The Spinster Sisters,
Santa Rosa
Sean Brock is the chef behind the game-changing restaurants Husk and McCrady’s, and Heritage, his first book, offers all of his inspired recipes...
Calistoga literary arts events
Dining with Writers: Sean Brock - Heritage
Wednesday, Nov 12
6:00p
Jonah Raskin Book Signing - a Terrible Beauty: the Wilderness of American Literature
Thursday, Dec 4
6:00p
Sonoma County Museum,
Santa Rosa
Author Jonah Raskin will read from his new book "A Terrible Beauty: The Wilderness of American Literature," which is being published by Regent...
Katie Gilmartin - Blackmail, My Love
Sunday, Nov 16
7:00p
Book Passage Bookstore,
Corte Madera
Katie Gilmartin dug deeply into the annals of San Francisco’s storied past to produce Blackmail, My Love, a brilliantly conceived and artfully illustrated murder mystery that serves as a revelatory...
Shiva Rea at Book Passage, Corte Madera
Friday, Nov 21
7:00p
Book Passage Bookstore,
Corte Madera
Tending the Heart Fire, the first book by pioneering yogini Shiva Rea, is an invitation to embody our extraordinary potential, to reconnect your life to the rhythms of your body and the natural wor...
Anne Lamott - Small Victories
Tuesday, Nov 11
7:00p
Book Passage Bookstore,
Corte Madera
Anne Lamott writes about faith, family, and community in essays that are both wise and irreverent. It’s an approach that has become her trademark...
Alev Lytle Croutier at Book Passage, Corte Madera
Wednesday, Nov 19
7:00p
Book Passage Bookstore,
Corte Madera
Celebrating its 25th anniversary this year, Harem: The World Behind the Veil is a fascinating illustrated history of one of the strangest and cruelest cultural institutions ever devised...
Erin Michelson - Adventure Philanthropist
Sunday, Nov 16
4:00p
Book Passage Bookstore,
Corte Madera
The plan was there was no plan—visit all seven continents, see what happens...
Geoffrey Jowett - The Power of I Am
Wednesday, Nov 12
7:00p
Book Passage Bookstore,
Corte Madera
According to Geoffrey Jowett, the essence of our being is a fully integrated energy system of consciousness...
Patricia Garfield - Schmoopie’s Dream: From Pound to Penthouse
Sunday, Nov 16
1:00p
Book Passage Bookstore,
Corte Madera
Special Events for Kids!
When Schmoopie, the runt and sole survivor of a litter of pups, is rescued from the pound, her wish for a new family is fulfilled beyond her wildest dreams...
Victoria Tennant - Irina Baronova and the Ballet Russes de Monte Carlo
Thursday, Nov 13
7:00p
Book Passage Bookstore,
Corte Madera
In conversation with Dan Geller & Dayna Goldfinch; introduced by Peter Coyote
Irina Baronova and the Ballet Russes de Monte Carlo is a sumptuous, illustrated history that tells the story of the ri...
Barbara Rose Brooker - The Rise and Fall of a Jewish American Princess
Saturday, Nov 15
1:00p
Book Passage Bookstore,
Corte Madera
The Rise and Fall of a Jewish American Princess follows Dianne Roseman as she struggles to become an artist in the brutal 1960s art world and ends a love affair with a famous dealer of contemporary...
Richard Blanco - The Prince of Los Cocuyos
Friday, Nov 14
7:00p
Book Passage Bookstore,
Corte Madera
Richard Blanco’s adolescence were experienced between two worlds: his parents’ nostalgic accounts of 1950s Cuba and his imagined America, the country he saw on reruns of The Brady Bunch...
Kate Gale, Shelley Savren, & Maxine Hong Kingston -- An Afternoon of Poetry
Sunday, Nov 23
4:00p
Book Passage Bookstore,
Corte Madera
Spend some time with three great poets. Billy Collins calls Kate Gale’s The Goldilocks Zone “refreshingly out of step with today’s poetry of self-absorption...
Maria Dueñas at Book Passage, Corte Madera
Tuesday, Nov 18
7:00p
Book Passage Bookstore,
Corte Madera
With lush, imaginative prose and unforgettable characters, The Heart Has Its Reasons is a journey of the soul that takes readers from Spain to California, between the thorny past and all-too-real p...
Divya Srinivasan at Book Passage, Corte Madera
Saturday, Nov 22
10:00a
Book Passage Bookstore,
Corte Madera
Special Events for Kids! Little Owl is supposed to be asleep, but when he wakes up early, he’s just too curious to close his eyes again...
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