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SUMMARY:Peninsula Virtual Bookfest
DESCRIPTION:PENINSULA VIRTUAL BOOKFEST\n2020 SCHEDULE\n\n\nWelcome Message from San Mateo County Supervisor Carole Groom and local librarians\nhttps://youtu.be/D__YAzFYfV0\n\n\nSeptember 2\, 1pm PT\nBurlingame Public Library presents a virtual bookfest featuring NPR’s Malaka Gharib\, Sari-Sari Storybooks’ founder Christina Newhard & NYT bestselling YA author Erin Entrada Kelly. Webinar/FB Live. (Fiction\, Middle School/YA)\nhttps://youtu.be/k4U_bDFfrmo\n\n\nSeptember 3\, 5pm PT\nSan Mateo County Libraries presents “Poetry & Home in Diaspora” featuring Kai Coggin\, Lee Herrick\, Antonio Lopez & Persis Karim. SMCL YouTube (Poetry)\nhttps://youtu.be/rH_thzyluCc\n\n\nSeptember 7\, 5pm PT\nSan Mateo County Libraries presents a virtual bookfest featuring Irenosen Okojie\, London-based author & winner of the 2020 AKO Caine Prize for African Writing\, Murzban Shroff\, Mumbai-based author & recipient of the John Gilgun Fiction Award\, and Ricco Siasoco\, San Francisco-based author & National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow. Facebook Watch Party. (Fiction)\nhttps://youtu.be/8eI1E8NySAg\n\n\nSeptember 10\, 6pm PT\nBurlingame Public Library presents a virtual bookfest featuring Thea Matthews with MK Chavez\, Natasha Dennerstein & Tongo Eisen-Martin. Webinar/FB Live. (Poetry)\nhttps://www.facebook.com/480Primrose/videos/1475338219322119\n\n\nSeptember 16\, 6pm PT\nDaly City Public Library presents a virtual bookfest featuring Veronica Montes with Alan Chazaro\, Elsa Valmidiano & Ricco Siasoco. Webinar/FB Live. (Fiction)\nhttps://www.facebook.com/DalyCityLibrary/videos/2661021164214044\n\n\nSeptember 17\, 6pm PT\nDaly City Public Library presents a virtual bookfest featuring Barbara Jane Reyes with Arlene Biala\, Marianne Chan\, Janice Lobo Sapigao & Jean Vengua. Webinar/FB Live. (Poetry)\nhttps://www.facebook.com/DalyCityLibrary/videos/754302115300958\n\n\nSeptember 20\n“The Makers’ Call to Action” featuring Kai Coggin\, Samuel Getachew\, Tureeda Mikell\, Dena Rod and Michael Simms.\nhttps://www.instagram.com/tv/CFVnf_YhmoM/\n\n\nSeptember 21\, 2:30pm PT\nBurlingame Public Library presents a virtual bookfest featuring Ellen Bass\, Hugh Behm-Steinberg\, Danusha Lameris\, hosted by San Mateo County Poet Laureate Emerita Lisa Rosenberg. Webinar/FB Live. (Poetry)\nhttps://youtu.be/TLLuK6Jp-_Y\n\n\nSeptember 21\, 6pm PT\nSan Mateo County Libraries presents a virtual bookfest featuring Johanna Ely\, Joel Katz\, Phyllis Klein\, Ron Riekki\, Jacki Rigoni\, Kim Shuck\, Tanuja Wakefield & July Westhale. Hosted by San Mateo County Inaugural Poet Laureate Caroline Goodwin. SMCL YouTube Channel. (Poetry)\n\nhttps://www.facebook.com/events/311565253246052/\n\n\n\nSeptember 22\, 6pm PT\nDaly City Public Library presents a virtual bookfest featuring Janet Stickmon with Michelle Bautista\, Herna Cruz-Louie & Melinda Luisa de Jesus. Webinar/FB Live. (Nonfiction)\nhttps://www.facebook.com/DalyCityLibrary/videos/681790089360727\n\n\nSeptember 24\, 6pm PT\nDaly City Public Library presents a virtual bookfest featuring Maw Shein Win with Jennifer Hasegawa\, Jenny Qi & Audrey T. Williams. Webinar/FB Live. (Poetry)\n\nhttps://www.facebook.com/events/2312434539051532/\n\n\n\nSeptember 30\, 6pm PT\nSan Mateo County Libraries presents a virtual bookfest featuring Carole Bumpus\, Joan Gelfand\, Audrey Kalman & Geri Spieler\, with California Writers Club Immediate Past President Lisa Meltzer Penn. SMCL Youtube Channel. (Fiction/Nonfiction)\n\nhttps://www.facebook.com/events/3266256730087640/\n\n\n\nOctober 3\, 1pm PT\nSouth San Francisco Public Library presents a virtual bookfest featuring children’s book authors Christina Newhard\, Gayle Romasanta & Justine Villanueva\, and illustrator Lynnor Bontigao. Webinar/FB Live. (Fiction/Nonfiction)\n\nhttps://www.facebook.com/events/3407003262725443/\n\n\n\nOctober 5\, 5pm PT\nSan Mateo County Libraries presents a virtual bookfest featuring Cody Tolmasoff. SMCL YouTube Channel. (Middle School/YA Fiction)\nhttps://youtu.be/A5dmcSeWnPE\n\n\nOctober 13\, 3pm PT\nSan Mateo County Libraries presents a virtual bookfest with devorah major\, Jason Bayani & James Cagney. SMCL Youtube Channel. (Poetry)\n\nhttps://www.facebook.com/events/719854585237673/\n\n\n\nOctober 23 (time TBA)\nSouth San Francisco Public Library presents a virtual bookfest featuring July Westhale\, author of “Occasionally Accurate Science” and Nomadic Press’ J.K. Fowler.\n\n\nOctober 26\, 5pm PT\nSan Mateo County Libraries presents a virtual bookfest featuring Francesca Bell\, Barbara Berman\, Joe Cottonwood\, Peter N. Carroll\, Ken Haas\, Kathleen McClung\, Connie Post\, & Lee Rossi. Hosted by San Mateo County Poet Laureate Emerita Lisa Rosenberg. Facebook Watch Party/SMCL Youtube Channel. (Poetry)\n\nhttps://www.facebook.com/events/4134399856630670/\n\n\n\nOctober 29 (details TBA)\n\n\n#virtualbookfest #bookfest #PeninsulaBookfest
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SUMMARY:Virtual Event: Carole Stivers and John Markoff
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Thursday\, September 3 at 6:00pm PST when Carole Stivers discusses her debut novel\, The Mother Code\, with John Markoff on Zoom! \nZoom Login Info \nPlease click the link below to join the webinar:\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/81537772295 \nWebinar ID: 815 3777 2295 \nPraise for The Mother Code \n“Carole Stivers is far from the first to wonder if motherhood can be scientifically replicated\, but this is a thoughtful and thought-provoking addition to that meditation. An end-of-times tale that focuses less on what has been lost and more on what and who might be saved (and how). Stivers’ wonderful story settles right on the line between human and machine\, as blame and threat and rescue and love shift from character to character in surprising and powerful ways.”—Karen Joy Fowler\, New York Times bestselling author of We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves \nAbout The Mother Code \nIn this mind-bending debut novel\, Carole Stivers explores what it means to be a mother in a world that is more chilling and precarious than ever. \nIt is 2049. When a U.S. attempt at stealth biowarfare goes awry\, a team of scientists is engaged to ensure human survival on earth. Their best efforts fail\, and they must turn to their last resort: a plan to place genetically engineered children inside the cocoons of large-scale robots—to be incubated\, birthed\, and raised by these machines\, which have been programmed with the latest advances in artificial intelligence: the Mother Code. \nKai is born in America’s desert Southwest\, his only companion his robotic Mother\, Rho-Z. Equipped with the knowledge and intuition of a human mother\, Rho-Z raises Kai and teaches him how to survive. As children like him come of age\, their Mothers transform too—in ways that were never predicted. When government survivors decide that the machines who raised the children must be destroyed\, Kai must fight to save the only parent he has ever known.
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SUMMARY:Hari Kunzru
DESCRIPTION:reading from his new book \nRed Pill: a novel \npublished by Alfred Knopf \nFrom the widely acclaimed author of White Tears\, a bold new novel about searching for order in a world that frames madness as truth. \n—- \nThis is a virtual event that will be hosted by City Lights on the Zoom platform. You will need access to a computer or other device that is capable of accessing the internet. If you have not used Zoom before\, you may consider referencing Getting Started with Zoom. \n———- \nEvent is free\, but registration is required. \n(Click Here) to register. Link to be posted soon. Check back with us. \n———– \n(Click Here) to purchase book (link to be posted soon!) \n———– \nAfter receiving a prestigious writing fellowship in Germany\, the narrator of Red Pill arrives in the Berlin suburb of Wannsee and struggles to accomplish anything at all. Instead of working on the book he has proposed to write\, he takes long walks and binge-watches Blue Lives–a violent cop show that becomes weirdly compelling in its bleak\, Darwinian view of life–and soon begins to wonder if his writing has any value at all. \nWannsee is a place full of ghosts: Across the lake\, the narrator can see the villa where the Nazis planned the Final Solution\, and in his walks he passes the grave of the Romantic writer Heinrich von Kleist\, who killed himself after deciding that “no happiness was possible here on earth.” When some friends drag him to a party where he meets Anton\, the creator of Blue Lives\, the narrator begins to believe that the two of them are involved in a cosmic battle\, and that Anton is “red-pilling” his viewers–turning them toward an ugly\, alt-rightish worldview–ultimately forcing the narrator to wonder if he is losing his mind. \n\nHari Kunzru is the author of five previous novels: White Tears\, The Impressionist\, Transmission\, My Revolutions\, and Gods Without Men. His work has been translated into twenty-one languages\, and his short stories and journalism have appeared in many publications\, including The New York Times\, The Guardian\, and The New Yorker. He is the recipient of fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation\, the New York Public Library\, and the American Academy in Berlin. He lives in Brooklyn\, New York. \nWhat has been said about Red Pill \n\n“Razor-sharp . . . as an allegory about how well-meaning liberals have been blindsided by pseudo-intellectual bigots with substantial platforms\, it’s bleak but compelling . . . ‘Kafkaesque’ is an overused term\, but it’s an apt one for this dark tale of fear and injustice.”—Kirkus (starred) \n“Dazzling . . . Kunzru has created a complex\, challenging\, and bold story about a world gone amok. . .” —Booklist (starred)
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SUMMARY:Virtual Event: Carole Stivers and John Markoff
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Thursday\, September 3 at 6:00pm PST when Carole Stivers discusses her debut novel\, The Mother Code\, with John Markoff on Zoom! \nZoom Login Info \nPlease click the link below to join the webinar:\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/81537772295 \nOr iPhone one-tap :\nUS: +16699009128\,\,81537772295#  or +13462487799\,\,81537772295#\nOr Telephone:\nDial(for higher quality\, dial a number based on your current location):\nUS: +1 669 900 9128  or +1 346 248 7799  or +1 253 215 8782  or +1 312 626 6799  or +1 646 558 8656  or +1 301 715 8592\nWebinar ID: 815 3777 2295\nInternational numbers available: https://us02web.zoom.us/u/kbL6VB5OXO\n \nPraise for The Mother Code \n“Carole Stivers is far from the first to wonder if motherhood can be scientifically replicated\, but this is a thoughtful and thought-provoking addition to that meditation. An end-of-times tale that focuses less on what has been lost and more on what and who might be saved (and how). Stivers’ wonderful story settles right on the line between human and machine\, as blame and threat and rescue and love shift from character to character in surprising and powerful ways.”—Karen Joy Fowler\, New York Times bestselling author of We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves \n“Some stories are so unique\, yet so universal\, that it is wonder they aren’t a part of the human fable already. Carole Stivers’s The Mother Code\, is such a novel. Simply written but powerful\, chock full of ideas and extrapolations about what it means to be a mother and all that such a word implies. Both apocalyptic\, yet hopeful\, treat yourself to this story. You’ll be well rewarded.”—James Rollins\, New York Times bestselling author of Crucible \n“I could not put down The Mother Code ! Part action adventure\, part sci-fi\, the novel is suspenseful and cinematic and such a pleasure to read. Carole Stivers is a masterful storyteller and she has combined science\, technology and history to tell a beautiful story of humanity and love.”—Devi S. Laskar\, author of The Atlas of Reds and Blues \nAbout The Mother Code \nIn this mind-bending debut novel\, Carole Stivers explores what it means to be a mother in a world that is more chilling and precarious than ever. \nIt is 2049. When a U.S. attempt at stealth biowarfare goes awry\, a team of scientists is engaged to ensure human survival on earth. Their best efforts fail\, and they must turn to their last resort: a plan to place genetically engineered children inside the cocoons of large-scale robots—to be incubated\, birthed\, and raised by these machines\, which have been programmed with the latest advances in artificial intelligence: the Mother Code. \nKai is born in America’s desert Southwest\, his only companion his robotic Mother\, Rho-Z. Equipped with the knowledge and intuition of a human mother\, Rho-Z raises Kai and teaches him how to survive. As children like him come of age\, their Mothers transform too—in ways that were never predicted. When government survivors decide that the machines who raised the children must be destroyed\, Kai must fight to save the only parent he has ever known.
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SUMMARY:Author Francesca Serritella Discussing The Ghosts of Harvard | Virtual Author Chat on Zoom
DESCRIPTION:Please join us on Thursday\, September 3\, 2020 at 7 PM PDT for an online discussion with author Francesca Serritella discussing her new novel\, THE GHOSTS OF HARVARD. \nOur discussion will be webcast on Zoom at https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84003372643. \n(Order your copy of THE GHOSTS OF HARVARD at https://bit.ly/ggpGhostsHarvard.) \nDescription\n\nTEEN VOGUE BOOK CLUB PICK • A Harvard freshman becomes obsessed with her schizophrenic brother’s suicide. Then she starts hearing voices. \n“A rich\, intricately plotted thriller . . . Serritella\, who is a Harvard grad herself\, writes about the campus with an insider’s savvy.”—Maureen Corrigan\, The Washington Post \n“Every time I thought I knew where Ghosts of Harvard was heading\, I turned out to be wrong. Part mystery\, part ghost story\, part psychological thriller\, this novel is all entertainment.”—#1 New York Times bestselling author Jodi Picoult \nCadence Archer arrives on Harvard’s campus desperate to understand why her brother\, Eric\, a genius who developed paranoid schizophrenia took his own life there the year before. Losing Eric has left a black hole in Cady’s life\, and while her decision to follow in her brother’s footsteps threatens to break her family apart\, she is haunted by questions of what she might have missed. And there’s only one place to find answers. \nAs Cady struggles under the enormous pressure at Harvard\, she investigates her brother’s final year\, armed only with a blue notebook of Eric’s cryptic scribblings. She knew he had been struggling with paranoia\, delusions\, and illusory enemies—but what tipped him over the edge? Voices fill her head\, seemingly belonging to three ghosts who passed through the university in life\, or death\, and whose voices\, dreams\, and terrors still echo the halls. Among them is a person whose name has been buried for centuries\, and another whose name mankind will never forget. \nDoes she share Eric’s illness\, or is she tapping into something else? Cady doesn’t know how or why these ghosts are contacting her\, but as she is drawn deeper into their worlds\, she believes they’re moving her closer to the truth about Eric\, even as keeping them secret isolates her further. Will listening to these voices lead her to the one voice she craves—her brother’s—or will she follow them down a path to her own destruction? \nAbout the Author\n\nFrancesca Serritella is the New York Times bestselling author of a nine-book series of essay collections co-written with her mother\, bestselling author Lisa Scottoline\, and based on “Chick Wit\,” their Sunday column in The Philadelphia Inquirer. She graduated cum laude from Harvard University\, where she won multiple awards for her fiction\, including the Thomas T. Hoopes Prize. Ghosts of Harvard is her first novel. \nPraise For…\n\n“Ghosts of Harvard is written with a masterly\, focused hand\, belying the fact that this is Serritella’s debut novel. The pages burn with frenetic energy and are peopled by memorable\, compelling characters. The tension is palpable\, the twists and surprises perfectly timed and the stakes as high as humans should be asked to endure. The end result\, a novel you will long remember and characters you will want to see again. A triumph in every respect.”—#1 New York Times bestselling author David Baldacci
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