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SUMMARY:Words as Bridges: a Poetic Adventure in Connection featuring award winning author and literary activist Jeffrey Blount and poet and conflict resolution specialist S.A. Borders-Shoemaker
DESCRIPTION:About the Virtual Adventure\n\n“This is precisely the time when artists go to work…We speak\, we write\, we do language. That is how civilizations heal. – Toni Morrison\nIn celebration of National Poetry Month\, Adventures by the Book® invites you to a timely and thoughtful virtual conversation exploring the power of words to connect\, heal\, and open dialogue across differences. \nJoin award-winning author and literary activist Jeffrey Blount\, together with poet and conflict-resolution specialist Samantha Borders Shoemaker for an intimate evening of readings\, reflection\, and conversation centered on how poetry\, books\, and the written word can help us listen more deeply—and engage one another with greater empathy—at a time when meaningful connection can feel increasingly hard to come by. \nWhether you love poetry or have always felt a little unsure about it\, this conversation is designed to be welcoming and accessible\, focusing on meaning\, connection\, and personal response rather than formal analysis. The evening will close with a gentle\, optional invitation for attendees to carry the conversation forward beyond the event in a simple\, personal way. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout the Authors and Books\n \nJeffrey Blount is the award-winning author of three books\, including The Emancipation of Evan Walls. He is also an Emmy award winning television director\, directing such news programs at Meet the Press\, NBC Nightly News\, Today and other special programs. \nJeffrey was a contributor for HuffPost and has been published in The Washington Post\, The Grio.com and other publications\, commenting on issues of race\, social justice and writing. He is also an award-winning documentary scriptwriter for films and interactives that are now on display in the Smithsonian Museum of African American History and Culture.  America I AM: The African American Imprint at the National Constitution Center\, The Museum at Bethel Woods\, at the site of the 1969 Woodstock Music and Arts Fair\, and others.  These projects have won Cine Golden Eagle Awards\,  Muse Awards and a Thea Award. \nHis most recent award-winning book\, Mr. Jimmy from Around the Way\, is a story about failure\, self-discovery\, empowerment\, and the possibility of redemption. \nTo schedule a book club visit with Jeffrey or any of our authors on Adventures by the Book®: \n\n\nConnect with this Author on Adventures by the Book®\n\n\n\n\n \nS.A. (Samantha) Borders Shoemaker is an author\, poet\, and PhD\, and works in conflict resolution and suicide prevention. She has over fifteen publications in both national and international outlets. \nShe shares her life with her husband and their two corgis\, and she’s an avid equestrian who likes to ride her mustang\, Rosa. \nWaiting for Scotland is her second full-length poetry collection about reconciling the past with hopes for the future. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRegistration\nWhile this event is FREE and open to the public\, registration is required in order to receive a Zoom link (to be emailed to you three days prior to the event).
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SUMMARY:Benefit for Susan G. Komen Foundation: a Virtual Breast Cancer Fundraising Adventure in honor of NYT and international bestselling author Kristin Harmel
DESCRIPTION:FREE TOTE BAG BONUS FOR FIRST 20 PRE-ORDERS!\nThe New York Times bestselling author of The Book of Lost Names returns to Paris with this “exquisite and gut-wrenching” (NYT bestselling author Lisa Barr) tale of two mothers\, two daughters\, and an Allied bomb that falls in the suburbs of Paris\, changing the course of both families’ lives. \nKristin Harmel’s highly anticipated new release THE PARIS DAUGHTER releases June 6\, 2023. Pre-Order your copy below\, starting April 10\, and before May 19th and we’ll sweeten the pot by sending a FREE tote bag along with the first 20 pre-orders received (while supplies last). \n \n\n\nAbout the Author and Book\n \nKristin Harmel is the New York Times bestselling\, USA Today bestselling\, and #1 international bestselling author of The Forest of Vanishing Stars\, The Book of Lost Names\, The Winemaker’s Wife\, and a dozen other novels that have been translated into more than 30 languages and are sold all over the world. \nHer forthcoming book\, The Paris Daughter\, is a historical novel about two mothers who must make unthinkable choices in the face of the Nazi occupation. Paris\, 1939: Young mothers Elise and Juliette become fast friends the day they meet in the beautiful Bois de Boulogne. Though the shadow of war creeps across Europe\, neither woman suspects that their lives are about to change irrevocably. \nWhen Elise becomes a target of the German occupation\, she entrusts Juliette with the most precious thing in her life-her young daughter\, Mathilde\, playmate to Juliette’s own little girl. But nowhere is safe in war\, not even a quiet little bookshop like Juliette’s Librairie des Rêves\, and when a bomb falls on their neighborhood\, Juliette’s world is destroyed along with it. \nMore than a year later\, with the war finally ending\, Elise returns to reunite with her daughter\, only to find her friend’s bookstore reduced to rubble-and Juliette nowhere to be found. What happened to Mathilde in those last\, terrible moments? Juliette has seemingly vanished without a trace\, taking all the answers with her. Elise’s desperate search leads her to New York-and to Juliette-one final\, fateful time. \nLike Kristin herself\, Elise\, Juliette\, and their friend Ruth must face the most difficult battles of their lives and find the strength within themselves to carry on. That’s what we are celebrating in this very special Adventures by the Book fundraising adventure: the capacity we all have to dig deep and find light in the darkness in our most difficult hours. Kristin’s books–and the novels featured by more than 40 authors joining her–remind us of that message. \nWe are all stronger than we know–and that’s worth celebrating. \n\nFINDING THE STRENGTH WITHIN US ALL\nSpecial guest appearances by more than 60 all-star authors including:\nMary Kay Andrews\nLisa Barr\nMarie Benedict\nAli Brady\nJamie Brenner\nJanet Skeslien Charles\nMeg Waite Clayton\nKaren Cleveland\nMegan Crane\nLaura Dave\nFiona Davis\nElin Hilderbrand\nLiz Fenton\nHazel Gaynor\nLinda Gerber\nJane Green\nAlison Hammer\nKristin Harmel\nKristy Woodson Harvey\nPatti Callahan Henry\nSally Hepworth\nElin Hilderbrand\nAlice Hoffman\nBrenda Janowitz\nPam Jenoff\nNancy Johnson\nSadeqa Johnson\nAlka Joshi\nJulia Kelly\nMartha Hall Kelly\nChristina Lauren\nLeslie Lehr\nDebbie Macomber\nMadeline Martin\nSusan Meissner\nBrenda Novak\nKristina McMorris\nMary Alice Monroe\nAlyson Noël \nColleen Oakley\nZibby Owens\nSarah Penner\nLouise Penny\nNguyễn Phan Quế Mai\nSusan Elizabeth Phillips\nJane Porter\nNita Prose\nKate Quinn\nJennifer Robson\nJennifer Rosner\nWade Rouse (writes as Viola Shipman)\nLisa Scottoline\nEmily Wing Smith\nLisa Steinke\nKelli Stuart\nWendy Toliver\nAdriana Trigiani\nAllison Van Diepen\nRoxanne Veletzos\nHeather Webb\nLaura Zigman \nAbout the Virtual Event\nAdventures by the Book was founded twelve years ago with the goal of connecting people and communities\, one book at a time. In a world that is often divided and disconnected\, this is our way of bringing people together in unique\, interesting\, and adventurous ways through the power and magic of books. \nSo when we heard that our dear friend\, New York Times bestselling author Kristin Harmel\, was diagnosed with breast cancer\, we knew we had to unite our literary friends to help. But this is more than just an event to raise funds for breast cancer research. It’s an opportunity for the literary community to come together in a celebration of the strength we can all find within ourselves in difficult times. \nAnd since March is Women’s History Month\, this is the perfect time to flex our collective female spirit in support of women like Kristin who are struggling with breast cancer. Let’s raise much needed funds for the Susan G. Komen Foundation and unite in our support for breast cancer awareness. Kristin’s cancer was caught early only because she went in for an annual mammogram; we want to remind every single one of you about the power of early detection\, too. \nJoin Kristin at this very special event\, along with virtual and/or live appearances by an all-star cast of more than 40 international and New York Times bestselling authors\, to show Kristin we are there for her in her time of need! \nThe Susan G. Komen Foundation has invested more than $3.3 billion in groundbreaking research\, community health outreach\, advocacy and programs in more than 60 countries to prevent and cure breast cancer. Their efforts have helped reduce deaths from breast cancer in the United States by 42 percent since 1989\, but as long as women like Kristin are affected\, we need to band together to help. \n\nHow can I help? DONATE Today:\n(1) Donate to Kristin’s Susan G. Komen Foundation fundraiser HERE right now. Let’s help Kristin reach (or exceed) her goal of $40\,000 to improve research\, outreach\, and eradication of breast cancer! All donations through Kristin’s page will be split equally between funding research and funding mammograms for the uninsured and underinsured. \n(2) Pre-purchase Kristin’s new book (below)–or any of our guest author’s books (BOOK ORDER FORM). Kristin’s The Paris Daughter releases on June 6\, 2023\, and though she is planning to tour in June\, her recovery will limit the number of appearances she’ll be able to make. Kristin has given selflessly of her time every week since Covid began through her Friends & Fiction appearances\, and even while undergoing chemo\, she is still selflessly advocating for women to schedule mammograms and raise funds for the Susan G. Komen Foundation. Adventures by the Book will donate 20% of book sale pre-orders to the Susan G. Komen Foundation in Kristin’s honor. \n(3)  For the first 100 people who purchase The Paris Daughter\, shipping will be free for any other book(s) you order  (BOOK ORDER FORM)  from the event’s featured authors–so the more you order\, the more you’ll save\, and the more you’ll help. Adventures by the Book will donate 20% of all book sales to the Susan G. Komen Foundation in Kristin’s honor. And\, for every book sold through the event (up to 250)\, Kristin will donate a book to cancer centers for patients to read as they’re undergoing treatment. \n(4) Want to join Kristin and Adventures by the Book in making even more of a difference for patients currently in treatment? You can also purchase any of our guest authors’ titles (book order form coming soon)\, for women to take home or to read during or after their cancer treatments. And yes\, Adventures by the Book will also donate 20% of these book sales to the Susan G. Komen Foundation as well\, in Kristin’s honor. \nFOUR ways to help. DONATE because Adventurers are changing the world\, one story at a time! \n\nOrder Books:\nUse this BOOK ORDER FORM to select which books you want to purchase. Then\, in order to place a book order\, please email Amber at events@adventuresbythebook.com with the book(s) title(s)\, number of copies you wish to purchase\, and a phone number. We will call you to process your order. \n\nEvent Registration:\nNOTE: Registration for the event is now closed–but don’t worry! You can still watch the event live on Facebook! Just go directly to the Adventures by the Book Facebook page (https://www.facebook.com/adventuresbythebook). The livestream will begin on the page a few minutes before 7pm ET/4pm PT with surprise appearances from a dozen additional authors. (If you don’t see it streaming live by 6:57pm ET/3:57pm PT\, simply refresh the page.) \n\nAbout the Susan G. Komen Foundation\nThe Susan G. Komen Foundation’s mission is to save lives by meeting the most critical needs in our communities and investing in breakthrough research to prevent and cure breast cancer. Donate to Kristin’s Susan G. Komen Foundation fundraiser HERE right now. \n\n \n\nSave
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SUMMARY:Smacked: An Adventure in Healing
DESCRIPTION:About the Event\nTHIS EVENT IS SOLD OUT*\nNOTE NEW VENUE: WOMEN’S MUSEUM OF CALIFORNIA IN LIBERTY STATION\nJoin us for an Adventure in Healing with New York Times business journalist\, Eilene Zimmerman\, as she shares her brave and suspenseful\, and deeply personal\, family story. Illuminating urgent and troubling social issues of white collar drug addiction\, Eilene’s new book Smacked unveils her shocking discovery and her journey to find out how a man she knew for nearly 30 years became a drug addict. \nWhen this renowned journalist submitted her story for the first time to the New York Times in 2017\, she was concerned about the negative feedback she might receive from the business world. Instead\, her article became one of the most top-read stories the New York TImes has EVER published\, raising awareness and torching off a much-needed discussion about drug dependence today in a moneyed and upwardly mobile world. \nYour Adventure in Healing includes light refreshments\, author presentation\, book signing\, and the chance to meet the author and share her personal story. In addition\, you will have the opportunity to meet octogenarian Jeanne McAlister\, founder of McAlister Institute\, one of San Diego County’s largest alcohol and other drug treatment providers (see below for further information). \nIMPORTANT NOTE: Due to large response to this event\, the venue has been moved. Event will now be held at Women’s Museum of California\, 2730 Historic Decatur Road\, Suite 103\, San Diego\, CA 92106. \n*There are still spaces available to hear Eilene’s presentation at the Thomas Jefferson School of Law on February 12 at 6:00 pm\, or the San Diego County Bar Association on February 12 at noon.   \n\nAbout the Author and Book\n \nEilene Zimmerman has been a journalist for three decades\, covering business\, technology\, and social issues for a wide array of national magazines and newspapers. She was a columnist for The New York Times Sunday Business section for six years\, and since 2004\, has been a regular contributor to the newspaper. In 2017\, she also began her pursuit of a master’s degree in social work. \nHer new book\, Smacked\, is a brilliant and moving memoir of Eilene’s shocking discovery that sets her on a journey to find out how a man she knew for nearly 30 years became a drug addict\, hiding it so well that neither she nor anyone else in his life suspected what was happening. Peter was also addicted to work; the last call he ever made was to dial into a conference call. \nEilene is determined to learn all she can about Peter’s hidden life\, and also about the drug addiction among ambitious\, high-achieving professionals like him. Through extensive research and interviews\, she presents a picture of drug dependence today in that moneyed\, upwardly mobile world. She also embarks on a journey to recreate her life in the wake of loss\, both of the person – and the relationship – that profoundly defined the woman she had become. \nAbout McAlister Institute\nMcAlister Institute is one of San Diego County’s largest alcohol and other drug treatment providers. Founded by 87 year old Jeanne McAlister\, who is now 63 years sober\, Jeanne used her personal experience to build an agency that is founded upon empathy and hope and dedicated to serving those who suffer. She has constantly advocated for responsive and needed treatment services and developed programs which have adapted and grown to meet the needs of San Diegans. This remarkable octogenarian is still the first person in the office most mornings and always the last person to leave. She is actively working as the agency’s CEO. \nFounded in 1978\, McAlister Institute provides a comprehensive range of substance abuse treatment\, recovery\, and supportive services. Together\, McAlister Institute’s 24 programs represent a continuum of care that spans prevention and education\, outreach\, intervention\, outpatient treatment\, short-term and long-term residential care\, aftercare\, and sober living. Last year alone\, McAlister Institute provided substance use treatment services to more than 14\,600 individuals. \nIf you are moved by Eilene’s story and want to help those who are battling substance abuse and addiction\, we hope you will consider making a donation to McAlister Insitute. Donations will be accepted at the event by Jeanne McAlister\, or you can make your donation online. Please denote in the “make a comment” section\,  that your donation was inspired by “Smacked.” \n \n\nSave
URL:https://adventuresbythebook.com/calendar-event/smacked-an-adventure-in-healing/
CATEGORIES:ABTB Means Business,Conversations Worth Having,Event,San Diego Adventures
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SUMMARY:Summer by the Sea Dinner Adventure
DESCRIPTION:Photos from this Event\nVisit our Facebook for more photos from this event \n      \nAbout the Event\nIt’s summertime\, so what better way to spend your evening than by discovering a fresh new voice in fiction at our Summer by the Sea Dinner Adventure\, featuring debut novelist Nicola Harrison\, in conversation with New York Times bestselling and beloved San Diego author Michelle Gable. \nDon’t miss this delightful Adventure at King’s Fish House\, where Nicola and Michelle will discuss Montauk\, Nicola’s captivating debut novel that brings to life the glamour and romance of a summer by the sea about a woman torn between the life she chose and the life she desires. \nYour Adventure includes a pre-fixe dinner\, soft drink\, tax\, gratuity\, author presentation\, book signing\, and the opportunity to enjoy conversation with Nicola and Michelle and other reading enthusiasts in an intimate setting. \n\nAbout the Author\nOriginally from Hampshire\, England\, Nicola Harrison moved to California when she was 14. She studied Literature at UCLA and received an MFA in creative writing at Stony Brook University. She is a member of The Writers Room and has short stories published in The Southhampton Review and Glimmer Train as well as articles in Los Angeles Magazine and Orange Coast Magazine. \nShe was the fashion and style staff writer for Forbes and had a weekly column at Lucky Magazine. Nicola is also the founder of a personal styling business\, Harrison Style. She has spent many summers in Montauk and currently lives in Greenwich Village\, Manhattan.  Montauk is her first novel. \nAbout the Book: Montauk\, Long Island\, 1938. For three months\, this humble fishing village will serve as the playground for New York City’s wealthy elite. Beatrice Bordeaux was looking forward to a summer of reigniting the passion between her and her husband\, Harry. Instead\, tasked with furthering his investment interest in Montauk as a resort destination\, she learns she’ll be spending twelve weeks sequestered with the high society wives at The Montauk Manor—a two-hundred room seaside hotel—while Harry pursues other interests in the city. \nCollege educated\, but raised a modest country girl in Pennsylvania\, Bea has never felt fully comfortable among these privileged women\, whose days are devoted not to their children but to leisure activities and charities that seemingly benefit no one but themselves. She longs to be a mother herself\, as well as a loving wife\, but after five years of marriage she remains childless while Harry is increasingly remote and distracted. Despite lavish parties at the Manor and the Yacht Club\, Bea is lost and lonely and befriends the manor’s laundress whose work ethic and family life stir memories of who she once was. \nAs she drifts further from the society women and their preoccupations and closer toward Montauk’s natural beauty and community spirit\, Bea finds herself drawn to a man nothing like her husband –stoic\, plain spoken and enigmatic. Inspiring a strength and courage she had almost forgotten\, his presence forces her to face a haunting tragedy of her past and question her future. \nDesperate to embrace moments of happiness\, no matter how fleeting\, she soon discovers that such moments may be all she has\, when fates conspire to tear her world apart…  \nAbout Michelle Gable\nMichelle Gable is the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of A Paris Apartment\, I’ll See You in Paris\, The Book of Summer\, and most recently\, The Summer I Met Jack. \nMichelle grew up in sunny San Diego and began writing in fourth grade after her parents gave her a book called Someday You’ll Write. She later attended The College of William & Mary and majored in accounting\, and pursued work in finance and investment banking before turning her skills to writing. \nFrom age 10 and ever since\, she wrote. Nearly every day. she wrote at five o’clock in the morning\, or eleven o’clock at night\, or while her children assembled their own school lunches. I’ll See You in Paris was written almost entirely by hand\, sitting behind softball dugouts or in the car while her daughters warmed up pitching and catching. \n“That\, my friends\, is my #1 tip for becoming a published author. You write. No matter what.” \n 
URL:https://adventuresbythebook.com/calendar-event/summer-by-the-sea-dinner-adventure/
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SUMMARY:Conversations Worth Having: A Dinner Adventure
DESCRIPTION:About the Event\nJoin us for another engaging evening at the next installment in our Conversations Worth Having series\, with Grace Talusan\, author of The Body Papers and winner of The Restless Books Prize for New Immigrant Writing. \nDon’t miss this thought-provoking Adventure at King’s Fish House\, where Grace will share the stories from her debut memoir\, which is an extraordinary portrait of the artist as a survivor. Grace overcame a personal history fraught with racism\, sexual trauma\, mental illness\, and cancer… Moving and eloquent\, Grace’s book is a testament not only to one woman’s fierce will to live\, but also the healing power of speaking the unspeakable. \nYour Adventure includes a pre-fixe dinner\, soft drink\, tax\, gratuity\, author presentation\, book signing\, and the opportunity to engage in meaningful conversation with the author and other engaged readers in an intimate setting. \n\nAbout the Author\n \nGrace Talusan is the author of the memoir\, The Body Papers (forthcoming April 2019)\, winner of the 2017 Restless Books Prize for New Immigrant Writing for Nonfiction. She was born in the Philippines and came to the US with her parents at age 2. She has published essays\, longform journalism\, fiction and book reviews in Brevity\, Creative Nonfiction\, Boston Magazine\, Boston Globe\, The Rumpus\, and many others. \nGrace has degrees in English from Tufts University and the University of California\, Irvine. Her writing has been supported by the Fulbright\, Hedgebrook\, Ragdale\, the Massachusetts Cultural Council and others. She teaches writing at Tufts University and Grub Street.
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