In this wondrous and eye-opening exploration, Steve Searles, the renowned and respected "Bear Whisperer" of Mammoth Lakes, takes the reader on a journey into the lives of these remarkable creatures and the world we share. In the late 1990s, the town of Mammoth Lakes, California hired Steve Searles as a hunter to cull half its […]

Anthony Henderson presents The Old Ones T is enslaved, but his soul is his own. God, the Devil nor any master can lay claim to it as he moves through his world with a fierce confidence and steely resolve . When a personal awakening compels him to carve a family out of his unimaginable pain, into his […]

The Vroman's Fiction Reading Group meets on the 4th Wednesday of every month at 7pm. This event is free and open to the public. September’s pick is The Lincoln Highway by Amor Towles. Fiction Reading Group meetings are held in the Vroman's Meeting Room, located in the Atrium next door. 709 E. Colorado Blvd. Suite 120.  

KAOS Theory: The Afrokosmic Ark of Ben Caldwell tells the story of filmmaker, educator and community activist Ben Caldwell and KAOS Network, the media-arts center he founded in Los Angeles's Leimert Park neighborhood. Through vivid illustrations, archival media, and engaging storytelling, KAOS Theory shows how Ben crafted a life centered around the power of fellowship, community, […]

So many of us feel lonely, unfulfilled, or trapped--in our roles and relationships, in cycles of self-sabotage and bad decisions, by our patterns and misguided attempts to feel happy or to feel something. According to existential psychotherapist Sara Kuburic, it doesn't have to be so difficult. Really. The answer is found in facing ourselves--whatever version that might […]

It's rarely a quiet day for the Thursday Murder Club. Shocking news reaches them--an old friend has been killed, and a dangerous package he was protecting has gone missing. The gang's search leads them into the antiques business, where the tricks of the trade are as old as the objects themselves. As they encounter drug […]

Join New York Times bestselling author Denene Millner as she explores the lives of three generations of women tied together by love, hope, dreams, ambition...and family secrets in this epic novel. Meet Grace: raised by her beloved grandmother in tension-filled, post-segregation Virginia, Grace is barely a teenager when she loses her grandmother. Shellshocked, she is shipped up […]

For more than a century, women have fought for equality. Yet, time and again, their battles have fallen short. Even so-called constitutionally-protected equal rights can be withdrawn by judges and undermined by legislators. But the greater problem is in the notion of equality itself. In Breaking Free, culture writer Marcie Bianco persuasively argues that the very […]

Rings of Kindness is a compilation of 85 true stories of kindness received, written by 80 plus authors, 20 of whom reside in the Los Angeles area. The book was created and edited by Matthew J. Goldberg, an inspirational humorist from the Philadelphia area, and designed to spread optimism, love and kindness via our stories of […]