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Corte Madera • Corte Madera author events p. 2 • Summer writing p. 9 classes for kids • Marin Poetry Center Traveling Show (June 13) p. 8 • Literary Lunch with Jane Green on (June 19) p. 5
Sausalito
Special event to benefit the Life After Innocence Project
Anatomy of Innocence
Wed., June 28 • 6:00 pm • S.F. Public Library (Koret Auditorium) • see pg. 11 The Anatomy of Innocence is a ground-breaking anthology, in which exonerated inmates narrate their stories in collaboration with high-profile mystery and thriller writers. Co-sponsored by the Mystery Writers of America and the Innocence Project
Join Laurie R. King and panelists Laura Caldwell, Leslie Klinger, and Linda Starr at this extraordinary event.
• Sausalito author events p. 14 p. 15 • LitWings Salon (May 24) • Erin Byrne (May 31) “Illuminated Travel” class p. 15 • Brendan Kelly (May 5) Photography Reception p. 14
San Francisco • San Francsico author events p. 12 • Grotto readings (June 2) p. 13 • CUESA Summer Celebration (June 11) p. 13 p. 11 • CUESA Kitchen
May - June 2017
Elaine’s & Luisa’s Picks p. 16 Kids & Travel p. 18 Language & Writing Classes p. 20 Writing Picture Books p. 24 Writing YA Books p. 25 Diversity in Kids Books p. 26 Travel Writers Conference p. 28 Mystery Writers Conference p. 30 Cooks with Books Back
Paul Hawken May 1, 7:00 pm Dominican
Caitlyn Jenner May 4, 7:00 pm College of Marin
Judy Collins May 6, 7:30 pm
Robert Hass Khaled Hosseini with Mary Gordon May 16, 7:00 pm Ellen Grace O’Brian May 22, 7:00 pm May 18, 7:00 pm
Thomas Ricks June 1, 1:00 pm
Delia Ephron June 10, 4:00 pm
David Sedaris June 25, 4:00 pm
Cara Black June 5, 7:00 pm
John Kasich May 3, 4:00 pm Ferry Building
Joseph Kanon June 19, 7:00 pm
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Author Events in
Corte Madera
Elizabeth Silver
Tues., May 2, 7:00 pm
In conversation with Christine Hyung-Oak Lee
The daughter of a surgeon, Elizabeth Silver had an unquestioned faith in medicine. Then her six-week-old daughter was rushed to the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit. The Tincture of Time is Silver’s gorgeous and haunting chronicle of Abby’s first year.
Jonathan Allen & Annie Parnes
Wed., May 3, 7:00 pm Shattered is a gripping post-mortem of the most shocking and bitter election struggle in U.S. history, told from inside the campaign that was supposed to win it all. Jon Allen and Amie Parnes are the bestselling authors of the Hillary Clinton biography HRC.
Caitlyn Jenner Thurs., May , 7:00 pm (See page 3) Jo Piazza
Thurs., May 4, 7:00 pm With elegant prose, astute reporting and hilarious insight, How to Be Married: What I Learned from Real Women on Five Continents about Surviving My First (Really Hard) Year of Marriage portrays Jo Piazza’s journey around the globe in search of what a modern marriage should look like.
Brittany Newell
Fri., May 5, 7:00 pm Oola is a mind-bending novel about the way that sex, privilege, desire, and creativity can bend, blur, and break. In a novel that reads like the wicked love child of American Psycho and Lolita, Brittany Newell bursts into the literary world with a narrative as twisted and fresh as it is addicting.
Carlyn Montes De Oca
Sat., May 6, 1:00 pm Co-Sponsored by Marin Humane Society Dog as My Doctor, Cat as My Nurse reveals how our timeless relationships with animal friends hold the keys to our optimal health. Carlyn Montes De Oca weaves together an insightful tapestry of prescriptive advice, personal stories, and testimonials from other dog and cat lovers.
Don Lattin
Sat., May 6, 4:00 pm Don Lattin’s book is an experiential tour through the social, spiritual, and scientific revolution that is redefining our relationship with mindexpanding substances. Changing Our Minds is the essential primer for navigating this new consciousness-raising territory.
Judy Collins Sat., May 6, 7:30 pm (See page 3) Lloyd Kahn
Sun., May 7, 11:00 am From the publishers of a popular series of building books comes Small Homes, which is highly relevant for these times — getting smaller, rather than larger. Lloyd Kahn has authored six books on the art of homemade building.
Courtney Spain Aragon
Sun., May 7, 11:00 am Children’s Book Week Event! Courtney Spain Aragon’s fun and humorous picture book follows Fraydo the Dragon and his friend Pee Wee on an adventure to solve Fraydo’s big problem—he thinks he’s a dog! Fraydo the Dragon also helps young readers understand why some of us wear glasses.
Marianne Richmond
Sun., May 7, 1:00 pm Children’s Book Week Event! Join bestselling children’s book author and artist Marianne Richmond for an afternoon of connection and creativity. She is the author of If I Could Keep you Little, You’re a Big Sister, and You’re a Big Brother.
Natasha Yim
Sun., May 7, 2:00 pm Children’s Book Week Event! The Rock Maiden: A Chinese Tale of Love and Loyalty is a re-envisioning of an old Hong Kong legend by award-winning author Natasha Yim, with stunning illustrations by renowned Finnish artist Pirkko Vainio.
Marissa Moss
Sun., May 7, 4:00 pm Last Things is the true and intensely personal story of how author Marissa Moss coped with the devastating effects of a catastrophic illness in her family. Moss has written more than seventy books, including her best-selling “Amelia’s Notebook” series.
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Therese Crutcher-Marin
Sun., May 7, 7:00 pm In Watching Their Dance, Therese CrutcherMarin chronicles a life complicated by a serious medical condition, a divorce, an autistic child, financial devastation, a difficult teenager, and living life while at risk for Huntington’s disease.
Peter Gibb
Mon., May 8, 7:00 pm In a small town on the west coast of Scotland, five-year-old Peter Gibb trades his soul to the devil in a futile attempt to win the approval of classmates, teachers, and parents. An insightful tale of lost and found, King of Doubt grips you with tension as it warms you with heart.
Dani Shapiro
Wed., May 10, 1:00 pm Hourglass is an inquiry into how marriages are transformed by time. With courage and relentless honesty, Dani Shapiro opens the door to her house, her marriage, and her heart, and invites us to witness her own marital reckoning.
Jose Gutierrez & Dean Rader
Wed., May 10, 7:00 pm A World Less Away from San Francisco-based poet José Gutiérrez is a collection that is by turns existential, surreal, and elegiac. In Dean Rader’s energized and inventive new book, Self-Portrait as Wikipedia Entry, the poet considers identity of self and society as a Wikipedia page.
Benjamin Ludwig
Thurs., May 11, 1:00 pm Ginny Moon is a compulsively readable and touching novel about being an outsider trying to find a place to belong and making sense of a world that just doesn’t seem to add up. Ludwig brings us an adult mystery with a compelling teenage heroine.
Emma Cline
Fri., May 12, 7:00 pm Set in Northern California during the violent end of the 1960s, The Girls is a brilliant work of fiction inspired by the infamous Manson family. Emma Cline’s remarkable debut novel is gorgeously written and spellbinding, with razor-sharp precision and startling psychological insight.
College of Marin
Caitlyn Jenner
Thurs., May 4 • 7:00 pm • James Dunn Theater, Kentfield • Tickets: $40 (includes book) In conversation with Buzz Bissinger In her new memoir, The Secrets of My Life, Caitlyn Jenner and co-writer Buzz Bissinger chronicle her life as Bruce and her brave transition into womanhood. The book will cover Caitlyn’s childhood as Bruce Jenner and rise to fame as a gold-medal-winning Olympic decathlete; her marriages and relationships with her children; her transition; and her experience as the world’s most famous transgender woman.
An Evening with
Judy Collins
Sat., May 6 • 7:30 pm • Corte Madera store • Tickets: $30 (includes book) Co-Sponsored by Greenlight Clinic Alternating between chapters on her life and those of the many diet gurus she has encountered along the way, Cravings is the culmination of Judy Collin’s genuine desire to share what she’s learned—so that no one else has navigate her heart-rending path to recovery. With several top-ten hits, Grammy nominations, and gold- and platinum-selling albums to her credit, Collins has also written several books and is a New York Times bestselling author.
Passage to Patmos
How the Light Gets In: Music, Memoir & the Art of Telling Our Stories (June 23—July 2) Book Passage is excited to partner with GoodWorld Journeys to offer a one-of-a-kind, ten-day summer salon on the beautiful Greek isle of Patmos Join us for an unforgettable experience with three of the finest singer-songwriters, courageous truth-tellers and radiant voices of our time: Judy Collins, Shawn Colvin & Patty Griffin. This exciting salon offers a rare opportunity to join intimate craft conversations, life journey interviews, and musical performances to explore and celebrate the transcendence of song, memoir writing, and living the creative life. A $100 discount is available to Book Passage readers • Program details & registration info available at www.goodworldjourneys. com • Space is limited
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Author Events in
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Susan C. Shea
Sat., May 13, 4:00 pm When an elderly man in Reigny-sur-Canne is found dead, the small town is turned into a hotbed of gossip and suspicion. In Love & Death in Burgundy, Susan C. Shea presents an atmospheric mystery filled with good Chablis, french cheese, and, of course, murder.
Betsy Fasbinder
Sat., May 13, 7:00 pm Left Coast Writers® Book Launch Filling Her Shoes: A Memoir of an Inherited Family is a beautiful story of how a regular family formed in an irregular way. Heartfelt and moving, Betsy Fasbinder’s story proves that family roots can be strengthened through shared experiences.
Richard Prum
Mon., May 15, 7:00 pm The Evolution of Beauty presents a unique scientific vision for how nature’s splendor contributes to a more complete understanding of evolution and of ourselves. Richard Prum is William Robertson Coe Professor of Ornithology at Yale University.
Robert Hass
Tues., May 16, 7:00 pm Co-Sponsored by Marin Poetry Center In addition to his poetry, Robert Hass is beloved for his incisive criticism. A Little Book on Form takes up the interplay between poetry and the poetics of the imagination. His work includes Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winner Time and Materials. Robert Hass was U.S. Poet Laureate
Stephanie Danler
Wed., May 17, 7:00 pm In her novel Sweetbitter, Stephanie Danler deftly conjures the nonstop and high-adrenaline world of the restaurant industry and evokes the infinite possibilities, the unbearable beauty, and the fragility and brutality of being young in New York.
Khaled Hosseini & Ellen Grace O’Brian Thurs., May 18, 7:00 pm (See page 7)
Samuel Ferrer
Fri., May 19, 7:00 pm Inspired by the real life of explorer Henri Mouhot, The Last Gods of Indochine follows Jacquie Mouhot and Paaku the Lotus-Born— divided by six centuries but linked by a common curse. Born in California, Samuel Ferrer has lived in Southeast Asia since 2002.
Robin Stockwell
Sat., May 20, 1:00 pm Co-Sponsored by Flourish Succulents are the ultimate easy-care plant: versatile, effortless to grow both indoors and outdoors, and drought tolerant. Succulents from Robin Stockwell is the essential reference for anyone looking for a thorough introduction to the perfect plant for modern times.
Kate Moore
Sat., May 20, 4:00 pm As World War I raged across the globe, hundreds of young women toiled away painting clock faces with a mysterious new substance called radium. In The Radium Girls, Kate Moore explores the strength of these extraordinary women in the face of almost impossible circumstances.
Madison Smartt Bell
Sun., May 21, 1:00 pm Behind the Moon opens with Julie skipping school and setting off for a camping trip in the desert. There she finds herself the target of unwanted, drug-fueled, sexual attention. Madison Smartt Bell is the author of All Souls’ Rising, a finalist for the National Book Award and the PEN/Faulkner Award.
Mark Susnow
Sun., May 21, 4:00 pm In Mark Susnow’s The Soul of Uncertainty: A Fable for Our Times, a young man just setting out in life encounters a mysterious modern day mystic, Mervin, and an “unexpected road trip of the soul” begins. Susnow is a life coach, strategist, author, and motivational speaker.
Mark Lukach
Sun., May 21, 7:00 pm Co-Sponsored by NAMI Marin This a story of the fragility of the mind and the tenacity of the human spirit. My Lovely Wife in the Psych Ward is Mark Lukach’s heartwrenching, yet above-all hopeful memoir of a young marriage that is redefined by mental illness. In it, he affirms the power of love.
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Mary Gordon
Mon., May 22, 7:00 pm There Your Heart Lies is a deeply moving novel about an American woman’s experiences during the Spanish Civil War, the lessons she learned, and how her story will shape her granddaughter’s path. Mary Gordon is the author of many highly acclaimed novels, memoirs, and essays.
Mugambi Jouet
Tues., May 23, 7:00 pm Why did Donald Trump follow Barack Obama into the White House? Why is America so polarized? Exceptional America, from Stanford Law School teacher Mugambi Jouet, dissects the American soul, in all of its peculiar, clashing, and striking manifestations.
Cathryn Jakobson Ramin
Wed., May 24, 7:00 pm The result of six years of intensive investigation, Crooked offers a startling look at the poorly identified risks of spine medicine, and provides practical advice and solutions. Investigative journalist Cathryn Jakobson Ramin is the author of the bestseller Carved in Sand.
Jack Kornfield
Thurs., May 25, 7:00 pm Co-Sponsored by Spirit Rock In No Time Like the Present: Finding Freedom, Love, and Joy Right Where You Are, internationally beloved teacher of meditation and mindfulness, Jack Kornfield, reveals that you can be happy now, this minute, with the keys to inner freedom.
Jordan Reid & Erin Williams
Fri., May 26, 7:00 pm Join authors Jordan Reid and Erin Williams in a discussion focusing on motherhood, female entrepreneurship and the importance of clean, safe water for women around the world, centered around their new book, The Big Fat Activity Book for Pregnant People.
Thais Derich
Tues., May 30, 7:00 pm Traumatized by an unwanted cesarean, Thais Derich begins the long journey of building the courage to give birth to her second child the way she always wanted to: naturally. Second Chance illuminates the many ways in which our healthcare system is broken when it comes to helping women give birth.
Literary Luncheons
Book Passage hosts literary luncheons with celebrated authors at our Corte Madera store. Lunch is catered by Insalata’s Restaurant. Tickets include lunch and a signed book. Call 415-927-0960, ext. 1, or bookpassage.com for tickets
Jane Green
Mon., June. 19 • 12:00 pm • $55 Jane Green—bestselling author of Jemimah J and Falling—returns with The Sunshine Sisters, the story of a mother who calls her estranged daughters home to help her end her life. As two sisters face the loss of their mother, they will discover if blood might be thicker than water after all.
Julia Glass
Wed., July 12 • 12:00 pm • $55 In A House Among the Trees Julia Glass she gives us the story of an unusual bond between a world-famous writer and his assistant. This is a richly plotted novel of friendship and love, artistic ambition, the perils of celebrity, and the power of an unexpected legacy. Her novel Three Junes won the National Book Award.
Nicole Krauss
Tues., Sept. 26 • 12:00 pm • $55 Bursting with life and humor, Forest Dark is a profound, mesmerizing novel of metamorphosis and self-realization—of looking beyond all that is visible towards the infinite. Nicole Krauss is the author of Great House, a finalist for the National Book Award, and The History of Love.
Isabel Allende
Tues., Oct. 31 • 12:00 pm • $55 Isabel Allende returns with In the Midst of Winter. The story begins with a minor traffic accident involving an undocumented immigrant. It becomes the catalyst for an unexpected and moving love story between two people who thought they were deep into the winter of their lives.
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Marcie Anderson
Wed., May 31, 7:00 pm Marcie Anderson discovered at a young age we are offered no clear direction to our desired destination. Her debut book, Are We There Yet?, is for readers ready to discover the gifts in the lessons they are given, and the path to the purpose of their life.
Thomas Ricks
Thurs., June 1, 1:00 pm From Pulitzer-Prize winning journalist Thomas Ricks comes Churchill and Orwell, a dual biography of Winston Churchill and George Orwell, whose farsighted vision and inspired action preserved democracy from the threats of authoritarianism. Ricks’s books include Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq.
Charmaine Craig
Thurs., June 1, 7:00 pm Set against the vibrant backdrop of Burma from the 1940s to the 1960s, Miss Burma is a powerful and epic novel from Charmaine Craig that follows one Burmese family struggling to find love, justice, and meaning during a time of war and political repression.
Shari Lapena
Fri., June 2, 7:00 pm In The Couple Next Door, a fast-paced thriller, Anne and Marco seem to have it all—a loving relationship, a wonderful home, and their beautiful baby, Cora—until one night when a terrible crime is committed at a dinner party next door. .
Meir Schneider
Sat., June 3, 1:00 pm Awakening the Power of Self-Healing is a book about empowering readers to take active control of their health through a life-affirming regimen. Meir Schneider, PhD, LMT is a therapist, educator, and the founder of the School For Self-Healing in San Francisco.
Tracy Grant
Sat., June 3, 4:00 pm In Gilded Deceit, the latest novel from Tracy Grant, a scandalous past forces spy couple Suzanne and Malcolm to flee London. In their Lake Como refuge, worries of boredom are soon banished when bandits attack them over a treasure they are believed to posses.
Courtney Maum
Sat., June 3, 7:00 pm In conversation with Melissa Cistaro Courtney Maum returns with a poignant, amusing call to arms that showcases her signature biting wit and keen eye. Touch is a novel about what it means to be an individual in a globalized world. Maum is the author of I Am Having So Much Fun Here Without You.
Samantha Walravens
Sun., June 4, 1:00 pm Meet the women who aren’t asking permission from Silicon Valley to chase their dreams. Geek Girl Rising invites women everywhere to join the digital revolution and create the future! Samantha Walravens is a contributor to Women@Forbes and the Huffington Post.
George Taylor
Sun., June 4, 4:00 pm Co-Sponsored by Spirit Rock A Path for Couples addresses communication issues that many couples have, and it teaches them specific skills to develop intimacy through conversations. George Taylor, MFT, has been married since 1981 and working as a couples counselor and in Marin County since 1991.
Cara Black
Mon., June 5, 7:00 pm In Murder in Saint-Germain, private investigator Aimée Leduc is already working on a huge case when a counterterrorism agent comes to her convinced that she is being stalked by a presumably dead Serbian warlord. Cara Black is co-chair of the Book Passage Mystery Writers Conference (see p. 30)
Lisa Ko
Tues., June 6, 7:00 pm Set in New York and China, The Leavers is a vivid and moving examination of borders and belonging. Lisa Ko’s powerful debut is the winner of the 2016 PEN/Bellwether Prize for fiction, awarded by Barbara Kingsolver for a novel that addresses issues of social justice.
Lucy Kalanithi & John Duberstein Wed., June 7, 1:00 pm (See page 9)
Jill Dodd
Wed., June 7, 7:00 pm In her courageous and inspiring memoir, The Currency of Love, Jill Dodd depicts her journey from a life as a Paris model to the harem of a Saudi billionaire. We learn about the multi-million dollar business enterprise behind global fashion line, ROXY.
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Jeff Shaara
Thurs., June 8, 7:00 pm Master of military fiction Jeff Shaara returns with The Frozen Hours, a riveting novel focused on the story of the Americans and the Chinese who squared off in one of the deadliest campaigns in the annals of combat: the Battle of Chosin Reservoir in the Korean War.
Emeran Mayer with Erica & Justin Sonnenburg
Sat., June 10, 1:00 pm Moderated by Bruce Goldman In The Mind-Gut Connection, Gastroenterologist Emeran Mayer explores the inextricable, biological link between mind and body. The Good Gut by Stanford University’s Justin and Erica Sonnenburg offers a new plan for health that focuses on how to nourish your microbiota.
Delia Ephron
Sat., June 10, 4:00 pm Siracusa follows two couples on vacation on the coast of Sicily, where the secrets they have hidden from each other are exposed and relationships are unraveled. Delia Ephron is the bestselling author of Hanging Up and an acclaimed screenwriter.
Melodie Winawer
Sat., June 10, 7:00 pm Equal parts transporting love story and gripping historical conspiracy, The Scribe of Siena from debut author Melodie Winawer takes readers deep into medieval Italy, where the past and present blur and a twenty-first century woman will discover a plot to destroy Siena.
Cheryl Krauter
Sat., June 10, 7:00 pm Left Coast Writers® Book Launch Surviving the Storm presents a humanistic perspective on how to support cancer survivors by offering a narrative structure designed to help them tell their stories. Cheryl Krauter, MFT, is an existential humanistic psychotherapist with over 35 years of experience.
Olivia Koski & Jana Grcevich
Sun., June 11, 1:00 pm Co-Sponsored by Mt. Tam Astronomy Beautifully illustrated and packed with real-world science, The Vacation Guide to the Solar System is the essential planning guide for the curious space adventurer. Olivia Koski is a five-time five National Magazine Award nominee. Jana Grcevich, PhD. is a Fellow at the American Museum of Natural History
Khaled Hosseini in conversation with Ellen Grace O’Brian Thurs., May 18 • 7:00 pm • Corte Madera store Tickets: $20 (includes a copy of The Moon Reminded Me) In the luminous poems contained in The Moon Reminded Me, Ellen Grace O’Brian manages to braid contemporary moments of everyday life with ancient spiritual teachings. Yogacharya O’Brian is the Spiritual Director of the Center for Spiritual Enlightenment. Khaled Hosseini is the acclaimed author of The Kite Runner, A Thousand Splendid Suns, and most recently, And the Mountains Echoed.
Book Passage & Dominican University
Book Passage is pleased to work with the Institute for Leadership Studies at Dominican University of California in San Rafael to present an outstanding series of events. For tickets, visit bookpassage.com/dominican or call (415) 927-0960 ext. 1
Paul Hawken
Mon., May 1, 7:00 pm
Co-Sponsored by Environmental Forum of Marin • Tickets: $35 (includes book) In Drawdown, renowned environmentalist Paul Hawken has assembled a team of over 200 scholars, scientists, policymakers, business leaders, and activists to illustrate the hundred most substantive solutions to combat climate change.
Reza Aslan
Thurs., Nov. 30, 7:00 pm
Tickets: $35 (includes book) The entire history of religion—any religion— can be seen as the evolution of one metaphor: God as a super-charged version of ourselves. In god, New York Times bestselling author Reza Aslan (Zealot) explores how different ideas of god have united, divided, and propelled humanity forward for millennia.
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David Montgomery
Sun., June 11, 4:00 pm In Growing a Revolution, MacArthur Fellow David Montgomery draws on visits to farms in the industrialized world and developing world to show that a new combination of farming practices can deliver innovative, cost-effective solutions to problems farmers face today.
Marin Poetry Center Traveling Show
Tues., June 13, 7:00 pm The Marin Poetry Center Summer Traveling Show brings together local poets (MPC members from all over the Bay Area) to read their own or others’ work aloud.
Chris Perry & Sandy Stier
Thurs., June 15, 7:00 pm Co-Sponsored by the Spahr Center Kris Perry and Sandy Stier were the lead plaintiffs in the team that sued the state of California to restore marriage equality. Love on Trial tells the story of each woman’s journey from her 1960s all-American childhood to the U.S. Supreme Court.
Martin Walker
Fri., June 16, 7:00 pm Bruno, author Martin Walker’s beloved chief of police in the idyllic French town of St. Denis, is back! In The Templars’ Last Secret, a mysterious death brings ancient secrets to light, and it’s up to our hero—and favorite gourmand—to connect the tangled threads of past and present.
Michael Klassen
Sat., June 17, 4:00 pm Hippie, Inc. tells the story of the original hippie community, which shaped the most commercially lucrative social movement in American history. Michael Klassen is a marketing professor at the University of Northern Iowa.
Jeremy Lent
Sat., June 17, 7:00 pm The Patterning Instinct: A Cultural History of Humanity’s Search for Meaning is a fresh perspective on crucial questions of history that takes readers on an archaeological exploration of the mind. Jeremy Lent is the founder and president of the nonprofit Liology Institute.
Andrew Evans
Sun., June 18, 4:00 pm A devout child from Ohio, Andrew Evans had his life mapped for him, but as a bullied and bored gay kid, he escaped into the glossy pages of National Geographic. The Black Penguin is his travel tale and love story of his eventual journey to the farthest reaches of the map.
Joseph Kanon
Mon., June 19, 7:00 pm In conversation with Luisa Smith From Joseph Kanon—the bestselling author of The Good German—comes Defectors, a fast-paced and richly imagined novel about an American spy, the Cold War’s most notorious defector, who gave up his country for safety but never lost his gift for betrayal.
Mel Goodman
Tues., June 20, 1:00 pm In the breathtaking exposé Whistleblower at the CIA, Mel Goodman retraces his career with the Central Intelligence Agency and presents a rare insider’s account of the inner workings of America’s intelligence community. Goodman served as a senior analyst and Division Chief at the CIA from 1966 to 1990.
The Prison University Project
Thurs., June 22, 7:00 pm OpenLine features essays, poetry, and artwork from Prison University Project students. In it they are able to amplify their voices and humanize the image of incarcerated people in the public imagination. The Prison University Project was awarded the 2015 National Humanities Medal by President Obama.
Barbara Bonner
Fri., June 23, 7:00 pm How can we manage to move forward in the face of hardship, when the odds aren’t in our favor? Inspiring Courage by Barbara Bonner offers us a beautiful companion to the challenges of daily life—it is a book of inspiration and a resource for finding strength when the very notion of courage seems unfathomable.
Patti Breitman
Sat., June 24, 1:00 pm Even Vegans Die is a compassionate and practical guide to care-giving, inclusion and acceptance when we or others are ill or dying. Patti Breitman examines the false promise of eternal health when promoting a plant-based diet, and the harm it may do.
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Admiral James Stavridis
Sat., June 24, 4:00 pm From the time of the Greeks and the Persians, sea power has determined world power. No one understands this more than Admiral James Stavridis, one of the most decorated naval officers of our time. In Sea Power, Stavridis takes readers on a remarkable voyage of the world’s most important bodies of water.
Thomas Centolella
Sat., June 24, 7:00 pm Thomas Centolella’s new poems register attraction, delight, expectations fulfilled and foiled, and moments of great feeling cherished and lamented. Almost Human documents the restive life force incarnated in an endangered species—our own—and charts the movement of the self between spirit and human.
David Sedaris Sun., June 25, 4:00 pm (Top right corner) Paul Madonna
Tues., June 27, 7:00 pm Paul Madonna is the creator of the popular comic, All Over Coffee. In a series of drawings and stories, On the Next Dream evokes the roil of emotions that ensue as he enters into the city’s brutal competition for a place to live.
Steve Clifford
Wed., June 28, 7:00 pm The CEO Pay Machine is Steven Clifford’s thorough and shocking explanation of how the system works, how its parts interact, and how every step pushes CEO pay to higher levels. Clifford has previously served as CEO for King Broadcasting Company and National Mobile Television.
Siobhan Fallon
Thurs, June 29, 7:00 pm Written with stunning prose and powerful emotional insight, The Confusion of Languages offers a poignant glimpse into the private lives of husbands, wives, and American military families living overseas. Siobhan Fallon is the author of the bestselling You Know When the Men Are Gone.
Linda Joy Myers
Fri., June 30, 7:00 pm Song of the Plains: A Memoir of Family, Secrets, and Silence is a family history that starts in the Oklahoma plains and spans over 40 years as author Linda Joy Myers combs through dusty archives, family stories, and genealogy online.
Don’t Miss David Sedaris
Sun., June 25 • 4:00 pm Ticket: $30.50 • Corte Madera store David Sedaris has kept a diary for 40 years. Now, for the first time, he shares his private writings with the world in Theft By Finding: Diaries 1977-2002. This is the first-person account of how a drug-abusing dropout with a weakness for the International House of Pancakes and a chronic inability to hold down a real job became one of the funniest people on the planet. Among his many bestselling titles, Sedaris is the author of Let’s Explore Diabetes with Owls, Me Talk Pretty One Day, and Holidays on Ice.
In Honor of Nina Riggs
Lucy Kalanithi & John Duberstein In conversation with Kelly Corrigan
Two Events: Wed., June 7 • 1:00 pm • Corte Madera store and Wed., June 7 • 6:00 pm • Ferry Building store The Bright Hour: A Memoir of Living and Dying is the final work by the late poet Nina Riggs. Inspired by her immensely popular piece in the New York Times’ “Modern Love” column, this exquisite memoir is about how to live—and love—every day with “death in the room.” Written after she was diagnosed with cancer at age 37, Rigg’s eloquent and profound story will take readers on journeys both personal and metaphorical. Presenting this book is the author’s husband, John Duberstein, and Lucy Kalanithi, wife of author Paul Kalanithi (When Breath Becomes Air). They will be joined by bestselling memoirist Kelly Corrigan, who has called Riggs’s new book “magical” and “unforgettable.”
Marin Art & Garden Center Presents Andrea Wulf
Tues., May 2 • 6:00 - 8:00 pm Tickets: $25 per person Illustrated talk followed by wine reception and book sale coordinated by Book Passage. Writer Andrea Wulf returns to the Marin Art & Garden Center to give an illustrated talk about “The Founding Gardeners,” a fascinating look at the revolutionary generation from the unique and intimate perspective of their lives as gardeners, plantsmen, and farmers. The Studio at Marin Art & Garden Center • 30 Sir Francis Drake Blvd, Ross, CA • Tickets available at www.magc.org • For information, call: 415-455-5260
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Susannah Meadows
The Ferry Building (415) 835-1020
Sat., May 6, 4:00 pm Co-Sponsored by Bay Area Young Survivors The Other Side of Impossible features the stories of seven families who were determined to solve the unsolvable. Susannah Meadows is a former senior writer for Newsweek. Joining her is Amy Chan, featured subject in the book.
Donia Bijan
Marilyn Skinner Lanier
San Francisco Tues., May 2, 6:00 pm A neighborhood cafe in Tehran is at the center of The Last Days of Cafe Leila, Donia Bijan’s powerful and transporting novel of love, family, friendship, and homecoming told against the backdrop of Iran’s rich, yet tragic, history. Bijan graduated from U.C. Berkeley and Le Cordon Bleu.
Gov. John Kasich
Wed., May 3, 6:00 pm In Two Paths: America Divided or United, Ohio Governor John Kasich answers the burning question of our time: “Where do we go from here?” Kasich, a former U.S Congressman, was a presidential candidate in the recent election. He is the author of three previous New York Times bestsellers.
Maureen Chiquet
Thurs., May 4, 12:30 pm In Beyond the Label, Maureen Chiquet shares her unlikely journey from literature major to business leader, seeking to inspire a new generation of women to create successful careers and meaningful lives by discovering what is most vital to them and defining themselves on their own terms.
Jo Haldeman
Thurs., May 4, 6:00 pm In The Shadow of the White House documents Jo Haldeman’s life as the wife of Richard Nixon’s Chief of Staff. Jo’s compelling account takes the reader on her journey from the heights of Washington life through an excruciating public resignation and trial to her husband’s conviction and imprisonment.
Peter Andreas
Fri., May 5, 6:00 pm Rebel Mother is an extraordinary account of a deep mother-son bond and the joy and toll of growing up with a radical mother in a radical age. Peter Andreas is an insightful and candid narrator whose unforgettable memoir gives new meaning to the old saying, “the personal is political.”
Mon., May 8, 6:00 pm Left Coast Writers® Book Launch Set in the mid-1950s in rural Wyoming, Hardpan by Marilyn Skinner Lanier tells the journey of a young ranch family grappling with the fierce forces of nature and the changing American West after World War II.
Eric Liu
Tues., May 9, 6:00 pm In You’re More Powerful Than You Think: A Citizen’s Guide to Making Change Happen, Eric Liu lays out the elements and the strategies of citizen power, showing when to create a hashtag, when to call your Congressman, and when to take to the streets.
Sherilyn Connelly
Wed., May 10, 6:00 pm Beloved by young girls around the world, Hasbro’s My Little Pony franchise has been mired in controversy since its debut in the early 1980s. Ponyville Confidential explores the history and cultural significance of the franchise. Sherilyn Connelly is a film critic for the Village Voice and SF Weekly.
Jen Sincero
Thurs., May 11, 6:00 pm From bestselling author Jen Sincero comes the perfect sequel to her over-half-million-copiessold phenomenon You Are a Badass. You Are a Badass at Making Money is a step-by-step guide to helping people overcome their blocks, push past their fears, and start making the kind of money they’ve never made before.
Laura McBride
Fri., May 12, 6:00 pm From Laura McBride—the author of We Are Called to Rise—comes ‘Round Midnight, a novel about the interconnected lives of four women in Las Vegas, each of whom experiences a life-changing moment at a classic casino nightclub.
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Kate & David Marshall
Sat., May 13, 1:00 pm Drawing on their passion for family and relationships, David and Kate Marshall create insightful keepsake journals that make it easy for anyone to record their memories. Their latest, The Book of You: For My Child, with Love, is a journal to help you express the joy and pride your child has brought to your life.
Mary Ann Mason
Mon., May 15, 6:00 pm Millions of children have been born in the U.S. with the help of cutting-edge reproductive technologies. Babies of Technology considers the voice of the child in discussions about regulating the fertility industry. Mary Ann Mason is the author of Do Babies Matter?
Graeme Simsion
Tues., May 16, 6:00 pm How different might Adam’s life have been if he hadn’t let Angelina walk away? From Graeme Simsion—the bestselling author of The Rosie Project—comes The Best of Adam Sharp, a romantic novel about true love, second chances, and decades of great music.
Stephen Baccari
Wed., May 17, 6:00 pm Have you ever wanted to change your reality? In The Travel Effect, travel advisor Stephen Baccari combines his around-the-world adventures with practical advice for anyone who wants to become a mindful traveler and discover any destination.
Terry McDermott
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Mystery Writers of America & The Innocence Project Present
Anatomy of Innocence Wed., June 28 • 6:00 pm • S.F. Public Library (Koret Auditorium) • Free to the Public • Refreshments afterward
Laurie R. King,
Laura Caldwell, Leslie S. Klinger, & Linda Starr
Laurie King This unique book recalls the work of the great muckrakers of the past, as an outraged team of America’s bestselling writers confront the disasters of wrongful convictions. The Anatomy of Innocence is a ground-breaking anthology, in which 14 exonerated inmates narrate their stories to a roster of high-profile mystery and thriller writers. These writers, in turn, have captured the harrowing experiences of these wrongfully convicted individuals. The panel includes lawyer/writers Laura Caldwell and Leslie S. Klinger, editors of Anatomy of Innocence; Linda Starr, cofounder and legal director of the Northern California Innocence Project; and bestselling crime writer Laurie R. King, a contributor to the project. To register, visit http://tinyurl.com/kqfxvjw
CUESA Kitchen
Our friends at CUESA host the Farmer’s Market at the Ferry Building on Tuesday & Thursday (10:00 am - 2:00 pm) and every Saturday (8:00 am - 2:00 pm). On Saturdays, local chefs give food demonstrations at the CUESA kitchen, and we re there selling their books
Thurs., May 18, 6:00 pm Off Speed: Baseball, Pitching, and the Art of Deception traces the evolution of pitching and the pitcher’s art of deception. Terry McDermott tells the fascinating story of baseball’s 150-year hunt for the perfect pitch.
Gonzalo Guzmán discusses his book Nopalito: A Mexican Kitchen (co-author Stacy Adimando) with recipes from S.F.’s popular Nopalito—“a sustainable, organic, Mexican kitchen.”
Michael Landers
Sean Vahey Sat., May 27 • 10:30 am
Fri., May 19, 6:00 pm One of the greatest challenges for modern businesses is navigating the inevitable culture clashes that come with a global workplace. In Culture Crossing, founder and president of Culture Crossing, Inc., Michael Landers offers a deceptively simple solution.
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Gonzalo Guzman Sat., May 20 • 12:00 pm
Sean Vahey, co-owner of S.F.’s popular ice cream store, talks about the Humphrey Slocombe Ice Cream Book
Mads Refslund & Tama Matsuoka Wong Sat., June 3 • 12:00 pm
The co-authors of Scraps, Wilt & Weeds: Turning Wasted Food into Plenty talk about their provocative ideas for saving food. The book signing will be at 1:00 pm right after the event in our Ferry Building store
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Author Events in
San Francisco The Ferry Building (415) 835-1020
Plum Sykes
Sat., May 20, 4:00 pm Clueless meets Agatha Christie in this wickedly funny tale of high society and low morals, Party Girls Die in Pearls is the first book in Plum Sykes’ irresistible new series. Sykes is a novelist and fashion journalist who frequently contributes to American Vogue.
Susan Wolfe
Tues., May 23, 6:00 pm In Escape Velocity, Georgia is an avid paralegal by day and a masterful con artist by night, using increasingly bold gambits designed to salvage her company, Lumina Software. Susan Wolfe’s bestselling first novel, The Last Billable Hour, won the Edgar Award.
Samantha Walravens
Wed., May 31, 6:00 pm Meet the women who aren’t asking permission from Silicon Valley to chase their dreams. Geek Girl Rising invites women everywhere to join the digital revolution and create the future! Samantha Walravens is a contributor to Women@Forbes and the Huffington Post.
Scaachi Koul & Doree Shafrir
Thurs., June 1, 6:00 pm In One Day We’ll All Be Dead and None of This Will Matter, Scaachi Koul deploys her razor sharp humor to share all the fears, outrages, and mortifying moments of her life. An assured debut from online journalist Doree Shafrir, Startup is a sharp, hugely entertaining story of youth, ambition, love, money and technology’s inability to hack human nature.
Tama Matsuoka Wong & Mads Refslund
Annemarie Ahearn
Tues., June 6, 1:00 pm Full Moon Suppers at Salt Water Farm invites you to a series of magical, seasonal suppers where dear friends gather around a farm table to celebrate the bounty that the land and sea provide. Annemarie Ahearn founded Salt Water Farm in 2009, a cooking school for home cooks on Maine’s Penobscot Bay.
Chris Haft
Tues., June 6, 6:00 pm In If These Walls Could Talk: Stories from the San Francisco Giants Dugout, Locker Room, and Press Box, MLB beat reporter Chris Haft recounts stories from this decorated Giants dynasty, which earned World Series rings in 2010, 2012, and 2014.
Lucy Kalanithi & John Duberstein Wed., June 7, 6:00 pm
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Sara Bendrick
Thurs., June 8, 6:00 pm Transform your outdoor space on any budget with Big Impact Landscaping: 28 DIY Projects You Can Do on a Budget to Beautify and Add Value to Your Home. Landscaping designer Sara Bendrick packs years of experience into this beautiful guide
Danielle Krysa
Fri., June 9, 6:00 pm Your Inner Critic is a Big Jerk is packed with helpful anecdotes, thoughts from successful creatives, and practical exercises gleaned from Danielle Krysa’s years of working with professional and aspiring artists. Krysa is the writer/curator behind the contemporary art site, The Jealous Curator.
Susanna Solomon
Mon., June 12, 6:00 pm Left Coast Writers® Book Launch In More Point Reyes Sheriff’s Calls, Susanna Solomon—a resident of both San Anselmo and Point Reyes Station—finds humor and delight in the Sheriff’s Calls printed in the local newspaper the Point Reyes Light, where she draws inspiration for her short stories.
Sat., June 3, 1:00 pm In Partnership with CUESA Thad Carhart Scraps, Wilt & Weeds features 100 recipes by Mads Refslund, one of the Tues., June 13, 6:00 pm initial partners at Noma, the worldFinding Fontainebleau: An American Boy in renowned Danish restaurant. Co-author France is a beguiling memoir of a childhood Tama Matsuoka Wong is a renowned forager for chefs such as in 1950s Fontainebleau from Thad Carhart, Daniel Boulud, Marc Forgione, Claus Meyer, and others. the much-admired New York Times bestselling author of The Piano Shop on the Left Bank.
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Laurie R. King
Wed., June 14, 6:00 pm Tense, poignant, and brilliantly paced, Lockdown charts compelling characters on a collision course—a chain of interactions that locks together hidden lives, troubling secrets, and the bravest impulses of the human heart. Laurie R. King is the bestselling author of the Mary Russell mystery series.
David Boling
Wed., June 21, 6:00 pm A beautiful testament to love, family, and sheer force of will, The Lost History of Stars was inspired by Dave Boling’s grandfather’s own experience as a soldier during the Boer War. Boling is the author of the critically acclaimed novel Guernica.
David Gessner
Tues., June 27, 6:00 pm Before he made a name for himself as an acclaimed essayist and nature writer, David Gessner devoted his twenties to a cultish sport called Ultimate Frisbee. Ultimate Glory is a portrait of the artist as a young ruffian. Gessner is the author of All the Wild That Remains.
Laura Kamoie & Stephanie Dray
Wed., June 28, 6:00 pm In the compelling, richly researched America’s First Daughter, bestselling authors Laura Kamoie and Stephanie Dray tell the fascinating, untold story of Thomas Jefferson’s eldest daughter, Martha “Patsy” Jefferson Randolph—a woman who kept the secrets of our most enigmatic founding father and shaped an American legacy.
Liyana Silver
Thurs., June 29, 6:30 pm In Feminine Genius: The Provocative Path to Waking Up and Turning On the Wisdom of Being a Woman, Liyana Silver offers a sassy blend of inspiration and nitty-gritty practices to help you break free from the places where you feel stuck.
CUESA’s Annual Summer Celebration Sun., June 11 • 6:00 - 9:00 p.m. The lavish walk-around feast of bites and cocktails is created from seasonal berries, fruits, leaves, and flowers of California. for tickets: cuesa.org/event/2017/cuesas-summer-celebration
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Ferry Building Store News Greetings with Greeting cards Our expanded greeting card selection is your go-to spot for graduations, weddings, Mothers’ and Fathers’ Day—and, of course, birthdays, SF scenes, and just “thinking of you.”
Waldo...and Wenda!
Waldo will be back in July! Don’t miss the annual Where’s Waldo scavenger hunt in the Ferry Building for the whole month. This year, Wenda joins Waldo for the fun.
Book Picks Al Franken: Giant of the Senate Al Franken
The Democratic Senator from Minnesota, the man who gave us Lies: And the Lying Liars Who Tell Them reflects on his career as a comedian, his life in the Senate, and his perspectives on the state of America. His humor is a comfort.
The Lost History of Stars Dave Boling
A coming-of-age novel set in a concentration camp of the South African Boer War illuminates a little-known historic era while resonating with familiarity for the fate of refugees from current conflicts.
Defectors
Joseph Kanon
Joe Kanon is our go-to for readers requesting a “literary thriller.” His characters are embedded in Cold War adventures in Leaving Berlin, Istanbul Passage, Stardust and more. This time it’s 1949 Moscow and a former CIA agent and Communist spy is reunited with his brother, an American publisher, amidst a treacherous game of political intrigue.
The Excellent Lombards Jane Hamilton
The author of A Thousand Acres knows her rural families. Frankie Lombard is a wise and smart protagonist growing up as an heir to the Wisconsin orchard she loves.
Reliance, Illinois Mary Volmer
The population of Volmer’s 1874 Mississippi river town faces issues not so different from today’s: women’s rights, voting privileges, a haunted war veteran, racism, autocratic men. Its scrappy protagonist draws readers in from page one.
Grotto Readings at the Ferry Building
Fri., June 2, 6:00 pm Join us for a showcase of new work from the students of the San Francisco Writer’s Grotto writing classes. Both fiction and nonfiction writers will read their work—but only for 3 minutes each! Instructors will enforce the time limit.
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Author Events in
Sausalito 100 Bay Street (415) 339-1300
Amy Novesky
Wed., May 3, 3:00 pm Children’s Book Week Event! Amy Novesky is an award-winning children’s book author and editor. Her picture books include Elephant Prince; Me, Frida; Cloth Lullaby; Georgia in Hawaii; Mister and Lady Day; Love is a Tutu; and Love is a Truck.
Bethanie Murguia
Sun., May 7, 11:00 am Children’s Book Week Event! Toucans, Too combines fantastically funny wordplay with lush, vibrant illustrations, making this a humorous read-aloud that both children and parents will love! Bethanie Murguia is the acclaimed author and illustrator of Cockatoo, Too and Zoe Gets Ready.
Natalie Robins
Thurs., May 11, 6:00 pm In The Untold Journey—the first biography to mine critic Diana Trilling’s extensive archives—Natalie Robins tells a previously undisclosed history of an essential member of New York City culture at a time of dynamic change and intellectual relevance.
Melanie Salvatore-August
Sat., May 13, 1:00 pm Fierce Kindness is filled with reflections on simple changes people can make to transform themselves from within through actions of positive change in their community and the world. Melanie Salvatore-August is the author of Kitchen Yoga.
Jeff Raz
Sat., May 13, 4:00 pm The Secret Life of Clowns by Jeff Raz offers a unique “backstage tour” of Cirque du Soleil and the Clown Conservatory. Raz is a clown, actor, teacher, and director. He founded and served as director of the Clown Conservatory in San Francisco.
W. Bruce Cameron
Tues., May 16, 6:00 pm A Dog’s Way Home is a triumphant return to the tradition of author W. Bruce Cameron’s beloved A Dog’s Purpose: a classic story of the human-animal bond from a dog’s point of view. Cameron is also the bestselling author of A Dog’s Journey and The Dog Master.
Bianca Bosker
Thurs., May 18, 6:00 pm Amateur drinker and professional tech reporter Bianca Bosker didn’t know much about wine— until she stumbled on an alternate universe of master sommeliers. Cork Dork illuminates how tasting better can help us live better—and will change the way you drink wine forever.
David Shalleck
Sat., May 20, 4:00 pm The Mediterranean Sea. Yachts. Food. Actor Sterling Hayden. Wandering. Chef and author Artist Reception with David Shalleck ties these together in this special presentation about fantastic off-shore Brendan Kelly adventures. A veteran of over 30 years in Fri., May 5 • 6:00 - 8:00 pm • Sausalito store Join us as we celebrate the food business, Shalleck is the founder of the work of Brendan VOLOCHEF Culinary Solutions. Kelly. He has always Peg Alford Purcell been involved in the arts. Tues., May 23, 6:00 pm His grandmother and fa- In conversation with Melissa Cistaro ther were both portrait In Show Her a Flower, A Bird, A Shadow, painters, so it was some- Peg Alford Pursell creates vivid characters and thing he was immersed piercing situations in story after story. Pursell is in growing up. the founder and director of the national reading But something about photography captivated him. Kelly’s series Why There Are Words. photography has received many regional and national awards. We are proud to be selling his photographs..
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Trying to Find Us in Sausalito? We are located on the downtown waterfront, right across Bridgeway from the Poggio restaurant; from Poggio just walk towards the bay and you’ll find us on the marina boardwalk.
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LitWings Salon with Erin Byrne, Lee Daniel Kravetz, Vanessa Crocini & Catherine Karnow Wed., May 24 • 6:30 pm • Sausalito store
Deborah Tannen
Thurs., May 25, 6:00 pm Validating and illuminating, You’re the Only One I Can Tell will help women understand and strengthen their friendships. Deborah Tannen is aevered professor of linguistics at Georgetown University and the acclaimed author of You Just Don’t Understand.
Susan Silver
Thurs., June 1, 6:00 pm Susan Silver made her claim on Hollywood as one of the first women to break through as a writer of TV sitcoms. In Hot Pants in Hollywood, she details her journey from living in a small Midwestern town to writing for television.
Cali Gilbert
Sat., June 3, 4:00 pm In her new novel Timing the Tides, Cali Gilbert flashes between the Titanic in 1912 and modern-day California to poses the question: what if you were given a second chance at life and love?
Laurie Watkins
Wed., June 7, 6:00 pm Go from Stressed to Strong: Health & Fitness Advice from High Achievers is about the war with the unhealthy habits of our stressful lives. Laurie Watkins provides readers with practical and proven tools she designed with health and wellness experts.
Leslie Buck
Sat., June 10, 1:00 pm At 35, garden designer Leslie Buck decided to learn from the masters. Cutting Back recounts her bold journey to become the first American woman to learn pruning from one of the most storied landscaping companies in Kyoto.
Lawrence Furman
Sat., June 10, 4:00 pm Memoir of a Slightly Mad Mystic is the fascinating story of a midwestern boy who began experiencing out of body journeys when he was nine years old. Lawrence Furman has worked as an actor, director, writer, male midwife, and magician.
LitWings symbolizes uplifting literature and illuminated travel. Literature can elevate our existence, whether through a poem by Charles Baudelaire or an essay about ancient times, and travel can shed light on our own lives. Erin Byrne writes travel essays, poetry, fiction and screenplays. Her work has won numerous awards.
Erin Byrne Illuminated Travel
Wednesday., May 31 • 6:00 – 8:00pm • $60
Class at Sausalito Store
Erin Byrne is the author of Wings: Gifts of Art, Life, and Travel in France, editor of Vignettes & Postcards from Paris and Vignettes & Postcards from Morocco, and writer of The Storykeeper film. She has taught writing at Shakespeare and Company Bookstore in Paris and on Deep Travel trips, and is host of the LitWings event series at Book Passage Sausalito, which features writers, photographers, and filmmakers. On our travels we have few “light bulb moments,” but writing can ignite connections between the places, people, cultures of the world and ourselves. Join Erin Byrne as we delve deeply into our travel experiences to write pieces that glow from within.
Left Coast Writers®
Led by Linda Watanabe McFerrin
1st Monday each month • 7:00-9:00 pm $140 per year • Corte Madera Left Coast Writers® provides literary connections, support, readings, writing tips, literary chats, unabashed networking, and great fun. LCW hosts a variety of activities to launch the books of members and explore publishing alternatives. You will often see LCW writers featured at Book Passage events. See www.bookpassage.com/left-coast-writers.
Upcoming Salon Meetings (Corte Madera store)
Rebecca Foust
Mon., May 1 • 7:00 pm
Robert Pimm
Mon., June 5 • 7:00 pm
Marin Poet Laureate
Literary Lawyer for the Arts
16 Book Passage • May - June 2017 Elaine’s & Luisa’s Picks Sycamore Bryn Chancellor
The Leavers Lisa Ko
The Fact of a Body Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich
Memory’s Last Breath Gerda Saunders
‘Round Midnight Laura McBride
Magpie Murders Anthony Horowitz
Like a trickle of water that took years to create a canyon in the Arizona desert, the mystery of the missing teenage girl has had decades to change all who knew her in the small town of Sycamore. When Jess’s bones are discovered in the arroyo, old wounds are opened up and repressed pains are brought forcefully into the present. Chancellor’s captivating prose moves us between characters, from teenage Jess to her mother in the present day. She moves effortlessly from those who deeply loved her to a new resident who had never heard of the mystery surrounding her disappearance. This is a gripping portrait of smalltown America.
The Fact of a Body defies all expectations. It is an illustration of a horrific crime woven together with the personal history of the author. It brilliantly succeeds as both a mystery and a memoir. Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich was young and idealistic when she went to intern at a law firm to help defend prisoners against the death penalty, but her introduction to Ricky Langley, convicted of murdering a child, sets her reeling back to her own dark past. She is a natural storyteller whose curiosity is infectious. Brilliant and dark, her book reads like a thriller while illuminating both the corrosive effects of abuse and the power of forgiveness.
There are few writers I enjoy more than Laura McBride, and with ‘Round Midnight she brings to life a Las Vegas that is both familiar and brand new. Four women on differing paths in life find themselves interconnecting in this complicated city. Women have always played an important role in the fabric of Las Vegas, and McBride’s beautifully crafted story gives us a front-row seat to this behind-the-scenes show. Spurred on by love, fear, hope, or regret, these fabulous characters play the cards life dealt them with an honesty that will resonate with any woman trying to make her way in the world today. Signed 1st editions after May 12 event
Immigration stories are kaleidoscopes of emotions, quickly shifting from hope to despair, confusion to contentment. Lisa Ko’s novel moves through these changes with grace, easily sweeping you into the story of Deming Go and his mother Polly as their American dream is torn apart. Young Deming struggles to piece together his life and identity after an earlier abandonment by his loved ones. Ko’s honest prose allows us to care for his plight while empathizing with the mother torn from his life. The Leavers takes us beyond borders to show the price often paid when trying to find a better life. Signed 1st editions after June 6 event
Gerda Saunders has done a masterful job of painting the landscape of her life as the memories that construct her story start to fade away. An accomplished professor and inquisitive spirit, Gerda begins to wonder if the center of her identity, her mind, is failing. Lost between moments, confused by routine, she finds herself part of a new tribe she would rather not claim, the demented. With clarity, humor, and not an ounce of self-pity, she examines her memories, her identity, and looks ahead to her future. Moving and illuminating, Memory’s Last Breath is an incredible gift to those of us who have loved someone ravaged by dementia.
Exemplifying the best of the classic whodunnit and the modern suspense novel, Magpie Murders is absolutely brilliant! When editor Susan Ryeland reads the latest manuscript from author Alan Conway, she finds all the delightful details and characters that make his books instant best-sellers. But when the mystery starts to resemble real-life events surrounding the author, she finds herself entangled in something far more dangerous than fiction. Anthony Horowitz breathes new life into the classic English countryside mystery. What makes this puzzle within a puzzle so uniquely thrilling is the skill with which he ratchets up the suspense until the satisfying end.
The Awkward Age Francesca Segal
The Awkward Age—the years between childhood and adulthood, where old bonds are tested and new, sometimes unpleasant, identities are formed. Francesca Segal has written a technicolor version of this ungraceful time. Jane is a widower with a teenage daughter. James is her boyfriend with children of his own, including a teenage son. Merging the two families, with the two obstinate teenagers, is a challenge. But when Julia discovers an undesirable shift in the teenagers’ relationship, everything takes a disturbingly awkward turn. The messy road that follows is not what Julia planned, but with Segal’s deft touch we never lose the thread of love that runs through every interaction.
The Frozen Hours Jeff Shaara
It’s been called “The Forgotten War,” but Jeff Shaara’s novel about the Korean War Battle of Chosin Reservoir (dubbed Frozen Chosin) is unforgettable. General Mac Arthur promised the Americans would return home victorious by Christmas, but now they are facing a Chinese army that outnumbers them 6 to 1. The Frozen Hours is told from several points of view. General Oliver Smith has referred to defeat as “advancing in a different direction.” Marine Private Pete Riley says this battle is worse than anything he saw in World War II. Chinese commander Sung Shi-Lun has the Americans surrounded, but Chairman Mao is watching his every move. You don’t need to be a military buff to be captivated by The Frozen Hours. Signed 1st editions after June 8 event
Book Passage • May - June 2017 .Churchill
and Orwell Thomas Ricks
Winston Churchill and George Orwell knew of each other, but they never met. Churchill fought in the Boer War, Orwell in the Spanish Civil War. Both had been journalists and not very successful in their early careers. Yet, in this riveting dual biography, Ricks makes the case that their lives were parallel, and that their honesty, courage, and ethics were crucial to saving liberal democracy and each in his own way stood up to evil. Both despised liars. Both defended the rights of individuals against demagogues and fascists. No wonder Orwell’s 1984 is a bestseller again. Autographed first editions after June 1st event.
Woman No. 17 Edan Lepucki
The Sunshine Sisters Jane Green
Ronni Sunshine had an ok career acting in B films, but she never achieved the super stardom she craved. She was distant and critical of her three daughters, who grew up estranged from her and each other. Nell, a single mother, is raising her son on a farm. Meredith moved to England, in no small part to get away from her mother’s harping about her weight. Lizzy is a celebrity chef in New York who is far too involved with her married business partner. Ronni calls her daughters home because she is dying of ALS. Now they have to face each other and themselves. Autographed first editions after June 19th Literary Luncheon.
The Scribe of Siena Melodie Winauker
Neurosurgeon Beatrice Trovato travels to Italy to protect her late brother’s legacy. He was a historian living in Siena and writing about the transmission of the Black Death that ravaged medieval Europe. She becomes immersed in his notes, including his research into why, after the plague, Siena lost its exalted status as a great citystate while Florence rose to greater fame and power. Time-travelling back to Siena in 1347, she falls in love with the medieval city, an artist, and those citizens who aren’t after her. The writing is so captivating that I was lost in the world of 14th century Siena. Signed 1st editions after June 10 event
The author of California brings us a novel that is a both thriller and a compelling dive into the life of a complex family. Lady Daniels has a contract to write a book about her 18-year-old son, Seth. Although there is no known physical cause, Seth has never spoken. Charismatic, witty and smart, Seth communicates via American Sign Language and social media. Having just sent her husband packing and under pressure to get that book done, Lady needs help with her children. There is something mysterious and even menacing about the nanny she hires. Who is she really? Is she getting too close to Seth? Why did she take this job? Although the book moves at a fast pace, I hope you’ll take your time and enjoy the gorgeous writing.
Miss Burma Charmaine Craig
Are you in the mood for a juicy historical novel filled with politics, imperialism, war, family dynamics, and identity politics? Welcome to Burma in 1941. Khin, her family, and the Karen people are about to go through profound changes as the Japanese invade and British colonial rule fades. Khin’s husband, Benji, is a Burmese citizen whose father was the Rabbi of Rangoon’s small Jewish community. Because of his love for Khin and his horror at the mistreated Karen people, Benji is determined to get them justice—including their own nation state. Ironically, Khin and Benji’s daughter grows up to win the Miss Burma pageant. Craig based this fascinating novel on her own family including her mother—the beauty pageant winner. Signed 1st editions after June 1 event
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Hey, Kids, Let’s Take a Trip! Planning a family trip this summer? Here are a few books to get the kids in the mood to see new things and meet new people.
Babar’s Guide to Paris Laurent de Brunhoff Age 4-8
When Babar’s youngest daughter, Isabelle, heads to Paris, he tells her how to enjoy the iconic city to the fullest. He recommends dining at cafes, street markets, and brasseries. And he offers sightseeing tips, such as the Eiffel Tower from every angle, the banks of the Seine, the Louvre and Orangerie museums, and the Luxembourg Gardens. Babar also tells Isabelle how to take the metro and why an elephant may be surprised by the size of an elevator.
Antoinette Kelly DiPucchio Age 3-7
In this companion to the charming Gaston, we get to know Antoinette, a very special poodle, as she learns to follow her heart— Addison Cooke and the Treasure of the Incas while racing through the streets of Paris in search of Gaston’s sisJonathan Stokes Age 8-12 ter, Ooh-La-La. Spoiler: the climax involves a last-second rescue Twelve-year-old Addison Cooke’s aunt and uncle are both worldfrom the tippy-top of the Winged Victory statue at the Louvre. famous researchers who travel to the ends of the earth searching Lost and Found: Adele & Simon in China for hidden treasure, while Addison is stuck in school. But adventure has a way of finding the Cookes. After his uncle unearths Barbara McClintock Age 3-8 In this beautiful addition to the popular search-and-find series, an ancient Incan clue needed to find a trove of lost treasure, he siblings Adele and Simon visit their uncle in China. In a series is kidnapped by those intent on stealing the riches. His uncle is of postcards home to their mother, Adele describes each of the the bandits’ key to deciphering the ancient clues and looting the places they visit... and, of course, what item Simon loses at each treasure—unless Addison and his friends can crack the code first. stop along the way. On a silk farm in Shanghai, he loses his scarf. So it’s off to South America, where the excitement, danger, gold, On the Great Wall, his hat blows right off his head. McClintock’s booby traps, and car chases are never-ending. intricate pen-and-ink and watercolor illustrations capture the es- My Diary From the Edge of the World sence of the bustling marketplace in Peking, the monasteries in the Jodi Lynn Anderson Age 8-12 Wudang Mountains, and the carved hillsides in southern China. Spirited, restless Gracie Lockwood has lived in Cliffden, Maine, Dodsworth in Rome her whole life. Her world is much like ours, except for the magical sasquatches, dragons, and the mermaids who make the beaches Tim Egan Age 4-8 Dodsworth wanted adventure, so he set off on a grand tour of New too dangerous for people. Worse, a Dark Cloud, which follows York, Paris, London, Rome, and later Tokyo (all different titles in people who are about to die, comes looking for Gracie’s little this cute series). Dodsworth did not intend to take along a crazy brother Sam. Her parents pack up the family and set out on an epic duck as a companion, but that’s the way it worked out. In this road trip for a safe place that most people say doesn’t exist: the book, together the friends visit the Sistine Chapel, the Coliseum, Extraordinary World. It’s rumored to lie at the ends of the earth, and no one has ever made it there and lived to tell the tale. and the Trevi Fountain. They also eat plenty of gelato.
Death on the River of Doubt Samantha Seiple Age 11-15
“I did have a murderous trip down South, but it was mighty interesting.” In October 1913, Theodore Roosevelt got the chance to lead an expedition deep into the Amazon jungle to chart the unmapped river with his son Kermit and a renowned Brazilian explorer. With new threats at every turn, from bloodthirsty piranhas and raging rapids to starvation, disease, and a traitor in their own ranks, it seems that not everyone will make it out alive. Through it all, the indomitable Teddy Roosevelt remained determined to complete their mission and rewrite the map of the world.
Jack London and the Klondike Gold Rush Peter Lourie Age 9-14
Swept up in the Gold Rush of 1897, Jack London was just 21 when he headed north to strike it rich in the Klondike. We follow London as he treks up the ruthless Chilkoot Trail, braves the lethal Whitehorse Rapids, survives a bad case of scurvy, and conquers many more dangers of the Yukon during his quest for gold. Though he didn’t strike it rich in Alaska, London returned home with something more valuable, at least to us—the seeds of his classic novels The Call of the Wild and White Fang, and chilling short stories such as “To Build A Fire.”
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Aunt Lydia
The Personalized Gift Program Let Aunt Lydia help with your gifts
Ashes to Asheville Sarah Dooley Ages 10-14
Two sisters take off on a wild road trip in this poignant tale for fans of Counting by 7s and Fish in a Tree. After Mama Lacy’s death, Fella was forced to move in with her grandmother. The move meant saying goodbye to her sister Zoey (a.k.a. Zany) and her other mother, Mama Shannon. Though Mama Shannon fought hard to keep Fella, the marriage act is still a few years away, and the courts thought Fella would be better off with a blood relation. Then one night, Zany shows up at the grandmother’s house determined to fulfill Mama Lacy’s dying wish: to have her ashes scattered in Asheville, North Carolina, the last place they were all happy as a family.
City Trails: London Lonely Planet Age 7-12
The Lonely Planet travel gurus designed this kid-friendly series to introduce three famous cities—London, New York, and Paris—with a series of themed “trails” that are marked with lesserknown highlights and fun facts. In this title, discover London’s best-kept secrets, amazing stories and loads of other cool stuff, such as how an old parrot hit the headlines, where you can purchase a tin of panic or some tasty brain jam, and what was the weirdest object ever left behind on a double-decker bus.
Where on Earth Atlas DK Publishing Age 8-12
Where does the world’s largest butterfly live? Which international border is crossed more often than any other? This revised atlas contains more than 60 newly commissioned 3-D maps and artworks, taking armchair-travelling kids on a continent-by-continent tour of the world. Each continent is explored in great detail, with topic maps on major geographical features, cities and monuments, population, wildlife, and more. There is even an introductory visual explanation of Earth’s evolution.
If you want a special, ongoing gift, the Aunt Lydia Book Program may be the answer. The program began years ago when a customer decided to send a book a month to her favorite aunt. We decided other “Aunt Lydias” might like the same gift. Here’s how it works: We talk with you about what your gift recipient likes to read and then select an appropriate book. You decide how often you want books to arrive—every month, every two months—it’s up to you. It’s a personalized gift. We have book givers who send travel books to armchair explorers, thrillers to at-home sleuths, or political books to news addicts. This gift is matched to the reading preferences of the recipient. The books arrive beautifully wrapped with a hand-written note. Each book will remind the recipient of your thoughtfulness. For info: email
[email protected] or call 415-927-0960, ext. 230
California Writers Club A Professional Writing Club
4th Sunday/ monthly • 2:00-4:00 pm $5 for members; $10 for non-members The Marin branch of the California Writers Club celebrates 14 years with Book Passage. Meetings are open to the public. or information, See www.cwcmarinwriters.com
Upcoming Meetings at the Marin store: All Members Meeting
Sun., May 21
Networking, critique, and groups, and more!
Ralph Scott
Presentation on the craft of editing
Sun., June 25
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Language Classes Italian Language Classes Kate Rider
Kate Rider has a master’s degree in Italian Literature from SFSU and teaches Italian at Dominican University. Her classes are fun and relaxed, with an emphasis on practical speaking ability.
Kate Rider
Wendy Walsh
Kathy Freschi
Genevieve Blaise-Sullivan
Graciela Pera
Advanced Italian
Five Wednesdays: June 21- July 19 • 4:00 - 6:00 pm • $160
Intermediate Italian
Five Wednesdays: June 14 - July 19 • 9:30 - 11:30 am • $160 (no class June 28)
Beginning Continuing Italian
Four Fridays: July 7 - Aug. 4 • 10:00 - 12:00 pm • $120 (no class July 21)
Improve your Italian through Music
Sandra Kierulff
French Language Classes
Four Wednesdays: July 26 - Aug. 16 • 9:30 - 11:15 am • $110 Listening to foreign-language songs is a great way to boost your Genevieve Blaise-Sullivan language learning. In this class we will listen to a variety of Italian Genevieve Blaise-Sullivan is a graduate of the Sorbonne, and has popular songs and use them as a tool for increasing vocabulary, taught French at College of Marin for over 30 years. improving listening skills, and reinforcing grammar. No singing, Conversation Course in French only listening! For students at or above an intermediate level. Twelve Sessions: Tues &Thurs., July 27 - Aug. 17 12:30 - 2:30 pm • $200 (no class Aug. 10) Wendy Walsh Wendy Walsh has a PhD in Italian Literature from UCB. She Sandra Kierulff has taught Italian language and literature since 1979. Sandra Kierulff has taught French at the College of Marin and is Intermediate Italian Review author of “French à la Carte” on KQED radio. She was teacher/ Five Mondays: June 26 - July 31 • 1:00-3:30 pm • $195 director of Elan Français, a French program in Marin schools. (no class July 3)
Advanced Italian Review
Intermediate French
Eight Mondays: May 8 - July 10 • 2:00 – 3:30 pm • $250 (no class on May 29 & July 3) Review of grammar structures through conversation, readings Kathy Freschi and songs. Texts: ‘Grammaire en dialogues’ with CD, Niveau InKathy Freschi has taught Italian for over 40 years at UC Santa termédiaire and ‘Grammaire Progressive du Français.’ Barbara, UC Berkeley, and College of Marin. She founded the Credit Program of Italian at College of Marin, for which she was Basic French for Travelers Eight Mondays: May 8 - July 10 • 10:30 am - 12:00 pm awarded La Stella d’Italia by the Republic of Italy $250 (no class on May 28 & July 3) Advanced Italian I Jeans di Bruce Springsteen Conversational practice in scenarios that travelers most often enSeven Wed.: May 3 - June 14 • 11:45 am - 1:45 pm • $225 counter. Perfect for the travelers with only a little French. Other Italian authors have written about their impressions of the Text: “Communication Progressive du Français, deuxième U.S., but Silvia Pareschi, in I Jeans di Bruce Springsteen (2016), édition (niveau débutant)” by Claire Miquel. provides a fun and contemporary look at America’s strengths and idiosyncrasies, especially in the Bay Area. Selected chapters will Information & Sign-ups: Unless otherwise noted, classes be read and discussed in Italian. Advanced students only. are at our Corte Madera store. Call (415) 927-0960 or register online at bookpassage.com/classes-workshops. Advanced Italian Novecento Four Wed.: Aug. 2 - 30 • 10:00 am - 12:00 pm • $130 10% off coupon: Register one week before class, and we’ll (no class 8/16) give you a 10% off coupon for books and select merchandise. Novecento, a theatrical monologue by Antonio Baricco, tells the story of a boy stranded on a ship who becomes a famed pianist. Teachers are independent contractors: Jelly Roll Morton, of New Orleans jazz fame, comes aboard to The teachers of these classes are independent contractors and challenge him to a duel. Read and discussed in Italian, including are solely responsible for the content, preparation, and presentathe viewing of its film by Giuseppe Tornatore. Students will pro- tion of the class to the students. The ideas and views presented in the class are solely those of the teacher, and Book Passage duce writing samples. Intermediate and Advanced students. assumes no responsibility for their content. Five Thurdays: June 29 - July 27 • 9:30 – 12:00 pm • $195
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Spanish Language Classes
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Writing & Art Classes
Graciela Pera
Mary Edwards Jump Start Your Art Career
Intermediate Spanish
Diane Conway
Graciela Pera is a graduate of the University of Buenos Aires. She Sat., May 6 • 10:00 am - 12:30 pm • $60 has been teaching Spanish for over 35 years. Mary Edwards is a Career & Life Coach for artists, based in Marin with a Ph.D. from the First Beginners Spanish University of Michigan. Currently she is comEight Wed.: May 3 - June 28 • 10:00 am - 12:00 pm • $250 pleting the book Left Brain Skills for Right(no class May 17) Brained People. She brings a combination of Beginning Continuing Spanish business knowledge, art world experience, and Eight Mon.: May 1 - June 26 • 10:00 am - 12:00 pm • $250 professional coaching skill to her practice. (no class May 29) Eight Thurs.: May 4 - June 29 • 10:30 am - 12:30 pm • $250 (no class May 18)
Writing & Art Classes Art History
with Kerrin Meis
Kerrin Meis taught art history at SFSU for 10 years and now leads study tours in Europe. Her Book Passage classes have been favorites for years.
Celebrating the Legion of Honor
Two Fridays: June 2 & 9 • 10:00 – 12:00 pm • $75 An in-depth exploration of European masterpieces housed permanently in this gem of a museum. We survey the foundation of the Legion and recent changes in stewardship. We look at European painting from the Medieval and Renaissance periods, 17th and 18th century works, and paintings from the 19th century discussed in terms of provenance, style, and the socio-economic milieu in which they were created. Works by Fra Angelico, El Greco, Rembrandt, Rubens, Watteau, Monet and Cezanne.
Degas, Impressionism & The Paris Millinery Trade
Two Fridays: June 16 & 23 • 10:00 – 12:00 pm • $75 Preview of the ground-breaking exhibition opening at the Legion of Honor on June 24. We look at the importance of the milliner, usually a woman, in the fashion capital of the world, Paris, from 1874 to 1914. We study the social and economic ambience surrounding this phenomenon while being captivated by the colors, materials, and innovation of these high fashion arbiters and the artists who celebrated them: Degas, Renoir, Manet, Cassatt and Toulouse-Lautrec.
Venice & the Islamic World
Three Mondays: July 10, 17 & 24 • 10:00 – 12:00 pm • $105 From 828 when Venetian Merchants stole the relics of St. Mark from Alexandria to the fall of the Serene Republic of Venice to Napoleon in 1797, Venice was the frontier between Europe and Islam. Her painters and architects were profoundly influenced by the textiles, buildings, and technological developments of the Islamic world, and we will study outstanding examples of this cross-cultural development.
Diane Conway is a writing coach, book midwife, and the author of three published books including What Would You Do If You Had No Fear? Living Your Dreams While Quakin’ in Your Boots (foreword by Ann Lamott).
Fearless Creating
Saturday, June 24 • 10:00 am - 1:00 pm • $60 Fear can kill our ideas and stop us in our tracks. In the class you’ll summon the courage to slay the inner critic and outsmart procrastination and perfectionism. You’ll get serious tips delivered with lighthearted laughter.
The 20-Minute Miracle Method
Saturday, June 10 • 10:00 am - 1:00 pm • $60 Many writers would do anything to avoid the blank page. Using the 20 Minute Miracle Method you will discover how to begin and complete your book, blog, or newsletter in short, enjoyable segments. These tools will help you stay motivated.
Leslie Keenan
Leslie Keenan is an experienced writing instructor. Author Eve Pell says, “Your help was really valuable since it stopped me from feeling utterly overwhelmed. I know how to make a plan, and that’s what made the difference.”
Master Writers
Six Tuesdays: May 23- June 27 • 6:30 - 8:30 pm • $270
You Can Complete That Book Sunday, July 9 • 10:00 - 4:00 pm • $105
Nina Schuyler Creating Dynamic Characters
Sat., June 17 • 10:00 am - 4:00 pm • $110 How do you create characters that capture the readers’ attention? We’ll look at published works as a jumping off point. Then we’ll explore your own character’s flaws, conflicts, and relationships to become clearer about them and their role in the plot. Nina Schuyler is the author of the award-winning novels The Translator and The Painting as well as many short stories.
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Writing & Art Classes Erin Byrne Illuminated Travel
Wednesday., May 31 • 6:00 – 8:00pm • $60
Class at Sausalito Store
Erin Byrne is the author of Wings: Gifts of Art, Life, and Travel in France, editor of Vignettes & Postcards from Paris and Vignettes & Postcards from Morocco, and writer of The Storykeeper film. She has taught writing at Shakespeare and Company Bookstore in Paris and on Deep Travel trips, and is host of the LitWings event series at Book Passage Sausalito, which features writers, photographers, and filmmakers. On our travels we have few “light bulb moments,” but writing can ignite connections between the places, people, cultures of the world and ourselves. Join Erin Byrne as we delve deeply into our travel experiences to write pieces that glow from within.
Melissa Cistaro The Story You Have to Tell
Sat., June 3 • 10:00 am - 4:00 pm • $120 How do you find the courage to put together the pieces of your past? We’ll discuss the transformative power of telling our stories. Through in-class writing exercises, reading, and discussion, we’ll explore the art and craft of memoir. Please come with a brief paragraph about the story you need to tell. Melissa Cistaro is author of the award winning memoir Pieces of My Mother. Her stories, essays, and interviews have appeared in The New Ohio Review, Brevity, The Huffington Post, PBS: To the Contrary, Good Housekeeping, and the anthologies Cherished and Love and Profanity. She also works as a writing mentor and event coordinator at Book Passage.
Cathy Rath Enhancing Your Craft
Thursday, June 15 • 6:30- 8:30 pm • $50 Starting out or nearing the end of your writing project? No worries, there’s always time to enhance your craft. A well-written novel, short story, or memoir entices us with creative characterization, consistent point of view, and memorable dialogue. Come and review the fundamentals in this interactive workshop, and then please return for the full journey in a four-week session offering. Cathy Rath is currently a professor at SFSU and a professional writing coach.
David Corbett Trust Your Story
Sat., July 8 • 10:00 am – 4:00 pm • $150 Advice so simple it can’t possibly be right: Just tell the story. In fact, the vast majority of writing problems can be solved by a clearer command of the story you’re trying to tell. David Corbett — contributing editor to Writer’s Digest, and author of The Art of Character (“a writer’s bible”) — will lead students in a one-day workshop, reviewing 10-page manuscript submissions (with one-page novel synopsis) from each student and reviewing them in detail to reveal how story guides the revision process. Note: Manuscript and synopsis submissions must be sent to
[email protected] by July 1st.
Linda Watanabe McFerrin Long Summer Nights, Hot Summer Reads
Two Wednesdays: July 19 & Aug. 16 6:30 - 8:30 pm • $60 Poet, travel writer and novelist Linda Watanabe McFerrin is the author of award-winning books of long and short fiction and editor of 12 anthologies. She has judged numerous literary competitions, led workshops all over the world, and mentored a long list of accomplished writers and bestselling authors toward publication. Join us for a two-night summer book group where we’ll be discussing two sizzling summer reads. Each evening will also include a sample of a wine cocktail, and every student will recieve Linda Watanabe McFerrin’s short story collection The Hand of Buddha.
Lynn Ryder Reinvent Yourself After 50
Sunday, Aug. 20 • 4:00- 6:00 pm • $50 In our 50s, 60s and 70s, we begin a new phase of life. It’s important now to address the opportunities and fears of retirement and aging. Working with an exercise book, we’ll engage in discussions, journaling, and short lectures to create a vision and a plan for your happy, healthy and fulfilling future. Lynn Ryder work as a facilitator, career consultant, corporate trainer, and university lecturer. She is the author of Road to Fulfillment.
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Join us on Sundays for songs and stories! Megan is a children’s music teacher, performer, and recording artist, offering classes and events in the North Bay. She has a degree in music therapy from the Berklee College of Music in Boston.
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Classes & Groups for Kids Karen Benke Summer Writing Camp for Kids
Four Days: Mon., June 26 - Thurs., June 29 9:30 am - 12:30 pm • $220 Make a full day of it for the kids! Sign up for AndrewsCamps in the afternoon, across the street from Book Passage (see below) For 4th/5th/6th graders who like to fool around with words, and play on and off the page: this is the camp for you! Especially if you like pens, paper, stamps, envelopes, flipping words on their sides, personifying colors, eavesdropping for dialogue, and inspiring yourself with similes and metaphors! Karen Benke taught throughout Marin County with Poets in the Schools for 20+ years and now leads Creative Writing Adventures in the Bay Area and with Handwritten in NYC. Materials provided, 20 kid limit. Karen Benke is the author of the bestselling Rip the Page!, Leap Write In!, and the Common Core approved Write Back Soon! Sign up for BP Classes:
bookpassage.com/classes-workshops
Amanda Conran & Darcey Rosenblatt Jump-Starting the Creative Process for Young Writers
Five Days: Monday, Aug. 14 - Friday, Aug. 18 • 9:00 am - 12:30 pm • $325 Make a full day of it for the kids! Sign up for AndrewsCamps in the afternoon, across the street from Book Passage (see below) Do you plan to write a novel someday? Start now! Spend the week with two local authors learning the basics of fiction writing. We’ll cover world building, character development, plotting, and how to write dialogue and action scenes. We’ll talk about how to get started, stay organized, and feed your creativity. Learn how to share the stories that are in your head. For ages 9 - 13 years. Space is limited. Amanda Conran is the author of The Lost Celt. She’s also a children’s book specialist, booktalker, and facilitator for the INK Book Group at Book Passage. Darcey Rosenblatt is the author of The Lost Boys. She writes for middle grade and teenage readers because she believes at that age stories can be life changing—they were for her.
After Class? We can walk the kids right across the street to AndrewsCamps!
A Special Afternoon Program for Kids in Book Passage Classes
Book Passage has made special arrangements with AndrewsCamps to host an optional afternoon program for kids taking Karen Benke’s class (June 26-29) or the class taught by Amanda Conran & Darcey Rosenblatt (Aug. 14-18). The camp is right across the street, so we can walk over with them after the class. Campers will need to bring a lunch. Camp programs run until 6:00 pm. The cost is $45 per day. There’s a special rate of $160 per week for the four-day class (June 26-29) & $200 per week for the fiveday class (August 14-18). andrewscamps.com • (415) 446-8946 You can register at: https://register.asapconnected.com/Courses.aspx?CourseGroupID=31643
Rita LeRoy Sustainable Gardening for Kids
Sat., July 15 • 10:00 am – 12:00 pm • $45 “Farmer Rita” has been the Farm Keeper at Loma Vista Farm for 27 years, where she teaches the students about gardening, composting, livestock, and nature. She was a 4-H leader for 25 years. Her college education includes a bachelor’s degree in horticulture and a master’s degree in education. In her free time she is frequently found in the wilderness, documenting and learning about the amazing interconnection of all living organisms. Topics include building healthy soil with the help of earthworms, composting, when to plant vegetables, why to plant flowers, and the importance of pollinators. Children will create a miniature worm box and plant seasonal vegetables and flowers in containers to take home. The instructor will have live specimens of a variety of critters for the children to enjoy seeing and learning about.
INK —Books for Not-Quite-Young-Adults A drop-in book group for kids age 8–12 • Corte Madera store • 6:00–7:00 pm • Third Friday of the month • Free! • New members welcome • INK is a lively group of kids who love books. There are many perks of membership, including getting advance copies of books before they arrive in the store, meeting authors, and recommending books to other kids. And the members of INK write books! They edit them, design them, print them, and publish them. And when they stand up in front of an audience at Book Passage and present them, we couldn’t be more proud. Come on by and get a copy of their two books Dragon Mist and Dragon Fire. To sign up, please contact us at
[email protected]
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A Book Passage Writing Conference
Writing for Young Adults & Middle Grade Readers July 21-23, 2017 • Corte Madera
This conference is designed with the aspiring writer in mind. Highlights of the three eventful days include:
Working with Professionals
We are putting together a panel of professionals in the young adult and middle grade writing scene—from editors to agents to the authors themselves. During the conference, participants will have a chance not only to learn and network, but to workshop.
Panels on Key Topics
Panels will cover information for both new and established writers, including the drafting of your query letter, marketing and promotion, developing ideas, and writing a compelling narrative. There will be many opportunities for faculty and participants to talk, laugh, and exchange ideas at lunches and dinner.
Sharing Your Work
This intensive weekend offers participants the opportunity to workshop the first 20 pages of their manuscript in a group of up to five other participants, led by one of the faculty members. You must register for the conference by June 1 in order to participate in the Critique Group Session.
Networking with Writers
The workshop includes lunch for faculty and students on both days, as well as dinner on Saturday. Take this time to discuss a concept or proposal and get feedback on your ideas. For an additional $95, an optional 30-minute private consultation can be scheduled with members of the faculty during the conference.
Getting Up-to-Date Information
Keep checking out our website for the most up-to-date information including the full faculty list and conference schedule. For more information on the conference, please visit bookpassage. com/conferences. Cost: $425 • For information or to sign up: Pamela Livingston at
[email protected]
First Editions Book Club
Members of the First Editions Club receive a signed first edition of a new work of fiction by an emerging author who shows exceptional talent and promise. We’ve been early champions of young writers whose work has continued to garner critical attention including Khaled Hosseini, Junot Diaz, Lauren Groff, and Adam Johnson. Our past picks include The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen (May 2015), winner of the 2016 Pulitzer Prize and All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr (April 2014), winner of the 2015 Pulitzer Prize. For more information or to register, contact Mary Benham at
[email protected]
Faculty (with more to follow) Michael Grant
New York Times bestselling young adult fiction author, Grant has now written over 150 books which include Front Lines, the Gone series, The Magnificent 12 series, and the Messenger of Fear series.
Mina Witteman
Children’s author of Boreas en de zeven zeeën (Boreas and the Seven Seas), Mia’s Nest, and over 40 short stories in magazines and readaloud anthologies, published in both English and Dutch languages. She is also a freelance editor and Regional Advisor for SCBWI and Chair of the Working Group Children’s Books of the Dutch Authors Guild.
Ying Chang Compestine
Compestine has 19 books to her name. She frequently visits schools, describing how her life in China inspired her writing, Her newest book, co-authored with her son, is Secrets of a Terra-Cotta Soldier. Her acclaimed novel about growing during Chinese Cultural Revolution, Revolution is Not a Dinner Party, has received over 33 national awards.
Jennifer Soloway
Jennifer Soloway is a literary agent with an MFA in creative writing and extensive experience in children’s literature. She now works with the Andrea Brown Literary Agency.
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A Book Passage Writing Conference
Children’s Writers & Illustrators Conference Faculty (with more to come)
Mac Barnett
Two-time Caldecott Honoree and author of 25 books—and counting! In Mac’s latest picture book Noisy Night, his mastery of spare text and riotous humor combine for a bedtime story like no other.
Melissa Manlove
Senior Editor at Chronicle Books since 2004 shepherding works such as Goodnight, Goodnight, Construction Site and Josephine, with a focus on nonfiction works for children up to 8 years old. Her award winning work expands children’s worlds across cultures.
Maria Modugno
July 28-30, 2017 • Corte Madera
Expect to Write, Draw & Learn!
This unique, three-day conference covers everything about creating picture books, board books, and other books for children. Topics range from the development of ideas for a book to the point of finding a publisher. The faculty members have a broad range of experience in the children’s book business, and they will be available to answer your questions. • Expert panels feature topics like finding an agent, working with your editor, marketing and promotion plans, and more. • Writing sessions are offered where participants can present work in a group along with a faculty facilitator. The writing sessions focus on craft, style, and structure.
Expect to Network!
New Editorial Director of Picture Books for Random House and Golden Books for Young Readers Group. The workshop includes lunch for faculty and students on both Lara Perkins days, as well as dinner on Saturday. (Optional 30-minute private Agent with renowned children’s literary agency Andrea Brown consultations are available for a fee of $95). promoting the work of picture book and middle grade authors and Cost: $425 • For information or to sign up: illustrators. Novelty works include Ann Sibley O’Brien’s Hocus Pamela Livingston at
[email protected] Pocus It’s Fall! and Ross Burach’s picture book Pine and Boof.
Tim McCanna
Activate your “bot-pajamas” for the author of Bitty Bot! McCanna is also the author of the Kirkus starred picture book Teeny Tiny Trucks and 2017 releases: Watersong through Paula Wiesman Books; Barnyard Boogie through Abrams; and this fall, Jack B. Ninja by the Cartwheel Books imprint of Scholastic.
Tyler Oswald
Tyler Oswald is a graduate of Vermont College of Fine Arts MFA program in Writing for Children and Young Adults where he studied picture books. He teaches at Brigham Young University.
Mac Barnett
Melissa Manlove
Tim McCanna
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We Need Diverse Books
Mike Jung, co-founder of We Need Diverse Books and creator of Captain Stupendous, said when he was kid, he couldn’t remember “ever reading a book that reflected my ethnicity. Ever.” Even Matt de la Pena, Newbery Award winner for Last Stop on Market Street, has said he “thought that books weren’t for me.” Providing an authentic voice to any character is a challenge, but particularly to a character outside of your personal experience zone. Children are the best detectors of false and inadequate representations of their world. Not only can a book fall flat, but it can promote stereotypes. Pamela Livingston, who directs our writing programs for children’s books, puts it this way: “Study your craft. Research your topic until you dream it. Then have as many pre-readers as possible—readers who live the life you are representing on the page —review your work before it ever reaches an editor.” Here are some good examples:
Picture Books for Soon-to-be-Readers Red: A Crayon’s Story Michael Hall
A blue crayon wrapped in red shows how authenticity is heroic.
I Am Jazz Jessica Herthel & Jazz Jennings, (illus) Shelagh The Treasury of Real Life Princesses McNicholas A picture book memoir about young Jazz Jennings realizing at By various authors from Goosebottom Books age two that “her girl’s brain didn’t fit her boy’s body.”
Morris Micklewhite and the Tangerine Dress Christine Baldacchino, (illus) Isabelle Malenfant
A little orange dress debunks our cultural stigmas around dress and chromosome-based behavior expectations.
My Two Blankets Irena Kobald, (illus) Freya Blackwood
Leaving their home for a new country “to be safe” from a raging war, niece and auntie traverse a strange new landscape comforted by an old blanket. The child’s past and present envelop her to safety through humor.
Here I Am Patti Kim, (illus) Sonia Sánchez
A young boy flies with his family from his home far, far away. Arriving in a new city to a stark apartment, he misses the bright family home left in another land. … until he finds his first friend. This is a book of images without words suitable for all ages.
Elementary School Readers Fly, Eagle, Fly! Christopher Gregorowski, (illus) Niki Daly
A story of fulfillment and freedom shown through the parable of a baby eagle reared with chickens. This simple, yet dramatic story from Africa will delight children and encourage them to “lift off and soar,” as Archbishop Tutu says in his foreword.
George Alex Gino
In a fourth-grade production of “Charlotte’s Web,” George dreams of playing Charlotte, the female spider, rather than Wilbur, the male pig. Although George’s friend is cast in the acrobatic role, George as the understudy, “must go on.”
From Sacajawea to Nur Jihan of India, this series of worldwide historical princess did more than wear a glass slipper! This series is the thinking girl’s answer to the princess dilemma.
I’m New Here Anne Sibley O’Brien
Maria, Jin, and Fatimah are new, and not just to their classroom. They are “alone. . . confused. . . sad” in the new cultural landscape of the United States. But they form friendships—through soccer for Maria, reading with a friend for Jin, and art for Fatimah. Each child is soon able to say, “Here is a new home.”
Middle Grade Readers The Lost Celt Amanda Conran
When a learning-impaired, videogame-obsessed boy finds the embodiment of his Pax-Romanii hero at a veteran’s hospital, the discovery lead to much more than points in a video game. The multi-racial community comes together to help a victim of PTSD. Gold Medal Winner of the Military Writers Society award.
Ghost
Jason Reynolds
Running from family nightmares and toward Olympic dreams keeps “Ghost” on track. Finalist for the National Book Award, the trials of young African-American teens striving to find their stride against everything they have known is heroic and relatable to this age group.
Being Jazz: My Life as a (Transgender) Teen Jazz Jennings
The middle-grade companion to the reality television star’s picture book, I Am Jazz.
Lily and Dunkin Donna Gephart
For Lily, aka Timothy, and Dunkin, aka Norbert, finding each other becomes the key to surviving—and actually enjoying— middle school.
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It Ain’t So Awful, Falafel
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Firoozeh Dumas
Zomorod Yousefzadeh’s peripatetic upbringing has already spanned great distances. Originally from Iran, her family finally settles in California during the summer of 1978. Inspired by The Brady Bunch, she renames herself Cindy, but her American metamorphosis is threatened by the hostage crisis in Iran.
Young Adult Readers Beyond Magenta: Transgender Teens Speak Out Susan Kuklin
Six transgender and gender-nonconforming teens speak out—candidly, vulnerably, openly—about their diverse experiences illuminated by Kuklin’s photography.
The Hate U Give Angie Thomas Wandering Son and Wandering Son Shimura Takako, (trans.) Matt Thorn
A Japanese groundbreaking graphic novel series about middleschool friends coming of age: Nitori wants to be a girl, and Takatsuki would much prefer being a boy. Neither are what they wish for. Both protagonists’ process of self-discovery is gently honest and their creator captures the wide-eyed uncertainty of the age.
The Thinking Girl’s Treasury of Dastardly Dames By multiple authors for Goosebottom Books
Queens and Empresses behaving badly, or… Were they just behaving as rulers did at that time and age? Women in power throughout time and locale, from Isabelle of Castille to Cixi the Dragon Empress, their history is laid-out in graphs and images for the young reader to come to their own conclusions.
Inside Out and Back Again
Thanhhà Lại
A National Book Award winner for this autobiographical comingof-age story told in verse, 10-year-old Hà’s family is forced to leave as Saigon falls. Crossing an ocean aboard an old navy ship, they arrive in Alabama. Although sponsored by a kind man and his unfriendly wife, there is an enormous adjustment for Hà, who learns to navigate intolerance of her new schoolmates.
A Long Walk to Water
Linda Sue Park
This Newbery Medalist uses a dual narrative to intertwine 11-yearold Nya’s “long walk to water” on which her family relies for survival, and 11-year-old Salva Dut’s decade-long odyssey as one of the Lost Boys of Sudan. The two children were born into warring tribes, but their lives intersect in a life-saving effort of cooperation and peace.
Never Fall Down Patricia McCormick
During Arn Chorn-Pond’s childhood his country of Cambodia was decimated by the Khmer Rouge. Arn loses most of his family, his friends, his hopes, his beliefs. He’s forced to commit indescribable acts as a child soldier, numbing his heart and mind in order to live to the next day. Miraculously, he reclaims his humanity to become an outspoken activist and humanitarian.
Parrotfish
Ellen Wittlinger
Angela’s transition to Grady divides his family and friends. The life of the high school junior in this story is filled with contemporary details and some all-too-real situations.
After a 16-year-old basketball player, Starr Carter, witnesses her childhood best friend killed by a police officer’s bullet, she confronts the reality of racial injustice in America. She has to straddle two completely different worlds, as she is drawn into activism.
If I Was Your Girl Meredith Russo
New girl Amanda, born Andrew 19 years ago, escapes the abuse and violence of her home town to start anew with her father, who she hasn’t seen in six years. New school, new friends, maybe even new love. . . if only her secret stays safe.
None of the Above
I.W. Gregorio
A high school senior discovers secrets about her own body that she, and most of our society, never considered.
Bamboo People
Mitali Perkins
Inspired by refugee camps along the Thai-Burmese border, the lives of two boys on opposite sides of the war are explored. City-educated Chiko is abducted to be trained as a soldier. Tu Reh finds Chiko when he becomes the only survivor of a mine blast. Both must learn to rely on their own morals to counter their hatred of “the other,” or perish.
Cry of the Giraffe Judie Oron
The centuries-long history of Jews in Ethiopia does not protect them from derision and abuse from their countrymen. With growing violence compounded by unrelenting religious persecution, Wuditu and her family begin an arduous trek to a refugee camp in the Sudan, following promises that they will be rescued and evacuated to Jerusalem.
Of Beetles and Angels: A Boy’s Remarkable Journey from a Refugee Camp to Harvard
Mawi Asgedom
At four, Asgedom fled the civil war cleaving Eritrea and Ethiopia and spent three years in a refugee camp. Somehow, his family manage to get to Chicago suburb. Asgedom made it to Harvard on full scholarship, giving the commencement address in which he revealed details of his personal story.
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A Book Passage Writing Conference
Travel Writers & Photographers Conference Aug. 10-13 • Corte Madera • $650
World’s Premier Conference for Travel Writers & Photographers The Book Passage Travel Writers & Photographers Conference has an extraordinary, international reputation among publishers, editors, and writers. Now in its 26th year, this four-day conference offers an array of writing and photography workshops in the morning, a full afternoon of panels and discussions, and evening faculty presentations. The faculty includes publishers, magazine editors, photographers, travel essayists, and more. The collegial atmosphere of this fourday conference is legendary, with participants and faculty from all over the world. There are morning specialty classes, afternoon sessions on topics of interest, and evening presentations by well-known writers and photographers. Optional evaluations of participants’ work are available. The conference begins with a big opening dinner and includes breakfast and lunch buffets each day. Contact Kathryn Petrocelli at 800-999-7909, ext. 239 or email
[email protected].
Faculty (more to be announced)
Frommer’s Guides Going Strong
When some of us—well, actually, just one of us—traveled to Europe for the first time in 1963, the only book we had was a copy of Arthur Frommer’s Europe on $5 a Day. (It worked so well that I arrived home with 47 cents in my pocket. Obviously, I had over-budgeted.) Frommer Guides are still among the best books for travelers—one of the great family success stories in the travel book business. Their website at frommers.com is a great resource for travelers. The “Tips & News” section alone will save you both money and aggravation. You can learn which airlines allow free layovers, how to apply for TSAprecheck, what rights you have to prevent Pauline Frommer removal from a plane, and lots ot other practical advice (my favorite: how to change your computer settings so that airlines won’t cheat you with “dynamic pricing”). Arthur Frommer is still blogging and raising hell, and his daughter Pauline is running the company with a deft touch.
Don George—Conference Chair
Author of The Way of Wanderlust and of Lonely Planet’s Guide to Travel Writing. He’s the editor of ten anthologies, Jim Benning including A Moveable Feast and The Kindness of Strangers. Editor in chief of AAA’s Texas Journey magazine, and features Don George writes the monthly Trip Lit column for National editor of Westways magazine. Previously the deputy travel edi- Geographic Traveler, and edits the BBC Travel’s literary travel tor of BBC.com His writing has appeared in National Geographic column, “Chance Encounters.” Adventure, Men’s Journal, Playboy, The Washington Post, and Larry Habegger the Boston Globe. In 1993, Larry Habegger cofounded the award-winning TravelTim Cahill ers’ Tales books series, where he serves as executive editor. As a Tim Cahill is the author of many travel books, including A Wol- travel writer, editor, journalist, and teacher, he has been covering verine Is Eating My Leg, Jaguars Ripped My Flesh, and Pass the world since the 1970s. His latest book (with Phil Cousineau) the Butterworms. He is an editor at large for Outside magazine, is The Book of Roads. and his work appears in National Geographic Adventure. He wrote the introduction for The Best Travel Writing, Volume 9: Catharine Hamm Catharine Hamm has won great recognition as Travel Editor for True Stories from Around the World. the L.A. Times. She has twice received individual Lowell Thomas Phil Cousineau Awards, and her travel section has won the award eight times. Phil Cousineau has done almost everything in the world of literature. He is an expert on mythology and film and the “hero jour- Elizabeth Harryman ney” structure of screenplays. His many books include The Art Travel Editor of Westways and travel coverage coordinator for of the Pilgrimage, The Book of Roads, The Painted Word, and six other AAA magazines. Elizabeth Harryman co-hosts radio shows with her husband, Paul Lasley, on the American Forces Stoking the Creative Fires. Radio Network and by podcast at OnTravel.com. She is a former Pauline Frommer travel correspondent for NBC’s Today Show. Pauline Frommer was Travel Editor for MSNBC.com and creator of the award-winning Pauline Frommer Guidebooks, a 14- Georgia Hesse book series that won the coveted “Best Guidebook of the Year” Georgia Hesse is the founding Travel Editor of the S.F. Examtitle three years in a row from the North American Travel Journal- iner, a position she held on the S.F. Examiner-Chronicle for 20 years. Hesse has contributed to several anthologies, is a co-author ists Association. of travel guides to France and California, and teaches travel writing and related courses.
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Pre-Conference Class
Don George Travel Writing in Point Reyes Tim Cahill
Catharine Hamm
Phil Cousineau
Don George
Larry Habegger
Robert Holmes
Robert Holmes—Photography Chair
Robert Holmes is one of the world’s most successful and prolific travel photographers. The Society of American Travel Writers named him “Travel Photographer of the Year” four times, and in 2016, he was voted “Wine Photographer of The Year” by an international panel of judges. He has contributed to over 40 books and worked for National Geographic, Geo, Saveur, Wine Spectator, Life, Time, and hundreds of other major magazines.
Andrea Johnson
Andrea Johnson is an award-winning photographer and video producer who has created a compelling body of work for clients around the globe. Her work regularly appears in Wine Spectator, Food and Wine, Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles. Times, and the San Francisco Chronicle. Her work has been featured in the books Passion for Pinot, Essential Wines and Wineries of the Pacific Northwest, and Spectacular Wineries of Washington.
Abbie Kozolchyk
Wed., Aug. 9, 9:00 am - 6:00 pm $120 for conference participants, $170 for general public Join acclaimed National Geographic and Gadling.com travel writer and editor Don George for a day of exploration and travel writing in beautiful Point Reyes. George demonstrates the art of finding, researching, and note-taking in the field. Participants will explore the shops and sites of this seaside town, as well as the rolling hills and sweeping ocean views. The group gathers over a picnic lunch to talk about the writing experience and to discuss their work. Lunch and round-trip transportation provided.
Pre-Conference Class
Robert Holmes Travel Photography in Point Reyes
Wed., Aug. 9, 9:00 am - 6:00 pm $120 for conference participants, $170 for general public Join award-winning landscape, food, and wine photographer Robert Holmes for a day of exploration and photography. Throughout the day, he will demonstrate the art of finding, framing, and capturing photos. Participants have time to wander and photograph one of Marin County’s most scenic open spaces, coming together over a picnic lunch to talk about their experiences and share their work. Lunch and round-trip transportation provided.
Chris Reynolds
Former Beauty and Travel Director at Rachael Ray Every Day Chris Reynolds has written about travel, the outdoors, arts and and author of National Geographic’s The World’s Most Romantic culture for the Los Angeles Times since 1990. Destinations. She has written and edited for National Geographic Traveler, Forbes Traveler, Travel + Leisure, Conde Nast Traveler, Michael Shapiro Michael Shapiro has written for National Geographic Traveler, Glamour, Martha Stewart Living and others. Conference Alum. American Way, Islands, The Sun and the Washington Post. He Paul Lasley is the author of A Sense of Place: Great Travel Writers Talk Co-host and executive producer of “Traveling,” a 25-minute podAbout Their Craft, Lives, and Inspiration. Conference Alum. cast that airs daily on the American Forces Radio Network. He has won two Gold Lowell Thomas Travel Journalism Broadcast Lavinia Spalding Awards, and his website, www.OnTravel.com, is a 24/7 source of Lavinia Spalding is the editor of Best Women’s Travel Writing. She is the author of Writing Away: A Creative Guide to podcasting about travel. Awakening the Journal-Writing Traveler and With a Measure Linda Watanabe McFerrin of Grace: The Story and Recipes of a Small Town Restaurant. Poet, travel writer, novelist, and founder of Left Coast Writers. Conference Alum. Winner of the Katherine Anne Porter Prize for Fiction and author of Namako: Sea Cucumber and Dead Love. Conference Alum.
Candace Rardon
Candace Rardon is a writer, artist, and illustrator whose stories and sketches have appeared on BBC Travel, Yahoo Travel, AOL Travel, and National Geographic’s Intelligent Travel site, as well as in Lonely Planet’s literary anthology An Innocent Abroad. Conference Alum.
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A Book Passage Writing Conference
Mystery Writers Conference Faculty (more to be announced) Cara Black—Conference Co-Chair
Cara Black
David Corbett
Hallie Ephron
Cara Black writes the bestselling Aimée Leduc mysteries set in Paris. Her newest book, Murder in Saint-Germain, is set to be released this June. She is a member of the Marais Societe Historique and received the Medaille de la Ville de Paris, bestowed on those supporting French culture. Mystery Confrence Alum.
Tony Broadbent
Tony Broadbent is the author of “The Smoke Series,” and his latest, the stand-alone novel The One After 9:09—A Mystery With a Backbeat. Broadbent is a Bruce Alexander Memorial Historical Mystery Award Winner and a San Francisco Library Laureate.
John Burley John Lescroart
Otto Penzler
Jacqueline Winspear
September 7 - 10, 2017 • Corte Madera • $550
John Burley is the National Black Ribbon Award-winning author of The Absence of Mercy. Burley currently lives in the San Francisco Bay Area where he works as an emergency department physician.
The Book Passage Mystery Writers Conference has a strong tradition of great authors and teachers. Mystery writers learn all the clues to a successful writing career. There are many conferences where you can meet great writers, and you can certainly do a lot of that at the Book Passage Conference, but here you’ll do something more. The emphasis of this four-day Conference is to show what you need to do to become a successful mystery writer yourself.
Kimberly Cameron
Here are some of the things the Conference offers: • Editors, agents, and publishers who share with participants what they need to know to get published. • Successful authors who offer classes on setting, dialogue, suspense, and point of view. • Panels of detectives, forensic experts, and crime-fighting professionals that provide invaluable information that allows writers to put realism into their words. • Classes about mystery genres, such as private eyes, amateur sleuths, police protagonists, and historical thrillers. The collegial atmosphere of this four-day Conference attracts participants from all over the country. There are morning specialty classes, afternoon sessions on topics of interest, and evening presentations by well-known writers. Optional evaluations of participants’ work are available. Opportunities abound throughout the conference for faculty and participants to talk, laugh, and exchange ideas. The conference begins with a big opening dinner and includes breakfast and lunch buffets. Thanks to the generosity of mystery writer William C. Gordon and literary agent Kimberly Cameron, you may be able to receive a scholarship. To learn more about how to apply, visit bookpassage.com/conferences Contact Kathryn Petrocelli at 800-999-7909, ext. 239 or email
[email protected].
David Corbett—Conference Co-Chair
Literary agent and President of Kimberley Cameron and Associates. She has been successful with many genres, and especially loves the thrill of securing representation for debut authors.
Joe Clifford
Acquisitions editor for Gutter Books and managing editor of The Flash Fiction Offensive. His latest book in the Jay Porter series is Give Up the Dead. David Corbett worked 15 years for the famed private investigation firm of Palladino & Sutherland. He is the author of several novels including Done for a Dime (A N.Y. Times Notable Book), His latest is Thirteen Confessions: Stories. His writing text, The Art of Character, has been called “a writer’s bible.”
J.T. Ellison
J.T. Ellison is the author of seventeen critically acclaimed novels, including No One Knows, What Lies Behind, and All the Pretty Girls. She is also a co-author of the series A Brit in the FBI and co-hosts the Emmy Award-winning television series “A Word on Words.”
Hallie Ephron
Hallie Ephron is a bestselling author of Never Tell a Lie; Come and Find Me; There Was an Old Woman; and most recently, You’ll Never Know, Dear. She is also the mystery reviewer for the Boston Globe. The daughter of screenwriters, she grew up \ with her famous writer sisters, Nora, Delia, and Amy.
George Fong
George Fong spent 27 years with the FBI, investigating all facets of violent crimes, including kidnapping, serial killings, crimes against children, bank robbery, drug trafficking, fugitives, and gangs. He is now the Director of Security for ESPN and the author of Fragmented and the forthcoming The Coldness of Night.
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William C. Gordon
William C. Gordon is the author of several mysteries set in San Francisco, including Unfinished, The Chinese Jars, Fractured Lives, and The Halls of Power.
Kimberley Howe
The Freedom Broker by K.J. Howe is a unique kidnap-andransom thriller, a riveting genre that Howe helped to create. She is also the Executive Director of the very prestigious ThrillerFest, held every July in New York City.
Steven James
Steven James is the author of nine novels including the critically acclaimed Checkmate and Every Crooked Path. He has won three Christy Awards for best suspense. Publishers Weekly calls him “[a] master storyteller at the peak of his game.”
Elizabeth Kracht
Elizabeth Kracht is a literary agent with Kimberley Cameron and Associates and a freelance developmental editor for She Writes Press.
Mary Kubica
Mary Kubica is the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of Don’t You Cry and The Good Girl. People Magazine called her book Pretty Baby “a hypnotic psychological thriller.”
John Lescroart
John Lescroart is a masterful storyteller and the author of numerous mystery novels, including The Fall, The Keeper, The Ophelia Cut, The Betrayal, The Suspect, The Hunt Club, The Motive, The Second Chair, The First Law, The Oath, The Hearing, Nothing But the Truth, and his latest, Fatal.
D.P. Lyle
Doug Lyle is a physician and author of Howdunit Forensics, a definitive reference guide for writers. He is also the author of Forensics and Fiction; Hot Lights, Cold Steel; and Royal Pains. His latest book is the thriller Deep Six.
Tim Maleeny
Tim Maleeny is the author of the Cape Weathers mystery series, including Stealing the Dragon, Beating the Babushka, Greasing the Piñata, and Jump. Maleeny’s short fiction has won the prestigious Macavity Award.
Otto Penzler
Otto Penzler is famed proprietor of the Mysterious Bookshop in New York City, and founder of the Mysterious Press. He has probably edited more mysteries and crime fiction anthologies than anyone in the business. He has also hosted a series on mystery films for Turner Classic Movies.
Jacqueline Winspear
Jacqueline Winspear is the author of the New York Times bestsellers A Lesson in Secrets, The Mapping of Love and Death, Among the Mad, An Incomplete Revenge, and her latest in the Maisie Dobbs series, In This Grave Hour.
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Pre-Conference Class
David Corbett The Deeper Mystery
Thurs., Sept. 7, 1:00 – 3:30 pm $90 for conference participants; $125 for general public The crime-mystery-thriller genre is often thought of as principally a form of entertainment, but it is also a great deal more. In this pre-conference class, award-winning author and conference co-chair David Corbett guides students through a number of techniques and thematic considerations to reach deeper into the material of their stories. The goal is to reach the more meaningful and dramatically powerful elements within the genre. Topics will include moral argument and the Unity of Opposites, the will to justice vs. the will to power, realism (and its limits), the elusive nature of truth, what is a just society, individual freedom vs. social responsibility, Satanic Villains vs. Monsters, and (as Conrad put it) man’s “miserable ingenuity in error.”
Pre-Conference Class
Hallie Ephron Writing the Wave:
Investigation, Suspense, Action, Reflection
Thurs., Sept. 7, 1:00 – 3:30 pm $90 for conference participants; $125 for general public Typically, mystery novels unfurl in accelerating waves of establishing narrative (often investigation), building to suspense, building to action, resolving reflection, and then thrusting forward to the next wave. In this workshop we’ll examine each element of this “ISAR” wave, and learn how to construct scenes that end with a hook, grab readers, and move the story forward. Topics include: dissecting the waves in a mystery/thriller; strategies for writing investigation; strategies for writing suspense; strategies for writing action; strategies for writing reflection; hook and grab scene structure; writing the waves across a book length work, modulating the pace, building to a dramatic climax, and resolving in a final coda.
Join us for fun & food! Our award-winning Cooks with Books events are held at outstanding Bay Area restaurants. The meal is inspired by the author/chefs who discuss their cookbooks with guests throughout the meal. These are happy, convivial events.
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Cooks with Books! Cal Peternell A Recipe for Cooking
Sunday, Apr. 30 • 12:00 pm • Left Bank $115 person, $175 couple (one book) As a follow up to the New York Times bestselling and IACP Award-winning Twelve Recipes, Cal Peternell brings us A Recipe for Cooking. In this cookbook, Peternell’s goal is to allow the home chef time to plot and plan with plenty of stirring, chopping, and peeling for all occasions. It includes wonderful ideas for holiday and family events and even a special meal for two. Peternell has been chef at Berkeley’s legendary Chez Panisse since 2000.
Jamie Purviance Weber’s Greatest Hits: 125 Recipes for Every Grill
Sunday, June 11 • 6:30 pm • Left Bank $115 single, $185 per couple (one book) Fellow barbecue guru Steven Raichlen says “Jamie Purviance has crafted a stylish and singularly smart book based on 65 years of iconic Weber recipes, but with his own creative twists.” Purviance shares some of Weber’s most popular recipes from decades of testing, the top ten tips for outdoor grilling, and photos that are inspiring and gorgeous. Recipes include starters, beef, lamb, pork, poultry, fish, side dishes, and desserts on the grill. This is the ideal gift for the griller of the family.
Elizabeth Prueitt Tartine All Day: Modern Recipes for the Home Cook
Saturday, May 6 • 12:00 pm • Insalatas $115 single, $185 couple (one book) Calling all bakers! Elizabeth Prueitt, cofounder of San Francisco’s famed Tartine Bakery, joins us for her newest cookbook Tartine All Day. Prueitt gives tips on baking and home cooking that will bring all your friends and family to the table. Her new book has 200 recipes that include leg of lamb, potato gratin, and a “fool-proof” salmon in addition to her well-known dreamy desserts. Prueitt is the James Beard Award-winner for Best Pastry Chef and author of the original Tartine cookbook. Tartine will be providing special treats from the bakery.
Deepa Thomas Deepa’s Secrets
Sat., July 29 • 12:30 pm • Taj Campton Place, San Francisco • $150 per person According to Deepa’s grandfather, “When diet is right, medicine is of no need; and when diet is wrong, medicine is of no use.” Food has a major role in our lives and health and when Deepa Thomas realized that rice and bread were the culprits of her husband’s Type 2 Diabetes, she reinvented her native Indian cuisine to creative new cooking techniques and incorporated research on weight loss and gut health. In Deepa’s Secrets, you will discover breakthrough slow carb recipes that are delicious and healthy without sacrificing the rich South Asian flavors of her hometown of New Delhi. Deepa will be donating the proceeds of her book to FoodCorps, a nonprofit that connects children to healthy food in schools.
Want to win a Weber Essential Grillers accessory package? It could be yours free if you sign up for this Cooks with Books dinner! There will be a raffle and giveaways for those who attend the event.
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