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Tattered Cover Book Store

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Unchain Yourself. Support Your Local Independent Bookstore!

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  • Tattered Cover Book Store

  • Female
  • Denver, Colorado, US
  • Last Login: 2/8/2010

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About me:

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I am an independent, home-grown, woman-owned bookstore established in 1971 in a tiny storefront on Second Avenue in the Cherry Creek district of Denver. I now have three greater Denver locations, each averaging 25,000 square feet, and each with a distinct personality. No cookie-cutter stores for me. In the historic Lower Downtown area I am housed in the old 19th-century western mercantile founded by C.S. Morey. It is two floors of pure, sweet books and magazines and literary sidelines. On Colfax Avenue, once the main thoroughfare through Denver before superhighways rerouted traffic, I am housed in the historic, art-deco-style Bonfils-Lowenstein Theater, where Denver enjoyed live productions, ballet, and cabaret from the 1950s through the mid-80s. The Colfax store has preserved much of the theatrical history and look of the former playhouse. In Highlands Ranch, south of the city, I've hung up my spurs at what was once a working Colorado cattle ranch, now a sprawling suburban community, accessible to downtown by lightrail. Located in the Highlands Ranch Town Center, I'm in a spanking new building, who's interior charm is not even slightly diminished by my exterior modernity. I have an internet cafe and a world-class newsstand at each location, with antique sofas and overstuffed chairs and quiet nooks galore to encourage lounging and browsing. Authors both famous and not-yet famous pass through my doors, along with celebrities, politicians, and ordinary booklovers of every shape and size. In short, I am the bookstore of your dreams. After you've finished checking out my space here (and, hey, stay as long as you like), check out my Goodreads page, my YouTube site, and my Between the Covers blog @ blogspot. If you're planning a trip to the Denver area, you can find me at WeGoPlaces.com - Vacation and Travel Planning Made Easy! indiebound

Who I'd like to meet:

anyone who believes in the free flow of words and ideas, readers, writers, librarians, thinkers, teachers, publishers, book reviewers, booksellers, editors, artists & illustrators of all sorts, literary award winners, First Amendment activists, literacy advocates, poets, and you! You Belong Here

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Interests

  • General

    books books books books books books books books books books books books books Photobucket Below, listen to Dr. Pius Kamau read his essay at Tattered Cover from the book THIS I BELIEVE, featuring Dan Gediman, the executive producer of NPR's series by the same name. Many renowned contributors including Isabel Allende, Colin Powell, Gloria Steinem, William F. Buckley, Jr., Penn Jillette, Bill Gates, and John Updike make this book a stirring and provocative trip inside the minds and hearts of a diverse group of people whose beliefs, and the incredibly varied ways in which they choose to express them, reveal the American spirit at its best. Before coming to the U.S. in 1971, Dr. Pius Kamau studied medicine in Spain, England and his native Kenya. A thoracic and general surgeon, Kamau also writes a column for the Denver Post. He is currently organizing a medical group to work in Sudan. And here author Michael Shermer discusses his newest book The Mind of the Market: Compassionate Apes, Competitive Humans, and Other Tales from Evolutionary Economics.

  • Music

    Cat Stevens is hard to beat. But since music makes the world go 'round, it would be very very hard to choose among all the brilliant talent at work out there today. How about we start with these guys, a thought-provoking group blending words, ideas, and sound. They're simply called The Books. Take a listen: And for a different take on a similar theme (words, ideas, and sound), check out DJ Spooky that subliminal kid (who will be coming to our LoDo store in August with an electronic presentation promoting his new book Sound Unbound). Join us then. But now watch this: One Ring Zero As Smart As They Are

  • Movies

    84 Charing Cross Road, You've Got Mail, Crossing Delancey, Nottinghill, Neverending Story, any Woody Allen film featuring scenes in bookstores (and there are many), Harry Potter, Pride and Prejudice (the definitive one starring Colin Firth is the best and most accurate) and all other worthy adaptations of great works of literature.

  • Television

    Seinfeld episode: George and Jerry are shopping in Rizzoli's bookstore. George takes a book into the restroom to read while he's on the can and when he comes out he is told he has to buy it.

  • Books

    If you're concerned about the direction America has been moving in the past few years, watch this clip of David Sirota speaking at Tattered Cover about his book The Uprising. Below is a fan's video of the Jodi Picoult autographing at Tattered Cover. We found this video on YouTube and loved it.

  • Heroes

    Readers, independent booksellers, librarians, teachers, defenders of the First Amendment (especially ABFFE), book artists (be one), authors of every stripe, and we especially admire literacy activists around the world, making reading possible everywhere.
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Details

  • Status: Single
  • Here for: Friends
  • Hometown: Denver Metro Area
  • Body type: Average
  • Zodiac Sign: Virgo
  • Occupation: bookseller

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