Julia Ross - The Diet Cure
Julia Ross, M.A., is executive director of Recovery Systems, a clinic that treats mood, eating, and addiction problems with counseling, nutrient therapy, and biochemical rebalancing.
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- 51 Tamal Vista Blvd
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- Corte Madera ,
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- California
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- 94925
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- United States
Peter Carey - The Chemistry of Tears
Two-time Booker Prize winner Peter Carey reads from The Chemistry of Tears ($26.00), a story of secret grief assuaged, an automaton, a man and woman who can never meet, an affair, and the fate of the warming world brought to incandescent life in a haunting new novel from one of the most admired writers of our time. Carey’s books include the bestselling Oscar and Lucinda.
Peter Carey is the author of eleven previous novels and has twice received the Booker Prize. His other honors include the Commonwealth Writers' Prize and the Miles Franklin Literary Award, which he has won 5 times. Born in Australia, he has lived in New York City for twenty years.
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- 51 Tamal Vista Blvd
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- Corte Madera ,
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- California
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- 94925
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- United States
Craig Johnson - As the Crow Flies
Craig Johnson is the author of the bestselling Walt Longmire mystery series. He lives in Ucross, Wyoming, population twenty-five. Yes, that's right, 25.
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- 51 Tamal Vista Blvd
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- Corte Madera ,
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- California
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- 94925
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- United States
Arlie Hochschild - The Outsourced Self: Intimate Life in Market Times
Arlie Hochschild is the author of The Time Bind, The Second Shift, and The Managed Heart. She is a professor of sociology at the University of California, Berkeley and her articles have appeared in Harper's, Mother Jones, Psychology Today and elsewhere. She lives in San Francisco.
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- 51 Tamal Vista Blvd
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- Corte Madera ,
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- California
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- United States
Captain Sully - Making a Difference: Stories of Visions and Courage from America's Leaders
Captain Chesley B. Sullenberger III is a retired airline pilot, speaker, consultant and the author of the New York Times bestseller Highest Duty. He was named one of Time's 100 Most Influential People, and has been a visiting scholar at the University of California, Berkeley's Center for Catastrophic Risk Management.
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- 51 Tamal Vista Blvd
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- Corte Madera ,
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- California
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- 94925
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- United States
Susan Morse - The Habit
Susan Morse was educated at Williams College and has worked as an actress in L.A. and New York. She now lives in Philadelphia. She has edited fiction, although this book is nonfiction. Mostly. She promises.
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- 51 Tamal Vista Blvd
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- Corte Madera ,
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- California
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- 94925
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- United States
Dreams of Community: UC Santa Cruz writers - Karen Yamashita & Micah Perks
In the context of two very different 1960s communities, two UC Santa Cruz faculty members will discuss the overlapping theme of the desire for community, and also the desire for freedom from it. Karen Yamashita discusses I Hotel ($19.95), a multi-voiced fusion of prose, playwriting, graphic art, and philosophy which spins an epic tale of America’s struggle for civil rights. Micah Perks discusses her Pagan Time: An American Childhood ($15.95), a memoir about the 1960s which also conveys the texture of those wild times.
Karen Tei Yamashita is the author of four previous novels and the recipient of an American Book Award and the Janet Heidinger Kafka Award. I Hotel was a finalist for the 2010 National Book Award. A California native, Yamashita teaches at the University of California-Santa Cruz. Micah Perks is also the author of a novel, We Are Gathered Here. She has been twice nominated for a Pushcart Prize and currently lives in Santa Cruz where she also teaches at the University of California-Santa Cruz.
Yamashita and Perks codirect the Living Writers Series at UC Santa Cruz, which brings visiting writers, poets and publishing professionals to campus to give students an in-depth look into the world of the working writer.
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- 51 Tamal Vista Blvd
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- Corte Madera ,
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- California
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- 94925
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- United States
Anne Cherian - The Invitation
Anne Cherian’s earlier novel, A Good Indian Wife, won the South Asian Excellence Award. She lives in Los Angeles, California.
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- 51 Tamal Vista Blvd
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- Corte Madera ,
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- California
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- 94925
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- United States
Buzz Bissinger - Father's Day: A Journey Into the Mind and Heart of My Extraordinary Son
Buzz Bissinger is the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of four books, including the New York Times bestseller 3 Nights in August and Friday Night Lights, which has sold two million copies and inspired a film and TV franchise. He is a contributing editor for Vanity Fair and a sports columnist for The Daily Beast. He has written for The New Republic, Time and many other publications.
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- 51 Tamal Vista Blvd
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- Corte Madera ,
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- California
- Postal Code:
- 94925
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- United States
Henry Crumpton - The Art of Intelligence
Ambassador and political insider Henry Crumpton discusses The Art of Intelligence ($27.95). This legendary CIA spy and counterterrorism expert tells the spellbinding story of his high-risk, action-packed career while illustrating the growing importance of America's intelligence officers and their secret missions.
With the rank of ambassador at large, Henry Crumpton served as the coordinator for counterterrorism at the U.S. Department of State from August 2005 until February 2007. Crumpton joined the Central Intelligence Agency in 1981 and spent most of his twenty-four-year career working undercover in the foreign field. He is the recipient of the Distinguished Intelligence Medal, the CIA's highest award for achievement.
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- 51 Tamal Vista Blvd
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- Corte Madera ,
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- California
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- 94925
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- United States
Melanie Gideon - Wife 22
Melanie Gideon reads from Wife 22 ($26.00). For fans of Helen Fielding’s Bridget Jones’s Diary and Allison Pearson’s I Don’t Know How She Does It comes an irresistible novel of a woman losing herself . . . and finding herself again in the middle of her life. Wife 22 is praised by Elizabeth Berg as a book “… wise in matters of the heart.”
Melanie Gideon is the bestselling author of The Slippery Year: A Meditation on Happily Ever After, which was named an NPR and San Francisco Chronicle best book of the year. She is also the author of two young adult novels: Pucker and The Map That Breathed. Gideon was born and raised in Rhode Island, and now lives in the Bay Area.
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- 51 Tamal Vista Blvd
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- Corte Madera ,
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- California
- Postal Code:
- 94925
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- United States
Stages on Pages special event
Special teen event! Stages on Pages presents five YA authors reading from their work. Don’t miss Gretchen McNeil (Possess), Kim Culbertson (Instructions for a Broken Heart), Elise Allen (Populazzi), Stasia Kehoe (Audition), and Katherine Longshore (Gilt) debut new fiction for young adults.
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- 51 Tamal Vista Blvd.
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- Corte Madera ,
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- California
- Postal Code:
- 94925
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- United States
Richard Ford - Canada
Pulitzer Prize winner Richard Ford reads from Canada ($26.99), a deeply affecting new novel of boundaries traversed, of innocence lost and reconciled, and of the mysterious and consoling bonds of family. Told in spare, elegant prose both resonant and luminous, Canada is a masterwork of haunting, even spectacular vision from one of our great writers.
Richard Ford is the acclaimed author of the Bascombe novels, which include The Sportswriter and its sequels, Independence Day — the first novel to win the Pulitzer Prize and the PEN/Faulkner Award — and The Lay of the Land, as well as the short story collections Rock Springs and A Multitude of Sins, which contain many widely anthologized stories.
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- 51 Tamal Vista Blvd
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- Corte Madera ,
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- California
- Postal Code:
- 94925
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- United States
Anthony DeBenedict - Culpable Innocence: The American Dream Reprised
Anthony DeBenedict discusses his debut novel Culpable Innocence: The American Dream Reprised ($25.95). Set in the 1960s and against the backdrop of the Vietnam War, this recently published novel traces the story of Regis Fallen as he attempts to secure the promise of his American birthright in the midst of racial, political, and military strife.
Born in Philadelphia, Anthony DeBenedict grew up in California. He was drafted and sent to Vietnam, and for his service was awarded the Bronze Star. Upon his return to the States, DeBenedict pursued a career in systems development.
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- 51 Tamal Vista Blvd
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- Corte Madera ,
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- California
- Postal Code:
- 94925
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- United States
Ayesha Mattu - Love, InshAllah: The Secret Love Lifes of American Muslim Women
Ayesha Mattu talks about Love, InshAllah: The Secret Love Lifes of American Muslim Women ($15.95). Romance, dating, sex and Muslim women? In this groundbreaking collection, 25 writers sweep aside stereotypes and share stories of their search for love — from singles' events and online dating to college flirtations and arranged marriages, all with a Muslim twist. For this special event, Ayesha Mattu will be joined by local contributor and comedian, Zahra Noorbakhsh.
Pakistani-American Ayesha Mattu is a writer and international development consultant. Her writing has appeared in The Huffington Post, CNN.com, the International Museum of Women, Religion Dispatches, and the award-winning blog, Rickshaw Diaries. She was selected a Muslim Leader of Tomorrow by the UN Alliance of Civilizations and the ASMA Society in 2009. She lives in Northern California.
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- 51 Tamal Vista Blvd
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- Corte Madera ,
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- California
- Postal Code:
- 94925
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- United States
Gena Dawn - The Rainbow’s Journey
Special for kids! Gena Dawn reads from The Rainbow’s Journey ($19.95), a children’s book that uses colorful photography and rhyming poetry to take children on a magical journey through the cultures and landscapes of South and Southeast Asia. The book tells the tale of a young Rainbow who travels across the world – and discovers rainbow colors wherever she goes!
Gena Dawn is an art educator and travel photographer based in San Francisco. Brad Kane is a writer in the entertainment industry. In 2009-2010, they spent a year traveling in Asia, where their adventures inspired The Rainbow’s Journey.
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- 51 Tamal Vista Blvd
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- Corte Madera ,
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- California
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- 94925
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- United States
Tricia Hellman Gibbs - A New Song
Dr. Tricia Hellman Gibbs, MD, is a member of the 2008 San Francisco Wexner Heritage group and co-founder of the San Francisco Free Clinic, a clinic providing free care to the medically uninsured. She is also a former member of the United States Ski Team and, along with her husband, Dr. Richard Gibbs, 1998 California Family Physician of the Year.
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- 51 Tamal Vista Blvd
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- Corte Madera ,
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- California
- Postal Code:
- 94925
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- United States
Marta Fuchs - Legacy of Rescue: A Daughter's Tribute
Marta Fuchs discusses Legacy of Rescue: A Daughter's Tribute ($30.00). Fuchs’ father was one of 100 Hungarian Jews saved by Zoltán Kubinyi, the commanding officer of their forced labor battalion. This memoir, illustrated with family photographs, is in part a tribute to Kubinyi — a devout Seventh Day Adventist posthumously honored as a Righteous Among the Nations.
Marta Fuchs was born in Hungary and escaped with her family to the U.S. in the wake of the ’56 Revolution. She is a professional librarian and Director of Library Services at Drew School in SF and a licensed Marriage & Family Therapist in Albany. She is the author of Fragments of a Family: Remembering Hungary, the Holocaust, and Emigration to a New World.
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- 51 Tamal Vista Blvd
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- Corte Madera ,
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- California
- Postal Code:
- 94925
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- United States
Poets John Miatech and Rebecca Radner read their work
Poets John Miatech (What the Wind Says) and Rebecca Radner (What you least expect - selected poems 1980 – 2011) read from their recent books. Each are gifted writers. Each are veterans of the local poetry scene. Each will surprise. Each will delight.
John Miatech has been writing since 1969, and was recent poetry award winner at the San Francisco Writer’s Conference in 2012. Rebecca Radner's work has appeared in numerous publications, anthologies and textbooks. For more than 20 years she reviewed books regularly for the San Francisco Chronicle.
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- 51 Tamal Vista Blvd
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- Corte Madera ,
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- California
- Postal Code:
- 94925
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- United States
William Carter - Causes & Spirits
Photographer William Carter presents his fifth book, Causes and Spirits: Photographs from Five Decades ($60.00). Both autobiography and a study of people, both photojournalism and fine art photography, Carter’s images capture something beneath their surface – whether he was shooting Iraqi Kurds for LIFE, the streets of London for Women's Wear Daily, or nudes or the American West for exhibit.
"Watch any mother kneeling beside her toddler, pointing and explaining what they are looking at. Our urge to see, and to connect, starts there." – William Carter
William Carter graduated from Stanford University in 1957. He became a professional photographer, writer and editor while concurrently pursuing fine art photography. He has worked as a book editor, free-lance photographer, and jazz musician (even touring with Turk Murphy). Carter's photographs have been widely exhibited in the U.S. and Europe, and are in the permanent collection of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles, National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. and elsewhere.
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- 51 Tamal Vista Blvd
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- Corte Madera ,
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- California
- Postal Code:
- 94925
- Country:
- United States
