Letty Cottin Pogrebin - How to Be a Friend to a Friend Who's Sick

Everyone knows someone who’s sick or suffering. Yet when a friend or relative is under duress many of us feel uncertain about how to cope.Throughout her recent bout with breast cancer, Letty Cottin Pogrebin became intrigued by her friends’ and family’s diverse reactions to her and her diagnosis: how awkwardly some of them behaved; how they misspoke or misinterpreted her needs; and how wonderful it was when people read her right. Now Pogrebin has distilled their collective stories, insights, opinions, and ideas into How to Be a Friend to a Friend Who's Sick ($24.99), a wide-ranging compendium of concrete guidance and usable wisdom.

Letty Cottin Pogrebin is an award-winning journalist, widely published opinion writer, acclaimed public speaker, admired political activist, and author of several nonfiction bestsellers, including Growing Up Free, Getting Over Getting Older, and Deborah, Golda, and Me. Her last book was a novel, Three Daughters. She lives in New York.

Location: 
Street:
51 Tamal Vista Blvd
City:
Corte Madera
,
Province:
California
Postal Code:
94925
Country:
United States
$24.99
ISBN-13: 9781610392839
Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 days
Published: PublicAffairs, 4/2013

Class: Gloria Lopez Gutierrez - Spanish Beginning

06/05/2013 11:30 am

Four Wed.: June 5-26 • 9:30-11:30 am • $120

 

 

Gloria Lopez Gutierrez is an experienced bilingual teacher as well as College of Marin instructor. She aims to make Spanish language learning a relevant endeavor for each student.

 

Location: 
Street:
51 Tamal Vista Blvd
City:
Corte Madera
,
Postal Code:
94925

Leslie Zemeckis - Behind the Burly Q

Preserving the legacy of the pioneers of burlesque has long been a passion of author Leslie Zemeckis.  Beginning with her critically-acclaimed 2012 documentary combined with her extensive research which she has accumulated on the subject, Zemeckis has delved into the often misunderstood world of burlesque. In Behind the Burly Q: The Story of Burlesque in America ($24.95), she has documented the definitive oral history of burlesque as told by the original stars themselves in this, her first book.

Filmmaker Leslie Zemeckis is a veteran of stage and film. A frequent contributor to Huffington Post and Stork Magazine among other publications, Zemeckis wrote, produced, and directed the critically acclaimed documentary Behind the Burly Q about old-time burlesque. Her recent documentary Bound by Flesh is the story of Siamese twins, Daisy and Violet Hilton, America’s highest paid vaudeville act.

 

Location: 
Street:
1 Ferry Building
City:
San Francisco
,
Postal Code:
94111
$24.95
ISBN-13: 9781620876916
Availability: Coming Soon - Available for Pre-Order Now
Published: Skyhorse Publishing, 6/2013

Scott Johnson - The Wolf & the Watchman

When Scott C. Johnson was fourteen, his dad took him to work. In a parking lot in Detroit, Johnson was told the truth: his father was a spy for the CIA.  At first, he reacts like any teenage boy would: he thinks his dad is James Bond. As time goes by, however, he begins to realize it’s not really like James Bond at all.  How could his dad go through such rigorous training to deceive and manipulate, and then just turn it off when he gets home?  Part family memoir, part spy story, The Wolf and the Watchman: A Father, a Son, and the CIA ($26.95), is a powerful and moving father-son account that starts during the Cold War and takes us to the present War on Terror.  

Scott C. Johnson was a Newsweek foreign correspondent for twelve years, often providing exclusive war reporting from Iraq, Afghanistan, and other fronts in the Middle East. He is now a freelance journalist and writer living in Oakland, California.

Location: 
Street:
51 Tamal Vista Blvd
City:
Corte Madera
,
Postal Code:
94925
$26.95
ISBN-13: 9780393239805
Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 days
Published: W. W. Norton & Company, 5/2013

Class: Gloria Lopez Gutierrez - Spanish 2

06/06/2013 12:00 pm

Four Thurs.: June 6 - 2710:00-12:00 pm • $120

 

 

Spanish for continuing students. Class will be tailored to meet group and individual needs.

Gloria Lopez Gutierrez is an experienced bilingual teacher as well as College of Marin instructor. She aims to make Spanish language learning a relevant endeavor for each student.

 

Location: 
Street:
51 Tamal Vista Blvd
City:
Corte Madera
,
Postal Code:
94925
Country:
United States

Literary Luncheon: Karen Joy Fowler - We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves

The ticket price of $55 includes lunch and a signed book
Call (415) 927-0960 ext. 1 or click the button below to register.

 

 

From the New York Times–bestselling author of The Jane Austen Book Club comes We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves, the story of an American family, middle class in middle America, ordinary in every way but one. But that exception is the beating heart of this extraordinary novel.

Meet the Cooke family: Mother and Dad, brother Lowell, sister Fern, and our narrator, Rosemary, who begins her story in the middle. She has her reasons. “I spent the first eighteen years of my life defined by this one fact: that I was raised with a chimpanzee,” she tells us. “It’s never going to be the first thing I share with someone. I tell you Fern was a chimp and already you aren’t thinking of her as my sister. But until Fern’s expulsion, I’d scarcely known a moment alone. She was my twin, my funhouse mirror, my whirlwind other half, and I loved her as a sister.”

Karen Joy Fowler is the author of three story collections and six novels, one a national bestseller, another a PEN/Faulkner finalist, and all New York Times Notable Books. She lives in Santa Cruz, California.

Book Passage hosts literary luncheons with celebrated authors at our Marin store. These events are catered by the outstanding Insalata’s Restaurant of San Anselmo.

 

Location: 
Street:
51 Tamal Vista Blvd
City:
Corte Madera
,
Postal Code:
94925
$26.95
ISBN-13: 9780399162091
Availability: Coming Soon - Available for Pre-Order Now
Published: A Marian Wood Book/Putnam, 5/2013



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