Corte Madera Events

Author Events at our Corte Madera store, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd., Corte Madera, CA, (415) 927-0960. All events are free & open to the public unless otherwise noted.

Jason Roberts - Every Living Thing (Corte Madera Store)

Saturday, April 13, 2024 - 4:00pm

Jason Roberts

Every Living Thing
The Great and Deadly Race to Know All Life

Corte Madera Store
Sat., April 13th, 2024 • 4:00pm PT

This event is free to attend and will be hosted in-person at Book Passage's Corte Madera Store. Please contact events@bookpassage.com with questions regarding events.
 

An epic, extraordinary account of scientific rivalry and obsession in the quest to survey all of life on Earth—a competition whose consequences still reverberate today—from the bestselling author of A Sense of the World

“[A] vibrant scientific saga . . . at once important, outrageous, enlightening, entertaining, enduring, and still evolving.”—Dava Sobel, author of Longitude

In the eighteenth century, two men—exact contemporaries and polar opposites—dedicated their lives to the same daunting task: identifying and describing all life on Earth. Carl Linnaeus, a pious Swedish doctor with a huckster’s flair, believed that life belonged in tidy, static categories. Georges-Louis de Buffon, an aristocratic polymath and keeper of France’s royal garden, viewed life as a dynamic swirl of complexities. Each began his task believing it to be difficult but not impossible: How could the planet possibly hold more than a few thousand species—or as many could fit on Noah’s Ark?

Both fell far short of their goal, but in the process they articulated starkly divergent views on nature, the future of the Earth, and humanity itself. Linnaeus gave the world such concepts as mammal, primate, and Homo sapiens, but he also denied that species change and he promulgated racist pseudoscience. Buffon formulated early prototypes of evolution and genetics, warned of global climate change, and argued passionately against prejudice. The clash of their conflicting worldviews continued well after their deaths, as their successors contended for dominance in the emerging science that came to be called biology.

In Every Living Thing, Jason Roberts weaves a sweeping, unforgettable narrative spell, exploring the intertwined lives and legacies of Linnaeus and Buffon—as well as the groundbreaking, often fatal adventures of their acolytes—to trace an arc of insight and discovery that extends across three centuries into the present day.

 


Jason Roberts is a writer of fiction and nonfiction. His previous book, A Sense of the World: How a Blind Man Became History’s Greatest Traveler, was a national bestseller and finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. A contributor to McSweeney’s, The Believer, and other publications, he lives in Northern California.

 


“As Jason Roberts reveals in this vibrant scientific saga, taxonomists take up their mission with a mix of insight and foresight, colored by their moment in history, not to mention their foibles, their vanity, and their all-too-human prejudices. . . . A story at once important, outrageous, enlightening, entertaining, enduring, and still evolving.”—Dava Sobel, author of Longitude

“An epic account of an impossible scientific undertaking and a rare blend of deep research, page-turning storytelling, and the beauty of the natural world. . . . Every Living Thing brings history to vivid life and animates an essential story with an ever-present sense of wonder.”—Charles Duhigg, author of Supercommunicators and The Power of Habit

 

 

Jason Roberts photo credit Christopher Michel.

 

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51 Tamal Vista Blvd
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Hailey Magee - Stop People Pleasing (Corte Madera Store)

Saturday, May 25, 2024 - 1:00pm

Hailey Magee

Stop People Pleasing

Corte Madera Store
Sat., May 25th, 2024 • 1:00pm

This event is free to attend and will be hosted in-person at Book Passage's Corte Madera Store. Please contact events@bookpassage.com with questions regarding events.
 

Please join us in welcoming viral life coach Hailey Magee for a celebratory talk on her insightful new work, Stop People Pleasing!

A viral life coach offers a practical, empathetic, and inspiring guide to breaking people-pleasing patterns that can harm our careers, relationships, physical, and psychic health.

For most of Hailey Magee’s life, people-pleasing came so naturally to her that she didn’t even have a word for it. When somebody wanted something from her—even a stranger—she gave it, no matter how uncomfortable, exhausted, or resentful she felt inside. People-pleasing, she learned, was a coping mechanism that had kept her physically and emotionally safe in the past, but wreaked havoc on her life in the present—and she was committed to breaking the pattern once and for all.

The solution that social media and self-help shelves gave her was to “Advocate for yourself! Speak up! Set boundaries!” But after years of ignoring her feelings and needs, Magee needed more than boundaries; she needed to reconnect with the “self” who was supposed to be doing the advocating. You can’t express yourself if you’re cut off from your feelings. You can’t fight for your needs if you don’t know what they are. And you can’t set boundaries with others until you believe you’re worthy of more than the bare minimum. Radically reconnecting with herself gave Magee the confidence and self-respect she needed to stand up for herself in her relationships. As she experienced a freedom she never thought possible, she became a certified life coach with the mission of helping others do the same.


Stop People Pleasing explains how anyone can break the pattern by learning their own feelings, needs, values, and desires; ending cycles of enmeshment and codependency; overcoming guilt; developing physical and sexual agency; and more. It is a refreshingly nuanced guide, exploring fundamental questions like:


-How can I tell when my genuine kindness veers into people-pleasing?
-How can I set boundaries while maintaining my empathy and generosity?
-When is it appropriate to compromise on my needs, and when is it not?

Combining social science, psychology, and hands-on coaching exercises, Stop People Pleasing teaches you how to connect with your own feelings, needs, and dreams; courageously advocate for yourself in your relationships with friends, family, and colleagues; soothe yourself through the growing pains of healing; and dive headfirst into pleasure and play. With fresh insight, heartfelt empathy, and a keen personal understanding of the pitfalls of people-pleasing, Magee helps you say what you need and get what you deserve.

 


Hailey Magee is a certified life coach who helps people around the world stop people pleasing and find their power. Her refreshingly nuanced perspectives on boundary-setting and self-advocacy have captured the attention of millions on social media, and her public talks and virtual workshops have welcomed tens of thousands of participants. Certified by Erickson Coaching International, Hailey is dedicated to offering clear, research-supported strategies for change, helping recovering people pleasers rediscover not only their power and agency, but their pleasure, joy, and sense of wonder. She lives in Seattle, Washington. You can find her at HaileyMagee.com or on Instagram at @HaileyPaigeMagee.

 

 

Hailey Magee photo courtesy of the publicist.

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Simone Gorrindo with Julia Scheeres - The Wives: A Memoir (Corte Madera Store)

Saturday, April 20, 2024 - 11:00am

Simone Gorrindo
In conversation with Julia Scheeres

The Wives
A Memoir

Corte Madera Store
Sat., April 20th, 2024 • 11:00am PT

This event is free to attend and will be hosted in-person at Book Passage's Corte Madera Store. Please contact events@bookpassage.com with questions regarding events.

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An Indie Next Pick!


“A haunting, beautifully written celebration of found sisterhood.” —Publishers Weekly, starred review
“A fearless, engaging, and important memoir.” —Library Journal, starred review
“[A] gorgeously rendered peek behind the curtain of military life.” —Booklist, starred review

A captivating memoir that tells the story of one woman’s experience of joining a community of army wives after leaving her New York City job—a profoundly intimate look at marriage, friendship, and today’s America.

When her new husband joins an elite Army unit, Simone Gorrindo is uprooted from New York City and dropped into Columbus, Georgia—a town so foreign she might as well have landed on the moon. With her husband frequently deployed, Simone is left to find her place in this new world, alone—until she meets the wives.

Gorrindo gives us an intimate look into the inner lives of a remarkable group of women and a tender, unflinching portrait of a marriage. A love story, an unforgettable coming-of-age tale, and a bracing tour of the intractable divisions that plague our country today, 
The Wives offers a rare and powerful gift: a hopeful stitch in the fabric of a torn America.

 


Simone Gorrindo’s writing has appeared in The New York TimesNew York magazine, LongreadsLos Angeles Review of BooksThe Christian Science MonitorThe Best Women’s Travel Writing, Self, and others. She holds an MS in journalism from Columbia University, and has received fellowships and grants for her writing and reporting from the International Women’s Media Foundation, the Georgia Council for the Arts, and the Hambidge Center for Creative Arts and Sciences. She lives in Tacoma, Washington, with her husband and two children. The Wives is her first book.

 

Julia Scheeres is the NYT best-selling author of the memoir Jesus Land: A Thousand Lives, about the Jonestown tragedy; and Listen, World! a biography of famed newspaper columnist Elsie Robinson. She lives in the East Bay with her family and is a member of the San Francisco Writers Grotto. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 



“Lyrical and poignant. An unforgettable memoir of sacrifice and determination.”  —STEPHANIE LAND, author of the New York Times-bestselling memoir Maid: Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother’s Will to Survive 

“The fineness of Gorrindo’s insight lends her writing the quality of looking through a prism, the details of the world around her both magnified and blurring, as she invites us into the secret world of army wives and the hidden planet of her own marriagefor what place is more strange and private and beautiful? This is a book about loving people even when you can’t understand them, and needing them even when you don’t like them, about being betrayed and unexpectedly saved, and ultimately about the power of human connection despite all our limitations. Gorrindo is a major talent." Rufi Thorpeauthor of the PEN/Faulkner Award finalist The Knockout Queen

 

 

Simone Gorrindo photo credit Jessica Uhler; Julie Scheeres photo courtesy of the publisher.

 

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51 Tamal Vista Blvd
Corte Madera, CA 94925

Left Coast Writers® Barbara Ridley - Unswerving (Corte Madera Store)

Saturday, April 13, 2024 - 2:00pm

Left Coast Writers®
Barbara Ridley

Unswerving

Corte Madera Store

Sat., April 13th, 2024 • 2:00pm PT

This event will be hosted in-person at Book Passage's Corte Madera Store. Please contact events@bookpassage.com with questions regarding events.
 

Please join us for a reading by Barbara Ridley from her book, UNSWERVING, and a Q&A hosted by Book Passage for this event organized by the Left Coast Writers.


When Tave wakes up alone in the hospital, she barely remembers the car wreck. Far from home, dazed, and despondent, she struggles to face the challenges of her new paralysis—all while worrying about her partner, Les, also severely injured in the accident, now cared for by her homophobic parents who refuse to allow contact.

In rehab, Tave relearns life skills and comes to recognize that her future will be completely different than she’d imagined. Where will she live? How will she find the help she needs? Can her friends rise to the occasion? Or will she be forced to move back in with her mother, putting up with endless talk of faith healers? Her one beacon of hope is Beth, her physical therapist. But Beth’s relationship problems with her own girlfriend push her toward overinvolvement—and risk damaging both her career and Tave’s recovery.

A story of courage, resilience, and love, 
Unswerving challenges readers’ preconceived notions of disability, of limitations, and of the inevitability of fate.

 


Barbara Ridley was born in England but has lived in California for most of her adult life. After a successful career in nursing, she is now focused on creative writing. Her debut novel, When It’s Over, set in Europe during WWII, won the IBPA Benjamin Franklin Silver Medal Award in Historical Fiction. Her work has appeared in literary journals such as Mud Season Review, The Forge Literary MagazinePersimmon TreeThe Copperfield Review and Stoneboat, among other places. This second novel, Unswerving, set in contemporary California, is inspired by her experience as a spinal cord injury nurse practitioner.


 
Unswerving is fresh, vital, and important, with a well-drawn plot that moves the narrative along briskly. There is no miraculous recovery, but there are small victories here.”—Anne Finger, author of A Woman, in Bed

“It is rare for a work of fiction to tackle such topics; filled with engaging characters and vividly depicted, Unswerving’s account of injury and healing is detailed and believable.”—Amy Hoffman, author of Dot & Ralfie
 
 

Barbara Ridley- photo credit - author.

 

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51 Tamal Vista Blvd
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Katerina Jeng - Gospel of a Whole Sun (Ferry Building Store)

Sunday, June 9, 2024 - 2:00pm
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Katerina Jeng

Gospel of a Whole Sun

SF Ferry Building Store

Sun., June 9th, 2024 • 2:00pm PT

This event is free to attend and will be hosted in-person at Book Passage's SF Ferry Building Store. Please contact events@bookpassage.com with questions regarding events.
 

From community activist and poet Katerina Jeng, a lyric exploration of the author’s journey back to her voice, her power, and the truest version of herself.

Gospel of a Whole Sun is a moving collection of poetry chronicling one woman’s journey of self-discovery over the course of three pivotal years. It documents the aftermath of a traumatic breakup, navigating anti-Asian violence during a global pandemic, coming out, and, ultimately, falling in love with life again.

A joyous and inspired debut from a gifted creator and healer, Gospel of a Whole Sun is a poignant look at the relationship of art-making to personal liberation.

 


Katerina Jeng (they/she) is a poet, community leader, and weaver of the sacred into the everyday. They are here to help guide humanity into a new paradigm world through humble service that is abundantly joyful, pleasurable, and free. Katerina’s writing explores love and power, and is inspired by their identity as a queer, neurodivergent, Filipina-Taiwanese-American femme; as well as the work of artists and activists of color who have come before them. 

Born and raised in New York, Katerina holds degrees in English and music from Cornell University. They are currently a fellow at Lighthouse Writer’s Workshop.

 

Katerina Jeng photo credit Caitlyn Schwarz 

 

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Tessa Fontaine - The Red Grove (Corte Madera Store)

Saturday, June 8, 2024 - 4:00pm
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Tessa Fontaine

The Red Grove
A Novel

Corte Madera Store

Sat., June 8th, 2024 • 4:00pm PT

This event is free to attend and will be hosted in-person at Book Passage's Corte Madera Store. Please contact events@bookpassage.com with questions regarding events.
 

When her mother goes missing, a young woman uncovers the secrets beneath her protected community.

The women asked: How are they safe?

And Tamsen Nightingale said: In this red grove, no woman can be harmed. No violence may come upon her. No injury to her flesh from the flesh of another.

The Story of the Sisters, Welcoming Incantation


The Red Grove is a special place, protected. Some say a spell was cast by the community’s founder, Tamsen Nightingale. Some say the mountain lions who stalk the nearby hills guard its mysteries and its people. Some say the mighty redwoods keep them safe.

Yet Luce’s mother, Gloria, has gone missing. A man came seeking answers among the Red Grove’s mysteries—a connection to the beyond—and died. And then Gloria vanished. The Red Grove is Luce’s whole world. She is devoted to its mission, its rituals and myths. But she knows that her mother, frustrated free spirit though she might be, wouldn’t just leave without a word, wouldn’t leave her little brother, Roo, and especially their aunt Gem, whose care in that suspended state of everdream depends on Gloria in every way. But as Luce tries to figure out what has happened to her mother, she discovers that this special place is not what it seems and that protection comes at a cost.

The debut novel by the acclaimed author of The Electric Woman, Tessa Fontaine's 
The Red Grove is an exploration of the legacies of violence, the price of safety, and the choices we make to protect what we love.

 


Tessa Fontaine is the author of The Electric Woman: A Memoir in Death-Defying Acts, which was named a New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice, a Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers choice, and a best book of the year by Southern Living, Amazon, Refinery29, and the New York Post. Her writing can be found in OutsideGlamourAGNI, and The Believer. She has been a sideshow performer, a shoe saleswoman, and a professor, and she taught for years in jails and prisons. She cofounded and runs the Accountability Workshop with the writer Annie Hartnett. Raised among the redwoods of Northern California, she now lives in Asheville, North Carolina, with her husband, daughter, goofy dog, and sassy cat.

 


The Red Grove is a deeply atmospheric, haunting, and propulsive missing-person tale that explores the reverberations of violence and our complex, sometimes mystical relationship with nature and with one another. In achingly beautiful language, Tessa Fontaine illuminates the space between reality and myth, story and history, utopia and dystopia. I loved this novel.”
—Angie Kim, author of Happiness Falls

“An eerie and beautiful exploration of the violence between men and women and the true nature of magic, The Red Grove is a shimmering, hidden world, and Tessa Fontaine is ferocious in every line. Intoxicating and impossible to put down.”
—Rufi Thorpe, author of Margo’s Got Money Troubles

 

 

Tessa Fontaine - photo credit Claire Marika 

 

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Sue DeVinny Art Reception (Corte Madera Store)

Saturday, May 18, 2024 - 3:00pm

Sue DeVinny Art Reception 

Corte Madera Store - Gallery

Saturday, May 18th, 2024 • 3:00pm PT

This event is free to attend and will be hosted in-person at Book Passage's Corte Madera Store. Please contact events@bookpassage.com with questions regarding events.
 

On Saturday, May 18th we are hosting Sue DeVinny in the Gallery

*On display in our Gallery May 5th through August 31st. 


"Sue DeVinny has enjoyed a lifelong passion for arts and crafts.  After enjoying a fulfilling teaching career and raising her children, she fell in love with watercolor painting when she first met Cara Brown, a well-known Bay Area watercolorist and teacher, in 2013.  Sue has since been painting weekly with Cara and the “Magnolias”, a group of talented and supportive artists.  Sue has developed her own style with watercolors as well as pastels, and she brings bold and bright colors to her favorite subjects – flowers, gardens, sunsets, beloved pets, and more. 

 

Sue has participated in Marin Open Studios, and her paintings have been exhibited locally at the Marin Civic Center, the Marin County Fair, Marin Cancer Center, Marin General Hospital,  and churches and shops around the county.  She is delighted and honored to share her work at the Book Passage.

You can see more of her paintings at suedevinnywatercolors.com."

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Select works - photo credit Sue DeVinny

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Janna Barkin - A Grand Love (Corte Madera Store)

Saturday, September 14, 2024 - 11:00am
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Janna Barkin

A Grand Love
Stories for Grandparents of Transgender Grandchildren

Corte Madera Store

Sat., Sept. 14th, 2024 • 11:00am PT

This event is free to attend and will be hosted in-person at Book Passage's Corte Madera Store. Please contact events@bookpassage.com with questions regarding events.
 

An early edition to the canon of literature for grandparents of trans children. 

"Be Love. Be Patience. Be Curiosity. Be Approachable. Be Supported. Being a grandparent to a trans child can feel isolating. Generational differences can make it challenging for you to understand what they're going through, and you might not have the vocabulary to discuss it with them, or have found peers who are experiencing something similar. At the same time - your love, understanding and acceptance will play a huge role in the flourishing of your trans grandchild. With up-to-date research on gender identity, letters and stories from grandparents on the same journey, resources for transgender youth and their families, and a selection of online and local support groups - this book provides uplifting, educational guidance on how to support your grandchild - and yourself!"--

 

Janna Barkin is a nationally recognized speaker & workshop facilitator on parenting trans kids. Her experience includes presenting at the Philadelphia Trans Wellness Conference, the Gender Spectrum Conference, California Council of Parent Participation Nursery Schools, at Fortune 500 corporations including The Gap and Microsoft, and at schools, bookstores, libraries, churches, synagogues, and other community gathering centers. She leads support groups for parents/caregivers, grandparents of transgender and gender expansive and questioning youth, and her blog has been published in the Huffington Post. She is based in California.
 




All transgender people, no matter their age, need a lot of support and reassurance, and having grandparents who are wholeheartedly supportive can make all the difference. This book is an invaluable resource for grandparents who want to better understand and support their transgender grandchildren. Through heartfelt letters and stories, alongside well researched information, this book provides insight, support and practical tips for grandparents as they strive to learn how to best demonstrate their love and support for their transgender grandchildren. Any grandparent who wants to learn how to be a positive and loving presence in their transgender grandchild's life needs to read this book.

--Liz Dyer, Founder of Real Mama Bears


Many years ago we offered the first grandparents group at the Gender Spectrum family conference-to standing room only. Now Janna Barkin gives everyone a wonderful chance to sit down-- with A Grand Love in hand. A must read if you are a grandparent, parent, or a person who wants to learn--from the words of grandparents, parents, children, and the author's unique expertise-how to love, support, and celebrate transgender, gender diverse, and gender creative young people, especially if they are your grandchild.

--Diane Ehrensaft, Ph.D, Director of Mental Health, UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital Child and Adolescent Gender Program.
 

 

 

Janna Barkin - photo courtesy of the author.

 

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51 Tamal Vista Blvd
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Eric H. Cline - After 1177 B.C.: The Survival of Civilizations (Corte Madera Store)

Sunday, June 2, 2024 - 2:00pm
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Eric H. Cline

After 1177 B.C.
The Survival of Civilizations (Turning Points in Ancient History #12)

Corte Madera Store

Sun., June 2nd, 2024 • 2:00pm PT

This event is free to attend and will be hosted in-person at Book Passage's Corte Madera Store. Please contact events@bookpassage.com with questions regarding events.
 

In this gripping sequel to his bestselling 1177 B.C., Eric Cline tells the story of what happened after the Bronze Age collapsed--why some civilizations endured, why some gave way to new ones, and why some disappeared forever

 

"A landmark book: lucid, deep, and insightful. . . . You cannot understand human civilization and self-organization without studying what happened on, before, and after 1177 B.C."--Nassim Nicholas Taleb, bestselling author of The Black Swan

 

At the end of the acclaimed history 1177 B.C., many of the Late Bronze Age civilizations of the Aegean and Eastern Mediterranean lay in ruins, undone by invasion, revolt, natural disasters, famine, and the demise of international trade. An interconnected world that had boasted major empires and societies, relative peace, robust commerce, and monumental architecture was lost and the so-called First Dark Age had begun. Now, in After 1177 B.C., Eric Cline tells the compelling story of what happened next, over four centuries, across the Aegean and Eastern Mediterranean world. It is a story of resilience, transformation, and success, as well as failures, in an age of chaos and reconfiguration.

 

After 1177 B.C. tells how the collapse of powerful Late Bronze Age civilizations created new circumstances to which people and societies had to adapt. Those that failed to adjust disappeared from the world stage, while others transformed themselves, resulting in a new world order that included Phoenicians, Philistines, Israelites, Neo-Hittites, Neo-Assyrians, and Neo-Babylonians. Taking the story up to the resurgence of Greece marked by the first Olympic Games in 776 B.C., the book also describes how world-changing innovations such as the use of iron and the alphabet emerged amid the chaos.

 

Filled with lessons for today's world about why some societies survive massive shocks while others do not, After 1177 B.C. reveals why this period, far from being the First Dark Age, was a new age with new inventions and new opportunities.

 


Eric H. Cline is professor of classics and anthropology at George Washington University. He is the author of Three Stones Make a Wall: The Story of Archaeology, Digging Deeper: How Archaeology Works, 1177 B.C.: The Year Civilization Collapsed, and (with Glynnis Fawkes) 1177 B.C.: A Graphic History of the Year Civilization Collapsed (all Princeton).

 

Eric H. Cline photo courtesy of the publicist.

 

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Marcia Naomi Berger - The Bipolar Therapist (Corte Madera Store)

Sunday, May 19, 2024 - 1:00pm
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Marcia Naomi Berger

The Bipolar Therapist
A Journey From Madness to Love and Meaning

Corte Madera Store

Sun., May 19, 2024 • 1:00pm PT

This event is free to attend and will be hosted in-person at Book Passage's Corte Madera Store. Please contact events@bookpassage.com with questions regarding events.
 

BIPOLAR THERAPIST IS NOT AN OXYMORON
 

When a sudden onset of manic episodes lands her in a psychiatric ward, what is an established, respected psychotherapist to do? With an otherwise firm sense of self
and an openness to new insights, Berger confronts the stumbling blocks of shame and stigma. A series of close friends and mentors stand by her through challenges with abusive colleagues, conflicted relationships with men, estrangement from her mother, and confusion about what truly matters.

 

The Bipolar Therapist is the only memoir that shows a complete recovery from bipolar disorder and describes how the author’s times as a psychiatric inpatient influenced her work positively as a psychotherapist serving psychiatric and alcoholic inpatients. Berger’s story hinges upon resilience, perseverance, drive, and courage.

 


Marcia Naomi Berger, MSW, LCSW is a psychotherapist who helps couples and others create fulfilling relationships. She wrote this memoir after decades of keeping her struggle with bipolar disorder a secret. She wants people with mental illness to know they are not alone and make her story readily available to their family members, therapists, friends, and others.

 


“Fast-paced and stimulating, a must-read! With unflinching honesty, Marcia Naomi Berger recounts her downward spiral into the abyss and her courageous road to recovery.” — Nancy Rosenfeld, co-author of New Hope for People with Bipolar Disorder

“The Bipolar Therapist takes on a serious topic, seasoning it with excitement, humor, and hope.” — Edward M. Hallowell, MD, author of Because I Come from a Crazy Family: The Making of a Psychiatrist

“By courageously showing her triumph over adversity, Berger helps replace the stigma around mental illness with respect, compassion, empathy, and understanding. Bravo!” — Linda Bloom, co-author of An End to Arguing

“Riveting!” — Amy Kahn, MSW

 

Marcia Naomi Berger photo credit Patty Spinks

 

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