Borders, Englewood
9515 E. County Line Road
Fri: 6 p.m. Troy Cook signs “The One Minute Assassin.”
Sat: 1 p.m. Drs. Richard J. Flanigan and Kate Flanigan Sawyer sign “Longevity Made Simple: How to Add 20 Good Years to Your Life.”
Borders, Littleton
Southwest Plaza, 8501 W. Bowles Ave.
Sat: 1 p.m. Troy Cook signs “The One Minute Assassin.”
Borders, Lakewood
Colorado Mills, 14500 W. Colfax Ave., Suite 145
Sat: 2 p.m. J. Troy Seate signs “Descent Into Darkness.”
Borders, Northglenn
241 W. 104th Ave.
Sat: 2 p.m. Paco Ahlgren signs “Discipline.”
Borders, Aurora
6606 S. Parker Road
Sat: 6 p.m. Troy Cook signs “The One Minute Assassin.”
Denver Central Library
10 W. 14th Avenue Parkway, B2 Conference Center
Sun: 2-4 p.m. John Ventimiglia from the television series “The Sopranos” will read selections from “The Original Scroll Manuscript of Jack Kerouac’s ‘On the Road.”‘ Ventimiglia will be joined by special guests and a discussion will follow the performance. The program is free.
Murder by the Book, Denver
1574 S. Pearl St.
Wed: 5:30 p.m. Eric Stone signs “Grave Imports.”
One Book, One Denver
Deadline: Nov. 5 “Articles of War,” by Nick Arvin, is the 2007 selection for the One Book, One Denver reading program in which Denver Mayor John Hickenlooper encourages residents to read the same book and participate in community events on the novel and its author.
The Lighthouse Writers Workshop is sponsoring an essay, poetry and short story contest in which teenagers are invited to write about something that refers to an event or person from history. Short stories or essays should be marked as fiction or nonfiction and should be no more than 1,000 words in length. All entries must be typed and double-spaced. Poems can be single-spaced. Finalists will be announced by Arvin on Nov. 14. Send e-mail entries to info@lighthousewriters.org, or mail entries to 2123 Downing St., Denver, CO 80205. Entries must include name, age, current grade and name of school, e-mail, address and phone number.
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Recording for the Blind & Dyslexic
1355 S. Colorado Blvd., Suite C-406
Wed: 8 a.m.-8 p.m. Denver Poet Laureate Chris Ransick and Betsy Boudreau, executive director of the RFB&D, invite all Colorado poets to record a portion of a textbook as part of the second annual “Colorado Poets Lend Their Voices to RFB&D.” Call 303-692-9213 to sign up.
Seawell Grand Ballroom
Denver Performing Arts Complex, 14th and Curtis streets
Wed: 6 p.m. Colorado Humanities and Center for the Book present the 16th annual Colorado Book Awards, honoring Colorado editors, authors, photographers and illustrators. Tickets are $85, $75 in advance. A reception and dinner are included. Call 303-894-7951 or visit colorado .
Tattered Cover, Colfax
2526 E. Colfax Ave.
Mon: 7:30 p.m. Stephen R. Donaldson will read from and sign “Fatal Revenant.”
Tue: 7:30 p.m. Susie Scott Krabacher signs “Angels of a Lower Flight: One Woman’s Mission to Save a Country … One Child at a Time.”
Wed: 7:30 p.m. Kevin Bales signs “Ending Slavery: How We Free Today’s Slaves.”
Fri: 7:30 p.m. Jeffrey Lent will read from and sign “A Peculiar Grace.”
Tattered Cover, Highlands Ranch
Highlands Ranch Parkway at Lucent Boulevard
Mon: 7:30 p.m. Richard Paul Evans will read from and sign “The Gift.”
Sat: 3 p.m. Debra Gano will read from and sign “Beauty’s Secret.”
Tattered Cover, LoDo
1628 16th St.
Mon: 7:30 p.m. Carl Bernstein signs “A Woman in Charge: The Life of Hillary Rodham Clinton.” Free tickets will be available at 6:30 p.m.
Tue: 7:30 p.m. David Amram will discuss and sign “Upbeat: Nine Lives of a Musical Cat.”
Wed: 7:30 p.m. A.J. Jacobs signs “The Year of Living Biblically: One Man’s Humble Quest to Follow the Bible as Literally as Possible.”
Thu: 7:30 p.m. Kevin Kling will read from and sign “The Dog Says How.”
Fri: 7:30 p.m. Ross Wehner, Renee del Gaudio and Kazia Jankowski will present a slide show and sign “Moon Handbook: Peru, 2nd Edition.”
Sat: 2 p.m. Joyce Gellhorn and Calvin Whitehall present a slide show and sign “White-tailed Ptarmigan: Ghosts of the Alpine Tundra.”
