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SUMMARY:Meg Waite Clayton returns to launch The Last Train to London
DESCRIPTION:Meg Waite Clayton returns to launch The Last Train to London\, a beautifully rendered novel centering on the Kindertransports that carried thousands of children out of Nazi-occupied Europe–and one brave woman who helped them escape to safety.\n\n\n\n\n“Painful and beautiful\, absorbing and unforgettable. A wonderful tribute to courage\, to a remarkable woman\, to the ones she saved\, and the ones she could not. Recommend this book to anyone who thinks no single person can make a difference.”–Karen Joy Fowler \nTo reserve your seat\, please purchase a copy of The Last Train to London by speaking with a bookseller or ordering from our website. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nIn 1936\, the Nazi are little more than loud\, brutish bores to fifteen-year old Stephan Neuman\, the son of a wealthy and influential Jewish family and budding playwright whose playground extends from Vienna’s streets to its intricate underground tunnels. Stephan’s best friend and companion is the brilliant Zofie-Helene\, a Christian girl whose mother edits a progressive\, anti-Nazi newspaper. But the two adolescents’ carefree innocence is shattered when the Nazis’ take control. \nYet there is hope in the darkness. Truus Wijsmuller\, a member of the Dutch resistance\, risks her life smuggling Jewish children out of Nazi Germany to the nations that will take them. It is a mission that becomes even more dangerous after the Anschluss–Hitler’s annexation of Austria–as\, across Europe\, countries close their borders to the growing number of refugees desperate to escape. \nTante Truus\, as she is known\, is determined to save as many children as she can. After Britain passes a measure to take in at-risk child refugees from the German Reich\, she dares to approach Adolf Eichmann\, the man who would later help devise the “Final Solution to the Jewish Question\,” in a race against time to bring children like Stephan\, his young brother Walter\, and Zofie-Helene on a perilous journey to an uncertain future abroad. \nMeg Waite Clayton is the author of The Four Ms. Bradwells\, The Wednesday Sisters\, The Language of Light\, and The Wednesday Daughters. She’s written for the Los Angeles Times\, the New York Times\, the Washington Post\, the San Jose Mercury News\, Forbes\, Writer’s Digest\, Runner’s World\, and public radio. A graduate of the University of Michigan Law School\, she lives in Palo Alto.
URL:https://stew.bluebamboodesigns.net/event/meg-waite-clayton-returns-to-launch-the-last-train-to-london/
LOCATION:Mrs. Dalloways Bookstore\, 2904 College Avenue\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Reading
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190913T190000
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SUMMARY:Kids 9-12! Lucy Jane Bledsoe  launch party for her new middle-grade novel\, Running Wild.
DESCRIPTION:To reserve your seat\, please purchase a copy of Running Wild by speaking to a bookseller or clicking on the cover below. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nTwelve-year-old Willa and her twin brothers have survived with their father in the Alaskan wilderness for five years. But Willa knows this can’t go on–they must escape.Since their mother died five years ago\, Willa\, her younger brothers\, and her father have lived in the wilderness\, in a log cabin they built. They survive on food they grow and animals they hunt. Every year they have struggled a little bit more to survive. Now\, with winter approaching and her father becoming more reckless\, Willa wonders if they will live to see spring. She also knows her father will never agree to leave. \nWhen her father goes on a hunting expedition by himself\, Willa convinces her brothers that they must make the four-day journey down the Yukon River to Fort Yukon to get help. But first\, they’ll need to survive the treacherous trip…and all the while\, their father is on their trail.\nPerfect for middle grade readers looking for adventure stories with strong female protagonists\, Lucy Jane Bledsoe’s Running Wild is a page-turner that hooks you from the beginning and doesn’t let go. \nLucy Jane Bledsoe is an author of books for children and adults\, both fiction and nonfiction. An adventurer\, Lucy has been to Alaska many times to hike and kayak\, and has worked as a National Park Service ranger. She lives in Berkeley.
URL:https://stew.bluebamboodesigns.net/event/kids-9-12-lucy-jane-bledsoe-launch-party-for-her-new-middle-grade-novel-running-wild/
LOCATION:Mrs. Dalloways Bookstore\, 2904 College Avenue\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Reading
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190914T100000
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SUMMARY:Kids 4-8! Mac Barnett & Greg Pizzoli  launch their new books Hi\, Jack! and Jack Blasts Off
DESCRIPTION:Kids 4-8! Mac Barnett & Greg Pizzoli launch their new books Hi\, Jack! and Jack Blasts Off\, a funny early reader series about a mischievous rabbit\, a cranky old lady\, and a lovable dog sure to delight fans of Elephant & Piggie. The always entertaining author/illustrator duo will hold forth at Mrs. Dalloway’s for this special Saturday morning family event. While all ages will enjoy this presentation\, the Jack books are best suited for children ages 4 to 8. \n\n\n\n\nMac Barnett is the New York Times bestselling author of more than forty books\, including Sam & Dave Dig a Hole\, Extra Yarn\, and the Mac B.\, Kid Spy series. His books have won numerous prizes\, including three E.B. White Read-Aloud Awards\, two Caldecott Honors\, and the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award. He lives in Oakland. \nGreg Pizzoli is an author\, illustrator\, and printmaker. His first picture book\, The Watermelon Seed\, won the Theodor Seuss Geisel Award\, and his book Good Night Owl was a Geisel Honor. His nonfiction picture book Tricky Vic was a New York TimesBest Illustrated of 2015. He lives in Philadelphia.
URL:https://stew.bluebamboodesigns.net/event/kids-4-8-mac-barnett-greg-pizzoli-launch-their-new-books-hi-jack-and-jack-blasts-off/
LOCATION:Mrs. Dalloways Bookstore\, 2904 College Avenue\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Reading
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190915T150000
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SUMMARY:NaNoWriMo's Grant Faulkner\, Rebecca Stern and Laura Bradley launch Brave the Page
DESCRIPTION:NaNoWriMo’s Grant Faulkner\, Rebecca Stern and Laura Bradley launch Brave the Page\, the official NaNoWriMo handbook that inspires young people to tackle audacious goals and complete their creative projects. \n\n\n\n\nTo reserve your seat\, please purchase a copy of Brave the Page by speaking to a bookseller or clicking on the cover below. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nNational Novel Writing Month (aka NaNoWriMo) has generated one of the most effective approaches to writing the novel of your dreams. But it’s not just for adults. Its Young Writers Program encourages kids in grades K-12 to pick up their pens (or pencils\, or keyboards) and tackle this enormous feat head-on.  \nCome to celebrate the publication of NaNoWriMo’s teen writing guide\, Brave the Page\, which promotes NaNoWriMo’s belief that everyone’s stories deserve to be told. It’s a fun guide that introduces young people to NaNoWriMo’s signature “deadline plus goal” approach and includes craft information\, pep talks from popular authors\, advice on how to commit to your goals\, a detailed roadmap for writing a novel in a month\, and more! \nNational Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit that believes in the transformational power of creativity. They provide the structure\, community\, and encouragement to help people find their voices\, achieve creative goals\, and build new worlds–on and off the page. With its first event in 1999\, the organization’s programs now include National Novel Writing Month in November\, Camp NaNoWriMo\, the Young Writers Program\, Come Write In\, and the “Now What?” Months. \nGrant Faulkner is the Executive Director of National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) and the co-founder of 100 Word Story. He’s published two books on writing: Brave the Page and Pep Talks for Writers: 52 Insights and Actions to Boost Your Creative Mojo. He’s also published Fissures\, a collection of 100-word stories\, and Nothing Short of 100: Selected Tales from 100 Word Story. His stories have appeared in dozens of literary magazines; his essays on creativity in The New York Times\, Poets & Writers\, Writer’s Digest\, and The Writer. He also co-hosts Write-minded\, a weekly podcast on writing and publishing.   \nRebecca Stern has experienced NaNoWriMo from every angle: she had her students participate in the Young Writers Program when she was a teacher\, did a victory dance in the 50K winner’s circle\, served on the organization’s Associate Board\, and then was Director of Programs. Rebecca is now Development Manager. Prior to working for NaNoWriMo\, Stern was a teacher and a Senior Digital Editor at Pearson Education. She also co-edited an anthology for kids called Breakfast on Mars and 37 Other Delectable Essays. \nLaura Bradley teaches middle school English\, Design Lab and Broadcast Media at Kenilworth Junior High School in Petaluma. After 20 years of pulling teeth to get her students to write\, she hit the jackpot with NaNoWriMo’s Young Writers Program. She and her 8th graders have participated in NaNoWriMo since 2011\, and she credits the novel-writing challenge with dramatically increasing her students’ enthusiasm about writing\, as well as their skills and confidence. Bradley is a National Board Certified Teacher\, Edutopia facilitator\, PBS Innovator All-Star\, and occasional blogger. 
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LOCATION:Mrs. Dalloways Bookstore\, 2904 College Avenue\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190919T190000
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SUMMARY:Bonnie Tsui & other Writers Grotto members  host an interactive party/workshop inaugurating a new series for writers: LIT STARTS
DESCRIPTION:Bonnie Tsui & other Writers Grotto members host an interactive party/workshop inaugurating a new series for writers: LIT STARTS. Writing Action is the focus of this evening\, with Foreword author Bonnie Tsui reading and guiding a prompt-and-response session. \n\n\n\n\nTo reserve your seat\, please purchase any of the four LIT STARTS books listed below by speaking to a bookseller or clicking on the covers below. Bring a writing instrument and your creative juices! \n\n\n\n\n\n\nFocus on a single aspect of the craft of writing with help from the San Francisco Writers’ Grotto. Writing Action kicks off with a foreword by award-winning author and journalist Bonnie Tsui\, who offers pointers for creating page-turning prose. The rest of the book consists of prompts and space to write\, providing opportunities to explore how both high-stakes and low-key moments can be action-packed. Among other ideas\, you’ll be asked to write an account of: \n\na highly competitive game of hopscotch 
\nan orange being peeled as if it were the last one on earth 
\na car ride with an overly confident student driver 
\na meal prepared by a cook who is really depressed 
\nthe step-by-step process of opening a long-awaited piece of mail 
\n\nPerfectly sized to take to a café\, on vacation\, or on your morning commute\, this book is designed for practicing your creative writing a little bit at a time. \nThe San Francisco-based Writers Grotto is comprised of more than one hundred professional writers\, including journalists and novelists\, podcasters and poets\, comedians and filmmakers\, playwrights and publishers. Since its founding in 1994\, members have written New York Times bestsellers\, feature films\, and television series\, and have won everything from Pushcarts to Pulitzers. Bonnie Tsui is a longtime contributor to the New York Times and the author of American Chinatown. Visit her at bonnietsui.com
URL:https://stew.bluebamboodesigns.net/event/bonnie-tsui-other-writers-grotto-members-host-an-interactive-party-workshop-inaugurating-a-new-series-for-writers-lit-starts/
LOCATION:Mrs. Dalloways Bookstore\, 2904 College Avenue\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Reading
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SUMMARY:Peter Dale Scott and Freeman Ng  present Poetry and Terror: Politics and Poetics in Coming to Jakarta
DESCRIPTION:Peter Dale Scott and Freeman Ng present Poetry and Terror: Politics and Poetics in Coming to Jakarta\, a study at many levels of Scott’s long poem Coming to Jakarta. \n\n\n\n\nTo reserve your seat\, please purchase a copy of Poetry and Terror ($34.99 paperback) in advance by speaking to a bookseller. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nComing to Jakarta is Scott’s response to a midlife crisis triggered in part by his initial inability to share his knowledge and horror about American involvement in the great Indonesian massacre of 1965. In Poetry and Terror\, interviews with Ng supply fuller information about the poem’s discussions of: a) how this psychological trauma led to an explorations of violence in American society and then\, after a key recognition\, in the poet himself; b) the poem’s look at east-west relations through the lens of the yin-yang\, spiritual-secular doubleness of the human condition; c) how the process of writing the poem led to the recovery of memories too threatening at first to be retained by his normal presentational self\, and d) the mystery of right action\, guided by the Bhagavad Gita and the maxim in the Gospel of Thomas that “If you bring forth what is within you\, what you bring forth will save you.” \nLed by the interviews to greater self-awareness\, Scott then analyses his poem as also an elegy\, not just for the dead in Indonesia\, but “for the passing of the Sixties era\, when so many of us imagined that a Movement might achieve major changes for a better America.” Subsequent chapters develop how human doubleness can lead to an inner tension between the needs of politics and the needs of poetry\, and how some poetry can serve as a non-violent higher politics\, contributing to the evolution of human culture and thus our “second nature.” \nPeter Dale Scott is a poet and author of many books including The American Deep State: Big Money\, Big Oil\, and the Attack on U.S. Democracy and Coming to Jakarta: A Poem About Terror\, and he is co-founder of the Peace and Conflict Studies Program at University of California\, Berkeley. Freeman Ng is a former Google software engineer\, an author\, and an artist.
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LOCATION:Mrs. Dalloways Bookstore\, 2904 College Avenue\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Reading
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190924T183000
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SUMMARY:E.R. Razmipoor OFFSITE presenting The Ventriloquists
DESCRIPTION:E.R. Razmipoor OFFSITE presenting The Ventriloquists\, her much-anticipated debut novel inspired by true events\, about a ragtag gang of journalists and resistance fighters risking everything for an elaborate scheme to undermine the Reich. \n\n\n\n\n“Magnetic… Sprawling and ambitious\, with crisp pacing and fully realized characters\, this will fascinate anyone looking for an unusual\, enthralling war story.” — Publishers Weekly \n\n\n\n\n\n\nIn this fast-paced historical thriller\, twelve-year-old street orphan Helene survives by living as a boy and selling copies of the country’s most popular newspaper\, Le Soir\, now turned into Nazi propaganda. Helene’s world changes when she befriends a rogue journalist\, Marc Aubrion\, who draws her into a secret network that publishes dissident underground newspapers. The Nazis track down Aubrion’s team and give them an impossible choice: turn the resistance newspapers into a Nazi propaganda bomb that will sway public opinion against the Allies\, or be killed. Faced with no decision at all\, Aubrion has a brilliant idea. While pretending to do the Nazis’ bidding\, they will instead publish a fake edition of Le Soir that pokes fun at Hitler and Stalin–daring to laugh in the face of their oppressors. The ventriloquists have agreed to die for a joke\, and they have only eighteen days to tell it. \nE.R. Razmipoor studied political science at UC Berkeley\, where she researched underground literature in resistance movements and discovered the forgotten story of Faux Soir. Her writing has been featured in McSweeney’s. \n 
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LOCATION:Mrs. Dalloways Bookstore\, 2904 College Avenue\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Reading
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190925T193000
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SUMMARY:Jean Fruth & Jeff Idelson present Grassroots Baseball: Where Legends Begin.
DESCRIPTION:Jean Fruth & Jeff Idelson present Grassroots Baseball: Where Legends Begin. The evening includes a presentation by photographer Jean Fruth and retiring National Baseball Hall of Fame President Jeff Idelson\, on some of the legends in the book and the places they come from. Followed by a book signing.  A matching donation of the book price ($60) will be donated to Oakland Little League for every book sold at this event.  \n\n\n\n\nTo reserve your seat\, please purchase a copy of Grassroots Baseball ($60 hardcover) in advance by speaking with a bookseller. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nIn Grassroots Baseball: Where Legends Begin\, photographer Jean Fruth features more than 250 of the best images from all levels of the amateur game in the U.S. as well as several hotbeds of baseball around the world. Each chapter opens with a portrait of a baseball legend and a first-person essay recounting his early memories of playing the game. Some of the stars highlighted in this full-color book include Whitey Ford\, Vladimir Guerrero\, Hank Aaron\, Randy Johnson\, Nolan Ryan\, and Ichiro Suzuki. The pages that follow in each chapter document the game from sandlots to big time ballparks\, and at every level of organized baseball\, giving readers a window into how these legends’ careers began. With an introduction by Cal Ripken\, Jr.\, a foreword by Steve Wulf\, and an afterword by Johnny Bench\, this book makes the perfect gift for baseball fans of all teams. \nJean Fruth has been a photographer for nearly two decades and shooting baseball for the past 15 years. She covered the San Francisco Giants and Oakland A’s before turning her attention to the National Baseball Hall of Fame & Museum\, where she helped to build the museum’s profile and photo archive. Today Fruth is the traveling photographer for La Vida Baseball\, a digital media company and Hall of Fame partner that tells the story of Latino baseball across the United States and Latin America. She is recognized by Sony as one of its 45 Sony Artisans of Imagery\, world-wide.
URL:https://stew.bluebamboodesigns.net/event/jean-fruth-jeff-idelson-present-grassroots-baseball-where-legends-begin/
LOCATION:Mrs. Dalloways Bookstore\, 2904 College Avenue\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Reading
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190929T150000
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SUMMARY:L. John Harris  launches his delightful new book\, Café French: A Flâneur’s Guide to the Language\, Lore and Food of the Paris Café.
DESCRIPTION:L. John Harris launches his delightful new book\, Café French: A Flâneur’s Guide to the Language\, Lore and Food of the Paris Café. \n\n\n\n\n“L. John Harris’s amusing and instructive book distills Parisian flânerie—that unique blend of urban strolling and conversing that fuses literary\, spatial and historical life—with playful images\, witty narrative and memorable quotations by and about the notorious flâneurs of yore.”–W. Scott Haine\, author of The World of the Paris Café \nTo reserve your seat\, please purchase a copy of Café French in advance by speaking to a bookseller. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nHe has been called Mr. Garlic\, the Balzac of Berkeley and now a Neoflâneur: author\, artist\, cookbook publisher\, filmmaker and “pre-foodie” L. John Harris\, a founding father of Berkeley’s Gourmet Ghetto\, is all of the above and more. Join us as we celebrate the publication of his new book of witty texts and whimsical illustrations inspired by his wanderings through the streets and cafés of Paris. \nA native of Los Angeles\, L. John Harris studied art at UC Berkeley from 1965-1969. Through the 1970’s\, while working in some of Berkeley’s iconic food businesses–the Cheese Board\, Chez Panisse and The Swallow–he wrote The Book of Garlic\, followed by The Official Garlic Lovers Handbook. His book Foodoodles came out in 2010. A modern Renaissance man\, Harris is also a documentary film maker (Divine Food: 100 Years in the Kosher Delicatessen Trade and Los Romeros: The Royal Family of the Guitar) and classical guitar afficionado whose programs at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music feature world-class guitarists playing vintage classical and flamenco guitars from his personal collection. Harris spends his time between Berkeley and Paris. \n 
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LOCATION:Mrs. Dalloways Bookstore\, 2904 College Avenue\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States
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