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Mel and Patricia Ziegler are the founders of Banana Republic and The Republic of Tea. They lives outside of San Francisco.
Tony Burroughs presents Get What You Want: The Art of Making and Manifesting Your Intentions ($15.95). Burroughs was a young man living in Hawaii when an older philosopher sage took him under his wing and became his mentor at an exotic fruit farm on the big island. Over a period of years, Tony learned how to farm as well as "The Information," a series of oral lessons, comprising a body of deep teachings about the very meaning of life and the history of mankind.
Tony Burroughs is an author, storyteller, and a cofounder of The Intenders of the Highest Good, a grassroots community movement with Intenders Circles in countries all over the world. Also the author of the popular daily email message "The Bridge," Burroughs lives in Mount Shasta, CA.
James Meek reads from The Heart Broke In ($28.00). From the prizewinning author of the international bestseller The People's Act of Love, comes a rich and intricate novel about everything that matters to us now: children, celebrity, secrets and shame, the quest for youth, loyalty and betrayal, falls from grace, acts of terror, and the wonderful, terrible inescapability of family.
James Meek is an award-winning writer whose novels include The People's Act of Love and We Are Now Beginning Our Descent. He lives in London.
"Flat-out amazing." — Salman Rushdie. "Ms. Homes just gets better and better." — Gary Shteyngart. "A seductive minefield of a novel." — John Sayles. "Wild and funny, questioning and true, she is a writer to go travelling with on the journey called life." — Jeanette Winterson.
A. M. Homes is the author of the memoir The Mistress's Daughter and the novels This Book Will Save Your Life, Music for Torching, The End of Alice, In a Country of Mothers, and Jack, as well as the story collections The Safety of Objects and Things You Should Know.
Litquake event: Lisa Zeidner reads from Love Bomb ($26.00), an inventive, mordantly funny novel about love, marriage, stalkers, and the indignities of parenthood. Love Bomb, a serious frolic written out of deep affection for all that it skewers, begins as a hostage drama and blossoms into a far-reaching tale about the infinite varieties of passion and heartbreak.
Lisa Zeidner has published four novels, including the critically acclaimed Layover, and two books of poems. Her stories, reviews, and essays have appeared in The New York Times, Slate, GQ, Tin House, and elsewhere. She directs the M.F.A. program in creative writing at Rutgers University in Camden, New Jersey.
Stacy London presents The Truth About Style ($32.95), in which the hilarious, beloved cohost of TLC's What Not to Wear examines the universal obstacles all women—including herself—put in their own way. London shares her own often painful history and her philosophy of the healing power of personal style. The Truth About Style is an inspiring, liberating, and often very funny guide to finding your truest self.
Stacy London is the cohost of TLC's What Not to Wear and has a regular segment on NBC's Today show called "Ask Stacy." She's the cofounder and stylist in chief of Style for Hire. In addition, she has appeared on numerous TV programs, including Oprah, Wendy Williams, and Access Hollywood. A contributing editor at People magazine, she previously worked at Vogue and Mademoiselle.
Robert Anasi discusses The Last Bohemia: Scenes from the Life of Williamsburg, Brooklyn ($15.00), a firsthand account of the transformation of Williamsburg from factory backwater to artists' district to trendy hub and high-rise colony. Passionate and provocative, The Last Bohemia is a celebration of the fever dream of bohemia, a lament, and a cautionary tale.
Robert Anasi is the author of The Gloves: A Boxing Chronicle, which George Plimpton called "as good as any I've read about the sport." He is a regular reviewer for The Times Literary Supplement, and teaches at the University of California, Irvine.
Book Passage celebrates the 10th Anniversary of the Marin School of the Arts. Please join us at this special event as our store will be filled with "the arts" - including exhibits of pottery, photography and painting in our Gallery, poetry readings and other creative writing presentations in our Events Room, and dance demonstrations and band performances on our Terrace.
Founded in 2003, the Marin School of the Arts provides high school students from Marin County and other parts of the Bay Area with a public school experience that offers comprehensive, challenging and intensive arts education within a larger program of academic and college-prep courses.
Shauna Sever presents Pure Vanilla: Irresistible Recipes & Essential Techniques ($22.95). Even with a history as rich as its naturally dreamy, creamy flavor, vanilla is overlooked, misunderstood, and generally taken for granted. Hundreds of cookbooks wax poetic about it, but few have given it its due! This special event includes a vanilla tasting!
Shauna Sever is the author of Marshmallow Madness! She writes the popular dessert blog Piece of Cake and is a host and reporter for food-related television, including "The Best of the Bay" for KRON4 in San Francisco. Her work has been published in Huffington Post Food, Working Mother, Food52, and more. She also runs Bake Sale Bakery, a dessert catering business in San Francisco, where she lives with her husband and daughter.
Rebecah Freeling is a storyteller, experienced early childhood educator, and parent coach. New to California, she recently joined the faculty of The Mountain School Early Childhood Center in Corte Madera. For thirteen years she was owner, Director and Lead Teacher of Briar Rose Children's Center in her home state of Ohio. Her magical stories, both original and drawn from the folk and fairy tale traditions, are enhanced by her own handmade table puppets and simple marionettes
Joanne Harris reads from Peaches for Father Francis ($26.95). The bestselling author of Chocolat and The Girl with No Shadow returns with an enchanting new novel: when Vianne Rocher receives a letter from beyond the grave, she has no choice but to return to the beautiful French village in which eight years ago she opened a chocolate shop and first learned the meaning of home.
Joanne Harris is the author of the Whitbread Award-nominated Chocolat (made into an Oscar-nominated film starring Juliette Binoche and Johnny Depp) and seven other bestselling novels. She plays bass guitar in a band first formed when she was 16, is currently studying Old Norse, and lives with her husband and daughter in Yorkshire.
Special for teens! L.B. Schulman reads from League of Strays ($16.95). Come celebrate at the book's release party - with treats,
giveaways, and other fun surprises! This suspenseful debut novel follows a group of teenage misfits - a motley crew of loners and an alluring, manipulative ringleader named Kade - in their delicious quest for revenge on those who have wronged them at school. New member Charlotte must choose between the League and her own conscience.
L. B. Schulman writes fantasy and contemporary fiction for young adults. She lives outside the San Francisco Bay Area. This is her first novel.
Maggie Stiefvater is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the novels Shiver, Linger, Forever, and The Scorpio Races. She is also the author of Lament: The Faerie Queen's Deception and Ballad: A Gathering of Faerie. She lives in Virginia with her husband and their two children
Filled with a luminous cast of characters, and told with searing honesty and ironic wit, Beamish Boy is a redemptive story of survival and letting go, as we follow Albert from one zany adventure and near-death experience to the next. He is run over by his best friend after blacking out in a driveway, contracts malaria in east Africa, and joins a psychedelic "therapy" cult, until he miraculously finds himself, through photography, poetry, and a hilarious awakening at a meditation retreat center, realizing finally, what it means to be fully alive and to truly love.
Beamish Boy charts a compelling spiritual journey, from violence and self-annihilation to creativity and self-realization. Not your typical addiction memoir, Beamish Boy reads more like a witty and poetic novel, offering a profound window into the human condition, complete with its tragedies and ecstasies—illuminating one man's quest for lasting wisdom.
Albert Flynn DeSilver is an internationally published poet, author, artist, teacher, speaker, and writing coach. He served as the first Poet Laureate of Marin County, California from 2008-2010. Albert is the author of several books of poetry including "Letters to Early Street," and "Walking Tooth & Cloud," and his work has appeared in dozens of literary journals and anthologies worldwide. He presents at literary conferences nationally, directs a homecare agency, and teaches in the Teen and Family program at Spirit Rock Meditation Center near his home in Woodacre, California.
You know that PBS Kids spot where the pig runs around and eats things that begin with the letter "p"? Bob made that! He made a bunch of other animations for PBS Kids and helped them develop a national literacy campaign.
Mani Feniger presents The Woman in the Photograph ($14.95). Feniger wanted nothing to do with the relics of her German mother's life. But when the fall of the Berlin Wall exposed buried secrets and startling revelations of her mother's past, she was drawn into an exploration of history, family, individuality, and identity that would change her life forever.
Mani Feniger was born in New York City and has lived in the SF Bay Area since 1975. Her first book, Journey from Anxiety to Freedom, has helps thousands of people acquire tools and understanding to heal from anxiety and trust themselves.
Carlos Andres Gomez discusses Man Up: Cracking the Code of Modern Manhood ($26.00). Inspired by the award-winning poet and actor's one-man play, Man Up is a coming-of-age memoir that redefines masculinity for the twenty-first-century male. Man Up is also an agent for positive change, meant to galvanize all men everywhere.
Carlos Andrés Gómez is an award-winning poet, actor, and writer. A former social worker and a former public school teacher, Gomez has performed at over 200 colleges and universities and has toured across North America, Europe, the Caribbean, and Africa. Named Artist of the Year at the 2009 Promoting Outstanding Writers Awards, he is a two-time International Poetry Slam Champion and two-time National Poetry Slam Finalist. He appeared on HBO's "Russell Simmons Def Poetry Jam" and appeared in Spike Lee's film Inside Man.
Tickets $55 (includes lunch & a signed book)
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Join us for lunch as Debra Dean talks about The Mirrored World. The critically acclaimed author of The Madonnas of Leningrad returns with a novel of love and madness set in 18th century Russia. Dean will be introduced by Isabel Allende, who described Dean's earlier work as "Elegant and poetic, the rare kind of book that you want to keep but you have to share."
Debra Dean will be introduced by Isabel Allende.
Debra Dean's bestselling debut novel, The Madonnas of Leningrad, was a New York Times Editors' Choice, a #1 Booksense Pick, a Booklist Top Ten Novel, and an American Library Association Notable Book of the Year. It has been published in twenty languages. Her collection of short stories, Confessions of a Falling Woman, won the Paterson Fiction Prize and a Florida Book Award.
Book Passage hosts literary luncheons with celebrated authors at our Marin store. These events are catered by the outstanding Insalata's Restaurant of San Anselmo. Can't attend the event? Order a signed copy today.
Louise Erdrich reads from The Round House ($26.99). This acclaimed author continues the trilogy begun with The Plague of Doves with the story of an Ojibwe woman ruthlessly attacked one summer morning in 1988. Because she refuses to speak about the event, her husband and 13-year-old son must find answers to their own questions.
Priority seating to this event offered with purchase of the author's new book from Book Passage.
Louise Erdrich is the author of twelve novels as well as volumes of poetry, children's books, and a memoir of early motherhood. Her debut novel, Love Medicine, won the National Book Critics Circle Award. The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse was a finalist for the National Book Award. Her most recent novel, a New York Times bestseller, received the high praise from Philip Roth, who wrote, "Louise Erdrich's imaginative freedom has reached its zenith - The Plague of Doves is her dazzling masterpiece." She lives in Minnesota and is the owner of Birchbark Books, a small independent bookstore.
Special for teens! From Rachel Cohn, the author of Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist, comes something different, Beta ($17.99), the first in a dazzlingly original science fiction series. This is the story of Elysia, a teenage clone. She was replicated from another teenage girl, who had to die in order for Elysia to exist. Beta is haunting, an unforgettable story of courage and love in a cor¬rupted world.
Rachel Cohn is the New York Times bestselling author of eleven young adult novels, including Gingerbread, Shrimp, and Cupcake and, with David Levithan, Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist and Dash and Lily's Book of Dares.
Max Byrd reads from The Paris Deadline ($27.95). From bestselling historical novelist comes a new novel set against the dramatic backdrop of Paris in the Jazz Age—a fascinating suspense tale interwoven with rich historical detail—as well as a story of love, suspense, and mystery in a world stumbling toward catastrophe.
"The Paris Deadline is the best 'code and cipher' novel I've ever read, a wonderful historical thriller, combining terrific characters with wit, erudition, more cool facts than your average encyclopedia, and a blistering narrative drive that makes the pages fly. Do not deny yourself the pleasure of reading this book!" —John Lescroart
"Wow! This is storytelling at its very best." —Michael Connelly.
Max Byrd is the award-winning author of fourteen books, including four bestselling historical novels and California Thriller, for which he received the Shamus Award. He was educated at Harvard and King's College Cambridge, England, and has taught at Yale, Stanford, and the University of California. Byrd is a Contributing Editor of The Wilson Quarterly and writes regularly for the New York Times Book Review.
Stephan Pastis is an attorney turned cartoonist. A graduate of the University of California, Berkeley, and the UCLA Law School, he worked as a lawyer before trying his hand at cartooning. Pastis lives in the Bay Area with his wife and two children.
Meet and greet with the author: Robert Balmanno presents September Snow ($15.95) and Runes of Iona ($15.95), books one and two of The Blessings of Gaia series. Set in a near-future dystopia, these idea-driven, page-turning action novels feature strong women characters out to save the planet in a time when mankind and life of earth are on a collision course.
Robert Balmanno has worked as a library specialist in a Silicon Valley library for more than 20 years. He is a trade union activist and served as a Peace Corps volunteer in West Africa. Balmanno earned his bachelor's degree in Political Science from the University of California, Santa Barbara and did post-graduate work at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland and the University of London, King's College.
Debbie Miller presents On Arctic Ground: Tracking Time Through Alaska's National Petroleum Reserve ($29.95). Fossilized dinosaur bones; caribou tracks, both ancient and new; wide open spaces; and vast migrations. As this new book shows, the National Petroleum Reserve Alaska is more than a natural resource, it is a place of rare, unprotected beauty and natural history.
Debbie S. Miller has lived in northern Alaska for nearly forty years, and has worked to protect the Arctic lands from industrial development for two decades. Her writings and photography have been published in a variety of newspapers, magazines, and books, including Midnight Wilderness, Seasons of Life and Land and Arctic Wings: Birds of the Arctic Wildlife Refuge.
Tracie McMillan talks about The American Way of Eating: Undercover at Walmart, Applebee's, Farm Fields and the Dinner Table ($16.00). After going undercover to labor in the fields of industrial farms, stock groceries at Walmart, and work in the kitchen at Applebee's, McMillan has eye-opening tales to tell about the people behind our food and the inner workings of the corporate food system.
Tracie McMillan has written about food, poverty, and the politics of both for The New York Times, Harper's Magazine, Mother Jones, Slate, Saveur and Gastronomica, among others. She received her BA in political science from New York University in 1999 and became the managing editor of the award-winning, independent magazine City Limits, where she won numerous awards and honors for her features on poverty and food.
Liz Gutman and Jen King present Liddabit Sweets Candy Cookbook: How to Make Truly Scrumptious Candy in Your Own Kitchen! ($17.95), the perfect marriage of sugar and spice, packed with 75 foolproof recipes, full-color photographs, and lots of attitude. The flavor combinations, down-to-earth advice, and easy directions make this the guide to turn to.
Liz Gutman and Jen King became friends while attending the French Culinary Institute's pastry program. Sharing a passion for locally produced, superior-quality ingredients and a love for (okay, obsession with) sweets, they opened Liddabit Sweets in 2009. They both live, eat, and dream in sugar in Brooklyn, New York.
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Greta Berlin presents Freedom Sailors ($15.00), an account of how a small group of ordinary people conceived and executed what seemed like a grandiose plan to break Israel's military blockade of the Gaza Strip, a blockade that keeps more than 1.5 million people in what amounts to an open-air prison.
"Freedom Sailors is a powerful record of the political and humanitarian activity of some of the best humans we are ever likely to meet, or learn about." —Alice Walker, Earthling poet, writer and activist.
"A riveting account of one of the great moments in the history of non-violent resistance: breaking the criminal and sadistic siege of Gaza, and letting the prisoners know that at least some in the outside world care about them and their grim fate. The Free Gaza flotillas are truly an inspiration." —Noam Chomsky, Ph.D. – Professor, MIT
- Pre-Event: the Plaza J Cafe will be open for light dinners
(Food may be brought into the theater)
- 5:15pm: doors open
- 6:00pm: the debate will be shown on the large screen in the Hoytt Theater
- Intermission following the debate
- 7:45pm: authors Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan in conversation
- Meet & greet and book signing & sales to immediatly follow program
Will Schwalbe presents The End of Your Life Book Club ($25.00). "What are you reading?" That's the question Will Schwalbe asks his mother, Mary Anne, as they sit in the waiting room of the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. This is the inspiring true story of a son and his mother, who start a "book club" that brings them together as her life comes to a close.
Will Schwalbe has worked in publishing; digital media, as the founder and CEO of Cookstr.com; and as a journalist, writing for various publications including The New York Times and the South China Morning Post. He is the coauthor, with David Shipley, of Send: Why People Email So Badly and How to Do It Better.
Listen to Phil Cousineau on KQED at 10 am, just before the event!
Phil Cousineau talks about The Painted Word: A Treasure Chest of Remarkable Words and Their Origins ($15.95).
In this delicious new book, a favorite local logophile and mythologist
has prepared a banquet of words (whose menu is made of brief
definitions, a tint of etymology and a smattering of quotes) which
untangles the interlocking meanings of words both old-fangled or new.
Phil Cousineau is an award-winning writer and filmmaker, teacher and editor, independent scholar and travel leader, storyteller and TV host. His fascination with art, literature, and the history of culture has taken him from Michigan to Marrakesh, Iceland to the Amazon, in a worldwide search for what the ancients called the "soul of the world." With more than 25 books and 15 scriptwriting credits to his name, the "omnipresent influence of myth in modern life" is a thread that runs through all of his work.
Dav Pilkey has written and illustrated numerous popular, award-winning books for children, including the Captain Underpants and Dumb Bunnies series; Dog Breath, winner of the California Young Reader Medal; and The Paperboy, a Caldecott Honor Book.
Don Lattin is an award-winning journalist and a reporter covering a wide range of religious figures and movements in the United States. He has written several books, including The Harvard Psychedelic Club: How Timothy Leary, Ram Dass, Huston Smith and Andrew Weil Killed the Fifties and Ushered in a New Age for America and Following Our Bliss: How the Spiritual Ideals of the Sixties Shape our Lives Today.
Huston Smith and Phil Cousineau talk about And Live Rejoicing: Chapters from a Charmed Life ($15.95). Smith, a spiritual trailblazer, has written comprehensive books about religion and a memoir of his own life, but nowhere has he merged the two elements of seeking and experience with such storytelling flair as he has in these pages.
"One loves what Huston Smith brings to us as one loves an unfailing source of light and warmth. A book — a life — that nourishes the spirit as it opens the heart." — Jacob Needleman
Huston Smith is recognized and revered as the preeminent teacher of world religions and a prolific author. He was the focus of the five-part television series The Wisdom of Faith hosted by Bill Moyers. // Phil Cousineau is an editor, filmmaker, creativity consultant, literary tour leader, and the author of numerous books, including The Art of Pilgrimage.
Marc Allen presents The Magical Path: Creating the Life of Your Dreams and a World That Works for All ($15.95). At the start of his career, Allen never took a business course; he simply made what he calls "a sloppy, disorganized, lazy, and intuitive search through the books of Western magic." There he found tools that took him from poverty to being a multimillionaire and helped him create one of the most successful independent publishers in the country.
Marc Allen, in addition to his work as a writer, speaker, and publisher, is an accomplished composer of inspirational music. He lives in Novato, CA.
Charity Shumway received an MFA in Creative Writing from Oregon State University and a BA in English from Harvard University. Her writing has appeared in Glamour, where she reported on the fiftieth anniversary of the magazine's "Top Ten College Women" contest, Ladies Home Journal, and Fitness, among others.
Adair Lara shows how to get your memoir started—or finished. You will learn all the vital elements: the arc, reflective voice, scene vs. narrative, fact vs. truth, and writing about family members. She also explains what it takes to get published. There will be in-class exercises and assignments. Writers of fiction and essays are welcome too. A former San Francisco Chronicle columnist, Lara is the author of 12 books, including Naked, Drunk and Writing, her popular guide to essay and memoir.
Admission $115 per person
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SPQR on Fillmore Street in San Francisco is the place to explore Italian cuisine and artisanal wines. The SPQR cookbook, SPQR: Modern Italian Food and Wine, explodes with those flavors and traditions, providing inspiration for chef Matthew Accarrino's dishes, such as Chestnut Pasta Broccoli de Cicco, Burnt Orange Sauce and Pork Jowl. Accarrino and wine director/owner Shelley Lindgren host this event at SPQR's sister restaurant, A16, on Chestnut Street.
Don't wait to sign up - space is limited. Price includes the meal, wine, tax, tip & a signed copy of the author's book. Reserve at Book Passage (415-927-0960) or at bookpassage.com/food-wine-events Can't attend the event? Order a signed copy.
Please join four celebrated authors who are members of a longstanding local writers group, North 24th Writers. Allison Hoover Bartlett is the author of The Man Who Loved Books Too Much ($15.00). Katharine Ellison is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and the author, most recently, of Buzz: A Year of Paying Attention ($24.99) as well as three other books, Susan Freinkel is the author of Plastic: A Toxic Love Story ($27.00) and American Chestnut: The Life, Death, and Rebirth of a Perfect Tree ($22.95) and Julia Flynn Siler is the author of the bestsellers, The House of Mondavi ($16.00) and Lost Kindom: Hawaii's Last Queen, the Sugar Kings, and America's First Imperial Adventure ($30.00).
North 24th Writers is a group of ten Bay Area women who have been meeting twice a month for over a decade. Collectively, the group has published ten nonfiction books as well as hundreds of articles and essays in major magazines, newspapers, literary journals and online publications.They'll discuss 1) how to form a writing group, 2) formats that work (and don't), 3) challenges, and 4) the surprising side-benefits of creating your own work group. For more information on North 24th Writers, please visit: http://north24thwriters.com/.
Marilyn Yalom discusses How the French Invented Love: Nine Hundred Years of Passion and Romance ($15.99). The French have long championed themselves as guides to the art of love through their literature, paintings, songs, and cinema. This new book is a delicious, witty, sexy and learned guide to the language of all our hearts.
Diane Johnson describes this book as "Absolutely marvelous, so lively and learned," while Diane Ackerman calls it "Seductive and fascinating. Marilyn Yalom is the perfect companion for this delightfully candid tour de l'amour."
Marilyn Yalom is a senior scholar at the Institute for Women and Gender at Stanford University. She is the author of A History of the Wife; A History of the Breast; Blood Sisters: The French Revolution in Women's Memory; and Maternity, Mortality, and the Literature of Madness. She lives in Palo Alto, California, with her husband, psychiatrist and writer Irvin Yalom.
Judith Tripp presents Circleway, The Story of the Women's Dream Quest ($16.00), a book about a spiritual gathering for women that began at San Francisco's Grace Cathedral in 1987 and is now presented all over the country. Tripp, who shepherds the gathering, introduces us to the psycho-spiritual exercises, songs, meditations, and experiences of the Quest.
Judith Tripp has been a transpersonal psychotherapist for 29 years. She leads the Women's Dream Quest at Grace Cathedral in San Francisco and around the country as well as Pilgrimages to Avalon, a yearly tour of the sacred sites of England.
Takashi Tanemori presents Hiroshima: Bridge to Forgiveness ($29.95), the story of the author's journey from WWII-era Japan to a new life in America. In 2005, sixty years after the bombing of Hiroshima, Takashi returned to his childhood home to reflect on his life's path in light of what history has taught us and to reconcile a six-decade long relationship rift with his older sister.
Takashi Tanemori founded the nonprofit Silkworm Peace Institute, dedicated to international peace, and today he works to promote forgiveness and peace.
Scott Hutchins, a Truman Capote Fellow in the Wallace Stegner Program at Stanford University, received his MFA from the University of Michigan. His work has appeared in StoryQuarterly, The Rumpus, The New York Times, and Esquire. He currently teaches at Stanford.
Join us for a reception with local artist Ann Garrett. Ann is a Marin County writer, watercolor artist and printmaker. When Ann began painting in 1997, her pieces were full of hearts—large ones and small, as details in the design or the focus of the piece itself. She began experimenting with fine art printmaking in 1998. The current show is a collection of hand-made prints of her watercolors, many of them heart-themed.
"Ann Garrett Watercolors" is on display September through November, 2012.
Live Music Event!
Join Bill Moody as he celebrates his newest mystery Czechmate: The Spy Who Played Jazz ($19.75). Moody will be joined on stage by pianist Dick Fregulia and bassist Steve Webber for a live jazz session to accompany the reading.
Czechmate is the latest installment of Moody's popular Evan Horne mystery series. Dick Fregulia's CD Jazzitalia will also be available purchase at the event.
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Join Tom Douglas at the Left Bank restaurant in Larkspur for what is sure to be a very special and very tasty event.
Tom Douglas was just named 2012's "Outstanding Restauranteur" by the James Beard Foundation. He is the owner of 13 food establishments. His dahlia bakery is known to many locals as home to the Triple Coconut Cream pie as well as artisan breads, handmade pastries, sandwiches, soups and more. This brunch will delight all palates — join us!
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Maricel Presilla is a culinary historian who specializes in the foods of Latin America and Spain. "People go to the gym, I go to the kitchen," says Presilla, a scholar turned chef. In the voluminous and gorgeous Gran Cocina Latina: The Food of Latin America, home chefs will find over 500 recipes ranging from sofritos to empanadas, from ceviches to moles and from flan to tres leches cake. Presilla is a cookbook author, owner of Zafra and Cucharamama restaurants in Hoboken, NJ and just named the James Beard award Best Chef Mid Atlantic, She is also the President of Gran Cacao Co., a Latin American food and research company that specializes in the sale of premium cacao beans.
Join Maricel Presilla at Marinitas restaurant in San Anselmo for what is sure to be a very special and very tasty event.
Don't wait to sign up - space is limited. Price includes the meal, wine, tax, tip & a signed copy of the author's book. Reserve at Book Passage (415-927-0960) or at bookpassage.com/food-wine-events Can't attend the event? Order a signed copy.
Joins us for a fast-paced and irreverent evening, showcasing new work from the students of the San Francisco Writer's Grotto writing classes. On this Friday evening, both fiction and nonfiction writers will read their work — but only for 3 minutes each! Their instructors (Grotto authors) will enforce the time limit. Join us for wine, fun, and fresh new writing.
Nearly 2 million people in Northern California suffer from chronic kidney disease, including 1 million living in the Greater Bay Area. Luncheon proceeds support the work of the National Kidney Foundation to directly enhance the lives of people in our community who are either dialysis or transplant patients, or at risk for developing kidney disease.
Individual Tickets are $125, Individual Tables are $1,100 before September 1st, and Table Sponsorships begin at $2,500. Reserve individual seating, a reader's table, or become a sponsor today! For more information, please call 415.543.3303 or visit this webpage.
Special event for kids!
Author Alina Chau reads from her new book The Treehouse Heroes: And the Forgotten Beast ($15.95). From their treehouse headquarters come five teen titans and their wise teacher. Now they must save the "Zez," a mystical Asiatic beast, from an encroaching civilization, the menacing General Moon, and his soldiers. Using all their varied powers, can the Treehouse Heroes protect their new friend and restore the balance of nature? Written by a veteran Dark Horse comics editor and illustrated by a "Star Wars: The Clone Wars" animator, this fresh blend of adventure and lyrical art will excite young readers.
Alina Chau is a prolific artist and professional animator in TV, video games, DVDs, and film. Currently she is an 3D story artist at LucasFilm on the Star Wars: The Clone Wars animated series. She has worked at Electronic Arts and Neopets.
Mastering Children's Writing
A New Workshop Salon Led by Andrea Alban
2nd Sunday each month • Corte Madera
5:00-8:00 pm • $180 per year (annual membership comes with one free private consultation with Andrea, a $60 value!) or $30 per monthly meeting
Spark your imagination and polish your manuscript in a community of enthusiastic writers. Listen to an engaging craft presentation, practice new writing and editing techniques, give and receive peer feedback, and go home to your desk with a monthly assignment — energized and inspired. Craft topics will include style and voice, point of view, characterization, fictional time and place, plot and story arc, and the art of revision. We will also explore manuscript submission, book promotion, and establishing an online presence and platform as a writer. Andrea Alban is the author of nine books including The Happiness Tree and a YA novel, Anya's War. She holds a B.A. in Creative Writing.
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Mary Lou Schram talks about her novel Molly's Leap ($16.00). Molly's husband has just left for Saudi Arabia, when Molly inherits an apartment building in San Francisco. The new owner of valuable real estate, she soon meets Jack and is quickly enveloped in the Bay Area property frenzy, and a new love.
Fundraiser for the Marin General Hospital Lactation Center
& New Infant Care
Tickets $25 per person
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Join us for a fabulous night of Gifts!
6:30 pm: Wine & Appetizers
7:00 pm: Elaine's Book Review
8:30 pm: Shopping!
Start your Holiday shopping early! Join the Storks at Book Passage for delicious wine and appetizers, followed by a book talk with Elaine Petrocelli, Book Passage President and local celebrity book expert. Elaine will entertain us with a stirring book review of the best new books for moms, dads, grandparents and children of all ages. 100% of the event proceeds will go directly to benefit the Marin General Hospital Lactation Center and New Infant Care.
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The Storks is a volunteer fundraising branch of Marin General Hospital. We are a group of Moms with young children who came together with a shared interest in giving back to our community. Our focus is supporting the Lactation Center in helping the families of Marin. We host many fun, family-oriented fundraising events throughout the year—we hope you can join us at one or all of them!
Jim Rendon presents Super-Charged: How Outlaws, Hippies, and Scientists Reinvented Marijuana ($24.95). Rendon takes readers behind the scenes and into the homes and grow operations of the committed, quality-obsessed practitioners in the international underground industry responsible for creating today's super-charged cannabis.
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Join us as Ina Garten, the bestselling author and beloved star of "Barefoot Contessa" on Food Network, talks about her new book, Barefoot Contessa Foolproof: Recipes You Can Trust. Many home cooks falter when it comes to pairing dishes and planning ahead. With simple tried-and-true recipes and tips, Ina comes to the rescue - and shows how everything can come together effortlessly.
This special event with Ina Garten will be moderated by Marissa Mayer, the CEO of Yahoo! Each ticket entitles one person to admission and seating for the event, and one autographed copy of Ina Garten's Barefoot Contessa Foolproof: Recipes You Can Trust.
Ina Garten is the author of four previous cookbooks, which have sold more than three million copies. In 1978, Ina Garten left her job as a budget analyst in the White House to pursue her dream of operating a specialty food store. She is a frequent contributor to major national magazines and writes a recurring column in O Magazine. Her new television series on entertaining can be seen on Food Network.
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Barbara Kingsolver reads from her new novel Flight Behavior ($28.99), which follows the story of a Tennessee farm wife who dreams of something bigger. One day, she comes upon a forested glen filled with silent red fire. Fundamentalists, climate scientists, politicians, and the media all weigh in on the phenomenon, as locals fend off the invasion.
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Barbara Kingsolver is the author of seven works of fiction, including the novels The Poisonwood Bible, Animal Dreams, and The Bean Trees, as well as books of poetry, essays, and creative nonfiction such as Animal, Vegetable, Miracle. In 2000, she was awarded the National Humanities Medal, our country's highest honor for service through the arts. Her last novel, The Lacuna, was a best seller and also won the Orange Prize.
Tom Ricks talks about The Generals: American Military Command from WWII to Today ($36.00). From the bestselling author of Fiasco and The Gamble comes an epic history of the decline of American military leadership from World War II to Iraq. As military history, this is essential reading for anyone with an interest in the difference between good leaders and bad ones.
Thomas E. Ricks is a fellow at the Center for a New American Security and a contributing editor of Foreign Policy magazine, in which he writes the blog The Best Defense. Ricks covered the U.S. military for The Washington Post from 2000 through 2008. Until the end of 1999 he had the same beat at The Wall Street Journal, where he was a reporter for seventeen years. A member of two Pulitzer Prize-winning teams, he has covered U.S. military activities in Somalia, Haiti, Korea, Bosnia, Kosovo, Macedonia, Kuwait, Turkey, Afghanistan, and Iraq. He is the author of several books, including The Gamble and the #1 New York Times bestseller Fiasco, which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize.
Celebrate teens with Book Passage and several of the contributing authors of Dear Teen Me: Authors Write Letters To Their Teen Selves, a book of reflections and advice from nearly 70 young adult authors writing to their teen selves. Editor E. Kristin Anderson and contributors Marke Bieschke, Stacey Jay, Mike Jung, Katherine Longshore, Erika Stalder and Mariko Tamaki will talk about their letters and their experiences.
Dear Teen Me includes letters from six New York Times bestselling authors, including Lauren Oliver, Ellen Hopkins, Nancy Holder, Carrie Jones, Sara Zarr, Tom Angleberger, Robin Benway, and more, and covers a wide variety of topics including body issues, bullying, friendship, love. Some authors chose to write diary entries, some chose letters, and a few graphic novelists turned their stories into visual art, but they all offer invaluable wisdom and advice to young readers. All of the Dear Teen Me authors experienced challenging times as teens in one form or another, and now they are here to relate that it does get better!
Presented by Praxis Peace Institue & Dominican University
This year marks the 50th anniversary of the Port Huron Statement, the manifesto that lauched the seminal Students for a Democratic Society (SDS). Tom Hayden was the principle author of this document, which remains as relevant today as it was in 1962. Tom's breadth of experience and vision is unique in the peace movement. As a civil rights worker in the south, a peace activist, and a superb chronicler of our social history as it was -- and is -- unfolding, Tom's analysis always pierces the fog of misrepresentation and gets to the heart of the matter. No one understands social/political movements better than Tom Hayden, and his ideas for the future of democracy are critical in these times.
Tom combines the savvy of a political strategist with the heart of a life-long activist who is committed to systemic change. His new book, Inspiring Participatory Democracy ($21.95), will be available at this event, as will some of his earlier books, including copies of the Port Huron Statement with an updated forward.
Joins us for a fast-paced and irreverent evening, showcasing new work from the students of the San Francisco Writer's Grotto writing classes. On this Friday evening, both fiction and nonfiction writers will read their work — but only for 3 minutes each! Their instructors (Grotto authors) will enforce the time limit. Join us for wine, fun, and fresh new writing.
Rebecah Freeling is a master storyteller, experienced early childhood educator, and parent coach. New to California, she recently joined the faculty of Marin Mountain School Early Childhood Center in Corte Madera. For thirteen years she was owner, Director and Lead Teacher of Briar Rose Children's Center in her home state of Ohio. Her magical stories, both original and drawn from the folk and fairy tale traditions, are enhanced by handmade table puppets and simple marionettes. One often observes the children hearing her stories to be sitting on the edge of their seats, eyes wide and mouths open in anticipation!
With an artist's eye to describe Italy's beauty, Jojo Capece chronicles an unforgettable story of American expatriate, Bebe Deverton in All Roads Lead to Rome ($19.79). Deverton finds herself up against the kaleidoscope of the Italian network of Power - the Supreme Court, Mafia, CIA, Masons, and, ultimately, the Vatican - as the reader is transported to the splendour, romance and intrigue of the Eternal City.
Jojo Capece was educated in New York and London, has lived in three continents and resides in San Francisco with her husband.
Patsy Garlan presents Sea Change: The Uncertain Realm of the Married ($16.95), a novel set on a fictional Hawaiian island in mid-November, 1963. Katherine Somerset is a lovely woman married to a rich, charming man, with three well-behaved children and seemingly everything an educated, cultivated woman in her thirties could wish for. Yet, unaccountably dissatisfied, she begins to realize that she is just skimming the surface of her life and that perhaps there is another, deeper self, waiting to emerge.
Patsy Garlan has published poetry, personal essays, syllabuses for drama students, and, with co-author Maryjane Dunstan, two college texts about the future (Prentice Hall), and two children's books set in Burma (The Viking Press), where she lived for a year with her husband and their four children.
"From Blog To Book"
How do you create and write a blog that will capture the attention of book agents and publishers? Susan Sachs Lipman takes you through the steps, from concept and proposal through published book.
Susan Sachs Lipman is the author of Fed Up with Frenzy: Slow Parenting in a Fast-Moving World, which grew out of her award-winning blog, Slow Family Online. She writes for the Christian Science Monitor's Modern Parenthood blog, and is the Social Media Director for the international Children & Nature Network.
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.
Join Book Passage President (and grandmother) Elaine Petrocelli and Children's Book Buyer Susan Kunhardt to talk about the best new and classic books for children and young adults. Find out about Book Passage programs to help you share books with your grandchildren, or with other children, no matter where they live. Share the love of reading with the next generation!
Rebecah Freeling is a master storyteller, experienced early childhood educator, and parent coach. New to California, she recently joined the faculty of Marin Mountain School Early Childhood Center in Corte Madera. For thirteen years she was owner, Director and Lead Teacher of Briar Rose Children's Center in her home state of Ohio. Her magical stories, both original and drawn from the folk and fairy tale traditions, are enhanced by handmade table puppets and simple marionettes. One often observes the children hearing her stories to be sitting on the edge of their seats, eyes wide and mouths open in anticipation!
Elaine Petrocelli and a team of Book Passage booksellers lead a discussion of books for the holidays. Come join us as we present new books for all the readers on your holiday shopping list this season, from children's books to the latest literary fiction, and art books to thrillers—we'll have the best recommendations for readers of all ages and interests!
Joel Salatin presents Folks, This Ain't Normal: A Farmer's Advice for Happier Hens, Healthier People, and a Better World ($15.99). Virginia farmer Joel Salatin, hailed by The New York Times as "high priest of the pasture," has become the new voice of clean, local, healthy eating by urging people to take a better look at their food: What's in it, where is it coming from and how did it get the table? Whether praising the plusses of lawn farms and kitchen chickens to the dishing the dirt on Genetically Modified Foods and Tyson Chicken Farms, Salatin's wit, wisdom, storytelling magic and down-home philosophy shines through on every page.
Joel Salatin is a third generation family farmer working his land in Virginia's Shenandoah Valley with his wife, Teresa, son Daniel, daughter Rachel and their families. The Salatin Polyface Farm, an organic grass-fed farm, services more than 3,000 families, 10 retail outlets and 50 restaurants through on-farm sales and metropolitan buying clubs — and was featured in the national bestseller The Omnivore's Dilemma and in the Oscar-nominated documentary Food, Inc.
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Don't miss this fun and inspired evening with two popular New York Times food writers when thy pit food strategies and recipes against one another. Their cookbook, Cook Fight: Two Cooks, 12 Challenges, 125 Recipes - An Epic Battle for Kitchen Domination, is based on the author's 2009 article in the Times when they were challenged to create a dinner party for 6 on a budget of only $50. Possible? You be the judge at the Left Bank! Julia Moskin is a reporter for the New York Times and Kim Severson is the Atlantic bureau Chief for the New York Times and has received four James Beard Awards and is the author of Spoon Fed: How Eight Cooks Saved My Life.
Join Kim Severson & Julia Moskin at the Left Bank restaurant in Larkspur for what is sure to be a very special and very tasty event.
Don't wait to sign up - space is limited. Price includes the meal, wine, tax, tip & a signed copy of the author's book. Reserve at Book Passage (415-927-0960) or at bookpassage.com/food-wine-events Can't attend the event? Order a signed copy.
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Sheldon Siegel has jumped onto best seller lists and into readers' and reviewers' affections with seven extraordinary novels featuring San Francisco criminal defense attorneys Mike Daley and Rosie Fernandez. Siegel now returns to write about his hometown of Chicago in his electrifying new thriller, The Terrorist Next Door ($14.99)
Meet Detective David Gold. He's a third generation native of South Chicago—the hardscrabble neighborhood of steel mills, smokestacks, and steeples near the Indiana border. He's also one of Chicago's most decorated homicide detectives. More than a decade after 9/11, someone is setting off fire bombs in Chicago using untraceable cell phones. The international terror channels are silent. As the explosions continue and the death toll mounts, Gold is drawn into a desperate cat-and-mouse game against a brilliant and cunning mind.
New York Times best selling author Sheldon Siegel is a third-generation native of Chicago's Southeast Side. He is the author of seven critically acclaimed legal thrillers featuring San Francisco criminal defense attorneys Mike Daley and Rosie Fernandez.He lives in the San Francisco area with his wife, Linda, and their twin sons, Alan and Stephen.
Jon Meacham discusses Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power ($35.00). In this magnificent new biography, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author gives us an intimate portrait of Jefferson the human being, the president, and the politician — enabling us to understand Jefferson as never before.
Priority seating to this event with purchase of the author's new book from Book Passage. Please note in the comments field of your order your intention to come to this special event at Dominican University.
"This terrific book allows us to see the political genius of Thomas Jefferson better than we have ever seen it before. In these endlessly fascinating pages, Jefferson emerges with such vitality that it seems as if he might still be alive today." — Doris Kearns Godwin
"Jon Meacham resolves the bundle of contradictions that was Thomas Jefferson by probing his love of progress and thirst for power. Here was a man endlessly, artfully intent on making the world something it had not been before. A thrilling and affecting portrait of our first philosopher-politician." — Stacy Schiff
"A true triumph." — Walter Isaacson.
Jon Meacham is the Executive editor of Random House, a former editor of Newsweek, and author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning American Lion, as well as other best sellers.
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Bruce Aidells is a local legend, award-winning author of 11 cookbooks including The Complete Meat Cookbook, Complete Sausage Cookbook and Hot Links and Country Flavors. He is also the founder of Aidells' Sausage Company, hence the "Sausage King." His new book is The Great Meat Cookbook: Everything you Need to Know to Buy and Cook Today's Meat. Between the rise of the Internet, economy, small farming renaissance, "new" cuts of meat like bison and goat, Aidells' is a master at helping the home chef understand how to shop and what to look for in quality meat. He will also untangle the labels of "pasture-raised," "heritage," "organic," and other ambiguous stamps that may mislead consumers at the meat counter. When Aidell founded his small campus restaurant during college at UC Santa Cruz', he never knew that he would be the foremost authority on meat in the country. His wife, Chef Nancy Oakes is co-owner of Prospect in San Francisco.
Join Bruce Aidells at Prospect Restaurant in San Francisco for what is sure to be a very special and very tasty event.
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(415-927-0960) or at bookpassage.com/food-wine-events Can't attend the event? Order a signed copy.
Paola Gianturco presents Grandmother Power ($49.95). Gianturco's belief in a worldwide grandmothers movement comes alive by the 120 courageous women, activists, and change agents she has interviewed and photographed. Visually captivating, this work is an inspiration for everyone, as it cements the power of grandmothers worldwide.
Connie Clark talks about Joy After Fifty: A Woman's Guide to Passion, Purpose, and Lasting Happiness ($14.95). A practicing psychotherapist, Clark presents principles and practices inspired by the science of happiness, positive psychology and timeless spiritual wisdom. In your purse, at your bedside, or in your office, this book will become a cherished companion.
Tom Reiss presents The Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo ($27.00). With his critically acclaimed international bestseller The Orientalist, author Tom Reiss proved himself to be not only a supremely talented writer, but also a historical sleuth of the first order. Now, Reiss has surpassed himself, delivering a thrilling, sweeping narrative that introduces readers to one of history's greatest forgotten heroes: Alex Dumas. Drawing on more than six years of personal research—which included inspecting dungeon cells and even cracking open a safe to recover every piece of the puzzle—Reiss masterfully recounts the epic story of an outsized figure whose daring, courage, and sheer intellectual and athletic prowess formed the very model for the modern-day action hero.
Tom Reiss is the author of the celebrated international bestseller The Orientalist. He has written for The New Yorker, the Wall Street Journal, and the New York Times Book Review, among other publications. He lives with his wife and daughters in New York City.
Introduction by Don George!
Photographer Barry Brukoff presents Royal Cities of the Ancient Maya ($50.00). Leading Maya scholar, Michael D. Coe, and Brukoff, one of the world's finest photographers of ancient sites, bring the rich cultural heritage of the Maya vividly and authoritatively to life in this new work—irresistible to everyone from the casual visitor to Pre-Columbian experts.
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We'll all be clamoring to go to the Left Bank to celebrate Hubert Keller's Souvenirs: Stories and Recipes from My Life, the new book by one of America's most talented chefs, Hubert Keller. Raised in Alsace France, Keller was destined to be in the kitchen as he grew up above his father's patisserie. He apprenticed under many great French chefs until he landed in San Francisco and became the chef/owner of the popular Fleur de Lys restaurant along with his wife Chantal and Maurice Rouas. Chef Keller has been named the James Beard Foundation's "Best Chef: California."
Don't wait to sign up - space is limited. Price includes the meal, wine, tax, tip & a signed copy of the author's book. Reserve at Book Passage (415-927-0960) or at bookpassage.com/food-wine-events Can't attend the event? Order a signed copy.
In conversation with Jason Roberts
Peter Orner talks about his novel Love and Shame and Love ($14.99). Covering four generations of one family, Orner illuminates the countless ways that love both makes us whole and completely unravels us. A comic and sorrowful tapestry of memory, of connection and disconnection, this work explores the universals with originality and wisdom.
Jason Roberts is author of the bestselling A Sense of the World: How a Blind Man Became History's Greatest Traveler, a biography of James Holman, the blind adventurer of the early 19th century.
Also appearing: Sebastien Rouxel
Featuring Bouchon Bakery baked goods and coffee/tea service
Chef Thomas Keller shares his newest cookbook, Bouchon Bakery ($50.00). This cookbook, Keller's fifth, is a joyous exploration of his favorite all-American childhood treats and of the classic French pastries he adored as a young chef in Paris. Written with Sebastien Rouxel, who oversees pastry for The French Laundry, the Bouchon Bakeries, and per se, Bouchon Bakery is a wonder of beauty, playfulness, and inspired technique. Its recipes are marvels of ingenuity and simplicity.
Thomas Keller, author of The French Laundry Cookbook, Bouchon, Under Pressure, Ad Hoc at Home, and Bouchon Bakery, has six restaurants and six bakeries in the U.S. which continue to elevate the industry's standards. Keller's three-star Michelin Guide-rated fine dining restaurants, The French Laundry and per se, are considered two of the best restaurants in America and are consistently ranked among the top five eateries in the world.
Priority seating to this Book Passage event with purchase of the author's new book from Book Passage.
Charlotte Cheng has worked as a freelance illustrator and educational consultant for a variety of projects and companies including Walt Disney Imagineering and LeapFrog. Her debut as a picture book illustrator in A Moment in Time ($17.99) features a heartwarming tale of a family's photo-taking fun on a fine summer day. It's a perfect gift for any aspiring photographer or scrapbooker and a wonderful lesson about the value of capturing family moments. Come join Charlotte as she shares her journey in turning moments into memories and memories into universally accessible stories. Whether you're a writer, an illustrator, or just a lover of picture books, there is a story inside you that is waiting to be shared!
Margo True discusses The Sunset Essential Western Cookbook: Fresh, Flavorful Recipes for Everyday Cooking ($24.95). Awesome enchiladas; cool, crunchy Caesar salad—these iconic Western recipes are matched with 150 full color photos. The recipes include the best loved versions of the dishes tested by Sunset's food editors.
Told with self-lacerating honesty and unvarnished prose that rises on command to poetic intensity, Lucille Lang Day's Married at Fourteen ($16.95) is the absorbing memoir of a young woman who struggles to find storybook romance and a purpose in life beyond it—and, against cruel odds, succeeds.
Lucille Lang Day's first poetry collection, Self-Portrait with Hand Microscope, received the Joseph Henry Jackson Award. She received her M.A. in English and M.F.A. in creative writing at San Francisco State University. She is also the founder and director of the small press Scarlet Tanager Books.


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5.8-Magnitude Quake Unnerves East Coast
No reports of serious injuries
TUESDAY, Aug. 23 (HealthDay News) -- A rare -- for the East Coast -- earthquake rumbled up and down the eastern seaboard of North America Tuesday afternoon, jumbling nerves as far south as Atlanta and as far north as Canada.
The 5.8-magnitude quake was centered near Louisa, Va., about 85 miles southwest of Washington, D.C. The shaking forced the evacuations of all the monuments on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., as well as partial evacuations of the Pentagon, the White House and the Capitol, according to the Associated Press. And it prompted workers to walk out of office buildings in cities from Baltimore to Boston.
The quake was felt as far north as Toronto, as far west as Indiana and Kentucky and as far south as Georgia.
There were no reports of serious injuries from the temblor, which struck shortly before 2 p.m. eastern time. According to media reports, cell phone service was disrupted in some centers, probably due to a high volume of calls.
The quake did cause operators of two nuclear reactors in the same county as Louisa, Va., to take the plants off line as a precaution so safety systems could be examined, the AP reported, citing a U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission spokesman.
"It's a minor earthquake," said Dr. Charles Marmar, professor and chair of the Department of Psychiatry at the NYU Langone Medical Center in New York City. "Most people will go about their business without any distress."
But, he added, people who have experienced traumatic events such as the terrorist attack of Sept. 11 or combat may have more severe reactions.
"Sometimes people with mental illness can be more affected if they overgeneralize the threat; some people who have previous exposure to very severe traumatic events could be more affected," Marmar said.
"If someone were very heavily exposed to 9/11 or to combat or other stresses, they might be more unsettled by this. But, in general people do well."
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For more details on the quake, visit the U.S. Geological Survey.HealthDay staff SOURCES: Charles Marmar. M.D., professor and chair, Department of Psychiatry, NYU Langone Medical Center, New York City; U.S. Geological Survey; Associated Press Related Articles
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There are some great opportunities at Nielsen if you know how to work the system. Offers a great work/life balance.
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Little to no place to have private or confidential conversations, such as reviews with your manager or HR . Office atmosphere is cold. Even with new configuration of office space, people still don't talk to each other or make the office a comfortable working environment.
Not enough face-time with management and upper management
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Very client centric company
Opportunity to be involved with cutting edge technology and futuristic trends in consumer behaviour
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Project prioritisation and resource allocation is fuzzy and leads to flawed project execution at times.
Tough industry (Market research) even though Nielsen is the leader in most markets - lot of margin pressure, cost cutting drives and quality issuesAdvice to ManagementAdvice
Definitely continue with investments in technology that have the capability to put us far ahead of the market/competitors/consumers.
Also continue focus on improving quality and productivity.RecommendsApproves of CEO
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"Overall negative with respect to company direction and politics "
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I worked at The Nielsen CompanyPros
Nielsen is a leader in most of the markets the company serves, with name recognition and a generally good market image.Cons
Meeting/exceeding performance is at "all costs" with little reflection on the effectiveness of implemented policies, training, communication and organizational structure.Advice to ManagementAdvice
Senior management serves senior management first. In keeping tight structure, employee creativity is stifled. Your customers end up even farther removed from focus.Doesn't RecommendNo opinion of CEO


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Slovak Republic
Bratislava is the capital of Slovakia and also the country's largest city. It is located in southwestern Slovakia on both banks of the Danube River and is the only world capital that borders two countries: Austria and Hungary. Bratislava is the political, cultural and economic center of Slovakia. Take a grand tour of the city highlighted by Primatial Palace. Enjoy your second day with a tour to the wine-lands at the foot of the Small Carpathians. Wine tasting and entrance to museum is included.
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Discover Bratislava and its most famous attractions on a walking tour with a private English speaking guide explaining the city's fascinating history and culture. During the tour you guide will show you the Old Town highlights: St. Martin´s Cathedral (with entry), St. Michael´s Gate, Main Square with Old Town Hall and Statue of Roland, the first University Istropolitana from 15 century, the Primate´s Palace (with entry) famous for its beautiful collection of English tapestries depicting a love story from Greek history. Tour finishes at the historical Opera House and at Redoute - building of Slovak Philharmonics.
Enjoy a full day private tour to the Small Carpathian Mountains, hiding the best known vineyards in Slovakia. While walking through the typical wine growing towns, to the Driny-cave or at the manufacturing plant of majolica-ceramics - you will virtually feel the colours of Slovak rural life. The biggest cellar-vaults in Central Europe as well as the unique strategic fortifications system will leave a permanent and unforgettable impression. The degustation of the most famous Slovak wines with the local vintner in a typical vintner-cellar will raise your mood and keep this excursion forever in your heart. Entrance fees to Red Stone Castle, Small Carpathians Museum, Museum of Naive Art in Pezinok, and wine tasting are included.
Directly on the bank of the River Danube and right in the historical centre of Bratislava you can find the Hotel Devin (4*) which has undoubtedly been part of the history of the capital city since 1954. Thanks to its significant architectural style the hotel is now deemed to be a jewel of functionalist style, however, the works of art of the most important Slovak artists can also be found here. The single and double rooms are equipped in a classical style and every room has everything you may need for your comfort - adjustable air-conditioning, TV set with wide selection of satellite programmes, internet connection and a mini-bar. Moreover, you may select from smoking and non-smoking rooms. Also, it is only up to you whether you want a view of the River Danube or Bratislava Castle and the city centre.
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April 21, 2014
"Melissa Field was extremely helpful! She was courteous, professional, knowledgeable, and friendly! She kept me updated on the status of everything and provided timely correspondence. She took ownership for any problems I had and remedied them. I had the most amazing time of my life in Iceland and Paris! I would not have experienced everything without the help of Kensington Tours."
Marilynn Weaver ,
April 21, 2014
"All of our guides were beyond fabulous! Our time in Dublin was much too short, would have loved to stay there at least one more full day. Would recommend extending this package to 15 days for any future visits. The train to Edinburgh was super! Beautiful scenery and great steak pies!"
Ann Saxon ,
November 06, 2013
"Our trip was fantastic!!! I cannot say enough good things. Lianne worked with our exact dates and time frame beautifully.Our drivers were prompt and friendly. The private guides were so knowledgeable. We left with an appreciation of the history, the culture, and the beauty of Andulasia. We were very pleased and will certainly recommend your company to friends and family."
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November 05, 2013
"Everyone involved in our Portugal trip made it terrific. Exactly as advertised. Every event on time and most pleasant. Guides were well-informed, courteous and friendly. Really made for a great journey every time. Each hotel was clean, upgraded and staffed with knowledgeable and friendly folks. Breakfasts were complete -- almost too much to eat. It will always be a wonderful memory thanks to Kensington Tours."
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November 06, 2013
"We've been raving to everyone about the food, the friendliness of the people and the amazing history and sites in Turkey. Yes, we want to go back."
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October 22, 2013
"Overall, our tour in Spain was very enjoyable, and well planned and executed. Our private tour of the Alhambra was excellent. Virginia, tour guide for royal palace ruins outside of Cordoba, was also excellent. In Seville, we went to the Flamenco Show/dinner, and the Flamenco was outstanding!"
Kevin Wilshere ,
October 19, 2013
"Great trip to Spain! Thanks again for all your help, Lianne. The destinations, hotels, guides and everything were all top notch."
Chery Westlund ,
November 07, 2013
"My husband and I took a 3 week vacation to southern Europe and North Africa and had a great time. All the guides were very knowledgeable and bent over backwards to accommodate us. The arrangements made by Kensington went off without a hitch. This is our second trip with Kensington (we went to Peru in 2009) and we will certainly book with them again."
Randy Gramlich ,
October 07, 2013
"Thank you for your follow up, we both loved our time in Croatia. It's really a beautiful place, especially the coast. Your choice of hotels was great. It was an incredible view from the Bellevue hotel in Dubrovnik and the Vestibule in Split was in the best possible location. We were able to relax in our room listening to the wonderful singers in the courtyard and its central location made it so easy to walk anywhere we wanted to see with ease. "
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September 24, 2013
"We just returned from a 10 day trip to Paris and Normandy. We spent three nights in Paris and then enjoyed a seven night cruise on the Seine to Normandy with AMA Waterways. The time in Paris was well spent and has piqued our interest to return for a more thorough visit. Guide Wafaa Lankey was superb in our visit to Versailles. The Seine cruise was relaxing and beautiful. So many wonderful little towns and we wished we had more time in each one to explore and enjoy.
We traveled to Croatia and Slovenia using Kensington earlier this year which was a fantastic trip."
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Oakland Police Chief Howard Jordan said today that one suspect has been arrested in connection with one of the four homicides across Oakland on Friday and there's a warrant for a second suspect but he declined to release their names.
Speaking at a news conference in front of a mural in the 6400 block of International Boulevard, where 3-year-old Carlos Nava was fatally shot on Aug. 8, 2011, Jordan said police are following leads and conducting "a thorough and comprehensive investigation" into the four fatal shootings but he doesn't want to disclose much information because officers are seeking additional suspects.
Jordan said two of the four homicides on Friday were linked to what he described as groups of young people who are responsible for "90 percent" of the homicides, shootings and robberies in Oakland in the past eight months but didn't describe them as gangs.
"I'm not labeling any of them as gang-related," Jordan said.
The chief said, "Two groups have been at war with each other" since the shooting death early last summer of a young woman affiliated with one of the groups.
"They're feuding over the death of a young lady," Jordan said.
The two groups are getting bigger and "continue to grow almost every weekend," he said.
Although some city leaders have called for Oakland to declare a state of emergency and take tough measures such as imposing curfews because of the rash of homicides, Jordan said he doesn't think sweeping measures are needed because police have a good idea who the perpetrators are and are focusing on the small percentage of the population that believe are causing most of the violence.
He said, "The entire community is not involved" in carrying out the shootings and it would be "wasting our resources" to impose tough citywide measures.
Referring to the suspects responsible for the recent homicides, Jordan said, "We're going to be aggressive and relentless and bring them to justice."
Jordan said that if Oakland declared a state of emergency it only would enable the city to get help from the state for seven days and would have to be extended by Gov. Jerry Brown.
"It would only be a seven-day fix," he said.
Mayor Jean Quan, who joined Jordan at the news conference, said she agreed with Jordan that formally declaring a state of emergency isn't necessary, saying, "We've already been acting as if we've been in a state of emergency for a while."
Quan noted that Brown has already assigned a small group of California Highway Patrol officers to work on violence suppression measures in East and West Oakland for the past several months and said the city is trying to get the agreement extended.
Jordan said the city is seeking other short-term measures such as hiring 11 Alameda County sheriff's deputies for up to 180 days but he said the long-term solution is "hiring and training more Oakland police officers to be here for the next 25 years."
The chief said recruits from one police training academy will hit the streets later this year and recruits from two additional academies will come online be early 2014.
However, Jordan the new officers will only bring a net increase of about 60 to 70 officers to the department's currently-low staffing level of 616 officers because it loses four or five officers a month to attrition.
He said the addition of the new officers "is not enough but it's a start in the right direction," as the academy that began last fall and will finish later this year is the first one the city has had in four years.
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