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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL: ZYZZYVA & The Booksmith Present: Lockdown Lit @ Lunch with Meredith O'Brien & Leslie Gray Streeter
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith and The Bindery\, in partnership with Zyzzyva\, present Lockdown Lit @ Lunch\, a weekly salon\, Tuesdays at 11am PST. Lockdown Literature is a group of authors with books published during the coronavirus pandemic who have banded together to support one another. This event features Meredith O’Brien (Uncomfortably Numb: a memoir about the life-altering diagnosis of multiple sclerosis) & Leslie Gray Streeter (Black Widow: A Sad-Funny Journey Through Grief for People Who Normally Avoid Books with Words Like “journey” in the Title). \n** Please note ** \n>  The books may be listed as out of stock — this is because we’re shipping directly from the warehouse to your door! If you’d like to purchase the books\, please do so through the links above or below\, at the bottom of this page. \n>  You can find a full list of Lockown Lit authors here. Please save the dates and join us! \n>  This event will be streaming live on our Facebook page. \n\nFriends\, neighbors: We are pleased to be able to bring you some of our events virtually while our doors are otherwise closed in the interest of public health. If you’d like to support the store\, you can still do that in the usual ways: \n> Buy Uncomfortably Numb and/or Black Widow and we’ll deliver them directly to your door.\n> Buy one of our gift certificates\, which we keep on file and never expire.\n> Make a donation. \nThank you very much for your support – we’re proud to be a legacy business and a mainstay of the Haight-Ashbury since 1976! \n\nUncomfortably Numb: a memoir about the life-altering diagnosis of multiple sclerosis by Meredith O’Brien \nIt begins with numbness on her left leg. Then it spreads. Even though an MRI finds a “mass” on her brainstem\, it takes two more years for Meredith O’Brien to learn what is causing that numbness. Months after her 65-year-old mother dies from a fast-moving cancer\, weeks after her father is hospitalized and she experiences an unexpected job change\, she learns she has multiple sclerosis. \nSuddenly\, Meredith\, a married mother of three teens\, has to figure out how to move forward into a life she no longer recognizes. \nReimagining her life as a writer and an educator\, as a mother and a spouse\, she has to adjust to the restrictions MS imposes on her. \nIt is a life\, altered. \n  \nA Boston area author\, Meredith O’Brien has written four books\, including her latest\, Uncomfortably Numb\, a memoir about the life-altering diagnosis of multiple sclerosis\, called “triumphant” and “riveting\,” as well as “heart-breaking … harrowing … and heroic.” Her third book\, a work of creative nonfiction\, Mr. Clark’s Big Band: A Year of Laughter\, Tears and Jazz in a Middle School Band Room\, won an Independent Publisher Book Award and was a finalist for a Foreword INDIES award. A former newspaper reporter and investigative journalist\, Meredith teaches journalism and writing at Northeastern University in Boston where she also serves as a writing coach. \n  \n  \n\nBlack Widow: A Sad-Funny Journey Through Grief for People Who Normally Avoid Books with Words Like “journey” in the Title) by Leslie Gray Streeter \nLeslie Gray Streeter is not cut out for widowhood. She’s not ready for hushed rooms and pitying looks. She is not ready to stand graveside\, dabbing her eyes in a classy black hat. If she had her way she’d wear her favorite curve-hugging leopard print dress to Scott’s funeral; he loved her in that dress! But\, here she is\, having lost her soulmate to a sudden heart attack\, totally unsure of how to navigate her new widow lifestyle. (“New widow lifestyle.” Sounds like something you’d find products for on daytime TV\, like comfy track suits and compression socks. Wait\, is a widow even allowed to make jokes?) \nLooking at widowhood through the prism of race\, mixed marriage\, and aging\, Black Widowredefines the stages of grief\, from coffin shopping to day-drinking\, to being a grown-ass woman crying for your mommy\, to breaking up and making up with God\, to facing the fact that life goes on even after the death of the person you were supposed to live it with. While she stumbles toward an uncertain future as a single mother raising a baby with her own widowed mother (plot twist!)\, Leslie looks back on her love story with Scott\, recounting their journey through racism\, religious differences\, and persistent confusion about what kugel is. Will she find the strength to finish the most important thing that she and Scott started? \nTender\, true\, and endearingly hilarious\, Black Widow is a story about the power of love\, and how the only guide book for recovery is the one you write yourself. \nLeslie Gray Streeter is a columnist for the Palm Beach Post and the author of Black Widow: A Sad-Funny Journey Through Grief for People Who Normally Avoid Books With Words Like ‘Journey’ In The Title. She lives in West Palm Beach with her mother Tina and her son Brooks. \n  \n  \n  \n  \n\nThis event is free and all ages. \nRSVP appreciated by not required.
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SUMMARY:Virtual Event: Merlin Sheldrake and Michael Pollan
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Tuesday\, July 7 at 12pm PDT when Merlin Sheldrake discusses his book\, Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds\, Change Our Minds &Shape Our Futures with Michael Pollan on Zoom. \nTickets for this event can be found here. \nAbout This Event \nIn 2016\, a New Yorker profile by famed naturalist Robert Macfarlane introduced the world to one of the most important young thinkers of our age: Merlin Sheldrake. Moving from the labs of Cambridge to the jungles of Central America\, this revolutionary plant scientist had a hunch that fungi possess superpowers far beyond the mushrooms we know\, however mind-blowing their culinary or psychedelic varieties might be. He discovered that fungi are an ancient underground communication network that undergirds the natural world and offers inspiration for rethinking human society. \nMerlin’s riveting first book\, Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds\, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures\, has become an instant classic of nature and philosophy—a work of rigorous science and poetic expression\, drawing us into the mystery and meaning of this most magical life form. \nIn our live conversation\, Merlin and bestselling nature and culture writer Michael Pollan (How to Change Your Mind\, The Omnivore’s Dilemma) will delve into “The Wood Wide Web”: an enchanting “superorganism” whose secrets just might save the world. This event is for everyone who believes that wonder still exists and hope can be found in the unlikeliest places: around us\, under us\, even inside us. You’ll come away with a sense of awe for “life’s labyrinths\,” in Merlin’s words\, where “some of the vexed hierarchies that underpin modern thought start to soften.”
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SUMMARY:Kalyn Josephson with Shannon Price
DESCRIPTION:We’re thrilled to be launching The Crow Rider\, Kalyn Josephson’s thrilling conclusion to the epic Storm Crow duology that follows a fallen princess as she tries to bring back the magical elemental crows taken from her people. \nThia\, her allies\, and her crow\, Res\, are planning a rebellion to defeat Queen Razel and the Kingdom of Illucia and must convince the neighboring kingdoms to come to her aid. Res excels at his training\, until he loses control of his magic\, harming Thia in the process. She is also being pursued by Prince Ericen\, heir to the Illucian throne. As the rebel group prepares for war\, Res’s magic grows more unstable. Thia has to decide if she can rely on herself and their bond enough to lead the rebellion and become the crow rider she was meant to be. \n\n\n\n\nReading during this time period can be challenging\, but this fabulous series is guaranteed to sweep you away to an enchanting world and introduce you to your next favorite magical creatures. \nKalyn will be chatting with Shannon Price\, author of A Thousand Fires and we couldn’t be more excited
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SUMMARY:Ben Ehrenreich
DESCRIPTION:celebrating his new book \nDesert Notebooks: A Road Map for the End of Time \nfrom Counterpoint Press \nThis is a virtual event that will be hosted by City Lights on the Crowdcast platform. You will need access to a computer or other device that is capable of accessing the internet. If you have not used Crowdcast before\, you may consider referencing Getting Started with Crowdcast. \n——— \nEvent is free\, but reservations are required \n(Re-visit this link) in the near future to make reservations \n———– \n\nLayering climate science\, mythologies\, nature writing\, and personal experiences\, National Magazine Award winner Ben Ehrenreich presents a stunning reckoning with our current moment and with the literal and figurative end of time. \nAs inhabitants of the Anthropocene\, what might some of our own histories tell us about how to confront apocalypse? And how might the geologies and ecologies of desert spaces inform how we see and act toward time—the pasts we have erased and paved over\, this anxious present\, the future we have no choice but to build? Desert Notebooks examines how the unprecedented pace of destruction to our environment and an increasingly unstable geopolitical landscape have led us to the brink of a calamity greater than any humankind has confronted before. Ehrenreich draws on the stark grandeur of the desert to ask how we might reckon with the uncertainty that surrounds us and fight off the crises that have already begun. \nIn the canyons and oases of the Mojave and in Las Vegas’s neon apocalypse\, Ehrenreich finds beauty\, and even hope\, surging up in the most unlikely places\, from the most barren rocks\, and the apparent emptiness of the sky. For readers of Robert Macfarlane or Elizabeth Rush\, Desert Notebooks is a vital and necessary chronicle of our past and our present—unflinching\, urgent— yet timeless and profound. \nBEN EHRENREICH writes about climate change for The Nation. His work has appeared in Harper’s Magazine\, The New York Times Magazine\, the London Review of Books\, and Los Angeles magazine. In 2011\, he was awarded a National Magazine Award. His last book\, The Way to the Spring: Life and Death in Palestine\, based on his reporting from the West Bank\, was one of The Guardian’s Best Books of 2016. He is also the author of two novels\, Ether and The Suitors. \nPraise for Desert Notebooks \n“Ehrenreich’s Mojave is both eternal and despoiled\, a measuring rod for the apocalypse\, and proof that nature abides. Progress\, he explains to us\, is like one of those strange paved streets in the desert running through phantom\, unbuilt subdivisions. The pavement ends abruptly\, and we find ourselves lost in the furnace-hot badlands of the Present where time and meaning are twisted into enigmatic and terrifying forms that recall the end-time visions of cultures vanquished by ‘civilization.’ This haunting meditation on terminal capitalism and its unthinkable future clearly establishes its author as one of our greatest essayists\, wholly contemporary with these strange times.” –Mike Davis\, author of City of Quartz \n“The past few years of an accelerated\, increasingly destructive climate crisis have brought a number of books that struggle to respond accordingly to a crisis of such magnitude; several writers have met this existential challenge with an equally existential discussion of the ways that the climate crisis affects our understanding of human history and time itself. Ben Ehrenreich\, a columnist for The Nation\, takes this discussion to the American southwest\, examining the intersection of science\, mythology\, and landscape in the desert\, in particular in Joshua Tree and Las Vegas. In these settings\, Ehrenreich’s book reflects on the ways that the prospect of extinction has affected our understanding of time\, and how we use that shift in perspective as we move forward.” –Corinne Segal\, Literary Hub\, One of the Most Anticipated Books of the Year \n“The crisis humanity faces is total. It’s planetary. It’s a crisis in space and also in time. How close are we to the end? Is this land we stand on going to be inhabitable in one hundred years\, sixty\, forty? In sharply featured\, compelling prose–the landscape writing here has the heartbreaking clarity of the experience of desert light–Ben Ehrenreich’s stunning Desert Notebooks combs through history\, literature\, myth\, physics\, and ecology to understand how we got here\, and how we might find our way out\, into forms of time that are made not of our thralldom to capital and petroleum but of our relationships to each other\, to our fellow creatures\, to plants and rocks and landscapes\, and to the stars and sun and moon overhead. Ben Ehrenreich wants you to join him here\, on earth. The thrill of Desert Notebooks is that in its lucid pages such a miracle seems almost possible.” –Anthony McCann\, author of Shadowlands \n“Ben Ehrenreich walked the deserts of the Occupied Territories for his previous book; in Desert Notebooks\, he takes us with him into the Mojave–its coyotes\, creosote\, and Joshua trees. He descends barrancas and canyons\, hikes boulder-strewn slopes into labyrinthine stacks of Jorge Luis Borges’s great Library\, from which he draws out stories from that time ‘when animals were people\, ‘ narratives by the Chemehuevi\, the Serrano\, the Mohave\, and other desert peoples. These echo in texts by Martin Bernal\, Walter Benjamin\, the Marquis de Condorcet\, and Jakob Böhme’s mystical touchstone–The Signature of All Things–as well as James Mooney’s classic\, the Ghost Dance and the Sioux revolt of 1890. Climate change California is burning as Ehrenreich’s meditations prismatically refract heat\, smoke\, and light. Desert Notebooks is a book for our time–that is\, a time scorched by harsh solar rays\, shimmering in searing\, phosphorescent prose.” –Sesshu Foster\, author of ELADATL: A History of the East Los Angeles Dirigible Air Transport Lines
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL EVENT: Molly Ball\, Pelosi
DESCRIPTION:Bookshop Santa Cruz invites you to join us for a free online event with national political journalist Molly Ball to discuss her book\, Pelosi\, an intimate\, fresh perspective on the most powerful woman in American political history\, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. \nRegister for this free Crowdcast event here.\nThis is a free event. The book may be purchased below.\nYou can make a donation to help support Bookshop Santa Cruz here. Thank you!\nShe’s the iconic leader who puts Donald Trump in his place\, the woman with the toughness to take on a lawless president and defend American democracy. Ever since the Democrats took back the House in the 2018 midterm elections\, Nancy Pelosi has led the opposition with strategic mastery and inimitable elan. It’s a remarkable comeback for the veteran politician who for years was demonized by the right and taken for granted by many in her own party—even though\, as speaker under President Barack Obama\, she deserves much of the credit for epochal liberal accomplishments from universal health care to gays in the military. How did a 79-year-old Italian grandmother in four-inch heels become the greatest legislator since LBJ? \nBall’s nuanced\, page-turning portrait takes readers inside the life and times of this historic and underappreciated figure. Based on exclusive interviews with the Speaker and deep background reporting\, Ball shows Pelosi through a thoroughly modern lens to explain how this extraordinary woman has met her moment. \n“A top-notch political biography.” ―Kirkus Reviews\, *starred review* \n“An entertaining and balanced biography of Nancy Pelosi…Ball offers plenty of insightful anecdotes\, presenting events within historical perspective so that readers can fully appreciate their import.” ―Booklist\, *starred review* \nMolly Ball is TIME magazine’s national political correspondent and a political analyst for CNN. She appears regularly on PBS’s Washington Week\, CBS’s Face the Nation\, ABC’s This Week\, and other television and radio programs. Ball is the winner of numerous awards for her coverage of American politics\, including the Gerald R. Ford Journalism Prize and the Toner Prize for Excellence in Political Reporting. She grew up in Idaho and Colorado and lives in the Washington\, DC\, area with her husband and three children.
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