News & Events
June 2013
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Thursday, June 20, 7:30pm
reads from The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics (Viking, $28.95).
"Not only a great and inspiring true story, it is a fascinating work of history."--Nathaniel Philbrick
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Thursday, June 27, 7:30pm
presents The Hormone Cure: Reclaim Balance, Sleep, Sex Drive & Vitality Naturally with The Gottfried Protocol (Scribner, $28).
"The Hormone Cure is the medicine of the future, and Dr. Gottfried is the leading edge."--Christiane Northrup, M.D.
July 2013
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Thursday, July 11, 7:30pm
present Yoga Wisdom at Work: Finding Sanity Off the Mat and On the Job (Berrett-Koehler, $15.95 paper original).
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Saturday, July 13, 11:00am
present Count the Monkeys (Disney, $16.99, Ages 3-6)), Rain! (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $16.99, Ages 4-8), and Harlem's Little Blackbird (Random House, $17.99, Ages 5-8).
A terrific trifecta!
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Thursday, July 18, 7:30pm
reads from his dazzling debut novel Long Division (Agate, $15, paper original).
A Twain-esque exploration of celebrity, authorship, violence, religion, and coming of age in Post-Katrina Mississippi, written in a voice that’s alternately funny, lacerating, and wise.
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Thursday, July 25, 7:30pm
reads from his new novel The Impossible Lives of Greta Wells (Ecco, $26.99).
“The premise of this novel isn't that a woman travels through time: it's that ‘the impossible happens once to each of us'…What this wonderful novel teaches us is how magic works.”--John Irving
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Saturday, July 27, 4:00pm
reads from her memoir Mother Daughter Me (Random House, $26).
“Brilliant, funny, poignant, and wrenching . . . quite unlike anything else I have ever read. I love Katie Hafner’s prose, her humor, the images she conjures, her choices of what to tell and when, the weaving together of family threads to produce this luminous and lasting tapestry. ”--Abraham Verghese, author of Cutting for Stone
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Sunday, July 28, 4:00pm
reads from her much-anticipated debut mystery A Killing at Cotton Hill (Seventh Street, $15.95 paper original).
"Enchants with memorable characters and a Texas backdrop as authentic as bluebonnets and scrub cedars. A splendid debut by a gifted writer who knows the human heart. Definitely a candidate for both the Edgar and Agatha awards for Best First Novel."--Carolyn Hart, author of Escape from Paris
August 2013
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Wednesday, August 14, 7:30pm
reads from The Light Between Oceans (Scribner, $16), just released in paper.
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Thursday, August 15, 7:00pm
celebrate the release of Between the Fault Lines: Eight East Bay Poets (Sugartown Publishing, $16.95), hosted by Editor Jannie M. Dresser.
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Thursday, August 22, 7:30pm
reads from The End of My Wits ( Andrea Young, El Leon, $20).
