Events

Bravo! Vail Valley Music Festival presents the M5 Brass Quintet LIVE on the Bookworm patio.

This event is FREE and open to the public. 10% of today's book sales will be donated to Bravo! Vail Valley Music Festival.

Visit www.vailmusicfestival.org for a full listing of Bravo! performances in the Vail Valley!

Come by The Bookworm to meet Amy Bourret and chat about her new book Mother and Other Liars, which will be released August 3. Amy lives in Dallas full time, but has passed many long hot summers in the Rocky Mountains.

In Mothers and Other Liars Bourret delivers a gripping, poignant story of unconditional love and sacrifice.  Ruby Leander thought she was saving an abandoned baby, but nearly a decade later she would learn that the consequences of that selfless act would be worse than anything she could ever imagine.  When she finds out the birth parents of the child she raised as her own are still looking for their daughter, she faces a choice no mother should ever have to make.

Amy Bourret is a Yale Law School graduate and former partner in a national law firm.  In school and in her practice, she did pro bono work for child advocacy organizations, where the passion that fuels Mothers and Other Liars was born.  She has participated in many workshops, including the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, the Aspen Writers’ Foundation, and the Santa Fe Writers Conference. 

This meet & greet and author signing is free and open to the public.

The Ninth Annual Literacy Project Fundraising Luncheon presents Eileen McDargh as the keynote speaker. Reserve your tickets now for this spectacular event!

About the speaker:

Fresh from a trek to remote provinces of the highest mountains in the world and a surprise encounter with the Dalai Lama, international business and leadership expert and Hall of Fame keynote speaker, Eileen McDargh, shows how outdoor experiences become powerful metaphors for life-changing lessons about work and life.  With her latest book Gifts from the Mountain:  Simple Truths for Life’s Complexities, and the new release of a short film based on the book, she invites readers to take a hike and discover their own footnotes for walking through life.

Eileen McDargh will demonstrate the techniques she has developed to tackle obstacles in business and life using her own book, Gifts from the Mountain as well as the supplemental film created by Producer/Director Cindy Bright, and filmed in the Vail Valley's own back yard.

Check out Eileen's blog here.

VVBW's special guest Cile Chavez is a speaker on leadership and has written a new book, Spirit Movers: Attributes for Transforming Leadership, which describes an internal power that enables leaders to perform at high levels & lead with greater intention. For your signed copy of this book contact the Bookworm in Edwards.

FOOD:  Dinner with cash bar.

PARKING:  $10 Valet or Free in Bear Lot (shuttle every 15 min).

COST:  Gold members free; Silver $25; Non-members $30.  

REMINDERS: Board Elections at Aug meeting; Membership Soiree on Wed Sept 8th

Contact: VVBW 970-926-8988; Ritz 970-748-6200

We were all so sad to have to cancel our event with Mark Spragg due to a chance March snow storm. But, not to worry, summer is here and he is coming back! And, since August is customer appreciation month here at The Bookworm, your ticket to meet Mark Spragg is on the house! This event is FREE!

Mark Spragg first visited the Vail Valley six years ago, and we are excited to have him return for an event at The Bookworm. His memoir, Where Rivers Change Direction, is Nicole's personal favorite, and she has us all hooked on his fiction as well.

In his newest novel, Bone Fire, Spragg brings us back to the small Wyoming town of Ishawooa, and the characters we have all come to know and love from An Unfinished Life and Fruit of Stone. Spragg's story of the modern west is stunning, stark, and tinged with humor.

Don't miss this chance to meet one of our favorite authors!

In partnership with the Beaver Creek Wine and Spirits Festival, The Bookworm is proud to host celebrity chefs Zarela Martinez (The Food and Life of Oaxaca: Traditional Recipes from Mexico's Heart) and Stephan Pyles (Tamales) on Saturday, August 14 at 3:00 p.m.

Stop by to meet these amazing chefs and pick up a signed copy of their latest cookbooks. This event is FREE and open to the public.

You can learn more about the Beaver Creek Wine and Spirits Festival here.

Join us for another FREE author event at Avon Public Library. Twesigye Jackson Kaguri with speak with us about his inspiring story of perseverance and determination to make a positive difference in the world. 

In Uganda, where HIV / AIDS has affected almost a third of the adult population, almost two million children have been orphaned by the epidemic—including the nieces and nephews of Twesigye Jackson Kaguri.

The Price of Stones: Building a School for My Village by Twesigye Jackson Kaguri with Susan Urbanek Linville, is the story of the building of an extraordinary school for these orphans and the astonishing effort by one man to raise an entire community out of poverty and hopelessness.  Weaving together stories that illuminate key life-changing moments in Jackson’s youth with the remarkable account of the challenges he faces as he overcomes countless complications in building the school, THE PRICE OF STONES is an unforgettable page-turner that demonstrates that one person with a dream can change lives and make the world a better place.

In 2001, Jackson—having left for the United States to continue his education—returns to visit his family in Uganda with his wife.  Having lost two siblings to AIDS, Jackson is particularly moved by the plight of the thousands of children in his district, orphaned by the disease and shunned by superstitious villagers fearful of “contamination.”  He and his wife Beronda vow to open the first tuition-free school for these orphans, despite the opposition of a domineering father, the difficulty of procuring supplies in rural Uganda and the corruption of local officials.  With the help of a multitude of supporters in America, Canada and Uganda and the sustenance of their religious conviction, Jackson and Beronda doggedly build a school, one room at a time.

Today, Nyaka School, www.nyakaschool.org, provides education, meals, healthcare, and often homes to 407 students.  Jackson, with an amazing vision, a shoestring budget, and unbelievable persistence in fundraising, has created programs for clean, gravity-fed water systems for the school and the town; a Grannies program to help the grandmothers who are often left to raise their grandchildren; a vocational training program; a farm to feed the schoolchildren and their sponsor families; and a second school, Kutamba, in a nearby district.  Jackson has also raised money to sponsor all students who graduate from Nyaka School as they continue their education at costly secondary schools in Uganda.