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Start: 2:00 pm
Jean Zimmerman reads from her debut novel, The Orphanmaster ($27.95), a gripping historical thriller set in pre-Revolutionary America. It’s 1663 in the tiny, hardscrabble Dutch colony of New Amsterdam, and orphan children are going missing. Looking into the matter is a quick-witted 22-year-old trader, Blandine von Couvering. What she finds will surprise. Jean Zimmerman was born in Tarrytown, New York. An honors graduate of Barnard College, she is the author of several works of nonfiction, including Love, Fiercely: A Gilded Age Romance and The Women of the House: How a Colonial She-Merchant Built a Mansion, a Fortune, and a Dynasty. Start: 7:00 pm
Anita Amirrezvani reads from Equal of the Sun ($26.00). Legendary women changed the course of history in the royal courts of England. They are celebrated in history books and novels, but few people know of the powerful women in the Muslim world. Amirrezvani’s gorgeously crafted tale of power, loyalty, and love in the royal court of Iran brings one such woman to life. Anita Amirrezvani is the author of The Blood of Flowers, which was long-listed for the Orange Prize, and a former staff writer and dance critic for the San Jose Mercury News and the Contra Costa Times. She is currently an adjunct professor at the California College of the Arts in San Francisco. | 25
Start: 6:00 pm
Please note: This event has been cancelled. Agapi Stassinopoulos discusses Unbinding the Heart ($19.95), in which the Greek-born author, speaker, and Huffington Post regular invites readers on an inspiring journey of inner exploration to reconnect with their true selves. These 32 heartfelt stories will inspire readers with the confidence to let go of the beliefs that bind them and come to a deeper understanding of life. “Besides being a loving sister, Agapi has an innate wisdom and a gift for communicating it to her readers. The insight and passion that she brings to Unbinding the Heart, and the lessons it holds for bringing freedom and grace into our lives, make it a must-read book.” - Arianna Huffington Agapi Stassinopoulos was born and raised in Greece. At age 18, she entered the prestigious Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts in London and afterward became a member of the Young Vic. She moved to the United States to do film and television. While her sister, Arianna Huffington, was doing research for her book about Greek mythology, Agapi’s love for the gods and goddesses was ignited and led to two books of her own — Conversations with the Goddesses and Gods and Goddesses in Love — as well as a one-woman show and a PBS special Start: 7:00 pm
Jess Walter reads from Beautiful Ruins ($25.99). The award-winning author of the bestselling The Financial Lives of the Poets returns with his funniest, most romantic, and most purely enjoyable novel yet: the story of an almost-love affair that begins in 1962 and is rekindled fifty years later. “Why mince words? Beautiful Ruins is an absolute masterpiece.” — Pulitzer Prize winner Richard Russo
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Start: 1:00 pm
End: 3:00 pm
8 Tuesdays: June 26 - Aug. 21 (no class July 3) This class is for beginners and for those who have previously had some exposure to German. You’ll focus on conjugating verbs in the present tense, declension of nouns, articles, and your ability to carry on a simple conversation with a native German speaker. Hamid Emami has a Masters from the University of Hamburg, and he is fluent in German, English, French, Spanish & Farsi. He has taught German for many years.
Start: 6:00 pm
Shehan Karunatilaka reads from The Legend of Pradeep Mathew ($16.00), in which a drunk and totally unreliable narrator runs alongside the reader insisting on the great fictional possibilities of cricket. The Sunday Times (London) called this book “The first genuine contender for the title of Great Sri Lankan Novel.” While Booker Prize winner Michael Ondaatje called it “A crazy ambidextrous delight.”
Start: 7:00 pm
Peter Zuckerman presents Buried in the Sky: The Extraordinary Story of the Sherpa Climbers on K2's Deadliest Day ($26.95), a compelling account of tragedy and the men who have literally shouldered the rest of the world’s mountaineers up the second-highest mountain on Earth. "I admired Buried in the Sky and enjoyed it, too.” — Peter Matthiessen Check out this terrific review in the Wall Street Journal. Peter Zuckerman is one of the youngest journalists ever to have received the Livingston Award, which is given for excellence to professional journalists under the age of 35. He lives in Oregon. | 27
Start: 6:00 pm
Adrienne Arieff talks about The Sacred Thread ($24.00). After three heartbreaking losses, Arieff thought her dreams of becoming a mother might never come true. She and her husband soon discovered, however, that parenthood was still possible, but it would require a gift from a perfect stranger, as well as faith and determination.
Adrienne Arieff is an expert in new media and communications, and is the principal of the public relations firm Arieff Communications. She has freelanced for Daily Candy and C Magazine and writes her company's blog, Weekly Pulse. She lives in San Francisco with her husband and their two children. Start: 7:00 pm
Bonnie Jo Campbell reads from Once Upon a River ($15.95). From the author of American Salvage, a National Book Award and National Book Critics Circle Award finalist, comes an odyssey of a novel about a girl's search for love and identity featuring an unforgettable heroine in sixteen-year-old Margo Crane, a beauty whose unflinching gaze and uncanny ability with a rifle have not made her life any easier.
Bonnie Jo Campbell is the author of three previous books of fiction. She lives in Kalamazoo, Michigan. And, she has promised to personally apply American Salvage temporary tattoos to everyone who buys a book. There was also mention made of Bell's Two Hearted Ale. It ain't Stroh's. | 28
Start: 7:00 pm
International bestselling author Jeffery Deaver delivers XO: A Kathryn Dance Novel ($26.99), the latest sensational thriller in his wildly popular Kathryn Dance series. Newsweek calls Jeffery Deaver a “suspense superstar,” and in his new novel he lives up to the accolades as he sets his heroine on a quest to stop an obsessive stalker from destroying a beautiful young singer. More info on the accompanying CD by Jeffrey Deaver at http://jefferydeaverxomusic.com Jeffery Deaver is the international, #1 bestselling author of more than twenty-seven suspense novels, including The Bone Collector, which was made into a film starring Denzel Washington. Start: 7:00 pm
Join us for a special workshop event with Phil Stutz & Barry Michels, authors of The Tools: Transform Your Problems into Courage, Confidence, and Creativity ($25.00). As seen on The Dr. Oz Show, this groundbreaking book about personal growth presents an effective set of five tools that bring about dynamic change. Admission to this special event is by purchase of The Tools from Book Passage. | 29
Start: 6:00 pm
Glen Duncan reads from Talulla Rising ($25.95). Harnessing the same audacious imagination and dark humor, the same depths of horror and sympathy, and the same full-tilt narrative energy with which he crafted his acclaimed novel The Last Werewolf, Duncan now gives us a heroine like no other. “Loaded with beautifully constructed lunatic ravings,” Independent on Sunday.
Start: 7:00 pm
Natalie Serber presents Shout Her Lovely Name ($24.00). Mothers — both reluctant and euphoric — ride the familial tide of joy, pride, regret, guilt, and love in these stories of resilient and flawed women. "In the tradition of Lorrie Moore and Tobias Wolff… Funny, heart-felt, and keenly perceptive, this is a book worth shouting about." — Dan Chaon
Natalie Serber received an MFA from Warren Wilson College. Her work has appeared in The Bellingham Review and Gulf Coast, among others, and her awards include the Tobias Wolff Award. | 30
Start: 1:00 pm
Kristen Iversen discusses Full Body Burden: Growing Up in the Nuclear Shadow of Rocky Flats ($25.00), a memoir about growing up in a small Colorado town close to Rocky Flats, a secret nuclear weapons plant once designated "the most contaminated site in America." Its the story of Iversen’s childhood and adolescence in the shadow of the Cold War in a landscape at once startlingly beautiful and — unknown to those who lived there — tainted with invisible, deadly particles of plutonium. Kristen Iversen will be introduced by Daniel Ellsberg. Kristen Iversen grew up in Arvada, Colorado and received a Ph.D. in English from the University of Denver. She is Director of the MFA Program in Creative Writing at The University of Memphis, and is the author of Molly Brown: Unraveling the Myth and Shadow Boxing: Art and Craft in Creative Nonfiction. Her new book, based on extensive interviews, FBI and EPA documents, and class-action testimony, is a taut, beautifully written book which promises to have a very long half-life. Start: 4:00 pm
Anita Hughes reads from Monarch Beach ($14.99). When a San Francisco heiress finds her French chef husband wrapped around his sous-chef, she knows she must flee her life in order to rebuild it. This is the sometimes funny, sometimes bitter, but always moving story about the mistakes and discoveries a woman makes when her world is turned upside down.
Anita Hughes attended UC Berkeley’s Masters in Creative Writing Program, and has taught Creative Writing at The Branson School in Ross, California. Hughes has lived at The St. Regis Monarch Beach for six years, where she is at work on her next novel. Start: 7:00 pm
Andy Couturier talks about A Different Kind of Luxury: Japanese Lessons in Simple Living and Inner Abundance ($19.95). Raised in the tumult of Japan’s industrial economy, the eleven men and women profiled in this book have all made the transition to sustainable, fulfilling lives. Their lives may be simple, yet they are surrounded by the luxuries of nature, art, and time.
Andy Couturier is an essayist, poet, and writing teacher. He lived in Japan for four years where he taught, was a journalist, and worked on environmental causes. He now lives in the San Francisco Bay Area. |
