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SUMMARY:Vroman's: Bobby Johnston discusses The Saint I Ain’t: Stories from Sycamore Street
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! Scroll down to purchase your copy of the book from Vroman’s. \nEVENT LINK: https://www.crowdcast.io/e/043l4zb4  \nSinners\, saints and saviors collide in Bobby Johnston’s stories\, which chronicle the savagery and poetry of oppressive Catholic upbringing in 1970s Rust-Belt America. Johnston weaves landscapes of transgression and absolution\, humor and resilience into his sharp-eyed tapestry of recall. (Fomite) \nBobby Johnston is a Los Angeles based film composer and multi-instrumentalist. The Saint I Ain’t: Stories from Sycamore Street is his first book. \nColleen Dunn Bates is a publisher\, founder\, editor\, and longtime Pasadena resident who started her career by studying journalism at USC. In 2006\, she started Prospect Park Books with the publication of Hometown Pasadena. Hometown Pasadena’s first two editions won acclaim from the Los Angeles Times\, Los Angeles Magazine\, and Westways\, as well as nominations and awards from the Southern California Independent Booksellers Association and the Independent Publisher Book Awards.
URL:https://playhousevillage.org/event/vromans-bobby-johnston-discusses-the-saint-i-aint-stories-from-sycamore-street/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210410T180000
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SUMMARY:Vroman's: #DignidadLiteraria: Our Voices
DESCRIPTION:This is a virtual event and will take place on Crowdcast. Register for FREE ahead of time to save your spot and to get an email reminder! Scroll down to purchase your copy of the event books from Vroman’s. \nEVENT LINK: https://www.crowdcast.io/e/hzg0681g. \nJoin us for an event that celebrates the voices of underrepresented Latinx writers through reading and discussion of their work. \nPanelists include: \nViva Padilla\, Founding Editor of Dryland literary journal\, book editor\, poet\nAngela Sánchez\, author of Scruffy and the Egg: Adventures on the Road\, Education Advocate\nMarcus Clayton\, editor at Indicia Lit\, writer\nFéi Hernandez\, author of Hood Criatura\nLisbeth Coiman\, author of Uprsing / Alzamientos and I Asked the Blue Heron \nVroman’s Bookstore is proud to have co-organized this event with Lisbeth Coiman \n#DignidadLiteraria is a network of committed Latinx activists hosting town halls and other events across the nation to combat the dearth of Latinx authors\, editors and executives in the US publishing industry. \nAbout our Panelists: \nFéi Hernandez (FAY)\nPronouns: they/them\nFéi Hernandez (b.1993 Chihuahua\, México) is an Inglewood-raised immigrant trans non-binary visual artist\, writer\, and healer. Currently\, they are the President of the Advisory Board for Gender Justice Los Angeles. They have been published in Poetry\, Oxford Review of Books\, Frontier\, NPR’s Code Switch\, BreakBeat Poets Volume 4: LatiNEXT\, PANK Magazine amongst others. féi is the author of Hood Criatura (Sundress Publications\, 2020). féi collects Pokémon plushies. \nMarcus Clayton (Mar-kuhs Clay-tuhn)\nPronouns: he/him/his\nMarcus Clayton is a multigenre Afro-Latino writer from South Gate\, CA\, holds an M.F.A. from CSU Long Beach\, and is pursuing a Literature & Creative Writing PhD at the University of Southern California. He is an executive editor for Indicia Literary Journal\, and plays in a punk band called tudors. \nTwitter: @marcussomething\nInstagram: @marcussomethingsomething\nWebsite: marcus-clayton.com \nAngela M. Sánchez\nPronouns: she\, her\, hers / ella (in Spanish)\nHer first can be pronounced in English or Spanish. She responds to both and whichever is easier for you/another speaker to say is fine. 🙂\nHer last name is pronounced SAHN-ches.\nAngela M. Sánchez is a Los Angeles native and 2018 PEN America Emerging Voices Fellow. She has written and illustrated a picture book\, Scruffy and the Egg\, about family homelessness and is working on a YA urban-fantasy novel. Angela has written for SOLRAD\, the Los Angeles Review of Books\, and LAist. \nViva Padilla\nViva Padilla is a bilingual poet\, writer\, editor\, and publisher born and raised in South Central Los Angeles. She’s the founding editor in chief of Dryland\, an independent print literary journal established in 2015\, and Hombre Lobo\, an intergenerational book series documenting paranormal/ supernatural stories experienced by Xicanx. Padilla is a first-generation Chicana\, a daughter of immigrants who crossed the border from Colima\, Mexico. She also runs FUTURE NOW\, a virtual Black and Brown reading and open mic series. \nShe’s been an invited speaker at universities like CSU Dominguez Hills\, CSU Fullerton\, and international cultural institutions like Casa de las Americas in Havana\, Cuba. Viva’s work has been featured or is forthcoming in the L.A. Times\, The Acentos Review\, PANK\, wearemitú\, SAND\, Exposition Review\, The Autry Museum\, and L.A. Forum for Archictecture and Urban Design and others. She currently works at Tia Chucha Press and lives on the Eastside in Los Angeles. \nLisbeth Coiman \nIs a bilingual writer\, educator\, cultural worker\, and rezandera from Venezuela. She is the author of a bilingual poetry collection\, Uprising / Alzamiento\, dedicated to the liberation of Venezuela and which will be released in June 2021 by Finishing Line Press. Her debut book\, I Asked the Blue Heron: A Memoir\, independently published in 2017\, explores the intersection between immigration and mental health. She lives in Los Angeles where she teaches adult English as a Second Language.  She is an active member of Women Who Submit and the Community Literature Initiative (CLI). \nTwitter\, Facebook\, Instagram\, and LinkedIn. @lisbethcoiman\nWebsite: https://Lisbethcoiman.com
URL:https://playhousevillage.org/event/vromans-dignidadliteraria-our-voices/
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SUMMARY:Vroman's:  Andrew Morton discusses Elizabeth & Margaret: The Intimate World of the Windsor Sisters
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! Scroll down to purchase your copy of the book from Vroman’s. \nEVENT LINK: https://www.crowdcast.io/e/0suj0aug  \nThey were the closest of sisters and the best of friends. But when\, in a quixotic twist of fate\, their uncle Edward Vlll decided to abdicate the throne\, the dynamic between Elizabeth and Margaret was dramatically altered. Forever more Margaret would have to curtsey to the sister she called ‘Lillibet.’ And bow to her wishes.  Elizabeth would always look upon her younger sister’s antics with a kind of stoical amusement\, but Margaret’s struggle to find a place and position inside the royal system–and her fraught relationship with its expectations–was often a source of tension. Famously\, the Queen had to inform Margaret that the Church and government would not countenance her marrying a divorcee\, Group Captain Peter Townsend\, forcing Margaret to choose between keeping her title and royal allowances or her divorcee lover. \nFrom the idyll of their cloistered early life\, through their hidden war-time lives\, into the divergent paths they took following their father’s death and Elizabeth’s ascension to the throne\, this book explores their relationship over the years. Andrew Morton’s latest biography offers unique insight into these two drastically different sisters–one resigned to duty and responsibility\, the other resistant to it–and the lasting impact they have had on the Crown\, the royal family\, and the ways it adapted to the changing mores of the 20th century. (Grand Central Publishing) \nAndrew Morton studied history at the University of Sussex\, England\, with a focus on aristocracy and the 1930s. Morton has written extensively on celebrity including biographies of Tom Cruise\, Angelina Jolie\, and Madonna\, as well as the British royal family. He has written bestselling biographies of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor\, Prince Andrew\, and Meghan Markle. His #1 New York Times bestselling biography Diana: Her True Story won international acclaim\, described by critics as a “modern classic” and “the closest we will ever come to her autobiography.” \nDiana Nixon is a USA Today & International Bestselling Author who writes sweet and spicy romance reads. A book addict and a Master of Law in the past\, she knows how to weave plots that will keep you hooked from start to finish. Her stories can be funny or tragic\, but her characters are strong\, rebellious\, and passionate about everything they do. When Diana isn’t busy writing\, she spends her time reading books or watching historical dramas. A mom of two\, she can’t live without coffee and chocolate\, and she believes that writing is the best cure for everything that can be healed with words.​Her books have been published internationally\, in seven languages: English\, Spanish\, Italian\, German\, Russian\, French\, and Portuguese.​Diana Nixon is the founder of the literary magazine Inks & Scratches.
URL:https://playhousevillage.org/event/vromans-andrew-morton-discusses-elizabeth-margaret-the-intimate-world-of-the-windsor-sisters/
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SUMMARY:Vroman's: Max Brooks discusses Minecraft: The Mountain: An Official Minecraft Novel
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! Scroll down to purchase your SIGNED copy of the book from Vroman’s. \nEVENT LINK: https://www.crowdcast.io/e/5m0h3lkb \nIn the new official Minecraft novel from the New York Times bestselling author of Minecraft: The Island\, a stranded hero stumbles upon another castaway–and discovers that teamwork might just be the secret to survival. \nWandering a vast\, icy tundra\, the explorer has never felt more alone. Is there anything out here? Did I do the right thing by leaving the safety of my island? Should I give up and go back? So many questions\, and no time to ponder–not when dark is falling and dangerous mobs are on the horizon. \nGurgling zombies and snarling wolves lurk in the night\, and they’re closing in. With nowhere to hide\, the lone traveler flees up a mountain\, trapped and out of options . . . until a mysterious figure arrives\, fighting off the horde singlehandedly. The unexpected savior is Summer\, a fellow castaway and master of survival in these frozen wastes. \nExcited to find another person in this strange\, blocky world\, the explorer teams up with Summer\, whose impressive mountain fortress as a safe haven . . . for now. But teamwork is a new skill for two people used to working alone. If they want to make it home\, they will have to learn to work together–or risk losing everything. (Del Rey Books) \nIf you have a question for Max Brooks\, we are accepting them at email@vromansbookstore.com. Submit your question early and Max will answer it during our live Crowdcast! \nMax Brooks is an author\, public speaker\, and nonresident fellow at the Modern War Institute at West Point. His bestselling books include Minecraft: The Island\, The Zombie Survival Guide\, and World War Z\, which was adapted into a 2013 movie starring Brad Pitt. His graphic novels include the #1 New York Times bestseller The Harlem Hellfighters. \nSarah Peed is a Senior Editor at Del Rey Books. \nIf you have a question for Max Brooks\, we are accepting them at email@vromansbookstore.com. Submit your question early and Max will answer it during our live Crowdcast!
URL:https://playhousevillage.org/event/vromans-max-brooks-discusses-minecraft-the-mountain-an-official-minecraft-novel/
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SUMMARY:Vroman's:  Raphael Simon (aka Pseudonymous Bosch) & Adam Gidwitz discuss The Anti-Book
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! Scroll down to purchase your copy of the book from Vroman’s. \nEVENT LINK: https://www.crowdcast.io/e/ztnils1y \nWith nods to The Phantom Tollbooth and Coraline\, this darkly funny fantasy is a classic-in-the-making–the story of a boy who wants the world to disappear . . . and what happens when it does. \nMickey is angry all the time: at his divorced parents\, at his sister\, and at his two new stepmoms\, both named Charlie. And so he can’t resist the ad inside his pack of gum: “Do you ever wish everyone would go away? Buy The Anti-Book! Satisfaction guaranteed.” He orders the book\, but when it arrives\, it’s blank–except for one line of instruction: To erase it\, write it. He fills the pages with all the things and people he dislikes . . . \nNext thing he knows\, he’s wandering an anti-world\, one in which everything and everyone familiar is gone. Or are they? His sister soon reappears–but she’s only four inches tall. A tiny talking house with wings looks strangely familiar\, as does the mysterious half-invisible boy who seems to think that he and Mickey are best buds. The boy persuades Mickey to go find the Bubble Gum King–the king\, who resides at the top of a mountain\, is the only one who might be able help Mickey fix the mess he’s made. \nFull of humor and surprise\, and slyly meaningful\, this is a Wizard of Oz for today’s generation–a fantastical quest for comfort and belonging that will resonate with many\, many readers.  (Dial Books) \nRaphael Simon is an author who lives in Pasadena\, CA\, with his husband and twin daughters. He is definitely not the alter ego of infamously anonymous author Pseudonymous Bosch\, writer of the New York Times bestselling Secret Series and the Bad Books. \nAdam Gidwitz is the bestselling author of A Tale Dark and Grimm\, In A Glass Grimmly\, and The Grimm Conclusion\, as well as The Empire Strikes Back: So You Want To Be  A Jedi?\, Newbery Honored novel The Inquisitor’s Tale and brand new series\, The Unicorn Rescue Society. He is also the creator of the podcast Grimm\, Grimmer\, Grimmest and The Unicorn Rescue Society Card Game.
URL:https://playhousevillage.org/event/vromans-raphael-simon-aka-pseudonymous-bosch-adam-gidwitz-discuss-the-anti-book/
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SUMMARY:Vroman's: Wendy Heard discusses She’s Too Pretty to Burn
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! Scroll down to purchase your copy of the book from Vroman’s. \nEVENT LINK: https://www.crowdcast.io/e/hf8x5iuj \nThe summer is winding down in San Diego. Veronica is bored\, caustically charismatic\, and uninspired in her photography. Nico is insatiable\, subversive\, and obsessed with chaotic performance art. They’re  artists first\, best friends second. But that was before Mick. Delicate\, lonely\, magnetic Mick: the perfect  subject\, and Veronica’s dream girl. The days are long and hot–full of adventure–and soon they are falling in love. Falling so hard\, they never imagine what comes next. One fire. Two murders. Three drowning bodies. One suspect . . . one stalker. This is a summer they won’t survive. \nInspired by The Picture of Dorian Gray\, this sexy psychological thriller explores the intersections of love\, art\, danger\, and power. (Henry Holt & Co.) \nWendy Heard is the author of two adult thrillers: The Kill Club and Hunting Annabelle\, which Kirkus Reviews praised as “a diabolically plotted creep show from a writer to watch.” She’s Too Pretty To Burn\, which Kirkus called “a wild and satisfying romp” in a starred review\, marks her YA debut. She is a member of Sisters in Crime\, International Thriller Writers\, and Mystery Writers of America\, and is a contributor at Crimereads.com and Writer’s Digest. Wendy lives in Los Angeles\, California. \nAiden Thomas is a New York Times Bestselling Author with an MFA in Creative Writing from Mills College. Originally from Oakland\, California\, they now make their home in Portland\, OR. As a queer\, trans Latinx\, Aiden advocates strongly for diverse representation in all media. Aiden’s special talents include: quoting The Office\, useless trivia\, Jenga\, finishing sentences with “is my FAVORITE”\, and killing spiders. Aiden is notorious for not being able to guess the endings of books and movies\, and organizes their bookshelves by color. Aiden’s debut novel\, Cemetery Boys is a Dia de Muertos paranormal romance about Yadriel (a gay\, trans brujo) who accidentally summons the wrong ghost (Swoon Reads/Macmillan\, September 1st\, 2020).
URL:https://playhousevillage.org/event/vromans-wendy-heard-discusses-shes-too-pretty-to-burn/
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SUMMARY:Vroman's: Launch of the final book in The King of Scars Duology\, Rule of Wolves
DESCRIPTION:The conversation with Leigh Bardugo starts at 7pm (PT) but you can log in early at 6:15pm (PT) to interact with fellow Grishaverse fan for a meet up complete with trivia and other activities! Cosplay is encouraged and there will be prizes! \nWith Rule of Wolves\, Leigh Bardugo brings us the explosive final chapter to her King of Scars duology\, one that will leave every beloved character changed. After this thrilling\, action-packed finale full of Bardugo’s trademark twists\, the Grishaverse will never be the same. \nLeigh Bardugo is the New York Times-bestselling author of Ninth House and the creator of the Grishaverse (coming soon to Netflix)\, which spans the Shadow and Bone trilogy\, the Six of Crows duology\, the King of Scars duology\, The Language of Thorns\, and The Lives of Saints— with more to come. Her short stories can be found in multiple anthologies\, including Best American Science Fiction & Fantasy. Leigh grew up in Southern California and graduated from Yale University. These days she lives and writes in Los Angeles. \nThis event ticket includes a hardcover copy of Rule of Wolves along with a signed bookplate and an exclusive Grishaverse zipper pouch\, as well as online access to the event for your household. You will receive a link and password to attend the Crowdcast event on the afternoon of Monday\, March 29th.
URL:https://playhousevillage.org/event/vromans-launch-of-the-final-book-in-the-king-of-scars-duology-rule-of-wolves/
LOCATION:Vroman’s Bookstore\, 695 E. Colorado Blvd.\, Pasadena\, CA\, 91101\, United States
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SUMMARY:Vroman's: Courtney Zoffness\, in conversation with Edan Lepucki\, discusses Spilt Milk
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! \nEVENT LINK: https://www.crowdcast.io/e/yatxjin4 \nWhat role does a mother play in raising thoughtful\, generous children? In her literary debut\, internationally award-winning writer Courtney Zoffness considers what we inherit from generations past–biologically\, culturally\, spiritually–and what we pass on to our children. Spilt Milk is an intimate\, bracing\, and beautiful exploration of vulnerability and culpability. Zoffness relives her childhood anxiety disorder as she witnesses it manifest in her firstborn; endures brazen sexual advances by a student in her class; grapples with the implications of her young son’s cop obsession; and challenges her Jewish faith. Where is the line between privacy and secrecy? How do the stories we tell inform who we become? These powerful\, dynamic essays herald a vital new voice. (McSweeney’s) \nCourtney Zoffness won the Sunday Times Short Story Award\, an Emerging Writers Fellowship from the Center for Fiction\, residency fellowships from the MacDowell Colony\, and the Susan Atefat Prize in Creative Nonfiction from Arts & Letters. Her work has appeared in the Paris Review Daily\, The Southern Review\, Longreads\, Los Angeles Review of Books\, and elsewhere\, and she had Notable Best American Essays in 2018 and 2019. She teaches at Drew University and lives with her family in Brooklyn\, New York. \nEdan Lepucki is the author of the novella If You’re Not Yet Like Me and the novels California and Woman No. 17. Edan created the popular Instagram “Mothers Before”\, and she has edited a book inspired by the project\, published by Abrams Press in 2020. Edan is a graduate of Oberlin College and the University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop\, and her fiction and nonfiction have been published in Esquire\, Narrative Magazine\, The New York Times\, The Cut\, and McSweeney’s\, among others. The Los Angeles Times named her a Face to Watch for 2014. She is contributing editor to The Millions and the founder of Writing Workshops Los Angeles.
URL:https://playhousevillage.org/event/vromans-courtney-zoffness-in-conversation-with-edan-lepucki-discusses-spilt-milk/
LOCATION:Vroman’s Bookstore\, 695 E. Colorado Blvd.\, Pasadena\, CA\, 91101\, United States
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SUMMARY:Vroman's: Chris Whitaker discusses We Begin at the End
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! \nEVENT LINK: https://www.crowdcast.io/e/33jfivrn \nThere are two kinds of families: the ones we are born into and the ones we create. \nWalk has never left the coastal California town where he grew up. He may have become the chief of police\, but he’s still trying to heal the old wound of having given the testimony that sent his best friend\, Vincent King\, to prison decades before. Now\, thirty years later\, Vincent is being released. \nDuchess is a thirteen-year-old self-proclaimed outlaw. Her mother\, Star\, grew up with Walk and Vincent. Walk is in overdrive trying to protect them\, but Vincent and Star seem bent on sliding deeper into self-destruction. Star always burned bright\, but recently that light has dimmed\, leaving Duchess to parent not only her mother but her five-year-old brother. At school the other kids make fun of Duchess–her clothes are torn\, her hair a mess. But let them throw their sticks\, because she’ll throw stones. Rules are for other people. She’s just trying to survive and keep her family together. \nA fortysomething-year-old sheriff and a thirteen-year-old girl may not seem to have a lot in common. But they both have come to expect that people will disappoint you\, loved ones will leave you\, and if you open your heart it will be broken. So when trouble arrives with Vincent King\, Walk and Duchess find they will be unable to do anything but usher it in\, arms wide closed. \nChris Whitaker has written an extraordinary novel about people who deserve so much more than life serves them. At times devastating\, with flashes of humor and hope throughout\, it is ultimately an inspiring tale of how the human spirit prevails and how\, in the end\, love–in all its different guises–wins. (Henry Holt & Company) \nChris Whitaker lives in the United Kingdom with his wife and three young children. When not writing he works part-time at a local library\, where he gets to surround himself with books.
URL:https://playhousevillage.org/event/vromans-chris-whitaker-discusses-we-begin-at-the-end/
LOCATION:Vroman’s Bookstore\, 695 E. Colorado Blvd.\, Pasadena\, CA\, 91101\, United States
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SUMMARY:Vroman's: Grant Farley discusses Bones of a Saint
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! \nEVENT LINK: https://www.crowdcast.io/e/7qi1klne \nSet in Northern California in the late ’70s\, this timeless coming-of-age story examines the nature of evil\, the art of storytelling\, and the possibility of redemption. \nFifteen-year-old RJ Armante has never known a life outside his deadend hometown of Arcangel\, CA. The Blackjacks rule as they have for generations\, luring the poorest kids into their monopoly on petty crime. For years\, they’ve left RJ alone\, but now they have a job for him: prey upon an old loner in town. \nIn spite of the danger\, RJ begins to resist. He fights not only for himself\, but for his younger brother\, Charley\, whose disability has always made RJ feel extra protective of him. For Roxanne\, the girl he can’t reach\, and the kids in his crew who have nothing to live for. Even for the old loner\, who has secrets of his own. If RJ is to break from the Blackjacks’ hold\, all of Arcangel must be free of its past. (Soho Teen) \nGrant Farley was an English teacher for over twenty-five years and has taught at a Santa Monica alternative school\, a barrio junior high\, and a Marine Science magnet in San Pedro. All the while\, he worked on Bones of a Saint\, and excerpts of the book have appeared in various literary magazines and been showcased at a number of writers conferences. Then one day his awesome wife insisted that he retire\, which is when RJ’s story really took off. Now he writes full time and volunteers at a lighthouse.
URL:https://playhousevillage.org/event/vromans-grant-farley-discusses-bones-of-a-saint/
LOCATION:Vroman’s Bookstore\, 695 E. Colorado Blvd.\, Pasadena\, CA\, 91101\, United States
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SUMMARY:Vroman's: Kareem Rosser discusses Crossing the Line: A Fearless Team of Brothers and the Sport That Changed Their Lives Forever
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! \nEVENT LINK: https://www.crowdcast.io/e/zlpv4u7a \nBorn and raised in West Philadelphia\, Kareem thought he and his siblings would always be stuck in “The Bottom”\, a community and neighborhood devastated by poverty and violence. Riding their bicycles through Philly’s Fairmount Park\, Kareem’s brothers discover a barn full of horses. Noticing the brothers’ fascination with her misfit animals\, Lezlie Hiner\, founder of The Work to Ride stables\, offers them their escape: an after school job in exchange for riding lessons. \nWhat starts as an accidental discovery turns into a love for horseback riding that leads the Rosser’s to discovering their passion for polo. Pursuing the sport with determination and discipline\, Kareem earns his place among the typically exclusive players in college\, becoming part of the first all-Black national interscholastic polo championship team–all while struggling to keep his family together. \nCrossing the Line: A Fearless Team of Brothers and the Sport That Changed Their Lives Forever is the story of bonds of brotherhood\, family loyalty\, the transformative connection between man and horse\, and forging a better future that comes from overcoming impossible odds. (St. Martin’s Press) \nKareem Rosser is from Philadelphia\, PA. He received a BA in economics from Colorado State University (CSU). While at CSU\, he led his collegiate polo team to a national polo championship. At the same time\, he was honored as the Intercollegiate polo player of the year. After graduation\, Kareem began working as a financial analyst at an asset management firm. Also\, he serves as the Executive Director of a non-profit fundraising arm called Friends of Work to Ride.
URL:https://playhousevillage.org/event/vromans-kareem-rosser-discusses-crossing-the-line-a-fearless-team-of-brothers-and-the-sport-that-changed-their-lives-forever/
LOCATION:Vroman’s Bookstore\, 695 E. Colorado Blvd.\, Pasadena\, CA\, 91101\, United States
CATEGORIES:Vroman's Bookstore
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SUMMARY:Vroman's: William Deverell in conversation with Robin Abcarian
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! \nEVENT LINK: https://www.crowdcast.io/e/8q04o6bt \nIn Kathy Fiscus: A Tragedy that Transfixed the Nation historian William Deverell tells the heartbreaking story of a young girl trapped in a well–a story that transfixed the nation in what would become the first live\, breaking-news TV spectacle in history. \nAt dusk on a spring evening in 1949\, a three-year old girl fell down an abandoned well shaft in the backyard of her family’s home in Southern California. Across more than two full days of a fevered rescue attempt\, the fate of Kathy Fiscus remained unknown. Thousands of concerned Southern Californians rushed to the scene. Jockeys hurried over from the nearby racetracks\, offering to be sent down the well after Kathy. 20th Century Fox sent over the studio’s klieg lights to illuminate the scene. Rescue workers-ditch diggers\, miners\, cesspool laborers\, World War II veterans-dug and bored holes deep into the aquifer below\, hoping to tunnel across to the old well shaft that the little girl had somehow tumbled down. \nThe region\, the nation\, and the world watched and listened to every moment of the rescue attempt by way of radio\, newsreel footage\, and wire service reporting. They also watched live television. Because of the well’s proximity to the radio towers on nearby Mount Wilson\, the rescue attempt because the first breaking-news event to be broadcast live on television. The Kathy Fiscus event invented reality television and proved that real-time television news broadcasting could work and could transfix the public. (Angel City Press) \nWilliam Deverell is professor of history and director of the Huntington-USC Institute on California and the West at the University of Southern California. He is the author of numerous studies of the nineteenth- and twentieth-century American West\, including Whitewashed Adobe: The Rise of Los Angeles and the Remaking of Its Mexican Past. \nRobin Abcarian is an opinion columnist at the Los Angeles Times. She writes about politics and culture. Before taking this assignment in September 2020\, she was the paper’s roving California columnist for several years. Checking into far flung corners of the state\, she reported columns about all aspects of life in the Golden State. She has also written frequently about sexual harassment\, abortion rights and the #MeToo movement. In 2016\, she wrote extensively about cannabis\, which California voters approved for recreational use that year. Robin covered the 2004\, 2008 and 2012 presidential campaigns full time\, and wrote occasionally about the 2016 campaign. As a culture writer for the paper’s Calendar section\, she has covered the Oscars\, the Emmys and the Sundance Film Festival. For most of the 1990s\, she was a columnist for The Times’ feature section\, before becoming its editor in 2003. She has also been a radio talk show host and a frequent guest on radio and television news programs. She lives in Venice with her 10-year-old niece
URL:https://playhousevillage.org/event/vromans-william-deverell-in-conversation-with-robin-abcarian/
LOCATION:Vroman’s Bookstore\, 695 E. Colorado Blvd.\, Pasadena\, CA\, 91101\, United States
CATEGORIES:Vroman's Bookstore
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210310T180000
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SUMMARY:Vroman's: Chip Jacobs in conversation with Ron Franscell
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! \nEVENT LINK: https://www.crowdcast.io/e/qcrhyka8 \nLate-seventies Los Angeles was rampant with killers and shady characters\, but all the go-getters at Space Matters saw was possibility. Richard Kasparov was handsome and charismatic; his younger associate\, Jerry Schneiderman\, brilliant and nerdy. When the pair hired a veteran contractor to oversee construction\, the space planning firm they operated out of a hip mansion in LA’s Miracle Mile district appeared poised to transform the boundless skyline into their jackpot. \nAfter the promising team imploded\, however\, the orderly lines on their blueprints succumbed to treachery and secrets. To get even\, one of the ex-partners launched a murder-for-profit corporation using\, among other peculiar sorts\, a bantam-sized epileptic with a deadeye shot and a cross-dressing sidekick. The hapless criminals required a comical number of attempts to execute their first target. Once they did\, on a rainy night in the San Fernando Valley\, the surviving founder of Space Matters was thrown into a pressure cooker existence out of a Coen Brothers movie. Threatened for money he didn’t have\, he donned a disguise\, survived a heart-pounding encounter at the La Brea Tar Pits\, and relied on an ex-Israeli mercenary for protection. In the end\, he had to outfox a glowering murderer\, while asking if you can ever really know anyone in a town where dirty deals send men to their graves. \nIn The Darkest Glare\, Chip Jacobs recounts a spectacular\, noir-ish\, true-crime saga from one of the deadliest eras in American history. You’ll never gaze out windows into the dark again. (Rare Bid Books) \nChip Jacobs is a bestselling author and journalist. His books include the historical fiction & Los Angeles Times bestseller Arroyo\, and the biography Strange As It Seems: the Impossible Life of Gordon Zahler. He also co-wrote The People’s Republic of Chemicals\, and Smogtown: the Lung-Burning History of Pollution in Los Angeles with William J. Kelly. He has also contributed pieces to anthologies\, among them the bestselling Los Angeles in the 1970s: Weird Scenes Inside the Goldmine and Go Further: Literary Appreciation of Power Pop. On the journalism side\, Jacobs’ reporting has been published and aired in the Los Angeles Times\, Los Angeles Daily News\, CNN\, L.A Weekly\, the Southern California News Group\, the Pasadena Weekly\, and others. For his efforts\, he’s won seven Los Angeles Press Club/Southern California Journalism Awards\, as well as ones from the California Newspaper Publishers Association\, the Association of Alternative Newsweeklies and the Los Angeles Times.Jacobs grew up in northeast Pasadena and  he currently lives in Southern California. \nRon Franscell is a former journalist and the author of 17 books\, including the Edgar-nominated Morgue: A Life In Death\, international bestseller The Darkest Night\, and the true crime Alice & Gerald: A Homicidal Love Story. As a senior writer at the Denver Post\, he was dispatched to the Middle East just days after 9/11 to cover the earliest months of the War on Terror. He later covered the devastation of Hurricane Rita from inside the storm. His book reviews and essays have been widely published in many of America’s biggest and best newspapers. He has been a guest on CNN\, Fox News\, NPR\, the Today Show\, ABC News\, and other major broadcast outlets all over America. And he appears regularly on crime documentaries at Investigation Discovery\, History Channel\, Reelz\, and A&E. He now lives in northern New Mexico.
URL:https://playhousevillage.org/event/vromans-chip-jacobs-in-conversation-with-ron-franscell/
LOCATION:Vroman’s Bookstore\, 695 E. Colorado Blvd.\, Pasadena\, CA\, 91101\, United States
CATEGORIES:Vroman's Bookstore
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SUMMARY:Vroman's: Auriane Desombre and Monica Gomez-Hira present I Think I Love You and Once Upon a Quinceañera
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! \nEVENT LINK: https://www.crowdcast.io/e/pvj6d73t \nJoin us for a double feature with authors Auriane Desombre and Monica Gomez-Hira presenting their new Young Adult books\, I Think I Love You and Once Upon a Quinceañera. Auriane and Monica will be in conversation with Rachel Lynn Solomon. \nAbout I Think I Love You\nArch-nemeses Emma\, a die-hard romantic\, and more-practical minded Sophia find themselves competing against one another for a coveted first-prize trip to a film festival in Los Angeles . . . what happens if their rivalry turns into a romance? For fans of Becky Albertalli’s Leah on the Offbeat\, full of laugh-out-loud humor and make-your-heart-melt moments. (Underlined) \nAbout Once Upon a Quinceañera\nCarmen Aguilar just wants to make her happily ever after come true. Except apparently “happily ever after” for Carmen involves being stuck in an unpaid summer internship. Now she has to perform as a party princess! In a ball gown. During the summer. In Miami. \nFine. Except that’s only the first misfortune in what’s turning out to a summer of Utter Disaster. \nBut if Carmen can manage dancing in the blistering heat\, fending off an oh-so-unfortunately attractive ex\, and stopping her spoiled cousin from ruining her own quinceañera–Carmen might just get that happily ever after–after all. (Harperteen) \nAuriane Desombre is the author of I Think I Love You\, and works as a middle school teacher and freelance editor. She holds an MA in English Literature and an MFA in Creative Writing for Children & Young Adults. She lives in Los Angeles with her dog\, Sammy\, who is a certified bad boy. \nMonica Gomez-Hira is the daughter of Colombian immigrant parents\, the wife of an Indian immigrant\, mother to a half Latina/half Indian daughter\, and the quintessential Jersey girl. After graduating from Wellesley College\, Monica spent most of her professional life surrounded by books. Once Upon a Quinceañera is her first novel. \nRachel Lynn Solomon writes\, tap dances\, and collects red lipstick in Seattle\, Washington. Her romance and YA novels include The Ex Talk\, Today Tonight Tomorrow\, and We Can’t Keep Meeting Like This (June 2021).After graduating from the University of Washington with a B.A. in journalism\, she worked for Northwest media outlets such as The Seattle Times and KUOW Public Radio. She currently writes full time.
URL:https://playhousevillage.org/event/vromans-auriane-desombre-and-monica-gomez-hira-present-i-think-i-love-you-and-once-upon-a-quinceanera/
LOCATION:Vroman’s Bookstore\, 695 E. Colorado Blvd.\, Pasadena\, CA\, 91101\, United States
CATEGORIES:Vroman's Bookstore
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SUMMARY:Vroman's: Luvvie Ajayi Jones\, in conversation with KevOnStage
DESCRIPTION:This virtual event is ticketed. (Scroll down to purchase tickets) \nLuvvie Ajayi Jones is known for her trademark wit\, warmth\, and perpetual truth-telling. But even she’s been challenged by the enemy of progress known as fear. She was once afraid to call herself a writer\, and nearly skipped out on doing a TED talk that changed her life because of imposter syndrome. As she shares in Professional Troublemaker\, she’s not alone. \nWe’re all afraid. We’re afraid of asking for what we want because we’re afraid of hearing no. We’re afraid of being different\, of being too much or not enough. We’re afraid of leaving behind the known for the unknown. But in order to do the things that will truly\, meaningfully change our lives\, we have to become professional troublemakers: people who are committed to not letting fear talk them out of the things they need to do or say to live free. \nWith humor and honesty\, and guided by the influence of her professional troublemaking Nigerian grandmother\, Funmilayo Faloyin\, Luvvie walks us through what we must get right within ourselves before we can do the things that scare us; how to use our voice for a greater good; and how to put movement to the voice we’ve been silencing–because truth-telling is a muscle. \nThe point is not to be fearless\, but to know we are afraid and charge forward regardless. It is to recognize that the things we must do are more significant than our fears. This book is about how to live boldly in spite of all the reasons we have to cower. Let’s go! (Penguin Life) \nThis event ticket includes a signed hardcover copy of Professional Troublemaker along with a “Judgey Pop”\, as well as online access to the event for your household. You will receive a link and password to attend the Crowdcast event on the afternoon of Tuesday\, March 2nd. \nQuestions? Email us at email@vromansbookstore.com
URL:https://playhousevillage.org/event/vromans-luvvie-ajayi-jones-in-conversation-with-kevonstage/
LOCATION:Vroman’s Bookstore\, 695 E. Colorado Blvd.\, Pasadena\, CA\, 91101\, United States
CATEGORIES:Vroman's Bookstore
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SUMMARY:Vroman's: Anne Lamott discusses Dusk Night Dawn: Notes on Courage
DESCRIPTION:Vroman’s\, Book Passage\, Kepler’s\, and Bookshop Santa Cruz welcome the bestselling author ANNE LAMOTT\, known for her beloved books like Operating Instructions\, Bird by Bird\, and Help\, Thanks\, Wow. \nAnne Lamott will be discussing her latest inspiring and candid book Dusk Night Dawn: Notes on Courage. Her conversation partner will be announced soon. \nTicketing: All tickets include a hardcover of Dusk Night Dawn\, which will be mailed to you after the event. Please allow 3-4 weeks for delivery.The first 150 people who purchase a ticket will receive a copy that is signed by Anne Lamott. \nPlease note: This event will be pre-recorded and live-streamed on Vroman’s Crowdcast. You will receive a link and password to attend the Crowdcast event on the afternoon of Friday\, February 26th. \nTicketholders will have the opportunity to submit their questions for the speakers through Eventbrite when you purchase your ticket. We will be accepting questions up to two days before the recording \nAbout the Author: Anne Lamott is the author of the New York Times bestsellers Almost Everything; Hallelujah Anyway; Small Victories; Stitches; Help\, Thanks\, Wow; Some Assembly Required; Grace (Eventually)\, Plan B; and Traveling Mercies\, as well as several novels. A past recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and an inductee to the California Hall of Fame\, she lives in Northern California. \nAbout the book: In Dusk Night Dawn\, Anne Lamott explores the tough questions that many of us grapple with. How can we recapture the confidence we once had as we stumble through the dark times that seem increasingly bleak? As bad news piles up—from climate crises to daily assaults on civility—how can we cope? Where\, she asks\, “do we start to our world and joy and hope and our faith in life itself back…with our sore feet\, hearing loss\, stiff fingers\, poor digestion\, stunned minds\, broken hearts?” \nWe begin\, Lamott says\, by accepting our flaws and embracing our humanity. \nDrawing from her own experiences\, Lamott shows us the intimate and human ways we can adopt to move through life’s dark places and toward the light of hope that still burns ahead for all of us. \nAs she does in Help\, Thanks\, Wow and her other bestselling books\, Lamott explores the thorny issues of life and faith by breaking them down into manageable\, human-sized questions for readers to ponder\, in the process showing us how we can amplify life’s small moments of joy by staying open to love and connection. As Lamott notes in Dusk Night Dawn\, “I got Medicare three days before I got hitched\, which sounds like something an old person might do\, which does not describe adorably ageless me.” Marrying for the first time with a grown son and a grandson\, Lamott explains that finding happiness with a partner isn’t a function of age or beauty but of outlook and perspective. \nFull of the honesty\, humor\, and humanity that have made Lamott beloved by millions of readers\, Dusk Night Dawn is classic Anne Lamott—thoughtful and comic\, warm and wise—and further proof that Lamott truly speaks to the better angels in all of us. (Riverhead Books) \nQuestions? Email us at email@vromansbookstore.com
URL:https://playhousevillage.org/event/vromans-anne-lamott-discusses-dusk-night-dawn-notes-on-courage/
LOCATION:Vroman’s Bookstore\, 695 E. Colorado Blvd.\, Pasadena\, CA\, 91101\, United States
CATEGORIES:Vroman's Bookstore
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SUMMARY:Vroman's: Ioan Grillo discusses Blood Gun Money
DESCRIPTION:This is a virtual event and will take place on Crowdcast. Please register for FREE ahead of time to save your spot. \nEVENT LINK: https://www.crowdcast.io/e/yc89s51l \nThe gun control debate is revived with every mass shooting. But far more people die from gun deaths on the street corners of inner city America and across the border as Mexico’s powerful cartels battle to control the drug trade. Guns and drugs aren’t often connected in our heated discussions of gun control–but they should be. In Ioan Grillo’s groundbreaking new work of investigative journalism\, he shows us this connection by following the market for guns in the Americas and how it has made the continent the most murderous on earth. \nGrillo travels to gun manufacturers\, strolls the aisles of gun shows and gun shops\, talks to FBI agents who have infiltrated biker gangs\, hangs out on Baltimore street corners\, and visits the ATF gun tracing center in West Virginia. Along the way\, he details the many ways that legal guns can cross over into the black market and into the hands of criminals\, fueling violence here and south of the border. Simple legislative measures would help close these loopholes\, but America’s powerful gun lobby is uncompromising in its defense of the hallowed Second Amendment. Perhaps\, however\, if guns were seen not as symbols of freedom\, but as key accessories in our epidemics of addiction\, the conversation would shift. Blood Gun Money is that conversation shifter. (Bloomsbury Publishing) \nIoan Grillo is a contributing writer at the New York Times specializing in crime and drugs. Based in Mexico City\, he has also worked for Time magazine\, the History Channel\, CNN\, Reuters\, the Associated Press\, and Esquire. He is the author of El Narco\, a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Award\, and Gangster Warlords\, a New York Times Book Review Editor’s Choice and a Guardian Book of the Year.
URL:https://playhousevillage.org/event/vromans-ioan-grillo-discusses-blood-gun-money/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Vroman's Bookstore
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SUMMARY:Vroman's: Nicole LaPorte and Jeff Selingo discuss Guilty Admissions & Who Gets In and Why: A Year Inside College Admissions
DESCRIPTION:This is a virtual event and will take place on Crowdcast. Please register for FREE ahead of time to save your spot. \nEVENT LINK: https://www.crowdcast.io/e/k9qs7ugk \nGuilty Admissions: The Bribes\, Favors\, and Phonies Behind the College Cheating Scandal weaves together the story of an unscrupulous college counselor named Rick Singer\, and how he preyed on the desperation of some of the country’s wealthiest families living in a world defined by fierce competition\, who function under constant pressure to get into the “right” schools\, starting with pre-school; non-stop fundraising and donation demands in the form of multi-million-dollar galas and private parties; and a community of deeply insecure parents who will do anything to get their kids into name-brand colleges in order to maintain their own A-list status.  Investigative reporter Nicole LaPorte lays bare the source of this insecurity–that in 2019\, no special “hook” in the form of legacy status\, athletic talent\, or financial giving can guarantee a child’s entrance into an elite school. The result is paranoia\, deception\, and true crimes at the peak of the American social pyramid. \nWith a glittering cast of Hollywood actors–including Felicity Huffman and Lori Loughlin–hedge fund CEOs\, sales executives\, and media titans\, Guilty Admissions is a soap-opera-slash-sneak-peek-behind-the-curtains at America’s richest social circles; an examination of the cutthroat world of college admissions; and a parable of American society in 2019\, when the country is run by a crass tycoon and all totems of status and achievement have become transactional and removed from traditions of ethical restraint.  A world where the rich get whatever they want\, however they want it. (Twelve) \nGetting into a top-ranked college has never seemed more impossible\, with acceptance rates at some elite universities dipping into the single digits. In Who Gets In and Why\, journalist and higher education expert Jeffrey Selingo dispels entrenched notions of how to compete and win at the admissions game\, and reveals that teenagers and parents have much to gain by broadening their notion of what qualifies as a “good college.” Hint: it’s not all about the sticker on the car window. \nSelingo\, who was embedded in three different admissions offices–a selective private university\, a leading liberal arts college\, and a flagship public campus–closely observed gatekeepers as they made their often agonizing and sometimes life-changing decisions. He also followed select students and their parents\, and he traveled around the country meeting with high school counselors\, marketers\, behind-the-scenes consultants\, and college rankers.  While many have long believed that admissions is merit-based\, rewarding the best students\, Who Gets In and Why presents a more complicated truth\, showing that “who gets in” is frequently more about the college’s agenda than the applicant. In a world where thousands of equally qualified students vie for a fixed number of spots at elite institutions\, admissions officers often make split-second decisions based on a variety of factors–like diversity\, money\, and\, ultimately\, whether a student will enroll if accepted. \nOne of the most insightful books ever about “getting in” and what higher education has become\, Who Gets In and Why not only provides an usually intimate look at how admissions decisions get made\, but guides prospective students on how to honestly assess their strengths and match with the schools that will best serve their interests. (Scribner Book Company)
URL:https://playhousevillage.org/event/vromans-nicole-laporte-and-jeff-selingo-discuss-guilty-admissions-who-gets-in-and-why-a-year-inside-college-admissions/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Vroman's Bookstore
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SUMMARY:Vroman's: Special Story Time with Jen Adams presenting I Am a Kindness Hero
DESCRIPTION:This is a virtual event and will take place on Crowdcast. Please register for FREE ahead of time to save your spot. \nEVENT LINK: https://www.crowdcast.io/e/3734dl2h \nFollow the adventures of a young boy as he practices kindness throughout his day\, from rescuing a puppy to standing up to bullies to helping his young sister tie her shoe. I Am a Kindness Hero celebrates gentleness and vulnerability in boys\, and shows that true strength and leadership come from treating those around you with love and respect. \nI Am a Kindness Hero provides parents\, teachers\, and childcare providers with a beautiful picture book that offers a new kind of role model for young boys. A standalone title\, it also serves as a companion to I Am a Warrior Goddess\, by the same author and illustrator\, which inspires strength\, leadership\, and empowerment in young girls. (Sounds True) \nJen Adams is the author of more than 40 books\, including the BabyLit board book series\, which introduces small children to the world of classic literature\, and My Little Cities board books\, illustrated by the award-winning Greg Pizzoli. Her work has been featured in the New York Times\, the Wall Street Journal\, Parents magazine\, and Vanity Fair. She currently resides in Salt Lake City. For more\, visit jennifer-adams.com.
URL:https://playhousevillage.org/event/vromans-special-story-time-with-jen-adams-presenting-i-am-a-kindness-hero/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Vroman's Bookstore
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SUMMARY:Vroman's: Rucker Moses & Theo Gangi discuss Kingston and the Magician’s Lost and Found
DESCRIPTION:This is a virtual event and will take place on Crowdcast. Please register for FREE ahead of time to save your spot. \nEVENT LINK: https://www.crowdcast.io/e/5e31r18m \nMagic has all but disappeared in Brooklyn\, but one tenacious young magician is determined to bring it back in this exciting middle grade mystery. \nKingston has just moved from the suburbs back to Echo City\, Brooklyn–the last place his father was seen alive. Kingston’s father was King Preston\, one of the world’s greatest magicians. Until one trick went wrong and he disappeared. Now that Kingston is back in Echo City\, he’s determined to find his father. \nSomehow\, though\, when his father disappeared\, he took all of Echo City’s magic with him. Now Echo City–a ghost of its past–is living up to its name. With no magic left\, the magicians have packed up and left town and those who’ve stayed behind don’t look too kindly on any who reminds them of what they once had. \nWhen Kingston finds a magic box his father left behind as a clue\, Kingston knows there’s more to his father’s disappearance than meets the eye. He’ll have to keep it a secret–that is\, until he can restore magic to Echo City. With his cousin Veronica and childhood friend Too Tall Eddie\, Kingston works to solve the clues\, but one wrong move and his father might not be the only one who goes missing. (G.P. Putnam’s Sons Books for Young Readers) \nRucker Moses is the pen name of Craig S. Phillips and Harold Hayes Jr. They both hail from Atlanta and started telling stories together at the University of Georgia. Together\, they’ve been nominated for three Emmys for writing in a children’s program and have written for TV shows based on books by R. L. Stine and Christopher Pike. They also make virtual reality experiences and own a production company named SunnyBoy Entertainment. In no particular order\, their favorite things to write about are ninjas\, magic\, space\, and abandoned amusement parks. When not doing all that\, they are hanging with their wonderful families at home in Los Angeles. \nTheo Gangi is a novelist and writing teacher based in Brooklyn. He’s written several acclaimed novels and short stories\, and he’s worked on shows for Netflix. He writes far-out adventures that happen right next door. He directs the MFA program at St. Francis College and lives with his wife\, young son\, and their dog. Kingston and the Magician’s Lost and Found is his first book for young readers.
URL:https://playhousevillage.org/event/vromans-rucker-moses-theo-gangi-discuss-kingston-and-the-magicians-lost-and-found/
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SUMMARY:Vroman's: Friends In Deed Pasadena present Katherine Seligman discusses At the Edge of the Haight
DESCRIPTION:This is a virtual event and will take place on Crowdcast. Please register for FREE ahead of time to save your spot. \nEVENT LINK: https://www.crowdcast.io/e/10cqtgvm \nMaddy Donaldo\, homeless at twenty\, has made a family of sorts in the dangerous spaces of San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park. She knows whom to trust\, where to eat\, when to move locations\, and how to take care of her dog. It’s the only home she has. When she unwittingly witnesses the murder of a young homeless boy and is seen by the perpetrator\, her relatively stable life is upended. Suddenly\, everyone from the police to the dead boys’ parents want to talk to Maddy about what she saw. As adults pressure her to give up her secrets and reunite with her own family before she meets a similar fate\, Maddy must decide whether she wants to stay lost or be found. Against the backdrop of a radically changing San Francisco\, a city which embraces a booming tech economy while struggling to maintain its culture of tolerance\, At the Edge of the Haight follows the lives of those who depend on makeshift homes and communities. \nAs judge Hillary Jordan says\, “This book pulled me deep into a world I knew little about\, bringing the struggles of its young\, homeless inhabitants–the kind of people we avoid eye contact with on the street–to vivid\, poignant life. The novel demands that you take a close look. If you knew\, could you still ignore\, fear\, or condemn them? And knowing\, how can you ever forget?” (Algonquin Books) \nKatherine Seligman is a journalist and author in San Francisco. As a reporter\, she’s focused on social issues\, from homelessness\, mental health and end of life issues to the city’s boom and bust cycles. But she’s also written about everything else\, from self-appointed graffiti curators\, urban coyotes and embryonic sex selection to what her kids learned growing up in Haight Ashbury. She has been a staff writer at the San Francisco Chronicle Magazine and a reporter for the San Francisco Examiner and USA Today. Her stories have appeared in Redbook\, Life\, Time\, California Magazine\, PBS Next Avenue\, CALmatters\, Al Jazeera America\, and the anthology “Fresh Takes.” She is a member of the San Francisco Writers’ Grotto and loves working in clay. \nHillary Jordan is the author of the novels Mudbound (2008) and When She Woke (2011)\, as well as the digital short “Aftermirth.” Her stories have been translated into 15 languages. When she’s not scribbling away\, Hillary teaches the occasional writing workshop and gives talks at colleges\, literary festivals\, and community libraries. She has a BA from Wellesley College and an MFA in Creative Writing from Columbia University. She grew up in Dallas\, TX and Muskogee\, OK and currently lives in Brooklyn\, along with half the writers in America. \nFriends in Deed is an interfaith organization that provides supportive services to meet basic human needs\, so our homeless and at-risk neighbors can rebuild their lives. “Celebrating more than 120 years of service\, we meet the needs of our clients by leveraging our small\, but dedicated staff\, with many volunteers. Friends In Deed meets people where they are\, without judgment or restrictions that deny people the help they need. We bring dignity to homelessness and poverty. Our staff’s smiling faces and helping hands ensure that individuals in need are safe and fed and find a vision of hope for their futures.” Find out more about Friends in Deed on their website.
URL:https://playhousevillage.org/event/vromans-friends-in-deed-pasadena-present-katherine-seligman-discusses-at-the-edge-of-the-haight/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Vroman's Bookstore
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SUMMARY:Vroman's: Andromeda Romano-Lax discusses Annie and the Wolves
DESCRIPTION:This is a virtual event and will take place on Crowdcast. Please register for FREE ahead of time to save your spot. \nEVENT LINK: https://www.crowdcast.io/e/bqz5fige \nRuth McClintock is obsessed with Annie Oakley. For nearly a decade\, she has been studying the legendary sharpshooter\, convinced that a scarring childhood event was the impetus for her crusade to arm every woman in America. This search has cost Ruth her doctorate\, a book deal\, and her fiancé–but finally it has borne fruit. She has managed to hunt down what may be a journal of Oakley’s midlife struggles\, including secret visits to a psychoanalyst and the desire for vengeance against the “Wolves\,” or those who have wronged her. \nWith the help of Reece\, a tech-savvy senior at the local high school\, Ruth attempts to establish the journal’s provenance\, but she’s begun to have jarring out-of-body episodes parallel to Annie’s own lived experiences. As she solves Annie’s mysteries\, Ruth confronts her own truths\, including the link between her teenage sister’s suicide and an impending tragedy in her Minnesota town that Ruth can still prevent. (Soho Press) \nAndromeda Romano-Lax was born in Chicago and is now a resident of Vancouver Island\, Canada. She worked as a freelance journalist and travel writer before turning to fiction. Her first novel\, The Spanish Bow\, was translated into eleven languages and was chosen as a New York Times Editors’ Choice\, BookSense pick\, and one of Library Journal’s Best Books of the Year. Her novels reflect her diverse interest in the arts\, history\, science and technology\, as well as her love of travel and her time spent living abroad. ​​Andromeda co-founded and continues to blog for 49 Writers\, a nonprofit organization. She has taught fiction in the University of Alaska Anchorage low-residency MFA in Creative Writing program and currently works with novelists and memoirists as a freelance book coach. \nGayle Brandeis is the author of The Book of Dead Birds\, the winner of Barbara Kingsolver’s Bellwether Prize\, an award in support of a literature of social change. Reviewers have highly praised this\, her first novel\, and Toni Morrison said: It has an edgy beauty that enhances perfectly the seriousness of its contents. She is also the author. Fruitflesh: Seeds of Inspiration for Women Who Write.
URL:https://playhousevillage.org/event/vromans-andromeda-romano-lax-discusses-annie-and-the-wolves/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Vroman's Bookstore
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210206T110000
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SUMMARY:Vroman's: A Special Story Time with Michelle Garcia Andersen presenting The Owl Who Asks Why
DESCRIPTION:This is a virtual event and will take place on Crowdcast. Please register for FREE ahead of time to save your spot. \nEVENT LINK: https://www.crowdcast.io/e/bcnl789m \nLittle Owl and Little Wolf have so many questions for their parents. “Why can’t we move our eyes?” “When will I no longer be a pup?” But owls don’t ask “Why?” They ask “Whooo?” And wolves don’t ask “When?” They ask “Hoooow?” Mom and Dad say it’s silly to even consider asking those sorts of questions. \nFeeling teased and misunderstood\, Little Owl and Little Wolf decide to run away from home for good. After straying too far from the path\, the pair discovers that they’re lost in the forest and begin to wonder if they’ve made the right decision by leaving the pack. Little Owl and Little Wolf realize that the only way to make it back to their families is to not be afraid to ask the right questions\, their own way. \nThis heartwarming tale of friendship from author Michelle Garcia Andersen and artist Ayesha Rubio will remind young readers that by staying true to yourself and embracing what makes you unique\, good things come to you. (Page Street Kids) \nMichelle Garcia Andersen wrote this story after being inspired by the owls that live in the trees alongside her writing studio. She is delighted to be writing picture books for children; it has been a lifelong dream of hers. When she’s not reading and writing\, she enjoys hiking\, mountain biking\, kayaking\, walking her dogs\, gardening and anything else that gets her outdoors. Michelle and her husband have three teenage kids and live in a home full of laughter.
URL:https://playhousevillage.org/event/vromans-a-special-story-time-with-michelle-garcia-andersen-presenting-the-owl-who-asks-why/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Vroman's Bookstore
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210204T180000
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SUMMARY:Vroman's: Julia Gillard & Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala
DESCRIPTION:This is a virtual event and will take place on Crowdcast. Please register for FREE ahead of time to save your spot. \nEVENT LINK: https://www.crowdcast.io/e/w2n5iya7 \nWomen make up fewer than ten per cent of national leaders worldwide\, and behind this eye-opening statistic lies a pattern of unequal access to power. Through conversations with some of the world’s most powerful and interesting women–including Jacinda Ardern\, Hillary Rodham Clinton\, Christine Lagarde\, Michelle Bachelet\, and Theresa May– Women and Leadership explores gender bias and asks why there aren’t more women in leadership roles. \nJulia Gillard was the 27th Prime Minister of Australia\, serving from 2010 to 2013. \nNgozi Okonjo-Iweala was Nigeria’s Minister of Finance from 2003 to 2006 and from 2011 to 2015\, and Foreign Minister in 2006. She was Managing Director of the World Bank from 2007 to 2011\, overseeing South Asia\, Europe\, Central Asia\, and Africa\, and is currently Board Chair of Gavi\, the Vaccine Alliance\, and Chair of the African Risk Capacity (ARC). She is the author of Reforming the Unreformable and Fighting Corruption Is Dangerous.
URL:https://playhousevillage.org/event/vromans-julia-gillard-ngozi-okonjo-iweala/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Vroman's Bookstore
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210202T180000
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SUMMARY:Vroman's: Jedidiah Jenkins in conversation with Nicole Richie
DESCRIPTION:This is a virtual event  ticketed event and will take place on Crowdcast. Tickets available below. \nThe New York Times bestselling author of To Shake the Sleeping Self delivers a moving reflection on the hidden\, sometimes difficult topics we must consider in order to live an authentic life–ego\, love\, family\, work–for anyone seeking a companion on the road to understanding. \nWe wake up atop the dirt of our childhoods with a shovel in our hands. In our pocket is a crumpled note with conspicuously familiar handwriting. It says\, “Good luck.” \nWe aren’t born into a self. It is created without our consent\, built out of our childhoods\, our circumstances\, and chance. But in the busyness of adult life\, we rarely have time to think clearly about the questions that matter most: Who am I? What am I made of? How much of how I act boils down to avoiding the things that make me feel small? We bury these questions\, but they drive our behavior far more than we give them credit for. They are our puppet masters. \nWriting with the passion and clarity that made his debut\, To Shake the Sleeping Self\, a national bestseller\, Jedidiah Jenkins brings together new and old writings to explore the eight themes all of us face as we find our way in life: ego\, family\, home\, friendship\, love\, work\, death\, the soul. \nAs he examines the experiences that shape us into who we are\, Jenkins leads readers in a wide-ranging conversation about finding fulfillment in the people and places around us and discovering the courage to show our deepest selves to the world. (Convergent Books) \nThis event ticket includes a hardcover copy of Like Streams to the Ocean\, mailed to you after the event\, as well as online access to the event for your household. You will receive a link and password to attend the Crowdcast event on the afternoon of Monday\, February 1st. \nPlease note: The shipping amount included in the ticket price is for domestic shipping only. There is an additional $17.00 charge required if shipping internationally.
URL:https://playhousevillage.org/event/vromans-jedidiah-jenkins-in-conversation-with-nicole-richie/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Vroman's Bookstore
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210130T110000
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SUMMARY:Vroman's Bookstore: Special Story time with Doyin Richards and illustrator Joe Cepeda
DESCRIPTION:This is a virtual event and will take place on Crowdcast. Please register for FREE ahead of time to save your spot. \nEVENT LINK: https://www.crowdcast.io/e/uqm0mded \nJoe came to America from Africa when he was young. He worked hard in school\, made friends\, and embraced his new home. Like so many immigrants before and after him\, Joe succeeded when many thought he would fail. \nIn telling the story of how his father came to America\, Doyin Richards tells the story of many immigrants\, and opens the experience up to readers of all backgrounds. Here is a moving and empowering story of how many different people\, from different places\, make us great. Acclaimed artist Joe Cepeda brings the story to life with beautiful paintings\, full of heart. (Feiwel & Friends)
URL:https://playhousevillage.org/event/vromans-bookstore-special-story-time-with-doyin-richards-and-illustrator-joe-cepeda/
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CATEGORIES:Vroman's Bookstore
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210126T180000
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SUMMARY:Vroman's Bookstore: Eliza Jane Brazier in conversation with Kiersten White
DESCRIPTION:This is a virtual event and will take place on Crowdcast. Please register for FREE ahead of time to save your spot. \nEVENT LINK: https://www.crowdcast.io/e/p3x8axdc \nWhen her favorite true crime podcast host goes missing\, an adrift young woman sets out to investigate and plunges headfirst into the wild backcountry of Northern California and her own dangerous obsession. \nSera loves true crime podcasts. They give her a sense of control in a world where women just like her disappear daily. She’s sure they are preparing her for something. So when Rachel\, her favorite podcast host\, goes missing\, Sera knows it’s time to act. Rachel has always taught her to trust her instincts. \nSera follows the clues hidden in the episodes to an isolated ranch outside Rachel’s small hometown to begin her search. She’s convinced her investigation will make Rachel so proud. But the more Sera digs into this unfamiliar world\, the more off things start to feel. Because Rachel is not the first woman to vanish from the ranch\, and she won’t be the last… Rachel did try to warn her. (Berkley Books) \nEliza Jane Brazier is an author\, screenwriter and journalist. This is her adult debut. She currently lives in Los Angeles where she is developing If I Disappear for television. \nKiersten White is the New York Times bestselling and award-winning author of many books\, including the And I Darken trilogy\, the Camelot Rising trilogy\, the Slayer series\, The Dark Descent of Elizabeth Frankenstein\, and her upcoming adult debut\, HIDE.
URL:https://playhousevillage.org/event/vromans-bookstore-eliza-jane-brazier-in-conversation-with-kiersten-white/
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CATEGORIES:Vroman's Bookstore
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210119T180000
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SUMMARY:Vroman's Bookstore: Matt Coyle discusses Blind Vigil
DESCRIPTION:This is a virtual event and will take place on Crowdcast. Please register for FREE ahead of time to save your spot. \nEVENT LINK: https://www.crowdcast.io/e/zkw0xxxy \nA friend arrested for murder. A vicious killer lurking in the shadows. A world of darkness. \nBlinded by a gunshot wound to the face while working as a private investigator nine months ago\, Rick Cahill is now sure of only one thing: he has to start a new life and leave his old one behind. \nHe’s still trying to figure out what that life is when his onetime partner\, Moira MacFarlane\, asks for his help on a case she’s taken for Rick’s former best friend. The case is simple and Moira only needs Rick for one interview\, but Rick is wary of waking sleeping demons. \nUltimately\, he goes against his gut and takes the case which quickly turns deadly. Rick’s old compulsion of finding the truth no matter the cost–the same compulsion that cost him his eyesight and almost his life–battles against his desire to escape his past. \nThe stakes are raised when Rick’s friend is implicated in murder and needs his help. Can he help the friend he no longer trusts while questioning his own lessened capabilities? His life depends on the answer as a shadowy killer lurks in the darkness. (Oceanview Publishing) \nMatt Coyle is the award-winning author of the best-selling Rick Cahill crime novels. He knew he wanted to be a crime writer when he was fourteen and his father gave him the simple art of murder by Raymond Chandler. But his foray into crime fiction was delayed for thirty years as he spent time managing a restaurant\, selling golf clubs for various golf companies\, and in national sales for a sports licensing company. Matt lives in San Diego with his yellow Lab\, Angus\, where he is writing his eighth crime novel. \nEditor Gary Phillips is a critically acclaimed author of mystery and graphic novels (The Darker Mask\, Bangers\, Violent Spring). Raised in South Central Los Angeles\, Phillips draws on his experiences from anti-police abuse community organizing and anti-apartheid activism in his work. He was the chair of the Eleanor Taylor Bland Crime Fiction Writers of Color committee\, and was president of the Private Eye Writers of America.
URL:https://playhousevillage.org/event/vromans-bookstore-matt-coyle-discusses-blind-vigil/
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CATEGORIES:Vroman's Bookstore
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210116T110000
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SUMMARY:Vroman's Bookstore: A Special Story Time with Deanna Kizis & Sam Boughton
DESCRIPTION:This is a virtual event and will take place on Crowdcast. Please register for FREE ahead of time to save your spot. \nEVENT LINK: https://www.crowdcast.io/e/v9qdaumb \nIn this laugh-out-loud book that begs readers to break the rules\, silliness and hilarity reign supreme! Perfect for fans of The Book with No Pictures. \nWait–are you reading this book? Even though the cover asked you not to? \nWell\, if you’re going to read it\, then you’ll have to follow the rules\, or you’re going to have WAY too much fun. And you don’t want to have FUN\, do you? DO YOU?! \nThat’s what I thought. So definitely\, positively\, DO NOT read this book! \nJoin along for zany antics\, silly sounds\, and endless fun in this breaks-the-fourth-wall book that will have readers coming back time and time again–regardless of what the title says. (Philomel Books) \nDeanna Kizis is very silly and would definitely read a book that said she shouldn’t. Her favorite things include pretending her daughter’s toothbrush can talk\, dipping warm chocolate cookies in cold milk\, and throwing dance parties with the dog. Deanna is so silly\, in fact\, that she once went to the grocery story wearing two different shoes by mistake\, and she always makes up silly songs that her kid thinks are kinda weird — but funny! So definitely DO NOT write to Deanna Kizis at hello@deannakizis.com so she can send you something kinda silly. And absolutely DO NOT follow her on Instagram\, @dkizis\, where you can see more of the silly stuff she does. And no matter what — please don’t read her book! \nSam Boughton (samboughton.co.uk) is an award-winning British artist and illustrator with degrees in illustration from Bristol UWE and the Cambridge School of Art. She is the author/illustrator ofHello\, Dinosaurs!andThe Extraordinary Gardener.Sam lives in Teignmouth\, UK. Follow her on Twitter @samillustrates and on Instagram @samboughton.
URL:https://playhousevillage.org/event/vromans-bookstore-a-special-story-time-with-deanna-kizis-sam-boughton/
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CATEGORIES:Vroman's Bookstore
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SUMMARY:Vroman's Bookstore: Alexi Pappas in conversation with Tara Schuster\,
DESCRIPTION:This is a virtual event and will take place on Crowdcast. Please register for FREE ahead of time to save your spot. \nEVENT LINK: https://www.crowdcast.io/e/q9peqfci \nWhen “Renaissance runner” ( New York Times) Alexi Pappas–Olympic athlete\, actress\, filmmaker\, and writer–was four years old\, her mother died by suicide\, drastically altering the course of Pappas’s life and setting her on a search for female role models. When her father signed his bereaved daughter up for sports teams as a way to keep her busy\, female athletes became the first women Pappas looked up to\, and her Olympic dream was born. At the same time\, Pappas had big creative dreams\, too: She wanted to make movies\, write\, and act. Despite setbacks and hardships\, Pappas refused to pick just one lane. She put in a tremendous amount of hard work and wouldn’t let anything stand in her way until she achieved all of her dreams\, however unrelated they may seem to outsiders. In a single year\, 2016\, she made her Olympic debut as a distance runner and wrote\, directed\, and starred in her first feature film. \nBut great highs are often accompanied by deep lows; with joy comes sorrow. In Bravey\, Pappas fearlessly and honestly shares her battle with post-Olympic depression and describes how she emerged on the other side as a thriving and self-actualized woman. Unflinching\, exuberant\, and always entertaining\, Bravey showcases Pappas’s signature\, charming voice as she reflects upon the touchstone moments in her life and the lessons that have powered her career as both an athlete and an artist–foremost among them\, how to be brave. \nPappas’s experiences reveal how we can all overcome hardship\, befriend pain\, celebrate victory\, relish the loyalty found in teammates\, and claim joy. In short: how every one of us can become a bravey. (Dial Press) \nAlexi Pappas is an award-winning writer\, filmmaker\, and Olympic athlete. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times\, Runner’s World\, Women’s Running\, Sports Illustrated\, The Atlantic\, and Outside\, among other publications\, and she has been profiled in The New York Times\, Sports Illustrated\, New York\, and Rolling Stone. Pappas co-wrote\, co-directed\, and starred in the feature film Tracktown with Rachel Dratch and Andy Buckley. Most recently\, she co-wrote and starred alongside Nick Kroll in Olympic Dreams\, the first non-documentary-style movie to ever be filmed at the Olympic Games. A Greek American\, Pappas holds the Greek national record in the 10\,000-meters and competed for Greece in the 2016 Olympics. She lives in Los Angeles\, California. \nTara Schuster served as Vice President of Talent and Development at Comedy Central where she was the Executive in Charge of the Emmy® and Peabody Award-winning Key & Peele\, the Emmy® Award winning @Midnight\, and Lights Out with David Spade. For her work on Key & Peele\, Jordan Peele remarked that Schuster is “ahead of her time…she sees the future a little bit.” Her book\, Buy Yourself The F*cking Lilies\, debuted as the #1 New Release in Humor Essays and Self-Help on both Audible and Kindle. InStyle\, People Magazine\, Cosmopolitan\, Goodreads\, BuzzFeed\, Goop\, and many others have chosen Buy Yourself The F*cking Lilies as one of the best new books of 2020.
URL:https://playhousevillage.org/event/vromans-bookstore-alexi-pappas-in-conversation-with-tara-schuster/
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