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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL: Launch for Ji Hyang Padma / Field of Blessings: Ritual & Consciousness in the Work of Buddhist Healers
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith and The Bindery are very pleased to host the virtual launch for Ji Hyang Padma and her new book Field of Blessings: Ritual & Consciousness in the Work of Buddhist Healers. \nThis event is free and all ages\, but RSVP is required. Event link will be sent to everyone who registers. \nYou can order Field of Blessings here – we’re currently offering free shipping throughout San Francisco and the East Bay. \nAbout the book\nJi Hyang Padma believes that we are hungry for a direct experience of the sacred in this culture. We try to fill the void with technology\, and its ‘quick fix’ of images and information. This leaves us hungry for true connectivity. We don’t need more information. We need more appreciation. Gratitude opens the heart\, and gives our life meaning; it becomes a form of spiritual experience that gives us strength. Field of Blessings explores how meaning-making can be approached by deep examination of the stories of our lives\, which bridge the gap between the inner world and the outer world\, giving shape to our experience. How can these narratives be spoken\, written\, or embodied? Ritual is the story brought-to-life\, and a powerful vehicle for spiritual transformation\, for reconnecting people with an embodied wholeness. Ji Hyang Padma shows that Chod\, Medicine Buddha practices\, and other Tibetan rituals are used by healers to evoke sacred energies\, radical empathy\, and to contact deep archetypal realms of the psyche. \nAbout the author\nJi Hyang Padma holds a doctorate in psychology from the Institute of Transpersonal Psychology/Sofia University. Her dissertation research focused on consciousness and healing\, through the lens of traditional Buddhist healing practices. She recently served as Director of the Comparative Religion & Philosophy Program at the California Institute for Human Science. In response to the pandemic\, she currently serves as a chaplain resident at UCSF Parnassus. She has also taught Zen at Wellesley College\, Harvard University and Omega Institute. She lives in Encinitas\, CA. \nThis event is free and all ages\, but RSVP is required.
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SUMMARY:Virtual Event: Nick Greene
DESCRIPTION:JOIN US TUESDAY\, MARCH 30 AT 6PM PT WHEN NICK GREENE DISCUSSES HIS BOOK\,\nHOW TO WATCH BASKETBALL LIKE A GENIUS : WHAT GAME DESIGNERS\, ECONOMISTS\, BALLET CHOREOGRAPHERS\, AND THEORETICAL ASTROPHYSICISTS REVEAL ABOUT THE GREATEST GAME ON EARTH\, WITH N. CUZZI ON ZOOM!\nZoom Login Info\nPlease click the link below to join the webinar:\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/89717306557\nOr iPhone one-tap :\nUS: +16699009128\,\,89717306557#  or +13462487799\,\,89717306557#\nInternational numbers available: https://us02web.zoom.us/u/kbgovPwsVV \nPraise for How to Watch Basketball Like a Genius\n“A hilarious\, smart\, wildly unpredictable book that will forever change the way you look at basketball.”—Sarah Spain\, writer for ESPN\, TV personality\, and radio host \n“How to Watch Basketball Like a Genius pulls off a rare trick: It makes you feel smarter as you’re reading it\, but it does so without ever making you feel like you weren’t smart in the first place.”—Shea Serrano\, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Basketball (and Other Things) \n  \nAbout How to Watch Basketball Like a Genius \nA brilliant\, entertaining deconstruction of basketball\, drawing on the expertise of board-game creators\, magicians\, therapists\, and more \nBasketball is the second-most popular sport in the world—an insanely complicated game built on a combination of athleticism\, craftiness\, rules\, intangibles\, and superstardom. However\, while it’s enjoyable to watch\, the real reason it works is because it’s a game of culture\, art\, and all the things that make us human. How to Watch Basketball Like a Genius deconstructs the sport from top to bottom and then puts it back together again\, detailing its intricacies through reporting and dozens of interviews with experts. These experts\, however\, are a diverse group: wine critics weighing in on LeBron’s ability to delegate on the fly\, magicians analyzing Chris Paul’s mystifying dribbling techniques\, cartographers breaking down Steph Curry’s deadeye three-point shooting. Every chapter treats basketball to a multi-disciplined study that adventures far beyond the lines of the court\, examining key elements of the sport from some surprising and revealing angles. There’s a reason it has conquered the world\, and every game is a chance to learn about pop culture\, fashion\, history\, science\, art\, and anything else that bounces our way. \nAbout the Author \nNick Greene is a contributing writer for Slate\, prior to which he worked as editor at large at Mental Floss and as web editor at the Village Voice. His work has been published in Vice\, Men’s Health\, and Chicago Magazine. He lives in Oakland\, California.
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL EVENT: Kim Addonizio with Danusha Laméris
DESCRIPTION:VIRTUAL EVENT: Bookshop welcomes Bay Area poet Kim Addonizio for a reading and discussion of her new collection\, Now We’re Getting Somewhere. Addonizio will be in conversation with Danusha Laméris\, Poet Laureate emeritus of Santa Cruz County. \nCLICK HERE TO REGISTER FOR THIS FREE VIRTUAL EVENT! \n\nThis is a free event. The featured book may be purchased below. \nYou can make a donation to help support Bookshop Santa Cruz here. Thank you! \nKim Addonizio’s sharp and irreverent eighth volume\, Now We’re Getting Somewhere\, is an essential companion to your practice of the Finnish art of kalsarikännit–drinking at home\, alone in your underwear\, with no intention of going out. Imbued with the poet’s characteristic precision and passion\, the collection charts a hazardous course through heartache\, climate change\, dental work\, Outlander\, semiotics\, and more. \nCombatting existential gloom with a wicked\, seductive energy\, Addonizio investigates desire\, loss\, and the madness of contemporary life. She calls out to Walt Whitman and John Keats\, echoes Dorothy Parker\, and finds sisterhood with Virginia Woolf. Sometimes confessional\, sometimes philosophical\, these poems weave from desolation to drollery and clamor with raucous imagery: an insect in high heels\, a wolf at an uncomfortable party\, a glowing and self-serious guitar. A poet whose “voice lifts from the page\, alive and biting” (Sky Sanchez\, San Francisco Book Review)\, Addonizio reminds her reader\, “if you think nothing & / no one can / listen I love you joy is coming.” \n“Kim Addonizio’s poetry gives me physical energy.” — Phoebe Waller-Bridge\, creator of Fleabag \n“Addonizio relishes in bringing together moments of pleasure and pain\, the underside of love and disaster.” — American Poets \nKim Addonizio is the author of eight poetry collections\, two novels\, two story collections\, and two books on writing poetry: The Poet’s Companion (with Dorianne Laux) and Ordinary Genius. Her poetry collection Tell Me was a finalist for the National Book Award\, and her 2016 collection\, Mortal Trash\, won the Paterson Poetry Prize. Addonizio’s awards include fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Guggenheim Foundation\, among other honors. She lives in Oakland\, California. \nDanusha Laméris is the author of The Moons of August (Autumn House\, 2014)\, which was chosen by Naomi Shihab Nye as the winner of the Autumn House Press poetry prize and was a finalist for the Milt Kessler Book Award. Some of her poems have been published in: The Best American Poetry\, The New York Times\, The American Poetry Review\, Prairie Schooner\, The SUN Magazine\, Tin House\, The Gettysburg Review\, and Ploughshares. Her second book is Bonfire Opera\, (University of Pittsburgh Press)\, and she was the 2020 recipient of the Lucille Clifton Legacy Award. She teaches poetry independently\, and is a Poet Laureate emeritus of Santa Cruz County\, California.
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SUMMARY:WE RUN THE TIDES by Vendela Veda
DESCRIPTION:Please join us on Tuesday\, March 30\, 2021 at 7 PM PDT for a GGP Online Book Club discussion of WE RUN THE TIDES by Vendela Veda. \nThe Zoom meeting will be at https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82298900093. \nYou can order a print copy at http://bit.ly/ggpWeRunTheTides or in audiobook from Libro.fm\, GGP’s audiobook partner\, at http://bit.ly/WeRunTheTidesAB. \nFebruary 2021 Indie Next List\n\n“Wow\, this book was hard to put down! The story feels so familiar\, yet full of unexpected twists and turns. I was immersed in the beautiful and tumultuous world of these girls on the brink of adulthood. A fun\, mysterious\, compelling\, and ultimately profound novel about power\, truth\, and growing up.”\n— Sarah Fischer\, Downbound Books\, Cincinnati\, OH \nDescription\n\nNATIONAL BESTSELLER  \nAn achingly beautiful story of female friendship\, betrayal\, and a mysterious disappearance set in the changing landscape of San Francisco  \nTeenage Eulabee and her magnetic best friend\, Maria Fabiola\, own the streets of Sea Cliff\, their foggy oceanside San Francisco neighborhood. They know Sea Cliff’s homes and beaches\, its hidden corners and eccentric characters—as well as the upscale all-girls’ school they attend. One day\, walking to school with friends\, they witness a horrible act—or do they? Eulabee and Maria Fabiola vehemently disagree on what happened\, and their rupture is followed by Maria Fabiola’s sudden disappearance—a potential kidnapping that shakes the quiet community and threatens to expose unspoken truths. \nSuspenseful and poignant\, We Run the Tides is Vendela Vida’s masterful portrait of an inimitable place on the brink of radical transformation. Pre–tech boom San Francisco finds its mirror in the changing lives of the teenage girls at the center of this story of innocence lost\, the pain of too much freedom\, and the struggle to find one’s authentic self. Told with a gimlet eye and great warmth\, We Run the Tides is both a gripping mystery and a tribute to the wonders of youth\, in all its beauty and confusion. \nAbout the Author\n\nVendela Vida is the award-winning author of six books\, including Let the Northern Lights Erase Your Name and The Diver’s Clothes Lie Empty. Her new novel\, We Run the Tides\, will be published by Ecco on February 9\, 2021. She is a founding editor of The Believer and coeditor of The Believer Book of Writers Talking to Writers and Confidence\, or the Appearance of Confidence\, a collection of interviews with musicians. She was a founding board member of 826 Valencia\, the San Francisco writing center for youth\, and lives in the Bay Area with her family. \nPraise For…\n\n“The year is probably too young to make this kind of pronouncement\, but the new novel I know I’m going to be rereading in the coming months and spending a lot of time thinking about is Vendela Vida’s We Run the Tides. It’s a tough and exquisite sliver of a short novel whose world I want to remain lost in.  . . . [A] spectacular narrator . . . [A] wonder of a novel.”\n— Maureen Corrigan\, NPR’s Fresh Air
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