Thurs.\, Feb. 7 • 6\:30-8\:30 pm • $25

Thurs.\, Feb. 21 • 6\:30-8\:30 pm • $25

Thurs.\, Feb 28 • 6\:30-8\:30 pm • $25

END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130619T080708Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130111T013000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130111T033000Z UID:http://www.bookpassage.com/event/class-jody-meese-simplicity-parenting-why-simplify URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.bookpassage.com/event/class-jody-meese-simplicity-parenting-why-simplify SUMMARY:Class\: Jody Meese - Simplicity Parenting\: Why Simplify DESCRIPTION:

Six Thursdays\: Jan. 17-Mar. 7 (no class Feb. 14 or 21)

6\:30-8\:30 pm • $40 per session (see below) or $200 for series

What if being a better parent meant actually doing less for your child? The Simplicity Parenting movement is based on a book by Kim Payne. It has helped families to make small\, do-able changes with big\, satisfying results. Workshop participants come away with practical strategies for raising calmer\, happier and more secure kids. Jody Meese has been the Director of the Marin Mountain School’s Early Childhood Center since 2001.

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Register for Indiviual Classes\:

Jan. 10\:

Why Simplify? - Free Introductory Workshop

Reconnecting the dreams you have for your family with your daily life

Jan. 17\:

Soul Fever
Getting to the roots of misbehavior\, and knowing what to do about it

Jan. 24\:

Environment
Transforming your home from a busy terminal to a peaceful haven

Jan. 31\:

Rhythm
Finding the key to battle-free bedtimes\, meaningful mealtimes\, and cheerful cooperation

Feb. 7\:

Scheduling
Building balance\, dealing with boredom\, and deepening the experience of play

Feb. 28\:

Filtering Out the Adult World
Strengthening our children by giving space and time for childhood

Mar. 7\:

Simplicity Parenting To Go
Sustaining change and building community for our families

END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130619T080708Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130111T020000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130111T020000Z UID:http://www.bookpassage.com/event/christina-lynch-meg-howrey-city-dark-magic URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.bookpassage.com/event/christina-lynch-meg-howrey-city-dark-magic SUMMARY:Christina Lynch & Meg Howrey - City of Dark Magic DESCRIPTION:

Magnus Flyte (Christina Lynch &\; Meg Howrey) read from City of Dark Magic ($16.00). Once a city of enormous wealth and culture\, Prague was home to emperors\, alchemists\, astronomers\, and\, as it’s whispered\, hell portals. When music student Sarah Weston lands a summer job at Prague Castle cataloging Beethoven’s manuscripts\, she has no idea how dangerous her life is about to become. Prague is a threshold\, Sarah is warned\, and it is steeped in blood.

Magnus Flyte is a pseudonym for the writing duo of Meg Howrey and Christina Lynch. Howrey is a former dancer with the Joffrey and the winner of an Ovation Award. She is the author of the novels The Cranes Dance and Blind Sight and lives in Los Angeles. Lynch is a television writer and former Milan correspondent for W magazine. She lives near Sequoia National Park in California.

END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130619T080708Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130111T160000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130111T180000Z UID:http://www.bookpassage.com/event/class-ximena-bervejillo-intermediate-spanish URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.bookpassage.com/event/class-ximena-bervejillo-intermediate-spanish SUMMARY:Class\: Ximena Bervejillo - Intermediate Spanish DESCRIPTION:

Eight Fridays\: Jan 11-Mar. 8 (no class Mar. 1) • 9\:00-11\:00 am • $235

END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130619T080708Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130111T170000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130111T190000Z UID:http://www.bookpassage.com/event/class-kerrin-meis-girl-pearl-earring-dutch-paintings-mauritshuis-fridays URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.bookpassage.com/event/class-kerrin-meis-girl-pearl-earring-dutch-paintings-mauritshuis-fridays SUMMARY:Class\: Kerrin Meis - Girl With a Pearl Earring\: Dutch Paintings from the Mauritshuis (Fridays) DESCRIPTION:

Six Fridays\: Jan. 11-Feb. 15 • 10\:00-12\:00 pm • $150

The de Young museum will host thirty-five masterpieces including Jan Vermeer’s iconic Girl with a Pearl Earring\, beginning January 26. Study them in the context of the Dutch Golden Age and the political\, religious\, economic and cultural milieu in which the artists produced their work . The exhibit embraces portraits\, landscape\, scenes of everyday life and still-life enabling us to form an idea of the themes that preoccupied Dutch artists in the seventeenth century.

Students may arrange a field trip with Meis. Museum entrance and transportation not included in class.

END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130619T080708Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130112T020000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130112T020000Z UID:http://www.bookpassage.com/event/jojo-moyes-me-you URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.bookpassage.com/event/jojo-moyes-me-you SUMMARY:Jojo Moyes - Me Before You DESCRIPTION:

Jojo Moyes reads from Me Before You ($27.95) A Love Story for this generation\, this story brings to life two people who couldn’t have less in common - a heartbreakingly romantic novel that asks\: what do you do when making the person you love happy also means breaking your own heart?

Jojo Moyes is the author of The Last Letter from Your Lover. Her follow-up\, Me Before You\, was a major bestseller in the UK. She is a writer for The Daily Telegraph and The Daily Mail\, and she currently lives with her family in Essex\, England.

END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130619T080708Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130112T170000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130112T190000Z UID:http://www.bookpassage.com/event/class-judith-horstman-shameless-self-promotion URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.bookpassage.com/event/class-judith-horstman-shameless-self-promotion SUMMARY:Class\: Judith Horstman - Shameless Self Promotion DESCRIPTION:

Tips\, Tools and Techniques for Selling Yourself and Your Work

Sat.\, Jan. 12 • 10\:00-12\:00 pm • $50

Writers who live by their words know that marketing is crucial\, and not just in selling the completed work but in getting assignments\, endorsements\, agents\, publishers\, speaking engagements and readers. Yet we’re often reluctant to boast about and boost ourselves and our work. Judith Horstman is a freelance writer published (and self-promoted) in just about every medium and author of four brain books in collaboration with Scientific American.

END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130619T080708Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130112T173000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130112T193000Z UID:http://www.bookpassage.com/event/class-mary-edwards-jump-start-your-art-career-0 URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.bookpassage.com/event/class-mary-edwards-jump-start-your-art-career-0 SUMMARY:Class\: Mary Edwards - Jump Start Your Art Career DESCRIPTION:

Sat.\, Jan. 12 • 10\:30-12\:30 pm • $50

What's going on in the art world? What are galleries and museums looking for now? What makes the Bay Area a unique place for artists? This workshop will help emerging and established artists learn the basic business strategies required for success. Topics include how to create an artist-friendly business plan\, how to think like an entrepreneur\, and how to use professional networks to advance your career. Mary Edwards is a Career &\; Life Coach for artists and creative entrepreneurs.

END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130619T080708Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130112T200000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130112T223000Z UID:http://www.bookpassage.com/event/postponed-class-anne-zimmerman-writing-well-seasoned-prose URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.bookpassage.com/event/postponed-class-anne-zimmerman-writing-well-seasoned-prose SUMMARY:POSTPONED Class\: Anne Zimmerman - Writing Well-Seasoned Prose DESCRIPTION:

PLEASE NOTE\: This class has been postponed. Please email erabin@bookpassage.com to be notified when this class is rescheduled.

Sat.\, Jan. 12 • 1\:00-3\:30 pm • $55

Sharpen your food writing skills in a course taught by Anne Zimmerman\, food writer and biographer of M.F.K. Fisher. What you learn can be applied to a range of projects from the obvious (blogging\, restaurant reviews\, food memoir\, culinary history\, and more) to the not – what do your fictional characters eat for breakfast? Like a great meal\, this course will be inspiring and fun – a marvelous way to add some spice to creative work of any genre. Delicious treats provided as writing prompts.

END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130619T080708Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130112T230000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130112T230000Z UID:http://www.bookpassage.com/event/siobhan-macdermott-wide-open-privacy-strategies-digital-life URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.bookpassage.com/event/siobhan-macdermott-wide-open-privacy-strategies-digital-life SUMMARY:Siobhan MacDermott - Wide Open Privacy\: Strategies for the Digital Life DESCRIPTION:

Book proceeds for this evening will benefit a TBA children's charity

CEO of AVG Technologies N.V.\, JR Smith\, and its Chief Policy officer Siobhan MacDermott have come together to author Wide Open Privacy\: Strategies for the Digital Life\, a guide to help users take control of their privacy in an ever more digital age.

Far from being a “Privacy for Dummies” approach\, the book aims at covering everything from governmental policy to individual privacy concern\, and considers both the private and commercial expectations on personal data. After all these are going to be some of the hottest political topics we face in the next few years\; how do you begin to legislate something as vast\, international and free as the internet which spans multiple cultures\, languages and governments?

Siobhan MacDermott is one of the foremost global authorities on the future of Information Technology\, consumer dynamics\, cybersecurity\, privacy\, and business leadership.

END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130619T080708Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130113T020000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130113T020000Z UID:http://www.bookpassage.com/event/james-rollins-rebecca-cantrell-blood-gospel-order-sanguine-series URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.bookpassage.com/event/james-rollins-rebecca-cantrell-blood-gospel-order-sanguine-series SUMMARY:James Rollins & Rebecca Cantrell - The Blood Gospel\: The Order of the Sanguine Series DESCRIPTION:

In his first-ever collaboration\, New York Times bestselling author James Rollins combines his skill for cutting-edge science and historical mystery with award-winning novelist Rebecca Cantrell's talent for haunting suspense and sensual atmosphere in a gothic tale about an ancient order and the hunt for a miraculous book known only as . . . The Blood Gospel ($27.99).

James Rollins is the New York Times bestseller of thrillers translated into forty languages. His Sigma series has been lauded as one of the "\;top crowd pleasers"\; (New York Times) and one of the "\;hottest summer reads"\; (People Magazine).

Rebecca Cantrell's Hannah Vogel mystery novels have won the Bruce Alexander and Macavity awards and been nominated for the Barry and Romantic Times Reviewers Choice awards\; her critically-acclaimed novel\, iDrakula\, was nominated for the APPY award and listed on Booklist's Top 10 Horror Fiction for Youth.

END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130619T080708Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130113T020000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130113T020000Z UID:http://www.bookpassage.com/event/left-coast-writers%C2%AE-launch-love-stories-0 URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.bookpassage.com/event/left-coast-writers%C2%AE-launch-love-stories-0 SUMMARY:Left Coast Writers® Launch\: Love Stories DESCRIPTION:

Join Linda Watanabe McFerrin and the Left Coast Writers® for an evening of love stories to help set the mood for Valentine’s Day. You can count on the talented writers from LCW to provide an entertaining evening full of love\, lust and other appropriate emotions.

There’ll be wine an chocolate\, of course\, AND all who attend are invited to bring a love or lust story of 1000 words or less. Their stories will be considered for publication on the hotflashessexystsories.com website and a $100 award. You must be present to enter.

Sign up here\:
https\://www.facebook.com/events/403956459687115/

END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130619T080708Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130113T200000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130113T200000Z UID:http://www.bookpassage.com/event/paul-h-landes-wings-redemption URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.bookpassage.com/event/paul-h-landes-wings-redemption SUMMARY:Paul H. Landes - Wings to Redemption DESCRIPTION:

Paul H. Landes reads from Wings to Redemption. A compelling story that is part high-tech thriller\, part government espionage and frighteningly realistic\, Wings to Redemption features scientific research and unexpected love all set against the beautiful backdrop of Marin County.

Paul H. Landes began his career in corporate real estate when he lived in Marin County\, with his profession eventually taking him throughout the western United States. He became a full time author in August of 2011.

END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130619T080708Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130113T230000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130113T230000Z UID:http://www.bookpassage.com/event/mary-ann-halpin-fearless-women-visions-new-world URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.bookpassage.com/event/mary-ann-halpin-fearless-women-visions-new-world SUMMARY:Mary Ann Halpin - Fearless Women\: Visions of a New World DESCRIPTION:

Fearless Women\, Visions of a New World ($29.95) is the latest book in renowned photographer Mary Ann Halpin’s Fearless Women book series. This extraordinary book and accompanying multi-artist CD\, contains photographic portraits as well as inspiring stories of 50 fearless women who are living proof that\, as the Dalai Lama proclaimed in 2009\, "\;the world will be saved by the Western women."\;

Many of the visionary women featured are leaders in the human potential movement\: inspirational teacher Mary Morrissey\, wrote the forward of the book\; Marcia Wieder is the founder of the Million Dreams Campaign\; Mona Polacca is one of the 13 Indigenous Grandmothers\, along with celebrity/activists Linda Gray and Frances Fisher. Women change-makers such as Rebecca Grossman\, founder of the Grossman Burn Foundation\, Dr. Doreen Granpeesheh\, foremost authority on autism\, and Tabitha Kyambadde\, founder of African Mission Outreach Organization are inspirations for us all.

Mary Ann Halpin has appeared on television shows such as The View\, Inside Edition\, Extra! and A Baby Story. She was also featured as a mentor on the hit reality series Starting Over. For samples of her work\, more information on her company\, or to order her latest book\, visit\: http\://fearlesswomenglobal.com and http\://www.maryannhalpin.com.

END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130619T080708Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130114T000000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130114T000000Z UID:http://www.bookpassage.com/event/class-andrea-alban-critique-circle-developing-and-revising-your-childrens-book URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.bookpassage.com/event/class-andrea-alban-critique-circle-developing-and-revising-your-childrens-book SUMMARY:Class\: Andrea Alban - Critique Circle for Developing and Revising your Children's Book DESCRIPTION:

2nd Sunday of Every Month\, 5\:00 - 8\:00pm
$40 per session

Critique Circle for Developing and Revising your Children's Book is a monthly workshop led by Andrea Alban for children's writers to deepen the craft of fiction\, from initial concept through finished manuscript. Included is plotting a page-turning story structure\, developing quintessential characters\, creating vivid story worlds\, and practicing the art of revision. Writers learn how to give and receive feedback in the spirit of generosity. The mission of this university-level workshop is to guide writers to publish their work. Included is research into publishing houses and literary agencies\, and the art of writing cover/query letters\, synopses and sample chapters that stand out from the crowd.

Testimonials\:

What I most appreciate about Andrea is her optimism and support--a self-described "\;cheerleader."\; She has been like a college professor giving me valuable lessons in picture book creation. Her honesty and writing exercises helped me find my voice. It's been an incredible journey with Andrea as my story midwife!

--Allison Fragakis

Andrea Alban is the author of nine books\, including the YA novel\, Anya's War\, (shortlisted for China's 2012 Panda Awards and an ALA honor book)\, and the bestseller\, The Happiness Tree. She is a dynamic speaker at schools\, writing conferences\, and literary festivals. Andrea edits manuscripts and coaches writers in manuscript development and revision as well as how to prepare submissions to editors and agents.

END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130619T080708Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130114T020000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130114T020000Z UID:http://www.bookpassage.com/event/cynthia-greenberg-carol-newman-nicola-trwst-author-triple-feature URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.bookpassage.com/event/cynthia-greenberg-carol-newman-nicola-trwst-author-triple-feature SUMMARY:Cynthia Greenberg\, Carol Newman & Nicola Trwst - Author Triple Feature! DESCRIPTION:

Join three authors for a "\;triple feature"\; evening of music\, refreshments and live readings! Carol Newman shares Radical Feminist in a Topless Band ($12.50)\, a memoir chronicling her time as a musician in the early seventies. Cynthia Greenberg presents Burmese Jade\: A Novel ($17.50)\, where thirteen strangers lives become entangled with the fate of the Kalichakra gems. Nicola Trwst reads from Belvedere Club ($12.95)\, a murder mystery set in our very own Marin County.

END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130619T080708Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130114T173000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130114T193000Z UID:http://www.bookpassage.com/event/class-josette-charbit-schwartz-advanced-french URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.bookpassage.com/event/class-josette-charbit-schwartz-advanced-french SUMMARY:Class\: Josette Charbit Schwartz - Advanced French DESCRIPTION:

Eight Mondays\: Jan. 14 - Mar. 4 • 10\:30-12\:30 pm • $235

This class will review all grammar\, tenses and vocabulary at an advanced level. Focus will be on improving the ability to debate issues and exchange information. The class will include current issues in France. Text\: Connexions 3 Methode &\; Cahier

Josette Charbit Schwartz has taught French in Marin at the Lycée Français\, The Branson school and French American International in San Francisco\, where she currently teaches second grade and adult classes. Born in Paris\, Josette has lived in Marin County for 30 years and has a degree in Bilingual Education from France.

END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130619T080708Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130114T200000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130114T220000Z UID:http://www.bookpassage.com/event/class-josette-charbit-schwartz-intermediate-french URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.bookpassage.com/event/class-josette-charbit-schwartz-intermediate-french SUMMARY:Class\: Josette Charbit Schwartz - Intermediate French DESCRIPTION:

Eight Mondays\: Jan. 14-Mar. 4 • 1\:00-3\:00 pm • $235

Widens the ability to communicate for travel or conversation with new vocabulary\, expressions and grammar. Texts\: Communication Progressive du Francais\, niveau debutant

END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130619T080708Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130115T010000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130115T030000Z UID:http://www.bookpassage.com/event/class-silvia-iannelli-beginning-italian URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.bookpassage.com/event/class-silvia-iannelli-beginning-italian SUMMARY:Class\: Silvia Iannelli - Beginning Italian DESCRIPTION:

Eight Mondays\: Jan. 14-Mar. 4 • 6\:00-8\:00 pm • $235

PLEASE NOTE\: This class is full. Please email lberkler@bookpassage.com for updates on additional Beginning Italian classes.

Silvia Iannelli is a private Italian tutor based in Marin County. Born and raised in Rome\, she has lived in many countries\, including Iran\, England and Madagascar\, before settling in the Bay Area in 1997. Silvia has been teaching Italian for over 10 years and in her classes she likes to create a fun and welcoming environment for her students\, motivating them through activities and exercises tailored to improve their grammar\, conversation and pronunciation skills. Her personal quote is\: “La traduzione della parola e’ nel cuore ~ The translation of a word is in the heart.” Texts\: Ultimate Italian

END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130619T080708Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130115T010000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130115T010000Z UID:http://www.bookpassage.com/event/left-coast-writers%C2%AE-book-launches-todd-crawshaw-heretofore URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.bookpassage.com/event/left-coast-writers%C2%AE-book-launches-todd-crawshaw-heretofore SUMMARY:Left Coast Writers® Book Launches\: Todd Crawshaw - heretofore DESCRIPTION:

Left Coast Writers® Book Launches at Book Passage in the Ferry Building

“Wyatt T. Frog had observed many fascinating things in his life but never had he seen a girl falling from the sky—until now.”

So begins this fantastic tale\, a modern-day Alice in Wonderland melded with the satirical humor of Catch 22. Both of these great novels were the inspiration for heretofore ($16.00)\, Todd Crawshaw's latest novel.

Todd Crawshaw is the author of the novel Exploits of the Satyr and Light-Years In The Dark\: StoryPoems.

END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130619T080708Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130115T020000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130115T020000Z UID:http://www.bookpassage.com/event/david-lewis-dewey-livingston-mb-boissevain-marins-first-farm-advisor URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.bookpassage.com/event/david-lewis-dewey-livingston-mb-boissevain-marins-first-farm-advisor SUMMARY:David Lewis & Dewey Livingston - M.B. Boissevain\: Marin's First Farm Advisor DESCRIPTION:

David Lewis and Dewey Livingston present M.B. Boissevain Marin’s First Farm Advisor – Historical Photographs of Marin’s Agrarian Roots ($25.00). From the 1920s to 1940s\, America enjoyed what is known as the “Progressive Era” of agriculture. Here in Marin\, Marret Burridge Boissevain began service in 1920s as the first UC Farm Advisor.

Working with local farm families\, he collaborated on advancements for dairy herd health\, pasture productivity\, and other on-farm advancements. He also was a prolific photographer\, documenting these pioneering family farmers and their endeavors. These magnificent images provide a unique opportunity to embrace Marin's agrarian roots and present bounty\, as well as take an intimate look at what life was like for Marin ranchers and farmers during the early twentieth century.

David Lewis is the UC Cooperative Extension Director and Marin’s Sixth Farm Advisor.

END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130619T080708Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130115T173000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130115T193000Z UID:http://www.bookpassage.com/event/class-genevieve-blaise-sullivan-cours-de-perfectionment URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.bookpassage.com/event/class-genevieve-blaise-sullivan-cours-de-perfectionment SUMMARY:Class\: Genevieve Blaise-Sullivan - Cours de Perfectionment DESCRIPTION:

Eight Tuesdays\: Jan. 15-Mar. 5 • 10\:30-12\:30 pm • $235

Text\: Latitudes 3 Methode &\; Cahier

This class is for students who are proficient in French but who want feedback in grammar or vocabulary. The class will discuss and debate current issues\, and students will read a popular novel in French.

END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130619T080708Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130116T020000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130116T020000Z UID:http://www.bookpassage.com/event/christine-bronstein-nothing-truth-so-help-me-god URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.bookpassage.com/event/christine-bronstein-nothing-truth-so-help-me-god SUMMARY:Christine Bronstein - Nothing But The Truth So Help Me God DESCRIPTION:

Join A Band of Wives founder Christine Bronstein and select contributors as they read from Nothing But The Truth So Help Me God\: 51 Women Reveal The Power of Positive Female Connection ($14.95 ). This first book from the women's social network group A Band of Wives brings together essays\, poetry\, and artwork focused on themes within the self-help and personal improvement genre. The authors and artists are women from around the globe\, varied racial and ethnic groups\, socioeconomic backgrounds\, and ages\: everything from famous authors\, celebrities\, and entrepreneurs\, to nannies\, soccer moms\, and starving artists.

Christine Bronstein is the founder of ABandOfWives.com\, a social network and information website for women. She was CEO of one of the few female run venture-backed health and fitness companies in the nation for 8 years and president of a child-welfare foundation for 3 years. She is a graduate of the Columbia/UC-Berkeley executive MBA program and a member of the honor society Beta Gamma Sigma.

END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130619T080708Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130116T200000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130116T220000Z UID:http://www.bookpassage.com/event/class-josette-charbit-schwartz-beginning-french-continuing URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.bookpassage.com/event/class-josette-charbit-schwartz-beginning-french-continuing SUMMARY:Class\: Josette Charbit Schwartz - Beginning French (Continuing) DESCRIPTION:

Eight Wednesdays\: Jan. 16-Mar. 6 • 1\:00-3\:00 pm • $235

The focus will be on French for travel\, getting and giving information\, and interacting on a basic level. Introduction to grammar and vocabulary. Texts\: Barron’s and Grammaire Progressive du Francais\, niveau debutant

END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130619T080708Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130116T221500Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130117T000000Z UID:http://www.bookpassage.com/event/class-kerrin-meis-girl-pearl-earring-dutch-paintings-mauritshuis-wednesdays URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.bookpassage.com/event/class-kerrin-meis-girl-pearl-earring-dutch-paintings-mauritshuis-wednesdays SUMMARY:Class\: Kerrin Meis - Girl With a Pearl Earring\: Dutch Paintings from the Mauritshuis (Wednesdays) DESCRIPTION:

Six Wednesdays\: Jan. 16-Feb. 20 • 3\:15-5\:00 pm • $150

Students may arrange a field trip with Meis. Museum entrance and transportation not included in class.

END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130619T080708Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130117T010000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130117T010000Z UID:http://www.bookpassage.com/event/luis-jaramillo-doctors-wife URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.bookpassage.com/event/luis-jaramillo-doctors-wife SUMMARY:Luis Jaramillo - The Doctor's Wife DESCRIPTION:

Winner of the Dzanc Short Story Contest\, Luis Jaramillo’s The Doctor’s Wife ($14.95) pushes the limits of what a short story collection can be. In stylish\, intimate\, and devastating short flashes\, Jaramillo chronicles the small domestic moments\, tragic losses\, and cultural upheavals faced by three generations of a family in the Pacific Northwest\, creating a moving portrait of an American family and the remarkable woman at its center.

Luis Jaramillo has had short stories published in Open City and Tin House. He is the Associate Chair of the New School Writing Program\, where he teaches fiction and nonfiction.

END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130619T080708Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130117T020000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130117T020000Z UID:http://www.bookpassage.com/event/susanna-sonnenberg-she-matters URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.bookpassage.com/event/susanna-sonnenberg-she-matters SUMMARY:Susanna Sonnenberg - She Matters DESCRIPTION:

Susanna Sonnenberg presents She Matters\: A Life in Friendships ($24.00). Searing and superbly written\, Sonnenberg’s She Matters\: A Life in Friendships illuminates the friendships that have influenced\, nourished\, inspired\, and haunted her—and sometimes torn her apart. Each has its own lessons that Sonnenberg seeks to understand. Her method is investigative and ruminative\; her result\, fearlessly observed portraits of friendships that will inspire all readers to consider the complexities of their own relationships. This electric book is testimony to the emotional significance of the intense bonds between women\, whether shattered\, shaky\, or unbreakable.

Susanna Sonnenberg is the author of Her Last Death. She lives in Montana with her family.

END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130619T080708Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130117T181500Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130117T201500Z UID:http://www.bookpassage.com/event/class-josette-charbit-schwartz-intermediate-french-0 URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.bookpassage.com/event/class-josette-charbit-schwartz-intermediate-french-0 SUMMARY:Class\: Josette Charbit Schwartz - Intermediate French DESCRIPTION:

Eight Thursdays\: Jan. 17-Mar. 7 • 11\:15-1\:15 pm • $235

Widens the ability to communicate for travel or conversation with new vocabulary\, expressions and grammar. Texts\: Communication Progressive du Francais\, niveau debutant

END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130619T080708Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130117T210000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130117T230000Z UID:http://www.bookpassage.com/event/class-genevieve-blaise-sullivan-upper-intermediate-french URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.bookpassage.com/event/class-genevieve-blaise-sullivan-upper-intermediate-french SUMMARY:Class\: Genevieve Blaise-Sullivan - Upper Intermediate French DESCRIPTION:

Eight Thursdays\: Jan. 17-Mar. 7\, 2\:00-4\:00 pm • $235

This class will widen the ability to communicate with new vocabulary\, expressions\, and grammar. The class will include the imperfect past tense\, the simple past\, and the conditional tense. Texts\: Connexions 1 Methode &\; Cahier\, Grammaire en Dialogues debutant

Genevieve Blaise-Sullivan has taught French at College of Marin for over 30 years. She graduated from the Sorbonne with degrees in French\, Russian\, and Bulgarian.

END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130619T080708Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130118T010000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130118T030000Z UID:http://www.bookpassage.com/event/class-silvia-iannelli-beginning-italian-0 URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.bookpassage.com/event/class-silvia-iannelli-beginning-italian-0 SUMMARY:Class\: Silvia Iannelli - Beginning Italian DESCRIPTION:

Eight Mondays\: Jan. 17 - Mar. 7 • 6\:00-8\:00 pm • $235

END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130619T080708Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130118T013000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130118T033000Z UID:http://www.bookpassage.com/event/class-rea-franjetic-world-travel-tips-argentina-and-brazil URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.bookpassage.com/event/class-rea-franjetic-world-travel-tips-argentina-and-brazil SUMMARY:Class\: Rea Franjetic - World Travel Tips\: Argentina and Brazil DESCRIPTION:

World Travel Tips\: Argentina and Brazil

Thurs.\, Jan. 17 • 6\:30-8\:30 pm • $25

Two very different countries\, both with countless highlights. From sophisticated Buenos Aires and Rio to vast Patagonia and wet and wild Pantanal and Ibera. Between these two national bookends\, experience the less known attractions in each country and the ways you can weave them together in a two or three week journey.

World Travel Tips Series\:

Arctic and Antarctica

Thurs.\, Jan. 10 • 6\:30-8\:30 pm • $25

Galapagos\, Peru\, Bolivia

Thurs.\, Jan. 24 • 6\:30-8\:30 pm • $25

Southern Europe

Thurs.\, Jan. 31 • 6\:30-8\:30 pm • $25

Thurs.\, Feb. 7 • 6\:30-8\:30 pm • $25

Thurs.\, Feb. 21 • 6\:30-8\:30 pm • $25

Click here for further details and to RSVP

Thurs.\, Feb 28 • 6\:30-8\:30 pm • $25

END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130619T080708Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130118T020000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130118T020000Z UID:http://www.bookpassage.com/event/norman-fischer-training-compassion-zen-teachings-practice-lojong URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.bookpassage.com/event/norman-fischer-training-compassion-zen-teachings-practice-lojong SUMMARY:Norman Fischer - Training in Compassion\: Zen Teachings on the Practice of Lojong DESCRIPTION:

In Norman Fischer's new book\, Training in Compassion\: Zen Teachings on the Practice of Lojong ($16.95)\, he applies Zen wisdom to the fifty-nine slogans of lojong\, showing how well they fit in that related tradition\, but he also sets the slogans in the context of practices throughout the spiritual traditions. He shows lojong to be a wonderful method for everyone\, including those who aren't otherwise interested in Buddhism\, who don't have the time or inclination to meditate\, or who'd just like to morph into the kind of person who's focused rather than scattered\, generous rather than stingy\, and kind rather than thoughtless.

Norman Fischer is Senior Dharma Teacher at San Francisco Zen Center\, where he was abbot from 1995 to 2000\, and he is currently the director of the Everyday Zen Foundation\, which is dedicated to bringing the Zen perspective to the world outside Zen\, including to Christian and Jewish religious settings. He is a highly regarded poet and translator\, and his numerous books include Opening to You\: Zen-Inspired Translations of the Psalms\, Taking Our Places\: The Buddhist Path to Truly Growing Up\, and Sailing Home\: Using Homer's Odyssey to Navigate Life's Perils and Pitfalls.

END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130619T080708Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130119T000000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130119T020000Z UID:http://www.bookpassage.com/event/book-passage-cafe-wine-tasting URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.bookpassage.com/event/book-passage-cafe-wine-tasting SUMMARY:Book Passage Cafe Wine Tasting DESCRIPTION:

Cost\: $12/person

Help us celebrate the New Year by sipping our fabulous new wine selection. Enjoy 6 tastes\, a glass of your choosing\, delicious treats and great company! To be held in the Book Passage Cafe.

Hope to see you there. Cheers!!

END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130619T080708Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130119T020000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130119T020000Z UID:http://www.bookpassage.com/event/narada-walden-whitney-houston-voice-music-inspiration URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.bookpassage.com/event/narada-walden-whitney-houston-voice-music-inspiration SUMMARY:Narada Walden - Whitney Houston\: The Voice\, The Music\, The Inspiration DESCRIPTION:

In conversation with Raoul Goff\, CEO/Publisher of Insight Editions

Whitney Houston’s voice. A voice of raw power and angelic sweetness\, tremendous range\, and incredible control. When the world first heard it back in 1984\, a new chapter was written in the annals of popular music. Author Narada Michael Walden sat in the cockpit alongside Whitney while her career skyrocketed\, producing many of the hits that today comprise her musical legacy—among them\, “How Will I Know\,” “I Wanna Dance with Somebody\,” “Where Do Broken Hearts Go\,” and “One Moment in Time.” In Whitney Houston\: The Voice\, the Music\, the Inspiration ($24.95)\, his intimate stories of their unforgettable times together\, both inside and outside the recording studio\, draw a portrait of a smart\, funny\, compassionate woman whose striking physical beauty was matched by her inner strength and justifiable self-confidence.

Narada Michael Walden is an Emmy and Grammy Award-winning producer and songwriter for artists as diverse as Aretha Franklin\, Steve Winwood\, Ray Charles\, Wynonna Judd\, Whitney Houston\, George Michael\, Mariah Carey\, Barbara Streisand\, Stevie Wonder\, and Tom Jones. He has earned equal acclaim as a recording and performing artist and in 2012 will release his solo album Thunder. He lives in San Rafael\, CA.

Insight Editions Publisher and CEO\, Raoul Goff\, started his career in the book industry as a designer and editor in 1980. In 2003\, he founded Insight Editions and its subsidiaries\, Mandala Publishing and Earth Aware Editions\, based in San Rafael\, California. Raoul supports many grass-roots organizations in the field of sustainability and runs a forty-two-acre organic farm on the Hamakua Coast in Hawaii\, where he keeps a second home.

END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130619T080708Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130119T170000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130119T220000Z UID:http://www.bookpassage.com/event/class-catherine-flaxman-%E2%80%93-make-it-write-moving-toward-forgiveness URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.bookpassage.com/event/class-catherine-flaxman-%E2%80%93-make-it-write-moving-toward-forgiveness SUMMARY:Class\: Catherine Flaxman – Make It Write\: Moving Toward Forgiveness DESCRIPTION:

Writing as an Awareness Practice for Memoirists\, Writers\, Non-Writers and Pre-Writers

Sat.\, Jan. 19 • 10\:00-3\:00 pm • $85

Drawing on mindfulness practices\, we’ll write the wrongs and turn the story on its head\, as we move toward forgiveness and increase awareness of how the narrative of our lives can be ever new. Catherine Flaxman is a writer and story consultant. She has sold two screenplays and received two artists’ grants from the Marin Arts Council. She is a licensed psychotherapist with a background in the creative\, contemplative and expressive arts.

END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130619T080708Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130119T180000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130119T180000Z UID:http://www.bookpassage.com/event/rebecah-freeling-puppet-show-preschoolers-6 URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.bookpassage.com/event/rebecah-freeling-puppet-show-preschoolers-6 SUMMARY:Rebecah Freeling - Puppet Show for Preschoolers DESCRIPTION:

END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130619T080708Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130119T200000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130119T200000Z UID:http://www.bookpassage.com/event/aaron-ableman-pachas-pajamas URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.bookpassage.com/event/aaron-ableman-pachas-pajamas SUMMARY:Aaron Ableman - Pacha's Pajamas DESCRIPTION:

Join Aaron Ableman and friends as they present a musical storytelling experience in conjunction with his children's book Pacha's Pajamas. Being touted by critics as “the next Dora”\, this thought-provoking children’s story follows a city girl on her adventures to change the world. Pacha is the only human invited to a gathering of the plants and animals of Mother Earth and she must figure out how to bring balance to the planet. They build a stadium powered by electric eels to host fun-filled acts including an insect band called The Beetles\, a black-eyed pea rapping for a better world and a beaver named “Justin-Time.” At the end of the show\, Pacha shares an important message for all of nature and humanity.

For the past 13 years\, Aaron Ableman has been presenting platforms for ecological education through storytelling\, art and music. An author\, acclaimed educator\, and urban farmer\, Ableman uses a unique combination of arts disciplines for ecological &\; wellness education. Ableman has launched youth arts initiatives\, green job trainings and ecological remediation projects across the US\, in northern India\, throughout Havana\, Cuba\, and in the indigenous reservations of northern Canada.

END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130619T080708Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130119T200000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130119T230000Z UID:http://www.bookpassage.com/event/class-virginia-simpson-magruder-express-yourself-art-altered-books-0 URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.bookpassage.com/event/class-virginia-simpson-magruder-express-yourself-art-altered-books-0 SUMMARY:Class\: Virginia Simpson-Magruder - Express Yourself\: The Art of Altered Books DESCRIPTION:

Sat.\, Jan. 19 • 1\:00-4\:00 pm • $50

Come discover the exciting art of altering books and journals. Through easy techniques and a rainbow of art supplies\, you will take a used book and transform it into your own object d’art or journal. Even if you don’t think you are creative\, you will find altering books inspiring\, liberating\, and deeply satisfying! Virginia Simpson-Magruder of Kentucky Girl Designs is a jewlery\, collage and altered artist. Materials included.

END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130619T080708Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130119T230000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130119T230000Z UID:http://www.bookpassage.com/event/barbara-davies-hubbard-beyond-bitterroot URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.bookpassage.com/event/barbara-davies-hubbard-beyond-bitterroot SUMMARY:Barbara Davies Hubbard - Beyond Bitterroot DESCRIPTION:

Barbara Davies Hubbard presents Beyond Bitterroot ($15.95). In clear\, often poetic prose\, this novel tells the story of a young couple in 1920’s San Francisco\, of good intentions gone awry\, and the struggles of imperfect souls to reconcile their expectation with their disappointments. Examines one’s duty to principle and family in relation to one’s right to happiness\, Hubbard explores that greatest of human emotions\, love and the capacity of human beings to love deeply\, suffer loss\, grieve and recover.

Barbara Davies Hubbard grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area. She attended Art College\, and in her forties\, was accepted at Berkeley\, completing her bachelor’s degree in painting and sculpture. In the intervening years\, she minced down fashion runways\, became a photographer’s model\, taught ballroom dance\, owned an antique shop in Sausalito and wrote human interest stories for a local paper. She has published several short stories\, and won double first prizes for her poetry at the Jessamyn West Poetry Contest. She currently lives on a houseboat in southern Marin with her husband Ernie.

END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130619T080708Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130120T020000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130120T020000Z UID:http://www.bookpassage.com/event/mark-maynard-grind URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.bookpassage.com/event/mark-maynard-grind SUMMARY:Mark Maynard - Grind DESCRIPTION:

A sometime-stand-up comedian by night\, an all-the-time writer and teacher by day\, Mark Maynard has taught community college students about narrative arc\, helicopter skied after stories for a local newspaper\, thrown in his lot with a start-up dotcom biz\, and coordinated play-dates for his two boys as a stay-at-home dad. It’s no wonder Maynard chose to write about a city as transformative as Reno\, Nevada. Each of the eight stories in his debut novel\, Grind ($15.95)\, introduces characters striving and struggling in “the Biggest Little City.”

END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130619T080708Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130122T010000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130122T010000Z UID:http://www.bookpassage.com/event/coffee-sustainability-panel-discussion URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.bookpassage.com/event/coffee-sustainability-panel-discussion SUMMARY:Coffee & Sustainability Panel Discussion DESCRIPTION:

Port Commission Hearing Room

Ferry Building (2nd Floor)

The panel will include\:

- Hanna Neuschwander\, author of Left Coast Roast ($16.95)\, a guide to artisan and iconic coffee roasters from San Francisco to

Seattle (moderator)

- Christopher Bacon\, environmental social scientist and professor at Santa Clara University whose research compares alternative and conventional food systems using coffee as a case study

- Stephen Vick\, quality control manager of Blue Bottle Coffee Co.

The discussion will be followed by a book signing (books for sale by Book Passage) and reception with farmers market refreshments. A $5 donation will be requested at the door (no one turned away for lack of funds)

END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130619T080708Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130123T010000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130123T010000Z UID:http://www.bookpassage.com/event/wenonah-hauter-foodopoly URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.bookpassage.com/event/wenonah-hauter-foodopoly SUMMARY:Wenonah Hauter - Foodopoly DESCRIPTION:

Co-sponsored by CUESA
Coming early for a reception with Ferry Plaza Farmers Market refreshments!

Wenonah Hauter is the executive director of Food &\; Water Watch\, but she also runs an organic family farm in Northern Virginia that provides healthy vegetables to over five hundred families in the Washington\, D.C.\, area as part of the Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) program. Despite this\, as one of the nation’s leading healthy food advocates\, Hauter believes that the local food movement is not enough to solve America’s food crisis and the public health debacle it has created. In Foodopoly ($26.95)\, she takes aim at the real culprit\: the massive consolidation and corporate control of food production\, which prevents farmers from raising healthy crops and limits the choices that people can make in the grocery store.

Wenonah Hauter has worked and written extensively on food\, water\, energy\, and environmental issues at the national\, state\, and local levels. She owns a working farm in The Plains\, Virginia.

END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130619T080708Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130123T013000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130123T040000Z UID:http://www.bookpassage.com/event/class-don-george-travel-writing-intensive-1 URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.bookpassage.com/event/class-don-george-travel-writing-intensive-1 SUMMARY:Class\: Don George - Travel Writing Intensive DESCRIPTION:

Enrollment is Limited - Register Early

Tuesdays\: Jan. 22 - Mar. 5 (no class Feb. 19) •
6\:30-9\:00 pm • $350

Don George’s six-week Intensive Travel Writing workshop is patterned on a graduate school creative writing program. The primary emphasis is on the craft of travel writing. Students read and critique writing assignments each week in class. Assignments progress from a few paragraphs to full-length articles\, with the goal of writing publishable-quality pieces. George’s workshop also looks at the marketing of travel articles. Students learn to research stories\, write query letters and work with editors. Don George is the former travel editor of the S.F. Chronicle-Examiner and was previously the global travel editor for Lonely Planet guide books. He is also the chairman of the annual Book Passage Travel\, Food &\; Photography Conference.

END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130619T080708Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130123T020000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130123T020000Z UID:http://www.bookpassage.com/event/tracy-kidder-good-prose-art-nonfiction URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.bookpassage.com/event/tracy-kidder-good-prose-art-nonfiction SUMMARY:Tracy Kidder - Good Prose\: The Art of Nonfiction DESCRIPTION:

Good Prose ($26.00) explores three major nonfiction forms\: narratives\, essays\, and memoirs. Co-authors Tracy Kidder and Richard Todd draw candidly\, sometimes comically\, on their own experience—their mistakes as well as accomplishments—to demonstrate the pragmatic ways in which creative problems get solved.Like Strunk and White’s The Elements of Style\, this book is a succinct\, authoritative\, and entertaining arbiter of standards in contemporary writing\, offering guidance for the professional writer and the beginner alike.

Tracy Kidder graduated from Harvard and studied at the University of Iowa. He has won the Pulitzer Prize\, the National Book Award\, the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award\, and many other literary prizes. The author of Strength in What Remains\, My Detachment\, Mountains Beyond Mountains\, Home Town\, Old Friends\, Among Schoolchildren\, House\, and The Soul of a New Machine\, Tracy Kidder lives in Massachusetts.

END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130619T080708Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130123T170000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130123T190000Z UID:http://www.bookpassage.com/event/class-josette-charbit-schwartz-beginning-french URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.bookpassage.com/event/class-josette-charbit-schwartz-beginning-french SUMMARY:Class\: Josette Charbit Schwartz - Beginning French DESCRIPTION:

Eight Wednesdays\: Jan. 23 - Mar. 13 • 10\:00-12\:00 pm • $235

END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130619T080708Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130123T200000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130123T200000Z UID:http://www.bookpassage.com/event/john-rothmann-harold-e-stassen URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.bookpassage.com/event/john-rothmann-harold-e-stassen SUMMARY:John Rothmann - Harold E. Stassen DESCRIPTION:

John F. Rothmann presents Harold E. Stassen\: The Life &\; Perennial Candidacy of the Progressive Republican ($45.00). This long-overdue biography follows Stassen from his time as governor of Minnesta in 1938 through his service in the Navy in World War II and later as a key cabinet member in the Eisenhower administration. Stassen was perhaps most famous for being a perennial candidate for the Republican Party nomination\, seeking the presidency 10 times between 1944 and 1992.

John F. Rothmann is on the faculty of the Fromm Institute at the University of San Francisco and is a talk show host on News Talk 910 AM in San Francisco.

END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130619T080708Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130124T010000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130124T010000Z UID:http://www.bookpassage.com/event/doug-smith-former-people URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.bookpassage.com/event/doug-smith-former-people SUMMARY:Doug Smith - Former People DESCRIPTION:

Douglas Smith presents Former People\: The Final Days of the Russian Aristocracy ($30.00). Historically compelling and told with “brutal clarity\,” Douglas Smith’s unprecedented account of the Russian aristocracy is the first book in any language to examine the fate of the nobility during and after the Bolshevik Revolution.

Douglas Smith is an award-winning historian and translator and the author of three previous books on Russia. Before becoming a historian\, he worked for the U.S. State Department in the Soviet Union and as a Russian affairs analyst for Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty in Munich. He lives in Seattle with his wife and two children.

END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130619T080708Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130124T013000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130124T013000Z UID:http://www.bookpassage.com/event/cooks-books-joanne-weir-cooking-confidence URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.bookpassage.com/event/cooks-books-joanne-weir-cooking-confidence SUMMARY:Cooks With Books\: Joanne Weir - Cooking Confidence DESCRIPTION:

Online Registration is now closed.
Please call (415) 927-0960 to inquire about remaining space.

Left Bank Restaurant

Admission\: $110 per person | $170 per couple (one book)

Joanne Weir\, a James Beard award-winning chef\, demystifies cooking techniques and gives the home chef 100 recipes for main courses that are easy\, comprehensive and delicious. Written as the companion cookbook to her new TV show\, Joanne Weir’s Cooking Confidence\, it will put the mojo back into your kitchen. Weir is the author of From Tapas to Meze\, You Say

Tomato\, and Recipes from the Wine Country.

Price includes the meal\, wine\, tax\, tip &\; a signed copy of the author’s book.

END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130619T080708Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130124T020000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130124T020000Z UID:http://www.bookpassage.com/event/oliver-burkeman-antidote-happiness-people-who-cant-stand-positive-thinking URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.bookpassage.com/event/oliver-burkeman-antidote-happiness-people-who-cant-stand-positive-thinking SUMMARY:Oliver Burkeman - The Antidote\: Happiness for People Who Can't Stand Positive Thinking DESCRIPTION:

Oliver Burkeman discusses The Antidote\: Happiness for People Who Can't Stand Positive Thinking ($25.00). Self-help books don’t seem to work. Few of the many advantages of modern life seem capable of lifting our collective mood. Wealth—even if you can get it—doesn’t necessarily lead to happiness. Romance\, family life\, and work often bring as much stress as joy. We can’t even agree on what “happiness” means. So are we engaged in a futile pursuit? Or are we just going about it the wrong way?

Oliver Burkeman is a feature writer for The Guardian. He is a winner of the Foreign Press Association’s Young Journalist of the Year award\, and has been short-listed for the Orwell Prize. He writes a popular weekly column on psychology\, “This Column Will Change Your Life\,” and has reported from New York\, London\, and Washington. He lives in New York City.

END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130619T080708Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130125T013000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130125T033000Z UID:http://www.bookpassage.com/event/class-rea-franjetic-world-travel-tips-galapagos-peru-and-bolivia URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.bookpassage.com/event/class-rea-franjetic-world-travel-tips-galapagos-peru-and-bolivia SUMMARY:Class\: Rea Franjetic - World Travel Tips\: Galapagos\, Peru and Bolivia DESCRIPTION:

World Travel Tips\: Galapagos\, Peru and Bolivia

Thurs.\, Jan. 24 • 6\:30-8\:30 pm • $25

Discover the best ways to access Darwin’s ecological find\; Peru—Machu Picchu\, the Incan treasures\, the beauty of the Andes and less traveled Bolivia with its rich Spanish colonial history.

World Travel Tips Series\:

Arctic and Antarctica

Thurs.\, Jan. 10 • 6\:30-8\:30 pm • $25

Argentina and Brazil

Thurs.\, Jan. 17 • 6\:30-8\:30 pm • $25

Southern Europe

Thurs.\, Jan. 31 • 6\:30-8\:30 pm • $25

Thurs.\, Feb. 7 • 6\:30-8\:30 pm • $25

Thurs.\, Feb. 21 • 6\:30-8\:30 pm • $25

Thurs.\, Feb 28 • 6\:30-8\:30 pm • $25

END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130619T080708Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130125T020000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130125T020000Z UID:http://www.bookpassage.com/event/clayborne-carson-martins-dream-my-journey-legacy-martin-luther-king-jr URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.bookpassage.com/event/clayborne-carson-martins-dream-my-journey-legacy-martin-luther-king-jr SUMMARY:Clayborne Carson - Martin's Dream\: My Journey & the Legacy of Martin Luther King Jr. DESCRIPTION:

Clayborne Carson presents Martin's Dream\: My Journey and the Legacy of Martin Luther King Jr. ($27.00). Selected in 1985 by Coretta Scott King to edit the papers of her late husband\, Dr. Carson has devoted most of his professional life to the study of MLK. In this candid and engrossing memoir\, Clayborne Carson traces his evolution from political activist to activist scholar. He vividly recalls his involvement in the movement’s heyday and in the subsequent turbulent period when King’s visionary Dream became real for some and remained unfulfilled for others. He recounts his conversations with key African Americans of the past half century\, including Black Power firebrand Stokely Carmichael and dedicated organizers such as Ella Baker and Bob Moses. His description of his long-term relationship with Coretta Scott King sheds new light on her crucial role in preserving and protecting her late husband’s legacy.

Clayborne Carson is professor of History at Stanford University and director of the Martin Luther King\, Jr.\, Research and Education Institute\, and also helped to design the King National Memorial. He has spoken about Dr. King and his legacy throughout the world\, and has appeared on many national radio and television shows\, including Good Morning America\, NBC Nightly News\, CBS Evening News\, The NewsHour\, Fresh Air\, Morning Edition\, Tavis Smiley\, Charlie Rose\, Democracy Now\, and Marketplace. Carson has also served as a historical advisory for numerous documentaries\, including “Freedom on My Mind\,” which was nominated for an Oscar in 1995.

END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130619T080708Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130126T010000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130126T010000Z UID:http://www.bookpassage.com/event/thien-pham-sumo URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.bookpassage.com/event/thien-pham-sumo SUMMARY:Thien Pham - Sumo DESCRIPTION:

Thien Pham presents Sumo ($14.99). Scott is a washed-up football player who never made it\, and whose girlfriend abandoned him along with his dreams of playing pro football. But things have a way of working out\, in this sweet\, poetic tale--and a new chapter in Scott's life begins as the old one ends. Offered a position in a Japanese sumo training "\;stable\,"\; Scott abandons his old life\, his old name\, and even his old hair color\, and becomes an aspiring sumo wrestler. And in so doing\, he begins to find some kind of center in himself...a center that had seemed lost for good.

Thien Pham\, the acclaimed illustrator of Gene Luen Yang's Level Up\, returns as the writer and artist of a unique new graphic novel. Highly poetic and structured to echo the slow build and sudden clash of a sumo match\, Pham's Sumo is an unusual and beautiful book. It's nearly a contradiction in terms\: a delicate\, deft\, tender tale about...sumo wrestling.

Thien Pham is a comic book and visual artist\, based in the Bay Area. He is also a high school teacher. Pham illustrated Gene Luen Yang's Level Up\, a YALSA Great Graphic Novel and New York Times Notable Children's Book. Sumo is his first solo work.

END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130619T080708Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130126T160000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130126T200000Z UID:http://www.bookpassage.com/event/postponed-class-amy-novesky-spot-childrens-writing-workshop URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.bookpassage.com/event/postponed-class-amy-novesky-spot-childrens-writing-workshop SUMMARY:POSTPONED Class\: Amy Novesky - On-the-Spot Children's Writing Workshop DESCRIPTION:

PLEASE NOTE\: This class has been postponed. Please contact erabin@bookpassage.com to be informed as soon as we reschedule this class.

Class limit of six

48-hour advance registration required

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.

END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130619T080708Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130126T170000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130126T200000Z UID:http://www.bookpassage.com/event/class-barbara-abercrombie-writing-your-life-story URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.bookpassage.com/event/class-barbara-abercrombie-writing-your-life-story SUMMARY:Class\: Barbara Abercrombie - Writing Your Life Into Story DESCRIPTION:

Please note\: this class is full!

Sat.\, Jan. 26 • 10\:00-1\:00 pm

Whether you’re writing about your life as memoir\, personal essay or fiction\, this three-hour workshop will offer you what every writer needs the most—inspiration and encouragement. Writing prompts and exercises will help you to get started or to dig deeper into your material\, and anecdotes about other writers will let you know you’re not alone in your struggle to write. Taught by veteran writer and UCLA Extension teacher\, Barbara Abercrombie\, whose latest book A Year of Writing Dangerously was chosen as one of the “Best Books for Writers” by Poets &\; Writers magazine.

END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130619T080708Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130126T200000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130126T200000Z UID:http://www.bookpassage.com/event/erica-bauermeister-lost-art-mixing URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.bookpassage.com/event/erica-bauermeister-lost-art-mixing SUMMARY:Erica Bauermeister - The Lost Art of Mixing DESCRIPTION:

Erica Bauermeister shares The Lost Art of Mixing ($25.95). In prose to be savored\, Bauermeister brings back some of the most engaging characters from School and introduces intriguing new personalities as she follows them around the seasons of a year. At the heart of her story once again is Lillian\, the chef and restaurant owner with a remarkable ability to bring out the hidden essence of people as well as ingredients\, and to combine both in surprising\, delightful new ways

Erica Bauermeister\, the bestselling author of The School of Essential Ingredients and Joy for Beginners\, is also the coauthor of 500 Great Books by Women\: A Reader’s Guide and Let’s Hear It for the Girls\: 375 Great Books for Readers 2-14. She has taught literature and creative writing at the University of Washington\, from which she holds a Ph.D. in literature\, and is a graduate of Occidental College.

END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130619T080708Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130126T200000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130126T200000Z UID:http://www.bookpassage.com/event/lisa-odonnell-death-bees URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.bookpassage.com/event/lisa-odonnell-death-bees SUMMARY:Lisa O'Donnell - The Death of Bees DESCRIPTION:

Lisa O'Donnell reads from The Death of Bees ($25.99). From the opening line of Lisa O’Donnell’s debut novel\, you know you are in for something different. "\;Today is Christmas Eve. Today is my birthday. Today I am fifteen. Today I buried my parents in the backyard. Neither of them were loved.” You quickly learn that the parents buried in the backyard are Izzy and Gene\, parents of Marnie and Nelly – two neglectful\, selfish\, generally heinous adults now moldering beneath loosely planted stalks of lavender. But you do not know how they got there. Not yet. The girls intend to keep the deaths a secret.

Lisa O’Donnell won the Orange Screenwriting Prize in 2000 for The Wedding Gift\, and in the same year was nominated for the Dennis Potter New Screenwriters Award. Originally from Scotland\, she lives in Los Angeles with her family where she is now a full time novelist.

END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130619T080708Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130126T213000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130126T233000Z UID:http://www.bookpassage.com/event/class-karen-benke-rip-page-1 URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.bookpassage.com/event/class-karen-benke-rip-page-1 SUMMARY:Class\: Karen Benke - Rip the Page! DESCRIPTION:

Adventures in Creative Writing for Fourth Grade Girls Only
Sat.\, Jan 26 • 2\:30-4\:30 pm • $45 per person

In this “play-shop\,” we’ll make word tickets to take home\, create “just because” poem cards for special two and four-legged friends\, and write a group poem quilt using images from the far corners of our imaginations. All materials provided. Please just bring your willingness to surprise yourself.

END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130619T080708Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130126T230000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130126T230000Z UID:http://www.bookpassage.com/event/ian-rankin-standing-another-mans-grave URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.bookpassage.com/event/ian-rankin-standing-another-mans-grave SUMMARY:Ian Rankin - Standing in Another Man's Grave DESCRIPTION:

On the twentieth anniversary of Ian Rankin's first American publication comes a novel bursting with the vitality and suspense that made its author one of crime fiction's most dazzling stars. Standing in Another Man's Grave ($25.99) is the triumphant return of John Rebus\, and a riveting story of sin\, redemption\, and revenge.

It's every parent's nightmare\: a fifteen-year old girl has disappeared. She was last seen hitch-hiking along a scenic highway in rural Scotland\, and the only other clue is a photograph sent from her phone. Two detectives\, one of them retired\, are working the case when they learn that there may be other victims out there\, stretching back a decade and more. The road itself may provide them with answers\, but a complicated case is only made worse by interference from conflicting witnesses\, the police department's own Internal Affairs division--and the ominous attentions of the missing girl's gangster stepfather.

Ian Rankin is a #1 international bestselling author. Winner of an Edgar Award and the recipient of a Gold Dagger for fiction and the Chandler-Fulbright Award\, he lives in Edinburgh\, Scotland\, with his wife and their two sons.

END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130619T080708Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130126T230000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130126T230000Z UID:http://www.bookpassage.com/event/dana-damara-oms-mat URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.bookpassage.com/event/dana-damara-oms-mat SUMMARY:Dana Damara - Oms from the Mat DESCRIPTION:

This event is preceded by a yoga workshop with Dana across the courtyard at Yoga Tree. Click here for details on the workshop.

After sending out Weekly Oms for over five years\, Dana Damara compiled her Oms into what is now known as Oms from the Mat ($17.99). Through the opportunities of her life\, she relates philosophical yoga principles in a way that allows all readers to truly relate and connect with the power and magic of this amazing practice.

Dana Damara has embraced yoga as a lifestyle both on and off the mat. Through her children\, writing\, yoga\, and creation of meaningful relationships with the community around her\, Dana has facilitated that power of soulfulness and spiritual awakening through yoga\, both for others and herself.

END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130619T080708Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130127T020000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130127T020000Z UID:http://www.bookpassage.com/event/susan-c-strong-move-our-message-how-get-americas-ear URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.bookpassage.com/event/susan-c-strong-move-our-message-how-get-americas-ear SUMMARY:Susan C. Strong - Move Our Message\: How to Get America's Ear DESCRIPTION:

Susan C. Strong shares Move Our Message\: How to Get America's Ear ($10.00). The 2012 election may be over\, but the future of our country still hangs in the balance. What citizens do in 2013 and beyond will make the difference. That’s why progressives need to “speak American” about the issues\, whether the focus is climate change\, the environment\, economic justice\, or peace. Using a concept Strong calls "\;American Framing"\;\, this book takes readers through the necessary steps to reach a mainstream audience with your message.

Susan C. Strong is the founder and executive director of The Metaphor Project\, http\://www.metaphorproject.org. She has been helping progressives and liberals mainstream their messages for the last 15 years.

END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130619T080708Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130127T180000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130127T200000Z UID:http://www.bookpassage.com/event/class-maureen-raytis-jill-lebeau-feng-shui-your-mind URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.bookpassage.com/event/class-maureen-raytis-jill-lebeau-feng-shui-your-mind SUMMARY:Class\: Maureen Raytis & Jill Lebeau - Feng Shui Your Mind DESCRIPTION:

Four Easy Steps to Rapidly Transform Your Life!

Sun.\, Jan. 27 • 11\:00-1\:00 pm • $45

Want to fall in love with your life? Your energy may control your destiny\, and and your energy often originates in your thoughts. Most of us think it has to be hard and take years to learn how to create what we want. Not so! Join us for an inspiring\, engaging and fun workshop. Experience the freedom and joy of clearing the clutter from your mind. Learn how to harness your energy to attract all the prosperity\, love and good fortune that you deserve.

END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130619T080708Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130127T200000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130127T200000Z UID:http://www.bookpassage.com/event/luis-alberto-urrea-queen-america-0 URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.bookpassage.com/event/luis-alberto-urrea-queen-america-0 SUMMARY:Luis Alberto Urrea - Queen of America DESCRIPTION:

Luis Alberto Urrea presents Queen of America ($14.99). The remarkable heroine of the beloved bestseller The Hummingbird’s Daughter makes a welcome return in an epic novel of love\, loss\, and miracles in America. More than two decades in the making\, this novel is the long-awaited sequel to The Hummingbird’s Daughter\, and showcases one of our most talented writers at the top of his form.

Luis Alberto Urrea is also the author of The Devil’s Highway and Into the Beautiful North. Winner of a Lannan Literary Award and Christopher Award\, he is also the recipient of an American Book Award\, the Kiriyama Pize\, an Edgar Award\, and a citation of excellence from the American Library Association. He is also a member of the Latino Literary Hall of Fame.

END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130619T080708Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130127T210000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130127T230000Z UID:http://www.bookpassage.com/event/cwc-presents-karen-leland-personal-branding-authors-writers URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.bookpassage.com/event/cwc-presents-karen-leland-personal-branding-authors-writers SUMMARY:CWC Presents\: Karen Leland - Personal Branding for Authors & Writers DESCRIPTION:

Karen Leland - Personal Branding for Authors &\; Writers\: Finding Your Unique and Authentic Voice and Message

Join us for this unique opportunity to create a strong and distinct personal brand as an author and writer for promotion in modern marketing and social media. Personal branding is not just a single statement or a clever quip but a multilayered\, congruent narrative told across multiple channels\, both online and off. The power is in knowing how to tell your story.

Karen Leland is the best-selling author of six business books and a freelance writer who has written for major magazines and newspapers. She is internationally known for her development of the SMG (Sterling Marketing Group) Brand Mapping™ process to help authors\, writers\, entrepreneurs and small business owners identify their own unique and authentic way of being and working in the world.

The Marin branch of the California Writers Club meets monthly at Book Passage\, except July\, August and December\, on the 4th Sunday of the month\, unless a holiday. 2\:00 p.m. to 4\:00 p.m. Meeting may feature a guest speaker\, a workshop or a panel discussion along with networking\, encouragement and writing news. All are welcome. www.cwcmarinwriters.com.

END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130619T080708Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130127T230000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130127T230000Z UID:http://www.bookpassage.com/event/louise-aronson-history-present-illness URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.bookpassage.com/event/louise-aronson-history-present-illness SUMMARY:Louise Aronson - A History of the Present Illness DESCRIPTION:

Louise Aronson shares A History of the Present Illness ($24.00). Drawing on Aronson's experience as the Associate Professor of Medicine and Director of the UCSF Medical Humanities Division\, this debut collection features 16 elegant and original stories about doctors and patients and the families of both. Taking readers into overlooked lives in the neighborhoods\, hospitals\, and nursing homes of San Francisco\, Aronson offers a deeply humane and incisive portrait of health and illness in America today.

Louise Aronson has an MFA from Warren Wilson College and an MD from Harvard.She has received the Sonora Review prize\, the New Millennium short fiction award\, and three Pushcart nominations. Her fiction has appeared in Bellevue Literary Review and the Literary Review\, among other publications.

END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130619T080708Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130128T020000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130128T020000Z UID:http://www.bookpassage.com/event/julia-flynn-siler-lost-kingdom-hawaiis-last-queen-sugar-kings-and-america%E2%80%99s-first-imperial-adv URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.bookpassage.com/event/julia-flynn-siler-lost-kingdom-hawaiis-last-queen-sugar-kings-and-america%E2%80%99s-first-imperial-adv SUMMARY:Julia Flynn Siler - Lost Kingdom\: Hawaii's Last Queen\, the Sugar Kings\, and America’s First Imperial Adventure DESCRIPTION:

Julia Flynn Siler talks about Lost Kingdom\: Hawaii’s Last Queen\, the Sugar Kings\, and America’s First Imperial Adventure ($16.00). Deftly weaving together a memorable cast of characters\, this work brings to life the ensuing clash between a vulnerable Polynesian people and relentlessly expanding capitalist powers. At the center of the story is Lili‘uokalani\, the last queen of Hawaii. Born in 1838\, she lived through the nearly complete economic transformation of the islands.

Julia Flynn Siler is an award-winning journalist. Her book\, The House of Mondavi\: The Rise and Fall of an American Wine Dynasty\, was a New York Times best seller. She has written for Business Week and the New York Times\, and is now a contributing writer for the Wall Street Journal in San Francisco.

END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130619T080708Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130128T194000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130128T212000Z UID:http://www.bookpassage.com/event/class-wendy-walsh-elementary-italian-continuing-students-0 URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.bookpassage.com/event/class-wendy-walsh-elementary-italian-continuing-students-0 SUMMARY:Class\: Wendy Walsh - Elementary Italian (For Continuing Students) DESCRIPTION:

Seven Mondays\: Jan. 28- Mar. 18 (no class Feb. 18) • 12\:40-2\:20 pm • $205

Prerequisite\: Students must be able to speak in simple sentences\, have studid both the present tense and the passato prossimo.

Students will continue to develop basic proficiency in speaking\, reading\, understanding and writing through introduction to new vocabulary and new grammatical structures. Emphasis is on conversation. Texts\: Ultimate Italian

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.

END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130619T080708Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130129T010000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130129T010000Z UID:http://www.bookpassage.com/event/stephen-tobolowsky-dangerous-animals-club URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.bookpassage.com/event/stephen-tobolowsky-dangerous-animals-club SUMMARY:Stephen Tobolowsky - The Dangerous Animals Club DESCRIPTION:

In this dazzling literary debut\, legendary character actor Stephen Tobolowsky delivers a brilliantly wrought\, moving\, and hilarious memoir that has less to do with acting than with love\, determination\, despair\, time\, memory\, and the destiny that each of us must discover for ourselves. Tobolowsky became known as a storyteller through his film Stephen Tobolowsky’s Birthday Party and his podcast “The Tobolowsky Files\,” which has developed a devoted following. The Dangerous Animals Club ($24.00) is a collection of twenty-six true stories that range from Tobolowsky’s childhood in Texas through college and graduate school at SMU and Illinois\, his long relationship with the celebrated (but then unknown) playwright Beth Henley\, the beginning of his work as a professional actor in Los Angeles and New York\, later successes in such movies as Groundhog Day and the current TV series Glee and Californication and parenthood.

Stephen Tobolowsky\, the quintessential character actor\, has appeared in more than one hundred movies and more than two hundred television shows. (USA Today recently noted that he was the ninth most frequently seen actor in film today.) His roles have spanned virtually the entire spectrum of a working actor’s career\, from the big-budget and Oscar-worthy (as head of the Ku Klux Klan in Mississippi Burning)\, to the cult phenomenon (Groundhog Day)\, to the buzzworthy (Heroes\, Deadwood). He currently performs his stories on “The Tobolowsky Files”\, available on iTunes. He lives in Los Angeles with his wife and two sons.

END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130619T080708Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130129T020000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130129T040000Z UID:http://www.bookpassage.com/event/book-group-pamela-feinsilber-meet-author-3 URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.bookpassage.com/event/book-group-pamela-feinsilber-meet-author-3 SUMMARY:Book Group\: Pamela Feinsilber - Meet the Author DESCRIPTION:

Four Mondays\: Jan. 28\, Feb. 25\, Mar. 25\, Apr. 29 • 7\:00-9\:00 pm • $95

We’ll have an intimate conversation with the authors of…the gripping true tale of “Hawaii’s last queen\, the sugar kings\, and America’s first imperial adventure”\; California-set stories with compassionate\, detailed views of fraught suburban lives\; a haunting\, award-winning literary thriller whose protagonist doesn’t know whether she’s murdered her friend or not\; and a lively\, funny\, yet very moving fish-out-of-water love story set in rural Japan. Longtime senior and literary editor of San Francisco magazine\, Pamela Feinsilber is a writing consultant and book editor.

Reading List
January\: Lost Kingdom by Julia Flynn Siler ($16.00)
February\: Swim Back to Me by Ann Packer ($14.95)
March\: Turn of Mind by Alice LaPlante ($15.00)
April\: If You Follow Me by Malena Watrous ($14.99)

END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130619T080708Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130129T020000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130129T020000Z UID:http://www.bookpassage.com/event/jean-davison-mother-fire URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.bookpassage.com/event/jean-davison-mother-fire SUMMARY:Jean Davison - Mother of Fire DESCRIPTION:

Marin author Jean Davison\, former teacher at Redwood and Drake and\, more recently\, an anthropologist and founder of IDEA\, an international development partnership organization launched in Marin in the 1980s\, returns to Book Passage with her newest book\, Mother of Fire\: An Iraqi Woman's Journey from Mosul to Malawi.

END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130619T080708Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130129T153000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130129T171500Z UID:http://www.bookpassage.com/event/class-wendy-walsh-3rd-year-italian-0 URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.bookpassage.com/event/class-wendy-walsh-3rd-year-italian-0 SUMMARY:Class\: Wendy Walsh - 3rd Year Italian DESCRIPTION:

Seven Tuesdays\: Jan. 29- Mar. 19 (no class Feb. 19) • 8\:30-10\:15 am • $205

Class will continue with the text Ultimate Italian. Emphasis is on conversation and the mastery of some of the more complex structures of this wonderful language.

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.

END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130619T080708Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130130T010000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130130T010000Z UID:http://www.bookpassage.com/event/adam-mansbach-rage-back URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.bookpassage.com/event/adam-mansbach-rage-back SUMMARY:Adam Mansbach - Rage is Back DESCRIPTION:

Adam Mansbach\, the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Go the F**k to Sleep\, returns with a fearless new novel Rage is Back ($29.95) about a too-wise kid and the father who left him\, the price of revenge and the greatest graffiti stunt New York City has ever seen.

Adam Mansbach’s books include the #1 international bestseller Go the F*** to Sleep\, the California Book Award-winning novel The End of the Jews\, and the cult classic Angry Black White Boy. His fiction and essays have appeared in The New York Times Book Review\, Esquire\, GQ\, The New Yorker\, The Los Angeles Times\, The Boston Globe and on NPR’s All Things Considered. He lives in Berkeley\, California.

END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130619T080708Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130130T020000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130130T020000Z UID:http://www.bookpassage.com/event/colin-winnette-animal-collection URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.bookpassage.com/event/colin-winnette-animal-collection SUMMARY:Colin Winnette - Animal Collection DESCRIPTION:

Colin Winnette is a writer and performer living in Chicago. He was a finalist for the 1913 First Book award\, and has published one novel\, Revelation\, and one collection of short prose\, Animal Collection. Read more about Colin and his work at colinwinnette.tumblr.com.

END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130619T080708Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130130T160000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130130T174500Z UID:http://www.bookpassage.com/event/class-wendy-walsh-high-intermediate-italian-11 URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.bookpassage.com/event/class-wendy-walsh-high-intermediate-italian-11 SUMMARY:Class\: Wendy Walsh - High Intermediate Italian DESCRIPTION:

Seven Weds.\: Jan. 30- Mar. 20 (no class Feb. 20) • 9\:00-10\:45 am • $205

Emphasis is on mastery of the language through conversation\, vocabulary work and reading. New textbook TBA.

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.

END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130619T080708Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130130T180000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130130T194500Z UID:http://www.bookpassage.com/event/class-wendy-walsh-intermediate-italian-wed URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.bookpassage.com/event/class-wendy-walsh-intermediate-italian-wed SUMMARY:Class\: Wendy Walsh - Intermediate Italian (Wed.) DESCRIPTION:

Seven Weds.\: Jan. 30- Mar. 20 (no class Feb. 20) • 11\:00-12\:45 pm • $205

Text\: Italian Second &\; Third Year by Joseph Tursi

Class will continue review of difficult structures. Emphasis is on conversation and mastery of following tenses\: il passato prossimo\, l’imperfetto\, il trapassato prossimo e il condizionale.

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.

END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130619T080708Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130131T020000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130131T020000Z UID:http://www.bookpassage.com/event/mary-roach-one-book-one-marin-2013-launch URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.bookpassage.com/event/mary-roach-one-book-one-marin-2013-launch SUMMARY:Mary Roach - One Book One Marin 2013 Launch DESCRIPTION:

In conversation with astronaut Rusty Schweickart

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 2013 One Book One Marin reading program with the selection of Packing for Mars ($15.95) by Mary Roach. Join us for the launch of this county-wide celebration with a talk and signing by the author.

From getting tattoos to bungee jumping to eating maggoty cheese\, humans undoubtedly do some strange things. But none of these activities comes close to the sheer weirdness of voluntarily - eagerly\, in fact - confining oneself to a tiny room without a proper shower or toilet within a wasteland that lacks water\, gravity\, or oxygen for a month or even a year. Welcome to space. In Packing for Mars\: The Curious Science of Life in the Void\, Mary Roach enters the final frontier - not the grand triumphs and tragedies that you see on TV but all the stuff in between - the small comedies\, the odd experiments\, and the everyday victories.

Mary Roach is the author of the bestselling books Stiff\: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers\, Spook\: Science Tackles the Afterlife\, and Bonk\: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex. She lives in Oakland\, California.

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.

END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130619T080708Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130131T160000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130131T174500Z UID:http://www.bookpassage.com/event/class-wendy-walsh-advanced-italian-7 URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.bookpassage.com/event/class-wendy-walsh-advanced-italian-7 SUMMARY:Class\: Wendy Walsh - Advanced Italian DESCRIPTION:

Seven Thurs.\: Jan. 31- Mar. 21 (no class Feb. 21) • 9\:00-10\:45 am • $205

Emphasis is on conversation\, through review. New text TBA.

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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Utilizing the lunar calendar\, a pillar of Chinese tradition and culture\, Deng Ming-Dao highlights festivals and ancient scriptures that correlate with the teaching of Taoism. Each day of the lunar year is represented with meditation\, poetry\, translated scripture and illustrations to impart key concepts and promote constant learning. With these tools\, The Lunar Tao ($18.99) encourages readers to practice Taoism at any point in their lives and internalize the core understanding of Taoism in digestible ways.

Deng Ming-Dao is the author of eight books\, including The Living I Ching\, Chronicles of Tao\, Everyday Tao\, 365 Tao\, and Scholar Warrior. His books have been translated into fifteen languages. He studied qigong\, philosophy\, meditation\, and internal martial arts with Taoist master Kwan Saihung for thirteen years and with two other masters before that.

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World Travel Tips\: Southern Europe

Thurs.\, Jan. 31 • 6\:30-8\:30 pm • $25

Rome\, Florence\, Paris\, Madrid\, Barcelona…How to visit the Alhambra or the Mesquite in Cordoba? Organize an itinerary around art\, culture\, food and wine.

World Travel Tips Series\:

Arctic and Antarctica

Thurs.\, Jan. 10 • 6\:30-8\:30 pm • $25

Argentina and Brazil

Thurs.\, Jan. 31 • 6\:30-8\:30 pm • $25

Galapagos\, Peru\, Bolivia

Thurs.\, Jan. 24 • 6\:30-8\:30 pm • $25

Thurs.\, Feb. 7 • 6\:30-8\:30 pm • $25

Thurs.\, Feb. 21 • 6\:30-8\:30 pm • $25