Elizabeth Gilbert

All Adults are welcome to join. Meets Monthly.

Gilbert is best known for her 2006 memoir Eat, Pray, Love, an international bestseller, translated into over thirty languages, with over 7 million copies sold worldwide, and a movie version starring Julia Roberts. Her other celebrated works include Stern Men, The Last American Man, and Pilgrims. Her ... (more)newest work, Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage, interweaves a history of marriage across centuries and cultures with a more personal account of her attempts to come to terms with her own impending marriage. At this very special event, Ms. Gilbert will read from her new and previous works, talk about her traveling and writing life, and take questions from the audience. Elizabeth Gilbert is presented by Club Book. Consider the book club rewritten. Club Book brings best-selling and award-winning national and regional authors to library communities throughout the Twin Cities metropolitan region. Learn more at www.clubbook.org

Join the Laurel Book Club for a group discussion of the book; copies may be picked up at the circulation desk beginning approximately a month beforehand. After her divorce, Elizabeth Gilbert contracted with her published to go on trip to experience life in Italy, India, and Indonesia. Recently released ... (more)as a movie.

Mark your calendars, and get your tickets early! Elizabeth Gilbert returns with her trademark wit, intelligence and compassion in her sequel to her bestselling memoir, Eat, Pray, Love. Join us as Heather Reisman interviews her as they discuss Gilbert's new book, Committed. Book signing to follow. Tickets ... (more)available through Ticketmaster: http://bit.ly/6nP90c or 416-870-8000

New York Times bestselling author of Eat, Pray Love, who swore she would never marry again, fell in love with a Brazilian-born man with Australian citizenship and because of an American ruling on immigrants had to decided whether to get married or never live in the U.S. together. Gilbert ... (more)tackled her fears of marriage by delving into the topic through historical research, interviews and personal reflection. Committed to learning all she could about matrimony, compatibility, infatuation, fidelity, family tradition, social expectations and divorce risks, she has written a memoir, which is a celebration of love with all of its complexities and consequences. Talk and signing at Agnes Scott College, Gaines Auditorium.

Elizabeth Gilbert, author of Eat,Pray,Love discusses this and her new release, Stern Men. Reception and booksigning to follow. Tickets $20 / $95. www.BrownPaperTickets.com/event/53523 or 800-838-3006.

Please join us for a rare evening with Elizabeth Gilbert as she shares her thoughts on the writing life and some of her current projects. At the end of the lecture she will take questions from the audience. Books will be available for purchase, including a limited number of pre-signed copies, but there ... (more)will not be a book-signing at this event. Books will be available for purchase, including a limited number of pre-signed copies, but there will not be a book-signing at this event. Tickets are $30/$40/$60 and are available exclusively through all TicketsWest outlets including QFC stores and GI Joes. Student Tickets $12 Now Available!! For more ticket information visit www.ticketswest.com or call 206.632.TIXX.

THIRD MONDAY OF EVERY MONTH

Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert.

New at Kona Stories is a Daytime Book Club!
Meeting at 1 PM on Jan. 15th to discuss "Eat, Pray, Love". Come check it out even if you haven't read the book. This is a great way to get started in a book club and meet a new friend.

10:30am-noon. The Akoma Book Club (of Women Healing Women) meets at Charis Books & More on the third Saturday of each month. This book club is open to any woman seeking camaraderie with like-minded women for fun, self-empowerment and growth. Even if you haven't read the book, but are willing to talk ... (more)about the principles in the book, you can join us for a lively discussion. The book selection for December is Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert.

DEVOURING DIVAS BOOK CLUB 7pm Changing Hands Bookstore and Wildflower Bread Company present "Devouring Divas," a book club for women who crave scrumptious food and juicy books. Join us in Scottsdale for food, fun, and lively discussion of the club's second pick, Stern Men by Elizabeth Gilbert. Known ... (more)for her in-depth profiles for magazines from Harper's Bazaar to GQ, Gilbert (Eat, Pray Love) has developed a reputation for relating what makes people tick, both in her reportage and her acclaimed works of fiction. With Stern Men, Gilbert captures a feisty American spirit through an unforgettable heroine who is destined for greatness—even despite herself. Please note: The Devouring Divas meet the first Wednesday of every month at the Scottsdale and Phoenix Wildflower locations. Scottsdale: 15640 North Pima Road (at Frank Lloyd Wright Boulevard). Phoenix: 44th street and Indian School. (Tonight the Phoenix group will host its introductory meet-and-greet session only. They will not discuss Stern Men but will be up and running in time for the Devouring Divas' next selection.) More Phoenix info: karen.stigers@riosalado.edu. More Scottsdale info: holly.nelson@changinghands.com.

Reviewing Religion meets from 6:30 till 8:00. This month they will continue discussing "Eat, Pray, Love" by Elizabeth Gilbert.

Join us as we discuss Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert - One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia. Our book groups are free and open to the public and enjoy benefits such as a free book galley at each meeting and 20% off the next selection if purchased that evening.

Pushcart Prize-winner Elizabeth Gilbert’s bestselling memoir Eat, Pray, Love chronicles a year spent traveling around the world in search of personal restoration after a difficult divorce. A National Book Award and National Book Critics Circle Award finalist, Gilbert is “a top-notch journalist and ... (more)fiction writer” (Booklist) who effectively draws on intellectualism and pop culture, seriousness and ribald humor, to strike an engagingly subtle comic balance – proving that like her characters, she goes, “beyond the boundaries of cultural expectations to claim a life on her own terms” (St. Louis Dispatch).

Books will be available for purchase and signing.

General public $15.00 / UCSB Students $10.00

In her highly praised books, Anne Lamott invites readers to share her most intimate moments, from her father’s fatal battle with brain cancer in Hard Laughter to her own struggles with addiction in Traveling Mercies. With self-effacing humor and honesty, Lamott presents real-life questions about faith, ... (more)grief and family. Her best-selling books do not shy from anger or pain. Nonetheless, it is her hope, wit, and authenticity that resonate most in all of her work.

Armed with a lot of charm, and a comic’s sense of timing, journalist, novelist and short-story author Elizabeth Gilbert is one of those few writers who writes the way she talks, and talks the way she writes—with intelligence, wit and undeniable quirkiness. Her most recent memoir, Eat, Pray, Love, chronicles the year she spent traveling around the world in search of personal restoration after a difficult divorce.

These two best-selling writers join forces in a very special evening of readings, commentary and audience questions.