We’ll have wine, appetizers, freebies, prizes and some show and tell of our favorite children’s books for fall and spring.

Educator’s Happy Hour

Appetizers • Wine • Books

Join us for a free and fun-filled evening with giveaways, drawings and upcoming fall books.

RSVP: by email- outwestbooks@gmail or call 970-986-8086 – Space is limited.

Join us at 6 pm for an interesting presentation by Diana Kouris, Brown’s Park historian will be talking about her new book, Nighthawk Rising, a Biography of Accused Cattle Rustler Queen Ann Basset.

Author Diana Allen Kouris, a native of Brown’s Park, utilized her personal and family connections, along with years of research, to meticulously and extensively record the fascinating life events of Ann Bassett. Kouris includes never-before-published photographs. Ann Bassett was known as the Queen of the Cattle Rustlers, although she was never convicted. Queen Ann, as she was called, lived a life full of adventure and controversy in the Brown’s Park region of Colorado, Wyoming, and Utah. She broke bread with Butch Cassidy, had her life turned upside down by notorious range detective Tom Horn, and stood tall against cattle baron Ora Haley. Anyone with an interest in Western History will want this comprehensive book!

Join us at 7 pm for an interesting presentation by Karen Reich, of Ouray who will discuss her book No Individual Heroes, stories from the Ouray Mountain Rescue Team.

Join us for an informative presentation at 6 pm by Dr. April Schulte who will discuss her new book Save Your Life Now, a guide to integrative and collaborative medicine and will be accompanied by her husband, Kevin Barclay, who will have his book, Take 10!).

Do you feel powerless in your quest to live life to its fullest because you aren’t feeling well? Are you frustrated by our health care system that matches prescription drugs to every symptom, and overwhelmed trying to figure out what your options are?

In this groundbreaking book, Dr. Schulte shows you how her pioneering approach to integrative medicine can put you in the driver’s seat to achieving your healthiest life possible. When you read this practical, easy-to-follow book, you will be able to:

• connections between the mental, emotional, physical and spiritual aspects of health.
• Understand how integrative and collaborative medicines can help you identify and treat the root causes of your illness.
• Gain independence from health insurance and pharmaceutical companies.
• Feel more comfortable with combining complementary medicine with conventional medicine.
• Establish your own path to feeling vibrantly healthy and full of energy.

If you are ready to Save Your Life Now, you’ll want to read this valuable guide.

Take 10! By Kevin L. Barclay   

Remember when you were perhaps just a little overheated, your mom used to say, “Count to 10”?

Well, that’s what we might all need, with the world seeming to spin as fast as it is now and with all the different things going on. Maybe we just need to Take 10—maybe take 10 breaths, 10 steps. We are 10 seconds away from making a better decision! Many people have said that a situation could have turned out differently had they paused and given it more thought.

This book will help you continue on the interesting journey you have already begun. This is a guide to help you understand that you already have the tools inside you to do what you need to take care of yourself. You already have the basis of understanding. You already have everything you need at your fingertips. You don’t have to recite any mantras or anything; you just have to remember to take it easier.

Join us at 6 pm for a preview of Deep Creek with Pam Houston.

“How do we become who we are in the world? We ask the world to teach us.”

On her 120-acre homestead high in the Colorado Rockies, beloved writer Pam Houston learns what it means to care for a piece of land and the creatures on it. Elk calves and bluebirds mark the changing seasons, winter temperatures drop to 35 below, and lightning sparks a 110,000-acre wildfire, threatening her century-old barn and all its inhabitants. Through her travels from the Gulf of Mexico to Alaska, she explores what ties her to the Earth, the ranch most of all. Alongside her devoted Irish wolfhounds and a spirited troupe of horses, donkeys, and Icelandic sheep, the ranch becomes Houston’s sanctuary, a place where she discovers how the natural world has mothered and healed her after a childhood of horrific parental abuse and neglect.

In essays as lucid and invigorating as mountain air, Deep Creek delivers Houston’s most profound meditations yet on how “to live simultaneously inside the wonder and the grief…to love the damaged world and do what I can to help it thrive.”

Join us at 6 pm for a presentation by Rebecca Lawton on her book The Oasis This Time.

“Rebecca Lawton’s powerful and poetic The Oasis This Time celebrates water as a precious natural resource. The collection is as diverse as it is illuminating. Each essay addresses a unique topic, but all are anchored by keen observations of the environment and musings on alternative solutions to pressing environmental problems.”