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Artist of the Month: Photographer Eli (Burns-Irvin) Shepard

Eli (Burns-Irvin) Shepard

ARTIST STATEMENT

Eli (Burns-Irvin) Shepard is a Boulder county based landscape,
documentary, and travel photographer. He has 10+ years of photography experience as a lead photographer both for an agency and freelance with published works in "Images of America" by Arcadia Publishing. Originallyfrom southern Illinois, he has traveled most of the continental United States and lived in the midwest, east coast, and now the Rocky Mountain/Boulder area.

Join Inkberry Books on Friday, March 24th at 7:00 for a presentation by Julie Kaewert, author of the Plumtree Series of Mysteries for Booklovers

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Julie Kaewert spent lots of time in libraries as a child, sitting on the floor reading any book that came next on the shelf. She became an inveterate reader and wrote her first book in the sixth grade. Her dream was always to become a writer, but she pursued a career in book publishing and went to work for Addison-Wesley in Boston. When she decided to marry the brave, honorable, and adventurous man who would become the hero of her books, they moved to London for his work. There Julie worked for Addison-Wesley in Bedford Square, learning about the people, places, and book lore that led to her write her series of six Mysteries for Booklovers.

All of Julie's series books explore the often dangerous intersection of books, history, and real life--including secrets thought safely forgotten in dusty manuscripts. Unsolicited, Unbound, Unprintable, Untitled, Unsigned, and Uncatalogued are set in the world of rare books and British book publishing and are published by Penguin Random House.

Julie is currently working on a trilogy of Plumtree Bibliohistory Mysteries, which alternate contemporary and seventeenth-century Plumtree publishing narratives: Unlocked; Unabridged; and Undeciphered. She has also written a paean to the works of Willa Cather, as yet unpublished, Season of the Crane: Migration of a Cather Scholar; a novelization of The Avengers (Bantam Random House, 1998); and a hands-on artificial intelligence programming textbook called Expert Systems for Manufacturing (McGraw-Hill, 1990).

Saturday, April 15, 2023 at 7 :00 pm: Paul Levitt, Author of "A Love Beyond Grievance" at Inkberry Books. The reading will be followed by a reception.

Illegally entering the dean's office at night through a steam tunnel
that once stored the bodies of students who died in the 1918 influenza epidemic may seem ill advised. But to do so in search of evidence that the university president had sacrificed innocent faculty to save his own skin during the McCarthy witch hunts risks immediate expulsion. And yet undergraduate Adam Swan, enlisting the help of Margot Marcus, a beautiful young instructor in the Italian Department, undertakes the heist. Thus begins A Love Beyond Grievance.

Part memoir, part fiction, the novel unfolds against the backdrop of
political purges in the early 1950s, biracialism, university turbulence,
and Mussolini's mistress.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Paul Levitt earned a Ph.D. in English at UCLA and has taught at the
University of Colorado since 1964, spending many summers in London
writing plays for the BBC Radio. His great passion is writing historical
fiction, which has enabled him to visit the Jazz Age (Chin Music),
McCarthyism (Dark Matters), immigrants to America (Come with Me to
Babylon), 12th-century England (The Saint-Makers), Soviet Russia
(Stalin’s Barber), Nazi Germany (Yana), postwar Berlin (Berlin
Revisited), and mid-century American upper-crust society (Rowing to
Ithaca). A prolific author, Paul has published 13 novels, 17 plays, 7
children’s books, and numerous academic treatises.

Saturday, April 22, 2023 at 7 :00 pm: Cary Unkelback, Author of "Heartbreak Kennel" at Inkberry Books. The reading will be followed by a reception.

Heartbreak Kennel is the biography and true crime story of Dodie Cariaso,

a seemingly well-intentioned, college-educated woman from an upper-middle-class Midwestern family, who settles in the Berthoud-Loveland area and becomes a well-respected and successful potter. She then begins breeding dogs. Twenty years later, she abandons nearly 100 Labrador Retrievers in a rural field in Larimer County. A decade-plus earlier, she’d sold Max, a goofy yellow Labrador, as a wee puppy to a gentleman who realizes years later that he can no longer properly take care of the adult dog. Dodie’s and Max’s life stories are inextricably intertwined and told in separate chapters. Dodie’s adult journey is often unconventional, sometimes bizarre, and downright shocking. Max’s adventures are often comical and uplifting as he burrows his way into the hearts of his adopted family.

Heartbreak Kennel won the Best Biography category in the 2021 Best Book Awards competition (American Book Fest) and was a finalist in the 2021 Best Book Awards’ animals/pets narrative nonfiction category. It also was a 2021 Colorado Book Award finalist for biography and a 2021 Colorado Authors League Awards of Excellence finalist for biography/memoir.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Cary grew up in the world of breeding and showing dogs on the East Coast. Family vacations and weekend trips nearly always revolved around showing Labrador Retrievers at dog shows in the New England and the Mid-Atlantic states. At age eight, Cary began showing dogs and, as a preteen, exhibited her first dog Thumper to his conformation championship. Her mother Evie trained and showed most of the family’s other

Walden Labradors while her dad Kurt gathered fodder to write his first book, Love on a Leash, a spoof on the dog fancy. A few years later, Cary turned to competing in obedience with a Thumper daughter that had been partially blinded by static electricity.

Between her college freshman and sophomore years, Cary held down two part-time jobs: dog groomer by day, and teletypist and occasional reporter by night. She definitely preferred her work at the local news bureau for the Hartford Courant after a grouchy terrier bit her groomer boss. Following college graduation, Cary reported for The Hartford Times and then the Hartford Courant, landing in the small city of New Britain where controversies raged. That’s when she decided law school would enhance her investigative reporter skills.

So Cary headed to Colorado to attend the University of Denver law school and never looked back. She found her second career calling as a deputy district attorney and used her interviewing skills to prepare cases for trials. At times, her Labrador Whiskey, a Thumper great grandson, accompanied her to the office on weekends during final trial preparations.

Years later, Cary’s dogs also sometimes assisted her as she worked as an assistant county attorney. Labradors Brew and Taz calmed nervous clients during meetings and brought cheer during visits with other county employees. Brew also played a role in a video scripted and used by Cary to teach civil liability issues to sheriff detention deputies.

Cary has authored articles for the Chief’s Counsel column of The Police Chief magazine, an International Association of Chiefs of Police publication. She’s also has written an article about AKC kennel inspections for Dog World magazine as well as a creative nonfiction book about a dog breeder.

She is a member of the Arizona Authors Association; the Chaffee County Writers Exchange; the Colorado Bar Association; the International Chiefs of Police Association and its Legal Officers Section; the Labrador Retriever Club, Inc.; the Labrador Retriever Club of Greater Denver; the Denver Foothills Tracking Association and the Bark Valley Dog Club.

Cary lives with her husband Dave Olmstead and their spoiled Labradors Betty and Ranger in the central Colorado mountains. She writes when she’s not hiking, swimming or taking mandatory daily walks with both dogs. Ranger also squeezes in time to train her.

Join us on Friday, April 28, 2023 at 7 :00 pm for a presentation by Stan Nicholas, Author of "Never Summer: A Thousand Rainbows" at Inkberry Books. The reading will be followed by a reception.

Never Summer is about my family; mother, father and three sisters whofor a period of 13 years spent the entire summer months as migrant fruit harvesters in the Pacific Northwest, traveling in old Chevy's equipped with a car-top camper unit in which we lived on and off throughout the summer season.

The book is a reflection of those years and the 70 some years hence with some social analysis of societal expectations and comparisons to current day adolescent woes. The effort to write Never Summer was inspired by insights from Grapes of Wrath (John Steinbeck) and The Glass Castle (Jeanette Walls) that together presented so many similarities that nudged me to share my story.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Stan Nicholas is an octogenarian who is writing about unusual personal life stories that span almost three generations, with reflections on the issues of the myriad adolesent challenges that have a radically evolved from his own puerile experiences. He is married and has three married daughters and seven grandchildren, all in their formative years, that have provided a stunning panorama of the complexities that generationZers endure, and the radical escalation of trauma that face today’s youth and their families frantic attempts to understand and mitigate. It is through that scope that he is able to sift through the evolution of changing times within a family.

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