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SUMMARY:Vroman's Bookstore: Meher McArthur discusses & signs A Japanese Art Journey: A Curator's Memoir of Polka Dot Pumpkins\, Paper Dolls and Woodblock Prints
DESCRIPTION:Passion\, Art\, and Identity: A Multicultural Memoir of Finding One’s Place in the World \nIn this engaging memoir\, Japanese art historian and curator Meher McArthur transports you into the extraordinary world of Japanese art — from ceramics\, swords\, prints and textiles to Buddhist art\, folk painting\, contemporary art and animation. One artwork and one language lesson at a time\, we follow McArthur as she unspools a compelling narrative of curiosity and inspiration\, personal and cultural growth\, with heartbreak and resilience. This book will provide avid art lovers new ways of seeing and understanding the power of art\, not only to inspire but to illuminate one’s place in the world. \nThe author presents her art memoir in three parts: \nDiscovering and Learning \nGrowing up in a small Scottish town as a multiracial child\, McArthur often felt culturally out of place. Encouraged by her Persian and Scottish parents to embrace a global identity\, she studied Japanese at Cambridge\, eventually moving to Japan–where she fell in love with its language\, temples\, ceramics\, and art traditions. Just as she found her passion\, family upheaval challenged her sense of direction. \nBecoming a Curator \nWith a master’s degree in Japanese art\, McArthur forged a path as a museum curator in California\, organizing exhibitions on folk art\, sake\, ceramics\, and Buddhist calligraphy–while learning the rhythms of museum life and starting a family. \nCurating Beyond the Museum \nStepping away from the museum world\, she became an independent curator\, exploring new creative territory through origami\, anime\, and contemporary art–discovering fresh ways to connect with audiences and with herself. \nSpanning continents and cultures\, this is both an inspiring art memoir and a resonant reflection on cultural belonging. McArthur’s story offers a warm\, generous vision of how art can illuminate identity and bridge difference–inviting readers to fall in love with Japanese art and culture\, and to embrace the idea that there’s no single way to belong in the world.
URL:https://playhousevillage.org/event/vromans-bookstore-meher-mcarthur-discusses-signs-a-japanese-art-journey-a-curators-memoir-of-polka-dot-pumpkins-paper-dolls-and-woodblock-prints/
LOCATION:Vroman’s Bookstore\, 695 E. Colorado Blvd.\, Pasadena\, CA\, 91101\, United States
CATEGORIES:Books,Vroman's Bookstore
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251106T200000
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SUMMARY:Vroman's Bookstore: TICKETED - David Daley discusses & signs Antidemocratic: Inside the Far Right's 50-Year Plot to Control American Elections
DESCRIPTION:“David Daley has been at the absolute forefront of educating us about the theft of our elections by radical Republicans determined to subvert everyone else’s power to choose their own leaders. An absolute warrior for democracy.” — Rick Perlstein\, New York Times bestselling author of Nixonland and Reaganland \nIn 1981\, a young lawyer\, fresh out of Harvard law school\, joined the Reagan administration’s Department of Justice\, taking up a cause that had been fomenting in Republican circles for over a decade by that point. From his perch inside the Reagan DOJ\, this lawyer would attempt to bring down one of the defining pieces of 20th century legislation–the Voting Rights Act. His name was John Roberts. \nOver thirty years later in 2013\, these efforts by John Roberts and the conservative legal establishment culminated when Roberts\, now Chief Justice of the Supreme Court\, wrote Shelby County vs. Holder\, one of the most consequential decisions of modern jurisprudence. A dramatic move that gutted the Voting Rights Act\, Roberts’s decision–dangerously premised on the flawed notion that racism was a thing of the past–emboldened right-wing\, antidemocratic voting laws around the country immediately. No modern court decision has done more to hand elections to Republicans than Shelby. \nNow lauded investigative reporter David Daley reveals the urgent story of this fifty-year Republican plot to end the Voting Rights Act and encourage minority rule in their party’s favor. From the bowels of Reagan’s DOJ to the walls of the conservative Federalist Society to the moneyed Republican resources bankrolling restrictive voting laws today\, Daley reveals a hidden history as sweeping as it is troubling. Through careful research and exhaustive reporting\, he connects Shelby to a well-funded\, highly-coordinated right-wing effort to erode the power of minority voters and Democrats at the ballot box–an effort that has grown stronger with each election cycle. In the process Roberts and his conservative allies have enabled extreme partisan gerrymandering to become the law of the land\, while fringe conservative theories about our elections infiltrate the foundations of our democracy.
URL:https://playhousevillage.org/event/vromans-bookstore-ticketed-david-daley-discusses-signs-antidemocratic-inside-the-far-rights-50-year-plot-to-control-american-elections/
LOCATION:Vroman’s Bookstore\, 695 E. Colorado Blvd.\, Pasadena\, CA\, 91101\, United States
CATEGORIES:Books,In-Person,Vroman's Bookstore
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251105T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251105T200000
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SUMMARY:Vroman's Bookstore:  Tori Atencio McCullough\, Kelsey McCullough\, & Bobbie Lucas\, discuss & sign Xavier X Atencio: The Legacy of an Artist\, Imagineer\, and Disney Legend
DESCRIPTION:From apprentice animator on Pinocchio to the lyricist behind “Yo Ho\, Yo Ho A Pirates Life for Me\,” Xavier “X” Atencio’s Disney career was diverse and spectacular. \nNow for the first time his talent\, humor\, and creativity come to life in a book celebrating the body of work and the legacy of one of Walt’s original and most versatile Imagineers. \nXavier “X” Atencio: The Legacy of An Artist\, Imagineer\, and Disney Legend depicts the life\, art\, and lasting legacy of X\, detailing how he put himself into his work and used his talents\, passion\, humor\, and creativity to inspire generations. It is the most comprehensive look to date at the one of Walt’s original and most versatile Imagineers. \nFeaturing previously unpublished artwork and photographs from X’s personal collection\, this book grants readers the unique opportunity to discover the true depths of influence X attained on his life journey. For while it was rare to become a Disney Imagineer\, it was even rarer to end a career at Disney with as diversified a resume as X’s–from “small-town Colorado boy” to art school attendee\, Disney animator\, attraction scriptwriter\, lyricist\, voice-over artist\, and finally Disney Legend. \nSet against the historic and cultural evolutions of The Walt Disney Company\, Xavier “X” Atencio: The Legacy of An Artist\, Imagineer\, and Disney Legend provides a deeply personal perspective into the life and career of a Disney Legend whose story\, until now\, had remained largely untold.
URL:https://playhousevillage.org/event/vromans-bookstore-tori-atencio-mccullough-kelsey-mccullough-bobbie-lucas-discuss-sign-xavier-x-atencio-the-legacy-of-an-artist-imagineer-and-disney-legend/
LOCATION:Vroman’s Bookstore\, 695 E. Colorado Blvd.\, Pasadena\, CA\, 91101\, United States
CATEGORIES:Books,In-Person,Vroman's Bookstore
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251105T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251105T120000
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SUMMARY:Vroman's Bookstore: Aria Mia Loberti reads from & signs I Am Ingrid: The Adventures of the World's Greatest Guide Dog
DESCRIPTION:This funny\, adorable picture book is based on the life of Ingrid\, the real guide dog to actress\, author\, and UNICEF Ambassador Aria Mia Loberti! \nIngrid knows she is fabulous. She flies around the world with her person\, Aria. Working as a team\, they navigate everything from college classes and ancient ruins to movie sets and red carpets. And Ingrid never goes anywhere without her string of pearls. But before Ingrid was the best guide dog there ever was\, she was just a small\, black puppy with very big paws. \nGrowing up at Guide Dogs for the Blind\, Ingrid saw lots of grown-up dogs wearing special harnesses. They were guide dogs\, and they got to help people and go on adventures. Ingrid dreamed of being just like them. But becoming a guide dog isn’t easy. It takes a lot of training and hard work. When they are wearing their harnesses\, guide dogs must be focused and calm. That means no sniffing strangers\, barking\, or picking up food from the ground — no matter how good it smells! But Ingrid was determined to complete her training and become the best guide dog in the world. \nThis funny and heartwarming illustrated picture book will teach kids what guide dogs do and how they work together with their humans to become an unstoppable team. Plus\, the back of the book includes nonfiction information about guide dogs\, the spectrum of vision\, Aria’s life and career\, and photos of the real Ingrid — including her wearing her trademark pearls!
URL:https://playhousevillage.org/event/vromans-bookstore-aria-mia-loberti-reads-from-signs-i-am-ingrid-the-adventures-of-the-worlds-greatest-guide-dog/
LOCATION:Vroman’s Bookstore\, 695 E. Colorado Blvd.\, Pasadena\, CA\, 91101\, United States
CATEGORIES:Books,Vroman's Bookstore
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251104T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251104T190000
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SUMMARY:Vroman's Bookstore:  Julia Ioffee discusses & signs Motherland: A Feminist History of Modern Russia\, from Revolution to Autocracy
DESCRIPTION:FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD \nAcclaimed journalist Julia Ioffe tells the story of modern Russia through the history of its women\, from revolution to utopia to autocracy. \nIn 1990\, seven-year-old Julia Ioffe and her family fled the Soviet Union. Nearly twenty years later\, Ioffe returned to Moscow—only to discover just how much Russian society had changed while she had been living in America. The Soviet women she had known growing up—doctors\, engineers\, scientists—seemed to have been replaced by women desperate to marry rich and become stay-at-home moms. How had Russia gone from portraying itself as the vanguard of world feminism to becoming a bastion of conservative Christian values? \nIn Motherland\, Ioffe turns modern Russian history on its head\, telling it exclusively through the stories of its women. From her own physician great-grandmothers to Lenin’s lover\, a feminist revolutionary; from the hundreds of thousands of Soviet girls who fought in World War II to the millions of single mothers who rebuilt and repopulated a devastated country; from the members of Pussy Riot to Yulia Navalnaya\, the wife of opposition leader Alexey Navalny\, Ioffe chronicles one of the most audacious social experiments in history and documents how it failed the very women it was meant to liberate—and how that failure paved the way for the revanche of Vladimir Putin. \nPart memoir\, part journalistic exploration\, part history\, Motherland paints a portrait of modern Russia through the women who shaped it. With deep emotion\, Ioffe reveals what it means to live through the cataclysms of revolution\, war\, idealism\, and heartbreak—and how the story of Russia today is inextricably tied to the sacrifices of its women.
URL:https://playhousevillage.org/event/vromans-bookstore-julia-ioffee-discusses-signs-motherland-a-feminist-history-of-modern-russia-from-revolution-to-autocracy/
LOCATION:Vroman’s Bookstore\, 695 E. Colorado Blvd.\, Pasadena\, CA\, 91101\, United States
CATEGORIES:Books,Vroman's Bookstore
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251103T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251103T180000
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SUMMARY:Vroman's Bookstore:  TICKETED - Mac Barnett & Shawn Harris Present: The First Cat in Space and the Baby Pirate's Revenge: A Graphic Novel
DESCRIPTION:In the fourth installment of Mac Barnett and Shawn Harris’s New York Times-bestselling series our heroes–First Cat\, LOZ 4000\, and the Moon Queen– encounter Captain Babybeard and his crew of swashbuckling pirates.
URL:https://playhousevillage.org/event/vromans-bookstore-ticketed-mac-barnett-shawn-harris-present-the-first-cat-in-space-and-the-baby-pirates-revenge-a-graphic-novel/
LOCATION:Vroman’s Bookstore\, 695 E. Colorado Blvd.\, Pasadena\, CA\, 91101\, United States
CATEGORIES:Books,Vroman's Bookstore
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251102T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251102T170000
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SUMMARY:Vroman's Bookstore: Garrett Hongo and Robin Coste Lewis read from & sign their new books Ocean of Clouds: Poems and Archive of Desire: A Poem in Four Parts for C. P. Cavafy
DESCRIPTION:About Ocean of Clouds: \nIn his fourth book of poems\, award-winning poet Garrett Hongo sees coastlines and waters\, skylines and ancestral lines for what they inspire and teach. \nIn a surpassingly beautiful collection of poems\, with his characteristic long-lined\, rolling music\, Hongo is alert to the possibilities of individual moments of perception and grace in the landscapes of his life\, whether waiting for a ferry in Balboa after a writing workshop (“An oil slick from a yacht . . . / Spread rainbows on the water\, an aleph / curving toward us”) or hanging out and playing LPs with the late\, great poet Michael Harper\, or watching his daughter in the sun with a halo of messy twelve-year-old’s hair\, or listening to the sea\, which speaks to him in so many places: at the Wai’ōpae Tidepools\, at Cassis\, at Divi Bay in Saint Martin\, where\, he tells us\, “I thought of writing to the soul of Nâzim Hikmet\, / saying loving a woman was like writing a book– / . . . it is love’s body on which you write a page of kisses . . .” \nThese poems of cloudy moons and sandstone cliffsides\, the black glass of lava shattered into sands\, waves surging\, and stories of a poet’s gratitude for the journey he has made\, come together to make a paean against forgetting. \nAbout Archive of Desire: \nThe National Book Award\, PEN/Voelcker Award\, and NAACP Image Award winner returns with another inventive and boundary-breaking book: a sensual journey ignited in the archives of iconic queer Alexandrian poet C. P. Cavafy. \nIn her first book\, Robin Coste Lewis’s poems exploded the imagery of the Black female figure from antiquity through the present day. Her second book was an expansive hybrid photographic and poetic study of human migration and the human family. Now she delivers a “poem in four parts\,” which originated as a musical\, visual\, and lyrical collaboration with the composer Vijay Iyer\, cellist Jeffrey Zeigler\, and visual artist Julie Mehretu\, with Lewis on the microphone offering a live reading of this sequence. Ignited by their encounters with Cavafy’s archive\, in the heart of Athens\, the multimedia quartet exalted the liminal spaces where desire and diaspora meet–where art often asserts itself most forcefully. In this volume\, Lewis brings this performance to life on the page\, where the poem weaves in and out of Cavafy’s bedrooms\, notebooks\, and the suppressed erotic excavation underpinning all of his work. Lewis converses directly with Mr. Cavafy: “often you / reminded us that // the only true / barbarians are the ones / raging in silence inside // of our own / minds.” But she also brings equal parts of herself to this study of artistry and sensuality\, as in the short\, tender section entitled “Cavafy in Compton/Closet Anthem: Self-Portrait at Sixteen\, 1979.” \nAs in all Lewis’s works\, here she reaches across centuries to express what is timeless and not bound by our current moment or our single selves: the discipline and glory of art\, the give-and-take of love\, the kiss that lives in the moment\, and the unfolding journey of being human\, whose contours become clear only with the passage of time\, the igniting of memory\, and the words we find to describe the journey.
URL:https://playhousevillage.org/event/vromans-bookstore-garrett-hongo-and-robin-coste-lewis-read-from-sign-their-new-books-ocean-of-clouds-poems-and-archive-of-desire-a-poem-in-four-parts-for-c-p-cavafy/
LOCATION:Vroman’s Bookstore\, 695 E. Colorado Blvd.\, Pasadena\, CA\, 91101\, United States
CATEGORIES:Books,Vroman's Bookstore
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251102T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251102T150000
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SUMMARY:Vroman's Bookstore: Caroline L. Perry & Sydney Hanson read from & sign I Am Not Happy!
DESCRIPTION:In the vein of Grumpy Monkey and Unicorns Are the Worst!\, this hilarious picture book introduces the adorable quokka\, who–despite his ever-present smile–is definitely not as happy as he looks! \nWith its bright eyes\, puffy cheeks\, and beaming smile\, the quokka is clearly the happiest animal on earth. Or is it? This quokka is here to tell you…he is not happy! At least not all the time. Just like everyone else\, he can be sulky\, or sorry\, or sad; but you’d never know from the look on his face! So\, what’s a moody marsupial to do when he’s being misunderstood? Teach every other animal from kangaroos to koalas not to judge a critter by its cover!
URL:https://playhousevillage.org/event/vromans-bookstore-caroline-l-perry-sydney-hanson-read-from-sign-i-am-not-happy/
LOCATION:Vroman’s Bookstore\, 695 E. Colorado Blvd.\, Pasadena\, CA\, 91101\, United States
CATEGORIES:Books,In-Person,Vroman's Bookstore
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251102T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251102T110000
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SUMMARY:Tepito Coffee + Vroman’s Bookstore Present: Rings of Dissent: Boxing and Performances of Rebellion
DESCRIPTION:Tepito Coffee + Vroman’s Bookstore Present: Rings of Dissent: Boxing and Performances of Rebellion\, a special conversation moderated by Mike de la Rocha\, featuring Rudy Mondragón\, Gaye Theresa Johnson & Priscilla Leiva\n\nImage\n \n\nProfessional boxers practice their trade within an ostensibly apolitical arena. In reality\, however\, the fighters work inside a capitalistic and neoliberal sports culture that they both challenge and uphold. This collection delves into professional boxing’s capacity for brilliance\, contradiction\, resistance\, and complicity. Scholars\, activists\, and artists explore the boxing ring as a site for understanding original and diverse ideas about the performance of race\, citizenship\, gender\, power\, and dissent. Essays and interviews draw attention to the cultural politics and performances of marginalized boxers while revealing the structures of power and practices of agency at work around Black\, Brown\, and queer bodies. As the contributors establish boxing’s central place in communities of color\, they open exciting new avenues for studying race\, immigration\, gender\, and capital. Multifaceted and innovative\, Rings of Dissent uncovers fascinating corners of the boxing world as it illuminates what the sport tells us about America.
URL:https://playhousevillage.org/event/tepito-coffee-vromans-bookstore-present-rings-of-dissent-boxing-and-performances-of-rebellion/
LOCATION:Vroman’s Bookstore\, 695 E. Colorado Blvd.\, Pasadena\, CA\, 91101\, United States
CATEGORIES:Books,In-Person,Vroman's Bookstore
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251101T180000
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SUMMARY:Vroman's On Screen - Howard Berger discusses & signs Making Monsters: Inside Stories from the Creators of Hollywood's Most Iconic Creatures
DESCRIPTION:Explore behind the scenes of the greatest monster movies ever made! \nWhat makes a great movie monster? Academy Award-winning make-up effects artist Howard Berger and acclaimed journalist Marshall Julius have spoken to dozens of film industry legends to find out. \nA celebration of monsters\, monster movies and monster movie makers\, Making Monsters delivers an illuminating\, entertaining and accessible oral history of the genre\, gathering an enviable array of A-list talent from make-up and digital effects legends (Tom Savini\, Phil Tippett) to directors (John Carpenter\, Ti West)\, actors (Simon Pegg\, Barbara Crampton)\, composers (Michael Giacchino) and writers (Russell T Davies). \nPacked with hundreds of images\, from film stills to personal\, behind-the-scenes pictures from dozens of interview subjects – many never before published – Making Monsters is a treasure trove of monstrous creations\, and the stories behind them\, that is sure to make fans jump\, scream and howl with delight. \n\n \n\nVroman’s On Screen is an ongoing event series highlighting books & authors that explore the elements of Film and Television from actors & directors to artists behind the camera to media studies & criticism.
URL:https://playhousevillage.org/event/vromans-on-screen-howard-berger-discusses-signs-making-monsters-inside-stories-from-the-creators-of-hollywoods-most-iconic-creatures/
LOCATION:Vroman’s Bookstore\, 695 E. Colorado Blvd.\, Pasadena\, CA\, 91101\, United States
CATEGORIES:Books,Vroman's Bookstore
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251031T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251031T160000
DTSTAMP:20260509T131037
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SUMMARY:Young Readers' Halloween at Vroman's Boo-kstore!
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Friday\, October 31st for Halloween at Vroman’s Boo-kstore! \nWe will have a special Halloween themed storytime with Mr. Steve and Halloween activities starting at 4pm. \nAfter storytime\, make your way through Vroman’s for trick-or-treating! We will have designated spots all around the Boo-kstore where young ghouls and goblins can happily haunt for goodies! \nCostumes are highly encouraged!
URL:https://playhousevillage.org/event/young-readers-halloween-at-vromans-boo-kstore/
LOCATION:Vroman’s Bookstore\, 695 E. Colorado Blvd.\, Pasadena\, CA\, 91101\, United States
CATEGORIES:Books,Vroman's Bookstore
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251029T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251029T200000
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SUMMARY:Vroman's Bookstore:  Ticketed - Andrew Morton discusses & signs Winston and the Windsors: How Churchill Shaped a Royal Dynasty
DESCRIPTION:From an early age\, Winston Churchill was convinced that he was a man of destiny. Today\, it seems his premonition was correct; few figures in British history have been so deeply and consequently involved with the British family as Churchill. While many people in positions of power have advised kings and queens during their reign\, Churchill is unique in his role: helping to shape not only a reign\, but an entire royal dynasty. \nIn Winston and the Windsors\, one of the world’s best-known biographers and a leading authority on celebrity Andrew Morton presents a meticulously researched joint biography of Winston Churchill and the House of Windsor. Throughout the course of his career and life\, Churchill’s relationship with the Windsor’s fluctuated wildly. At times\, he was the royal family’s trusted confidante. At others\, he was their leading antagonist. In exploring the complex relationship between the two\, Morton argues that – whether the attitudes of the royal family were warm or icy towards Churchill – their relationship is central to the twentieth-century history of the British monarchy. \nFrom the Churchill family’s complex relationship with the crown; to Winston’s initially begrudging but ultimately fruitful partnership with George VI; to his enduring fondness for Queen Elizabeth II\, this fascinating narrative biography sheds a new light on the ways the crown not only shaped Winston Churchill’s career – but the ways in which Churchill shepherded the monarchy into the modern era. \nThis is an in-store ticketed event with two ticket options.- General Admission + 1 copy of Winston and the Windsors– 2 General Admissions + 1 copy of Winston and the Windsors
URL:https://playhousevillage.org/event/vromans-bookstore-ticketed-andrew-morton-discusses-signs-winston-and-the-windsors-how-churchill-shaped-a-royal-dynasty/
LOCATION:Vroman’s Bookstore\, 695 E. Colorado Blvd.\, Pasadena\, CA\, 91101\, United States
CATEGORIES:Books,Vroman's Bookstore
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251028T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251028T200000
DTSTAMP:20260509T131037
CREATED:20251022T213104Z
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SUMMARY:Vroman's Bookstore:  Eli Frankel discusses & signs Sisters in Death: The Black Dahlia\, the Prairie Heiress\, and Their Hunter
DESCRIPTION:Who killed the Black Dahlia? In this eye-opening shocker\, an award-winning producer\, true-crime researcher\, and Hollywood insider finally solves the greatest – and most gruesome – murder mystery of the twentieth century just before its 80th anniversary. \nIn January 1947\, the bisected body of Elizabeth Short\, completely drained of blood\, was discovered in an undeveloped lot in Los Angeles. Its gruesome mutilations led to a firestorm of publicity\, city-wide panic\, and an unprecedented number of investigative paths led by the LAPD–all dead ends. The Black Dahlia murder remained an unsolved mystery for over seventy years. \nSix years earlier and sixteen hundred miles away\, another woman’s life had ended in a similarly horrific manner. Leila Welsh was an ambitious\, educated\, popular\, and socially connected beauty. Though raised modestly on a prairie farm\, she was heiress to her Kansas City family’s status and wealth. On a winter morning in 1941\, Leila’s butchered body was found in her bedroom bearing the marks of unspeakable trauma. \nOne victim faded into obscurity. The other became notorious. Both had in common a killer whose sadistic mind was a labyrinth of dark secrets. \nEli Frankel reveals for the first time a key fact about the Black Dahlia crime scene\, never before shared with the public\, that leads inexorably to the stunning identification of a criminal who was at the same time amateurish and fiendish\, skilled and lucky\, sophisticated and brutish. Drawing on newly discovered documents\, law enforcement files\, interviews with the last surviving participants\, the victims’ own letters\, trial transcripts\, military records\, and more\, this epic true-crime saga puts together the missing pieces of a legendary puzzle. \nIn Sisters in Death\, the Black Dahlia cold case is finally closed.
URL:https://playhousevillage.org/event/vromans-bookstore-eli-frankel-discusses-signs-sisters-in-death-the-black-dahlia-the-prairie-heiress-and-their-hunter/
LOCATION:Vroman’s Bookstore\, 695 E. Colorado Blvd.\, Pasadena\, CA\, 91101\, United States
CATEGORIES:Books,In-Person,Vroman's Bookstore
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251027T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251027T200000
DTSTAMP:20260509T131037
CREATED:20251022T212833Z
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SUMMARY:Vroman's Bookstore: Thomas Schlesser discusses & signs Mona’s Eyes
DESCRIPTION:THE SENSATIONAL #1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER THAT HAS TAKEN THE WORLD BY STORM \nTen-year-old Mona and her beloved grandfather have only fifty-two Wednesdays to visit fifty-two works of art and commit to memory “all that is beautiful in the world” before Mona loses her sight forever. \nWhile the doctors can find no explanation for Mona’s brief episode of blindness\, they agree that the threat of permanent vision loss cannot be ruled out. The girl’s grandfather\, Henry\, may not be able to stop his granddaughter from losing her sight\, but he can fill the encroaching darkness with beauty. \nEvery Wednesday for a year\, the pair abscond together and visit a single masterpiece in one of Paris’s renowned museums. From Botticelli to Basquiat\, Mona learns how each artist’s work shaped the world around them. In turn\, the young girl’s world is changed forever by the power of their art. Under the kind and careful tutelage of her grandfather\, Mona learns the true meaning of generosity\, melancholy\, love\, loss\, and revolution. Her perspective will never be the same — nor will the reader’s. \nMona’s Eyes is a heartfelt\, enlightening journey across five centuries of Western art history. With the emotional impact of The Elegance of the Hedgehog and the readability of The Little Paris Bookshop\, Thomas Schlesser’s sensational debut novel is at once a moving book about the beauty of life and a deeply touching story about the special bond between a girl and her grandfather. \nDiscover all 52 masterpieces inside the fold-out dustjacket.
URL:https://playhousevillage.org/event/vromans-bookstore-thomas-schlesser-discusses-signs-monas-eyes/
LOCATION:Vroman’s Bookstore\, 695 E. Colorado Blvd.\, Pasadena\, CA\, 91101\, United States
CATEGORIES:Books,Vroman's Bookstore
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251025T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251025T140000
DTSTAMP:20260509T131037
CREATED:20251022T212629Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251022T212629Z
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SUMMARY:Vroman’s & Lil’ Libros Present: Maritere R. Bellas\, reading & signing Tío Ricky Doesn't Speak English / Tío Ricky No Habla Inglés: A Bilingual English-Spanish Picture Book
DESCRIPTION:Knock\, knock! Tío Ricky is in town and he needs his nephew Enrique’s help! He doesn’t speak any English\, so his nephew has to translate for him at the store\, the post office\, and the bank. But speaking Spanish feels like such a chore…until Enrique finds himself in a situation where his bilingual skills become life-saving. Enrique soon discovers that speaking two languages isn’t just helpful–it’s powerful\, and it can strengthen family ties in ways he never imagined. It’s a heartwarming story in English and Spanish that shows you don’t need a superhero cape to be a hero!
URL:https://playhousevillage.org/event/vromans-lil-libros-present-maritere-r-bellas-reading-signing-tio-ricky-doesnt-speak-english-tio-ricky-no-habla-ingles-a-bilingual-english-spanish-picture-book/
LOCATION:Vroman’s Bookstore\, 695 E. Colorado Blvd.\, Pasadena\, CA\, 91101\, United States
CATEGORIES:Books,Vroman's Bookstore
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251025T113000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251025T123000
DTSTAMP:20260509T131037
CREATED:20251022T230448Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251022T230448Z
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SUMMARY:Archetype Yoga: Monthly Book Club
DESCRIPTION:At Archetype Yoga\, students are encouraged to evolve beyond the mat through a monthly book club that focuses on one thoughtfully selected title each month. The group gathers regularly to discover\, gain insights\, and learn together with a shared emphasis on wellness and movement. \nParticipants are invited to take part in this engaging community experience and receive studio discounts as a reward for their reading journey. \nFor the latest book pick\, visit Instagram @archetypeyoga or email hello@archetype.yoga for more information.
URL:https://playhousevillage.org/event/archetype-yoga-monthly-book-club/
LOCATION:Archetypa Yoga\, 638 e colorado ave\, pasadena\, CA\, 91101\, United States
CATEGORIES:Archetype Yoga,Books,Community Event,Free,In-Person
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250927T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250927T160000
DTSTAMP:20260509T131037
CREATED:20250814T230904Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250814T230904Z
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SUMMARY:Vroman’s on Screen - Stephen Rebello\, in conversation with Alonso Duralde\, discusses & signs Criss-Cross: The Making of Hitchcock's Dazzling\, Subversive Masterpiece Strangers on a Train
DESCRIPTION:For the very first time the tense and drama-filled story of the making Alfred Hitchcock’s Strangers on a Train is revealed as author Stephen Rebello takes readers deep into the shadows and light of one of the most subversive\, corrosively funny\, and beloved suspense thriller masterworks. \nAs entertaining as it is to watch Strangers on a Train\, so too is the previously untold backstory that packs all the suspense\, drama\, and twists of a thriller. After all\, what are the hallmarks of a great Hitchcock movie? A larger-than-life\, complex cast of characters\, each with something to prove\, lose\, or hide. Check. Tremendous risk\, outsized conflict\, and emotion as those men and women confront challenges off the set. Check. Feuds\, deceptions\, unlikely alliances\, and double-crosses. Check. Coming off a 5-year-string of flops\, Alfred Hitchcock gambled big on adapting Patricia Highsmith’s debut novel\, which critics called “preposterous” and “unconvincing\,” in addition to “unsavory\,” and “sick” (1950s code words for “gay” and “perverted”). Each step of the production was fraught with battles\, but Hitchcock masterfully stayed two steps ahead of his opponents as he fought to bring his vision to life. Strangers on a Train became not only a creative high-water mark and box-office smash for Hitchcock\, but also kicked off his unmatched decade of classics including Dial M for Murder\, Rear Window\, Vertigo\, North by Northwest\, and Psycho. \nRichly documented\, meticulously researched\, and stylishly written\, Criss-Cross is more than an authoritative film book. It is a portrait of an especially politically paranoid\, misogynistic\, and homophobic era in America\, a time of dramatic transition in the entertainment industry\, and a day of reckoning for Alfred Hitchcock and a few other talents with whom he made a dark\, resonant\, and prescient work of art.
URL:https://playhousevillage.org/event/vromans-on-screen-stephen-rebello-in-conversation-with-alonso-duralde-discusses-signs-criss-cross-the-making-of-hitchcocks-dazzling-subversive-masterpiece-strangers-on-a-train/
LOCATION:Vroman’s Bookstore\, 695 E. Colorado Blvd.\, Pasadena\, CA\, 91101\, United States
CATEGORIES:Books,Vroman's Bookstore
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250927T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250927T120000
DTSTAMP:20260509T131037
CREATED:20250814T230706Z
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SUMMARY:Vroman's Bookstore: Dr. Haleh Massey discusses & signs Say Something\, Poupeh Babaee!: A Graphic Novel
DESCRIPTION:Poupeh needs to speak up for her parents at an embassy interview-the problem is that she’s been rendered mute! Smile meets New Kid in this funny\, heartwarming\, poignant graphic novel about the toll immigrating to the United States takes on a kid’s mental health. \nPoupeh Babaee is an Iranian girl sent to live with her relatives in the United States. Although Poupeh understands and speaks English\, the stress of entering a new school in a foreign land renders her mute\, and she is diagnosed with selective mutism. Worse yet\, a travel ban–which labels Iran a “dangerous country”–has barred her parents from entering the US! Poupeh must now overcome her selective mutism to advocate for her parents during an interview with an embassy consular officer if she ever wants to see them again. \nUplifting and engaging\, Say Something\, Poupeh Babaee! depicts the healing power of therapy\, friendship\, and familial bonds. This is a message of hope to all the awkward\, overwhelmed immigrant children struggling to find acceptance.
URL:https://playhousevillage.org/event/vromans-bookstore-dr-haleh-massey-discusses-signs-say-something-poupeh-babaee-a-graphic-novel/
LOCATION:Vroman’s Bookstore
CATEGORIES:Books,Vroman's Bookstore
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250926T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250926T200000
DTSTAMP:20260509T131037
CREATED:20250814T230457Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250814T230457Z
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SUMMARY:Vroman's Bookstore: Robert Oventile and Contributors read from\, discuss & sign The Canyon
DESCRIPTION:Through poems and photos\, The Canyon meditates on Eaton Canyon\, a unique ecosystem nestled adjacent Pasadena and Altadena\, California. \nIn January 2025\, the Eaton Fire devastated the canyon\, along with parts of Altadena and Pasadena. The Canyon reflects on the resilience of this environment\, recalling how its wildlife\, plants\, and terrain rebounded after the 1993 Kinneloa Fire. Shaped by fire and now increasingly by human-driven climate change\, Eaton Canyon is part of a larger story-one that climate scientists place within the evolving Earth System. \nA celebration of Eaton Canyon’s beauty and endurance\, The Canyon invites readers on a journey through an ever-changing landscape. \nAbout the Author and the Photographers\nSusan Hopkins has been an Eaton Canyon Docent Naturalist since 2018 and a UC California Naturalist since 2019. Susan’s passion is taking long in duration\, very short on distance hikes in Eaton Canyon. The slower you go\, the more you see. She is also a nature gossip. \nEdgar McGregor is a meteorologist and environmentalist living in Southern California. He takes daily walks at Eaton Canyon to pick up litter\, speak about environmental issues\, and monitor changes to the park. He specializes in forecasting Santa Ana windstorms and aided in warning the Altadena community in the days before the 2025 Eaton Fire. \nTom Mills is an amateur nature and wildlife photographer who is one of many volunteer docents at the Eaton Canyon Natural Area. Born and raised on the North Shore of Long Island\, N.Y.\, Tom relocated to California in 1988 and has lived in Pasadena\, California with his wife\, Simone\, for over thirty years. Tom is also a member of the Pasadena Audubon Society\, with whom he also volunteers his time and photographs for use in the Society’s publications. \nRobert Savino Oventile hikes Eaton Canyon regularly. He is coauthor with Sandy Florian of Sophia Lethe Talks Doxodox Down (Atmosphere\, 2021).
URL:https://playhousevillage.org/event/vromans-bookstore-robert-oventile-and-contributors-read-from-discuss-sign-the-canyon/
LOCATION:Vroman’s Bookstore\, 695 E. Colorado Blvd.\, Pasadena\, CA\, 91101\, United States
CATEGORIES:Books,In-Person,Vroman's Bookstore
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250921T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250921T140000
DTSTAMP:20260509T131037
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SUMMARY:Vroman's Bookstore: An Afternoon with author & director Andrew Davis
DESCRIPTION:The director of Holes\, Under Siege\, A Perfect Murder\, and the Academy Award nominated hit The Fugitive joins us for a discussion about his films and his debut novel Disturbing the Bones\, co-authored with Jeff Biggers\, which features subjects & themes that reverberate throughout his filmography. \nCover of Disturbing the Bones with a picture of author Andrew Davis and at the bottom it says TICKETED\nAn Afternoon with author & director Andrew Davis\nThe director of Holes\, Under Siege\, A Perfect Murder\, and the Academy Award nominated hit The Fugitive joins us for a discussion about his films and his debut novel Disturbing the Bones\, co-authored with Jeff Biggers\, which features subjects & themes that reverberate throughout his filmography. \nAbout the book\nA propulsive debut political thriller set in the aftermath of a global nuclear weapons crisis—from the acclaimed filmmaker of The Fugitive and an award-winning journalist . . . \n“A knife-edged investigation that morphs into a political thriller about a world on the brink. An ingenious page turner.” —Michael Mann \nA plot to disrupt a global peace summit in Chicago collides with a civil rights case breakthrough at a mysterious archaeological site . . . \nChicago detective Randall Jenkins has not been back home to the historic Civil Rights hotspot of Cairo\, Illinois since the disappearance of his mother\, a well-known journalist\, several decades ago. That all changes the day Dr. Molly Moore\, an ambitious young archaeologist in the national spotlight for her groundbreaking high-tech discoveries\, uncovers a set of strange bones at a huge 12\,000-year-old site at a highway construction project. With retired military general and contractor William Alexander breathing down her neck to cover up the dig\, Molly and Randall soon find themselves in the middle of a wild military conspiracy.The detective and archaeologist’s entwined family mysteries suddenly thrust them into the central position as the only people who can ensure the safety of the ongoing Chicago global peace summit. They must take on the rogue general who views any disarmament agreement as a clear and present danger to the United States. The fate of global peace and the lives of Molly and Randall hang in the balance. \nAbout the authors\nAndrew Davis\, raised on the southside of Chicago\, is the acclaimed director and screenwriter of numerous films\, including Holes\, Under Siege\, Code of Silence\, A Perfect Murder\, and The Guardian\, and whose landmark film\, The Fugitive\, chosen in 2020 by Los Angeles Times readers as the ultimate summer film\, was nominated for seven Academy awards including Best Picture. \nJeff Biggers is an American Book Award-winning historian\, journalist and playwright. Based part-time in Italy since 1989\, he is the recipient of the David Brower Award for Environmental Reporting\, the Foreword Magazine Book of the Year for Travel Writing\, a Lowell Thomas Award for Travel Journalism\, and other honors. Author of ten books of cultural history and investigative reporting\, his work has appeared in the New York Times\, The Atlantic Monthly\, Salon.com\, and on National Public Radio and Public Radio International.
URL:https://playhousevillage.org/event/vromans-bookstore-an-afternoon-with-author-director-andrew-davis/
LOCATION:Vroman’s Bookstore\, 695 E. Colorado Blvd.\, Pasadena\, CA\, 91101\, United States
CATEGORIES:Books,Vroman's Bookstore
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250920T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250920T140000
DTSTAMP:20260509T131037
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SUMMARY:Vroman's Bookstore: Leslie Adame\, in conversation with Tamika Burgess\, presents & signs Chloe Vega and the Agents of Magic (Chloe Vega and the Agents of Magic #1)
DESCRIPTION:A new Latinx middle grade fantasy debut where a secret magical academy\, an evil sorcerer\, and a powerful\, coveted gem awaits one girl in her quest to reunite her family. Perfect for fans of Claribel A. Ortega and B. B. Alston! \nTwelve-year-old Chloe Vega’s biggest fear is that her undocumented parents will be detained by immigration. That is\, until she learns that her parents are actually part of a secret magical society…and that the suspicious looking police officers who have been hanging around their block are henchmen for an evil sorcerer determined to settle a decades-old score. \nJust when Chloe discovers that she has powers\, too\, her parents are kidnapped. In order to rescue them\, she’ll need to harness her abilities at an elite academy\, run by the very agency who exiled her parents from the magical world. \nFinding herself in the center of a magical war that might destroy everything she has ever known\, Chloe can’t shake the feeling that the Agents of Magic are hiding secrets. With her parents’ lives hanging in the balance\, she must uncover who is truly on her side and fast to save her family–and the world itself.
URL:https://playhousevillage.org/event/vromans-bookstore-leslie-adame-in-conversation-with-tamika-burgess-presents-signs-chloe-vega-and-the-agents-of-magic-chloe-vega-and-the-agents-of-magic-1/
LOCATION:Vroman’s Bookstore\, 695 E. Colorado Blvd.\, Pasadena\, CA\, 91101\, United States
CATEGORIES:Books,In-Person,Kids,Vroman's Bookstore
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250920T113000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250920T123000
DTSTAMP:20260509T131037
CREATED:20250820T205952Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250820T205952Z
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SUMMARY:Archetype Yoga: Bookclub: Exalted by Anna Dorn
DESCRIPTION:At Archetype Yoga\, we invite our students to evolve beyond the mat. Join our community to focus on one book to read per month. We’ll meet every month to discover\, gain insights and learn together. Our focus will be a deep dive into the world of wellness and movement. Come join in on the fun and get rewarded for reading with studio discounts. \nAugust Book of the Month: Exalted by Anna Dorn \nCheck out our Instagram for our latest pick- @archetypeyoga or email us at hello@archetype.yoga. for more information.
URL:https://playhousevillage.org/event/archetype-yoga-bookclub-exalted-by-anna-dorn/
LOCATION:Archetypa Yoga\, 638 e colorado ave\, pasadena\, CA\, 91101\, United States
CATEGORIES:Books,Community Event,In-Person
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250918T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250918T200000
DTSTAMP:20260509T131037
CREATED:20250814T224733Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250814T224733Z
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SUMMARY:Vroman's Bookstore: Chip Jacobs discusses & signs Later Days
DESCRIPTION:In an evocative follow-up to his Los Angeles-Times bestselling Arroyo\, Chip Jacobs returns with a gripping tale of brotherhood\, recklessness\, and last-ditch redemption against the backdrop of a Southern California prep school in gender upheaval. \nAs the elite\, all-boys institution transitions to coed\, transforming the place from suburban Lord of the Flies to soap-operatic play\, two unlikely friends–Luke Burnett and Denny Drummond–alternate rescuing the other from self-destruction and home lives gutted by loss and distracted parents. Eager to maximize their era as God-like Seniors at Stone Canyon Prep\, the pair and their classmates act invincible. They commandeer Bob’s Big Boy and wander the secret world beneath Caltech\, meeting a charismatic Nobel Prize physicist in the process. They sweat destiny-making S.A.T.s\, grapple with fallout when two boys fall for the same girl\, and watch in horror as a playoff basketball game is upended by the chemistry lab. Just when our heroes barely graduate\, en route to prized universities\, their bond is severed by a wild gunshot that will haunt them for decades. \nTwenty years later\, Luke is a hard-charging journalist with an imploding career\, while Denny is a visionary software engineer on the verge of a breakthrough–until a terminal diagnosis rewrites any happy ending. Their reunion forces both to confront the worst of themselves\, a luminous female classmate who predicted her own death\, and exactly how they squandered the potential Stone Canyon draped around them. As Denny’s time runs short\, Luke races to make peace with his failures in a world shorn of the magic his teachers once heralded. In a final act of reckoning\, with the famous Elizabeth Kubler-Ross in the mix\, fate offers them one last chance to heal the other by confronting mortality and pleading for goodbyes slippery before. \nLater Days is a powerful exploration of the ties that bind and break us. Perfect for readers drawn to fierce\, flawed friendships\, the currency of forgiveness\, and the raw beauty of life skimming its edge. With rich insight into the secret histories of the late-seventies Pasadena area\, and the psychological baggage of growing up in the shadows of “Great Men\,” father\, Jacobs second novel is as emotionally resonant as it is intellectually sharp.
URL:https://playhousevillage.org/event/vromans-bookstore-chip-jacobs-discusses-signs-later-days/
LOCATION:Vroman’s Bookstore\, 695 E. Colorado Blvd.\, Pasadena\, CA\, 91101\, United States
CATEGORIES:Books,Free,In-Person,Vroman's Bookstore
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250917T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250917T200000
DTSTAMP:20260509T131037
CREATED:20250814T224333Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250814T224333Z
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SUMMARY:Vroman's Bookstore: D.J. Waldie discusses & signs Elements of Los Angeles: Earth\, Water\, Air\, and Fire
DESCRIPTION:In Elements of Los Angeles: Earth\, Water\, Fire\, Air\, acclaimed essayist D.J. Waldie continues his singular meditation on Los Angeles: a place of contradictions\, dreams\, and disquiet. With uncommon clarity and emotional depth\, Waldie considers Los Angeles as a place of both promise and disillusionment\, of civic memory and strategic forgetting\, of natural beauty and environmental fragility. Each of the four classical elements forms the basis for a profound and poetic reassessment of the city’s image\, exploring topics as diverse and resonant as the unlikely history of the Hass avocado\, the St. Francis Dam disaster\, an endurance contest that saw a young woman buried alive\, and the sound of Vin Scully’s voice carried across the summer air.
URL:https://playhousevillage.org/event/vromans-bookstore-d-j-waldie-discusses-signs-elements-of-los-angeles-earth-water-air-and-fire/
LOCATION:Vroman’s Bookstore\, 695 E. Colorado Blvd.\, Pasadena\, CA\, 91101\, United States
CATEGORIES:Books,Free,In-Person,Kids,Vroman's Bookstore
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250915T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250915T200000
DTSTAMP:20260509T131037
CREATED:20250814T224044Z
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SUMMARY:Vroman's Bookstore: Zoe B. Wallbrook\, in conversation with Elise Bryant\, discusses & signs History Lessons
DESCRIPTION:A college history professor must solve her superstar colleague’s murder before she becomes the next target in this funny\, romantic debut mystery\, perfect for readers of Janet Evanovich\, Kellye Garrett\, and Ali Hazelwood. \nAs a newly minted junior professor\, Daphne Ouverture spends her days giving lectures on French colonialism\, working on her next academic book\, and going on atrocious dates. Her small world suits her just fine. Until Sam Taylor dies. \nThe rising star of Harrison University’s anthropology department was never one of Daphne’s favorites\, despite his popularity. But that doesn’t prevent Sam’s killer from believing Daphne has something that belonged to Sam–something the killer will stop at nothing to get. \nBetween grading papers and navigating her disastrous love life\, Daphne embarks on her own investigation to find out what connects her to Sam’s murder. With the help of an alluring former-detective-turned-bookseller\, she unravels a deadly cover-up on campus. \nThis well-crafted\, voice-driven mystery introduces an unforgettable crime fiction heroine.
URL:https://playhousevillage.org/event/vromans-bookstore-zoe-b-wallbrook-in-conversation-with-elise-bryant-discusses-signs-history-lessons/
LOCATION:Vroman’s Bookstore\, 695 E. Colorado Blvd.\, Pasadena\, CA\, 91101\, United States
CATEGORIES:Books,Free,Ice House,Kids,Vroman's Bookstore
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250913T150000
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SUMMARY:Vroman's Bookstore: Ezra Edmund reads from & signs Cerberus The Tiger: The Tiger Saga
DESCRIPTION:Cerberus The Tiger: A Middle Grade Portal Fantasy Adventure Full of Mystery\, Science\, and Myth Cerberus The Tiger (The Tiger Saga\, Book One) \nCerberus saw the portal open. He saw the beast come through. Now he’ll risk everything to uncover the truth… and stop it from happening again. \nTen years ago\, Cerberus witnessed something no one else believes. His father\, a brilliant scientist\, opened a portal in their lab\, and a towering two-headed beast came through. Cerberus watched it take his father. Everyone else called it an accident. He wanted to believe them. \nNow\, a strange energy signal pulses with the same pattern from that night. It should be impossible. But it could mean that his father is still alive. Somewhere. \nWith help from Ricky\, a childhood friend turned controversial researcher\, Cerberus begins tracking ancient energy pulses and fractured time. At the center is MonFus\, a strange force binding lost worlds and missing creatures. But each test risks waking something older… something that has waited long enough. \nCerberus is pulled into an unfamiliar world filled with forgotten cities\, dangerous beasts\, and suspicious allies. High above\, a dark castle looms\, its roots sunk into rivers of glowing magma. Something waits inside. And it remembers him. \nIf Cerberus fails\, he may lose more than his father. He could unleash a villain powerful enough to bend time itself. \nHe wants the truth. But the truth might come at a terrible cost.
URL:https://playhousevillage.org/event/vromans-bookstore-ezra-edmund-reads-from-signs-cerberus-the-tiger-the-tiger-saga/
LOCATION:Vroman’s Bookstore\, 695 E. Colorado Blvd.\, Pasadena\, CA\, 91101\, United States
CATEGORIES:Books,In-Person,Kids,Vroman's Bookstore
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250913T120000
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SUMMARY:Vroman's Bookstore: Matthew Forsythe reads from & signs Aggie & the Ghost
DESCRIPTION:“A book that captures the dance of unlikely bonds and a way to move from a place of acceptance.” –Publishers Weekly (starred review) \nFrom Matthew Forsythe\, the creator of the acclaimed and beloved Pokko and the Drum\, comes a surprising and pleasing picture book about rules. And sharing. And an epic game of tic-tac-toe. \nAggie is very excited to live on her own–until she finds out her new house is haunted. But no fear\, the situation is nothing that can’t be fixed with a carefully considered list of rules: No haunting after dark. No stealing socks. No eating all the food. \nBut the ghost doesn’t like playing by the rules and challenges Aggie to an epic game of tic-tac-toe–winner gets the house.
URL:https://playhousevillage.org/event/vromans-bookstore-matthew-forsythe-reads-from-signs-aggie-the-ghost/
LOCATION:Vroman’s Bookstore\, 695 E. Colorado Blvd.\, Pasadena\, CA\, 91101\, United States
CATEGORIES:Books,In-Person,Kids,Vroman's Bookstore
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250909T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250909T200000
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SUMMARY:Vroman's Bookstore:  Dr. Ingrid Clayton\, in conversation with Dr. Ramani Durvasula\, discusses & signs Fawning: Why the Need to Please Makes Us Lose Ourselves--And How to Find Our Way Back
DESCRIPTION:From a clinical psychologist and expert in complex trauma recovery comes a powerful guide introducing fawning\, an often-overlooked piece of the fight-flight-freeze reaction to trauma–explaining what it is\, why it happens\, and how to help survivors regain their voice and sense of self. \nMost of us are familiar with the three F’s of trauma–fight\, flight\, or freeze. But psychologists have identified a fourth\, extremely common (yet little-understood) response: fawning. Often conflated with “codependency” or “people-pleasing\,” fawning occurs when we inexplicably draw closer to a person or relationship that causes pain\, rather than pulling away. \nDo you apologize to people who have hurt you?\nIgnore their bad behavior?\nBefriend your bullies?\nObsess about saying the right thing?\nMake yourself into someone you’re not . . . while seeking approval that may never come?\nYou might be a fawner. \nFawning explains why we stay in bad jobs\, fall into unhealthy partnerships\, and tolerate dysfunctional environments\, even when it seems so obvious to others that we should go. And though fawning serves a purpose–it’s an ingenious protective strategy in unsafe situations–it’s a problem if it becomes a repetitive\, compulsory reaction in our daily lives. \nBut here’s the good news: we can break the pattern of chronic fawning\, once we see it for the trauma response it is. Drawing on twenty years of clinical psychology work–as well as a lifetime of experience as a recovering fawner herself–Dr. Ingrid Clayton demonstrates WHY we fawn\, HOW to recognize the signs of fawning (including taking blame\, conflict avoidance\, hypervigilance\, and caretaking at the expense of ourselves)\, and WHAT we can do to successfully “unfawn” and finally be ourselves\, in all our imperfect perfection. \nDate:\nTue\, 9/9/2025\nTime:\n7:00pm – 8:00pm\nAdult Event Book Signing\nEvent Related Books & Products
URL:https://playhousevillage.org/event/vromans-bookstore-dr-ingrid-clayton-in-conversation-with-dr-ramani-durvasula-discusses-signs-fawning-why-the-need-to-please-makes-us-lose-ourselves-and-how-to-find-our-way-back/
LOCATION:Vroman’s Bookstore\, 695 E. Colorado Blvd.\, Pasadena\, CA\, 91101\, United States
CATEGORIES:Books,In-Person,Vroman's Bookstore
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250906T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250906T160000
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SUMMARY:Vroman's Bookstore: Jenny Andrus reads from & signs Elsa’s Chessboard - Includes Art Activity
DESCRIPTION:Elsa carries her chessboard everywhere\, always ready for a game. When World War II forces her from Europe\, can chess help make America home? \nGrowing up in 1900s Vienna\, Elsa’s brothers are always playing chess. “No girls!” they tell her when she first asks to learn; but she wears them down\, and soon she’s such a pro that they give her a special chess set of her own. \nElsa plays chess whenever she can. When she grows up\, she even meets her husband over games in the park. But when World War II grips Europe\, the young Jewish family flees to America\, where they find themselves surrounded by unfamiliar languages. \nLuckily\, Elsa knows one language that can always bring people together: chess! \nMillions of Americans are falling in love with chess\, and young people are no exception.  Based on the life of author Jenny Andrus’s grandmother\, Elsa’s Chessboard is a gripping tale of resilience\, human connection\, and the boundless potential of women in male-dominated fields.
URL:https://playhousevillage.org/event/vromans-bookstore-jenny-andrus-reads-from-signs-elsas-chessboard-includes-art-activity/
LOCATION:Vroman’s Bookstore\, 695 E. Colorado Blvd.\, Pasadena\, CA\, 91101\, United States
CATEGORIES:Books,Free,In-Person,Kids,Vroman's Bookstore
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250906T123000
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SUMMARY:Vroman's Bookstore: Pasadena Conservatory of Music presents Musical Storytime: Barnyard Dance! (Boynton on Board) by Sandra Boynton
DESCRIPTION:The Pasadena Conservatory of Music will be putting on a special musical storytime with featured book: Barnyard Dance! (Boynton on Board) by Sandra Boynton. Caregivers and children aged 3-9 will enjoy story\, craft activities\, creative movement and a mini-concert!
URL:https://playhousevillage.org/event/vromans-bookstore-pasadena-conservatory-of-music-presents-musical-storytime-barnyard-dance-boynton-on-board-by-sandra-boynton/
LOCATION:Vroman’s Bookstore\, 695 E. Colorado Blvd.\, Pasadena\, CA\, 91101\, United States
CATEGORIES:Books,In-Person,Kids,Vroman's Bookstore
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