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Openly gay sports writer Bill Konigsberg is the author of "Out of the Pocket" (Dutton, $16.99 hb, less 10% in the store). Star quarterback Bobby Framingham, one of the most talented high school football players in California, knows he’s different from his teammates. They are like brothers, but they ... (more)don’t know one essential thing: Bobby is gay. Can he still be one of the guys and be honest about who he is?When he’s outed against his will by a student reporter, Bobby must find a way to earn back his teammates’ trust and accept that his path to success might be more public, and more difficult, than he'd hoped. An affecting novel about identity that also delivers great sports writing.

In her debut novel, Bethlehem resident, Joyce Hinnefeld, has written a beautiful story set right here in Eastern Pennsylvania. Her novel captures the emotions of love, friendships, grief and a beautiful connection with nature. Addie and Tom share more than their love for their daughter and each other. ... (more) Their love for birds and nature travels through time when this area has been grown from a rural community with open space to questioning when development is harming nature. I highly recommend the book for lovers of nature, residents of our area and anyone who loves good literature. You are invited to an afternoon book reading with the author with a book signing to follow. If you are unable to make this event, we can get a personalized copy signed for you. This book will make a great gift. Please remember that all books presented for signing must be purchased from Harleysville Books. IN HOVERING FLIGHT IS THE #1 SEPTEMBER INDIE PICK! Read what other independent booksellers are saying about this novel. "A wonderful debut novel that is surprising in all the right ways. It's a love story, a celebration of the natural world, environmental statement, and a story of lifelong friendships. Though Barbara Kingsolver comes immediately to mind when looking for a comparison for Joyce Hinnefeld, I found that her voice was unique, and if you'll pardon the metaphor, as clear and bright as morning birdsong in early spring." — Cathy Langer, The Tattered Cover, Denver, CO “Joyce Hinnenfeld’s deeply felt novel resonated with me in a number of ways. Like Addie I am a mid-Atlantic girl, born and bred and I enjoyed the homage paid to Bucks Country, Pennsylvania and the New Jersey coast, lovely and humble places. Addie could be somebody from my life; I knew many people who veered from hope to anger in those years where the political process was unresponsive to their concerns. Finally, there is a familiar mother/daughter relationship, a tangle of love and unspoken but deeply felt expectations.” -- Carla Cohen, Politics & Prose Bookstore, Washington D.C.

In her debut novel, Bethlehem resident, Joyce Hinnefeld, has written a beautiful story set right here in Eastern Pennsylvania. Her novel captures the emotions of love, friendships, grief and a beautiful connection with nature. Addie and Tom share more than their love for their daughter and each other. ... (more) Their love for birds and nature travels through time when this area has been grown from a rural community with open space to questioning when development is harming nature. I highly recommend the book for lovers of nature, residents of our area and anyone who loves good literature. You are invited to an afternoon book reading with the author with a book signing to follow. If you are unable to make this event, we can get a personalized copy signed for you. This book will make a great gift. Please remember that all books presented for signing must be purchased from Harleysville Books. IN HOVERING FLIGHT IS THE #1 SEPTEMBER INDIE PICK! Read what other independent booksellers are saying about this novel. "A wonderful debut novel that is surprising in all the right ways. It's a love story, a celebration of the natural world, environmental statement, and a story of lifelong friendships. Though Barbara Kingsolver comes immediately to mind when looking for a comparison for Joyce Hinnefeld, I found that her voice was unique, and if you'll pardon the metaphor, as clear and bright as morning birdsong in early spring." — Cathy Langer, The Tattered Cover, Denver, CO “Joyce Hinnenfeld’s deeply felt novel resonated with me in a number of ways. Like Addie I am a mid-Atlantic girl, born and bred and I enjoyed the homage paid to Bucks Country, Pennsylvania and the New Jersey coast, lovely and humble places. Addie could be somebody from my life; I knew many people who veered from hope to anger in those years where the political process was unresponsive to their concerns. Finally, there is a familiar mother/daughter relationship, a tangle of love and unspoken but deeply felt expectations.” -- Carla Cohen, Politics & Prose Bookstore, Washington D.C.

Join the book discussion group "Nature's Narratives" as they discuss a classic in nature writing. Pine Barrens is one of John McPhee’s best. Considered one of the finest essayists of the 20th century, McPhee explores the largest essentially untouched wilderness east of the Mississippi with insight ... (more)into the botanical, geological, and cultural aspects of the Pine Barrens. Join us for this discussion a week before our bus trip to the Pine Barrens! Connect with fellow garden enthusiasts and book lovers as they meet to discuss books about plants, nature, and the environment. “Nature’s Narratives” is a book discussion group sponsored by the Scott Arboretum where readers come together to discuss a book once a month and to share in the reading experience.

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Laura Otten, Ph.D. is Executive Director of the La Salle Nonprofit Center. She will present an introductory workshop on the composition, functions and requirements of nonprofit boards of directors. Staff and board members of nonprofit organizations are invited to attend. Registration is required. ... (more) Please phone 215.686.5423 to register.

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Join Diesel Bookstore for a green event with Van Jones, author of Green Collar Economy! ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Van Jones is the founder and president of Green For All, based in Oakland. The mission is to help build an inclusive, green economy - strong enough to lift millions of people out of poverty. Van ... (more)is a tireless advocate, championing "green-collar jobs and opportunities" for disadvantaged people. He is committed to creating "green pathways out of poverty," while greatly expanding the coalition fighting global warming. He's worked to combine solutions to America's two biggest problems: social inequality and environmental destruction. Under the slogan "green-collar jobs, not jails," he is calling for green economic development in urban America. As an advocate for the toughest urban constituencies and causes, he has won many honors, which include the 1998 Reebok International Human Rights Award, the international Ashoka Fellowship, selection as a World Economic Forum "Young Global Leader," and the Rockefeller Foundation "Next Generation Leadership" Fellowship. He's also served on the boards of numerous national environmental organizations. Presently, he is a board member of the National Apollo Alliance, which advocates for clean energy jobs. He is also a founding board member of 1Sky, a national coalition working to avert catastrophic climate change. In 2007, Van helped the City of Oakland pass a "Green Jobs Corps" proposal; the City allocated funds to train Oakland residents in eco-friendly "green-collar jobs." At the national level, Van worked successfully in 2007 with U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), U.S. Rep. Hilda Solis (D-CA), U.S. Rep. John Tierney (D-MASS) to pass the Green Jobs Act of 2007. That path-breaking, historic legislation authorized $125 million in funding to train 35,000 people a year in "green-collar jobs." Van is also a co-founder of a new national coalition that promotes the idea of a national "Clean Energy Jobs Corps." This multi-billion-dollar federal initiative would put hundreds of thousands of people to work rewiring and retrofitting the energy infrastructure of the United States. In 2005, Van produced the "Social Equity Track" for the United Nations' World Environment Day celebration. UNWED 2005 drew dozens of mayors from around the world to San Francisco, where they developed policies promoting the concept of "Green Cities." In 1996, Van co-founded (with Diana Frappier) the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights, now located in Oakland, California. Named for an unsung civil rights heroine, the award-winning Center promotes alternatives to violence and incarceration. The Center, for which Van serves as board president, incubated Green For All in 2007 and spun it off in 2008. His many media appearances includes the popular Peabody award-winning show, The Colbert Report.

Join Clare Langley-Hawthorne at Diesel Bookstore as she presents the second book in her fantastic new historical mystery series! Featuring the strong, outspoken, intelligent and sassy Ursula Marlow, THE SERPENT AND THE SCORPION is a thrilling story of scandal and betrayal that's richly detailed and ... (more)action-packed. ABOUT THE AUTHOR:Clare Langley-Hawthorne was raised in England and Australia. She practiced law in Melbourne until 1995 when she emigrated moved to the United States and began work as a health economist. Clare has since put her pursuit of a PhD on hold to focus on her career as a writer. She lives in the San Francisco bay area with her husband and twin sons. This is her second novel. For more information, visit her web site at www.clarelangleyhawthorne.com

Worldly Wisdom explores fifty classic works of philosophy, social thought and literature to draw out ideas for human life.

Ten Mile River On Friday, October 24th at 6:00 pm, Paul Griffin will be at the Doylestown Bookshop to sign copies of Ten Mile River, a gripping and gritty young adult novel about the unusual friendship between two New York teens who find their home on the streets. This is Paul Griffin's first ... (more)novel, and his spare moving prose and uncanny ear for authentic dialogue is guaranteed to garner many fans. Publisher's Weekly Starred Review of Ten Mile River Ray and José, 14 and 15, have survived foster care and juvenile detention together, and now hide out from their parole officers in a burned-out stationhouse in New York City's Ten Mile River park. They make their way by stealing, working occasionally, and trying to stay under police radar. Ray is bigger and smarter, but José, a proven matador, is boss. They are friends to the end—until Ray meets and falls for the beautiful Trini, who encourages both boys to go straight, like her. But Ray's view of himself and his understanding of loyalty also leads him to set up Trini with José. As Griffin illuminates Ray's often dangerous world, readers will feel for themselves Ray's dilemma and the difficulties he faces in choosing between José, drawn to the fast buck, and his own desires to make something of himself. The language is tough but convincing, the setting authentic, the characters memorable and their struggles played out with a complexity that respects the audience's intelligence.

Shawn Stewart Ruff is the author of Finlater (Quote, 292 pp., $15.50 pb). The course of growing up in just-this-side-of-segregation 1970s Cincinnati, Ohio, seems predictable if uninspiring for Cliffy Douglas. That is, until the deadbeat father of this gifted 13 year-old black kid from the Finlater Gardens ... (more)Projects appears out of nowhere. The real fun and trouble begin when Noah, a Jewish boy he meets in junior high school, takes him on a joyride to lust and love. For a thrilling review, see http://www.xtra.ca/public/viewstory.aspx?AFF_TYPE=1&STORY_ID=4968&PUB_TEMPLATE_ID=2

The Indian Valley YMCA Book Club meets at our store on the last Monday of every month at 10:30am. Lenny Grossman from IVYMCA moderates the discussion. Call or email for details. October's book is Uberpower: The Imperial Temptation by Josef Joffe.

Labor Law for the Rank and Filer: Building Solidarity While Staying Clear of the Law is a guerrilla legal handbook for workers in a precarious global economy. Blending cutting-edge legal strategies for winning justice at work with a theory of dramatic social change from below, Staughton Lynd and Daniel ... (more)Gross deliver a practical guide for making work better while re-invigorating the labor movement.

Karen Levin Coburn, co-editor of Letting Go, describes Writin' on Empty: Parents Reveal the Upside, Downside, and Everything in Between When Children Leave the Nest perfectly in her glowing review: "This collection of essays about the universal experience of children leaving home is guaranteed to strike ... (more)a chord—to make you smile and laugh out loud—and yes, even shed some tears. It will confirm what you've been thinking as well as challenge you to think a bit differently." Now, DIESEL, A Bookstore in Oakland is proud to welcome local authors and editors of Writin' on Empty, Risa Nye, Joan Taylor Cehn and Julie Renalds, to the store as they discuss a topic that is sure to pull at the heartstrings of every parent out there, whether you've already gone through this experience yourself or are about to. Head down to DIESEL, A Bookstore on Thursday, October 30 at 7pm and mingle & meet other parents in the perfect opportunity to share your own stories at this wonderful event! Learn more about the editors and their book at www.writinonempty.com.

Join us for our Adult Book Club meeting for our discussion of The Brief Wonderous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz. New members always welcome.

Come for the reading and discussion of Just Like A Girl: A Manifesta! GirlChild Press has released its newest title - Just Like A Girl: A Manifesta! Edited by Michelle Sewell, with a foreword by Def Jam Poet Sonya Renee Taylor, this fiery, fierce collection of short stories, essays, and poems is a rough-and-tumble ... (more)travelogue through the bumpy, powerful, action-packed world of girl. The anthology features writings by an ethnically diverse cross-section of contributors ages 14-60, exploring the themes of love, fear, and forgiveness. Realizing the girl as superhereo! GirlChild Press publishes work that celebrates the triumph and defiance of girls and women, and provides a quality forum to bring their diverse voices to the foreground. With the tremendous success of GirlChild's most recent book, Growing Up Girl: An Anthology of Voices from Marginalized Spaces, the press is attracting more projects and writers. GirlChild's next anthology, Just Like A Girl: A Manifesta!, is slated for August 2008. A parenting handbook, centered on girls, is also in the works and will be released in September 2009.

Kevin Funk and Steve Fake, authors of the new book Scramble for Africa: Darfur Intervention and the USA, analyze the current humanitarian crisis in Darfur and the activist movements surrounding it, thereby taking on both the US government and the Save Darfur coalition alike. The authors present the ... (more)basic information on the political and military aspects of the conflict, examine the options, and suggest ways forward, always with a concern for the broader international implications and for the hundreds of thousands of victims. John Ghazvinian, author of "Untapped: The Scramble for Africa's Oil", calls their book: "Explosive, masterful, and impeccably fair. Consider it the thinking person's guide to Darfur." The authors have been researching and writing about Darfur since early 2006. Their writings have been published in such media as Foreign Policy in Focus, Sudan Tribune, Common Dreams, CounterPunch, ZNet, and Black Commentator. In a careful yet scathing indictment of this constellation of holier-than-thou government leaders, corporate media outlets, and spoon-fed NGOs, Steven Fake and Kevin Funk reveal the myriad ways in which the West has failed Darfur. From neglecting to provide sufficient humanitarian aid to millions of displaced Darfurians, to refusing to adequately support peacekeepers deployed in the region, the West has amply demonstrated its unwillingness to bridge the chasm between rhetoric and reality. Eschewing liberal fantasies of Western benevolence, Fake and Funk unmask the hard reality behind "humanitarian intervention" advocacy, as well as the true nature of US-Sudanese relations. What emerges is a methodical and disturbing portrait of Washington's ongoing ties with some of the worst elements of the Khartoum regime. The authors delve deeply into the immensely harmful and little-known role that Washington has played in the country by decisively backing a series of repressive governments in Khartoum. Brutal enough in their own right, these machinations also set the stage for escalating conflict in Sudan, culminating in the present catastrophe.

Job got you down? Feeling a bit drained at the office? It might be worse than you could possibly imagine. Gary Frank will be at the Doylestown Bookshop to sign copies of his newest book Institutional Memory, a novel of corporate american terror featuring a building that seems to be absorbing ... (more)the life force of the people that work within its walls to disasteorus effect. About the Author Institutional Memory is Gary Frank's second novel, following 2006's Forever Will You Suffer. Currently, he is the president of the Garden State Horror Writers Society. For much more on Gary Frank, please visit his website at www.authorgaryfrank.com.

Come out for an afternoon of "Girl Power" activities from The Daring Book for Girls by Miriam Peskowitz and Andrea Buchanan. Brownie Troop #71500 is working with the Indian Valley Boys & Girls Club to provide gifts to families in our area and children at CHOP this holiday season. 10% of all net sales ... (more)will benefit the IV Girl Scout Service Unit.

DIESEL, A Bookstore in Malibu is excited to welcome legendary surfer and Malibu resident, Laird Hamilton to the store! As one of the most famous big-wave surfers today, Laird is known for his physical and mental toughness when out on the waves, and has achieved worldwide fame for his accomplishments. He'll ... (more)be joining us to discuss and share from his highly anticipated book, Force of Nature, and open a window into the unique physical regimens, mental strategies, and spiritual beliefs that has allowed him to do what he loves, while being surrounded by family and radiating peak health and fitness. We'll see you there!

Let Freedom Ring presents a two-decade sweep of essays, analyses, histories, interviews, resolutions, People's Tribunal verdicts, and poems by and about the scores of U.S. political prisoners and the campaigns to safeguard their rights and secure their freedom. In addition to an extensive section on ... (more)the campaign to free death-row journalist Mumia Abu-Jamal, represented here are the radical movements that have most challenged the U.S. empire from within: Black Panthers and other Black liberation fighters, Puerto Rican independentistas, Indigenous sovereignty activists, white anti-imperialists, environmental and animal rights militants, Arab and Muslim activists, Iraq war resisters, and others. Contributors in and out of prison detail the repressive methods--from long-term isolation to sensory deprivation to politically inspired parole denial--used to attack these freedom fighters, some still caged after 30+ years. This invaluable resource guide offers inspiring stories of the creative, and sometimes winning, strategies to bring them home. Contributors include: Mumia Abu-Jamal, Dan Berger, Dhoruba Bin-Wahad, Bob Lederer, Terry Bisson, Laura Whitehorn, Safiya Bukhari, The San Francisco 8, Angela Davis, Bo Brown, Bill Dunne, Jalil Muntaqim, Susie Day, Luis Nieves Falcón, Ninotchka Rosca, Meg Starr, Assata Shakur, Jill Soffiyah Elijah, Jan Susler, Chrystos, Jose Lopez, Leonar