Vroman's Bookstore695 E. Colorado Blvd
Pasadena, CA 91101United States 626-449-5320; orders vromansbookstore.com Web site: http://www.vromansbookstore.com Events URL: http://vromansbookstore.com/NASA… Events RSS feed: feed://vromansbookstore.blogspot… Amenities: wifi, food/drink This bookstore is a  BookSense member. Added by: lorax. Contacted: Not contacted. Favorited: afmarble, claytonhowl, davogones, elfchild, elfschild, elzed, FionaCat, gogomimi, jfaist, kbuxton, kganske, lauriejane, lorax, NatureGeek, sushidog1, wordsareclouds Description: Vroman's Bookstore was founded in 1894 and is Southern California's oldest & largest independent bookstore.
Vroman's Bookstore was awarded Publishers Weekly's 2008 Bookseller of the Year.
Zeli coffeehouse is attached to the main store in downtown Pasadena (and has great coffee!)  Upcoming events
James Frey reading and signing Bright Shiny Morning (May 15 at 7:30pm) Vroman's Bookstore and Book Soup present James Frey with special guests author Josh Kilmer Purcell (Candy Everybody Wants, I Am Not Myself These Days) and the rock group Black Tide. In his first novel, a sweeping narrative that encompasses the history of Los Angeles, the #1 NY Times Bestselling author ... (more)Willy Vlautin discusses & signs Northline & perfroms live! (May 16 at 7:00pm) Vlautin, author of the acclaimed debut novel The Motel Life and lead singer of the alt-country band Richmond Fontaine, returns to Vroman's to present his new novel, Northline. Set in the outskirts of Vegas and Reno, Northline follows Allison Johnson as she flees her violent skinhead boyfriend Jimmie, ... (more)Frances Noble discusses and signs The New Belly Dancer of the Galaxy (May 17 at 2:00pm) Frances Khirallah Noble. On the eve of his 53rd birthday, Kahlil, an optician, is visited by his dead grandmother and now she keeps returning on a whim. On top of that, Kahlil has become immediately smitten with the mysterious Jane Plain and it's while on a quest to deliver to her four new pairs of glasses that Kahlil finds ... (more)Alphabet Celebration! (May 17 at 7:00pm) Bounce along with the kangaroos, shake it up with the warthogs, maybe stay away from the smelly green stinkbug, but definitely learn your ABC's on this wild safari! In celebration of Matthew Van Fleet's latest book, Alphabet.
Penny Vincenzi discusses and signs Sheer Abandon (May 19 at 7:00pm) Martha, Clio, and Jocasta met by chance at Heathrow airport on their way to separate backpacking adventures. Fifteen years later they are brought back together when a secret, buried many years before, is exposed. A potent mix of mystery and romance laced with a sharp, critical take on contemporary British ... (more)Literaries who Lunch presents Gail Tsukiyama discussing The Samurai's Garden (May 22 at 12:00pm) Gail Tsukiyama discusses the San Marino One City, One Book pick, The Samurai's Garden
Set in Japan just before World War II, this novel focuses on 17-year-old Stephen, who leaves his home in Hong Kong just as Japan is poised to invade. He's sent to a small town called Tarumi to recuperate from tuberculosis, ... (more)Hillary Carlip presents & signs A la Cart: The Secret Lives of Grocery Shoppers (May 22 at 7:00pm) Ever since her teens, Hillary Carlip has been collecting found shopping lists. Now, she has picked a handful of the lists, taken clues from the items to buy, the handwriting, type of paper, even the misspellings, and has imagined and become some of these shoppers. Ŕ la Cart is a collection of stories ... (more)Evan Handler discusses and signs It's Only Temporary (May 23 at 7:00pm) Vroman's Bookstore & PEN Center USA present Evan Handler discussing and signing It's Only Temporary
Actor, Evan Handler (Sex and the City) follows up his memoir Time on Fire: My Comedy of Errors with It's Only Temporary, his deeply moving account of his struggle to come back to life after his fight with ... (more)David & Jesse Gilmour present and sign The Film Club (May 24 at 5:00pm) When film critic, award-winning novelist and author David Gilmour's son Jesse was doing badly in school and was headed down the wrong path, David made him a deal. He let his son drop out of school if he agreed to watch three movies a week. During their film time, Jesse turns to his dad with questions ... (more)Garth Stein discusses and signs The Art of Racing in the Rain (May 27 at 7:00pm) Enzo is not like other dogs; he's learned so much by watching television and paying attention to his master's musings about life and auto racing and he is very frustrated by not being able to communicate with anything more than gestures. Enzo, a firm believer in reincarnation, can't wait for the day ... (more)Elizabeth George discusses and signs Careless in Red (May 28 at 7:00pm) After the senseless murder of his pregnant wife, Detective Superintendent Thomas Lynley hands in his badge, walks out of Scotland Yard and goes home to Cornwall. While on a hike of the trails over the cliffs of the Cornish coast, Lynley finds a lifeless body of a young man, dead from a fall. Lynley begins ... (more)Melissa Marr discusses and signs Ink Exchange (June 2 at 6:30pm) Marr continues her tales of Faerie that she introduced in Wicked Lovely, with this story of Leslie. Leslie is attracted to an eerily beautiful tattoo and has to have it, convinced it is a tangible symbol of changes she desperately craves for her own life. The tattoo does bring change - not the kind she ... (more)Alan Furst discusses and signs The Spies of Warsaw (June 3 at 7:00pm) From the bestselling author of Night Soldiers and Blood of Victory comes this spy thriller set in Europe on the cusp of the Second World War. When a German engineer sells information to a French military attaché, it sets in motion a series of events that will define history. We know what happened ... (more)David Benioff discusses and signs City of Thieves (June 4 at 7:00pm) From one of Hollywood's most sought-after screenwriters comes a thrilling tale of two young men on an impossible mission. During the siege of Leningrad, 17-year-old Lev is caught looting a dead German soldier. Into his prison cell waltzes the charismatic Kolya, a handsome young soldier arrested on desertion ... (more)Delaune Michel discusses and signs The Safety of Secrets (June 5 at 7:00pm) DeLaune Michel. In The Safety of Secrets, DeLauné Michel brilliantly evokes the nostalgic beauty of the Deep South as well as the dusty glitter of urban Los Angeles. Fiona and Patricia have been friends since childhood, and their friendship survives a move to Los Angeles to become actresses. When the pressures of ... (more)Dorothy Garcia & Tom Harding present (Art Aids Art) Bead by Bead (June 6 at 7:00pm) Barbara Jackson. Dorothy Garcia & Tom Harding (Art Aids Art) present Bead By Bead: Reviving an Ancient Tradition: The Monkeybiz Bead Project
Since 2000, Monkeybiz Bead Project has taken the world by storm with its funky, innovative and visually stunning bead art, which is sold in both South Africa and all over the world. ... (more)Robert Levinson discusses and signs In the Key of Death (June 7 at 4:00pm) Robert S. Levinson, whose new novel, In the Key of Death, is set in the music industry, shares some behind-the-scenes stories from his years representing major international artists such as as Elton John, Stevie Wonder, Fleetwood Mac, The Who, Tom Petty, Olivia Newton-John, Tanya Tucker, Merle Haggard, ... (more)Morley Winograd & Mike Hais present & sign Millennial Makeover (June 8 at 4:00pm) While political pundits continue to express surprise at the outcome of this year's primaries, Morley Winograd and Michael D. Hais predicted all of the surprising events of this year's campaign in Millennial Makeover. Tracing the historical patterns of American politics, they examine the rise of a new ... (more)Tom Zimmerman discusses and signs Paradise Promoted (June 9 at 7:00pm) Tom Zimmerman. With more than 500 photographs and rare ephemera, all collected by author Tom Zimmerman, Paradise Promoted is the first book to showcase the era from 1870 to 1930 when boosters developed the small town of Los Angeles into the city that would become America's most cutting-edge metropolis.
Stephanie Klein discusses & signs Moose: A Memoir of Fat Camp (June 10 at 7:00pm) Klein's passion and wrenching honesty fill the pages with attitude and heart when, as a mother-to-be, she's forced to confront her adolescent struggles and angst, recounting an angry childhood with a weak mother, and how a summer at fat camp shaped more than just her body: it shaped her life. Moose ... (more)Literaries who Lunch presents Emily Griffing discussing Love the One You're With (June 11 at 12:00pm) Emily Giffin, author of the New York Times bestselling novels Something Borrowed, Something Blue and Baby Proof, returns with another absorbing, thought-provoking tale featuring an authentic heroine stuck in an untenable yet universally-relatable position. Ellen Graham has the seemingly perfect life ... (more)Leonard Mlodinow discusses and signs The Drunkard's Walk (June 11 at 7:00pm) Mlodinow, a former writer for Star Trek and MacGyver, reminds us that much of life is less predictable than the steps of a drunken man, stumbling home from a night at the bar. By highlighting the lives and careers of the wild and unpredictable characters who contributed necessary groundwork to the study ... (more)Kevin Nealon discusses & signs Yes, You're Pregnant, But What About Me? (June 12 at 7:00pm) Actor and comedian Kevin Nealon (Saturday Night Live, Weeds) had his entire world changed when, at the age of 53, he became a first-time dad. Yes, You're Pregnant, But What About Me? is his response: a humorous and delightful look at his belated road to fatherhood.
Literaries who Lunch presents Francesca Marciano discussing The End of Manners (June 13 at 12:00pm) With The End of Manners, Academy Award-nominated screenwriter and novelist Marciano takes us to a place most Westerners visit only in news clips and headlines: Afghanistan. This thrilling, darkly comic story of men and women and war brings vividly to life the Afghanistan of journalists and mercenaries, ... (more)Salman Rushdie discusses and signs Enchantress of Florence (June 14 at 5:00pm) Drawing on more than seven years of research, Rushdie, the legendary author of Midnight's Children, brings together two seemingly different cities: the hedonistic Mughal capital, in which the brilliant emperor Akbar the Great wrestles daily with questions of belief, desire, and the treachery of his sons, ... (more)Phyllis Gebauer discusses and signs Hot Widow (June 16 at 7:00pm) Phyllis Gebauer. Funny, fast-moving, honest, and heartbreaking, Hot Widow is the memoir of a woman who becomes hot and bothered after losing her husband of forty-seven years, only to find out that, to men, she has become hot stuff! The story covers her first two years alone, filled with the anxieties and trials of modern ... (more)Nancy Horan discusses and signs Loving Frank (June 17 at 7:00pm) In this ambitious debut novel, Horan blends fact and fiction to tell the story of Mamah Borthwick Cheney's clandestine affair with the famous architect Frank Lloyd Wright. Horan's Mamah is a woman seeking to find her own place, her own creative calling in the world, and her journey is marked by choices ... (more)Jessica Anya Blau discusses & signs The Summer of Naked Swim Parties (June 18 at 7:00pm) This passionate debut novel tells the story of one girl's coming of age in 1970s Southern California, a world that is peopled by hippies, surfers, and eccentric nudist parents who throw naked swim parties in the backyard pool. 14-year-old Jamie is haunted by a morbid anticipation of tragedy and mortified ... (more)George Lakoff discusses & signs The Political Mind (June 19 at 7:00pm) Progressives have been fighting a losing battle in America for the last thirty years, largely because the majority of citizens vote against their own self interests. According to George Lakoff, bestselling author of Don't Think of an Elephant and Professor of Cognitive Science and Linguistics at UC Berkeley, ... (more)Lewis Black presents and signs Me of Little Faith (June 20 at 7:30pm) What do we believe? And for God's sake, why? Those are the thorny questions that Lewis Black (The Daily Show), the bitingly funny comedian, social critic, and bestselling author, tackles in his new book, Me of Little Faith. In more than two dozen essays that investigate everything from ... (more)Marla Frazee presents & signs A Couple of Boys Have the Best Week Ever (June 21 at 10:30am) Talented author-illustrator Marla Frazee presents a hilarious look at two boys' adventures at Nature Camp (sort of) in her new book A Couple of Boys Have the Best Week Ever. When James and Eamon go to a week of Nature Camp and stay at Eamon's grandparents' house, it turns out that their free time spent ... (more)Experience World-Class Chinese Cuisine with Vroman's Bookstore & Nicole Mones (June 22 at 1:30pm) Nicole Mones. $85.00 per person (plus tax) (includes a 16-course meal and a copy of The Last Chinese Chef)
Ever since the publication of her novel The Last Chinese Chef, Nicole Mones has been inundated with letters from readers asking where they, too, can experience great Chinese cuisine. JOIN US at 1:30 P.M. on ... (more)Gayle Greene discusses and signs Insomniac (June 22 at 4:00pm) In her engrossing new book, Insomniac, Gayle Greene a member of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine, addresses head-on the neglect of this disorder that affects millions. Greene, who has suffered from insomnia all her life, weaves together four strands: the story of her personal journey through ... (more)Darin Strauss discusses and signs More Than It Hurts You (June 24 at 7:00pm) This third novel from Strauss (Chang and Eng) tracks a Long Island family crisis. Josh Goldin is a happily married TV airtime salesman with an eight-month-old son. When baby Zack is treated twice for mysterious and life-threatening symptoms, the head of a pediatric ICU, Dr. Darlene Stokes, tells Child ... (more)Joseph O'Neill discusses and signs Netherland (June 25 at 7:00pm) In a post-9/11 New York, Hans--a banker originally from the Netherlands--finds himself marooned among the strange occupants of the Chelsea Hotel after his English wife and son return to London. Alone and untethered, Hans stumbles upon the vibrant New York subculture of cricket, where he revisits his ... (more)Leif Enger discusses and signs So Brave, Young and Handsome (June 26 at 7:00pm) Leif Enger. Set in 1915, Enger's (Peace Like a River) new novel tells the tale of Monte Becket, a disappointed, one-time novelist who lives simply with his loving wife and whip-smart son. As a writer he has lost his sense of purpose and five years after the successful publication of his first book, he has failed ... (more)Group event presenting & signing The Maternal is Political (June 28 at 5:00pm) Exploring the vital connection between motherhood and social change, The Maternal Is Political features thirty powerful essays by women who are striving to make the world a better place for children and women. Written by and for mothers, this anthology is crafted to help us discover, appreciate, and ... (more)David Sedaris discusses & signs When You Are Engulfed in Flames (June 29 at 5:00pm) Sedaris (Me Talk Pretty One Day) returns with a new masterpiece of comic writing, as making a pot of coffee unleashes a chain of memory that leads him literally around the world. In essay after essay, Sedaris proceeds from bizarre conundrums of daily life -- like armoring the windows with LP covers to ... (more)Interested: FionaCat Added by booksense. Sandra Gulland discusses and signs Mistress of the Sun (June 30 at 7:00pm) This is a call for all lovers of historical fiction, and of Sandra Gulland, to join us when Sandra presents her latest book, Mistress of the Sun. This novel based on the life of Louise de la Valliere, who, against all odds, became one of the most mysterious consorts of France's Louis XIV, The charismatic ... (more)Past eventsKaren Joy Fowler (April 9 at 7:00pm)
Steve Lopez discusses and signs The Soloist (April 18 at 7:00pm) When Lopez, an L.A. Times columnist, first saw Nathaniel Ayers in March 2005, he was intrigued. Dressed in grubby, soiled rags standing next to a shopping cart, the middle-aged man was playing Beethoven on a battered violin that looked as if it had been pulled from a dumpster. Lopez found it impossible ... (more)Mindy Weiss discusses &signs The Wedding Book: The Big Book for Your Big Day (April 19 at 12:00pm) Mindy Weiss. The Wedding Book is the perfect blend of practical and inspirational advice on all aspects of wedding planning both emotional and material. It's filled with accessible step-by-step instructions for everything from choosing the right veil to writing the perfect thank-you-note to dealing with the in-laws, ... (more)Marya Hornbacher discusses and signs Madness: A Bipolar Life (April 21 at 7:00pm) When Marya wrote the bestseller Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia & Bulimia, she didn't yet know the underlying reason for the chaos in her life. Then, at age 24, she was diagnosed with Type 1 rapid-cycle bipolar, the most severe form of bipolar disease. Now, her fiercely self-aware portrait of her bipolar ... (more)Anne Perry in conversation about her newest book Buckingham Palace Gardens (April 23 at 7:00pm) Join us as Anne Perry discusses her newest book, Buckingham Palace Gardens, with Gayle Poole, Sisters in Crime Speakers Bureau Director.
With over 20 million copies of her books in print, Perry has long since established herself as a master in crime fiction. In her newest, she shows readers an inside ... (more)THE EDGE PRESENTS Andrew Foster Altschul discussing and signing Lady Lazarus (April 24 at 7:00pm) Narrated by Calliope Bird Morath, daughter of legendary punk star Brandt Morath (whose horrific suicide devastated the world) and her obsessive biographer, this impressive debut novel places rock music within the context of cultural archetypes, from “Saturday Night Live” to MTV, from Baudelaire to ... (more)Keith Gessen discusses and signs All the Sad Young Literary Men (April 28 at 5:30pm) In All The Sad Young Literary Men, Gessen, founding editor of the popular literary journal N+1, charts the lives of Mark, Keith, and Sam as they over-process their college days, under-process relationships past and present, and pathetically as well as triumphantly struggle their way through a web of ... (more)Baron R. Birtcher discusses and signs Angels Fall (April 28 at 7:00pm) Baron R. Birtcher. Angels Fall is the story of one man's desire to outrun the corrosive effects of personal vengeance, while attempting to tame the demons that dwell in his own violent past. It's the story of the cost of moral corruption, and the high price of atonement, played out against a backdrop of lush jungles, coffee ... (more)Annie Barrows presents and signs Ivy and Bean Take Care of the Babysitter (April 29 at 6:00pm) Ivy and Bean is a fresh new book created by a group of mothers who know what young girls are looking for. It's rooted in the tradition of Junie B. Jones and Ramona, but with a verve all its own, so open the pages and meet Ivy & Bean. It'll be the beginning of a lifelong friendship!
Vroman's & the League of Women Voters Present Cokie Roberts (May 1 at 7:00pm) Political analyst and author Cokie Roberts follows up her bestselling book, Founding Mothers, with a look into the lives and times of the incredible women who have helped shape America. Her new book, Ladies of Liberty, spans the times between the election of John Adams in 1796 and the election of Andrew ... (more)Anne Cherian discusses and signs A Good Indian Wife (May 2 at 7:00pm) Neel, an anesthesiologist living in San Francisco, makes a trip back home to visit family and comes back, reluctantly, with Leila, his new wife from an arranged marriage. Now back in San Francisco, Neel is desperate to hold on to his old life and buck his family traditions while Leila struggles between ... (more)Charlotte Kandel presents and signs The Scarlet Stockings: The Enchanted Riddle (May 3 at 12:00pm) As an infant, Daphne was abandoned on the doorstep of an all-girls school. Now, at thirteen, she longs to discover the truth about her past and to fulfill her lifelong dream of becoming a prima ballerina. When a book containing a tantalizing riddle and a magical pair of stockings arrives, her dreams ... (more)Gustavo Arellano discusses and signs Ask a Mexican (May 3 at 4:00pm) Ask a Mexican is the OC Weekly's most popular column, wherein Gustavo Arellano answers the questions and unveils the mysteries of Mexicans living in the U.S. for Americans. The column started as a joke between Gustavo and his editor at the Weekly but has grown and now boasts a weekly circulation of ... (more)Mark Sarvas discusses and signs Harry Revised (May 5 at 7:00pm) Mark Sarvas, the founder of the popular litblog The Elegant Variation, makes his literary debut with this hilarious and tender story of Harry Rent. Harry is a down-on-his-luck widower who tries to reinvent himself following his wife's untimely death, leading him on a very emotional journey from outrageously ... (more)Literaries who Lunch presents Lorri & Taryn Benson discussing Distorted (May 6 at 12:00pm) In an era when weight and eating issues are more prominent than ever, Distorted brings the causes, impact, and struggle for resolution and recovery involved with anorexia and bulimia into focus. Lorri and Taryn have joined together to tell both sides of an eating disorder struggle and reveal the difficult ... (more)Peggy Dark presents and signs Fabulous Parties (May 6 at 7:00pm) Mark Held. One of Los Angeles' most popular party planners and founder of The Kitchen in Pasadena, Peggy Dark joins us to present her new book, Fabulous Parties, and to reveal her professional secrets that will enable you to create your own sensational celebration for any occasion.
Marissa Silver discusses and signs The God of War (May 8 at 7:00pm) Set in a trailer on the edge of the Salton Sea, this is the story of Ares Ramirez, a boy who struggles with the burden of responsibility - to himself and others - ultimately drawing him into a world of drugs, violence, and sex that he is not prepared for and launching him into a very personal battle ... (more)Felicia Sullivan discusses and signs The Sky Isn't Visible From Here (May 10 at 4:00pm) Sullivan grew up on the tough streets of Brooklyn in the 1980's, in the role of care giver to her volatile, beautiful, deceitful, drug-addicted mother and living among drug dealers, users and substitute fathers. She survived her past, receiving an Ivy League education and eventually graduating from Columbia ... (more)Rob Kutner discusses & signs Apocalypse How (May 12 at 7:00pm) Rob Kutner. Rob Kutner discusses and signs Apocalypse How: Your Guide to Turning the End-Times Into the Best of Times!
Written by the four-time Emmy award-winning writer for The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, this book is the only handbook you'll need to live your best possible life in the aftermath of the Apocalypse. ... (more)Nina Revoyr discusses The Age of Dreaming with special guest, Janet Fitch (May 13 at 7:00pm) In this follow-up to Revoyr's book, Southland, silent film star Jun Nakayaya is living in complete obscurity until a young writer tracks him down for an interview and tells him of a screenplay he wrote with Jun in mind. Jun is intrigued by the possibility of returning to movies, but he begins to worry ... (more)Barbara Walters (May 14 at 7:00pm)
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