Events
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!
Get ready for a rollicking good time with our discussion of Guards! Guards! by Terry Pratchett. If you’ve read any of the Discworld novels, you know that they don’t come any funnier than Terry Pratchett, whose sense of the wry and the ridiculous will keep you laughing out loud. If you haven’t tried Terry Pratchett yet, here’s the perfect place to start!
This month, we’re reading one of Italy’s hottest young writers. Jack Frusciante has Left the Band was written by Enrico Brizzi when he was eighteen years old. The novel went on to sell over one million copies and have a film based on it. The themes, about “growing up” or being true to yourself, rock and roll, and love, are universal. We think you’ll enjoy Jack’s journey.
How about a combination of steampunk, vampires, and alternate history? That’s what you’ve got for our selection this month, New Amsterdam by Elizabeth Bear. This collection of short stories works itself into a novel featuring a female British agent of the crown and an amateur detective who happens to be a vampire. And there are dirigibles.
Join us this month for a discussion of The Manual of Detection by Jedediah Berry. Follow us down the rabbit hole as a novice detective tries to find out what has become of his predecessor, only to find that nothing is as it seems and that dreams may hold the key to a mystery of the waking world.
