Featuring Poets
Alice Goble
Renee Ruderman
Joy Sawyer
Cate Wiley
Begins at 7:30 pm Near
West Side Books
3434 W. 32nd Ave.
Lowell for more information: 303-480-0220 www.westsidebooks.com
No charge for Admission and Refreshments Coffee provided by Peaberry’s
Featuring Authors Steve Rasnic Tem and Melanie Tem
**Steve’s books include: “City Fishing”, “The Book of Days”, “Daughters”
*Melanie’s books include: “The Deceiver”, “The Tides”, “Witch-light”
-Neil Gaiman, author of American Gods
intros by Ed Bryant, all starting at 7:30 pm
Near
West Side Books
3434 W. 32nd Ave.
Lowell for more information: 303-480-0220 www.westsidebooks.com
No charge for Admission and Refreshments Coffee provided by Peaberry’s
A Conspiracy of Fools
Eichenwald, Kurt
New York, Broadway Books, 2005
ISBN: 0767911784
An in-depth investigation of the who and what of the Enron melt-down … the players, the insiders, the accountants. The sheer lunacy of some of the decisions that were made. Not only did the company ‘managers’ take on projects that were outside their expertise, they did so with almost no research into the other business lines … going blindly where no one had gone before!
Ken Lay and Jeff Skilling are portrayed as uninformed corporate officers, that they would have done better if others had kept them ‘in the loop’. Andy Fastow (CFO) is portrayed as sort of a high-paid bumbling idiot … but, I’m not convinced. I think he was one sharp con-man. He was able to convince the BOD to allow him to personally invest in side-deals for Enron, each one a clear conflict of interest. Some of the deals were structured such that the more money that Enron lost, the more money that Fastow (and his cronies) made off of each deal. Fastow was able to pocket millions, personally, while Enron lost billions on the ‘investments’.
Much is made, also, of the manipulation of the utilities, especially the electricity market that caused the severe crisis in California.
A really good read … a book hard to put down … reads like a fast-paced mystery novel, but it’s all true. Will leave you shaking your head at almost every fast-paced turn of the page.
G’Jim c):{-
The One-Hour Orgasm : How to Learn the Amazing ‘Venus Butterfly’ Technique,
Schwartz, Bob and Leah
Houston, Breakthru Publishing, 1999
ISBN: 0-942540-14-X [how apropos!]
Wow!!
G’Jim c):{-
Mention that you saw this notice and receive 15% off any purchase.
Gallagher Books at 1428 S. Broadway will host a Holiday Open House on Saturday and Sunday, December 1-2 as part of the Antique Row Holiday Celebration. Coffee, soft drinks, and snacks will be ready for you, so stop by and see us. Hours: Saturday 10:30 - 5:30 and Sunday noon - 5:00.
We have filled our shelves with new inventory. We offer an outstanding selection of old, rare, and unusual books in many fields. You’ll find significant selections in Western, Americana, Railroad, Art, Children’s, Illustrated, Leather and Decorative Bindings, Archaeology, Geology, Military, History, Literature, Modern Firsts. Original World War I and II posters and library related antiques are also available.
Call us at 303-756-5821 or toll free at 1-866-425-5225, if you have any questions or want us to help with a special present.
‘American Creation : Triumphs and Tragedies at the Founding of the Republic`
Joseph J. Ellis; New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 2007; ISBN-13: 978-0-307-26369-8
Six chapters, six turning points where the founding fathers got things right, and wrong - and setting us along a path that we still travel, fraught with rocks, pot-holes, and widely divergent side-roads.
1) The Year - the fifteen months between the shots fired at Lexington and Concord and the Declaration of Independence; culminating in the statement, ‘We hold these truths to be self evident …’
2) The Winter - Those dreadful months at Valley Forge, when/where George Washington would finally come to the realization that he didn’t need to win the war, what he really had to do was to prevent the British from winning.
3) The Argument - The important, but certainly not inevitable, movement from the Articles of Confederation to The Constitution.
4) The Treaty - The Jay Treaty, siding with Britain against the French who had helped in the Revolutionary War - going against the feelings of the majority of the citizenry.
5) The Conspiracy - The creation of the two-party system - against the original opinions that parties would be the ruination of the country.
6) The Purchase - The Louisiana Purchase - doubling the size of the country, and Jefferson almost single-handedly approving the entire deal in spite of the fact that he deeply felt that it was way beyond his powers to do so.
Throughout the book, two ‘tragedies’ are frequently mentioned against the events; the failure to address slavery (the ’silent’ issue that no one would mention), and the failure to properly address the ‘Indian issue’ - both issues eventually leading to great blood-shed and the one almost to the complete dissolution of the republic.
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Jim Arner
Just finished reading ‘The Book Thief : The true crimes of
Daniel Spiegelman’ by Travis McDade, Praeger Publishers,
Westport, 2006; ISBN: 0-275-9931-0.
This non-fictional account of DS’ crime, his capture,
his trial, his sentencing, escape, re-capture, re-sentencing
makes for some very interesting reading.
The author seems to wander far afield, at times, leaving the
reader initially wondering what possible link the
information has with the primary subject … but, in every
case, the relevance is revealed … and the whole makes for
a very good story.
Recommended reading … some of the testimony by Jean Ashton
(of Columbia’s RBML), regarding the value of stolen items
(and the damage caused), is extremely interesting to those
involved in the rare book/manuscript world.
My local library didn’t have a copy of this book, in fact no
library in the state of Wyomin’ had a copy. But, the
library was able to obtain the book, through inter-library
loan, from the Public Library in Avon, Colorado.
Jim Arner
We are excited to announce the following event at the Denver Book Mall, 32 Broadway (between 1st Avenue and Ellsworth), Denver, 303-733-3808. Please feel free to pass along the information to everyone you know.
Sunday, November 11, 3:00 p.m. – “How Denver won World War II”: Local historian and raconteur Phil Goodstein will discuss and sign his latest book, From Soup Lines to the Front Lines: Denver during the Depression and World War II 1927-1947. The book will be discounted to $25 from its cover price of $29.95, and refreshments will be served. There was a great review of Phil’s book by Sandra Dallas in last Sunday’s Denver Post. Read it at http://tinyurl.com/3ccnfo
MAIL ORDERS and ADVANCE ORDERS WELCOME. If you have any questions about the book signing, please call Nina Else or Pat Grego at 303-733-3808.
ALSO, there’s a wonderful art show of mixed media and watercolor at the Denver Book Mall running November 7 through January 8. You have plenty of time to get in to see and buy, BUT there’s an opening reception TONIGHT, Friday November 9, 6 – 10, with lots of refreshments and merriment.
These are the final days of Books Unlimited’s going out of business sale. For details on discounts, please visit our web site.
We have many thousands of great books at low prices - the majority of the store will run $3.00 or less with the discounts we have on them.
We will be open until 6 pm Friday, Saturday 10 am-6 pm and noon-4 pm Sunday. Sunday is the final day.
Hope to see you there!
The Tierneys
Books Unlimited 1491 S Broadway Denver CO 80210 303-744-0279
otierney@nilenet.com ***************** www.booksunlimited.com
Help us make room for new inventory. Gallagher Books is offering discounts on books on Antiques and Collectibles.
Price Guides 50% off; all other books on antiques and collectibles 25% off.
Our shop is at 1428 S. Broadway, just six blocks south of I-25, Denver
Gallagher Collection Books
Rare, Out of Print Books; Library Related Antiques
Don & Sue Gallagher
Open Shop: 1428 S. Broadway
Denver, Colorado 80210
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