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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260509T150000
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SUMMARY:Vroman's Bookstore: Keala Kendall discusses & signs That Which Feeds Us: A Hawaiian Gothic
DESCRIPTION:A native Hawaiian teen travels to a luxury island resort in search of her missing twin and uncovers the dark side of paradise\, in this YA supernatural thriller that’s Mexican Gothic meets She is a Haunting. \n“This astounding book is both a finger pointed directly at the rotting heart of colonial greed and a truly heart-pounding mystery.” — Andrew Joseph White\, New York Times bestselling author of Compound Fracture \nFor the world’s wealthiest\, Kōpaʻa Island Resort is more than a destination. It’s the ultimate escape. With no cell service or Wi-Fi\, the Hawaiian island is a coveted wellness retreat renowned for its persimmon orchard and promises of rejuvenation. \nBut their dream vacation is Lehua’s nightmare. When her twin sister\, Ohia\, goes missing\, Lehua follows her trail to Kōpaʻa to find her. Instead\, Lehua is cut off from civilization–and help–after the island’s boat leaves without her\, stranding her with the resort’s lavish guests and enigmatic staff. \nAs Lehua investigates Ohia’s disappearance\, she discovers her missing sister isn’t the island’s only mystery. Kōpaʻa’s rich exterior and sweet persimmons hide its dark plantation past. And Lehua can’t ignore the dreams haunting her each night–nor the warning telling her to leave the island at once. To uncover what happened to Ohia\, Lehua will have to unearth the island’s bloody history and face the horrors that lurk within its sugarcane fields–or risk being consumed by them. \nSharply observed and gorgeously written\, That Which Feeds Us explores the true cost of paradise as Lehua must fight to reclaim the land\, the stories\, and the very souls of her people.
URL:https://playhousevillage.org/event/vromans-bookstore-keala-kendall-discusses-signs-that-which-feeds-us-a-hawaiian-gothic/
LOCATION:Vroman’s Bookstore
CATEGORIES:Books,Community Event,Free,In-Person,Vroman's Bookstore
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260424T190000
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SUMMARY:Vroman's Bookstore: Dave Baker & Nicole Goux discuss & sign Punk'n Heads
DESCRIPTION:This band plays together\, lives together…and unfortunately\, two of them are sleeping together. Whatever\, I’m sure it’s fine. Now put on your punk’n mask and let’s rock! \nHannah Lipsky isn’t sure what’s happening. She dreamed of becoming a fine art painter\, but after breaking up with her girlfriend\, she suddenly dropped out of art school\, moved into a flophouse\, and gotten roped into singing in a campy horror-punk band. With costumes. To make things even more complicated\, she might be hooking up with her housemate/bandmate/high school crush\, Jerry. Wherever this is leading\, it’s going to be messy. \nCritically acclaimed\, Eisner-nominated creators Nicole Goux ( Forest Hills Bootleg Society\, Pet Peeves) and Dave Baker ( Everyone Is Tulip\, Mary Tyler MooreHawk) join forces for a raucous and revealing new graphic novel about making music\, making mistakes\, facing your past\, and choosing your future. \nAbout the Creators \nDave Baker is a writer and illustrator living in Los Angeles. His previous works include Forest Hills Bootleg Society (Simon & Schuster)\, Everyone Is Tulip (Dark Horse)\, and Mary Tyler MooreHawk (Top Shelf)\, among many others. He’s also written for Cartoon Network’s Ben 10 and the live-action feature film Alien Warfare. When he’s not working\, he’s at home practicing his Bela Lugosi impersonation. \nNicole Goux (she/her) is an Eisner Award-nominated illustrator and cartoonist from Los Angeles. She’s the artist of DC’s Shadow of the Batgirl and co-creator of Fuck Off Squad at Silver Sprocket Bicycle Club\, Forest Hills Bootleg Society at Simon and Schuster: Atheneaum. She has been published by DC\, Dark Horse\, IDW\, Oni\, and Avery Hill. Her most recent comic\, This Place Kills Me in collaboration with Mariko Tamaki\, is published by Abrams Fanfare.
URL:https://playhousevillage.org/event/vromans-bookstore-dave-baker-nicole-goux-discuss-sign-punkn-heads/
LOCATION:Vroman’s Bookstore
CATEGORIES:Books,Community Event,Free,In-Person,Vroman's Bookstore
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260401T110000
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SUMMARY:Vroman's Bookstore: Easter Storytime with Mr. Steve and Ms. Marie
DESCRIPTION:Vroman’s Bookstore invites little readers to a very special Easter Storytime with Mr. Steve and Ms. Marie on Wednesday\, April 1 at 11am. Filled with books and songs celebrating bunnies\, Easter eggs\, and baby chicks\, it’s sure to be an egg-citing morning that every-bunny will not want to miss.
URL:https://playhousevillage.org/event/vromans-bookstore-easter-storytime-with-mr-steve-and-ms-marie/
LOCATION:Vroman’s Bookstore
CATEGORIES:Books,Community Event,Free,In-Person,Kids,Vroman's Bookstore
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260212T190000
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SUMMARY:Vroman's Bookstore: Jacob Soboroff discusses & signs Firestorm: The Great Los Angeles Fires and America's New Age of Disaster
DESCRIPTION:A “gripping\, unshakeable firsthand account” (San Francisco Chronicle) of the firestorm that consumed Los Angeles\, from the MS NOW reporter and New York Times bestselling author of Separated\, who covered the fires on the ground as an LA native. \n“Read[s] like a sci-fi thriller.” –Los Angeles Times \nOn the morning of January 7\, 2025\, a message pinged the phone of Jacob Soboroff\, a national reporter for MS NOW. “Big Palisades fire. We are evacuating\,” his brother texted within minutes of the blaze engulfing the hillside behind the home where he and his pregnant wife were living. “Really bad.” An attached photo showed a huge black plume rising from behind the house\, an umbrella of smoke towering over everything they owned. Jacob rushed to the office of the bureau chief.\n“I should go. I grew up in the Palisades.”\nSoon he was on the front line of the blaze–his first live report of what would turn out to be weeks covering unimaginable destruction\, from both the Palisades Fire and the Eaton Fire\, in Altadena. In the days to come\, Soboroff appeared across the networks of NBC News as Los Angeles was ablaze\, met with displaced residents and workers\, and pressed Governor Gavin Newsom in an interview on Meet the Press. But no story Soboroff has covered at home or abroad–the trauma of family separation at the border\, the displacement of the war in Ukraine\, the collapse of order in Haiti–could have prepared him for reporting live as the hallmarks of his childhood were engulfed in flames around him while his hometown burned to the ground. \nBut for Soboroff\, questions remained after the fires were controlled: what had he just witnessed? How could it have happened? Is it inevitable that something will happen again? This set Soboroff off on months of reporting–with firefighters\, fire victims\, political leaders\, academics\, earth scientists\, wildlife biologists\, meteorologists\, and more–that made him keenly aware of how the misfortune of seeing his past carbonize was also a form of time travel into the dystopian world his children will inhabit. This is because the 2025 LA fires were not an isolated tragedy\, but rather they are a harbinger–“the fire of the future\,” in the words of one senior emergency management official.\nFirestorm is the story of the costliest wildfire in American history\, the people it affected\, and the deeply personal connection to one journalist covering it. It is a love letter to Los Angeles\, a yearning to understand the fires\, and why America’s new age of disaster we are living through portends that–without a reckoning of how Los Angeles burned–there is more yet\, and worse\, to come.
URL:https://playhousevillage.org/event/vromans-bookstore-jacob-soboroff-discusses-signs-firestorm-the-great-los-angeles-fires-and-americas-new-age-of-disaster/
LOCATION:Vroman’s Bookstore
CATEGORIES:Books,Community Event,In-Person,Vroman's Bookstore
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260127T190000
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SUMMARY:Vroman's Bookstore: Shari Dunbar Boyer discusses & signs The Book of Modern Ceremony: Practices to Mark Life’s Big and Small Moments
DESCRIPTION:For those seeking connection and meaning in their everyday lives\, an easy-to-follow\, beautiful\, and inspiring manual on performing ceremonies for all occasions and milestones\, from life transitions and family gatherings to holidays and seasonal changes. \nFor as long as humans have existed\, we have performed ceremonies to mark occasions and personal transitions to create meaning and connect with the world\, ourselves\, and each other. Though ceremony is still a cornerstone of many cultures around the globe\, modern rituals are largely confined to just three events: birth\, marriage\, and death. Without our ancestors’ sense of frequent and intentional ceremony\, we have lost the power to bring meaning to our everyday lives. The Book of Modern Ceremony is here to change that. \nWritten by sociologist and ceremonialist Shari Dunbar Boyer\, this book shares more than 30 ceremonies that can be easily incorporated into contemporary life. There are rituals for life transitions\, calendar changes\, and personal growth. Some celebrate familiar events\, like the Untraditional Birthday or Vow Renewal ceremonies\, but others mark important milestones that we often neglect\, such as moving to a new home or entering menopause. And of course\, there are seasonal rituals for every solstice\, equinox\, and moon cycle. \nPresented in easy-to-follow step-by-step instructions\, The Book of Modern Ceremony encourages readers to leave behind the daily stressors of life and connect more deeply with themselves\, their loved ones\, and their own spirituality.
URL:https://playhousevillage.org/event/vromans-bookstore-shari-dunbar-boyer-discusses-signs-the-book-of-modern-ceremony-practices-to-mark-lifes-big-and-small-moments/
LOCATION:Vroman’s Bookstore
CATEGORIES:Books,Community Event,Free,In-Person,Vroman's Bookstore
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260122T190000
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SUMMARY:Vroman's Bookstore: Taleen Voskuni discusses & signs Our Ex’s Wedding
DESCRIPTION:Two people who can’t stand each other must come together to plan their mutual ex’s wedding in this new romantic comedy by Taleen Voskuni\, author of Lavash at First Sight. \nAni Avakian was supposed to be the Bay Area’s premier Armenian wedding planner by now. But after a huge blow to her business\, she’s determined to redeem herself by taking on the biggest job of her career: a wedding for an indie movie star. The wedding is set at a stunning Armenian-owned winery\, and Ani is eager to connect with the owner\, who she’ll be working closely with. But then she actually meets him. Sure\, Raffi is ridiculously hot and charming\, but he’s also insufferably smug. Though the real gut punch comes when Ani meets the happy couple–because the actress’s fiancée is none other than the woman who shattered her heart two years ago: her ex-girlfriend\, Kami.
URL:https://playhousevillage.org/event/vromans-bookstore-taleen-voskuni-discusses-signs-our-exs-wedding/
LOCATION:Vroman’s Bookstore
CATEGORIES:Community Event,Free,In-Person,Vroman's Bookstore
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