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SUMMARY:Vroman's: Ryan Hampton discusses Unsettled: How the Purdue Pharma Bankruptcy Failed the Victims of the American Overdose Crisis
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: https://www.crowdcast.io/e/ryan-hampton \nIn September 2019\, Purdue Pharma–the maker of OxyContin and a company controlled by the infamous billionaire Sackler family–filed for bankruptcy to protect itself from 2\,600 lawsuits for its role in fueling the U.S. overdose crisis. Author and activist Ryan Hampton served as co-chair of the official creditors committee that acted as a watchdog during the process\, one of only four victims appointed among representatives of big insurance companies\, hospitals\, and pharmacies. He entered the case believing that exposing the Sacklers and mobilizing against Purdue would be enough to right the scales of justice. But he soon learned that behind closed doors\, justice had plenty of other competition–and it came with a hefty price tag.\nUnsettled is the inside story of Purdue’s excruciating Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceedings\, the company’s eventual restructuring\, and the Sackler family’s evasion of any true accountability. It’s also the untold story of how a group of determined ordinary people tried to see justice done against the odds–and in the face of brutal opposition from powerful institutions and even government representatives. \nAlthough America was envisioned as an equitable place\, where the vulnerable are protected from the greed of the powerful\, the corporate-bankruptcy process betrays those values. In its heart of hearts\, this system is built to shield the ultra-wealthy\, exploit loopholes for political power\, promote gross wealth inequality\, and allow companies such as Purdue Pharma to run amok. \nThe real story of the Purdue bankruptcy wasn’t that the billion-dollar corporation was a villain\, a serial federal offender. No matter what the media said\, Purdue didn’t do this alone. They were aided and abetted by the very systems and institutions that were supposed to protect Americans. Even on-your-side elected officials worked against Purdue’s victims–maintaining the status quo at all costs. \nAmericans deserve to know exactly who is responsible for failing to protect people over profits–and what a human life is worth to corporations\, billionaires\, and lawmakers. Unsettled is what happened behind closed doors–the story of a sick\, broken system that destroyed millions of lives and let the Sacklers off almost scot-free. (St. Martin’s Press)
URL:https://playhousevillage.org/event/vromans-ryan-hampton-discusses-unsettled-how-the-purdue-pharma-bankruptcy-failed-the-victims-of-the-american-overdose-crisis/
CATEGORIES:Virtual,Vroman's Bookstore
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211007T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211007T180000
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SUMMARY:Vroman's: Alexandra Leigh Young in conversation with Lauren Gibaldi & Eric Smith
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:  https://www.crowdcast.io/e/alexandra-leigh-young \nAlexandra Leigh Young\, in conversation with Lauren Gibaldi & Eric Smith\, discusses Idol Gossip\nEvery Friday after school\, seventeen-year-old Alice Choy and her little sister\, Olivia\, head to Myeongdong to sing karaoke. Back in San Francisco\, when she still had friends and earthly possessions\, Alice took regular singing lessons. But since their diplomat mom moved them to Seoul\, her only musical outlet is vamping it up in a private karaoke booth to an audience of one: her loyal sister. Then a scout for Top10 Entertainment\, one of the biggest K-pop companies\, hears her and offers her a spot at their Star Academy. Can Alice navigate the culture clashes\, egos\, and extreme training practices of K-pop to lead her group onstage before a stadium of 50\,000 chanting fans–and just maybe strike K-pop gold? Not if a certain influential blogger and the anti-fans get their way . . .\nThis debut novel is about standing out and fitting in\, dreaming big and staying true. It will speak to fans of K-pop and to anyone who is trying to take their talents to the next level. (Walker Books Us) \nLauren Gibaldi and Eric Smith are co-authors of the book\, Battle of the Bands.\nLauren Gibaldi is a public librarian and the author of The Night We Said Yes\, Autofocus\, and This Tiny Perfect World. She has also contributed short stories to the anthologies Welcome Home and Color Outside the Lines. Lauren Gibaldi lives in Orlando\, Florida\, with her husband and daughters. \nEric Smith is a literary agent and the author of The Geek’s Guide to Dating\, The Girl and the Grove\, Don’t Read the Comments\, and You Can Go Your Own Way. Eric Smith lives in Philadelphia with his wife and son.
URL:https://playhousevillage.org/event/vromans-alexandra-leigh-young-in-conversation-with-lauren-gibaldi-eric-smith/
CATEGORIES:Virtual,Vroman's Bookstore
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211004T180000
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SUMMARY:Vroman's: Kate Bowler in conversation with Lori Gottlieb
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: https://www.crowdcast.io/e/kate-bowler \nIt’s hard to give up on the feeling that the life you really want is just out of reach. A beach body by summer. A trip to Disneyland around the corner. A promotion on the horizon. Everyone wants to believe that they are headed toward good\, better\, best. But what happens when the life you hoped for is put on hold indefinitely? \nKate Bowler believed that life was a series of unlimited choices\, until she discovered\, at age 35\, that her body was wracked with cancer. In No Cure for Being Human\, she searches for a way forward as she mines the wisdom (and absurdity) of today’s “best life now” advice industry\, which insists on exhausting positivity and on trying to convince us that we can out-eat\, out-learn\, and out-perform our humanness. We are\, she finds\, as fragile as the day we were born. \nWith dry wit and unflinching honesty\, Kate Bowler grapples with her diagnosis\, her ambition\, and her faith as she tries to come to terms with her limitations in a culture that says anything is possible. She finds that we need one another if we’re going to tell the truth: Life is beautiful and terrible\, full of hope and despair and everything in between–and there’s no cure for being human. (Random House)
URL:https://playhousevillage.org/event/vromans-kate-bowler-in-conversation-with-lori-gottlieb/
CATEGORIES:Virtual,Vroman's Bookstore
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210928T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210928T180000
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SUMMARY:Vroman's: Jay Coles\, in conversation with Dave Connis
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/xqhb1h96 \n  \nFrom one of the brightest and most acclaimed new lights in YA fiction\, a fantastic new novel about a bi Black boy finding first love . . . and facing the return of the mother who abandoned his preacher family when he was nine. \nThere’s always been a hole in Gio’s life. Not because he’s into both guys and girls. Not because his father has some drinking issues. Not because his friends are always bringing him their drama. No\, the hole in Gio’s life takes the shape of his birth mom\, who left Gio\, his brother\, and his father when Gio was nine years old. For eight years\, he never heard a word from her . . . and now\, just as he’s started to get his life together\, she’s back. \nIt’s hard for Gio to know what to do. Can he forgive her like she wants to be forgiven? Or should he tell her she lost her chance to be in his life? Complicating things further\, Gio’s started to hang out with David\, a new guy on the basketball team. Are they friends? More than friends? At first\, Gio’s not sure . . . especially because he’s not sure what he wants from anyone right now. \nThere are no easy answers to love — whether it’s family love or friend love or romantic love. In Things We Couldn’t Say\, Jay Coles\, acclaimed author of Tyler Johnson Was Here\, shows us a guy trying to navigate love in all its ambiguity — hoping at the other end he’ll be able to figure out who is and who he should be. (Scholastic Press)
URL:https://playhousevillage.org/event/vromans-jay-coles-in-conversation-with-dave-connis/
CATEGORIES:Virtual,Vroman's Bookstore
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210927T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210927T180000
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SUMMARY:Vroman's: Local Author Day featuring David F. D’Orazi and Vicki Childs
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/21p36qai  \nDavid F. D’Orazi presents The In-Between Artist: The Story of Tony D’Orazi\nThe successes and struggles of influential twentieth century artist Tony D’Orazi are detailed in this first-ever biography\, The In-Between Artist: The Story of Tony D’Orazi\, from his early years as a child prodigy in Missoula\, Montana\, to his ascension into an award-winning artist by way of New York City and Chicago and his days working for Disney to ultimately becoming the radio and television personality known as Uncle Tony O’Dare\, “the first cartoonist of the air.” Tony’s personal struggles would repeatedly attempt to derail his artistic ambitions\, but the art would always find a way to persevere. \nAlong his ascent\, he would also meet his true love\, whom he formed a vaudeville act with\, which found them entertaining crowds across America. From there\, he became a husband and father of four\, who constantly struggled to find balance between his roles as a visual artist and family man\, all while battling with severe bouts of mental illness. \nThis is a portrait of an artist and entertainer which also includes later chapters of his life\, in which he went on to become a successful salesman and character actor\, all while still pursuing his need to create. In the end\, despite all these roles he played and the countless hurdles he faced\, Tony remained an artist in between. Ultimately\, his story proves that no matter what obstacles he faced\, his art always found a way. \n  \nVicki Childs presents Rachel’s Butterflies\nWhat would you need to lose in order to find yourself? \nGrowing up in their elite British private school\, three girls became inseparable. Decades later and worlds apart\, they’ll soon discover that some bonds last forever. \nLiz\, an ambitious businesswoman\, is beholden to nobody and determined to keep it that way. Emily\, a homebody with a countryside cottage\, is happy to be surrounded by her family and her crafts. Chrissy\, a writer turned realtor\, is living the American dream in sunny Los Angeles. But are their lives as perfect as they seem? \nA sudden tragedy reunites the childhood friends\, but just as they begin to reconnect\, their lives are derailed. Each will be forced to re-examine who they are and make some life-altering decisions. Can they embrace their chance for true happiness\, or will they continue to be molded by those around them? \nIn this compelling tale of struggle and redemption\, three women learn that when your world turns upside down it’s your true friends that lead you back home.
URL:https://playhousevillage.org/event/vromans-local-author-day-featuring-david-f-dorazi-and-vicki-childs/
CATEGORIES:Virtual,Vroman's Bookstore
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210925T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210925T110000
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CREATED:20210819T072326Z
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SUMMARY:Vroman's: Special Story Time with Laurenne Sala and Zara González Hoang presenting Mi Casa Is My Home
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/0rgucsrf \n  \nLucia invites you to visit her bustling casa and meet an intergenerational array of loved ones in a charming Spanglish celebration of family life. \nEste es el baño . . . It’s where I shave my barba con Abuelo.\nBienvenidos to Lucía’s home. Lucía lives in her casa with her big\, loud\, beautiful familia\, and she’s going to show you around! From la puerta\, where Abuela likes to wave to the neighbors and wait for packages from Puerto Rico or Spain\, to la cocina\, where Lucía watches her Mamá turn empty pots into soups and arroces\, to el patio\, where Lucia and her cousins (and her cousin’s cousins!) put on magic shows\, Lucía loves her busy and cozy casa. With warmth and joy\, author Laurenne Sala and illustrator Zara González Hoang celebrate home in this bilingual picture book that feels like an abrazo from your most favorite people\, your familia. (Candlewick Press (MA))
URL:https://playhousevillage.org/event/vromans-special-story-time-with-laurenne-sala-and-zara-gonzalez-hoang-presenting-mi-casa-is-my-home/
CATEGORIES:Virtual,Vroman's Bookstore
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210924T180000
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SUMMARY:Vroman's: Marisa Kanter\, in conversation with Becky Albertalli
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/y0x0ihqv \n  \nLifelong rivals Natalie and Reid have never been on the same team. So when their school’s art budget faces cutbacks\, of course Natalie finds herself up against her nemesis once more. She’s fighting to direct the school’s first ever student-written play\, but for her small production to get funding\, the school’s award-winning band will have to lose it. Reid’s band. And he’s got no intention of letting the show go on. \nBut when their rivalry turns into an all-out prank war that goes too far\, Natalie and Reid have to face the music\, resulting in the worst compromise: writing and directing a musical. Together. At least if they deliver a sold-out show\, the school board will reconsider next year’s band and theater budget. Everyone could win. \nExcept Natalie and Reid. \nBecause after spending their entire lives in competition\, they have absolutely no idea how to be co-anything. And they certainly don’t know how to deal with the feelings that are inexplicably\, weirdly\, definitely developing between them… (Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers)
URL:https://playhousevillage.org/event/vromans-marisa-kanter-in-conversation-with-becky-albertalli/
CATEGORIES:Virtual,Vroman's Bookstore
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210923T180000
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SUMMARY:Vroman's: Richard Powers Bewilderment
DESCRIPTION:In conjunction with Point Reyes Books and Diesel\, a Bookstore\, we present Richard Powers\, who will discuss Bewilderment his highly anticipated follow-up to his Pulitzer Prize winning The Overstory.\nThis event will be streamed on the Point Reyes Books Crowdcast channel. \nRegister here: https://www.crowdcast.io/e/bewilderment/register \n\nLonglisted for the 2021 Booker Prize\nBewilderment is a heartrending new novel from the Pulitzer Prize–winning and #1 New York Times best-selling author of The Overstory.\nNamed one of the Most Anticipated Books of 2021 by New York Magazine\, Chicago Tribune\, BookPage\, Literary Hub\, The Millions\, New Statesman\, and Times of London \nThe astrobiologist Theo Byrne searches for life throughout the cosmos while single-handedly raising his unusual nine-year-old\, Robin\, following the death of his wife. Robin is a warm\, kind boy who spends hours painting elaborate pictures of endangered animals. He’s also about to be expelled from third grade for smashing his friend in the face. As his son grows more troubled\, Theo hopes to keep him off psychoactive drugs. He learns of an experimental neurofeedback treatment to bolster Robin’s emotional control\, one that involves training the boy on the recorded patterns of his mother’s brain… \nWith its soaring descriptions of the natural world\, its tantalizing vision of life beyond\, and its account of a father and son’s ferocious love\, Bewilderment marks Richard Powers’s most intimate and moving novel. At its heart lies the question: How can we tell our children the truth about this beautiful\, imperiled planet? \nRichard Powers has published thirteen novels. He is a MacArthur Fellow and received the National Book Award. His most recent book\, The Overstory\, won the Pulitzer Prize in Fiction. He lives in the Great Smoky Mountains. \nPLEASE NOTE: This is not a Vroman’s Live event. We have partnered with Point Reyes Books and Diesel\, a Bookstore for this virtual event to be held via Crowdcast hosted by Point Reyes Books.
URL:https://playhousevillage.org/event/vromans-richard-powers-bewilderment/
CATEGORIES:Virtual,Vroman's Bookstore
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210920T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210920T130000
DTSTAMP:20260618T081255
CREATED:20210819T072049Z
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SUMMARY:Vroman's: Stuart Neville discusses The House of Ashes
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/m19baems \n  \nSara Keane’s husband\, Damien\, has uprooted them from England and moved them to his native Northern Ireland for a “fresh start” in the wake of her nervous breakdown. Sara\, who knows no one in Northern Ireland\, is jobless\, carless\, friendless–all but a prisoner in her own house. When a blood-soaked old woman beats on the door\, insisting the house is hers before being bundled back to her care facility\, Sara begins to understand the house has a terrible history her husband never intended for her to discover. As the two women form a bond over their shared traumas\, Sara finds the strength to stand up to her abuser\, and Mary–silent for six decades–is finally ready to tell her story . . . \nThrough the counterpoint voices–one modern Englishwoman\, one Northern Irish farmgirl speaking from half a century earlier–Stuart Neville offers a chilling and gorgeous portrait of violence and resilience in this truly haunting narrative. (Soho Crime)
URL:https://playhousevillage.org/event/vromans-stuart-neville-discusses-the-house-of-ashes/
CATEGORIES:Virtual,Vroman's Bookstore
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210918T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210918T160000
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CREATED:20210819T071750Z
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SUMMARY:Vroman's: T.C. Boyle discusses Talk to Me
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/le96paf9 \nWhen animal behaviorist Guy Schermerhorn demonstrates on a TV game show that he has taught Sam\, his juvenile chimp\, to speak in sign language\, Aimee Villard\, an undergraduate at Guy’s university\, is so taken with the performance that she applies to become his assistant. A romantic and intellectual attachment soon morphs into an interspecies love triangle that pushes hard at the boundaries of consciousness and the question of what we know and how we know it. \nWhat if it were possible to speak to the members of another species–to converse with them\, not just give commands or coach them but to really have an exchange of ideas and a meeting of minds? Did apes have God? Did they have souls? Did they know about death and redemption? About prayer? The economy\, rockets\, space? Did they miss the jungle? Did they even know what the jungle was? Did they dream? Make wishes? Hope for the future? \nThese are some the questions T.C. Boyle asks in his wide-ranging and hilarious new novel Talk to Me\, exploring what it means to be human\, to communicate with another\, and to truly know another person–or animal… (Ecco Press)
URL:https://playhousevillage.org/event/vromans-t-c-boyle-discusses-talk-to-me/
CATEGORIES:Virtual,Vroman's Bookstore
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210918T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210918T110000
DTSTAMP:20260618T081255
CREATED:20210819T071642Z
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SUMMARY:Vroman's: Special Story Time with Jonathan Stutzman & Dan Santat presenting Bear is a Bear
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/m19baems \n  \nA gorgeous\, classic gift book about the enduring love between a little girl and her childhood friend\, Bear\, from popular author Jonathan Stutzman and Caldecott Medal-winning and #1 New York Times bestselling illustrator Dan Santat. \nBear is . . . a new friend\, a fellow mischief-maker\, a protector\, and a dreamer. \nThrough all the many ups and downs of a little girl’s childhood\, Bear is there to provide love and support. Until it is time to say goodbye . . . and hello again. \nBear Is a Bear is a tender and surprising tribute to the beloved companions of our childhoods. (Balzer & Bray/Harperteen)
URL:https://playhousevillage.org/event/vromans-special-story-time-with-jonathan-stutzman-dan-santat-presenting-bear-is-a-bear/
CATEGORIES:Virtual,Vroman's Bookstore
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210914T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210914T180000
DTSTAMP:20260618T081255
CREATED:20210819T071516Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210908T173103Z
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SUMMARY:Vroman's: Maria Amparo Escandón\, in conversation with Alex Espinoza\, discusses L.A. Weather
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/gvh3ow34 \n  \nL.A. is parched\, dry as a bone\, and all Oscar\, the weather-obsessed patriarch of the Alvarado family\, desperately wants is a little rain. He’s harboring a costly secret that distracts him from everything else. His wife\, Keila\, desperate for a life with a little more intimacy and a little less Weather Channel\, feels she has no choice but to end their marriage. Their three daughters–Claudia\, a television chef with a hard-hearted attitude; Olivia\, a successful architect who suffers from gentrification guilt; and Patricia\, a social media wizard who has an uncanny knack for connecting with audiences but not with her lovers–are blindsided and left questioning everything they know. Each will have to take a critical look at her own relationships and make some tough decisions along the way. \nWith quick-wit and humor\, Maria Amparo Escandón follows the Alvarado family as they wrestle with impending evacuations\, secrets\, deception\, and betrayal\, and their toughest decision yet: whether to stick together or burn it all down. (Flatiron Books)
URL:https://playhousevillage.org/event/vromans-maria-amparo-escandon-in-conversation-with-alex-espinoza-discusses-l-a-weather/
CATEGORIES:Virtual,Vroman's Bookstore
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210913T180000
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DTSTAMP:20260618T081255
CREATED:20210819T071438Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210908T173056Z
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SUMMARY:Vroman's: Jarrett Adams discusses Redeeming Justice
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/p2phyt4b \n  \nHe was seventeen when an all-white jury sentenced him to prison for a crime he didn’t commit. Now a pioneering lawyer\, he recalls the journey that led to his exoneration–and inspired him to devote his life to fighting the many injustices in our legal system. \nSeventeen years old and facing nearly thirty years behind bars\, Jarrett Adams sought to figure out the why behind his fate. Sustained by his mother and aunts who brought him back from the edge of despair through letters of prayer and encouragement\, Adams became obsessed with our legal system in all its damaged glory. After studying how his constitutional rights to effective counsel had been violated\, he solicited the help of the Wisconsin Innocence Project\, an organization that exonerates the wrongfully convicted\, and won his release after nearly ten years in prison. \nBut the journey was far from over. Adams took the lessons he learned through his incarceration and worked his way through law school with the goal of helping those who\, like himself\, had faced our legal system at its worst. After earning his law degree\, he worked with the New York Innocence Project\, becoming the first exoneree ever hired by the nonprofit as a lawyer. In his first case with the Innocence Project\, he argued before the same court that had convicted him a decade earlier–and won. \nIn this cinematic story of hope and full-circle redemption\, Adams draws on his life and the cases of his clients to show the racist tactics used to convict young men of color\, the unique challenges facing exonerees once released\, and how the lack of equal representation in our courts is a failure not only of empathy but of our collective ability to uncover the truth. Redeeming Justice is an unforgettable firsthand account of the limits–and possibilities–of our country’s system of law. (Convergent Books)
URL:https://playhousevillage.org/event/vromans-jarrett-adams-discusses-redeeming-justice/
CATEGORIES:Virtual,Vroman's Bookstore
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210911T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210911T110000
DTSTAMP:20260618T081255
CREATED:20210819T071130Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210908T173047Z
UID:10000483-1631358000-1631358000@playhousevillage.org
SUMMARY:Vroman's: Special Story Time with Gillian Sze & Michelle Lee
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. \n  \nEVENT LINK:  https://www.crowdcast.io/e/b9fd0w3m \n  \nWhat is love? a child wonders. What does it feel like\, smell like\, taste like? How does it move? How long does it last? \nAnd as she prepares a traditional Chinese meal for her family\, the child’s mother replies: her love for him is rosy as wolfberries\, warm like tea\, sweeter than the red dates she puts in his soup. It shines through the water like its own brilliant sun. It goes round and round with no beginning and no end. Because a mother’s love for a child is always there\, warm and soft\, broad and tender. \nIn this tender story that pairs beautifully poetic words with brilliantly stunning art\, a mother’s love comes alive on the page and wraps readers in its warm embrace. (Philomel Books)
URL:https://playhousevillage.org/event/vromans-special-story-time-with-gillian-sze-michelle-lee/
CATEGORIES:Virtual,Vroman's Bookstore
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210909T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210909T180000
DTSTAMP:20260618T081255
CREATED:20210819T071028Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210908T173039Z
UID:10000484-1631210400-1631210400@playhousevillage.org
SUMMARY:Vroman's: Prisca Dorcas Mojica Rodriguez\, in conversation with Yesika Salgado
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/0rgucsrf \n  \nThe founder of Latina Rebels and a “Latinx Activist You Should Know”(Teen Vogue) arms women of color with the tools and knowledge they need to find success on their own terms. \nFor generations\, Brown girls have had to push against powerful forces of sexism\, racism\, and classism\, often feeling alone in the struggle. By founding Latina Rebels\, Prisca Dorcas Mojica Rodríguez has created a community to help women fight together. In For Brown Girls with Sharp Edges and Tender Hearts\, she offers wisdom and a liberating path forward for all women of color. She crafts powerful ways to address the challenges Brown girls face\, from imposter syndrome to colorism. She empowers women to decolonize their worldview\, and defy “universal” white narratives\, by telling their own stories. Her book guides women of color toward a sense of pride and sisterhood and offers essential tools to energize a movement.  May it spark a fire within you. (Seal Press)
URL:https://playhousevillage.org/event/vromans-prisca-dorcas-mojica-rodriguez-in-conversation-with-yesika-salgado/
CATEGORIES:Virtual,Vroman's Bookstore
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210908T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210908T180000
DTSTAMP:20260618T081255
CREATED:20210819T070948Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210908T173033Z
UID:10000486-1631124000-1631124000@playhousevillage.org
SUMMARY:Vroman's: Stress Less\, Achieve More with Mindfulness with Elizabeth Prather
DESCRIPTION:Cost: $30 per person\nTo register for this class: https://www.vromansbookstore.com/elizabeth-prather-reservation \nWith the challenges in our world\, you may be finding it difficult to stay calm and focused\, much less finding joy in your day. Yet\, even in uncertain times\, you mind does not have to be consumed with stress\, negative thinking\, and overwhelm. \nIn this hour-long virtual session\, you’ll learn mental strategies\, mindful tips\, and a mindfulness meditation practice that will help you respond more calmly and effectively to outer stressors while cultivating joy and peace of mind. Mindfulness helps us manage our emotions so that our relationships improve – both at work and at home. \nThe session includes: \n·       Understanding mindfulness and how it reduces stress \n·       How mindfulness helps increase focus and manage our emotions \n·       Instructions on a mindfulness meditation practice that can be practiced in only a few minutes a day \n·       Mindful tips to use immediately in daily life for more joy\, balance\, and fulfillment. \nA growing body of research shows that mindfulness practice can transform our lives as individuals\, impacting us both personally and professionally. \nThe benefits of mindfulness practice include increases in focus and concentration\, improved communication\, increased resilience\, better sleep\, and life satisfaction as well as reduced feelings of stress\, anxiety\, and depression. \nWe look forward to seeing you there! \nThis class will take place over Zoom with Elizabeth Prather. Zoom links will be sent to those who sign up\, 48 hours before the class. \nIf for any reason you cannot attend a class you have signed up for\, we require 24 hour notice of your cancelation in order to receive a refund. Refunds will NOT be issued on the same day of class or after the class has already occurred. \nElizabeth Prather is a Mindfulness Mentor and Consultant who brings together ancient wisdom\, neuroscience\, and positive psychology to help people thrive and grow in their work and personal lives. After twenty years of corporate leadership experience\, including as Vice President in a healthcare management company\, Elizabeth found herself burned out. She discovered meditation and began immersing herself in meditation training and retreats. Now\, she helps people find more calm\, focus\, joy\, and fulfillment in their lives through transformational mindful strategies and tools. In addition\, she offers mindfulness programs in organizations to help improve performance and well-being. \nYou can find out more about Elizabeth through her website\, www.theprathergroup.com and on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/elizabethprather/. \nThis class will take place over Zoom with Elizabeth Prather. Zoom links will be sent to those who sign up\, 48 hours before the class. \nIf for any reason you cannot attend a class you have signed up for\, we require 24 hour notice of your cancelation in order to receive a refund. Refunds will NOT be issued on the same day of class or after the class has already occurred. \nTo register for this class: https://www.vromansbookstore.com/elizabeth-prather-reservation
URL:https://playhousevillage.org/event/vromans-stress-less-achieve-more-with-mindfulness-with-elizabeth-prather/
CATEGORIES:Virtual,Vroman's Bookstore
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210907T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210907T180000
DTSTAMP:20260618T081255
CREATED:20210819T070910Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210908T172943Z
UID:10000485-1631037600-1631037600@playhousevillage.org
SUMMARY:Vroman's: Susan H. Kamei\, in conversation with Teresa Watanabe\, discusses When Can We Go Back to America?
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/an51m2pv \n  \nIn this dramatic and page-turning narrative history of Japanese Americans before\, during\, and after their World War II incarceration\, Susan H. Kamei weaves the voices of over 130 individuals who lived through this tragic episode\, most of them as young adults. \nIt’s difficult to believe it happened here\, in the Land of the Free: After the bombing of Pearl Harbor in 1941\, the United States government forcibly removed more than 120\,000 persons of Japanese ancestry from the Pacific Coast and imprisoned them in desolate detention camps until the end of World War II just because of their race. \nIn what Secretary Norman Y. Mineta describes as a “landmark book\,” he and others who lived through this harrowing experience tell the story of their incarceration and the long-term impact of this dark period in American history. For the first time\, why and how these tragic events took place are interwoven with more than 130 individual voices of those who were unconstitutionally incarcerated\, many of them children and young adults. \nNow more than ever\, their words will resonate with readers who are confronting questions about racial identity\, immigration\, and citizenship\, and what it means to be an American. (Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers)
URL:https://playhousevillage.org/event/vromans-susan-h-kamei-in-conversation-with-teresa-watanabe-discusses-when-can-we-go-back-to-america/
CATEGORIES:Virtual,Vroman's Bookstore
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210830T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210830T180000
DTSTAMP:20260618T081255
CREATED:20210722T074625Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210722T074625Z
UID:10000206-1630346400-1630346400@playhousevillage.org
SUMMARY:Vroman's: Local Author Day featuring David W. Reed\, Lin Nelson Benedek\, and Louise Wannier
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/njp3kh5b \nDavid W. Reed presents Uphill and Into the Wind\nIt’s 1973. Our nation is torn apart by the Vietnam War\, and the massacre of unarmed students at Kent State. The Vice President has resigned for bribery and tax evasion. The President is being investigated for engaging in criminal activity.\nAt twenty-three\, David Reed has become embittered by political strife and corruption. Disenchanted with his future\, he wants out. Along with new friends Rusty and Susie\, David leaves everything he knows to cross the United States with little more than his bicycle and camera.\nThe trio gets more than they bargain for\, with menacing animals\, extreme weather\, and astonishing encounters. Uphill and Into the Wind recounts an odyssey that spans 5420 miles on bicycles. It chronicles the sudden and surprising glories of nature\, the raw beauty of the land\, and the majesty of the mountains. But that is just the start. Through it all\, the three are changed forever\, in ways they did not expect\, by their long journey into the unknown. \nLin Nelson Benedek presents Singing Lessons\nLin Benedek crafts a poetic score\, both grand and intimate\, in her latest collection\, Singing Lessons. I’m awed by her meticulous eye for detail\, and what a testament to her powers of recall and observation that she’s able to weave an opulent tapestry of examined gesture\, dialogue\, and mise en sc ne with brief philosophical turns that ground her handiwork in a richly\, dark terrain. This book is sumptuous repast for ear and imagination as Benedek pulls us in close to her contemplated world of things and sings us through. – Michelle Bitting\, Broken Kingdom \nLouise Wannier presents Tree Spirits\n“What do you see when you look up at this tree?” TREE SPIRITS is a book written in rhyme which encourages children to develop their imagination\, creativity and emotional intelligence. “How do you imagine they/he/she is feeling today?” For parents and grandparents and friends and family it is a fun book to read with the children in their lives. It includes an interactive drawing section. (ages 3-8)
URL:https://playhousevillage.org/event/vromans-local-author-day-featuring-david-w-reed-lin-nelson-benedek-and-louise-wannier/
CATEGORIES:Virtual,Vroman's Bookstore
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210828T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210828T110000
DTSTAMP:20260618T081255
CREATED:20210722T074557Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210722T074557Z
UID:10000205-1630148400-1630148400@playhousevillage.org
SUMMARY:Vroman's: Special Story Time with Kevin Cornell presenting New in Town
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/53xksqpn  \n  \nOne fine morning\, the people of Puddletrunk wake up to find their bridge has collapsed. They are not surprised. After all\, termites have destroyed the last 200 or so bridges. Luckily\, the people of Puddletrunk have a bridge-building expert in their town: the fabulous Mortimer Gulch\, who will gladly rebuild their bridge for a pretty penny. But when a newcomer to Puddletrunk does not want to pay for the repairs\, Mortimer is displeased. To make matters worse\, this unusual foreigner has some innovative ideas that threaten to upend Mortimer Gulch’s entire business . . . \nHere is a whimsical yet timely picture book allegory about what new people with new ideas can bring to communities. (Farrar\, Straus and Giroux)
URL:https://playhousevillage.org/event/vromans-special-story-time-with-kevin-cornell-presenting-new-in-town/
CATEGORIES:Virtual,Vroman's Bookstore
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210827T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210827T180000
DTSTAMP:20260618T081255
CREATED:20210722T074457Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210722T074457Z
UID:10000458-1630087200-1630087200@playhousevillage.org
SUMMARY:Vroman's: Simon Van Booy with Roda Ahmed\, discusses Night Came with Many Stars
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/g28ks90q \nIn Kentucky\, back in 1933\, Carol’s daddy lost his 13-year-old daughter in a game of cards. Award-winning author Simon Van Booy’s spellbinding novel spans decades as he tells the story of Carol and the people in her life. Incidents intersect and lives unexpectedly change course in this masterfully interwoven story of chance and choice that leads home again to a night blessed with light. \n“What you give in this world\,” an old man tells his grandson\, “will be given back to you.” Those words illuminate the actions within this unforgettable novel and its connected characters. A young man survives two nearly fatal accidents. A Black family saves an orphaned white boy. A pregnant teenager is rescued by the side of the road. A teenager with developmental disabilities is given his first job. Each incident grows in meaning and power over many decades as we see connections sometimes felt but not always apparent to the people themselves. “Everything was moving\,” observes Samuel (Carol’s grandson) in the Kentucky woods. “An invisible force that was everywhere\, and made everything touch.” \nTold by a master storyteller\, Night Came with Many Stars is a rare novel that reveals how wondrous\, mysterious\, and magically connected life can be–the light Simon Van Booy creates illuminates our own lives. (David R. Godine Publisher)
URL:https://playhousevillage.org/event/vromans-simon-van-booy-with-roda-ahmed-discusses-night-came-with-many-stars/
CATEGORIES:Virtual,Vroman's Bookstore
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210824T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210824T180000
DTSTAMP:20260618T081255
CREATED:20210722T074527Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210722T074527Z
UID:10000204-1629828000-1629828000@playhousevillage.org
SUMMARY:Vroman's: Tom Nichols discusses Our Own Worst Enemy: The Assault from Within on Modern Democracy
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/w96oq60q \nOver the past three decades\, citizens of democracies who claim to value freedom\, tolerance\, and the rule of law have increasingly embraced illiberal politicians and platforms. Democracy is in trouble–but who is really to blame? \nIn Our Own Worst Enemy\, Tom Nichols challenges the current depictions of the rise of illiberal and anti-democratic movements in the United States and elsewhere as the result of the deprivations of globalization or the malign decisions of elites. Rather\, he places the blame for the rise of\nilliberalism on the people themselves. Nichols traces the illiberalism of the 21st century to the growth of unchecked narcissism\, rising standards of living\, global peace\, and a resistance to change. Ordinary citizens\, laden with grievances\, have joined forces with political entrepreneurs who thrive\non the creation of rage rather than on the encouragement of civic virtue and democratic cooperation. While it will be difficult\, Nichols argues that we need to defend democracy by resurrecting the virtues of altruism\, compromise\, stoicism\, and cooperation–and by recognizing how good we’ve actually\nhad it in the modern world. \nTrenchant\, contrarian\, and highly engaging\, Our Own Worst Enemy reframes the debate about how democracies have ended up in this dire state of affairs and what to do about it. (Oxford University Press)
URL:https://playhousevillage.org/event/vromans-tom-nichols-discusses-our-own-worst-enemy-the-assault-from-within-on-modern-democracy/
CATEGORIES:Virtual,Vroman's Bookstore
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210819T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210819T180000
DTSTAMP:20260618T081255
CREATED:20210722T074408Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210722T074424Z
UID:10000449-1629396000-1629396000@playhousevillage.org
SUMMARY:Vroman's: Romina Garber discusses Cazadora
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/jefm1m2y \nWerewolves. Witches. Romance. Resistance. \nEnter a world straight out of Argentine folklore… \nFollowing the events of Lobizona\, Manu and her friends cross the mystical border into Kerana–a cursed realm in Argentina–searching for allies and a hiding place. As they chase down leads about the Coven–a mythical resistance manada that might not even exist–the Cazadores chase down leads about Manu\, setting up traps to capture and arrest her. \nJust as it seems the Cazadores have Manu and her friends cornered\, the Coven answers their call for help. As Manu catches her breath among these non-conforming Septimus\, she discovers they need a revolution as much as she does. \nBut is she the right one to lead them? After all\, hybrids aren’t just outlawed. They’re feared and reviled. What happens when the Coven learns of Manu’s dual heritage? Will they still protect her? Or will they betray her? \nAnd after running this far\, for this long–how much farther can Manu go before her feet get tired\, and she stops to take a stand? (Wednesday Books)
URL:https://playhousevillage.org/event/vromans-romina-garber-discusses-cazadora/
CATEGORIES:Virtual,Vroman's Bookstore
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210812T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210812T180000
DTSTAMP:20260618T081256
CREATED:20210722T074301Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210722T074301Z
UID:10000451-1628791200-1628791200@playhousevillage.org
SUMMARY:Vroman's: Dr. Leana Wen with Lisa See\, discusses Lifelines: A Doctor's Journey in the Fight for Public Health
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/hxuqsw6k \nDr. Wen will be in conversation with Lisa See\, author of Shanghai Girls\, The Island of Sea Women\, and other award-winning books.\n“Public health saved your life today–you just don’t know it\,” is a phrase that Dr. Leana Wen likes to use. You don’t know it because good public health is invisible. It becomes visible only in its absence\, when it is underfunded and ignored\, a bitter truth laid bare as never before by the devastation of COVID-19. \nLeana Wen–emergency physician\, former Baltimore health commissioner\, CNN medical analyst\, and Washington Post contributing columnist–has lived on the front lines of public health\, leading the fight against the opioid epidemic\, outbreaks of infectious disease\, maternal and infant mortality\, and COVID-19 disinformation. Here\, in gripping detail\, Wen lays bare the lifesaving work of public health and its innovative approach to social ills\, treating gun violence as a contagious disease\, for example\, and racism as a threat to health. \nWen also tells her own uniquely American story: an immigrant from China\, she and her family received food stamps and were at times homeless despite her parents working multiple jobs. That child went on to attend college at thirteen\, become a Rhodes scholar\, and turn to public health as the way to make a difference in the country that had offered her such possibilities. \nUltimately\, she insists\, it is public health that ensures citizens are not robbed of decades of life\, and that where children live does not determine whether they live. (Metropolitan Books)
URL:https://playhousevillage.org/event/vromans-dr-leana-wen-with-lisa-see-discusses-lifelines-a-doctors-journey-in-the-fight-for-public-health/
CATEGORIES:Virtual,Vroman's Bookstore
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210810T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210810T180000
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CREATED:20210722T074231Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210722T074231Z
UID:10000452-1628618400-1628618400@playhousevillage.org
SUMMARY:Vroman's: Tracy Swinton Bailey discusses Forever Free: A True Story of Hope in the Fight for Child Literacy
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/1jj3dopq \nAt the root of every important problem we face\, from mass incarceration to income inequality\, is an education system influenced by our nation’s fraught history. Just as past generations fought to ensure that all Americans could enjoy the right to fully participate in our democracy\, so must we rally tirelessly to advance an educational agenda that promotes equity and inclusion. With the gap between white academic achievement and that of students of color widening\, now is the time to turn our attention to the basics\, and few would argue with the fact that the single most essential aspect of a good education is literacy. Beyond reading and writing\, literacy encompasses a whole host of skills that allow us to develop our potential and succeed in society\, including critical thinking\, self-discipline\, curiosity\, leadership\, and motivation. Helping all our nation’s young people\, especially those who live in low-income communities\, improve their literacy skills should be a top priority. \nNumerous programs are operating around the country to address the issue of underperformance in light of the shortcomings of our public school system. In Forever Free\, Tracy Swinton Bailey charts the journey of one such program\, her nonprofit Freedom Readers. From a childhood shaped by books to a career promoting the love of reading\, she describes the hurdles and rewards of academia\, teaching\, mobilizing\, and fundraising. Bailey outlines clearly and persuasively how Freedom Readers’ one-to-one tutoring model has worked in the rural South\, and how it can work across the US. This book will inspire and empower readers\, and should be placed in the hands of educators and organizers at every level. (Other Press)
URL:https://playhousevillage.org/event/vromans-tracy-swinton-bailey-discusses-forever-free-a-true-story-of-hope-in-the-fight-for-child-literacy/
CATEGORIES:Virtual,Vroman's Bookstore
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210806T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210806T180000
DTSTAMP:20260618T081256
CREATED:20210722T074207Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210722T074207Z
UID:10000454-1628272800-1628272800@playhousevillage.org
SUMMARY:Vroman's: Alvy Ray Smith discusses A Biography of the Pixel
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/9fio0ay8\nThe Great Digital Convergence of all media types into one universal digital medium occurred\, with little fanfare\, at the recent turn of the millennium. The bit became the universal medium\, and the pixel–a particular packaging of bits–conquered the world. Henceforward\, nearly every picture in the world would be composed of pixels–cell phone pictures\, app interfaces\, Mars Rover transmissions\, book illustrations\, videogames. In A Biography of the Pixel\, Pixar cofounder Alvy Ray Smith argues that the pixel is the organizing principle of most modern media\, and he presents a few simple but profound ideas that unify the dazzling varieties of digital image making. \nSmith’s story of the pixel’s development begins with Fourier waves\, proceeds through Turing machines\, and ends with the first digital movies from Pixar\, DreamWorks\, and Blue Sky. Today\, almost all the pictures we encounter are digital–mediated by the pixel and irretrievably separated from their media; museums and kindergartens are two of the last outposts of the analog. Smith explains\, engagingly and accessibly\, how pictures composed of invisible stuff become visible–that is\, how digital pixels convert to analog display elements. Taking the special case of digital movies to represent all of Digital Light (his term for pictures constructed of pixels)\, and drawing on his decades of work in the field\, Smith approaches his subject from multiple angles–art\, technology\, entertainment\, business\, and history. A Biography of the Pixel is essential reading for anyone who has watched a video on a cell phone\, played a videogame\, or seen a movie. (MIT Press)
URL:https://playhousevillage.org/event/vromans-alvy-ray-smith-discusses-a-biography-of-the-pixel/
CATEGORIES:Virtual,Vroman's Bookstore
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210805T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210805T180000
DTSTAMP:20260618T081256
CREATED:20210722T074139Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210722T074139Z
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SUMMARY:Vroman's: Richard Lange with Ed Komenda\, discusses Rovers
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/iojgrnjk \nSummer\, 1976. Jesse and his brother\, Edgar\, are on the road in search of victims. They’re rovers\, nearly indestructible nocturnal beings who must consume human blood in order to survive. For seventy years they’ve lurked on the fringes of society\, roaming from town to town\, dingy motel to dingy motel\, stalking the transients\, addicts\, and prostitutes they feed on. \nThis hard-boiled supernatural hell ride kicks off when the brothers encounter a young woman who disrupts their grim routine\, forcing Jesse to confront his past and plunging his present into deadly chaos as he finds himself scrambling to save her life. The story plays out through the eyes of the brothers\, a grieving father searching for his son’s murderer\, and a violent gang of rover bikers\, coming to a shattering conclusion in Las Vegas on the eve of America’s Bicentennial. \nGripping\, relentless\, and ferocious\, Rovers demonstrates once again why Richard Lange has been hailed as an “expert writer\, his prose exact\, his narrative tightly controlled” (Steph Cha\, Los Angeles Times). (Mulholland Books)
URL:https://playhousevillage.org/event/vromans-richard-lange-with-ed-komenda-discusses-rovers/
CATEGORIES:Virtual,Vroman's Bookstore
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210803T180000
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SUMMARY:Vroman's: Naomi Hirahara discusses Clark and Division
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/jhus7mge \nChicago\, 1944: Twenty-year-old Aki Ito and her parents have just been released from Manzanar\, where they have been detained by the US government since the aftermath of Pearl Harbor\, together with thousands of other Japanese Americans. The life in California the Itos were forced to leave behind is gone; instead\, they are being resettled two thousand miles away in Chicago\, where Aki’s older sister\, Rose\, was sent months earlier and moved to the new Japanese American neighborhood near Clark and Division streets. But on the eve of the Ito family’s reunion\, Rose is killed by a subway train. \nAki\, who worshipped her sister\, is stunned. Officials are ruling Rose’s death a suicide. Aki cannot believe her perfect\, polished\, and optimistic sister would end her life. Her instinct tells her there is much more to the story\, and she knows she is the only person who could ever learn the truth. \nInspired by historical events\, Clark and Division infuses an atmospheric and heartbreakingly real crime fiction plot with rich period details and delicately wrought personal stories Naomi Hirahara has gleaned from thirty years of research and archival work in Japanese American history. (Soho Crime)
URL:https://playhousevillage.org/event/vromans-naomi-hirahara-discusses-clark-and-division/
CATEGORIES:Virtual,Vroman's Bookstore
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210730T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210730T180000
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SUMMARY:Vroman's: Omar El Akkad discusses What Strange Paradise
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/727sz19p \nMore bodies have washed up on the shores of a small island. Another overfilled\, ill-equipped\, dilapidated ship has sunk under the weight of its too many passengers: Syrians\, Ethiopians\, Egyptians\, Lebanese\, Palestinians\, all of them desperate to escape untenable lives back in their homelands. But miraculously\, someone has survived the passage: nine-year-old Amir\, a Syrian boy who is soon rescued by Vänna. Vänna is a teenage girl\, who\, despite being native to the island\, experiences her own sense of homelessness in a place and among people she has come to disdain. And though Vänna and Amir are complete strangers\, though they don’t speak a common language\, Vänna is determined to do whatever it takes to save the boy. \nIn alternating chapters\, we learn about Amir’s life and how he came to be on the boat\, and we follow him and the girl as they make their way toward safety. What Strange Paradise is the story of two children finding their way through a hostile world. But it is also a story of empathy and indifference\, of hope and despair–and about the way each of those things can blind us to reality. (Knopf Publishing Group)
URL:https://playhousevillage.org/event/vromans-omar-el-akkad-discusses-what-strange-paradise/
CATEGORIES:Virtual,Vroman's Bookstore
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210729T180000
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DTSTAMP:20260618T081256
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UID:10000410-1627581600-1627581600@playhousevillage.org
SUMMARY:Vroman's: Jessica Goodman discusses They’ll Never Catch Us
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: TBA \nStella and Ellie Steckler are only a year apart\, but their different personalities make their relationship complicated. Stella is single-minded\, driven\, and she keeps to herself. Cross-country running is her life and she won’t let anything get in the way of being the best. Her sister Ellie is a talented runner too\, but she also lets herself have fun. She has friends. She goes to parties. She has a life off the course. \nThe sisters do have one thing in common\, though: the new girl\, Mila Keene. Both Stecklers’ lives are upended when Mila comes to town. At first\, Ellie and Stella view the new star athlete as a threat. But soon Ellie can’t help but be drawn to her warm\, charming personality. After her best friend moved away and her first boyfriend betrayed her\, Ellie’s been looking for a friend to share her secrets. Stella finds herself noticing the ways she and Mila are similar. Mila is smart and strong–she’s someone Stella can finally connect with. As the two get closer\, Stella becomes something she vowed she’d never be: distracted. \nWith regionals approaching and college scouts taking notice\, the pressure is on. Each girl has their future on the line and they won’t let friendships get in their way. But then\, suddenly\, Mila goes out on a training run and never returns. No one knows what happened\, but all eyes are on the Steckler sisters. (Razorbill)
URL:https://playhousevillage.org/event/vromans-jessica-goodman-discusses-theyll-never-catch-us/
CATEGORIES:Virtual,Vroman's Bookstore
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210728T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210728T180000
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SUMMARY:Vroman's: S.A. Cosby discusses Razorblade Tears
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/3a9tphqc \nIke Randolph has been out of jail for fifteen years\, with not so much as a speeding ticket in all that time. But a Black man with cops at the door knows to be afraid. \nThe last thing he expects to hear is that his son Isiah has been murdered\, along with Isiah’s white husband\, Derek. Ike had never fully accepted his son but is devastated by his loss. \nDerek’s father Buddy Lee was almost as ashamed of Derek for being gay as Derek was ashamed his father was a criminal. Buddy Lee still has contacts in the underworld\, though\, and he wants to know who killed his boy. \nIke and Buddy Lee\, two ex-cons with little else in common other than a criminal past and a love for their dead sons\, band together in their desperate desire for revenge. In their quest to do better for their sons in death than they did in life\, hardened men Ike and Buddy Lee will confront their own prejudices about their sons and each other\, as they rain down vengeance upon those who hurt their boys. \nProvocative and fast-paced\, S. A. Cosby’s Razorblade Tears is a story of bloody retribution\, heartfelt change – and maybe even redemption. (Flatiron Books)
URL:https://playhousevillage.org/event/vromans-s-a-cosby-discusses-razorblade-tears/
CATEGORIES:Virtual,Vroman's Bookstore
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