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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:20230316T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230316T180000
DTSTAMP:20260507T061740
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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:20230315T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230315T190000
DTSTAMP:20260507T061740
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230314T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230314T190000
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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:20230313T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230313T190000
DTSTAMP:20260507T061740
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230311T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230311T150000
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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:20230311T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230311T110000
DTSTAMP:20260507T061740
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230309T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230309T190000
DTSTAMP:20260507T061741
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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:20230308T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230308T190000
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230302T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230302T180000
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220816T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220816T190000
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SUMMARY:Vroman's: Rebecca Woolf discusses All of This: A Memoir of Death and Desire
DESCRIPTION:Rebecca Woolf\, in conversation with Diablo Cody\, discusses All of This: A Memoir of Death and Desire. \nAfter years of struggling in a tumultuous marriage\, writer Rebecca Woolf was finally ready to leave her husband. Two weeks after telling him she wanted a divorce\, he was diagnosed with stage four pancreatic cancer. Four months later\, at the age of forty-four\, he died. \nIn All of This\, Woolf chronicles the months before her husband’s death–and her rebirth after he was gone. With rigorous honesty and incredible awareness\, she reflects on the end of her marriage: how her husband’s illness finally gave her the space to make peace with his humanity and her own. \nStunning\, compelling\, and brilliantly nuanced\, All of This is one woman’s story of embracing the complexities of grief without shame–as a mother\, a widow\, and a sexual being–and emerging on the other side of a relationship with gratitude and relief. (HarperOne)
URL:https://playhousevillage.org/event/vromans-rebecca-woolf-discusses-all-of-this-a-memoir-of-death-and-desire/
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:20220806T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220806T140000
DTSTAMP:20260507T061741
CREATED:20220630T231803Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220630T231803Z
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SUMMARY:Vroman's: Rooted in Reading: End of Summer Party (Vroman's Reading Program)
DESCRIPTION:Come join Vroman’s for one last hurrah to their Nature Adventurers! You all have traveled far and wide this summer\, so they can’t wait to celebrate with Storytime\, a photo booth\, crafts\, sweet treats\, and more! Vroman’s will begin handing out prizes for having completed your Nature Exploration after this event!
URL:https://playhousevillage.org/event/vromans-rooted-in-reading-end-of-summer-party-vromans-reading-program/
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:20220730T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220730T110000
DTSTAMP:20260507T061741
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SUMMARY:Vroman's: Antoinette Portis presents A Seed Grows
DESCRIPTION:“A seed falls\,\nAnd settles into the ground\,\nAnd the Sun shines\,\nAnd the rain comes down\,\nAnd the seed grows…”\nTo understand how a seed becomes a sunflower\, you have to peek beneath the soil and wait patiently as winding roots grow\, a stalk inches out of the earth\, and new seeds emerge among blooming petals. \nWith evocative and lively illustrations\, A Seed Grows offers a close-up view of each step of this process and the ways in which flowers and seeds depend on other creatures\, with a striking fold-out spread of a full-grown sunflower and additional material at the back of the book explaining the science of plant life cycles. \nAntoinette Portis is the author of A New Green Day\, a Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year and NCTE Notable Book in Poetry\, as well as the Sibert Honor winning Hey\, Water! (Neal Porter Books)
URL:https://playhousevillage.org/event/vromans-antoinette-portis-presents-a-seed-grows/
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:20220726T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220726T190000
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SUMMARY:Vroman's: Sarah James discusses The Women with Two Shadows
DESCRIPTION:Sarah James\, in conversation with Julie Claiborne Johnson\, discusses The Women with Two Shadows. \nThe Women with Two Shadows.\nLillian Kaufman hasn’t heard from her twin sister since Eleanor left for a mysterious job at an Army base somewhere in Tennessee. When she learns\, on an unexpected phone call\, that Eleanor is missing\, Lillian takes a train from New York down to Oak Ridge to clear up the matter. \nIt turns out that the only way into Oak Ridge is to assume Eleanor’s identity\, which Lillian plans to do swiftly and perfectly. But Eleanor has vanished without a trace–and she’s not the only one. And how do you find someone in a town so dangerous it doesn’t officially exist\, when technically you don’t exist either? \nLillian is thrust into the epicenter of the gravest scientific undertaking of all time\, with no idea who she can trust. And the more she pretends to be Eleanor\, the more she loses her grip on herself. (Sourcebooks Landmark)
URL:https://playhousevillage.org/event/vromans-sarah-james-discusses-the-women-with-two-shadows/
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:20220725T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220725T180000
DTSTAMP:20260507T061741
CREATED:20220630T230315Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220630T230315Z
UID:10000366-1658772000-1658772000@playhousevillage.org
SUMMARY:Vroman's Local Author's Day (Kids Edition)
DESCRIPTION:Vroman’s Local Author Day (Kids’ Edition) featuring Chris Wieland\, Maria McCloud and Jon-Barrett Ingels \nThis is a virtual event and will take place on Crowdcast. Register for FREE ahead of time to save your spot and get an email reminder! Visit www.vromansbookstore.com to purchase your copy of the book from Vroman’s. \nCROWDCAST REGISTRATION LINK: https://www.crowdcast.io/e/vromans-local-author-day-2 \nChris Wieland presents The Crabtree Monsters\nMoving from Los Angeles to tiny Crabtree\, Michigan\, is the last thing thirteen-year-old Kat Dylan wants to do. Crabtree’s seen better days and isn’t what you call welcoming. Worse\, the move means living with her gruff Grandpa Nick\, the town’s police chief\, and having to look after her little brother\, Alec.\nAnd that’s before Kat and Alec find themselves in the middle of a bank holdup by the Monster Gang—four robbers in monster masks. Before the heist is over\, the kids lose their cash and Alec comes within a hair of losing his life. When it is all over\, Grandpa Nick goes to jail\, accused of being one of the robbers himself.\nSuddenly\, this boring little town isn’t so boring anymore. Kat’s determined to find out who the men are behind the masks\, and she’s going to need help. But exposing the robbers could have big consequences. The deeper Kat goes\, the more she learns life is about making choices\, including some that are a matter of life and death. \nMaria McCloud presents Kash’s Hats\nKash and his adventurous hats give him the power to dream. One day he’s an artist\, the next a chef or cowboy. See how many ways Kash’s Hats can power your imagination. \nJon-Barrett Ingels presents Running of the Noses\nThere are a lot of books for kids about snot\, but not so many that combine humor\, instruction\, and great storytelling the way Running of the Noses does.\nNicco feels terrible about his runny nose\, but Piper is sure she can cheer him up! She tells him about how trees talk to mushrooms to stop getting sick\, tells him wild tales about other out-of-control runny noses\, and even shares a story about herself as a snot-sneezing dragon. But Nicco is still worried – will he have to go to the doctor? Will he have to get a SHOT?! Piper’s not sure\, but she lends him Bird—with Bird to keep him company\, Nicco can be brave. As it turns out\, neither doctors nor runny noses are as bad as they seem.\nRunning of the Noses gently acknowledges and validates the anxiety many kids feel about being sick and visiting the doctor while still offering reassuring advice. Piper’s upbeat character and the dynamic\, comic-book style illustrations are the perfect antidotes to feeling under the weather. Peppered throughout the story and offered in a Q&A at the end are facts to help readers understand what a runny nose is and how it protects their bodies.\nRunning of the Noses is funny\, entertaining\, and reassuring—and just in time for Spring allergies.
URL:https://playhousevillage.org/event/vromans-local-authors-day-kids-edition/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Virtual,Vroman's Bookstore
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220723T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220723T140000
DTSTAMP:20260507T061741
CREATED:20220630T230007Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220630T230007Z
UID:10000364-1658584800-1658584800@playhousevillage.org
SUMMARY:Vroman's: Woodland Critter Crafts
DESCRIPTION:Create and draw your own woodland adventure to explore with children’s book illustrator\, Sara Luna! She will be leading this craft with guided activity pages for us to draw on and color. Materials will be provided.
URL:https://playhousevillage.org/event/vromans-woodland-critter-crafts/
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:20220723T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220723T110000
DTSTAMP:20260507T061741
CREATED:20220630T232335Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220630T232335Z
UID:10000623-1658574000-1658574000@playhousevillage.org
SUMMARY:Vroman's: Maddie Frost presents Iguana Be a Dragon
DESCRIPTION:This is a virtual event and will take place on Crowdcast. Register for FREE ahead of time to save your spot and get an email reminder! Visit www.vromansbookstore.com to purchase your copy of the book from Vroman’s. \nCROWDCAST REGISTRATION LINK: https://www.crowdcast.io/e/maddie-frost-presents \nIguana Be a Dragon\nWhen Iguana is invited to new neighbor Cheetah’s pool party\, he’s worried that it will be filled with all kinds of interesting animals. And he’s not interesting at all! But what if he became something amazing\, like . . . a fire-breathing dragon Iguana has a big plan — could it work\, or will it all go up in flames? \nMaddie Frost introduces a silly and relatable character who learns that his own unique qualities are actually pretty neat\, and the coolest friends will celebrate him for who he is. (Bloomsbury Publishing PLC)
URL:https://playhousevillage.org/event/vromans-maddie-frost-presents-iguana-be-a-dragon/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Virtual,Vroman's Bookstore
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220721T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220721T190000
DTSTAMP:20260507T061741
CREATED:20220630T201423Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220630T201423Z
UID:10000362-1658430000-1658430000@playhousevillage.org
SUMMARY:Vroman's: Malcolm Nance discussing They Want to Kill Americans
DESCRIPTION:New York Times bestselling author\, Malcolm Nance\, offers a chilling warning on a clear\, present and existential threat to our democracy… our fellow Americans\nTo varying degrees\, as many as 74 million Americans have expressed hostility towards American democracy. Their radicalization is increasingly visible in our day to day life: in neighbor’s or family member’s open discussion of bizarre conspiracy theories\, reveling in the fantasy of mass murdering the liberals they believe are drinking the blood of children. These are the results of the deranged series of lies stoked by former President Donald Trump\, made worse by the global pandemic. \nThe first steps of an American fracture were predicted by Malcolm Nance months before the January 6\, 2021 insurrection\, heralding the start of a generational terror threat greater than either al-Qaeda or the Islamic State. Nance calls this growing unrest the Trump Insurgency in the United States or TITUS. \nThe post-2020 election urge to return to a place of “normalcy”–to forget–is the worst response we can have. American militiamen\, terrorists\, and radicalized political activists are already armed in mass numbers and regularly missed in the media; principally because Trump’s most loyal and violent foot soldiers benefit from the ultimate privilege–being white. \nThey Want to Kill Americans is the first detailed look into the heart of the active Trump-led insurgency\, setting the stage for a second nation-wide rebellion on American soil. This is a chilling and deeply researched early warning to the nation from a counterterrorism intelligence professional: America is primed for a possible explosive wave of terrorist attacks and armed confrontations that aim to bring about a Donald Trump led dictatorship. (St Martin’s Press) \nMalcolm Nance is a globally renowned\, highly engaging expert on terrorism\, extremism\, and insurgency\, and a multiple New York Times bestselling author\, whose books include The Plot to Hack America. A 34-year\, Arabic-speaking veteran of the US intelligence community’s Combating Terrorism program\, he has been called the “Neil DeGrasse Tyson of Counterterrorism” and is considered one of the Great African-Americans in Espionage by the International Spy Museum. He is counter-terrorism analyst for NBC News and MSNBC. \nThis ticketed event will take place at Pasadena Presbyterian Church located at 585 E. Colorado Blvd\, Pasadena. There are two ticket options: One that includes one entry plus one signed copy of They Want to Kill Americans and one for General Admission only. The second option does not include a copy of the book. \nPurchase your ticket: https://www.vromansbookstore.com/event/vromans-presents-malcolm-nance-discussing-they-want-kill-americans
URL:https://playhousevillage.org/event/vromans-malcolm-nance-discussing-they-want-to-kill-americans/
LOCATION:Pasadena Presbyterian Church\, 585 East Colorado Boulevard\, Pasadena \, CA\, 91101\, United States
CATEGORIES:In-Person,Vroman's Bookstore
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220716T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220716T110000
DTSTAMP:20260507T061741
CREATED:20220630T201145Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220630T201145Z
UID:10000360-1657969200-1657969200@playhousevillage.org
SUMMARY:Vroman's: Storytime with Mr. Steve
DESCRIPTION:Join Mr. Steve and the gang at Vroman’s Bookstore at 11 am for story time!
URL:https://playhousevillage.org/event/vromans-storytime-with-mr-steve-4/
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:20220714T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220714T190000
DTSTAMP:20260507T061741
CREATED:20220630T201005Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220630T201005Z
UID:10000359-1657825200-1657825200@playhousevillage.org
SUMMARY:Vroman's: Michael Bourne discusses Blithedale Canyon
DESCRIPTION:Michael Bourne\, in conversation with Edan Lepucki\, discusses Blithedale Canyon. \nBlithedale Canyon\nTrent Wolfer has blown it\, in every possible way\, over and over and over. And now he’s blowing it again. Fresh out of rehab\, he’s back in his hometown working a dead-end job at a fast food joint and cutting out on his breaks to sneak airplane bottles of vodka and gin\, when he looks up from his register one day to see Suze Randall\, his closest friend from high school\, now a radiant blonde single mother of two. Set in a small\, sun-drenched Northern California town shifting from hippie haven to moneyed paradise\, Blithedale Canyon asks whether a man who has spent his whole life screwing up can stop long enough to avoid destroying a woman he loves. Michael Bourne’s funny\, edgy debut is a literary love story for every man who has ever wondered why he keeps smashing up the things he cares about\, and for every woman who’s ever wondered what was going on in the head of that guy she spent her twenties trying to fix.
URL:https://playhousevillage.org/event/vromans-michael-bourne-discusses-blithedale-canyon/
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:20220709T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220709T200000
DTSTAMP:20260507T061741
CREATED:20220630T200338Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220630T200338Z
UID:10000355-1657393200-1657396800@playhousevillage.org
SUMMARY:Vroman's: Nocturnal Storytime
DESCRIPTION:Come join us under the stars with a special Storytime with Mr. Steve\, where he will be reading your favorite books about awesome nighttime critters! \nThis event will be held outside on the Vroman’s Paseo.
URL:https://playhousevillage.org/event/vromans-nocturnal-storytime/
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:20220707T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220707T200000
DTSTAMP:20260507T061741
CREATED:20220630T195905Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220630T195905Z
UID:10000629-1657220400-1657224000@playhousevillage.org
SUMMARY:Vroman's: John Vercher discusses After the Lights Go Out
DESCRIPTION:This is a virtual event and will take place on Crowdcast. Register for FREE ahead of time to save your spot and get an email reminder! Visit www.vromansbookstore.com to purchase your copy of the book from Vroman’s. \nCROWDCAST REGISTRATION LINK: https://www.crowdcast.io/e/john-vercher-in \nJohn Vercher\, in conversation with Chris L. Terry\, discusses After the Lights Go Out \nAfter The Lights Go Out\nXavier “Scarecrow” Wallace\, a mixed-race MMA fighter on the wrong side of thirty\, is facing the fight of his life. Xavier can no longer deny he is losing his battle with chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE)\, or pugilistic dementia. Through the fog of memory loss\, migraines\, and paranoia\, Xavier does his best to stay in shape by training at the Philadelphia gym owned by his cousin-cum-manager\, Shot\, a retired champion boxer to whom Xavier owes an unpayable debt. \nXavier makes ends meet while he waits for the call that will reinstate him after a year-long suspension by teaching youth classes at Shot’s gym and by living rent-free in the house of his white father\, whom Xavier was forced to commit to a nursing home. The progress of Sam Wallace’s end-stage Alzheimer’s has revealed his latent racism\, and Xavier finally gains insight into why his Black mother left the family years ago. \nThen Xavier is offered a chance at redemption: a last-minute high-profile comeback fight. If he can get himself back in the game\, he’ll be able to clear his name and begin to pay off Shot. With his memory in shreds and his life crumbling around him\, can Xavier hold on to the focus he needs to survive? John Vercher\, author of the Edgar and Anthony Award-nominated Three-Fifths\, offers a gripping\, psychologically astute\, and explosive tour de force about race\, entertainment\, and healthcare in America\, and about one man’s battle against himself.
URL:https://playhousevillage.org/event/vromans-john-vercher-discusses-after-the-lights-go-out/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Virtual,Vroman's Bookstore
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220702T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220702T120000
DTSTAMP:20260507T061741
CREATED:20220630T195522Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220630T195522Z
UID:10000631-1656759600-1656763200@playhousevillage.org
SUMMARY:Vroman's: Storytime with Mr. Steve
DESCRIPTION:Join Mr. Steve and the gang at Vroman’s Bookstore at 11 am for story time!
URL:https://playhousevillage.org/event/vromans-storytime-with-mr-steve-3/
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:20220630T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220630T190000
DTSTAMP:20260507T061741
CREATED:20220630T190653Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220630T190653Z
UID:10000632-1656612000-1656615600@playhousevillage.org
SUMMARY:Vroman's: YA Discussion with Liz Lawson\, Kathleen Glasglow\, E. Lockhart\, & Jessica Goodman
DESCRIPTION:This is a virtual event and will take place on Crowdcast. Register for FREE ahead of time to save your spot and get an email reminder! Visit vromansbookstore.com to purchase your copy of the book(s) from Vroman’s. \nCROWDCAST REGISTRATION LINK:  https://www.crowdcast.io/e/lawson-glasgow \nYA Panel discussion featuring Liz Lawson\, Kathleen Glasgow\, E. Lockhart\, and Jessica Goodman\, in support of their latest releases\, The Agathas\, Family of Liars\, and The Counselors. \nFamily of Liars: A windswept private island off the coast of Massachusetts. A hungry ocean\, churning with secrets and sorrow. A fiery\, addicted heiress. An irresistible\, unpredictable boy. A summer of unforgivable betrayal and terrible mistakes. Welcome back to the Sinclair family. They were always liars. \nThe Agathas: Last summer\, Alice Ogilvie’s basketball-star boyfriend Steve dumped her. Then she disappeared for five days. She’s not talking\, so where she went and what happened to her is the biggest mystery in Castle Cove. Or it was\, at least. But now\, another one of Steve’s girlfriends has vanished: Brooke Donovan\, Alice’s ex-best friend. And it doesn’t look like Brooke will be coming back. . . \nEnter Iris Adams\, Alice’s tutor. Iris has her own reasons for wanting to disappear\, though unlike Alice\, she doesn’t have the money or the means. That could be changed by the hefty reward Brooke’s grandmother is offering to anyone who can share information about her granddaughter’s whereabouts. The police are convinced Steve is the culprit\, but Alice isn’t so sure\, and with Iris on her side\, she just might be able to prove her theory. \nIn order to get the reward and prove Steve’s innocence\, they need to figure out who killed Brooke Donovan. And luckily Alice has exactly what they need–the complete works of Agatha Christie. If there’s anyone that can teach the girls how to solve a mystery it’s the master herself. But the town of Castle Cove holds many secrets\, and Alice and Iris have no idea how much danger they’re about to walk into. \nThe Counselors: Camp Alpine Lake is the only place where Goldie Easton feels safe. \nShe’s always had a special connection to the place\, even before she was old enough to attend. The camp is the lifeline of Roxwood\, the small town she lives in. Alpine Lake provides jobs\, money and prestige to the region. Few Roxwood locals\, though\, get to reap the rewards of living so close to the glam summer that camp\, with its five-figure tuition and rich kids who have been dumped there for eight weeks by their powerful parents. Goldie’s one of them. \nEven with her townie background\, Goldie has never felt more at home at camp and now she’s back as a counselor\, desperate for summer to start and her best friends\, Ava and Imogen\, to arrive. Because Goldie has a terrible dark secret she’s been keeping and she is more in need of the comfort than ever. \nBut Goldie’s not the only person at camp who has been lying. When a teen turns up dead in the lake late one night\, she knows that the death couldn’t have been an accident. She also knows that Ava was at the lake that same night. \nWhat did Ava see and what does she know? Why hasn’t she said anything to Goldie about the death? Worse–what did Ava do? \nBut asking questions offers no answers\, only broken bonds of lifelong friendship\, with hidden danger and betrayals deeper than Goldie ever imagined.
URL:https://playhousevillage.org/event/vromans-ya-discussion-with-liz-lawson-kathleen-glasglow-e-lockhart-jessica-goodman/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Virtual,Vroman's Bookstore
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220613T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220613T130000
DTSTAMP:20260507T061741
CREATED:20220630T200819Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220630T200819Z
UID:10000358-1655125200-1655125200@playhousevillage.org
SUMMARY:Vroman's: Ned Beauman discusses Venomous Lumpsucker
DESCRIPTION:Ned Beauman\, in conversation with Joshua Cohen\, discusses Venomous Lumpsucker \nThis is a virtual event and will take place on Crowdcast. Register for FREE ahead of time to save your spot and get an email reminder! Visit www.vromansbookstore.com to purchase your copy of the book from Vroman’s. \nCROWDCAST REGISTRATION LINK: https://www.crowdcast.io/e/ned-beauman-in \nVenomous Lumpsucker\nThe near future. Tens of thousands of species are going extinct every year. And a whole industry has sprung up around their extinctions\, to help us preserve the remnants\, or perhaps just assuage our guilt. For instance\, the biobanks: secure archives of DNA samples\, from which lost organisms might someday be resurrected . . . But then\, one day\, it’s all gone. A mysterious cyber-attack hits every biobank simultaneously\, wiping out the last traces of the perished species. Now we’re never getting them back. \nKarin Resaint and Mark Halyard are concerned with one species in particular: the venomous lumpsucker\, a small\, ugly bottom-feeder that happens to be the most intelligent fish on the planet. Resaint is an animal cognition scientist consumed with existential grief over what humans have done to nature. Halyard is an exec from the extinction industry\, complicit in the mining operation that destroyed the lumpsucker’s last-known habitat. \nAcross the dystopian landscapes of the 2030s–a nature reserve full of toxic waste; a floating city on the ocean; the hinterlands of a totalitarian state–Resaint and Halyard hunt for a surviving lumpsucker. And the further they go\, the deeper they’re drawn into the mystery of the attack on the biobanks. Who was really behind it? And why would anyone do such a thing? \nVirtuosic and profound\, witty and despairing\, Venomous Lumpsucker is Ned Beauman at his very best.
URL:https://playhousevillage.org/event/vromans-ned-beauman-discusses-venomous-lumpsucker/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Virtual,Vroman's Bookstore
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211122T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211122T180000
DTSTAMP:20260507T061741
CREATED:20211004T181823Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20211004T181823Z
UID:10000340-1637604000-1637604000@playhousevillage.org
SUMMARY:Vroman's: Andrew Lawler discusses Under Jerusalem: The Buried History of the World's Most Contested City
DESCRIPTION:This is a virtual event and will take place on Crowdcast.\nRegister for FREE ahead of time to save your spot and get an email reminder! Scroll down to purchase your copy of the book from Vroman’s. \nEVENT LINK: TBA \nIn 1863\, a French senator arrived in Jerusalem hoping to unearth relics dating to biblical times. Digging deep underground\, he discovered an ancient grave that\, he claimed\, belonged to an Old Testament queen. News of his find ricocheted around the world\, evoking awe and envy alike\, and inspiring others to explore Jerusalem’s storied past. \nIn the century and a half since the Frenchman broke ground\, Jerusalem has drawn a global cast of fortune seekers and missionaries\, archaeologists and zealots\, all of them eager to extract the biblical past from beneath the city’s streets and shrines. Their efforts have had profound effects\, not only on our understanding of Jerusalem’s history\, but on its hotly disputed present. The quest to retrieve ancient Jewish heritage has sparked bloody riots and thwarted international peace agreements. It has served as a cudgel\, a way to stake a claim to the most contested city on the planet. Today\, the earth below Jerusalem remains a battleground in the struggle to control the city above. \nUnder Jerusalem takes readers into the tombs\, tunnels\, and trenches of the Holy City. It brings to life the indelible characters who have investigated this subterranean landscape. With clarity and verve\, acclaimed journalist Andrew Lawler reveals how their pursuit has not only defined the conflict over modern Jerusalem\, but could provide a map for two peoples and three faiths to peacefully coexist. (Doubleday Books)
URL:https://playhousevillage.org/event/vromans-andrew-lawler-discusses-under-jerusalem-the-buried-history-of-the-worlds-most-contested-city/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Virtual,Vroman's Bookstore
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211120T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211120T110000
DTSTAMP:20260507T061741
CREATED:20211004T181754Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20211004T181754Z
UID:10000339-1637406000-1637406000@playhousevillage.org
SUMMARY:Vroman's: Special Storytime featuring Michael Slack presenting Dinosaurs on Kitty Island
DESCRIPTION:This is a virtual event and will take place on Crowdcast.\nRegister for FREE ahead of time to save your spot and get an email reminder! Scroll down to purchase your copy of the book from Vroman’s. \nEVENT LINK: TBA \nA playdate between intrepid kitties and cautious dinosaurs doesn’t go quite as planned in this hilarious story of friendship and compromise! \nLife on Dinosaur Island is so boring. Who wants to watch stuff sink in tar pits all day? So the dinosaurs are escaping to Kitty Island to play with their new kitty friends\, even though the level-headed narrator warns them that it will end in cat-astrophe. After all\, the kitties are fearless and feisty! And these dinos? Well\, cuddles are more their speed. Now these tiny kitties and hulking dinos need to find some common ground before their playdate and friendship go extinct. (Dial Books)
URL:https://playhousevillage.org/event/vromans-special-storytime-featuring-michael-slack-presenting-dinosaurs-on-kitty-island/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Virtual,Vroman's Bookstore
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211118T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211118T180000
DTSTAMP:20260507T061741
CREATED:20211004T181725Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20211004T181725Z
UID:10000337-1637258400-1637258400@playhousevillage.org
SUMMARY:Vroman's: Jung Yun discusses O Beautiful
DESCRIPTION:This is a virtual event and will take place on Crowdcast.\nRegister for FREE ahead of time to save your spot and get an email reminder! Scroll down to purchase your copy of the book from Vroman’s. \nEVENT LINK: TBA \nElinor Hanson\, a forty-something former model\, is struggling to reinvent herself as a freelance writer when she receives an unexpected assignment. Her mentor from grad school offers her a chance to write for a prestigious magazine about the Bakken oil boom in North Dakota. Elinor grew up near the Bakken\, raised by an overbearing father and a distant Korean mother who met and married when he was stationed overseas. After decades away from home\, Elinor returns to a landscape she hardly recognizes\, overrun by tens of thousands of newcomers. \nSurrounded by roughnecks seeking their fortunes in oil and long-time residents worried about their changing community\, Elinor experiences a profound sense of alienation and grief. She rages at the unrelenting male gaze\, the locals who still see her as a foreigner\, and the memories of her family’s estrangement after her mother decided to escape her unhappy marriage\, leaving Elinor and her sister behind. The longer she pursues this potentially career-altering assignment\, the more her past intertwines with the story she’s trying to tell\, revealing disturbing new realities that will forever change her and the way she looks at the world. \nWith spare and graceful prose\, Jung Yun’s O Beautiful presents an immersive portrait of a community rife with tensions and competing interests\, and one woman’s attempts to reconcile her anger with her love of a beautiful\, but troubled land. (St. Martins Press)
URL:https://playhousevillage.org/event/vromans-jung-yun-discusses-o-beautiful/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Virtual,Vroman's Bookstore
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211117T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211117T180000
DTSTAMP:20260507T061741
CREATED:20211004T181556Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20211004T181556Z
UID:10000335-1637172000-1637172000@playhousevillage.org
SUMMARY:Vroman's: Dorie Greenspan discusses Baking with Dorie: Sweet\, Salty & Simple
DESCRIPTION:This is a virtual event and will take place on Crowdcast.\nRegister for FREE ahead of time to save your spot and get an email reminder! Scroll down to purchase your copy of the book from Vroman’s. \nEVENT LINK: TBA \nSay “Dorie Greenspan” and think baking. The renowned author of thirteen cookbooks and winner of five James Beard and two IACP awards offers a collection that celebrates the sweet\, the savory\, and the simple. Every recipe is signature Dorie: easy–beginners can ace every technique in this book–and accessible\, made with everyday ingredients. Are there surprises? Of course! You’ll find ingenious twists like Berry Biscuits. Footlong cheese sticks made with cream puff dough. Apple pie with browned butter spiced like warm mulled cider. A s’mores ice cream cake with velvety chocolate sauce\, salty peanuts\, and toasted marshmallows. It’s a book of simple yet sophisticated baking. The chapters are classic: Breakfast Stuff – Cakes – Cookies – Pies\, Tarts\, Cobblers and Crisps – Two Perfect Little Pastries – Salty Side Up. The recipes are unexpected. And there are “Sweethearts” throughout\, mini collections of Dorie’s all-time favorites. Don’t miss the meringue Little Marvels or the Double-Decker Caramel Cake. Like all of Dorie’s recipes\, they lend themselves to being remade\, refashioned\, and riffed on. (Mariner Books)
URL:https://playhousevillage.org/event/vromans-dorie-greenspan-discusses-baking-with-dorie-sweet-salty-simple/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Virtual,Vroman's Bookstore
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211113T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211113T110000
DTSTAMP:20260507T061741
CREATED:20211004T181453Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20211004T181453Z
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SUMMARY:Vroman's: Special Storytime featuring Yuyi Morales presenting Bright Star
DESCRIPTION:This is a virtual event and will take place on Crowdcast.\nRegister for FREE ahead of time to save your spot and get an email reminder! Scroll down to purchase your copy of the book from Vroman’s. \nEVENT LINK: TBA \nChild\, you are awake!\nYou are alive!\nYou are a bright star\,\nInside our hearts. \nTold with a combination of powerful\, spare language and sumptuous and complex imagery that is typical of Yuyi Morales’s work\, this is the story of a fawn making her way through a border landscape teaming with flora and fauna native to the region. A gentle but empowering voice encourages her to face her fears when she comes across an obstacle in the form of an insurmountable barrier. \nYuyi Morales’ first book since her New York Times bestseller Dreamers is a book for very young children looking for their place in a world full of uncertainty. It is a book with resonance for all children\, especially those whose safety is threatened due to the immigration crisis in the US. (Neal Porter Books)
URL:https://playhousevillage.org/event/vromans-special-storytime-featuring-yuyi-morales-presenting-bright-star/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Virtual,Vroman's Bookstore
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