Hello Alice,

We have added a number of events to the calendar and I hope you get the chance to join us for one, or more. We do ask that you register so we can be sure we have the space, otherwise we can move offsite.

For those of you headed back to the classroom, either as a student or as educator, we wish you all the best of luck in the new school year!

We will be open regular hours this weekend: Tuesday - Saturday: 10-6, Sunday 12-4 and closed Monday.

Thank you for your support of independent bookselling,

Alice

Join us monthly for a casual Writing Workshop with award-winning author Nora Raleigh Baskin on assorted Sundays at 4:00pm. This two-hour prompt-writing workshop is designed for all ability levels. Please sign up so we can plan, and set up the required number of chairs. $25.00 per person.

The upcoming dates are: 9/15, 10/13, 11/17 and 12/15.

NOTE NEW DATE!! Please join us for an author talk and muli-media presentation from author Peter Houlahan as we celebrate his new book, Reap the Whirlwind: Violence, Race, Justice, and the Story of Sagon Penn. Many of you might remember Peter's last book, Norco 80 and his presentation here at the bookstore and elsewhere in the area. Information.

Registration suggested due to space.

About the book: March 31, 1985. Two white patrol officers in search of a gang member followed a pickup truck carrying seven young Black men up a dirt driveway in the Encanto neighborhood of Southeastern San Diego. Minutes later, gunshots rang out, and the truck's driver, Sagon Penn, fled the scene in an officer's patrol car. The incident stunned the city. What followed would change it forever.

If you are thinking of getting divorced or about to go through one, you likely have many questions and concerns. How will it influence your daily life? How will it impact your children? How will it affect your finances? Written by family law expert Kathy Boufford, Divorce Matters provides all the answers and advice you need to navigate the process from start to finish in one step-by-step guide. Information and registration.

Join us for a very special evening on Tuesday October 1st as we discuss and explore Roger Rosenblatt's latest book, A Steinway on the Beach: Wounds and Other Blessings (illustrated by Fred Newman) with the author and the illustrator in person.

Three-time New York Times bestselling author Roger Rosenblatt shares a universal truth, wounds give us our life.

Over the course of a 49-year career, Roger Rosenblatt has written 22 books, 7 off-Broadway plays, and countless stories and essays in The New Republic, Washington Post, Time Magazine, The New York Times, The Atlantic, The New Yorker, and on the PBS NewsHour.

In latter years he has adopted a form entirely his own, consisting of sections of lyric essays and narratives, akin to movements in music, each section drawing upon and building on the others. Now he gives us A Steinway on the Beach: Wounds and Other Blessings, continuing his probing of life’s gifts and obstacles.

INFORMATION.

REGISTRATION REQUIRED FOR THIS EVENT.

We are open our regular hours this weekend: T-Sat: 10-6, Sun 12-4, Mon- closed