Location: San Carlos, CA

Life Actually Tour with Lurlene McDaniel, Dana Reinhardt and Wendeline Van Draanen

Friday, May 24, 7:30 p.m.

The Year of Luminous Love by Lurlene McDaniel

The Things a Brother Knows by Dana ReinhardtThe Running Dream by Wendeline Van Draanen

Realistic fiction at its best!

The Year of Luminous Love: In the vein of Eat, Pray, Love, but for teens, this inspirational novel is set against the backdrop of Tennessee horse country as well as the historic cities of Italy and the Italian countryside. The story unfolds as three teenage girls, recently graduated from high school, plan the next phase of their lives while dealing with immediate life issues.

The Things a Brother Knows: Levi's older brother Boaz returns from fighting with the Marines in the Middle East. He's safe. Levi's family has waited three long years for this. But Boaz is no longer the brother Levi thought he knew.

The Running Dream: Jessica thinks her life is over when she loses a leg in a car accident. She's not comforted by the news that she'll be able to walk with the help of a prosthetic leg. Who cares about walking when you live to run? Winner of the 2012 Schneider Family Book Award.

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

Life Actually Tour with Lurlene McDaniel, Dana Reinhardt and Wendeline Van Draanen

Friday, May 24, 7:30 p.m.

The Year of Luminous Love by Lurlene McDaniel

The Things a Brother Knows by Dana ReinhardtThe Running Dream by Wendeline Van Draanen

Realistic fiction at it's best!

The Year of Luminous Love: In the vein of Eat, Pray, Love, but for teens, this inspirational novel is set against the backdrop of Tennessee horse country as well as the historic cities of Italy and the Italian countryside. The story unfolds as three teenage girls, recently graduated from high school, plan the next phase of their lives while dealing with immediate life issues.

The Things a Brother Knows: Levi's older brother Boaz returns from fighting with the Marines in the Middle East. He's safe. Levi's family has waited three long years for this. But Boaz is no longer the brother Levi thought he knew.

The Running Dream: Jessica thinks her life is over when she loses a leg in a car accident. She's not comforted by the news that she'll be able to walk with the help of a prosthetic leg. Who cares about walking when you live to run? Winner of the 2012 Schneider Family Book Award.

Location: Street: 1010 El Camino Real City: Menlo Park, Province: California Postal Code: 94025-4349 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 Snippet the Early Riser with Author Bethanie Murguia(3 days) Babymouse and Squish author, Jennifer Holm!(13 days) Grown-up Book Club(14 days) more (added from IndieBound)… (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 "Country of My Skull: Guilt, Sorrow, and the Limits of Forgiveness in the New South Africa" by Antjie Krog.

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.

Books Inc. Tel: 415.776.1111 (MDGentleReader)… (more)

Diesel, A Bookstore in Oakland hosts another installment of the always excellent Poetry Flash, this time with Tim Kahl and Joshua McKinney, on Sunday, May 26th at 3pm.

Tim Kahl's's new book of poems is The Century of Travel. Camille Norton says of it, "Tim Kahl's poems are an 'open source' for the end of the West. These big, bold poems swerve between history and pop culture, between nineteenth century bull and bear baiting to twenty-first century bull and bear markets." Also author of the collection Possessing Yourself, he is vice president and events coordinator for the Sacramento Poetry Center, appears as Victor Shnickelfritz on the poetry blog The Great American Pinup and the video blog "Linebreak Studios," and is editor of Bald Trickster Press.

Joshua McKinney's new book is Mad Cursive. In this collection, McKinney, an accomplished swordsman, moves toward the Japanese concept of binbu ichi - "the unity of martial and literary arts" - a Samurai ideal. Claudia Keelan says, "The poems in Mad Cursive move gracefully between beauty and destruction, the essential real locale of poetry in our times... A truly courageous book." McKinney is the author of two previous collections, Saunter, co-winner of the University of Georgia Press Poetry Series competition, and The Novice Mourner, winner of the Dorothy Brunsman Poetry Prize.

Poetry Flash readings are wheelchair accessible; ASL interpreters may be requested one week in advance from editor@poetryflash.org. Visit Poetryflash.org for more events and reviews!

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

Diesel, A Bookstore in Oakland welcomes The Seated Diesels back to the store to discuss Hotel du Lac by Anita Brookner on Tuesday, May 28th at 7 pm.

Anita Brookner's Hotel du Lac tells the story of Edith Hope, who writes romance novels under a pseudonym. When her life begins to resemble the plots of her own novels, however, Edith flees to Switzerland, where the quiet luxury of the Hotel du Lac promises to restore her to her senses.But instead of peace and rest, Edith finds herself sequestered at the hotel with an assortment of love's casualties and exiles. She also attracts the attention of a worldly man determined to release her unused capacity for mischief and pleasure.

This event is free and all are welcome and encouraged to attend!

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

Diesel, A Bookstore in Oakland welcomes The Seated Diesels back to the store to discuss Hotel du Lac by Anita Brookner on Tuesday, May 28th at 7 pm.

Anita Brookner's Hotel du Lac tells the story of Edith Hope, who writes romance novels under a pseudonym. When her life begins to resemble the plots of her own novels, however, Edith flees to Switzerland, where the quiet luxury of the Hotel du Lac promises to restore her to her senses.But instead of peace and rest, Edith finds herself sequestered at the hotel with an assortment of love's casualties and exiles. She also attracts the attention of a worldly man determined to release her unused capacity for mischief and pleasure.

This event is free and all are welcome and encouraged to attend!

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

Our enchanting storyteller, Margaret More brings us cozy, wiggle-friendly fun. She weaves her tales - spinning wheel whirring and pages turning - with an occasional song, and an in-store parade.

Wednesday, May 29 @ 11:00

Best for ages 4 & up.

Location: Street: 1378 Lincoln Ave City: San Jose, Province: California Postal Code: 95125-3010 Country: United States (added from IndieBound)… (more)

Our enchanting storyteller, Margaret More brings us cozy, wiggle-friendly fun. She weaves her tales - spinning wheel whirring and pages turning - with an occasional song, and an in-store parade.

Wednesday, May 29 @ 11:00

Best for ages 4 & up.

Location: Street: 1378 Lincoln Ave City: San Jose, Province: California Postal Code: 95125-3010 Country: United States (added from IndieBound)… (more)

City Arts and Lectures presents Adam Savage of the Discovery Channel's Mythbusters in conversation with John Hodgman, author of That Is All.

For more information visit:
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Location: Nourse Theater Street: 275 Hayes Street City: San Francisco, Province: California Country: United States (added from IndieBound)… (more)

Larry Tye (Satchel, Superman)

Larry Tye was an award-winning journalist at The Boston Globe and a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University. A lifelong Superman fan, Tye now runs a Boston-based training program for medical journalists. He is the author of the New York Times bestseller Satchel as well as The Father of Spin, Home Lands, and Rising from the Rails, and co-author, with Kitty Dukakis, of Shock. He lives in Lexington, Massachusetts, and is currently writing a biography of Robert F. Kennedy. (added from Random House)… (more)

The World Affairs Council presents Steven Pifer and Michael E. O'Hanlon, authors of The Opportunity: Next Steps in Reducing Nuclear Arms.

For more information visit:
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Location: World Affairs Council Street: 312 Sutter St., Suite 200 City: San Francisco, Province: California Country: United States (added from IndieBound)… (more)

City Arts and Lectures presents David Simon, creator of The Wire and Treme and author of Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets, David Chang, executive chef and author of the Momofuku cookbook & creator of Lucky Peach magazine, in conversation with Michael Krasny.

For more information visit:
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Location: Nourse Theater Street: 275 Hayes Street City: San Francisco, Province: California Country: United States (added from IndieBound)… (more)

Annalee Newitz (Scatter, adapt, and remember)

Annalee Newitz is the founding editor of the science Web site io9.com and a journalist with a decade’s experience in writing about science, culture, and the future for such publications as Wired, Popular Science, and The Washington Post. She is the editor of the anthology She’s Such a Geek: Women Write About Science, Technology, and Other Geeky Stuff and was a Knight Science Journalism Fellow at MIT. She lives in San Francisco. (added from Random House)… (more)