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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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Vroman’s Bookstore: MG Lord, discusses Swimming Pretty: The Untold Story of Women in Water

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

A groundbreaking history of how women found synchronicity―and power―in water. “If you’re not strong enough to swim fast, you’re probably not strong enough to swim ‘pretty,’” said a young Esther Williams to theater impresario Billy Rose. Since the nineteenth century, tensions between beauty and strength, aesthetics and athleticism have both impeded and propelled the careers […]

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Vroman’s Bookstore: Robin Benway discusses The Girls of Skylark Lane

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

National Book Award winner Robin Benway debuts a coming-of-age middle grade novel about friendships, family, and discovering the person you’re meant to be. Babysitters Club meets The Sandlot when twin sisters join a ragtag neighborhood girls softball team at a time when growing up could mean growing apart. Aggie and Jac might be twin sisters, but lately they haven’t […]

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Vroman’s Bookstore: Gareth Higgins and Kathleen Norris discuss A Whole Life in Twelve Movies

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

Come to the movies with two celebrated spirituality writers--American poet and author Kathleen Norris and Irish storyteller and peace activist Gareth Higgins. In A Whole Life in Twelve Movies, Norris and Higgins invite readers along as they discuss acclaimed movies that can help us better understand our lives--from before birth to death and beyond. Featuring […]

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Vroman’s Bookstore: E. Katherine Kottaras and Vanitha Swaminathan discuss A Rainbow Inside My Body

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

Learn yoga, breathing exercises, and mindfulness through the rainbow of the chakras! When I need to know how I am feeling, I can close my eyes and breathe. In an increasingly stressful world, it is more important than ever to help kids establish helpful tools to manage it. In this colorful meditation written by experts […]

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Vroman’s Bookstore: Elizabeth Acevedo, in conversation with Yesika Salgado, discuss Family Lore

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

From National Book Award-winning author Elizabeth Acevedo comes the story of one Dominican American family told through the voices of its women Flor has a gift: she can predict, to the day, when someone will die. So when she decides she wants a living wake—a party to bring her family and community together to celebrate […]

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Vroman’s Bookstore: Chris Nichols and Adriene Biondo discuss Bowlarama: The Architecture of Mid-century Bowling

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

Bowlarama: The Architecture of Mid-Century Bowling takes aim at the obsession that swept the post-war nation: bowling! More than just a sport or a hobby, bowling became the ultimate modern lifestyle for Americans savoring the boom years that followed World War II. Bowling alleys were modern palaces; companies constantly aimed to outdo each other, whether […]

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Vroman’s Bookstore: Esinam Bediako, in conversation with Jayne Allen, discuss Blood on the Brain

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

An impulsive, madcap and newly concussed young woman comes of age as she navigates her Ghanaian American identity, her relationships, and the muddled landscape of history, memory, imagination, and delusion. Twenty-four-year-old Akosua is easily knocked off her feet. When she falls and hits her head, she’s too preoccupied with her latest dramas to fully absorb […]

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Vroman’s Bookstore: Bob Weis discusses Dream Chasing

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

Dream Chasing is a recounting by author Bob Weis of four decades of creating and seeing to completion challenging projects, leading teams from the top secret, high-tech corridors of Walt Disney Imagineering (WDI) to the highest levels of The Walt Disney Company. Our author recounts working on and overseeing projects that took him from Anaheim, […]

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Vroman’s Bookstore: Nora Lange, in conversation with J. Ryan Stradal and Graham Moore, discuss Us Fools

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

A tragicomic, intimate American story of two precocious sisters coming of age during the Midwestern farm crisis of the 1980s. Joanne and Bernadette Fareown are raised on their family farm in rural Illinois, keenly affected by their parents’ volatile relationship and mounting financial debt, haunted by the cursed history of the women in their family. […]

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Vroman’s Bookstore: Ticketed In-store event: Terry Szuplat discusses Say it Well

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

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 […]

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