Tupelo Hassman will be reading from her novel\, Girlchild\, on Monday\, Monday\, March 26th at 7\:00 p.m.
Rory Hendrix is the least likely of Girl Scouts. She hasn’t got a troop or even a badge to call her own. But she’s checked the Handbook out from the elementary school library so many times that her name fills all the lines on the card\, and she pores over its surreal advice (Uniforms\, disposing of outgrown\; The Right Use of Your Body\; Finding Your Way When Lost) for tips to get off the Calle\: that is\, the Calle de las Flores\, the Reno trailer park where she lives with her mother\, Jo\, the sweet-faced\, hard-luck bartender at the Truck Stop.
Rory’s been told that she is one of the “third-generation bastards surely on the road to whoredom.” But she’s determined to prove the county and her own family wrong. Brash\, sassy\, vulnerable\, wise\, and terrified\, she struggles with her mother’s habit of trusting the wrong men\, and the mixed blessing of being too smart for her own good. From diary entries\, social workers’ reports\, half-recalled memories\, arrest records\, family lore\, Supreme Court opinions\, and her grandmother’s letters\, Rory crafts a devastating collage that shows us her world even as she searches for the way out of it.
Tupelo Hassman’s Girlchild is a heart-stopping and original debut.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130526T092452Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120330T030000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120330T030000Z UID:http://www.ggpbooks.com/event/lisa-lutz-trail-spellmans URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.ggpbooks.com/event/lisa-lutz-trail-spellmans SUMMARY:LISA LUTZ-TRAIL OF THE SPELLMAN'S DESCRIPTION:Lisa Lutz returns to GGP to celebrate the release of the fifth installment of the Spellman's\, Trail of the Spellman's\, on Thursday\, March 29th at 7\:00 p.m.
FOR THE FIRST TIME in Spellman history\, Isabel Spellman\, PI\, might be the most normal member of her family. Mom has taken on an outrageous assortment of extracurricular activities—with no apparent motive. Dad has a secret. Izzy’s brother and sister are at war—for no apparent reason. And her niece keeps saying “banana” even though she hates bananas.
That’s not to say that Izzy isn’t without her own troubles. Her boyfriend\, Henry Stone\, keeps wanting “to talk\,” a prospect Isabel evades by going out with her new drinking buddy\, none other than Gertrude Stone\, Henry’s mother.
Things aren’t any simpler on the business side of Spellman Investigations. First\, Rae is hired to follow a girl\, only to fake the surveillance reports. Then a math professor hires Izzy to watch his immaculate apartment while he unravels like a bad formula. And as the questions pile up\, Izzy won’t stop hunting for the answers—even when they threaten to shatter both the business and the family.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130526T092452Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120401T220000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120401T220000Z UID:http://www.ggpbooks.com/event/william-broad-science-yogathe-risks-and-rewards URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.ggpbooks.com/event/william-broad-science-yogathe-risks-and-rewards SUMMARY:WILLIAM BROAD--THE SCIENCE OF YOGA\:THE RISKS AND REWARDS DESCRIPTION:A Great Good Place for Books proudly welcomes William Broad\, author of The Science of Yoga\: The Risks and Rewards\, on Sunday\, April 1st at 2\:00 p.m.
Five years in the making\, The Science of Yoga draws on more than a century of painstaking research to present the first impartial evaluation of a practice thousands of years old.
It celebrates what’s real and shows what’s illusory\, describes what’s uplifting and beneficial and what’s flaky and dangerous—and why. Broad illuminates how yoga can lift moods and inspire creativity. He exposes moves that can cripple and kill. As science often does\, this groundbreaking book also reveals mysteries. It presents a fascinating body of evidence that raises questions about whether humans have latent capabilities for entering states of suspended animation and unremitting sexual bliss.
The Science of Yoga takes us on a riveting tour of unknown yoga that goes from old archivesin Calcutta to the world capitals of medical research\, from storied ashrams to spotless laboratories\, from sweaty yoga studios with master teachers to the cozy offices of yoga healers. Broad unveils a burgeoning global industry that attracts not only curious scientists but true believers and charismatic hustlers. In the end\, he shatters myths\, lays out unexpected benefits\, and offers a compelling vision of how the ancient practice can be improved.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130526T092452Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120403T030000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120403T030000Z UID:http://www.ggpbooks.com/event/carolina-de-robertis-book-release-party-perla URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.ggpbooks.com/event/carolina-de-robertis-book-release-party-perla SUMMARY:CAROLINA DE ROBERTIS--BOOK RELEASE PARTY FOR PERLA DESCRIPTION:A Great Good Place for Books invites you to come celebrate the release of Perla with Oakland's own Carolina deRobertis on Monday\, April 2nd at 7\:00 p.m.
Perla is a coming-of-age story\, based on a recent shocking chapter of Argentine history\, about a young woman who makes a devastating discovery about her origins with the help of an enigmatic houseguest.
Perla Correa grew up a privileged only child in Buenos Aires\, with a cold\, polished mother and a straitlaced naval officer father\, whose profession she learned early on not to disclose in a country still reeling from the abuses perpetrated by the deposed military dictatorship. Perla understands that her parents were on the wrong side of the conflict\, but her love for her papá is unconditional. But when Perla is startled by an uninvited visitor\, she begins a journey that will force her to confront the unease she has suppressed all her life\, and to make a wrenching decision about who she is\, and who she will become.
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END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130526T092452Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120405T030000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120405T030000Z UID:http://www.ggpbooks.com/event/anne-lamott-and-her-son-sam-montclair-presbyterian-church-some-assembly-required-journal-my-so URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.ggpbooks.com/event/anne-lamott-and-her-son-sam-montclair-presbyterian-church-some-assembly-required-journal-my-so SUMMARY:ANNE LAMOTT AND HER SON\, SAM AT MONTCLAIR PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH--SOME ASSEMBLY REQUIRED\: A JOURNAL OF MY SON'S FIRST SON DESCRIPTION:A Great Good Place for Books and Montclair Presbyterian Church welcome Anne Lamott and her son Sam on Wednesday\, April 4th at 7\:00 p.m. They'll be discussing their new book\, Some Assemby Required\: A Journal of My Son's First Son.
Montclair Presbyterian is located at 5701 Thornhill Drive\, in Oakland's Montclair Village. For more information call GGP @ 510-339-8210 or MPC @ 510-339-1131. This event is free and open to the public.
In Some Assembly Required\, Anne Lamott enters a new and unexpected chapter of her own life\: grandmotherhood.
Stunned to learn that her son\, Sam\, is about to become a father at nineteen\, Lamott begins a journal about the first year of her grandson Jax's life.
In careful and often hilarious detail\, Lamott and Sam-about whom she first wrote so movingly in Operating Instructions-struggle to balance their changing roles with the demands of college and work\, as they both forge new relationships with Jax's mother\, who has her own ideas about how to raise a child. Lamott writes about the complex feelings that Jax fosters in her\, recalling her own experiences with Sam when she was a single mother. Over the course of the year\, the rhythms of life\, death\, family\, and friends unfold in surprising and joyful ways.
By turns poignant and funny\, honest and touching\, Some Assembly Required is the true story of how the birth of a baby changes a family-as this book will change everyone who reads it.
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