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SUMMARY:Sharon Saline presents What your ADHD Child Wishes You Knew: Working Together to Empower Kids for Success in School and Life.
DESCRIPTION:You’ve read all the expert advice\, but despite countless efforts to help your child cope better and stay on track\, you’re still struggling with everyday issues like homework\, chores\, getting to soccer practice on time\, and simply getting along without pushback and power struggles. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nWhat if you could work with your child\, motivating and engaging them in the process\, to create positive change once and for all? In this insightful and practical book\, veteran psychologist Saline shares the words and inner struggles of children and teens living with ADHD–and a blueprint for achieving lasting success by working together. Based on more than 25 years of experience counseling young people and their families\, Dr. Saline’s advice and real-world examples reveal how parents can shift the dynamic and truly help kids succeed. Topics include: \n* Setting mutual goals that foster cooperation\n* Easing academic struggles\n* Tackling everyday challenges\, from tantrums and backtalk to staying organized\, building friendships\, and more. \nWith useful exercises and easy-to-remember techniques\, you’ll discover a variety of practical strategies that really work\, creating positive change that will last a lifetime. \nSharon Saline\, Psy.D.\, maintains a busy psychotherapy practice working with children\, teens\, families and adults with ADHD and other mental health issues. She has spoken and conducted workshops nationally and internationally on ADHD and the adolescent brain. Thousands of parents\, teachers\, school administrators and mental health clinicians have attended her presentations\, trainings and workshops.
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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:20190211T193000
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SUMMARY:Vandana Shiva and Vijaya Nagarajan OFFSITE In conversation on Women\, Rituals\, Ecology in India.
DESCRIPTION:Vandana Shiva and Vijaya Nagarajan OFFSITE\n\n\n\n\nIn conversation on Women\, Rituals\, Ecology in India. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nVandana Shiva is an Indian scholar\, environmental activist\, food sovereignty advocate\, and alter-globalization author. Currently based in Delhi\, she has authored more than twenty books\, including Who Really Feeds the World? Water Wars\, and Biopiracy. She is one of the leaders and board members of the International Forum on Globalization (along with Jerry Mander\, Edward Goldsmith\, Ralph Nader\, Jeremy Rifkin) and a figure of the global solidarity movement known as the alter-globalization movement. She has argued for the wisdom of many traditional practices\, as evidenced by her interview in the book Vedic Ecology. She is a member of the scientific committee of the Fundacion IDEAS\, Spain’s Socialist Party’s think tank. She is also a member of the International Organization for a Participatory Society. She received the Right Livelihood Award in 1993\, an honor known as an “Alternative Nobel Prize.” Before becoming an activist\, Shiva was one of India’s leading physicists. \nVijaya Nagarajan is an Associate Professor in the Department of Theology/Religious Studies and in the Program of Environmental Studies at the University of San Francisco. She writes about Hinduism\, gender\, ritual\, ecology and the commons. Recently her work has centered around spiritual autobiographies of place\, especially around immigration and motherhood. She has been active in the American Academy of Religion and in environmental movements in the United States. She is the author of Feeding a Thousand Souls which documents the history of the tradition of the kolam. Every day millions of Tamil women in southeast India wake up before dawn to create the kōlam\, a ritual design made of rice flour\, on the thresholds of homes. This thousand year-old ritual welcomes and honors the goddesses Lakshmi and Bhudevi. Braiding Tamil women’s voices and the author’s own stories\, Feeding a Thousand Souls offers different knowledge traditions––beauty\, history\, gender\, literature\, religion\, anthropology\, mathematics\, and ecology. \nIn cooperation with KPFA. Advance tickets ($12) available at Mrs. Dalloways\, through brownpapertickets.com\, or (800) 838-3006. $15 at the door.
URL:https://stew.bluebamboodesigns.net/event/vandana-shiva-and-vijaya-nagarajan-offsite-in-conversation-on-women-rituals-ecology-in-india/
LOCATION:Mrs. Dalloways Bookstore\, 2904 College Avenue\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Reading
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190218T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190218T170000
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SUMMARY:Angie Thomas in Conversation with MK Asante OFFSITE discussing her new novel On the Come Up\, an ode to hip hop.
DESCRIPTION:Angie Thomas in Conversation with MK Asante OFFSITE\n\n\n\n\ndiscussing her new novel On the Come Up\, an ode to hip hop. The ticketed event is co-sponsored by Oakland Unified School District Library Services and Mrs. Dalloway’s. Tickets and further information available through Eventbrite. Your $25 purchase includes a ticket and a copy of On the Come Up\, available for pickup at the event. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nInsightful\, unflinching\, and full of heart\, On the Come Up\, an ode to hip-hop\, is the story of fighting for your dreams\, even as the odds are stacked against you; and about how\, especially for young black people\, freedom of speech isn’t always free. \nA former teen rapper\, Angie Thomas holds a BFA in creative writing from Bellhaven University. Her debut novel\, The Hate U Give\, is a #1 New York Times bestseller and major motion picture from Fox 2000 starring Amandla Stenberg and directed by George Tillman\, Jr. She was born\, raised\, and still lives in Jackson\, Mississippi. \nMK Asante\, award-winning writer\, filmmaker\, hip-hop artist\, and distinguished professor\, is the author of It’s Bigger Than Hip Hop: The Rise of the Post-Hip-Hop Generation and Buck: A Memoir\, currently being adapted into a major motion picture. \nFor more information about Oakland Unified School District (OUSD) Library Services\, visit them here. \nStreet parking and on-campus parking are avaible at the 45th Street entrance. Doors open at 2:30pm\, show starts at 3pm. Please arrive early to find parking and a good seat. \n\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\nOakland Technical High School Auditorium\n300-340 42nd St\n\nOakland\, CA 94609
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LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Book Reading,Live Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190219T193000
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SUMMARY:Dani Shapiro returns to Mrs. Dalloway's to present Inheritance: A Memoir of Genealogy\, Paternity\, and Love.
DESCRIPTION:“Identity is frail business\, and in her searing story\, Dani Shapiro makes the most disquieting discovery: that everything\, from her lineage\, to her father\, down to her very own sense of self is an astounding error. How do we live with ourselves after finding we are not who we thought we were? The answer is not disquieting. It is beautiful.”–Andre Aciman\, author of Call Me by Your Name \nTo reserve your seat\, purchase a copy of Inheritance by speaking with a bookseller or ordering from our website. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nWhat makes us who we are? What combination of memory\, history\, biology\, experience\, and that ineffable thing called the soul defines us?\nIn the spring of 2016\, through a genealogy website to which she had whimsically submitted her DNA for analysis\, Shapiro received the stunning news that her father was not her biological father. She woke up one morning and her entire history–the life she had lived–crumbled beneath her. \nInheritance is a book about secrets–secrets within families\, kept out of shame or self-protectiveness; secrets we keep from one another in the name of love. It is the story of a woman’s urgent quest to unlock the story of her own identity\, a story that had been scrupulously hidden from her for more than fifty years\, years she had spent writing brilliantly\, and compulsively\, on themes of identity and family history. It is a book about the extraordinary moment we live in–a moment in which science and technology have outpaced not only medical ethics but also the capacities of the human heart to contend with the consequences of what we discover. \nTimely and unforgettable\, Dani Shapiro’s memoir is a gripping\, gut-wrenching exploration of genealogy\, paternity\, and love. \nDani Shapiro is the author of the memoirs Hourglass\, Still Writing\, Devotion\, and Slow Motion and five novels including Black & White and Family History. Also an essayist and a journalist\, Shapiro’s short fiction\, essays\, and journalistic pieces have appeared in The New Yorker\, Granta\, Tin House\, One Story\, Elle\, Vogue\, O\, The Oprah Magazine\, The New York Times Book Review\, the op-ed pages of the New York Times\, and many other publications. She has taught in the writing programs at Columbia\, NYU\, the New School\, and Wesleyan University; she is cofounder of the Sirenland Writers Conference in Positano\, Italy. She lives with her family in Litchfield County\, Connecticut. \n  \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:20190220T193000
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SUMMARY:Alan Brennert reads from Daughter of Moloka'i\, the sequel to his bestselling Moloka'i.
DESCRIPTION:Alan Brennert\n\n\n\n\nreads from Daughter of Moloka’i\, the sequel to his bestselling Moloka’i. \n\n\n\n\n\nWednesday\, February 20\, 2019 – 7:30pm
URL:https://stew.bluebamboodesigns.net/event/alan-brennert-reads-from-daughter-of-molokai-the-sequel-to-his-bestselling-molokai/
LOCATION:Mrs. Dalloways Bookstore\, 2904 College Avenue\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Reading
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190223T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190223T150000
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SUMMARY:Guest Poet James Cagney
DESCRIPTION:James Cagney is a poet from Oakland. He has performed in venues and museums throughout the San Francisco Bay Area and beyond. His first book\, Black Steel Magnolias In The Hour of Chaos Theory\, is available from Oakland’s own Nomadic Press. James will read his poems\, then sit for an interview; audience discussion will follow the interview. A month before the reading a free chapbook of James Cagney’s poems will be available at all BPL branches. James Cagney is the 11th poet in Claremont’s Clearly Meant series. 
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LOCATION:Berkeley Public Library\, Claremont Branch\, 2940 Benvenue Ave.\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Reading,Live Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190228T193000
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SUMMARY:Katie Peterson in Conversation with Louise Gluckdiscussing her new book of poems A Piece of Good News.
DESCRIPTION:Katie Peterson in Conversation with Louise Gluck discussing her new book of poems A Piece of Good News.\n\n\n\n\nDense\, rich\, and challenging\, Katie Peterson’s A Piece of Good News explores interior and exterior landscapes\, exposure\, and shelter. Imbued with a hallucinatory poetic logic where desire\, anger\, and sorrow supplant intelligence and reason\, these poems are powerful meditations of mourning\, love\, doubt\, political citizenship\, and happiness. Learned\, wise\, and witty\, Peterson explodes the possibilities of the poetic voice in this remarkable and deeply felt collection. \nKatie Peterson is the award-winning author of the poetry collections This One Tree\, Permission\, and The Accounts. She lives in Berkeley and teaches at UC Davis. \nLouise Gluck is the author of a dozen books of poems and American Originality: Essays on Poetry. Her many awards include the National Book Award\, the Pulitzer Prize\, the National Book Critics Circle Award\, the Bollingen Prize for Poetry\, and the Wallace Stevens Award from the Academy of American Poets. She teaches at Yale University and lives in Cambridge\, Massachusetts.
URL:https://stew.bluebamboodesigns.net/event/katie-peterson-in-conversation-with-louise-gluckdiscussing-her-new-book-of-poems-a-piece-of-good-news/
LOCATION:Mrs. Dalloways Bookstore\, 2904 College Avenue\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Reading
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190306T193000
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SUMMARY:Elinor Lipman returns to celebrate the publication of Good Riddance
DESCRIPTION:Elinor Lipman returns to Mrs. Dalloway’s to celebrate the publication of her latest novel\, Good Riddance\, in which one woman’s trash becomes another woman’s treasure\, with deliriously entertaining results. A pitch-perfect\, whip-smart new novel from an “enchanting\, infinitely witty yet serious\, exceptionally intelligent\, wholly original\, and Austen-like stylist” (Washington Post).\n\n\n\n\nIn this delightful new romantic comedy\, Daphne Maritch doesn’t quite know what to make of the heavily annotated high school yearbook she inherits from her mother\, who held this relic dear. Too dear.The late June Winter Maritch was the teacher to whom the class of ’69 had dedicated its yearbook\, and in turn she went on to attend every reunion\, scribbling notes and observations after each one–not always charitably–and noting who overstepped boundaries of many kinds. In a fit of decluttering (the yearbook did not\, Daphne concluded\, “spark joy”)\, she discards it when she moves to a small New York City apartment. But when it’s found in the recycling bin by a busybody neighbor/documentary filmmaker\, the yearbook’s mysteries–not to mention her own family’s–take on a whole new urgency\, and Daphne finds herself entangled in a series of events both poignant and absurd. \nElinor Lipman is the award-winning author of eleven novels\, including The View from Penthouse B and The Inn at Lake Devine; one essay collection\, I Can’t Complain; and Tweet Land of Liberty: Irreverent Rhymes from the Political Circus. She lives in New York City.
URL:https://stew.bluebamboodesigns.net/event/elinor-lipman-returns-to-celebrate-the-publication-of-good-riddance/
LOCATION:Mrs. Dalloways Bookstore\, 2904 College Avenue\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Reading
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190315T130000
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SUMMARY:Ashton Applewhite OFFSITE
DESCRIPTION:The Retirement Center and Ashby Village are pleased to host Ashton Applewhite\, activist and author of This Chair Rocks: A Manifesto Against Ageism\,  a rousing manifesto against discrimination and prejudice on the basis of age. \n\n\n\n\nApplewhite takes readers and audiences on a journey\, examining the historical roots of ageism and how it divides and diminishes us. She examines how ageist stereotypes affect the way our brains and bodies function in the workplace and the bedroom! Starting with her own experiences and her explorations of ageism\, Ashton leads us to a vision of what an all-age-friendly world would look like\, and offers a rousing call to action. \nAshton Applewhite has been recognized by the New York Times\, The New Yorker\,National Public Radio\, and the American Society on Aging as an expert on ageism. She blogs at This Chair Rocks\, speaks widely around the world\, has written for Harper’s and Playboy\, and is the voice of Yo\, Is This Ageist? In 2016\, she joined the PBS site Next Avenue’s annual list of 50 Influencers in Aging as their Influencer of the Year. \nFor registration and more information see https://retirement.berkeley.edu/home. \n\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\nClark Kerr Campus\, Krutch Theater\n2601 Warring St\n\nBerkeley\, CA 94720
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190317T150000
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SUMMARY:Kids ages 5-10! Meera Sriram
DESCRIPTION:Launch party for her picture book The Yellow Suitcase\, a touching story that celebrates grandparental love.\n\n\n\n\n“A thoughtful story that artfully addresses the loss of a grandparent from an immigrant perspective.” –-Kirkus \nTo reserve your seat please purchase a copy of The Yellow Suitcase by speaking to a bookseller or ordering from our website. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nBring your kids to listen to Meera Sriram read and launch The Yellow Suitcase. Stick around for book signing\, a small craft\, and surprise treats from the book!\n\nMeera Sriram lives with her husband and two children in Berkeley where she enjoys writing\, teaching early literacy\, and advocating diverse bookshelves. She has co-authored several children’s books published in India.
URL:https://stew.bluebamboodesigns.net/event/kids-ages-5-10-meera-sriram/
LOCATION:Mrs. Dalloways Bookstore\, 2904 College Avenue\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Reading
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190320T193000
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SUMMARY:Joyce Carol Oates reads from her novel: The Hazards of Time Travel
DESCRIPTION:Joyce Carol Oates reads from her latest novel The Hazards of Time Travel\, an ingenious\, dystopian novel of one young woman’s resistance against the constraints of an oppressive society.\n\n\n\n\nTo reserve your seat\, please purchase a copy of The Hazards of Time Travel by speaking to a bookseller or ordering from our website. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n“Time travel”–and its hazards–are made literal in this astonishing new novel in which a recklessly idealistic girl dares to test the perimeters of her tightly controlled (future) world and is punished by being sent back in time to a region of North America–“Wainscotia\, Wisconsin”–that existed eighty years before. Cast adrift in time in this idyllic Midwestern town she is set upon a course of “rehabilitation”–but cannot resist falling in love with a fellow exile and questioning the constrains of the Wainscotia world with results that are both devastating and liberating. \nArresting and visionary\, Hazards of Time Travel is both a novel of harrowing discovery and an exquisitely wrought love story that may be Joyce Carol Oates’s most unexpected novel so far. \nJoyce Carol Oates is a recipient of the National Medal of Humanities\, the National Book Critics Circle Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award\, the National Book Award\, and the PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in Short Fiction\, and has been several times nominated for the Pulitzer Prize. She has written some of the most enduring fiction of our time\, including the national bestsellers We Were the Mulvaneys\,Blonde\, which was nominated for the National Book Award\, and the New York Timesbestseller The Falls\, which won the 2005 Prix Femina. She is the Roger S. Berlind Distinguished Professor of the Humanities at Princeton University and has been a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters since 1978. She spends winters in Berkeley.
URL:https://stew.bluebamboodesigns.net/event/joyce-carol-oates-reads-from-her-novel-the-hazards-of-time-travel/
LOCATION:Mrs. Dalloways Bookstore\, 2904 College Avenue\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Reading
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190321T193000
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SUMMARY:Kurt Eichenwald presents A Mind Unraveled: A Memoir
DESCRIPTION:Kurt Eichenwald presents A Mind Unraveled: A Memoir\, the compelling story of an acclaimed journalist and New York Times bestselling author’s ongoing struggle with epilepsy– his torturous decision to keep his condition a secret to avoid discrimination\, and his ensuing decades-long battle to not only survive\, but to thrive.\n\n\n\n\n“Inspirational in the true sense of the word….It is written with great verve and wisdom by someone who has closely and thoughtfully detailed his own plight as well as the journey out of it….A book to take heart from.”–Daphne Merkin\, The New York Times Book Review \nTo reserve your seat\, please purchase a copy of A Mind Unraveled by speaking to a bookseller or ordering through our website. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nAs a college freshman\, Kurt Eichenwald awoke one night on the floor of his dorm room\, confused and in pain. In the aftermath of that critical moment\, his once-carefree life would be consumed by confrontations with medical incompetence\, discrimination that almost cost him his education and employment\, physical abuse\, and dark moments when he contemplated suicide. \nThis is the story of one man’s battle to pursue his dreams despite an often incapacitating brain disorder. From his early experiences of fear and denial to his exasperating search for treatment\, Eichenwald provides a deeply candid account of his years facing this misunderstood and often stigmatized condition. He details his encounters with the doctors whose negligence could have killed him\, but for the heroic actions of a brilliant neurologist and the family and friends who fought for him.  \nUltimately\, A Mind Unraveled is an inspirational story\, one that chronicles how Eichenwald\, faced often with his own mortality\, transformed trauma into a guide for reaching the future he desired. Defying relentless threats to his emotional and physical well-being\, he affirmed his decision to never give up\, and in the process learned how to rise from the depths of despair to the heights of unimagined success. \nKurt Eichenwald is the author of four previous nonfiction books. His second\, The Informant\, was made into a movie starring Matt Damon and directed by Steven Soderbergh. In addition to his distinguished work as a senior writer at Newsweek and a contributing editor at Vanity Fair\, Eichenwald spent two decades as a senior writer at The New York Times\, where he was a two-time finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. He is also a two-time winner of the George Polk Award\, as well as the winner of the Payne Award for Ethics in Journalism and an Emmy Award nominee. He lives in Dallas with his family.
URL:https://stew.bluebamboodesigns.net/event/kurt-eichenwald-presents-a-mind-unraveled-a-memoir/
LOCATION:Mrs. Dalloways Bookstore\, 2904 College Avenue\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Reading
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190405T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190405T183000
DTSTAMP:20190311T191448Z
CREATED:20190311T191425Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190311T191448Z
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SUMMARY:W. Thomas Boyce OFFSITE A celebration and reading from his new book The Orchid and the Dandelion: Why Some Children Struggle and How All Can Thrive. 
DESCRIPTION:“The Orchid and the Dandelion is based on groundbreaking research that has the power to change the lives of countless children–and the adults who love them.”–Susan Cain\, author of Quiet: The Power of Introverts \n\n\n\n\n\n\nFrom one of the world’s foremost researchers and pioneers of pediatric health–a book that offers hope and a pathway to success for parents\, teachers\, psychologists\, psychiatrists\, and child development experts coping with “difficult” children\, fully exploring the author’s revolutionary discovery about childhood development\, parenting\, and the key to helping all children find happiness and success. \nW. Thomas Boyce\, M.D.\, is the Lisa and John Pritzker Distinguished Professor of Developmental and Behavioral Health and chief of the Division of Developmental Medicine at UCSF. He is also a member of the National Academy of Medicine and codirector of the Child and Brain Development Program of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research. He lives with his wife in Oakland. \n\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\n2407 Dana St\n\nBerkeley\, CA 94720
URL:https://stew.bluebamboodesigns.net/event/w-thomas-boyce-offsite-a-celebration-and-reading-from-his-new-book-the-orchid-and-the-dandelion-why-some-children-struggle-and-how-all-can-thrive/
LOCATION:2407 Dana St\, Berkeley\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Reading
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190408T103000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190408T113000
DTSTAMP:20190401T175421Z
CREATED:20190401T175420Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190401T175421Z
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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.
URL:https://stew.bluebamboodesigns.net/event/citywide-read-crazy-rich-asians-book-club-discussion-claremont/
LOCATION:Berkeley Public Library\, Claremont Branch
CATEGORIES:Book Reading,Live Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190410T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190410T193000
DTSTAMP:20190311T191652Z
CREATED:20190311T191652Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190311T191652Z
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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
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190411T193000
DTSTAMP:20190311T191928Z
CREATED:20190311T191927Z
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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
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190412T193000
DTSTAMP:20190311T192129Z
CREATED:20190311T192128Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190311T192129Z
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190416T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190416T193000
DTSTAMP:20190311T192417Z
CREATED:20190311T192416Z
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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
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190418T193000
DTSTAMP:20190311T192619Z
CREATED:20190311T192618Z
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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
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190424T193000
DTSTAMP:20190311T193020Z
CREATED:20190311T193019Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190311T193020Z
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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
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190425T193000
DTSTAMP:20190311T195429Z
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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
DTSTAMP:20190311T195956Z
CREATED:20190311T195942Z
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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.
URL:https://stew.bluebamboodesigns.net/event/gareth-hinds-in-conversation-with-pam-turner-discussing-his-exciting-new-graphic-novel-adaptation-of-homers-epic-talethe-iliad/
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
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190519T150000
DTSTAMP:20190311T200204Z
CREATED:20190311T200203Z
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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
DTSTAMP:20190602T005340Z
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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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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
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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
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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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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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