Jean Shinoda Bolen - Moving Toward the Millionth Circle
In Jungian analyst and activist Jean Shinoda Bolen's writing, symbol, archetype, soul work, and synchronicity come together with activism and the potential to change the world or save the planet when grassroots and enlightened leaders work together. In her latest book, Moving Toward the Millionth Circle ($18.95), Dr. Bolen inspires and enlists women to be millionth circle, heart-centered activists in order to energize a 5th World Conference on Women in the 21st Century. The conference is not a goal in and of itself, but a means toward valuing women and the feminine to bring about a tipping point.
Moving Toward the Millionth Circle is a sequel to Dr. Bolen's popular The Millionth Circle with a slightly different focus. Her first book describes how real change happens when a critical number of people adopt a new perspective with how-to sections on ways to create women's circles with a sacred center. While still about women's circles, her new book focuses more on activism and how these circles can help to sustain and support (and be a sanctuary for) women working for change in their lives and in the world.
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- 51 Tamal Vista Blvd
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- Corte Madera ,
- Postal Code:
- 94925
Class: Leslie Keenan - Is There a Book in You?
Four Mon.: June 3 - 24 • 10:00-12:00 pm • $155
Have you always wanted to write but weren’t sure you had the time or the discipline? Leslie Keenan has thirty years’ experience helping people uncover and release their ideas. She has worked on over 80 published books. She knows what it takes to get a book from the first glimmer of an idea into its published form.
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- 51 Tamal Vista Blvd
- City:
- Corte Madera ,
- Postal Code:
- 94925
- Country:
- United States
Class: Silvia Iannelli - Beginning Italian Review
Four Mon.: June 3 - 24 • 6:00-8:00 pm • $120
This class will review the main principles of basic Italian grammar elements. It’s a language course tailored for students who have studied or have been exposed to the introductory fundamentals of the language.
Silvia Iannelli is a private Italian tutor who was born and raised in Rome. She creates a fun and welcoming environment for her students, motivating them through activities and exercises. Her personal quote is: “La traduzione della parola e’ nel cuore ~ The translation of a word is in the heart.”
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- 51 Tamal Vista Blvd
- City:
- Corte Madera ,
- Postal Code:
- 94925
George Packer - The Unwinding
Our American democracy is beset by a sense of crisis. Seismic shifts during a single generation have created a country of winners and losers, allowing unprecedented freedom while leaving the social contract in pieces, bringing the political system to the verge of breakdown, and setting citizens adrift to find new paths forward. In The Unwinding ($27.00), George Packer, author of The Assassins’ Gate: America in Iraq, tells the story of America over the past three decades in an utterly original way, with his characteristically sharp eye for detail and gift for weaving together complex narratives.
George Packer is a staff writer for The New Yorker and the author of The Assassins’ Gate: America in Iraq, which received several prizes and was named one of the ten best books of 2005 by the New York Times Book Review. He is also the author of two novels, The Half Man and Central Square, and two other works of nonfiction, The Village of Waiting and Blood of the Liberals, which won the 2001 Robert F. Kennedy Book Award. His play, Betrayed, ran in Off Broadway for five months in 2008 and won the Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Play. His most recent book is Interesting Times: Writings from a Turbulent Decade. He lives in Brooklyn.
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- 51 Tamal Vista Blvd
- City:
- Corte Madera ,
- Postal Code:
- 94925
Left Coast Writers® Salon : Oksana Marafiola - American Gypsy
Fifteen-year-old Oksana Marafioti is a Gypsy. This means touring with the family band from the Mongolian deserts to the Siberian tundra. It means getting your hair cut in “the Lioness.” It also means enduring sneering racism from every segment of Soviet society. Her father is determined that his girls lead a better, freer life. In America! Also, he wants to play guitar with B. B. King. And cure cancer with his personal magnetism. All of this he confides to the woman at the American embassy, who inexplicably allows the family entry. Soon they are living on the sketchier side of Hollywood.
In this affecting, hilarious memoir, Marafioti cracks open the secretive world of the Roma and brings the absurdities, miscommunications, and unpredictable victories of the immigrant experience to life. With unsentimentally perfect pitch, American Gypsy ($16.00) reveals how Marafioti adjusted to her new life in America, one slice of processed cheese at a time.
Book Passage hosts monthly meetings of Left Coast Writers® at our Corte Madera store. The monthly meetings provide an evening of literary connections, support, counsel, readings, writing tips, literary chat, unabashed networking, and great fun. Each meeting also features a presentation by one of several Bay Area literary figures. LCW has its own lively newsletter and website at www.leftcoastwriters.com/.
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- 51 Tamal Vista Blvd
- City:
- Corte Madera ,
- Postal Code:
- 94925
- Country:
- United States
Class: Josette Charbit Schwartz - Intermediate French Review
Four Tues. & Thurs.: June 4 - July 2 (no class June 20) • 10:00-12:00 pm • $235
This course is based on a variety of texts, songs, and poems to develop your grammar, enhance your vocabulary, and reinforce your speaking skills. We review syntax and improve your pronunciation. Be ready to sing in French, read a poem from Jacques Prévert or discuss a simple text related to current events.
Josette Charbit Schwartz has taught French in Marin at the Lycée Français, The Branson School and French American International in San Francisco. Born in Paris, Josette has lived in Marin County for 30 years and has a degree in Bilingual Education from France.
- Street:
- 51 Tamal Vista Blvd
- City:
- Corte Madera ,
- Postal Code:
- 94925
- Country:
- United States
