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SUMMARY:Author Discussion: Cindy Gentry
DESCRIPTION:Meet Cindy Gentry\, author of Sermons on the Couch: A Year of Inspirational Reflections\, on October 5th at 6:30. \nAbout the Book \nIn Sermons on the Couch\, Cindy Gentry offers weekly sermons that meet people where they are—whether religious or spiritual\, agnostic or atheist. Instead of references to deities\, her lessons are placed in the context of a force in the Universe. Instead of Biblical quotes\, she uses the wise words of celebrities\, scientists\, poets\, and thinkers. Rather than traditional hymns\, she closes each sermon with suggested popular songs from across genres. At the end of each Sermon\, she offers journal questions to guide further contemplation of the weekly topic. \n 
URL:https://artsalliancedavis.org/event/author-discussion-cindy-gentry/
LOCATION:The Avid Reader\, 617 2nd St.
CATEGORIES:Books & Talk
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ORGANIZER;CN="The Avid Reader":MAILTO:avidreaderbooks@gmail.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231007T110000
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SUMMARY:Author Talk: Rachel Hobbs
DESCRIPTION:Saturday October 07\, 2023 | 11:00AM – 12:00PM\n\nMeet author\, Rachel S. Hobbs\, and celebrate the release of her debut picture book\, Tango Red Riding Hood\, on October 7th at 11:00 AM. \nAbout the Author\nRachel Hobbs was born in the US to a Californian dad and an Argentine mother. She grew up with a love of languages and music and received her BA in Spanish with a minor in music. She also enjoys volunteering and working with children\, in addition to raising her own three kids. She currently resides in Monterey\, CA. \nAbout the Book \nIn this modern interpretation of a classic fairytale\, readers tango along with Moni as she sways to the music that follows her through the woods. In a clearing\, Moni stumbles upon Lobo . . . playing a bandoneón? Moni can’t help from tap-tap-tapping to the tune\, but when the music ends\, Moni’s pace turns from tango to milonga after Lobo says he ate Abuela. Readers are certain to be both surprised and relieved when they learn Abuela is alive and well\, and waiting on another guest – her amigo\, Lobo. \n 
URL:https://artsalliancedavis.org/event/author-talk-rachel-hobbs/
LOCATION:The Avid Reader\, 617 2nd St.
CATEGORIES:Books & Talks
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231008T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231008T160000
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SUMMARY:Author Talk: Jan Adrian
DESCRIPTION:The Avid Reader is partnering with Thriving Pink to bring Jan Adrian to Davis on October 8 at 3:00PM to talk about her new memoir\, Coloring Outside the Lines: Surviving and Thriving with Cancer for 30+ years. \nAbout the Author:\nAs a survivor of three primary cancers (breast cancer and ocular melonoma) and several recurrences\, Jan wanted to focus on healing the whole person instead of just curing the body. She created the free Cancer as a Turning Point\, From Surviving To Thriving™ conference to address this need. She is the founder and director of Healing Journeys. She was previously the co-director of the Center for Health Awareness\, in San Jose\, CA. \nAbout the Book:\nJan’s purpose in writing this book is to stimulate hope and curiosity in you\, the reader. Jan has had three primary cancers since 1989—breast cancer in both breasts and ocular melanoma—and more recurrences than she can count. Breast cancer metastasized to her lungs in 2011. Her story is about living fully and thriving with cancer. Most of the stories in this book are about events in Jan’s life that helped to form or strengthen the attitudes\, beliefs\, and lifestyle that have been major resources in supporting her through more than thirty years of thriving with cancer. \n 
URL:https://artsalliancedavis.org/event/author-talk-jan-adrian/
LOCATION:The Avid Reader\, 617 2nd St.
CATEGORIES:Books & Talks
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231017T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231017T193000
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SUMMARY:California Writers Week at The Avid Reader
DESCRIPTION:Celebrate California Writers Week with us and the California Writers Club Sacramento Branch on October 17th at 6:00 PM. \nAuthors Featured:\nJudith Starkston author of Priestess of Ishana\nPete Cruz author of No Tears for Dad: My Path to Forgiveness\nCarol Menaker author of The Worst Thing We’ve Ever Done: One Juror’s Reckoning with Racial Injustice\nLally Pia author of The Fortune Teller’s Prophecy \nAbout Judith Starkston\nJudith Starkston has spent too much time reading about and exploring the remains of the ancient worlds of the Greeks and Hittites. Early on she went so far as to get two degrees in Classics from the University of California\, Santa Cruz and Cornell. She loves myths and telling stories. Hand of Fire was a semi-finalist for the M.M. Bennett’s Award for Historical Fiction. Priestess of Ishana won the San Diego State University Conference Choice Award. \nAbout Pete Cruz\nPete Cruz was raised in Milpitas\, California\, a town adjacent to San Jose. He hold’s a bachelor’s in English from California State University\, Sacramento. He has won awards for short stories\, served on writers panels\, editing teams\, and presented talks and workshops on a variety of subjects during his professional career in adult education and as a trainer and consultant for the State of California. \nAbout Carol Menaker\nCarol Menaker is a writer living in the Sierra Foothills in Northern California\, where she retired after a forty-plus-year career writing and managing communications for universities and nonprofits. She was raised in a Jewish family in Harrisburg\, Pennsylvania. She holds a BA in theatre arts/acting from Pennsylvania State University and an MS in journalism from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign\, and she enjoys travel\, yoga\, walking\, and bicycling. The Worst Thing We’ve Ever Done is her first full-length work. \nAbout Lally Pia\nLally Pia was born in Sri Lanka\, grew up in Ghana\, and made it halfway through medical school before political turmoil closed down her university and she learned that her American Green Card had been bungled. She went on to work as a church organist\, teacher\, and ice cream decorator\, as well as a scientist in a molecular biology lab. Her next stint was as the director of UC Davis’s Body Donation Program\, where she embalmed cadavers and maintained a freezer full of human specimens (a thankless job that she was glad to leave after three years). Lally is a mother\, grandmother\, and child psychiatrist who lives in Davis\, California\, with her husband\, Tim. \n 
URL:https://artsalliancedavis.org/event/california-writers-week-at-the-avid-reader/
LOCATION:The Avid Reader\, 617 2nd St.
CATEGORIES:Books & Talks
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231019T180000
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SUMMARY:Author Event: Kathy Elkind
DESCRIPTION:Kathy Elkind will be joining us at The Avid Reader to celebreate the release of her new book\, To Walk It Is To See It\, on October 19th at 6:00. \nAbout the Author\nKathy Elkind is a long-distance walker\, writer\, and eater. Along with her husband\, she has walked the GR5\, the Andalucian Coast-to-Coast Walk in Southern Spain\, and parts of the Cammino Materano in Italy. Kathy lives in the Mad River Valley of Vermont\, in Fayston. \nAbout the Book\nIn 2018\, Kathy Elkind and her husband decided to take a grown-up “gap year” in Europe and walk the 1\,400-mile Grande Randonnée Cinq (GR5) across The Netherlands\, Belgium\, Luxembourg\, and France. Walking day after day for ninety-eight days bring sickness\, accommodation struggles\, language barriers\, and storm-shrouded mountains in the Alps. Meanwhile\, Kathy finds herself reflecting on difficult topics—primarily\, her struggles with dyslexia\, overeating\, and shame. As the days unfold\, she comes to the gratifying realization that a long marriage is like a long trail: there are ups and downs and it takes hard work to keep going\, but the beauty along the way is staggering. \n 
URL:https://artsalliancedavis.org/event/author-event-kathy-elkind/
LOCATION:The Avid Reader\, 617 2nd St.
CATEGORIES:Books & Talks
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231021T180000
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SUMMARY:Author Event: Christina Gerhardt
DESCRIPTION:Join us for an event with environmental journalist\, Christina Gerhardt\, to celebrate her latest book\, Sea Change: An Atlas of Islands in a Rising Ocean\, on October 21st at 6:00 PM. \nAbout the Author\nChristina Gerhardt is Associate Professor at the University of Hawai’i at Mānoa\, Senior Fellow at the University of California\, Berkeley\, and former Barron Professor of Environment and the Humanities at Princeton University. Her environmental journalism has been published by Grist.org\, The Nation\, The Progressive\, and the Washington Monthly. \nAbout the Book\nLow-lying islands are least responsible for global warming\, but they are suffering the brunt of it. This transportive atlas reorients our vantage point to place islands at the center of the story\, highlighting Indigenous and Black voices and the work of communities taking action for local and global climate justice. At once serious and playful\, well-researched and lavishly designed\, Sea Change is a stunning exploration of the climate and our world’s coastlines. Full of immersive storytelling\, scientific expertise\, and rallying cries from island populations that shout with hope—”We are not drowning! We are fighting!”—this atlas will galvanize readers in the fight against climate change and the choices we all face. \n 
URL:https://artsalliancedavis.org/event/author-event-christina-gerhardt/
LOCATION:The Avid Reader\, 617 2nd St.
CATEGORIES:Books & Talks
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231022T110000
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SUMMARY:Author Talk: Nikki Shannon Smith
DESCRIPTION:Join us in celebrating the release of the next two books in Nikki Shannon Smith’s Brown Baby Parade board book series on October 22nd at 11:00 AM. Halloween costumes are encouraged and Christmas cookies will be provided! \nAbout the Author\nNikki Shannon Smith is the author of numerous books\, ranging from picture books to young adult.  She is passionate about the authentic representation of all children and writes stories depicting the history and struggles of Black people as well as “Black joy.” Her writing is informed not only by her research but by her childlike curiosity and nearly thirty years of elementary school teaching experience.\nNikki was born and raised in Oakland but she now lives in Davis\, California\, and sneaks away for conferences whenever she can. Learn more about Nikki and her books at nikkishannonsmith.com. \nAbout the Books\nHalloween Friends\nIt’s Halloween\, and little friends are all dressed up! Follow along as they go from house to house\, having fun and saying “Trick-or-treat!” in this second installment of the Brown Baby Parade series. \nCountdown to Christmas\nIt’s 10 days ’til Christmas! A little girl and her family prepare by putting up the tree\, wrapping presents\, baking delicious treats\, and much more. Read along as they count down to Christmas Day! \nNikki Shannon Smith’s soothing\, rhythmic text and Letícia Moreno’s warm\, welcoming illustrations pair beautifully to create heartwarming scenes of Black and brown babies in everyday life. The many seasonal activities will allow kids to relate no matter how their families celebrate! \n 
URL:https://artsalliancedavis.org/event/author-talk-nikki-shannon-smith/
LOCATION:The Avid Reader\, 617 2nd St.
CATEGORIES:Books & Talks
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231025T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231025T190000
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SUMMARY:Book Talk: Mac Barnett & Shawn Harris
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a very special evening with author Mac Barnett and illustrator Shawn Harris to celebrate the release of The First Cat in Space and The Soup of Doom on October 25 at 5:00 pm. Purchase a pre-signed copy of Soup of Doom from The Avid Reader and have an opportunity to meet and take a photo with Mac & Shawn! \nAbout the Author\nMac Barnett is a New York Times bestselling author whose books have been translated into more than thirty languages. His picture books include two Caldecott Honor–winning collaborations with Jon Klassen: Sam & Dave Dig a Hole and Extra Yarn. Among his other popular books are I Love You Like a Pig\, illustrated by Greg Pizzoli\, and The Magic Word\, illustrated by Elise Parsley. He lives in Oakland\, California. \nAbout the Illustrator\nShawn Harris’s first illustrated book\, Her Right Foot by Dave Eggers\, received seven starred reviews\, was an Orbis Pictus Award Honor Book\, an ALA Notable\, and a PW Best Book of the Year. His other picture books include Eggers’s What Can a Citizen Do\, which was a Time Magazine Best Children’s Book\, Everyone’s Awake by Colin Meloy\, A Polar Bear in the Snow by Mac Barnett\, and his own author-illustrated works Have You Ever Seen a Flower? and Doing Business. Harris also occasionally moonlights as singer/songwriter of the popular Oakland\, California\, band The Matches\, whose early 2000s album art sparked his illustration career. \nAbout the Book\nThe Moon Queen has been poisoned—by SOUP. \nWith few she can trust in her own royal court\, she and First Cat will have to journey alone to find the antidote. If only LOZ 4000 were still with them . . . But our once-heroic toenail clipping robot is on the run\, looking for new purpose in this vast universe. \nUnbeknownst to our trio\, secret forces are working against them. In a world of villainous cowboys\, high-speed chases\, and falling pianos\, can our iconic trio find their way back to one another and save the Moon Queen before it’s too late? And who would want to poison her? Is Captain Babybeard\, the adorable baby pirate\, in this one?
URL:https://artsalliancedavis.org/event/book-talk-mac-barnett-shawn-harris/
LOCATION:The Avid Reader\, 617 2nd St.
CATEGORIES:Books & Talks
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SUMMARY:Mac Barnett & Shawn Harris at Armadillo Music
DESCRIPTION:Have you ever wanted to learn more about children’s literature? Sit down with children’s book author\, Mac Barnett\, and illustrator\, Shawn Harris\, to discuss the big beautiful world of children’s books. Join us for this after hours event at Armadillo Music on October 25th at 8:30 PM. Mac and Shawn’s books will be available to purchase and have signed at the event. \nAdmission is $30 and includes a beverage ticket. Proceeds benefit the Mary L. Stephens Branch of the Yolo County Library. Event for Adults ONLY. \nAbout the Mac Barnett\nMac Barnett is a New York Times bestselling author whose books have been translated into more than thirty languages. His picture books include two Caldecott Honor–winning collaborations with Jon Klassen: Sam & Dave Dig a Hole and Extra Yarn. Among his other popular books are I Love You Like a Pig\, illustrated by Greg Pizzoli\, and The Magic Word\, illustrated by Elise Parsley. He lives in Oakland\, California. \nAbout the Shawn Harris\nShawn Harris’s first illustrated book\, Her Right Foot by Dave Eggers\, received seven starred reviews\, was an Orbis Pictus Award Honor Book\, an ALA Notable\, and a PW Best Book of the Year. His other picture books include Eggers’s What Can a Citizen Do\, which was a Time Magazine Best Children’s Book\, Everyone’s Awake by Colin Meloy\, A Polar Bear in the Snow by Mac Barnett\, and his own author-illustrated works Have You Ever Seen a Flower? and Doing Business. Harris also occasionally moonlights as singer/songwriter of the popular Oakland\, California\, band The Matches\, whose early 2000s album art sparked his illustration career.
URL:https://artsalliancedavis.org/event/mac-barnett-shawn-harris-at-armadillo-music/
LOCATION:Armadillo Music\, 207 F St.\, Davis\, CA
CATEGORIES:Books & Talks
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