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In this newsletter ENDORSE READING Book Clubs · Page 7 Biographies · Page 6 Events · Pages 4-5 Fiction · Page 2 Kids Books · Page 8 Nonfiction · Page 3 NYMBC TM · Page 7 Trade Paper · Page 6 MAYThe experience you CAN’T download Adam McCauley David Henry Sterry Henry W Leung Joyce Thompson Michelle Tea Alan Fleishman David Levithan Hope Larson Judy Mandel Nicholas Carr Allen Barra David Remnick James Kennedy Karen Elliot House Nina LaCour Anchee Min David Sedaris Jaron Lanier Karen Kang Norman Beim Andrea Cremer David Simon Jason Edward Morris Leslie Bennett Paul Famer Ann Nesbet David Chang Jenny Milchman Stefani Bittner Rabbi David Ellenson Barbara Rose Brooker Deborah Underwood Ji-Li Jiang Lian Gouw Robert Bellah Bee Ridgway Elissa Haden Guest Jim Averbeck Maggie Oman Shannon Rachel Neumann Benjamin Percy Elizabeth Scarboro Bethanie Deeney Murguia Margaret Stohl Robert K. Lewis Charles E. Morris III Eric G. Bing Jim Wallis Marissa Moss Rory Carroll Claire Messud Eve Ensler Joan Lester Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore Sarah Ogilvie Cynthia Chin-Lee Evgeny Morozov Joe Diaz Meg Donahue Sue Fliess Dana Fredsti Fran Lebowitz John Hodgman Michael Adamick Urban Waite By Michelle Tea Dana Reinhardt Greg Wrenn John Scalzi Michael Frayn David Gillham Helene Wecker Jon Mooallem Michael Lewis I don’t know if I’d had a falling out with a friend or was experienc- ing some difficulty making any in the first place, but I do remember what a powerful consolation reading was during a moment of childhood loneliness. Not really a consolation, more of a revela- CHILDREN’S BOOK WEEK tion. Inside every book was an entire world — at least one world, Celebrate Children’s Book Week with Books Inc. Kids, May 13th-May19th! maybe even more, and friends galore. Who gave a fig about real-life We will be featuring children’s book and children’s events all week long, so be friends if I could crack open a book and find intrigue and adventure, sure to check the Kid’s portion of the newsletter on Page 8 for an event in your understanding and validation? People in books really seemed to ‘get area! Established in 1919, Children’s Book Week is the longest-running national me.’ And they were so much smarter and funnier than the people I literacy initiative in the country. Books Inc. will be hosting more Children’s knew! Book Week events than any other indie in the country, so you’ll have plenty of Though books may have been a balm for a friendless moment, chances to join the fun! indeed, I believe I became a better friend from so much reading, as most stories are about the things that pull us together and drive us apart. I learned about what makes people tick, myself included, and EVENTS by having compassion for the characters in books I learned to care about people. Aren’t we all just the narrators of our own first-person May 21 · 7:00PM May 5 · 7:30PM novels? Fumbling and bumbling, trying our best or succumbing to Eve Ensler, playwright, author, and activist, will be at An Evening with David Sedaris! On May 5, the cel- laziness, experiencing failing and triumphs in a lifetime of sizes. If I Grace Cathedral on Tuesday, May 21 at 7:00 pm to ebrated NPR humorist comes to the War Memorial can keep rooting for an imperfect storybook character, than why not discuss her new book, IN THE BODY OF THE WORLD: A Opera House for an evening of cutting wit, social root for myself, and root for you, too? Memoir. Tickets are available at www.booksinc.net satire, and riveting conversation, including a question Reading took my mind off my childish troubles, and it takes my and any of Books Inc. store locations and answer session! Tickets on sale now at mind off grown-up ones, too. Getting lost is a reassurance - the www.shnsf.com world is vast, bigger than whatever is dragging you down, and should you ever need to remind yourself, to escape or recharge, to find inspiration or wisdom, books are there to help you. HARVEY MILK Attached to my revelation that, truly, all I need in life were books to be happy, was another understanding — books are endless! There On May 22 at 7:30 PM at Books Inc. in the Castro, in commemoration of Harvey Milk’s are millions of them! Even if I wanted to, I could not read every single birthday the SF GLBT History Museum and Books Inc. present An Archive of Hope: Harvey book that has ever been written, and they’re pumping out new ones Milk’s Speeches and Writings, with editors Jason Edward Black and Charles E. Morris III, pho- by the day, by the bucket! I felt a deep, existential relief at this, this tographer & former employee at Harvey Milk’s camera shop Daniel Nicoletta, and Harvey’s knowledge that no matter what else speechwriter, Frank Robinson. may happen in life I will never, ever run out of books. Forever they are there for me — and you! — whenever we want to know better how to live in this world, or whenever we wish to escape it completely.

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As a teenager Elizabeth dreamed of Award-winning commentator, columnist, 21 adventurously travelling the world, until she and author Joan Steinau Lester shares Jenny Milchman shares her gripping debut met and fell in love with Stephen, who was 7:00 PM · Berkeley · 1760 4th Mama’s Child, the passionate story of Ruby, thriller, Cover of Snow. Nora Hamilton wakes living with cystic fibrosis. Choosing to live a Street · 510-525-7777 a bi-racial girl struggling with self-identity. one morning and discovers her husband has full marriage with their limited time became 30 It isn’t until Ruby becomes a mother her- taken his own life. 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Tuesday · 7:00 PM Thursday · 7:00 PM Monday · 7:30 PM Sunday · 6:00 pM Wednesday · 6:00 PM Alameda’s Young Adult Book The Recommended By A Stranger The Broken Compass The Speculative Fiction The San Francisco Travel Book 14Club (ages 13+) will meet. 9Book Club will discuss The Guern- 13Adventure Book Club will 12Book Group will discuss 1Club and Lecture Series will dis- sey Literary and Potato Peel Society by discuss Packing for Mars by Mary The Rook by Daniel O’Malley. cuss Buttertea at Sunrise: A Year in Wednesday · 7:00 PM Mary Ann Shaffer & Annie Barrows. Roach. the Bhutan Himalaya by Britta Das. The Neptune Garden Book Club Tuesday · 6:00 PM 8will discuss Death Comes to Thursday · 7:00 PM Tuesday · 7:00 PM The Book Busters Middle Tuesday · 7:00 PM Pemberley by P.D. James. The Healthy Lives Book The Politically Inspired 14Reader Book Club (ages 9- The Miss Jane Austen 30Group will discuss Going 14Book Club will meet. 12) will discuss The Emerald Key by 14Book Club will discuss The Thursday · 7:00 PM Solo: The Extraordinary Rise and Sur- Christopher Dinsdale. Italian by Ann Radcliffe. The Big Yes Society Dis- prising Appeal of Living Alone by Eric Sunday · 5:00 PM 16cussion Group will discuss Klinenberg. Night Of The Living Book Monday · 6:00 pM Tuesday · 7:00 PM Not Quite Nirvana: A Skeptics Journey 19Club will discuss Anno The NYM-Actual-Book The Cooks & Books Book to Mindfulness by guest author Dracula by Kim Newman. 20Club (ages 14+) will dis- 21Club will discuss The Table Rachel Neuman. cuss Period 8 by Chris Crutcher. Comes First: Family, France, and the LAUREL VILLAGE Monday · 7:00 PM Meaning of Food by Adam Gopnik. Friday · 5:00 PM The Hands On Bay Area Sunday · 1:00 PM The Our Parents Made Us Do Book Club will discuss Sunday · 2:00 PM The Adventurous Readers Club 27 This Book Club will meet. Dreaming in Chinese: Mandarin Les- THE CASTRO The SF Business Book 17 will discuss The Expeditioners 5 sons in Life, Love, and Language by Club will discuss Great by and the Treasure of Drowned Man’s Wednesday · 7:00 PM 26 Thursday · 7:00 PM Deborah Fallows. Choice: Uncertainty, Chaos, and Luck- Canyon by S.S. Taylor. The SFLGBT Book Club will dis- The Desert Island Book -Why Some Thrive Despite Them All cuss Jack Holmes and His Friend Club will discuss The 8 by Jim Collins. 23 Tuesday · 7:00 PM by Edmund White. Diving Pool: Three Novellas by Yoko The Women We’d Like To Lunch Ogawa. OPERA PLAZA Wednesday · 7:30 PM With Book Club will discuss The Wednesday · 6:30 PM 7 Classics I Forgot To Read Uninvited Guests by Sadie Jones. Saturday · 10:00 AM The Central SF Classic Lit Friday · 5:00 PM will discuss The Belly of The Second Saturday Book Book Club will discuss The 29 The Magical Tales Of 15 Paris by Emile Zola. Sunday · 1:00 PM Club will discuss The Glass House of Mirth by Edith Wharton. Adventurous Children Book 11 31 The Wild Girls Mother Daugh- Room by Simon Mawe. Club (ages 8-10) will meet. 19ter Book Club will discuss The Center of Everything by Linda Urban. Sunday · 6:00 PM Sunday · 2:00 PM The Modern Lit Book The B.G.P. Social Network Tuesday · 7:00 PM Club will discuss Hunger Book Society (ages 16 & 12 Not Your Mother’s Book Club 26 The Foreign Intrigue Book by Knut Hamsun. up) will discuss The Book Thief by Club will discuss Nights of May 7 · 7:00 PM · SF · Opera May 14 · 7:30 PM · SF · Castro · Markus Zusak. 21 Awe by Harri Nykänen. Sunday · 11:00 AM Plaza · 601 Van Ness 2275 Market St Sunday · 6:00PM The World Affairs Council Not Your Mother’s Books Not Your Mother’s Books Club™ The Intimates: East Bay Queer Book Wednesday · 6:00 PM Book Club will discuss 26 Club™ Coridally Invites You celebrates Children’s Book Club will meet. The Young At Heart Book Country of My Skull: Guilt, Sorrow, To: Bring A Friend featuring Week with a launch party for Club will discuss Just One and the Limits of Forgiveness in the 22 chums David Levithan & Andrea local phenom Michelle Tea, pre- Day by Gayle Forman. New South Africa by Antjie Krog. Cremer, authors of Invisibility, senting her newest title Mermaid Margaret Stohl, author of Icons, in Chelsea Creek, a magical story BERKELEY Thursday · 3:30 PM Nina LaCour, author of The Dis- of never-ending hope. Oh, and it The BOOK BITES: Tasty Saturday · 9:30 AM enchantments. 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