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SUMMARY:CITYWIDE READ: Crazy Rich Asians Book Club Discussion @Claremont
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for a lively discussion of Berkeley Public Library’s Citywide Read book\, Crazy Rich Asians. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nA limited number of copies will be available at the branch and staff can help you request copies from other branches and through Link+. The e-book is available for immediate download from Overdrive.
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LOCATION:Berkeley Public Library\, Claremont Branch
CATEGORIES:Book Reading,Live Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190410T193000
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SUMMARY:Maria Kuznetsova reads from her debut novel\, Oksana\, Behave!
DESCRIPTION:“An irresistible\, irrepressible comic saga. I utterly loved every page.”–Anthony Marra \nTo reserve your seat\, purchase a copy of Oksana\, Behave! by speaking to one of our booksellers or ordering on our website. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nWhen Oksana’s family begins their new American life in Florida after emigrating from Ukraine\, her physicist father delivers pizza at night to make ends meet\, her depressed mother sits home all day worrying\, and her flamboyant grandmother relishes the attention she gets when she walks Oksana to school\, not realizing that the street they’re walking down is known as Prostitute Street. Oksana just wants to have friends and lead a normal life–and though she constantly tries to do the right thing\, she keeps getting herself in trouble. \nAs she grows up\, she continues to misbehave\, from somewhat accidentally maiming the school bus bully\, to stealing the much-coveted (and expensive-to-replace) key to New York City’s Gramercy Park\, to falling in love with a married man. As her grandmother moves back to Ukraine\, her father gets a job at Goldman Sachs\, and her mother knits endless scarves\, Oksana longs for a Russia that looms large in her imagination but is a country she never really knew. \nWhen she visits her grandmother in Yalta and learns about Baba’s wartime past and her lost loves\, Oksana begins to see just how much alike they are\, and comes to a new understanding of how to embrace life and love without causing harm to the people dearest to her. But will Oksana ever quite learn to behave? \nMaria Kuznetsova was born in Kiev\, Ukraine\, and moved to the United States as a child. She is a recent graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop\, and Oksana\, Behave! is her first novel. Her fiction has appeared in the The Southern Review\, McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern\, Mississippi Review\, Kenyon Review Online\, The Threepenny Review\, and other publications. She lives in Iowa City with her family.
URL:https://stew.bluebamboodesigns.net/event/maria-kuznetsova-reads-from-her-debut-novel-oksana-behave/
LOCATION:Mrs. Dalloways Bookstore\, 2904 College Avenue\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Reading
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190411T193000
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SUMMARY:Carolyn Burke presents Foursome: Alfred Stieglitz\, Georgia O'Keeffe\, Paul Strand\, Rebecca Salsbury
DESCRIPTION:Carolyn Burke presents Foursome: Alfred Stieglitz\, Georgia O’Keeffe\, Paul Strand\, Rebecca Salsbury\, A captivating\, spirited account of the intense relationship among four artists whose strong personalities\, passionate feelings\, and aesthetic ideals drew them together\, pulled them apart\, and profoundly influenced the very shape of twentieth-century art.\n\n\n\n\n“Intimate and exhaustively researched…offers detailed insight into one of the most important periods in American art.”–Publishers Weekly \nTo reserve your seat\, please purchase a copy of Foursome by speaking to a bookseller or ordering from our website. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nNew York\, 1921: Alfred Stieglitz\, the most influential figure in early twentieth-century photography\, celebrates the success of his latest exhibition–the centerpiece\, a series of nude portraits of the young Georgia O’Keeffe\, soon to be his wife. It is a turning point for O’Keeffe\, poised to make her entrance into the art scene–and for Rebecca Salsbury\, the fiancée of Stieglitz’s protégé at the time\, Paul Strand. When Strand introduces Salsbury to Stieglitz and O’Keeffe\, it is the first moment of a bond between the two couples that will last more than a decade and reverberate throughout their lives. In the years that followed\, O’Keeffe and Stieglitz became the preeminent couple in American modern art\, spurring each other’s creativity. Observing their relationship led Salsbury to encourage new artistic possibilities for Strand and to rethink her own potential as an artist. In fact\, it was Salsbury\, the least known of the four\, who was the main thread that wove the two couples’ lives together. Carolyn Burke mines the correspondence of the foursome to reveal how each inspired\, provoked\, and unsettled the others while pursuing seminal modes of artistic innovation. The result is a surprising\, illuminating portrait of four extraordinary figures. \nCarolyn Burke is the author of No Regrets: The Life of Edith Piaf\, Lee Miller: A Life\, and Becoming Modern: The Life of Mina Loy. Born in Sydney\, Australia\, she now lives in Santa Cruz.
URL:https://stew.bluebamboodesigns.net/event/carolyn-burke-presents-foursome-alfred-stieglitz-georgia-okeeffe-paul-strand-rebecca-salsbury/
LOCATION:Mrs. Dalloways Bookstore\, 2904 College Avenue\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Reading
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190412T193000
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SUMMARY:Namwali Serpell in Conversation with Yael Goldstein Love discussing Serpell's new novel The Old Drift
DESCRIPTION:Namwali Serpell in Conversation with Yael Goldstein Love discussing Serpell’s new novel The Old Drift\, an electrifying debut that has already garnered three starred advance reviews and accolades from multiple writers.\n\n\n\n\n“Recalling the work of Toni Morrison and Gabriel García Márquez as a sometimes magical\, sometimes horrifically real portrait of a place\, Serpell’s novel goes into the future of the 2020s\, when the various plot threads come together in a startling conclusion. Intricately imagined\, brilliantly constructed\, and staggering in its scope\, this is an astonishing novel.”–Publishers Weekly \n\n\n\n\n\n\nOn the banks of the Zambezi River\, a few miles from the majestic Victoria Falls\, there was once a colonial settlement called The Old Drift. Here begins the epic story of a small African nation\, told by a mysterious swarm-like chorus that calls itself man’s greatest nemesis. The tale? A playful panorama of history\, fairytale\, romance and science fiction. The moral? To err is human. \nFrom a woman covered with hair and another plagued with endless tears\, to forbidden love affairs and fiery political ones\, to homegrown technological marvels like Afronauts\, microdrones and viral vaccines – this gripping\, unforgettable novel sweeps over the years and the globe\, subverting expectations along the way. Exploding with color and energy\, The Old Drift is a testament to our yearning to create and cross borders\, and a meditation on the slow\, grand passage of time. \nNamwali Serpell is a Zambian writer who teaches at the UC Berkeley. She received a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers’ Award for women writers in 2011 and was selected for the Africa 39\, a 2014 Hay Festival project to identify the best African writers under 40. She won the 2015 Caine Prize for African writing. \nYael Goldstein Love is co-fouder and Editorial Director of the digital literary studio Plympton. She is also the author of the novels Overture and The Passion of Tasha Darsky\, which are actually the same novel. She is currently completing her second novel\, set during the Haitian Revolution.
URL:https://stew.bluebamboodesigns.net/event/namwali-serpell-in-conversation-with-yael-goldstein-love-discussing-serpells-new-novel-the-old-drift/
LOCATION:Mrs. Dalloways Bookstore\, 2904 College Avenue\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Reading
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SUMMARY:Lori Gottlieb presents Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist\, Her Therapist\, and Our Lives Revealed\, currently being adapted for television with Eva Longoria and ABC.
DESCRIPTION:Lori Gottlieb presents Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist\, Her Therapist\, and Our Lives Revealed\, currently being adapted for television with Eva Longoria and ABC.\n\n\n\n\n“If you have even an ounce of interest in the therapeutic process\, or in the conundrum of being human\, you must read this book. It is wise\, warm\, smart and funny\, and Lori Gottlieb is exceedingly good company.”–Susan Cain \n“Gottlieb is an utterly compelling narrator: funny\, probing\, savvy\, vulnerable. She pays attention to the small stuff–the box of tissues and the Legos in the carpet–as she honors the more expansive mysteries of our wild\, aching hearts.”–Leslie Jamison \nTo reserve your seat\, please purchase a copy of Maybe You Should Talk to Someone by speaking to one of our booksellers or ordering from our website. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nOne day\, Lori Gottlieb is a therapist who helps patients in her Los Angeles practice. The next\, a crisis causes her world to come crashing down. Enter Wendell\, the quirky but seasoned therapist in whose office she suddenly lands. With his balding head\, cardigan\, and khakis\, he seems to have come straight from Therapist Central Casting. Yet he will turn out to be anything but. \nAs Gottlieb explores the inner chambers of her patients’ lives- a self-absorbed Hollywood producer\, a young newlywed diagnosed with a terminal illness\, a senior citizen threatening to end her life on her birthday if nothing gets better\, and a twenty-something who can’t stop hooking up with the wrong guys- she finds that the questions they are struggling with are the very ones she is now bringing to Wendell. \nWith startling wisdom and humor\, Gottlieb invites us into her world as both clinician and patient\, examining the truths and fictions we tell ourselves and others as we teeter on the tightrope between love and desire\, meaning and mortality\, guilt and redemption\, terror and courage\, hope and change. \nMaybe You Should Talk to Someone is revolutionary in its candor\, offering a deeply personal yet universal tour of our hearts and minds and providing the rarest of gifts: a boldly revealing portrait of what it means to be human\, and a disarmingly funny and illuminating account of our own mysterious lives and our power to transform them.\n\n\nLori Gottlieb is a psychotherapist and the author of Marry Him and Stick Figure. A sought-after expert\, she has appeared on The Today Show\, Good Morning America\, The CBS Early Show\, MSNBC\, and CNN\, and writes The Atlantic’s advice column\, “Dear Therapist.”
URL:https://stew.bluebamboodesigns.net/event/lori-gottlieb-presents-maybe-you-should-talk-to-someone-a-therapist-her-therapist-and-our-lives-revealed-currently-being-adapted-for-television-with-eva-longoria-and-abc/
LOCATION:Mrs. Dalloways Bookstore\, 2904 College Avenue\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Reading
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190418T193000
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SUMMARY:Timothy Hampton presents Bob Dylan's Poetics: How the Songs Work
DESCRIPTION:Timothy Hampton presents Bob Dylan’s Poetics: How the Songs Work\, a close examination of Bob Dylan’s songs that locates his transgressive style within a long history of modern (and modernist) art.\n\n\n\n\n“A truly powerful book written by one of the leading scholars of the history of poetry today. The writing is clear and intellectually most exciting: Dylan’s idiosyncratic genius is explained more compellingly than ever before. Hampton remains relevant\, exciting and persuasively accurate as he shows the genesis of the songs as musical and literary forms and assesses their originality….the study sets a gold standard.”–Nigel Smith\, Princeton University \nTo reserve your seat please purchase a copy of Bob Dylan’s Poetics by speaking to a bookseller or ordering from our website. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe 2016 Nobel Prize in Literature recognized Bob Dylan as a major modern artist\, elevating his work beyond the world of popular music. In this book\, Timothy Hampton focuses on the details and nuances of Dylan’s songs\, showing how they work as artistic statements designed to create meaning and elicit emotion. With Bob Dylan’s Poetics\, Hampton offers a unique examination of both the poetics and politics of Dylan’s compositions. He studies Dylan not as a pop hero\, but as an artist\, as a maker of songs. \nFocusing on the interplay of music and lyric\, Hampton traces Dylan’s innovative use of musical form\, his complex manipulation of poetic diction\, and his dialogues with other artists\, from Woody Guthrie to Arthur Rimbaud. Moving from Dylan’s earliest experiments with the blues through his mastery of rock and country to his densely allusive more recent recordings\, Hampton offers a detailed account of Dylan’s achievement. Locating Dylan in the long history of artistic modernism\, he examines the relationships among form\, genre\, and the political and social themes that crisscross Dylan’s work. With this book\, Hampton offers both a nuanced engagement with the work of a major artist and a meditation on the contribution of song at times of political and social change. \nTimothy Hampton teaches literature at UC Berkeley\, where he also directs the Townsend Center for the Humanities. He has written widely about literature and culture across several languages and is the author\, most recently\, of Fictions of Embassy: Literature and Diplomacy in Early Modern Europe.
URL:https://stew.bluebamboodesigns.net/event/timothy-hampton-presents-bob-dylans-poetics-how-the-songs-work/
LOCATION:Mrs. Dalloways Bookstore\, 2904 College Avenue\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Reading
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190424T193000
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SUMMARY:Jacqueline Winspear returns to read from her fifteenth Maisie Dobbs novel\, The American Agent
DESCRIPTION:Jacqueline Winspear returns to read from her fifteenth Maisie Dobbs novel\, The American Agent\, in which our beloved heroine investigates the mysterious murder of an American war correspondent in London during the Blitz in a page-turning tale of love and war\, terror and survival.\n\n\n\n\n“Excellent….In Winspear’s capable hands\, Maisie has evolved into a deeply sympathetic character. Readers will eagerly await her next outing.”–Publishers Weekly\, starred review \nTo reserve your seat please purchase a copy of The American Agent by speaking with a bookseller or ordering from our website. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nWhen Catherine Saxon\, an American correspondent reporting on the war in Europe\, is found murdered in her London digs\, news of her death is concealed by British authorities. Serving as a linchpin between Scotland Yard and the Secret Service\, Robert MacFarlane pays a visit to Maisie Dobbs\, seeking her help. He is accompanied by an agent from the US Department of Justice–Mark Scott\, the American who helped Maisie escape Hitler’s Munich in 1938. MacFarlane asks Maisie to work with Scott to uncover the truth about Saxon’s death. \nAs the Germans unleash the full terror of their blitzkrieg upon the British Isles\, raining death and destruction from the skies\, Maisie must balance the demands of solving this dangerous case with her need to protect Anna\, the young evacuee she has grown to love and wants to adopt. Entangled in an investigation linked to the power of wartime propaganda and American political intrigue being played out in Britain\, Maisie will face losing her dearest friend–and the possibility that she might be falling in love again. \nJacqueline Winspear is the author of the bestselling Maisie Dobbs series\, which includes In This Grave Hour\, Journey to Munich\, A Dangerous Place\, Leaving Everything Most Loved\, Elegy for Eddie\, and eight other novels. Her standalone novel\, The Care and Management of Lies\, was also a bestseller and a Dayton Literary Peace Prize finalist. Originally from the UK\, she now lives in California.
URL:https://stew.bluebamboodesigns.net/event/jacqueline-winspear-returns-to-read-from-her-fifteenth-maisie-dobbs-novel-the-american-agent/
LOCATION:Mrs. Dalloways Bookstore\, 2904 College Avenue\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Reading
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190425T193000
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SUMMARY:Sloane Tanen reads from her novel\, There's a Word for That
DESCRIPTION:Sloane Tanen reads from her novel\, There’s a Word for That\, a hilarious and moving chronicle of a wildly flawed family that comes together–in rehab\, of all places–even as each member is on the verge of falling apart.\n\n\n\n\n“Full of intelligence and charm.”–Kirkus Reviews (starred) \nTo reserve your seat\, please purchase a copy of There’s a Word for That by speaking to a bookseller or ordering from our website. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nIntroducing the Kesslers: Marty\, a retired LA film producer whose self-worth has been eroded by age and a late-in-life passion for opioids; his daughter Janine\, former child star suffering the after-effects of life in the public eye; and granddaughter Hailey\, the “less-than” twin sister\, whose inferiority complex takes a most unexpected turn. Nearly six thousand miles away\, in London\, celebrated author Bunny Small\, Marty’s long-forgotten first wife\, has her own problems: a “preposterous” case of writer’s block\, a monstrous drinking habit\, and a son who has fled halfway around the world to escape her. \nWhen Marty’s pill-popping gets out of hand and Bunny’s boozing reaches crisis proportions\, a perfect storm of dysfunction brings them all together at Directions\, Malibu’s most exclusive and absurd rehab center. \nBut for all their failings\, the members of this estranged–and strange–family love each other. Rich with warmth\, humor\, and deep insight\, There’s a Word for That is a comic ode to surviving the people closest to us\, navigating the perils of success\, and taking one last look in the rearview mirror before mapping out the road ahead. \nSloane Tanen is the author of nine illustrated and YA books\, including Bitter With Baggage Seeks SameThe Life and Time of Some Chickens and Hatched: The Big Push from Pregnancy to Motherhood. She lives in Oakland with her husband\, the writer Gary Taubes\, and their two sons.
URL:https://stew.bluebamboodesigns.net/event/sloane-tanen-reads-from-her-novel-theres-a-word-for-that/
LOCATION:Mrs. Dalloways Bookstore\, 2904 College Avenue\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Reading
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190427T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190427T190000
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SUMMARY:Gareth Hinds in Conversation with Pam Turner discussing his exciting new graphic novel adaptation of Homer's epic tale\,The Iliad. 
DESCRIPTION:“This is no mere comics adaptation of an ancient classic. Through his intricately illustrated panels\, Gareth Hinds brings us The Iliad’s depth\, brutality\, and power. A Herculean effort worthy of the original.”–Gene Luen Yang\, Michael L. Printz Award winner for American Born Chinese\n\n\n\n\nTo reserve your seat\, purchase a copy of The Iliad in advance by speaking to a bookseller or ordering through our website. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nMore than three thousand years ago\, two armies faced each other in an epic battle that rewrote history and came to be known as the Trojan War. The Iliad\, Homer’s legendary account of this nine-year ordeal\, is considered the greatest war story of all time and one of the most important works of Western literature. In this stunning graphic novel adaptation — a thoroughly researched and artfully rendered masterwork — renowned illustrator Gareth Hinds captures all the grim glory of Homer’s epic. Dynamic illustrations take readers directly to the plains of Troy\, into the battle itself\, and lay bare the complex emotions of the men\, women\, and gods whose struggles fueled the war and determined its outcome. This companion volume to Hinds’s award-winning adaptation of The Odyssey features notes\, maps\, a cast of characters\, and other tools to help readers understand all the action and drama of Homer’s epic. \nGareth Hinds is the acclaimed creator of the graphic novels The Odyssey\, Poe\, Beowulf\, Macbeth\, Romeo and Juliet\, The Merchant of Venice\, and King Lear. He lives near Washington\, D.C. \nOakland native Pam Turner (author) and Gareth Hinds (illustrator) previously collaborated on Samurai Rising\, a YALSA Excellence in Nonfiction Award Finalist and American Library Association Notable Book.
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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:20190519T150000
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SUMMARY:Jane Solomon and Tyler Schnoebelen in Conversation launching The Dictionary of Difficult Words: With More Than 400 Perplexing Words to Test Your Wits! 
DESCRIPTION:Ages 7 up! Jane Solomon and Tyler Schnoebelen in Conversation\n\n\n\n\nlaunching The Dictionary of Difficult Words: With More Than 400 Perplexing Words to Test Your Wits!  \nTo reserve your seat\, purchase a copy of The Dictionary of Difficult Words by speaking to a bookseller or ordering from our website. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nWhat is a bumbershoot? Or a moonbow? And what does it mean when someone absquatulates? Find out all this and more in the Dictionary of Difficult Words. Test your knowledge with more than 400 words to amaze\, confuse\, and inspire budding wordsmiths (and adults). All of the words featured in this book are difficult to spell\, hard to say\, and their meanings are obscure to most children (and most adults)! Written with simple\, easy-to-understand definitions by lexicographer Jane Solomon\, this dictionary celebrates the beauty of the English language for family trivia time spent around the printed page. \nJane Solomon spends her days writing definitions and working on various projects for Dictionary.com. She’s a member of the Unicode Emoji Subcommittee\, the group that decides what new emoji pop up on our devices. You can find her online at lexicalitems.com and at the Twitter handle @janesolomon. She is based in Oakland. \nTyler Schnoebelen is a well-known linguist and emoji expert.
URL:https://stew.bluebamboodesigns.net/event/jane-solomon-and-tyler-schnoebelen-in-conversation-launching-the-dictionary-of-difficult-words-with-more-than-400-perplexing-words-to-test-your-wits/
LOCATION:Mrs. Dalloways Bookstore\, 2904 College Avenue\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Reading
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190601T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190601T170000
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SUMMARY:Susan Adrian & her new book Forever Neverland
DESCRIPTION:Kids 8-12/ Susan Adrian in Conversation with Anne Nesbet\n\n\n\n\ndiscussing Adrian’s new book\, Forever Neverland\, a contemporary sequel to J. M. Barrie’s timeless classic Peter Pan. \n“A magical ode to childhood that updates the classic while keeping its flavor.”–Kirkus Reviews  \n“One of the best representations of autism in middle grade literature. A must purchase for all children who love magic and adventure\, especially those who have longed to see someone like Fergus on the page.”–Lizzie Huxley-Jones\, editor of Stim \nTo reserve your seat\, please purchase a copy of Forever Neverland by speaking to a bookseller or ordering from our website. Neurodiversity welcome. \n\n\n\n\n\nThursday\, August 8\, 2019 – 6:30pm\n\n\n\n\n\nWhat if Peter Pan wanted to take you to Neverland? Would you go? \nClover and Fergus are the great-great-grandchildren of Wendy Darling (yes\, that Wendy). And now Peter Pan wants to take them to Neverland for the adventure of their lives! But Clover is a little nervous–she’s supposed to look after her brother. Fergus is autistic\, and not everyone makes him feel welcome. What will happen to him in this magical world? \nFergus isn’t nervous at all. To him\, Neverland seems like a dream come true! He’s tired of Clover’s constant mothering and wants some independence\, like Peter and the Lost Boys have. He wonders\, Why can’t the real world be more like Neverland? \nNeverland is fun and free\, but it’s also dangerous and even scary at times. Unfamiliar creatures lurk in the shadows\, and strange sounds come from the waters. And then the mermaids start to go missing. . . . \nIn an imaginative and thoughtful continuation of the story of Peter Pan\, Susan Adrian explores Neverland with a fresh perspective and indelible warmth\, offering a new adventure based on a beloved classic! \nSusan Adrian is a fourth-generation Californian who somehow stumbled into living in Montana. By day she is a scientific editor\, and by night she dreams up wild adventures that sometimes turn into books. She is the author of the holiday fantasy Nutcracked and two thrilling books for teens. Follow her on Twitter @susanadrian and visit her on the web at susanadrian.net. \nAnne Nesbet is the author of The Orphan Band of Springdale\, Cloud and Wallfish\, The Wrinkled Crown\, A Box of Gargoyles\, and The Cabinet of Earths.
URL:https://stew.bluebamboodesigns.net/event/susan-adrian-her-new-book-forever-neverland/
LOCATION:Mrs. Dalloways Bookstore\, 2904 College Avenue\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Reading
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190613T193000
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SUMMARY:Louise Aranson presents Elderhood: Redefining Aging\, Transforming Medicine\, Reimagining Life\, an essential\, empathetic look at a vital but little respected stage of life.
DESCRIPTION:Louise Aranson presents Elderhood: Redefining Aging\, Transforming Medicine\, Reimagining Life\, an essential\, empathetic look at a vital but little respected stage of life.\n\n\n\n\n“In the latter years there are possibilities for joy\, transcendence\, and meaning\, but also for just the opposite. Aronson writes like a memoirist while giving us scientific insight\, philosophical wisdom\, and wise counsel for a journey and destination we all share. Elderhood is a lovely and thoughtful exploration of this voyage.”–Abraham Verghese \nTo reserve your seat please purchase a copy of Elderhood by speaking to a bookseller or ordering through our website. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nFor more than 5\,000 years\, “old” has been defined as beginning between the ages of 60 and 70. That means most people alive today will spend more years in elderhood than in childhood\, and many will be elders for 40 years or more. Yet at the very moment that humans are living longer than ever before\, we’ve made old age into a disease\, a condition to be dreaded\, denigrated\, neglected\, and denied. \nReminiscent of Oliver Sacks\, noted Harvard-trained geriatrician Louise Aronson uses stories from her quarter century of caring for patients\, and draws from history\, science\, literature\, popular culture\, and her own life to weave a vision of old age that’s neither nightmare nor utopian fantasy–a vision full of joy\, wonder\, frustration\, outrage\, and hope about aging\, medicine\, and humanity itself. \nElderhood is for anyone who is\, in the author’s own words\, “an aging\, i.e.\, still-breathing human being.” \nLouise Aronson\, MD\, is the author of the story collection A History of the Present Illness and a geriatrician\, educator\, and professor of medicine at UCSF\, where she directs UCSF Medical Humanities. A graduate of Harvard Medical School and the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College\, Dr. Aronson has received numerous awards for her medical work\, teaching\, educational research\, and writing. The recipient of a MacDowell fellowship and four Pushcart nominations\, her articles and stories have appeared in many publications\, including The New York Times\, New England Journal of Medicine\, Lancet\, and Bellevue Literary Review.
URL:https://stew.bluebamboodesigns.net/event/louise-aranson-presents-elderhood-redefining-aging-transforming-medicine-reimagining-life-an-essential-empathetic-look-at-a-vital-but-little-respected-stage-of-life/
LOCATION:Mrs. Dalloways Bookstore\, 2904 College Avenue\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Reading
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190616T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190616T160000
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SUMMARY:Bloomsday with Thomas Lynchreading from Chapter Ten of James Joyce's Ulysses 
DESCRIPTION:Bloomsday with Thomas Lynch reading from Chapter Ten of James Joyce’s Ulysses recalling Dublin on June 16\, 1904. \n\n\n\n\nJoin us for Guinness\, Irish soda bread and cheer! Bring Dad! \n\n\n\n\n\nSunday\, June 16\, 2019 – 3:00pm
URL:https://stew.bluebamboodesigns.net/event/bloomsday-with-thomas-lynchreading-from-chapter-ten-of-james-joyces-ulysses/
LOCATION:Mrs. Dalloways Bookstore\, 2904 College Avenue\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Reading
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190717T193000
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SUMMARY:Brandon Brown presents The Apollo Chronicles: Engineering America's First Moon Missions
DESCRIPTION:Brandon Brown presents The Apollo Chronicles: Engineering America’s First Moon Missions\, a uniquely earthbound story of space travel that follows a handful of surviving engineers from the time through their longest days\, tightest deadlines\, and most confounding challenges.\n\n\n\n\n[Brown] has captured the soul of what was arguably the most challenging and significant engineering accomplishment of the 20th century…a great read for all audiences…I learned things about ‘my era’ that I never knew!”–Gerry Griffin\, Former Director of the Johnson Space Center\, and former flight director for the Apollo Program \nTo reserve your seat\, purchase a copy of The Apollo Chronicles by speaking to a bookseller or ordering through our website. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe moon landing of 1969 stands as an iconic moment for both the United States and humankind. The familiar story focuses on the journey of the brave astronauts\, who brought home Moon rocks and startling photographs. But Apollo’s full account includes the earthbound engineers\, mounds of their crumpled paper\, and smoldering metal shards of exploded engines. How exactly did the nation\, step by difficult step\, take men to the Moon and back? \nIn The Apollo Chronicles\, fifty years after the moon landing\, author Brandon R. Brown\, himself the son of an Apollo engineer\, revisits the men and women who toiled behind the lights. He relays the defining twentieth-century project from its roots\, bringing the engineers’ work and personalities to bright life on the page. Set against the backdrop of a turbulent American decade\, the narrative whisks audiences through tense deadlines and technical miracles\, from President John F. Kennedy’s 1961 challenge to NASA’s 1969 lunar triumph\, as engineers confronted wave after wave of previously unthinkable challenges. \nBrown immerses readers in key physical hurdles–from building the world’s most powerful rockets to keeping humans alive in the hostile void of space–using language free of acronyms and technical jargon. The book also pulls back from the detailed tasks and asks larger questions. What did we learn about the Moon? And what can this uniquely innovative project teach us today? \nBrandon R. Brown is a Professor of Physics at USF. His research includes work on superconductivity and sensory biophysics. He enjoys writing about science for general audiences\, including articles and essays in New Scientist\, SEED\, and the Huffington Post\, as well as a biography\, Planck\, that won the 2016 Housatonic Award for Nonfiction.
URL:https://stew.bluebamboodesigns.net/event/brandon-brown-presents-the-apollo-chronicles-engineering-americas-first-moon-missions/
LOCATION:Mrs. Dalloways Bookstore\, 2904 College Avenue\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Reading
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190728T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190728T160000
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SUMMARY:Tucker Malarkey returns to present Stronghold: One Man's Quest to Save the World's Wild Salmon\, the story of Guido Rahr
DESCRIPTION:Tucker Malarkey returns to present Stronghold: One Man’s Quest to Save the World’s Wild Salmon\, the story of Guido Rahr\, a passionate and eccentric environmentalist who has single-mindedly dedicated his life to saving the environment\, working to preserve the world’s last pristine stronghold for salmon in Russia’s Far East–a landscape of ecological richness and diversity that is rapidly being developed for oil\, gas\, minerals\, and timber in the Putin era.\n\n\n\n\n“A powerful and inspiring story. Guido Rahr’s mission to save the wild Pacific salmon leads him into adventures that make for a breathtakingly exciting read.”–Ian Frazier\, author of Travels in Siberia \nTo reserve your seat\, please purchase a copy of Stronghold by speaking to a bookseller or ordering from our website. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nA high school drop-out and rebel more at home in the natural world among animals than among people\, Rahr is a passionate fly fisher. His preternatural ability to understand the fish he was catching led him to fear for their future. What he came to understand is that the fate of the salmon is linked with the fate of humanity\, as they contribute in essential ways to our own habitat. Deeply reported and beautifully written\, Stronghold reveals the astonishing natural history of the salmon\, while also providing a fascinating narrative that takes the reader to remote\, inhospitable terrain and into the world of Russian oligarchs\, corrupt officials\, and impenetrable bureaucracies–as well as bringing us as close as possible to an extraordinary species of endangered fish. It is also a personal book in that Malarkey is Rahr’s first cousin and spent her summers with him on their family’s cabins in the wilds of Oregon. She has accompanied Rahr on many of his expeditions and knows this elusive\, private\, brilliant man as few do. \nTucker Malarkey is the author of the novels An Obvious Enchantment and Resurrection. Stronghold is her first major work of nonfiction. She lives in Berkeley.
URL:https://stew.bluebamboodesigns.net/event/tucker-malarkey-returns-to-present-stronghold-one-mans-quest-to-save-the-worlds-wild-salmon-the-story-of-guido-rahr/
LOCATION:Mrs. Dalloways Bookstore\, 2904 College Avenue\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Reading
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190801T193000
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SUMMARY:The Lager Queen of Minnesota
DESCRIPTION:J. Ryan Stradal reads from his much-anticipated The Lager Queen of Minnesota\, a novel of family\, Midwestern values\, hard work\, fate\, and the secrets of making a world-class beer\, from the author of Kitchens of the Great Midwest. \n\n\n\n\n“Warm\, whimsical\, incredibly well-written and infused with Stradal’s signature sympathy for his characters–those everyday heroes we all know and love. . . a thorough delight\, from beginning to end.”–Nickolas Butler \nTo reserve your seat\, please purchase a copy of The Larger Queen of Minnesota by speaking to a bookseller or ordering through our website. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nEdith Magnusson’s rhubarb pies are famous in the Twin Cities–they were named the third-best in the state of Minnesota and St. Anthony-Waterside Nursing Home has quickly become the hottest dinner ticket in town. Still\, she lies awake wondering how her life might have been different if her father hadn’t left their family farm to her sister Helen\, a decision that split their family in two. \nWith the proceeds from the farm\, her sister\, Helen Blotz\, built her husband Orval’s family soda business into the top selling brewery in Minnesota. She single-handedly created the light beer revolution and made their corporate motto ubiquitous: “Drink lots\, it’s Blotz.” But Helen dismisses IPAs as a fad\, and the Blotz fortune begins its inevitable decline. Soon\, though\, she finds a potential savior that’s surprisingly close to home. . . \nDiana Winter earns a shot at learning the beer business from the ground up just as the IPA revolution begins. The stakes couldn’t be higher: just as she’s launching her own brewpub\, she’s due to deliver a baby girl. When the unthinkable happens\, it’s up to Grandma Edith–and a delightfully surprising cadre of grandmother friends–to secure the next generation’s chances for a better future. Can Grandma Edith’s Rhubarb Pie In A Bottle Ale save Diana’s fledgling brewery\, and change their hearts and fortunes forever? \nJ. Ryan Stradal is a contributing editor at Taste Magazine. His bestselling debut\, Kitchens of the Great Midwest\, won the 2016 American Booksellers Association Indie’s Choice Award for Adult Debut Book of the Year and also the 2016 Midwest Booksellers Choice Award for debut fiction. Born and raised in Minnesota\, he now lives in Los Angeles. \n\n\n\n\nEvent address:
URL:https://stew.bluebamboodesigns.net/event/the-lager-queen-of-minnesota/
LOCATION:Mrs. Dalloways Bookstore\, 2904 College Avenue\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Reading
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190807T193000
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SUMMARY:Alexander Tilney in Conversation with Katharine Dion discussing Tilney's new novel\, The Expectations
DESCRIPTION:Alexander Tilney in Conversation with Katharine Dion discussing Tilney’s new novel\, The Expectations\, “a deeply resonant\, brilliantly nuanced meditation on privilege\, social ambition\, and the folly (and cruelty) of youth.”–Kate Walbert \n“Alexander Tilney applies supple\, panoramic prose to the deep interior of an exclusive Northeastern prep school\, with arresting results: at once anthropological and visceral\, The Expectations provides an authoritative glimpse into a rarefied world of privilege–and announces a dazzling new voice in American fiction.”– Jennifer Egan \nSt. James is an exclusive New England boarding school known for grooming generations of leaders. Ben Weeks is a true insider–his ancestors helped found the school\, his older brother taught him all the slang\, and he’s just won a national championship in squash.\nBut after fourteen long years of waiting\, Ben arrives only to find that the reality of St. James doesn’t quite match up with his imaginings. At the same time\, his new roommate\, Ahmed Al-Khaled\, the son of a fabulously wealthy Emirati sheik\, can’t navigate the unspoken rules of New England blue bloods. Even as Ben and Ahmed struggle to prove themselves in the place they have revered for so long\, each of them must face losing it forever. \nThe Expectations is at once a finely drawn portrait of American privilege and a subtle exploration of class\, race\, and tradition. Above all\, it is a tender\, sharp\, and evocative debut about the pain and treachery of adolescence\, and the difficulty–wherever one finds oneself–of truly belonging. \nAlexander Tilney received an MFA from Warren Wilson College and has been a fellow at the MacDowell Colony. He lives in New York with his partner\, theater artist Sarah Hughes. \nKatharine Dion is the author of The Dependents. She lives in Berkeley.
URL:https://stew.bluebamboodesigns.net/event/alexander-tilney-in-conversation-with-katharine-dion-discussing-tilneys-new-novel-the-expectations/
LOCATION:Mrs. Dalloways Bookstore\, 2904 College Avenue\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Reading
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190814T193000
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SUMMARY:Radical Ritual: How Burning Man Changed the World.
DESCRIPTION:Neil Shister in Conversation with Harley Dubois discussing Radical Ritual: How Burning Man Changed the World.\n\n\n\n\n“An all-in history of\, and love letter to\, this one-of-a-kind event. If you’ve been there\, or want to go\, you couldn’t possibly find better companions than Neil Shister and his engaging book.”–Daniel Okrent\, author of Last Call and The Guarded Gate \nTo reserve your seat\, please purchase a copy of Radical Ritual in advance by speaking to a bookseller or ordering from our website. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nThrough interviews with fabled Burning Man personages\, Radical Ritual traces the festival’s evolution from the first scrap wood bonfire on a San Francisco beach to the week-long extravaganza in Black Rock City. Written from Neil Shister’s perspective as a five-time participant\, journalist\, and student of American culture\, Radical Ritual presents Burning Man as vitally\, historically important\, a significant player in the avant-garde\, forging new social paradigms as liberal democracy unravels. Burning Man’s contribution to this new order is post-post modern\, a fusion of sixties humanism with state-of-the-art Silicon Valley wizardry. Shister is not alone in his opinion. Led by conservative activist Grover Norquist\, the Cato Institute recently held an event on what libertarians can learn from Burning Man. The festival intertwines conservative and progressive ideas. On one hand it is a celebration of self-reliance\, personal accountability\, and individual freedom; on the other hand it is based on strong values of inclusion\, consensual decision-making\, and centered\, collaborative endeavor. \nNeil Shister has been a correspondent with Time\, television critic for the Miami Herald\, and editor of Atlanta magazine. He’s taught at Hampshire College\, Boston University\, and The George Washington University. He was a Peace Corps Volunteer in the Côte d’Ivoire (1968-1970). He lives in Washington\, D.C. \nHarley Dubois is a founding board member and chief transition officer\, Burning Man Project.
URL:https://stew.bluebamboodesigns.net/event/radical-ritual-how-burning-man-changed-the-world/
LOCATION:Mrs. Dalloways Bookstore\, 2904 College Avenue\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Reading
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190829T183000
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SUMMARY:Kids 12 up! Elizabeth Lim reads from Spin the Dawn
DESCRIPTION:Kids 12 up! Elizabeth Lim reads from Spin the Dawn\, a sweeping YA fantasy about a young girl who poses as a boy to compete for the role of imperial tailor and embarks on an impossible journey to sew three magic dresses\, from the sun\, the moon\, and the stars.\n\n\n\n\n“Pure magic. Romance\, artistry\, and deep enchantment.”–Gregory Maguire\, author of Wicked \n“What an amazing creation! Every time I thought I knew where it was going\, I was wrong. This is a white-knuckle read.”–Tamora Pierce\, author of Tempests and Slaughter \nTo reserve your seat\, purchase a copy of Spin the Dawn by speaking to a bookseller or ordering from our website. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nMaia Tamarin dreams of becoming the greatest tailor in the land\, but as a girl\, the best she can hope for is to marry well. When a royal messenger summons her ailing father\, once a tailor of renown\, to court\, Maia poses as a boy and takes his place. She knows her life is forfeit if her secret is discovered\, but she’ll take that risk to achieve her dream and save her family from ruin. There’s just one catch: Maia is one of twelve tailors vying for the job. \nBackstabbing and lies run rampant as the tailors compete in challenges to prove their artistry and skill. Maia’s task is further complicated when she draws the attention of the court magician\, Edan\, whose piercing eyes seem to see straight through her disguise.\nAnd nothing could have prepared her for the final challenge: to sew three magic gowns for the emperor’s reluctant bride-to-be\, from the laughter of the sun\, the tears of the moon\, and the blood of stars. With this impossible task before her\, she embarks on a journey to the far reaches of the kingdom\, seeking the sun\, the moon\, and the stars\, and finding more than she ever could have imagined. \nElizabeth Lim grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area\, where she was raised on a hearty diet of fairy tales\, myths\, and songs. Before becoming an author\, Lim was a professional film and video game composer\, and she still tends to come up with her best book ideas when writing near a piano. An alumna of Harvard and Juilliard\, she now lives in New York City with her husband and daughter.
URL:https://stew.bluebamboodesigns.net/event/kids-12-up-elizabeth-lim-reads-from-spin-the-dawn/
LOCATION:Mrs. Dalloways Bookstore\, 2904 College Avenue\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Reading
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190910T193000
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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
DTEND;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
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190915T150000
DTSTAMP:20190909T180812Z
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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. 
URL:https://stew.bluebamboodesigns.net/event/nanowrimos-grant-faulkner-rebecca-stern-and-laura-bradley-launch-brave-the-page/
LOCATION:Mrs. Dalloways Bookstore\, 2904 College Avenue\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Reading
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190919T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190919T190000
DTSTAMP:20190909T181511Z
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190922T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190922T150000
DTSTAMP:20190909T182714Z
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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.
URL:https://stew.bluebamboodesigns.net/event/peter-dale-scott-and-freeman-ng-present-poetry-and-terror-politics-and-poetics-in-coming-to-jakarta/
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
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190924T183000
DTSTAMP:20190909T183005Z
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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 
URL:https://stew.bluebamboodesigns.net/event/e-r-razmipoor-offsite-presenting-the-ventriloquists/
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
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190925T193000
DTSTAMP:20190909T183137Z
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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
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190929T150000
DTSTAMP:20190909T184504Z
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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 
URL:https://stew.bluebamboodesigns.net/event/l-john-harris-launches-his-delightful-new-book-cafe-french-a-flaneurs-guide-to-the-language-lore-and-food-of-the-paris-cafe/
LOCATION:Mrs. Dalloways Bookstore\, 2904 College Avenue\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Reading
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191004T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191004T193000
DTSTAMP:20190909T184723Z
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SUMMARY:Matt Maiocco\, Brad Mangin & Brian Murphy present Letters to 87: Fans Remember the Legacy of Dwight Clark
DESCRIPTION:Matt Maiocco\, Brad Mangin & Brian Murphy present Letters to 87: Fans Remember the Legacy of Dwight Clark\, a coffee table book featuring heartfelt letters from fans of the San Francisco 49ers hero\, with essays by Edward J. DeBartolo Jr.\, Ronnie Lott\, Joe Montana\, Brian Murphy\, and Kelly Clark. Letters to 87 also offers rare photos from Michael Zagaris\, Brad Mangin\, and John Storey. \n\n\n\n\nTo reserve your seat\, please purchase a copy of Letters to 87 by speaking to a bookseller or clicking on the cover below. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nFootball fans will always remember “The Catch” as the moment a dynasty was born. When Dwight Clark received the touchdown pass that sent the 49ers to their first Super Bowl in 1982\, an indelible moment was etched into the history of the NFL. Later\, as Clark battled ALS\, he and sportswriter Matt Maiocco put out a call to fans\, asking them to share their memories of this moment. The letters that Clark and Maiocco received tell the story of how the man who wore number 87 brought together a city and a franchise through his sincerity\, his loyalty\, and his spirit for life and the game. \nAll royalties will go the the Golden Heart Fund\, a nonprofit arm of the 49ers that helps support former 49er players. Find out more at www.lettersto87.com. \nMatt Maiocco\, beat reporter for NBC Sports Bay Area\, has covered the San Francisco 49ers for over a decade. Brad Mangin is a photographer who\, since 1987\, has captured the biggest stars in professional sports. Brian Murphy is half of KNBR’s « Murph and Mac » sports report. He’s written six books\, three of which celebrate the World Series Champions SF Giants.
URL:https://stew.bluebamboodesigns.net/event/matt-maiocco-brad-mangin-brian-murphy-present-letters-to-87-fans-remember-the-legacy-of-dwight-clark/
LOCATION:Mrs. Dalloways Bookstore\, 2904 College Avenue\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Reading
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191016T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191016T193000
DTSTAMP:20190909T185001Z
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SUMMARY:Prerna Lal launching Unsung America: Immigrant Trailblazers and Our Fight for Freedom
DESCRIPTION:Prerna Lal launching Unsung America: Immigrant Trailblazers and Our Fight for Freedom. Please join us for a most timely discussion. \n\n\n\n\n“Deeply insightful and intentionally detailed–Prerna Lal has conceived a text that breaks down the inner workings of the United States immigration system and the impact it has had on the lives of countless immigrants and families. Lal lays out a timeline both old and new\, that vividly chronicles the birth and impact of certain policies\, views\, and opinions within the realm of immigration policy.”–Juan Escalante \nTo reserve your seat please purchase a copy of Unsung America by speaking to a bookseller or clicking on the cover below. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nFar too often\, immigrants are demonized and scapegoated\, when they should be celebrated as heroes and revolutionaries. This book strings together both triumphant and painful stories of immigrants who blazed trails and broke barriers in their fight for American citizenship and fundamental human rights. \nThese are ordinary people who have used their own stories on the fight for citizenship to illustrate their triumphs and trials as immigrants in a new land. Each uses a different strategy and tactics; what works for one does not work for another. They all have one thing in common\, however—a desire for racial and social justice. \n  \nPrerna Lal is a naturalized United States citizen\, born and raised in Fiji Islands with roots in the San Francisco Bay Area. Lal is an Indo-Fijian attorney\, based in the Bay Area\, and founder of DreamActivist\, an online advocacy network led by undocumented youth. Through the use of social media\, Lal has been credited for organising an online network to stop the deportations of undocumented youth and they are well known as one of the pivotal figures and leaders of the DREAM Act movement. A clinical law professor\, Lal is a frequent writer on immigration\, racial justice\, sexual orientation\, and how these forces intersect.
URL:https://stew.bluebamboodesigns.net/event/prerna-lal-launching-unsung-america-immigrant-trailblazers-and-our-fight-for-freedom/
LOCATION:Mrs. Dalloways Bookstore\, 2904 College Avenue\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Reading
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