5
all day
Eight Wednesdays: Feb. 1-Mar. 21
This 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.
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all day
Eight Wednesdays: Feb. 1-Mar. 21
This 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: 6:00 pm
Join Deborah Schneider, Esq. co-author of Should You Really Be A Lawyer? The Guide to Smart Career Choices Before, During and After Law School in conversation with Casey Berman, Esq., Founder of Leave Law Behind. They’ll discuss how aspiring and practicing lawyers can learn to make better career choices that will lead them to work they love, and answer your most vexing career questions. Whether you're thinking about law school, currently in law school or practicing law, this program will help bring clarity to your current career confusion.
Start: 7:00 pm
Speaker: Cyra McFadden, author of The Serial: A Year in the Life of Marin County Left Coast Writers®
A Literary Salon • Led by Linda Watanabe McFerrin
1st Monday each month • Corte Madera
7:00-9:00 pm • $120 per year
Left Coast Writers provides 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. LCW hosts a variety of other activities to launch the books of members, explore publishing alternatives, and network with others in the industry. See also Marin Events and San Francisco Events for other LCW happenings. Visit www.bookpassage.com/left-coast-writers for more information.
Start: 7:00 pm
 Pam Houston talks about Contents May Have Shifted ($25.95). Stuck in a dead-end relationship, this fearless narrator leaves her metaphorical baggage behind and finds a comfort zone in the air, feeling safest with a plane ticket in her hand. She flies around the world, finding reasons to love life in dozens of far-flung places, from Alaska to Bhutan.
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all day
Eight Wednesdays: Feb. 1-Mar. 21
This 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: 6:00 pm
 Special for young adults! Love Maia talks about her novel DJ Rising ($17.99). Meet Marley, an unassuming high school junior who breathes in music like oxygen. In between caring for his heroin-addicted mother, and keeping his scholarship at a fancy prep school, he dreams of becoming a professional DJ. When heart-rending disaster at home strikes, Marley is torn between obligation and following his dreams.
Start: 7:00 pm
William Landay discusses his novel Defending Jacob ($26.00). Andy Barber is an Assistant District Attorney in a suburban Massachusetts county, living happily with his wife and son. But after a shocking crime shatters their town, Andy is blindsided by what happens next: His 14-year-old son is charged with the murder of a fellow student.
| 8
all day
Eight Wednesdays: Feb. 1-Mar. 21
This 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: 6:00 pm
Mary Ann Esposito talks about Ciao Italia Family Classics ($40.00). On Ciao Italia—which has been airing on PBS for more than 20 years—Mary Ann has taught millions of fans how to cook delicious, authentic Italian dishes. Now comes a treasure-trove of more than 200 time-honored recipes, easy to make and guaranteed to please.
Start: 7:00 pm
End: 9:00 pm
Five Wednesdays: Feb. 8, Mar. 14, Apr. 11, May 9, June 13
This group will be looking at medicine, bioethics, and philosophy from the unique perspective of literature. Subjects will include death and dying, euthanasia, doctor-patient relationships, physician dysfunction, aging, morality in medicine, medical training, mental illness, and health care policy. Lawrence White is a medical doctor, bioethicist, writer and pharmacologist.
• Your Medical Mind: How to Decide What is Right for You
by Jerone Groopman, $27.95 (Medical Decision Making for Patients)
• Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro $15 (Moral Issues in Transplants and Cloing)
• Invasion of the Body: Revolutions in Surgery by Nicolas Tilney $29.95
(History of Modern Surgery)
• One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey $15
(Abuse in Psychiatry and Mental Hospitals)
• My Own Country by Abraham Verghese $16
(Memoir of Infectious Disease Doctor in AIDS Epidemic)
Start: 7:00 pm
Adam Johnson presents his novel The Orphan Master’s Son ($26.00). Part breathless thriller, part story of innocence lost, part story of romantic love, The Orphan Master’s Son is also a riveting portrait of a world heretofore hidden from view: a North Korea rife with hunger, corruption, and casual cruelty but also camaraderie, stolen moments of beauty, and love.
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all day
Eight Wednesdays: Feb. 1-Mar. 21
This 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: 6:00 pm
Krys Lee presents her story collection Drifting House ($25.95), an unflinching portrayal of the Korean immigrant experience. Spanning Korea and the United States, from the postwar era to contemporary times, Lee’s fiction debut illuminates a people torn between the traumas of their collective past and the indignities and sorrows of their present.
Start: 7:00 pm
Free event - no tickets required Robert N. Bellah presents Religion in Human Evolution: From the Paleolithic to the Axial Age ($39.95). Bellah’s ambitious book probes our biological past to discover the kinds of lives that human beings have imagined were worth living. Bellah’s theory goes deep into cultural and genetic evolution to identify a range of capacities (communal dancing, storytelling, theorizing) whose emergence made religious development possible in the first millennium BCE.
Start: 7:00 pm
Lysley Tenorio discusses Monstress ($13.99), a collection of heartbreaking, vivid, original stories set amongst the Filipino-American communities of California and the Philippines. Tenorio’s writing is deft and self-assured. He has won a Pushcart Prize and a Whiting Writer’s Award. Tenorio teaches at St. Mary’s College in Moraga.
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all day
Eight Wednesdays: Feb. 1-Mar. 21
This 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.
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all day
Eight Wednesdays: Feb. 1-Mar. 21
This 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: 8:00 pm
Book Passage staff would like to remind our
loyal members of a very special upcoming event, the first 30%off
Members-only Sale for 2012 !
This fun, Members-only event will be held
Saturday, February 11, from 9:00 am to 8:00 pm at both Book Passage locations.
All members, whether new, current or former, are invited to participate. If you
fall into the "former" category, now is your opportunity to renew your
membership so that you don't miss out on this special 30% off sale. New members
are also invited, so invite your friends to join!
Any bookseller can help with new or renewing
memberships. Or, you can contact pam@bookpassage.com. You may also join
or renew online at
bookpassage.com. We look forward to another special day with our Friends of Book
Passage.
Hope to see you February 11 in either Corte
Madera or in San Francisco at the Ferry Building!
We invite you to check out other special Book Passage events on our web site at
bookpassage.com.
NOT YET A MEMBER OR NEED TO
RENEW?
Start: 9:00 am
End: 8:00 pm
Book Passage staff would like to remind our
loyal members of a very special upcoming event, the first 30%off
Members-only Sale for 2012 !
This fun, Members-only event will be held
Saturday, February 11, from 9:00 am to 8:00 pm at both Book Passage locations.
All members, whether new, current or former, are invited to participate. If you
fall into the "former" category, now is your opportunity to renew your
membership so that you don't miss out on this special 30% off sale. New members
are also invited, so invite your friends to join!
Any bookseller can help with new or renewing
memberships. Or, you can contact pam@bookpassage.com. You may also join
or renew online at
bookpassage.com. We look forward to another special day with our Friends of Book
Passage.
Hope to see you February 11 in either Corte
Madera or in San Francisco at the Ferry Building!
We invite you to check out other special Book Passage events on our web site at
bookpassage.com.
NOT YET A MEMBER OR NEED TO
RENEW?
Start: 10:00 am
End: 2:00 pm
$60 - Reserve by phone: (415) 927-0960, ext. 1
48-hour advance registration required - Class limited to six
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, 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.
Start: 10:30 am
End: 1:00 pm
Veteran industry insider Alan Rinzler will analyze the recent development of new options for greater control, profit, and success with self-publishing. An editor for 49 years at mainstream publishing companies like Simon and Schuster, Bantam Books, and John Wiley, Alan Rinzler has acquired many self-published books for conversion to mainstream publishing.
Start: 1:00 pm
Keija Parsinnen talks about her novel The Ruins of Us ($14.99). Parsinnen, a Saudi-born author presents the story of a Saudi billionaire and the turmoil and heartbreak that rock his family after his American wife discovers he has taken a second bride, and his son begins an ominous journey towards radicalism.
Start: 1:00 pm
End: 4:00 pm
Bring your laptop! Blogger extraordinaire Sophie Epstein, from the young adult book blog MrsMagooReads.com, teams up with her mother Liz Epstein (Jane Austen Literary Salon) as they present their ever-popular blogging workshop—now with a twist! Beginning bloggers of all ages are invited to learn how to start a blog, how to attract readers, how to position your blog, and much more. New to this workshop, using Blogger.com as a platform, you will receive hands-on help to create your own blog before you leave class!
Start: 4:00 pm
Gary Geddes presents Drink the Bitter Root ($26.00). This is an international story about the ethical and environmental footprint that the nations of the world are leaving in Africa as they destabilize and loot the continent. In the spirit of Robert Kaplan and Samantha Power, Geddes sets out in search of justice and healing.
Start: 7:00 pm
Judith Horstman talks about The Scientific American Book of Love, Sex, and the Brain ($25.95). Horstman takes us on a tour of the brain and our many kinds of love—the whole smorgasbord of emotions, including the love between parent and child, the affectionate love of companionship, the passion of erotic love, the love of animals, and the love of God.
Start: 7:00 pm
Left Coast Writers Event! Join us for a Pre-Valentines Day Celebration with Hot Flashes: Sexy Little Stories & Poems series editors Linda Watanabe McFerrin and Laurie McAndish King. Experience sexy short stories and poems that demonstrate how simple it is to find pleasure.
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