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Out of all the many stars and celebrities Hollywood has produced, only a handful have achieved the fame—and, some would say, infamy—of Orson Welles, the creator and star of what is arguably the greatest American film, Citizen Kane. Many books have been written about him, detailing his achievements ... (more)as an artist as well his foibles as a human being. None of them, however, has gotten so close to the real man as does Chris Welles Feder's beautifully realized portrait of her fatherIn My Father's Shadow is a classic story of a life lived in the public eye, told with affection and the wide-eyed wonder of a daughter who never stopped believing that someday she would truly know and understand her elusive and larger-than-life father. The result is a moving and insightful look at life in the shadow of a legendary figure and an immensely entertaining story of growing up in the unreal reality of Hollywood, enhanced by Welles Feder's collection of many never-before-seen family photographs.About Chris Welles-FederChris Welles Feder has spent a great part of her life working in the field of education and is known to many as a writer for the children's educational series Brain Quest. She lives with her husband in New York City

If the name Yasgur is familiar, than you may be a child of the 60's. Woodstock, the 1968 celebration of music that defined a generation, was held on Yasgur's Farm.Abagail Yasgur, cousin to the man who allowed his farm to be transformed for Woodstock, Max Yasgur, will be with us reading and signing copies ... (more)of her wonderful children's book, Max Said Yes,This is part of our series of Kid's Reading/Activity Hours and will be followed by an activity that will take us all back to the days when Hippies ruled.Please call and register for this event as we anticipate a sell-out.Abigail Yasgur and Joseph Lipner wrote this book as a labor of peace and love and as a tribute to Abigail’s cousin, Max Yasgur, the hero of this story. Abigail Yasgur runs a library and Joseph Lipner is a writer and an attorney. They met and married in Boston and named their son Max Yasgur Lipner for reasons you can probably guess. Abigail and Joseph live with Max and his two very groovy sisters, Emma and Rose, and their dog, Dashwood.

Join Porter Square Books for a special story hour as children's author Victoria Adler reads from and signs copies of her book All of Baby, Nose to Toes. With just an hour between nursings, new mom Victoria Adler hit the gym and composed this bouncy rhyming story to the rhythm of the elliptical machine. ... (more)Ms. Adler is a speech-language pathologist and lives with her husband in Jackson Heights, New York. This is her first book for children.

"Labor Day" is a gripping psychological tale about power, domination, loneliness and love. When a single mother and her 13 year-old son are briefly taken hostage by an escaped convict, everyone comes away changed forever.

"Farm City" is the story of two idealistic people who set out to create an urban farm in the middle of the Oakland ghetto. Novella Carpenter introduces pigs and goats, lime trees and vegetables Into this blighted landscape, and amazing things begin to happen. This book will change forever the way you ... (more)think about farms, cities and human potential. There will be refreshments and a city/country tasting in the Reading Garden. This will be lots of fun.

This year's benefit for our very own county book festival will be held at Windrush Farm and will feature Jonah Raskin's new book, "Field Days." about eating and drinking his way through the Valley of the Moon,

This group is full. Please check out Sci Fi and Kudzu book clubs!

We're SOOO excited that the authors and illustrator of the fabulous and addictive Spiderwick Chronicles are coming to visit! It's a little bittersweet, since they're coming to celebrate the release of the FINAL installment of Beyond the Spiderwick Chronicles: The Wyrm King, but you can be sure this will ... (more)be one GIANT rumpus of an event.

"A good way to introduce little children to the most positive cultural event of the century--the 1969 Woodstock Festival."Elliot Landy official photographer of the 1969 Woodstock Festival "[This book] is a jubilant reminder of Max Yasgur's generosity."Naomi Howland of Latkes, Latkes, Good to Eat Author ... (more)Abigail Yasgur has spent the past 40 years saying 'yes' when asked on a weekly basis if she is "related to that guy who had Woodstock." She is a professional librarian. Her husband and co-author, Joseph Lipner, is an attorney and writer. They live in Los Angeles.

Baron’s environmental tale about the return of the mountain lion to Colorado has been selected as the Common Reading Experience book for Fort Lewis College this year. We’ll be on hand with books for sale at his appearance at the Durango Public Library.

"The Passionate Mind Revisited: Expanding Personal and Social Awareness" is an updated version of the 1974 classic. It takes on Eastern and Western spirituality and scientific materialism at once. The result is a view more reflective of the complexity of our world and more relevant to the challenges ... (more)we face.

"Blue Collar, Blue Scrubs: The Making of a Surgeon." asks how an Irish Catholic working class construction worker who spends his days building curbs and gutters and drinking beer with his pals, transform himself into a first-class surgeon? This is a no frills memoir of how hard work and brains ... (more)can make miracles happen.

"A snappy and heartfelt family drama... The family's interactions are sharp, raw, and often laugh-out-loud funny... Tropper strikes an excellent balance between the family history and its present-day fallout, proving his ability to create touchingly human characters and a deliciously pageturning story."Publisher's ... (more)Weekly "[An] hilarious, testosterone driven thrill ride... Highly recommended for Tropper fans, who will rejoice at the opportunity to indulge; others will wonder where he's been all their lives."Library Journal (starred review) Jonathan Tropper is the author of How to Talk to a Widower, Everything Changes, The Book of Joe, and Plan B. He lives with his family in Westchester, New York, where he teaches writing at Manhattanville College.

"When the Rivers Ran Red: An Amazing Story of Courage and Triumph in America's Wine Country," is a recounting of the epic battle that California's winemakers fought against Prohibition, and the resourcefulness that kept the industry alive through its darkest days.

"Crafting a dense, flashback-filled narrative that stutters across two summer outings to New England...Russo convincingly depicts life coming apart at the seams."Publisher's Weekly Richard Russo is the author of numerous novels including The Risk Pool, Nobody's Fool, Bridge of Sighs and the Pulitzer ... (more)Prize winning Empire Falls. He is also the author of the short story collection The Whore's Child. Russo lives in Maine and is retired from the faculty of Colby College.

Diesel, A Bookstore in Oakland is pleased to present David Bacon as he discusses and signs the paperback release of his new book, Illegal People: How Globalization Creates Migration and Criminalizes Immigrants.
For two decades veteran photojournalist David Bacon has documented the connections between ... (more)labor, migration, and the global economy. In Illegal People Bacon explores the human side of globalization, exposing the many ways it uproots people in Latin America and Asia, driving them to migrate. At the same time, U.S. immigration policy makes the labor of those displaced people a crime in the United States. Illegal People explains why our national policy produces even more displacement, more migration, more immigration raids, and a more divided, polarized society.

Emma has a lot going on. Her best friend’s not speaking to her, a boy she’s known all her life is suddenly in love with her, and oh yes, her evangelical minister parents may lose their church, especially if her mother keeps giving sermons saying Adam was a hermaphrodite.
But this weekend Emma’s ... (more)only focused on Crispy Dream, a hot new donut franchise opening in town, where Harley bikers and Frodo wannabes camp out waiting to be the first ones served. Writing the best feature story on the camp for the local paper might just win Emma a scholarship to attend a non- Christian college. But soon enough Emma finds the donut camp isn’t quite the perfect escape from all her troubles at Living Word Redeemer. In a fresh, funny voice, newcomer Lara Zielin offers up a mesmerizing, fast-paced narrative full of wit and insight.

Grace Baltich and Chelsea Zimmerman, two of the future leaders from the new book She's Out There! 35 Women Who Aspire to Lead the Nation: The Next Generation of Presidential Candidates, will join us to talk about their aspirations, women in politics, and to give advice to young women.

Join our Science Fiction Bookclubs lively discussion on October's selection, Heathern.

This month our Science Fiction Bookclub comes together to discuss To Marry Medusa. Come by and join us for coffee and conversation!

The author of The Last Synapsid will read, answer questions, sign, and chat with us about creatures from the ancient past who travel through time to fight with each to save or destroy human kind. Phew! You don't want to miss this one!

Bring your knitting project and join hostess Patty Poisson for an informal evening of chatting, knitting and tea. Exquisite tea is generously provided by Danielle Beaudette of The Cozy Tea Cart in Brookline. (www.thecozyteacart.com). Please note that the group is open to all experienced knitters. They ... (more)meet on the 2nd Monday each month.

This is the regular meeting of the Classics Group. Reading choice for July: "Winesburg, Ohio" by Sherwood Anderson, and August is TBA. New readers are always welcome to join!

Lucille Lang Day's new book of poems is The Curvature of Blue; Alicia Ostriker enthuses about it, "Intelligence enjoying itself, awareness at play, attentiveness dancing through life's minefields smiling at itself in its new black car. . . a wonderful book and I feel lucky to have read it." Lucille Day ... (more)has published four previous books of poetry, including Infinities, Wild One, and Self-Portrait with a Hand Microscope, her first, for which she won the Joseph Henry Jackson Award. She is the founder and director of Scarlet Tanager Books, a literary press in the Bay Area. Roz Spafford's new book of poems is Requiem, winner of the 2008 Gell Poetry Prize, with a foreword by Carl Dennis: "All the poems in Requiem may be read as attempts to confront the presence of death in our lives. . . What is remarkable about this steady focus, which offers no easy consolations, is that it leads to a book that is more challenging than it is querulous or elegiac. . . a book that confronts our limitations in a way that makes us feel larger rather than diminished." Spafford has been a writer, teacher, and activist for the last three decades. She wrote book reviews and a newspaper column of media and cultural criticism called 'Mediations' for much of that time. Her poetry and fiction have been widely published in literary magazines.

Roy A. Cooper, Jr presents BETWEEN THE CREEKS: MY SAPONY ADVENTURES, a page-turning account of his boyhood in Nash County. OUR STATE magazine says, "His 24 stories of life as an only child born to tobacco-farming parents recount the trials and physical labors of farming, the mystery of fishing with a ... (more)'fish whisperer,' ghostly encounters of Brinkley Hill, and a ride to meet the school bus on a mule's back one snowy morning... BETWEEN THE CREEKS draws from the days when families gathered to tell and retell generations worth of stories. Life lessons passed from father to son... "
A born and bred North Carolinian, he is a retired lawyer and will be introduced by his son, our current Attorney General.
Can’t make it? To request a signed or personalized copy, call 828-1588 or 1-800-672-6789 or contact orders@quailridgebooks.com (at least 48 hours in advance for email) to check availability.

This 6 month group discusses contemporary Science Fiction books, meets once a month and will conclude in December. To join book group, purchase of the book from the Fountain Bookstore is required. Please sign up via email or by calling Kelly at 804-788-1594. Ages 21 and over only, please. We really love ... (more)book group, so we hope you'll join us! Book group is limited to 10 people. Meetings are held in the non-smoking section in the back of Rosie Connolly's.

Diesel, A Bookstore in Oakland is pleased to present David Swanson as he discusses and signs his new book, Daybreak: Undoing the Imperial Presidency and Forming a More Perfect Union.
Swanson holds a master's degree in philosophy from the University of Virginia. He has worked as a newspaper reporter and ... (more)as a communications director, with jobs including press secretary for Dennis Kucinich's 2004 presidential campaign, media coordinator for the International Labor Communications Association, and three years as communications coordinator for ACORN, the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now.

Brian Ray, winner of the South Carolina First Novel Prize, will be here to talk about and sign copies of his coming-of-age novel set in Columbia, SC.

This historic gem is now bigger and modernized: • A completely renovated historic facility with a modern addition • A 9,000-square-foot addition providing a striking street presence • Longer hours: Now opening 9 a.m. Monday to Friday • Complete barrier-free accessibility, express check-in and ... (more)check-out • A new Le@rning Centre, 44 computers throughout the branch, wifi • Almost 70,000 new books, CDs, magazines and DVDs • Reading lounges for adults and children and a vibrant teen zone • Bookable meeting room and four group study rooms • A new environmentally-friendly, partial green roof, expanded outdoor landscaping, an outdoor reading garden, 19 new trees

Bradley Booth will be signing copies of his compelling and poignant novel "I Apologize" in the meeting room at the Clark Public Library. Anyone wishing to attend will have to sign up once the link appears on the library’s calendar.

Bradley Booth will be signing copies of his compelling and poignant novel "I Apologize" at: Canterbury Tales Forever Book Shoppe Peddler’s Village Route 263 & Street Rd. Store #49 Lahaska, PA 18931 Phone: 215-794-8719 Email: CanterburyTalesForever@verizon.net

Amics i escriptors comentaran i llegiran fragments de l'obra de l'autor.

Help us create an online catalog for the crossroads infoshop during the Flash Mob Cataloging party. Please bring your laptop and be ready to work! Instructions and demonstrations will be provided -- no experience necessary! There will be free food and drinks for all volunteers. Food starts at 5:30 and ... (more)cataloging demonstrations will begin promptly at 6 PM. Thank you for the support!

Drs. Driscoll & Davis begin where Mars & Venus left off, exploring 20 surprising differences between men and women and suggesting ways to ease conflict for our mutual benefit. Join us for a lively conversation followed by a signing of You Still Don't Understand.

Maine Author Day 2009 Christina Gillis, a summer resident of Gotts Island for over forty years, presents a moving personal account of how the life of an island, past and present, shapes and transforms the unexpected loss of a son. In this elegant and gentle memoir of place and experience, the author ... (more)takes the reader on a tour of the island, making connections between its stark physical beauty, its known and unknown places, and the decades of memories and myths it encompasses.

Christina Gillis, a summer resident of Gotts Island for over forty years, presents a moving personal account of how the life of an island, past and present, shapes and transforms the unexpected loss of a son. In this elegant and gentle memoir of place and experience, the author takes the reader on a ... (more)tour of the island, making connections between its stark physical beauty, its known and unknown places, and the decades of memories and myths it encompasses.

Christina Gillis, a summer resident of Gotts Island for over forty years, presents a moving personal account of how the life of an island, past and present, shapes and transforms the unexpected loss of a son. In this elegant and gentle memoir of place and experience, the author takes the reader on a ... (more)tour of the island, making connections between its stark physical beauty, its known and unknown places, and the decades of memories and myths it encompasses.

We're SOOO excited that the authors and illustrator of the fabulous and addictive Spiderwick Chronicles are coming to visit! It's a little bittersweet, since they're coming to celebrate the release of the FINAL installment of Beyond the Spiderwick Chronicles: THE WYRM KING, but you can be sure this will ... (more)be one GIANT rumpus of an event.

Senator George McGovern will be at Gibson's to discuss and sign his new book on Abraham Lincoln. Don't miss this chance to meet a true legend and (in the words of William F. Buckley) "the single nicest human being I've ever met."

Great bargains on new and used books, dvds, videos, and books on audio. Something for everyone! Now is the time to stock up on reading for the winter.

Free admission for current Friends of the Library members. $5 admission for all others. Join the Friends for $5 and get free admission to the next two sales.

This presentation looks at current trends in the academic study of language and gender, discussing the ways in which researchers have moved beyond the traditional concern with male-female differences and towards a more complex set of questions.

Adventure, Freedom, Beautiful Women and Abundance of Wealth. Live like a king on less money than you would pay for health insurance & make 100k per year guaranteed.

Author:  Michael Chabon.  Michael's previous books include: The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay (winner of The Pulitzer Prize), The Yiddish Policemen's Union (winner of The Hugo and Nebula Awards and an Edgar Award Finalist), Wonder Boys, The Mysteries of Pittsburgh, and the story collection, ... (more)A Model World and Other Stories.  Michael lives in Berkeley, California, with his wife and novelist, Ayelet Waldman, and their children.
Title:  Manhood for Amateurs: The Pleasures and Regrets of a Husband, Father and Son, $25.99 Hardcover, ISBN 9780061490187, On Sale Date:  October 01, 2009
What:  Michael Chabon will talk about his New Book, his life, his work, answer audience questions and he will autograph copies of his New Book purchased from Rainy Day Books, on our website and / or at our Author Event, that are accompanied by a Stamped Ticket.
When:  Tuesday, October 20, 2009, 7:00 PM Where:  A Rainy Day Books Author Event at Unity Temple on The Plaza, Sanctuary, 707 W 47th Street, Kansas City, Missouri 64112
Admission Package (Click on the ADD TO SHOPPING CART button):  $25.99 plus Tax, includes from Rainy Day Books, One (1) Stamped Ticket, One (1) Guest Ticket (if needed) and One (1) Copy of Manhood for Amateurs (Hardcover) to be Autographed after the Author Presentation.  Please specify your need for One (1) Stamped Ticket and One (1) Guest Ticket (if needed) in the Notes field of your Online Order.  If you choose Option 1 for In-Store Pick-Up, then you can specify At-Event Pick-Up in the Notes field of your Online Order.  Thank you.  Book Orders can be shipped worldwide. 
All Author Event Book Sales are Final and Non-Returnable.

Author:  David Wroblewski grew up in rural central Wisconsin, not far from the Chequamegon National Forest, where his debut novel, The Story of Edgar Sawtelle, is set.  He earned his master's degree from the Warren Wilson MFA Program for Writers.  Over the years he has lived in La Crosse, Minneapolis, ... (more)and Austin, Texas.  Currently, he makes his home in Colorado with the writer Kimberly McClintock, their dog Lola, and their cat Mitsou.  More at www.DavidWroblewski.com
"Whether you read for the beauty of language or for the intricacies of plot, you will easily fall in love with David Wroblewski's generous, almost transcendentally lovely debut novel, The Story of Edgar Sawtelle...the scope of this book, its psychological insight and lyrical mastery, make it one of the best novels of the year..." ~ O Magazine
Title:  The Story of Edgar Sawtelle, $16.99 Softcover, ISBN 9780061374234, On Sale Date:  October 27, 2009
What:  David Wroblewski will talk about his New Book, his life, his work, answer audience questions and he will autograph copies of his / her New Book purchased from Rainy Day Books, on our website and / or at our Author Event, that are accompanied by a Stamped Ticket.
When:  Tuesday, November 03, 2009, 7:00 PM Where:  A Rainy Day Books Author Event at Unity Temple on The Plaza, Sanctuary, 707 W 47th Street, Kansas City, Missouri 64112
Admission Package (Click on the ADD TO SHOPPING CART button):  $16.99 plus Tax, includes from Rainy Day Books, One (1) Stamped Ticket, One (1) Guest Ticket (if needed) and One (1) Copy of The Story of Edgar Sawtelle (Hardcover) to be Autographed after the Author Presentation.  Please specify your need for One (1) Stamped Ticket and One (1) Guest Ticket (if needed) in the Notes field of your Online Order.  If you choose Option 1 for In-Store Pick-Up, then you can specify At-Event Pick-Up in the Notes field of your Online Order.  Thank you.  Book Orders can be shipped worldwide.  All Author Event Book Sales are Final and Non-Returnable.

Carrie Host will speak and sign Between Me & the River.

Please meet the author of the new book "Poneasequa: Goddess of the Waters". Native American McKenzie Jones embarks on a journey of self-discovery when she's asked to do a presentation to her class about her heritage; something she know little about. -Recommended by bestselling author Joseph Bruchac.

The team is back from the National competition in Washington, DC and to thank us (and you the community) for the support vital to their journey, they've brought in some of the displays for you to peruse and maybe even quiz them on history!

Chris will visit in support of his nonfiction book, "RoadKill", about his being struck and dragged by an 18 wheeler while riding his motorcycle. Learn to survive and thrive in this harrowing real life adventure.

Join us for a book signing and discussion with poet Alexandria Perry, author of "Fall Foliage Called Bathers and Dancers". Discover how poems can be dreams, and dreams poems in her off-kilter, but surprising world.

Diesel, A Bookstore in Oakland is pleased to present local author Taije Silverman to the store to celebrate the publication of her first book of poetry, Houses Are Fields. Join us!

Author:  Anita Shreve began writing fiction while working as a high school teacher.  Although one of her first published stories, Past the Island, Drifting, was awarded an O. Henry Prize in 1975, Anita felt she couldn't make a living as a fiction writer so she became a journalist.  She traveled to ... (more)Africa, and spent three years in Kenya, writing articles that appeared in magazines such as Quest, US, and Newsweek.  Back in the United States, she turned to raising her children and writing freelance articles for magazines.  Anita later expanded two of these articles — both published in The New York Times Magazine — into the nonfiction books: Remaking Motherhood and Women Together, Women Alone.  At the same time, Anita also began working on her first novel, Eden Close.  With its publication in 1989, she gave up journalism for writing fiction full time, thrilled, as she says, with "the rush of freedom that I could make it up." Since Eden Close, Anita has written eleven other novels: Strange Fits of Passion, Where or When, Resistance, The Weight of Water, The Pilot's Wife, Fortune's Rocks, The Last Time They Met, Sea Glass, All He Ever Wanted, Light on Snow, A Wedding in December and, most recently, Body Surfing.  In 1998, Anita received the PEN/L. L. Winship Award and the New England Book Award for fiction.  More at www.AnitaShreve.com
Title:  A Change in Altitude, $26.99 Hardcover, ISBN 9780316020701, On Sale Date:  September 22, 2009
What:  Anita Shreve will talk about her New Book, her life, her work, answer audience questions and she will autograph copies of her New Book purchased from Rainy Day Books, on our website and / or at our Author Event, that are accompanied by a Stamped Ticket.
When:  Wednesday, September 23, 2009, 7:00 PM Where:  A Rainy Day Books Author Event at Unity Temple on The Plaza, Sanctuary, 707 W 47th Street, Kansas City, Missouri 64112
Admission Package (Click on the ADD TO SHOPPING CART button):  $26.99 plus Tax, includes from Rainy Day Books, One (1) Stamped Ticket, One (1) Guest Ticket (if needed) and One (1) Copy of A Change in Altitude (Hardcover) to be Autographed after the Author Presentation.  Please specify your need for One (1) Stamped Ticket and One (1) Guest Ticket (if needed) in the Notes field of your Online Order.  If you choose Option 1 for In-Store Pick-Up, then you can specify At-Event Pick-Up in the Notes field of your Online Order.  Thank you.  Book Orders can be shipped worldwide. 
All Author Event Book Sales are Final and Non-Returnable.

Join us for a special Beach day story time and activity. We will be reading Beach Themed Poems and stories and making "A Beach in a Bottle" to celebrate the wonderful gift of summer. The activity and story time is free and we will have a free snack and beverage.

Judy Cook will be signing her book "If This Land Could Talk" a historical memoir chronicling the early ND Homesteading Experience. The author's Historical account introduces each of her four grandparents, who arrive separately in central North Dakota by rail around 1905. Cook offers a poignant but entertaining ... (more)glimppse into their daily lives.

Author:  Robert Hicks.  Rainy Day Books hosted Robert back on September 13, 2005, at Unity Temple on The Plaza, Sanctuary, for his debut novel, The Widow of the South, $24.95 Hardcover, ISBN 9780446500128, based on the story of Carrie McGavock, and the five-hour bloodbath Civil War Battle of Franklin ... (more)where 9,200 soldiers were killed.  Rainy Day Books is pleased and proud to host Robert for his New Book, A Separate County.  Robert was born and raised in South Florida.  In 1974, Robert moved to Williamson County, Tennessee and in 1979, he moved to 'Labor in Vain,' a late-eighteenth-century log cabin, near Leiper's Fork, Tennessee.  Working both as a music publisher and in artist management in both country and rock music, Robert's interests remain broad and varied.  A partner in the B. B. King's Blues Clubs in Nashville, Memphis and Los Angeles, Robert serves as 'Curator of Vibe' of the corporation. Title:  A Separate Country, $25.99 Hardcover, ISBN 9780446581646, On Sale Date:  September 01, 2009.  Rainy Day Books will have Robert Hicks' Books for Sale at this Author Event.
What:  Robert Hicks will talk about his New Book, his life, his work, answer audience questions and he will autograph copies of his New Book purchased from Rainy Day Books, on our website and / or at our Author Event. When:  Tuesday, October 06, 2009, 6:30 PM Where:  A Rainy Day Books and Kansas City Public Library Author Event at Kansas City Public Library, Plaza Branch, Truman Forum, 4801 Main Street, Kansas City, Missouri 64112, Reservation Phone:  816-701-3407, Reception at 6:00 PM, Discussion at 6:30 PM, and Booksigning at 7:30 PM
Admission:  Complimentary and Open to the General Public.  Please Call the Kansas City Public Library at 816-701-3407 for Reservations.  Rainy Day Books will have Robert Hicks' Books for Sale at this Author Event.

This is the regular meeting of the Classics Group. Reading choice for July: "Winesburg, Ohio" by Sherwood Anderson, and August is TBA. New readers are always welcome to join!

Meet New York times best-selling author Carole Boston Weatherford.

Ned Sublette discusses and signs his book The Year Before the Flood: A Story of New Orleans.If you are unable to attend,you must call the book shop to order signed books.

Diesel, A Bookstore in Oakland presents Dean Kuipers as he discusses and signs his new book, Operation Bite Back: Rod Coronado's War to Save American Wilderness, an insider's look at the environmental movement's radical wing and its uneasy relationship with the mainstream.
Dean Kuipers is an editor at ... (more)the Los Angeles Times. Burning Rainbow Farm, about the 2001 FBI shooting of two libertarian pot activists on a farm in Michigan, was published in 2006. His work has also recently appeared in the 2008 titles, The Contenders, in which he wrote on Al Gore, and Red State Rebels, where the Rainbow Farm book is excerpted. He is the co-author of I Am A Bullet, a collaboration with photographer Doug Aitken on the acceleration of global culture. As a former editor at Spin and Raygun magazines, he wrote extensively on radical movements and rock’n’roll, with cover stories on Marilyn Manson, David Bowie, Neil Young, Iggy Pop, Smashing Pumpkins, Cypress Hill, the Rolling Stones and many others. As author and editor of the 1997 graphics/pop culture book, Ray Gun Out Of Control, he worked with contributors David Bowie, REM's Michael Stipe, cyberpunk writer William Gibson and the world's foremost graphic designers. His work has appeared in Playboy, Rolling Stone, the Los Angeles Times, Interview, Travel & Leisure, Outside, Spin, LA Weekly, and others.

Richelle Mead will speak and sign Blood Promise. Vampire Art Contest!
All submissions due by 5 pm on Monday, August 24th. Submit two-dimensional artwork
no larger than 30" by 30" to Mandy King. Artwork will be returned at the Richelle
Mead event. Artists must be present to win. For more information, ... (more)please contact Mandy King:
mandys@boulderbookstore.com

The Passionate Mind Revisited: Expanding Personal and Social Awareness
With a facilitated discussion with Santa Cruz’s own Mark Stephens Bookshop Santa Cruz welcomes the authors of The Passionate Mind Revisited: Expanding Personal and Social Awareness, a book that takes readers on a liberating inner ... (more)journey into the workings of their mind that can transform the way people look at themselves and the world.
Kramer and Alstad assert that humanity is on an evolutionary cusp requiring further awareness and conscious social evolution. Worldviews can create rigid beliefs and narrow identities that are destructive in a world of global impact. While acknowledging the fallibility of any mental construction, the book offers an evolutionary worldview deemed more likely than traditional worldviews or scientific materialism.
In exploring what it is to be a human social animal, The Passionate Mind Revisited offers fresh vantage points on life's core issues: the nature of thought, authority and belief, pleasure and pain, desire and fear, identity, love and care, freedom, power, gender, time, meditation, violence, and evolution. This book through its discussion and methodology, fosters curiosity and truth-seeking. Kramer and Alstad offer new insights on personal and global issues that can facilitate a necessary shift to conscious social evolution.
Joel Kramer is regarded by many as the father of modern American yoga for his evolutionary vision of yoga that frees it from its authoritarian roots. Diana Alstad received a Ph.D. from Yale in 1971 and initiated and taught the first Women’s Studies courses at both Yale and Duke. And we are delighted that Mark Stephens, local yoga instructor and member of the conscious living and healing arts community, will be leading the facilitated discussion at this event.

Diane Leslie's Book Group meets to discuss Shilpa Agarwal's Haunting Bombay. Around 6pm, Ms. Agarwal will join in the discussion! There is a $20 entry fee for this event.

We are celebrating a full year of hosting our Community Book Group—a monthly Book Group, open to everyone in the community and centered on works by Bay Area authors. Bookshop’s celebratory pick is from our own local (and already best-selling) author, Clifford Henderson. Henderson’s debut novel ... (more)centers on an independent, urban lesbian who cashes out her life in San Francisco for a second-hand travel-trailer, and sets off in search for a new life. The novel is full captivating turns and a cast of wonderfully quirky characters, and all the humor that you would expect from this talented author who also happens to be co-founder of the Fun Institute, a school of improv and solo performance here in Santa Cruz. We invite you to read, The Middle of Somewhere, and then join us on Thursday, July 23rd at 7:30pm for a group discussion facilitated by Julie Minnis, followed by a dialogue with Clifford at 8:00pm. The Middle of Somewhere will be discounted to the whole community at 10% off its cover price until the July 23rd meeting date. We hope you’ll join us.
PS—There will be snacks and tea!!

"One of our most promising writers." —Maya Angelou Please join us for an author reading and book signing with Clarence Nero, Baton Rouge based writer, featuring his new novel, TOO MUCH OF A GOOD THING AIN’T BAD. It’s a follow-up to his 2006 novel, Three Sides to Every Story, which was based in ... (more)the Ninth Ward, where Clarence grew up.
He currently teaches English/fiction writing at LSU.

Bradley Booth will be signing copies of his compelling and poignant novel "I Apologize" in the meeting room at The Westfield Memorial Library. Anyone wishing to attend the event must use the link the below to sign up: http://www.libraryinsight.net/eventde...

També llegiran fragments de llurs obres: Agustí Masip, Toni Orensanz, Miquel Esteve, Sílvia Favà i Josep Civit Mateu.

Intervindran: Jordi Mercadé i Ribé, Jurisconsult en Dret agrari i Antoni Gavaldà, professor de la Universitat Rovira i Virgili.

Todd De Pastino will give an illustrated talk on the creator of "Up Front," Bill Mauldin.

Stay in touch through blogging…Families are likely to be spread all over, and blogging is a great way to stay connected. Come join Adult Services Librarian, Ashley Burdick as she demonstrates how to set up a family blog to share photographs, stories, and memories. Due to limited space, reservations ... (more)are recommended. The program will be held in the computer training room from 1pm to 3pm, and participants should meet first at the adult services reference desk. Peninsula Center Library, 701 Silver Spur Road, (310) 377-9584, ext. 601. Reservations please. Check the Library's website www.pvld.org

Saturday-Sunday, July 18th-19th 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. in the Civic Plaza

Join New York Times bestselling author J.A. Jance as her book tour stops by the Nanini and Joyner-Green Valley Branch Libraries in August. Jance will talk about her new book, Fire and Ice (available in hardcover July 21 from Harper Collins), in which the paths of super-sleuths J.P. Beaumont and Joanna ... (more)Brady cross - yet again!

Join New York Times bestselling author J.A. Jance as her book tour stops by the Nanini and Joyner-Green Valley Branch Libraries in August. Jance will talk about her new book, Fire and Ice (available in hardcover July 21 from Harper Collins), in which the paths of super-sleuths J.P. Beaumont and Joanna ... (more)Brady cross - yet again!

Join New York Times bestselling author J.A. Jance as her book tour stops by the Nanini and Joyner-Green Valley Branch Libraries in August. Jance will talk about her new book, Fire and Ice (available in hardcover July 21 from Harper Collins), in which the paths of super-sleuths J.P. Beaumont and Joanna ... (more)Brady cross - yet again!

The author of The Last Synapsid will read, answer questions, sign, and chat with us about creatures from the ancient past who travel through time to fight with each to save or destroy human kind. Phew! You don't want to miss this one!

Bunny Clogs is Shel Silverstein-meets-Prince surreal dance fun. We defy you to sit still while pied piper incarnate Adam Levy is playing his funky, hip-hoppy, Seussian music.

Put on your jammies and come to the trolley for a special evening ride. First, we'll have milk and cookies at the Linden Hills Station by Lake Harriet. Next, we'll board the trolley and ride over to Lake Calhoun, where we'll stop for bedtime stories before riding back. Our special guest storyteller will ... (more)be author and illustrator Nancy Carlson. There will be two rides--Hurray! The first will be at 6:30, and the second will be at 7:30. Tickets will go on sale on August 1. Call us for details. Cash or check only. This event is a in conjunction with the Minnesota Streetcar Museum.

Grace Baltich and Chelsea Zimmerman, two of the future leaders from the new book SHE'S OUT THERE! 35 Women Who Aspire to Lead the Nation: The Next Generation of Presidential Candidates, will join us to talk about their aspirations, women in politics, and to give advice to young women.

Diesel, A Bookstore in Oakland is pleased to present David Swanson as he discusses and signs his new book, Daybreak: Undoing the Imperial Presidency and Forming a More Perfect Union.
Swanson holds a master's degree in philosophy from the University of Virginia. He has worked as a newspaper reporter and ... (more)as a communications director, with jobs including press secretary for Dennis Kucinich's 2004 presidential campaign, media coordinator for the International Labor Communications Association, and three years as communications coordinator for ACORN, the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now.

Diesel, A Bookstore in Brentwood is very excited to welcome Mark Weiss to the shop to discuss and sign the anthology of poetry he edited, The Whole Island: Six Decades of Cuban Poetry.
Cuba's cultural influence throughout the Western Hemisphere, and especially in the United States, has been disproportionally ... (more)large for so small a country. This landmark volume is the first comprehensive overview of poetry written over the past sixty years. Presented in a beautiful Spanish-English en face edition, The Whole Island makes available the astonishing achievement of a wide range of Cuban poets, including such well-known figures as Nicolás Guillén, José Lezama Lima, and Nancy Morejón, but also poets widely read in Spanish who remain almost unknown to the English-speaking world - among them Fina García Marruz, José Kozer, Raúl Hernández Novás, and Ángel Escobar-and poets born since the Revolution, like Rogelio Saunders, Omar Pérez, Alessandra Molina, and Javier Marimón. The translations, almost all of them new, convey the intensity and beauty of the accompanying Spanish originals. With their work deeply rooted in Cuban culture, many of these poets - both on and off the island - have been at the center of the political and social changes of this tempestuous period. The poems offered here constitute an essential source for understanding the literature and culture of Cuba, its diaspora, and the Caribbean at large, and provide an unparalleled perspective on what it means to be Cuban.

This is a group for writers of all styles and levels. Hosted by Eric and Tammy, they'll lead you from idea to author signing! Call Tammy here for more information. They meet every Friday evening!

Children's book author and juggling aficionado will be here to release his newest Escapade Johnson book, Phantom of the Science Fair. Chapter books, great for boys and girls aged 7 to 10 who like crazy adventures and wacky characters. Trying to get your child interested in reading? This is the ... (more)event for you. We're having a party, so come see how fun reading can be! Check out Mike's website, www.talestoldtall.com!

John Besh discusses and signs his new book My New Orleans: The Cookbook.If you are unable to attend,you must call the book shop to order signed books.

Our book club meets this month to discuss the non-fiction book, The Zookeeper's Wife, by Diane Ackerman. There is always great discussion and coffee to be had!

Diesel, A Bookstore in Oakland is proud to present store favorite Frank Portman in celebration of his sophomore young adult novel, Andromeda Klein.

Diesel, A Bookstore in Brentwood is pleased to host an afternoon with Anna Thomas as she discusses and signs her new vegetarian cookbook, Love Soup: 160 All-New Vegetarian Recipes.

You are invited to join us for a booksinging and talk by Bill Dixon, author of THE LAST DAYS OF LAST ISLAND: The Hurricane of 1856, Louisiana’s First Great Storm. "The great storm of August 1856 was a pivotal event that disrupted lives throughout the Gulf Coast .... Bill Dixon's engrossing narrative ... (more)will captivate anyone who has ever experience a major storm."
-- Carl A. Brasseaux, author of French, Cajun, Creole, Houma: A Primer on Francophone Louisiana

Diane Leslie's Book Group meets to discuss Shilpa Agarwal's Haunting Bombay. Around 6pm, Ms. Agarwal will join in the discussion! There is a $20 entry fee for this event.

Here's a truly multimedia event. Gerald Elias presents his DEVIL'S TRILL, a tale of greed, lust, power, and murder ... and classical music! It's an evocative debut mystery about the theft of a priceless violin by the concertmaster of the Utah Symphony. Elias will also perform Tartini's Devil's Trill!
Can’t ... (more)make it? To request a signed or personalized copy, call 828-1588 or 1-800-672-6789 or contact orders@quailridgebooks.com (at least 48 hours in advance for email) to check availability.

Holly Goddard Jones brings us GIRL TROUBLE. These geographically linked stories create the composite image of life in Roma, Kentucky.
Can’t make it? To request a signed or personalized copy, call 828-1588 or 1-800-672-6789 or contact orders@quailridgebooks.com (at least 48 hours in advance for ... (more)email) to check availability.

Join us after school as young adult author, Paula Morris, comes to the store to talk about her new novel, Ruined.

Join our Science Fiction Bookclubs lively discussion on October's selection, Heathern.

This month our Science Fiction Bookclub comes together to discuss To Marry Medusa. Come by and join us for coffee and conversation!

Join our book club as the read September's selection, The Lace Reader, Brunonia Barry's acclaimed debut novel!

Join our Book Club for an amazing discussion of Sara Gruen's popular book, Water For Elephants.