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695 E. Colorado Blvd.
Pasadena, CA 91101 United States Get Directions
626.449.5320
www.vromansbookstore.com
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Event Series Vroman’s Bookstore: Vroman’s Ed – The Artist’s Way with Dr. Kathleen Fitzgerald (3 weeks)

Vroman’s Bookstore: Vroman’s Ed – The Artist’s Way with Dr. Kathleen Fitzgerald (3 weeks)

Vroman's Bookstore 695 E. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena, CA, United States

Is the creative alive in you? Join us for a three-week mini exploration into The Artist's Way. Our inner creative needs support and community. Together we will explore limiting beliefs and fears that get us stuck. We will find inspirational activities to unleash the creative process! Instructor bio: Dr. Kathleen Fitzgerald is a psychoanalyst working […]

$65,

Vroman’s Bookstore: Yasmine Cheyenne discusses Wisdom of the Path: The Beautiful and Bumpy Ride to Healing and Trusting Our Inner Guide

Vroman's Bookstore 695 E. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena, CA, United States

"When I decided to stop hiding in the shadows of what I'd been through and embrace the hills and rugged terrain of my life, I saw who I really was and loved her." --FROM THE EPILOGUE We're each walking our own journey, and sometimes it's a hard one: a divorce, a career change, grief, or […]

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Vroman’s Bookstore: Lori Tucker Sullivan discusses I Can’t Remember if I Cried: Rock Widows on Life, Love, and Legacy

Vroman's Bookstore 695 E. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena, CA, United States

The stories of rock musicians who die young are the thing of lore and legend. Accidents, drug overdoses, plane crashes--all have taken the lives of male rock stars still in their primes. But what became of their widowed brides? How did they survive a loss so great? What is it like to have to share […]

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Vroman’s Bookstore: Daniel Handler discusses And Then? and Then? What Else?

Vroman's Bookstore 695 E. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena, CA, United States

Writing as Lemony Snicket, Daniel Handler has led several generations of young readers into that special and curious space of being hopelessly lost, and joyfully finding yourself, in the essential strangeness of literature. The wondrous and perilous journey of the Baudelaire orphans sprung from the author's own path, from his childhood discovery of Baudelaire's poetry […]

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Event Series Vroman’s Bookstore: Vroman’s Ed – The Artist’s Way with Dr. Kathleen Fitzgerald (3 weeks)

Vroman’s Bookstore: Vroman’s Ed – The Artist’s Way with Dr. Kathleen Fitzgerald (3 weeks)

Vroman's Bookstore 695 E. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena, CA, United States

Is the creative alive in you? Join us for a three-week mini exploration into The Artist's Way. Our inner creative needs support and community. Together we will explore limiting beliefs and fears that get us stuck. We will find inspirational activities to unleash the creative process! Instructor bio: Dr. Kathleen Fitzgerald is a psychoanalyst working […]

$65,

Vroman’s Bookstore: Nicola Yoon discusses One of Our Kind

Vroman's Bookstore 695 E. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena, CA, United States

Jasmyn and King Williams move their family to the planned Black utopia of Liberty, California hoping to find a community of like-minded people, a place where their growing family can thrive. King settles in at once, embracing the Liberty ethos, including the luxe wellness center at the top of the hill, which proves to be […]

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Vroman’s Bookstore: Jacqueline Winspear discusses The Comfort of Ghosts

Vroman's Bookstore 695 E. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena, CA, United States

London, 1945: Four adolescent orphans with a dark wartime history are squatting in a vacant Belgravia mansion--the owners having fled London under heavy Luftwaffe bombing. Psychologist and Investigator Maisie Dobbs visits the mansion on behalf of the owners and discovers that a demobilized soldier, gravely ill and reeling from his experiences overseas, has taken shelter […]

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Vroman’s Bookstore: Mickey Bergman discusses In the Shadows: True Stories of High-Stakes Negotiations to Free Americans Captured Abroad

Vroman's Bookstore 695 E. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena, CA, United States

Who else are their desperate loved ones supposed to call? Mickey and his tight team of savvy negotiators at the Richardson Center for Global Engagement are the go-to rescuers of last resort, carrying on the high-stakes, round-the-world mission of master negotiator Bill Richardson. Mickey and his team do what U.S. government officials are often unable […]

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Vroman’s Summer Reading Program – Create Your Avatar & Design your Quest Log

Vroman's Bookstore 695 E. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena, CA, United States

Vroman's Summer Reading Program kick-off, and GEAR UP FOR YOUR NEXT PLAYTHROUGH: Stop by the event space on Saturday, June 8th, from 11am-2pm to create your AVATAR and design your QUEST LOG. You will use your quest log to keep track of the books you read throughout the summer! In August, you can present your QUEST LOG after the final boss […]

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Vroman’s Bookstore: Max Podemski discusses A Paradise of Small Houses

Vroman's Bookstore 695 E. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena, CA, United States

The Philadelphia row house. The New York tenement. The Boston triple-decker. Every American city has its own iconic housing style, structures that have been home to generations of families and are symbols of identity and pride. Max Podemski, an urban planner for the city of Los Angeles and lifelong architecture buff, has spent his career […]

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Vroman’s Bookstore: Alexander Boldizar, in conversation with Dr. Galen Buckwalter & Martin Ott, discusses The Man Who Saw Seconds

Vroman's Bookstore 695 E. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena, CA, United States

Preble Jefferson can see five seconds into the future. Otherwise, he lives an ordinary life. But when a confrontation with a cop on a New York City subway goes tragically wrong, those seconds give Preble the chance to dodge a bullet--causing another man to die in his place. Government agencies become aware of Preble's gift, […]

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Vroman’s Bookstore: Kevin Fedarko discusses A Walk in the Park

Vroman's Bookstore 695 E. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena, CA, United States

A few years after quitting his job to follow an ill-advised dream of becoming a guide on the Colorado River, Kevin Fedarko was approached by his best friend, the National Geographic photographer Pete McBride, with a vision as bold as it was harebrained. Together, they would embark on an end-to-end traverse of the Grand Canyon, […]

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