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Start: 11:30 am
Join us for this fun round of readings from picture and storybooks ... Go to the castle in the children's section ... and the stories begin!
Start: 6:00 pm
--RESCHEDULED FROM AUGUST 16TH--
Award-winning author, filmmaker, and screenwriter, most known for her book, Savage Summits, Jennifer Jordan visits this evening with her new tale of Himalayan adventures in days of yore (1939), The Last Man on the Mountain: The Death of an American Adventurer on K2 (W.W. Norton). "The Last Man on the Mountain is a page-turning account of one of mountaineering's most intriguing mysteries: what happened to Dudley Wolfe and the three Sherpas sent to rescue him on K2 in 1939? Jennifer Jordan has great respect for the legend and the lives she examines; she also has a novelist's eye for character and for the telling detail. What emerges in this wonderful book is a story of ego, hubris, and the price of passion in the world's highest arena." - Greg Mortenson. "The Last Man on the Mountain will finds its place in the adventure canon of man versus the mountains, when wool, hemp, and hobnails ruled, and class and national differences roiled beneath the surface ... Jordan has done a great job." - Peter Porterfield.
Start: 6:30 pm
Our Global Issues & Ethics Book Group is devoted to discussing books that cover the most relevant topics of our everyday lives. Known for its lively, clear prose as well as its scholarly research, A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn is the only volume to tell America's story from the point of view of—and in the words of—America's women, factory workers, African Americans, Native Americans, working poor, and immigrant laborers. Howard Fast said of the book, "One of the most important books I have ever read in a long life of reading...It's a wonderful, splendid book—a book that should be read by every American, student or otherwise, who wants to understand his country, its true history, and its hope for the future." Join us for this monumental discussion.
Start: 8:00 pm
Los Angeles-based fiction writer Eric Puchner won raves for his debut book of stories, Music Through the Floor. He then received more praise and prominence for his first novel, Model Home (Scribner, new in paper). "The subject of this marvelous novel is nothing less than the soul of the American family, in which love sometimes hides inside estrangement and survival can be a choice made under duress. All of it is played out in the California desert, land of false dreams, and yet the result is anything but arid, a searing, bitterly funny, achingly humane book by one of our most talented young writers." - Ann Packer. "Eric Puchner's Model Home is 1980s California in a nutshell: bright and frantic, giddy and broke, desperate and strong, and always, always moving." - Daniel Handler.
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