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In this newsletter Book Clubs · Page 7 Biographies · Page 6 ENDORSE Events · Pages 4-5 Fiction · Page 2 Kids Books · Page 8 Nonfi ction · Page 3 NYMBC TM · Page 7 PRIDE Trade Paper · Page 6 JUNE CAN’T The experience you download “Every generation of Americans has brought our Nation closer to fulfi lling its promise of equality. While progress Cecil Castellucci Angus Whyte Sarah Dessen Alvin Orloff Christopher Moore Mike Adamick Andrea Carla Michaels Andrea Carla Michaels Larry-Bob Roberts joSon has taken time, our achievements in advancing the rights of Jan-Philipp Sendker Bernadette Luckett Maureen Langan Thea Hillman Jami Attenberg LGBT Americans remind us that history is on our side, and Gloria Steine Maureen Langan Corina Vacco Daphne Gottlieb Ramsey Hootman that the American people will never stop striving toward lib- Letty Pogrebin Cindy Caponera Stephanie Keuhn Michelle Tea Lisa Brackmann erty and justice for all.” — Robert K. Lewis Sue Kolinsky Seth Lerer Stephanie Rosenbaum Daryl Wood Gerber Helen E. Fisher Monica Wesolowska Ransom Riggs Daniel Smith Kate Carlisle Abigail Tarttelin Julian Guthrie David Margolick Jen Sincero Juliet Blackwell June 5 · 7:30 PM Linda Joy Myers Susan Schorn Eli Brown Cathleen Peck David Mezzapelle An editor of the UK’s Phoenix magazine, Abigail Tarttelin shares Judith Newton John Rocco Jo Robinson Mark Abramson Tara Ison Karen Joy Fowler Christopher Wolf Daniel LeVesque Michael Levi Kristen McCloy Golden Boy, a riveting coming-of-age story of a family in crisis as Temple Grandin Marissa Moss Justin Chin Carl Hiaasen Ellen Plotkin Mullholland their façade as an effortlessly excellent unit crumbles around them when their biggest secret is revealed. June 6 · 7:30 PM Angus Whyte shares After-Dinner Tales, a collection of stories Independent bookstores have always been the leading source of discovery of new recalling his time travelling the world, from Austria to the Congo authors. You trust us to put the next great thing into your hands time and again. Republic, to France and New York, Whyte’s stories of varying jobs Indies around the country are celebrating debut authors this month and we are and destinations are full of adventure and beauty. so pleased to add these authors to the list of discoveries that can be made at the west’s oldest independent bookseller. June 8 · 10:30 AM Join us for a very special story time with a reading of And Tango Makes Alameda · June 2 Alameda · June 12 Berkeley · June 13 The Marina · June 25 Opera Plaza · June 27 Three by Justin Richardson, the heartwarming, true story of two male penguins at the Central Park Zoo who built a nest and hatched a chick together. Members of the cast of “Birds of a Feather,” a play based on these two adorable penguins, will be running from May 17th to June 29th at the New Conservatory Theatre Center. June 11 · 7:30 PM Seth Lerer shares Prospero’s Son: Life, Books, Love, and Theater, a richly layered memoir refl ecting on the complicated relationships held between fathers and sons and the transformative power that CARL HIAASEN IN CONVERSATION WITH CHRISTOPHER MOORE words, books, art, and performance can have, not only on these Carl Hiaasen bestselling author of Strip Tease, Stormy Weather, Lucky You, Sick Puppy, Basket Case, relationships, but life as a whole. Skinny Dip, Nature Girl and Star Island has done it again! Join us for a very special celebration June 12 · 8:00 PM of his latest zany Floridian adventure, Bad Monkey. Carl will be in conversation with bestsell- ing author Christopher Moore (Lamb, Sacre Bleu, Fool)! Yep, that’s right - prepare yourself for an A contributing editor for Vanity Fair magazine, journalist David Margolick awesome Sunday afternoon. Tickets are $32 and include a signed fi rst edition of Bad Monkey. shares Dreadful: The Short Life and Gay Times of John Horne Burns, a fascinat- Tickets are available at www.booksinc.net and any of our Books Inc. locations. ing exploration of Burns’ brief and controversial life coupled with a look at the pressures of being gay in mid-twentieth-century America. June 23 · 2:00 PM · The Chapel · 777 Valencia St · June 13 · 7:30 PM Join us for a panel reading celebrating Pride Month and the publi- NOT YOUR MOTHER’S BOOK CLUB cations of local press, Manic D. Headliner Daniel LaVesque will lead Not Your Mother’s Book Club™ very proudly presents the wonderful and talented Sarah Dessen, shar- the way for a wide array of styles by the likes of Justin Chin, Alvin ing her newest book The Moon and More, the perfect summer read full of romance and empowerment. Orloff, Larry-Bob Roberts, Thea Hillman, Daphne Gottlieb, Michelle Tea, Tickets are $20 and available at Books Inc. in Opera Plaza or visit us online at www.booksinc.net. and Stephanie Rosenbaum. Refreshments will be served. June 10 · 7:00 PM · Books Inc. in Opera Plaza · 601 Van Ness June 20 · 7:30 PM Join us for a reading full of romance and adventure as Mark Abramson shares, Love Rules, number seven in the Beach Reading mystery series. With his partner, Nick, traversing Europe on a book tour, Tim Snow is home pondering the rules of monogamy. Mean- while, local businesses in the Castro are desperate to identify a pair of masked robbers preying on their neighborhood. June 22 · 11:00 AM What could be better than being read to by roalty? SF Queen, Mutha, will be reading some of her very favorite books for tots during Amer- ica’s fi rst STORY TIME! So come celebrate Mutha’s Day in June, with Pride that parents and kids can share together. (Ages 3-7)

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Tuesday · 7:00 PM Saturday · 9:30 AM Monday · 7:30 PM Sunday · 6:00 pM Wednesday · 6:00 PM Alameda’s Young Adult Book The First Saturday Book Club The Broken Compass The Speculative Fiction Book The San Francisco Travel Book 11Club (ages 13+) will meet. 1 will discusss Cloud Atlas by 10Adventure Book Club will 9Group will discuss In the Gar- 5Club and Lecture Series will David Mitchell. meet. den of Iden by Kage Baker. discuss Better Than Fiction: True Wednesday · 7:00 PM Travel Tales by Great Fiction Writers The Neptune Garden Book Tuesday · 7:00 PM Tuesday · 6:00 PM edited by Don George. 12Club will discuss Seriously. BURLINGAME The Politically Inspired The Book Busters Middle . . I’m Kidding by Ellen Degeneres. 11Book Club will discuss The 11Reader Book Club (ages 9- Sunday · 2:00 PM Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks by 12) will discuss Singing the Dogstar The SF Business Book Thursday · 7:00 PM Thursday · 7:00 PM Jeanne Theoharis. Blues by Alison Goodman. Club will discuss Great by The Recommended By A 16 The Big Yes Society Choice: Uncertainty, Chaos, and Luck- Stranger Book Club will Discussion Group will dis- 13 Sunday · 5:00 PM Monday · 6:00 pM -Why Some Thrive Despite Them All 20 discuss The Buddha in the Attic by cuss Contagious Optimism: Uplifting Night Of The Living Book The NYM-Actual-Book Club by Jim Collins. Julie Otsuka. Stories and Motivational Advice for 16Club will meet. 17(ages 14+) will discuss Ask Positive Forward Thinking by David the Passengers by A.S. King. Tuesday · 7:00 PM Thursday · 7:00 PM Mezzapelle. Monday · 7:00 PM The Cooks & Books Book The Healthy Lives Book The Hands On Bay Area Tuesday · 7:00 pM Club will discuss Extra Vir- Group will discuss Lots 18 Friday · 5:00 PM 27 Book Club will discuss The Fourth Tuesday ginity: The Sublime and Scandalous of Candles, Plenty of Cake by Anna 24 The Our Parents Made Turn Right at Machu Picchu: Rediscov- (Margie’s) Book Club will World of Olive Oil by Tom Mueller. Quindlen. 25 21 Us Do This Book Club will ering the Lost City One Step at a Time discuss Seating Arrangements by discuss book two in the Septimus by Mark Adams. Maggie Shipstead. Wednesday · 7:30 PM Heap series, Flyte by Angie Sage. Classics I Forgot To Read LAUREL VILLAGE 26will discuss A Town Like Thursday · 7:00 PM Alice by Nevil Shute. The Desert Island Book Sunday · 1:00 PM OPERA PLAZA THE CASTRO Club will discuss The Div- The Adventurous Readers Club 27 Saturday · 10:00 AM Wednesday · 5:30 PM ing Pool by Yoko Ogawa. will discuss Through the Sky- 2 The Second Saturday Book The SFLGBT Book Club light by Ian Baucom. Club will discuss The Paris Wife will discuss The Stranger’s Friday · 5:00 PM 8 12 by Paula McLain. Child by Alan Hollinghurst. The Magical Tales Of Tuesday · 7:00 PM Adventurous Children The Women We’d Like To Lunch 28 Sunday · 6:00 PM Wednesday · 6:30 PM Book Club (ages 8-10) will meet. With Book Club will discuss 4 The Modern Lit Book The Central SF Classic Arcadia by Lauren Groff. Club will discuss Varamo by Lit Book Club will discuss Sunday · 2:00 PM 9 19 César Aira. Pere Goriot by Honoré de Balzac. The B.G.P. Social Network Tuesday · 7:00 PM Book Society (ages 16 & The Foreign Intrigue Book 30 Sunday · 11:00 AM up) will discuss Sammy & Juliana in Club will discuss Hotel 18 The World Affairs Council Hollywood by Benjamin Alire Sáenz. Bosphorus by Esmahan Aykol. 23Book Club will discuss The White Man’s Burde: Why the West’s Wednesday · 6:00 PM Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done So The Young At Heart Book Much Ill and So Little Good by William Club will discuss Ask the 26 Easterly. Passengers by A.S. King.

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3:00 PM · Alameda · 1344 Park Street · 1510-522-2226 Alameda Story Time proudly presents Cecil Castelucci sharing her new picture book Odd Duck. Odd Duck is the adorable story of friends, Theodora and Chad. These two may do things differently, but that doesn’t make them odd — it just makes them normal with FLARE. I pledge to seize these epic books, 6:00 PM · SF · Laurel Village · 3515 California St · 415-221-3666 in my favorite BOOKS INC. location, 5 Pajama Party at Laurel Village! Put on your which is in America, Jammies and join the party! Literary Mamas will be here to read stories and take part in the and to seize the SUMMER fun. Visit www.literarymama.com for details!

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