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SUMMARY:Vroman's: Auriane DeSombre discusses The Sister Split
DESCRIPTION:Auriane DeSombre\, in conversation with Marisa Kanter\, discusses The Sister Split \nA pair of soon-to-be stepsisters creates a plan that will stop their parents from getting married–but they soon learn that matters of the heart can surprise you! This is a fresh sister story evocative of The Parent Trap with LGBTQ themes for the modern reader. \nAutumn is looking forward to summer vacation. She and her best friend plan on going to all the best ice cream places their stomachs can handle–and in NYC\, the possibilities can’t get any sweeter. \nLinnea is still not over the fact that her dad has found love after her parents’ divorce. Luckily\, she can take out all her feelings on the tennis courts for a winning summer. \nBut then Autumn and Linnea discover the news: their parents are getting married. Autumn will be moving to the suburbs to live with her soon-to-be stepdad and stepsister\, which means kissing the fun summer with her best friend goodbye. For Linnea\, she knows her dream of getting her parents back together is officially over. \nDevastated\, the two of them come up with an idea: if they can split up their parents\, their lives can go back to normal. As Autumn and Linnea secretly try to sabotage everything from date nights to wedding planning\, the two of them discover that having a sister is not the worst thing after all . . . but will they learn about love in a whole new way? (Delacorte Press) \nTo purchase a copy of this book\, visit vromansbookstore.com.
URL:https://playhousevillage.org/event/vromans-auriane-desombre-discusses-the-sister-split/
LOCATION:Vroman’s Bookstore\, 695 E. Colorado Blvd.\, Pasadena\, CA\, 91101\, United States
CATEGORIES:In-Person,Vroman's Bookstore
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230315T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230315T190000
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SUMMARY:Vroman's: Elizabeth McKenzie and Yxta Maya Murray discuss their new releases
DESCRIPTION:Elizabeth McKenzie and Yxta Maya Murray discuss their respective new releases\, The Dog of the North and God Went Like That. \nElizabeth McKenzie \nPenny Rush has problems. Her marriage is over; she’s quit her job. Her mother and stepfather went missing in the Australian outback five years ago; her mentally unbalanced father provokes her; her grandmother Dr. Pincer keeps experiments in the refrigerator and something worse in the woodshed. But Penny is a virtuoso at what’s possible when all else fails. \nElizabeth McKenzie\, beloved novelist of California and its idiosyncrasies\, follows Penny on her quest for a fresh start. There will be a road trip in the Dog of the North\, an old van with gingham curtains\, a piñata\, and stiff brakes. There will be injury and peril. There will be a dog named Kweecoats and two brothers who may share a toupee. There will be questions: Why is a detective investigating her grandmother\, and what is “the scintillator”? And can Penny recognize a good thing when it finally comes her way? \nThis slyly humorous\, thoroughly winsome novel finds the purpose in life’s curveballs\, insisting that even when we are painfully warped by those we love most\, we can be brought closer to our truest selves. (Penguin Press) \nYxta Maya Murray \nIn award-winning legal scholar and novelist Yxta Maya Murray’s new novel\, federal agent Reyna Rodriguez reports on a real-life nuclear reactor meltdown and accidents that occurred in 1959\, 1964\, and 1968 at the Santa Susana Field Laboratory. An infamous research and development complex in California’s Simi Valley\, the lab was eventually dismantled by the US government–but not before it created a toxic legacy of contamination and numerous cancer clusters. Toxins and nuclear residue may have been further released by the 2018 Woolsey Fire and 2019 floods in the area. \nGod Went Like That takes the form of an EPA report in which Reyna presents riveting interviews with individuals affected by the disasters. With imagination and artistry\, Murray brings to life an actual 2011 Department of Energy dossier that detailed the catastrophes and the ensuing public health fallout and highlights the high costs of governmental malfeasance and environmental racism. (Curbstone Press) \nTo purchase your copy of these books\, visit vromansbookstore.com.
URL:https://playhousevillage.org/event/vromans-elizabeth-mckenzie-and-yxta-maya-murray-discuss-their-new-releases/
LOCATION:Vroman’s Bookstore\, 695 E. Colorado Blvd.\, Pasadena\, CA\, 91101\, United States
CATEGORIES:In-Person,Vroman's Bookstore
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230314T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230314T190000
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SUMMARY:Vroman's: Kristin Hannah discussing The Four Winds
DESCRIPTION:Texas\, 1921. A time of abundance. The Great War is over\, the bounty of the land is plentiful\, and America is on the brink of a new and optimistic era. But for Elsa Wolcott\, deemed too old to marry in a time when marriage is a woman’s only option\, the future seems bleak. Until the night she meets Rafe Martinelli and decides to change the direction of her life. With her reputation in ruin\, there is only one respectable choice: marriage to a man she barely knows. \nBy 1934\, the world has changed; millions are out of work and drought has devastated the Great Plains. Farmers are fighting to keep their land and their livelihoods as crops fail and water dries up and the earth cracks open. Dust storms roll relentlessly across the plains. Everything on the Martinelli farm is dying\, including Elsa’s tenuous marriage; each day is a desperate battle against nature and a fight to keep her children alive. \nIn this uncertain and perilous time\, Elsa–like so many of her neighbors–must make an agonizing choice: fight for the land she loves or leave it behind and go west\, to California\, in search of a better life for her family. \nThe Four Winds is a rich\, sweeping novel that stunningly brings to life the Great Depression and the people who lived through it–the harsh realities that divided us as a nation and the enduring battle between the haves and the have-nots. A testament to hope\, resilience\, and the strength of the human spirit to survive adversity\, The Four Winds is an indelible portrait of America and the American dream\, as seen through the eyes of one indomitable woman whose courage and sacrifice will come to define a generation. (St. Martins Griffin) \nThis is a ticketed event. Tickets include one entry and one paperback copy of The Four Winds.
URL:https://playhousevillage.org/event/vromans-kristin-hannah-discussing-the-four-winds/
LOCATION:Vroman’s Bookstore\, 695 E. Colorado Blvd.\, Pasadena\, CA\, 91101\, United States
CATEGORIES:In-Person,Vroman's Bookstore
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230313T190000
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SUMMARY:Vroman's: Arielle Estoria discussing The Unfolding
DESCRIPTION:Arielle Estoria is known for her moving and empowering words that encourage women and all people to be confident in who they are\, compassionate about where they’ve been\, and loving about who they are becoming. In this stunning collection of essays\, poems\, and meditations\, beautifully illustrated in earth tones\, Estoria tenderly reveals the places in her life where she has been broken open\, mended back together in new ways\, and shows us how this process of “unfolding” helps us discover and return home to the person we were always meant to be. (Harper One) \nTo purchase a copy of this book\, visit vromansbookstore.com.
URL:https://playhousevillage.org/event/vromans-arielle-estoria-discussing-the-unfolding/
LOCATION:Vroman’s Bookstore\, 695 E. Colorado Blvd.\, Pasadena\, CA\, 91101\, United States
CATEGORIES:In-Person,Vroman's Bookstore
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230311T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230311T150000
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SUMMARY:Vroman's: John Sayles discusses Jamie Macgillivray
DESCRIPTION:It begins in the highlands of Scotland in 1746\, at the Battle of Culloden\, the last desperate stand of the Stuart ‘pretender’ to the throne of the Three Kingdoms\, Bonnie Prince Charlie\, and his rabidly loyal supporters. Vanquished with his comrades by the forces of the Hanoverian (and Protestant) British crown\, the novel’s eponymous hero\, Jamie MacGillivray\, narrowly escapes a roadside execution only to be recaptured by the victors and shipped to Marshalsea Prison (central to Charles Dickens’s Hard Times) where he cheats the hangman a second time before being sentenced to transportation and indentured servitude in colonial America “for the term of his natural life.” His travels are paralleled by those of Jenny Ferguson\, a poor\, village girl swept up on false charges by the English and also sent in chains to the New World. \nThe novel follows Jamie and Jenny through servitude\, revolt\, escape\, and romantic entanglements — pawns in a deadly game. The two continue to cross paths with each other and with some of the leading figures of the era- the devious Lord Lovat\, future novelist Henry Fielding\, the artist William Hogarth\, a young and ambitious George Washington\, the doomed General James Wolfe\, and the Lenape chief feared throughout the Ohio Valley as Shingas the Terrible. (Melville House Publishing) \nTo purchase your copy of this book\, visit vromansbookstore.com.
URL:https://playhousevillage.org/event/vromans-john-sayles-discusses-jamie-macgillivray/
LOCATION:Vroman’s Bookstore\, 695 E. Colorado Blvd.\, Pasadena\, CA\, 91101\, United States
CATEGORIES:In-Person,Vroman's Bookstore
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230311T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230311T110000
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SUMMARY:Vroman's: Storytime with Mr. Steve
DESCRIPTION:Join Mr. Steve and the gang at 11 am for story time! \n 
URL:https://playhousevillage.org/event/vromans-storytime-with-mr-steve/
LOCATION:Vroman’s Bookstore\, 695 E. Colorado Blvd.\, Pasadena\, CA\, 91101\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,In-Person,Kids,Vroman's Bookstore
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230309T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230309T190000
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SUMMARY:Vroman's: Michelle Dowd discusses Forager
DESCRIPTION:My family prepared me for the end of the world\, but I know how to survive on what the earth yields. \nAs a child\, Michelle Dowd grew up on a mountain in the Angeles National Forest. She was born into an ultra-religious cult–or the Field as they called it–started in the 1930s by her grandfather\, a mercurial\, domineering\, and charismatic man who convinced generations of young male followers that he would live 500 years and ascend to the heavens when doomsday came. Comfort and care are sins\, Michelle is told . As a result\, she was forced to learn the skills necessary to battle hunger\, thirst\, and cold; she learned to trust animals more than humans; and most importantly\, she learned how to survive in the natural world. \nAt the Field\, a young Michelle lives a life of abuse\, poverty\, and isolation\, as she obeys her family’s rigorous religious and patriarchal rules–which are so extreme that Michelle is convinced her mother would sacrifice her\, like Abraham and Isaac\, if instructed by God. She often wears the same clothes for months at a time; she is often ill and always hungry for both love and food. She is taught not to trust Outsiders\, and especially not Quitters\, nor her own body and its warnings. \nBut as Michelle gets older\, she realizes she has the strength to break free. Focus on what will sustain\, not satiate you\, she tells herself . Use everything. Waste nothing. Get to know the intricacies of the land\, like the intricacies of your body. And so she does. \nUsing stories of individual edible plants and their uses to anchor each chapter\, Forager is both a searing coming-of-age story and a meditation on the ways in which understanding nature can lead to freedom\, even joy. (Algonquin Books) \nPurchase a copy of this book at vromansbookstore.com \n 
URL:https://playhousevillage.org/event/vromans-michelle-dowd-discusses-forager/
LOCATION:Vroman’s Bookstore\, 695 E. Colorado Blvd.\, Pasadena\, CA\, 91101\, United States
CATEGORIES:In-Person,Vroman's Bookstore
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SUMMARY:Vroman's: Cara Black discusses Night Flight to Paris
DESCRIPTION:Co-presented by Alliance Française de Pasadena \nOctober 1942: it’s been two years since Kate Rees was sent to Paris on a British Secret Service mission to assassinate Hitler. Since then\, she has left spycraft behind to take a training job as a sharpshooting instructor in the Scottish Highlands. But her quiet life is violently disrupted when Colonel Stepney\, her former handler\, drags her back into the fray for a risky three-pronged mission in Paris. \nEach task is more dangerous than the next: Deliver a package of forbidden biological material. Assassinate a high-ranking German operative whose knowledge of invasion plans could turn the tide of the war against the Allies. Rescue a British agent who once saved Kate’s life–and get out. \nKate will encounter sheiks and spies\, poets and partisans\, as she races to keep up with the constantly shifting nature of her assignment\, showing every ounce of her Oregonian grit in the process. \nNew York Times bestselling author Cara Black has crafted another heart-stopping thrill ride that reveals a portrait of Paris at the height of the Nazi occupation. (Soho Crime)
URL:https://playhousevillage.org/event/nightflighttoparis/
LOCATION:Vroman’s Bookstore\, 695 E. Colorado Blvd.\, Pasadena\, CA\, 91101\, United States
CATEGORIES:In-Person,Vroman's Bookstore
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220816T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220816T190000
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SUMMARY:Vroman's: Rebecca Woolf discusses All of This: A Memoir of Death and Desire
DESCRIPTION:Rebecca Woolf\, in conversation with Diablo Cody\, discusses All of This: A Memoir of Death and Desire. \nAfter years of struggling in a tumultuous marriage\, writer Rebecca Woolf was finally ready to leave her husband. Two weeks after telling him she wanted a divorce\, he was diagnosed with stage four pancreatic cancer. Four months later\, at the age of forty-four\, he died. \nIn All of This\, Woolf chronicles the months before her husband’s death–and her rebirth after he was gone. With rigorous honesty and incredible awareness\, she reflects on the end of her marriage: how her husband’s illness finally gave her the space to make peace with his humanity and her own. \nStunning\, compelling\, and brilliantly nuanced\, All of This is one woman’s story of embracing the complexities of grief without shame–as a mother\, a widow\, and a sexual being–and emerging on the other side of a relationship with gratitude and relief. (HarperOne)
URL:https://playhousevillage.org/event/vromans-rebecca-woolf-discusses-all-of-this-a-memoir-of-death-and-desire/
LOCATION:Vroman’s Bookstore\, 695 E. Colorado Blvd.\, Pasadena\, CA\, 91101\, United States
CATEGORIES:In-Person,Vroman's Bookstore
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220806T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220806T140000
DTSTAMP:20260617T193541
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SUMMARY:Vroman's: Rooted in Reading: End of Summer Party (Vroman's Reading Program)
DESCRIPTION:Come join Vroman’s for one last hurrah to their Nature Adventurers! You all have traveled far and wide this summer\, so they can’t wait to celebrate with Storytime\, a photo booth\, crafts\, sweet treats\, and more! Vroman’s will begin handing out prizes for having completed your Nature Exploration after this event!
URL:https://playhousevillage.org/event/vromans-rooted-in-reading-end-of-summer-party-vromans-reading-program/
LOCATION:Vroman’s Bookstore\, 695 E. Colorado Blvd.\, Pasadena\, CA\, 91101\, United States
CATEGORIES:In-Person,Vroman's Bookstore
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220730T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220730T110000
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SUMMARY:Vroman's: Antoinette Portis presents A Seed Grows
DESCRIPTION:“A seed falls\,\nAnd settles into the ground\,\nAnd the Sun shines\,\nAnd the rain comes down\,\nAnd the seed grows…”\nTo understand how a seed becomes a sunflower\, you have to peek beneath the soil and wait patiently as winding roots grow\, a stalk inches out of the earth\, and new seeds emerge among blooming petals. \nWith evocative and lively illustrations\, A Seed Grows offers a close-up view of each step of this process and the ways in which flowers and seeds depend on other creatures\, with a striking fold-out spread of a full-grown sunflower and additional material at the back of the book explaining the science of plant life cycles. \nAntoinette Portis is the author of A New Green Day\, a Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year and NCTE Notable Book in Poetry\, as well as the Sibert Honor winning Hey\, Water! (Neal Porter Books)
URL:https://playhousevillage.org/event/vromans-antoinette-portis-presents-a-seed-grows/
LOCATION:Vroman’s Bookstore\, 695 E. Colorado Blvd.\, Pasadena\, CA\, 91101\, United States
CATEGORIES:In-Person,Vroman's Bookstore
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220726T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220726T190000
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SUMMARY:Vroman's: Sarah James discusses The Women with Two Shadows
DESCRIPTION:Sarah James\, in conversation with Julie Claiborne Johnson\, discusses The Women with Two Shadows. \nThe Women with Two Shadows.\nLillian Kaufman hasn’t heard from her twin sister since Eleanor left for a mysterious job at an Army base somewhere in Tennessee. When she learns\, on an unexpected phone call\, that Eleanor is missing\, Lillian takes a train from New York down to Oak Ridge to clear up the matter. \nIt turns out that the only way into Oak Ridge is to assume Eleanor’s identity\, which Lillian plans to do swiftly and perfectly. But Eleanor has vanished without a trace–and she’s not the only one. And how do you find someone in a town so dangerous it doesn’t officially exist\, when technically you don’t exist either? \nLillian is thrust into the epicenter of the gravest scientific undertaking of all time\, with no idea who she can trust. And the more she pretends to be Eleanor\, the more she loses her grip on herself. (Sourcebooks Landmark)
URL:https://playhousevillage.org/event/vromans-sarah-james-discusses-the-women-with-two-shadows/
LOCATION:Vroman’s Bookstore\, 695 E. Colorado Blvd.\, Pasadena\, CA\, 91101\, United States
CATEGORIES:In-Person,Vroman's Bookstore
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220723T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220723T140000
DTSTAMP:20260617T193541
CREATED:20220630T230007Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220630T230007Z
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SUMMARY:Vroman's: Woodland Critter Crafts
DESCRIPTION:Create and draw your own woodland adventure to explore with children’s book illustrator\, Sara Luna! She will be leading this craft with guided activity pages for us to draw on and color. Materials will be provided.
URL:https://playhousevillage.org/event/vromans-woodland-critter-crafts/
LOCATION:Vroman’s Bookstore\, 695 E. Colorado Blvd.\, Pasadena\, CA\, 91101\, United States
CATEGORIES:In-Person,Vroman's Bookstore
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220716T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220716T110000
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SUMMARY:Vroman's: Storytime with Mr. Steve
DESCRIPTION:Join Mr. Steve and the gang at Vroman’s Bookstore at 11 am for story time!
URL:https://playhousevillage.org/event/vromans-storytime-with-mr-steve-4/
LOCATION:Vroman’s Bookstore\, 695 E. Colorado Blvd.\, Pasadena\, CA\, 91101\, United States
CATEGORIES:In-Person,Vroman's Bookstore
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220714T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220714T190000
DTSTAMP:20260617T193541
CREATED:20220630T201005Z
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SUMMARY:Vroman's: Michael Bourne discusses Blithedale Canyon
DESCRIPTION:Michael Bourne\, in conversation with Edan Lepucki\, discusses Blithedale Canyon. \nBlithedale Canyon\nTrent Wolfer has blown it\, in every possible way\, over and over and over. And now he’s blowing it again. Fresh out of rehab\, he’s back in his hometown working a dead-end job at a fast food joint and cutting out on his breaks to sneak airplane bottles of vodka and gin\, when he looks up from his register one day to see Suze Randall\, his closest friend from high school\, now a radiant blonde single mother of two. Set in a small\, sun-drenched Northern California town shifting from hippie haven to moneyed paradise\, Blithedale Canyon asks whether a man who has spent his whole life screwing up can stop long enough to avoid destroying a woman he loves. Michael Bourne’s funny\, edgy debut is a literary love story for every man who has ever wondered why he keeps smashing up the things he cares about\, and for every woman who’s ever wondered what was going on in the head of that guy she spent her twenties trying to fix.
URL:https://playhousevillage.org/event/vromans-michael-bourne-discusses-blithedale-canyon/
LOCATION:Vroman’s Bookstore\, 695 E. Colorado Blvd.\, Pasadena\, CA\, 91101\, United States
CATEGORIES:In-Person,Vroman's Bookstore
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220711T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220711T190000
DTSTAMP:20260617T193541
CREATED:20220630T200526Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221009T060621Z
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SUMMARY:Vroman's: Delia E. Racines discusses Trust as the Core of Instructional Leadership
DESCRIPTION:Be visible and approachable. Unpack necessary conversations with care. Build capacity based on strengths. Author Delia E. Racines offers these powerful protocols and more to support instructional leaders in building a community of trust in which positive change can occur. All current and aspiring instructional leaders ready to work collaboratively to improve teaching and learning will value this book.
URL:https://playhousevillage.org/event/vromans-delia-e-racines-discusses-trust-as-the-core-of-instructional-leadership/
LOCATION:Vroman’s Bookstore\, 695 E. Colorado Blvd.\, Pasadena\, CA\, 91101\, United States
CATEGORIES:Uncategorized
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220709T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220709T200000
DTSTAMP:20260617T193541
CREATED:20220630T200338Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220630T200338Z
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SUMMARY:Vroman's: Nocturnal Storytime
DESCRIPTION:Come join us under the stars with a special Storytime with Mr. Steve\, where he will be reading your favorite books about awesome nighttime critters! \nThis event will be held outside on the Vroman’s Paseo.
URL:https://playhousevillage.org/event/vromans-nocturnal-storytime/
LOCATION:Vroman’s Bookstore\, 695 E. Colorado Blvd.\, Pasadena\, CA\, 91101\, United States
CATEGORIES:In-Person,Vroman's Bookstore
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220708T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220708T200000
DTSTAMP:20260617T193541
CREATED:20220630T200123Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221009T060621Z
UID:10000628-1657306800-1657310400@playhousevillage.org
SUMMARY:Vroman's: Dave Lopez discusses Its a Great Life
DESCRIPTION:For nearly fifty years\, Dave Lopez covered every major story in the Southland. The veteran news reporter was a nightly presence in LA living rooms on KCBS Channel 2 for a remarkable 48-year career on camera. General managers and news directors came and went in the unforgiving world of major market TV news\, but Dave outlasted more than twenty regime changes. LA’s man in the street kept his head down\, nose to the grindstone\, and relentlessly chased breaking news. He garnered Emmys\, accolades\, and tens of thousands of fans along the way. \nOne of the first Hispanic reporters on a major station\, Dave’s inaugural on-air report on Channel 2 in 1977 concerned an apartment fire that nearly ended in tragedy because none of the firefighters on the scene spoke Spanish. His report ended with the note that the Los Angeles Fire Department was beginning a program to actively recruit bilingual first responders; officials were also thinking of offering Spanish classes at LAFD. Dave was personally breaking barriers decades before Mexican lives officially “mattered”-success he credits entirely to his upbringing. \nProfessional success came early\, but the true measure of a man is his family. In this nostalgic look back\, Dave recalls the values instilled by his hardworking father-a man he worshiped and feared in equal measures. It is also a love story that began in high school . . . and how the fearless reporter who thought he could conquer or investigate his way out of anything was forced to accept that some foes cannot be beaten. When he lost both his beloved wife and mother and his invincible father fell apart\, Dave finally lost his unflagging optimism . . . and was forced to begin again just as the entire world of news was undergoing a sea change. \nIt’s a Great Life If You Don’t Weaken is an inspirational tale of faith\, family\, and the news from a true LA native. Set against the backdrop of every major story of the last half- century-from Vietnam War protests to the O.J. Simpson trial to countless politicians behaving badly-this story is a vivid remembrance of a life well lived\, both on and off camera
URL:https://playhousevillage.org/event/vromans-dave-lopez-discusses-its-a-great-life/
LOCATION:Vroman’s Bookstore\, 695 E. Colorado Blvd.\, Pasadena\, CA\, 91101\, United States
CATEGORIES:Uncategorized
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220702T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220702T120000
DTSTAMP:20260617T193541
CREATED:20220630T195522Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220630T195522Z
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SUMMARY:Vroman's: Storytime with Mr. Steve
DESCRIPTION:Join Mr. Steve and the gang at Vroman’s Bookstore at 11 am for story time!
URL:https://playhousevillage.org/event/vromans-storytime-with-mr-steve-3/
LOCATION:Vroman’s Bookstore\, 695 E. Colorado Blvd.\, Pasadena\, CA\, 91101\, United States
CATEGORIES:In-Person,Vroman's Bookstore
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211009T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211009T180000
DTSTAMP:20260617T193541
CREATED:20211004T175910Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20211004T175910Z
UID:10000591-1633798800-1633802400@playhousevillage.org
SUMMARY:Vroman's: Teacher's Night In
DESCRIPTION:  \nYou are cordially invited to join Vroman’s for our Annual Teacher’s Night In\, featuring a book chat with recommendations for all ages and raffle drawings for those in attendance. \nThe Vroman’s Kids Department manager\, booksellers\, and the Random House Kids Rep will be on hand to recommend great new books for your classroom discussions and libraries. Use the chat function in the event to ask questions\, specific to your needs. \nTickets to join are available for free on Eventbrite. Tickets to participate are free! Sign up for yours and we will send you the Crowdcast link to join our evening book chat. When signing up for your ticket\, please let us know what school and grade you teach for! \nAND following the event they will email you a 20% off coupon to use for any personal shopping. In-store or online. \n  \nNote: Signing up for the event will automatically enter you into the raffle. Raffle winners will be called the night of and you must be in the event to win. Raffle prizes will be available for pick up in store the following Tuesday. \n  \nQuestions? Please send them to email@vromansbookstore.com.
URL:https://playhousevillage.org/event/vromans-teachers-night-in/
LOCATION:Vroman’s Bookstore\, 695 E. Colorado Blvd.\, Pasadena\, CA\, 91101\, United States
CATEGORIES:Vroman's Bookstore
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210330T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210330T180000
DTSTAMP:20260617T193541
CREATED:20210223T062951Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210223T062951Z
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SUMMARY:Vroman's: Launch of the final book in The King of Scars Duology\, Rule of Wolves
DESCRIPTION:The conversation with Leigh Bardugo starts at 7pm (PT) but you can log in early at 6:15pm (PT) to interact with fellow Grishaverse fan for a meet up complete with trivia and other activities! Cosplay is encouraged and there will be prizes! \nWith Rule of Wolves\, Leigh Bardugo brings us the explosive final chapter to her King of Scars duology\, one that will leave every beloved character changed. After this thrilling\, action-packed finale full of Bardugo’s trademark twists\, the Grishaverse will never be the same. \nLeigh Bardugo is the New York Times-bestselling author of Ninth House and the creator of the Grishaverse (coming soon to Netflix)\, which spans the Shadow and Bone trilogy\, the Six of Crows duology\, the King of Scars duology\, The Language of Thorns\, and The Lives of Saints— with more to come. Her short stories can be found in multiple anthologies\, including Best American Science Fiction & Fantasy. Leigh grew up in Southern California and graduated from Yale University. These days she lives and writes in Los Angeles. \nThis event ticket includes a hardcover copy of Rule of Wolves along with a signed bookplate and an exclusive Grishaverse zipper pouch\, as well as online access to the event for your household. You will receive a link and password to attend the Crowdcast event on the afternoon of Monday\, March 29th.
URL:https://playhousevillage.org/event/vromans-launch-of-the-final-book-in-the-king-of-scars-duology-rule-of-wolves/
LOCATION:Vroman’s Bookstore\, 695 E. Colorado Blvd.\, Pasadena\, CA\, 91101\, United States
CATEGORIES:Vroman's Bookstore
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210325T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210325T180000
DTSTAMP:20260617T193541
CREATED:20210223T062714Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210223T062714Z
UID:10000246-1616695200-1616695200@playhousevillage.org
SUMMARY:Vroman's: Courtney Zoffness\, in conversation with Edan Lepucki\, discusses Spilt Milk
DESCRIPTION:This is a virtual event and will take place on Crowdcast. Register for FREE ahead of time to save your spot and get an email reminder! \nEVENT LINK: https://www.crowdcast.io/e/yatxjin4 \nWhat role does a mother play in raising thoughtful\, generous children? In her literary debut\, internationally award-winning writer Courtney Zoffness considers what we inherit from generations past–biologically\, culturally\, spiritually–and what we pass on to our children. Spilt Milk is an intimate\, bracing\, and beautiful exploration of vulnerability and culpability. Zoffness relives her childhood anxiety disorder as she witnesses it manifest in her firstborn; endures brazen sexual advances by a student in her class; grapples with the implications of her young son’s cop obsession; and challenges her Jewish faith. Where is the line between privacy and secrecy? How do the stories we tell inform who we become? These powerful\, dynamic essays herald a vital new voice. (McSweeney’s) \nCourtney Zoffness won the Sunday Times Short Story Award\, an Emerging Writers Fellowship from the Center for Fiction\, residency fellowships from the MacDowell Colony\, and the Susan Atefat Prize in Creative Nonfiction from Arts & Letters. Her work has appeared in the Paris Review Daily\, The Southern Review\, Longreads\, Los Angeles Review of Books\, and elsewhere\, and she had Notable Best American Essays in 2018 and 2019. She teaches at Drew University and lives with her family in Brooklyn\, New York. \nEdan Lepucki is the author of the novella If You’re Not Yet Like Me and the novels California and Woman No. 17. Edan created the popular Instagram “Mothers Before”\, and she has edited a book inspired by the project\, published by Abrams Press in 2020. Edan is a graduate of Oberlin College and the University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop\, and her fiction and nonfiction have been published in Esquire\, Narrative Magazine\, The New York Times\, The Cut\, and McSweeney’s\, among others. The Los Angeles Times named her a Face to Watch for 2014. She is contributing editor to The Millions and the founder of Writing Workshops Los Angeles.
URL:https://playhousevillage.org/event/vromans-courtney-zoffness-in-conversation-with-edan-lepucki-discusses-spilt-milk/
LOCATION:Vroman’s Bookstore\, 695 E. Colorado Blvd.\, Pasadena\, CA\, 91101\, United States
CATEGORIES:Vroman's Bookstore
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210323T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210323T180000
DTSTAMP:20260617T193542
CREATED:20210223T062620Z
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SUMMARY:Vroman's: Chris Whitaker discusses We Begin at the End
DESCRIPTION:This is a virtual event and will take place on Crowdcast. Register for FREE ahead of time to save your spot and get an email reminder! \nEVENT LINK: https://www.crowdcast.io/e/33jfivrn \nThere are two kinds of families: the ones we are born into and the ones we create. \nWalk has never left the coastal California town where he grew up. He may have become the chief of police\, but he’s still trying to heal the old wound of having given the testimony that sent his best friend\, Vincent King\, to prison decades before. Now\, thirty years later\, Vincent is being released. \nDuchess is a thirteen-year-old self-proclaimed outlaw. Her mother\, Star\, grew up with Walk and Vincent. Walk is in overdrive trying to protect them\, but Vincent and Star seem bent on sliding deeper into self-destruction. Star always burned bright\, but recently that light has dimmed\, leaving Duchess to parent not only her mother but her five-year-old brother. At school the other kids make fun of Duchess–her clothes are torn\, her hair a mess. But let them throw their sticks\, because she’ll throw stones. Rules are for other people. She’s just trying to survive and keep her family together. \nA fortysomething-year-old sheriff and a thirteen-year-old girl may not seem to have a lot in common. But they both have come to expect that people will disappoint you\, loved ones will leave you\, and if you open your heart it will be broken. So when trouble arrives with Vincent King\, Walk and Duchess find they will be unable to do anything but usher it in\, arms wide closed. \nChris Whitaker has written an extraordinary novel about people who deserve so much more than life serves them. At times devastating\, with flashes of humor and hope throughout\, it is ultimately an inspiring tale of how the human spirit prevails and how\, in the end\, love–in all its different guises–wins. (Henry Holt & Company) \nChris Whitaker lives in the United Kingdom with his wife and three young children. When not writing he works part-time at a local library\, where he gets to surround himself with books.
URL:https://playhousevillage.org/event/vromans-chris-whitaker-discusses-we-begin-at-the-end/
LOCATION:Vroman’s Bookstore\, 695 E. Colorado Blvd.\, Pasadena\, CA\, 91101\, United States
CATEGORIES:Vroman's Bookstore
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210319T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210319T180000
DTSTAMP:20260617T193542
CREATED:20210223T062222Z
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SUMMARY:Vroman's: Grant Farley discusses Bones of a Saint
DESCRIPTION:This is a virtual event and will take place on Crowdcast. Register for FREE ahead of time to save your spot and get an email reminder! \nEVENT LINK: https://www.crowdcast.io/e/7qi1klne \nSet in Northern California in the late ’70s\, this timeless coming-of-age story examines the nature of evil\, the art of storytelling\, and the possibility of redemption. \nFifteen-year-old RJ Armante has never known a life outside his deadend hometown of Arcangel\, CA. The Blackjacks rule as they have for generations\, luring the poorest kids into their monopoly on petty crime. For years\, they’ve left RJ alone\, but now they have a job for him: prey upon an old loner in town. \nIn spite of the danger\, RJ begins to resist. He fights not only for himself\, but for his younger brother\, Charley\, whose disability has always made RJ feel extra protective of him. For Roxanne\, the girl he can’t reach\, and the kids in his crew who have nothing to live for. Even for the old loner\, who has secrets of his own. If RJ is to break from the Blackjacks’ hold\, all of Arcangel must be free of its past. (Soho Teen) \nGrant Farley was an English teacher for over twenty-five years and has taught at a Santa Monica alternative school\, a barrio junior high\, and a Marine Science magnet in San Pedro. All the while\, he worked on Bones of a Saint\, and excerpts of the book have appeared in various literary magazines and been showcased at a number of writers conferences. Then one day his awesome wife insisted that he retire\, which is when RJ’s story really took off. Now he writes full time and volunteers at a lighthouse.
URL:https://playhousevillage.org/event/vromans-grant-farley-discusses-bones-of-a-saint/
LOCATION:Vroman’s Bookstore\, 695 E. Colorado Blvd.\, Pasadena\, CA\, 91101\, United States
CATEGORIES:Vroman's Bookstore
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210318T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210318T180000
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CREATED:20210223T062143Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210223T062143Z
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SUMMARY:Vroman's: Kareem Rosser discusses Crossing the Line: A Fearless Team of Brothers and the Sport That Changed Their Lives Forever
DESCRIPTION:This is a virtual event and will take place on Crowdcast. Register for FREE ahead of time to save your spot and get an email reminder! \nEVENT LINK: https://www.crowdcast.io/e/zlpv4u7a \nBorn and raised in West Philadelphia\, Kareem thought he and his siblings would always be stuck in “The Bottom”\, a community and neighborhood devastated by poverty and violence. Riding their bicycles through Philly’s Fairmount Park\, Kareem’s brothers discover a barn full of horses. Noticing the brothers’ fascination with her misfit animals\, Lezlie Hiner\, founder of The Work to Ride stables\, offers them their escape: an after school job in exchange for riding lessons. \nWhat starts as an accidental discovery turns into a love for horseback riding that leads the Rosser’s to discovering their passion for polo. Pursuing the sport with determination and discipline\, Kareem earns his place among the typically exclusive players in college\, becoming part of the first all-Black national interscholastic polo championship team–all while struggling to keep his family together. \nCrossing the Line: A Fearless Team of Brothers and the Sport That Changed Their Lives Forever is the story of bonds of brotherhood\, family loyalty\, the transformative connection between man and horse\, and forging a better future that comes from overcoming impossible odds. (St. Martin’s Press) \nKareem Rosser is from Philadelphia\, PA. He received a BA in economics from Colorado State University (CSU). While at CSU\, he led his collegiate polo team to a national polo championship. At the same time\, he was honored as the Intercollegiate polo player of the year. After graduation\, Kareem began working as a financial analyst at an asset management firm. Also\, he serves as the Executive Director of a non-profit fundraising arm called Friends of Work to Ride.
URL:https://playhousevillage.org/event/vromans-kareem-rosser-discusses-crossing-the-line-a-fearless-team-of-brothers-and-the-sport-that-changed-their-lives-forever/
LOCATION:Vroman’s Bookstore\, 695 E. Colorado Blvd.\, Pasadena\, CA\, 91101\, United States
CATEGORIES:Vroman's Bookstore
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210316T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210316T180000
DTSTAMP:20260617T193542
CREATED:20210223T062111Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210223T062111Z
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SUMMARY:Vroman's: William Deverell in conversation with Robin Abcarian
DESCRIPTION:This is a virtual event and will take place on Crowdcast. Register for FREE ahead of time to save your spot and get an email reminder! \nEVENT LINK: https://www.crowdcast.io/e/8q04o6bt \nIn Kathy Fiscus: A Tragedy that Transfixed the Nation historian William Deverell tells the heartbreaking story of a young girl trapped in a well–a story that transfixed the nation in what would become the first live\, breaking-news TV spectacle in history. \nAt dusk on a spring evening in 1949\, a three-year old girl fell down an abandoned well shaft in the backyard of her family’s home in Southern California. Across more than two full days of a fevered rescue attempt\, the fate of Kathy Fiscus remained unknown. Thousands of concerned Southern Californians rushed to the scene. Jockeys hurried over from the nearby racetracks\, offering to be sent down the well after Kathy. 20th Century Fox sent over the studio’s klieg lights to illuminate the scene. Rescue workers-ditch diggers\, miners\, cesspool laborers\, World War II veterans-dug and bored holes deep into the aquifer below\, hoping to tunnel across to the old well shaft that the little girl had somehow tumbled down. \nThe region\, the nation\, and the world watched and listened to every moment of the rescue attempt by way of radio\, newsreel footage\, and wire service reporting. They also watched live television. Because of the well’s proximity to the radio towers on nearby Mount Wilson\, the rescue attempt because the first breaking-news event to be broadcast live on television. The Kathy Fiscus event invented reality television and proved that real-time television news broadcasting could work and could transfix the public. (Angel City Press) \nWilliam Deverell is professor of history and director of the Huntington-USC Institute on California and the West at the University of Southern California. He is the author of numerous studies of the nineteenth- and twentieth-century American West\, including Whitewashed Adobe: The Rise of Los Angeles and the Remaking of Its Mexican Past. \nRobin Abcarian is an opinion columnist at the Los Angeles Times. She writes about politics and culture. Before taking this assignment in September 2020\, she was the paper’s roving California columnist for several years. Checking into far flung corners of the state\, she reported columns about all aspects of life in the Golden State. She has also written frequently about sexual harassment\, abortion rights and the #MeToo movement. In 2016\, she wrote extensively about cannabis\, which California voters approved for recreational use that year. Robin covered the 2004\, 2008 and 2012 presidential campaigns full time\, and wrote occasionally about the 2016 campaign. As a culture writer for the paper’s Calendar section\, she has covered the Oscars\, the Emmys and the Sundance Film Festival. For most of the 1990s\, she was a columnist for The Times’ feature section\, before becoming its editor in 2003. She has also been a radio talk show host and a frequent guest on radio and television news programs. She lives in Venice with her 10-year-old niece
URL:https://playhousevillage.org/event/vromans-william-deverell-in-conversation-with-robin-abcarian/
LOCATION:Vroman’s Bookstore\, 695 E. Colorado Blvd.\, Pasadena\, CA\, 91101\, United States
CATEGORIES:Vroman's Bookstore
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210310T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210310T180000
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LAST-MODIFIED:20210223T062007Z
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SUMMARY:Vroman's: Chip Jacobs in conversation with Ron Franscell
DESCRIPTION:This is a virtual event and will take place on Crowdcast. Register for FREE ahead of time to save your spot and get an email reminder! \nEVENT LINK: https://www.crowdcast.io/e/qcrhyka8 \nLate-seventies Los Angeles was rampant with killers and shady characters\, but all the go-getters at Space Matters saw was possibility. Richard Kasparov was handsome and charismatic; his younger associate\, Jerry Schneiderman\, brilliant and nerdy. When the pair hired a veteran contractor to oversee construction\, the space planning firm they operated out of a hip mansion in LA’s Miracle Mile district appeared poised to transform the boundless skyline into their jackpot. \nAfter the promising team imploded\, however\, the orderly lines on their blueprints succumbed to treachery and secrets. To get even\, one of the ex-partners launched a murder-for-profit corporation using\, among other peculiar sorts\, a bantam-sized epileptic with a deadeye shot and a cross-dressing sidekick. The hapless criminals required a comical number of attempts to execute their first target. Once they did\, on a rainy night in the San Fernando Valley\, the surviving founder of Space Matters was thrown into a pressure cooker existence out of a Coen Brothers movie. Threatened for money he didn’t have\, he donned a disguise\, survived a heart-pounding encounter at the La Brea Tar Pits\, and relied on an ex-Israeli mercenary for protection. In the end\, he had to outfox a glowering murderer\, while asking if you can ever really know anyone in a town where dirty deals send men to their graves. \nIn The Darkest Glare\, Chip Jacobs recounts a spectacular\, noir-ish\, true-crime saga from one of the deadliest eras in American history. You’ll never gaze out windows into the dark again. (Rare Bid Books) \nChip Jacobs is a bestselling author and journalist. His books include the historical fiction & Los Angeles Times bestseller Arroyo\, and the biography Strange As It Seems: the Impossible Life of Gordon Zahler. He also co-wrote The People’s Republic of Chemicals\, and Smogtown: the Lung-Burning History of Pollution in Los Angeles with William J. Kelly. He has also contributed pieces to anthologies\, among them the bestselling Los Angeles in the 1970s: Weird Scenes Inside the Goldmine and Go Further: Literary Appreciation of Power Pop. On the journalism side\, Jacobs’ reporting has been published and aired in the Los Angeles Times\, Los Angeles Daily News\, CNN\, L.A Weekly\, the Southern California News Group\, the Pasadena Weekly\, and others. For his efforts\, he’s won seven Los Angeles Press Club/Southern California Journalism Awards\, as well as ones from the California Newspaper Publishers Association\, the Association of Alternative Newsweeklies and the Los Angeles Times.Jacobs grew up in northeast Pasadena and  he currently lives in Southern California. \nRon Franscell is a former journalist and the author of 17 books\, including the Edgar-nominated Morgue: A Life In Death\, international bestseller The Darkest Night\, and the true crime Alice & Gerald: A Homicidal Love Story. As a senior writer at the Denver Post\, he was dispatched to the Middle East just days after 9/11 to cover the earliest months of the War on Terror. He later covered the devastation of Hurricane Rita from inside the storm. His book reviews and essays have been widely published in many of America’s biggest and best newspapers. He has been a guest on CNN\, Fox News\, NPR\, the Today Show\, ABC News\, and other major broadcast outlets all over America. And he appears regularly on crime documentaries at Investigation Discovery\, History Channel\, Reelz\, and A&E. He now lives in northern New Mexico.
URL:https://playhousevillage.org/event/vromans-chip-jacobs-in-conversation-with-ron-franscell/
LOCATION:Vroman’s Bookstore\, 695 E. Colorado Blvd.\, Pasadena\, CA\, 91101\, United States
CATEGORIES:Vroman's Bookstore
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210304T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210304T180000
DTSTAMP:20260617T193542
CREATED:20210223T061913Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210223T061913Z
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SUMMARY:Vroman's: Auriane Desombre and Monica Gomez-Hira present I Think I Love You and Once Upon a Quinceañera
DESCRIPTION:This is a virtual event and will take place on Crowdcast. Register for FREE ahead of time to save your spot and get an email reminder! \nEVENT LINK: https://www.crowdcast.io/e/pvj6d73t \nJoin us for a double feature with authors Auriane Desombre and Monica Gomez-Hira presenting their new Young Adult books\, I Think I Love You and Once Upon a Quinceañera. Auriane and Monica will be in conversation with Rachel Lynn Solomon. \nAbout I Think I Love You\nArch-nemeses Emma\, a die-hard romantic\, and more-practical minded Sophia find themselves competing against one another for a coveted first-prize trip to a film festival in Los Angeles . . . what happens if their rivalry turns into a romance? For fans of Becky Albertalli’s Leah on the Offbeat\, full of laugh-out-loud humor and make-your-heart-melt moments. (Underlined) \nAbout Once Upon a Quinceañera\nCarmen Aguilar just wants to make her happily ever after come true. Except apparently “happily ever after” for Carmen involves being stuck in an unpaid summer internship. Now she has to perform as a party princess! In a ball gown. During the summer. In Miami. \nFine. Except that’s only the first misfortune in what’s turning out to a summer of Utter Disaster. \nBut if Carmen can manage dancing in the blistering heat\, fending off an oh-so-unfortunately attractive ex\, and stopping her spoiled cousin from ruining her own quinceañera–Carmen might just get that happily ever after–after all. (Harperteen) \nAuriane Desombre is the author of I Think I Love You\, and works as a middle school teacher and freelance editor. She holds an MA in English Literature and an MFA in Creative Writing for Children & Young Adults. She lives in Los Angeles with her dog\, Sammy\, who is a certified bad boy. \nMonica Gomez-Hira is the daughter of Colombian immigrant parents\, the wife of an Indian immigrant\, mother to a half Latina/half Indian daughter\, and the quintessential Jersey girl. After graduating from Wellesley College\, Monica spent most of her professional life surrounded by books. Once Upon a Quinceañera is her first novel. \nRachel Lynn Solomon writes\, tap dances\, and collects red lipstick in Seattle\, Washington. Her romance and YA novels include The Ex Talk\, Today Tonight Tomorrow\, and We Can’t Keep Meeting Like This (June 2021).After graduating from the University of Washington with a B.A. in journalism\, she worked for Northwest media outlets such as The Seattle Times and KUOW Public Radio. She currently writes full time.
URL:https://playhousevillage.org/event/vromans-auriane-desombre-and-monica-gomez-hira-present-i-think-i-love-you-and-once-upon-a-quinceanera/
LOCATION:Vroman’s Bookstore\, 695 E. Colorado Blvd.\, Pasadena\, CA\, 91101\, United States
CATEGORIES:Vroman's Bookstore
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210303T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210303T180000
DTSTAMP:20260617T193542
CREATED:20210223T061815Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210223T061815Z
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SUMMARY:Vroman's: Luvvie Ajayi Jones\, in conversation with KevOnStage
DESCRIPTION:This virtual event is ticketed. (Scroll down to purchase tickets) \nLuvvie Ajayi Jones is known for her trademark wit\, warmth\, and perpetual truth-telling. But even she’s been challenged by the enemy of progress known as fear. She was once afraid to call herself a writer\, and nearly skipped out on doing a TED talk that changed her life because of imposter syndrome. As she shares in Professional Troublemaker\, she’s not alone. \nWe’re all afraid. We’re afraid of asking for what we want because we’re afraid of hearing no. We’re afraid of being different\, of being too much or not enough. We’re afraid of leaving behind the known for the unknown. But in order to do the things that will truly\, meaningfully change our lives\, we have to become professional troublemakers: people who are committed to not letting fear talk them out of the things they need to do or say to live free. \nWith humor and honesty\, and guided by the influence of her professional troublemaking Nigerian grandmother\, Funmilayo Faloyin\, Luvvie walks us through what we must get right within ourselves before we can do the things that scare us; how to use our voice for a greater good; and how to put movement to the voice we’ve been silencing–because truth-telling is a muscle. \nThe point is not to be fearless\, but to know we are afraid and charge forward regardless. It is to recognize that the things we must do are more significant than our fears. This book is about how to live boldly in spite of all the reasons we have to cower. Let’s go! (Penguin Life) \nThis event ticket includes a signed hardcover copy of Professional Troublemaker along with a “Judgey Pop”\, as well as online access to the event for your household. You will receive a link and password to attend the Crowdcast event on the afternoon of Tuesday\, March 2nd. \nQuestions? Email us at email@vromansbookstore.com
URL:https://playhousevillage.org/event/vromans-luvvie-ajayi-jones-in-conversation-with-kevonstage/
LOCATION:Vroman’s Bookstore\, 695 E. Colorado Blvd.\, Pasadena\, CA\, 91101\, United States
CATEGORIES:Vroman's Bookstore
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SUMMARY:Vroman's: Anne Lamott discusses Dusk Night Dawn: Notes on Courage
DESCRIPTION:Vroman’s\, Book Passage\, Kepler’s\, and Bookshop Santa Cruz welcome the bestselling author ANNE LAMOTT\, known for her beloved books like Operating Instructions\, Bird by Bird\, and Help\, Thanks\, Wow. \nAnne Lamott will be discussing her latest inspiring and candid book Dusk Night Dawn: Notes on Courage. Her conversation partner will be announced soon. \nTicketing: All tickets include a hardcover of Dusk Night Dawn\, which will be mailed to you after the event. Please allow 3-4 weeks for delivery.The first 150 people who purchase a ticket will receive a copy that is signed by Anne Lamott. \nPlease note: This event will be pre-recorded and live-streamed on Vroman’s Crowdcast. You will receive a link and password to attend the Crowdcast event on the afternoon of Friday\, February 26th. \nTicketholders will have the opportunity to submit their questions for the speakers through Eventbrite when you purchase your ticket. We will be accepting questions up to two days before the recording \nAbout the Author: Anne Lamott is the author of the New York Times bestsellers Almost Everything; Hallelujah Anyway; Small Victories; Stitches; Help\, Thanks\, Wow; Some Assembly Required; Grace (Eventually)\, Plan B; and Traveling Mercies\, as well as several novels. A past recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and an inductee to the California Hall of Fame\, she lives in Northern California. \nAbout the book: In Dusk Night Dawn\, Anne Lamott explores the tough questions that many of us grapple with. How can we recapture the confidence we once had as we stumble through the dark times that seem increasingly bleak? As bad news piles up—from climate crises to daily assaults on civility—how can we cope? Where\, she asks\, “do we start to our world and joy and hope and our faith in life itself back…with our sore feet\, hearing loss\, stiff fingers\, poor digestion\, stunned minds\, broken hearts?” \nWe begin\, Lamott says\, by accepting our flaws and embracing our humanity. \nDrawing from her own experiences\, Lamott shows us the intimate and human ways we can adopt to move through life’s dark places and toward the light of hope that still burns ahead for all of us. \nAs she does in Help\, Thanks\, Wow and her other bestselling books\, Lamott explores the thorny issues of life and faith by breaking them down into manageable\, human-sized questions for readers to ponder\, in the process showing us how we can amplify life’s small moments of joy by staying open to love and connection. As Lamott notes in Dusk Night Dawn\, “I got Medicare three days before I got hitched\, which sounds like something an old person might do\, which does not describe adorably ageless me.” Marrying for the first time with a grown son and a grandson\, Lamott explains that finding happiness with a partner isn’t a function of age or beauty but of outlook and perspective. \nFull of the honesty\, humor\, and humanity that have made Lamott beloved by millions of readers\, Dusk Night Dawn is classic Anne Lamott—thoughtful and comic\, warm and wise—and further proof that Lamott truly speaks to the better angels in all of us. (Riverhead Books) \nQuestions? Email us at email@vromansbookstore.com
URL:https://playhousevillage.org/event/vromans-anne-lamott-discusses-dusk-night-dawn-notes-on-courage/
LOCATION:Vroman’s Bookstore\, 695 E. Colorado Blvd.\, Pasadena\, CA\, 91101\, United States
CATEGORIES:Vroman's Bookstore
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