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Writer's Forum Open Mic Night

Thu, 13 Dec 2007 00:00:00 PST

Event name: Writer's Forum Open Mic Night
event Date Begin: 17.09.2008
event Date End: 17.12.2008
org Name: San Francisco/Peninsula Writers
event Url: http://www.sfpeninsulawriters.com/open_mic.html
venue Name: Borders - San Mateo
venue Address1: 2925 El Camino Real
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venue City: San Mateo
venue State: CA
venue Zip: 94403
event Ticket Info: Free
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event Email: OpenMic@sfpeninsulawriters.com
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event Start Time: Every 3rd Wednesday of the month 7:30 pm
event Type: poetry_literature

This is a great opportunity for authors to get exposure and to practice public speaking skills. Open to all writers and listeners, including California Writers Club (CWC) members and non-members. Each reader is given a choice of whether or not they wish to receive feedback. The Writer's Forum Open Mic Night meets every third Wednesday of each month and is moderated by Jim Hanna. Advance sign up is required. To reserve a slot, contact: OpenMic@sfpeninsulawriters.com.

Where Art Originates - Artists and the Creative Process: Writer Karen-King Aribisala

Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 PST

Event name: Where Art Originates - Artists and the Creative Process: Writer Karen-King Aribisala
event Date Begin: 30.10.2008
event Date End: 30.10.2008
org Name: Djerassi Resident Artists Program
event Url: http://www.djerassi.org/lectureseries.html
venue Name: Palo Alto Art Center
venue Address1: 1313 Newell Road
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venue City: Palo Alto
venue State: CA
venue Zip: 94303
event Ticket Info: Free RSVP required
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event Phone2: 650-329-2366
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event Start Time: 7pm
event Type: poetry_literature

Where Art Originates: Artists and the Creative Process.

Lecture Series to Feature Artist Performances and Insights to Their Work

The public is invited to explore the creative process and personal approach to artistic growth in a series of five exciting lecture evenings featuring nine 2008 Djerassi Program resident artists. Participating artists represent a wide range of artistic expression and will perform and speak about their work. Each program will conclude with a Q & A session with the featured artist(s).

Literary Reading by Karen-King Aribisala
Afro-Guyanese writer Karen-King Aribisala (Lagos, Nigeria) received her PhD in African and West Indian Literature from the University of Sussex in England. Currently a Professor of English at the University of Lagos in Nigeria, her work has been widely published in Africa, Europe, the United States, Canada and Australia. While at Djerassi, she plans to work on "Shakespeared Black," which “reacts to the history of colonization and the insidious use of education of the colonized…”

The Limon Centenary

Tue, 24 Jun 2008 00:00:00 PDT

Event name: The Limon Centenary
event Date Begin: 18.02.2009
event Date End: 18.02.2009
org Name: Stanford Lively Arts
event Url: http://livelyarts.stanford.edu
venue Name: Dinkelspiel Auditorium - Stanford University
venue Address1: 471 Lagunita Drive
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venue City: Stanford
venue State: CA
venue Zip: 94305
event Ticket Info: $11-$26
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event Phone2: 650-725-2787
event Email: livelyarts@stanford.edu
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event Start Time: 5pm
event Type: theatre

Making its West Coast debut, the New York-based Making Books Sing is a theater company that commissions and brings to life musicals whose artistry is as high, and whose content as thought-provoking, as fine theater for adult audiences. Productions are based on outstanding contemporary children's books that honor children, their struggles growing up, their cultural diversity, and their intellect. In this program, audiences follow Jose Limon's remarkable path through childhood in Mexico, his immigration and adaptation to the United States, and his struggle to become a painter, and then a dancer, in New York City.

African Folktales

Tue, 26 Aug 2008 00:00:00 PDT

Event name: African Folktales
event Date Begin: 16.10.2008
event Date End: 16.10.2008
org Name: East Palo Alto Library
event Url: http://smcl.org
venue Name: East Palo Alto Library
venue Address1: 2415 University Avenue
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venue City: East Palo Alto
venue State: CA
venue Zip: 94303
event Ticket Info: Free
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event Start Time: 4:30pm
event Type: poetry_literature

Storyteller Yolanda Rhodes decorates folktales and stories from Sudan and Africa with song, miming and evocation of characters through movement. This program is free and open to all.

Robert Martensen - A Life Worth Living: A Doctors Reflections on Illness in a High-Tech Era

Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 PST

Event name: Robert Martensen - A Life Worth Living: A Doctors Reflections on Illness in a High-Tech Era
event Date Begin: 06.10.2008
event Date End: 06.10.2008
org Name: Kepler's Bookstore
event Url: http://www.keplers.com/?sec=programs-events&subsec=upcoming-events&PHPSESSID=784810998d6f8a8616c2a958116079df
venue Name: Kepler's Books
venue Address1: 1010 El Camino Real
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venue City: Menlo Park
venue State: CA
venue Zip: 94025
event Ticket Info: Free
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event Phone2: 650-324-4321
event Email: books@keplers.com
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event Start Time: 7:30pm
event Type: poetry_literature

Critical illness is a fact of life. Even those of us who enjoy decades of good health are touched by it eventually, either in our own lives or in those of our loved ones. And when this happens, we grapple with serious and often confusing choices about how best to live with our afflictions.

A physician, medical historian and bioethicist, Martensen pulls no punches. Beyond the marvels of modern medical technology lies a treacherous morass of ethical, moral and spiritual dilemmas most of us are not ready to even consider: whether to opt for aggressive treatments, when to stop them, and how to die “well.” Too often the choice of aggressive treatment and heroic measures becomes an extended “death by intensive care” in grim hospital units designed more like prisons than places of healing.

Thoughtful and compassionate, Martensen narrates poignant case studies, such as that of Marguerite, who undergoes ineffective surgeries and drug trials for advanced breast cancer but has debilitating side effects. The author lays blame across the board, from patients with unrealistic expectations and doctors who don’t explain treatment options fully, from profit-driven hospitals to an insurance bureaucracy that spurns routine health maintenance. Martensen makes his case with clear, compelling writing that never flinches from his conclusion that some things you just can't “win the battle against”; you can only hope for quality of life until the end.”

Robert Martensen has held several professorships. Recently, he joined the National Institutes of Health as director of its Office of History and Museum.

Ariel Sabar - My Father's Paradise: A Son's Search for his Jewish Past in Kurdish Iraq

Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 PST

Event name: Ariel Sabar - My Father's Paradise: A Son's Search for his Jewish Past in Kurdish Iraq
event Date Begin: 07.10.2008
event Date End: 07.10.2008
org Name: Kepler's Bookstore
event Url: http://www.keplers.com/?sec=programs-events&subsec=upcoming-events&PHPSESSID=784810998d6f8a8616c2a958116079df
venue Name: Kepler's Books
venue Address1: 1010 El Camino Real
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venue City: Menlo Park
venue State: CA
venue Zip: 94025
event Ticket Info: Free
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event Phone2: 650-324-4321
event Email: books@keplers.com
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event Start Time: 7:30pm
event Type: poetry_literature

In a remote and dusty corner of the world, forgotten for nearly three thousand years, lived an ancient community of Kurdish Jews so isolated that they still spoke Aramaic - the language of Jesus. Mostly illiterate, they dwelt in harmony with their Muslim and Christian neighbors in the mountains of northern Iraq. To these descendants of the Lost Tribes of Israel, Yona Sabar was born. In the 1950s, after the founding of the state of Isreal, Yona and his family emigrated there with the mass exodus of 120,000 Jews from Iraq—one of the world's largest and least-known diasporas. Almost overnight, the Kurdish Jews' exotic culture and language were doomed to extinction. Yona, who became an esteemed professor at UCLA, dedicated his career to preserving his people's traditions. But to his first-generation American son Ariel, Yona was a reminder of a strange immigrant heritage on which he had turned his back—until he had a son of his own.

My Father's Paradise is Ariel Sabar's quest to reconcile present and past. As father and son travel together to today's postwar Iraq to find what's left of Yona's birthplace, Ariel brings to life the ancient town of Zakho, telling his family's story and discovering his own role in this sweeping saga. What he finds in the Sephardic Jews' millennia-long survival in Islamic lands is an improbable story of tolerance and hope.

Ariel Sabar covered the 2008 U.S. presidential campaigns for the Christian Science Monitor and is a former staff writer for the Baltimore Sun and the Providence (RI) Journal. His work has also appeared in the New York Times, the Washington Monthly, Mother Jones magazine, and other publications.

Diane Johnson - Lulu in Marrakech

Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 PST

Event name: Diane Johnson - Lulu in Marrakech
event Date Begin: 08.10.2008
event Date End: 08.10.2008
org Name: Kepler's Bookstore
event Url: http://www.keplers.com/?sec=programs-events&subsec=upcoming-events&PHPSESSID=784810998d6f8a8616c2a958116079df
venue Name: Kepler's Books
venue Address1: 1010 El Camino Real
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venue City: Menlo Park
venue State: CA
venue Zip: 94025
event Ticket Info: Free
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event Phone2: 650-324-4321
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event Start Time: 7:30pm
event Type: poetry_literature

The two-time Pulitzer Prize– and three-time National Book Award–nominated author of the bestseller Le Divorce returns with a mesmerizing novel of double standards and double agents. Lulu Sawyer, the heroine of Diane Johnson’s captivating new novel, arrives in Marrakech, Morocco, hoping to rekindle her romance with a worldly Englishman, Ian Drumm. It’s the perfect cover for her assignment with the American CIA: tracing the flow of money from well-heeled donors to radical Islamic groups. While spending her days poolside among Europeans, in villas staffed by local maids in abayas, and her nights at lively dinner parties, Lulu observes the fragile coexistence of two cultures. Beneath the surface of this polite expatriate community lies a more sinister world laced not only with double standards, but with double agents.

Lulu’s mission ultimately has tragic consequences, but along the way readers will fall in love with this endearing young woman as she improvises her way through the souk, her love life, and her profession. As in her previous novels, Diane Johnson weaves a dazzling tale in the great tradition of works about naive Americans abroad and the laws of unintended consequences.

Alice Schroeder - The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life

Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 PST

Event name: Alice Schroeder - The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life
event Date Begin: 14.10.2008
event Date End: 14.10.2008
org Name: Kepler's Bookstore
event Url: http://www.keplers.com/?sec=programs-events&subsec=upcoming-events&PHPSESSID=784810998d6f8a8616c2a958116079df
venue Name: Kepler's Books
venue Address1: 1010 El Camino Real
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venue City: Menlo Park
venue State: CA
venue Zip: 94025
event Ticket Info: Free
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event Phone2: 650-324-4321
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event Start Time: 7:30pm
event Type: poetry_literature

Here is THE book recounting the life and times of one of the most respected men in the world, Warren Buffett. The legendary Omaha investor has never written a memoir, but now he has allowed one writer, Alice Schroeder, unprecedented access to explore directly with him and with those closest to him his work, opinions, struggles, triumphs, follies, and wisdom. The result is the personally revealing and complete biography of the man known everywhere as "The Oracle of Omaha."

Although the media track him constantly, Buffett himself has never told his full life story. His reality is private, especially by celebrity standards. Indeed, while the homespun persona that the public sees is true as far as it goes, it goes only so far. Warren Buffett is an array of paradoxes. He set out to prove that nice guys can finish first. Over the years he treated his investors as partners, acted as their steward, and championed honesty as an investor, CEO, board member, essayist, and speaker. At the same time he became the world’s richest man, all from the modest Omaha headquarters of his company Berkshire Hathaway. None of this fits the term "simple."

Never before has Buffett spent countless hours responding to a writer’s questions, talking, giving complete access to his wife, children, friends, and business associates—opening his files, recalling his childhood. It was an act of courage, as The Snowball makes immensely clear. Being human, his own life, like most lives, has been a mix of strengths and frailties. Yet notable though his wealth may be, Buffett’s legacy will not be his ranking on the scorecard of wealth; it will be his principles and ideas that have enriched people’s lives. This book tells you why Warren Buffett is the most fascinating American success story of our time.

Randall Stross - Planet Google: One Company's Audacious Plan to Organize Everything We Know

Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 PST

Event name: Randall Stross - Planet Google: One Company's Audacious Plan to Organize Everything We Know
event Date Begin: 15.10.2008
event Date End: 15.10.2008
org Name: Kepler's Bookstore
event Url: http://www.keplers.com/?sec=programs-events&subsec=upcoming-events&PHPSESSID=784810998d6f8a8616c2a958116079df
venue Name: Kepler's Books
venue Address1: 1010 El Camino Real
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venue City: Menlo Park
venue State: CA
venue Zip: 94025
event Ticket Info: Free
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event Phone2: 650-324-4321
event Email: books@keplers.com
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event Start Time: 7:30pm
event Type: poetry_literature

A revelation-packed journey into the secretive world of today’s most transformative and potentially disruptive company, uncovering Google’s bold, provocative pursuit of control of “all the world’s information.” Based on unprecedented access to the highly secretive “Googleplex,” including in-depth interviews with CEO Eric Schmidt and the heads of many of Google’s newest and most provocative businesses, New York Times business and technology columnist Randall Stross is the first to uncover what will be the highly controversial story of Google’s ambitious strategy – to make itself the indispensable gatekeeper of the fast-evolving information revolution.

As the company accumulates ever more information, how will Google make use of what it knows about us? Stross’s penetrating research provides a startling portrait of Google’s intentions and where the company is taking our culture.

Stross writes the New York Times column “Digital Domain” and is professor of business at San Jose State. He is the author of several books including The Microsoft Way and eBoys. He lives in Burlingame.

Christopher Kimball - Cook's Country Cookbook and America's Test Kitchen Family Baking Book

Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 PST

Event name: Christopher Kimball - Cook's Country Cookbook and America's Test Kitchen Family Baking Book
event Date Begin: 16.10.2008
event Date End: 16.10.2008
org Name: Kepler's Bookstore
event Url: http://www.keplers.com/?sec=programs-events&subsec=upcoming-events&PHPSESSID=784810998d6f8a8616c2a958116079df
venue Name: Kepler's Books
venue Address1: 1010 El Camino Real
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venue City: Menlo Park
venue State: CA
venue Zip: 94025
event Ticket Info: Free
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event Phone2: 650-324-4321
event Email: books@keplers.com
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event Start Time: 7:30pm
event Type: poetry_literature

Christopher Kimball founded Cook's Magazine, a national magazine for cooking hobbyists, in 1980 and served as founder, publisher, and editorial director through 1989. In 1984, Mr. Kimball founded the Who's Who of Cooking in America which was initiated to honor the leading American chefs, restaurateurs, vintners, food writers, and food producers. In 1993, Mr. Kimball relaunched Cook's Magazine as Cook's Illustrated and recently founded Cook's Country Magazine. Mr. Kimball serves as publisher and editor of both magazines. Mr. Kimball also serves as the host of America's Test Kitchen, a public television cooking show now in its seventh season. Mr. Kimball is a regular contributor to The CBS Early Show, and has been written up in many publications including The New Yorker, the Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, People Magazine, The New York Times Book Review, The Washington Post, and The Los Angeles Times.

In addition to the recipes, The America's Test Kitchen Family Baking Book is full of test kitchen tips that explain how or why a recipe works (and where you can go wrong), recipes at a glance (where we provide mini tutorials with photos), and illustrated troubleshooting guides (where we highlight the most common baking problems and their solutions). A practical guide to baking basics with information on key ingredients and necessary equipment (along with the test kitchen's favorite brands), The America's Test Kitchen Family Baking Book will help anyone get started on the right track.

Sarah Vowell - The Wordy Shipmates

Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 PST

Event name: Sarah Vowell - The Wordy Shipmates
event Date Begin: 17.10.2008
event Date End: 17.10.2008
org Name: Kepler's Bookstore
event Url: http://www.keplers.com/?sec=programs-events&subsec=upcoming-events&PHPSESSID=784810998d6f8a8616c2a958116079df
venue Name: Kepler's Books
venue Address1: 1010 El Camino Real
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venue City: Menlo Park
venue State: CA
venue Zip: 94025
event Ticket Info: Free
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event Phone2: 650-324-4321
event Email: books@keplers.com
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event Start Time: 7:30pm
event Type: poetry_literature

From the New York Times–bestselling author of Assassination Vacation and The Partly Cloudy Patriot, an examination of the Puritans, their covenant communities, their deep-rooted idealism, their political and cultural relevance in today’s world, and their myriad oddities. In The Wordy Shipmates, Sarah Vowell travels once again through America’s past, this time to seventeenth-century New England, where she studies the Puritan effect and finds their beliefs about church and state more interesting than their buckles-and-corn reputation would suggest.

As in all Vowell’s bestselling books, this exploration of America’s past is both poignant and entertaining. The Wordy Shipmates is rich with historical fact, humorous insight, and social commentary by one of America’s celebrated voices.

The Art of the Memoir - David Henry Sterry, Alan Black, and Beth Lisick

Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 PST

Event name: The Art of the Memoir - David Henry Sterry, Alan Black, and Beth Lisick
event Date Begin: 20.10.2008
event Date End: 20.10.2008
org Name: Kepler's Bookstore
event Url: http://www.keplers.com/?sec=programs-events&subsec=upcoming-events&PHPSESSID=784810998d6f8a8616c2a958116079df
venue Name: Kepler's Books
venue Address1: 1010 El Camino Real
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venue City: Menlo Park
venue State: CA
venue Zip: 94025
event Ticket Info: Free
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event Phone2: 650-324-4321
event Email: books@keplers.com
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event Start Time: 7:30pm
event Type: poetry_literature

Find out what it takes to write, read and sell your life story from writers who've actually done just that. Featuring David Henry Sterry (Master of Ceremonies: A True Story of Murder, Roller Skates, and Chippendales), Alan Black (Kick the Balls: An Offensive Suburban Odyssey), and Beth Lisick (Helping Me Help Myself: One Skeptic, Ten Self-Help Gurus, and a Year on the Brink of the Comfort Zone).

Listen as memoirists read from their own work, then discuss the process of writing a memoir. Making a narrative of events of your own life, dealing with issues of privacy and family, figuring out how to navigate the stormy seas of the publishing world, and bringing your story to life as you read it before an audience will be among the topics addressed by this panel of memoirists, a book doctor who has helped dozens of first time authors get published, and the author of Putting Your Passion Into Print, the definitive book on how to get published. This will be followed by a Q&A session.

Keith Devlin - The Unfinished Game: Pascal, Fermat, and the Seventeenth-Century Letter that Made the World Modern

Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 PST

Event name: Keith Devlin - The Unfinished Game: Pascal, Fermat, and the Seventeenth-Century Letter that Made the World Modern
event Date Begin: 21.10.2008
event Date End: 21.10.2008
org Name: Kepler's Bookstore
event Url: http://www.keplers.com/?sec=programs-events&subsec=upcoming-events&PHPSESSID=784810998d6f8a8616c2a958116079df
venue Name: Kepler's Books
venue Address1: 1010 El Camino Real
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venue City: Menlo Park
venue State: CA
venue Zip: 94025
event Ticket Info: Free
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event Phone2: 650-324-4321
event Email: books@keplers.com
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event Start Time: 7:30pm
event Type: poetry_literature

Before the mid-seventeenth century, scholars generally agreed that it was impossible to predict something by calculating mathematical outcomes. One simply could not put a numerical value on the likelihood that a particular event would occur. Even the outcome of something as simple as a dice roll or the likelihood of showers instead of sunshine was thought to lie in the realm of pure, unknowable chance.

The issue remained intractable until Blaise Pascal wrote to Pierre de Fermat in 1654, outlining a solution to the “unfinished game” problem: how do you divide the pot when players are forced to end a game of dice before someone has won? The idea turned out to be far more seminal than Pascal realized. From it, the two men developed the method known today as probability theory.

In The Unfinished Game, Keith Devlin tells the story of this correspondence and its remarkable impact on the modern world: from insurance rates, to housing and job markets, to the safety of cars and planes. Calculating probabilities allowed people, for the first time, to think rationally about how future events might unfold.

Keith Devlin is a senior researcher at Stanford University’s Center for the Study of Language and Information and its executive director, a consulting professor in the Department of Mathematics, and a co-founder of the Stanford Media X research network and of the university’s H-STAR institute. He has written twenty-five books and over seventy-five published research articles. He is the “Math Guy” on National Public Radio. He lives in Palo Alto.

Anne Rice - Called Out of Darkness: A Spiritual Confession - CANCELLED

Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 PST

Event name: Anne Rice - Called Out of Darkness: A Spiritual Confession - CANCELLED
event Date Begin: 25.10.2008
event Date End: 25.10.2008
org Name: Kepler's Bookstore
event Url: http://www.keplers.com/?sec=programs-events&subsec=upcoming-events&PHPSESSID=784810998d6f8a8616c2a958116079df
venue Name: Kepler's Books
venue Address1: 1010 El Camino Real
venue Address2
venue City: Menlo Park
venue State: CA
venue Zip: 94025
event Ticket Info: Free
event Phone1
event Phone2: 650-324-4321
event Email: books@keplers.com
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event Start Time: 2pm
event Type: poetry_literature

In 2005, Anne Rice startled her readers with her novel Christ the Lord: Out of Egypt, and by revealing that, after years as an atheist, she had returned to her Catholic faith. Christ the Lord: The Road to Cana followed. And now, in her powerful and haunting memoir, Rice tells the story of the spiritual transformation that produced a complete change in her literary goals.

She begins with her girlhood in New Orleans as the devout child in a deeply religious Irish Catholic family. She writes about her years in radical Berkeley, where her career as a novelist began with the publication of Interview with the Vampire. She also writes about loss and tragedy, new joys, and how, after an adult lifetime of questioning, she experienced the intense conversion and consecration to Christ that lie behind her most recent novels. For her readers old and new, this book explores her continuing interior pilgrimage.

Marc Kielburger - Me to We: Finding Meaning in a Material World

Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 PST

Event name: Marc Kielburger - Me to We: Finding Meaning in a Material World
event Date Begin: 27.10.2008
event Date End: 27.10.2008
org Name: Kepler's Bookstore
event Url: http://www.keplers.com/?sec=programs-events&subsec=upcoming-events&PHPSESSID=784810998d6f8a8616c2a958116079df
venue Name: Kepler's Books
venue Address1: 1010 El Camino Real
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venue City: Menlo Park
venue State: CA
venue Zip: 94025
event Ticket Info: Free
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event Phone2: 650-324-4321
event Email: books@keplers.com
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event Start Time: 7pm
event Type: poetry_literature

We speak of the need for “change.” Change in our jobs, change in our government, change in our priorities – an overall shift away from the rigorously scheduled and hectic lives we lead. But how do we achieve this?

In their New York Times bestselling book, Me to We: Finding Meaning in a Material World, brothers Craig and Marc Kielburger have produced a practical blueprint for change. By moving away from thinking only about ourselves to thinking about our family, our communities and the world – a shift from me to we – balance and meaning can be found.

Craig Kielburger and Marc Kielburger are accomplished child rights advocates and popular speakers who have shared the podium with His Holiness the Dalai Lama and former U.S. president Bill Clinton. Their work has led them to more than 50 countries and they have sat on panels with heads of state and royalty at major international conferences.

Me to We: Finding Meaning in a Material World features personal stories from their travels, and their philosophical journey. It also includes contributions from other renowned humanitarians, including Oprah Winfrey, Dr. Jane Goodall, Richard Gere and Archbishop Desmond Tutu, as examples of effective tools we can use to change our own lives, the lives of our families and the lives of those in our communities.

Kirsten Menger-Anderson - Dr. Olaf van Schuler's Brain

Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 PST

Event name: Kirsten Menger-Anderson - Dr. Olaf van Schuler's Brain
event Date Begin: 30.10.2008
event Date End: 30.10.2008
org Name: Kepler's Bookstore
event Url: http://www.keplers.com/?sec=programs-events&subsec=upcoming-events&PHPSESSID=784810998d6f8a8616c2a958116079df
venue Name: Kepler's Books
venue Address1: 1010 El Camino Real
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venue City: Menlo Park
venue State: CA
venue Zip: 94025
event Ticket Info: Free
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event Phone2: 650-324-4321
event Email: books@keplers.com
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event Start Time: 7:30pm
event Type: poetry_literature

In 1664 Dr. Olaf van Schuler flees the Old World and arrives in New Amsterdam with his lunatic mother, two bags of medical implements, and a carefully guarded book of his own medicines. He is the first in what will become a long line of peculiar physicians. Plagued by madness and guided by an intense desire to cure human affliction, each generation of this unusual family is driven by the science of its day: spontaneous combustion, phrenology, animal magnetism, electrical shock treatment, psychosurgery, genetic research. As they make their way in the world, New York City, too, evolves-from the dark and rough days of the seventeenth century to the towering, frenetic metropolis of today.

Like Patrick Süskind's classic novel Perfume, Kirsten Menger-Anderson's debut is a literary cabinet of curiosities-fascinating and unsettling, rich and utterly singular. Kirsten Menger-Anderson's stories have been short-listed for the Andre Dubus Award, the Richard Yates Award, the Glimmer Train Short Story Award for New Writers, and the Iowa Review story contest and have appeared in a number of literary publications. She lives in San Francisco.

Therese Poletti - Art Deco San Francisco: The Architecture of Timothy Pflueger

Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 PST

Event name: Therese Poletti - Art Deco San Francisco: The Architecture of Timothy Pflueger
event Date Begin: 05.11.2008
event Date End: 05.11.2008
org Name: Kepler's Bookstore
event Url: http://www.keplers.com/?sec=programs-events&subsec=upcoming-events&PHPSESSID=784810998d6f8a8616c2a958116079df
venue Name: Kepler's Books
venue Address1: 1010 El Camino Real
venue Address2
venue City: Menlo Park
venue State: CA
venue Zip: 94025
event Ticket Info: Free
event Phone1
event Phone2: 650-324-4321
event Email: books@keplers.com
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event Start Time: 7:30pm
event Type: poetry_literature

The Castro Theatre, the Pacific Telephone and Telegraph Headquarters, 450 Sutter Medico-Dental Building – these masterpieces of San Francisco’s Art Deco heritage are the work of one man: Timothy Pflueger. While his contemporaries looked to beaux arts traditions to rebuild the city, he brought exotic Mayan, Asian, and Egyptian forms to buildings ranging from simple cocktail lounges to the city’s first skyscrapers. Pflueger was one of the city’s most prolific architects during his 40-year career. Therese Poletti tells the fascinating story of Pflueger’s life and work in Art Deco San Francisco. In lively detail, she relates how Pflueger built extravagant compositions in metal, concrete, and glass.

San Francisco resident Therese Poletti has been a journalist for nearly twenty years. She has written for the San Jose Mercury News, and currently works for MarketWatch as a technology columnist.

Go Green: Laura Stec & Dr. Eugene Cordero - Cool Cuisine - Taking the Bite out of Global Warming

Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 PST

Event name: Go Green: Laura Stec & Dr. Eugene Cordero - Cool Cuisine - Taking the Bite out of Global Warming
event Date Begin: 06.11.2008
event Date End: 06.11.2008
org Name: Kepler's Bookstore
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venue Name: Kepler's Books
venue Address1: 1010 El Camino Real
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venue City: Menlo Park
venue State: CA
venue Zip: 94025
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event Phone2: 650-324-4321
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event Start Time: 7:30pm
event Type: poetry_literature

What we eat does have an impact on our planet, and you can have better-tasting, higher-quality food by following the advice in this book. Cool Cuisine, formerly entitled The Global Warming Diet - Cool Recipes for a Hot Planet, addresses why global warming could be the best thing to happen to the culinary world in a long time, and reports on innovative science, business, and savory solutions to the Global Warming Diet.

Laura Stec runs her own personal chef/catering business - Laura Stec - Innovative Cuisine, and is Culinary Health Educator for Kaiser Permanente Medical Group. For the last 12 years she’s worked with Acterra, an environmental organization based in Palo Alto. With over 37 years combined experience in the food and environmental nonprofit sectors, she also partners with EcoSpeakers.com to lecture and consult with corporations and institutions on ways to bring regionally responsible cuisine into their food systems.

Dr. Eugene Cordero is an associate professor in the Meteorology Department at San Jose State University in California. His research interests are focused on understanding the natural and anthropogenic processes responsible for long-term changes in climate through the use of atmospheric models.

Project Runway Finalist Daniel Vosovic - Fashion Inside Out: Daniel V's Guide to How Style Happens From Inspiration to Runway and Beyond

Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 PST

Event name: Project Runway Finalist Daniel Vosovic - Fashion Inside Out: Daniel V's Guide to How Style Happens From Inspiration to Runway and Beyond
event Date Begin: 07.11.2008
event Date End: 07.11.2008
org Name: Kepler's Bookstore
event Url: http://www.keplers.com/?sec=programs-events&subsec=upcoming-events&PHPSESSID=784810998d6f8a8616c2a958116079df
venue Name: Kepler's Books
venue Address1: 1010 El Camino Real
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venue City: Menlo Park
venue State: CA
venue Zip: 94025
event Ticket Info: Free
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event Start Time: 7:30pm
event Type: poetry_literature

From inspiration to execution, from first sketches to final styling, from developing a collection to defining a look, Fashion Inside Out combines practical information on fashion design with an intimate look at the fashion scene today. Project Runway finalist Daniel Vosovic reveals exactly how designers make dreams become fashion reality. Vosovic tells all, and so do prominent magazine editors, photographers, stylists, and many other fashion industry professionals. A detailed overview of the design process, plus insightful advice on connecting with the right people, promoting and selling, and much, much more, make this the ideal one-volume resource for everyone who loves design, watches television fashion-reality shows, or longs for a behind-the-scenes look at an exciting and exotic business.

Daniel Vosovic, a finalist on Project Runway’s second season, presented a thirteen-piece collection at New York’s Fashion Week in 2006 to glowing reviews. His latest project is chic clothing for the staff of the stylish new hotel chain NYLO; the collection will soon be available at in-hotel boutiques and online. Fans can see those designs and more on the designer’s website, www.danielvosovic.net.

Amitav Ghosh - Sea of Poppies: A Novel

Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 PST

Event name: Amitav Ghosh - Sea of Poppies: A Novel
event Date Begin: 10.11.2008
event Date End: 10.11.2008
org Name: Kepler's Bookstore
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venue Name: Kepler's Books
venue Address1: 1010 El Camino Real
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venue City: Menlo Park
venue State: CA
venue Zip: 94025
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event Start Time: 7:30pm
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At the heart of this vibrant saga is a vast ship, the Ibis. Its destiny is a tumultuous voyage across the Indian Ocean; its purpose, to fight China’s vicious nineteenth-century Opium Wars. As for the crew, they are a motley array of sailors and stowaways, coolies and convicts.

In a time of colonial upheaval, fate has thrown together a diverse cast of Indians and Westerners, from a bankrupt raja to a widowed tribeswoman, from a mulatto American freedman to a free-spirited French orphan. As their old family ties are washed away, they, like their historical counterparts, come to view themselves as jahaj-bhais, or ship-brothers. An unlikely dynasty is born, which will span continents, races, and generations.

The vast sweep of this historical adventure spans the lush poppy fields of the Ganges, the rolling high seas, the exotic backstreets of Canton. But it is the panorama of characters, whose diaspora encapsulates the vexed colonial history of the East itself, that makes Sea of Poppies so breathtakingly alive—a masterpiece from one of the world’s finest novelists.

Amitav Ghosh is the internationally bestselling author of many works of fiction and nonfiction, including The Glass Palace, and is the recipient of numerous awards and prizes. Ghosh divides his time between Kolkata and Goa, India, and Brooklyn, New York.

Katherine Neville - The Fire: A Novel

Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 PST

Event name: Katherine Neville - The Fire: A Novel
event Date Begin: 11.11.2008
event Date End: 11.11.2008
org Name: Kepler's Bookstore
event Url: http://www.keplers.com/?sec=programs-events&subsec=upcoming-events&PHPSESSID=784810998d6f8a8616c2a958116079df
venue Name: Kepler's Books
venue Address1: 1010 El Camino Real
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venue City: Menlo Park
venue State: CA
venue Zip: 94025
event Ticket Info: Free
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event Phone2: 650-324-4321
event Email: books@keplers.com
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event Start Time: 7:30pm
event Type: poetry_literature

Katherine Neville’s groundbreaking novel, The Eight, dazzled audiences more than 20 years ago and set the literary stage for the epic thriller. A quest for a mystical chess service that once belonged to Charlemagne, it spans two centuries and three continents, and intertwines historic and modern plots, archaeological treasure hunts, esoteric riddles, and puzzles encrypted with clues from the ancient past. Now the electrifying global adventure continues, in Neville’s long anticipated sequel: The Fire. Blending exquisite prose and captivating history with nonstop suspense, Neville again weaves an unforgettable story of peril, action, and intrigue.

Katherine Neville is the author of The Eight, The Magic Circle (a USA Today bestseller), and A Calculated Risk (a New York Times Notable Book). The Eight has been translated into more than thirty languages. In a national poll in Spain by the noted journal El País, The Eight was voted one of the top ten books of all time.

H.W. Brands - Traitor to His Class: The Privileged Life and Radical Presidency of Franklin Delano Roosevelt

Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 PST

Event name: H.W. Brands - Traitor to His Class: The Privileged Life and Radical Presidency of Franklin Delano Roosevelt
event Date Begin: 12.11.2008
event Date End: 12.11.2008
org Name: Kepler's Bookstore
event Url: http://www.keplers.com/?sec=programs-events&subsec=upcoming-events&PHPSESSID=784810998d6f8a8616c2a958116079df
venue Name: Kepler's Books
venue Address1: 1010 El Camino Real
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venue City: Menlo Park
venue State: CA
venue Zip: 94025
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event Start Time: 7:30pm
event Type: poetry_literature

A sweeping, magisterial biography of the man generally considered the greatest president of the twentieth century, admired by Democrats and Republicans alike. Traitor to His Class sheds new light on FDR's formative years, his remarkable willingness to champion the concerns of the poor and disenfranchised, his combination of political genius, firm leadership, and matchless diplomacy in saving democracy in America during the Great Depression and the American cause of freedom in World War II.

Drawing on archival materials, public speeches, personal correspondence, and accounts by family and close associates, acclaimed bestselling historian and biographer H. W. Brands offers a compelling and intimate portrait of Roosevelt’s life and career.

Brands is the Dickson Allen Anderson Professor of History at the University of Texas at Austin. The author of Andrew Jackson, Lone Star Nation, and The Age of Gold, he was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for biography for The First American: The Life and Times of Benjamin Franklin.

Wendy Northcutt - The Darwin Awards Next Evolution: Chlorinating the Gene Pool

Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 PST

Event name: Wendy Northcutt - The Darwin Awards Next Evolution: Chlorinating the Gene Pool
event Date Begin: 13.11.2008
event Date End: 13.11.2008
org Name: Kepler's Bookstore
event Url: http://www.keplers.com/?sec=programs-events&subsec=upcoming-events&PHPSESSID=784810998d6f8a8616c2a958116079df
venue Name: Kepler's Books
venue Address1: 1010 El Camino Real
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venue City: Menlo Park
venue State: CA
venue Zip: 94025
event Ticket Info: Free
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event Start Time: 7:30pm
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The human race’s most popular humor series returns with a new collection of macabre mishaps and misadventures. Honoring those who improve our gene pool by inadvertently removing themselves from it, The Darwin Awards Next Evolution shows how uncommon common sense still is.

A graduate of UC Berkeley with a degree in molecular biology, Wendy Northcutt began collecting the stories that make up the Darwin Awards in 1993. She is the author of the international bestsellers The Darwin Awards: Evolution in Action, The Darwin Awards 2: Unnatural Selection, The Darwin Awards 3: Survival of the Fittest, and The Darwin Awards 4: Intelligent Design.

Dr. Irene Pepperberg - Alex & Me

Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 PST

Event name: Dr. Irene Pepperberg - Alex & Me
event Date Begin: 18.11.2008
event Date End: 18.11.2008
org Name: Kepler's Bookstore
event Url: http://www.keplers.com/?sec=programs-events&subsec=upcoming-events&PHPSESSID=784810998d6f8a8616c2a958116079df
venue Name: Kepler's Books
venue Address1: 1010 El Camino Real
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venue City: Menlo Park
venue State: CA
venue Zip: 94025
event Ticket Info: Free
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event Start Time: 7:30pm
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Of the 8 million parrots in the United States, none was more famous than Alex, the African grey who spent 30 years in the loving care of Dr. Irene Pepperberg until his untimely death in September, 2007. Alex has been featured worldwide on numerous science programs including the BBC, NHK, Discovery and PBS. He is well known for his interactions with Alan Alda in an episode of Scientific American Frontiers on PBS and from an episode of the famed PBS Nature series called Look Who’s Talking. Alex became famous for his intelligence, learning over 100 words and many concepts. But the full story of his relationship with Irene goes beyond science to love, jealousy, humor, hardship and astonishing feats of intelligence.

Dr. Pepperberg and Alex revolutionized the notions of how birds think and communicate. What Alex taught Dr. Pepperberg about cognition and communication has been applied to therapies to help children with learning disabilities. Alex and Dr. Pepperberg have been affiliated with Purdue University, Northwestern University, the University of Arizona, the MIT Media Lab, the Radcliffe Institute, and most recently, Harvard University and Brandeis University.

Karan Mahajan - Family Planning: A Novel

Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 PST

Event name: Karan Mahajan - Family Planning: A Novel
event Date Begin: 19.11.2008
event Date End: 19.11.2008
org Name: Kepler's Bookstore
event Url: http://www.keplers.com/?sec=programs-events&subsec=upcoming-events&PHPSESSID=784810998d6f8a8616c2a958116079df
venue Name: Kepler's Books
venue Address1: 1010 El Camino Real
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venue City: Menlo Park
venue State: CA
venue Zip: 94025
event Ticket Info: Free
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event Phone2: 650-324-4321
event Email: books@keplers.com
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event Start Time: 7:30pm
event Type: poetry_literature

Karan Mahajan’s brilliant, wickedly funny debut, is the most original portrait of contemporary India to be published in years. “Ridiculously talented,” Mahajan is an intellectual magpie, a precocious and utterly refreshing new voice in American letters who got his unconventional start in journalism at the age of 13 as a founder of one of India’s most popular cricket websites. (Stephen Elliott) But if Karan himself sounds like a character from The Royal Tenenbaums, his writing resonates more with the work of Philip Roth and Zadie Smith. In the “sharply written, bracingly funny, and unexpectedly moving” Family Planning, he “combines take-no-prisoners satire with haunting insights into the human condition.” (Manil Suri)

Raised in India, Mahajan, just 24, graduated from Stanford University in 2005 and has worked as an editor at MacAdam/Cage Publishing. He is the recipient of the 2006 Henry Jackson Award for Fiction, a novel grant from the Elizabeth George Foundation, and a fellowship from the Camargo Foundation in Cassis, France. His writing has appeared in The Believer, The San Francisco Chronicle, The New York Sun, and Granta.com.

R.J. Ruppenthal - Fresh Food from Small Spaces

Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 PST

Event name: R.J. Ruppenthal - Fresh Food from Small Spaces
event Date Begin: 20.11.2008
event Date End: 20.11.2008
org Name: Kepler's Bookstore
event Url: http://www.keplers.com/?sec=programs-events&subsec=upcoming-events&PHPSESSID=784810998d6f8a8616c2a958116079df
venue Name: Kepler's Books
venue Address1: 1010 El Camino Real
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venue City: Menlo Park
venue State: CA
venue Zip: 94025
event Ticket Info: Free
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event Phone2: 650-324-4321
event Email: books@keplers.com
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event Start Time: 7:30pm
event Type: poetry_literature

Books on container gardening have been wildly popular with urban and suburban readers, but until now, there has been no comprehensive "how-to" guide for growing fresh food in the absence of open land. Fresh Food from Small Spaces fills the gap as a practical, comprehensive, and downright fun guide to growing food in small spaces.

With this book as a guide, people living in apartments, condominiums, townhouses, and single-family homes will be able to grow up to 20 percent of their own fresh food using a combination of traditional gardening methods and space-saving techniques. Those with access to yards can produce even more.

Author R. J. Ruppenthal worked on an organic vegetable farm in his youth, but his expertise in urban and indoor gardening has been hard-won through years of trial-and-error experience. In an era of declining resources and environmental disruption, Ruppenthal shows that even urban dwellers can contribute to a rebirth of local, fresh foods. A licensed attorney and college professor, R. J. Ruppenthal currently teaches at Evergreen Valley College in San Jose.

Kay Ryan Poet Laureate

Sun, 31 Aug 2008 00:00:00 PDT

Event name: Kay Ryan Poet Laureate
event Date Begin: 23.10.2008
event Date End: 23.10.2008
org Name: Poetry Center San Jose
event Url: http://www.pcsj.org
venue Name: Montalvo Arts Center
venue Address1: 15400 Montalvo Road
venue Address2
venue City: Saratoga
venue State: CA
venue Zip: 95070
event Ticket Info: Free Space limited
event Phone1
event Phone2: 408-961-5858
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event Start Time: 7:30pm
event Type: poetry_literature

Kay ryan's work has been selected four times for The Best American Poetry. In 2008 she was appointed the Library of Congress's sixteenth Poet Laureate.

Meditation Into Action: Three Perspectives on Art, Social Justice & Spirituality

Wed, 03 Sep 2008 00:00:00 PDT

Event name: Meditation Into Action: Three Perspectives on Art, Social Justice & Spirituality
event Date Begin: 11.11.2008
event Date End: 11.11.2008
org Name: de Saisset Museum, Santa Clara University
event Url: http://www.scu.edu/desaisset
venue Name: de Saisset Museum, Santa Clara University
venue Address1: 500 El Camino Real
venue Address2
venue City: Santa Clara
venue State: CA
venue Zip: 95053-0550
event Ticket Info: Free
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event Start Time: 6pm
event Type: visual_art

Join painter and printmaker Evri Kwong, playwright and director Erik Ehn, and poet Juan Velasco for a lively discussion about the power of art to transform the world at large and the role that spirituality plays in the process. SCU Senior Associate Dean Paul Fitzgerald, S.J., will moderate the discussion, providing an Ignatian perspective on faith that does justice in the world. Co-sponsored by the Justice and the Arts Initiative. Support for this program amd the exhibition are provided by SCU’s Ignatian Center for Jesuit Education.

Rabih Alameddine

Wed, 03 Sep 2008 00:00:00 PDT

Event name: Rabih Alameddine
event Date Begin: 15.10.2008
event Date End: 15.10.2008
org Name: San Jose Public Library System
event Url: http://Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Library
venue Name: Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Library
venue Address1: 150 E. San Fernando Street
venue Address2
venue City: San Jose
venue State: CA
venue Zip: 95112
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event Start Time: 7pm
event Type: poetry_literature

Come hear author Rabih Alameddine read from his acclaimed new novel The Hakawati which has been called a glorious, gorgeous masterpiece. Reading with discussion and book signing.

Free Forum on Mumia Case with Editor of Crime Magazine

Tue, 09 Sep 2008 00:00:00 PDT

Event name: Free Forum on Mumia Case with Editor of Crime Magazine
event Date Begin: 07.10.2008
event Date End: 07.10.2008
org Name: Peninsula Peace and Justice Center
event Url: http://www.PeaceandJustice.org
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event Start Time: 7pm
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Sentenced to death in 1982 for allegedly killing a police officer named Daniel Faulkner, Mumia Abu-Jamal is the most famous death row inmate in the United States, if not the world. This book is the first to convincingly show how the Philadelphia Police Department and District Attorney’s Office efficiently and methodically framed him. It takes you step-by-step through what actually transpired on the night Faulkner was shot, including positioning each of the witnesses at the scene and revealing the identity of the killer. It also details the entire trial and fully covers the tortuous appeals process.

The author, a seasoned crime reporter, writes in the language of hard facts, without hyperbole or exaggeration, unfounded accusation, or finger-pointing, to reveal the truth about one of the most hotly-debated cases of the twentieth century. J. Patrick O'Connor is the editor and publisher of Crime Magazine. He has worked as a reporter for UPI and as editor of Cincinnati Magazine, associate editor of TV Guide, and editor and publisher of the Kansas City New Times.

Meet the Author - Michael Connelly

Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 PST

Event name: Meet the Author - Michael Connelly
event Date Begin: 16.10.2008
event Date End: 16.10.2008
org Name: San Mateo County Library
event Url: http://www.cityofsanmateo.org/CurrentEvents.asp?EID=945
venue Name: San Mateo Public Library
venue Address1: 55 West 3rd Avenue
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venue City: San Mateo
venue State: CA
venue Zip: 94402
event Ticket Info: Free
event Phone1
event Phone2: 650-522-7818
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event Start Time: 1pm
event Type: poetry_literature

Author Michael Connelly will speak about his upcoming novel, The Brass Verdict. After three years as a crime reporter for the Los Angeles Times, Michael Connelly created the character of LAPD Detective Hieronymus Bosch. There are now more than a dozen titles in the series. Connelly's books have been translated into 35 languages and have won numerous awards. His upcoming novel, The Brass Verdict, will unite half-brothers Mickey Haller and Harry Bosch for the first time ever. Co-sponsored by "M" is for Mystery. Books will be available for purchase.

State by State - A Panoramic Portrait of America

Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 PST

Event name: State by State - A Panoramic Portrait of America
event Date Begin: 11.10.2008
event Date End: 11.10.2008
org Name: Kepler's Bookstore
event Url: http://www.keplers.com/?sec=programs-events&subsec=upcoming-events&PHPSESSID=d9cc1f20f4e70dec539ce37b3660d08c
venue Name: Kepler's Books
venue Address1: 1010 El Camino Real
venue Address2
venue City: Menlo Park
venue State: CA
venue Zip: 94025
event Ticket Info: Free
event Phone1
event Phone2: 650-324-4321
event Email: books@keplers.com
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event Start Time: 2pm
event Type: film_video

Join Live Wire's Courtenay Hameister, State by State editor Sean Wilsey, author Daphne Beal, and other special guests at this one-afternoon-only Menlo Park screening of a candid and captivating 35-minute film about the book, which stars 19 of its contributors. State by State is a wonderful, beguiling collection of 50 original essays. It resurrects a landmark effort from the 1930s when the Federal Writers' Project commissioned America's best authors "to describe America to Americans." What do we talk about when we talk about our states?

Paperback Dreams - Special KQED Screening

Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 PST

Event name: Paperback Dreams - Special KQED Screening
event Date Begin: 12.10.2008
event Date End: 12.10.2008
org Name: Kepler's Bookstore
event Url: http://www.keplers.com/?sec=programs-events&subsec=upcoming-events&PHPSESSID=d9cc1f20f4e70dec539ce37b3660d08c
venue Name: Kepler's Books
venue Address1: 1010 El Camino Real
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venue City: Menlo Park
venue State: CA
venue Zip: 94025
event Ticket Info: Free
event Phone1
event Phone2: 650-324-4321
event Email: books@keplers.com
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event Start Time: Wine Reception: 6pm Screening: 7pm Community Conversation: 8pm
event Type: film_video

This PBS documentary by filmmaker Alex Beckstead captures the spirit of independent bookstores and their struggle to survive in the digital age. It also tells the Kepler's story - its historical role as a center for ideas, free speech and activism. Join Kepler's to celebrate the 53rd anniversary of the beloved bookstore a community stepped up to save. Reception & discussion sponsored by Hometown Peninsula Independent Business Alliance.

Robert B. Laughlin - The Crime of Reason and the Closing of the Scientific Mind

Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 PST

Event name: Robert B. Laughlin - The Crime of Reason and the Closing of the Scientific Mind
event Date Begin: 22.10.2008
event Date End: 22.10.2008
org Name: Kepler's Bookstore
event Url: http://www.keplers.com/?sec=programs-events&subsec=upcoming-events&PHPSESSID=d9cc1f20f4e70dec539ce37b3660d08c
venue Name: Kepler's Books
venue Address1: 1010 El Camino Real
venue Address2
venue City: Menlo Park
venue State: CA
venue Zip: 94025
event Ticket Info: Free
event Phone1
event Phone2: 650-324-4321
event Email: books@keplers.com
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event Start Time: 7:30pm
event Type: poetry_literature

We all agree that the free flow of ideas is essential to creativity. And we like to believe that in our modern, technological world, information is more freely available and flows faster than ever before. But according to Stanford Professor of Physics and Nobel Laureate Robert Laughlin, acquiring information is becoming a danger or even a crime.

Increasingly, the really valuable information is private property or a state secret, with the result that it is now easy for a flash of insight, entirely innocently, to infringe a patent or threaten national security. The public pays little attention because this vital information is "technical" but, Laughlin argues, information is often labeled technical so it can be sequestered, not sequestered because it's technical. The increasing restrictions on information in such fields as cryptography, biotechnology, and computer software design are creating a new Dark Age: a time characterized not by light and truth but by disinformation and ignorance. Thus we find ourselves dealing more and more with the Crime of Reason, the antisocial and sometimes outright illegal nature of certain intellectual activities.

Election Issue Panel with New York Review of Books and Guardian America Editors and Writers

Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 PST

Event name: Election Issue Panel with New York Review of Books and Guardian America Editors and Writers
event Date Begin: 28.10.2008
event Date End: 28.10.2008
org Name: Kepler's Bookstore
event Url: http://www.keplers.com/?sec=programs-events&subsec=upcoming-events&PHPSESSID=d9cc1f20f4e70dec539ce37b3660d08c
venue Name: Kepler's Books
venue Address1: 1010 El Camino Real
venue Address2
venue City: Menlo Park
venue State: CA
venue Zip: 94025
event Ticket Info: Free
event Phone1
event Phone2: 650-324-4321
event Email: books@keplers.com
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event Start Time: 7:30pm
event Type: poetry_literature

The New York Review of Books and Guardian America bring their writers and editors together to discuss the issues shaping the 2008 election campaign and the challenges and opportunities that will face the new administration.

Robert Silvers is the editor of The New York Review of Books, which celebrates its 45th Anniversary this fall. He was a founding co-editor with Barbara Epstein with whom he worked for over forty years, beginning in 1963, until her death in 2006. He has edited several essay anthologies featuring New York Review contributors, including The Consequences to Come: American Power After Bush (2008).

Thomas Powers is is the author of, most recently, The Military Error and Intelligence Wars. He won a Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting in 1971 is a frequent contributor to The New York Review of Books.

Michael Tomasky is the editor of Guardian America and is a frequent contributor to The New York Review of Books.

Gary Younge is a Guardian columnist and feature writer based in New York.

Martin Kettle writes for the Guardian on British, European and American politics, as well as the media, law and music.

M.T. Anderson - The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves

Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 PST

Event name: M.T. Anderson - The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves
event Date Begin: 03.11.2008
event Date End: 03.11.2008
org Name: Kepler's Bookstore
event Url: http://www.keplers.com/?sec=programs-events&subsec=upcoming-events&PHPSESSID=d9cc1f20f4e70dec539ce37b3660d08c
venue Name: Kepler's Books
venue Address1: 1010 El Camino Real
venue Address2
venue City: Menlo Park
venue State: CA
venue Zip: 94025
event Ticket Info: Free
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event Phone2: 650-324-4321
event Email: books@keplers.com
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event Start Time: 5:30pm
event Type: kids_families

Don't miss this lively book-signing session with the fantastic, multi-talented, M.T.(Tobin) Anderson, author of not only some of the most highly-acclaimed, but also of some of the most thrilling and hilarious reads in youth literature today. His seriously intense titles include The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, which won the 2006 National Book Award AND a Printz Honor, and Feed which was a 2002 Los Angeles Times Book Prize Winner, a 2003 Horn Book Award Honor Book, and a finalist for the 2002 National Book Award. He is also the author of the unforgettably sharp Burger Wuss and Thirsty.

For middle grade readers his series, M. T. Anderson's Thrilling Tales, began with witty and funny Whales on Stilts, and The Clue of the Linoleum Lederhosen, and will continue in 2009 with the release of Jasper Dash and the Flame-Pits of Delaware.

Please note that this is a meet and chat book-signing and there will not be a formal presentation.

Francisco Jimenez - Reaching Out

Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 PST

Event name: Francisco Jimenez - Reaching Out
event Date Begin: 14.11.2008
event Date End: 14.11.2008
org Name: Kepler's Bookstore
event Url: http://www.keplers.com/?sec=programs-events&subsec=upcoming-events&PHPSESSID=d9cc1f20f4e70dec539ce37b3660d08c
venue Name: Menlo Park Library
venue Address1: 800 Alma Street
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venue City: Menlo Park
venue State: CA
venue Zip: 94025-3445
event Ticket Info: Free
event Phone1
event Phone2: 650-330-2500
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event Start Time: 7pm
event Type: kids_families

Francisco Jimenez's life, from child migrant worker to award-winning author and university professor, embodies the transformational hope, opportunity and community contribution that an education can make possible. His story begun in The Circuit: stories from the life of a migrant child, and Breaking Through, continues in Reaching Out - a tender, and honest sequel which describes from a young Francisco's voice the challenges he faced in his efforts to continue his education.

This event will benefit The Peninsula College Fund.

Christopher Plummer - In Spite of Myself: A Memoir

Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 PST

Event name: Christopher Plummer - In Spite of Myself: A Memoir
event Date Begin: 01.12.2008
event Date End: 01.12.2008
org Name: Kepler's Bookstore
event Url: http://www.keplers.com/?sec=programs-events&subsec=upcoming-events&PHPSESSID=d9cc1f20f4e70dec539ce37b3660d08c
venue Name: Kepler's Books
venue Address1: 1010 El Camino Real
venue Address2
venue City: Menlo Park
venue State: CA
venue Zip: 94025
event Ticket Info: Free
event Phone1
event Phone2: 650-324-4321
event Email: books@keplers.com
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event Start Time: 7:30pm
event Type: poetry_literature

In this fascinating memoir Plummer tells how "this young bilingual wastrel, incurably romantic, spoiled rotten," tore himself away from the ski slopes to break into the big bad world of theatre. He describes his glorious New York of the fifties, where life began at midnight, with the likes of Arthur Miller, Carson McCullers, Tennessee Williams, and Paddy Chayefsky; the great producers with whom he worked - Kermit Bloomgarden, Robert Whitehead, and Roger Stevens - about Lillian Hellman, Leonard Bernstein, Elia Kazan; and his lifelong friendships with Raymond Massey and the wild Kate Reid, and with that fugitive from the Navy, "that reprobate and staunch drinking buddy, the true reincarnation of Eugene O'Neill, whose blood was mixed with firewater," Jason Robards, Jr.

Seamlessly written, with stories that make us laugh out loud and that make real the fascinating, complex, exuberant adventure that is the actor's (at least this actor's) life. A rollicking, rich portrait of a life. And what a life! By one of today's greatest living actors.

Reading Magic - A Magical Evening with Mem Fox

Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 PST

Event name: Reading Magic - A Magical Evening with Mem Fox
event Date Begin: 20.10.2008
event Date End: 20.10.2008
org Name: Linden Tree Children's Records & Books
event Url: http://lindentree.booksense.com
venue Name: Spangenberg Theatre - Gunn High School
venue Address1: 780 Arastradero Road
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venue City: Palo Alto
venue State: CA
venue Zip: 94306
event Ticket Info: $10-$15
event Phone1
event Phone2: 650-949-3390
event Email: Linda@lindentreebooks.com
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event Start Time: 7:30pm
event Type: poetry_literature

Mem Fox, internationally respected literacy expert and bestselling author from Australia discusses her acclaimed book, Reading Magic: Why Reading Aloud to Our Children Will Change Their Lives Forever. She will invite us all to enjoy the special joys of reading aloud to the children in our lives.

Poetry Reading - Mari LEsperance and Stephanie Pressman

Thu, 11 Sep 2008 00:00:00 PDT

Event name: Poetry Reading - Mari LEsperance and Stephanie Pressman
event Date Begin: 18.10.2008
event Date End: 18.10.2008
org Name: Santa Clara County Library
event Url: http://www.santaclaracountylib.org/saratoga/
venue Name: Saratoga Library
venue Address1: 13650 Saratoga Avenue
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venue City: Saratoga
venue State: CA
venue Zip: 95070
event Ticket Info: Free
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event Start Time: 2pm
event Type: poetry_literature

Bay Area poet Mari L'Esperance will read from her first full-length book, The Darkened Temple, the winner of the 2007 Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry. Stephanie Pressman will read selected poems. Born in Kobe, Japan and raised in California, Guam, and Japan, Mari L’Esperance is a graduate of New York University’s Creative Writing Program, where she was a New York Times Company Foundation Creative Writing Fellow. In addition to her current book, she also published a chapbook titled Begin Here (2000, Sarasota Poetry Theatre Press).

Salon de Mexico

Wed, 17 Sep 2008 00:00:00 PDT

Event name: Salon de Mexico
event Date Begin: 08.11.2008
event Date End: 08.11.2008
org Name: Steinway Society of the Bay Area
event Url: http://www.steinwaythebayarea.com, www.mhcviva.org.
venue Name: Mexican Heritage Plaza Theater
venue Address1: 1700 Alum Rock Avenue
venue Address2
venue City: San Jose
venue State: CA
venue Zip: 95116
event Ticket Info: $8-$50
event Phone1
event Phone2: 408-286-8600 x23
event Email: www.steinwaythebayarea.com
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event Start Time: 7pm
event Type: museums

Mexican concert pianist Patricia Garcia Torres and celebrated author and playwright Luis Valdez will appear together in this very unique masterpiece performance. In this celebration of Mexican heritage, Patricia Garcia Torres, the internationally celebrated concert pianist from Mexico, will perform Leonard Bernstein’s arrangement of Aaron Copland’s El Salón México. Accompanying Ms. Garcia Torres is celebrated author, playwright and director Luis Valdez, who will present a special reading, depicting Mexico’s cultural evolution during that dramatic period of awakening, oppression and revolution. This exceptional combination of music and prose will be also feature a multi-media presentation. The celebration will also feature Ms. Garcia Torres performing works by Mexican composers Federico Ibarra (1948- ) and Manuel María Ponce (1882-1948). Piano compositions by Claude Debussy (1862-1918) and Franz Liszt (1811-1886) will complete the program.

Book Arts Jam 2008

Sun, 21 Sep 2008 00:00:00 PDT

Event name: Book Arts Jam 2008
event Date Begin: 18.10.2008
event Date End: 18.10.2008
org Name: Bay Area Book Artists
event Url: http://www.bookartsjam.org
venue Name: Foothill College
venue Address1: 12345 El Monte Road
venue Address2
venue City: Los Altos Hills
venue State: CA
venue Zip: 94022
event Ticket Info: Free, $2 parking.
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event Start Time: 10am-4pm
event Type: poetry_literature

Book Arts Jam 2008, a one-day regional celebration of the book and print arts,is co-sponsored by the Bay Area Book Artists and Foothill College. This year’s event features a one-day exhibition of artists’ books with talks by exhibiting artists; hands-on demonstrations, an exhibitors’ showcase with work by more than 40 artists and craftspeople in the book, paper, and print arts, a slideshow of recent member work, silent auction, prize drawing, and full-service cafeteria.

Book Group Expo

Tue, 23 Sep 2008 00:00:00 PDT

Event name: Book Group Expo
event Date Begin: 25.10.2008
event Date End: 26.10.2008
org Name: Book Group Expo
event Url: http://www.bookgroupexpo.com
venue Name: San Jose McEnery Convention Center
venue Address1: 150 W. San Carlos Street
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venue City: San Jose
venue State: CA
venue Zip: 95113
event Ticket Info: $42-$65
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event Start Time: 9am
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The Book Group Expo brings together serious readers and their passions – food, wine, conversation and everything else. Imagine, two full days of book-related activities all in the comfortable and exciting company of other book lovers and authors. So, whether you call it a book group or a book club or a reading circle, if you treasure books and enjoy discussing them with others – Book Group Expo is for you.

Michael Connelly at San Mateo Public Library

Wed, 24 Sep 2008 00:00:00 PDT

Event name: Michael Connelly at San Mateo Public Library
event Date Begin: 16.10.2008
event Date End: 16.10.2008
org Name: City of San Mateo
event Url: http://www.smplibrary.org
venue Name: San Mateo Public Library
venue Address1: 55 West 3rd Avenue
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venue City: San Mateo
venue State: CA
venue Zip: 94402
event Ticket Info: Free
event Phone1
event Phone2: 650-522-7818
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event Start Time: 1pm
event Type: poetry_literature

Bestselling Author Michael Connelly will be speaking about his new book, The Brass Verdict. After three years as a crime reporter for the Los Angeles Times, Michael Connelly created the character of LAPD Detective Hieronymus Bosch. There are now more than a dozen titles in the series. Connelly's books have been translated into 35 languages and have won numerous awards.

His upcoming novel, The Brass Verdict, will unite half-brothers Mickey Haller and Harry Bosch for the first time ever. Copies of the book will be available for sale and the author will sign.

Jet Pack Dreams

Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 PST

Event name: Jet Pack Dreams
event Date Begin: 11.11.2008
event Date End: 11.11.2008
org Name: Hiller Aviation Museum
event Url: http://www.hiller.org/wherejetpack.shtml
venue Name: Hiller Aviation Museum
venue Address1: 601 Skyway Road
venue Address2
venue City: San Carlos
venue State: CA
venue Zip: 94070
event Ticket Info: $6-$10 Children 4 and under free with paid adult
event Phone1
event Phone2: 650-654-0200
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event Start Time: 7:30pm
event Type: poetry_literature

“Where’s my jetpack?” A simple question from a friend started Mac Montandon on a quest for his own jetpack—and for the promised new millennium that never quite arrived, a world where any person, at any time, could strap on a rocket and take flight.

In Jetpack Dreams: One Man’s Up and Down (but Mostly Down) Search for the Greatest Invention That Never Was, Montandon discovers the history of this most elusive form of personal transportation—from its earliest popular appearance (in a science fiction story published in 1928) to the modern engineers, pilots, and other hopefuls still determined to realize the dream. Along the way, he stumbles upon Internet forums for jetpack enthusiasts, attends the first ever “International Rocketbelt Convention,” and unearths the true story behind a bizarre mid-1990s case of kidnapping, imprisonment, and murder—all for the sake of a jetpack.

Mac Montandon has written for the New York Times, Radar, Salon, New York Magazine, and Interview, among others. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.

X-Plane Crashes

Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 PST

Event name: X-Plane Crashes
event Date Begin: 07.12.2008
event Date End: 07.12.2008
org Name: Hiller Aviation Museum
event Url: http://www.hiller.org/xplanecrashes.shtml
venue Name: Hiller Aviation Museum
venue Address1: 601 Skyway Road
venue Address2
venue City: San Carlos
venue State: CA
venue Zip: 94070
event Ticket Info: $6-$10 Children 4 and under free with paid adult
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event Phone2: 650-654-0200
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event Start Time: 1pm
event Type: poetry_literature

Known as "The X-Hunters," authors Peter W. Merlin and Tony Moore have located more than 100 crash sites of exotic aircraft from Edwards Air Force Base and Area 51. Together, they have recovered parts of supersonic rocket planes, stealthy spy craft, and vehicles that have reached the edge of space. Each story in the book profiles an unusual aircraft and the brave men who flew it. The authors examine the contributing causes of each crash and use then-and-now photographs to illustrate their findings. The stories end with The X-Hunters' search for the crash site and what they discovered. Each adventure combines C.S.I.-type skills with X-Files persistence, with a dash of Indiana Jones for adventure. Aircraft profiled include the YB-49 and a pair of N9M flying wings, X-1A, X-1D, VB-51, XB-70, SR-71, YF-12, U-2 prototype, and many more.

Presented by Peter W. Merlin & Tony Moore.

Dr. Lucy H. Spelman - The Rhino with Glue-On Shoes: And Other Surprising True Stories of Zoo Vets and Their Patients

Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 PST

Event name: Dr. Lucy H. Spelman - The Rhino with Glue-On Shoes: And Other Surprising True Stories of Zoo Vets and Their Patients
event Date Begin: 18.10.2008
event Date End: 18.10.2008
org Name: Kepler's Bookstore
event Url: http://www.keplers.com/?sec=programs-events&subsec=upcoming-events&PHPSESSID=3971be1a7100330ce1f619eccab9352f
venue Name: Menlo Park Library
venue Address1: 800 Alma Street
venue Address2
venue City: Menlo Park
venue State: CA
venue Zip: 94025-3445
event Ticket Info: Free
event Phone1
event Phone2: 650-330-2500
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event Start Time: 2pm
event Type: poetry_literature

A moray eel diagnosed with anorexia… A vet desperately trying to save an orphaned whale by unraveling the mystery of her mother’s death…This fascinating book offers a rare glimpse into the world of exotic animals and the doctors who care for them. Here pioneering zoological veterinarians tell real-life tales of daring procedures for patients weighing tons or ounces and life-and-death dramas that will forever change the way you think about wild animals and the bonds we share with them.

Dr. Lucy H. Spelman is a world-renowned zoo and wildlife veterinarian— the current regional manager for the Mountain Gorilla Veterinary Project in Africa and the former director of the Smithsonian National Zoo in Washington, DC—who has been featured on Animal Planet, the Discovery Channel, “Today” and National Public Radio for her work at some of the world’s most prestigious zoological institutions. Now as editor and contributing author for The Rhino with Glue-On Shoes, she offers a fascinating insider’s look at wild animals, the dedicated professionals that care for their health, and the special bonds that develop between them in this collection of essays she gathered from some of the world’s top zoo and wildlife vets.

James A. Owen - Chronicles of the Imaginarium Geographica: The Indigo King

Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 PST

Event name: James A. Owen - Chronicles of the Imaginarium Geographica: The Indigo King
event Date Begin: 23.10.2008
event Date End: 23.10.2008
org Name: Kepler's Bookstore
event Url: http://www.keplers.com/?sec=programs-events&subsec=upcoming-events&PHPSESSID=3971be1a7100330ce1f619eccab9352f
venue Name: Kepler's Books
venue Address1: 1010 El Camino Real
venue Address2
venue City: Menlo Park
venue State: CA
venue Zip: 94025
event Ticket Info: Free
event Phone1
event Phone2: 650-324-4321
event Email: books@keplers.com
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event Start Time: 7pm
event Type: kids_families

Who is the cartographer? Join us as we welcome author James A.Owen to discover the answer in the third installment of the Chronicles of the Imaginarium Geographica: The Indigo King. This is the ultimate event for fantasy insiders.

Poet Laureate Kay Ryan

Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 PST

Event name: Poet Laureate Kay Ryan
event Date Begin: 23.10.2008
event Date End: 23.10.2008
org Name: Kepler's Bookstore
event Url: http://www.keplers.com/?sec=programs-events&subsec=upcoming-events&PHPSESSID=3971be1a7100330ce1f619eccab9352f
venue Name: Montalvo Arts Center
venue Address1: 15400 Montalvo Road
venue Address2
venue City: Saratoga
venue State: CA
venue Zip: 95070
event Ticket Info: Free Donations appreciated ($10 min)
event Phone1
event Phone2: 408-961-5858
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event Start Time: 7:30pm
event Type: poetry_literature

Presented by Poetry Center San Jose & Montalvo, Library of Congress' 16th Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry Kay Ryan will give an evening performance of poetry readings, a question and answer session, and book signing. Ryan was born in California and obtained multiple degrees from UCLA. She has published several collections of poetry including The Niagara River, Say Uncle, and Flamingo Watching which was a finalist for the Lamont Poetry Selection and the Lenore Marshall Prize. Her awards include the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, a Guggenheim fellowship, and four Pushcart Prizes, among others. Her work has been selected four times for The Best American Poetry and she was elected a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets in 2006. While this event is free, reservations are required.

Reception to follow for Poetry Center San Jose and Montalvo Arts Center members.

Book Group Expo

Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 PST

Event name: Book Group Expo
event Date Begin: 25.10.2008
event Date End: 26.10.2008
org Name: Kepler's Bookstore
event Url: http://www.bookgroupexpo.com/
venue Name: San Jose McEnery Convention Center
venue Address1: 150 W. San Carlos Street
venue Address2
venue City: San Jose
venue State: CA
venue Zip: 95113
event Ticket Info: $42-$65
event Phone1
event Phone2: 650-324-4321
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event Start Time: 10am-5:30pm
event Type: poetry_literature

Indulge yourself at book group expo!! If there’s a more perfect experience for book lovers, it has yet to be invented. And if there is a more inventive program for book groups, it exists only in fiction. Over 75 authors are already confirmed.

Part salon, part marketplace, part marvelous party, Book Group Expo brings together people who love books—avid readers, acclaimed authors, book club participants, reading group members, up and coming local writers, booksellers, book group experts—in one place. And there, during the course of two days, participants can do all the things that make life so rich: talk, eat, drink, make new friends, create a community, celebrate the arts, and devote themselves to their passion: books.

Stacy Mitchell - Big-Box Swindle: The True Cost of Mega-Retailers and the Fight for America's Independent Businesses

Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 PST

Event name: Stacy Mitchell - Big-Box Swindle: The True Cost of Mega-Retailers and the Fight for America's Independent Businesses
event Date Begin: 16.11.2008
event Date End: 16.11.2008
org Name: Kepler's Bookstore
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event Start Time: 4pm
event Type: poetry_literature

Large retail chains have become the most powerful corporations in America and are rapidly transforming our economy, communities, and landscape. In this deft and revealing book, Stacy Mitchell illustrates how mega-retailers are fueling many of our most pressing problems, from the shrinking middle class to rising water pollution and diminished civic engagement.

More than a critique, the Big-Box Swindle draws on real life to show how some communities are successfully countering the spread of mega-retailers and rebuilding their local economies. Mitchell describes innovative approaches-from cutting-edge land-use policies to small-business initiatives-that together provide a detailed road map to a more prosperous and sustainable future.

Mitchell is a senior researcher with the Institute for Local Self-Reliance, and she chairs the American Independent Business Alliance.

Location: TBA

Friends of the Library Book Sale

Sat, 27 Sep 2008 00:00:00 PDT

Event name: Friends of the Library Book Sale
event Date Begin: 18.10.2008
event Date End: 18.10.2008
org Name: Friends of Los Gatos Library
event Url: http://www.losgatosca.gov/index.asp?NID=248
venue Name: Los Gatos Public Library
venue Address1: 110 E. Main St
venue Address2: At the Town Civic Center
venue City: Los Gatos
venue State: CA
venue Zip: 95030
event Ticket Info: Free
event Phone1
event Phone2: 408-358-2571
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event Start Time: 10am
event Type: poetry_literature

The Friends of the Los Gatos Library will sponsor a book sale of new and used hardback and paperback books, CDs, videotapes, DVDs and books on tape will be available for purchase for $1-$3. There will also be a table of higher-priced collectible books.

Award-Winning Author Ana Castillo Reading and Book-Signing

Sun, 28 Sep 2008 00:00:00 PDT

Event name: Award-Winning Author Ana Castillo Reading and Book-Signing
event Date Begin: 14.10.2008
event Date End: 14.10.2008
org Name: Center for Literary Arts, SJSU
event Url: http://www.litart.org
venue Name: San Jose State University Engineering Building Aud
venue Address1: 7th & San Fernando Streets
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venue City: San Jose
venue State: CA
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event Start Time: 7pm
event Type: poetry_literature

The Center for Literary Arts is proud to present Ana Castillo author of The Guardians, Watercolor Women/Opaque Men, Loverboys and My Father Was A Toltec. Ms. Castillo will read and answer audience questions.

Foothill College Authors Series 2008-2009 - Rafiq Dossani

Mon, 29 Sep 2008 00:00:00 PDT

Event name: Foothill College Authors Series 2008-2009 - Rafiq Dossani
event Date Begin: 08.10.2008
event Date End: 08.10.2008
org Name: Foothill College Authors Series
event Url: http://preznet.fhda.edu/fas.html
venue Name: Foothill College
venue Address1: 12345 El Monte Road
venue Address2
venue City: Los Altos Hills
venue State: CA
venue Zip: 94022
event Ticket Info: Free, parking is $2.
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event Start Time: 12pm
event Type: poetry_literature

The Foothill College Authors Series 2008-2009 debuts with Rafiq Dossani, author of India Arriving in Room 1501. All books featured in the series are available for purchase at a 20-percent discount in the Foothill College Bookstore. Foothill College presents its yearlong series of guest readings and book signings by best-selling authors.

Foothill College Authors Series 2008-2009 - Michelle Redmond

Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 PST

Event name: Foothill College Authors Series 2008-2009 - Michelle Redmond
event Date Begin: 22.10.2008
event Date End: 22.10.2008
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venue Name: Foothill College
venue Address1: 12345 El Monte Road
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venue City: Los Altos Hills
venue State: CA
venue Zip: 94022
event Ticket Info: Free, parking is $2.
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event Start Time: 12pm
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The Foothill College Authors Series 2008-2009 continues with Michelle Redmond, author of The Year of Fog in the Student Lounge. All books featured in the series are available for purchase at a 20-percent discount in the Foothill College Bookstore. Foothill College presents its yearlong series of guest readings and book signings by best-selling authors.

Foothill College Authors Series 2008-2009 - Joe Quirk

Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 PST

Event name: Foothill College Authors Series 2008-2009 - Joe Quirk
event Date Begin: 06.11.2008
event Date End: 22.10.2008
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venue Name: Foothill College
venue Address1: 12345 El Monte Road
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venue City: Los Altos Hills
venue State: CA
venue Zip: 94022
event Ticket Info: Free, parking is $2.
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event Start Time: 3pm
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The Foothill College Authors Series 2008-2009 continues with Joe Quirk author of Sperm are from Men, Eggs are from Women in the Studen Lounge. All books featured in the series are available for purchase at a 20-percent discount in the Foothill College Bookstore. Foothill College presents its yearlong series of guest readings and book signings by best-selling authors.

Foothill College Authors Series 2008-2009 - David Gill

Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 PST

Event name: Foothill College Authors Series 2008-2009 - David Gill
event Date Begin: 12.11.2008
event Date End: 12.11.2008
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venue Name: Foothill College
venue Address1: 12345 El Monte Road
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venue City: Los Altos Hills
venue State: CA
venue Zip: 94022
event Ticket Info: Free, parking is $2.
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event Start Time: 12pm
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The Foothill College Authors Series 2008-2009 continues with David Gill author of It's About Excellence: Building Ethically Healthy Organizations in Appreciation Hall. All books featured in the series are available for purchase at a 20-percent discount in the Foothill College Bookstore. Foothill College presents its yearlong series of guest readings and book signings by best-selling authors.

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Writer's Forum Open Mic Night

Where Art Originates - Artists and the Creative Process: Writer Karen-King Aribisala

The Limon Centenary

African Folktales

Robert Martensen - A Life Worth Living: A Doctors Reflections on Illness in a High-Tech Era

Ariel Sabar - My Father's Paradise: A Son's Search for his Jewish Past in Kurdish Iraq

Diane Johnson - Lulu in Marrakech

Alice Schroeder - The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life

Randall Stross - Planet Google: One Company's Audacious Plan to Organize Everything We Know

Christopher Kimball - Cook's Country Cookbook and America's Test Kitchen Family Baking Book

Sarah Vowell - The Wordy Shipmates

The Art of the Memoir - David Henry Sterry, Alan Black, and Beth Lisick

Keith Devlin - The Unfinished Game: Pascal, Fermat, and the Seventeenth-Century Letter that Made the World Modern

Anne Rice - Called Out of Darkness: A Spiritual Confession - CANCELLED

Marc Kielburger - Me to We: Finding Meaning in a Material World

Kirsten Menger-Anderson - Dr. Olaf van Schuler's Brain

Therese Poletti - Art Deco San Francisco: The Architecture of Timothy Pflueger

Go Green: Laura Stec & Dr. Eugene Cordero - Cool Cuisine - Taking the Bite out of Global Warming

Project Runway Finalist Daniel Vosovic - Fashion Inside Out: Daniel V's Guide to How Style Happens From Inspiration to Runway and Beyond

Amitav Ghosh - Sea of Poppies: A Novel

Katherine Neville - The Fire: A Novel

H.W. Brands - Traitor to His Class: The Privileged Life and Radical Presidency of Franklin Delano Roosevelt

Wendy Northcutt - The Darwin Awards Next Evolution: Chlorinating the Gene Pool

Dr. Irene Pepperberg - Alex & Me

Karan Mahajan - Family Planning: A Novel

R.J. Ruppenthal - Fresh Food from Small Spaces

Kay Ryan Poet Laureate

Meditation Into Action: Three Perspectives on Art, Social Justice & Spirituality

Rabih Alameddine

Free Forum on Mumia Case with Editor of Crime Magazine

Meet the Author - Michael Connelly

State by State - A Panoramic Portrait of America

Paperback Dreams - Special KQED Screening

Robert B. Laughlin - The Crime of Reason and the Closing of the Scientific Mind

Election Issue Panel with New York Review of Books and Guardian America Editors and Writers

M.T. Anderson - The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves

Francisco Jimenez - Reaching Out

Christopher Plummer - In Spite of Myself: A Memoir

Reading Magic - A Magical Evening with Mem Fox

Poetry Reading - Mari LEsperance and Stephanie Pressman

Salon de Mexico

Book Arts Jam 2008

Book Group Expo

Michael Connelly at San Mateo Public Library

Jet Pack Dreams

X-Plane Crashes

Dr. Lucy H. Spelman - The Rhino with Glue-On Shoes: And Other Surprising True Stories of Zoo Vets and Their Patients

James A. Owen - Chronicles of the Imaginarium Geographica: The Indigo King

Poet Laureate Kay Ryan

Book Group Expo

Stacy Mitchell - Big-Box Swindle: The True Cost of Mega-Retailers and the Fight for America's Independent Businesses

Friends of the Library Book Sale

Award-Winning Author Ana Castillo Reading and Book-Signing

Foothill College Authors Series 2008-2009 - Rafiq Dossani

Foothill College Authors Series 2008-2009 - Michelle Redmond

Foothill College Authors Series 2008-2009 - Joe Quirk

Foothill College Authors Series 2008-2009 - David Gill

Robert Martensen - A Life Worth Living: A Doctors Reflections on Illness in a High-Tech Era

Poetry Reading - Mari LEsperance and Stephanie Pressman