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SUMMARY:Vroman's Live: Moses Ose Utomi discussing Daughters of Oduma
DESCRIPTION:This is an online event via Crowdcast. \nEat. Dance. Fight. \nThis is the life of the girls who compete in the Isle’s elite\, all-female fighting sport of Bowing. But it isn’t really Dirt’s life anymore. At sixteen\, she is old and has retired from competition. Instead\, she spends her days coaching the younger sisters of the Mud Fam and dreading her fast-approaching birthday\, when she’ll have to leave her sisters to fulfill whatever destiny the Gods choose for her. \nDirt’s young sisters are coming along nicely\, and the Mud Fam is sure to win the upcoming South God Bow tournament\, which is crucial: the tiny Fam needs the new recruits that come with victory. Then an attack from a powerful rival leaves the Mud without their top Bower\, and Dirt is the only one who can compete in the tournament. But Dirt is old\, out of shape\, and afraid. She has never wanted to be a leader. Victory seems impossible–yet defeat would mean the end of her beloved Fam. And no way is Dirt going to let that happen. (Atheneum Books for Young Readers)
URL:https://playhousevillage.org/event/vromans-live-moses-ose-utomi-discussing-daughters-of-oduma/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Virtual,Vroman's Bookstore
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SUMMARY:Vroman's: Cara Black discusses Night Flight to Paris
DESCRIPTION:Co-presented by Alliance Française de Pasadena \nOctober 1942: it’s been two years since Kate Rees was sent to Paris on a British Secret Service mission to assassinate Hitler. Since then\, she has left spycraft behind to take a training job as a sharpshooting instructor in the Scottish Highlands. But her quiet life is violently disrupted when Colonel Stepney\, her former handler\, drags her back into the fray for a risky three-pronged mission in Paris. \nEach task is more dangerous than the next: Deliver a package of forbidden biological material. Assassinate a high-ranking German operative whose knowledge of invasion plans could turn the tide of the war against the Allies. Rescue a British agent who once saved Kate’s life–and get out. \nKate will encounter sheiks and spies\, poets and partisans\, as she races to keep up with the constantly shifting nature of her assignment\, showing every ounce of her Oregonian grit in the process. \nNew York Times bestselling author Cara Black has crafted another heart-stopping thrill ride that reveals a portrait of Paris at the height of the Nazi occupation. (Soho Crime)
URL:https://playhousevillage.org/event/nightflighttoparis/
LOCATION:Vroman’s Bookstore\, 695 E. Colorado Blvd.\, Pasadena\, CA\, 91101\, United States
CATEGORIES:In-Person,Vroman's Bookstore
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SUMMARY:Vroman's: Michelle Dowd discusses Forager
DESCRIPTION:My family prepared me for the end of the world\, but I know how to survive on what the earth yields. \nAs a child\, Michelle Dowd grew up on a mountain in the Angeles National Forest. She was born into an ultra-religious cult–or the Field as they called it–started in the 1930s by her grandfather\, a mercurial\, domineering\, and charismatic man who convinced generations of young male followers that he would live 500 years and ascend to the heavens when doomsday came. Comfort and care are sins\, Michelle is told . As a result\, she was forced to learn the skills necessary to battle hunger\, thirst\, and cold; she learned to trust animals more than humans; and most importantly\, she learned how to survive in the natural world. \nAt the Field\, a young Michelle lives a life of abuse\, poverty\, and isolation\, as she obeys her family’s rigorous religious and patriarchal rules–which are so extreme that Michelle is convinced her mother would sacrifice her\, like Abraham and Isaac\, if instructed by God. She often wears the same clothes for months at a time; she is often ill and always hungry for both love and food. She is taught not to trust Outsiders\, and especially not Quitters\, nor her own body and its warnings. \nBut as Michelle gets older\, she realizes she has the strength to break free. Focus on what will sustain\, not satiate you\, she tells herself . Use everything. Waste nothing. Get to know the intricacies of the land\, like the intricacies of your body. And so she does. \nUsing stories of individual edible plants and their uses to anchor each chapter\, Forager is both a searing coming-of-age story and a meditation on the ways in which understanding nature can lead to freedom\, even joy. (Algonquin Books) \nPurchase a copy of this book at vromansbookstore.com \n 
URL:https://playhousevillage.org/event/vromans-michelle-dowd-discusses-forager/
LOCATION:Vroman’s Bookstore\, 695 E. Colorado Blvd.\, Pasadena\, CA\, 91101\, United States
CATEGORIES:In-Person,Vroman's Bookstore
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230311T110000
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SUMMARY:Vroman's: Storytime with Mr. Steve
DESCRIPTION:Join Mr. Steve and the gang at 11 am for story time! \n 
URL:https://playhousevillage.org/event/vromans-storytime-with-mr-steve/
LOCATION:Vroman’s Bookstore\, 695 E. Colorado Blvd.\, Pasadena\, CA\, 91101\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,In-Person,Kids,Vroman's Bookstore
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SUMMARY:Vroman's: John Sayles discusses Jamie Macgillivray
DESCRIPTION:It begins in the highlands of Scotland in 1746\, at the Battle of Culloden\, the last desperate stand of the Stuart ‘pretender’ to the throne of the Three Kingdoms\, Bonnie Prince Charlie\, and his rabidly loyal supporters. Vanquished with his comrades by the forces of the Hanoverian (and Protestant) British crown\, the novel’s eponymous hero\, Jamie MacGillivray\, narrowly escapes a roadside execution only to be recaptured by the victors and shipped to Marshalsea Prison (central to Charles Dickens’s Hard Times) where he cheats the hangman a second time before being sentenced to transportation and indentured servitude in colonial America “for the term of his natural life.” His travels are paralleled by those of Jenny Ferguson\, a poor\, village girl swept up on false charges by the English and also sent in chains to the New World. \nThe novel follows Jamie and Jenny through servitude\, revolt\, escape\, and romantic entanglements — pawns in a deadly game. The two continue to cross paths with each other and with some of the leading figures of the era- the devious Lord Lovat\, future novelist Henry Fielding\, the artist William Hogarth\, a young and ambitious George Washington\, the doomed General James Wolfe\, and the Lenape chief feared throughout the Ohio Valley as Shingas the Terrible. (Melville House Publishing) \nTo purchase your copy of this book\, visit vromansbookstore.com.
URL:https://playhousevillage.org/event/vromans-john-sayles-discusses-jamie-macgillivray/
LOCATION:Vroman’s Bookstore\, 695 E. Colorado Blvd.\, Pasadena\, CA\, 91101\, United States
CATEGORIES:In-Person,Vroman's Bookstore
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230313T190000
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SUMMARY:Vroman's: Arielle Estoria discussing The Unfolding
DESCRIPTION:Arielle Estoria is known for her moving and empowering words that encourage women and all people to be confident in who they are\, compassionate about where they’ve been\, and loving about who they are becoming. In this stunning collection of essays\, poems\, and meditations\, beautifully illustrated in earth tones\, Estoria tenderly reveals the places in her life where she has been broken open\, mended back together in new ways\, and shows us how this process of “unfolding” helps us discover and return home to the person we were always meant to be. (Harper One) \nTo purchase a copy of this book\, visit vromansbookstore.com.
URL:https://playhousevillage.org/event/vromans-arielle-estoria-discussing-the-unfolding/
LOCATION:Vroman’s Bookstore\, 695 E. Colorado Blvd.\, Pasadena\, CA\, 91101\, United States
CATEGORIES:In-Person,Vroman's Bookstore
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SUMMARY:Vroman's: Kristin Hannah discussing The Four Winds
DESCRIPTION:Texas\, 1921. A time of abundance. The Great War is over\, the bounty of the land is plentiful\, and America is on the brink of a new and optimistic era. But for Elsa Wolcott\, deemed too old to marry in a time when marriage is a woman’s only option\, the future seems bleak. Until the night she meets Rafe Martinelli and decides to change the direction of her life. With her reputation in ruin\, there is only one respectable choice: marriage to a man she barely knows. \nBy 1934\, the world has changed; millions are out of work and drought has devastated the Great Plains. Farmers are fighting to keep their land and their livelihoods as crops fail and water dries up and the earth cracks open. Dust storms roll relentlessly across the plains. Everything on the Martinelli farm is dying\, including Elsa’s tenuous marriage; each day is a desperate battle against nature and a fight to keep her children alive. \nIn this uncertain and perilous time\, Elsa–like so many of her neighbors–must make an agonizing choice: fight for the land she loves or leave it behind and go west\, to California\, in search of a better life for her family. \nThe Four Winds is a rich\, sweeping novel that stunningly brings to life the Great Depression and the people who lived through it–the harsh realities that divided us as a nation and the enduring battle between the haves and the have-nots. A testament to hope\, resilience\, and the strength of the human spirit to survive adversity\, The Four Winds is an indelible portrait of America and the American dream\, as seen through the eyes of one indomitable woman whose courage and sacrifice will come to define a generation. (St. Martins Griffin) \nThis is a ticketed event. Tickets include one entry and one paperback copy of The Four Winds.
URL:https://playhousevillage.org/event/vromans-kristin-hannah-discussing-the-four-winds/
LOCATION:Vroman’s Bookstore\, 695 E. Colorado Blvd.\, Pasadena\, CA\, 91101\, United States
CATEGORIES:In-Person,Vroman's Bookstore
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230315T190000
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SUMMARY:Vroman's: Elizabeth McKenzie and Yxta Maya Murray discuss their new releases
DESCRIPTION:Elizabeth McKenzie and Yxta Maya Murray discuss their respective new releases\, The Dog of the North and God Went Like That. \nElizabeth McKenzie \nPenny Rush has problems. Her marriage is over; she’s quit her job. Her mother and stepfather went missing in the Australian outback five years ago; her mentally unbalanced father provokes her; her grandmother Dr. Pincer keeps experiments in the refrigerator and something worse in the woodshed. But Penny is a virtuoso at what’s possible when all else fails. \nElizabeth McKenzie\, beloved novelist of California and its idiosyncrasies\, follows Penny on her quest for a fresh start. There will be a road trip in the Dog of the North\, an old van with gingham curtains\, a piñata\, and stiff brakes. There will be injury and peril. There will be a dog named Kweecoats and two brothers who may share a toupee. There will be questions: Why is a detective investigating her grandmother\, and what is “the scintillator”? And can Penny recognize a good thing when it finally comes her way? \nThis slyly humorous\, thoroughly winsome novel finds the purpose in life’s curveballs\, insisting that even when we are painfully warped by those we love most\, we can be brought closer to our truest selves. (Penguin Press) \nYxta Maya Murray \nIn award-winning legal scholar and novelist Yxta Maya Murray’s new novel\, federal agent Reyna Rodriguez reports on a real-life nuclear reactor meltdown and accidents that occurred in 1959\, 1964\, and 1968 at the Santa Susana Field Laboratory. An infamous research and development complex in California’s Simi Valley\, the lab was eventually dismantled by the US government–but not before it created a toxic legacy of contamination and numerous cancer clusters. Toxins and nuclear residue may have been further released by the 2018 Woolsey Fire and 2019 floods in the area. \nGod Went Like That takes the form of an EPA report in which Reyna presents riveting interviews with individuals affected by the disasters. With imagination and artistry\, Murray brings to life an actual 2011 Department of Energy dossier that detailed the catastrophes and the ensuing public health fallout and highlights the high costs of governmental malfeasance and environmental racism. (Curbstone Press) \nTo purchase your copy of these books\, visit vromansbookstore.com.
URL:https://playhousevillage.org/event/vromans-elizabeth-mckenzie-and-yxta-maya-murray-discuss-their-new-releases/
LOCATION:Vroman’s Bookstore\, 695 E. Colorado Blvd.\, Pasadena\, CA\, 91101\, United States
CATEGORIES:In-Person,Vroman's Bookstore
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SUMMARY:Vroman's: Auriane DeSombre discusses The Sister Split
DESCRIPTION:Auriane DeSombre\, in conversation with Marisa Kanter\, discusses The Sister Split \nA pair of soon-to-be stepsisters creates a plan that will stop their parents from getting married–but they soon learn that matters of the heart can surprise you! This is a fresh sister story evocative of The Parent Trap with LGBTQ themes for the modern reader. \nAutumn is looking forward to summer vacation. She and her best friend plan on going to all the best ice cream places their stomachs can handle–and in NYC\, the possibilities can’t get any sweeter. \nLinnea is still not over the fact that her dad has found love after her parents’ divorce. Luckily\, she can take out all her feelings on the tennis courts for a winning summer. \nBut then Autumn and Linnea discover the news: their parents are getting married. Autumn will be moving to the suburbs to live with her soon-to-be stepdad and stepsister\, which means kissing the fun summer with her best friend goodbye. For Linnea\, she knows her dream of getting her parents back together is officially over. \nDevastated\, the two of them come up with an idea: if they can split up their parents\, their lives can go back to normal. As Autumn and Linnea secretly try to sabotage everything from date nights to wedding planning\, the two of them discover that having a sister is not the worst thing after all . . . but will they learn about love in a whole new way? (Delacorte Press) \nTo purchase a copy of this book\, visit vromansbookstore.com.
URL:https://playhousevillage.org/event/vromans-auriane-desombre-discusses-the-sister-split/
LOCATION:Vroman’s Bookstore\, 695 E. Colorado Blvd.\, Pasadena\, CA\, 91101\, United States
CATEGORIES:In-Person,Vroman's Bookstore
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230318T110000
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SUMMARY:Vroman’s: Special Storytime featuring Molly Ruttan presenting Something Wild
DESCRIPTION:Performance jitters lead to some imaginative what ifs before a little girl finds her confidence. \nHannah loves to play her violin–as long as no one is watching. On the day of the recital\, she’s wishing something wild would happen so she won’t have to go. Perhaps a dolphin will jump out of the fountain and carry her away\, or a giant rabbit will abscond with her violin. Hannah’s big imagination dreams up all kinds of entertaining scenarios that could change the course of her day\, but what actually happens is the most amazing of all! \nChildren and grown-ups alike will relate to Hannah’s stage fright and get a laugh out of all her wishful thinking. Most importantly\, they will be right there beside her on recital day when something wild–and beautiful–happens. (Nancy Paulsen Books) \n* A special craft will follow the event for those who purchase a copy of Something Wild.
URL:https://playhousevillage.org/event/vromans-special-storytime-featuring-molly-ruttan-presenting-something-wild/
LOCATION:Vroman’s Bookstore\, 695 E. Colorado Blvd.\, Pasadena\, CA\, 91101\, United States
CATEGORIES:In-Person,Vroman's Bookstore
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230320T190000
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SUMMARY:Vroman's: Erik Conway discusses The Big Myth
DESCRIPTION:In their bestselling book Merchants of Doubt\, Naomi Oreskes and Erik M. Conway revealed the origins of climate change denial. Now\, they unfold the truth about another disastrous dogma: the “magic of the marketplace.” \nIn the early 20th century\, business elites\, trade associations\, wealthy powerbrokers\, and media allies set out to build a new American orthodoxy: down with “big government” and up with unfettered markets. With startling archival evidence\, Oreskes and Conway document campaigns to rewrite textbooks\, combat unions\, and defend child labor. They detail the ploys that turned hardline economists Friedrich von Hayek and Milton Friedman into household names; recount the libertarian roots of the Little House on the Prairie books; and tune into the General Electric-sponsored TV show that beamed free-market doctrine to millions and launched Ronald Reagan’s political career. \nBy the 1970s\, this propaganda was succeeding. Free market ideology would define the next half-century across Republican and Democratic administrations\, giving us a housing crisis\, the opioid scourge\, climate destruction\, and a baleful response to the Covid-19 pandemic. Only by understanding this history can we imagine a future where markets will serve\, not stifle\, democracy. (Bloomsbury Publishing) \nTo purchase a copy of this book\, visit vromansbookstore.com.
URL:https://playhousevillage.org/event/vromans-erik-conway-discusses-the-big-myth/
LOCATION:Vroman’s Bookstore\, 695 E. Colorado Blvd.\, Pasadena\, CA\, 91101\, United States
CATEGORIES:In-Person,Vroman's Bookstore
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230321T190000
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SUMMARY:Vroman's: Cathleen Schine discusses Kunstlers in Paradise
DESCRIPTION:For years Mamie Künstler\, ninety-three-years-old\, as clever and glamorous as ever\, has lived happily in her bungalow in Venice\, California with her inscrutable housekeeper and her gigantic St. Bernard dog. Their tranquility is upended when Mamie’s grandson\, Julian\, arrives from New York City. Like many a twenty-something\, he has come to seek his fortune in Hollywood. But it is 2020\, the global pandemic sweeps in\, and Julian’s short visit suddenly has no end in sight. \nMamie was only eleven when the Künstlers escaped Vienna in 1939. They made their way\, stunned and overwhelmed\, to sunny\, surreal Los Angeles where they joined a colony of distinguished Jewish musicians\, writers and intellectuals also escaping Hitler. Now\, faced with months of lockdown and a willing listener\, Mamie begins to tell Julian the buried stories of her early years in Los Angeles: her escapades with eminent émigrés like Arnold Schoenberg\, Christopher Isherwood\, Thomas Mann. Oh\, and Greta Garbo. While the pandemic cuts Julian off from the life he knows\, Mamie’s tales open up a world of lives that came before him. They reveal to him just how much the past holds of the future. \nCathleen Schine’s captivating and comedic twelfth novel explores exile\, émigrés\, movie stars\, musicians\, family bonds and the power of stories–both those we hand down and the ones held secretly in the heart. (Henry Holt & Company) \nTo purchase a copy of this book\, visit vromansbookstore.com.
URL:https://playhousevillage.org/event/vromans-cathleen-schine-discusses-kunstlers-in-paradise/
LOCATION:Vroman’s Bookstore\, 695 E. Colorado Blvd.\, Pasadena\, CA\, 91101\, United States
CATEGORIES:In-Person,Vroman's Bookstore
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SUMMARY:Vroman's: Liam Callanan discusses When in Rome
DESCRIPTION:Liam Callanan\, in conversation with Marisa Silver\, discusses When in Rome. \nMeet Claire: fifty-two\, desperate to do something new and get a fresh start. \nEnter the chance to go to Rome: Home to a struggling convent facing a precipitous end\, the city beckons Claire\, who’s long had a complicated relationship with religion\, including a “missed connection” with convent life in her teens. Once in Rome\, she finds a group of funny\, fearless nuns in a gorgeous villa\, beautiful runs throughout a color-saturated city\, and a chance to reflect. It all leads her to an unexpected question–should she join the convent?–and an answer that startles her as much as it does those closest to her. \nIt also startles Marcus\, a once-buzzy actor\, devastatingly handsome\, who is eternally in love with Claire. Marcus has come and gone from Claire’s life since college but now reappears in Rome just as she’s about to decide what’s next. \nAs Claire searches for her higher calling\, she finds the key to her future may lay in her past–and involves an actual key. The nuns swear it unlocks nothing\, but on a night when choices and voices swirl\, Claire finds a long-hidden lock. \nA look at faith\, in oneself as much as a higher power\, and love\, romantic and familial\, lost and found\, this is the thoroughly charming story of one woman who sets out to rewrite her past and future\, only to be surprised by the plot twists life plants . . . when in Rome. (Dutton) \nTo purchase a copy of this book\, visit vromansbookstore.com.
URL:https://playhousevillage.org/event/vromans-liam-callanan-discusses-when-in-rome/
LOCATION:Vroman’s Bookstore\, 695 E. Colorado Blvd.\, Pasadena\, CA\, 91101\, United States
CATEGORIES:In-Person,Vroman's Bookstore
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SUMMARY:Vroman's: Special Storytime with Michelle Lam of Meesh the Bad Demon #1
DESCRIPTION:A tale of unlikely heroes and myths is made real in this debut graphic novel series about a “bad” demon trying to find her place in the underworld. But she’ll have to save it first! \nMeesh is a bad demon. “Bad” in that she always sees the good in those around her–which isn’t how a demon is meant to feel or act. \nBullied by the other demons\, twelve-year-old Meesh is more likely to be found reading magazines from Plumeria City–the fairy realm–and fangirling about the fairy princesses. \nBut when disaster strikes and all of demon-kind is threatened\, Meesh must journey to other worlds in search of help. \nAs luck would have it\, she meets a fairy princess right away. Things in the fairy realm aren’t so perfect either\, though. As Meesh makes surprising new friends and unites a band of outcasts\, she learns there’s much more to being a demon than she ever realized. And learning to love herself might just uncover the secret to saving her home. (Alfred A. Knopf Books for Young Readers)
URL:https://playhousevillage.org/event/vromans-special-storytime-with-michelle-lam-of-meesh-the-bad-demon-1/
LOCATION:Vroman’s Bookstore\, 695 E. Colorado Blvd.\, Pasadena\, CA\, 91101\, United States
CATEGORIES:In-Person,Vroman's Bookstore
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SUMMARY:Vroman's: Local Author Day
DESCRIPTION:Vroman’s Local Author Day featuring Barbara Hanky-Rogers\, Laurie Markvart\, and Kenneth R. Strange Jr. \nBarbara Hanky-Rogers presents It’s a No Grainer Cookbook \nIt’s a No Grainer Cookbook takes the guesswork out of replacing grains and wheat flour with over 180 appetizing recipes for any occasion. Inside\, you’ll find breakfast items that will tickle your tastebuds like the banana coconut pancakes with lavender sprinkles along with baked goods so good\, you’ll swear they have regular flour. There’s a chapter on small plates to round out the delicious array of choices. \n  \nLaurie Markvart presents Somewhere in the Music\, I’ll Find Me \nMusician Laurie Markvart was adrift in life. In the wake of the deaths of her father and preemie baby\, her family life was in anguish\, and her music career stalled. \nMusic was the remedy for anything in Laurie’s life. Looking for a quick fix\, she attended an open audition in Los Angeles for the X-Factor reality TV singing show. During the demanding two-day audition\, Laurie reflected on her lifelong music journey. \nAs a teen\, she fled her isolated Wisconsin farm town for the famous music scenes of Minneapolis\, Austin\, and New York City. In rock bands\, on tours\, and with Broadway auditions\, Laurie had many highs and lows\, successes and failures – some humorous\, some dangerous. At the center of it all was a stormy relationship with her mentally ill mother and Laurie’s growing anxiety disorder that plagued her most. The despair she thought would be extinguished with marriage and parenting\, was for a time\, but it shattered with the profound loss of her father and baby. \nWith mounting pressure to succeed at the X-Factor audition\, Laurie must push through her anxieties and heartbreaking reflections and not only find herself in the music but a way to move forward and heal. \n  \nKenneth R. Strange Jr. presents It’s Your Camino: One Couple’s 500 Mile Pilgrimage Across Spain \nThe Camino de Santiago is both quest and pilgrimage\, goal and process. It is not a journey for the faint of heart or the soft of foot. People embark on the five-hundred mile\, thirty-one day trek from the Pyrenees Mountains in France to the cathedral of Santiago de Compostela in Spain for all sorts of reasons–religious\, spiritual\, physical\, and personal. For author Kenneth R. Strange Jr. and his wife\, Aurora\, walking the Camino is about adventure and a lifelong love of Spain\, both of which shine through in the Award-winning It’s Your Camino.
URL:https://playhousevillage.org/event/vromans-local-author-day/
LOCATION:Vroman’s Bookstore\, 695 E. Colorado Blvd.\, Pasadena\, CA\, 91101\, United States
CATEGORIES:In-Person,Vroman's Bookstore
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SUMMARY:Vroman's: Nathan Masters discusses Crooked
DESCRIPTION:Nathan Masters\, in conversation with David Kipen\, discusses Crooked: The Roaring ’20s Tale of a Corrupt Attorney General\, a Crusading Senator\, and the Birth of the American Political Scan \nMany tales from the Jazz Age reek of crime and corruption. But perhaps the era’s greatest political fiasco–one that resulted in a nationwide scandal\, a public reckoning at the Department of Justice\, the rise of J. Edgar Hoover\, and an Oscar-winning film–has long been lost to the annals of history. In Crooked\, Nathan Masters restores this story of murderers\, con artists\, secret lovers\, spies\, bootleggers\, and corrupt politicians to its full\, page-turning glory. \nNewly elected to the Senate on a promise to root out corruption\, Burton “Boxcar Burt” Wheeler sets his sights on ousting Attorney General Harry Daugherty\, puppet-master behind President Harding’s unlikely rise to power. Daugherty is famous for doing whatever it takes to keep his boss in power\, and his cozy relations with bootleggers and other scofflaws have long spawned rumors of impropriety. But when his constant companion and trusted fixer\, Jess Smith\, is found dead of a gunshot wound in the apartment the two men share\, Daugherty is suddenly thrust into the spotlight\, exposing the rot consuming the Harding administration to a shocked public. \nDetermined to uncover the truth in the ensuing investigation\, Wheeler takes the prosecutorial reins and subpoenas a rogue’s gallery of witnesses–convicted felons\, shady detectives\, disgraced officials–to expose the attorney general’s treachery and solve the riddle of Jess Smith’s suspicious death. With the muckraking senator hot on his trail\, Daugherty turns to his greatest weapon\, the nascent Federal Bureau of Investigation\, whose eager second-in-command\, J. Edgar Hoover\, sees opportunity amidst the chaos. \nPacked with political intrigue\, salacious scandal\, and no shortage of lessons for our modern era of political discord\, Nathan Masters’ thrilling historical narrative shows how this intricate web of inconceivable crookedness set the stage for the next century of American political scandals. (Hachette Books) \nTo purchase this book\, please visit vromansbookstore.com.
URL:https://playhousevillage.org/event/vromans-nathan-masters-discusses-crooked/
LOCATION:Vroman’s Bookstore\, 695 E. Colorado Blvd.\, Pasadena\, CA\, 91101\, United States
CATEGORIES:In-Person,Vroman's Bookstore
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SUMMARY:Vroman's: Jacqueline Winspear discusses The White Lady
DESCRIPTION:This heart-stopping novel\, set in Post WWII Britain in 1947\, follows the coming of age and maturity of former wartime operative Elinor White–veteran of two wars\, trained killer\, protective of her anonymity–when she is drawn back into the world of menace she has been desperate to leave behind. \nA reluctant ex-spy with demons of her own\, Elinor finds herself facing down one of the most dangerous organized crime gangs in London\, ultimately exposing corruption from Scotland Yard to the highest levels of government. \nThe private\, quiet “Miss White” as Elinor is known\, lives in a village in rural Kent\, England\, and to her fellow villagers seems something of an enigma. Well she might\, as Elinor occupies a “grace and favor” property\, a rare privilege offered to faithful servants of the Crown for services to the nation. But the residents of Shacklehurst have no way of knowing how dangerous Elinor’s war work had been\, or that their mysterious neighbor is haunted by her past. \nIt will take Susie\, the child of a young farmworker\, Jim Mackie and his wife\, Rose\, to break through Miss White’s icy demeanor–but Jim has something in common with Elinor. He\, too\, is desperate to escape his past. When the powerful Mackie crime family demands a return of their prodigal son for an important job\, Elinor assumes the task of protecting her neighbors\, especially the bright-eyed Susie. Yet in her quest to uncover the truth behind the family’s pursuit of Jim\, Elinor unwittingly sets out on a treacherous path—yet it is one that leads to her freedom. (Harper) \nTo purchase this book\, please visit vromansbooktore.com.
URL:https://playhousevillage.org/event/vromans-jacqueline-winspear-discusses-the-white-lady/
LOCATION:Vroman’s Bookstore\, 695 E. Colorado Blvd.\, Pasadena\, CA\, 91101\, United States
CATEGORIES:In-Person,Vroman's Bookstore
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SUMMARY:Vroman's: Tara Ison discusses At the Hour Between Dog and Wolf
DESCRIPTION:Tara Ison\, in conversation with David Ulin\, discusses At the Hour Between Dog and Wolf \nAt the Hour Between Dog and Wolf is the story of a twelve-year-old Parisian Jewish girl in\nWorld War II France\, living “in hiding” as a Catholic orphan with a family in a\nsmall village. \nWhen Danielle Marton’s father is killed during the early days of the German Occupation\, her mother sends her to live in a quiet farming town near Limoges in Vichy France. Now called Marie-Jeanne Chantier\, Danielle struggles to balance the truth of what’s happened to her family and her country with the lies she must tell to keep herself safe. At first\, she’s bitter about being left behind by her mother\, and horrified at having to milk the cow and memorize Catholic prayers for church. But as the years pass and the Occupation worsens\, Danielle finds it easier to suppress her former life entirely\, and Marie-Jeanne becomes less and less of an act. By the time she’s fifteen and there is talk amongst the now divided town of an Allied invasion\, not only has Danielle lost the memories of her father’s face and the smell of her mother’s perfume\, but her very self\, transforming into a strict Catholic and an anti-Semitic\, fervent disciple of fascism. (Ig Publishing) \nTo purchase this book\, please visit vromansbookstore.com. \n 
URL:https://playhousevillage.org/event/vromans-tara-ison-discusses-at-the-hour-between-dog-and-wolf/
LOCATION:Vroman’s Bookstore\, 695 E. Colorado Blvd.\, Pasadena\, CA\, 91101\, United States
CATEGORIES:In-Person,Vroman's Bookstore
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