Events
Speaker: Michael Krasny, author of Off Mike and Spiritual Envy: An Agnostic’s Quest
Left Coast Writers®
A Literary Salon • Led by Linda Watanabe McFerrin
1st Monday each month • 7:00-9:00 pm • $120 per year
Left Coast Writers meetings provide literary connections, support, counsel, readings, writing tips, literary chat, unabashed networking, and great fun. Many local authors are active members of this group. Meetings feature presentations by Bay Area literary figures. In addition, LCW hosts a variety of other activities to launch the books of members, to explore publishing alternatives, and to network with others in the industry.
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National Book Critics Circle (NBCC) Reads Conversation on Books about Conjugal Love, with NBCC President, Jane Ciabattari, Balakian winner Molly Giles, NBCC members Meredith Maran and Greg Sarris. Books discussed will include Annie Dillard's The Maytrees, Jane Smiley's Private Life, Evan Connell's Mr. Bridge and Mrs. Bridge, Peggy Orenstein's Waiting for Daisy, and Louise Erdrich's Shadow Tag.
Jane Ciabattari (www.janeciabattari.com) serves as president of the National Book Critics Circle. Her articles and book reviews appear regularly on NPR.org, The Daily Beast, and dozens of other publications. She is author of the short story collection Stealing the Fire (her award-winning short stories have been published widely, from online publications like KBG Bar Lit, LOST magazine, Literary Mama, and VerbSap, to print publications like Ms., The North American Review, and the Denver Quarterly). She has taught at Bennington's Low-Residency MFA program, Knox College, New York University, Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism.
Molly Giles teaches in the creative writing department at the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville. She was a professor of creative writing at San Francisco State for 17 years. Her many awards include the Bay Area Book Reviewers' Award and the National Book Critics Circle Nona Balakian Award for Excellence in Book Reviewing. She is author of the novel Iron Shoes and the short story collections Rough Translations, winner of the Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction, and Creek Walk and Other Stories.
Meredith Maran (www.meredithmaran.com) is an award-winning journalist, book critic, and the author of several bestselling nonfiction books, including Class Dismissed and What It’s Like to Live Now. Her work appears regularly in anthologies, newspapers, and magazines including People, Salon.com, More Magazine, and the San Francisco Chronicle. Her next book, My Lie: A True Story of False Memory, will be published in September 2010.
Greg Sarris is author of the story collection Grand Avenue, and co producer, with Robert Redford, of the HBO miniseries based on the book, as well as author of the novel Watermelon Nights and the nonfiction books Keeping Slug Woman Alive: A Holistic Approach to American Indian Texts; Mabel McKay: Weaving the Dream and the critical work Approaches to Teaching the Works of Louise Erdrich. Sarris fills the endowed chair in Native American Studies at Sonoma State University and serves as chairman of the Federated Indians of Graton Rancheria.
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Evan Goldstein presents Daring Pairings: A Master Sommelier Matches Distinctive Wines with Recipes from His Favorite Chefs ($34.95). The best wine and food pairings create harmony among unexpected flavors. In this adventurous companion to the acclaimed Perfect Pairings, Master Sommelier Goldstein shows how anyone can bring these emerging, exciting varieties to the table. Includes recipes.
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Gary Shteyngart talks about Super Sad True Love Story ($26.00). The author of The Russian Debutante’s Handbook and Absurdistan presents his hilarious and heartfelt new novel, a deliciously dark tale of America’s dysfunctional coming years—and the timeless and tender feelings that just might bring us back from the brink.
This class will be rescheduled for a future date. Please call (415) 927-0960 ext. 1 for more information.
Book Passage Class
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Madera store, $55
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This workshop is now sold out. Please register for the next workshop led by Amy Novesky on Sept. 11. You may register for that session by calling (415) 927-0960 ext. 1.
Book Passage Class
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Nan Chase talks about Eat Your Yard: Edible Trees, Shrubs, Vines, Herbs, and Flowers For Your Landscape ($19.99) and presents a cooking demo.
On Saturday mornings, chefs and cookbook authors lead free cooking demonstrations using seasonal ingredients from the Farmers Market. Join them in the CUESA kitchen (North Arcade) for tips, recipes, and a sample. We’ll be there with the books.
Book Passage Class
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Madera store, $35
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Book Passage Class
Ten Saturdays: Aug. 7-Oct. 16 (no class on Sept. 4), 3:00-6:00 pm, $1025
Mehri
Dadgar's Corte Madera Studio
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Prerequisite: Drawing and Composition or equivalent experience.
First class materials will be available for purchase. You may bring your own watercolor, brushes and watercolor paper.
Mehri Dadgar was born and raised in Iran. A profound influence on her art and life was the experience of being imprisoned for five years in a political prison for passing out pro-democracy newsletters in Tehran.
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Book Passage Class
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Cheryl McLaughlin is the founder of The Buzz Professor and specializes in helping authors and creative professionals develop social media marketing plans that work (without being pushy!). Contact Cheryl at cheryl@cherylmclaughlin.com.
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It was the final day of summer, 1998, when 16-year-old surfer Jonathan Kathrein paddled out on his board for one last ride at Stinson Beach, in the area known as the Red Triangle. When the great white shark struck, it so decimated the boy's hip and leg that his survival was considered miraculous. From this vicious and terrifying attack, and from the lengthy and painful post-surgical rehabilitation that followed, comes Margaret Kathrein's moving and deeply inspirational memoir, Far From Shore: A Mother's Memoir of a Shark Attack ($16.99). This book is more than a narration on survival and courage; it is a reminder of the importance of a close and encouraging family, and how the love and support of family and community can sustain us through unrelenting pain and fear. This is also a memorable insight into how one boy faced the possibility of death and grew to be an extraordinary man.
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Writing Mamas Salon®
A Writing Group • Led by Dawn Yun
2nd Sunday each month • 5:00-8:00 pm. • $120 per year
The Writing Mamas is where motherhood meets writinghood and finds a happy neighborhood at Book Passage. Improve your writing! Meet great mothers who are writers! Learn to perform your work before the public! Get published! All this and more when you join the popular Writing Mamas! We will write, workshop, gab, and hear speakers. Many members have gone on to be published. Why not you? Let the other mothers/writers help you, while the speakers inspire you. This year lots of Writing Mamas are getting their books, articles, and blogs published. Inspiration is found in the fabulous speakers we have lined up. For a complete list of all speakers, go to www.writingmamas.com.
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Speaker: Christi Phillips, author of The Devlin Diary
Author
Elaine Bond leads the Left Coast
Writers as they read stories and tell tales at our Ferry Building
store. Free & open to the public.
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This event is CANCELED. We will look forward to a future event with Andrew Bacevich.
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Food Writing & Inspiration
Corte Madera store (Meet & then travel to San Francisco)
$100 (attending conference) $150 (not attending conference)
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Join celebrity chef and award-winning food writer Joanne Weir in a day of culinary inspiration. The class begins in Corte Madera and then moves by ferry to the Ferry Building in San Francisco. The group tours the building, meets many of the food vendors, samples olive oil, cheeses, chocolate, and wine, and then enjoys a delicious lunch at Mijita Restaurant. Along the way, Weir talks about how to keep your eye on the unexpected, how to create a piece of writing from the day’s events, and how to have fun by learning about food. Lunch and transportation included.
Travel Photography in Point Reyes
Corte Madera store (Meet & then travel to Point Reyes)
$100 (attending conference) $150 (not attending conference)
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Join acclaimed landscape, food and wine photographers Robert Holmes and Andrea Johnson for a day of exploration and photography. Throughout the day, they demonstrate the art of finding, framing, and capturing photographs. Participants will have time to wander and photograph one of Marin County’s most scenic open spaces. They will reconvene over a picnic lunch to talk about their experiences and share their work. Lunch and transportation included.Pre-Travel, Food & Photography Conference Class
Travel Writing in Point Reyes
Corte Madera store (meet & then travel to Point Reyes)
$100 (attending conference) $150 (not attending conference)
Join acclaimed National Geographic and Gadling.com travel writer and editor Don George for a day of exploration and travel writing in beautiful Point Reyes. George demonstrates the art of finding, researching, and note-taking stories in the field. Participants will explore the shops and sites of this seaside town, as well as the rolling hills and sweeping ocean views. The group gathers over a picnic lunch to talk about the writing experience and to read and discuss their work. Lunch and transportation included.
Book Passage Class
Two Wednesdays: Aug. 11 & 18, 10:30-1:00 pm, $105
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Laura Deutsch is a freelance writer whose work has appeared in the N.Y. Times and S.F. Chronicle. She has taught writing at U.C. Berkeley, and she leads writing retreats from Tassajara to Tuscany.
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Free Event - Open to the Public
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Free Event - Open to the Public
Priority Seating Reserved for Conference Participants
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August 12-15 is the 19th annual Book Passage Travel, Food & Photography Conference. The writers & photographers featured in these events are on the Conference faculty. These events are open to the public, but priority seating is reserved for Conference participants.
Free Event - Open to the Public
Priority Seating Reserved for Conference Participants
Corte Madera store
August 12-15 is the 19th annual Book Passage Travel, Food & Photography Conference. The writers & photographers featured in these events are on the Conference faculty. These events are open to the public, but priority seating is reserved for Conference participants.
Free Event - Open to the Public
Priority Seating Reserved for Conference Participants
Corte Madera store
August 12-15 is the 19th annual Book Passage Travel, Food & Photography Conference. The writers & photographers featured in these events are on the Conference faculty. These events are open to the public, but priority seating is reserved for Conference participants.
San Francisco store
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Andrew Swallow talks about Mixt Salads: A Chef’s Bold Creations ($28.00) and presents a cooking demo.
On Saturday mornings, chefs and cookbook authors lead free cooking demonstrations using seasonal ingredients from the Farmers Market. Join them in the CUESA kitchen (North Arcade) for tips, recipes, and a sample. We’ll be there with the books.
Passion for Pinot
Free Event - Open to the Public
Priority Seating Reserved for Conference Participants
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August
12-15 is the 19th annual Book
Passage Travel, Food & Photography Conference. The writers
& photographers featured in these events are on the Conference
faculty. These events are open to the public, but
priority seating is reserved for Conference participants.Free Event - Open to the Public
Preferred seating with book purchase
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signed copy
Book Passage Class
Four
Mondays: Aug. 16-Sept. 13 (no class on Sept. 6)
10:00-12:00 pm, $85
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Religion lies at the root of every culture, influencing art, literature, legislation, economics, and more. Without knowing the religious traditions of a people, it is difficult to understand their current culture and politics. This course will familiarize you with the foundations of Islam through reading and discussing excerpts from the Quran. The class will also discuss the many misconceptions about Islam.
Mehri Dadgar was born and raised in Iran. A profound influence on her art and life was the experience of being imprisoned for five years in a political prison for passing out pro-democracy newsletters in Tehran.
Book Passage Class
Four Days: Aug. 17, 19, 24 & 26, 12:30-3:00 pm, $150
Book Passage in Corte Madera
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Book Passage Class
Ten Mondays: Aug. 16-Oct. 25, 3:00-6:00 pm, $1025
Mehri Dadgar's Corte Madera Studio
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Prerequisite: None
First class materials will be available for purchase. You may bring your own drawing tools.
Mehri Dadgar was born and raised in Iran. A profound influence on her art and life was the experience of being imprisoned for five years in a political prison for passing out pro-democracy newsletters in Tehran.
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Marinitas Restaurant, San Anselmo
Tickets: $65 per person
Please call the store at (415) 927-0960, ext 1 for availability
Reserve by phone at (415) 927-0960 ext 1
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Award-winning
chef-restauranteur, TV personality and cookbook author Rick
Bayless has done more than anyone to bring authentic
Mexican food to American tables. While living in Mexico, he wrote the
now-classic Authentic
Mexican. Six cookbooks later, he comes to us with Fiesta
at Rick’s, co-written with his wife, Deann Bayless.
He presents 150 recipes that range from savory nibbles to street food
and live fire-grilled meat and fish. He offers loads of advice,
including party menus. Come on over to our Fiesta at Marinitas
for a book reception—not a sit-down meal, but a gathering of friends,
while we sample appetizers and imbibe cocktails. Co-author Deann Bayless will also be in attendance. $65 per
person. The ticket price includes food items from the book, two margaritas, tax, tip, a signed copy of the author's book, and a special bonus tequila tasting sponsored by El Mejor!Free Event - Open to the Public
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Dominican University of California, Angelico Hall
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Please bring your receipt if you pre-purchase the book. Books will also be available for purchase at the event.
Book Passage Class
Eight Thursdays: Aug. 19-Oct. 7, 10:00-12:00 pm, $235
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Hamid Emami has a Masters from University of Hamburg, Germany, and is fluent in German, English, French, Spanish, and Farsi. He has taught German for many years.
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Angela S. Choi presents Hello Kitty Must Die ($24.95). Fiona Yu appears to be a “Hello Kitty”—an educated, well-mannered young Asian-American woman. Secretly, she feels torn between the traditional Chinese values of her family and the mores of being an American girl. Determined to thwart her parents’ plan to marry her off, Fiona seeks freedom at any price.
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For Friends of Book Passage Members
Corte Madera & San Francisco stores, All Day
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Join us for our semi-annual 30%-off Members Only Sale. We will get started at 9:00 am and continue all day until 9:00 pm (7:00 pm San Francisco store). The sale is open to current members & to those who sign up before or on the day of the sale. This is a very special day in that it is part of Local Authors Weekend in Corte Madera, and will include a Members Only Wine Reception in the Event Room from 5:30 pm – 7:00 pm.
Featured Authors Include:
1:00 pm: Destiny Kinal discusses her historical novel Burning Silk
2:00 pm: Jeanne Walker Harvey presents her nonfiction children’s book
Astro the Steller Sea Lion
4:00 pm: Sondra Barrett talks about Wine’s Hidden Beauty
7:00 pm: Terry Sue Harms tells us about the Pearls My Mother Wore
We hope that all Friends of Book Passage will join us for this fun-filled day!!
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Preservation Festival! Sherri Brooks Vinton talks about Put ‘em Up! ($19.95) and The Real Food Revival ($18.95) and presents a cooking demo.
On Saturday mornings, chefs and cookbook authors lead free cooking demonstrations using seasonal ingredients from the Farmers Market. Join them in the CUESA kitchen (North Arcade) for tips, recipes, and a sample. We’ll be there with the books.
Book Passage Class
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Advance registration required.
Class size
limited.
You’ve just been
invited to read at a literary event. You need to be ready and you need
to be good. Author and Litquake producer Ransom
Stephens has produced hundreds of readings and wants to
help you. You’ll learn how to choose the right piece, discover
storytelling techniques that fit your style, and enhance your readers’
experience. Most of all, you’ll see how to use this opportunity to
develop an audience.
Free Event - Open to the Public
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Destiny Kinal discusses her historical novel Burning Silk ($14.99). This work plunges the reader into the rarified and privileged atmosphere of an early-nineteenth-century French perfumerie on the Cote d’Azur, and then to a silk magnaneri in Bucks County, Pennsylvania.
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Special for kids! Jeanne Walker Harvey talks about Astro the Steller Sea Lion ($16.95). Only a few days old when found orphaned, Astro is cared for and raised at The Marine Mammal Center in Sausalito. When big enough to be released to the wild where he needs to be, he has other plans—he keeps swimming back!
Free Event - Open to the Public
Wines by Organic Wine Company will be served!
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Sondra Barrett talks about Wine’s Hidden Beauty ($35.00). Travel beyond molecules to vineyards, visit with pioneering winemakers and the mystic grape to discover the passion that brings people to wine. While drinking in the incredible beauty of the unseen world, you will also learn about taste, wine and health, and savoring life.
Organic Wine Company is a business in Marin with roots in France. Veronique Raskin was one of the first people to bring wine to this country made from organically grown grapes thirty years ago. We are excited that we will have some of her company's wines to share.
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Terry Sue Harms talks about Pearls My Mother Wore ($15.00). This novel opens on the day that 43-year-old “nice girl” Kelly Tremblake buries the ashes of her 42-year-old husband, Grayson. Devastated by his sudden and unexpected death, Kelly finds the sweet, uncomplicated life she has intentionally crafted for herself screeching to a halt.
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Aubrey Wade discusses My Pregnancy Pocket Guide ($19.99). This guide is intended for first-time moms-to-be and their closest acquaintances (spouses, extended family, supportive friends, etc.). As a truly pocket-sized book, the expectant mom or support person can easily carry this handy reference everywhere she goes.
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Local Author Weekend!Bernard von Bothmer presents Framing the Sixties: The Use and Abuse of a Decade from Ronald Reagan to George W. Bush ($28.95). American liberals and conservatives alike have invoked memories of the 1960s to define their respective ideological positions and to influence voters. Bernard von Bothmer examines this battle over the collective memory of the decade primarily through the lens of presidential politics. Visit www.framingthesixties.com.
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Paul Blanc, M.D. talks about How Everyday Products Make People Sick: Toxins at Home and in the Workplace ($21.95). A compelling exposé, written by a physician with extensive experience in public health, this book is a rich and meticulously documented account of injury and illness across different time periods, places, and technologies.
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Tamam Kahn presents Untold: A History of the Wives of Prophet Muhammad ($18.95). Kahn demystifies the most influential women at the dawn of Islam: Muhammad’s wives. They are presented in all their variety, among them a successful merchant, the leader of an army, and two Jewish war captives. Here we see them saving a vital peace treaty.
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Speaker: Ying Chang Compestine, author of Revolution is Not a Dinner Party, A Banquet for Hungry Ghosts, and Boy Dumplings
Kid Lit Salon
Children’s Book Writers & Illustrators Salon • Led by Lissa Rovetch
4th Monday each month • 7:00-9:00 pm • $120 per year
The Kid Lit Salon is for both established and beginning children’s book writers and illustrators. Come socialize with like-minded, creative types in your field. Our evenings include a wildly diverse array of speakers, member updates, events, conferences, and insider tips. Writer and illustrator Lissa Rovetch is the illustrator of There Was a Man Who Loved a Rat and Other Vile Little Poems and author of Ook the Book and the Hot Dog and Bob book series.
Book Passage Class
Eight Tuesdays: Aug. 24-Oct. 12, 1:00-3:00 pm, $235
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Hamid Emami has a Masters from University of Hamburg, Germany, and is fluent in German, English, French, Spanish, and Farsi. He has taught German for many years.
Book Passage Class
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Karen Leland is the bestselling author of six books, a PR consultant and marketing strategist. She has placed over 500 articles in newspapers and magazines and booked hundreds of radio and television interviews in national media. Karen writes a featured column for the Huffington Post Living section.
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Free Event - Open to the Public
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Aug. 28-29: 10:00-6:00 pm, Corte Madera store
Sept. 5-6: 10:00-6:00 pm, San Francisco store
Please join us to discover and celebrate some of the finest Italian children’s literature available. Enjoy a selection of more than 200 children’s books and songs from the most distinguished Italian publishers. The book selection offers a large range of educational topics, design and multimedia styles for kids age 0 to 10. La Festa del Libro 2010 is organized by Papilio Books.
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Marie Simmons talks about Fig Heaven ($19.95) and presents a cooking demo.
On
Saturday mornings, chefs and cookbook authors lead free cooking
demonstrations using seasonal ingredients from the Farmers Market. Join
them in the CUESA kitchen (North Arcade) for tips, recipes, and a
sample. We’ll be there with the books.
This class is canceled. Ying Chang Compestine will reschedule for a future date. Please call Classes Director Leslie Berkler at (415) 927-0960, ext. 1 for questions.
Book Passage Class
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Free Event - Open to the Public
Includes a Wine Tasting by Villa Calcinaia Winery!
Villa Calcinaia Chianti Classico 2007 will be served.
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Niccolò Capponi presents An Unlikely Prince: The Life and Times of Machiavelli
($26.00). In this compelling new biography, historian Capponi frees Machiavelli (1469–1527) from centuries of misinterpretation. Exploring the Renaissance city of Florence, where Machiavelli lived, Capponi reveals the man behind the legend. A complex portrait of Machiavelli emerges—at once a brilliantly skillful diplomat and a woefully inept liar; a sharp thinker and an impractical dreamer; a hardnosed powerbroker and a risk-taking gambler; a calculating propagandist and an imprudent jokester.
Capponi’s intimate portrait of Machiavelli reveals his behavior as utterly un-Machiavellian, his vision of the world as limited by his very provincial outlook. In the end, Machiavelli was frustrated by his own political failures and utterly baffled by the success of his book The Prince.
Niccolò Capponi is the author of the highly acclaimed Victory of the West and former fellow of the Medici Project. A direct descendant of Machiavelli, he lives in Florence, Italy.
Aug. 28-29: 10:00-6:00 pm, Corte Madera store
Sept. 5-6: 10:00-6:00 pm, San Francisco store
Please join us to discover and celebrate some of the finest Italian children’s literature available. Enjoy a selection of more than 200 children’s books and songs from the most distinguished Italian publishers. The book selection offers a large range of educational topics, design and multimedia styles for kids age 0 to 10. La Festa del Libro 2010 is organized by Papilio Books.
Cooks with Books Event!
Ad Hoc Restaurant, Yountville
Tickets: $200 per person
Reserve by phone at (415) 927-0960 ext 1
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Join us for this rare opportunity to dine with one of our nation's most celebrated chefs! Thomas Keller, one of Americas most acclaimed chefs, focuses on—with co-author Dave Cruz—family-style meals in this accessible and dazzlingly beautiful book, Ad Hoc at Home, based on meals served at his Ad Hoc restaurant. He provides a primer on the foundations of cooking, and more than 200 recipes for family-style meals. Dave Cruz is the Chef de Cuisine at Ad Hoc. Full-color photographs throughout. The ticket price includes the meal, wine, coffee, tax,
tip & a
signed copy of the author’s book.
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Penny Warner discusses How to Crash a Killer Bash ($6.99). Hailey Lind presents Arsenic and Old Paint ($14.95). Terri Thayer presents False Impressions ($7.99). Rita Lakin talks about Getting Old is Tres Dangereux ($7.99).
Please join us to discover and celebrate some of the finest Italian children’s literature available. Enjoy a selection of more than 200 children’s books and songs from the most distinguished Italian publishers. The book selection offers a large range of educational topics, design and multimedia styles for kids age 0 to 10. La Festa del Libro 2010 is organized by Papilio Books.
Please join us to discover and celebrate some of the finest Italian children’s literature available. Enjoy a selection of more than 200 children’s books and songs from the most distinguished Italian publishers. The book selection offers a large range of educational topics, design and multimedia styles for kids age 0 to 10. La Festa del Libro 2010 is organized by Papilio Books.
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Launch Party!
Rhys Bowen presents Royal Blood ($24.95). Penniless and 34th in line to the throne, Lady Georgiana Rannoch finds herself in a draining state of affairs. To escape her hateful brother, she accepts an invitation from the Queen to represent the royals at a wedding in Transylvania. But at the macabre-looking castle, Georgie finds a bloody bride!
Speaker: Molly Dwyer, Author of Requiem for the Author of Frankenstein
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Left Coast Writers®
A Literary Salon • Led by Linda Watanabe McFerrin
1st Monday each month • 7:00-9:00 pm • $120 per year
Left Coast Writers meetings provide literary connections, support, counsel, readings, writing tips, literary chat, unabashed networking, and great fun. Many local authors are active members of this group. Meetings feature presentations by Bay Area literary figures. In addition, LCW hosts a variety of other activities to launch the books of members, to explore publishing alternatives, and to network with others in the industry.
Free Event - Open to the Public
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Erika Lee and Judy Yung talk about Angel Island: Immigrant Gateway to America ($27.95). From 1910 to 1940, Angel Island in San Francisco served as the processing and detention center for over one million people. The full history of these immigrants and their experiences on Angel Island is told here for the first time.
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Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter David Finkel discusses The Good Soldiers ($15.00). In January 2007, President George W. Bush announced a new strategy for Iraq. It became known as “the surge.” Among those called to carry it out were the young, optimistic army infantry soldiers of the 2-16. This is a deeply illuminating chronicle of their tour.
Book Passage Class
Three Wednesdays: Sept. 8, 15 & 22, 3:00-5:00 pm, $75
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Mehri Dadgar was born and raised in Iran. A profound influence on her art and life was the experience of being imprisoned for five years in a political prison for passing out pro-democracy newsletters in Tehran.
Book Passage Book Group
Five Wednesdays: Sept. 8-Oct 6, 7:00-9:00 pm, $125
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Free Event - Open to the Public
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Terry Laszlo-Gopadze and contributors talk about The Spirit of a Woman: Stories to Empower and Inspire ($16.95). Combining storytelling and honesty for those who seek spiritually optimistic guidance, this is a compilation of stories of female creativity and compassion.
Free Event - Open to the Public
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Comedian Jeff Kreisler presents Get Rich Cheating: The Crooked Path to Easy Street ($14.99). In these difficult times, there’s only one proven path to ridiculous amounts of money: Cheating. Everyone’s doing it—from sleazy CEOs to ‘roided-up home run kings, silicone-enhanced starlets, and backroom-dealing congressmen—so why not you?
Free Event - Open to the Public
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Jean Haner presents The Wisdom of Your Child's Face: Discover Your Child's True Nature with Chinese Face Reading ($15.95). Chinese face reading is based on ancient Taoist principles, which teach that each child is born with a soul’s intent—an inner architecture that is reflected in their outer design. Haner teaches techniques to “read” people’s inner natures.
Free Event - Open to the Public
Preferred seating with purchase of book
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William Gibson presents Zero History (26.95). Hollis Henry’s face was known worldwide, but in the post-crash economy, she’s a journalist in need of a job. The last person she wants to work for is Hubertus Bigend, twisted genius of global marketing, but there’s no way to tell an entity like Bigend that you want nothing more to do with him.
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Left Coast Writers Launch!
Linda Watanabe McFerrin talks about her supernatural thriller Dead Love ($14.95 paperback/ $26.95 special edition hardcover). It begins when Clément, a lovesick ghoul, falls for beautiful young Erin. Unfortunately, she is marked for death by the Japanese mob (the yakuza). Using secrets learned from a Haitian witchdoctor, and taking us to Tokyo, Amsterdam, and Malaysia, Clément finds a way to rescue and possess her—but not at all in the manner he expected!
This globalized manga turned literature is Twilight with teeth. Vivid storytelling and unforgettable characters unite to delight adults and younger readers with an interest in the otherworldly, proving once and for all that that if the undead have their way, love will never die!
Read Wendy Nelson Tokunaga's interview with McFerrin about Dead Love.
Visit the Dead Love Web site at http://www.deadlovebook.com/.
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Are you working on a manuscript and getting confused about which version is your most recent? Are you nervous because your entire book is one large document? Bring your laptop and learn quick secrets for making writing in Word easier. Learn how to keep your drafts clear, make global changes, and avoid accidental loss of material. Learn how to print in another program and prepare a file for submission to a publisher.
Leslie Keenan has been in publishing for 28 years as an editor, agent, publisher, writer, and teacher. She has helped hundreds of writers find and complete their writing projects. A student wrote, “Leslie is inspiring, compassionate, and has a natural gift for creating a safe place for a writer. She’s like a living life preserver.”
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You’ve written a brilliant story and can’t wait to hear what others think. You’re stuck and need a critique. What to do? Bring your manuscript—a picture book, a chapter from a novel, or even just an idea (ten-page limit) and we’ll workshop on the spot. Amy Novesky is an independent children’s book editor, author, and experienced workshop leader.
This class is canceled. We will look forward to a future class with Wendy Tokunaga.
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Joyce Goldstein talks about Mediterranean Fresh ($30.00) (and many other books!) and presents a cooking demo.
On Saturday mornings, chefs and cookbook authors lead free cooking demonstrations using seasonal ingredients from the Farmers Market. Join them in the CUESA kitchen (North Arcade) for tips, recipes, and a sample. We’ll be there with the books.
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John Brandon signs copies of his novel Citrus County ($22.00). Teenage romance should be difficult, but not this difficult. Boys like Toby should cause trouble, but not this much. Shelby should be her own hero, the first hero of Citrus County. She should rescue her sister from underground, rescue Toby from his life. Her destiny should be a hero's destiny.
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Carol Scott talks about Optimal Stress: Living in Your Best Stress Zone ($24.95). Dr. Scott draws on the stories of scores of women, as well as on her own experience with stress-related illness. She analyzes the latest in medical research with the realities of modern life, helping you design your own stress-management program.
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Jane Vandenburgh talks about Architecture of the Novel: A Writer’s Handbook ($15.95). Vandenburgh, the author of two acclaimed novels and a recent memoir, offers writers the tools to create powerful and unique novels based on dynamic storytelling. She discusses the underlying machinery that makes a plot dynamic, coherent, and interesting.
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Gary Zukav presents Spiritual Partnership: The Journey to Authentic Power ($25.99). Zukav is the author of several books, including the The Seat of the Soul. He introduces a profound new relationship dynamic, aimed at enabling and empowering individuals to reach what Zukav describes as their authentic power.
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Left Coast Writers Launch! Todd Crawshaw talks about his debut novel Exploits of the Satyr ($16.99). These are the tragic and comic chronicles of a man known as Satyr to his fans and foes who discovers he was procreated by members of a cult—marrying genetic technology with ancient artifacts—to initiate the Second Coming of Christ.
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Carolyn Scott Kortge discusses Healing Walks for Hard Times: Quiet Your Mind, Strengthen Your Body, and Get Your Life Back ($15.95). Kortge outlines a practical program for navigating your way through life’s hard times. Within the supportive framework of this program, you set your own pace, taking steps that restore a sense of order.
Speaker: Melanie Gideon, Author of The Slippery Year: A Meditation on Happily Ever After
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Writing Mamas Salon®
A Writing Group • Led by Dawn Yun
2nd Sunday each month • 5:00-8:00 pm. • $120 per year
The Writing Mamas is where motherhood meets writinghood and finds a happy neighborhood at Book Passage. Improve your writing! Meet great mothers who are writers! Learn to perform your work before
the public! Get published! All this and more when you join the popular Writing Mamas! We will write, workshop, gab, and hear speakers. Many members have gone on to be published. Why not you? Let the other mothers/writers help you, while the speakers inspire you. This year lots of Writing Mamas are getting their books, articles, and blogs published. Inspiration is found in the fabulous speakers we have lined up. For a complete list of all speakers, go to www.writingmamas.com.
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Dennis Portnoy talks about Riding the Point Reyes Equestrian Trails (Written by Horse and Rider) ($22.00). The variety and beauty of the Pt. Reyes National Seashore is one of Marin County’s treasures. There are over 70,000 acres of trails. Riding the Pt. Reye’s Equestrian Trails is more then just a guide book.
What’s so wonderful about this guide is that it is both informative and entertaining. Dennis Portnoy and his horse Phily describe the trails from both of their perspectives. They give detailed information about each trail, shortcuts to waterfalls, lakes, and beaches, great spots to stop for lunch, colorful photographs, readable maps and even poetry. This guide is ideal for horse lovers, hikers and those who are interested in the horse-human relationship. It can fit in your pocket or saddlebag.
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Eight Mondays: Sept. 13-Nov. 1, 9:30-11:15 am, $235
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Gisella Petrone grew up in Italy. She received a Masters degree from the University of Calabria. She has taught English, Italian, Latin, Roman History, and Italian cooking.
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Left Coast Writers Launch!
Osprey Orielle Lake talks about Uprisings for the Earth: Reconnecting Culture with Nature ($16.95). Lake, a lifelong advocate for environmental protection and cultural transformation, weaves together history, science, culture, governance, spirituality, and the arts to map out an integrated approach to working in partnership with nature while creating a more balanced future.
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Five Mondays: Sept. 13-Oct. 11, 6:30-8:30 pm, $210
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Learn the fundamental tools of narrative writing, including plot, setting, characterization, dialogue, and point of view. The lectures provide published texts as models, and writing exercises help you apply what you learn to your work. Peg Pursell started the creative writing program at the Charleston School of the Arts and taught fiction writing at the College of Charleston. She curates the “Why There Are Words Literary Reading Series” in Sausalito.
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Four Mondays: Sept. 13, Oct. 11, Nov. 8, Dec. 13, 7:00-9:00 pm, $60
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We will discuss the impact of the variety of life changing experiences reported in these stories, and what prepared these men to be open to having them. Joe Herzberg is a Marin psychiatrist with a degree in American Studies.
Theme: Life Changing Experiences
Reading List: Sept. 13: Unfinished Business: One Man's Extraordinary Year of Trying to do the Right Things by Lee Kravitz; Oct. 11: Lighting Out for the Territory: How Samuel Clemens Headed Out West and Became Mark Twain by Roy Morris; Nov. 8: The Brain that Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science
by Norman Doidge; Dec. 13: TBA
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David Burke presents "Bad Boys and Bad Girls of Literature in Paris," an illustrated talk based on his long years of literary detective work on his acclaimed book Writers in Paris: Literary Lives in the City of Light ($19.95). The presentation features scandalous "boys" from the days of medieval poet, thief, priest-killer, and Master of Arts in Theology François Villon to such 20th Century shockers as Henry Miller, Jean Genet, Allen Ginsberg and William Burroughs, and such scandalous "girls" as George Sand, Colette, and Anaïs Nin. Burke is a longtime writer/producer of television documentaries, most notably for 60 Minutes, who left New York with his director/editor wife Joanne Burke in 1986 to spend a year in Paris. They have been working there ever since.
TUESDAY SESSION IS NOW FULL.
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Five Tuesdays: Sept. 14, Oct. 12, Nov. 9, Dec. 14 & Jan 11,
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Richard Lupoff discusses his mystery novel The Emerald Cat Killer ($25.99). Hobart Lindsey is called back to the San Francisco Bay Area for one last case. A local book publisher is being sued over a novel that might actually be the last, lost work of a novelist killed more than a year ago. Lupoff is also the author of Marblehead.
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Being interviewed is not merely about selling your book; it’s also about selling yourself. Richard Wolinsky offers tips on how to prepare for your interviews, and he discusses dos and don’ts for the interview novice. Wolinsky has been hosting radio interview programs for 30 years. He can be heard on the Bookwaves segment of Cover to Cover on KPFA FM, Thursdays at 3:30 pm.
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Elizabeth Rosner talks about her novel Blue Nude ($15.00). Born in the shadow of postwar Germany, Danzig is a once-prominent painter who now lives in San Francisco. But while he shares wisdom and technique with students, his own canvases remain mysteriously empty. When a new model poses for his class, Danzig senses that she may be the muse he has been waiting for.
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Gisella Petrone grew up in Italy. She received a Masters degree from the University of Calabria. She has taught English, Italian, Latin, Roman History, and Italian cooking.
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Rick Bass presents his novel Nashville Chrome ($24.00). Late in 1959, the Brown siblings—Maxine, Bonnie, and Jim Ed—were enjoying international success, rivaled only by Elvis Presley. Lyrical and nuanced, this work evokes an era in American music, while presenting a wrenching meditation on the complexities of fame and family.
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Steven Saylor presents Empire: The Novel of Imperial Rome ($25.99). Continuing the epic story begun in his New York Times-bestselling novel Roma, Saylor charts the destinies of five more generations of the aristocratic Pinarius family, from the reign of Augustus to the height of Rome’s empire. Saylor is the author of The Triumph of Caesar.
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Four Wednesdays, Sept. 15-Oct. 6, 6:30-8:30 pm, $155
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Leslie Keenan has been in publishing for 28 years as an editor, agent, publisher, writer, and teacher. She has helped hundreds of writers find and complete their writing projects. A student wrote, “Leslie is inspiring, compassionate, and has a natural gift for creating a safe place for a writer. She’s like a living life preserver.”
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Reception 6:00 pm • Event 6:45 pm
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Sponsored by Book Passage & Bank of Marin
Help us celebrate our adult student-authors. Join host Cheryl Jennings as we celebrate 25 years of the work of the Marin Literacy Program. This event is free to the public and refreshments will be served.
This inspirational evening honors the achievement of those adults who have mastered the skill of reading and have then gone even further to learn the skill of writing as well. One World, Many Voices, an anthology of student writing, will be given to guests at the event. Bank of Marin and Book Passage are proud Partners in Literacy for this event and throughout the year. The Marin Literacy Program provides adults with free student-centered instruction in reading, writing, and speaking to help them reach their full potential at work, at home, and in the community.
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Joyce Maynard discusses The Good Daughters ($24.99). From the bestselling author of Labor Day comes a spellbinding novel about friendship, family secrets, and the strange, unexpected twists of fate that shape our lives. Maynard is the author of six novels and four books of nonfiction, including her bestselling memoir At Home in the World.
This book group is canceled. We will look forward to a future book group with Lawrence White.
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Five Thursdays: Sept. 16, Oct. 14, Nov. 11, Dec. 9 & Jan. 13
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Gisella Petrone grew up in Italy. She received a Masters degree from the University of Calabria. She has taught English, Italian, Latin, Roman History, and Italian cooking.
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Five Fridays: Sept. 17, Oct. 15, Nov. 12, Dec. 17, & Jan. 14, 10:30-12:30 pm, $105
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Barbara Pope presents The Blood of Lorraine ($25.00). In the wake of murders in Aix-en-Provence, magistrate Bernard Martin moves to a town in Lorraine, along with his pregnant wife Clarie. Both are fervent about French Republican ideals. They are not there long when an infant boy is found dead, perhaps the victim of ritual sacrifice.
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Betty de Shong Meador talks about Princess, Priestess, Poet: The Sumerian Temple Hymns of Enheduanna ($30.00). In 2300 BCE, Sumerian high priestess Enheduanna became the first known author by signing her name to a collection of hymns written for 42 temples throughout ancient Mesopotamia. This work presents the first collection of these hymns.
$5 members/$10 non-members per meeting
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“Four Debut Novelists Tell All”:
with Carolina DeRobertis, Nina LaCour, Jacqueline Luckett, Matt Stewart, and Kim Culbertson
The Marin branch of the California Writers Club meets monthly at Book Passage. Meetings are free to attend. The Marin branch was chartered in 1999 and celebrates ten years with California Writers Club and with Book Passage. CWC, a 501c educational corporation, is the nation’s oldest professional club for writers ... “educating writers of all levels of expertise in the craft of writing and in the marketing of their work.” More info at: http://www.calwriters.org.
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Mark Oldman discusses Oldman’s Brave New World of Wine ($19.95). Wine personality Oldman, known to PBS viewers as a judge on The Winemakers and winner of the Georges Duboeuf Wine Book of the Year Award, rescues your taste buds with a groundbreaking guide to irresistible wines of moderate cost and maximum appeal. Wine will be served! Wine will be served!
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Inna Segal reveals the underlying energetic, emotional, and mental causes of pain, illness ,and problems in your body. Learn how to communicate with your body and increase your intuition, based on Segal’s story of her own healing. Discover how you too can begin to heal your body and transform your life. Inna Segal is the author of The Secret Language of Your Body.
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Launch Party! Sheldon Siegel presents his thriller Perfect Alibi ($26.00), the seventh installment in his bestselling, critically-acclaimed series. Beloved Bay Area author and Co-Chair of the Book Passage Mystery Writers Conference, Siegel returns with a dramatic new case that hits way too close to home for the law firm of Fernandez and Daley.
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Yiyun Li talks about Gold Boy, Emerald Girl ($25.00). In these stories, Li, Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award-winner and acclaimed author of A Thousand Years of Good Prayers and The Vagrants, gives us exquisite fiction filled with suspense, depth, and beauty, in which history, politics, and folklore magnificently illuminate the human condition.
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Seven Mondays: Sept. 20-Nov. 1
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This class will incorporate French cinema into a French conversation course. You watch the movies in the comfort of your home. In class there will be discussion and exercises about the film. The films are designed to provide a wide range of exposure to French culture. Required text: Cinema for French Conversation (Students are asked to view “Sur mes levres” (“Read My Lips”) prior to the first class.
Genevieve Blaise-Sullivan has taught French at College of Marin for over 30 years. She is a French native from Paris and graduated from the Sorbonne with degrees in French, Russian, and Bulgarian.
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David A. Kessler, M.D. talks about The End of Overeating: Taking Control of the Insatiable American Appetite
($15.99). Dr. Kessler, the dynamic former FDA commissioner who reinvented the food label and tackled the tobacco industry, now reveals how the food industry has hijacked the brains of millions of Americans. The result? America’s number-one public health issue. Dr. Kessler cracks the code of overeating by explaining how our bodies and minds are changed when we consume foods that contain sugar, fat, and salt. For the millions of people struggling with weight as well as for those of us who simply don't understand why we can't seem to stop eating our favorite foods, Dr. Kessler’s cutting-edge investigation offers new insights and helpful tools to help us find a solution.
Kessler’s groundbreaking examination of America’s battle with overeating and obesity reveals how today’s food industry is tapping into the fact that our brains are wired to respond to sugar, fat, and salt by creating foods that literally feed this desire—foods loaded and layered with these “salient stimuli.” Through a combination of food engineering and aggressive marketing, the industry is manipulating the American public to overeat in the same way that the tobacco industry manipulated it to smoke.
So what’s the solution? In The End of Overeating, Kessler outlines how we can stop the overeating crisis—both as individuals and as a society. “People need to repeatedly hear that selling, serving, and eating food layered and loaded with sugar, fat, and salt has negative and unhealthy consequences—we need a ‘Truth’ campaign for the food industry,” says Kessler. In addition, he advocates for comprehensive labeling on packaged foods; calorie counts on all menus at restaurants; strict monitoring, regulating, and exposing of food marketing; and an overall shift in attitudes and norms.
David Kessler, M.D., served as commissioner of the US Food and Drug Administration. A pediatrician, he has been dean of the medical schools at Yale and the UCSF.
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James Ellroy discusses his memoir The Hilliker Curse: My Pursuit of Women ($24.95). Ellroy unsparingly describes his shattered childhood, his delinquent teens, his writing life, his love affairs and marriages, his nervous breakdown, and the beginning of a relationship with an extraordinary woman. A layered narrative of time and place, emotion and insight, this work is a soul-baring revelation of self.
Book Passage Book Group
Five Mondays: Sept. 20, Oct. 18, Nov. 22, Dec. 13 & Jan.17
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Nine Tuesdays: Sept. 21-Nov. 23, 8:30-10:15 am, $265
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Class will continue vocabulary work and the learning of basic structures. Textbook: Living Language Ultimate Italian.
Wendy Walsh, Ph.D. in Italian Literature from UCB, has been teaching Italian language, literature, and cooking since 1979. She leads a yearly Language Study Tour Program to Italy.
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Eight Tuesdays: Sept. 21-Nov. 9
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For Advanced Students
This class is for students who want to gain proficiency and confidence communicating in French using nuances and idiomatic expressions. The “Litterature” book offers selections from French-speaking authors past and present. Articles from the French press will also be read and discussed in class. Required text: Schaum’s Outline of French Grammar (4th or 5th edition), Ensemble “Litterature” with CD, Comeau, Lamoureux (6th or 7th edition).
Genevieve Blaise-Sullivan has taught French at College of Marin for over 30 years. She is a French native from Paris and graduated from the Sorbonne with degrees in French, Russian, and Bulgarian.
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Five Tuesdays: Sept. 21, Oct. 19, Nov. 23, Dec. 14 & Jan. 18, 1:00-3:00 pm, $105
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Lisa Birnbach talks about True Prep ($19.95). “Wake up, Muffy. We’re back.” From the author of The Official Preppy Handbook, Birnbach looks at how the old guard of natural-fiber-loving, dog-worshipping preppies adapts to the new order of the Internet, cell phones, rehab, political correctness, reality TV, and polar fleece.
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Pseudonymous Bosch talks about This Isn’t What It Looks Like ($16.99). Cass finds herself alone and disoriented, a stranger in a dream-like, medieval world. With the help of a long-lost relative, she begins to uncover clues and secrets, piecing together her family’s history as she fights her way back to the present world. Visit www.hachettebookgroup.com/features/secretseries/index.html for a cool video!
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Andres Edwards presents Thriving Beyond Sustainability: Pathways to a Resilient Society ($17.95). This work draws a map of individuals, organizations, and communities from around the world that are committed to building an alternative future, one that strives to restore ecological health and rejuvenate our environmental, social, and economic systems.
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Nine Wednesdays, Sept. 22-Dec. 1, 9:00-10:45 am, $265
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Wendy Walsh, Ph.D. in Italian Literature from UCB, has been teaching Italian language, literature, and cooking since 1979. She leads a yearly Language Study Tour Program to Italy.
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Nine Wednesdays, Sept. 22-Dec. 1, 11:00-12:45 pm, $265
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Wendy Walsh, Ph.D. in Italian Literature from UCB, has been teaching Italian language, literature, and cooking since 1979. She leads a yearly Language Study Tour Program to Italy.
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Tom McCarthy discusses his novel C ($25.95). Opening in England at the turn of the 20th century, this is the story of a boy named Serge, whose father spends his time experimenting with wireless communication while running a school for deaf children. Serge grows up with his brilliant but troubled older sister, Sophie.An intense sibling relationship stays with him as he heads off into the larger world.
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Mae Ngai presents The Lucky Ones: One Family and the Extraordinary Invention of Chinese America ($26.00). A noted historian uncovers the three-generational saga of the Tape family in a sweeping story centered on patriarch Jeu Dip’s (Joseph Tape’s) self-invention as an immigration broker in post-Gold Rush, racially explosive San Francisco, and the extraordinary rise it enables.
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Anne Fortier presents her novel Juliet ($25.00). When Julie Jacobs leaves for Italy per the instructions of her late aunt’s will, she never imagines that she’ll be thrust into a centuries-old feud, not to mention one of the most legendary romances of all time. Fortier presents a sweeping novel of intrigue and identity, of love and legacy.
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Nine Thursdays: Sept. 23-Dec. 2, 9:00-11:00 am, $265
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Wendy Walsh, Ph.D. in Italian Literature from UCB, has been teaching Italian language, literature, and cooking since 1979. She leads a yearly Language Study Tour Program to Italy.
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Melanie Thernstrom talks about The Pain Chronicles: Cures, Myths, Mysteries, Prayers, Diaries, Brain Scans, Healing, and the Science of Suffering ($27.00). Both a personal meditation and an intellectual exploration, this work illuminates and makes sense of the all-too-human experience of pain, and confronts with extraordinary grace and empathy its peculiar traits, its harrowing effects, and its various antidotes.
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Monique Truong talks about her novel Bitter in the Mouth ($25.00). For as long as she can remember, Linda has experienced a secret sense—she can “taste” words, which have the power to disrupt, dismay, or delight. She falls for names and what they evoke: Canned peaches. Dill. Orange Sherbet. The author of The Book of Salt brings us a tale of a woman’s search for identity, as she uncovers the secrets of her past.
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Alice Acheson is an independent publicist and consultant who has negotiated contracts and edited books. She is the former publicity director for Simon & Schuster and has more than 30 years’ experience promoting books.
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Nine Fridays: Sept. 24-Dec. 3, 1:00-3:00 pm, $265
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Wendy Walsh, Ph.D. in Italian Literature from UCB, has been teaching Italian language, literature, and cooking since 1979. She leads a yearly Language Study Tour Program to Italy.
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Alice Acheson is an independent publicist and consultant who has negotiated contracts and edited books. She is the former publicity director for Simon & Schuster and has more than 30 years’ experience promoting books.
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Daniel Kehlmann discusses his novel Fame: A Novel in Nine Episodes ($24.00). Fame and facelessness, truth and deception spin their way through all nine episodes of this captivating, funny, and surprising novel as paths cross and plots thicken, as characters become real people and real people morph into characters.
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Alice Acheson is an independent publicist and consultant who has negotiated contracts and edited books. She is the former publicity director for Simon & Schuster and has more than 30 years’ experience promoting books.
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Mona Simpson presents her novel My Hollywood ($26.95). Simpson tells the story of two women whose lives entwine and unfold behind the glittery surface of Hollywood: Claire, a composer and a new mother, and Lola, a 52-year-old mother of five who is working in America to pay for her own children’s higher education back in the Philippines.
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Susan Casey discusses The Wave: In Pursuit of the Rogues, Freaks and Giants of the Ocean ($27.95). For centuries, mariners have spun tales of gargantuan waves, 100 feet high or taller. Until recently, scientists dismissed these stories. But in the past few decades, as a startling number of ships vanished and new evidence has emerged.
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All Over The Place(s): Photographs
Exhibit On Display Sept.-Dec.
Book Passage patrons will recognize him as their frequent author event host, but in his other lives he’s an actor, film editor…and photographer. Dana Kelly presents the best of 15 years of globe-trotting, mostly-landscape photography, from Bali, Turkey, Italy, Portugal, Britain, upstate New York to Alaska, and LA to Muir Beach. From the Alexandrian ruins at Pergamum in Turkey to the canals of Venice and the blue-green ice of Glacier Bay, the theme is: there is no theme. It’s all over the place(s). Enjoy.
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Michael Hiltzik presents Colossus: Hoover Dam and the Making of the American Century ($30.00). Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Hiltzik uses the saga of the dam’s conception, design, and construction to tell the broader story of America’s efforts to come to grips with titanic social, economic, and natural forces.
Osher Marin JCC, San Rafael, CA
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Join us for original songs, live music, videos, onstage interview and audience Q&A with Eoin Colfer! Colfer delivers a knockout, fast-paced, and hilarious adventure in Artemis Fowl: The Atlantis Complex, the seventh book in the series. Artemis has committed his entire fortune to a project he believes will save the planet. Can it be true? Has goodness taken hold of the world’s greatest teenage criminal mastermind? Captain Holly Short is unconvinced and discovers that Artemis is suffering from Atlantis Complex, a psychosis common among guilt-ridden fairies!
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Julie Metz talks about her memoir Perfection: A Memoir of Betrayal and Renewal ($14.99). Metz seemed to have the perfect life—an adoring husband, a happy, spirited daughter, a lovely old house outside New York City. Then suddenly, her charismatic husband of 12 years collapsed dead on the kitchen floor. Six months after his death, Julie discovered that her husband had been unfaithful, and she is left to make sense of her newfound life.
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Carolyn Rosenblatt presents The Boomer's Guide to Aging Parents ($39.95). Rosenblatt presents a comprehensive, forthright, and heartfelt resource guide for families with an aging elder. You’ll find practical step-by-step expertise on legal and health concerns that can help you feel at ease in the short term and the long term, at a time when you need it most.
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Peter Lewis discusses his mystery novel Dead in the Dregs: A Babe Stern Mystery ($14.95). Wine critic Richard Wilson makes a living elevating and destroying winemakers’ reputations with the stroke of his pen. But when Wilson’s body is found floating in a vat after a tasting in Napa, a search for a killer begins.
Book Passage Class
Eight Mondays: Sept. 27-Nov. 15, 10:30-12:30 pm, $235
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A continuation of grammar and language immersion through conversation.
Graciela Pera was born in Buenos Aires and has been teaching Spanish for 35 years.
Book Passage Class
Eight Mondays: Sept. 27-Nov. 15, 10:30-12:30 pm, $235
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Anne Bishop lived and taught in France for 20 years. She has taught French language, culture, and literature at Book Passage for many years.
This session is sold out, but we are offering a second session Sept. 28-Nov. 16.
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Book Passage Class
Eight Mondays: Sept. 27-Nov. 15, 1:00-3:00 pm, $235
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Graciela Pera was born in Buenos Aires and has been teaching Spanish for 35 years.
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Dr. Linda Clever talks about The Fatigue Prescription: Four Steps to Renewing Your Energy, Health, and Life ($16.95). Clever provides a practical and prescriptive guide to taking care of your whole self. She includes tips, self-assessment guides, and a doctor’s best advice on how to deal with competing demands that sap your strength, deplete your energy, and can lead to illness and depression.
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Carol Cassella presents her novel Healer ($25.00). Claire is at the start of her medical career when she falls in love with Addison Boehning, a biochemist. Then, a complicated pregnancy forces Claire to drop out of her residency. Soon, Addison’s biotech start-up lands a fortune. Overnight the Boehnings are catapulted into a financial and social tier they had never anticipated.
Speakers: N.H. Senzai, Lewis Buzbee and Emily Whitman
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Kid Lit Salon Panel #22
Monday,
September 27, 2010, 7:00-9:00 pm
N.H. Senzai, Lewis Buzbee and Emily Whitman
N.H. Senzai grew up speaking
two languages, balancing life lived on the edge of two cultures. She got
on a plane for the first time at two months, in Chicago, IL, where she
was born, and has been traveling ever since. She grew up in San
Francisco, Jubail, Saudi Arabia, and attended boarding school in London,
England where she was voted “most likely to lead a literary revolution”
due to her ability to get away with reading comic books in class. She's
hiked across the Alps, road-tripped through Mexico, swam with
barracudas in the Red Sea, taken a train across the Soviet Union,
floated down the Nile, eaten gumbo in New Orleans and sat in
contemplation at the Taj Mahal. Somewhere along the way she attended UC
Berkeley and Columbia University, while pursuing her passion for
writing. She's landed back home in San Francisco where she lives with
her husband, a professor of political science, her son, and a cat who
owns them. During the day she can be found working for a consulting firm
that helps companies with their inventions and patents. Shooting Kabul is her debut novel. You can find out more about her on her website www.nhsenzai.com.
Lewis Buzbee is the author of Fliegelman's Desire, After the Gold Rush, and The Yellow-Lighted Bookshop. Steinbeck's Ghost,
his first novel for younger readers, was selected as the California
Library Association's John and Patricia Beatty Award, a Smithsonian
Notable Book, a Northern California Book Award nominee, and the Northern
California Independent Booksellers Children's Book of the Year. His
next novel, The Haunting of Charles Dickens,
will be published in 2010, followed in 2011 by Mark Twain and the
Mysterious Stranger. He teaches in the MFA Program at the University of
San Francisco. http://us.macmillan.com/author/lewisbuzbee
Emily Whitman used to dream of a time travel camp to the past. Now she travels to different worlds as the author of YA novels. Her new book, Wildwing, is a time travel tale of romance, intrigue, and the wisdom of following your own heart; spending time with peregrine falcons was a research highlight. Emily’s debut novel, Radiant Darkness, was praised for its “originality and flair” by BCCB and was a #1 IndieBound Pick. A native of Boulder, Colorado, Emily attended Harvard and U.C. Berkeley. She has taught at the Pacific Northwest Children’s Book Conference, written for educational publishers, worked in library reference, and faced a room of 60 for toddler storytime. She lives with her family in Portland, Oregon.
When Addy is swept back in time, she couldn't be happier to leave her miserable life behind. Now she's mistaken for Lady Matilda, the pampered ward of the king. If Addy can play her part, she'll have glorious gowns, jewels, and something she's always longed for—the respect and admiration of others. But then she meets Will, the falconer's son with sky blue eyes, who unsettles all her plans.
From shipwrecks to castle dungeons, from betrothals to hidden conspiracies, Addy finds herself in a world where she’s not the only one with a dangerous secret. When she discovers the truth, Addy must take matters into her own hands. The stakes? Her chance at true love . . . and the life she's meant to live. www.emilywhitman.com
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Kid Lit Salon
Children’s Book Writers & Illustrators Salon • Led by Lissa Rovetch
4th Monday each month • 7:00-9:00 pm • $120 per year
The Kid Lit Salon is for both established and beginning children’s book writers and illustrators. Come socialize with like-minded, creative types in your field. Our evenings include a wildly diverse array of speakers, member updates, events, conferences, and insider tips. Writer and illustrator Lissa
Rovetch is the author of Ook the
Book
and the Hot Dog
and Bob chapter book series.
She illustrated her 84 year-old mother's book There
Was a Man
Who Loved a Rat and Other Vile Little Poems,
writes the "Ask Arizona" series for Highlights Magazine, and teaches at the
California College of the Arts. Vist www.lissarovetch.com.
Book Passage Book Group
Four Mondays: Sept. 27, Oct. 25, Nov. 29, Dec. 13, 7:00-9:00 pm, $95
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Eight Tuesdays: Sept. 28-Nov. 16, 10:30-12:30 pm, $235
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In this class we are going to learn grammar and talk, talk and talk. Immersion in conversational Spanish is the best way to learn, and that is exactly what we will do. Study Guide can be purchased from the instructor the first day of class, $18.
Graciela Pera was born in Buenos Aires and has been teaching Spanish for 35 years.
Book Passage Class
Eight Tuesdays: Sept. 28–Nov. 16, 10:30-12:30 pm, $235
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Anne Bishop lived and taught in France for 20 years. She has taught French language, culture, and literature at Book Passage for many years.
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Dianne Jacob talks about Will Write For Food ($15.95). In this revised, updated edition, food lovers who want to express themselves through article writing, restaurant reviewing, and cookbook writing will find the tools to get started in the incredibly popular world of food writing. Jacob is also co-author of Grilled Pizzas & Piadinas.
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Five Tuesdays: Sept. 28-Oct. 26, 6:30-8:30 pm, $145
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Ann Weisgarber talks about her novel The Personal History of Rachel Dupree ($25.95). Weisgarber presents a story about life on the prairie as it’s rarely been seen. When Rachel, hired help in a Chicago boardinghouse, falls in love with Isaac, the owner’s son, he makes her a bargain: he’ll marry her, but only if she gives up her 160 acres from the Homestead Act.
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Diana Gabaldon and Hoang Nguyen present The Exile (An Outlander Graphic Novel) ($25.00). The Exile retells Gabaldon’s Outlander novel from Jamie Fraser’s point of view, revealing events never seen in the original story and giving readers a whole new insight into the Jamie-Claire relationship.
Book Passage Class
Eight Wednesdays: Sept. 29-Nov. 17, 9:00-11:00 am, $235
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A continuation of grammar and language immersion through conversation.
Graciela Pera was born in Buenos Aires and has been teaching Spanish for 35 years.
Book Passage Class
Six Wednesdays: Sept. 29-Nov. 3, 10:00-1:00 pm, $960
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Basic Supplies will be available for purchase in the first class. You may bring your own materials including paper, fine brushes and Gouache paint.
Mehri Dadgar was born and raised in Iran. A profound influence on her art and life was the experience of being imprisoned for five years in a political prison for passing out pro-democracy newsletters in Tehran.
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This class is for beginners or those who want a fresh start. The focus is on French for travel and communicating.
Anne Bishop lived and taught in France for 20 years. She has taught French language, culture, and literature at Book Passage for many years.
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Ambassador Nancy G. Brinker discusses Promise Me: How a Sister’s Love Launched the Global Movement to End Breast Cancer ($25.99). Brinker shares how her sister’s struggle led her to promise to raise money for research in the hopes of one day curing the disease. Brinker is the founder Susan G. Komen for the Cure.
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Wednesdays: Sept. 29-Nov. 3, 3:00-6:00 pm, $960
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Basic Supplies will be available for purchase in the first class. You may bring your own materials including paper, fine brushes and Gouache paint.
Mehri Dadgar was born and raised in Iran. A profound influence on her art and life was the experience of being imprisoned for five years in a political prison for passing out pro-democracy newsletters in Tehran.
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John Vaillant talks about The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival ($26.95). A haunting, gripping exploration of predators and prey, and an intimate portrait of a remarkable animal increasingly threatened by interaction with humans, this work recreates the hunt for a man-eating tiger across the forbidding landscape of Russia’s Far East.
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Eight Thursdays: Sept. 30-Nov. 18
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Prerequisite: Spanish I or Spanish II
Conversation will focus on Spanish and Latin American literature. There will also be a review of Spanish grammar.
Graciela Pera was born in Buenos Aires and has been teaching Spanish for 35 years.
Book Passage Class
Eight Thursdays: Sept. 30-Nov. 18, 11:15-1:15 pm, $235
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Anne Bishop lived and taught in France for 20 years. She has taught French language, culture, and literature at Book Passage for many years.
Book Passage Class
Eight Thursdays: Sept. 30-Nov. 18, 2:00–4:00 pm, $235
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This class focuses on French for travel, basic vocabulary, expressions, grammar and pronunciation.
Anne Bishop lived and taught in France for 20 years. She has taught French language, culture, and literature at Book Passage for many years.
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Editor Chandrahas Choudhury, with author Vikram Chandra, presents India: A Traveler's Literary Companion ($14.95). The latest book in the acclaimed series of literary travel guides brings
together a delightful sampling of short fiction from one of the world’s
most diverse, multicultural, and storied civilizations. India: A Traveler's Literary Companion features 14 short stories from some of
India’s best writers, collectively offering an insightful portrait of
the beauty and complexity of Indian landscape, culture, and society.
Travel to the Taj Mahal with Kunal Basu, as the humble accountant of his
story becomes, in another incarnation, the architect of one of the
world’s most resplendent monuments. Let Vikram Chandra lead readers by
the hand into the ghettos of Mumbai (Bombay), where a small-time thug
fences some gold bars he has stolen and then decides to find out what
pleasures his money can buy. Journey with Bibhutibhushan Bandhopadhyay’s
silver-tongued salesman of medicated oil as he travels the trains
around Calcutta, the city he loves more than anything else. And Nazir
Mansuri’s Melvillian “The Whale” transports readers to a small fishing
village on the west coast of India, where an embittered sailor makes
every whale he sees the object of his fury. Stories from nine languages
and more than a dozen distinct cultures and regions—from north, south,
east, west, and even from India’s remote northeast—are brought
together in this vibrant collection.
A writer and literary critic, editor Chandrahas Choudhury is the weekly book critic of the Indian newspaper Mint Lounge, as well as numerous U.S. periodicals, including the San Francisco Chronicle, the Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, the Sunday Telegraph, the Scotsman, Himal, and Foreign Policy. He lives in Mumbai.
The author of two of the best works of fiction published in India in the last two decades—Love and Longing in Bombay (1997), and Sacred Games (2006)—Vikram Chandra mines the energy, ambition, squalor, claustrophobia, and polyglot verbal currents of Mumbai (formerly Bombay), India’s most storied city. One of the marvels of Chandra’s writing is how he manages to sound classical and colloquial at the same time, inflecting a dense and lyrical English with the harsher sounds of the language of the street.
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Sara Gruen presents her novel Ape House ($26.00). Gruen’s Water for Elephants has become one of the most beloved novels of our time. Now the author has moved from a circus elephant to a family of bonobo apes kidnapped from a language lab, and their mysterious appearance on a reality TV show.
