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Daniel James Brown at Book Passage, San Francisco 6/19/13 6PM 2013-06-19 18:00:00 2013-06-19 20:00:00

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In Conversation with Phil Cousineau Daniel James Brown tells the story of the University of Washington’s 1936 eight-oar crew, their epic...

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Elizabeth Fishel at Book Passage, San Francisco 6/20/13 6PM 2013-06-20 18:00:00 2013-06-20 20:00:00

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  When Will My Grown-Up Kid Grow Up? Loving and Understanding Your Emerging Adult ($23.95) is the parenting guide that says it’s all going...

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Mac Barnett at Book Passage, Corte Madera 6/20/13 7PM 2013-06-20 19:00:00 2013-06-20 21:00:00

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Join New York Times bestselling children’s book author Mac Barnett as he discusses his many acclaimed works, including Extra Yarn (2013...

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Carl Hiaasen at Book Passage, Corte Madera 6/22/13 7PM 2013-06-22 19:00:00 2013-06-22 21:00:00

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Carl Hiaasen is back doing what he does best with Bad Monkey ($26.95), a wickedly funny tale in which the greedy, the corrupt, and the...

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Jessica Anya Blau at Book Passage, Corte Madera 6/23/13 7PM 2013-06-23 19:00:00 2013-06-23 21:00:00

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From Jessica Anya Blau, the award-winning author of The Summer of Naked Swim Parties, comes a new comic novel, loosely based on Alice in...

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April Peveteaux at Book Passage, San Francisco 6/24/13 12:30PM 2013-06-24 12:30:00 2013-06-24 16:00:00

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Described as the “Chelsea Handler of the gluten-free set,” April Peveteaux employs her unique sense of humor to provide the perfect guide...

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Walter Walker at Book Passage, Corte Madera 6/24/13 7PM 2013-06-24 19:00:00 2013-06-24 21:00:00

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A murder on Cape Cod, a rape in Palm Beach, and all they have in common is the presence of one of America’s most beloved and influential...

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Rebecca Solnit at Book Passage, San Francisco 6/25/13 6PM 2013-06-25 18:00:00 2013-06-25 20:00:00

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In her exquisite new memoir The Faraway Nearby ($25.95), Rebecca Solnit sets her story in motion with a gift of one hundred pounds of...

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Poetry Summer Traveling Show at Book Passage 6/25/13 7PM 2013-06-25 19:00:00 2013-06-25 21:00:00

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The Marin Poetry Center is pleased to present one of its Traveling Show readings at Book Passage. The event with members of the Marin...

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Bernie Krause at Book Passage, Corte Madera 6/26/13 7PM 2013-06-26 19:00:00 2013-06-26 21:00:00

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Musician and naturalist Bernie Krause is one of the world’s leading experts in natural sound, spending his life discovering and recording...

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Ed Hardy at Book Passage, Corte Madera 6/27/13 7PM 2013-06-27 19:00:00 2013-06-27 21:00:00

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In Wear Your Dreams ($26.99), Ed Hardy recounts his genesis as a tattoo artist and leader in the movement to recognize tattooing as a...

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Simon Van Booy at Book Passage, Corte Madera 6/29/13 1PM 2013-06-29 13:00:00 2013-06-29 16:00:00

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Pursued by Nazi soldiers, old age, shame, handicap, disease, or regret, the characters of Simon Van Booy’s compelling novel The Illusion of...

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Children’s Author Triple Feature 6/29/13 4PM 2013-06-29 16:00:00 2013-06-29 18:00:00

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Join Book Passage as we welcome three acclaimed children’s authors for an afternoon of stories. Bethanie Murguia (Zoe’s Room and Snippet...

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David Mezzapelle at Book Passage, Corte Madera 6/29/13 7PM 2013-06-29 19:00:00 2013-06-29 21:00:00

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David Mezzapelle was inspired to write Contagious Optimism ($16.95) because of his own world view and the support of fellow forward-looking...

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Shirin Bridges at Book Passage, Corte Madera 6/30/13 1PM 2013-06-30 13:00:00 2013-06-30 16:00:00

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Special for Kids! In Mary Wrightly, So Politely ($16.99) by children’s writer Shirin Yim Bridges, Mary Wrightly is the best-behaved little...

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Andrew Sean Greer at Book Passage, Corte Madera 6/30/13 4PM 2013-06-30 16:00:00 2013-06-30 18:00:00

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During the course of electroshock therapy treatment, Greta finds herself repeatedly sent to 1918, 1941, and back to the present. The...

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Author Robert Burton presents A Skeptic’s Guide to the Mind 7/1/13 7PM - 8:30PM 2013-07-01 19:00:00 2013-07-01 20:30:00

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In A Skeptic’s Guide to the Mind ($24.99), Robert Burton brings together clinical observations, practical thought experiments, personal...

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Michael Spurge presents Let the Water Hold Me Down 7/2/13 7PM - 9PM 2013-07-02 19:00:00 2013-07-02 21:00:00

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When an army of Zapatistas emerge from the jungle to seize half the state, Hank Singler finds himself a foreigner trapped in someone else’s...

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Bay Area Writing Project (BAWP) Young Writers Celebration 7/3/13 1:30PM - 3:30PM 2013-07-03 13:30:00 2013-07-03 15:30:00

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Every summer, the Bay Area Writing Project (BAWP) at UC Berkeley sponsors Young Writers’ Camps across the Bay Area. Join us as we celebrate...

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James Conaway at Book Passage, San Francisco 6/18/13 6PM

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When wine critic Clyde Craven-Jones blindly samples a mysterious bottle of Cabernet better than anything he’s ever tasted, he sets out to...

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Brian Fagan at Book Passage, Corte Madera 6/17/13 7PM

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Since 1860, the world has warmed significantly and the ocean’s rise has accelerated. The sea level changes are cumulative, and no one knows...

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Denise Kiernan at Book Passage, San Francisco 6/17/13 6PM

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At the height of World War II, the town of Oak Ridge, Tennesseeexisted as a secret city filled with women who worked in factories to...

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Joan Lester at Book Passage, Corte Madera 6/15/13 7PM

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Featuring “Bliss” Ananda Kenboya on conga drums! Mama’s Child ($15.00) is journalist and author Joan Lester’s story of an idealistic young...

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Matt Coyle at Book Passage, Corte Madera 6/15/13 4PM

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Matt Coyle presents Yesterday’s Echo ($26.95). Rick Cahill was never convicted of his wife’s murder, but he was never exonerated either....

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Divya Srinivasan at Book Passage, Corte Madera 6/15/13 1PM

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Special for Kids! Divya Srinivasan shows children a wonderful part of the natural world in a warm-hearted way with Octopus Alone ($16.99)....

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Dan Smith at Book Passage, Corte Madera 6/14/13 7PM

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For years, Dan Smith suffered from extended episodes of acute anxiety—seemingly without any apparent cause—that seized control of his body...

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Philipp Meyer at Book Passage, Corte Madera 6/13/13 7PM

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Part Texan epic, part unflinching portrait of the price of power, The Son ($27.99) is a transporting novel that maps the legacy of violence...

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Teresa Giudice at Book Passage, San Francisco 6/13/13 12:30PM

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With three N.Y Times bestsellers and continued stardom on The Real Housewives of New Jersey, Teresa Giudice has more tasty recipes to share...

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Adam Lashinsky at Book Passage, Corte Madera 6/12/13 7PM

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If Apple is Silicon Valley’s answer to Willy Wonka’s Chocolate Factory, then author Adam Lashinsky provides readers with a golden ticket...

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Linda Tucker at Book Passage, San Francisco 6/12/13 6PM

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Linda Tucker’s memoir of an African safari describes with unflinching honesty her fears, doubts, and dreams in an unforgettable tale of...

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Jo Robinson at Book Passage, Corte Madera 6/11/13 7PM

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Jo Robinson explains that many jewels of nutrition are hiding in plain sight in our supermarkets and farmers’ markets. Eating on the Wild...

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Daniel Harmon at Book Passage, San Francisco 6/11/13 6PM

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Super Pop!: Pop Culture Top Ten Lists to Help You Win at Trivia, Survive in the Wild, and Make It Through the Holidays ($16.99) is a...

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Eli Brown at Book Passage, Corte Madera 6/10/13 7PM

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Cinnamon and Gunpowder ($26.00) is a gripping novel that’s equal parts seaborne romance and the best cookbook never written. Eli Brown’s...

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Ru Freeman at Book Passage, San Francisco 6/10/13 6PM

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Ru Freeman talks about On Sal Mal Lane ($26.00), a tender, evocative novel about the years leading up to the Sri Lankan Civil War. In Ru...

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NoViolet Bulawayo in Conversation with Anthony Marra 6/9/13 4PM

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NoViolet Bulawayo’s debut novel, We Need New Names ($24.99), follows ten-year-old Darling as she leaves her native Zimbabwe for the unknown...

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Christian Kiefer at Book Passage, Corte Madera 6/9/13 1PM

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Set in depleted, post-recession suburbia, with its endlessly interlocking mega-parking lots and big box stores, The Infinite Tides ($15.00)...

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Kim Wong Keltner at Book Passage, Corte Madera 6/8/13 4PM

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Kim Wong Keltner is a Tiger Baby all grown up with a daughter of her own. But is she a Tiger Mother? Heck no! At once deeply relevant and...

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Caroline Paul & Wendy Mcnaughton at Book Passage 6/7/13 7PM

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What do our pets do when we’re not around? In Lost Cat ($20.00), Wendy Mcnaughton and Caroline Paul try to answer that question. Using GPS...

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Suzy Becker at Book Passage, San Francisco 6/7/13 6PM

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For the first 23 years of her life, Suzy Becker was sure she would have at least two babies. Then, it took her fifteen more years to decide...

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Porter Gale at Book Passage, Corte Madera 6/6/13 7PM

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A new take on How to Win Friends and Influence People, Your Network Is Your Net Worth ($25.00) is an entertaining, straightforward guide...

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Linda Kohanov at Book Passage, San Francisco 6/6/13 6PM

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Linda Kohanov is beloved for her groundbreaking writing on “the way of the horse.” In The Power of the Herd ($27.95), she takes those...

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Scott Johnson at Book Passage, Corte Madera 6/5/13 7PM

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When Scott Johnson was fourteen, his dad told him that he was a spy for the CIA. Part family memoir, part spy story, The Wolf and the...

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Leslie Zemeckis at Book Passage, San Francisco 6/5/13 6PM

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Preserving the legacy of burlesque has long been a passion of author Leslie Zemeckis. Beginning with her critically-acclaimed 2012...

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Letty Cottin Pogrebin at Book Passage, Corte Madera 6/4/13 7PM

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During her recent bout with breast cancer, Letty Cottin Pogrebin became intrigued by the diverse reactions to her diagnosis. She’s...

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Lucy Ellman at Book Passage, San Francisco 6/4/13 6PM

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When a plastic surgeon collides with the stranger who helped him, things take a wild and revolutionary turn. Sparkling, polemical,...

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Amy Friedman at Book Passage, Corte Madera 6/4/13 1PM

When author Amy Friedman walked into a federal penitentiary to research and write about prison life, she never expected to fall in love...

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George Packer at Book Passage, Corte Madera 6/3/13 7PM

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In The Unwinding ($27.00), George Packer, staff writer for The New Yorker, tells the story of America over the past three decades in an...

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Jean Shinoda Bolen at Book Passage, Corte Madera 6/2/13 4PM

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In Jungian analyst Jean Shinoda Bolen’s writing, symbol, archetype, and synchronicity combine with activism to create the potential to...

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Scottevest Trunk Show at Book Passage, Corte Madera 6/2/13 2PM - 4PM

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Travel in style this summer with a new vest or jacket! Scottevest lets you tote your gadgets in style no matter where your journey takes...

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