Ferry Plaza Book Party: Climbing the Sacred Ladder by Shulamit Sofia

LEFT COAST WRITERS FERRY PLAZA BOOK PARTY: Climbing the Sacred Ladder: Your Path to Love, Joy, Peace and Purpose by Shulamit Sofia

Shulamit Sofia
Shulamit Sofia

Monday, October 13th, 2014 || 6pm
Book Passage || San Francisco
1 Ferry Building, San Francisco ||www.bookpassage.com

It’s a soulful and spirit-filled gathering at Book Passage in the Ferry Plaza as we join Shulamit Sofia in celebration.

Climbing the Sacred Ladder: Your Path to Love, Joy, Peace and Purpose is a compelling, practical, step by step guide  to higher consciousness. By creating a pilgrimage path through multiple realms of spiritual awareness the book provides a GPS for the Soul. This process enables the reader to make a difference in their life and in the lives of the people around them.

Shulamit Sofia, a spiritual pilgrim from birth, has journeyed toward soul strength as her life’s purpose. She has been a serious spiritual seeker for nearly three decades, studying directly with the leading teachers of Jewish Mysticism. Founder of The Sacred Ladder and Soul Strength Seminars, Shulamit Sofia teaches practical applications of Jewish mystical principles, to solve challenging (more…)

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Book Launch: The Coconut Latitudes by Rita Gardner

LEFT COAST WRITERS BOOK LAUNCH:  The Coconut Latitudes by Rita Gardner

Rita Gardner
Rita Gardner

Saturday, October 11th, 2014 || 7pm
Book Passage-Corte Madera|| 51 Tamal Vista Dr. Corte Madera ||
www.bookpassage.com

Hurricanes during Litquake? Join us as we wrap up an action-packed day with an evening of wine and Rita Gardner’s well told tale at Book Passage in Corte Madera.

A father makes the fateful decision to leave a successful career in the US behind and move to an isolated beach in the Dominican Republic. He plants ten thousand coconut seedlings, transplants his wife and two young daughters to a small village, and declares they are the luckiest people alive. In reality, the family is in the path of hurricanes and in the grip of a brutal dictator, Rafael Trujillo—and the children are additionally under the thumb of an increasingly volatile and alcoholic father. Set against a backdrop of shimmering palms and kaleidoscope sunsets, The Coconut Latitudes is Rita Gardner’s compelling memoir of a childhood in paradise, a journey into unexpected misery, and a twisted path to redemption and truth.

“Like the best of writers, Gardner moves beyond borders into the wide open spaces of the heart.”
—JULIA ALVAREZ, author of A Wedding in Haiti

Rita Gardner grew up on her expatriate family’s coconut farm in the Dominican Republic during the dictatorship of Rafael Trujillo. Living in a (more…)

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Book Launch: Lost, Kidnapped, Eaten Alive by Laurie McAndish King

LEFT COAST WRITERS BOOK LAUNCH:  Lost, Kidnapped, Eaten Alive by Laurie McAndish King

Laurie McAndish King

Saturday, August 9th, 2014 || 7pm
Book Passage-Corte Madera|| 51 Tamal Vista Dr. Corte Madera ||
www.bookpassage.com

What happens when a practical midwestern gal sets off to explore the world? Laurie McAndish King’s travels seem innocent in the planning stage, but surprising adventure unfolds as she finds herself tracking lions without a gun in Botswana … attempting to eat a horse in southern Italy … marrying a Maasai warrior in Kenya … and sampling the world’s most expensive coffee—brewed from the excrement of a small Balinese mammal.

Whether she is lost in Melbourne, kidnapped in the Tunisian desert, or eaten alive by the blood-sucking (more…)

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Book Launch: The Sicilian Mafia: A True Crime Travel Guide by Carl Russo

LEFT COAST WRITERS BOOK LAUNCH:  The Sicilian Mafia: A True Crime Travel Guide by Carl Russo

Carl RussoSaturday, July 12th, 2014 || 7pm
Book Passage-Corte Madera|| 51 Tamal Vista Dr. Corte Madera ||
www.bookpassage.com

Join us, if you dare, in celebrating Carl Russo’s new book about the Sicilian Mafia with accompanying Sicilian wine. The Sicilian Mafia: A True Crime Travel Guide is the first book of its kind in any language—the ultimate Cosa Nostra experience. Since 2006, author Carl Russo has photographed Mafia hotspots on the Italian island of Sicily: where the murders happened, where the godfathers lived, where their victims are buried. From the sunbaked fishing villages of the Mediterranean to the darkest alleys of Palermo, western Sicily is the exotic backdrop for more than 100 meticulously researched tales of murder and mayhem, packed with 200 photographs of the actual locations.

Carl Russo is a San Francisco author who has written for the Oakland Tribune, indieWIRE and other (more…)

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Book Launch: Doorway to Ecstasy by Sherry Brier

LEFT COAST WRITERS BOOK LAUNCH:  Doorway to Ecstasy: A Dancer’s Initiation by Sherry Brier

Sherry Brier
Sherry Brier

Saturday, June 28th, 2014 || 7pm
Book Passage-Corte Madera|| 51 Tamal Vista Dr. Corte Madera ||
www.bookpassage.com

Undergoing a crisis of the heart and spirit, artist Sherry Brier meets a mysterious teacher of mystical movement who initiates her into Egyptian Temple Dance. Join us in a celebration of  Sherry’s book about the spiritual journey that took her on the liberating path of transformation from self to Soul.

“This book is a treasure… such a valuable contribution to modern temple dance. I’d love to make it part of the official Fusion Temple Dance Festival curriculum…”
—Bast, Producer of Fusion Temple Dance Festival (more…)

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Book Launch: Drone Baloney by John Hewitt

LEFT COAST WRITERS BOOK LAUNCH:  Drone Baloney by John Hewitt

John Hewitt
John Hewitt

Saturday, May 10th, 2014 || 7pm
Book Passage-Corte Madera|| 51 Tamal Vista Dr. Corte Madera ||
www.bookpassage.com

John Hewitt’s newest novel is Drone Baloney, which focuses on ex-pat recluses hiding out in a tumbledown Baja beachfront settlement. They have only one desire: they want to be left alone. And they are—until a mysterious government drone plummets into the desert next to their tumbledown settlement. The high-tech air war that follows lights up the Mexican skies, and the carnage from that battle spills down on Punta Gringa’s vagabonds, scuttling their dreams. Drone Baloney chronicles the efforts of this quirky band that fights against progress they don’t enjoy.

Satirical fiction always has been his relaxing escape. John Hewitt’s years as a newspaper reporter, television news producer, (more…)

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Book Launch: The Blue-Eyed Girl by William Goodson

LEFT COAST WRITERS BOOK LAUNCH:  The Blue-Eyed Girl by William Goodson

William Goodson

Saturday, April 12th, 2014 || 7pm
Book Passage-Corte Madera|| 51 Tamal Vista Dr. Corte Madera ||
www.bookpassage.com

It’s in the news almost every day, called by many names—gender violence, date rape, acquaintance rape. That’s just the beginning of the story. The Blue-Eyed Girl is a novel about the aftermath, for victim and perpetrator. William Goodson’s book, written in two voices, tells what happens in the years that come after trauma, and how one woman recovers her life.

William Goodson has dedicated his career to improving the care of
women with breast cancer. A graduate of Harvard Medical School, he is
a surgeon and the author of It’s your body…ask!, a guide to help women
choose their own treatment for breast cancer. The Blue-Eyed Girl is his first novel.

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Book Launch: Buyer's Remorse by Roy Mash

LEFT COAST WRITERS BOOK LAUNCH:  Buyer’s Remorse by Roy Mash

Roy Mash

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

Buyer’s Remorse is a celebration of the small, the overlooked, the underrated. Doggedly anti-lofty, reveling in the This-Worldly, the poems caper around the themes of the body, of mathematics and rationality, adolescence and middle-age, love and fear and death. The tone ranges from the irreverent to the wistful – the spritz of seltzer in the face of the Creature from the Black Lagoon to the lover standing in one sock.
Drawing on sources from The Three Stooges to Archimedes, Lavoisier to Tweety Bird, Mash is a latter day Anti-Oracle, a nail in the tire of post-modernity, an incorrigible wag who’s smuggled his pea (more…)

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Book Launch: Susanna Solomon

LEFT COAST WRITERS BOOK LAUNCH:  Point Reyes Sherrif’s Calls by Susanna Solomon

Susanna Soloman

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

Susanna Solomon has been at this writing business a long time, but it was only when Mildred Rhinehart, 82, shoved her way into Susanna’s heart and mind that she realized it was time to sit down and listen. Mildred’s long-suffering husband Fred was next. Then awkward Alice, Mildred’s granddaughter, came for tea and was soon followed by the new cop on the block, as well as a sixteen-year-old kid in love with driving and girls. Susanna had found her sweet spot, and her characters found a home.

A year and a half later, she has a short story collection from Harper Davis Publishers, called (more…)

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Reading at Book Passage for The Poison Patriarch by Mark Shaw

BOOK LAUNCH:  The Poison Patriarch: How the Betrayals of Joseph P. Kennedy Caused the Assassination of JFK by Mark Shaw

Mark Shaw

Tuesday, January 21st, 2014 || 7pm
Book Passage-Corte Madera|| 51 Tamal Vista Dr. Corte Madera ||
www.bookpassage.com

Focusing for the first time on why attorney general Robert F. Kennedy wasn’t killed in 1963 instead of on why President John F. Kennedy was, Mark Shaw offers a stunning and provocative assassination theory in his latest book The Poison Patriarch that leads directly to the family patriarch, Joseph P. Kennedy. Mining fresh information and more than forty new interviews, Shaw weaves a spellbinding narrative involving Mafia don Carlos Marcello; Jack Ruby (Lee Harvey Oswald’s killer); Ruby’s attorney, Melvin Belli; and, ultimately, the Kennedy brothers and their father.

Shaw addresses these tantalizing questions: Why, shortly after his brother’s death, did a grief-stricken RFK tell a colleague, “I thought they would get one of us . . . I thought it would be me”? Why was Belli, an attorney with almost no defense experience (but proven ties to the Mafia), chosen as Jack Ruby’s attorney? How does Belli’s Mafia connection call into question his legal strategy, which ultimately led to the Ruby’s first-degree murder conviction and death sentence? What was Joseph Kennedy’s relationship to organized crime? And how was his insistence that JFK appoint RFK as attorney general tantamount to signing the president’s death warrant? (more…)

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