| Kepler's Events July 17 - 31, 2008 |
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PARDON OUR DUST!
We've been through quite a lot in recent years, but in all the bustle, the store has seen few physical changes. That's about to change!
July 21st marks the beginning of some wonderful renovations which are expected to take about six weeks. The plans for these changes have been in the works since the community rallied to re-open Kepler's in 2005.
The goal of the rolling renovations is to have a more open and inviting floor plan, with staff members on the floor, working side-by-side with the customers.
Much of the furniture will be put on wheels so it can be moved around to accommodate all our various types of events.
The renovations are funded primarily by revenue from our Kepler's Literary Circle members. We couldn't be doing this right now without our member support.
Be sure to stop by and see our work in progress.
Sincerely,
Clark Kepler
Kepler's Books
650-324-4321
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 Fae Myenne Ng
Steer Toward Rock » BUY NOW
Thursday, July 17, 7:30 p.m.
Co-sponsored by the Asian Pacific American Students for Leadership (APASL) - De Anza College Club
Not since Bone, Fae Myenne Ng's highly praised debut novel, has a work so eloquently revealed the complex loyalties of Chinese America. Steer Toward Rock is the story of a man who chooses love over the law, illuminating a part of U.S. history few are aware of, but one that has had echoing effects for generations.
Fae Myenne Ng was born in San Francisco. Her work received the Rome Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Lannan Foundation and the Lila Wallace Reader's Digest Writers' Award. Bone, a finalist for the 1994 PEN/Faulkner, was a national bestseller and a critical success. Her short stories have appeared in Harper's and other magazines, and have been widely anthologized. |
Suzanne Redfern & Susan K. Gilbert
The Grieving Garden: Living with the Death of a Child » BUY NOW
Tuesday, July 22, 7:30 p.m.
Every year, some two million parents in the U.S. suffer the death of a son or daughter. The unnatural sequence of the child's preceding the parent in death creates a wrenching loss and overwhelming emotional and spiritual disorientation. Most of these bereaved parents find relief from their isolation only in the company of others like themselves. The Grieving Garden offers the support, understanding, and ultimately comfort and hope, from those who have shed the same tears over the death of a child.
"This book is the closest thing I've ever seen to attending a grief support group. It offers opportunities to feel the companionship of others who know what it's like, as well as hear divergent points of view on some of the dilemmas faced." - Liz Powell, KARA
"A fearless, compelling, and ultimately healing glimpse into the heart of love and loss." --Isabel Allende, author The House of the Spirits
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 Clarence B. Jones
What Would Martin Say? » BUY NOWWednesday, July 23, 7:30 p.m.
If anyone would have insight into what Martin would say, it would be Clarence B. Jones, King's personal lawyer and one of his closest principal advisers and confidants. Jones-now seventy-seven, has chosen the occasion of this somber anniversary to break his silence-removing the mythic distance of forty years' time to reveal the flesh-and-blood man he knew as his friend, Martin.
Jones ponders what the outspoken rights leader would say about the serious issues that bedevil contemporary America: Islamic terrorism and the war in Iraq, reparations for slavery, anti-Semitism, affirmative action, illegal immigration, and the vacuum of African American leadership.
Jones was recruited by Martin Luther King in 1960 and spent the better part of the next eight years working with him as his principal adviser. He was the first African American Allied Member of the NYSE who was a principal member of a Wall Street investment banking firm (Carter, Berlind & Weill). Jones is a Scholar in Residence at the Martin Luther King Jr. Research and Education Institute at Stanford.
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 Meet 3 Noted Local Chefs:
John Bentley - Chef/Owner: John Bentley's, Woodside and Redwood City
Isaac Miller - Executive Chef: 231 Ellsworth, San Mateo
Josiah Slone - Chef/Owner: Sent Sovi, Saratoga
San Francisco Cuisine
Saturday, July 26, 2:00 p.m.
Meet the chefs and get your San Francisco Cuisine signed!
San Francisco Cuisine is the Bay Area's ultimate restaurant, recipe, and winery resource for foodies, travelers and industry insiders. This incredible resource includes not only restaurant listings and maps to get you there, but also current menus and favorite recipes from some of the nation's top chefs, as well as the Wine Country's top vintners. San Francisco Cuisine's chefs have consistently been part of Food & Wine's Top 100 Chefs in America-among many other awards garnered by these culinary geniuses.
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 Nancy Ellis-Bell
The Parrot Who Thought She Was a Dog » BUY NOW
Monday, July 28, 7:30 p.m.
The last thing Nancy Ellis-Bell expected to descend on her life was a neglected, too-tall, smart-mouthed, one-legged, blue-and-gold rescue macaw named Peg Leg. And yet, it made perfect sense. A lifelong animal lover, Nancy could never turn away a stray cat, dog, squirrel, or raccoon from her California farm. But the macaw, quickly rechristened Sarah, was a whole new challenge, as Nancy, her husband, Kerry, and their furry menagerie would find out.
Initially timid of her new surroundings, Sarah soon imposed her four-foot wingspan into the family homestead-first claiming the laundry basket, then conquering a prized dresser-and achieved complete household domination. Nancy couldn't "bird-proof" the place fast enough.
Ellis-Bell is a respected literary agent, a former professor, and an author. She divides her time between New York and her mountain home in northern California, which she shares with two parrots, three dogs, two cats, fifty-one koi, and a husband who understands and accepts her passion for animals. |
 David Maraniss
Rome 1960: The Olympics That Changed the World » BUY NOWTuesday, July 29, 7:30 p.m.
From the critically acclaimed and bestselling author David Maraniss, a groundbreaking book that weaves sports, politics, and history into a tour de force about the 1960 Rome Olympics, eighteen days of theater, suspense, victory, and defeat.
Maraniss draws compelling portraits of the athletes competing in Rome, including some of the most honored in Olympic history: Rafer Johnson and Cassius Clay (four years before he became Muhammed Ali.)
Along with these unforgettable characters and dramatic contests, there was a deeper meaning to those late-summer days at the dawn of the sixties. Change was apparent everywhere. The world as we know it was coming into view.
David Maraniss is an associate editor at The Washington Post and the author of two critically acclaimed and bestselling books, When Pride Still Mattered: A Life of Vince Lombardi and First in His Class: A Biography of Bill Clinton.
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 Annie Barrows (niece of Mary Ann Shaffer)
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society » BUY NOWWednesday, July 30, 7:30 p.m.
Mary Ann Shaffer spent a career working with books, all along harboring a desire to write a book of her own. She visited Guernsey on a whim in 1976 while on a trip to London but then, on her return, found herself grounded by fog and stuck alone in the island's cold, damp and tiny airport. She discovered the airport's paperback rack, its pockets filled with books and pamphlets with strange titles such as Jersey Under the Jack-Boot. She read them all, sparking a decades-long obsession with Guernsey that would inspire her to begin writing THE GUERNSEY LITERARY AND POTATO PEEL PIE SOCIETY.
When she took ill, Mary Ann called on her niece Annie Barrows, author of the acclaimed Ivy and Bean children's books, to help complete the novel. Sadly, Mary Ann died earlier this year, but this remarkable novel stands as a moving legacy to her and her dream.
"I can't remember the last time I discovered a novel as smart and delightful as this one, a world so vivid that I kept forgetting this was a work of fiction populated with characters so utterly wonderful that I kept forgetting they weren't my actual friends and neighbors. Treat yourself to this book please-I can't recommend it highly enough." -Elizabeth Gilbert, author of EAT, PRAY, LOVE |
 Noelle Oxenhandler
The Wishing Year: A Memoir of Fulfilled Desire >> BUY NOW
Thursday, July 31, 7:30 p.m.
One New Year's Day, Noelle Oxenhandler took stock of her life and found that she was alone after a long marriage, seemingly doomed to perpetual house rental and separated from the spiritual community that once had sustained her. With little left to lose, she launched a year's experiment in desire, forcing herself to take the plunge and try the path of Putting It Out There. It wasn't easy. A skeptic at heart, and a practicing Buddhist as well, Oxenhandler had grown up with a strong aversion to mixing spiritual and earthly matters. Still, she suspended her doubts and went for it all: a new love, a healed soul, and the 2RBD/1.5 BA of her dreams. Thus began her initiation into the art of wishing brazenly.
A delightfully candid memoir, unfettered, poetic, and ripe with discovery, Oxenhandler's journey into the art and soul of wishing will inspire even the most skeptical reader to search the skies for the next shooting star.
Oxenhandler is the author of two books, A Grief Out of Season and The Eros of Parenthood and her writing has appeared in many publications including the New Yorker, New York Times Magazine, San Francisco Chronicle Magazine, Vogue, and O: The Oprah Magazine. She has taught in the graduate writing program at Sarah Lawrence College and is a member of the creative writing faculty at Sonoma State University in California. |
Leonard Susskind
The Black Hole Wars: My Battle with Stephen Hawking to Make the World Safe for Quantum Mechanics » BUY NOW
Wednesday, July 23, 7:00 p.m.
Location: NASA Ames, Moffett Field
What happens when something is sucked into a black hole? Does it disappear? Three decades ago, a young physicist named Stephen Hawking claimed it did-and in doing so put at risk everything we know about physics and the fundamental laws of the universe.
A brilliant book about modern physics, quantum mechanics, the fate of stars and the deep mysteries of black holes, Leonard Susskind's account of the Black Hole War is mind-bending and exhilarating reading.
Leonard Susskind has been the Felix Bloch Professor in theoretical physics at Stanford University since 1978. The author of The Cosmic Landscape, he is a member of the National Academy of Science and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and recipient of numerous prizes including the science writing prize of the American Institute of Physics for his Scientific American article on black holes.
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