Book Launch: Kissing the Sky by Cristina Olsen

LEFT COAST WRITERS BOOK LAUNCH: Kissing the Sky, by Cristina Olsen

Cristina Olsen
Cristina Olsen

Saturday, August 8th, 2015 || 7pm
Book Passage-Corte Madera|| 51 Tamal Vista Dr. Corte Madera ||
www.bookpassage.com

Join us in this long-awaited, much anticipated, book party for Christina Olsen.

Kissing the Sky is an autobiography of the soul in poetic and visual form that begins with loss and loneliness, but soon transforms into love and an expansive freedom of the soul. From post-war London to the vast Pampas of Argentina, from Buenos Aires to the hills of Novato, California, the author weaves a meditative tapestry of poetry and photography celebrating the beauty of nature and it’s power to transform pain into joy.

“A multi-faceted synthesis of literature and art, and the author’s life experiences, results in a winning combination (more…)

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Book Launch: One Shoe by John Hewitt

LEFT COAST WRITERS BOOK LAUNCH:  One Shoe: When a Gold Rush is not Enough by John Hewitt

John Hewitt
John Hewitt

Saturday, July 11th, 2015 || 7pm
Book Passage-Corte Madera|| 51 Tamal Vista Dr. Corte Madera ||
www.bookpassage.com

History repeats itself when the denizens of the California Gold Rush village of One Shoe hit another mother lode. Since 1855, the town has squeezed an economy out of a single, deteriorating block featuring the Pioneer Washhouse and the Brothers Saloon. Locals have tripped unsuspecting tourists and half-crazed fortune hunters, pulling in dollars with a puffed up history of its founder, Nigel Potts. Famous for striking it rich and feverishly working his gold claim wearing just one shoe, he never stopped to locate the missing boot. But Potts was a promoter, mining money with his one-shoe legend that pulled a greedy crowd that provided the money to put One Shoe on the map.

After a 21st century news story goes viral, locals follow his tradition as digital gold fever makes One Shoe the land of opportunity for modern claim jumpers. Rumor and renegades collide in another hilarious send up of back country felons and heroes with outrageous schemes and dreams. (more…)

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Book Launch: Venus Signs by Jessica Shepherd

LEFT COAST WRITERS BOOK LAUNCH:  Jessica Shepherd, Author of Venus Signs: Discover Your Erotic Strengths and Secret Desires Through Astrology

Jessica Shepherd
Jessica Shepherd

Saturday, June 13th, 2015 || 7pm
Book Passage-Corte Madera|| 51 Tamal Vista Dr. Corte Madera ||
www.bookpassage.com

Use the wisdom of your Venus sign to create, laugh, and love with irresistible confidence. For millennia, Venus swaggered through the history books with unrivaled self-possession and sexual self-confidence. Yet many women today have lost touch with the very aspects of their inner selves that Venus represents: pleasure, joy, self-worth, sexual vitality, and eroticism. In Venus Signs, Jessica Shepherd breathes life back into the Goddess.

Whether you’re recovering from heartbreak or in need of a jolt of joy, beauty, and truth about who you truly are, Venus power will help (more…)

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Book Launch: The Utah Prairie Dog: Life among the Red Rocks with Photography by Elaine Bond

LEFT COAST WRITERS BOOK LAUNCH:  Elaine Bond, Photographer for The Utah Prairie Dog: Life among the Red Rocks

Elaine Miller Bond
Elaine Miller Bond

Saturday, May 9th, 2015 || 7pm
Book Passage-Corte Madera|| 51 Tamal Vista Dr. Corte Madera ||
www.bookpassage.com

Lovers of nature and its denizens will enjoy themselves when Elaine Miller Bond, photographer, shares her work in The Utah Prairie Dog: Life among the Red Rocks (University of Utah Press), featuring over 150 images of rare prairie dogs in their natural habitat. Her nature and wildlife photographs have appeared on the Discovery Channel Canada and in Science, NPR, BBC Earth News, The American Naturalist, The Washington Post, Squirrels of the World (The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2012), An Introduction to Behavioural Ecology, 4th ed (Wiley-Blackwell, 2012), and other popular and scientific media.

Bond is also the author/illustrator of AFFIMALS: AFFIRMATIONS + ANIMALS (LIT Verlag, 2009) and (more…)

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Book Launch: Wrestling With God by Barbara Falconer Newhall

LEFT COAST WRITERS BOOK LAUNCH:  Wrestling With God by Barbara Falconer Newhall

Barbara Falconer Newhall

Saturday, April 11th, 2015 || 7pm
Book Passage-Corte Madera|| 51 Tamal Vista Dr. Corte Madera ||
www.bookpassage.com

It’ll be a spirited night at Book Passage when we join Barbara Falconer Newhall in a book launch for her new book Wrestling With God.

Wrestling With God presents the intimate first-person narratives of thoughtful Americans seeking to live their faith in an increasingly secular, multicultural and globalized world.

The stories are woven together by Barbara’s own spiritual quest as she reveals how the people she has interviewed have moved her along on her personal journey – from a restless yearning for the lost God of her Christian childhood to a new and unexpected kind of faith. Among the storytellers in Wrestling With God are a Native American, a Nobel Laureate physicist, a World War II POW, a former Buddhist monk, a Shamanic priestess and an atheist.

Seekers and believers alike will find inspiration in the Barbara’s journey toward a belief that can withstand the challenges of our twenty-first-century world.

Barbara Falconer Newhall is a journalist with experience as an editor, feature writer, columnist and religion reporter on magazines and major metropolitan daily (more…)

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Ferry Plaza Book Party: Left Coast Love

LEFT COAST WRITERS FERRY PLAZA BOOK PARTY:  Love on the Left Coast – Hot Flashes & Hot Flashes 2

Hot Flashes 2 CoverMonday, February 9th, 2015 || 6pm
Book Passage || San Francisco
1 Ferry Building, San Francisco ||www.bookpassage.com

Join us for wine, chocolate and a look at love, here on the Left Coast with Hot Flashes editors Linda Watanabe McFerrin and Laurie McAndish King and a whole new crop of  super scintillating writers. Hot Flashes and Hot Flashes 2 are collections of spicy, saucy, and sensual flash fiction and poetry guaranteed to raise your temperature in a way that is positively hormonal.

Guest readers will include: Tania Amochaev, Jonathan Arnowitz, Laurie McAndish King, Lowry McFerrin, Susanna Solomon Joan Steidinger and more. (more…)

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Book Launch: Places in Time by Maxine Rose Schur

LEFT COAST WRITERS BOOK LAUNCH:  Places in Time: Reflections on a Journey 2nd Edition by Maxine Rose Schur

Maxine Rose Schur
Maxine Rose Schur

Saturday, February 14th, 2015 || 7pm
Book Passage-Corte Madera|| 51 Tamal Vista Dr. Corte Madera ||
www.bookpassage.com

For years readers have delighted in Maxine Rose Schur’s award-winning travel essays. Now, all the tales of her unusual honeymoon are gathered in one illustrated volume. Whether camping in the center of Paris, dangling off a Panamanian tramp steamer, or hitching across Australia, her tales are funny, exciting and tender.

Maxine Rose Schur set out to see the world. With high spirits and little money, she traveled not only far geographically, but emotionally, toward the hearts of others. She faced the violent grief of a Mexican sheriff, celebrated a wild elopement in Turkey and was initiated into a mysterious daily ritual with an Iranian forest ranger. Looking back, she tempers her youthful encounters with mid-life wisdom, capturing the spirit of all those she met, and evoking cherished places in time.

If you’re looking for travel writing that blends gentle insight with delicious surprise, fasten the seatbelt on your armchair and come along.

Maxine Rose Schur is a children’s book author and travel journalist. Her essays have appeared in numerous publications including The Los (more…)

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Book Launch: Sisterhood in Sports by Joan Steidinger

LEFT COAST WRITERS® BOOK LAUNCH:  Sisterhood in Sports:How Female Athletes Collaborate and Compete by Joan Steidinger

Dr. Joan Steidinger
Dr. Joan Steidinger

Saturday, January 10th, 2015 || 7pm
Book Passage-Corte Madera|| 51 Tamal Vista Dr. Corte Madera ||
www.bookpassage.com

Join us in Corte Madera as Left Coast Writers® celebrates the publication of Joan Steidinger’s new book. Sisterhood in Sports: How Female Athletes Collaborate and Compete tells the stories of female athletes in a variety of sports. Their natural tendency to use talking as a primary form of communication is essential to their experiences and successes in sports. Women and girls tend to have BFFs, collaborate during periods of stress, express empathy for one another, worry about themselves and others, and desire to have fun in sports, which makes their experiences of sports and competition different from their male counterparts. Female strengths are grounded in both mind and body, and they take these strengths onto the court, field, and track.

There are now dozens of studies showing how the female brain and hormones operate quite differently than those of men. Joan Steidinger uses real (more…)

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Book Launch: Only a Stone's Throw by Erin Thompson

LEFT COAST WRITERS BOOK LAUNCH:  Only a Stone’s Throw by Erin O’Donoghue Thompson

Erin O'Donoghue Thompson
Erin O’Donoghue Thompson

Saturday, December 13th, 2014 || 7pm
Book Passage-Corte Madera|| 51 Tamal Vista Dr. Corte Madera ||
www.bookpassage.com

You won’t want to mss the big party when we celebrate Erin O’Donoghue Thompson’s book, Only a Stone’s Throw, a deeply moving personal memoir chronicling the lows and highs of parenting her eldest daughter to adulthood after she was mentally disabled as a newborn. It’s an honest tale of love and strength when life deals out surprises with unexpected results.

Erin O’Donoghue Thompson started writing at the age of seventeen. She was the editor of her high school newspaper but put her literary aspirations aside to raise a family. Once her eight children were on their own she did a ten year stint as a travel consultant, taking groups to China, photographic safaris to Africa, and groups of women on shopping tours to Hong (more…)

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Book Launch: Night of Pan by Gail Strickland

LEFT COAST WRITERS BOOK LAUNCH:  Night of Pan, by Gail Strickland

Gail Strickland
Gail Strickland

Saturday, November 8th, 2014 || 7pm
Book Passage-Corte Madera|| 51 Tamal Vista Dr. Corte Madera ||
www.bookpassage.com

History, mystery, action and adventure—it’s truly a night of Pan at Book Passage when we celebrate a debut novel by writer Gail Strickland.

The slaughter of the Spartan Three Hundred at Thermopylae, Greece 480 BCE—when King Leonidas tried to stop the Persian army with only his elite guard—is well known. But just what did King Xerxes do after he defeated the Greeks?

Fifteen-year-old Thaleia is haunted by visions: roofs dripping blood, Athens burning. She tries to convince her best friend and all the villagers that she’s not crazy. The gods do speak to her. And the gods have plans for this girl.

When Xerxes army of a million Persians marches straight to the mountain village Delphi to claim the Temple of Apollo’s treasures and sacred power, Thaleia’s gift may be her people’s last line of defense.

Her destiny may be to save Greece… but is one girl strong enough to stop an entire army?

Come and find out more from the author herself.

Gail Strickland translated much of Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey, Herodotus’ prophecies and The Bacchai by Euripides while studying the Classics in (more…)

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