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SUMMARY:Third Thursday Has a Birthday Party
DESCRIPTION:Please join the American Bookbinders Museum on Thursday\, September 15\, as we celebrate the museum’s first year in our new home. There will be refreshments\, cake\, good conversation\, and perhaps even a few surprises. We hope to see old friends and new\, to honor the people who have brought the museum so far\, and to thank our volunteers\, staff\, donors\, and friends. \nPlease come!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/third-thursday-has-a-birthday-party/
LOCATION:American Bookbinders Museum\, 355 Clementina St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Mary Mackey: The Village of Bones
DESCRIPTION:“Mary Mackey’s The Village of Bones gives us the vivid adventures of The Clan of the Cave Bear\, the magic of The Mists of Avalon and Lord of the Rings\, and the beauty of Avatar. Filled with the belief that love drives out fear\, it contains stunning twists that will leave you wanting more.” —Dorothy Hearst\, author of the Wolf Chronicles \nIn 4386 B.C.\, a young priestess named Sabalah conceives a magical child with a mysterious stranger named Arash. Sabalah names the child Marrah. This child will save the Goddess-worshiping people of Europe from nomad invaders called eastmen\, but only if her mother can keep her alive long enough to grow up. Warned in a vision of the coming invasion\, Sabalah flees west with Arash to save her baby daughter\, only to discover that she is running into the arms of her worst enemies. In the dark forests of northern Europe\, other humanlike species left over from the Ice Age still exist. \nMary Mackey is the author of fourteen novels including The Village of Bones: Sabalah’s Tale\,The Year the Horses Came\, The Horses at the Gate\, and The Fires of Spring\, all of which tell the story of Sabalah and Marrah’s struggle to save the Goddess-worshiping cultures of Neolithic Europe from nomad invaders. Her novels have appeared on The New York Times and San Francisco Chronicle bestseller lists\, been translated into twelve languages\, and longlisted for the James Tiptree\, Jr Literary Award. She has also written seven volumes of poetry includingSugar Zone\, winner of the 2012 PEN Oakland Josephine Miles Award for Literary Excellence. A screenwriter as well as a novelist and poet\, Mary has sold feature-length scripts to Warner Brothers as well as to independent film companies. She sometimes writes comedy under her pen name Kate Clemens. At present\, she lives in Northern California with her husband Angus Wright. Her literary papers are archived in the Sophia Smith Special Collections Library\, Smith College\, Northampton\, MA. You can learn more about her\, read her blog interview series People Who Make Books Happen\, and sample her work at www.marymackey.com. \n“Grand adventure and a grand reading experience … sexy\, explosive.” —Pat Conroy\, author ofThe Prince of Tides \n“A fascinating evocation of a prehistoric world…” —Marion Zimmer Bradley\, author of The Mists of Avalon
URL:https://litseen.com/event/mary-mackey-the-village-of-bones/
LOCATION:Modern Times Bookstore Collective\, 2919 24th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Colson Whitehead
DESCRIPTION:Praise for Colson Whitehead: \n“It’s a book you want to read rather than one you should read…while still providing the chilling\, fleshy pleasures of zombies who lurch\, pursue\, hunger. . . . One of the best books of the year.” — Esquire on Zone One \n\n“The freshest racial allegory since Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man and Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye.” — Walter Kirn\, Time on The Intuitionist \n\n“[Whitehead] takes on a multitude of issues with a rich and probing imagination. His reputation is likely to soar.” — Ishmael Reed\, The Washington Post Book World on John Henry Days \n\nAbout The Underground Railroad: \nFrom prize-winning\, bestselling author Colson Whitehead\, a magnificent\, wrenching\, thrilling tour de force chronicling a young slave’s adventures as she makes a desperate bid for freedom in the antebellum South. \n  \nCora is a slave on a cotton plantation in Georgia. Life is hellish for all the slaves\, but Cora is an outcast even among her fellow Africans\, and she is coming into womanhood; even greater pain awaits. Caesar\, a recent arrival from Virginia\, tells her about the Underground Railroad\, and they plot their escape. Matters do not go as planned — Cora kills a young white boy who tries to capture her — but they manage to find a station and head north. \n  \nIn Whitehead’s ingenious conception\, the Underground Railroad is not a metaphor — a secret network of tracks and tunnels has been built beneath the Southern soil. Cora and Caesar’s first stop is South Carolina\, where both find work in a city that at first seems like a haven. But the city’s placid surface masks an insidious scheme designed for its black denizens — and Ridgeway\, the relentless slave-catcher sent to find her\, arrives in town. Forced to flee again\, Cora embarks on a harrowing journey\, state-by-state\, seeking true freedom. \n  \nLike Gulliver\, Cora encounters different worlds at each stage of her journey — Whitehead brilliantly recreates the unique terrors for black people in states in the pre-Civil War era. The Underground Railroad is at once a kinetic adventure tale of one woman’s ferocious will to escape the horrors of bondage\, and a shattering\, powerful meditation on the history we all share.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/colson-whitehead/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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