Vroman’s: Storytime with Mr. Steve
Vroman's Bookstore 695 E. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena, CA, United StatesVroman's Bookstore presents Mr. Steve and the gang at the Colorado Blvd. location at 11 a.m. for story time!
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Vroman's Bookstore presents Mr. Steve and the gang at the Colorado Blvd. location at 11 a.m. for story time!
Aztec vampires, astral projecting killers, oxygen stealing bombs, undercover space rangers, aliens occupying Los Angeles, right wing specters haunting the 'hood, masked vigilantes, and mad scientists in their underground lairs plotting world domination populate the stories in this rip-snorting collection. In these pages grindhouse melds with blaxploitation along with strong doses of B movie hardcore […]
What happens when your story doesn't end the way you thought it would? When the dream life you have been working towards become something you must walk away from? When you swap a Hollywood marriage and an LA mansion with waterside views, for a little attic flat shared only with your daughter, beneath the star-filled […]
Artist Catia Chien’s THE LONGEST LETSGOBOY is a profoundly beautiful book about the special relationship between kids and dogs, the importance of language, and finding the meaning of life even in its final days. "As a dog and his little girl go on their final walk together, he gets to experience the sights, smells, and […]
From beloved and bestselling author Roxane Gay, "a strikingly fresh cultural critic" (Washington Post) comes an exhilarating collection of her essays on culture, politics, and everything in between. Since the publication of the groundbreaking Bad Feminist and Hunger, Roxane Gay has continued to tackle big issues embroiling society--state-sponsored violence and mass shootings, women's rights post-Dobbs, […]
Vroman's Bookstore presents Mr. Steve and the gang at the Colorado Blvd. location at 11 a.m. for story time!
In an upbeat and rhythmic ode, Dominique Furukawa and Erika Lynne Jones celebrate Black girls in all their beauty and joy. Black Girls uplifts girls of every shade, size, and walk of life, reminding them that they are perfectly designed. Whimsical, earnest, charming, full, bright, and beautiful, this picture book anthem deftly explores the diversity of Black […]
Alfred Hitchcock was fixated--not just on the dark, twisty stories that became his hallmark, but also by the blond actresses who starred in many of his iconic movies. The director of North by Northwest, Rear Window, and other classic films didn't much care if they wore wigs, got their hair coloring out of a bottle, or were […]
Sara Parcell disappeared without a trace on a crisp April morning in Frederick, Maryland. Her tragic story was a national obsession and the centerpiece of a controversial television docuseries that followed her disappearance in real-time. But is it possible that everyone missed the biggest secret of all? Ten years after these events, the people who […]
Vroman's Bookstore presents Mr. Steve and the gang at the Colorado Blvd. location at 11 a.m. for story time!
This October Vroman’s Bookstore is celebrating the extraordinary new anthology 50 YEARS OF Ms.: THE BEST OF THE PATHFINDING MAGAZINE THAT IGNITED A REVOLUTION (Knopf, Sept. 2023) and engage in critical conversation – with Ms. Consulting digital editor Carmen Rios, author and Ms. contributor Lisa Niver, and Nayereh Tohidi, a member of the Ms. committee of […]
October 11th is the International Day of the Girl, but – rebels that we are – Vroman’s Bookstore is going to celebrate a few days early! Vroman's is collaborating with REBEL GIRLS: “a global empowerment brand dedicated to raising the most inspired and confident generation of girls,” to create a FREE event that will include […]
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