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Porter Gale is an internationally known public speaker, networker, and entrepreneur with more than twenty years of experience working in marketing, advertising, and independent filmmaking. From 2007 to 2011, Porter was Vice President of Marketing at Virgin America. Prior to Virgin America, Porter was a consultant and held the post of general manager at Kirshenbaum Bond + Partners San Francisco. She was awarded the Changing the Game Award by the Advertising Women of New York (AWNY), was on AdAge’s Digital Hotlist, iMedia's Top 25-Digital Marketers, and named a Digital Passionista by The Huffington Post. She lives with her daughter in San Francisco. She is also a... Read full bio
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Diesel, A Bookstore in Oakland welcomes local poets Jennifer Foerster and Shane Book to the store to read from their books Leaving Tulsa and Ceiling of Sticks on Wednesday, June 19th at 7pm.

Leaving Tulsa is a book of road elegies and laments, travels from Oklahoma to the edges of the American continent through landscapes at once stark and lush, ancient and apocalyptic. The imagery that cycles through the poems — fire, shell, highway, wing — gives the collection a rich lyrical-dramatic texture. Each poem builds on a theme of searching for a lost "self" — an "other" America — that crosses biblical, tribal, and ecological mythologies.

Ceiling of Sticks, winner of the Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry, bears elegiac witness to the effects of global politics on individual lives. The poems carry us to Uganda, Ghana, Mali, Trinidad, and Canada’s west coast; from a religious sacrifice in Tarahumara, Mexico, to Book’s ailing grandfather’s bedside. They bring an intimate vision of humanity to scenes of inhuman atrocity and suffering; a moment of clarity and empathy to individuals overwhelmed by war or other man-made catastrophes.

Jennifer Foerster was a Wallace Stegner Fellow in Poetry at Stanford University, and is widely published in journals and anthologies. Leaving Tulsa is her first poetry collection. Shane Book was also a Wallace Stegner Fellow in Poetry at Stanford University. He has won numerous awards, such as the Malahat Review Long Poem Prize, a National Magazine Award, and an Academy of American Poets Prize.

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

The World Affairs Council presents Michael Levi, author of The Power Surge: Energy, Opportunity, and the Battle for America's Future.

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Location: World Affairs Council Street: 312 Sutter Street, #200 City: San Francisco, Province: California Country: United States (added from IndieBound)… (more)

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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)

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.

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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.

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The First Unitarian Universalist Society, World Wildlife Fund, and the Audobon Society present Eric Dinerstein, author of The Kingdom of Rarities.

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Location: First Unitarian Universalist Society Street: 1187 Franklin 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.

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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)

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.

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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)

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.

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Location: Books Inc. Street: 1344 Park St. City: Alameda, Province: California Country: United States (added from IndieBound)… (more)