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Eight Wednesdays: Feb. 1-Mar. 21This class will continue review work in its textbook Quaderno degli Esercizi. Emphasis is on review of difficult structures (il congiuntivo) but also on mastery of the language through conversation, vocabulary work and reading. 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.
Start: 9:00 am
End: 10:45 am
Eight Thursdays: Feb. 2-Mar. 22Class will continue reviewing difficult grammar structures (il periodo ipotetico, la forma passiva e la forma impersonale) and we will begin reading some famous Italian novelle. Emphasis is on conversation.
Start: 6:00 pm
Join us for a beer and food tasting with Jeremy Cowan as he presents Craft Beer Bar Mitzvah ($25.00 hc; $16.99 pb). Cowan’s book is subtitled: How It Took 13 Years, Extreme Jewish Brewing & Circus Sideshow Freaks to Make Shmaltz Brewing Co an International Success. He tells how the nation’s only Jewish Celebration beer came to fruition.
Start: 7:00 pm
Book Passage, along with The Marin County Free Library, City Public Libraries of Marin County and Dominican University of California, is pleased to announce the 2012 One Book One Marin reading program with the selection of The Oracle of Stamboul (pb $13.99; hc $24.99) by Michael David Lukas. Join us for the launch of this county-wide celebration with a talk and signing by the author.A girl changes the course of an empire in The Oracle of Stamboul, Lukas’ lyrical novel set in 19th-century Turkey. It is beautifully written, passionate, and fragrant with political intrigue, historical upheaval and Eastern mysticism. Booklist calls this bestseller “a bold portrait of an empire precariously poised on the chasm between an old and a new world.”Oakland-born Michael David Lukas has been a Fulbright scholar in Turkey, a proofreader in Tel Aviv, and a Rotary scholar in Tunisia. He birngs a raconteur’s sense of storytelling and a traveler’s eye for detail and history to his novel One Book One Marin provide readers with a shared reading experience that leads to open dialogue and celebrates the joy of reading. Previous authors celebrated in this program have included Isabel Allende, Amy Tan, Michael Chabon, Abraham Verghese, and Dave Eggers. For more information see www.onebookonemarin.org.
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