Events

This month’s selection is The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon.  This award-winning book describes the adventures of an autistic teenage boy as he attempts to solve the mystery of the death of his neighbor’s poodle.  Written in first-person perspective and including drawings and diagrams, you’ll be drawn into the mind of an incredibly intelligent, creative, unique character.  This book is 20% off at Old Firehouse Books for the month of April.

Sail the skies in an airship and explore an alien world with this month’s selection, Sun of Suns by Karl Schroeder.  This excellent entry into the steampunk genre showcases the author’s talent for world-building.  He uses the laws of physics to explain airbikes and an artificial sun that powers the world with mind-bending imagination.

Join us as the Gardens of Spring Creek visit to discuss the staff’s favorite gardening books!  We’ll also have a short demonstration of planting.  Spring is coming, and gardening weather is almost here.  This is a perfect way to get the resources you need for a successful summer garden.

Join us for a discussion of The Sister by Poppy Adams.  This book features two sisters, one of whom stayed in their crumbling old English home, the other who escaped into the world, but is now returning.  The otherworldly atmosphere and eerie, gothic tone make this book a must-read. This book is 20% off at Old Firehouse Books for the month of April.

Come hear a local, world-renowned diamond expert’s fascinating chronicle of the $108 million theft at the Antwerp Diamond Center on February 15, 2003.  If you love reconstructing and deconstructing crimes or want to hear about the inside of one of the world’s most lucrative industries, you are in for a treat.  Greg Campbell is an award-winning journalist who pursues this story through contradictory explanations and deceptions.  Like a finely cut gem, this well-polished, multifaceted book sparkles.

Since the well-known Wyoming mystery author C.J. Box will be appearing at the store on May 1, we’re preparing by reading his first novel, Open Season.  This fast-paced outdoors mystery introduces Joe Pickett, a game warden who is cursed by the need to do the right thing instead of the easy thing.  You’ll feel like you’re in Saddle String, Wyoming, riding Joe’s patrol with him and trying to solve the mystery of a dead poacher that a lot of people don’t want solved.  This book will be 20% off at Old Firehouse Books for the month of April.

Pick up your tickets now for our special event with Happy Lucky Teahouse!  We will be featuring Tea and Crumpets for our cookbook, which showcases dishes served at an English high tea.  Happy Lucky Teahouse will also do a tea tasting and tea pairing with foods.  This meeting will be both entertaining and delicious.  Samples from Tea and Crumpets will be provided, along with teas to taste.  Tickets to this event are $5. Tea and Crumpets will be 20% off during the month of April at Old Firehouse Books.

In this newly discovered Mark Twain comedy and recent Broadway hit, the original master of American humor dishes out a sly critique of the art world with acerbic wit and social commentary well ahead of his time. Cleverly adapted for modern audiences by David Ives, Is He Dead? is a fast-paced play about a struggling artist who stages his own death to drive up the price of his paintings. As the riotous scheme unfolds, Twain poses daring questions about fame, greed and the value of art, and pokes his signature, mischievous fun at everyone involved.  Stay after the show for a talk-back to the audience featuring Jacqie Hasan, the manager of Old Firehouse Books.

Join us for an evening with Raymond Ave, a local outdoorsman who has made trail maps for Lory State Park and Horsetooth, the Rawah Wilderness, Mount Zirkel Wilderness, and Rocky Mountain National Park.  He will present slides of some of the different hikes that he has mapped.  You’ll leave with some great new ideas for fresh hikes out in the high country. 

We are very excited to have this award-winning mystery author visit our store for a signing.  C.J. Box will appear to talk about and sign his new Joe Pickett mystery, Nowhere to Run.  This fast-paced novel features the beautiful Wyoming wilderness and sinister elements that it may conceal.  C. J. Box is a master of thrillers that pit man against the wilderness as much as against human killers.  This event is a treat that is not to be missed!