hocking shares about his new book, A Field Guide to the Subterranean: Reclaiming the Deep Earth and our Deepest Selves on Wednesday, July 2nd at 6:00 PM at our Colfax location. Registration includes the following options: A signed Hardcover copy of the book … ORA $5 Gift Card to Tattered Cover Book StoreWe will have a limited supply of additional books for guests to purchase in store. Only a book ticket guarantees you a copy of the book. If you are unable to attend the event after purchasing a ticket, you are required to pick up your copy of the book (with proof of purchase from your event registration) within 7 days after the event date. If the book is not picked up by that date, you relinquish your copy to Tattered Cover Book Store. ABOUT THE BOOK Justin Hocking grew up in a part of Colorado where so many things happened beneath the surface—mining exploits, underground nuclear testing just thirty miles from his family’s home, and geothermal activity that heats one of the world’s largest hot spring pools. His homelife, too, was plagued by hidden patterns of abuse and virulent masculinity. A Field Guide to the Subterranean charts the author’s lifelong process of unearthing the past and reclaiming his own identity and connection to the natural world. How might we transform our traumas into deeper care for one another and the landscapes that sustain us? How do we transcend the mythos of the rugged American male so rooted in extraction and exploitation? And how far can we move beyond the self in a memoir? Hocking explores these and other vital questions by combining personal introspection with expansive narratives that examine geology, ecology, gender theory, mining history, labor rights, and even skateboarding. Abundant with historical research and teeming with birdlife—and ranging in location from remote caves and mountains to secluded surf breaks in Costa Rica—A Field Guide to the Subterranean heralds a boldly original and kaleidoscopic approach to the genres of memoir and nature writing. ABOUT THE AUTHOR JUSTINHOCKING is the author of The Great Floodgates of the Wonderworld: A Memoir, which won the Oregon Book Award and was a finalist for the PEN Center USA Award for Nonfiction. He served as the Executive Director of the Independent Publishing Resource Center (IPRC) from 2006–2014 and is a recipient of the Willamette Writers Humanitarian Award for his work in writing, publishing, and literary outreach. He teaches creative writing in the MFA and BFA Programs at Portland State University. ABOUT THE CONVERSATION PARTNER NoahGallagherShannonis a frequent contributor to the New York Times Magazine, where he writes often about environmental issues. His work has also been featured in Harper's, The Oxford American, Audubon, The Paris Review and elsewhere. He is currently at work on a book for Random House about track and field, 1970s West Texas and a group of young athletes from East Africa who changed the sports world. He lives in Fort Collins, Colorado. Information Source: Tattered Cover Book Store | eventbrite

Join Candace Rondeaux, the Director of Future Frontlines, a public intelligence service for next generation security talk about her new book, Putin's Sledgehammer: The Wagner Group and Russia’s Collapse into Mercenary Chaoson Tuesday, July 8th at 6:00 PM at our Colfax location. Registration includes the following options: A signed Hardcover copy of the book … ORA $5 Gift Card to Tattered Cover Book StoreWe will have a limited supply of additional books for guests to purchase in store. Only a book ticket guarantees you a copy of the book. If you are unable to attend the event after purchasing a ticket, you are required to pick up your copy of the book (with proof of purchase from your event registration) within 7 days after the event date. If the book is not picked up by that date, you relinquish your copy to Tattered Cover Book Store. ABOUT THE BOOK The astonishing inside story of the Wagner Group, the world’s deadliest militia – “a must-read for anyone interested in the future of Russia and how to counter the Kremlin’s wars” (H. R. McMaster) In June 2023, the Wagner Group assembled an armed convoy that included tanks and rocket launchers and set out on what seemed like a journey to take control of Moscow. The last person to attempt such a venture was Adolf Hitler. Wagner’s power began from patronage, then grew from international theft and extortion, until it was so great it exposed the weakness of Russia’s conventional military and became a threat to the Russian state, one that was not demonstrably eliminated until a private jet containing Wagner’s core commanders was blown up in midair. That Yevgeny Prigozhin, a local criminal thug, was able to build a private army that was on the threshold of overwhelming the world’s second largest country seems incredible. In fact, it was inevitable following the hollowing out of the Russian military, the creeping use of contract groups for murky foreign missions, power struggles inside the Kremlin, and the ability of the new militias to corner and exploit the black economy. Told with unique inside sourcing and expertise, Putin’s Sledgehammer is a gripping and terrifying account of a superpower that contracted its soul to a pitiless militia. ABOUT THE AUTHOR Candace Rondeaux directs Future Frontlines, a public intelligence service for next generation security and democratic resilience, and the Planetary Politics initiative at the New America Foundation. A writer and public-policy analyst, Rondeaux is a professor of practice and fellow at the Melikian Center for Russian, Eurasian, and East European Studies and the Center on the Future of War at Arizona State University. Before joining New America, Rondeaux served as a senior program officer at the U.S. Institute of Peace where she launched the RESOLVE Network, a global research consortium on conflict and violent extremism and as a strategic advisor to the U.S. Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction. Rondeaux has documented and analyzed political violence in South Asia, and around the world for the Washington Post and the International Crisis Group. Before going abroad for the Post in 2009, Rondeaux covered criminal justice in Maryland and Virginia, where she covered capital punishment and was part of the Pulitzer Prize winning team of Post reporters who covered the 2007 Virginia Tech massacre. Rondeaux holds a B.A. in Russian area studies from Sarah Lawrence College, an M.A. in journalism from New York University, and an M.P.P. in public policy from the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University. Information Source: Tattered Cover Book Store | eventbrite

Join us for a fascinating event with journalist and author Claire Hoffman as she shares about her new biography, Sister, Sinner: The Miraculous Life and Mysterious Disappearance of Aimee Semple McPhersonon Thursday, July 10th at 6:00 PM at our Colfax location. Registration includes the following options: A signed copy of the book … ORA $5 Gift Card to Tattered Cover Book StoreWe will have a limited supply of additional books for guests to purchase in store. Only a book ticket guarantees you a copy of the book. If you are unable to attend the event after purchasing a ticket, you are required to pick up your copy of the book (with proof of purchase from your event registration) within 7 days after the event date. If the book is not picked up by that date, you relinquish your copy to Tattered Cover Book Store. ABOUT THE BOOK The dramatic rise, disappearance, and near-fall of Aimee Semple McPherson, America’s most famous woman evangelist. A spring day in 1926: Aimee Semple McPherson goes for a swim in the Pacific Ocean and vanishes. She is presumed dead. Weeks later she reappears in the desert, claiming to have been kidnapped. A national media frenzy and months of investigation ensue. Who was this woman? America’s most famous evangelist, McPherson used spectacle, storytelling, and the newest technology—including her own radio station—to bring God’s message to the masses. Her innovations brought Pentecostalism into the mainstream, paved the way for televangelists, and shaped the future of American Christianity. Her Angelus Temple in Echo Park, Los Angeles, can be called the first megachurch. Her Foursquare Church continues, with more than eight million faithful around the world. But after her disappearance, as crowds gathered at the water’s edge, people asked: Was McPherson everybody’s saintly sister, or a con-artist sinner? This is the story of what happened next—sex scandals, religious persecution, legal shenanigans, the unshakable faith of thousands of followers, and the race to report it all. A riveting journey into the rise of popular religion in America and life in early Hollywood, told with the flavor of the period's noir mysteries, Claire Hoffman's Sister Sinner is the thrilling story of an iconic woman, largely overlooked, who changed the world. ABOUT THE AUTHOR Claire Hoffman is the author of the memoir Greetings from Utopia Park and a journalist reporting for national magazines on culture, religion, celebrity, business, and other subjects. She was a staff reporter for the Los Angeles Times and Rolling Stone. She is a graduate of UC Santa Cruz and has an MA in religion from the University of Chicago and an MA in journalism from Columbia University. She serves on the boards of the Columbia School of Journalism, ProPublica, and the Brooklyn Public Library. Information Source: Tattered Cover Book Store | eventbrite

Join this inspiring conversation with Bridget Crocker, the author of a vivid and propulsive memoir about finding courage and meaning in a life outdoors on Wednesday, July 16th at 6:00 PM at our Colfax location. Registration includes the following options: A signed Hardcover copy of the book … ORA $5 Gift Card to Tattered Cover Book StoreWe will have a limited supply of additional books for guests to purchase in store. Only a book ticket guarantees you a copy of the book. If you are unable to attend the event after purchasing a ticket, you are required to pick up your copy of the book (with proof of purchase from your event registration) within 7 days after the event date. If the book is not picked up by that date, you relinquish your copy to Tattered Cover Book Store. ABOUT THE BOOK After Bridget Crocker’s parents’ volatile divorce, she moved with her mother from Southern California to Wyoming. Her life was idyllic, growing up in a trailer park on the banks of the Snake River with a stepfather she loved, a new baby brother, and the river as her companion—until her mother suddenly took up a radical new lifestyle, becoming someone Bridget barely recognized. The one constant in her life—the place Bridget felt whole and fully herself—was the river. When she discovered the world of whitewater rafting, she knew she’d found her calling. On the river, Bridget learned to read the natural world around her and came to know the language of rivers. One of the few female guides on the Snake River, she then traveled to the Zambezi River in Africa, some of the most dangerous whitewater in the world, where she faced death and learned to conquer her fears—both on the water and off. The river taught her how to overcome years of betrayals and abuse, to trust herself, and, finally, how to help heal her family from generational cycles of trauma and poverty. A beautifully rendered memoir of a woman coming into her own, The River’s Daughter opens us to the possibilities of transformation through nature. ABOUT THE AUTHOR Bridget Crocker is a trailblazer in women’s empowerment within the outdoor industry. A leading whitewater rafting guide, she has led remote river expeditions down many of the world’s greatest river canyons. She is a contributing author to Lonely Planet guidebooks and The Best Women’s Travel Writing series, and her work has been featured in magazines including Men’s Journal, National Geographic Adventure, Trail Runner, and Outside, as well as Patagonia’s blog, The Cleanest Line. She lives in Malibu, California. ABOUT THE CONVERSATION PARTNER Tracy Ross is an award-winning journalist who has been writing about the outdoors for national and international publications for two decades. A National Magazine Award-winner whose work has appeared in multiple Best American series, she is currently the rural reporter at The Colorado Sun, where she covers wolf reintroduction, agriculture, public lands, recreation, and economic development. Her memoir, The Source of All Things, was published to critical acclaim in 2011. And she working on a new book, about a sensitive subject, that she’s keeping close to the chest in order to protect its magic while she writes. Information Source: Tattered Cover Book Store | eventbrite

Join Pulitzer Prize–winning science reporter, Matt Richtelas we hear about his new book, How We Grow Up: Understanding Adolescenceon Wednesday, July 16th at 6:00 PM at our Colfax location. Registration includes the following options: A signed Hardcover copy of the book … ORA $5 Gift Card to Tattered Cover Book StoreWe will have a limited supply of additional books for guests to purchase in store. Only a book ticket guarantees you a copy of the book. If you are unable to attend the event after purchasing a ticket, you are required to pick up your copy of the book (with proof of purchase from your event registration) within 7 days after the event date. If the book is not picked up by that date, you relinquish your copy to Tattered Cover Book Store. ABOUT THE BOOK Building off his award-winningNew York Timesseries on the contemporary teen mental-health crisis, the Pulitzer Prize–winning science reporter delivers a groundbreaking investigation into adolescence, the pivotal life stage undergoing profound—and often confounding—transformation. The transition from childhood to adulthood is a natural, evolution-honed cycle that now faces radical change and challenge. The adolescent brain, sculpted for this transition over eons of evolution, confronts a modern world that creates so much social pressure as to regularly exceed the capacities of the evolving mind. The problem comes as a bombardment of screen-based information pelts the brain just as adolescence is undergoing a second key change: puberty is hitting earlier. The result is a neurological mismatch between an ultra-potent environment and a still-maturing brain that can lead to anxiety, depression, and other mental health challenges. It is a crisis that is part of modern life but can only be truly grasped through a broad, grounded lens of the biology of adolescence itself. Through this lens, Richtel shows us how adolescents can understand themselves, and parents and educators can better help. For decades, this transition to adulthood has been defined by hormonal shifts that trigger the onset of puberty. But Richtel takes us where science now understands so much of the action is: the brain. A growing body of research that looks for the first time into budding adult neurobiology explains with untold clarity the emergence of the “social brain,” a craving for peer connection, and how the behaviors that follow pave the way for economic and social survival. This period necessarily involves testing—as the adolescent brain is programmed from birth to take risks and explore themselves and their environment—so that they may be able to thrive as they leave the insulated care of childhood. Richtel, diving deeply into new research and gripping personal stories, offers accessible, scientifically grounded answers to the most pressing questions about generational change. What explains adolescent behaviors, risk-taking, reward-seeking, and the ongoing mental health crisis? How does adolescence shape the future of the species? What is the nature of adolescence itself? ABOUT THE AUTHOR MattRichtel is a reporter at the New York Times. He received the Pulitzer Prize for national reporting for a series of articles about distracted driving that he expanded into his first nonfiction book, A Deadly Wandering, a New York Times bestseller. His second nonfiction book, An Elegant Defense, on the human immune system, was a national bestseller and chosen by Bill Gates for his annual Summer Reading List. His 2022 New York Times series on teen mental health, “The Inner Pandemic,” won first place in public health reporting from the Awards for Excellence in Health Care Journalism and drew national media attention. Richtel has appeared on NPR’s Fresh Air, CBS This Morning, PBS NewsHour, and other major media outlets. He lives in Colorado. Information Source: Tattered Cover Book Store | eventbrite

Join us for a great conversation with local author Virginia Trench as we discuss her new thriller, Our Secrets Were Safe on Friday, July 18th at 6:00 PM at our Colfax location. Registration includes the following options: A signed Hardcover copy of the book … ORA $5 Gift Card to Tattered Cover Book StoreWe will have a limited supply of additional books for guests to purchase in store. Only a book ticket guarantees you a copy of the book. If you are unable to attend the event after purchasing a ticket, you are required to pick up your copy of the book (with proof of purchase from your event registration) within 7 days after the event date. If the book is not picked up by that date, you relinquish your copy to Tattered Cover Book Store. ABOUT THE BOOK In this fresh, twisty thriller, two women who've been keeping a secret for the past ten years discover that the skeletons we hide always come back. “A dark, intricate, and surprising debut, perfect for fans of Ashley Winstead and Megan Miranda.”—Andrea Bartz,New York Timesbestselling author ofThe Spare RoomandWe Were Never Here Someone knows what really happened the night Sofia Eliades died. Ten years after she was killed in a tragic car accident, her college ex, Caroline, and her former roommate Brooke, almost have what they’ve always wanted. Caroline is on the precipice of scoring funding for her feminist tech startup. Brooke is newly engaged and was just hired by a prestigious prep school. That catastrophic night has weighed heavily on their minds for years, but they agree: keeping the past in the past is essential. And they’ve been able to do that successfully, until Caroline starts getting comments on her company’s Instagram from a “Sofia.” And Brooke gets a threatening email with ominous photos attached. And when a fellow college classmate, the women’s only other link to Sofia, turns up dead, Brooke and Caroline have no choice but to confront their sinister history. Because it soon becomes clear that what they thought was safely hidden won’t stay buried. ABOUT THE AUTHOR Virginia Trench studied English at Vanderbilt University before earning an MA in secondary education at University of Colorado Boulder. When she's not writing, she can be found exploring the Rocky Mountains, struggling on a yoga mat while her cat judges her, or devouring the latest crime novels. She lives in Colorado with her family. Information Source: Tattered Cover Book Store | eventbrite

Join us for a great conversation with Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist Tom Bruett as he shares about his new book, The Go-To Relationship Guide for Gay Men: From Honeymoon to Lasting Commitmenton Friday, Tuesday 22nd at 6:00 PM at our Colfax location. Registration includes the following options: A signed Paperback copy of the book … ORA $5 Gift Card to Tattered Cover Book StoreWe will have a limited supply of additional books for guests to purchase in store. Only a book ticket guarantees you a copy of the book. If you are unable to attend the event after purchasing a ticket, you are required to pick up your copy of the book (with proof of purchase from your event registration) within 7 days after the event date. If the book is not picked up by that date, you relinquish your copy to Tattered Cover Book Store. ABOUT THE BOOK An accessible guide and workbook to building healthy gay male relationships adapted from the Bader/Pearson Developmental Model of Relationship Therapy.A guide to building healthy and meaningful relationships for gay men, written by a Marriage and Family Therapist specialising in LGBTQ+ partnerships. With case studies, practical exercises, and lived experience testimony - this is an invaluable companion for any stage of a gay relationships - whether you're monogamous, polyamorous, or inbetween! Gay relationships are different. Many of us didn't have queer elders as role models. Some of us have faced personal and societal trauma or felt lost in a Second Queer Adolescence. We can't simply squeeze ourselves into the heteronormative structures we've been offered and expect to find happiness. Weaving theory with personal experience and case studies, this workbook gives you the tools to build a rich, deep, gay relationship. Adapted from the Bader/Pearson developmental model of relationship therapy, and suitable for those practicing both monogamy and alternative relationship structures, this guide supports you from the first flush of the honeymoon to a place of real commitment. ABOUT THE AUTHOR Tom Bruett is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist with a practice in California and Colorado. He trains therapists in the Bader/Pearson Developmental Model of Couples Therapy and he has a specialization in working with LGBTQIA2S+ relationships. As an educator, he has trained therapists across multiple states in working with queer partnerships in a more effective and affirmative way. Information Source: Tattered Cover Book Store | eventbrite