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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:Nasty Woman Press Literary Extravaganza: Shatter Some Glass! (Virtual Event)
DESCRIPTION:Meet some of the legendary\, bestselling and critically acclaimed authors who donated time and work to Shattering Glass\, the first non-profit anthology by non-profit publisher Nasty Woman Press! Discover why New York Times bestselling author Marcia Clark calls the collection “Moving\, often poetic\, and always compelling.” All profits from this unique work are donated to Planned Parenthoos! \nReaders and Participants Include: \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRobin C. Stuart (Facilitator)\nRobin C. Stuart is a veteran cybercrime investigator and contributing author to the short story anthology\, Fault Lines: Stories by Northern California Crime Writers. She consults on all things cyber security for Fortune 100 companies\, authors\, screenwriters\, and media outlets including BBC and NowThis News. Robin is also a significant contributor to the Tech Interactive (formerly known as The Tech Museum of Innovation) acclaimed Cyber Detectives\, one of the museum’s most popular permanent exhibits\, which earned praise from the Obama Administration.\n\n\n\nKelli Stanley (Introduction/MC)\nKelli Stanley is the critically acclaimed and multiple-award winning author of the Miranda Corbie noir series set in 1940 San Francisco\, including City of Dragons\, City of Secrets\, City of Ghosts\, and City of Sharks. Other works include historical mysteries set in Roman Britain and numerous short stories and essays. A Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalist\, her proudest achievements have been her inclusion as a literary heir of Dashiell Hammett by his granddaughter in Publisher’s Weekly\, and her founding of Nasty Woman Press on November 9th\, 2016. Her next novel is set in 1985 in Humboldt County\, California. kellistanley.com\n\n\n\nMaria Alexander\nMaria Alexander is a multiple award-winning author of horror and mystery fiction. Since 1999\, her short fiction has appeared in critically acclaimed publications and anthologies. She also writes humorous mystery fiction under the pen name Quentin Banks. No Rhyme Goes Unpunished is her debut thriller satire. Death on the Argyle is due out Summer 2020. For more information\, visit her website at mariaalexander.net.\n\n\n\nEric Beetner\nEric Beetner is that writer you’ve heard about but never read. When you finally do\, you wonder why you waited so long. There are more than 20 books like Rumrunners\, All the Way Down\, and The Devil Doesn’t Want Me\, so you’d better get started. He also hosts the podcast Writer Types and the Noir at the Bar reading series in L.A.. He’s been described as “The 21st Century’s answer to Jim Thompson” (LitReactor)\, has been nominated for three Anthonys\, an ITW award\, Shamus\, Derringer and 5 Emmys. Seriously\, what are you waiting for? ericbeetner.com\n\n\n\nCara Black\nCara Black is the New York Times bestselling author of nineteen of the Aimée Leduc investigations set in Paris\, including the most recent\, Murder in Bel-Air. The Wall Street Journal said of her Murder on the Left Bank\, “Even after 17 books\, Ms. Black has intriguing corners of Paris to reveal—from an enclave of ateliers once home to the likes of Gauguin and Rodin to a crime-ridden neighborhood where ‘no one wanted to be witnessed witnessing’.” She has received multiple nominations for the Anthony and Macavity awards. In Paris she was awarded the Medaille de la Ville de Paris in recognition of her contributions to French culture. Cara gets to Paris whenever she can for research. She lives in San Francisco with her husband and dog. Find her at carablack.com\n\n\n\nRhys Bowen\nRhys Bowen is the New York Times bestselling author of more than forty novels\, including The Victory Garden\, The Tuscan Child\, and the World War II-based In Farleigh Field\, the winner of the Left Coast Crime Award for Best Historical Mystery Novel and the Agatha Award for Best Historical Novel. Bowen’s work has won twenty honors to date\, including multiple Agatha\, Anthony\, and Macavity awards. Her books have been translated into many languages\, and she has fans around the world\, including seventeen thousand Facebook followers. A transplanted Brit\, Bowen divides her time between California and Arizona.\n\n\n\nAngel Luis Colón\nAngel Luis Colón is the Derringer and Anthony Award nominated writer of five books including his latest novel\, Hell Chose Me. In his down time\, he edits anthologies and produces The Bastard Title\, a podcast featuring interviews with writers. Keep up with him on Twitter via @GoshDarnMyLife. angelluiscolon.com\n\n\n\nAllison A. Davis\nAllison A. Davis writes poetry (most recently\, Three Rooms Press Annual Dada Magazine\, Maintenant 12 and 13)\, short stories\, and is currently shopping her novel\, But Not For Me. A background in journalism and art criticism\, her day job is a senior partner at Davis Wright Tremaine LLP\, a national law firm.\n\n\n\nDanny Gardner\nDanny Gardner is a multi-award-nominated author of genre fiction\, including A Negro and an Ofay\, his debut mystery novel. In another world\, he is a stand-up comedian and screenwriter\, and also the founder of Bronzeville Books. Born and raised in the Chi\, he lives and works in Los Angeles. www.bronzevillebooks.com\n\n\n\nHeather Graham\nHeather Graham is a legendary New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of more than two hundred novels and novellas\, published in twenty-five languages. She has been honored with awards from booksellers and writers’ organizations\, including the Silver Bullet and prestigious Thriller Master awards from the International Thriller Writers and the Lifetime Achievement Award from Romance Writers of America. Heather’s books have been selected for the Doubleday Book Club and the Literary Guild\, and she has been quoted\, interviewed\, or featured in such publications as The Nation\, Redbook\, People\, and USA Today\, and has appeared on many newscasts including Today and Entertainment Tonight. www.theoriginalheathergraham.com\n\n\n\nRachel Howzell Hall\nRachel Howzell Hall\, author of the bestseller They All Fall Down (Forge)\, writes the acclaimed Lou Norton series. She is also co-author of The Good Sister with James Patterson\, which was included in the New York Times bestseller The Family Lawyer. She is on the board of directors for the Southern California chapter of Mystery Writers of America\, and lives in Los Angeles. Her next novel And Now She’s Gone will be published September 2020. www.rachelhowzell.com\n\n\n\nLibby Fischer Hellmann\nLibby Fischer Hellman left a career in broadcast news in Washington\, DC and moved to Chicago 35 years ago\, where she\, naturally\, began to write gritty crime fiction. Twelve novels and twenty short stories later\, she claims they’ll take her out of the Windy City feet first. She has been nominated for many awards in the mystery and crime writing community and has even won a few. With the addition of Jump Cut in 2016\, her novels include the now five-volume Ellie Foreman series\, which she describes as a cross between Desperate Housewives and 24; the hard-boiled 4-volume Georgia Davis PI series; and three stand-alone historical thrillers that Libby calls her “Revolution Trilogy.” Last fall The Incidental Spy\, a historical novella set during the early years of the Manhattan Project at the U of Chicago was released. Her short stories have been published in a dozen anthologies\, the Saturday Evening Post\, and Ed Gorman’s 25 Criminally Good Short Stories collection.  In 2005 Libby was the national president of Sisters In Crime\, a 3500 member organization dedicated to the advancement of female crime fiction authors.\n\n\n\nToni L.P. Kelner\nToni L.P. Kelner is actually two authors in one. As Toni\, she’s written eleven mystery novels and co-edited seven anthologies with Charlaine Harris. She won the Agatha for Best Short Story\, and has been nominated for the Anthony\, the Macavity\, and the Derringer. As Leigh Perry\, she writes the Family Skeleton mysteries featuring adjunct professor Georgia Thackery and her pal Sid\, an ambulatory family skeleton. The Skeleton Stuffs a Stocking is the most recent.\n\n\n\nJames L’Etoile\nJames L’Etoile uses his twenty-nine years behind bars as an influence in his novels\, short stories\, and screenplays. He is a former associate warden in a maximum-security prison\, a hostage negotiator\, facility captain\, and director of California’s state parole system. He is a nationally recognized expert witness on prison and jail operations. He has been nominated for the Silver Falchion for Best Procedural Mystery\, and The Bill Crider Award for short fiction. His published novels include At What Cost\, Bury the Past\, and Little River: The Other Side of Paradise.\n\n\n\nCatriona McPherson\nCatriona McPherson is the national best-selling and multi-award-winning author of the Dandy Gilver series of preposterous detective stories\, set in her native Scotland in the 1930s. She also writes darker contemporary standalone suspense and has recently begun the Last Ditch trilogy\, loosely based on her immigrant experience in a northern California college town. Catriona is a proud lifetime member and former national president of Sisters in Crime\, committed to advancing equity and inclusion for women\, writers of color\, LGBTQ+ writers and writers with disability in the mystery community.\n\n\n\nTravis Richardson\nTravis Richardson is originally from Oklahoma and lives in Los Angeles with his wife and daughter. He has been a finalist and nominee for the Macavity\, Anthony\, and Derringer short story awards. He has two novellas and his short story collection\, Bloodshot and Bruised\, came out in late 2018. Find out more at tsrichardson.com\n\n\n\nKaira Rouda\nKaira Rouda is an award-winning journalist and marketing executive best known for creating the first women consumer focused real estate brand\, “Real Living.” Her first book\, Real You Incorporated: 8 Essentials for Women Entrepreneurs encourages women to put their passions into action and create the life of their dreams. She took her own advice\, began writing novels\, and is now an international bestseller. She lives in Southern California with her family. Her latest book is The Favorite Daughter. Visit KairaRouda.com for more.\n\n\n\nClea Simon\nClea Simon is a former journalist and the Boston Globe-bestselling author of three nonfiction books and more than two dozen mysteries. While the majority of these (like her most recent\, An Incantation of Cats) are amateur sleuth mysteries\, she also writes darker crime fiction\, like the rock and roll suspense novel World Enough\, which was named a “must read” by the Massachusetts Book Awards. Her upcoming psychological suspense Hold Me Down returns to the music world\, focusing on sexual abuse and recovery\, as well as love in all its forms. She can be reached at cleasimon.com\n\n\n\nAlexandra Sokoloff\nAlexandra Sokoloff is the Thriller Award-winning\, Bram Stoker\, and Anthony Award-nominated author of thirteen bestselling supernatural and crime thrillers. The New York Times has called her “a daughter of Mary Shelley” and her books “Some of the most original and freshly unnerving work in the genre.” As a screenwriter she has sold original scripts and written novel adaptations for numerous Hollywood studios. She is also the author/presenter of the internationally acclaimed Screenwriting Tricks for Authors workbooks\, workshops\, and blog. Her Thriller Award-nominated Huntress Moon series follows a haunted FBI agent on the hunt for a female serial killer\, smashing genre clichés and combatting the rise of violence against women on the page\, screen and life. alexandrasokoloff.com\n\n\n\nJacqueline Winspear\nJacqueline Winspear is the creator of the New York Times and National Bestselling series featuring psychologist and investigator\, Maisie Dobbs. Her first novel—Maisie Dobbs—received numerous award nominations\, including the Edgar Award for Best Novel and the Agatha Award for Best First Novel. It was a New York Times Notable Book and a Publisher’s Weekly Top Ten Pick. Her standalone novel\, The Care and Management of Lies\, was a finalist for the Dayton Literary Peace Prize in 2015. In 2019 Jacqueline published her 16th novel\, The American Agent\, and a non-fiction book\, What Would Maisie Do? a journal featuring excerpts from the Maisie Dobbs’ series. jacquelinewinspear.com\n\n\n\nNasty Woman Press\nWe are a 501 (c)(4) non-profit publisher pledged to fight fascism\, racism\, misogyny\, anti-Semitism\, homophobia\, Islamophobia\, transphobia\, and bigotry while promoting human rights and civil rights in the United States and around the globe. As writers\, readers\, editors\, artists\, librarians\, designers\, publishing professionals\, and creative\, principled human beings\, we cherish the planet and our fragile environment\, support science and education\, and value health and social services. We believe in taking care of each other. We believe in a better\, kinder\, world. Every Nasty Woman Press anthology is created around a theme; that theme is linked to the non-profit to whom profits from the sale of that book will be donated. Shattering Glass is the first of our anthologies. Profits from this book will be donated to Planned Parenthood. For more information or to become a member\, please visit nastywomanpress.com.
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL EVENT: Sy Montgomery\, Becoming a Good Creature
DESCRIPTION:Join us on the Crowdcast platform for an event with National Book Award finalist Sy Montgomery (Soul of an Octopus) for her new book\, Becoming a Good Creature. Based on the New York Times best-selling adult memoir\, Sy Montgomery and Rebecca Green’s beautiful\, friendly guide is for readers young and old who wish to be better creatures in the world. Go ahead\, pass it on. \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! \nSchool is not the only place to find a teacher. In this picture book adaptation of Sy Montgomery and Rebecca Green’s New York Times best-selling How to Be a Good Creature\, learn the many surprising lessons animals have to teach us about friendship\, compassion\, and how to be a better creature in the world. \nSy Montgomery has had many teachers in her life: some with two legs\, others with four\, or even eight! Some have had fur\, feathers\, or hooves. But they’ve all had one thing in common: a lesson to share. \nThe animals Sy has met on her many world travels have taught her how to seek understanding in the most surprising ways\, from being patient to finding forgiveness and respecting others. Gorillas\, dogs\, octopuses\, tigers\, and more all have shown Sy that there are no limits to the empathy and joy we can find in each other if only we take the time to connect. \nSY MONTGOMERY In addition to researching films\, articles\, and over twenty books\, National Book Award finalist Sy Montgomery has been honored with a Sibert Medal\, two Science Book and Film Prizes from the National Association for the Advancement of Science\, three honorary degrees\, and many other awards. She lives in Hancock\, New Hampshire\, with her husband\, Howard Mansfield\, and their border collie\, Thurber.
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SUMMARY:Conversations with Authors - Wade Davis (Virtual Event)
DESCRIPTION:Wade Davis‘ inspiring tale of hope and redemption\, Magdalena: River of Dreams\, braids together memoir\, history\, and journalism to form both a rare\, kaleidoscopic picture of Colombia’s most magnificent river and the epic story of a nation on the verge of a new period of peace. \nWade is a writer\, photographer\, and filmmaker whose work has taken him from the Amazon to Tibet\, Africa to Australia\, Polynesia to the Arctic. Explorer-in-Residence at the National Geographic Society from 2000 to 2013\, he is currently Professor of Anthropology and the BC Leadership Chair in Cultures and Ecosystems at Risk at the University of British Columbia. Author of twenty-two books—including One River\, The Wayfinders\, and Into the Silence\, winner of the 2012 Samuel Johnson prize\, the top nonfiction prize in the English language—he holds degrees in anthropology and biology and received his Ph.D. in ethnobotany\, all from Harvard University. His many film credits include Light at the Edge of the World\, an eight-hour documentary series written and produced for the NGS. \nOne of 20 Honorary Members of the Explorers Club\, Wade is the recipient of twelve honorary degrees\, as well as the 2009 Gold Medal from the Royal Canadian Geographical Society\, the 2011 Explorers Medal\, the 2012 David Fairchild Medal for botanical exploration\, the 2015 Centennial Medal of Harvard University\, the 2017 Roy Chapman Andrews Society’s Distinguished Explorer Award\, the 2017 Sir Christopher Ondaatje Medal for Exploration\, and the 2018 Mungo Park Medal from the Royal Scottish Geographical Society. In 2016\, he was made a Member of the Order of Canada. In 2018\, he became an Honorary Citizen of Colombia. \nDon George is an editor-at-large for National Geographic Traveler magazine\, as well as host of the National Geographic Live series of conversations with notable authors. In four decades as a travel writer and editor\, Don has visited more than 90 countries on five continents. He has traveled throughout—and written extensively about—Europe and Asia. He has also lived in France\, Greece\, and Japan\, working as a translator in Paris\, a teacher in Athens\, and a television talk show host in Tokyo. Don is the author of The Way of Wanderlust: The Best Travel Writing of Don George\, and has received dozens of writing awards\, including the Lowell Thomas Travel Journalist of the Year Award. \n 
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