Barnes & Noble, Aurora
Aurora City Center, 170 S. Abilene St.
Sat: 2 p.m. Dick Kreck will discuss and sign “Smaldone: The Untold Story of an American Crime Family.”
The Bookies
4315 E. Mississippi Ave.
Thu: 3:30-5:30 p.m. Judy Schachner will discuss and sign “Skippyjon Jones: Lost in Spice.”
Boulder Book Store
1107 Pearl St., Boulder
Mon: 7:30 p.m. Jay Cowan will discuss and sign “Hunter S. Thompson: An Insider’s View of Deranged, Depraved, Drugged Out Brilliance.”
Wed: 7:30 p.m. Joan Borysenko will discuss and sign “It’s Not the End of the World.”
Thu: 6:30 p.m. Judy Schachner will discuss and sign “Skippyjon Jones: Lost in Spice.”
Broadway Book Mall
200 S. Broadway
Sat: 3 p.m. Robert Greer will discuss and sign “Spoon: A Novel.”
The Cliff House at Pikes Peak, Manitou Springs
306 Cañon Ave.
Fri-Sat: The Friends of the Manitou Springs Library present the fourth annual Author Fest of the Rockies in a two-day conference featuring more than 50 Colorado authors, illustrators, editors, publishers and more. Times and tickets vary. Visit authorfestofthe for more information.
Philip S. Miller Library
100 S. Wilcox St., Castle Rock
Tue: 7 p.m. Children’s book author Justin Matott signs copies of his numerous books.
Tattered Cover, Colfax
2626 E. Colfax Ave.
Tue: 7:30 p.m. A. J. Jacobs will discuss and sign “The Guinea Pig Diaries: My Life as an Experiment.”
Thu: 7:30 p.m. Robert Greer will read from and sign “Spoon: A Novel.”
Tattered Cover, Highlands Ranch
9315 Dorchester St.
Wed: 7:30 p.m. Elizabeth Berg will read from and sign the new paperback edition of “Home Safe.”
Fri: 7:30 p.m. M.E. Harrigan will read from and sign “9800 Savage Road: A Novel of the National Security Agency.”
Sat: 3 p.m. Karl Mecklenburg will discuss and sign “Heart of a Student Athlete: All-Pro Advice for Competitors and Their Families.”
Tattered Cover, LoDo
1628 16th St.
Tue: Noon. David Cross will read from and sign “I Drink for a Reason.”
Tue: 7:30 p.m. Jen Yates will discuss and sign “Cake Wrecks: When Professional Cakes Go Hilariously Wrong.”
Wed: Noon. James Schroeder will discuss and sign “Confessions of a Political Spouse.”
Wed: 7:30 p.m. Victoria Tupper Kirby will discuss and sign “Allen Tupper True: An American Artist.”
Thu: 7:30 p.m. Ralph Nader will discuss and sign “Only the Super-Rich Can Save Us!”
Fri: 7:30 p.m. Steve Farber and Harlan Abrahams will discuss and sign “On the List: Fixing America’s Failing Organ Transplant System.”
Sat: 2 p.m. Dyana Z. Furmansky will discuss and sign “Rosalie Edge, Hawk of Mercy: The Activist Who Saved Nature From the Conservationists” as part of the Rocky Mountain Land Series.



