MONDAY April 10, 2006
Left Coast Writers™ Reading and Networking, 6pm
Book Passage, Ferry Plaza, San Francisco, CA
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The Citizens for Local Control, Corte Madera, a small but determined group who appeared before the Corte Madera Town Council and who are working behind the scenes to block the Barnes & Noble lease have organized a peaceful, nonconfrontational protest at the Town Center on Saturday, March 25 between 12pm - 2pm. The goal is to show the owners and managers of Town Center the opposition to their decision to the Barnes & Noble lease.
>From the Citizens for Local Control, Corte Madera:
“We expect a crowd of at least 100 people at the March 25th demonstration, including senior citizens, mothers with strollers, families and students from local schools, and various members of the community. There will also be a strong media presence.
IT’S ABOUT TIME!
Four or five years ago, TONI WEINGARTEN wrote a feature story for “Cruising World,” a sailing magazine. They paid her for it but she never saw it in print until….she opened the October 2005 issue of the magazine and saw her story! Now, that’s being in the writing game for the long haul!
Joyce Jenkins is a noted Bay Area poet and the editor of “Poetry Flash,” the producer/sponsor of the Northern California Book Reviewers and the Northern California Book Awards. “Poetry Flash” is a non-profit literary arts organization and an important communication forum and vehicle for generating audiences and interest in literary issues and events. They publish quality reviews, poems, interviews and essays, as well as trade, submission and award information for all creative writers of both poetry and fiction. “Poetry Flash” also carries the most comprehensive listing of literary events in the West; their Calendar is an indispensable guide to the literary scene in all of California, as well as in the Southwest and the Pacific Northwest.
Gail Tsukiyama
Publisher: St. Martin’s Press
ISBN#: 0312316089
Price:
PB/HC: PB
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Tess Uriza Holthe
Publisher: Penguin Group(PB)/ Crow/Random House (HC)
ISBN#: 0142002887
Price: $14.00
PB/HC: PB/HC
Distribution: Penguin Group
A short blurb: Once in a great while comes a storyteller who can illuminate worlds large and small, magical and true to life. When the Elephants Dance introduces us to the incandescent voice of Tess Uriza Holthe, who sets her remarkable first novel in the waning days of World War II, as the Japanese and the Americans engage in a fierce battle for possession of the Philippine Islands. The Karangalan family and their neighbors huddle for survival in the cellar of a house a few miles from Manila. Outside the safety of their little refuge the war rages on—fiery bombs torch the beautiful Filipino countryside, Japanese soldiers round up and interrogate innocent people, and from the hills guerillas wage a desperate campaign against the enemy. Inside the cellar, these men, women, and children put their hopes and dreams on hold as they wait out the war, only emerging to look for food, water, and medicine.
Firoozeh Dumas
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
ISBN#: 0812968379
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PB/HC: PB
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A short blurb: In 1972, when she was seven, Firoozeh Dumas and her family moved from Iran to Southern California, arriving with no firsthand knowledge of this country beyond her father’s glowing memories of his graduate school years here. More family soon followed, and the clan has been here ever since.
Author Name: Jane Strauss
Cover Art: Yes
Book Title(s): Enough is Enough! Stop Enduring and Start Living Your Extraordinary Life
Publisher: Jossey-Bass
ISBN#: 0787979880
Price: $22.95
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Distribution: amazon.com, Barnes & Nobles
A short blurb: Are you hindered by fearful, limiting thoughts?: I’m not smart enough . . . It’s too late for me . . . I can’t do this alone. Do you long for more joy, challenge, or fulfillment? Does life just feel too difficult? When you merely endure life, you are surviving, not thriving. You feel resigned rather than inspired. And chances are you know something is missing . . . but you don’t know what to do about it.
by Robin Sparks
There are the plans you have for your journey, and the plans your journey has for you.
Things to do in San Rafael, Argentina:
1. Get an appendectomy.
We were watching the gauchos gallop into town when it was decided that I should see a doctor. I’d felt queasy all day, but, when it began to hurt when I breathed, I knew it was more than the bottle of Malbec wine we’d drunk the night before.
By Deborah Griffin
Roadworks: Deborah
I pressed the bumper sticker onto my dashboard. Good Girls Go to Heaven, Bad Girls Go Everywhere. It was my mantra for the trip I was about to take. For the first time in my life I would be on the road with no destination. Every other trip I’d taken was charted to within an inch of its life, mapped and reserved ahead with a quota of miles per day. Not this one. Part spiritual quest, part art journey, this would be a trip with time to think, to make decisions about the rest of my life. On the passenger seat lay a new journal, its smooth pages ready to record with words and sketches the adventures that lay before me.
By Marsha Black
By December of 2001, a quiet blanket of winter white covered Yosemite Valley. The event was so unusual that it made the local news for a week, catching the attention of Bay Area residents, including my husband and myself.
I think most of us needed relief from the personal and national disasters of 2001. We certainly did. Mentally and physically exhausted, our enthusiasm and energy flagged. Our bodies ached. Instinctively, we turned to Yosemite’s familiar retreat, hoping that the pristine beauty would refill our spiritual and physical reserves.
By Nancy E Rapp
In the fall of 2003 I found myself intrigued by the lyrics of Loreena McKennitt’s song,
Dante’s Prayer.
Cast your eyes on the ocean
Cast your soul to the sea
When the dark night seems endless
Please remember me.
I wondered what it was that McKennitt wanted us to remember about Dante, who was, to me, a rather mysterious figure from the Middle Ages. I did a little research into the historical Dante Alighieri, and some of what I discovered struck me as significant in today’s post-9/11 world.
by Claire Savage
When I first heard about the trip to the Arctic, visions of polar bears, reindeer, and jolly old Santa Claus danced in my head. Childhood fairy tale scenes of The North Pole were all I knew of land and sea beyond latitude 50 degrees north, having never ventured farther north than Vancouver, British Columbia. In spite of my fairy tale images I still feared the journey to this remote hinterland. Would the barren landscape and frigid temperatures be too much to bear?
