Interest: Literary
On or after: Monday 07 May 2012
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Richmond / Craneway Pavilion
Enjoy a weekend of storytelling, a children's concert and more at this annual festival for children's ages 5 and older and their families.
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Corte Madera
Augusten Burroughs talks about This is How: Proven Aid in Overcoming Shyness, Molestation, Fatness, Spinsterhood, Grief, Disease, Lushery, Decreptitude, and More ($24.99).
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Corte Madera / Book Passage
Special for kids! Bethanie Murguia reads from Zoe Gets Ready ($16.99), a story where getting dressed inspires big dreams!
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Albany / Albany Library
Friends of the Albany Library Book Sale
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Antioch / Barnes and Noble
Hello, Pancake Pig! Stop by our Children's Department for Storytime with our favorite pig. We will be reading If You Give a Pig a Pancake. Don't forget your camera, Pancake Pig loves taking photos.
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San Mateo / San Mateo Main Library
Meet Donia Bijan author of "Maman's Homesick Pie: A Persian Heart in an American Kitchen."
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Berkeley / Mrs. Dalloway's
Peter and Donna Thomas present the books they make by hand at their Santa Cruz workshop: miniature books, fine press books, artists’ books (miniature and large), and ukulele books. Peter plays a ukulele book and sings “What’s a Book?”
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Corte Madera / Book Passage
Former Detroiter Leo Litwak talks about Home for Sale ($20.00), a novel set in the Motor City in the 1950s at a time when real estate is booming, fat cats are selling homes fast and furious, and veterans of the Second World War are working hard in the city’s many automotive assembly plants. In Home for Sale, a time and place is brought vividly to life.
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Corte Madera / Book Passage
Novelist and anthologist Victoria Zackheim and contributors present Exit Laughing: How Humor Takes the Sting Out of Death ($18.95). This is more than a collection of twenty-four personal stories, written by some of our country's finest authors, on the subject of death and humor.
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Corte Madera / Book Passage
John Bateson presents The Final Leap ($29.95). The Golden Gate Bridge, which celebrates its 75th anniversary, is one of the most beautiful structures in the world.
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