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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240922T150000
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SUMMARY:Vroman's Bookstore: Ticketed In-store event: Terry Szuplat discusses Say it Well
DESCRIPTION:In Say It Well\, Terry Szuplat \, one of Barack Obama’s longest-serving speechwriters\, shares the life-changing lessons he learned from President Obama and how he applied these techniques to become a better speaker and communicator himself. In every chapter\, he brings readers never-before-heard insights and advice on public speaking from President Obama\, riveting never-before-told behind-the-scenes stories from inside the Oval Office and aboard Air Force One\, and practical tips to help readers communicate more effectively with any audience\, from their company to their community. Say It Well empowers readers to become more confident and compelling speakers\, communicators\, and leaders in their work and in life. \nThis is a ticketed in-store event with two tiers of tickets: \nTier 1: includes entry to the event. \nTier 2: includes entry and one copy of Say it Well which will be handed out at check-in. \nA book signing will follow the conversation.
URL:https://playhousevillage.org/event/vromans-bookstore-ticketed-in-store-event-terry-szuplat-discusses-say-it-well/
LOCATION:Vroman’s Bookstore\, 695 E. Colorado Blvd.\, Pasadena\, CA\, 91101\, United States
CATEGORIES:Books,Community Event,In-Person,Vroman's Bookstore
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240921T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240921T170000
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SUMMARY:TICKETED- IN-STORE EVENT: Edward Burns discusses A Kid from Marlboro Road
DESCRIPTION:Kid from Marlboro Road opens at a wake where “Kneeney\,” as his mother calls him\, takes in the death of his beloved grandfather\, Pop\, a larger-than-life figure to him. The overflowing crowd includes sandhogs in their muddy work boots\, old Irish biddies in black dresses and cops in uniform\, along with the family in mourning. There’s an open casket\, the first time he’s seen a dead person. \nHe watches it all\, writing his observations for school projects\, not yet realizing how this world defines and explains who he is and will be. His older brother Tommy has no patience for rules and domesticities\, his father is emotionally elsewhere. Kneeney knows he’s the best thing his mother’s got\, though her sadness envelops them both. \nStories cascade between the prior generation’s colorful origins in the Bronx and Hell’s Kitchen\, and the softer world of Gibson\, the town on Long Island where the family lives now. There are scenes in the Rockaways\, at Belmont Race Track\, and in Montauk. Out of individual struggles a collective warmth emerges\, a certain kind of American story\, raucous and joyous. \nIncludes black and white photographs from the author’s Irish-American New York family history.
URL:https://playhousevillage.org/event/ticketed-in-store-event-edward-burns-discusses-a-kid-from-marlboro-road/
LOCATION:Vroman’s Bookstore\, 695 E. Colorado Blvd.\, Pasadena\, CA\, 91101\, United States
CATEGORIES:Books,Community Event,In-Person,Vroman's Bookstore
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240921T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240921T110000
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SUMMARY:Vroman’s Special Storytime With Will Power Presenting Nana’s New Soul Food
DESCRIPTION:Theater pioneer Will Power inspires families to connect through healthy eating choices\, vegan soul food\, and community in this heartwarming story of a boy’s love for his grandmother–and good food! Includes a vegan recipe! \nCan healthy food be delicious food\, too? A young boy helps us discover that yes\, it can! Nana’s New Soul Food follows this energetic boy on an adventure with his mom to find healthy food in his neighborhood. Motivated by his love for his nana\, who has to change the way she eats because of her health\, the boy rediscovers his neighborhood while finding tasty vegan soul food. \nAward-winning playwright\, pioneer of hip-hop theater\, and performer Will Power injects masterful rhythm into this uplifting story of family and community\, which teaches us that healthy food can be a joy. The pages are graced with beautiful\, vibrant illustrations from Coretta Scott King Award Honor and Caldecott Honor illustrator R. Gregory Christie\, who captures the loving relationships within a family as they connect through their mission to make better eating choices. Back matter includes a fun recipe for Mango-Coconut-Lime Ice Pops courtesy of Chef Bryant Terry\, along with a letter from Will Power.
URL:https://playhousevillage.org/event/vromans-special-storytime-with-will-power-presenting-nanas-new-soul-food/
LOCATION:Vroman’s Bookstore\, 695 E. Colorado Blvd.\, Pasadena\, CA\, 91101\, United States
CATEGORIES:Books,Community Event,Families,In-Person,Kids,Vroman's Bookstore
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240920T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240920T190000
DTSTAMP:20260616T104658
CREATED:20240910T165134Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240910T165134Z
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SUMMARY:Vroman's Bookstore: Eli Greenbaum discusses Hell\, No\, We Didn't Go! Firsthand Accounts of Vietnam War Protest and Resistance
DESCRIPTION:In Hell\, No\, We Didn’t Go!\, Eli Greenbaum presents firsthand accounts of men who were driven to resist or dodge the Vietnam draft at all costs. He introduces readers to a cross section of individuals who found ways to defy the draft by leaving the country\, going to prison\, becoming conscientious objectors\, gaming the system\, conspiring to fail physicals\, and even enlisting—anything to avoid being drafted. These vivid essays and candid oral histories detail events that were often controversial\, sometimes volatile\, and almost always emotionally charged. Greenbaum brings together a chorus of first-person accounts of draft resistance and protest held together by an overarching personal narrative while providing context\, commentary\, and an unusual fifty-year perspective on the men’s decisions to avoid the Vietnam War\, no matter what.
URL:https://playhousevillage.org/event/vromans-bookstore-eli-greenbaum-discusses-hell-no-we-didnt-go-firsthand-accounts-of-vietnam-war-protest-and-resistance/
LOCATION:Vroman’s Bookstore\, 695 E. Colorado Blvd.\, Pasadena\, CA\, 91101\, United States
CATEGORIES:Books,Community Event,Free,In-Person,Vroman's Bookstore
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240919T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240919T190000
DTSTAMP:20260616T104658
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SUMMARY:Vroman's Bookstore: Jessica Hoppe discusses First in the Family
DESCRIPTION:An unflinching and intimate memoir of recovery by Jessica Hoppe\, Latinx writer\, advocate\, and creator of NuevaYorka. \nA MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF 2024: Today\, LupitaReads\, Electric Literature\, Esquire \nIn this deeply moving and lyrical memoir\, Hoppe shares an intimate\, courageous account of what it means to truly interrupt cycles of harm. For readers of The Recovering by Leslie Jamison\, Somebody’s Daughter by Ashley C. Ford\, and Heavy by Kiese Laymon. \nDuring the first year of quarantine\, drug overdoses spiked\, the highest ever recorded. And Hoppe’s cousin was one of them. “I never learned the true history of substance use disorder in my family\,” Hoppe writes. “People just disappeared.” At the time of her cousin’s death\, she’d been in recovery for nearly four years\, but she hadn’t told anyone. \nIn First in the Family\, Hoppe shares her journey\, the first in her family to do so\, and takes the reader on a remarkable investigation of her family’s history\, the American Dream\, and the erasure of BIPOC from recovery institutions and narratives\, leaving the reader with an urgent message of hope.
URL:https://playhousevillage.org/event/vromans-bookstore-jessica-hoppe-discusses-first-in-the-family/
LOCATION:Vroman’s Bookstore\, 695 E. Colorado Blvd.\, Pasadena\, CA\, 91101\, United States
CATEGORIES:Books,Community Event,Free,In-Person
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240918T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240918T190000
DTSTAMP:20260616T104658
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SUMMARY:Vroman's Bookstore: Kwei Quartey discusses The Whitewashed Tombs
DESCRIPTION:Marcelo Tetteh\, a twenty-seven-year-old LGBTQ activist\, is butchered one night after being lured on Grindr to a deserted building site. With rampant homophobia in Ghana\, Marcelo’s wealthy father doesn’t trust the Ghana Police Service to find the killer\, so he goes to the Sowah Private Investigators Agency for help\, partly because he still feels guilty for disowning his son when he came out. \nEmma is assigned the case but quickly learns of a complication that prevents her from teaming up as usual with Jojo\, her trusted colleague. Emma is the only one at work who knows Jojo is gay\, and now he reveals something else: for some time\, Jojo was dating Marcelo\, the victim. \nWorking with Manu\, whom she’s never gotten along with\, Emma goes undercover in the International Congress of Families\, a powerful organization seeking to criminalize homosexuality in African countries. As Emma infiltrates the ICF\, she uncovers a web of deceit and hypocrisy and discovers that the mastermind behind the murders is someone much closer than she ever imagined. Emma must race against time to unmask the killer\, protect the vulnerable LGBTQ+ community\, and bring justice to the victims\, all while navigating the dangerous waters of politics\, power\, and personal secrets.
URL:https://playhousevillage.org/event/vromans-bookstore-kwei-quartey-discusses-the-whitewashed-tombs/
LOCATION:Vroman’s Bookstore\, 695 E. Colorado Blvd.\, Pasadena\, CA\, 91101\, United States
CATEGORIES:Books,Community Event,Free,In-Person
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240918T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240918T110000
DTSTAMP:20260616T104658
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SUMMARY:Vroman's Bookstore: Storytime with Mr. Steve!
DESCRIPTION:Join Mr. Steve and the gang at our Colorado Blvd. location at 11 am for storytime!
URL:https://playhousevillage.org/event/vromans-bookstore-storytime-with-mr-steve-3/
LOCATION:Vroman’s Bookstore\, 695 E. Colorado Blvd.\, Pasadena\, CA\, 91101\, United States
CATEGORIES:Community Event,Free,In-Person,Vroman's Bookstore
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240917T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240917T190000
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SUMMARY:Vroman's Bookstore: Attica Locke discusses Guide Me Home
DESCRIPTION:In the final novel in the “timely and evocative” (NPR) Highway 59 trilogy\, from Edgar Award-winning and New York Times-bestselling author Attica Locke\, Darren Matthews is pulled out of an early retirement to investigate the disappearance of a Black college student from an all-white sorority and soon finds nothing is as it seems. \nTexas Ranger Darren Mathews isn’t sure he’s been a good cop\, but believes he’s got a shot at being a good man—if he manages to dodge the potential indictment hanging over his head and if he\, from here on out\, pledges allegiance to the truth. It’s a virtue the country appears to have wholly lost its grip on\, but one Darren sees as his salvation. He is in the midst of remaking his life with the woman he loves\, hoping for the peace of country living at his beloved farmhouse\, when he is visited by someone who couldn’t hold the truth on her tongue if it was dipped in sugar\, a woman who’s always been bent of tearing his life apart. His mother. Armed with a tall tale about a missing Black college student\, Sera (whose white sorority sisters insist she isn’t missing at all). Darren must decide if his can trust his mother is telling the truth—and what her ulterior motive may be\, and what if that motive has to do with a grand jury deciding his fate. \nDarren gets his hooks into the investigation\, along the way discovering things about Sera’s family and her hometown that are odd at best\, vaguely sinister at worst. Hamstrung by local law enforcement and the Texas Rangers who likewise doubt the account of a missing girl\, if Darren wants answers\, he’ll need help from the person whom he swore to never trust again—his mother. \nIn this emotionally stirring conclusion to the singular Highway 59 series\, set three years after the events of Heaven\, My Home\, Darren reckons with his life’s purpose as he’s forced to choose between his own peace and the higher call to do good. \n  \nAbout Attica Locke: Attica Locke is a NY Times best-selling author of five novels\, including Bluebird\, Bluebird\, which won the Edgar Award for Best Novel. She is also a winner of the Harper Lee Prize for Legal Fiction\, the Ernest Gaines Award for Literary Excellence\, and she has been short listed for the Women’s Prize for Fiction and nominated for an LA Times Book Prize and an NAACP Image award for her work as a novelist. Locke is also a screenwriter and TV producer\, with credits that include Empire\, When They See Us and the Emmy-nominated Little Fires Everywhere\, for which she won an NAACP Image award for television writing. She co-created and executive produced an adaptation of her sister Tembi Locke’s memoir From Scratch: A Memoir of Love\, Sicily\, and Finding Home for Netflix. A native of Houston\, Texas\, Attica lives in Los Angeles\, California.
URL:https://playhousevillage.org/event/vromans-bookstore-attica-locke-discusses-guide-me-home/
LOCATION:Vroman’s Bookstore\, 695 E. Colorado Blvd.\, Pasadena\, CA\, 91101\, United States
CATEGORIES:Books,Community Event,In-Person,Vroman's Bookstore
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240915T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240915T140000
DTSTAMP:20260616T104658
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SUMMARY:Vroman's Bookstore: Hispanic Heritage Month Celebration with Lil' Libros
DESCRIPTION:We welcome our friends from Lil’ Libros\, the Go-To Destination for Bilingual Children’s Books\, Games\, & Toys\, as we celebrate the beginning of Hispanic Heritage Month! We will be joined by an amazing panel: Cindy Montenegro (author My Mind is a My Mind is a Mountain / Mi mente es una montaña)\, Mariana Galvez (author/illustrator My Pet Flamingo)\, CHOGRIN (author Kid del Toro)\, and Cynthia Gonzalez (author The Life of / La vida de Llort). The panel will discuss their books before we have a Special Storytime that will be followed by activities for kids and a book signing. \n  \nCindy Montenegro is a Salvadoran American mental health therapist and storyteller from Paramount\, California. She received her graduate degree in Marriage and Family Therapy from Chapman University and a bachelor’s degree from UC Santa Barbara. In the therapy room\, Cindy works with people of all ages to explore their emotions and strengths to create a roadmap to self-love\, growth\, and healing. Her imagination is influenced by her childhood\, love of the outdoors\, and passion for mental health. Cindy hopes that her writing will inspire readers to celebrate all of their emotions\, no matter how big or small they may be! This is her first children’s book. \nMariana Galvez was born in Mexico and grew up in South Los Angeles. In her childhood\, it was during weekend trips to the library that her love for illustrating and writing was forged. After a number of years in the corporate world\, she was called back to illustrating when creating art for her three children. She currently resides in Whittier\, CA with her husband where she loves to garden\, cook vegan food\, and chase after her beloved dog and cat. \nCHOGRIN is an artist & storyteller from Guayaquil\, Ecuador. His work is inspired by his neverending childhood and pop-culture. For the last decade\, he has worked in the animation industry for companies like Cartoon Network and currently works at Disney. His artwork has been featured in multiple galleries and publications around the world. He’s currently designing vinyl toys like “Guru del Toro\,” as well as writing\, drawing\, and directing other art projects from his secret art lair in Burbank (CA). \nCynthia Gonzalez was born in El Salvador and raised in South Los Angeles. She’s multi-faceted with talents as an author\, poet\, Cultural Advisor\, and Entertainment Director for the Los Angeles LGBT Center. Cynthia has served as an executive board member for non-profits in Los Angeles and Long Beach\, has written articles for the local Long Beach press\, and was featured in the L.A. Times. Her passion for seeing a positive representation of the Salvadoran community led her to establish Salvies Who Lunch\, a platform dedicated to connecting and empowering Salvadorans of all backgrounds through events. Cynthia’s recent contributions include translating eight books for Lil’ Libros’ VÁMONOS series and serving as Associate Producer and Cultural Advisor on award-winning filmmaker Kase Peña’s upcoming new film. On her free days\, she enjoys watching sci-fi movies and Rocky Road ice cream.
URL:https://playhousevillage.org/event/vromans-bookstore-hispanic-heritage-month-celebration-with-lil-libros/
LOCATION:Vroman’s Bookstore\, 695 E. Colorado Blvd.\, Pasadena\, CA\, 91101\, United States
CATEGORIES:Books,Community Event,Free,In-Person,Vroman's Bookstore,Workshop
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240914T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240914T180000
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SUMMARY:Vroman's Annual Teachers' Night Out! (Free ticket link)
DESCRIPTION:You are cordially invited to join us for our annual Teacher’s Night Out! \nJoin us for an evening that celebrates you – the incredible teachers and librarians of our community! We will have snacks and beverages\, plus a bunch of goodies (including books!) to give away. Our knowledgeable staff will be on hand to recommend great new books for your classroom discussions and libraries and share some services we offer to teachers. We will have a publisher-sponsored table full of reading and classroom recommendations. \nBrowse the table of recommendations\, speak with our booksellers\, mingle with fellow educators\, and enjoy some treats. You’ll also receive a 20% off coupon to use for any personal shopping that night. \nAs a special added bonus this evening\, we will be honoring 2023-2024’s Teacher of the Year\, Miss Helena Alves and her school\, Madison Elementary! We will have the award presentation at 6PM in our Events Space!
URL:https://playhousevillage.org/event/vromans-annual-teachers-night-out-free-ticket-link/
LOCATION:Vroman’s Bookstore\, 695 E. Colorado Blvd.\, Pasadena\, CA\, 91101\, United States
CATEGORIES:Books,Community Event,Vroman's Bookstore
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240914T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240914T110000
DTSTAMP:20260616T104658
CREATED:20240828T163200Z
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SUMMARY:Vroman’s Special Storytime featuring Linda Liu discussing Sour Apple
DESCRIPTION:From the creator of Hidden Gem comes a funny and delightful new picture book about an apple who learns the importance of self-acceptance and patience after being left behind during picking season. \nEver been picked last? Well\, this sour apple knows a thing or two about what it feels like to be forgotten. When apple season passes and he’s left on the cold\, hard ground\, he questions his place in the world. \nAs his introspection branches out into different ideas of what could have been if he was chosen\, he learns some core truths about what it means to be alive. \nAbout Linda Liu: Linda Liu is an illustrator and a designer based in Southern California with a taste for tactile textures\, saucy shapes\, and palatable palettes. She graduated from the Rhode Island School of Design and now works freelance and full-time so she can be a girl boss and a girl employee at the same time. She is the author and illustrator of Hidden Gem and Sour Apple.
URL:https://playhousevillage.org/event/vromans-special-storytime-featuring-linda-liu-discussing-sour-apple/
LOCATION:Vroman’s Bookstore\, 695 E. Colorado Blvd.\, Pasadena\, CA\, 91101\, United States
CATEGORIES:Books,Community Event,Families,Free,In-Person,Kids,Vroman's Bookstore
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240913T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240913T190000
DTSTAMP:20260616T104658
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SUMMARY:Vroman's Bookstore: Désirée Zamorano\, in conversation with Naomi Hirahara\, discusses Dispossessed
DESCRIPTION:Manuel Galvan is separated from his parents and sister during the mass expatriation of Mexicans and Mexican Americans in the 1930s. He grows from a small\, lost and confused boy into a wandering and angry teenager pushed out of high school and into the dockyards. Later as a loyal\, passionate husband he is a man searching for a life of value and dignity despite his losses. Set against the backdrop of (Mexican) American history in Los Angeles\, forced deportations\, the demolition of Chavez Ravine\, sterilization of Latinas\, student protests and rising political consciousness\, this story spans his life\, from 6 to 60\, and his search for his missing family\, the missing pieces of his life. \nAbout Désirée Zamorano: Born and raised in Los Angeles Désirée Zamorano is the author of the highly acclaimed literary novel\, The Amado Women. Her novel Human Cargo was Latinidad’s mystery pick of the year. She is a Pushcart prize nominee and award-winning short story writer. Her work is often an exploration of issues of invisibility\, injustice\, or inequity. A selection of her writing can be found in Catapult\, Cultural Weekly\, The Kenyon Review Online\, and Akashic’ s South Central Noir. She teaches linguistic and cultural diversity at Cal State Long Beach. \nAbout Naomi Hirahara: Naomi Hirahara is the Edgar® Award-winning author of the Officer Ellie Rush Mysteries\, including Grave on Grand Avenue and Murder on Bamboo Lane (which received the T. Jefferson Parker Mystery Award). Born and raised in Pasadena\, Naomi received her bachelor’s degree in international relations from Stanford University and studied at the Inter-University Center for Advanced Japanese Language Studies in Tokyo. She worked as a reporter and editor of The Rafu Shimpo in downtown Los Angeles. She is also the author of the Mas Arai Mysteries (including Summer of the Big Bachi\, Gasa-Gasa Girl\, and Snakeskin Shamisen) and the middle-grade novel 1001 Cranes\, and has written\, edited\, and published several nonfiction books\, largely about the Japanese American experience.
URL:https://playhousevillage.org/event/vromans-bookstore-desiree-zamorano-in-conversation-with-naomi-hirahara-discusses-dispossessed/
LOCATION:Vroman’s Bookstore\, 695 E. Colorado Blvd.\, Pasadena\, CA\, 91101\, United States
CATEGORIES:Books,Community Event,Free,In-Person,Vroman's Bookstore
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240912T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240912T190000
DTSTAMP:20260616T104658
CREATED:20240828T162552Z
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SUMMARY:Vroman's Bookstore: Aurélie Thiele\, discusses The Paris Understudy
DESCRIPTION:This powerful debut novel brings to life the hard choices Parisians made–or failed to make–under Nazi occupation\, in the tradition of Pam Jenoff and Fiona Davis. \n1938. Paris Opera legend Madeleine Moreau must keep newcomer Yvonne Chevallier\, whose talent she fears\, off the stage. As the long-standing star of the opera\, she is nowhere near ready to give up her spotlight. The perfect solution: enlist Yvonne as her understudy so she can never be upstaged. When Madeleine is invited to headline at Germany’s pre-eminent opera festival\, she is sure this will cement her legacy. But war is looming\, and when she learns that Adolf Hitler himself will be in attendance\, she knows she’s made a grave error. As Madeleine makes a hurried escape back to France\, Yvonne finds herself unexpectedly thrown into the limelight on the German stage. \nWhen a newspaper photograph shows Hitler seemingly enraptured by Yvonne\, Yvonne’s life is upended. While she is trying frantically to repair her reputation at home\, Yvonne’s son is captured and held as a prisoner of war. Desperate to free her son\, she makes an impossible choice: turn to the enemy. \nAs the Nazis invade Paris\, both women must decide what they are willing to do in pursuit of their art. They form an unlikely alliance\, using their fame to protect themselves and the people they love from the maelstrom of history. \nPainting an enrapturing portrait of resilient wartime women\, The Paris Understudy is a love letter to the arts and a stark depiction of the choices we make to survive\, for fans of Kate Quinn and Kristen Harmel.
URL:https://playhousevillage.org/event/vromans-bookstore-aurelie-thiele-discusses-the-paris-understudy/
LOCATION:Vroman’s Bookstore\, 695 E. Colorado Blvd.\, Pasadena\, CA\, 91101\, United States
CATEGORIES:Books,Community Event,Free,In-Person,Vroman's Bookstore
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SUMMARY:Vroman's Bookstore: Ava Dellaira\, in conversation with Nicola Yoon\, discusses Exposure
DESCRIPTION:Best friends Juliette Marker and Annie Ricci shared an enviable childhood bond\, both mesmerized by Juliette’s famous mother\, Margot\, a renowned photographer who documented their idyllic southern California adolescence. \nAfter a series of unexpected events\, Juliette leaves Annie and California for Chicago\, where\, as a white college freshman\, she meets Noah King\, a Black high school senior. These two lonely souls enter each other’s orbit\, forge a connection\, and\, after a chance meeting\, spend one eventful evening together. \nYears later\, Noah has done the impossible and made it in Hollywood. His first film is about to be released. He and his beloved wife Jesse\, a successful writer herself\, have just had a baby when Annie makes a startling discovery about Juliette that will threaten to blow up the life Noah has struggled to build. Details of that fateful Chicago night more than a decade earlier come to light\, causing all who love Juliette and Noah to confront the discomfort of conflicting truths. \nSpanning decades and told from multiple perspectives\, this powerful\, provocative debut delves into the complex lives and relationships of those affected by one life-changing moment\, sharply exploring how race\, artistic ambition\, friendship\, and grief expose different versions of the same story. \nAbout Ava Dellaira: Ava Dellaira was born in Los Angeles. She received her undergraduate degree at the University of Chicago\, and then received her MFA in poetry from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop after which she moved to Los Angeles assisting Stephen Chbosky\, the author of The Perks of Being a Wallflower\, as an associate producer on his film adaptation of the book. Author of Love Letters to the Dead\, Ava adapted it into a screenplay for Temple Hill (the company that produced Twilight and The Fault In Our Stars). She has since written In Search of Us and the upcoming adult novel Exposure.
URL:https://playhousevillage.org/event/vromans-bookstore-ava-dellaira-in-conversation-with-nicola-yoon-discusses-exposure/
LOCATION:Vroman’s Bookstore\, 695 E. Colorado Blvd.\, Pasadena\, CA\, 91101\, United States
CATEGORIES:Books,Community Event,Free,In-Person,Vroman's Bookstore
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SUMMARY:Vroman's Bookstore: Mary Lea Carroll discusses Across the Street Around the Corner…A Road Home
DESCRIPTION:Across the Street\, Around the Corner: A Road Home  is an inspiring\, wisdom-packed\, funny collection of neighborhood life set during the pandemic\, when everyone-everywhere-was forced to stay home. As a world traveler and now not able to go anywhere\, the author thinks\, Well\, I can’t travel the world? Why not travel the block-see who and what’s right under my own nose? Having been in her neighborhood 35 years\, and alarmed by how isolating the lockdown was\, Carroll began a pandemic practice of reaching out to neighbors she’d known for years but may have lost track of: saying hello\, checking on them and setting up walks and talks.  Her aim was to rediscover the elusive element that turned their not-so-great neighborhood into a cherished\, even prized place to live. The conversations that ensued with her current neighbors -funny\, touching\, nostalgic-brought memories of her own childhood back to life\, in a neighborhood a mere mile or two from where she lives today but more than 60 years apart in time:  Memories of the neighbors who helped form her\, of growing up in the 1960s amid nine brothers and sisters with an eccentric former movie-star grandmother and a street packed with kids. \nAcross the Street\, Around the Corner: A Road Home melds together these neighborhoods\, combining stories both hilarious and uplifting with simple observations and inspirations. The book opens our eyes on how to live a little bit better in the neighborhood life happens to place you. In these divisive times\, this slim\, giftable book is a comfort and a balm and every bit as warm\, engaging\, inspiring\, and funny as the author’s first two enduringly popular books\, Saint Everywhere and Somehow Saints.
URL:https://playhousevillage.org/event/vromans-bookstore-mary-lea-carroll-discusses-across-the-street-around-the-cornera-road-home/
LOCATION:Vroman’s Bookstore\, 695 E. Colorado Blvd.\, Pasadena\, CA\, 91101\, United States
CATEGORIES:Books,Community Event,Free,In-Person,Vroman's Bookstore
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240907T140000
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SUMMARY:Vroman's Bookstore: Local Poetry Day featuring Brent Ameneyro\, Lory Bedikian\, Blas Falconer\, and Cherene Sherrard\, in Conversation With Doug Manuel
DESCRIPTION:Brent Ameneyro is the author of the collection A Face Out of Clay (The Center for Literary Publishing\, 2024) and the chapbook Puebla (Ghost City Press\, 2023). His E-Lit has been selected for the 2022 Education and Electronic Literature Conference and Art Festival in Italy\, as well as for film festivals in Denmark\, Barcelona\, Canada\, and Los Angeles. He was the 2022-2023 Letras Latinas Poetry Coalition Fellow at the University of Notre Dame. He currently serves as the poetry editor at The Los Angeles Review. \nLory Bedikian’s second book Jagadakeer: Apology to the Body won the 2023 Prairie Schooner/Raz-Shumaker Book Prize in Poetry forthcoming September 2024 from the University of Nebraska Press and her first collection The Book of Lamenting won the Philip Levine Prize for Poetry. Several of Bedikian’s poems received the First Prize Award in the Pablo Neruda Prize for Poetry as part of the 2022 Nimrod Literary Awards.  Her work is published in Tin House\, Gulf Coast\, The Los Angeles Review\, BOULEVARD\, The Adroit Journal\, Orion\, wildness\, and was featured on Pádraig Ó Tuama’s Poetry Unbound podcast. Her poem “The Mechanic\,” is included in the anthology Border Lines: Poems of Migration\, KNOPF\, 2020.  Bedikian’s manuscript-in-progress received a 2021 grant from the Money for Women/Barbara Deming Memorial Fund. New work appears in Massachusetts Review’s “Revisiting WOMAN: An Issue\, 50 Years Later.” Bedikian earned an MFA from the University of Oregon. She teaches poetry workshops in Los Angeles and elsewhere. \nBlas Falconer is the author of four books\, including Rara Avis (Four Way Books 2024)\, as well as the coeditor of two anthologies\, Mentor and Muse: Essays from Poets to Poets and The Other Latin@: Writing Against a Singular Identity. The recipient of a poetry fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts and a Maureen Egen Writers Exchange Award from Poets & Writers\, he teaches in San Diego State University’s MFA program and is the editor in chief at Poetry International Online. \nCherene Sherrard is a poet\, scholar\, and essayist. She is the author of two poetry collections\, Vixen\, and Grimoire\, and an award-winning chapbook\, Mistress\, Reclining. Recent creative nonfiction and poetry have appeared in the New York Times Magazine\, Hidden Compass\, Ecotone\, Terrain.org\, Blackbird\, Water~Stone Review\, and elsewhere. She is a professor of English at Pomona College \nDouglas Manuel was born in Anderson\, Indiana and now resides in Whittier\, California. He received a BA in Creative Writing from Arizona State University\, an MFA in poetry from Butler University\, and a PhD in English Literature and Creative Writing from the University of Southern California. He is the author of two collections of poetry\, Testify (2017) and Trouble Funk (2023). His poems and essays can be found in numerous literary journals\, magazines\, and websites\, most recently Zyzzyva\, Pleiades\, and the New Orleans Review. He has traveled to Egypt and Eritrea with The University of Iowa’s International Writing Program to teach poetry. A recipient of the Dana Gioia Poetry Award and a fellowship from the Borchard Foundation Center on Literary Arts\, he is an assistant professor of English at Whittier College and teaches at Spalding University’s low-res MFA program.
URL:https://playhousevillage.org/event/vromans-bookstore-local-poetry-day-featuring-brent-ameneyro-lory-bedikian-blas-falconer-and-cherene-sherrard-in-conversation-with-doug-manuel/
LOCATION:Vroman’s Bookstore\, 695 E. Colorado Blvd.\, Pasadena\, CA\, 91101\, United States
CATEGORIES:Books,Community Event,In-Person,Vroman's Bookstore
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SUMMARY:Vroman's Bookstore: A Special Musical Storytime featuring the Pasadena Conservatory of Music
DESCRIPTION:The Pasadena Conservatory of Music will be putting on a special musical storytime with featured book: My Many Colored Days by Dr. Seuss. Caregivers and children aged 3-9 will enjoy story\, craft activities\, creative movement and a mini-concert.
URL:https://playhousevillage.org/event/vromans-bookstore-a-special-musical-storytime-featuring-the-pasadena-conservatory-of-music-4/
LOCATION:Vroman’s Bookstore\, 695 E. Colorado Blvd.\, Pasadena\, CA\, 91101\, United States
CATEGORIES:Books,Community Event,Free,In-Person,Kids,Vroman's Bookstore
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SUMMARY:Vroman's Bookstore: Mike De Socio\, in conversation with Nick Wolny\, discuss Morally Straight: How the Fight for LGBTQ Inclusion Changed the Boy Scouts—and America
DESCRIPTION:In Morally Straight we meet James Dale\, the poster child of Scouting who took his fight for inclusion to the Supreme Court; Steven Cozza\, the 12-year-old scout in California who started a movement for inclusion called Scouting for All; Jennifer Tyrrell\, the lesbian den mother whose expulsion from the Scouts reignited the gay membership controversy; Zach Wahls\, the son of lesbian moms who led the final push for policy change; and an array of other previously unknown Scouters who played smaller—but no less crucial—roles in the fight for full inclusion. \nAbout Mike De Socio: Mike De Socio is an award-winning independent journalist who writes about social justice and solutions. He grew up in New Jersey\, where he became an Eagle Scout\, and later earned a degree in journalism from Boston University. His work has been published in theWashington Post\, Bloomberg\,the Guardian\, Fortune\, Xtra\, YES!Magazine\, and more. He now lives with his partner in upstate New York. \nAbout Nick Wolny: Nick Wolny is a professional editor\, journalist\, and business consultant based in Los Angeles. \n 
URL:https://playhousevillage.org/event/vromans-bookstore-mike-de-socio-in-conversation-with-nick-wolny-discuss-morally-straight-how-the-fight-for-lgbtq-inclusion-changed-the-boy-scouts-and-america/
LOCATION:Vroman’s Bookstore\, 695 E. Colorado Blvd.\, Pasadena\, CA\, 91101\, United States
CATEGORIES:Books,Community Event,Free,In-Person,Vroman's Bookstore
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240903T190000
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SUMMARY:Vroman's Bookstore: Eve Driver discusses What We Can’t Burn
DESCRIPTION:Eve was a fossil fuel divestment activist from Massachusetts who came to believe capitalism was at the root of the climate crisis. Tom was a clean energy entrepreneur from a rural village in Kenya who believed the activist approach was suspended from the real-world experiences of those facing the worst of the crisis’ effects. They met as juniors at Harvard\, launching a journey in which their conflicting perspectives almost tore their unlikely friendship apart. \nRaw\, funny\, and lyrical\, What We Can’t Burn is a memoir in two voices about coming of age in a world confused and divided about how to save itself. Set in both Kenya and the United States\, this timely story is a singular testament to the power of dialogue\, humor\, and friendship to help us find our place among the many currents of change-making that cut across the world today.
URL:https://playhousevillage.org/event/vromans-bookstore-eve-driver-discusses-what-we-cant-burn/
LOCATION:Vroman’s Bookstore\, 695 E. Colorado Blvd.\, Pasadena\, CA\, 91101\, United States
CATEGORIES:Books,Community Event,In-Person,Vroman's Bookstore
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240901T160000
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SUMMARY:Vroman's Bookstore: Local Author Day featuring m.a. Arana\, Tom Jenkins\, and Dennis C. Powell
DESCRIPTION:In Wing Stroke by m. a. Arana\, we immerse ourselves in the gripping tale of revenge and change. This is more than a story of reclaiming a kingdom; it’s a desperate battle for recognition in a world that has yet to acknowledge its existence. \nThe Next Run: A UC Berkeley Student’s Rise to Major 60s Pot Smuggler by Tom Jenkins \nThe true story of a 60s Berkeley student who starts smuggling pot hidden in cars\, graduates to planes\, resorts to wading sacks through the Rio Grande\, and ultimately finds himself heading the Colombian end of an operation using a twin-engine cargo plane to drop bales to waiting speedboats off the coast of Florida. At the same time\, his Mexican contacts are sending him six-ton shipments transported in semis past a bribed customs officer. \nStanding Over Home by Dennis C. Powell \nStanding Over Home is written to help broken sons-young men who lacked the love and direction of a father figure-discover respect and learn missed lessons about love and protection that were never passed down to them during their formative years. Through the eyes of author Dennis Powell\, division champion Dodger pitcher\, Standing Over Home communicates metaphorically this picture of the importance of a father’s role to stand as protector and priest over his home and family.
URL:https://playhousevillage.org/event/vromans-bookstore-local-author-day-featuring-m-a-arana-tom-jenkins-and-dennis-c-powell/
LOCATION:Vroman’s Bookstore\, 695 E. Colorado Blvd.\, Pasadena\, CA\, 91101\, United States
CATEGORIES:Books,Community Event,In-Person,Vroman's Bookstore
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SUMMARY:Vroman's Bookstore: Local Author Day - Young Reader’s Edition
DESCRIPTION:“AhMa Loves You! is a heartwarming bilingual chapter book highlighting the special relationship between a grandma and grandchild and the cross-cultural differences in ways to show love. There’s no other book like it on the market! Highly recommended!”\n-Katrina Liu\, Author of I Love Boba!
URL:https://playhousevillage.org/event/vromans-bookstore-local-author-day-young-readers-edition/
LOCATION:Vroman’s Bookstore\, 695 E. Colorado Blvd.\, Pasadena\, CA\, 91101\, United States
CATEGORIES:Books,Community Event,Free,In-Person,Kids,Vroman's Bookstore
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240830T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240830T190000
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SUMMARY:Vroman's Bookstore: Craig Rosebraugh discusses Burning Rage of a Dying Planet: The FBI vs. the Earth Liberation Front
DESCRIPTION:A harrowing\, captivating firsthand history of the rise of the radical environmental movement the Earth Liberation Front (ELF). Since 1997\, the ELF has inflicted over $100 million in damages on entities they believe to be causing environmental destruction\, mostly through brazen arson attacks on timber companies\, ski resorts\, and car dealerships. \nFormer ELF spokesperson Craig Rosebraugh charts the history and ideology of the ELF and explores its tactics\, successes\, and limitations. Rosebraugh examines the question of whether or not violence is justifiable\, along with the short- and long-term political benefits and drawbacks of using violence. He also offers a primer on the tactics of state repression and strategies the US government uses to destroy activist movements. \nWhatever your view of direct action or violence\, Burning Rage of a Dying Planet is an illuminating read for anyone seeking to understand radical environmental movements and the government’s response to them.
URL:https://playhousevillage.org/event/vromans-bookstore-craig-rosebraugh-discusses-burning-rage-of-a-dying-planet-the-fbi-vs-the-earth-liberation-front/
LOCATION:Vroman’s Bookstore\, 695 E. Colorado Blvd.\, Pasadena\, CA\, 91101\, United States
CATEGORIES:Books,Community Event,In-Person,Vroman's Bookstore
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240824T110000
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SUMMARY:Vroman's Bookstore: Antoinette Portis discusses Not-a-Box City
DESCRIPTION:Don’t miss the long-awaited companion to Not a Box\, winner of a Theodor Seuss Geisel Honor Award. This picture book with its visual humor and simple dialogue is great for fans of Mo Willems and Crockett Johnson. \nBunny wants to build a cardboard city. \nBunny stacks one cardboard box on top of another and another. \nBunny doesn’t want any help. Bunny doesn’t need any help\, either. \nBut what’s a cardboard city without friends? \nWritten and illustrated with the same delightful simplicity that made Not a Box such a hit\, the playtime possibilities of a stack of boxes and friendship will inspire and excite any child who has ever journeyed into the world of make-believe.
URL:https://playhousevillage.org/event/vromans-bookstore-antoinette-portis-discusses-not-a-box-city/
LOCATION:Vroman’s Bookstore\, 695 E. Colorado Blvd.\, Pasadena\, CA\, 91101\, United States
CATEGORIES:Books,Community Event,In-Person,Vroman's Bookstore
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240821T190000
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SUMMARY:Vroman's Bookstore: Albert M. Camarillo discusses Compton in My Soul: A Life in Pursuit of Racial Equality
DESCRIPTION:When Al Camarillo grew up in Compton\, California\, racial segregation was the rule. His relatives were among the first Mexican immigrants to settle there–in the only neighborhood where Mexicans were allowed to live. The city’s majority was then White\, and Compton would shift to a predominantly Black community over Al’s youth. Compton in My Soul weaves Al’s personal story with histories of this now-infamous place and illuminates a changing US society–the progress and backslides over half a century for racial equality and educational opportunity. \nEntering UCLA in the mid-1960s\, Camarillo was among the first students of color\, one of only forty-four Mexican Americans on a campus of thousands. He became the first Mexican American in the country to earn a PhD in Chicano/Mexican American history and established himself as a preeminent US historian with a prestigious appointment at Stanford University. In this candid and warm-hearted memoir\, Camarillo offers his career as a vehicle for tracing the evolution of ethnic studies\, reflecting on intergenerational struggles to achieve racial equality from the perspective at once of a participant and a historian. \nCamarillo’s story is a quintessential American chronicle and speaks to the best and worst of who we are as a people and as a nation. He unmasks fundamental contradictions in American life–racial injustice and interracial cooperation\, inequality and equal opportunity\, racial strife and racial harmony. Even as legacies of inequality still haunt American society\, Camarillo writes with a message of hope for a better\, more inclusive America–and the aspiration that his life’s journey can inspire others as they start down their own path.
URL:https://playhousevillage.org/event/vromans-bookstore-albert-m-camarillo-discusses-compton-in-my-soul-a-life-in-pursuit-of-racial-equality/
LOCATION:Vroman’s Bookstore\, 695 E. Colorado Blvd.\, Pasadena\, CA\, 91101\, United States
CATEGORIES:Books,Community Event,In-Person,Vroman's Bookstore
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240818T140000
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SUMMARY:Vroman's Bookstore: Gina Chen\, Shelly Page\, Justine Pucella Winans\, and Alex Brown\, discuss The House Where Death Lives: An Anthology
DESCRIPTION:A dance to the death. A girl who’s just as monstrous as H.H. Holmes. A hallway that’s constantly changing―and hungry. All of these stories exist in the same place―within the frame of a particular house that isn’t bound by the laws of time and space. \nFollowing in the footsteps of dark/horror-filled YA anthologies like His Hideous Heart and Slasher Girls and Monster Boys\, and Netflix’s groundbreaking adaptation of The Haunting of Hill House\, this YA speculative fiction anthology explores how the permanence of a home can become a space of transition and change for both the inhabitants and the creatures who haunt them. \nEach story in the anthology will focus on a different room in the house and feature unique takes on monsters from a wide array of cultural traditions. Whether it’s a demonic Trickster\, a water-loving Rusalka\, or a horrifying\, baby-imitating Tiyanak\, there’s bound to be something sinister lurking in the shadows.
URL:https://playhousevillage.org/event/vromans-bookstore-gina-chen-shelly-page-justine-pucella-winans-and-alex-brown-discuss-the-house-where-death-lives-an-anthology/
LOCATION:Vroman’s Bookstore\, 695 E. Colorado Blvd.\, Pasadena\, CA\, 91101\, United States
CATEGORIES:Books,Community Event,In-Person,Vroman's Bookstore
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240817T140000
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SUMMARY:Vroman's Bookstore: Abigail Hing Wen\, in conversation with Marie Lu\, discusses Kisses\, Codes\, and Conspiracies
DESCRIPTION:Tan Lee finds himself embroiled in an unusual love triangle\, all while trying to defuse a heist\, unravel a conspiracy\, and navigate the most complicated babysitting assignment ever in this YA novel by New York Times and Indie bestselling author Abigail Hing Wen. \nAfter a magical kiss at Prom\, best friends Tan Lee and Winter Woo agree to cool it off\, a plan that goes awry when their parents jointly head off to Hawaii and leave Tan and Winter to babysit Tan’s sister Sana together. If that isn’t complicated enough\, Tan’s ex-girlfriend from Shanghai arrives on his doorstep with money stolen from her billionaire father and thugs on her heels. \nTan soon finds himself on the run through the San Francisco Bay Area\, trying to out-maneuver international hackers and protect his friends\, family\, and sister—and his own heart. \n  \nMarie Lu is the #1 New York Times–bestselling author of the Legend series\, The Young Elites trilogy\, the Warcross series\, the Skyhunter series\, Batman: Nightwalker\, and The Kingdom of Back. She graduated from the University of Southern California and jumped into the video game industry\, where she worked as an artist. A full-time writer\, she spends her spare hours reading\, drawing\, playing games\, and getting stuck in traffic. She lives in the traffic-jam capital\, Los Angeles\, with her illustrator/author husband\, Primo Gallanosa\, and their son.
URL:https://playhousevillage.org/event/vromans-bookstore-abigail-hing-wen-in-conversation-with-marie-lu-discusses-kisses-codes-and-conspiracies/
LOCATION:Vroman’s Bookstore\, 695 E. Colorado Blvd.\, Pasadena\, CA\, 91101\, United States
CATEGORIES:Books,Community Event,In-Person,Vroman's Bookstore
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SUMMARY:Vroman's Summer Reading Program - Hero's Return
DESCRIPTION:HERO’S RETURN \nJoin us in the event space at 11am for a battle with the FINAL BOSS: Mr. Steve\, in a video game and adventure-themed storytime. And be sure to stop by the Kid’s Info Desk with your QUEST LOG anytime from 11am-2pm to COLLECT YOUR LOOT: cold snacks\, $5 Vroman’s gift cards\, and more!
URL:https://playhousevillage.org/event/vromans-summer-reading-program-heros-return/
LOCATION:Vroman’s Bookstore\, 695 E. Colorado Blvd.\, Pasadena\, CA\, 91101\, United States
CATEGORIES:Books,Community Event,Families,Free,In-Person,Kids,Vroman's Bookstore
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240816T190000
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SUMMARY:Vroman's Bookstore: IN-STORE TICKETED: Maria Bamford and Scott Marvel Cassidy sign Hogbook and Lazer Eyes
DESCRIPTION:Fans of Maria Bamford’s acclaimed quasi-autobiographical Lady Dynamite! Netflix series already know of her romance with LA painter Scott Marvel Cassidy\, as well as her droll pug sidekicks Blueberry and Bert.Now the story has been recounted in the graphic novella Hogbook and Lazer Eyes\, written by Bamford/Cassidy\, drawn by Cassidy\, and all told by the rescue dogs they’ve adopted. \nFor those unfamiliar with the story\, newly single fortysomethings Maria Bamford and Scott Cassidy each signed up on the dating site O.K. Cupid\, under the respective usernames “Hogbook” and “Lazer Eyes.” They went on a date\, and then another\, and soon\, despite a history of Bipolar II disorder and unhealthy relationships for each of them\, they fall in love and are married in 2015. We view all of this through the prism of their pug housemates\, including Blueberry and Bert (who has an unnatural obsession with Michael Flatley of “Riverdance” fame)\, and the elderly bonded pair Betty and Arnold (who recount their star turn as interplanetary canine scientists in the second season of Lady Dynamite). \nCassidy’s fine art training translates with ease into graphic storytelling\, with a naturalistic illustrative style that is a pitch-perfect match Bamford’s comic timing\, making Hogbook and Lazer Eyes a beautifully illustrated love story\, told by some incredibly charming pugs.
URL:https://playhousevillage.org/event/vromans-bookstore-in-store-ticketed-maria-bamford-and-scott-marvel-cassidy-sign-hogbook-and-lazer-eyes/
LOCATION:Vroman’s Bookstore\, 695 E. Colorado Blvd.\, Pasadena\, CA\, 91101\, United States
CATEGORIES:Books,Community Event,Families,Free,In-Person,Kids,Vroman's Bookstore
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240815T190000
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SUMMARY:Vroman's Bookstore: Hala Khouri\, Tessa Hicks Peterson\, Nkem Ndefo\, and Valerie Thomas discuss Practicing Liberation
DESCRIPTION:Practicing Liberation reorients collective justice work toward a model that transforms the effects of injustice\, harm\, and oppressive systems into resilience\, joy\, and community care. Through frameworks like trauma-informed methodology\, transformative movement organizing\, engaged Buddhism\, and healing justice\, editors Hala Khouri and Tessa Hicks Peterson show readers how to: \n\n-Embody healing\, wellness\, and beloved community\n-Guard against replicating systems of harm\n-Disrupt racist\, classist\, anti-queer\, and anti-trans behavior and systems\n-Celebrate creativity and radical imagination in movement work\n-Center healing from intergenerational trauma\, white supremacy culture\, and extractive capitalism\n-Honor that self-care is a necessity—not a luxury—that strengthens our collectives\n\nFeaturing essays from editors Hala Khouri and Tessa Hicks Peterson and contributors like Kazu Haga\, Taj James\, Nkem Ndefo\, Jacoby Ballard\, Sará King\, Kerri Kelly\, and more\, Practicing Liberation can be used on its own or alongside The Practicing Liberation Workbook to help readers orient toward embodied leadership\, interconnected collectives\, and a bold vision for transformation—the vital tools we need for collective wellbeing\, healing\, and long-term social change.
URL:https://playhousevillage.org/event/vromans-bookstore-hala-khouri-tessa-hicks-peterson-nkem-ndefo-and-valerie-thomas-discuss-practicing-liberation/
LOCATION:Vroman’s Bookstore\, 695 E. Colorado Blvd.\, Pasadena\, CA\, 91101\, United States
CATEGORIES:Books,Community Event,Free,In-Person,Vroman's Bookstore
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240814T190000
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SUMMARY:Vroman's Bookstore: Daniel A. Olivas\, in conversation with Stephanie Yu\, discusses My Chicano Heart
DESCRIPTION:My Chicano Heart is a collection of author Daniel A. Olivas’s favorite previously published tales about love\, along with five new stories\, that explore the complex\, mysterious\, and occasionally absurd machinations of people who simply want to be appreciated and treasured. Readers will encounter characters who scheme\, search\, and flail in settings that are sometimes fantastical and other times mundane: a man who literally gives his heart to his wife who keeps it beating safely in a wooden box; a woman who takes a long-planned trip through New Mexico but\, mysteriously\, without the company of her true love; a lonely man who gains a remarkably compatible roommate who may or may not be real—just to name a few of the memorable and often haunting characters who fill these pages. Olivas’s richly realized stories are frequently infused with his trademark humor\, and readers will delight in—and commiserate with—his lovestruck characters. \nEach story is drawn from Olivas’s nearly twenty-five years of experience writing fiction deeply steeped in Chicano and Mexican culture. Some of the stories are fanciful and full of magic\, while others are more realistic\, and still others border on noir. All touch upon that most ephemeral and confounding of human emotions: love in all its wondrous forms.
URL:https://playhousevillage.org/event/vromans-bookstore-daniel-a-olivas-in-conversation-with-stephanie-yu-discusses-my-chicano-heart/
LOCATION:Vroman’s Bookstore\, 695 E. Colorado Blvd.\, Pasadena\, CA\, 91101\, United States
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