A Great Good Place for Books proudly welcomes Harriet Kimble Wrye on Thursday\, May 3rd at 7\:00 p.m. She'll be reading from her book\, Pulling Up Stakes\: Stepping Into Freedom.
On a High Sierra packtrip with her husband and their six llamas\, psychologist Harriet Wrye felt a millennial call to pull up stakes in her life\, as she did with tent stakes and llama stakes each day as they moved along the trail.
Inspired\, she closed her Los Angeles psychoanalytic practice of thirty years \, they leased their house at the beach\, and set out on a journey to the back of beyond.
Creating a sabbatical from the familiar\, her journey became a life-changing spiritual pilgrimage that led to a deep practice of letting go of assumptions\, habits and patterns\, and stepping into freedom.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130519T024256Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120506T190000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120506T190000Z UID:http://www.ggpbooks.com/event/joanne-rocklin-five-lives-our-cat-zook URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.ggpbooks.com/event/joanne-rocklin-five-lives-our-cat-zook SUMMARY:JOANNE ROCKLIN--THE FIVE LIVES OF OUR CAT ZOOK DESCRIPTION:Our good friend\, Joanne Rocklin\, will be celebrating the publication of her new book\, The Five Lives of Our Cat Zook\, on Sunday\, May 6th at 11\:00 a.m.
In this warmhearted middle-grade novel\, Oona and her brother\, Fred\, love their cat Zook (short for Zucchini)\, but Zook is sick. As they conspire to break him out of the vet’s office\, convinced he can only get better at home with them\, Oona tells Fred the story of Zook’s previous lives\, ranging in style from fairy tale to grand epic to slice of life.
Each of Zook’s lives has echoes in Oona’s own family life\, which is going through a transition she’s not yet ready to face. Her father died two years ago\, and her mother has started a relationship with a man named Dylan—whom Oona secretly calls “the villain.” The truth about Dylan\, and about Zook’s medical condition\, drives the drama in this loving family story.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130519T024256Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120510T030000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120510T030000Z UID:http://www.ggpbooks.com/event/joseph-diprisco-all-now URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.ggpbooks.com/event/joseph-diprisco-all-now SUMMARY:JOSEPH DIPRISCO--ALL FOR NOW DESCRIPTION:Loyal customer and friend\, Joseph DiPrisco\, will be reading from his novel\, All For Now\, on Wednesday\, May 9th at 7\:00 p.m.
Brother Stephen dies suddenly. That's when things get more complicated.
Is Stephen's death his wake-up call?
That's a possibility that slowly dawns on him. Soon he is behind the wheel of a Prius\, driving through his afterlife\, listening to himself being interviewed on NPR. His afterlife feels a lot like high school\, he tells Terry\, and she questions him about those lawsuits filed by students who claimed to have been molested by pedophile Brothers. As an administrator of his Roman Catholic religious order\, he was caught in the middle of these heartbreaking cases. In fact\, the lawsuit he was dealing with the moment he died is one that strikes especially close to his heart. He once knew the plaintiff. He once knew her very well. He also knew very well the Brother who is named in the lawsuit.
Now that he is dead\, Brother Stephen is more determined than ever to get to the truth. He spends his afterlife solving a terrible mystery or two about the survivor and about the accused. The biggest mystery he faces\, however\, is the one about himself.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130519T024256Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120511T030000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120511T030000Z UID:http://www.ggpbooks.com/event/helen-olsson-down-and-dirty-guide-camping-kids-how-plan-memorable-family-adventures-and-conn-0 URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.ggpbooks.com/event/helen-olsson-down-and-dirty-guide-camping-kids-how-plan-memorable-family-adventures-and-conn-0 SUMMARY:HELEN OLSSON--THE DOWN AND DIRTY GUIDE TO CAMPING WITH KIDS\: HOW TO PLAN MEMORABLE FAMILY ADVENTURES AND CONNECT KIDS WITH NATURE DESCRIPTION:
ATTENTION PARENTS!
Are you looking for something to do with the kids this summer?
Come meet Helen Olsson on Thursday\, May 10th at 7\:00 p.m. She'll be discussing her book\, The Down and Dirty Guide to Camping with Kids\: How to Plan Memorable Family Adventures and Connect Kids with Nature.
Plan your family camping adventure!
Whether you’re a first-time camper or a veteran backpacker befuddled by the challenges of carting a brood—and all the requisite gear—into the great outdoors\, here you’ll find all the tips and tools you need to plan the perfect nature adventure with your family. Humorous and irreverent\, yet always authoritative\, this guide to camping with kids\, from babies through pre-teens\, is filled with checklists\, smart tips\, recipes\, games\, activities\, and art projects. Helen Olsson\, a seasoned camper and mother of three\, shares lessons learned over the years of nature outings with her own family. Learn the basics of family camping\, from choosing a destination and packing gear to setting up a campsite and keeping little ones safe. Create the perfect camp menu with simple and tasty recipe ideas. Discover foolproof tips and tactics for keeping kids happy and entertained while hiking. Explore nature through clever and creative camp arts and craft projects.
This guide is your game plan to unplugging from the digital world and connecting your kids to nature. Whether it’s roasting marshmallows around a crackling campfire or stretching out on a camp mat to gaze at the stars\, the memories you’ll be making will last a lifetime.
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END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130519T024256Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120520T030000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120520T030000Z UID:http://www.ggpbooks.com/node/25380 URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.ggpbooks.com/node/25380 SUMMARY:RICHARD L. WREN-KISS (HOW TO WRITE AND PUBLISH YOUR FICTION NOVEL) DESCRIPTION:Local self-published author Richard L. Wren will be sharing his tricks of the trade Saturday\, May 19th at 7\:00 p.m. He will be discussing his new book\, KISS (How to Write and Publish Your Fiction Novel).
Are you looking for a down to earth\, nuts and bolts\, practical writing guide?
You've found it!
Richard L Wrenn's KISS (How to Write and Publish Your Fiction Novel) has been selected as required reading at university level Writing and Publication courses. This short\, concise guide helps you get started and before you know it you've written your first novel!
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A Great Good Place for Books welcomes Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Robert Lowe on Monday\, May 21st at 7\:00 p.m. He'll be reading from his debut novel\, Project Moses.
KIrkus Reviews calls Project Moses "\;...a taut thriller...with an ideal fusion of wile and wit."\;
Moses is a high-tech\, bioterrorism thriller in the Grisham mode with romance\,
suspense and humor. Enzo Lee\, 37\, a burned out reporter\, has forsaken
investigative reporting on the East Coast to churn out feature fluff in San
Francisco. He likes his North Beach apartment\, steps away from his Chinatown
roots. Running\, tai chi\, great food\, women who are attracted to his exotic
looks. Life is good.
Until Lee's comfortable life is shaken when he is ordered
to cover the unexplained deaths of a local judge and prosecutor. Intrigued by
the connection\, and the judge’s attractive niece\, Sarah Armstrong\, Lee begins to
uncover a bioterrorism scandal whose perpetrators - including government
officials and Silicon Valley titans - will kill to conceal.
When Lee and Sarah
become targets\, the question becomes whether the pair can evade their hunters
and piece together the story before their time runs out.
Local author Juliet Bell (who looks an a lot like our good friend Sylvia Brownrigg) will be reading from her debut novel\, Kepler's Dream\, on Wednesday\, May 23rd at 7\:00 p.m.
A young girl makes her fractured family whole again with the help of a very special book
When eleven-year-old Ella's mother has to be hospitalized to undergo a dangerous cancer treatment\, Ella spends the summer at "\;Broken Family Camp"\; with her eccentric grandmother\, whom she's never met. The situation is hardly ideal for either of them. Ella is scared her mother may die\, but her grandmother seems to care more about her library full of books than she does about her very own granddaughter.
But when a rare and beloved book\, Kepler's Dream of the Moon\, is stolen from her grandmother's amazing library\, Ella and her new friend Rosie make up their minds to find it. Finding the beautiful book her grandmother loves so much could even be the key to healing Ella's broken family.
An affecting and beautifully written story of family\, forgiveness and the wonder of the stars\, Kepler's Dream is a sparkling and memorable debut.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130519T024256Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120530T030000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120530T030000Z UID:http://www.ggpbooks.com/event/melanie-gideon-wife-22 URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.ggpbooks.com/event/melanie-gideon-wife-22 SUMMARY:MELANIE GIDEON -- WIFE 22 DESCRIPTION:Celebrate the release of Wife 22 with GGP's good friend Melanie Gideon on Tuesday\, May 29th at 7\:00 p.m.
For fans of Helen Fielding’s Bridget Jones’s Diary and Allison Pearson’s I Don’t Know How She Does It comes an irresistible novel of a woman losing herself . . . and finding herself again . . . in the middle of her life.
Maybe it was those extra five pounds I’d gained. Maybe it was because I was about to turn the same age my mother was when I lost her. Maybe it was because after almost twenty years of marriage my husband and I seemed to be running out of things to say to each other.
But when the anonymous online study called “Marriage in the 21st Century” showed up in my inbox\, I had no idea how profoundly it would change my life. It wasn’t long before I was assigned both a pseudonym (Wife 22) and a caseworker (Researcher 101).
And\, just like that\, I found myself answering questions.
7. Sometimes I tell him he’s snoring when he’s not snoring so he’ll sleep in the guest room and I can have the bed all to myself.
61. Chet Baker on the tape player. He was cutting peppers for the salad. I looked at those hands and thought\, I am going to have this man’s children.
67. To not want what you don’t have. What you can’t have. What you shouldn’t have.
32. That if we weren’t careful\, it was possible to forget one another.
Before the study\, my life was an endless blur of school lunches and doctor’s appointments\, family dinners\, budgets\, and trying to discern the fastest-moving line at the grocery store. I was Alice Buckle\: spouse of William and mother to Zoe and Peter\, drama teacher and Facebook chatter\, downloader of memories and Googler of solutions.
But these days\, I’m also Wife 22. And somehow\, my anonymous correspondence with Researcher 101 has taken an unexpectedly personal turn. Soon\, I’ll have to make a decision—one that will affect my family\, my marriage\, my whole life. But at the moment\, I’m too busy answering questions.
As it turns out\, confession can be a very powerful aphrodisiac.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130519T024256Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120531T030000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120531T030000Z UID:http://www.ggpbooks.com/event/victoria-zackheim-kathi-kamen-goldmark-sam-barry-zoe-fitzgerald-carter-exit-laughing-how-humor URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.ggpbooks.com/event/victoria-zackheim-kathi-kamen-goldmark-sam-barry-zoe-fitzgerald-carter-exit-laughing-how-humor SUMMARY:VICTORIA ZACKHEIM AND ZOE FITZGERALD CARTER -- IN MEMORY OF KATHI KAMEN GOLDMARK. EXIT LAUGHING\: HOW HUMOR TAKES THE STING OUT OF DEATH DESCRIPTION:Editor Victoria Zackheim along and Zoe FitzGerald Carter to GGp to read from their new anthology\, Exit Laughing\: How Humor Takes the Sting Out of Death\, and celebrating the life of Kathi Kamen Goldmark (1948-2012) on Wednesday\, May 30th at 7\:00 p.m.
Exit Laughing is more than a collection of twenty-four personal stories\, written by some of our country's finest authors\, on the subject of death and humor. It's a reminder that all of us approach death in very different ways. Whether we face our death or the death of a loved one with fear\, sorrow\, joy\, or confusion\, and whether or not we believe in an afterlife\, we cannot deny that death happens. GGP will also be honoring the life of contributor Kathi Kamen Goldmark\, who lost her long battle with breast cancer on May 24th. Bring your kazoos and play a song for Kathi...
Exit Laughing reminds us that in death there is a place for humor.
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