Vroman’s Bookstore: Ava Dellaira, in conversation with Nicola Yoon, discusses Exposure

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

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. After 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 […]

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Vroman’s Bookstore: Mary Lea Carroll discusses Across the Street Around the Corner…A Road Home

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

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 […]

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Vroman’s Bookstore: Local Poetry Day featuring Brent Ameneyro, Lory Bedikian, Blas Falconer, and Cherene Sherrard, in Conversation With Doug Manuel

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

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 […]

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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

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

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, […]

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Vroman’s Bookstore: Eve Driver discusses What We Can’t Burn

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

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 […]

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Vroman’s Bookstore: Local Author Day featuring m.a. Arana, Tom Jenkins, and Dennis C. Powell

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

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. The Next Run: A UC Berkeley Student’s Rise to Major 60s Pot […]

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Vroman’s Bookstore: Local Author Day – Young Reader’s Edition

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

“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!" -Katrina Liu, Author of I Love Boba!

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Vroman’s Bookstore: Craig Rosebraugh discusses Burning Rage of a Dying Planet: The FBI vs. the Earth Liberation Front

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

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. Former ELF spokesperson Craig […]

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Vroman’s Bookstore: Antoinette Portis discusses Not-a-Box City

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

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. Bunny wants to build a cardboard city. Bunny stacks one cardboard box on top of another and another. Bunny doesn't […]

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Vroman’s Bookstore: Albert M. Camarillo discusses Compton in My Soul: A Life in Pursuit of Racial Equality

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

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 […]

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Vroman’s Bookstore: Gina Chen, Shelly Page, Justine Pucella Winans, and Alex Brown, discuss The House Where Death Lives: An Anthology

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

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. Following in the footsteps of dark/horror-filled YA anthologies like His […]

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