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SUMMARY:Friends of the Point Loma Library Monday Night Author Adventures (Part 5): a FREE in-person series featuring San Diego based memoirist Jesse Leon
DESCRIPTION:About the In-Person Library Series\nWe are delighted to introduce a fun 2024 author series in partnership with the Point Loma Library\, and we invite you to join us! Don’t miss the opportunity to meet seven bestselling and fan-favorite authors: Beth Ann Mathews\, Elizabeth Cobbs\, Elizabeth L. Silver\, Carl Vonderau\, Jesse Leon\, Madhushree Ghosh and Mona Gable. \nPart 5 – Just in time to commemorate Latinx Heritage Month\, join San Diego based memoirist Jesse Leon to discuss his deeply personal memoir\, I’m Not Broken. \nBOOKS are available for pre-order below to be delivered to the event for signing. \nUpcoming Series Schedule\n\nPART 5 featuring Jesse Leon: Monday\, September 9\, 6:30pm Pacific\nPART 6 featuring Madhushree Ghosh: Monday\, October 28\, 6:30pm Pacific\nPART 7 featuring Mona Gable: Monday\, November 4\, 6:30pm Pacific\n\n\n\n  \n\nPart 5: Jesse Leon\n \nJesse Leon is a social impact consultant to foundations\, impact investors\, non-profits\, and real estate developers on ways to address issues of substance abuse\, affordable housing\, and educational opportunities for at-risk youth. Since receiving a master’s degree from the Harvard Kennedy School\, Jesse has managed multi-million dollar philanthropic grantmaking for various foundations and banking institutions\, managed over $1B in public sector investments for affordable housing\, and built thousands of units of mixed-income housing as a real estate developer for Bank of America. \nJesse’s unforgettable memoir\, I’m Not Broken\, is an inspirational portrait of one young man’s indomitable strength and spirit to survive—against all possible odds. “A book for survivors and those who know someone they hope survives\, bodhisattvas all.” \n  \nPart 6: Madhushree Ghosh\n \nMadhushree Ghosh has written prolifically on how food—especially South Asian food—travels globally though immigration\, migration and indenture. As the daughter of refugees and an immigrant to America\, food stories inform her about the history of her people\, how they traveled and what happened to them when they held onto recipes\, let go or modified them over countries\, continents and generations. Her work has been a Notable Mention in Best American Essays in Food Writing\, Pushcart nominated and published in The New York Times\, Vogue India\, Washington Post\, LA Times\, The Writer\, Longreads\, Catapult\, BOMB\, Guernica\, LA Review of Books\, LitHub and others. She is an invited workshop leader at conferences and workshops such as Grub Street Writers\, Encinitas Writers Workshop\, San Diego Memoir Writers’ Workshop and others. \nHer debut food narrative memoir\,\, was published in 2022 by the University of Iowa Press to great acclaim. KHABAAR focuses on chefs\, home cooks\, and food stall owners\, and the author’s own immigrant journey as the daughter of refugees\, questioning what it means to belong and what does “belonging” in a new place look like in the foods carried over from the old country. \n  \nPart 7: Mona Gable\n \nMona Gable is a freelance writer based in Los Angeles. Her work has appeared in The Atlantic\, Outside\, AFAR\, the Los Angeles Times\, and many others. Her article in Los Angeles magazine\, “The Hugo Problem\,” was named a Longreads Best of 2015. Since 1990\, she has written about social issues\, culture\, and politics for the Los Angeles Times. Gable grew up in San Diego\, California\, and is a graduate of UC Berkeley. Her memoir\, “Blood Brother: The Gene That Rocked My Family\,” was published in 2014 by Shebooks. \nHer new novel\, Searching for Savanna\, arose out of a story she wrote for the late Pacific Standard magazine. It is a gripping and illuminating investigation into the disappearance of Savanna LaFontaine-Greywind when she was eight months pregnant\, highlighting the shocking epidemic of violence against Native women in America and the societal ramifications of government inaction. \n  \nRegistration\nAs this event is free and open to the public\, no registration is required and seating is available on a first-come\, first-served based. However\, we encourage you to support each of the featured authors by pre-ordering a copy of the book below to be delivered to the event for signing. Additional copies will be available for sale at the event on a limited basis. \n  \n\nAbout the Point Loma/Hervey Library\nOne of the largest libraries in the City of San Diego\, the Point Loma/Hervey Library offers many unique features and several conference rooms\, a computer lab and media room. Fitting with Point Loma’s history as a fishing village\, the library incorporates themes of marine life and nautical history throughout the two-story building. \n \n\nSave
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LOCATION:Point Loma Library 3701 Voltaire Street San Diego\, CA 92107
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SUMMARY:Till Death Do Us Part: A Wine\, Chocolate\, and Cheese Adventure with USA Today "best of the year" author Laurie Elizabeth Flynn
DESCRIPTION:THIS EVENT IS SOLD OUT! To be added to the wait list\, please email Sara at admin@adventuresbythebook.com.\n  \nAbout the In-Person Event\n“An intoxicating\, atmospheric and twist-packed testament to the impossibility of truly knowing even those we love the most.”—Ellery Lloyd\, New York Times bestselling author of The Club \nWe invite you to meet USA Today “best of the year” author Laurie Elizabeth Flynn at a private San Diego residence as she discusses Till Death Do Us Part\, her new thriller set in the vineyards of Napa Valley\, about a woman who finds out her long-dead husband is actually alive. \nYour Adventure includes an assortment of cheese and chocolate\, a glass of wine (non alcohol beverages available as well)\, a copy of Till Death Do Us Part to be signed at the event (select the discounted package option below)\, tax\, book presentation\, and the opportunity to engage with Laurie live and in-person in an intimate setting. \nRegistration\nRegister below for the in-person event\, and the address to the private San Diego residence will be provided 3 days prior to the event via email. Spaces are limited\, so register soon to guarantee your spot. \n\nAbout the Author and Book\n \nLaurie Elizabeth Flynn is a former model who lives in London\, Ontario with her husband and their four children. She is the author of three young adult novels: Firsts\, Last Girl Lied To\, and All Eyes On Her\, under the name L.E. Flynn. Her adult fiction debut\, The Girls Are All So Nice Here\, was named a USA Today Best Book of 2021\, sold in 11 territories worldwide\, and became an instant bestseller in Canada. \nHer new novel\, Till Death Do Us Part\, is a sumptuous\, shocking\, steamy thriller set in the vineyards of Napa Valley which ponders the question—what happens when the husband you thought died years ago shows up alive? \nTen years ago\, June’s beloved husband drowned on their honeymoon. Josh’s body was never found. Now\, a decade later\, June is finally ready to move on. She owns a natural wine bar in Brooklyn and is engaged to a patient\, supportive man named Kyle. She’s excited to begin a new chapter in her life\, enjoy a picture-perfect wedding\, and start a family. \nBut out of the blue\, she sees…him—Josh\, her first husband. Is this just a hallucination from the guilt June carries about finally moving on\, or is it possible that her husband never died in the first place? \nJune tries to forget about this vision\, chalking it up to grief and nerves\, but soon enough\, she stumbles across a website for a winery in Napa\, and the owner in the photo is identical to her dead husband. With her upcoming wedding looming and a fiancé who’s already worried she hasn’t left her past behind\, June flies to Napa for answers. But she’s not prepared for all the secrets she’s about to unlock\, because everything she thought she knew about her first love is a lie. \nSave
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SUMMARY:Rain Breaks No Bones: a La Jolla/Riford Library Adventure with bestselling author Barbara Taylor in conversation with renowned author Kaylie Jones
DESCRIPTION:About the Live\, In-Person\, Adventure\n\nEverybody has secrets. Even the dead… \nJoin bestselling author\, Barbara Taylor\, in conversation with renowned author Kaylie Jones\, at the La Jolla/Riford Library and dive into Barbara’s latest novel\, Rain Breaks No Bones. Set in 1955\, this page-turner explores a family’s legacy of loss and a sometimes mystical vision of a better tomorrow. \nRegistration & Books\nRegistration for this event is not required\, as it is free and open to the public. However\, seating is available on a first-come first-served basis. You may purchase a copy of Rain Breaks No Bones to be delivered to the event for signing. \n  \nAbout the Author and Book\n \nBorn and raised in Scranton\, PA\, Barbara J. Taylor sets her novels in the hometown she loves and fills them with miners\, evangelists\, vaudevillians\, nuns\, gangsters\, prostitutes\, widows\, musicians\, dreamers\, and a seer or two. Publishers Weekly named her first book\, Sing in the Morning\, Cry at Night\, a “Best Book of Summer\, 2014\,” and described her sequel\, All Waiting Is Long\, as “Suspenseful\,” with “… startling plot twists\,” and “… a breathtaking ending.” Her latest novel\, Rain Breaks No Bones\, is the final installment in her Scranton trilogy. Though the novels are connected\, they each stand alone. \nBefore becoming a full-time writer\, Taylor taught English in the Pocono Mountain School District where she encouraged her students to read great works and create their own. In the latter part of her teaching career\, she earned her MFA in creative writing from Wilkes University. \nTaylor can usually be found with a notebook in hand and a pencil behind her ear\, her way of telling the muse\, “I’m ready when you are.” \n  \nAbout the Moderator\n \nKaylie Jones is the daughter of American author James Jones\, who wrote From Here to Eternity and The Thin Red Line. Kaylie’s latest novel is The Anger Meridian. She is the author of the acclaimed memoir\, Lies My Mother Never Told Me. Her novels include A Soldier’s Daughter Never Cries\, released as a Merchant Ivory Film in 1998. She co-chairs the James Jones First Novel Fellowship\, which awards $12\,000 yearly to an unpublished first novel. \nKaylie is also the publisher of Kaylie Jones Books\, and imprint of Akashic Books. She is a full professor at SUNY Stony Brook in the Creative Writing and Literature Program\, and also teaches at the Wilkes University Maslow Family Low-Residency MFAProgram in Creative Writing. \n  \nAbout the La Jolla/Riford Library\nWith a unique connection to San Diego’s biotech industry\, the La Jolla-Riford Library is believed to be the first in the country to feature a public biotech laboratory. The Bio Lab is part of an innovation space at the library that also includes 3D printers and a 50-person capacity classroom. \nLa Jolla-Riford Library opened in 1989\, thanks to a generous land donation from Ms. Florence Riford. At 25\,000 square feet\, the library features a cozy fireplace\, enclosed outdoor reading patio\, spacious community room with a piano and art gallery\, and the History Room which houses a comprehensive collection of La Jolla historical documents and newspaper archives.
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LOCATION:La Jolla Riford Library\, 7555 Draper Ave.\, La Jolla\, United States
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SUMMARY:Once We Were Home: an Afternoon Dessert Adventure with National Jewish Book Award finalist Jennifer Rosner
DESCRIPTION:About the In-Person Event\n“Never Shall I Forget” – Elie Wiesel \nAs Elie Wiesel so poignantly reminds us\, never shall we forget. Yet what happened to the children of the Holocaust who were separated from their parents in WWII at such a young age; was it possible for them to remember? \nWe invite you to meet Jewish Book Award Finalist Jennifer Rosner at a private San Diego residence as she discusses Once We Were Home\, her powerful novel based on the true stories of children stolen in the wake of World War II. \nYour Adventure includes an assortment of delectable Jewish pastries\, tea\, a copy of Once We Were Home to be signed at the event\, tax\, book presentation\, and the opportunity to engage with Jennifer live and in-person in an intimate setting. \nRegistration\nRegister below for the in-person event\, and the address to the private San Diego residence will be provided 3 days prior to the event via email. Spaces are limited\, so register soon to guarantee your spot. \n \nAbout the Author and Book\n \n\nJennifer Rosner is the author of the novels Once We Were Home and The Yellow Bird Sings\, both finalists for the National Jewish Book Award. She is also author of the memoir\, If a Tree Falls: a Family’s Quest to Hear and Be Heard\, and the children’s book\, The Mitten String\, a Sydney Taylor Book Award Notable. \nJennifer’s books have been translated into a dozen languages. Her short writing has appeared in the New York Times\, The Times of Israel\, The Massachusetts Review\, The Forward\, and elsewhere. In addition to writing\, Jennifer has taught philosophy. She earned her B.A. from Columbia University and her Ph.D. from Stanford University. She lives in Western Massachusetts with her family. \nHer most recent novel\, Once We Were Home\, is based on the true stories of children stolen in the wake of World War II. Ana will never forget her mother’s face when she and her baby brother\, Oskar\, were sent out of their Polish ghetto and into the arms of a Christian friend. For Oskar\, though\, their new family is the only one he remembers. When a woman from a Jewish reclamation organization seizes them\, believing she has their best interest at heart\, Ana sees an opportunity to reconnect with her roots\, while Oskar sees only the loss of the home he loves. \nRoger grows up in a monastery in France\, inventing stories and trading riddles with his best friend in a life of quiet concealment. When a relative seeks to retrieve him\, the Church steals him across the Pyrenees before relinquishing him to family in Jerusalem. Renata\, a post-graduate student in archaeology\, has spent her life unearthing secrets from the past–except for her own. After her mother’s death\, Renata’s grief is entwined with all the questions her mother left unanswered\, including why they fled Germany so quickly when Renata was a little girl. \nTwo decades later\, they are each building lives for themselves\, trying to move on from the trauma and loss that haunts them. But as their stories converge in Israel\, in unexpected ways\, they must each ask where and to whom they truly belong. \nBeautifully evocative and tender\, filled with both luminosity and anguish\, Once We Were Home reveals a little-known history. Based on the true stories of children stolen during wartime\, this heart-wrenching novel raises questions of complicity and responsibility\, belonging and identity\, good intentions and unforeseen consequences\, as it confronts what it really means to find home. \nTo schedule a book club visit with Jennifer or any of our authors on NovelNetwork: \n\n\nConnect with this Author on NovelNetwork®\n\n\nSave
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SUMMARY:Friends of the Point Loma Library Monday Night Author Adventures (Part 4): a FREE in-person series featuring author Elizabeth L. Silver
DESCRIPTION:About the In-Person Library Series\nWe are delighted to introduce a fun 2024 author series in partnership with the Point Loma Library\, and we invite you to join us! Don’t miss the opportunity to meet seven bestselling and fan-favorite authors: Beth Ann Mathews\, Elizabeth Cobbs\, Elizabeth L. Silver\, Carl Vonderau\, Jesse Leon\, Madhushree Ghosh and Mona Gable. \nPart 4 – Join author Elizabeth L. Silver to discuss her newest book The Majority\, inspired by the life of former Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. \nBOOKS are available for pre-order below to be delivered to the event for signing. \nUpcoming Series Schedule\n\nPART 4 featuring Elizabeth L. Silver: Monday\, June 10\, 6:30pm Pacific\nPART 5 featuring Jesse Leon: Monday\, September 9\, 6:30pm Pacific\nPART 6 featuring Madhushree Ghosh: Monday\, October 28\, 6:30pm Pacific\nPART 7 featuring Mona Gable: Monday\, November 4\, 6:30pm Pacific\n\n\n\n  \n\nPart 4: Elizabeth L. Silver\n\n\nElizabeth L. Silver is the author of The Tincture of Time: A Memoir of (Medical) Uncertainty\, and Amazon Best Book of the Year The Execution of Noa P. Singleton. Her work has been called “masterful” by The Wall Street Journal\, has been published in 7 languages\, and optioned for film. The Tincture of Time was featured on PBS and NPR\, and was an O Magazine/Oprah’s “Ten Books to Pick up Now.”  \nHer new novel\, The Majority\, is a riveting novel of love and friendship\, motherhood and ambition\, and one woman’s fight to be a Supreme Court justice. Covering the span of fifty years\, Justice Sylvia Olin Bernstein’s personal account reveals the intimate truth about a woman who is not just a brilliant mind but a daughter\, a best friend\, a wife\, and a mother. Caught in a tug-of-war between career and family\, truth and convenience\, progress and patience\, she will be given a chance to change the course of American history. \nTo schedule a book club visit with Elizabeth or any of our authors on NovelNetwork: \n				Connect with this Author on NovelNetwork®\n			\n  \n\nPart 5: Jesse Leon\n \nJesse Leon is a social impact consultant to foundations\, impact investors\, non-profits\, and real estate developers on ways to address issues of substance abuse\, affordable housing\, and educational opportunities for at-risk youth. Since receiving a master’s degree from the Harvard Kennedy School\, Jesse has managed multi-million dollar philanthropic grantmaking for various foundations and banking institutions\, managed over $1B in public sector investments for affordable housing\, and built thousands of units of mixed-income housing as a real estate developer for Bank of America. \nJesse’s unforgettable memoir\, I’m Not Broken\, is an inspirational portrait of one young man’s indomitable strength and spirit to survive—against all possible odds. “A book for survivors and those who know someone they hope survives\, bodhisattvas all.” \n  \nPart 6: Madhushree Ghosh\n \nMadhushree Ghosh has written prolifically on how food—especially South Asian food—travels globally though immigration\, migration and indenture. As the daughter of refugees and an immigrant to America\, food stories inform her about the history of her people\, how they traveled and what happened to them when they held onto recipes\, let go or modified them over countries\, continents and generations. Her work has been a Notable Mention in Best American Essays in Food Writing\, Pushcart nominated and published in The New York Times\, Vogue India\, Washington Post\, LA Times\, The Writer\, Longreads\, Catapult\, BOMB\, Guernica\, LA Review of Books\, LitHub and others. She is an invited workshop leader at conferences and workshops such as Grub Street Writers\, Encinitas Writers Workshop\, San Diego Memoir Writers’ Workshop and others. \nHer debut food narrative memoir\,\, was published in 2022 by the University of Iowa Press to great acclaim. KHABAAR focuses on chefs\, home cooks\, and food stall owners\, and the author’s own immigrant journey as the daughter of refugees\, questioning what it means to belong and what does “belonging” in a new place look like in the foods carried over from the old country. \n  \nPart 7: Mona Gable\n \nMona Gable is a freelance writer based in Los Angeles. Her work has appeared in The Atlantic\, Outside\, AFAR\, the Los Angeles Times\, and many others. Her article in Los Angeles magazine\, “The Hugo Problem\,” was named a Longreads Best of 2015. Since 1990\, she has written about social issues\, culture\, and politics for the Los Angeles Times. Gable grew up in San Diego\, California\, and is a graduate of UC Berkeley. Her memoir\, “Blood Brother: The Gene That Rocked My Family\,” was published in 2014 by Shebooks. \nHer new novel\, Searching for Savanna\, arose out of a story she wrote for the late Pacific Standard magazine. It is a gripping and illuminating investigation into the disappearance of Savanna LaFontaine-Greywind when she was eight months pregnant\, highlighting the shocking epidemic of violence against Native women in America and the societal ramifications of government inaction. \n  \nRegistration\nAs this event is free and open to the public\, no registration is required and seating is available on a first-come\, first-served based. However\, we encourage you to support each of the featured authors by pre-ordering a copy of the book below to be delivered to the event for signing. Additional copies will be available for sale at the event on a limited basis. \n  \n\nAbout the Point Loma/Hervey Library\nOne of the largest libraries in the City of San Diego\, the Point Loma/Hervey Library offers many unique features and several conference rooms\, a computer lab and media room. Fitting with Point Loma’s history as a fishing village\, the library incorporates themes of marine life and nautical history throughout the two-story building. \n \n\nSave
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LOCATION:Point Loma Library 3701 Voltaire Street San Diego\, CA 92107
CATEGORIES:Event,Library Adventures,San Diego Adventures
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SUMMARY:Point Loma Library Monday Night Author Adventures (Part 3): a FREE in-person series featuring award-winning author Carl Vonderau
DESCRIPTION:About the In-Person Library Series\nWe are delighted to introduce a fun 2024 author series in partnership with the Point Loma Library\, and we invite you to join us! Don’t miss the opportunity to meet seven bestselling and fan-favorite authors: Beth Ann Mathews\, Elizabeth Cobbs\, Elizabeth L. Silver\, Carl Vonderau\, Jesse Leon\, Madhushree Ghosh and Mona Gable. \nPart 3 – Just in time to commemorate Mental Health Awareness Month\, join award-winning author Carl Vonderau to discuss his new novel\, Saving Myles. \nBOOKS are available for pre-order below to be delivered to the event for signing. \nUpcoming Series Schedule\n\nPART 3 featuring Carl Vonderau: Monday\, May 13\, 6:30pm Pacific\nPART 4 featuring Elizabeth L. Silver: Monday\, June 10\, 6:30pm Pacific\nPART 5 featuring Jesse Leon: Monday\, September 9\, 6:30pm Pacific\nPART 6 featuring Madhushree Ghosh: Monday\, October 28\, 6:30pm Pacific\nPART 7 featuring Mona Gable: Monday\, November 4\, 6:30pm Pacific\n\n\n\n  \n\nPart 3: Carl Vonderau\n\n \n\nCarl Vonderau is an award-winning author of crime fiction. As a child growing up in Cleveland\, he loved to write. His ghost stories scared the bejesus out of other kids. But it took a long time to become a full-time author. He left Cleveland to study at Stanford\, then spent more than thirty years as a banker in the U.S.\, Latin America\, and North Africa. Those international settings were sources of inspiration for his books. He is the president of Partners in Crime\, The San Diego chapter of the Sisters in Crime organization of authors and fans of crime writing. Additionally\, he’s a partner at San Diego Social Venture Partners\, an organization that mentors other nonprofits.His first novel\, Murderabilia\, was published in 2019 and won a Left Coast Crime award for Best Debut\, and a San Diego Book award for Best Mystery.  \nHis second novel\, Saving Myles\, follows an unassuming banker from La Jolla\, CA as he takes matters into his own hands in order to save his kidnapped son and bring him home.  \n\nPart 4: Elizabeth L. Silver\n\n\nElizabeth L. Silver is the author of The Tincture of Time: A Memoir of (Medical) Uncertainty\, and Amazon Best Book of the Year The Execution of Noa P. Singleton. Her work has been called “masterful” by The Wall Street Journal\, has been published in 7 languages\, and optioned for film. The Tincture of Time was featured on PBS and NPR\, and was an O Magazine/Oprah’s “Ten Books to Pick up Now.”  \nHer new novel\, The Majority\, is a riveting novel of love and friendship\, motherhood and ambition\, and one woman’s fight to be a Supreme Court justice. Covering the span of fifty years\, Justice Sylvia Olin Bernstein’s personal account reveals the intimate truth about a woman who is not just a brilliant mind but a daughter\, a best friend\, a wife\, and a mother. Caught in a tug-of-war between career and family\, truth and convenience\, progress and patience\, she will be given a chance to change the course of American history. \nTo schedule a book club visit with Elizabeth or any of our authors on NovelNetwork: \n				Connect with this Author on NovelNetwork®\n			\n  \n\nPart 5: Jesse Leon\n \nJesse Leon is a social impact consultant to foundations\, impact investors\, non-profits\, and real estate developers on ways to address issues of substance abuse\, affordable housing\, and educational opportunities for at-risk youth. Since receiving a master’s degree from the Harvard Kennedy School\, Jesse has managed multi-million dollar philanthropic grantmaking for various foundations and banking institutions\, managed over $1B in public sector investments for affordable housing\, and built thousands of units of mixed-income housing as a real estate developer for Bank of America. \nJesse’s unforgettable memoir\, I’m Not Broken\, is an inspirational portrait of one young man’s indomitable strength and spirit to survive—against all possible odds. “A book for survivors and those who know someone they hope survives\, bodhisattvas all.” \n  \nPart 6: Madhushree Ghosh\n \nMadhushree Ghosh has written prolifically on how food—especially South Asian food—travels globally though immigration\, migration and indenture. As the daughter of refugees and an immigrant to America\, food stories inform her about the history of her people\, how they traveled and what happened to them when they held onto recipes\, let go or modified them over countries\, continents and generations. Her work has been a Notable Mention in Best American Essays in Food Writing\, Pushcart nominated and published in The New York Times\, Vogue India\, Washington Post\, LA Times\, The Writer\, Longreads\, Catapult\, BOMB\, Guernica\, LA Review of Books\, LitHub and others. She is an invited workshop leader at conferences and workshops such as Grub Street Writers\, Encinitas Writers Workshop\, San Diego Memoir Writers’ Workshop and others. \nHer debut food narrative memoir\,\, was published in 2022 by the University of Iowa Press to great acclaim. KHABAAR focuses on chefs\, home cooks\, and food stall owners\, and the author’s own immigrant journey as the daughter of refugees\, questioning what it means to belong and what does “belonging” in a new place look like in the foods carried over from the old country. \n  \nPart 7: Mona Gable\n \nMona Gable is a freelance writer based in Los Angeles. Her work has appeared in The Atlantic\, Outside\, AFAR\, the Los Angeles Times\, and many others. Her article in Los Angeles magazine\, “The Hugo Problem\,” was named a Longreads Best of 2015. Since 1990\, she has written about social issues\, culture\, and politics for the Los Angeles Times. Gable grew up in San Diego\, California\, and is a graduate of UC Berkeley. Her memoir\, “Blood Brother: The Gene That Rocked My Family\,” was published in 2014 by Shebooks. \nHer new novel\, Searching for Savanna\, arose out of a story she wrote for the late Pacific Standard magazine. It is a gripping and illuminating investigation into the disappearance of Savanna LaFontaine-Greywind when she was eight months pregnant\, highlighting the shocking epidemic of violence against Native women in America and the societal ramifications of government inaction. \n  \nRegistration\nAs this event is free and open to the public\, no registration is required and seating is available on a first-come\, first-served based. However\, we encourage you to support each of the featured authors by pre-ordering a copy of the book below to be delivered to the event for signing. Additional copies will be available for sale at the event on a limited basis. \n  \n\nAbout the Point Loma/Hervey Library\nOne of the largest libraries in the City of San Diego\, the Point Loma/Hervey Library offers many unique features and several conference rooms\, a computer lab and media room. Fitting with Point Loma’s history as a fishing village\, the library incorporates themes of marine life and nautical history throughout the two-story building. \n \n\nSave
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LOCATION:Point Loma Library 3701 Voltaire Street San Diego\, CA 92107
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SUMMARY:Korean Dinner Adventure featuring acclaimed author A.H. Kim in conversation with SoCal author Kristin Rockaway
DESCRIPTION:About the In-Person Adventure\n“There are as many forms of love as there are moments in time.” — Jane Austen \nAnd let’s take a moment in time to meet acclaimed author A.H. Kim\, in conversation with SoCal author Kristin Rockaway\, in this Korean Dinner Adventure to celebrate Ann’s new book\, Relative Strangers\, a timely spin on Sense and Sensibility\, a twenty-first-century family drama featuring two half-Korean sisters\, their ex-hippie mother\, multiple messy love affairs and one explosive secret that could ruin everything. \nJoin us at Buga Korean BBQ for an authentic and delicious dinner and a lively book discussion! Experience the exquisite tastes of Korean cuisine and learn all about A.H’s witty and entertaining retelling and how it explores love\, loss\, grief\, and forgiveness through the perspectives of two sisters. \nYour Adventure includes dinner\, soft beverage\, tax\, gratuity\, and an opportunity to meet the authors up close and personal in an intimate setting! Pre-order your book below to be delivered to the event for signing. Copies will also be available at the event for purchase and signing. \n  \nAbout the Author and Book\n \nA.H. Kim (Ann) was born in Seoul\, South Korea and immigrated to the U.S. as a young child. Ann was educated at Harvard College and Berkeley Law School\, where she was an editor of the California Law Review. Ann practiced corporate law for many years and served as chief of staff to the CEO and as head of investor relations at a Fortune 200 company. \nAnn’s second novel\, Relative Strangers is a contemporary retelling of Sense and Sensibility and explores themes of love\, loss\, grief\, and forgiveness. \nAmelia Bae-Wood’s life is falling apart. Unemployed\, newly single and completely broke—for reasons she hasn’t told anyone yet—she finds herself hitchhiking across California to deal with the fallout of her mother’s eviction from the family estate. Amelia needs somewhere to live and time to figure out what to do with the rest of her life\, so moving with her mother and sister to Arcadia\, the cancer retreat center where her sister volunteers\, seems like as good an idea as any. \nAmelia’s sister\, Eleanor\, has too much on her plate\, including being caught up in a court battle with a man who claims to be their half brother from Seoul and their late father’s only son—a secret love child from his Korean youth—who’s fighting for a piece of everything that belongs to the Bae-Wood women. And when Amelia adds herself to Eleanor’s list of problems\, Eleanor must figure out what to hold on to—and when to let go—before things starts to unravel. \nA witty\, wry and enormously entertaining retelling\, the sisters’ journey of self-discovery as they reshape their lives gives this classic tale a modern\, feminist twist\, as it touches on themes of blended families\, race\, class and wealth. \n  \nAbout the Moderator\n \nKristin Rockaway is a native New Yorker living in Southern California. She’s the author of six novels\, including Smart Girl Summer\, Life\, Unscheduled\, and How to Hack a Heartbreak\, which has been optioned for television. In addition to writing\, she teaches Fiction with Gotham Writers Workshop and runs a boutique travel agency called Novel World Travel. When she’s not working\, she enjoys spending time with her husband and son and planning her next big vacation. \n  \nAbout Buga Korean BBQ\nBuga is a premium traditional Korean BBQ restaurant serving San Diego since 2001. They proudly present to you the highest quality and the authentic experience with their friendly service. \n \n\nSave
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LOCATION:Buga Korean BBQ 5580 Clairemont Mesa Blvd San Diego\, 92117
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SUMMARY:Korean Lunch Adventure (LA) featuring acclaimed author A.H. Kim in conversation with author Rosa Kwon Easton
DESCRIPTION:About the In-Person Adventure\n“There are as many forms of love as there are moments in time.” — Jane Austen \nAnd let’s take a moment in time to meet acclaimed author A.H. Kim\, in conversation with author Rosa Kwon Easton\, in this Los Angeles Korean Lunch Adventure to celebrate Ann’s new book. Relative Strangers is a timely spin on Sense and Sensibility\, a twenty-first-century family drama featuring two half-Korean sisters\, their ex-hippie mother\, multiple messy love affairs and one explosive secret that could ruin everything. \nJoin us at Yong Su San in Los Angeles for an authentic and delicious lunch and a lively book discussion! Experience the exquisite tastes of Korean cuisine and learn all about A.H’s witty and entertaining retelling\, and how it explores love\, loss\, grief\, and forgiveness through the perspectives of two sisters. \nYour Adventure includes delicious Korean lunch\, hot tea\, tax\, gratuity\, and an opportunity to meet the authors up close and personal in an intimate setting! Pre-order your book below to be delivered to the event for signing. Copies will also be available at the event for purchase and signing. \n  \nAbout the Author and Book\n \nA.H. Kim (Ann) was born in Seoul\, South Korea and immigrated to the U.S. as a young child. Ann was educated at Harvard College and Berkeley Law School\, where she was an editor of the California Law Review. Ann practiced corporate law for many years and served as chief of staff to the CEO and as head of investor relations at a Fortune 200 company. \nAnn’s second novel\, Relative Strangers is a contemporary retelling of Sense and Sensibility and explores themes of love\, loss\, grief\, and forgiveness. \nAmelia Bae-Wood’s life is falling apart. Unemployed\, newly single and completely broke—for reasons she hasn’t told anyone yet—she finds herself hitchhiking across California to deal with the fallout of her mother’s eviction from the family estate. Amelia needs somewhere to live and time to figure out what to do with the rest of her life\, so moving with her mother and sister to Arcadia\, the cancer retreat center where her sister volunteers\, seems like as good an idea as any. \nAmelia’s sister\, Eleanor\, has too much on her plate\, including being caught up in a court battle with a man who claims to be their half-brother from Seoul and their late father’s only son—a secret love child from his Korean youth—who’s fighting for a piece of everything that belongs to the Bae-Wood women. And when Amelia adds herself to Eleanor’s list of problems\, Eleanor must figure out what to hold on to—and when to let go—before things start to unravel. \nA witty\, wry\, and enormously entertaining retelling\, the sisters’ journey of self-discovery as they reshape their lives gives this classic tale a modern\, feminist twist\, as it touches on themes of blended families\, race\, class\, and wealth. \n  \nAbout the Moderator\n \nRosa Kwon Easton is a debut author whose novels White Mulberry\, and Red Seal\, the sequel\, will be published in a two-book deal\, in winter 2024 and 2026. She is a lawyer\, trustee\, and former President of the publicly-elected Board of Trustees of the Palos Verdes Library District. She is an Anaphora Writing Residency Fellow and a semi-finalist for the Sunspot Lit short story award. Her work can be found in CRAFT Literary\, Writer’s Digest\, StoryCenter.org\, and others. Born in Seoul\, South Korea\, she grew up in Los Angeles and lives in Palos Verdes with her husband and Maltipoo.  \n  \nAbout Yong Su San\nYong Su San has served traditional Korean cuisine to the city of Los Angeles for thirty years. “Yongsusan” means “dragon water mountain\,” the name of a mountain in Kaesung\, capital of the ancient Koryo Dynasty. Yong Su San’s Master Chef and founder Sang Oak Choi was born and raised in Kaesung and mastered both the Kaesung and Royal Court styles of cooking. Yongsusan specializes in Kaesung and Royal Court cuisine\, which is now special and difficult to come by even in Korea. \n \n\nSave
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LOCATION:Yong Su San Restaurant 950 S Vermont Avenue Los Angeles\, California
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SUMMARY:Super Book V: a San Diego Adventure with 20 New York Times and bestselling authors
DESCRIPTION:About the Live and In-Person Adventure\n\nIt’s kickoff time! No\, we aren’t talking about Super Bowl; we are talking about Super Book V\, and you are invited! \nJoin our team of 20 renowned authors\, including our keynote half-time speakers\, who will give book enthusiasts and reading fans the experience of a lifetime\, complete with four quarters of excitement\, crowd-pleasing food\, and so much more\, scheduled to take place on Sunday\, February 18\, 2024 at: \nAdmiral Baker Golf Course Clubhouse\, 2400 Admiral Baker Rd #3604\, San Diego\, CA 92124 \nAnd of course\, no Adventure by the Book would be complete without lots of excitement and fun\, and… \n\nDaylong Adventure featuring up to 20 New York Times and bestselling authors\nCustom Super Book tote bag\nContinental breakfast\nCrowd-pleasing gourmet lunch\nCollectible event program\nSeating at lunch tables with an author\nVIP option available to seat with your favorite author (limited availability)\nMultiple book signing autographing opportunities with all authors\nPhoto ops with authors\nMeet and greet opportunities with the authors\nBooks provided for sale and signing\nFour quarters of author activities\nHalf-time presentation\nDiscounted block of hotel rooms*\nFun prizes and giveaways\n…and much more\n\nRegistration\nCheck out our amazing SuperBook V lineup\, and snag your tickets now to be part of the fun! \n*Discounted Hotel Rooms\nA limited number of discounted hotel rooms are now available at Marriott Mission Valley. \nHalf-Time Presentation\nSan Diego native Georgeanne “George” Irvine has devoted her career to raising awareness about animals and wildlife conservation. She is the director of publishing for San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance\, where she has worked for more than 45 years\, as well as the author of nearly 30 children’s books about wildlife. Her award-winning Hope & Inspiration collection features true stories about individual animals from the San Diego Zoo and San Diego Zoo Safari Park that have overcome challenges in their lives. Her newest books is Amazing Omeo: A Baby Koala’s True Story of Survival. \nPrior to publishing\, George served in many capacities during her tenure with the Zoo–she worked in public relations and marketing as well as philanthropy. Her duties ranged from being a media spokesperson to escorting celebrities around the Zoo and animals to television shows (such as Johnny Carson’s “Tonight” show) to creating collateral that helped the Zoo raise millions of dollars each year for conservation and new habitats. \nMajor passions for George include traveling\, photography\, storytelling\, Broadway musicals and\, of course\, wildlife. She lives for adventure travel and loves seeing animals in their native habitats. Her worldwide expeditions have taken her to many of the wildest places on earth—from the jungles of Borneo and South America to the mountains of China and the forests of India to the Outback of Australia and the savannas of Africa. She also enjoys spending time in Alaska’s wild places to observe and photograph brown bears and other North American wildlife. \nJoining George will be the zany Dr. Zoolittle\, who will entertain with a fun interactive presentation sharing stories\, jokes\, poems\, songs\, and interesting facts about wildlife. Together\, the dynamic Zoo duo is sure to capture your hearts and make you laugh with animal tales that inspire a passion for wildlife conservation and education. \nAuthor Preview\nBrigit Binns is the author or co-author of 25 cookbooks\, many of them for Williams-Sonoma\, as well as ghost-writer on many others. During the ten years she spent living in Europe\, Brigit graduated from England’s Tante Marie cooking school\, lived and catered in Spain for three years\, and edited the Costa del Sol’s English-language magazine. Brigit’s cookbook Eating Up the West Coast: The best road trips\, recipes\, and restaurants from California to Washington was her twenty-ninth book. Rottenkid: A Succulent Story of Survival is a coming-of-age memoir―co-starring Brigit’s alcoholic actor father Edward Binns and glamorous but viciously smart narcissistic mother―which reveals how simultaneous privilege and profound neglect led Brigit to seek comfort in the kitchen\, eventually allowing her to find some sense of self-worth. \nTo schedule a book club visit with Brigit or any of our authors on NovelNetwork: \n\n\nConnect with this Author on NovelNetwork®\n\n\nJeffrey Blount is the award-winning author of 3 novels and an Emmy award-winning television director. In his latest novel\, Mr. Jimmy From Around the Way\, after a highly publicized fall from grace\, James Henry Ferguson attempts to flee from the chaos in his life. He ends up in a community he had never heard of before\, a place of abject poverty\, the neighborhood is commonly referred to as “Around the Way.” A self-identified failure is forced to uncover the wisdom of his past in order to recognize that money can’t solve every problem. Full of never-ending twists and turns\, no one can prepare themselves for the surprises in store. \nTo schedule a book club visit with Jeffrey or any of our authors on NovelNetwork: \n\n\nConnect with this Author on NovelNetwork®\n\n\nKathi Diamant is an actress\, author\, TV producer/anchor and adjunct professor at San Diego State University. Since 1998\, she has directed the Kafka Project at SDSU\, the official international search for Kafka’s lost writings stolen by the Gestapo in Berlin in 1933. Her award-winning book Kafka’s Last Love: The Mystery of Dora Diamant is the first biography of the woman who was literary giant Franz Kafka’s last love\, and the woman accused of burning his work. This novel received critical acclaim internationally\, won the Geisel Award\, the “Best of the Best” in the San Diego Book Awards\, and has been published in a dozen editions\, including translations in French\, German\, Spanish\, Russian\, Chinese\, Portuguese\, Turkish and more. \nTo schedule a book club visit with Kathi or any of our authors on NovelNetwork: \n\n\nConnect with this Author on NovelNetwork®\n\n\nPiper G. Huguley is a literature professor at Clark-Atlanta University and blogs about the history behind her novels at http://piperhuguley.com. She lives in Atlanta\, Georgia with her husband and son. Her biographical historical fiction\, By Her Own Design: a Novel of Ann Lowe\, Fashion Designer to the Social Register (William Morrow Publishing) tells the inspiring story of the Black fashion designer of Jackie Kennedy’s wedding dress. By Her Own Design was a Booklist top 100 Editor’s Choice selection for 2022 and was named one of the top 100 books of 2022 in Canada by the Globe and Mail newspaper. \nTo schedule a book club visit with Piper or any of our authors on NovelNetwork: \n\n\nConnect with this Author on NovelNetwork®\n\n\nSusannah Kennedy is a Berkeley- and Oxford-educated anthropologist with extensive travel experience. Reading Jane\, her award-winning memoir\, explores the hidden diaries that her mother left behind before committing suicide\, and offers a vivid study of narratives\, the power of parenthood\, and what freedom looks like when we choose to examine the uncomfortable past. \nTo schedule a book club visit with Susannah or any of our authors on NovelNetwork: \n\n\nConnect with this Author on NovelNetwork®\n\n\nTosca Lee is the award-winning\, New York Times bestselling author of The Line Between\, The Progeny\, Firstborn\, Iscariot\, The Legend of Sheba\, Demon: A Memoir\, Havah: The Story of Eve\, and the Books of Mortals series with New York Times bestseller Ted Dekker. She is the recipient of two International Book Awards\, Killer Nashville’s Silver Falchion\, ECPA Book of the Year in Fiction\, and the Nebraska Book Award. Her work has finaled for the High Plains Book Award\, the Library of Virginia Reader’s Choice Award\, two Christy Awards\, and a second ECPA Book of the Year. Inspired by true stories\, her new book\, The Long March Home\, is a gripping coming-of-age tale of friendship\, sacrifice\, and the power of unrelenting hope. \nTo schedule a book club visit with Tosca or any of our authors on NovelNetwork: \n\n\nConnect with this Author on NovelNetwork®\n\n\nJeffrey Dale Lofton calls the nation’s capital home\, where he serves as a senior advisor at the Library of Congress\, surrounded by books and people who love books—in short\, paradise. His debut novel Red Clay Suzie tells the story of Philbet\, a gay boy enraptured by cars\, who struggles with body-blow rejection to find resolution in life lessons learned in Grandaddy’s vegetable garden. Red Clay Suzie is the recipient of the Seven Hills Literary Prize for Fiction and was recently longlisted for The Center for Fiction First Novel Prize. \nTo schedule a book club visit with Jeffrey or any of our authors on NovelNetwork: \n\n\nConnect with this Author on NovelNetwork®\n\n\nRobin Oliveira grew up just outside Albany\, New York in the town of Loudonville. She holds a B.A. in Russian from the University of Montana\, and studied at the Pushkin Language Institute in Moscow\, Russia. She worked for many years as a Registered Nurse\, specializing in Critical Care and Bone Marrow Transplant. In 2006 she received an M.F.A. in Writing from Vermont College of Fine Arts. Her new novel\, A Wild and Heavenly Place\, is an ode to the Pacific Northwest\, to those courageous and resilient enough to chase the American Dream\, and to a love so powerful it endures beyond distance\, beyond hope. \nTo schedule a book club visit with Robin or any of our authors on NovelNetwork: \n\n\nConnect with this Author on NovelNetwork®\n\n\nShelley Read taught writing\, literature\, environmental studies\, and Honors\, and was a founder of the interdisciplinary Environment & Sustainability major\, the Prague study abroad program\, and a support program for first-generation and at-risk students as an award-winning Senior Lecturer at Western Colorado University for nearly three decades. Her debut novel\, Go as a River\, set amid Colorado’s wild beauty\, is a heartbreaking coming-of-age story of a resilient young woman whose life is changed forever by one chance encounter. A tragic\, uplifting novel of love and loss\, place and displacement\, prejudice and family\, wilderness and survival—and hope. \nRenée Rosen is a USA Today bestselling author. Her novels include The Social Graces\, Park Avenue Summer\, Windy City Blues\, White Collar Girl\, What the Lady Wants and Dollface as well as the young adult novel\, Every Crooked Pot. She is currently working on a new novel about the Barbie doll creator\, Ruth Handler\, coming from Penguin Random House/Berkley in 2025. In Renée’s dazzling new novel\, Fifth Avenue Glamor Girl\, it’s 1938\, and a young woman selling face cream out of a New York City beauty parlor is determined to prove she can have it all. Her name is Estée Lauder\, and she’s about to take the world by storm. \nTo schedule a book club visit with Renee or any of our authors on NovelNetwork: \n\n\nConnect with this Author on NovelNetwork®\n\n\nDeborah Goodrich Royce began her career as an actress\, starring as Silver Kane\, sister of the legendary Erica Kane (played by Susan Lucci) on the ABC soap\, All My Children. She went on to star in feature films such as April Fool’s Day and Just One of the Guys\, TV movies such as Return to Peyton Place and The Deliberate Stranger\, and series such as Beverly Hills 90210 and 21 Jump Street. In her novel\, Reef Road\, a young woman’s life seems perfect until her family goes missing. A writer lives alone with her dog and collects arcane murder statistics. What each of them stands to lose as they sneak around the do-not-enter tape blocking Reef Road beach is exposed by the steady tightening of the cincture encircling them. In a nod to the true crime that inspired it\, Deborah Goodrich Royce’s Reef Road probes unhealed generational scars in a wrenching and original work of fiction. It is both stunning and sexy and\, like a bystander surprised by a curtain left open\, you won’t be able to look away. \nTo schedule a book club visit with Deborah or any of our authors on NovelNetwork: \n\n\nConnect with this Author on NovelNetwork®\n\n\nRenee Ryan is a multi-published\, award-winning author who sold her first book in 2001 by winning the inaugural Dorchester/Romantic Times New Historical Voice Contest. She published her second book with Harlequin in February 2009 and has since sold over thirty books to several publishers. Her new novel\, The Paris Housekeeper\, is a powerful and moving story of bravery and resilience in World War II Paris\, and about one woman who must face impossible choices to survive. \nTo schedule a book club visit with Renee or any of our authors on NovelNetwork: \n\n\nConnect with this Author on NovelNetwork®\n\n\nHeather Webb is the USA Today-bestselling and award-winning author of eight historical novels. In 2015\, Rodin’s Lover was a Goodreads Top Pick\, and in 2018\, Last Christmas in Paris won the Women’s Fiction Writers Association STAR Award. Her latest book\, Queens of London\, is a look at Britain’s first female crime syndicate\, the ever-shifting meaning of justice\, and the way women claim their power by any means necessary. \nTo schedule a book club visit with Heather or any of our authors on NovelNetwork: \n\n\nConnect with this Author on NovelNetwork®\n\n\nKaren White is the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of 34 books\, with almost two million books in print in fifteen different languages\, including the Tradd Street series\, The Last Night in London\, Dreams of Falling\, The Night the Lights Went Out\, Flight Patterns\, The Sound of Glass\, and A Long Time Gone. She is the coauthor of The Lost Summers of Newport\, All the Ways We Said Goodbye\, The Glass Ocean and The Forgotten Room with New York Times bestselling authors Beatriz Williams and Lauren Willig. A woman is haunted—both literally and figuratively—by ghosts of the past in her second novel of the Royal Street series\, The House on Prytania. \nTo schedule a book club visit with Karen or any of our authors on NovelNetwork: \n\n\nConnect with this Author on NovelNetwork®\n\n\nBeatriz Williams is the New York Times\, USA Today\, and internationally bestselling author of Our Woman in Moscow\, The Summer Wives\, Her Last Flight\, The Golden Hour\, The Secret Life of Violet Grant\, A Hundred Summers\, and several other works of historical fiction\, including three novels in collaboration with fellow bestselling authors Karen White and Lauren Willig. Beatriz’s books have won numerous awards\, have been translated into more than a dozen languages\, and appear regularly in bestseller lists around the world. Her book\, The Beach at Summerly\, is a ravishing summer read that transports readers to a midcentury New England rich with secrets and Cold War intrigue. \nLauren Willig is the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of more than twenty works of historical fiction\, including Band of Sisters\, The Summer Country\, The English Wife\, the RITA Award-winning Pink Carnation series\, and four novels co-written with Beatriz Williams and Karen White. Her books have been translated into over twenty languages\, picked for Book of the Month Club\, awarded the RITA\, Booksellers Best\, and Golden Leaf awards\, and chosen for the American Library Association’s annual list of the best genre fiction. Two Wars and a Wedding is a dramatic coming-of-age story with a dual timeline and a single heroine—a bold and adventuring young woman who finds herself caught up in two very different wars on both sides of the Atlantic. \nKitty Zeldis is the pen name of a Brooklyn based author of nine novels\, numerous essays\, articles and works of short fiction as well as forty books for children. She lives with her family in Brooklyn\, NY. Moving from the bustling streets of Brooklyn and Manhattan to late 19th century Russia and the lively quarters of New Orleans\, her new novel\, The Dressmakers of Prospect Heights\, is a story of female friendship\, the families we are born with and the families we make\, and how some bonds can be tested but never broken. \nTo schedule a book club visit with Kitty or any of our authors on NovelNetwork: \n\n\nConnect with this Author on NovelNetwork®\n\n\nAbout Our Special Guest\nCasey Biggs is the perfect award-winning Paso Wine Man: attractive\, impressive\, convincing and internationally famous. He lives in Paso Robles (California)\, a country known for its world-class wines and wineries. Casey becomes and performs the Paso Wine Man\, the face of the Paso Roble wine country\, in many marketing videos for the Paso Robles Wine Country Alliance. \nCasey Biggs as the Paso Wine Man got the reward “Wine Person of Excellence Award (Winter to Spring 2014)” for being “the most interesting Wine Person of Excellence in the world” from the Wine Consumer Seal of Excellence. \n\nOur team can’t wait to see you there!
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SUMMARY:Point Loma Library Monday Night Author Adventures (Part 2): a FREE in-person series featuring award-winning historian and NYT bestselling author Elizabeth Cobbs
DESCRIPTION:About the In-Person Library Series\nWe are delighted to introduce a fun 2024 author series in partnership with the Point Loma Library\, and we invite you to join us! Don’t miss the opportunity to meet seven bestselling and fan-favorite authors: Beth Ann Mathews\, Elizabeth Cobbs\, Elizabeth L. Silver\, Carl Vonderau\, Jesse Leon\, Madhushree Ghosh and Mona Gable. \nPart 2 – Just in time for to commemorate President’s Day\, join award-winning historian and New York Times bestselling author Elizabeth Cobbs to discuss her book on feminist patriots\, Fearless Women. \nBOOKS are available for pre-order below to be delivered to the event for signing. \nUpcoming Series Schedule\n\nPART 2 featuring Elizabeth Cobbs: Wednesday\, February 7\, 1:00 pm Pacific (note the date and time change for this event only) \nPART 3 featuring Carl Vonderau: Monday\, May 13\, 6:30pm Pacific\nPART 4 featuring Elizabeth L. Silver: Monday\, June 10\, 6:30pm Pacific\nPART 5 featuring Jesse Leon: Monday\, September 9\, 6:30pm Pacific\nPART 6 featuring Madhushree Ghosh: Monday\, October 28\, 6:30pm Pacific\nPART 7 featuring Mona Gable: Monday\, November 4\, 6:30pm Pacific\n\n\n\nPart 2: Elizabeth Cobbs\n\n \nElizabeth Cobbs is an award-winning historian who brings fresh\, unexpected perspectives to our understanding of the past and present. Building upon worldwide archival research and her own extraordinary life experiences\, Elizabeth writes best selling  fiction and non-fiction that is both scholarly and witty. Her path-breaking books\, articles\, and documentary films reveal a world that is as intriguing and surprising as it is real. Elizabeth earned her Ph.D. in American history at Stanford University. She now holds the Melbern Glasscock Chair at Texas A&M University. Her books have won four literary prizes\, two for American history and two for fiction\, and she has won four prizes for documentary filmmaking. \nWhen America became a nation\, a woman had no legal existence beyond her husband. If he abused her\, she couldn’t leave without abandoning her children. Abigail Adams tried to change this\, reminding her husband John to “remember the ladies” when he wrote the Constitution. He simply laughed―and women have been fighting for their rights ever since. Fearless Women tells the story of women who dared to take destiny into their own hands. They were feminists and antifeminists\, activists and homemakers\, victims of abuse and pathbreaking professionals. Inspired by the nation’s ideals and fueled by an unshakeable sense of right and wrong\, they wouldn’t take no for an answer. In time\, they carried the country with them. \n\n\n\nPart 3: Carl Vonderau\n\n \n\nCarl Vonderau is an award-winning author of crime fiction. As a child growing up in Cleveland\, he loved to write. His ghost stories scared the bejesus out of other kids. But it took a long time to become a full-time author. He left Cleveland to study at Stanford\, then spent more than thirty years as a banker in the U.S.\, Latin America\, and North Africa. Those international settings were sources of inspiration for his books. He is the president of Partners in Crime\, The San Diego chapter of the Sisters in Crime organization of authors and fans of crime writing. Additionally\, he’s a partner at San Diego Social Venture Partners\, an organization that mentors other nonprofits.His first novel\, Murderabilia\, was published in 2019 and won a Left Coast Crime award for Best Debut\, and a San Diego Book award for Best Mystery. \nHis second novel\, Saving Myles\, follows an unassuming banker from La Jolla\, CA as he takes matters into his own hands in order to save his kidnapped son and bring him home. \nPart 4: Elizabeth Silver\n\n\nElizabeth L. Silver is the author of The Tincture of Time: A Memoir of (Medical) Uncertainty\, and Amazon Best Book of the Year The Execution of Noa P. Singleton. Her work has been called “masterful” by The Wall Street Journal\, has been published in 7 languages\, and optioned for film. The Tincture of Time was featured on PBS and NPR\, and was an O Magazine/Oprah’s “Ten Books to Pick up Now.” \nHer new novel\, The Majority\, is a riveting novel of love and friendship\, motherhood and ambition\, and one woman’s fight to be a Supreme Court justice. Covering the span of fifty years\, Justice Sylvia Olin Bernstein’s personal account reveals the intimate truth about a woman who is not just a brilliant mind but a daughter\, a best friend\, a wife\, and a mother. Caught in a tug-of-war between career and family\, truth and convenience\, progress and patience\, she will be given a chance to change the course of American history. \nTo schedule a book club visit with Elizabeth or any of our authors on NovelNetwork: \n\n\nConnect with this Author on NovelNetwork®\n\n\n  \n\nPart 5: Jesse Leon\n \nJesse Leon is a social impact consultant to foundations\, impact investors\, non-profits\, and real estate developers on ways to address issues of substance abuse\, affordable housing\, and educational opportunities for at-risk youth. Since receiving a master’s degree from the Harvard Kennedy School\, Jesse has managed multi-million dollar philanthropic grantmaking for various foundations and banking institutions\, managed over $1B in public sector investments for affordable housing\, and built thousands of units of mixed-income housing as a real estate developer for Bank of America. \nJesse’s unforgettable memoir\, I’m Not Broken\, is an inspirational portrait of one young man’s indomitable strength and spirit to survive—against all possible odds. “A book for survivors and those who know someone they hope survives\, bodhisattvas all.” \nPart 6: Madhushree Ghosh\n \nMadhushree Ghosh has written prolifically on how food—especially South Asian food—travels globally though immigration\, migration and indenture. As the daughter of refugees and an immigrant to America\, food stories inform her about the history of her people\, how they traveled and what happened to them when they held onto recipes\, let go or modified them over countries\, continents and generations. Her work has been a Notable Mention in Best American Essays in Food Writing\, Pushcart nominated and published in The New York Times\, Vogue India\, Washington Post\, LA Times\, The Writer\, Longreads\, Catapult\, BOMB\, Guernica\, LA Review of Books\, LitHub and others. She is an invited workshop leader at conferences and workshops such as Grub Street Writers\, Encinitas Writers Workshop\, San Diego Memoir Writers’ Workshop and others. \nHer debut food narrative memoir\,\, was published in 2022 by the University of Iowa Press to great acclaim. KHABAAR focuses on chefs\, home cooks\, and food stall owners\, and the author’s own immigrant journey as the daughter of refugees\, questioning what it means to belong and what does “belonging” in a new place look like in the foods carried over from the old country. \nPart 7: Mona Gable\n \nMona Gable is a freelance writer based in Los Angeles. Her work has appeared in The Atlantic\, Outside\, AFAR\, the Los Angeles Times\, and many others. Her article in Los Angeles magazine\, “The Hugo Problem\,” was named a Longreads Best of 2015. Since 1990\, she has written about social issues\, culture\, and politics for the Los Angeles Times. Gable grew up in San Diego\, California\, and is a graduate of UC Berkeley. Her memoir\, “Blood Brother: The Gene That Rocked My Family\,” was published in 2014 by Shebooks. \nHer new novel\, Searching for Savanna\, arose out of a story she wrote for the late Pacific Standard magazine. It is a gripping and illuminating investigation into the disappearance of Savanna LaFontaine-Greywind when she was eight months pregnant\, highlighting the shocking epidemic of violence against Native women in America and the societal ramifications of government inaction. \nRegistration\nAs this event is free and open to the public\, no registration is required and seating is available on a first-come\, first-served based. However\, we encourage you to support each of the featured authors by pre-ordering a copy of the book below to be delivered to the event for signing. Additional copies will be available for sale at the event on a limited basis. \n\nAbout the Point Loma/Hervey Library\nOne of the largest libraries in the City of San Diego\, the Point Loma/Hervey Library offers many unique features and several conference rooms\, a computer lab and media room. Fitting with Point Loma’s history as a fishing village\, the library incorporates themes of marine life and nautical history throughout the two-story building. \n \n\nSave
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LOCATION:Point Loma Library 3701 Voltaire Street San Diego\, CA 92107
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SUMMARY:Sisters Under the Rising Sun: a Brunch Adventure featuring New York Times and international bestselling author Heather Morris
DESCRIPTION:About the In-Person Event\nDiscover the power of sisterhood\, bravery\, and friendship in the darkest of circumstances… \n…in the latest historical novel by Heather Morris\, New York Times and international bestselling author of The Tattooist of Auschwitz\, Cilka’s Journey\, and Three Sisters. Joining us all the way from Australia\, Heather is looking forward to meeting you at Broken Yolk Cafe in Carmel Mountain Plaza for a delicious brunch and stimulating conversation as we discuss her latest novel\, Sisters Under the Rising Sun\, a novel of sisterhood\, bravery and friendship in the darkest of circumstances\,. \nYour Adventure includes brunch\, coffee\, tax\, gratuity\, and an opportunity to meet Heather up close and personal in an intimate setting. \n\nAbout the Author and Book\n \nHeather Morris is the Australian-based\, multimillion-copy bestselling author of The Tattooist of Auschwitz\, Cilka’s Journey\, and Three Sisters. Her work has been praised by the New York Times\, Publisher’s Weekly\, and many others. \nHer latest novel\, Sisters Under the Rising Sun\, tells the story of two incredible women\, Norah Chambers and Nesta James\, who are held captive in a notorious POW camp by the Japanese during World War II. Woman’s Own calls the novel “an earth-shattering read\,” and you can hear all about it over a lovely brunch. \n\n\nAbout Broken Yolk Cafe\nBroken Yolk Cafe started in 1979 in Pacific Beach and has since expanded across the country. They’re known for their wonderful service\, food\, and mimosas.
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CATEGORIES:Brunch Adventures,Event,San Diego Adventures
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SUMMARY:Deep Waters: a Mission Bay Yacht Club Adventure with Award-Winning Memoirist Beth Ann Mathews
DESCRIPTION:About the In-Person Event\nMission Bay Yacht Club has a rich history of sailing and boating in San Diego\, so we couldn’t think of a more perfect venue to delve into the Deep Waters of marine biologist Beth Ann Mathews’ memoir. \nJoin us on the Bay for this FREE opportunity to hear Beth discuss her memoir\, Deep Waters\, the inspirational story of how her family dealt with her husband’s rare kind of stroke\, how it affected her career\, and how she learned to adapt and overcome. With her expertise in biology and marine mammalogy\, she’ll also have plenty of insights to share about the natural world and life in the sea. \nGet ready to take in the gorgeous sights at Mission Bay Yacht Club and meet the author live and in-person. Event includes a power point presentation\, author talk\, and book signing. Pre-order your book below to be delivered to the event for signing. Copies will also be available at the event for purchase and signing.  We hope to see you there! \nAbout the Author and Book\n \n\nBeth Ann Mathews is a marine biologist and a mother of one son. She grew up in a large family in the Midwest and earned a degree in Animal Science at Purdue University. As a professor at the University of Alaska Southeast\, Beth taught courses in biology\, behavioral ecology\, and marine mammalogy and led research on harbor seals\, Steller sea lions\, and harbor porpoises with her students\, mainly in Glacier Bay National Park. After twenty years in Alaska\, Beth and her husband sold their home to begin an expedition with their young son on the family’s 42-foot sailboat from Alaska to Mexico’s Sea of Cortez. \nFeedback from her blog during the three-year journey inspired her to write stories about their sailing adventures as well as Deep Waters\, a memoir about her family’s struggle to survive\, and move beyond\, her husband’s unusual stroke in 2008. This memoir won the Memoirs (personal struggle/health issues) category of the Next Generation Indie Book Awards\, and a bronze award in the Independent Publishers Book Awards\, for Best Regional Non-Fiction\, West-Pacific region. \nDeep Waters is a gripping\, intimate story of relationship resilience set against the backdrop of Alaska’s dramatic marine wilderness. A marine biologist’s adventurous life as a professor\, wife\, and mother in Alaska is upended when her healthy husband is slammed by a rare type of stroke. His radical approach to recovery clashes with her instinct to keep him safe at home and sets them on a collision course as he insists on ambitious sailing expeditions with Beth and their young son in Alaska’s magnificent yet unforgiving waters. \n\nTo schedule a book club visit with Beth Ann or any of our authors on NovelNetwork: \n\n\nConnect with this Author on NovelNetwork®\n\n\n\nRegistration\nAs this event is free and open to the public\, no registration is required. Seating is available on a first-come\, first-served based. You may pre-order a copy of the book below to be delivered to the event for signing. Additional copies will be available for sale at the event as well. \n\n\nAbout Mission Bay Yacht Club\nMission Bay Yacht Club has a rich history and a strong tradition of Corinthian sailboat racing. This is encouraged by Club sponsored regattas throughout the year. You will find national champions and novices alike competing in our regattas. Mission Bay Yacht Club’s ideal location makes it a favorite venue for national and world championship sailing regattas. Recently\, the US Sailing Association named MBYC the “One-Design Yacht Club of the Year.”
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LOCATION:Mission Bay Yacht Club 1215 El Carmel Place San Diego\, CA 92109
CATEGORIES:Event,San Diego Adventures
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SUMMARY:Deep Waters Dinner Adventure with Award-Winning Memoirist Beth Ann Mathews
DESCRIPTION:About the In-Person Event\nYou are invited to join us in an intimate dinner Adventure at King’s Fish House\, San Diego\, as we delve into the Deep Waters of marine biologist  Beth Ann Mathews’ memoir. \nBeth’s memoir\, Deep Waters\, is the inspirational story of how her family dealt with her husband’s rare kind of stroke\, how it affected her career\, and how she learned to adapt and overcome. With her expertise in biology and marine mammalogy\, she’ll also have plenty of insights to share about the natural world and life in the sea. \nEvent includes an intimate dinner\, soft beverage\, tax\, gratuity\, author talk\, and book signing. Pre-order your book below to be delivered to the event for signing. Copies will also be available at the event for purchase and signing.  We hope to see you there! \nAbout the Author and Book\n \n\nBeth Ann Mathews is a marine biologist and a mother of one son. She grew up in a large family in the Midwest and earned a degree in Animal Science at Purdue University. As a professor at the University of Alaska Southeast\, Beth taught courses in biology\, behavioral ecology\, and marine mammalogy and led research on harbor seals\, Steller sea lions\, and harbor porpoises with her students\, mainly in Glacier Bay National Park. After twenty years in Alaska\, Beth and her husband sold their home to begin an expedition with their young son on the family’s 42-foot sailboat from Alaska to Mexico’s Sea of Cortez. \nFeedback from her blog during the three-year journey inspired her to write stories about their sailing adventures as well as Deep Waters\, a memoir about her family’s struggle to survive\, and move beyond\, her husband’s unusual stroke in 2008. This memoir won the Memoirs (personal struggle/health issues) category of the Next Generation Indie Book Awards\, and a bronze award in the Independent Publishers Book Awards\, for Best Regional Non-Fiction\, West-Pacific region. \nDeep Waters is a gripping\, intimate story of relationship resilience set against the backdrop of Alaska’s dramatic marine wilderness. A marine biologist’s adventurous life as a professor\, wife\, and mother in Alaska is upended when her healthy husband is slammed by a rare type of stroke. His radical approach to recovery clashes with her instinct to keep him safe at home and sets them on a collision course as he insists on ambitious sailing expeditions with Beth and their young son in Alaska’s magnificent yet unforgiving waters. \n\nTo schedule a book club visit with Beth Ann or any of our authors on NovelNetwork: \n\n\nConnect with this Author on NovelNetwork®\n\n\n\nRegistration\nTo register for this event\, select the Dinner Event option below. You may pre-order a copy of the book below to be delivered to the event for signing. Additional copies will be available for sale at the event as well.
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LOCATION:King’s Fish House Restaurant\, 825 Camino De La Reina\, San DIego\, CA\, 92108\, United States
CATEGORIES:Dinner Adventures,Event,San Diego Adventures
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SUMMARY:Point Loma Library Monday Night Author Adventures (Part 1): a FREE in-person series marine biologist and author Beth Ann Mathews
DESCRIPTION:About the In-Person Library Series\nWe are delighted to introduce a fun 2024 author series in partnership with the Point Loma Library\, and we invite you to join us! Don’t miss the opportunity to meet seven bestselling and fan-favorite authors: Beth Ann Mathews\, Elizabeth Cobbs\, Elizabeth L. Silver\, Carl Vonderau\, Jesse Leon\, Madhushree Ghosh and Mona Gable. \nPart 1 – Just in time for the January Gray Whale migration in San Diego\, join marine biologist Beth Ann Mathews to discuss her deeply personal memoir\, Deep Waters. \nBOOKS are available for pre-order below to be delivered to the event for signing. \nUpcoming Series Schedule\nPART 1 featuring Beth Ann Mathews: Monday\, January 8\, 6:30pm Pacific\nPART 2 featuring Elizabeth Cobbs: Wednesday\, February 7\, 1:00 pm Pacific (note the date and time change for this event only) \nPART 3 featuring Carl Vonderau: Monday\, May 13\, 6:30pm Pacific\nPART 4 featuring Elizabeth L. Silver: Monday\, June 10\, 6:30pm Pacific\nPART 5 featuring Jesse Leon: Monday\, September 9\, 6:30pm Pacific\nPART 6 featuring Madhushree Ghosh: Monday\, October 28\, 6:30pm Pacific\nPART 7 featuring Mona Gable: Monday\, November 4\, 6:30pm Pacific\n\n  \n\nPart 1: Beth Ann Mathews\n \nBeth Ann Mathews is a marine biologist and a mother of one son. She grew up in a large family in the Midwest and earned a degree in Animal Science at Purdue University. As a professor at the University of Alaska Southeast\, Beth taught courses in biology\, behavioral ecology\, and marine mammalogy and led research on harbor seals\, Steller sea lions\, and harbor porpoises with her students\, mainly in Glacier Bay National Park. After twenty years in Alaska\, Beth and her husband sold their home to begin an expedition with their young son on the family’s 42-foot sailboat from Alaska to Mexico’s Sea of Cortez. \nFeedback from her blog during the three-year journey inspired her to write stories about their sailing adventures as well as Deep Waters\, a memoir about her family’s struggle to survive\, and move beyond\, her husband’s unusual stroke in 2008. This memoir won the Memoirs (personal struggle/health issues) category of the Next Generation Indie Book Awards\, and a bronze award in the Independent Publishers Book Awards\, for Best Regional Non-Fiction\, West-Pacific region. \nDeep Waters is a gripping\, intimate story of relationship resilience set against the backdrop of Alaska’s dramatic marine wilderness. A marine biologist’s adventurous life as a professor\, wife\, and mother in Alaska is upended when her healthy husband is slammed by a rare type of stroke. His radical approach to recovery clashes with her instinct to keep him safe at home and sets them on a collision course as he insists on ambitious sailing expeditions with Beth and their young son in Alaska’s magnificent yet unforgiving waters. \n\nTo schedule a book club visit with Beth Ann or any of our authors on NovelNetwork: \n				Connect with this Author on NovelNetwork®\n			\n  \nPart 2: Elizabeth Cobbs\n\n \nElizabeth Cobbs is an award-winning historian who brings fresh\, unexpected perspectives to our understanding of the past and present. Building upon worldwide archival research and her own extraordinary life experiences\, Elizabeth writes best selling  fiction and non-fiction that is both scholarly and witty. Her path-breaking books\, articles\, and documentary films reveal a world that is as intriguing and surprising as it is real. Elizabeth earned her Ph.D. in American history at Stanford University. She now holds the Melbern Glasscock Chair at Texas A&M University. Her books have won four literary prizes\, two for American history and two for fiction\, and she has won four prizes for documentary filmmaking. \nWhen America became a nation\, a woman had no legal existence beyond her husband. If he abused her\, she couldn’t leave without abandoning her children. Abigail Adams tried to change this\, reminding her husband John to “remember the ladies” when he wrote the Constitution. He simply laughed―and women have been fighting for their rights ever since. Fearless Women tells the story of women who dared to take destiny into their own hands. They were feminists and antifeminists\, activists and homemakers\, victims of abuse and pathbreaking professionals. Inspired by the nation’s ideals and fueled by an unshakeable sense of right and wrong\, they wouldn’t take no for an answer. In time\, they carried the country with them. \n\n\n  \n\nPart 3: Carl Vonderau\n\n \n\nCarl Vonderau is an award-winning author of crime fiction. As a child growing up in Cleveland\, he loved to write. His ghost stories scared the bejesus out of other kids. But it took a long time to become a full-time author. He left Cleveland to study at Stanford\, then spent more than thirty years as a banker in the U.S.\, Latin America\, and North Africa. Those international settings were sources of inspiration for his books. He is the president of Partners in Crime\, The San Diego chapter of the Sisters in Crime organization of authors and fans of crime writing. Additionally\, he’s a partner at San Diego Social Venture Partners\, an organization that mentors other nonprofits.His first novel\, Murderabilia\, was published in 2019 and won a Left Coast Crime award for Best Debut\, and a San Diego Book award for Best Mystery.  \nHis second novel\, Saving Myles\, follows an unassuming banker from La Jolla\, CA as he takes matters into his own hands in order to save his kidnapped son and bring him home. \nPart 4: Elizabeth L. Silver\n\n\nElizabeth L. Silver is the author of The Tincture of Time: A Memoir of (Medical) Uncertainty\, and Amazon Best Book of the Year The Execution of Noa P. Singleton. Her work has been called “masterful” by The Wall Street Journal\, has been published in 7 languages\, and optioned for film. The Tincture of Time was featured on PBS and NPR\, and was an O Magazine/Oprah’s “Ten Books to Pick up Now.”  \nHer new novel\, The Majority\, is a riveting novel of love and friendship\, motherhood and ambition\, and one woman’s fight to be a Supreme Court justice. Covering the span of fifty years\, Justice Sylvia Olin Bernstein’s personal account reveals the intimate truth about a woman who is not just a brilliant mind but a daughter\, a best friend\, a wife\, and a mother. Caught in a tug-of-war between career and family\, truth and convenience\, progress and patience\, she will be given a chance to change the course of American history. \nTo schedule a book club visit with Elizabeth or any of our authors on NovelNetwork: \n				Connect with this Author on NovelNetwork®\n			\n\n  \nPart 5: Jesse Leon\n \nJesse Leon is a social impact consultant to foundations\, impact investors\, non-profits\, and real estate developers on ways to address issues of substance abuse\, affordable housing\, and educational opportunities for at-risk youth. Since receiving a master’s degree from the Harvard Kennedy School\, Jesse has managed multi-million dollar philanthropic grantmaking for various foundations and banking institutions\, managed over $1B in public sector investments for affordable housing\, and built thousands of units of mixed-income housing as a real estate developer for Bank of America. \nJesse’s unforgettable memoir\, I’m Not Broken\, is an inspirational portrait of one young man’s indomitable strength and spirit to survive—against all possible odds. “A book for survivors and those who know someone they hope survives\, bodhisattvas all.” \n  \nPart 6: Madhushree Ghosh\n \nMadhushree Ghosh has written prolifically on how food—especially South Asian food—travels globally though immigration\, migration and indenture. As the daughter of refugees and an immigrant to America\, food stories inform her about the history of her people\, how they traveled and what happened to them when they held onto recipes\, let go or modified them over countries\, continents and generations. Her work has been a Notable Mention in Best American Essays in Food Writing\, Pushcart nominated and published in The New York Times\, Vogue India\, Washington Post\, LA Times\, The Writer\, Longreads\, Catapult\, BOMB\, Guernica\, LA Review of Books\, LitHub and others. She is an invited workshop leader at conferences and workshops such as Grub Street Writers\, Encinitas Writers Workshop\, San Diego Memoir Writers’ Workshop and others. \nHer debut food narrative memoir\,\, was published in 2022 by the University of Iowa Press to great acclaim. KHABAAR focuses on chefs\, home cooks\, and food stall owners\, and the author’s own immigrant journey as the daughter of refugees\, questioning what it means to belong and what does “belonging” in a new place look like in the foods carried over from the old country. \n  \nPart 7: Mona Gable\n \nMona Gable is a freelance writer based in Los Angeles. Her work has appeared in The Atlantic\, Outside\, AFAR\, the Los Angeles Times\, and many others. Her article in Los Angeles magazine\, “The Hugo Problem\,” was named a Longreads Best of 2015. Since 1990\, she has written about social issues\, culture\, and politics for the Los Angeles Times. Gable grew up in San Diego\, California\, and is a graduate of UC Berkeley. Her memoir\, “Blood Brother: The Gene That Rocked My Family\,” was published in 2014 by Shebooks. \nHer new novel\, Searching for Savanna\, arose out of a story she wrote for the late Pacific Standard magazine. It is a gripping and illuminating investigation into the disappearance of Savanna LaFontaine-Greywind when she was eight months pregnant\, highlighting the shocking epidemic of violence against Native women in America and the societal ramifications of government inaction. \n  \nRegistration\nAs this event is free and open to the public\, no registration is required and seating is available on a first-come\, first-served based. However\, we encourage you to support each of the featured authors by pre-ordering a copy of the book below to be delivered to the event for signing. Additional copies will be available for sale at the event on a limited basis. \n  \n\nAbout the Point Loma/Hervey Library\nOne of the largest libraries in the City of San Diego\, the Point Loma/Hervey Library offers many unique features and several conference rooms\, a computer lab and media room. Fitting with Point Loma’s history as a fishing village\, the library incorporates themes of marine life and nautical history throughout the two-story building. \n \n\nSave
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SUMMARY:A True Pyrate Account: a Yacht Club Lunch Adventure with New York Times bestselling author Katherine Howe
DESCRIPTION:About the In-Person Event\nIt’s time to sail forward and continue with this exciting author series held at the esteemed Southwestern Yacht Club. \nFrom the author of the bestselling historical fiction novels The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane and The House of Velvet and Glass comes a mystery adventure set in the Golden Age of Piracy. You won’t want to miss this opportunity to have lunch at the esteemed Southwestern Yacht Club in the beautiful Point Loma residential area within the Shelter Island Yacht Basin with New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Katherine Howe as she discusses her new novel\, A True Account: Hannah Masury’s Sojourn Amongst the Pyrates\, Written by Herself. \nYour Adventure includes lunch\, beverage\, tax\, gratuity\, a hardcover copy of A True Account: Hannah Masury’s Sojourn Amongst the Pyrates\, Written by Herself to be delivered and signed at the event\, and the opportunity to meet the author live and in-person. \n  \n\nAbout the Author and Book\n \nKatherine Howe is the author of the New York Times bestsellers The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane\, The House of Velvet and Glass\, and Vanderbilt: The Rise and Fall of an American Dynasty with Anderson Cooper\, as well as several young adult novels. She served as editor of The Penguin Book of Witches and her fiction has been translated into over twenty languages. Descended from three women who were tried for witchcraft in Salem\, she lives and sails with her family in New England. \nHer new novel\, A True Account: Hannah Masury’s Sojourn Amongst the Pyrates\, Written by Herself\,\nis a daring first-hand account of one young woman’s unbelievable adventure as one of the most terrifying sea rovers of all time. \nIn Boston\, as the Golden Age of Piracy comes to a bloody close\, Hannah Masury – bound out to service at a waterfront inn since childhood – is ready to take her life into her own hands. When a man is hanged for piracy in the town square and whispers of a treasure in the Caribbean spread\, Hannah is forced to flee for her life\, disguising herself as a cabin boy in the pitiless crew of the notorious pirate Edward “Ned” Low. To earn the freedom to choose a path for herself\, Hannah must hunt down the treasure and change the tides. Meanwhile\, professor Marian Beresford pieces Hannah’s story together in 1930\, seeing her own lack of freedom reflected back at her as she watches Hannah’s transformation. \nA True Account tells the unforgettable story of two women in different worlds\, both shattering the rules of their own society and daring to risk everything to go out on their own account. \n\n  \n\nAbout Southwestern Yacht Club\nSouthwestern Yacht Club is one of the largest\, oldest\, and most prestigious yacht clubs in San Diego\, California. SWYC was formed in 1925 by visionary yachting enthusiasts looking for ways to enjoy each other’s company and to share their passion for boating. Since then\, the Club has developed into a full-service operation with more than 800 members embracing all forms of yachting\, fishing\, and social activities\, all while earning a reputation as being the friendliest club in the area. \n \n\nSave
URL:https://adventuresbythebook.com/calendar-event/katherine-howe-12-8-23/
CATEGORIES:Event,Lunch Adventures,San Diego Adventures
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231113T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231113T193000
DTSTAMP:20260524T175721
CREATED:20230111T054547Z
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SUMMARY:Point Loma Library Monday Night Author Adventures (Part 5): a FREE in-person series featuring award-winning author and cook Kitty Morse
DESCRIPTION:About the In-Person Library Series\nWe are delighted to introduce a fun 2023 author series in partnership with the Point Loma Library\, and we invite you to join us! Don’t miss the opportunity to meet five bestselling and fan-favorite authors\, Joe Stillman\, Kathi Diamant\, Amy Wallen\, Jennifer Coburn\, and Kitty Morse. \nOur final part 5 features award-winning author and cook Kitty Morse\, as she discusses her book\, Bitter Sweet: A Wartime Journal and Heirloom Recipes from Occupied France. \nBOOKS are available for pre-order below to be delivered to the event for signing. \n\nUpcoming Series Schedule\nPART 5 featuring Kitty Morse: Monday\, November 13\, 6:30pm Pacific\n\n  \n\nPart 5: Kitty Morse\n \nKitty Morse is the author of ten cookbooks\, including a memoir with recipes titled Mint Tea and Minarets: a Banquet of Moroccan Memories\, named Best Book/Arab Cuisine by the Gourmand World Cookbook Awards. Other titles include Cooking at the Kasbah: Recipes from my Moroccan Kitchen (now in its tenth printing from Chronicle Books)\, The California Farm Cookbook\, and Edible Flowers: A Kitchen Companion with Recipes. \n Her 11th cookbook Bitter Sweet: A Wartime Journal and Heirloom Recipes from Occupied France — part Holocaust history\, part memoir\, part cookbook — features recipes from Kitty’s Alsatian ancestors\, and is based upon original family documents and photographs chronicling living in Alsace during the Nazi occupation in WWII. \nTo schedule a book club visit with Kitty or any of our authors on NovelNetwork: \n				Connect with this Author on NovelNetwork®\n			\n\nRegistration\nAs this event is free and open to the public\, no registration is required and seating is available on a first-come\, first-served based. However\, we encourage you to support each of the featured authors by pre-ordering a copy of the book below to be delivered to the event for signing. Additional copies will be available for sale at the event on a limited basis. \n\n\nAbout the Point Loma/Hervey Library\nOne of the largest libraries in the City of San Diego\, the Point Loma/Hervey Library offers many unique features and several conference rooms\, a computer lab and media room. Fitting with Point Loma’s history as a fishing village\, the library incorporates themes of marine life and nautical history throughout the two-story building. \n \n\nSave
URL:https://adventuresbythebook.com/calendar-event/kitty-morse-11-13-23/
CATEGORIES:Event,Library Adventures,San Diego Adventures
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231110T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231110T140000
DTSTAMP:20260524T175721
CREATED:20230804T040632Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231113T185853Z
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SUMMARY:The Last Masterpiece: a Yacht Club Lunch Adventure with USA Today bestselling author and art historian Laura Morelli
DESCRIPTION:About the In-Person Event\nIt’s time to sail forward and continue with this exciting author series held at the esteemed Southwestern Yacht Club. \nFrom the author of the bestselling historical fiction novels The Night Portrait and The Giant: A Novel of Michelangelo’s David comes another heart-pumping adventure inspired by a true story. You won’t want to miss this opportunity to have lunch at the esteemed Southwestern Yacht Club in the beautiful Point Loma residential area within the Shelter Island Yacht Basin with USA Today bestselling author and art historian Laura Morelli as she discusses her new novel\, The Last Masterpiece. \nYour Adventure includes lunch\, beverage\, tax\, gratuity\, a stunning power point presentation by Laura\, a paperback copy of The Last Masterpiece to be delivered and signed at the event\, and the opportunity to meet the author live and in-person. \n  \n\nAbout the Author and Book\n \nLaura Morelli holds a Ph.D. in art history from Yale University and is an award-winning\, USA Today and Publishers Weekly bestselling historical novelist. She is the author of the popular guidebook series that includes Made in Italy. Her historical novels\, including The Night Portrait and The Last Masterpiece\, bring the stories of art history to life. Laura’s books have been picks at Costco\, Target\, and Hudson News. Laura has taught college students in the U.S. and in Italy\, and shares her passion for the history of Italian art in her online programs. \nHer new novel\, The Last Masterpiece\, follows two women—a German photographer and an American stenographer—as they hunt for priceless masterpieces looted from the Florentine art collections. \nIn the summer of 1943\, Eva Brunner is taking photographs of Nazi-looted art hidden inside the salt mines of the Austrian hinterland. Across the ocean in Connecticut\, Josephine Evans is working as a humble typist at the Yale Art Gallery. When both women are called to Italy to contribute to the war effort\, neither imagines she will hold the fate of some of the world’s greatest masterpieces torn from the Uffizi Galleries and other Florentine art collections in her hands. \nBut as Italy turns from ally to enemy and Hitler’s plan to destroy irreplaceable monuments and works of art becomes frighteningly clear\, each woman’s race against the clock—and against one another—might demand more than they were prepared to give. \nTo schedule a book club visit with Laura or any of our authors on NovelNetwork: \n				Connect with this Author on NovelNetwork®\n			\n\n  \n\nAbout Southwestern Yacht Club\nSouthwestern Yacht Club is one of the largest\, oldest\, and most prestigious yacht clubs in San Diego\, California. SWYC was formed in 1925 by visionary yachting enthusiasts looking for ways to enjoy each other’s company and to share their passion for boating. Since then\, the Club has developed into a full-service operation with more than 800 members embracing all forms of yachting\, fishing\, and social activities\, all while earning a reputation as being the friendliest club in the area. \n \n\nSave
URL:https://adventuresbythebook.com/calendar-event/laura-morelli-11-10-23/
CATEGORIES:Event,Lunch Adventures,San Diego Adventures
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231105T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231105T160000
DTSTAMP:20260524T175721
CREATED:20230427T015540Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231113T185845Z
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SUMMARY:The Perfumist of Paris: a La Jolla/Riford Library Adventure with NYT bestselling author Alka Joshi
DESCRIPTION:About the Live\, In-Person\, Adventure\n\nParis\, 1974… Women who use the power of fragrance to seduce\, tease and entice… Whispered secrets from a dark past… \nAllow us to seduce\, tease\, and entice you to meet New York Times bestselling author Alka Joshi\, author of Reese’s Book Club Pick The Henna Artist. In the final chapter in Alka’s New York Times bestselling Jaipur trilogy\, The Perfumist of Paris\, takes readers to 1970s Paris. \nRegistration\nRegistration for this event is not required\, as it is free and open to the public. However\, seating is available on a first-come first-served basis. You can guarantee a seat (while supplies last) by purchasing the VIP registration below\, which includes a copy of The Perfumist of Paris to be delivered to the event for signing. \n  \nAbout the Author and Book\n \nAlka Joshi is the internationally bestselling author of the Jaipur Trilogy: The Henna Artist\, The Secret Keeper of Jaipur and The Perfumist of Paris. Her debut novel\, The Henna Artist\, immediately became a New York Times bestseller and a Reese Witherspoon Pick. It has been translated into 29 languages and is currently in development at Netflix as a tv series. \nAlka was born in India and came to the U.S. with her family at the age of nine. She has a BA from Stanford University and an MFA from California College of Arts. She is available for speaking engagements and group writing instruction. Alka shares her writing tips on her YouTube Channel HERE. \nAlka’s latest book\, The Perfumist of Paris\, is the final chapter in the bestselling Jaipur trilogy and it takes readers to 1970s Paris\, where Radha’s budding career as a perfumer must compete with the demands of her family and the secrets of her past. \n  \nAbout the La Jolla/Riford Library\nWith a unique connection to San Diego’s biotech industry\, the La Jolla-Riford Library is believed to be the first in the country to feature a public biotech laboratory. The Bio Lab is part of an innovation space at the library that also includes 3D printers and a 50-person capacity classroom. \nLa Jolla-Riford Library opened in 1989\, thanks to a generous land donation from Ms. Florence Riford. At 25\,000 square feet\, the library features a cozy fireplace\, enclosed outdoor reading patio\, spacious community room with a piano and art gallery\, and the History Room which houses a comprehensive collection of La Jolla historical documents and newspaper archives.
URL:https://adventuresbythebook.com/calendar-event/alka-joshi-11-5-23/
CATEGORIES:Library Adventures,San Diego Adventures
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231104T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231104T190000
DTSTAMP:20260524T175721
CREATED:20230831T080303Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231113T185854Z
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SUMMARY:Inside the Author's Studio: a Desi High Tea Adventure featuring South Asian chef and food memoirist Madhushree Ghosh
DESCRIPTION:About the Live and In-Person Adventure\n\n“Equal parts memoir\, political commentary\, and cookbook\,… (KHABAAR) braids food and memory and loss into a single compelling strand.” – Rishi Reddi in LA Review of Books \nJust in time for Diwali\, India’s biggest and most important holiday of the year\, we would be honored for you to join us for a Desi High Tea Adventure\, with traditional Indian fare such as homemade masala chai\, samosas with chutney\, tandoori chicken masala in roti\, kheer with berries\, as chef and author Madhushree Ghosh shares the stories of chefs\, home cooks\, and food stall owners as well as her experiences as an immigrant in her cookbook memoir KHABAAR: An Immigrant Journey of Food\, Memory\, and Family. \nJoin us at Madshushree’s private home in San Diego for the next in our Inside the Author’s Studio series\, where you will have the opportunity to meet the author up close and personal. \nYour Adventure includes food\, a beverage\, tax\, a copy of KHABAAR: An Immigrant Journey of Food\, Memory\, and Family to be delivered and signed at the event\, the intimate\, authentic Desi High Tea ceremony that includes a diya\, or tea light\, outdoor lighting ceremony for people to light and wish each other well as part of the Diwali celebration experience and the opportunity to engage with Madhushree live and in-person. \nDue to the special nature of this event\, only a limited number of spaces are available and event is expected to sell out. \nRegistration\nTo register for the in-person event\, simply select the Event Registration (11-4-23) option below\, and the address to Madhushree’s private residence will be provided 3 days prior to the event via email. \n\nAbout the Author and Book\n \nMadhushree Ghosh has written prolifically on how food—especially South Asian food—travels globally though immigration\, migration and indenture. As the daughter of refugees and an immigrant to America\, food stories inform her about the history of her people\, how they traveled and what happened to them when they held onto recipes\, let go or modified them over countries\, continents and generations. \nHer work has been a Notable Mention in Best American Essays in Food Writing\, Pushcart nominated and published in The New York Times\, Vogue India\, Washington Post\, LA Times\, The Writer\, Longreads\, Catapult\, BOMB\, Guernica\, LA Review of Books\, LitHub and others. She is an invited workshop leader at conferences and workshops such as Grub Street Writers\, Encinitas Writers Workshop\, San Diego Memoir Writers’ Workshop and others. \nBesides writing about food\, recipes and history of food from South Asia\, Madhushree works in oncology and infectious diseases’ diagnostics in San Diego where she is a sought-after speaker at major food and book festivals\, women in science forums as well as global conversations on domestic partner violence in the South Asian immigrant communities in America. \nMadhushree Ghosh’s debut food narrative memoir\, KHABAAR: An Immigrant Journey of Food\, Memory\, and Family\, was published in 2022 by the University of Iowa Press to great acclaim. KHABAAR focuses on chefs\, home cooks\, and food stall owners\, and the author’s own immigrant journey as the daughter of refugees\, questioning what it means to belong and what does “belonging” in a new place look like in the foods carried over from the old country. \n  \nAbout Diwali\n \nDiwali is the Hindu festival of lights with its variations also celebrated in other Indian religions. It symbolizes the spiritual “victory of light over darkness\, good over evil\, and knowledge over ignorance.” Diwali is celebrated during the Hindu lunisolar months of Ashvin (according to the amanta tradition) and Kartika (between mid-October and mid-November). The celebrations generally last five or six days. \nDuring the festival\, the celebrants illuminate their homes\, temples and workspaces with diyas (oil lamps)\, candles and lanterns. Hindus\, in particular\, have a ritual oil bath at dawn on each day of the festival. Diwali is also marked with fireworks and the decoration of floors with rangoli designs\, and other parts of the house with jhalars. Food is a major focus with families partaking in feasts and sharing mithai. The festival is an annual homecoming and bonding period not only for families\, but also for communities and associations\, particularly those in urban areas\, which will organize activities\, events and gatherings.
URL:https://adventuresbythebook.com/calendar-event/madhushree-ghosh-11-4-23/
CATEGORIES:Cooking Adventure,Event,San Diego Adventures
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231020T143000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231020T160000
DTSTAMP:20260524T175721
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SUMMARY:The Leftover Woman: a Free Carlsbad Library Adventure with NYT and international bestselling author Jean Kwok
DESCRIPTION:About the In-Person Adventure\n“A heart-tugging exploration of love\, belonging and the meaning of family.”\n—Ruth Ware\, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The It Girl \nWe invite you to celebrate the release of New York Times bestselling author Jean Kwok’s new book\, The Leftover Woman\, which explores the complexities of identity\, motherhood and family through the harsh reality of China’s controversial One Child Policy at a free Carlsbad City Library Adventure. Join us for an afternoon of lively book discussion. \n\n  \nRegistration\nRegistration for this event is not required\, as it is free and open to the public. However\, copies of The Leftover Woman are available for pre-sale below and they will be delivered to the event for signing. Books will be also be available for purchase and signing at the event. \n  \nAbout the Author\n \nJean Kwok is the award-winning\, New York Times and international bestselling author of The Leftover Woman\, Searching for Sylvie Lee\, Girl in Translation and Mambo in Chinatown. Her work has been published in twenty countries and taught in universities\, colleges and high schools across the world. \nJean immigrated from Hong Kong to Brooklyn when she was five and worked in a Chinatown clothing factory for much of her childhood while living in an unheated\, roach-infested apartment. In between her undergraduate degree at Harvard and MFA in fiction at Columbia\, she worked for three years as a professional ballroom dancer. Jean is trilingual\, fluent in Dutch\, Chinese and English\, and studied Latin for seven years. She divides her time between the Netherlands and New York City. \nThe Leftover Woman is an evocative family drama and a riveting mystery about the ferocious pull of motherhood for two very different women. Jasmine Yang arrives in New York City from her rural Chinese village without money or family support\, fleeing a controlling husband\, on a desperate search for the daughter who was taken from her at birth. But with her husband on her trail\, the clock is ticking\, and she’s forced to make increasingly desperate decisions if she ever hopes to be reunited with her daughter. \nMeanwhile\, publishing executive Rebecca Whitney seems to have it all: a prestigious family name and the wealth that comes with it\, a high-powered career\, a beautiful home\, a handsome husband\, and an adopted Chinese daughter she adores. But when an industry scandal threatens to jeopardize not only Rebecca’s job but her marriage\, this perfect world begins to crumble and her role in her own family is called into question. \n  \nAbout Carlsbad City Library\n\n\n\n\nCarlsbad City Library provides community members of all ages with convenient access to high-quality resources and services to inform and enrich individual and community life. Carlsbad City Library is the destination for information\, enjoyment of reading\, lifelong learning\, and cultural enrichment for those who live\, work and play in Carlsbad.
URL:https://adventuresbythebook.com/calendar-event/jean-kwok-10-20-2023/
CATEGORIES:Event,Library Adventures,San Diego Adventures
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231009T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231009T193000
DTSTAMP:20260524T175721
CREATED:20230111T053836Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231113T185838Z
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SUMMARY:Point Loma Library Monday Night Author Adventures (Part 4): a FREE in-person series featuring bestselling historical author Jennifer Coburn
DESCRIPTION:About the In-Person Library Series\nWe are delighted to introduce a fun 2023 author series in partnership with the Point Loma Library\, and we invite you to join us! Don’t miss the opportunity to meet five bestselling and fan-favorite authors\, Joe Stillman\, Kathi Diamant\, Amy Wallen\, Jennifer Coburn\, and Kitty Morse. \nOur part 4 features bestselling historical author Jennifer Coburn\, as she discusses her book\, Cradles of the Reich. \nBOOKS are available for pre-order below to be delivered to the event for signing. \n\nUpcoming Series Schedule\nPART 4 featuring Jennifer Coburn: Monday\, October 9\, 6:30pm Pacific\nPART 5 featuring Kitty Morse: Monday\, November 13\, 6:30pm Pacific\n\n  \n\nPart 4: Jennifer Coburn\n\n \n\nJennifer Coburn is the author of the highly-anticipated historical novel\, Cradles of the Reich\, about three very different women living at a Nazi Lebensborn breeding home at the start of World War ll. Jennifer has also published a mother-daughter travel memoir\, We’ll Always Have Paris\, as well as six contemporary women’s novels. Additionally\, Jennifer has contributed to five literary anthologies\, including A Paris All Your Own. \nWhen Jennifer is not going down historical research rabbit holes\, she volunteers with So Say We All\, a live storytelling organization\, where she is a performer\, producer\, and performance coach. She is also an active volunteer with Reality Changers\, a nonprofit that supports low-income high school students in becoming the first in their families to attend college. She specializes in college essay development\, interview prep\, and all-around tiger mothering. \nTo schedule a book club visit with Jennifer or any of our authors on NovelNetwork: \n				Connect with this Author on NovelNetwork®\n			\n  \nPart 5: Kitty Morse\n \nKitty Morse is the author of ten cookbooks\, including a memoir with recipes titled Mint Tea and Minarets: a Banquet of Moroccan Memories\, named Best Book/Arab Cuisine by the Gourmand World Cookbook Awards. Other titles include Cooking at the Kasbah: Recipes from my Moroccan Kitchen (now in its tenth printing from Chronicle Books)\, The California Farm Cookbook\, and Edible Flowers: A Kitchen Companion with Recipes. \n Her 11th cookbook Bitter Sweet: A Wartime Journal and Heirloom Recipes from Occupied France — part Holocaust history\, part memoir\, part cookbook — features recipes from Kitty’s Alsatian ancestors\, and is based upon original family documents and photographs chronicling living in Alsace during the Nazi occupation in WWII. \nTo schedule a book club visit with Kitty or any of our authors on NovelNetwork: \n				Connect with this Author on NovelNetwork®\n			\n\nRegistration\nAs this event is free and open to the public\, no registration is required and seating is available on a first-come\, first-served based. However\, we encourage you to support each of the featured authors by pre-ordering a copy of the book below to be delivered to the event for signing. Additional copies will be available for sale at the event on a limited basis. \n\n\nAbout the Point Loma/Hervey Library\nOne of the largest libraries in the City of San Diego\, the Point Loma/Hervey Library offers many unique features and several conference rooms\, a computer lab and media room. Fitting with Point Loma’s history as a fishing village\, the library incorporates themes of marine life and nautical history throughout the two-story building. \n \n\nSave
URL:https://adventuresbythebook.com/calendar-event/jennifer-coburn-10-9-23/
CATEGORIES:Event,Library Adventures,San Diego Adventures
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230911T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230911T193000
DTSTAMP:20260524T175721
CREATED:20230111T053228Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231113T185837Z
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SUMMARY:Point Loma Library Monday Night Author Adventures (Part 3): a FREE in-person series featuring bestselling author and baker Amy Wallen
DESCRIPTION:About the In-Person Library Series\nWe are delighted to introduce a fun 2023 author series in partnership with the Point Loma Library\, and we invite you to join us! Don’t miss the opportunity to meet five bestselling and fan-favorite authors\, Joe Stillman\, Kathi Diamant\, Amy Wallen\, Jennifer Coburn\, and Kitty Morse. \nOur part 3 event features bestselling author and baker Amy Wallen\, as she discusses her book\, How to Write a Novel in 20 Pies. \nBOOKS are available for pre-order below to be delivered to the event for signing. \n\nUpcoming Series Schedule\nPART 3 featuring Amy Wallen: Monday\, September 11\, 6:30pm Pacific\nPART 4 featuring Jennifer Coburn: Monday\, October 9\, 6:30pm Pacific\nPART 5 featuring Kitty Morse: Monday\, November 13\, 6:30pm Pacific\n\n  \n\n\nPart 3: Amy Wallen\n\n \nAmy Wallen is the San Diego-based author of When We Were Ghouls\, A Memoir of Ghost Stories and the Los Angeles Times bestseller Moon Pies & Movie Stars. Her essays have been published in The Gettysburg Review\, The Normal School\, Country Living and other national magazines and anthologies. \nHer book\, How to Write a Novel in 20 Pies is a charming illustrated book on her journey writing a novel\, some of her teaching experience\, and some recipe-stories on pies\, because it was through pie that she claims she survived novel writing. \nTo schedule a book club visit with Amy or any of our authors on NovelNetwork: \n				Connect with this Author on NovelNetwork®\n			\n\n  \nPart 4: Jennifer Coburn\n\n \n\nJennifer Coburn is the author of the highly-anticipated historical novel\, Cradles of the Reich\, about three very different women living at a Nazi Lebensborn breeding home at the start of World War ll. Jennifer has also published a mother-daughter travel memoir\, We’ll Always Have Paris\, as well as six contemporary women’s novels. Additionally\, Jennifer has contributed to five literary anthologies\, including A Paris All Your Own. \nWhen Jennifer is not going down historical research rabbit holes\, she volunteers with So Say We All\, a live storytelling organization\, where she is a performer\, producer\, and performance coach. She is also an active volunteer with Reality Changers\, a nonprofit that supports low-income high school students in becoming the first in their families to attend college. She specializes in college essay development\, interview prep\, and all-around tiger mothering. \nTo schedule a book club visit with Jennifer or any of our authors on NovelNetwork: \n				Connect with this Author on NovelNetwork®\n			\n  \nPart 5: Kitty Morse\n \nKitty Morse is the author of ten cookbooks\, including a memoir with recipes titled Mint Tea and Minarets: a Banquet of Moroccan Memories\, named Best Book/Arab Cuisine by the Gourmand World Cookbook Awards. Other titles include Cooking at the Kasbah: Recipes from my Moroccan Kitchen (now in its tenth printing from Chronicle Books)\, The California Farm Cookbook\, and Edible Flowers: A Kitchen Companion with Recipes. \n Her 11th cookbook Bitter Sweet: A Wartime Journal and Heirloom Recipes from Occupied France — part Holocaust history\, part memoir\, part cookbook — features recipes from Kitty’s Alsatian ancestors\, and is based upon original family documents and photographs chronicling living in Alsace during the Nazi occupation in WWII. \nTo schedule a book club visit with Kitty or any of our authors on NovelNetwork: \n				Connect with this Author on NovelNetwork®\n			\n\nRegistration\nAs this event is free and open to the public\, no registration is required and seating is available on a first-come\, first-served based. However\, we encourage you to support each of the featured authors by pre-ordering a copy of the book below to be delivered to the event for signing. Additional copies will be available for sale at the event on a limited basis. \n\n\nAbout the Point Loma/Hervey Library\nOne of the largest libraries in the City of San Diego\, the Point Loma/Hervey Library offers many unique features and several conference rooms\, a computer lab and media room. Fitting with Point Loma’s history as a fishing village\, the library incorporates themes of marine life and nautical history throughout the two-story building. \n \n  \n\nSave
URL:https://adventuresbythebook.com/calendar-event/amy-wallen-9-11-23/
CATEGORIES:Event,Library Adventures,San Diego Adventures
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230827T150000
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SUMMARY:Inside the Author's Studio Adventure featuring Moroccan-born chef and cookbook author Kitty Morse
DESCRIPTION:About the Live and In-Person Adventure\nThis event is SOLD OUT. To join the waitlist\, please email admin@adventuresbythebook.com.\n\n“But what was the tattered black leather valise doing there\, hidden behind a crocheted comforter on the top shelf of my late mother’s closet? The tarnished brass locking mechanism had already been sprung. I held my breath and lifted the lid…” \nWhen award-winning author and Morocco-born chef Kitty Morse was sorting through her late mother’s belongings\, she never could have imagined the astonishing story that would unfold from those long-forgotten objects. Now\, in her new book – part Holocaust history\, part memoir\, part cookbook – Kitty delivers Bitter Sweet: A Wartime Journal and Heirloom Recipes from Occupied France\, featuring recipes and the untold true accounts of her Alsatian ancestors during the Nazi occupation in WWII. \nJoin us at Kitty’s Moroccan-themed Vista home for the next in our Inside the Author’s Studio series\, where you will have the opportunity to meet the author up close and personal to learn more about the remarkable story behind her new book\, Bitter Sweet.  \nYour Adventure includes  a tasting of savory and sweet bites from her heirloom recipes\, tea\, a slide show of Kitty’s recent remarkable trip to France to visit the sites in her book\, an autographed copy of Bitter Sweet: A Wartime Journal and Heirloom Recipes from Occupied France to be delivered and signed at the event\, tax\, book presentation\, and the opportunity to engage with Kitty live and in-person. \nDue to the special nature of this event\, only a limited number of spaces are available and event is expected to sell out. \nRegistration\nTo register for the in-person event\, simply select the Event Registration (8/27/23) option below\, and the address to Kitty’s private Vista residence will be provided 3 days prior to the event via email. \n\nAbout the Author and Book\n \nKitty Morse is the author of ten cookbooks\, including a memoir with recipes titled Mint Tea and Minarets: a Banquet of Moroccan Memories\, named Best Book/Arab Cuisine by the Gourmand World Cookbook Awards. Other titles include Cooking at the Kasbah: Recipes from my Moroccan Kitchen (now in its tenth printing from Chronicle Books)\, The California Farm Cookbook\, and Edible Flowers: A Kitchen Companion with Recipes. \nKitty’s career as an author\, travel writer\, cooking teacher\, and tour organizer spans more than twenty-five years\, including a 2019 Moroccan Adventure by the Book trip. Once a food columnist for the Los Angeles Times\, Kitty has written for most major food publications including Fine Cooking\, Sunset\, and Bon Appetit. She hosted 2 television series of her own\, and has appeared on national television in the US and abroad. \nShe has been a guest lecturer and presenter at venues in California and beyond: from the Los Angeles Public Library\, to the City of Chicago\, the Smithsonian Institution in Washington DC\, cooking schools\, museums\, and universities. She taught Moroccan cuisine at the famed Rancho La Puerta Spa in Tecate\, Mexico\, for several years. Her monthly enewsletter\, The Kasbah Chronicles\, is now in its thirteenth year. \n Her 11th cookbook Bitter Sweet: A Wartime Journal and Heirloom Recipes from Occupied France — part Holocaust history\, part memoir\, part cookbook — features recipes from Kitty’s Alsatian ancestors\, and is based upon original family documents and photographs chronicling living in Alsace during the Nazi occupation in WWII. \n\n\nTo schedule a book club visit with Kitty or any of our authors on NovelNetwork: \n				Connect with this Author on NovelNetwork®
URL:https://adventuresbythebook.com/calendar-event/kitty-morse-8-27-23/
CATEGORIES:Cooking Adventure,Event,San Diego Adventures
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SUMMARY:Book Bingo (June Pride Month Celebration): a Virtual Adventure featuring NYT and bestselling fan favorite authors Krista Burton\, Nicolas DiDomizio\, Elle Everhart\, Jesse Leon\, Jeffrey Dale Lofton\, and Viola Shipman
DESCRIPTION:About the Virtual (Zoom) Event:\n“It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.”– E.E. Cummings \nIn celebration of Pride Month\, we are pleased to announce another fun Book Bingo (June Pride Month Celebration): A Virtual Adventure\, in partnership with the Jefferson County Public Library. \nIf you are already familiar with our popular Southern California series\, you will understand why we receive so many requests to expand the program nationwide. Pivoting to virtual events has made this not only possible\, but offers up fun opportunities for exciting partnerships\, participation by more of our over 130 book club favorite authors\, and space to accommodate many more readers! \nBe you. Do you. Celebrate you…And celebrate Pride Month by playing book bingo with six bestselling and book club favorite authors: Krista Burton\, Nicolas DiDomizio\, Elle Everhart\, Jesse Leon\, Jeffrey Dale Lofton\, and Viola Shipman.  Enjoy presentations by the authors\, while playing an interactive virtual game of bingo\, including fun prizes. All you have to do is show up (and why not invite your book club friends and fellow readers to join in as well) to learn about these great reads! \nWhile this event is free\, your purchase of a book(s) below (to be shipped to you within the U.S.) provides much-needed support to these authors. \nYour Adventure includes a book discussion with all six authors\, an interactive virtual game of Book Bingo\, Q&A\, prizes\, and the opportunity to meet the authors via Zoom. Books may be ordered below for shipping within the U.S. and will include a signed bookplate. See below for registration information. \n  \nAbout the Authors\n \nKrista Burton is the creator of the popular blog Effing Dykes and was a frequent contributor to the online magazine Rookie. Her writing has also appeared in The New York Times\, The Guardian\, Elle\, and VICE. She lives in Minnesota. \nLesbian bars have always been treasured safe spaces for their customers—havens that provide not only a good time\, a stiff drink\, and an ideal place to debut a brand-new septum piercing but a sense of belonging\, a shelter from societal alienation and outright persecution. In 1987\, there were 206 of them in America. Today\, however\, only a couple dozen lesbian bars are still open for business. How and why did this happen? What has been lost by such a decline? Has anything been gained? What—if any—are the downsides when marginalized communities become more accepted and mainstream?  In her new book\, Moby Dyke: An Obsessive Quest To Track Down The Last Remaining Lesbian Bars In America\, Krista Burton attempts to answer these questions firsthand\, venturing on an epic cross-country pilgrimage to the last few remaining dyke bars. \n“Moby Dyke is a hilarious adventure story\, a full-throated love letter to lesbian bars\, and an open-hearted memoir all wrapped up in one glorious package. Come for the bars and stay for the people inside them.” \nTo schedule a book club visit with Krista or any of our authors on NovelNetwork: \n				Connect with this Author on NovelNetwork®\n			\n  \n \nNicolas DiDomizio holds a bachelor’s degree from Western Connecticut State University and a master’s degree from NYU. His debut novel\, Burn It All Down\, was published in 2021 and praised as “unforgettable” by James Patterson. He lives in upstate New York with his partner Graig and their smooshy bulldog Rocco. The Gay Best Friend is his second novel. \nIn his new book\, The Gay Best Friend\, Domenic Marino has become an expert at code-switching between the hypermasculine and ultrafeminine worlds of his two soon-to-be-wed best friends. But this summer―reeling from his own failed engagement and tasked with attending their bachelor and bachelorette parties―he’s anxious over having to play both sides…A summer wedding comedy told entirely from the POV of the gay best man. \n“Fun\, frothy\, and full of feels. With characters so messy they seem like people you’ve known your entire life―you know\, the ones you simultaneously want to shake some sense into and hug the stuffing out of―it’s the perfect beach read.” \nTo schedule a book club visit with Nicolas or any of our authors on NovelNetwork: \n				Connect with this Author on NovelNetwork®\n			\n  \n \nElle Everhart writes romantic comedies featuring the internet\, sarcasm\, and lots of queer characters (especially bisexual characters because “I\, too\, cuff my jeans and can’t properly sit in chairs”).  Elle lives in  East London and works as a secondary English teacher. When she’s not writing\, you’ll catch her watching a whole lot of YouTube\, obsessing over the worst shows Netflix has to offer\, and hanging around with her son. \n People We Meet on Vacation meets The Unhoneymooners in this sparkling debut romantic comedy about two near strangers—and complete opposites—who win a radio contest for a trip around the world. \n“Laugh-out-loud funny\, sizzling hot\, and full of heart. Jack and Dylan are undeniable proof that opposites do attract\, and following them around the world is the great escape we all need right now!” \nTo schedule a book club visit with Elle or any of our authors on NovelNetwork: \n				Connect with this Author on NovelNetwork®\n			\n  \n \nJesse Leon is a social impact consultant to foundations\, impact investors\, non-profits\, and real estate developers on ways to address issues of substance abuse\, affordable housing\, and educational opportunities for at-risk youth. Since receiving a master’s degree from the Harvard Kennedy School\, Jesse has managed multi-million dollar philanthropic grantmaking for various foundations and banking institutions\, managed over $1B in public sector investments for affordable housing\, and built thousands of units of mixed-income housing as a real estate developer for Bank of America. \nJesse’s unforgettable memoir\, I’m Not Broken\, is an inspirational portrait of one young man’s indomitable strength and spirit to survive—against all possible odds. \n“A book for survivors and those who know someone they hope survives\, bodhisattvas all.” \n  \n \nJeffrey Dale Lofton hails from Warm Springs\, Georgia.  Early on\, Jeffrey spent many a night acting on the stages of DC’s theaters and performing arts centers. He even scored a few television appearances\, including a Super Bowl halftime commercial\, which his accountant wisecracked “Is the finest work of your career.”  When he stepped away from acting for other\, more traditional employment (much to his parents’ delight and relief)\, he also focused on pursuing post-graduate work\, ultimately being awarded Master’s degrees in both Public Administration and Library and Information Science.    Jeffrey calls the nation’s capital home now\, where he serves as a senior advisor at the Library of Congress\, surrounded by books and people who love books—in short\, paradise. \n“Make a glass of sweet tea\, pull up a porch chair\, and a cloth to mop your brow. Red Clay Suzie roots readers in the pacing of the South as Lofton coaxes his people from the heat and the rain and the gardens and the cars. It is a journey of refuge and emergence—helped and hindered by family and friends. Even through the characters’ most painful moments of discovery and loss\, it is an absolute joy to read. Three cheers to Jeffrey Dale Lofton and his stellar debut novel.” \nTo schedule a book club visit with Jeffrey or any of our authors on NovelNetwork: \n				Connect with this Author on NovelNetwork®\n			\n  \n \nWADE ROUSE is the internationally bestselling author of nine books\, which have been translated into nearly 20 languages. Wade chose his grandmother’s name\, Viola Shipman\, as a pen name to honor the woman whose heirlooms and family stories inspire his fiction.  Wade’s novels include The Charm Bracelet\, a 2017 Michigan Notable Book of the Year; The Hope Chest; and The Recipe Box. NYT bestselling author Dorothea Benton Frank says of Wade and his latest novel\, The Summer Cottage: “Every now and then a new voice in fiction arrives to completely charm\, entertain and remind us what matters.  Viola Shipman is that voice and The Summer Cottage is that novel.” \nBursting with memorable characters and small-town lore\, Famous in a Small Town\, the enchanting new novel from the bestselling author of The Clover Girls is Fried Green Tomatoes meets Virgin River\, a magical story about the family you’re born with\, and the one you choose. \n“Full of summertime delight…and sweet\, nostalgic charm\, Famous in a Small Town is a beautiful reminder to…fully embrace the magic that lives inside you.” \nTo schedule a book club visit with Viola (Wade) or any of our authors on NovelNetwork: \n				Connect with this Author on NovelNetwork®\n			\n\n  \nRegistration: Jefferson County Public Library\nJefferson County Public Library in Colorado helps to build an educated and vibrant community by providing equal access to information and opportunities. For this particular bingo event\, register here with the Jeffco Public Library. Your virtual bingo card and Zoom invite will be sent directly from the Jeffco Public Library. \n\n\n\n\n  \nFor Book Clubs or Author Live Chats\n \nAre you in a book club\, library reading group\, or are your group of friends\, colleagues\, and family members seeking fabulous authors who are excited and available to meet with you? Then you will be delighted to know that most\, if not all\, of the featured authors are members of our wonderful community of over 130 NovelNetwork authors available to meet with small groups via video chat. \nNovelNetwork is the nation’s first and only match(dot)com for authors and book clubs to find each other\, so check it out today. Book clubs join for free and gain access to our database of dozens of authors\, from NYT and international bestsellers to debut authors\, cookbook authors\, mystery and non-fiction authors\, and representing various regions of the United States\, and even Alaska and Hawaii\, all of whom want to meet with you! \nTo schedule a visit with any of our authors\, join FOR FREE  here.
URL:https://adventuresbythebook.com/calendar-event/bingo-pride-6-28-23/
CATEGORIES:Book Bingo,Event,Library Adventures,San Diego Adventures,Virtual Adventure
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SUMMARY:Love Buzz: a Debut Author Afternoon Tea Adventure featuring Neely Tubati Alexander
DESCRIPTION:About the In-Person Event\nA wretched maid of honor. A hangover from hell. Raucous Mardi Gras crowds. There isn’t much Serena Khan is enjoying about this four-day New Orleans destination bachelorette party UNTIL sparks fly with a handsome stranger…  \nCan you imagine how difficult it is as a first-time author to find new readers? We sure do\, and that’s why we created a new series designed to help you discover new authors we think you’ll really enjoy\, in an intimate setting conducive to conversation and engaging personally with the author. \nPlease join us at our Debut Author Afternoon Tea Adventure to meet Neely Tubati Alexander and enjoy her hilarious and deeply humane novel\, Love Buzz\, which prompts us all to ask if the life we’re living is a life worth loving. \nJoin us live and in-person for our new series\, Debut Author Afternoon Tea Adventure! Gather around the table\, give a debut author a chance to share their first book\, while you sip on calming herbal tea\, nibble on sweet afternoon bites\, and discuss Neely’s new book\, Love Buzz. Your Adventure includes tea and sweet bites\, a copy of Love Buzz to be delivered and signed at the private San Diego residence\, tax\, and the opportunity to engage with Neely live and in-person. \n  \nRegistration\nTo register for the event\, simply select the Afternoon Tea Registration option below\, and the address to the private San Diego residence will be provided 3 days prior to the event via email. \n  \nAbout the Author and Book\n \nNeely Tubati Alexander is the author of women’s fiction with rom-com feels you can escape into with a smile. Originally from the Seattle area\, she currently resides in Arizona with her husband and two elementary-aged children. If she’s not tucked away at the little desk in her bedroom writing\, you can find her at some kiddo activity\, drinking wine\, or watching reality television\, usually the last two together. \nHer book\, Love Buzz\, is a sparkling debut about grief\, love\, family and the road not taken. In this spectacularly enjoyable and serendipitous adventure\, a chance romantic encounter during a wild night at a Mardi Gras bachelorette party sends strait-laced Serena Khan’s carefully constructed life into chaos.
URL:https://adventuresbythebook.com/calendar-event/neely-tubati-alexander-5-10-23/
CATEGORIES:San Diego Adventures,Tea Adventures
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SUMMARY:The Sloth Lemur's Song: a Taste of Madagascar Adventure featuring Yale University Emerita Professor of Anthropology\, Author and Environmentalist Alison Richard
DESCRIPTION:About the Live and In-Person Adventure\nThis event is SOLD OUT. To join the waitlist\, please email events@adventuresbythebook.com.\n\nMadagascar is a place of change. What happens there in the decades ahead can\, perhaps\, suggest ways to help turn the tide on the environmental crisis now sweeping the world… \nWeaving together scientific evidence\, personal accounts\, and the power of storytelling\, author and environmentalist Alison Richard captures the magic and mystery of Madagascar in her new book\, The Sloth Lemur’s Song. Joining Alison to share their combined knowledge and passion of this unique island country will be Debra Erickson\, Executive Director of Wildlife Madagascar\, and Georgeanne Irvine\, Director of Publishing and Children’s Book Author at San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance. \nWant to learn more about this stunning island country? Join us at a private bayside San Diego residence for our live and in-person Taste of Madagascar Adventure with Alison Richard. Not only will you learn about the nature of this remarkable island (while sipping on wine and dining on delectable sweet and savory crepes made fresh-to-order onsite courtesy of our friends at Isabelle Briens French Pastry Cafe)\, but you will directly support Madagascar\, as a portion of each admission ticket will be donated to the Wildlife Madagascar nonprofit. \nYour Adventure includes sweet and savory crepes freshly made to order\, wine\, an autographed copy of The Sloth Lemur’s Song\, tax\, book discussion\, Q&A\, donation to Wildlife Madagascar nonprofit\, and an opportunity to meet the author up close and personal in a private bayside residence. \nNOTE: Due to the private and intimate nature of this event\, tickets are limited and will be offered on a first-come\, first-served basis\, so make sure to register soon to guarantee admission. \n\nRegistration\nThis event is SOLD OUT. To join the waitlist\, please email events@adventuresbythebook.com. \n  \n  \nAbout the Author\n \nAlison Richard is the Crosby Professor of the Human Environment emerita and senior research scientist at Yale University. She previously served as vice chancellor of the University of Cambridge\, and in 2010\, she was awarded a DBE (Dame Commander of the British Empire) for her services to higher education. \nHer new book\, The Sloth Lemur’s Song\, is a far-reaching account of Madagascar’s past and present\, led by an expert guide who has immersed herself in research and conservation activities with village communities on the island for nearly fifty years. Alison Richard accompanies the reader on a journey through space and time—from Madagascar’s ancient origins as a landlocked region of Gondwana and its emergence as an island to the modern-day developments that make the survival of its array of plants and animals increasingly uncertain. \nWeaving together scientific evidence with Richard’s own experiences and exploring the power of stories to shape our understanding of events\, this book captures the magic as well as the tensions that swirl around this island nation. \nAbout Wildlife Madagascar\nConservation success ultimately depends on the support and participation of local communities. To protect the most biologically diverse areas remaining in Madagascar\, poverty and the increasing extraction and depletion of forests must be addressed. \nWildlife Madagascar seeks to implement programs that address food security\, training and education for local people\, resource use\, enterprise development\, and conflict management. Program success relies on collaboration and partnership with local communities\, government agencies\, nongovernmental organizations\, and tourism companies. We aim to establish programs that lead to lasting change\, help alleviate poverty\, and support environmental conservation for Madagascar’s vulnerable people\, wildlife\, and habitats. \n  \nAbout the San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance\nSan Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance is an international\, nonprofit conservation organization with two front doors: the San Diego Zoo and the San Diego Zoo Safari Park. They integrate wildlife health and care\, science\, and education to develop sustainable conservation solutions. \n \n  \n\nAbout Isabelle Briens French Pastry Cafe\nIsabelle Briens French Pastry Cafe offers consistent quality\, a warm atmosphere\, and plenty of tasty treats for all occasions.
URL:https://adventuresbythebook.com/calendar-event/alison-richard-4-13-23/
CATEGORIES:San Diego Adventures
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SUMMARY:Coronation Year: a Literary Tea Adventure with USA Today and international bestselling author Jennifer Robson
DESCRIPTION:GREAT NEWS! We have added a second seating for our Coronation Year Adventure. Since the first seating sold out so quickly\, we now have limited spaces available at 3:00pm for the second seating\, but hurry\, before they are all gone!\n  \nAbout the Event\n\nIt’s coronation year\, as King Charles III’s ceremony is set to take place on May 6\, 2023\, at Westminster Abbey in London\, so we think it’s time for a Coronation Year Literary Tea Adventure. And we couldn’t think of a better author to celebrate with than USA Today and international bestselling author Jennifer Robson\, as she returns with another enthralling and royal-adjacent historical novel\, Coronation Year\, which takes place as the lives of three very different residents of London’s historic Blue Lion hotel converge in a potentially explosive climax on the day of Queen Elizabeth’s Coronation… \nJoin Jennifer for a literary tea at the historic Coral Tree Tea House\, where you can relax in a Victorian home in a beautifully landscaped public park. Over books\, tea\, and delectable treats like dainty sandwiches\, scones\, and seasonal berries\, enjoy a chance to learn about  Jennifer’s new novel\, Coronation Year. \nYour Adventure includes the tea in Old Town’s historic Heritage County Park\, tea sandwiches and desserts\, hot tea\, tax\, gratuity\, book discussion\, Q&A\, author signing\, and an opportunity to meet the author up close and personal in an intimate setting. \nBooks will be available for purchase and signing during the tea\, or pre-order your paperback copy of Coronation Year for delivery and signing at the event. The paperback book is available at a discounted price with purchase of event ticket. \nNOTE: Seating is limited\, so you will want to register soon to guarantee a seat! \n  \nAbout the Author and Book\n \nJennifer Robson is the USA Today and #1 Toronto Globe & Mail bestselling author of Somewhere in France and After the War Is Over. She holds a doctorate in British economic and social history from Saint Antony’s College\, University of Oxford\, where she was a Commonwealth Scholar and an SSHRC Doctoral Fellow. She lives in Toronto\, Canada with her husband and young children. \nIn Jennifer’s new book\, Coronation Year\, it is Coronation Year\, 1953\, and a new queen is about to be crowned. The people of London are in a mood to celebrate\, none more so than the residents of the Blue Lion hotel. \nEdie Howard\, owner and operator of the floundering Blue Lion\, has found the miracle she needs: on Coronation Day\, Queen Elizabeth in her gold coach will pass by the hotel’s front door\, allowing Edie to charge a fortune for rooms and\, barring disaster\, save her beloved home from financial ruin. Edie’s luck might just be turning\, all thanks to a young queen about her own age. \nStella Donati\, a young Italian photographer and Holocaust survivor\, has come to live at the Blue Lion while she takes up a coveted position at Picture Weekly magazine. London in celebration mode feels like a different world to her. As she learns the ins and outs of her new profession\, Stella discovers a purpose and direction that honor her past and bring hope for her future. \nJames Geddes\, a war hero and gifted artist\, has struggled to make his mark in a world that disdains his Indian ancestry. At the Blue Lion\, though\, he is made to feel welcome and worthy. Yet even as his friendship with Edie deepens\, he begins to suspect that something is badly amiss at his new home. \nWhen anonymous threats focused on Coronation Day\, the Blue Lion\, and even the queen herself disrupt their mood of happy optimism\, Edie and her friends must race to uncover the truth\, save their home\, and expose those who seek to erase the joy and promise of Coronation Year. \n. \n  \nAbout the Coral Tree Tea House\nYou’re invited to visit the Coral Tree Tea House located in Old Town’s historic Heritage County Park! No where else can you relax in a Victorian home in a beautifully landscaped public park dedicated to the preservation of seven homes that were saved for their historical significance to the city of San Diego. \n 
URL:https://adventuresbythebook.com/calendar-event/jennifer-robson-4-8-22/
CATEGORIES:San Diego Adventures,Tea Adventures
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SUMMARY:Self-Care and Sisterhood Adventure: a Workshop to Heal and Connect with renowned authors Julie Potiker and Puja Shah
DESCRIPTION:About the In-Person Event\nBreathe in\, breathe through\, breathe deep\, breathe out… \nDo you often forget to take those deep breaths when life has you on the run\, feeling stressed\, or just plain zapped of energy? Here is your opportunity to jump-start a little self-care with a mini workshop at the La Jolla/Riford Library with Julie Potiker\, mindfulness expert and author of SNAP!: From Chaos to Calm\,  and meditation instructor\, philanthropist and visionary poet Puja Shah\, author of For My Sister! \nAfter a fun and interactive workshop learning the evidence based SNAP method for managing difficult emotions\, and gentle mindfulness exercises\, books\, tea\, and delectable treats\, you will be ready to claim your renewed and refreshed spirit. Each attendee will receive their very own gratitude journal\, as well as a paperback copy of SNAP!: From Chaos to Calm AND a paperback copy of For My Sister. And to add an extra dose of feel-good\, we will donate a portion of event proceeds to the Center for Mindful Self-Compassion\, committed to building an equitable\, inclusive\, and caring global community while supporting the practice of self-compassion. \nYour Self-Care Workshop Adventure includes a mini mindfulness workshop\, gratitude journal\, a paperback copy of SNAP!: From Chaos to Calm AND a paperback copy of For My Sister to be delivered and signed at the event\, tea\, sweet bites\, a donation to the Center for Mindful Self-Compassion\, and the opportunity to meet the authors live and in-person. \n\n\nAbout the Authors\n \nJulie Potiker\, is a mindfulness expert with extensive certifications and teacher training in a variety of tools and methods\, including Mindful Self-Compassion. Her new book is SNAP! From Chaos to Calm. Through her Mindful Methods for Life program offerings\, Julie helps others bring more peace and wellness into their lives. Julie’s first book\, Life Falls Apart\, but You Don’t Have To: Mindful Methods for Staying Calm in the Midst of Chaos\, is now available on audiobook. Learn more at MindfulMethodsForLife.com. \nHer work has been featured by The Oprah Magazine\, Costco Connection\, AARP\, AP News\, NBC\, CBS\, Fox\, The CW\, and many more.\nShe holds a B.G.S. from the University of Michigan and a J.D. from George Washington University. \n“The SNAP method is brilliant. In one simple practice\, Julie Potiker integrates brain science\, mindfulness\, compassion\, and other effective tools for lifting your mood\, easing anxiety\, calming stress\, and opening your heart. Full of practical wisdom\, she leads readers through funny stories\, tender care\, and many different applications of the SNAP method. Throughout\, she is a super-smart\, encouraging\, and hopeful friend. A wonderful book!”\n– Rick Hanson\, Ph.D.\, author of Resilient: How to Grow an Unshakable Core of Calm\, Strength\, and Happiness \n\n  \n  \n \nPuja Shah is a visionary poet who shares her voice through written and spoken word\, guided meditations\, and teaching. Born in Queens\, New York to immigrant parents\, she defied teachers who questioned her English skills by winning countless poetry and short story awards in her youth. As an avid reader\, she spent her teen years exploring New York City for poetry slams and book readings. The blend of East and West has always fascinated her\, so she holds a graduate degree in dental medicine from Tufts University as well as over a dozen trainings in various forms of yoga\, meditation\, and ancient wisdom. \nHer award-winning book\, For My Sister\, is a journey of light and darkness with Amla and Asya: twin sisters trafficked into India’s notorious Sonagachi district\, Asia’s largest red light district. Can the power of poetry\, photography\, mindfulness\, and sisterly love bring them back home and to each other? It has won the American Book Awards for Social Change and International Impact Book Awards for Women’s Fiction. \nWith over 10 years of nonprofit experience and a long public health career\, Puja has aligned with girl trafficking awareness causes for her debut novel. \n  \n\n\n\nAbout the Center For Mindful Self-Compassion\nThe Center For Mindful Self-Compassion (CMSC) aims to be the global leader in self-compassion training and offers the highest quality programs to diverse populations\, based upon scientific research and established teaching methods. CMSC is committed to building an equitable\, inclusive\, and caring global community supporting the practice of self-compassion where each person matters and everyone belongs. \n \n\nSave
URL:https://adventuresbythebook.com/calendar-event/julie-potiker-puja-shah-2-26-23/
CATEGORIES:Event,San Diego Adventures,Workshop Adventures
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SUMMARY:Book Bingo (Celebrating Women's History): a virtual Adventure featuring Piper Huguley\, Christina Lynch\, Sarah McCraw Crow\, Janis Robinson Daly\, Aimie K. Runyan\, and Kate Thompson
DESCRIPTION:About the Virtual (Zoom) Event\nIn recognition of Women’s History Month\, when we commemorate and encourage the study\, observance and celebration of the vital role of women in history\, we are pleased to share stories of women as told by six award-winning\, bestselling\, and book club favorite authors: Piper Huguley\, Christina Lynch\, Sarah McCraw Crow\, Janis Robinson Daly\, Aimie K. Runyan\, and Kate Thompson.   \nIf you are already familiar with our popular Southern California series that features NovelNetwork® authors\, you will understand why we receive so many requests to expand the program nationwide. Pivoting to virtual events has made this not only possible\, but offers up fun opportunities for exciting partnerships\, participation by more of our over 130 book club favorite authors\, and space to accommodate many more readers! \n This free event features book club favorite historical fiction authors: Piper Huguley\, Christina Lynch\, Sarah McCraw Crow\, Janis Robinson Daly\, Aimie K. Runyan\, and Kate Thompson\, an interactive virtual game of bingo\, and fun prizes. All you have to do is show up (and why not invite your book club friends and fellow readers to join in as well) to learn about these great new reads! \nWhile this event is free\, your purchase of a book(s) below (to be shipped to you within the U.S.) provides much-needed support to these authors whose book tours and events have been curtailed due to COVID-19. \nYour Adventure includes a book discussion with all six authors\, an interactive virtual game of Book Bingo\, Q&A\, prizes\, and the opportunity to meet the authors via Zoom. Books may be ordered below for shipping within the U.S. and will include a signed bookplate. \nSee below for registration information. \n  \nAbout the Authors\n \nNamed in 2015 as a top ten historical romance novelist in Publisher’s Weekly\, Piper Huguley is the author of the Reconstruction era “Home to Milford College” series. She is a 2013 & 2014 Golden Heart finalist for two novels in the “Migrations of the Heart” series about the Bledsoe sisters and set in the early twentieth century. \nPiper’s biographical historical fiction\, By Her Own Design: a novel of Ann Lowe\, Fashion Designer to the Social Register tells the inspiring story of the Black fashion designer of Jackie Kennedy’s wedding dress. By Her Own Design was a Booklist top 100 Editor’s Choice selection for 2022 and was named one of the top 100 books of 2022 in Canada by the Globe and Mail newspaper. \nTo schedule a book club visit with Piper or any of our authors on NovelNetwork: \n				Connect with this Author on NovelNetwork®\n			\n  \n  \n \nChristina Lynch’s picaresque journey includes chapters in Chicago and at Harvard\, where she was an editor on the Harvard Lampoon. She was the Milan correspondent for W magazine and Women’s Wear Daily\, and disappeared for four years in Tuscany. In L.A. she was on the writing staff of Unhappily Ever After; Encore\, Encore; The Dead Zone and Wildfire. She now lives in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada. She is the co-author of two novels under the pen name Magnus Flyte. She teaches at College of the Sequoias. The Italian Party was her debut novel. \nChristina’s new novel\, Sally Brady’s Italian Adventure (June 13\, 2023\, St. Martin’s Press)\, is set in Hollywood and Italy in 1931-1947. Follow effervescent Sally Brady as she goes from Dust Bowl refugee to glamorous gossip columnist in Rome\, then gets stranded in Fascist-era Tuscany.  \nTo schedule a book club visit with Christina or any of our authors on NovelNetwork: \n				Connect with this Author on NovelNetwork®\n			\n  \n  \n \nSarah McCraw Crow is the author of the novel The Wrong Kind of Woman. She is a longtime magazine writer\, editor\, and book reviewer\, and her articles\, essays\, and reviews have run in BookPage\, The Christian Science Monitor\, Prime Number\, Family Circle\, Ladies’ Home Journal\, Parents\, Parenting\, American Baby\, Baby Talk\, and Working Mother\, among others. Her short fiction has won prizes from So to Speak and Good Housekeeping\, and her stories have been honored as contest finalists by Press 53\, New Letters\, Yemasee\, and Stanford Alumni Magazine. \nShe is a graduate of Dartmouth College (AB\, history)\, Stanford University (MA\, journalism)\, and Vermont College of Fine Arts (MFA in writing)\, and she’s a member of Grub Street\, Boston\, and the National Book Critics Circle. \nTold through alternating perspectives\, The Wrong Kind of Woman is an engrossing story of grief and renewal\, of shedding old identities and finding new ways to belong\, beautifully woven against the backdrop of the rapid changes of the early Seventies. \nTo schedule a book club visit with Sarah or any of our authors on NovelNetwork: \n				Connect with this Author on NovelNetwork®\n			\n  \n  \n \nIntrigued by the discovery that an ancestor was a founder of the Woman’s Medical College of Pennsylvania\, Janis Robinson Daly found her next career direction: unearthing the stories of women whose lives have remained in the shadows. With a love of history\, she balances a need for authenticity and details with a fictional flair to create deeper emotional connections to characters than what biographies provide. A graduate of Wheaton College\, MA\, with a B.A. in Psychology\, Daly explores female-centric issues and the power of supportive relationships developed among women. Daly\, her husband\, and rescue pup reside on Cape Cod\, MA. \nThe Unlocked Path presents and embraces a “New Woman” of the early 20th century: educated\, career-minded\, independent. In 1897 Philadelphia\, after witnessing her aunt’s suicide\, Eliza Edwards vows to find ways to help and heal. Rejecting her mother’s wishes for her society debut\, Eliza enters medical college at a time when only five percent of doctors are female. With the support of a circle of women and driven by a determination to conquer curriculum demands\, battle sexism\, and overcome doubts\, Eliza charts a new life course. Combining science and sympathy\, can she triumph to heal others and herself? \nTo schedule a book club visit with Janis or any of our authors on NovelNetwork: \n				Connect with this Author on NovelNetwork®\n			\n  \n  \n \nAimie K. Runyan is a multi-published and international bestselling author of historical fiction. She has been nominated for a Rocky Mountain Fiction Writer of the Year award and two Colorado Book Awards. She lives in Colorado with her wonderful husband and two (usually) adorable children. \nIn this intriguing historical novel\, a young woman who is sent to a horrific “bride school” to be molded into the perfect Nazi wife finds her life forever intertwined with a young Jewish woman about to give birth.  A moving and memorable tale of sisterhood\, strength\, and survival\, The School for German Brides will resonate deeply with readers of historical fiction. \nTo schedule a book club visit with Aimie or any of our authors on NovelNetwork: \n				Connect with this Author on NovelNetwork®\n			\n  \n  \n \n\n\nKate Thompson worked as a journalist for twenty years on women’s magazines and national newspapers. She now lives in Sunbury with her husband\, two sons and a Lurcher called Ted. After ghost writing five memoirs\, Kate moved into fiction. Kate’s first non-fiction social history documenting the forgotten histories of East End matriarchy\, The Stepney Doorstep Society\, was published in 2018.   Kate is passionate about uncovering the stories she considers missing from the history books. Stories of clandestine matriarchal communities pitting their wits against war\, violence and poverty. Tales of enormous camaraderie and tight-knit communities who are the beating heart of East London. \nHer latest novel\, The Little Wartime Library\,  is based on the remarkable true story of Bethnal Green Underground’s shelter library in WW2. Founded in the chaos of the Blitz\, the pioneering underground library provided the solace\, sanctuary and escapism of books in London’s darkest hour. \n\n\nTo schedule a book club visit with Kate or any of our authors on NovelNetwork: \n				Connect with this Author on NovelNetwork®\n			\n\n  \nFor Book Clubs\nAre you in a book club\, library reading group\, or is your group of friends\, colleagues\, family members seeking fabulous authors who are excited and available to meet with you? Then you will be delighted to know that Piper Huguley\, Christina Lynch\, Sarah McCraw Crow\, Janis Robinson Daly\, Aimie K. Runyan\, and Kate Thompson are all members of our wonderful community of over 130 NovelNetwork authors available to meet with small groups via video chat. \nNovelNetwork is the nation’s first and only match(dot)com for authors and book clubs to find each other\, so check it out today. Book clubs join for free and gain access to our database of dozens of authors\, from NYT and international bestsellers\, to debut authors\, cookbook authors\, mystery and non-fiction authors\, and representing various regions of the United States\, and even Alaska and Hawaii\, all of whom want to meet with you! \nTo schedule a visit with Piper Huguley\, Christina Lynch\, Sarah McCraw Crow\, Janis Robinson Daly\, Aimie K. Runyan\, and Kate Thompson\, or any of our authors\, join FOR FREE  here.
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SUMMARY:Point Loma Library Monday Night Author Adventures (Part 2): a FREE in-person series featuring Award-Winning Author and Actress Kathi Diamant\, together with Chuck Bieler and Georgeanne Irvine
DESCRIPTION:About the In-Person Library Series\nWe are delighted to introduce a fun 2023 author series in partnership with the Point Loma Library\, and we invite you to join us! Don’t miss the opportunity to meet five bestselling and fan-favorite authors\, Joe Stillman\, Kathi Diamant\, Amy Wallen\, Jennifer Coburn\, and Kitty Morse. \nOur part 2 episode features award-winning author and actress Kathi Diamant\, as she discusses her book\, Heart of the Zoo: How San Diego Zoo Director Chuck Bieler Earned His Stripes. Joining her in conversation will be Chuck Bieler\, the subject of Kathie’s book\, and Georgeanne Irvine\, Director of Publishing\, San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance. \nBOOKS are available for pre-order below to be delivered to the event for signing. \nUpcoming Series Schedule\nPART 2 featuring Kathi Diamant: Monday\, March 13\, 6:30pm Pacific\nPART 3 featuring Amy Wallen: Monday\, September 11\, 6:30pm Pacific\nPART 4 featuring Jennifer Coburn: Monday\, October 9\, 6:30pm Pacific\nPART 5 featuring Kitty Morse: Monday\, November 13\, 6:30pm Pacific\n  \nPart 2: Kathi Diamant\n\n \nKathi Diamant is an award-winning author\, actor\, broadcaster and adjunct professor at San Diego State University\, where she leads the Kafka Project\, the official international search to recover a lost literary treasure\, the missing writings of Franz Kafka. Kathi’s award-winning book\, Kafka’s Last Love: The Mystery of Dora Diamant has been reviewed by more than 60 publications and websites\, internationally lauded for its original research and revelations into Dora and Kafka’s lives. \nHer book\, San Diego Zoo Heart of the Zoo: How San Diego Zoo Director Chuck Bieler Earned His Stripes\, tells the extraordinary story of how Chuck Bieler “earned his stripes” at San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance. With inside stories and humorous details\, it captures his tireless efforts to help create an international conservation organization where all wildlife thrives. \nChuck Bieler was executive director of the San Diego Zoo from 1972-1985\, and as director emeritus has continued to work at the Zoo since then–at 53 years at the San Diego Zoo\, he is its longest-serving employee. HEART OF THE ZOO is his story. \nNative San Diego author Georgeanne “George” Irvine has devoted her career to raising awareness about animals and wildlife conservation. She is the director of publishing for San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance\, where she has worked for more than four decades\, as well as the author of more than two dozen children’s books about wildlife. Her worldwide expeditions have taken her to many of the wildest places on earth—from the jungles of Borneo and South America to the mountains of China and the forests of India to the Outback of Australia and the savannas of Africa. \n  \n\nPart 3: Amy Wallen\n\n \nAmy Wallen is the San Diego-based author of When We Were Ghouls\, A Memoir of Ghost Stories and the Los Angeles Times bestseller Moon Pies & Movie Stars. Her essays have been published in The Gettysburg Review\, The Normal School\, Country Living and other national magazines and anthologies. \nHer book\, How to Write a Novel in 20 Pies is a charming illustrated book on her journey writing a novel\, some of her teaching experience\, and some recipe-stories on pies\, because it was through pie that she claims she survived novel writing. \n\n  \nPart 4: Jennifer Coburn\n\n \n\nJennifer Coburn is the author of the highly-anticipated historical novel\, Cradles of the Reich\, about three very different women living at a Nazi Lebensborn breeding home at the start of World War ll. Jennifer has also published a mother-daughter travel memoir\, We’ll Always Have Paris\, as well as six contemporary women’s novels. Additionally\, Jennifer has contributed to five literary anthologies\, including A Paris All Your Own. \nWhen Jennifer is not going down historical research rabbit holes\, she volunteers with So Say We All\, a live storytelling organization\, where she is a performer\, producer\, and performance coach. She is also an active volunteer with Reality Changers\, a nonprofit that supports low-income high school students in becoming the first in their families to attend college. She specializes in college essay development\, interview prep\, and all-around tiger mothering. \n  \nPart 5: Kitty Morse\n \nKitty Morse is the author of ten cookbooks\, including a memoir with recipes titled Mint Tea and Minarets: a Banquet of Moroccan Memories\, named Best Book/Arab Cuisine by the Gourmand World Cookbook Awards. Other titles include Cooking at the Kasbah: Recipes from my Moroccan Kitchen (now in its tenth printing from Chronicle Books)\, The California Farm Cookbook\, and Edible Flowers: A Kitchen Companion with Recipes. \n Her 11th cookbook Bitter Sweet: A Wartime Journal and Heirloom Recipes from Occupied France — part Holocaust history\, part memoir\, part cookbook — features recipes from Kitty’s Alsatian ancestors\, and is based upon original family documents and photographs chronicling living in Alsace during the Nazi occupation in WWII. \n\nRegistration\nAs this event is free and open to the public\, no registration is required and seating is available on a first-come\, first-served based. However\, we encourage you to support each of the featured authors by pre-ordering a copy of the book below to be delivered to the event for signing. Additional copies will be available for sale at the event on a limited basis. \n\n\nAbout the Point Loma/Hervey Library\nOne of the largest libraries in the City of San Diego\, the Point Loma/Hervey Library offers many unique features and several conference rooms\, a computer lab and media room. Fitting with Point Loma’s history as a fishing village\, the library incorporates themes of marine life and nautical history throughout the two-story building. \n \n\nSave
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