Book Launch: Gail Entrekin

LEFT COAST WRITERS BOOK LAUNCH:  Rearrangement of the Invisible with Gail Rudd Entrekin

Gail Rudd Entrekin

Saturday, November 10th, 2012 || 7pm
Book Passage-Corte Madera|| 51 Tamal Vista Dr. Corte Madera ||
www.bookpassage.com

Rearrangement of the Invisible is Gail Rudd Entrekin’s newest collection of poetry, focusing often on her husband’s battle with cancer and on her passion and love of life … fleeting as life may be. Come celebrate poetry and the way it can light up the unseen with Gail Entrekin and Rearrangement of the Invisible. (more…)

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Literary Salon: Rose Solari

LEFT COAST WRITERS LITERARY SALON: Rose Solari, poet and author of A Secret Woman

Rose Solari

Monday, November 5th, 2012 || 7pm
Book Passage || Corte Madera
51 Tamal Vista Drive, Corte Madera ||www.bookpassage.com

It’s a delight to introduce you all to Rose Solari, our next Left Coast Writers speaker. Rose is an award-winning poet, writer and educator. Her most recent work is the novel A Secret Woman, which revolves around a strong and independent woman who finds herself on an amazing journey into the heart of her mother’s mysteries.

Rose Solari is the author of two full-length collections of poetry, Orpheus in the Park and Difficult Weather. Her poetry and prose have (more…)

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Book Launch: Albert DeSilver

LEFT COAST WRITERS BOOK LAUNCH:  Beamish Boy, by Albert DeSilver

Albert Flynn DeSilver

Saturday, October 13th, 2012 || 7pm
Book Passage-Corte Madera|| 51 Tamal Vista Dr. Corte Madera ||
www.bookpassage.com

Come for adventurous and transformative tales from Albert DeSilver’s newest book, Beamish Boy (I am not my story): A Memoir of Recovery and Awakening.  Albert tells tale of his travels, personal issues and experiences in this newest memoir of self-discovery and mis/adventure.

Albert Flynn DeSilver is an internationally published poet, writer, speaker/trainer, publisher and writing coach. Albert served as Marin County’s first Poet Laureate from 2008-2010. His work has appeared in more than 100 literary journals worldwide including ZYZZYVA, New American Writing, Hanging Loose, Jubilat, Exquisite Corpse, Jacket (Australia), Poetry Kanto (Japan), Van Gogh’s Ear (France), and many others. He is the author, most recently of  (more…)

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Ferry Building Book Party: Nancy Bruning

LEFT COAST WRITERS Book Party: Nancy Bruning, Author of Nancercize: 101 Things to Do on a Park Bench

Nancy Bruning

Monday, October 8th, 2012 || 6pm
Book Passage || Corte Madera
51 Tamal Vista Drive, Corte Madera ||www.bookpassage.

 Join us for an exciting and motivating evening with Nancy Bruning, author of Nancercize: 101 Things to Do on a Park Bench as well as more than 25 other books on the subject.  We all sit too much and Nancy has the solution: Nancercize. (Yes it’s supposed to make you smile.) Nancy is also a member of the American Public Health Association, the Public Health Association of New York and the Author’s League along with holding the Chair of the Friends Committee for the Fort Tryon Park Trust.  Nancy strives to make public parks more exercise-friendly and is an expert on workouts you can do in a public park and the benefits of working out in nature.

Nancy is a personal trainer, group fitness instructor from NYC as well as a celebrated author and speaker.  Her (more…)

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Literary Salon: Nancy Bruning

LEFT COAST WRITERS LITERARY SALON: Nancy Bruning, author of more than 25 books on health and wellness

Nancy Bruning

Monday, October 1st, 2012 || 7pm
Book Passage || Corte Madera
51 Tamal Vista Drive, Corte Madera ||www.bookpassage.com

Writers, as you know, in our work we all sit too much and visiting author/trainer Nancy Bruning has the solution: Nancercize: 101 Things to Do on a Park Bench.  (Yes it’s supposed to make you smile.) Learn more about fitness and personal health from Nancy. Nancy is a personal trainer, group fitness instructor from NYC as well as the author of over 25 books.  Her latest book will show you how to get up and get out … how to use an ordinary park bench and other park features as the basis for a free, fun outdoor exercise experience.  Nancy will give a demonstration designed to (more…)

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Ferry Plaza Book Party: Judith Horstman

LEFT COAST WRITERS BOOK PARTY: The Scientific American Healthy Aging Brain: The Neuroscience of Making the Most of Your Mature Mind with Judith Horstman

Judith Horstman

Monday, September 10, 6pm
Book Passage || Ferry Plaza
San Francisco || www.bookpassage.com

Judith Horstman’s newest book, The Scientific American Healthy Aging Brain: The Neuroscience of Making the Most of Your Mature Mind, gives a realistic and encouraging overview of the well-aged brain and tips for staying healthy longer. (more…)

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Book Launch: Jerry Parrick

LEFT COAST WRITERS BOOK LAUNCH:  Beyond Animal, Ego, and Time: The Human Odyssey with Jerry Parrick

Jerry Parrick_sSaturday, September 8th, 2012 || 7pm Book Passage-Corte Madera|| 51 Tamal Vista Dr. Corte Madera ||www.bookpassage.com

Who are we?  Where did we come from?  How did we get here?  These are questions asked by religions worldwide and philosophers throughout time.  Jerry Parrick synthesizes information on these subjects from many contemporary sources in an attempt to address these questions in his new book, Beyond Animal, Ego, and Time: The Human Odyssey.  Come see Jerry on September 8th for talks about various hot topics including: the ozone hole, climate change, nuclear weaponry and synthetic biology. (more…)

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Literary Salon: Claudia Sternbach

LEFT COAST WRITERS LITERARY SALON: Claudia Sternbach, Editor in Chief of Memoir Journal and Author of Reading Lips, a Memoir of Kisses

Tuesday, September 4, 2012 || 7pm
Book Passage-Corte Madera || 51 Tamal Vista Dr.
Corte Madera || www.bookpassage.com

It’s Tuesday night in September (Labor day weekend!), not Monday night … and it’s going to be fascinating. Claudia Sternbach, Editor in Chief of Memoir Journal will be answer all your questions about capturing your personal stories on the page in long and short form. She’ll also be letting the assembled know exactly how to submit work to Memoir Journal. Patricia Bracewell, our talented Roadwork editor and author of the upcoming historical novel, The Shadow on the Crown (Viking), will be emceeing. You won’t want to miss this stellar evening. (more…)

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Book Launch: Amanda McTigue

LEFT COAST WRITERS BOOK LAUNCH:  Going to Solace with Amanda McTigue

Amanda McTigue_sSaturday, August 25th, 2012 || 7pm Book Passage-Corte Madera || 51 Tamal Vista Dr. Corte Madera || www.bookpassage.com

Set in a small area in the Blue Ridge Mountains, Amanda McTigue‘s new novel Going to Solace takes you on a journey through the lives of several different characters over the course of the week before Thanksgiving in 1989.  The novel is written from various characters’ perspectives giving an interesting view of their world and the goings-on in their community, which range from heart-warming to heart-wrenching.  The event will have a festive atmosphere, and will include regional treats, bluegrass music, down-home quilts on display, and other fun and folksy enticements. (more…)

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Book Launch: Turning a Train of Thought Upside Down

LEFT COAST WRITERS BOOK LAUNCH: Turning a Train of Thought Upside Down: An Anthology of Women’s Poetry

Saturday, August 18th, 2012 || 7pm 
Book Passage-Corte Madera || 51 Tamal Vista Dr. 
Corte Madera || www.bookpassage.com

There’s a new book of poetry in town, and it features 41 of the Bay Area’s best female poets.  This new anthology of poetry contains the work of a diverse group of women from the Bay Area, and a few of them will be coming to read their poems to you! This poems collected coversthemes from birth to re-birth, the joy of creation, dancing, swimming to the pain of face-lifts, pushing walkers, and memories of mother brushing hair or paddling a canoe.

The women reading will be Marianne Betterly, Judy Wells, Lucille Lang Day, Susan Cohen, Andrena Zawinski, and Eva Schlesinger.

“Forty-one women are unarmed but dangerous. They can change your life with clarity, truth and power in equal measure. These poets, from the literary culture of San Francisco, make up an album of rich fabrics combining the ordinary and the magnificent. Intimate details and heightened temperaments give us more reason to care about poetry.” (more…)

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