Book Launch: Burmese Jade by Cynthia Greenberg

LEFT COAST WRITERS BOOK LAUNCH:  Burmese Jade, a Mystery by Cynthia Greenberg 

Cynthia Greenberg

Saturday, March 9th, 2013 || 7pm
Book Passage-Corte Madera|| 51 Tamal Vista Dr. Corte Madera ||
www.bookpassage.com

Travelers, writers, mystery lovers, you won’t want to miss this event. Burmese Jade, a Mystery is a new mystery novel by Cynthia Greenberg that takes place in Burma (Myanmar) and Thailand and features an interesting set of characters, all strangely a part of the same tour group. This includes a jewel thief, a smuggler, an ex-spy, and a Buddhist monk, among others. The main character is a French photojournalist who is searching for information about her grandfather’s mysterious disappearance.  A young couple from Texas, accidentally film a murder while on the same tour with all of these people.  Come and see how it turns out! (more…)

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Book Launch: Seeing Red by Lone Morch

LEFT COAST WRITERS BOOK LAUNCH:  Seeing Red: A Woman’s Quest for Truth, Power, and the Sacred, by Lone Morch

Lone Morch

Saturday, February 9, 2013 || 7pm
Book Passage-Corte Madera|| 51 Tamal Vista Dr. Corte Madera ||
www.bookpassage.com

“Readers, not just pilgrims, seek enlightenment. And memoirs often fail to provide those aha! moments. But Seeing Red overflows with insights into the feminine journey: how we wake up to our own power through risking heartbreak, and how it is only by becoming aware of our deepest selves that we can transcend. Seeing Red blends the spiritual and the physical in a heady mix that is both charming and bracing!”
—Jane Ganahl, co-founder of the Litquake festival, author of “Naked on the Page.”

Though this new memoir, Seeing Red: A Woman’s Quest for Truth, Power, and the Sacred, by Lone Morch has been lauded for its feminine insights, it applies to us all. After all, self-awakening and self-discovery are not bound to a single sex or group, but to every human being; and this memoir promises to be one that tells of a journey to do both … and more, while inspiring the reader to do the same … all against a backdrop of  Himalayan Mount Kailas. So join Left Coast Writers, Book Passage, Lone Morch and the goddess Kali, for wine, snacks and the launch of this riveting memoir. (more…)

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Ferry Building Book Party: heretofore by Todd Crawshaw

LEFT COAST WRITERS Book Party: heretofore, with Author Todd Crawshaw

Todd Crawshaw

Monday, January 14, 2013 || 6pm
Book Passage || San Francisco
1 Ferry Plaza ||http://www.bookpassage.com

“If heaven exists, a realm of eternal bliss, how would it avoid becoming monotonous without a bit of conflict?” This is the question posited by Todd Crawshaw‘s latest novel, heretofore.  This new work has been described as “a modern-day Alice in Wonderland melded with the satirical humor of Catch 22”.  Assuming this piques your interest (as it should), you can read sections of the book and see Todd’s wonderful illustrations of his characters at http://www.toddcrawshaw.com/heretofore.html, and come to his book launch at the San Francisco Ferry Plaza on the 14th and join us in a toast to this illuminating local (more…)

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Book Launch: Lucille Lang Day

LEFT COAST WRITERS BOOK LAUNCH:  Married at Fourteen: A True Story, by Lucille Lang Day

Lucille Lang Day

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

Poet and writer Lucille Lang Day‘s new memoir Married at Fourteen: A True Story tells her story, as the title says, of getting married at fourteen, of being a young mother, going back to school and growing up both physically and psychologically into the woman that she is today.

”Day gives eloquent voice to the teenager she once was–precocious, beautiful, hungry for love and adventure, disrespectful of conventions, adept at getting into serious trouble. Her memoir is sexy, funny and endearingly honest…It challenges the conventional wisdom that a teenage mom and dropout has no future and reminds us that rebellious kids who defy authority may become–as has Day–the innovators and creators that our culture needs.”

-Naomi Ruth Lowinsky, Ph.D., M.F.T., author of The Motherline (more…)

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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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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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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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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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Ferry Plaza Book Launch: Wandering in Bali

LEFT COAST WRITERS BOOK PARTY: Wandering in Bali with Joanna Biggar and Linda Watanabe McFerrin

Monday, June 11th, 6pm
Book Passage || Ferry Plaza
San Francisco || www.bookpassage.com

The word Bali conjures images of lush tropical beaches and coastlines, mysterious temples, gracious people, their transporting music and rice fields of impossible green.

A journey to Bali is the trip of a lifetime and so it’s no surprise that this new collection of tales about the storied isle features a Foreword from Lonely Planet Founder, Tony Wheeler.

But this paradisiacal Indonesian island isn’t all goddesses and frangipani. In addition to the beauty, this group of writers also found the humor—and the terror—of the place. Computer crashes, marauding monkeys, international paranoia, flesh-eating fish and even a few zombies also found their way into the stories collected here. (more…)

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