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A Great Good Place for Books
6120 LaSalle Avenue
Oakland, CA 94611
Tel: (510) 339-8210
Fax: (510) 339-7315

email: books@ggpbooks.com

Store Hours:

Sun: 9am-5pm
Mon: 9am-6pm
Tue: 9am-6pm
Wed: 9am-6pm
Thu: 9am-7pm
Fri: 9am-7pm
Sat: 9am-6pm


 

 


Welcome to A Great Good Place for Books

GGP News :

Greetings!
Was last weekend incredible or what??!! We hope you enjoyed the amazing weather.
This week we'll be welcoming Montclair's own Joanna Biggar will be reading from her new anthology Venturing in Ireland on Thursday, March 6th; and Victoria Zackheim will be wrapping up the week with her anthology, For Keeps on Saturday, March 8th.
Next week GGP favorite Lisa Lutz returns to launch her new book, Curse of the Spellman's and Michelle Richmond will be reading from her acclaimed novel The Year of Fog.
Stayed tuned for events later this month with Melissa Gibson, Diana MacEachern, Cara Black, Lydia Millet, Ellen Coffey, and Scott Morse.

The topic for the next Forum at Piedmont Community Church (located at 400 Highland Ave. in Piedmont), on Sunday, March 9th from 5 to 6:30 p.m., is gardening. Terry Hershey, believes that gardens large and small, wild and manicured can be sanctuaries: places of prayer, creativity and healing. Light refreshments will be provided at the Forum, which will take place in the Chapel in the Christian Education building. For more information, you can contact the church at 547-5700, or by email at: don@piedmontchurch.org.
Save the dates: Wendy Merrill 4/2; Elizabeth Strout 4/10; Mary Roach 4/17; Elizabeth Berg 4/24; Marc Acito 5/2; Kate Jacobs 5/6; Julie Buxbaum 5/15; Jen Lancaster 5/22; Armistead Maupin 5/23; and many more!
Until then, we'll see you in the stacks!
Kathleen, Elene, Cindy, Marianna, Elaine, Bonnie, Nick, Jake, Jami, and Eve.

February 2008 GGP BESTSELLERS


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1. A New Earth Eckhart Tolle
2. The Middle Place Kelly Corrigan
3. Red: The Book Amy Goldwasser
4. His Illegal Self Peter Carey
5. Eat, Pray, Love Elizabeth Gilbert
6. Audicity of Hope Barack Obama
7. In Defense of Food Michael Pollan
8. Three Cups of Tea Greg Mortenson
9. Let the Northern LightsErase Your Name Vendela Vida
10. Lost City Radio Daniel Alarcon

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