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Sept. 28-30 | Carmel, CA The annual Carmel Authors & Ideas Festival brings to Carmel-by-the-Sea more than 35 award-winning authors and speakers. The three-day Festival is held in the intimate and luxurious Sunset Community Center right in the middle of Carmel-by-the-Sea. There are author presentations, break-out sessions with the authors, book signings, and many opportunities to meet and speak with the writers. Past Festivals have found the authors eager to join in the audience. This is truly a shared literary event. Book Passage is pleased to be the bookseller for the Carmel Authors & Ideas Festival. Among the authors in attendance at this year's event are Sir Harold Evans, Kathryn Stockett, David Brooks, Captain Chesley Sullenberger, Chip Connelly, Michael David Lukas and many others. Start: 10:00 am
End: 4:00 pm
Dominican University credit available Do you have something important to say but don't know where to start? Do you wonder whether you even have a voice? In this workshop for women, you’ll learn to listen for your own voice and nurture it. Molly Fisk shows how writers like Terry Tempest Williams, Mary Oliver, and Anne Lamott have connected with women so deeply. Using playful writing exercises and discussion, participants will identify and develop what they want to say in a uniquely personal way. Molly will also teach you to quiet your inner critic and develop a writing practice. Both new and returning students are welcome. Start: 12:30 pm
Admission $120 per person
Call (415) 927-0960, ext. 1 to reserve Dont miss this special, double-author event and cookbook celebration at Left Bank. Diane Rossen Worthington is a veteran author, food consultant, editor, and James Beard award-winning radio show host. Her new cookbook Seriously Simple Parties is part of a series of Seriously Simple cookbooks. With her will be Alice Medrich, who has won so many awards for her desserts that she’s often referred to as the First Lady of Chocolate. She’s the author of Sinfully Easy Delicious Desserts. Guests will receive both cookbooks as part of the ticket price! Don't wait to sign up - space is limited. Price includes the meal, wine, tax, tip & a signed copy of the author’s book. Reserve at Book Passage (415-927-0960) or at bookpassage.com/food-wine-events Can't attend the event? Order autographed copies by clicking on the titles above. Start: 1:00 pm
End: 4:00 pm
"Chronic illness taxes even the strongest people, and research shows that reflective writing reduces illness symptoms. This workshop helps you write about healthcare experiences and offers journaling techniques for healing. No writing experience necessary. Abby Caplin, MD, MA, practices mind-body medicine in San Francisco. She counsels with people with chronic illness. A physician, patient, counselor and writer, Dr. Caplin has a unique understanding of the psychological and physical challenges facing patients. Start: 1:00 pm
End: 3:00 pm
For Fourth Grade Girls Only! Calling all fourth grade girls...this is the “play-shop” for you. We’ll erect a tent of wonder, make magic word tickets, experiment with poems and mini story “blasts,” and take our creations home. All materials provided. All that’s required is a sense of wonder and a willingness to surprise yourself. Karen Benke has inspired kids’ creative journeys in the form of poem-making for 17 years as a California Poet in the Schools and has authored a collection of poems, Sister, and a new book for kids and kids-at-heart, Rip the Page! Adventures in Creative Writing. Class limited to 15. | 1
Start: 10:30 am
End: 12:30 pm
Eight Mondays: Oct. 1 - Nov. 26 (no class Nov. 19) This class reviews all grammar, tenses and vocabulary at an advanced level. Focus is on improving the ability to debate issues, give and obtain information, and feel at ease in conversations while traveling. Up-to-date articles and issues that interest the French are discussed. Anne Bishop lived and taught in France for 20 years. She has taught French language, culture, and literature at Book Passage for many years. Start: 12:40 pm
End: 2:20 pm
Eight Mondays: Oct. 1 - Nov. 19 Prerequisite: Students must have learned the present tense and a bit of the Passato prossimo. Students will continue to develop basic proficiency in speaking, reading, understanding and writing. They will be introduced to vocabulary, grammar and syntax through spoken and written exercises. Text: Ultimate Italian. Start: 7:00 pm
Nancy Bruning, MPH, Author of Nancercize: 101 Things to Do on a Park Bench, advises on Health and Fitness for Writers Book Passage hosts the monthly meetings of Left Coast Writers® at our Corte Madera store. This Literary Salon is led by author/teacherLinda Watanabe McFerrin. The monthly meetings provide an evening of literary connections, support, counsel, provocative readings, writing tips, literary chat, unabashed networking, and great fun. Each meeting also features a presentation by one of several Bay Area literary figures. The fee includes membership in Left Coast Writers®, a group of new and experienced writers. LCW has its own lively newsletter and website atwww.leftcoastwriters.com/. | 2
Start: 8:30 am
End: 10:15 am
Eight Tuesdays: Oct. 2 - Nov. 20 Class will continue with the text Ultimate Italian. Emphasis is on building vocabulary and using basic structures in conversation. Start: 10:00 am
End: 12:00 pm
Five Tuesdays: Oct. 2 - 30 This class is designed for the newer student who has some base knowledge of Spanish. Gloria likes to make the lessons relevant to student need and interest, so the classes will involve dialogues and conversations about real life situations and current events. No textbooks required. . Start: 10:30 am
End: 12:30 pm
Eight Tuesdays: Oct. 2 - Nov. 27 (no class Nov. 20) This class is for students who are proficient in French but want feedback in grammar or vocabulary in order to express themselves with more precision and ease at an advanced level. We discuss and debate current issues, and read a popular novel in French. Anne Bishop lived and taught in France for 20 years. She has taught French language, culture, and literature at Book Passage for many years.
Start: 7:00 pm
Nona Mock Wyman presents Bamboo Women: Stories from Ming Quong, a Chinese Orphanage in California ($19.95). In her groundbreaking new book, Wyman explores the lives of her "sisters" who grew up in the Bay Area's Ming Quong Chinese orphanage—revealing secrets, pain, and the lifetime legacies of friendship. | 3
Start: 9:00 am
End: 10:45 am
Eight Wednesdays: Oct. 3 - Nov. 16 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. Start: 11:00 am
End: 12:45 pm
Eight Wednesdays: Oct. 3 - Nov. 21 Class will review difficult structures. Emphasis is on conversation and mastery of following tenses: il passato prossimo, l'imperfetto, il trapassatp prossimo e il condizionale. Text: Advanced Grammar by Marcel Danesi Start: 1:00 pm
End: 3:00 pm
Eight Wednesdays: Oct. 3 - Nov. 28 (no class Nov. 21) 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.
Start: 1:00 pm
End: 3:00 pm
Five Wednesdays: Oct. 3 - 31 Spanish for beginning students. Gloria Lopez-Gutierrez has been a language teacher for more than 25 years, teaching English as a Second/Foreign language and Spanish language and Latin American culture. Gloria has translated and interpreted for the Latino Film Festival—San Francisco Bay Area and for parents of students at San Rafael City Schools. Students unsure of their level will be provided with the instructor’s e-mail address in order to determine placement Start: 3:15 pm
End: 5:00 pm
5 Wednesdays, Oct. 3 - 31 Small Spaces: Superb Collections We all love the Metropolitan but--- Join Book Passage Art Historian Kerrin Meis on a virtual tour of the American museums that should be on everyone's "must do" list. Encountering true masterpieces of Western Art, we will experience them in a more intimate manner, asking questions as to the "whys" of the collections. What do the objects tell us of the passions of those who assembled them? We will visit the Morgan Library, The Frick Collection, the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, The Barnes Collection in its new location, the Phillips Collection, the Clark Institute in Williamstown, the Kimbell in Fort Worth, the Norton Simon in Pasadena as well as both campuses of the Getty Museum. Participants may have favorites hidden in other small museums and are encouraged to let Prof. Meis know so that they can be included.
Start: 6:00 pm
This event features cheese samplings! Laurel Miller presents Cheese for Dummies ($19.99), a guide to selecting, cooking with, and making cheese. With artisanal and imported cheeses now common to grocery stores, the everyday cheese lover needs more than simply their nose to make the best choice. This new book offers wise (and delicious!) advice on every page. Please note: this event had been scheduled for August 8th. Laurel Miller is a food and travel writer based in the Western U.S., contributing editor at culture, and culinary educator and owner of The Sustainable Kitchen.
Start: 7:00 pm
Paul Elie presents Reinventing Bach ($30.00), the remarkable story of how musicians of genius have made the music of Johann Sebastian Bach new in our time. From Pablo Casals to Leopold Stokowski (and Walt Disney), from Glenn Gould to Yo-Yo Ma, this is the electrifying account of a revolution in music and technology as told through a century of recordings.
Paul Elie, for many years a senior editor in publishing, is now a senior fellow with Georgetown University's Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs. His first book, The Life You Save May Be Your Own, received the PEN/Martha Albrand Prize and was a National Book Critics Circle award finalist in 2003. Start: 7:00 pm
$10 donation (no one turned away) Join former U.S. Poet Laureate Robert Hass, Gillian Conoley, editor and founder of Volt magazine, and professor at Sonoma State University, and Giovanni Singleton, winner of the 2012 California Book Award for Poetry for an inspired evening of poetry like only the North Coast creates. This benefit reading will help sustain the forty-year tradition of outstanding literary news offered by the Bay Area's own Poetry Flash -- California's best calendar (both south and north) for happenings, reviews and commentary. | 4
Start: 10:00 am
End: 12:00 pm
Four Thursdays: Oct. 4 - 25 This class is designed for the continuing student of Spanish who has some knowledge of the simple past (preterite) tense and who is eager to practice speaking. The lessons relevant to student need and interest, so the classes will involve dialogues and conversations about real life situations and current events. No textbooks required. Start: 11:15 am
End: 1:15 pm
Eight Thursdays: Oct. 4 - Nov. 29 (no class Nov. 22) This class is intended for those who recently took Lower Intermediate and Beginning Plus with Anne. This class widens the ability to communicate for travel or conversation. We learn new vocabulary, expressions, and grammar (the imperfect past tense as well as the simple past, and conditional tenses are presented). Anne Bishop lived and taught in France for 20 years. She has taught French language, culture, and literature at Book Passage for many years.
Start: 2:00 pm
End: 4:00 pm
Eight Thursdays: Oct. 4 - Nov. 29 (no class on Nov. 22) This class is intended for those who recently took Intermediate French with Anne. This class continues to develop fluency using present, past and future tenses. The emphasis is on improving comprehension and conversational dialogue. Anne Bishop lived and taught in France for 20 years. She has taught French language, culture, and literature at Book Passage for many years. Start: 6:00 pm
Gretchen Rubin presents Happier at Home: Kiss More, Jump More, Abandon a Project, Read Samuel Johnson, and My Other Experiments in the Practice of Everyday Life ($26.00). In the spirit of her blockbuster New York Times bestseller The Happiness Project, Rubin embarks on a new project to make home a happier place. This book will inspire readers. Gretchen Rubin started her career in law, and she was clerking for Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor when she realized that really wanted to be a writer. Raised in Kansas City, she lives in New York City with her husband and two daughters. Start: 6:30 pm
End: 8:30 pm
Seven Thursdays: Sep. 20 - Nov. 8 To register for individual sessions, please call (415) 927-0960 ext. 1. Each session is $40. Today's parents are busier, more anxious, and more stressed out than ever before. What if being a better parent meant actually doing less for your child? Based on the book by Kim Payne, the Simplicity Parenting © movement is inspiring families worldwide to make small, do-able changes with big, satisfying results. Workshop participants will come away with practical, creative, simple strategies for using the extraordinary power of less to raise calmer, happier and more secure kids. September 20: Why Simplify?
October 4: Environment
October 11: Rhythm
November 8: Simplicity Parenting To Go Jody Meese, Certified Simplicity Parenting Group Leader ©, has been with Marin Mountain School Early Childhood Center from its inception in 1990, and Director since 2001. She relishes supporting parents of children, and has seen countless families rediscover the joy of parenting through "the power of less." Start: 7:00 pm
Constance Hale talks about Vex, Hex, Smash, Smooch: Let Verbs Power Your Writing ($26.95), a writing handbook that celebrates the infinite pizzazz of verbs. Writers know it instinctively: Verbs make a sentence zing. And grammar gurus agree: Drama in writing emerges from the interplay of a subject (noun) and a predicate (verb). This book zooms in on the colorful world of verbs.
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Start: 1:00 pm
Tony La Russa discusses One Last Strike: Fifty Years in Baseball, Ten and a Half Games Back, and One Final Championship Season ($27.99). Speaking candidly, the third-winningest manager in baseball history talks about his World Championship season with the St. Louis Cardinals, his lifetime spent studying the game, his famously intense style, and his decision to retire. La Russa also shares stories from throughout his career that shaped his outlook — from his first days managing the Chicago White Sox to his championship years with the Oakland A's, to his triumphant tenure as St. Louis's longest-serving manager.
Start: 7:00 pm
Steven Roby presents Hendrix on Hendrix: Interviews and Encounters with Jimi Hendrix ($24.95). This new book includes the most important interviews from the peak of Hendrix’s career, 1966 to 1970, as selected by one of the world’s leading Hendrix historians. “Uncovers a wealth of material that most diehard fans didn’t even suspect existed.” —Richie Unterberger
Steven Roby is a respected Jimi Hendrix historian-archivist and the author of Black Gold: The Lost Archives of Jimi Hendrix and Becoming Jimi Hendrix. He was the editor and publisher of Straight Ahead: The International Jimi Hendrix Fanzine (1989–1996) and the editor of the Hendrix family’s authorized fanzine, Experience Hendrix. He has also written feature articles and reviews for Guitar World and Goldmine. | 6
Start: 10:00 am
Special for kids! Annie Barrows celebrates the publication of Ivy and Bean Make the Rules, Book 9 ($14.99), in which Bean's older sister, Nancy, is set to go to Girl Power 4-Ever Camp, where she will do Crafts and Music and First Aid and other secret things that Bean will never know about because girls have to be eleven to go to Girl Power 4-Ever Camp. But Bean doesn't care.
When she was a kid, Annie Barrows never once went to camp. She never took any classes. She never played a sport. She wasn't a Girl Scout. What a weirdo! She lives in Berkeley, California and is the author of eight earlier Ivy and Bean Books as well as co-author of the bestselling adult novel, The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society. Start: 1:00 pm
Jay Tunney presents The Prizefighter and the Playwright: Gene Tunney and Bernard Shaw ($35.00), the curious story of the unlikely relationship between a world heavyweight champion boxer and a world-famous playwright and celebrated man of letters. This remarkable book chronicles the little known relationship that formed between this celebrated odd couple.
Start: 4:00 pm
Jon Katz reads from Dancing Dogs: Stories ($24.00). No one brings to life the remarkable bond between humans and their dogs like New York Times bestselling author Jon Katz. He has warmed our spirits with enchanting tales and keen observations of his animal menagerie. Now, Katz is back with what he does best in his first collection of short stories. Bark!
Jon Katz has written twenty-one books—eight novels, one collection of short stories, and twelve works of nonfiction. Katz is also a photographer and the author of two children’s books. Start: 7:00 pm
J.R. Moehringer reads from Sutton ($27.99), the long anticipated debut novel from the Pulitzer Prize winning journalist and author of the New York Times Bestseller, The Tender Bar. This fictionalized account of the life of the once famous Willie Sutton, the “Babe Ruth” of bank robbers, is vivid and poignant, comic, fast-paced and fact-studded, and a story of doomed love. J.R. Moehringer is a former national correspondent for the Los Angeles Times. A 1986 graduate of Yale University, Moehringer began his journalism career as a news assistant at The New York Times. He won the Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing in 2000.
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