Location: Alameda, CA 94501, United States

Prominent, emerging, and beginning writers highlight various forms of writing to spotlight the diverse literary community of the East Bay. Featured readers this month are Zubair Ahmed, Inna Nopuente, Richard Silberg, and Javier Zamora.

Location: Street: Pegasus Books Downtown Additional: 2349 Shattuck Avenue City: Berkeley, Province: California Postal Code: 94704 Country: United States (added from IndieBound)… (more)

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Pre-K: Tues. & Thurs. at 11AM Babies & Toddlers: Wed. at 11AM Newborns: Fri. at 11AM All Ages: Sat. at 11AM

Stories & Free Crafts (Ages 3+): Sun. at 11AM Part Time Princess author, Deborah Underwood!(3 days) Stella & Dot trunk show for grown-ups!(3 days) Fitness dance party!(5 days) more (added from IndieBound)… (more)

Jen Sincero, bestselling author of Straight Girl’s Guide to Sleeping With Chicks and success coach who has helped countless people will discuss her latest book, You Are a Badass: How to Stop Doubting Your Greatness and Start Living an Awesome Life.

Location: Books Inc. Street: 601 Van Ness City: San Francisco, Province: California Country: United States (added from IndieBound)… (more)

Let Cathleen Peck and Carolyn Hansen guide your next walk through this lovely city of ours with PowerHiking San Francisco, featuring twelve walks of varying difficulty, this handy book is great for the casual or avid walker both young and old.

Location: Books Inc. Street: 2251 Chestnut Street City: San Francisco, Province: California Country: United States (added from IndieBound)… (more)

Diesel, A Bookstore in Oakland welcomes editors Marc Weingarten and Tyson Cornell to the store to discuss and sign their new book, Yes Is The Answer: And Other Prog Rock Tales on Thursday, June 20th at 7pm.

Progressive rock is maligned and misunderstood. Critics hate it, hipsters scoff at it. Yes Is The Answer is a pointed rebuke to the prog-haters, the first literary anthology devoted to the subgenre. Featuring essays by acclaimed novelists Rick Moody, Wesley Stace, Seth Greenland, Charles Bock, and Joe Meno, as well as musicians Matthew Sweet, Nathan Larson, and Peter Case, Yes Is The Answer is the first book that dares to thoughtfully reclaim prog-rock as a subject worthy of serious consideration.

Marc Weingarten is the author of The Gang That Wouldn't Write Straight and Station to Station. He is producer of the 2011 documentary God Bless Ozzy Osbourne, as well as television's "The Bachelor" and "The Bachelorette." He lives in Malibu, California. Tyson Cornell is the founder of Rare Bird Lit, a Los Angeles and New York-based literary PR and marketing company specializing in book promotion for authors, publishers, and organizations. He lives with his wife and two children in downtown Los Angeles.

Location: Street: 5433 College Ave City: Oakland, Province: California Postal Code: 94618-1502 Country: United States (added from IndieBound)… (more)

Join us for a reading full of romance and adventure as Mark Abramson shares, Love Rules, number seven in the Beach Reading mystery series. With his partner, Nick, traversing Europe on a book tour, Tim Snow is home pondering the rules of monogamy. Meanwhile, local businesses in the Castro are desperate to identify a pair of masked robbers preying on their neighborhood.

Location: Books Inc. Street: 2275 Market St. City: San Francisco, Province: California Country: United States (added from IndieBound)… (more)

Joan Steinau Lester

Thursday, June 20, 7:30 p.m.

Mama's Child

Mama’s Child is story of an idealistic young white woman who traveled to the American South as a civil rights worker, fell in love with an African American man, and started a family in San Francisco, where the more liberal city embraced them—-except when it didn’t. They raise a son and daughter, but the tensions surrounding them have a negative impact on their marriage, and they divorce when their children are still young. For their biracial daughter, this split further destabilizes her already challenged sense of self—“Am I black or white?” she must ask herself, “Where do I belong?” Is she her father’s daughter alone?

Joan Steinau Lester, Ed.D., is an award-winning journalist and author of four critically acclaimed books. Her writing has appeared in many newspapers and magazines, including Essence, Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, and Cosmopolitan.

Location: Street: 1010 El Camino Real City: Menlo Park, Province: California Postal Code: 94025-4349 Country: United States (added from IndieBound)… (more)

Shannon’s intention is to help people with process—the spiritual journey of creating—rather than with end results. By immersing ourselves in our creative activity, we can quiet those voices around and in us—and enter into the stillness that characterizes prayer and the “house of love.” So whether crocheting a blanket for your grandchild, mixing a concoction of anointing oils for ceremony or aromatherapy, a prayer shawl for your ill neighbor, assembling a collage of your dreams, or sewing, your intention to create a sacred space is all that is truly needed. The benefits of meditation and contemplation are as active as sitting in a church or monastery.
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Pre-K: Tues. & Thurs. at 11AM Babies & Toddlers: Wed. at 11AM Newborns: Fri. at 11AM All Ages: Sat. at 11AM

Stories & Free Crafts (Ages 3+): Sun. at 11AM Part Time Princess author, Deborah Underwood!(3 days) Stella & Dot trunk show for grown-ups!(3 days) Fitness dance party!(5 days) more (added from IndieBound)… (more)

Carl Hiaasen (A Death in China, Basket case, Flush, Hoot, Lucky You, Naked Came the Manatee, Native Tongue, Nature Girl, Powder Burn, Scat, Sick puppy, Skinny Dip, Stormy Weather, Strip Tease, Team rodent)

Carl Hiaasen was born and raised in Florida. He is the author of eleven previous novels, including the best-selling Nature Girl, Skinny Dip, Sick puppy, and Lucky You, and three best-selling children’s books, Hoot, Flush, and Scat. His most recent work of nonfiction is The Downhill Lie: A Hacker’s Return to a Ruinous Sport. He also writes a weekly column for The Miami Herald. (added from Random House)… (more)

Books Inc. in Alameda is proud to host the book launch of joSon's vibrant book of photography, Intimate Portrait of Nature. From life as a teenage monk in Asia to a world-travelling, world-class photographer, joSon's images perfectly capture the beauty and wonder of life with meditative discipline.

To see joSon's stunning work visit:
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Location: Books Inc. Street: 1344 Park St. City: Alameda, Province: California Country: United States (added from IndieBound)… (more)

Carl Hiaasen (A Death in China, Basket case, Flush, Hoot, Lucky You, Naked Came the Manatee, Native Tongue, Nature Girl, Powder Burn, Scat, Sick puppy, Skinny Dip, Stormy Weather, Strip Tease, Team rodent)

Carl Hiaasen was born and raised in Florida. He is the author of eleven previous novels, including the best-selling Nature Girl, Skinny Dip, Sick puppy, and Lucky You, and three best-selling children’s books, Hoot, Flush, and Scat. His most recent work of nonfiction is The Downhill Lie: A Hacker’s Return to a Ruinous Sport. He also writes a weekly column for The Miami Herald. (added from Random House)… (more)

The International Forum’s Book Club meets once a month on Sundays from 11:00 AM until noon at Books Inc. in Opera Plaza.

This month's book is "The White Man's Burden: Why the West's Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done So Much Ill and So Little Good" by William Easterly.

New members are always welcome! For more information, please contact ifbookclub@gmail.com.

This event was developed by members of the World Affairs Council's International Forum, a globally minded multicultural group that acts as an interactive arm of the Council. We host events, informal group discussions, social gatherings, book clubs and other networking opportunities.

To learn about upcoming events and ways to get involved, visit our website or like our Facebook page.

This event is free and open to the public.

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Carl Hiaasen (A Death in China, Basket case, Flush, Hoot, Lucky You, Naked Came the Manatee, Native Tongue, Nature Girl, Powder Burn, Scat, Sick puppy, Skinny Dip, Stormy Weather, Strip Tease, Team rodent)

Carl Hiaasen was born and raised in Florida. He is the author of eleven previous novels, including the best-selling Nature Girl, Skinny Dip, Sick puppy, and Lucky You, and three best-selling children’s books, Hoot, Flush, and Scat. His most recent work of nonfiction is The Downhill Lie: A Hacker’s Return to a Ruinous Sport. He also writes a weekly column for The Miami Herald. (added from Random House)… (more)

Sunday, June 23, 2:00 p.m. And the Mountains Echoed by Khaled Hosseini

In this tale revolving around not just parents and children but brothers and sisters, cousins and caretakers, Hosseini explores the many ways in which families nurture, wound, betray, honor, and sacrifice for one another; and how often we are surprised by the actions of those closest to us, at the times that matter most. Following its characters and the ramifications of their lives and choices and loves around the globe—from Kabul to Paris to San Francisco to the Greek island of Tinos—the story expands gradually outward, becoming more emotionally complex and powerful with each turning page.

Location: Street: 1010 El Camino Real City: Menlo Park, Province: California Postal Code: 94025-4349 Country: United States (added from IndieBound)… (more)

Diesel, A Bookstore in Oakland welcomes author Amy Lynn Reed to the store to discuss and sign her book, Over You on Sunday, June 23th at 3pm.

An intense friendship fractures in Over You, a gritty, realistic novel from the author of Beautiful, Clean, and Crazy, which School Library Journal called "compelling and moving."

Max would follow Sadie anywhere, so when Sadie decides to ditch her problems and escape to Nebraska for the summer, it's only natural for Max to go along. Max is Sadie's confidante, her protector, and her best friend. This summer will be all about them. This summer will be perfect.

And then they meet Dylan. Dylan is dark, dangerous, and intoxicating, and he awakens something in Max that she never knew existed. No matter how much she wants to, she can't back away from him. But Sadie has her own intensity, and has never allowed Max to become close with anyone else. Max doesn't know who she is without Sadie, but she'd better start learning. If she doesn't make a decision--about Dylan, about Sadie, about herself--it's going to be made for her.

Amy Reed's work has appeared in Kitchen Sink, Contrary and Fiction and she is the author of several young adult books including Crazy, Clean and Beautiful. She earned her MFA from New College of California and currently lives in Oakland.

Location: Street: 5433 College Ave City: Oakland, Province: California Postal Code: 94618-1502 Country: United States (added from IndieBound)… (more)