What you'll find below:
Authors from Across the Ponds!
And the Award Goes To...
Fort Collins Reads...Luis Alberto Urrea!
Liberate Your Audiobook and E-book Libraries with Libro.fm and Hummingbird!
Don't Forget Your Student Discount!
Andy Griffiths and Eoin Colfer are Both Coming to Fort Collins!
Australia's Andy Griffiths and Ireland's Eoin Colfer will both be joining us at the library this fall!
Andy Griffiths, creator of the Treehouse series, will be at Old Town Library on Wednesday, October 23rd at 6:00pm to celebrate the release of The 117-Story Treehouse: Dots, Plots, & Daring Escapes! For as long as Andy and Terry have been writing books together, Andy has always been the narrator and Terry has always been the illustrator. But when Terry tries to prove that he can narrate as well as draw, the story goes completely out of control and the Story Police arrive to arrest the whole treehouse team for crimes against storytelling! There will be Treehouse-themed bingo, a Q&A, and a signing at the event!
Brush up on your Gnommish and get ready to leap into Haven—NYT Bestselling Author Eoin Colfer is coming to Harmony Library on Tuesday, November 12th at 6:00pm to kick off a whole new Artemis Fowl series with The Fowl Twins! A week after scientist Myles and force of nature Beckett—the Fowl twins—turn eleven, they’re left alone in the care of house security for a single night, in which they manage to befriend a troll being chased by a nefarious nobleman, an interrogating nun, and his fairy-in-training bodyguard, go on the run, and discover the strongest bond is not between atoms, but rather between twins. A Q&A and signing will follow the event.
We hope to see you at either or both of these awesome events for amazing authors from afar!
Old Firehouse Books has been selected for the 2019 Best of Fort Collins Award in the Book Store category by the Fort Collins Award Program
"Each year, the Fort Collins Award Program identifies companies that we believe have achieved exceptional marketing success in their local community and business category. These are local companies that enhance the positive image of small business through service to their customers and our community. These exceptional companies help make the Fort Collins area a great place to live, work and play. Various sources of information were gathered and analyzed to choose the winners in each category. The 2019 Fort Collins Award Program focuses on quality, not quantity. Winners are determined based on the information gathered both internally by the Fort Collins Award Program and data provided by third parties."
About the Fort Collins Award Program
"The Fort Collins Award Program is an annual awards program honoring the achievements and accomplishments of local businesses throughout the Fort Collins area. Recognition is given to those companies that have shown the ability to use their best practices and implemented programs to generate competitive advantages and long-term value. The Fort Collins Award Program was established to recognize the best of local businesses in our community. Our organization works exclusively with local business owners, trade groups, professional associations and other business advertising and marketing groups. Our mission is to recognize the small business community's contributions to the U.S. economy."
Thanks so much to the Fort Collins Award Program! We're absolutely honored to be name Best Bookstore and are deeply grateful to the Award Program, our wonderful patrons, our owner Susie, and our great staff who all make it possible for us to keep bringing you books! We love you all so much! Thanks! --OFB
Fort Collins Reads... LUIS ALBERTO URREA!
Novelist, non-fiction writer, poet, and essayist, Luis Alberto Urrea and his novel, THE HOUSE OF BROKEN ANGELS are this year's selection!
The book is about a raucous, multi-cultural family all with unique personalities gathering for a funeral and birthday celebration—all during one weekend! The novel is a New York Times Notable Book and one of the best books of 2018 for NPR, Kirkus Reviews, and the New York Public Library. The New York Times describes the book as, “Epic..Rambunctious…Cheerfully profane…Highly entertaining…A powerful rendering of a Mexican-American family that is also an American family.”
A professor of creative writing at the University of Illinois Chicago, Urrea is best known for the non-fiction “The Devil’s Highway,” which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, and “Hummingbird’s Daughter,” an historical novel. He also won an American Book Award for his memoir “Nobody’s Son: Notes From an American Life.”
Tickets are on sale now! You can get all three levels of ticket (General Admission $10; Author Circle $30; Author Reception $60) at the store or online at fortcollinsreads.org.
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Don't Forget Your Student Discount!
A lot of you have taken advantage of this, but we want to remind all college students (and faculty!)--at CSU and FRCC--that if you show us your valid student (or faculty!) ID, you'll get 15% off each item you purchase from us! You must show us your ID at the beginning of your transaction at the register for the discount to be applied. This discount does not stack with other discounts, but we'll always give you the better of the discounts!
