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Mysterious Galaxy

7051 Clairemont Mesa Blvd. #302
San Diego, CA 92111
United States

858.268.4747; mgbooksmystgalaxy.com

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Web site: http://www.mystgalaxy.com

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Description: Mysterious Galaxy is an independent bookstore specializing in science fiction, mysteries, and fantasy, but they can special order anything. Many signed first editions are in stock daily, and they have several active community programs, including one to bring kids' authors to local schools and libraries.

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August 2008 by mgbooks

Upcoming events

T. Jefferson Parker (January 10 at 2:00pm)
T. Jefferson Parker discusses Iron River.
A resident of Southern California and passionate about illegal gun flow between Mexico and the U.S., T. Jefferson Parker offers us a window into his world in his third book to feature the beloved character Charlie Hood. T. Jefferson Parker is the bestselling, two-time Edgar Award- winning author of sixteen ... (more)previous novels. The Washington Post says T. Jefferson Parker writes "the best of today's crime fiction."
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John Lescroart (January 15 at 7:00pm)
John Lescroart promotes Treasure Hunt.
John Lescroart is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of twenty previous novels, including A Plague of Secrets, Betrayal, The Suspect and The Hunt Club. Meet him and hear him discuss his new book, Treasure Hunt.
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Past events

Joseph Wambaugh (March 29 at 2:00pm)
Joseph Wambaugh signs Hollywood Crows.
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Alexander McCall Smith and Carlsbad Reads Together 2008 (April 24 at 7:00pm)
Alexander McCall Smith , The Miracle at Speedy Motors.
Carlsbad City Library's fourth "Carlsbad Reads Together," a community-wide reading program, will feature Alexander McCall Smith's The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency. Free events will take place throughout the month of April 2008 to coincide with National Library Week (April 13-19).

Carlsbad Reads Together ... (more)is modeled on national reading programs designed to bring community members together and engage them in discussion about the same book at the same time.

The first novel in Alexander McCall Smith's The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series tells the story of the cunning and engaging Precious Ramotswe, who is drawn to her profession to "help people with the problems in their lives."
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Hannah Dennison signs A Vicky Hill Exclusive! (May 8 at 3:00pm)
Hannah Dennison , A Vicky Hill Exclusive!.
Over the course of debut cozy mystery author Hannah Dennison's job history, she has been a member of Her Majesty's Royal Navy, an antiques dealer, a night club hostess, a flight attendant, a screenwriter, and a journalist like her protagonist. A Vicky Hill Exclusive! introduces readers to a young journalist, ... (more)whose ambitions of being a renowned reporter seem doomed by her current beat covering funerals and obituaries for the Gipping Gazette, the weekly publication of a small English town. Hannah will drop by Mysterious Galaxy on Thursday, May 8, at 3:00 PM, prior to speaking to the San Diego Mystery Club members at their monthly gathering.
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Charlaine Harris (May 10 at 1:00pm)
Charlaine Harris signs From Dead to Worse.
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Caitlin Rother (May 17 at 2:00pm)
Caitlin Rother discusses Twisted Triangle: A Famous Crime Writer, a Lesbian Love Affair, and the FBI Husband's Violent Revenge.
Author discussion and book signing.
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John Sandford (May 21 at 7:00pm)
John Sandford on tour for Phantom Prey.
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Book Discussion -- The Harrowing (May 28 at 7:00pm)
Alexandra Sokoloff , The Harrowing.
Mysterious Galaxy's Book Discussion Group meets on Wednesday nights at the store. Participation is open to all readers; readers need not have completed a particular book to attend. Not only will the MG Book Discussion Group be talking about staff favorite The Harrowing, but also having an informal recognition ... (more)that May 28 is the Ian Fleming Centennial.
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Elizabeth George signs Careless in Red (May 31 at 2:00pm)
Elizabeth George , Careless in Red: A Novel.
Detective Superintendent Thomas Lynley is walking the Cornish coast, walking himself to exhaustion after the senseless murder of Lady Helen, when he discovers a young man's broken body at the bottom of a cliff. His near-vagrancy contrasted with his upper class and police credentials confuse the local ... (more)constabulary, and his only involvement in the case is meant to be as a witness, until Barbara Havers arrives to assist with the investigation and try to interest him in returning to Scotland Yard. Thanks to PBS TV, we will share Inspector Lynley Mystery! Masterpiece series / Careless in Red bookmarks with fans while supplies last. Join Elizabeth George at our event for Careless in Redon Saturday, May 31, at 2:00 PM.
This is a numbered event. Numbers for the signing line are available with purchase of Careless in Red from Mysterious Galaxy, on sale beginning Tuesday, May 6. Contact staff for details.
If you are planning to attend the event, please do not place on-line orders as all such orders are processed for shipment or held for customers after the event.
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Thomas Perry signs Fidelity (June 7 at 2:00pm)
Thomas Perry , Fidelity.
Details to follow.
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Sheldon Siegel signs Judgment Day (June 9 at 7:00pm)
Sheldon Siegel , Judgment Day.
Details to follow.
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John Connolly signs The Reapers (June 11 at 7:00pm)
John Connolly , The Reapers.
Details to follow.
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Ladies, Lunch and Literacy in the South Bay (June 13 at 11:30am)
Marisa Silver reads from The God of War.
Join celebrated author Marisa Silver for lunch and a discussion of her second novel, The God of War. A portion of the proceeds for this event will benefit WriteGirl. WriteGirl is a nonprofit organization in Los Angeles that helps high school girls discover the craft of creative writing and empowerment ... (more)through self-expression.

To attend this event, you must make a prepaid reservation.
Event location: Shade Hotel, 1221 N. Valley Drive, Manhattan Beach, CA 90266
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Steve Martini signs SHADOW OF POWER (June 13 at 7:00pm)
Steve Martini reads from Shadow of Power.
For many readers (and movie goers), Steve Martini is the name in legal thrillers. Defense lawyer Paul Madriani (Compelling Evidence, Prime Witness, Undue Influence) returns in Shadow of Power. A controversial author is murdered in a San Diego hotel room while promoting his book explaining his legal contention ... (more)that the tenants of slavery remain embedded in the U.S. Constitution -- and planning to reveal a letter from a Founding Father with disturbing content. The suspect is a disturbed young man, who Madriani defends as a favor to the defendant's father. The resulting case reaches all the way to the Supreme Court in this work of politics, power and the law.
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Don Winslow signs The Dawn Patrol (June 14 at 2:00pm)
Don Winslow.
Details to follow. MG's own Terry Gilman is a character in The Dawn Patrol!
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Book Discussion -- A Clubbable Woman (June 18 at 7:00pm)
Reginald Hill , A Clubbable Woman.
Mysterious Galaxy's Book Discussion Group meets on Wednesday nights at the store. Participation is open to all readers; readers need not have completed a particular book to attend. Read one of the original novels behind the very popular "Pascoe and Dalziel" series made for the BBC.
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Jeffery Deaver and the new Lincoln Rhyme novel! (June 20 at 7:00pm)
Jeffery Deaver reads from The Broken Window.
Friday, June 20, at 7:00 PM, Jeffery Deaver returns to MG to discuss data-mining, identity theft, and the power of knowledge. Lincoln Rhymes and Amelia Sachs face a clever killer who not only accesses data mines to find his victims, but also to frame innocents for their murders. His mistake in The Broken ... (more)Window? Setting up Rhymes' cousin, Arthur, for murder. Rhymes has been out of touch with his cousin for years, and the case opens a wound from the past.
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David Rosenfelt signs Don't Tell a Soul (June 27 at 7:00pm)
David Rosenfelt reads from Don't Tell a Soul.
MG staff favorite (especially Terry's) legal thriller author David Rosenfelt turns his hand to a standalone thriller in the vein of "Strangers on a Train" with Don't Tell a Soul. Tim Wallace, who lost his wife in a tragic boating accident, is already under police scrutiny when a chance encounter with ... (more)a stranger in a bar changes his life. Tim's burden of a drunken confession of murder drives him to seek the real killer, in part to remove suspicion from himself. We hope David will share a preview of the next Andy Carpenter novel, New Tricks, when he visits on Friday, June 27, at 7:00 PM.
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Brett Battles (June 28 at 12:30pm)
Brett Battles reads from The Deceived.
Some of MG's mystery fans met Brett Battles at the Men of Mystery conference last fall. Others will have their first opportunity on Saturday, June 28, at 12:30 PM, when Brett visits to sign and discuss The Deceived. Ex-CIA agent Jonathan Quinn, introduced in The Cleaner, continues to "clean up" crime ... (more)scenes for a shadowy arm of the government. However, when the body he is asked to dispose of is a former CIA pal, he is determined to find the killer, as well as the victim's missing girl friend, in a complex, international search. Publisher's Weekly praised the series' "breakneck pacing, colorful locales, and dizzying plot twists."
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Lynn Flewelling (June 28 at 2:00pm)
Lynn Flewelling discusses Shadows Return.
Lynn Flewelling's internationally popular Nightrunner series combines high fantasy and intrigue; the latest adventure of Seregil and Alec is Shadows Return. The noble rogue and his apprentice, first introduced in Luck in the Shadows, are captured and enslaved while undertaking a politically sensitive ... (more)mission. However, it appears they are being held hostage not because of their actions, but because of Alec's bloodline -- literally -- by powers that want to use it to their advantage. The Bone Doll's Twin, first in the Tamir trilogy, has been a regular MG handsell since it came out -- if you haven't read it, ask Sam why you should before Lynn visits on Saturday, June 28, at 2:00 PM.
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Elizabeth Zelvin signs Death Will Get You Sober (June 29 at 2:00pm)
Elizabeth Zelvin reads from Death Will Get You Sober.
If there's a lesson to be taken away from our event on Sunday, June 29, at 2:00 PM, it's that murderers can be found anywhere, in any group or organization. Award-winning local author Jincy Willett visits MG for the first time with The Writing Class, in which the teacher of a group of aspiring novelists ... (more)fears they harbor a murderer in their midst. (See Linda and Sandra's review below.)

Like Jincy, Elizabeth Zelvin uses her background, in this case her career as a psychotherapist, to inform her debut mystery, Death Will Get You Sober. Bruce Kohler has a slight variation on his twelve-step program: don't drink ... go to meetings ... and investigate a murder in New York's AA community. For more of Elizabeth's writing, check out the Agatha Nominated short "Death Will Clean Your Closet," available on her web site.
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Jincy Willett (June 29 at 2:00pm)
Jincy Willett signs The Writing Class.
If there's a lesson to be taken away from our event on Sunday, June 29, at 2:00 PM, it's that murderers can be found anywhere, in any group or organization. Award-winning local author Jincy Willett visits MG for the first time with The Writing Class, in which the teacher of a group of aspiring novelists ... (more)fears they harbor a murderer in their midst. (See Linda and Sandra's review below.)
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James Rollins and the new SIGMA Force novel (June 29 at 4:00pm)
James Rollins discusses The Last Oracle.
In the latest thriller from best-selling author James Rollins, SIGMA Force investigates a group of well-intentioned scientists experimenting to "create" a new prophet -- with horrifying results that threaten the whole world. The solution to preventing The Last Oracle leads them all the way back to one ... (more)of the first oracles, the Oracle at Delphi. Find out about the research that goes into these books when Jim visits on Sunday, June 29, at 4:00 PM. And Jim will at last be able to discuss writing the novelization of Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull without worrying about spoilers.
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Book Discussion -- Furies of Calderon (July 1 at 7:00pm)
Jim Butcher , Furies of Calderon.
During the summer, Mysterious Galaxy's Book Discussion Group meets on Tuesday nights at the store. Participation is open to all readers; readers need not have completed a particular book to attend. Fans of fantasy and of Jim Butcher's Harry Dresden books are particularly encouraged to attend.
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Kelly Link (July 2 at 7:00pm)
Kelly Link reads from Magic for Beginners.
Author, editor, publisher and teacher Kelly Link kicks off this summer's series of visits from instructors at the Clarion Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers' Workshop. Kelly's short story collections, Stranger Things Happen and Magic for Beginners, contain multiple award-winning tales. Kelly is also ... (more)co-editor of The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror, and occasional zine Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet, as well as running Small Beer Press with husband Gavin Grant. Her first collection of stories for teens, Pretty Monsters, with illustrations by World Fantasy Award winner Shaun Tan, will be released in the fall. Discover how she keeps up all that creative energy on Wednesday, July 2, at 7:00 PM.
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Robert Crais signs Chasing Darkness (July 7 at 1:30pm)
Robert Crais reads from Chasing Darkness.
Ladies and gentlemen, Elvis has returned to the role of protagonist! Elvis Cole, that is, in the new thriller from Robert Crais, Chasing Darkness. This time Elvis is questioning his own possible accountability in working to free an accused murderer three years ago, when the man's body is found -- an ... (more)apparent suicide, and holding a photo album of murder victims, including the woman who accused him when Elvis found the evidence that set him free. Despite the efforts of the LAPD to keep him from investigating the case, Elvis is compelled to discover the truth and whether or not he was an unwitting accomplice in some of the murders. Bob visits on Monday afternoon, July 7, at 1:30 PM.
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Michele Scott signs A Vintage Murder (July 13 at 2:01pm)
Michele Scott , A Vintage Murder: A Wine Lover's Mystery.
Michele will join Rhys's Royal Tea. Details to follow.
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Book Discussion -- World War Z (July 15 at 7:00pm)
Max Brooks , World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War.
During the summer, Mysterious Galaxy's Book Discussion Group meets on Tuesday nights at the store. Participation is open to all readers; readers need not have completed a particular book to attend. Max will be one of the Special Guests at Comic-Con International later in July!
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Mary Anne Mohanraj signs Bodies in Motion (July 16 at 7:00pm)
Mary Anne Mohanraj , Bodies in Motion: Stories.
Part of our series of evenings with the Clarion instructors. Details to follow.
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Book Discussion -- Renfield: Slave of Dracula (August 5 at 7:00pm)
Barbara Hambly , Renfield: Slave of Dracula.
During the summer, Mysterious Galaxy's Book Discussion Group meets on Tuesday nights at the store. Participation is open to all readers; readers need not have completed a particular book to attend. Barbara Hambly puts her own spin on Stoker's famous tale.
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Orson Scott Card (August 7 at 6:30pm)
Orson Scott Card reads from Keeper of Dreams.
"Orson Scott Card signs copies of his new collection of short stories. Author discussion and signing."
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Tod Goldberg signs Burn Notice: The Fix (August 8 at 7:00pm)
Tod Goldberg.
An evening celebrating the popular USA television show. Details to follow.
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Greg Bear signs City at the End of Time (August 20 at 7:00pm)
Greg Bear , City at the End of Time.
Details to follow.
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Debra Ginsberg (August 21 at 7:00pm)
Debra Ginsberg reads from The Grift.
The G[r]ift, (like The Dawn Patrol), is a great San Diego book by a talented local author. (See our reviews on our web site.) Debra Ginsberg, whose first novel, Blind Submission, was one of Mysterious Galaxy’s inaugural Signed First Mystery Picks, has crafted a story of a con artist who must adjust ... (more)when she suddenly develops genuine psychic gifts, after a life making a living pretending to have them. Debra talks a little about the ideas behind the book in her Affiliate of the Month post on our MySpace blog.

Join us at Debra’s launch party for The G[r]ift on Thursday, August 21, at 7:00 PM. Customers purchasing The Grift from Mysterious Galaxy for the event will be entered into a drawing -- the winner will get a full astrological reading from Debra at a later date.
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Chris Grabenstein (August 22 at 12:00pm)
Chris Grabenstein reads from Hell Hole.
Kids, teachers, and adults are invited to take a lunch break at noon on Friday, August 22, with Chris Grabenstein. For younger readers, Chris offers The Crossroads, a story about a boy who crosses paths with the ghost of a crazed killer in his new neighborhood. Adult mystery fans will enjoy the fourth ... (more)in Chris's award-winning mystery series about the East Coast summer tourist town of Sea Haven, New Jersey. Hell Hole finds former MP now civilian police officer John Ceepak and his partner, "summer cop" Danny Boyle, investigating a "locked room" suicide in a rest stop.
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Evan Kilgore (August 23 at 2:00pm)
Evan Kilgore reads from The Children of Black Valley.
For our last author event of the month on Saturday, August 23, at 2:00 PM, we invite you to join mystery author Evan Kilgore on a trek into the heart of Africa in The Children of Black Valley. Sam is a man who has already had his life devastated by the loss of one son. Now, more than a decade later, ... (more)the unthinkable has happened -- his second son is missing, and the trail leads Sam to an abandoned nuclear silo in the dark depths of Africa. And check your shelves for Evan's first suspense novel, Who is Shayla Hacker? Make sure you ask a staff member about publisher Bleak House's special editions from The Evidence Collection.
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Book Discussion -- City of Fire (August 26 at 7:00pm)
Robert Ellis.
During the summer, Mysterious Galaxy's Book Discussion Group meets on Tuesday nights at the store. Participation is open to all readers; readers need not have completed a particular book to attend. City of Fire was one of Fearless Leader Christine's recommended titles of 2007.
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Margaret Coel signs Blood Memory (September 6 at 2:00pm)
Margaret Coel.
Margaret Coel returns to MG to discuss and sign her non-Wind River Reservation suspense novel, Blood Memory. Blood Memory is set in Denver and features an investigative reporter, Catherine McLeod, and a Denver police detective, Nick Bustamante. Someone is trying to kill Catherine -- not because of something ... (more)she has written but because of something she is about to write. She has no idea of what it might be, but to save her own life, she must uncover the story. Find out more about the true story of Arapaho and Cheyenne claims of ancestral lands and struggles for the rights to build a Colorado casino when Margaret visits on Saturday, September 6, at 2:00 PM.
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S.M. Stirling signs The Scourge of God (September 6 at 4:00pm)
S.M. Stirling reads from The Scourge of God.
Speculative fiction author S.M. Stirling has written numerous science fiction and fantasy novels. One of his best known works may be his "Island in the Sea of Time" trilogy. He followed that trilogy with the "Dies the Fire" trilogy, and now "The Sunrise Lands" quartet follows characters in an alternate ... (more)world where technology died an ugly death, along with most of humanity, a few decades earlier. Learn more about Rudi MacKenzie's quest for the truth behind The Change on Saturday, September 6, at 4:00 PM, at the event for the second installment, The Scourge of God. And don't forget that the U.S. edition of Jimmy the Hand, the Riftwar book by Steve and Raymond Feist, came out in July.
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Book Discussion -- Black Ships (September 17 at 7:00pm)
Jo Graham , Black Ships: A Novel.
Mysterious Galaxy's Book Discussion Group resumes its regular schedule of meeting on Wednesday nights at the store. Participation is open to all readers; readers need not have completed a particular book to attend. Enjoy a dark fantasy about an oracle at the end of the Bronze Age.
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Jeanne Stein (September 18 at 7:00pm)
Jeanne Stein reads from Legacy.
Feel free to wear your sunglasses at night for our evening event on Thursday, September 18, at 7:00 PM. Jeanne Stein and Chris Marie Green continue their unique tales of vampires in Southern California with Legacy, the fourth Anna Strong, Vampire novel, and Break of Dawn, the conclusion of the Vampire ... (more)Babylon trilogy. Anna's past is back to haunt her as she confronts the werewolf widow of the vampire doctor who manipulated a newly-turned Anna, all while she is dealing with other changes in her family and bounty hunting business. (See review below.) Hollywood stunt woman Dawn Madison has survived her first encounters with the lethal vampires of Tinseltown, but now her quest for her missing father will lead her deeper into the Vampire Underground than she ever imagined. Whether you like your vampires' unlife to be spent in San Diego or Los Angeles, don't miss this event!
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Chris Marie Green (September 18 at 7:00pm)
Chris Marie Green reads from Break of Dawn.
Chris Marie Green and Jeanne Stein continue their unique tales of vampires in Southern California with Break of Dawn, the conclusion of the Vampire Babylon trilogy, and Legacy, the fourth Anna Strong, Vampire novel. Hollywood stunt woman Dawn Madison has survived her first encounters with the lethal ... (more)vampires of Tinseltown, but now her quest for her missing father will lead her deeper into the Vampire Underground than she ever imagined. Anna's past is back to haunt her as she confronts the werewolf widow of the vampire doctor who manipulated a newly-turned Anna, all while she is dealing with other changes in her family and bounty hunting business. Whether you like your vampires' unlife to be spent in San Diego or Los Angeles, don't miss this event!
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Larry Niven (September 20 at 2:00pm)
Larry Niven discusses Juggler of Worlds.
Take a new look at Larry Niven's Known Space, two hundred years before the discovery of the Ringworld, with Juggler of Worlds. Attendees at Conjecture last year were able to visit with Larry and ask him about Fleet of Worlds, also co-authored with Edward M. Lerner, which also examined Human – ... (more)Puppeteer relationships. Paranoid covert agent Sigmund Ausfaller is humanity's secret weapon against alien manipulation ... maybe. Whether you were able to visit with Larry last fall, or haven't seen him in a while, please join us on Saturday, September 20, at 2:00 PM.
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Celebrte the 10th Anniversary of Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (September 23 at 10:00am)
J.K. Rowling , Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone.
Scholastic Books is publishing a special 10th Anniversary Edition of Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone.It will contain new exclusive bonus material from J.K. Rowling and have new cover and interior art. You must reserve your copy by August 23 in order to take advantage of our 20% discount offer.
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Stephen Hunter signs Night of Thunder (September 25 at 7:00pm)
Stephen Hunter , Night of Thunder: A Bob Lee Swagger Novel (Bob Lee Swagger).
Details to follow.
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Chet Cunningham (September 27 at 2:00pm)
Chet Cunningham promotes The Mystery of Hamlin Springs.
Details to follow.
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Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson sign Paul of Dune (September 29 at 7:00pm)
Brian Herbert , Paul of Dune.
The Dune Boys return!This is a numbered event. Numbers for the signing line are available with purchase of Paul of Dune from Mysterious Galaxy, on sale beginning Tuesday, September 16. Contact staff for details.
If you are planning to attend the event, please do not place on-line orders as all such orders ... (more)are processed for shipment or held for customers after the event.
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Book Discussion -- The Terror (October 1 at 7:00pm)
Dan Simmons , The Terror.
Mysterious Galaxy's Book Discussion Group meeets on Wednesday nights at the store. Participation is open to all readers; readers need not have completed a particular book to attend. Chill your bones with Dan Simmons' account of the Terror that preyed on the crew of two trapped ships.
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Tom Kirkbride signs Gamadin: Word of Honor (October 4 at 2:00pm)
Tom Kirkbride.
Details to follow.
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Presidential Material Comics Special Event! (October 8 at 7:00pm)
Jeff Mariotte.
Read about the candidates in the history-making 2008 presidential election in comic form! Cast your vote in our virtual election when you choose the biography of Democratic Nominee Barak Obama or Republican Nominee John McCain -- or a flipbook with both! Editor Scott Dunbier and cover artist J. Scott ... (more)Campbell will be on hand to discuss how local independent publisher IDW decided to produce the comics.
Details to follow.
If you observe Yom Kippur, please shop before sundown -- your "vote" will still count.
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Book Discussion -- Something Wicked This Way Comes (October 22 at 7:00pm)
Ray Bradbury , Something Wicked This Way Comes.
Mysterious Galaxy's Book Discussion Group meeets on Wednesday nights at the store. Participation is open to all readers; readers need not have completed a particular book to attend. The Bradbury classic -- just in time for Hallowe'en!
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Brandon Sanderson (October 25 at 2:00pm)
Brandon Sanderson on tour for The Hero of Ages.
NOTE: This signing will be by both Brandon and David Farland! It will probably also involve a reading and Q&A.
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David Farland (October 25 at 2:00pm)
David Farland reads from The Wyrmling Horde.
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James Swain (October 26 at 2:00pm)
James Swain on tour for The Night Stalker.
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James Luceno (October 26 at 4:30pm)
James Luceno discusses Star Wars: Millennium Falcon.
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Clare O'Donohue signs The Lover's Knot (October 27 at 7:00pm)
Clare O'Donohue reads from The Lover's Knot.
Details to follow.
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Kathryn Lilley (October 27 at 7:00pm)
Kathryn Lilley reads from A Killer Workout.
With Clare O'Donohue.
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Alan Jacobson signs The 7th Victim (October 28 at 7:00pm)
Alan Jacobson reads from The 7th Victim.
Details to follow.
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Men of Mystery in Irvine! (November 1 at 10:00am)
Andrew Gross discusses The Dark Tide.
Event location: Irvine Marriott, 18000 Von Karman Avenue, Irvine, CA 92612
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Carola Dunn signs Black Ship (November 1 at 2:00pm)
Carola Dunn , Black Ship: A Daisy Dalrymple Mystery (Daisy Dalrymple Mysteries).
Details to follow.
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An Event with the Fantastic James Owen! (November 5 at 7:00pm)
James Owen reads from The Indigo King.
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Jeri Westerson signs Veil of Lies (November 13 at 7:00pm)
Jeri Westerson reads from Veil of Lies.
With Larry Karp.
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Larry Karp (November 13 at 7:00pm)
Larry Karp discusses The King of Ragtime.
With Jeri Westerson.
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Return to Mithgar! (November 15 at 2:00pm)
Dennis McKiernan reads from City of Jade.
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Eileen Davidson Signs Death in Daytime (November 16 at 2:00pm)
Eileen Davidson , Death in Daytime: A Soap Opera Mystery (Soap Opera Mysteries).
It's Love and Death in the afternoon on Sunday, November 16, at 2:00 PM. Emmy nominated soap actress Eileen Davidson, who stars on "The Young and the Restless" and "The Bold and the Beautiful" as Ashley Abbott, signs and discusses the first in her brand new Soap Opera Mystery series. Veteran soap actress ... (more)Alexis Peterson worries when Death in Daytime strikes on her set -- especially when the writer she has been feuding with is the victim, and Alexis is the main suspect! Eileen, who co-authored the books with veteran mystery author, Robert Randisi, will discuss the fine lines between fact and fiction.Some restrictions apply -- contact staff for details.
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Celebrate American Unchained! (November 22 at 2:00pm)
Todd McCaffrey on tour for Dragonheart.
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Lorelei Armstrong signs In the Face (November 28 at 7:00pm)
Lorelei Armstrong , In the Face.
Details of our special "Black Friday" event to follow.
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An informal visit with F. Paul Wilson (December 4 at 1:30pm)
F. Paul Wilson discusses By the Sword.
An informal visit with the best-selling author of the Repairman Jack series.
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Christmas Spies! (December 5 at 7:00pm)
David Morrell reads from The Spy Who Came For Christmas.
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An informal visit with Marcia Talley (December 11 at 1:30pm)
Marcia Talley reads from Dead Man Dancing.
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Mysterious Galaxy Holiday Party! (December 13 at 5:00pm)
James Blaylock reads from Knights of the Cornerstone.
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Mysterious Galaxy Holiday Party! (December 13 at 5:00pm)
Robin Burcell reads from Face of a Killer.
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Mysterious Galaxy Holiday Party! (December 13 at 5:00pm)
Bob Hamer discusses The Last Undercover.
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Mysterious Galaxy Holiday Party! (December 13 at 5:00pm)
Jane Lindskold discusses Thirteen Orphans.
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Mysterious Galaxy Holiday Party! (December 13 at 5:00pm)
Tim Maleeny promotes Greasing the Pinata.
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Mysterious Galaxy Holiday Party! (December 13 at 5:00pm)
Marie Reindorp promotes The Devil's Stone.
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Mysterious Galaxy Holiday Party! (December 13 at 5:00pm)
Barrie Summy reads from I So Don't Do Mysteries.
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Our Final Event of 2008! (December 14 at 2:00pm)
J.A. Jance on tour for Cruel Intent.
J.A. Jance signs her new Ali Reynolds mystery.
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Elle Newmark signs The Book of Unholy Mischief (January 2 at 7:00pm)
Elle Newmark , The Book of Unholy Mischief: A Novel.
Launch event! Details to follow.
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Wrath James White signs Succulent Prey (January 17 at 2:00pm)
Wrath James White , Succulent Prey.
In his blog, Wrath James White discusses why he is drawn to write as he does. Of Succulent Prey, he says, "The world where a communicable disease turns people into serial killers is probably much worse than anything you are experiencing during the current economic recession. Joseph Miles is worse than ... (more)your boss or your ungrateful kids or those nosy neighbors. Being eaten alive is worse than losing your job or your house or finding out that your wife is sleeping with your best friend." If that logic works for you, please join us on Saturday, January 17, at 2:00 PM.
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Daniel Suarez signs Daemon (January 24 at 2:00pm)
Daniel Suarez , Daemon.
Corporate IT consultant Daniel Suarez has written a techno-thriller on the cutting edge of today's technology in his debut, Daemon. A brilliant game designer's premature death triggers a computer program designed to carry on his legacy, and a detective must confront an adversary who moves in the world ... (more)of MMOG's, BotNets, viral ecosystems, and corporate dominance. (See Diane's review below.) Daniel will discuss just how close his killer app is to becoming reality when he visits on Saturday, January 24, at 2:00 PM.
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Two returning crime authors! (January 31 at 2:00pm)
Thomas Perry reads from Runner.
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Two returning crime authors! (January 31 at 2:00pm)
John Morgan Wilson reads from Spider Season.
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John Birmingham signs Without Warning (February 4 at 7:00pm)
John Birmingham , Without Warning.
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Josh Bazell (February 6 at 7:00pm)
Josh Bazell reads from Beat the Reaper.
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Jeffrey Siger (February 6 at 7:00pm)
Jeffrey Siger signs Murder in Mykonos.
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Patricia Briggs signs Bone Crossed (February 7 at 2:00pm)
Patricia Briggs , Bone Crossed.
Details to follow.This is a numbered event. Priority numbers for the signing line are available with purchase of Bone Crossed from Mysterious Galaxy, on sale on Tuesday, February 3. Additional signing line numbers will be available for pick-up at the store starting at 10:00 AM on February 7. Contact ... (more)staff for details.
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Robert Ellis (February 11 at 7:00pm)
Robert Ellis discusses The Lost Witness.
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Jill Sorenson (February 11 at 7:00pm)
Jill Sorenson reads from Crash into Me.
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Fool Around with Christopher Moore! (February 12 at 7:00pm)
Christopher Moore on tour for Fool.
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"Val"entine's Day with Val McDermid (February 14 at 2:00pm)
Val McDermid signs A Darker Domain.
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Dan Simmons (February 23 at 7:00pm)
Dan Simmons reads from Drood.
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T. Jefferson Parker (February 24 at 7:00pm)
T. Jefferson Parker signs The Renegades.
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Kim Harrison (February 25 at 7:00pm)
Kim Harrison on tour for White Witch, Black Curse.
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Whitley Strieber (February 26 at 7:00pm)
Whitley Strieber discusses Critical Mass.
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Rosemary Harris (February 27 at 7:00pm)
Rosemary Harris signs The Big Dirt Nap.
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Kate Carlisle (February 27 at 7:00pm)
Kate Carlisle reads from Homicide in Hardcover.
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Peter Robinson (March 1 at 2:00pm)
Peter Robinson reads from All the Colors of Darkness.
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Susan Arnout Smith (March 5 at 7:00pm)
Susan Arnout Smith signs Out at Night.
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Richard Aaron signs Gauntlet (March 6 at 7:00pm)
Richard Aaron.
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Melinda Wells (March 7 at 2:00pm)
Melinda Wells discusses Death takes the Cake.
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Hannah Dennison (March 7 at 2:00pm)
Hannah Dennison reads from Scoop!.
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"Buffy the Vampire Slayer" Actress signs first solo novel! (March 7 at 4:00pm)
Amber Benson signs Death's Daughter.
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S.G. Browne signs Breathers (March 22 at 2:00pm)
S.G. Browne , Breathers: A Zombie's Lament.
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Dani & Eytan Kollin sign The Unincorporated Man (April 2 at 7:00pm)
Dani Kollin , The Unincorporated Man.
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Blake Bailey, author of Cheever: A Life (April 7 at 7:00pm)
Blake Bailey , Cheever: A Life.
“Riveting from page one”, hails Booklist about Blake Bailey’s Cheever: A Life, calling it “the literary biography of the season.” A front page New York Times Book Review, calls Blake Bailey’s work a “stunningly detailed biography, exploring step by stumbling step the crooked path that Cheever ... (more)followed….” John Cheever was awarded the Pulitzer Prize and National Medal of Honor. But who was John Cheever, and why has his life and work eluded biographers for so long? Blake Bailey is the first biographer to be granted unprecedented access to Cheever’s primary sources, including his massive journal, of which only a fraction has ever been published.
Bailey portrays Cheever as a writer in conflict: a proud Yankee who told tales of his lineage while deploring the stifling provincialism of his family circle; a dire alcoholic who recovered to write what some consider his greatest work, Falconer; a bisexual who concealed his true sexual desires. We learn about Cheever’s rivalry with J.D. Salinger, his troubled relationship with his daughter, and his ongoing struggle with alcoholism that nearly cost him his life.Blake Bailey is the editor of a two-volume edition of Cheever’s work, published in 2009 by The Library of America. His last book, A Tragic Honesty, was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. He received a Guggenheim fellowship in 2005, and his articles and reviews have appeared in Slate, The New York Times, the New York Observer, and elsewhere. Discussion and Book Signing: Tuesday, April 7 at 7 p.m.
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John Pedersen reads and discusses his first novel, Scroll and Curl (April 26 at 3:00pm)
John Pedersen.
Diesel, A Bookstore in Oakland is pleased to present local author, Marin resident and 2007 banjo champ John Pedersen, as he discusses and signs his first novel, Scroll and Curl. This event is free and all are welcome and encouraged to attend!About the Book:
When the old time string band "Sweet Evening ... (more)Breeze" leaves Saratoga Springs, New
York on their two week tour of the east coast, fiddler Dan Munroe thinks that his only
headache will be controlling his band-mates tendencies for excess. That is until he
buys a unique fiddle at a sidewalk sale in New York and hears the story of the previous
owner’s entanglement with the underworld of the 1930's. After he gets the special fiddle
appraised by a reclusive dealer in Pennsylvania, dangerous and mysterious forces suddenly curl
and swirl through his life.About the Author:
As the grandson of a noted Heldeberg Mountain fiddler and a master luthier, John Pedersen portrays the touring string band life based on
hard-won first-hand knowledge about the shifting nature of relationships and the
dynamics of people on the road whose main connection to each other is the music.
Also, running a retail music store, doing repairs and buying and selling rare instruments
have given him insight into the eclectic and occasionally bizarre world of instrument
buyers and collectors and their motivations. The patrons of the store, run by John and his
wife, range from limos full of rock stars to the lowliest of street people and everyone in
between. As a musician John has won many fiddle contests, playing in the “old time”
style, as well as the California State Old Time Banjo championships in 2007.
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Marc Blatte signs Humpty Dumpty was Pushed (April 28 at 7:00pm)
Marc Blatte , Humpty Dumpty Was Pushed: A Novel.
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Matthew Biberman (May 14 at 7:00pm)
Matthew Biberman , Big Sid's Vincati: The Story of a Father, a Son, and the Motorcycle of a Lifetime.
Big Sid's Vincati: The Story of a Father, A Son, and the Motorcycle of a LifetimeWhen Matthew Biberman’s father suffered a near-fatal heart attack and gave up his will to live, Matthew impulsively promised his father that together they would build a Vincati—the grand-daddy of all motorcycles, half ... (more)Vincent and half Ducati. One had never been built in North America. This challenge, Matthew realized, was exactly what his father would need to rejoin life. BIG SID’S VINCATI: The Story of a Father, a Son, and the Motorcycle of a Lifetime tells the poignant story that followed from one brief conversation in a hospital room. If anyone could build a Vincati, Matthew knew his father, “Big Sid”, could do it. He was a legend among bikers. McQueen, Leno, anybody really serious about bikes had sought out Big Sid. But now Sid was old, busted up and broke. Long ago Matthew had seen it all coming, and his response was to escape his father’s blue-collar existence becoming a professor of English who taught the highest of high culture—Shakespeare. As adults, father and son rarely spoke and the two men seemed fixed on separate paths. Then what began as a farewell visit at the hospital where Sid lay at the edge of death changed everything. Picking up where Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance left off, BIG SID’S VINCATI mixes step-by-step motorcycle construction with the moving story of a father and son reconnecting over a shared passion. This memoir follows the Bibermans as they not only build their legendary Vincati but also reconstruct their relationship, one motorcycle part at a time. Matthew Biberman grew up in Norfolk, and much of the story takes place in the Hampton Roads area. He teaches creative writing and literature at the University of Louisville. Reading and Book Signing: Thursday, May 14 at 7 p.m.
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Seth Harwood signs Jack Wakes Up (May 16 at 2:00pm)
Seth Harwood , Jack Wakes Up.
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Tom Lowe signs A False Dawn (May 20 at 7:00pm)
Tom Lowe , A False Dawn.
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Kirsten Imani Kasai signs Ice Song (May 23 at 2:00pm)
Kirsten Imani Kasai , Ice Song.
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Greg Van Eekhout signs Norse Code (May 23 at 3:00pm)
Greg Van Eekhout.
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D.J. MacHale signs The Soldiers of Halla (May 28 at 7:00pm)
D. J. MacHale , The Soldiers of Halla (Pendragon).
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Terry, Suzanne and Tess Callahan... Wine, Women, Chocolate and Books (June 4 at 7:00pm)
Tess Callahan , April & Oliver.
Join us as we explore some new opportunities in San Diego for our fellow booklovers interested in our expanding our Ladies, Lunch and Literacy program, and for book group leaders and participants seeking new titles and new resources. Details to follow.
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Andrew Grant signs Even (June 5 at 7:00pm)
Andrew Grant.
With Lee Child. Details to follow.
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China Mieville signs The City & The City (June 9 at 7:00pm)
China Mieville , The City & The City.
Details to follow.
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Warren Fahy signs Fragment (June 20 at 2:00pm)
Warren Fahy , Fragment.
The May 2009 issue of National Geographic includes an article on the scientific realities of bringing extinct species back to life. A remake of "Land of the Lost" is due in theaters this summer. Local author Warren Fahy explores our fascination with the possibility of surviving or revived prehistoric ... (more)life in Fragment. His environmental thriller, which received a starred review from Publishers Weekly, is about a reality television show that lands on an unexplored island only to discover that the first cataclysmic invasion of Earth may not come from outside our planet, but within. Not recommended for readers with entomophobia, but a must read for fans of Jurassic Park and Minutes to Burn. Join a discussion of the possibility of giant insect-life threatening the planet on Saturday, June 20, at 2:00 PM.
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Gregg Hurwitz discusses and signs Trust No One (June 23 at 7:00pm)
Gregg Hurwitz , Trust No One.
Diesel, A Bookstore in Brentwood is pleased to present Gregg Hurwitz as he discusses and signs his new novel, Trust No One. This event is free and all are welcome and encouraged to attend!About the Author:Gregg Hurwitz is the critically acclaimed, internationally bestselling author of The Tower, Minutes ... (more)to Burn, Do No Harm, The Kill Clause, The Program, Troubleshooter, Last Shot, and most recently, The Crime Writer, an instant international bestseller that was shortlisted for best novel of the year by International Thriller Writers and nominated for the Ian Fleming Steel Dagger. His novels have been feature selections for all four major literary book clubs, chosen as Book Sense Picks, and translated into fifteen languages. He has written screenplays for Jerry Bruckheimer Films, Paramount Studios, MGM, and ESPN, developed TV series for Warner Studios, written Wolverine, Punisher, and Foolkiller for Marvel, and published numerous academic articles on Shakespeare. He has taught fiction writing in the USC English Department, and guest lectured for UCLA, and for Harvard in the United States and Europe. In the course of researching his thrillers, he has sneaked onto demolition ranges with Navy SEALs, swam with sharks in the Galápagos, and gone undercover into mind-control cults.Hurwitz grew up in the Bay Area. While completing a BA from Harvard and a master's from Trinity College, Oxford in Shakespearean tragedy, he wrote his first novel. He was the undergraduate scholar-athlete of the year at Harvard for his pole-vaulting exploits, and played college soccer in England, where he was a Knox fellow. He now lives in L.A. where he continues to play soccer, frequently injuring himself.
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Melissa Marr (June 27 at 2:00pm)
Melissa Marr reads from Fragile Eternity.
Spend an enchanted summer afternoon with MG fave Melissa Marr on Saturday, June 27, at 2:00 PM, with her latest young adult fantasy novel, Fragile Eternity. Aislinn, having attracted the attention of Faerie's Summer King in Wicked Lovely, now rules the fey. But can her love for mortal Seth withstand ... (more)the changes -- now that Aislinn is immortal, how can she believe Seth if he pledges to love her forever? Melissa also invites readers to experience the world of Wicked Lovely et al in a different way, through manga, in Desert Tales, Volume 1: Sanctuary; and she will also have a story in this fall's (adult) anthology, Unbound.
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Norman Ollestad discusses and signs Crazy for the Storm (June 28 at 3:00pm)
Norman Ollestad , Crazy for the Storm: A Memoir of Survival.
Diesel, A Bookstore in Malibu is excited to welcome Norman Ollestad to the shop to discuss and sign his book, Crazy for the Storm: A Memoir of Survival. This event is free and all are welcome and encouraged to attend!
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Jacqueline Carey (July 2 at 7:00pm)
Jacqueline Carey on tour for Naamah's Kiss.
Jacqueline Carey signs Naamah's Kiss
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A visit with Larissa Lai (July 8 at 7:00pm)
Larissa Lai , When Fox Is a Thousand.
Larissa Lai appears as this summer's series of visits from instructors at the Clarion Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers' Workshop continues. Details to follow.
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Kwei Quartey signs Wife of the Gods (July 19 at 2:00pm)
Kwei Quartey , Wife of the Gods: A Novel.
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Paul Park signs The Hidden World (August 5 at 7:00pm)
Paul Park , The Hidden World.
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Writers are meeting for Deep Thoughts. (August 7 at 6:30pm)
Natalie Goldberg , Writing Down the Bones.
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!
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Jenna Cooper signs Turned (August 7 at 7:00pm)
Jenna Cooper.
El Cajon fantasy author Jenna Cooper is not only a new author on the San Diego literary scene, but also one of the youngest. Jenna's debut novel, Turned, has been released in the summer between her junior and senior years of high school. Turned, which Jenna plans to be the first in a quintet, introduces ... (more)readers to the world of Siniaria. Two childhood friends from our reality journey to Siniaria, and must come to terms with the different culture there, as well as with their own magical abilities; their paths will cross with those of an orphan, whose special abilities hold the key to their world. Please help us welcome a new author to the Galaxy on Friday, August 7, at 7:00 PM.
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Richard Lange signs This Wicked World (August 9 at 2:00pm)
Richard Lange , This Wicked World: A Novel.
Meet Richard Lange, the award-winning author of the noir collection Dead Boys, on Sunday, August 9, at 2:00 PM. Richard's debut novel, This Wicked World, is a contemporary hard-boiled novel of Los Angeles, that has made the Los Angeles Times' summer reading list, and drawn praise from the likes of Joseph ... (more)Wambaugh and MG's own Terry Gilman. Ex-convict Jimmy Boone is bartending and trying to keep a clean nose, when a favor for a friend leads him into the murky criminal underbelly of dog-fighting and murder. (See Maryelizabeth's review below.) Richard's background also includes working in magazine publishing, including work for Larry Flynt and music publications.
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David Rosenfelt signs New Tricks (August 14 at 7:00pm)
David Rosenfelt , New Tricks.
Andy Carpenter is back with a new canine client and New Tricks in David Rosenfelt's latest legal thriller. A major mover and shaker in pharmaceuticals has been murdered, and Andy takes on representation of Waggy, his puppy, who is not only the focus of a custody battle, but also a potential key to the ... (more)crime. When the man's widow is blown up during the process, and his son is accused of the murder of his stepmother, Andy becomes his legal defense. (See Terry's review below.) David visits MG to discuss law, Bernease mountain dogs, and golden retrievers on Friday, August 14, at 7:00 PM.
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Linwood Barclay signs Fear the Worst (August 16 at 2:00pm)
Linwood Barclay , Fear the Worst: A Novel.
"One evening your child doesn't come home for dinner, and just like that the world you thought you knew becomes a strange and terrifying place." The publisher's blurb on Fear the Worst certainly captures one's attention; international best-selling thriller author Linwood Barclay brings the parental nightmare ... (more)to life in his new novel. When Tim Blake goes to ask questions at the hotel his daughter, Sydney, told him she works at, no one there has heard of her, and her friends don't know what she was doing in the weeks before she disappeared. Linwood's previous acclaimed books include Too Close to Home and No Time for Goodbye, and we are pleased to welcome him to the Galaxy for his first visit on Sunday, August 16, at 2:00 PM.
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Juliet Blackwell signs Secondhand Spirits (August 21 at 7:00pm)
Juliet Blackwell , Secondhand Spirits.
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David Bacon discusses and signs Illegal People (September 10 at 7:00pm)
David Bacon , Illegal People: How Globalization Creates Migration and Criminalizes Immigrants.
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.
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Cialan Haasnic signs Homegrown: The Terror Within (September 12 at 2:00pm)
Cialan Haasnic.
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Pete Goodman signs Smoking Frog Lives! (September 13 at 12:00pm)
Pete Goodman.
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Brom signs The Child Thief (September 13 at 2:00pm)
Brom , The Child Thief.
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Comic-Con: 40 Years of Artists, Writers, Fans, and Friends (September 19 at 2:00pm)
Comic-Con , Comic Con: 40 Years of Artists, Writers, Fans, And Friends.
Various contributors will take part in our celebration of Comic-Con International's 40th Anniversary. Details to follow.
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Comic-Con: 40 Years of Artists, Writers, Fans, and Friends (September 20 at 2:00pm)
Comic-Con , Comic Con: 40 Years of Artists, Writers, Fans, And Friends.
Various contributors will take part in our celebration of Comic-Con International's 40th Anniversary. Details to follow.
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Local Contributors discuss and sign Who's Your Mama? (September 20 at 3:00pm)
Yvonne Bynoe , Who's Your Mama?: The Unsung Voices of Women and Mothers.
Diesel, A Bookstore in Oakland is pleased to present local writers Kathy Briccetti, Meilan Carter, and Jasmine Dawson as they discuss their contributions to the national anthology, Who's Your Mama?: The Unsung Voices of Women and Mothers.
Kathy Briccetti has published essays, poetry, and criticism ... (more)in literary and commercial magazines. She received a Pushcart Prize nomination for an essay excerpted from her forthcoming memoir, Blood Strangers, which will be published by Heyday Books in spring 2010. She lives in El Cerrito and works in Oakland.
Meilan Carter is interested in crossing literary genres, documenting family history, and challenging language. The beauty in death, magic, and the complexities of relationships, are some of the themes that appear in her work. A writer of both fiction and creative non-fiction, Meilan recently completed her MFA in Fiction at Mills College. She is currently working on a creative non-fiction novel about the loss of her father titled The Etiquette of Death. She lives in Oakland with her husband David and son Kamau.
Jasmine Dawson is an Oakland native and received her BA from San Francisco State University and MFA in Creative Writing from Mills College. She has written and published book reviews, essays, and research. She finished her novel and is currently working for the City of Oakland.
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Dylan Landis discusses and signs Normal People Don't Live Like This (September 22 at 7:00pm)
Dylan Landis , Normal People Don't Live Like This.
DIESEL, A Bookstore in Brentwood is pleased to have local author Dylan Landis as she discusses and signs Normal People Don't Live Like This. This event is free and all are welcome! Normal People Don't Live Like This will be published Sept. 8 by Persea Books. It is a debut collection of ten linked stories—praised ... (more)by Janet Fitch, Elizabeth Strout and Lisa Glatt— about the hidden lives of a teenager and her mother, and how they struggle to negotiate emotional damage and open themselves to love. The girl, Leah, yearns for belonging and worships the most delinquent girls at school, while her mother, Helen, secretly rents a welfare hotel room that she obsessively decorates. The stories – quirky and darkly humorous -- mostly center on Leah, but they're also about the disturbing, sometimes transformative lives of the girls and women she knows. These stories have appeared in anthologies such as Do Me: Tales of Sex & Love from Tin House; Best American Nonrequired Reading 2003; Women on the Edge: Writing from Los Angeles; and Bestial Noise: The Tin House Fiction Reader, among others, and in literary magazines such as Tin House, Bomb, the Santa Monica Review and others. All were written while she lived in LA, from 2000 to 2008.
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Raul Ramos y Sanchez signs America Libre (September 24 at 7:00pm)
Raul Ramos y. Sanchez.
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Wendy Hornsby signs In the Guise of Mercy (September 26 at 2:00pm)
Wendy Hornsby , In the Guise of Mercy (A Maggie Macgowen Mystery).
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Gretchen Lemke-Santangelo discusses and signs Daughters of Aquarius (September 27 at 3:00pm)
Gretchen Lemke-Santangelo , Daughters of Aquarius : women of the sixties counterculture.
Diesel, A Bookstore in Oakland is delighted to welcome local author and professor of history Gretchen Lemke-Santangelo to the store to discuss and sign Daughters of Aquarius: Women of the Sixties Counterculture.
It was a sign of the sixties. Drawn by the promise of spiritual and creative freedom, thousands ... (more)of women from white middle-class homes rejected the suburban domesticity of their mothers to adopt lifestyles more like those of their great-grandmothers. They eagerly learned “new” skills, from composting to quilting, as they took up the decade’s quest for self-realization. “Hippie women” have alternately been seen as earth mothers or love goddesses, virgins or vamps—images that have obscured the real complexity of their lives. Gretchen Lemke-Santangelo now takes readers back to Haight Ashbury and country communes to reveal how they experienced and shaped the counterculture.
Featuring photographs and poster art that bring the era to life, Daughters of Aquarius provides both an inside look at a defining movement and a needed corrective to long-held stereotypes of the counterculture. For everyone who was part of that scene—or just wonders what it was like—this book offers a new perspective on those experiences and on cultural innovations that have affected all our lives.
Gretchen Lemke-Santangelo is professor of history at St. Mary’s College of California. She is author of Abiding Courage: African American Migrant Women in the East Bay Community and coauthor of Competing Visions: A History of California.
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Monte Schulz signs This Side of Jordan (September 30 at 7:00pm)
Monte Schulz , This Side of Jordan (Fantagraphics).
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Rhodi Hawk signs A Twisted Ladder (October 10 at 2:00pm)
Rhodi Hawk , A Twisted Ladder.
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Robert Englund signs Hollywood Monster (October 15 at 7:00pm)
Robert Englund , Hollywood Monster: A Walk Down Elm Street with the Man of Your Dreams.
Walk Down Elm Street with the Man of Your Dreams. This is a numbered event. Numbers for the signing line are available with purchase of Hollywood Monster from Mysterious Galaxy, on sale beginning Tuesday, October 13. Other restrictions apply, and are subject to change; Mr. Englund will be only signing ... (more)his book. Contact staff for details.
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"Haunted Hikes of NH" author Marriann OConner (October 17 at 12:00pm)
Marianne O\'connor , Haunted Hikes of New Hampshire.
Ever hear something behind you as make your way down the trail, maybe you're on a haunted trail. Or are you looking for a scare? How about hiking a hauted trail. Maryanne OConnor has them all mapped out in her book "Haunted Hikes of NH".
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Stephen Jay Schwartz signs Boulevard (October 20 at 7:00pm)
Stephen Jay Schwartz , Boulevard.
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John Brown signs Servant of a Dark God (November 12 at 7:00pm)
John Brown , Servant of a Dark God.
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Mark Weiss discusses and signs The Whole Island: Six Decades of Cuban Poetry (November 15 at 3:00pm)
Mark Weiss.
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.
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David Swanson discusses and signs Daybreak (November 22 at 3:00pm)
David Swanson.
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.
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