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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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LOCATION:CA
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ORGANIZER;CN="San Mateo County Poet Laureate Aileen Cassinetto":MAILTO:acassine@gmail.com
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SUMMARY:Creative Writing: At The Intersections with Taneasha White
DESCRIPTION:Creative Writing: At The Intersections focuses on the identities we hold and how they contribute to making up who we are. Sometimes we don’t have the opportunity to embrace them fully or we’re given limitations on who we can be because of how we show up in the world. For a safe(r) space to simply explore your creative nonfiction or memoir writing through prompts by diverse writers and dedicated writing time\, tap into this virtual session.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/creative-writing-at-the-intersections-with-taneasha-white/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Classes and Workshops,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Writing from Your Life\, with Meghan Ward (via Wet Ink)\, Oct. 15
DESCRIPTION:THURSDAYS\, OCT. 15 — NOV. 19  | Everyone has a story to tell. Tell yours in 2020 with Writing From Your Life\, an asynchronous six-week workshop that will teach you the nuts and bolts of writing personal essay and memoir. You’ll read passages from the masters\, do weekly craft exercises\, and submit longer pieces of your work to be critiqued by the whole class. Don’t miss this opportunity to turn your life stories into completed drafts of literature. (Writing will be critiqued on the Wet Ink platform with an optional Zoom workshop every Thursday.) \nAsynchronous learning materials for this class will be available online (via the Wet Ink platform). Scheduled class sessions will take place via Zoom. Registered students\, please contact the instructor directly for Zoom details \nMeghan Ward is the author of the memoir Runway: Confessions of a Not-so-Supermodel. She is a freelance writer\, book editor\, social media consultant\, and founder of Writerland.com\, a blog about writing\, editing\, and publishing. Her work has appeared in The Rumpus\, San Francisco Magazine\, 7×7\, Mutha\, the San Francisco Chronicle\, It’s So You: 35 Women Write About Personal Expression Through Fashion and Style\, and Wake Up and Smell the Shit: Hilarious Travel Disasters. Follow her on Twitter @meghancward\, on Facebook @meghanwardauthor\, and on Instagram at meghancward. \nContact: meghanward@gmail.com  \nNumber of sessions: 6 \nDates: Thursdays\, October 15\, 22\, 29; November 5\, 12\, 19 \nTime: Asynchronous; Wet Ink modules go live at 7:00am Pacific time
URL:https://litseen.com/event/writing-from-your-life-with-meghan-ward-via-wet-ink-oct-15/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Classes and Workshops,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Conversations with Authors - Steph Kent & Logan Smalley (Virtual Event)
DESCRIPTION:Steph Kent and Logan Smalley’s book\, The Call Me Ishmael Phone Book\, is a revival of the yellow-pages directory you remember\, but instead of contact information\, it is filled with messages collected from book lovers all over the United States about the books that have changed their lives. \nSteph is a writer\, multimedia producer\, and former host of the literary radio show on Anchor. She is currently Special Projects Director on the Webby Award–winning Masters of Scale podcast\, and led The Wall Street Journal team in product management for their mobile-first news app. As a freelance producer\, she works with startups and companies making the world a better place\, including Singularity University\, National Geographic\, The Emerson Collective\, and XPRIZE\, among others. Steph writes a weekly newsletter on creativity and is a competitive boxer. \nLogan is the founding director of TED’s youth and education initiative\, TED-Ed—an award-winning website\, content format\, and program offering that serves millions of teachers and students every day. Prior to working for TED\, Logan was selected as a TED Fellow for his roles as director\, editor\, and composer of the nonprofit\, feature-length film\, Darius Goes West. Logan began his career as a special education teacher in his hometown of Athens\, GA\, and he currently lives and works in New York City.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/conversations-with-authors-steph-kent-logan-smalley-virtual-event/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Virtual
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL: Cory Doctorow / Attack Surface
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith and Berkeley Arts & Letters host a virtual event with Cory Doctorow for his new book Attack Surface\, a standalone novel set in the world of New York Times bestsellers Little Brother and Homeland. Please join us! \nPlease note: \n>  This is a free virtual event\, but RSVP is required. \n>  We have an early start time of 5pm PST. \n\nMost days\, Masha Maximow was sure she’d chosen the winning side. \nIn her day job as a counterterrorism wizard for an transnational cybersecurity firm\, she made the hacks that allowed repressive regimes to spy on dissidents\, and manipulate their every move. The perks were fantastic\, and the pay was obscene. \nJust for fun\, and to piss off her masters\, Masha sometimes used her mad skills to help those same troublemakers evade detection\, if their cause was just. It was a dangerous game and a hell of a rush. But seriously self-destructive. And unsustainable. \nWhen her targets were strangers in faraway police states\, it was easy to compartmentalize\, to ignore the collateral damage of murder\, rape\, and torture. But when it hits close to home\, and the hacks and exploits she’s devised are directed at her friends and family — including boy wonder Marcus Yallow\, her old crush and archrival\, and his entourage of naïve idealists — Masha realizes she has to choose. \nAnd whatever choice she makes\, someone is going to get hurt. \n\n \nCory Doctorow is a regular contributor to the Guardian\, Locus\, and many other publications. His award-winning novel Little Brother was a New York Times bestseller\, as is its sequel\, Homeland. His novella collection Radicalized was a CBC Best Fiction of 2019 selection. Born and raised in Canada\, he lives with his family in Los Angeles. \nPlease note: \n>  This is a free\, all-ages event but RSVP is required.\n>  To have Attack Surface shipped to your door\, order here.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-cory-doctorow-attack-surface/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:C PAM ZHANG IN CONVERSATION WITH CBC HOST JOHN FREEMAN
DESCRIPTION:How Much of These Hills Is Gold \nBY C PAM ZHANG\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHow the gold rush hasn’t been the subject of better novels is a question worth putting to West Coast literature. To grow up in California in the 1980s was to encounter this period in history books as one of heroism and hucksterism\, as if 300\,000 people coming to a state in search of gold over five years—that would be 120 million in today’s population—wasn’t more than a rush. These were not tourists. Many became permanent residents who dug in\, created camps\, and drove Indigenous people from their land. The ’49ers permanently altered the state’s landscape and—with more than half of them coming from outside the United States—its demographics. Nearly 30\,000 arrived from China\, bringing with them history and culture and food and family. They were often met by “frontier justice\,” as it was euphemistically called. What couldn’t be done by outright force was eventually upheld by law\, with legislation directly aimed at Chinese migrants to make prospecting prohibitively expensive or shut down immigration for them all together. \nAt last there is a novel that looks right into this history and imagines it from within. It might be a stretch to call it California’s Beloved\, but C Pam Zhang’s How Much of These Hills Is Gold moves with the same rough magic and has a similar relationship to history as Toni Morrison’s haunted and beautiful book. Only here history\, too\, becomes a ghost. We never hear the word “California” in this novel\, and it’s nearly 100 pages before the word “gold” is seen. Still\, by tilting this period through a refractive lens\, Zhang has powerfully evoked the precarious existence many of its residents lived and allows us to inhabit the bodies of two girls: Lucy\, 12\, and Sam\, who is 11. They’ve lost their mother\, Ma\, already\, and their father\, Ba\, soon follows. Broke\, hungry\, and aware that their situation is not safe\, the sisters saddle up a stolen horse and carry their father’s body on the run. Their behavior quickly begins to map onto the skittery emigration pattern their father charted when he brought them to these hills with dreams of gold\, land\, a farm\, good living. That was before drink and miner brutality and grief waylaid him. Sam has a lot of her father in her; she learns to sneak out and prospect at a young age and is ready for a fight. She wants to take chances. Lucy is cautious\, eager to find official paths\, to seek approval—even from a dubious East Coast teacher writing a book about people like her family. Lucy hasn’t forgone risk; she simply takes different ones. \nZhang takes a chance herself here\, wading into the well-trod territory of the western\, but she’s a writer of immense poise. Having grown up and lived in 13 cities\, she wrote the first draft of this novel in Bangkok\, far away from the golden hills where the book unfolds. Clearly her mind’s eye is lucid\, though. She writes lean but sensual prose that vividly conjures the stench and muck and wonder of traveling across a landscape that has been brutally used. The moon hangs high on cold nights. In Zhang’s universe\, buffalo might still be alive somewhere\, and tigers roam those hills. Each day\, the girls find something new\, a dying if still hardy prospector needing help one day\, a dried-up salt lake where they can preserve their father on another. Zhang creates an epic tale in a small space; her story reaches back and back and then yokes forward the lives Ma and Ba lived before\, the incredible journeys they underwent so they could have the privilege of living on the precarious edge of a nearly fictional enterprise. What is gold anyway? Movingly\, we hear in flashback how the girls’ father ordered and told the world for his daughters\, in fables that move like water. As the sisters come of age in the shadow of this inheritance\, the past as evanescent as California rain\, Zhang allows us to appreciate how hard it is for them not to be driven one way or the other. Do they move toward great gambles\, and\, if it’s required\, violence\, or toward finding ways to know and contain official history\, so that they might write it themselves? Taking a risk\, as Colson Whitehead did in The Underground Railroad\, to imagine history as even stranger than we allow\, C Pam Zhang has proved it’s possible to do both. \n—John Freeman \nJohn Freeman is the editor of Freeman’s (the latest issue of which is devoted to California)\, the author of several books\, including The Park\, and the host of Alta’s new California Book Club. He last wrote for Alta about establishing a new California curriculum.  \nSign up to hear Freeman discuss How Much of These Hills Is Gold with C Pam Zhang at the kickoff event for Alta’s California Book Club\, on Thursday\, October 15\, at 5 p.m. Pacific time.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/c-pam-zhang-in-conversation-with-cbc-host-john-freeman/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:The Memoir of Childhood: Memoir Workshop with Tommy Mouton
DESCRIPTION:We understand the sheer power of our respective childhood and adolescent memories. But how can we harness this power to propel a narrative as well as capture a reader’s attention? \nIn this four-week extensive workshop\, we will delve into the basic psychology of memories and their stages\, memory and imagination\, image and feeling\, “emotional truth versus factual truth\,” character and voice\, form and meaning—in an attempt to begin drafting (and/or revising) a memoir that is steeped in childhood/adolescent memories as its creative foundation. \nWhether your childhood/adolescent memories are heartbreaking or ironically humorous\, whether you are a seasoned writer or a novice\, this workshop’s weekly writing exercises\, formal and informal workshops\, and readings (Bell Hooks\, Annie Dillard\, Natasha Trethewey\, Jeannette Walls\, Jesmyn Ward\, among others) will leave you inspired and invigorated. \nSo\, come and write (and share) your childhood/adolescent memories with us\, their joys\, failures\, and mysteries. \n  \nDates: 4 Thursdays\, October 15 – November 5 \nTime: 6 – 8 pm  \nInstructor: Tommy Mouton \n​Ages: Adult  \n​Genre: Nonfiction  \n​Price: $245 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-memoir-of-childhood-memoir-workshop-with-tommy-mouton/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Classes and Workshops,Virtual
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ORGANIZER;CN="Left Margin Lit":MAILTO:david@leftmarginlit.org
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SUMMARY:San Francisco's Chinatown- Dick Evans and Kathy Chin Leong in conversation with Ben Fong Torres
DESCRIPTION:San Francisco’s Chinatown is the third in a series of contemporary documentary photography books by San Francisco resident and photographer Dick Evans – following his initial book in 2014 of Haight Ashbury and his 2017 award winning book on the The Mission. His approach in each case has been to develop an in-depth understanding of each neighborhood through close collaboration with leading non-profits\, community organizations\, artists and local businesses. In this book he collaborates with freelance writer Kathy Chin Leong\, who has conducted over 100 interviews in the course of writing the text\, captions and sidebar stories that provide context to the images. Dick Evans and Kathy Chin Leong will be in conversation with Ben Fong-Torres\, author and journalist.  \nAll revenue from book sales will be donated to collaborating non-profit organizations.  \nDick Evans is a San Francisco–based photographer with an interest in documenting the colorful and rapidly changing neighborhoods of the city. Born into a ranching family in Eugene\, Oregon\, he graduated as an engineer from Oregon State University and subsequently obtained a master’s in management from Stanford. He has spent his fifty-year career in the global metals sector\, living in five countries and multiple locations in Africa\, Europe\, and North America. It was during these travels that he developed an appreciation for the diversity and richness of different cultures—both global and local—and an interest in documentary photography. \nKathy Chin Leong is an award-winning journalist with articles published in the New York Times\, Los Angeles Times\, National Geographic Books\, Sunset Magazine\, and many other newspapers and magazines.  As a second-generation ABC (American-born Chinese)\, she grew up in San Francisco’s Sunset district\, and spent nearly every weekend in Chinatown visiting her grandmother and helping her mother shop for groceries.  While she has travelled the globe to Lebanon\, France\, Thailand\, and Canada\, rediscovering her Chinatown roots through collaboration on this book has been a journey of a lifetime.  Kathy lives in Sunnyvale\, California with her devoted husband Frank Leong Jr. and is the proud mother of two grown children\, Gwendolyn and Aaron. \nBen Fong-Torres began contributing to Rolling Stone in spring 1968\, just months after it began. In over a decade there\, he became senior editor and wrote more than 30 cover stories. He was portrayed in Almost Famous. Ben also is a broadcaster\, from KSAN in the ‘70s to Moonalice Radio today and has won 5 Emmys for co-anchoring the Chinese New Year Parade on KTVU. He is the author of a dozen books\, including his best-selling memoir\, The Rice Room.  \nConnect \nSan Francisco’s Chinatown the book – Website | Instagram | Twitter | Facebook   \nHeyday Books – Website | Twitter | Instagram \nKathy Chin Leong – Instagram | Facebook  \nBen Fong-Torres – Website  \nZoom Reservation  \nSFPL YouTube Live \n–
URL:https://litseen.com/event/san-franciscos-chinatown-dick-evans-and-kathy-chin-leong-in-conversation-with-ben-fong-torres/
LOCATION:online
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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ORGANIZER;CN="San Francisco Public Library - Virtual Library":MAILTO:anissa.malady@sfpl.org
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SUMMARY:Hugh Raffles In conversation with Stephen Sparks about The Book of Unconformities
DESCRIPTION:Hugh Raffles is joined in conversation by the bookstore’s Stephen Sparks to discuss The Book of Unconformities: Speculations on Lost Time (Pantheon). \nVisit our Crowdcast channel to register for this event. \nAbout The Book of Unconformities\nWhen Hugh Raffles’s two sisters died suddenly within a few weeks of each other\, he reached for rocks\, stones\, and other seemingly solid objects as anchors in a world unmoored\, as ways to make sense of these events through stories far larger than his own. \nA moving\, profound\, and affirming meditation\, The Book of Unconformities is grounded in stories of stones: Neolithic stone circles\, Icelandic lava\, mica from a Nazi concentration camp\, petrified whale blubber in Svalbard\, the marble prized by Manhattan’s Lenape\, and a huge Greenlandic meteorite that arrived with six Inuit adventurers in the exuberant but fractious New York City of 1897. \nAs Raffles follows these fundamental objects\, unearthing the events they’ve engendered\, he finds them losing their solidity and becoming as capricious\, indifferent\, and willful as time itself. \n“A spellbinding time travelogue . . . Raffles’s dense\, associative\, essayistic style mirrors geological transformation\, compressing and folding chronologies like strata in metamorphic rock . . . Mesmerizing.” —Harpers Magazine \nAbout Hugh Raffles\nHugh Raffles is the author of Insectopedia\, which was a New York Times Notable Book and received the Orion Book Award and the Ludwik Fleck Prize of the Society for Social Studies of Science\, and of In Amazonia: A Natural History which received the Victor Turner Prize in Ethnographic Writing. His essays have appeared in Best American Essays\, Granta\, Orion\, and The New York Times\, and he is the recipientof the Whiting Award for nonfiction. He lives in New York City and is professor of anthropology at The New School.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/hugh-raffles-in-conversation-with-stephen-sparks-about-the-book-of-unconformities/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Susan Wiggs Discussing The Lost and Found Bookshop | Virtual Author Chat on Zoom
DESCRIPTION:Please join us on Thursday\, October 15\, 2020 at 7 PM PDT for an online discussion with author Susan Wiggs discussing her new novel\, THE LOST AND FOUND BOOKSHOP. \nOur discussion will be webcast on Zoom at https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87385059906. \n(Order your copy of THE LOST AND FOUND BOOKSHOP at https://bit.ly/GGPLostFound\, or in audiobook from Libro.fm at https://bit.ly/LostFoundAB.) \nStaff Reviews\n\n  \nI really loved THE LOST AND FOUND BOOKSHOP by Susan Wiggs! \nIt resonated with me on several levels! \n1. Natalie inherits the book store after her mother dies unexpectedly. I inherited GGP fifteen years ago when my friend Debi Echlin died unexpectedly. \n2. She moved down from Sonoma and so did I. \n3. And like Natalie\, I discovered the book store was everything I never knew I wanted and\, or\, fundamentally needed. \n4. She discovered the book store really belonged to the community\, she was lucky enough to get to be it’s steward-I’ve learned the same lesson! \n5. She also discovers in order to have an awesome book store you need to surround yourself with the best staff\, which I can say I’m lucky to have the BEST staff! \nThrow in financial challenges\, a few good men\, a long lost book and a store full of hand sellers and you have the perfect summer read! \n— Kathleen \n  \nJuly 2020 Indie Next List\n\n \n“This is an absolutely splendid novel that spoke volumes to me. You have a girl who experiences a tragedy that leads to a better life\, despite issues and hardship along the way\, and a guy right in front of her who is perfect for her though she assumes he is not. I highlighted so many passages in this book to savor and remember. This is a perfect story for bookstore lovers and lovers of books.”\n— Patty Reed\, Ferguson Books & More\, Grand Forks\, ND \nDescription\n\n“A wonderful exploration of the past and the future and\, most importantly\, of what it means to be present in the here and now.  Full of the love of words\, the love of family\, and the love of falling in love\, The Lost and Found Bookshop is a big-hearted gem of a novel that will satisfy and entertain readers from all walks of life.  Lovely!”—Garth Stein\, New York Times bestselling author of The Art of Racing In The Rain \nIn this thought-provoking\, wise and emotionally rich novel\, New York Times bestselling author Susan Wiggs explores the meaning of happiness\, trust\, and faith in oneself as she asks  the question\, “If you had to start over\, what would you do and who would you be?”  \nThere is a book for everything . . .  \nSomewhere in the vast Library of the Universe\, as Natalie thought of it\, there was a book that embodied exactly the things she was worrying about. \nIn the wake of a shocking tragedy\, Natalie Harper inherits her mother’s charming but financially strapped bookshop in San Francisco. She also becomes caretaker for her ailing grandfather Andrew\, her only living relative—not counting her scoundrel father. \nBut the gruff\, deeply kind Andrew has begun displaying signs of decline. Natalie thinks it’s best to move him to an assisted living facility to ensure the care he needs. To pay for it\, she plans to close the bookstore and sell the derelict but valuable building on historic Perdita Street\, which is in need of constant fixing. There’s only one problem–Grandpa Andrew owns the building and refuses to sell. Natalie adores her grandfather; she’ll do whatever it takes to make his final years happy. Besides\, she loves the store and its books provide welcome solace for her overwhelming grief. \nAfter she moves into the small studio apartment above the shop\, Natalie carries out her grandfather’s request and hires contractor Peach Gallagher to do the necessary and ongoing repairs. His young daughter\, Dorothy\, also becomes a regular at the store\, and she and Natalie begin reading together while Peach works. \nTo Natalie’s surprise\, her sorrow begins to dissipate as her life becomes an unexpected journey of new connections\, discoveries and revelations\, from unearthing artifacts hidden in the bookshop’s walls\, to discovering the truth about her family\, her future\, and her own heart. \n  \nAbout the Author\n\nSusan Wiggs’s life is all about family\, friends…and fiction. She lives at the water’s edge on an island in Puget Sound\, and in good weather\, she commutes to her writers’ group in a 21-foot motorboat. She’s been featured in the national media\, including NPR\, PRI\, and USA Today\, has given programs for the US Embassies in Buenos Aires and Montevideo\, and is a popular speaker locally\, nationally\, internationally\, and on the high seas. \nFrom the very start\, her writings have illuminated the everyday dramas of ordinary people facing extraordinary circumstances. Her books celebrate the power of love\, the timeless bonds of family and the fascinating nuances of human nature. Today\, she is an international best-selling\, award-winning author\, with millions of copies of her books in print in numerous countries and languages. According to Publishers Weekly\, Wiggs writes with “refreshingly honest emotion\,” and the Salem Statesman Journal adds that she is “one of our best observers of stories of the heart [who] knows how to capture emotion on virtually every page of every book.” Booklist characterizes her books as “real and true and unforgettable.” \nHer novels have appeared in the #1 spot on the New York Times Bestseller List\, and have captured readers’ hearts around the globe with translations into more than 20 languages and 30 countries. She is a three-time winner of the RITA Award\,. Her recent novel\, The Apple Orchard\, is currently being made into a film\, and The Lakeshore Chronicles has been optioned for adaptation into a series. \nThe author is a former teacher\, a Harvard graduate\, an avid hiker\, an amateur photographer\, a good skier and terrible golfer\, yet her favorite form of exercise is curling up with a good book. She lives on an island in Puget Sound\, where she divides her time between sleeping and waking.
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SUMMARY:Speaking Axolotl Reading and Open Mic
DESCRIPTION:A Latinx poetry reading series y open mic that happens every third Thursday (unless otherwise noted) in “The Chapel” at Nomadic Press. Decolonized beats provided by the one-and-only L7. Hosted by Josiahluis Alderete. \nThis month’s features are TBA. \nDonations will be kindly requested to help pay the features and cover the cost of the space. \nThe 10-slot open mic list opens at 7:30 PM and fills up pretty quick so if you plan on reading get there early \nFree parking in the back of the building and the closest BART station is 19th Street BART in Oakland (about a 15-minute walk straight down Broadway).
URL:https://litseen.com/event/speaking-axolotl-reading-and-open-mic-12/
LOCATION:Nomadic Press/Fairmount\, 111 Fairmount Ave\, Oakland\, CA\, 94611
CATEGORIES:East Bay
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