Events

« October 2010 »
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					1 Book Group: Liz Epstein - Jane Austen Literary Salon Start: 10:00 am End: 12:00 pm Deborah Fallows - Dreaming in Chinese: Mandarin Lessons in Life, Love, and Language Start: 6:00 pm Robert Reich - Aftershock: The Next Economy and America's Future Start: 7:00 pm Gary Gruber - The World’s 200 Hardest Brain Teasers Start: 7:00 pm Emma Donoghue - Room Start: 7:00 pm	2 Used Book Sale! Start: 9:00 am Class: Lynn Henriksen - Keeping Spirits Alive Start: 1:30 pm End: 4:30 pm Steven Kotler - A Small Furry Prayer: Dog Rescue and the Meaning of Life Start: 2:00 pm Lisa Quinn - Life’s Too Short to Fold Fitted Sheets: Your Guide to Domestic Liberation Start: 4:00 pm
3 Class: Karen Leland - Create Your Own Marketing & PR Plan Start: 10:00 am End: 4:00 pm Mark Elkin - Samuel’s Baby Start: 12:00 pm Edmund de Waal - The Hare with Amber Eyes: A Family’s Century of Art and Loss Start: 4:00 pm	4 Liza Gershman - A Taste for Absinthe - Celebration with Absinthe Menu Next Door at Slanted Door! Start: 6:00 pm Left Coast Writers - Peter Lord Goodman Start: 7:00 pm	5 One City, One Book: Dave Eggers - Zeitoun Start: 12:30 pm Jennifer Arnold - Through a Dog's Eyes ADDED EVENT! Start: 1:00 pm Lan Samantha Chang - All Is Forgotten, Nothing Is Lost Start: 6:00 pm Class: Cheryl McLaughlin - Create Your Buzz-Kicking Blog Start: 6:30 pm End: 8:30 pm Katherine Ellison - Buzz: A Year of Paying Attention Start: 7:00 pm	6 Class: Connie Matthiessen - Telling Your Story Start: 3:00 pm End: 5:00 pm Kelly Corrigan Introduces Darin Strauss (Half a Life) & Adam Levin (The Instructions) Start: 7:00 pm	7 Celebrating Litquake! - with Gordon Edgar, Steve Sando, & Sarah Billingsley & Amy Treadwell Start: 12:00 pm Class: Kerrin Meis - Post-Impressionism: Van Gogh, Gauguin, Cezanne & Beyond Start: 1:30 pm End: 3:30 pm Pam Anderson - Perfect One-Dish Dinners Start: 6:00 pm Spiritual Journeys - with Sylvia Boorstein, Michael Krasny, Dani Shapiro & Don Lattin Start: 7:30 pm	8 Class: Nicolas Wolff - Gastronomy "Made in France" Start: 10:00 am End: 12:00 pm David Wiesner - Art and Max Start: 10:00 am Steve Roby & Brad Schreiber - Becoming Jimi Hendrix: From Southern Crossroads to Psychedelic London Start: 7:00 pm	9 Class: Martha Engber - Grow a Great Character: Grow a Great Plot Start: 10:00 am End: 4:00 pm Class: Amy Novesky - On-the-Spot Children’s Writing Workshop SESSION SOLD OUT Start: 10:00 am End: 2:00 pm Rachel Saunders - The Blue Chair Jam Cookbook Start: 11:45 am Mark Susnow - Dancing on the River Start: 2:00 pm Class: Phyllis Theroux - Journal Keeping Start: 2:00 pm End: 4:00 pm Ghita Schwarz - Displaced Persons ADDED EVENT! Start: 4:00 pm An Evening with Left Coast Writers - In Celebration of Litquake! Start: 7:00 pm Phyllis Theroux - The Journal Keeper Start: 7:00 pm
10 Class: Cheryl McLaughlin - Create Your Facebook Fan Page Start: 10:00 am End: 4:00 pm Susan Katz - ABC, Baby Me! Start: 10:00 am Wayne Bernhardson - Moon Argentina (Moon Handbooks Argentina) Start: 1:00 pm Deborah Grabien - London Calling: (#3 of the JP Kinkaid Chronicles) Start: 3:00 pm Steven Johnson - Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation Start: 7:00 pm	11 Linda Watanabe McFerrin - Dead Love Start: 6:00 pm	12 Rowan Jacobsen - American Terroir ADDED EVENT! Start: 1:00 pm Jessica Theroux - Cooking with Italian Grandmothers: Recipes and Stories from Tuscany to Sicily Start: 6:00 pm Joelle Charbonneau (Skating Around the Law) & Brenda Novak (Killer Heat) Start: 7:00 pm	13 David Shannon - It's Christmas, David! ADDED EVENT! Start: 10:00 am Class: Mehri Dadgar - What is Islam? Start: 11:30 am End: 1:30 pm Ron Chernow - Washington: A Life EVENT CANCELED Start: 1:00 pm Clarence Clemons - Big Man: Real Life & Tall Tales ADDED EVENT! Start: 6:00 pm Class: Dianne Jacob - The Art of Cookbook Writing Start: 6:30 pm End: 8:30 pm Michael Cunningham - By Nightfall Start: 7:00 pm	14 Class: Hamid Emami - Conversational German Start: 10:00 am End: 12:00 pm Literary Luncheon with Joyce Maynard - Women’s National Book Association Celebrates National Reading Group Month! Start: 12:00 pm Class: Laura Deutsch - Making Money From Your Memories Start: 4:00 pm End: 6:00 pm Melissa Clark with Tara Duggan and Margo True - In the Kitchen with a Good Appetite Start: 6:00 pm Meredith Maran - My Lie: A True Story of False Memory Start: 7:00 pm Peter Nichols - Oil and Ice: A Story of Arctic Disaster and the Rise and Fall of America's Last Whaling Dynasty Start: 7:00 pm	15 Class: Nicolas Wolff - Gastronomy "Made in France" Start: 10:00 am End: 12:00 pm Mort Rosenblum - Little Bunch of Madmen: Elements of Global Reporting Start: 6:00 pm Harry Hamlin - Full Frontal Nudity: The Making of an Accidental Actor Start: 7:00 pm	16 Class: Alan Rinzler - How to Be Published Start: 10:00 am End: 12:30 pm Bill & Giuliana Rancic - I Do, Now What? EVENT CANCELED Start: 1:00 pm Bill Barich - Long Way Home: On the Trail of Steinbeck’s America Start: 2:00 pm Lissa Rankin - What’s Up Down There?: Questions You’d Only Ask Your Gynecologist If She Was Your Best Friend Start: 4:00 pm Annual Members Only Reception and Book Talk with Elaine Petrocelli Start: 4:00 pm Elizabeth Murray - Monet’s Passion: Ideas, Inspiration & Insights from the Painter’s Garden Start: 7:00 pm
17 Class: Cheryl Herbsman, Malinda Lo, Cynthia Jaynes Omololu - Teen Writing Conference Start: 11:00 am End: 3:00 pm Dinaw Mengestu - How to Read the Air Start: 2:00 pm Kim Dower - Air Kissing on Mars Start: 4:00 pm Phil Cousineau & Mort Rosenblum - Paris Literary & Culinary Tour (June 2011) Information Night! Start: 6:00 pm Joel Selvin - Smartass: The Music Journalism of Joel Selvin: California Rock and Roll Start: 7:00 pm	18 Class: Shawna Yang Ryan - Beyond Craft: How to Approach “Truth” in Fiction Start: 4:00 pm End: 6:00 pm Tucker Max - Assholes Finish First Start: 6:00 pm Marlo Thomas - Growing Up Laughing Start: 7:00 pm Erich Origen & Gan Golan - The Adventures of Unemployed Man Start: 7:00 pm	19 T. A. Barron - Merlin’s Dragon, Book 3: Ultimate Magic Start: 10:00 am Class: Hamid Emami - Conversational German Start: 1:00 pm End: 3:00 pm Marissa Guggiana - Primal Cuts: Cooking with America's Best Butchers Start: 6:00 pm Bo Caldwell - City of Tranquil Light Start: 7:00 pm	20 Antonya Nelson - Bound Start: 7:00 pm	21 Frank Dikotter - Mao's Great Famine ADDED EVENT! Start: 6:00 pm	22 Lisa Brown - Vampire Boy's Good Night ADDED EVENT! Start: 10:00 am Class: Nicolas Wolff - Gastronomy "Made in France" Start: 10:00 am End: 12:00 pm Jeff Greenwald - Snake Lake Start: 7:30 pm	23 Vanessa Barrington - DIY Delicious: Recipes and Ideas for Simple Food from Scratch Start: 11:45 am
24 Class: Roger Housden - Spiritual Memoir Start: 1:00 pm End: 5:00 pm California Writers Club - No More Excuses—Write That Book! Start: 2:00 pm Alexander McCall Smith - The Charming Quirks of Others Start: 2:00 pm Writing Mamas Salon - Rachel Sarah Start: 5:00 pm Cooks with Books: Tyler Florence - Family Meal SOLD OUT Start: 5:00 pm	25 Peter Sis - Madlenka Soccer Star Start: 10:00 am Larry Colton - No Ordinary Joes: The Extraordinary True Story of Four Submariners in War and Love and Life Start: 7:00 pm Kid Lit Salon - The Revisionaries Start: 7:00 pm	26 Jimmy Carter - White House Diary Start: 12:30 pm Rosecrans Baldwin - You Lost Me There ADDED EVENT! Start: 6:00 pm Peter Orner - Hope Deferred EVENT CANCELED Start: 7:00 pm	27 James Dashner - The Scorch Trials Start: 10:00 am Aron Cramer & Zachary Karabell - Sustainable Excellence: The Future of Business in a Fast-Changing World Start: 6:00 pm Cooks with Books: Michael Chiarello - Bottega Start: 6:30 pm Michael Krasny - Spiritual Envy DATE CHANGE Start: 7:00 pm	28 Class: Kerrin Meis - Post-Impressionism: Van Gogh, Gauguin, Cezanne & Beyond Start: 1:30 pm End: 3:30 pm Myla Goldberg - The False Friend Start: 6:00 pm Class: Amy Rennert - Secrets of Getting Published Start: 6:30 pm End: 8:45 pm Ingrid Betancourt - Even Silence Has an End: My Six Years of Captivity in the Colombian Jungle Start: 7:00 pm Ian Frazier - Travels in Siberia Start: 7:00 pm	29 Literary Luncheon with Isabel Allende Start: 12:30 pm Maya Khosla & Ravi Chandra - Indivisible: An Anthology of Contemporary South Asian American Poetry Start: 7:00 pm	30 Sacramento Authors Luncheon Start: 10:00 am Laura Stec - Cool Cuisine: Taking the Bite Out of Global Warming Start: 11:00 am Class: Leslie Keenan - Microsoft for Writers (PC) Start: 1:00 pm End: 3:00 pm Dawn Sylvia-Stasiewicz - The Love That Dog Training Program Start: 2:00 pm
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Class: David Corbett - Integrating Arcs & Acts

02/04/2012 - 10:00am

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Corte Madera
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94925

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United States
Olivier Said and Chef Mike C. - Kitchen on Fire! Mastering the Art of Cooking in 12 Weeks

02/04/2012 - 11:00am

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San Francisco
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94111

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Renee Stephens - Full-Filled

02/04/2012 - 1:00pm

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51 Tamal Vista Blvd

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Corte Madera
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94925

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Class: Hillary Homzie - Comedy Writing Workshop

02/04/2012 - 2:00pm

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51 Tamal Vista Blvd

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Corte Madera
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California

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94925

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Spillway Magazine Reading

02/04/2012 - 4:00pm

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51 Tamal Vista Blvd

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Corte Madera
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California

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94925

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Sere Prince Halverson - Underside of Joy

02/04/2012 - 7:00pm

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51 Tamal Vista Blvd

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Corte Madera
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California

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Deborah Schneider - Should You Really Be A Lawyer? How to Make Smarter Career Choices Before, During and After Law School

02/06/2012 - 6:00pm

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1 Ferry Building

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San Francisco
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California

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94111

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Left Coast Writers - Cyra McFadden

02/06/2012 - 7:00pm

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51 Tamal Vista Blvd

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Corte Madera
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94925

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Amir Levine & Rachel S. F. Heller - Attached: The New Science of Adult Attachment and How It Can Help You Find—and Keep—Love

02/06/2012 - 7:00pm

Street:
Marin Jewish Community Center

City:
San Rafael
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Province:
California

Postal Code:
94903

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United States
Pam Houston - Contents May Have Shifted

02/06/2012 - 7:00pm

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51 Tamal Vista Blvd

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Corte Madera
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Province:
California

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94925

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Love Maia - DJ Rising

02/07/2012 - 6:00pm

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1 Ferry Building

City:
San Francisco
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Province:
California

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94111

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United States
William Landay - Defending Jacob

02/07/2012 - 7:00pm

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51 Tamal Vista Blvd

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Corte Madera
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California

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94925

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United States
Mary Ann Esposito - Ciao Italia Family Classics

02/08/2012 - 6:00pm

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1 Ferry Building

City:
San Francisco
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Province:
California

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94111

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United States
Adam Johnson - The Orphan Master’s Son

02/08/2012 - 7:00pm

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51 Tamal Vista Blvd

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Corte Madera
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California

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94925

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United States
Book Group: Dr. Lawrence White - Medicine & Literature Book Group

02/08/2012 - 7:00pm

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51 Tamal Vista Blvd

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Corte Madera
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California

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94925

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United States
Krys Lee - Drifting House

02/09/2012 - 6:00pm

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1 Ferry Building

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San Francisco
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California

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94111

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United States
Robert N. Bellah - Religion in Human Evolution: From the Paleolithic to the Axial Age

02/09/2012 - 7:00pm

Street:
Dominican University of California

Additional:
Angelico Hall

City:
San Rafael
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Province:
California

Postal Code:
94901

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United States
Lysley Tenorio - Monstress

02/09/2012 - 7:00pm

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51 Tamal Vista Blvd

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Corte Madera
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Province:
California

Postal Code:
94925

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United States
Beth Aldrich - Real Moms Love to Eat: How to Conduct a Love Affair with Food, Lose Weight, and Feel Fabulous

02/10/2012 - 7:00pm

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51 Tamal Vista Blvd

City:
Corte Madera
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Province:
California

Postal Code:
94925

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United States
Class: Amy Novesky - On-the-Spot Children's Writing Workshop

02/11/2012 - 10:00am

Street:
51 Tamal Vista Blvd

City:
Corte Madera
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Province:
California

Postal Code:
94925

Country:
United States