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Books Inc in the Castro
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Books said "yes" to attending the event: Online Book Group. date: July 31, 2008 12:00AM location: Books Inc Castro, 2275 Market st., San Francisco, CA, United States description: Books Inc. in the Castro proudly announces the first selection for our online reading group: The Yiddish Policemen’s Union by Michael Chabon. For sixty years Jewish refugees and their descendants have prospered in the Federal District of Sitka, a "temporary" safe haven created in the wake of the Holocaust and the shocking 1948 collapse of the fledgling state of Israel. The Jews of the Sitka District have created their own little world in the Alaskan panhandle, a vibrant and complex...more | |
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King of Shadows (Paperback) by Aaron Shurin |
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Involuntary Lyrics (Paperback) by Aaron Shurin |
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How I Paid for College: A Novel of Sex, Theft, Friendship & Musical Theater (Paperback) by Marc Acito |
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The Mayor of Castro Street: The Life and Times of Harvey Milk (Paperback) by Randy Shilts |
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My Miserable Lonely Lesbian Pregnancy (Paperback) by Andrea Askowitz |
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"If you're looking for sympathy you'll find it between shit and syphilis in the dictionary."
— David Sedaris (Barrel Fever: Stories and Essays)
— David Sedaris (Barrel Fever: Stories and Essays)
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event: Tom Pickard
date: September 08, 2008 07:30PM
location: moe's Books, 2476 Telegraph Avenue, Berkeley, CA, United States
description: Monday, September 8th: Tom Pickard
Tom Pickard lives at the edge of Fiend’s Fell in the North Penine Hills on the English–Scottish border. He is the author of ten books of poetry and prose, including The Dark Months of May (Flood Editions, 2004) and Ballad of Jamie Allan (Flood Editions, 2007). A finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, Ballad of Jamie Allan was written as a libretto for the composer John Harle and performed at the Sage Gateshead in Durham, England (and recently...more
date: September 08, 2008 07:30PM
location: moe's Books, 2476 Telegraph Avenue, Berkeley, CA, United States
description: Monday, September 8th: Tom Pickard
Tom Pickard lives at the edge of Fiend’s Fell in the North Penine Hills on the English–Scottish border. He is the author of ten books of poetry and prose, including The Dark Months of May (Flood Editions, 2004) and Ballad of Jamie Allan (Flood Editions, 2007). A finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, Ballad of Jamie Allan was written as a libretto for the composer John Harle and performed at the Sage Gateshead in Durham, England (and recently...more
event: Online Book Group
date: September 09, 2008 12:00AM
location: Online, United States
description: Books Inc. in the Castro proudly announces this months selection for our online reading group: What Was Lost by Catherine O'Flynn
A tender and sharply observant debut novel about a missing young girl--winner of the Costa First Novel Award and long-listed for the Booker Prize, the Orange Prize, and "The Guardian" First Book Award
In the 1980s, Kate Meaney--"Top Secret" notebook and toy monkey in tow--is hard at work as a junior detective. Busy trailing "suspects&qu...more
date: September 09, 2008 12:00AM
location: Online, United States
description: Books Inc. in the Castro proudly announces this months selection for our online reading group: What Was Lost by Catherine O'Flynn
A tender and sharply observant debut novel about a missing young girl--winner of the Costa First Novel Award and long-listed for the Booker Prize, the Orange Prize, and "The Guardian" First Book Award
In the 1980s, Kate Meaney--"Top Secret" notebook and toy monkey in tow--is hard at work as a junior detective. Busy trailing "suspects&qu...more
event: The Center/Books Inc. Book Group Meeting for September
date: September 10, 2008 07:30PM
location: 3 Dollar Bill Cafe/ SF LGBT Center, 1800 market st, San Francisco, CA, United States
description: Books Inc. in the Castro in association with the SF LGBT Center and Three Dollar Bill Café is pleased to announce our next Book Group selection: Dry, by Augusten Burroughs.
From the best-selling author of "Running with Scissors" comes "Dry"--the hilarious, moving, and no less bizarre account of what happened next.
Our next Book Group meeting is Wednesday, September 10th at 7 PM at the Three Dollar Bill Café at the LGBT Center, 1800 Market St. (@ Octavia). As always,...more
date: September 10, 2008 07:30PM
location: 3 Dollar Bill Cafe/ SF LGBT Center, 1800 market st, San Francisco, CA, United States
description: Books Inc. in the Castro in association with the SF LGBT Center and Three Dollar Bill Café is pleased to announce our next Book Group selection: Dry, by Augusten Burroughs.
From the best-selling author of "Running with Scissors" comes "Dry"--the hilarious, moving, and no less bizarre account of what happened next.
Our next Book Group meeting is Wednesday, September 10th at 7 PM at the Three Dollar Bill Café at the LGBT Center, 1800 Market St. (@ Octavia). As always,...more
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Thank you so much for the add. I will need to make a trip to your store! Jatana aka Ms.Thang, Author of "In My Prayers with My Legs Wide Open" www.msthangwrites.com
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Hey Books Inc! Thanks for finding me here!
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Hey, Book's...WELCOME to goodreads...thanks for the invite into your circle of friends...looking foward to sharing chats, reviews and any/all recommendations...have a blessed week...and Happy Reading :-)
Thank you for allowing me the honour of being your friend. =)
Thanks for the invitation! Always wonderful to meet another book addict!!
xoxo
Laura Stamps
Author of Paranormal Romance and Erotica Novels
http://www.LauraStamps.blogspo... (to read excerpts from my novel series)
http://laura-stamps8.livejourn... (my Author blog...updated daily)
Hi there, Books. Thanks for being a friend on Good Reads. Andrea M. Kulman, Author of The Drama Unfolds.
thanks for the ad! Michele Marchetti
http://www.discoverytoyslink.c...
looking for pt/ft help nationwide
thanx for the add! :D
Thanks for requesting me as a friend. I hope you have a wonderful week.
Tony Eldridge
Author of The Samson Effect
What a fun idea! Thanks for the add request. :-)
thanks for adding me as your friend.
Thank you so much for the add. I will need to make a trip to your store! Jatana aka Ms.Thang, Author of "In My Prayers with My Legs Wide Open" www.msthangwrites.com
thanks for finding me! i love your shop!
What an interesting name for a bookstore.
Gale Laure
Author of "Evolution of a Sad Woman"
www.galelaure.com
Dear...,
Tnx loads 4 adding me 2 ur Goodreads friends. Nice 2 c u.
Best Wishes,
Neda
Thanks for being my goodreads buddy, Books Inc!
My new romantic suspense, The Twist is a Bookstrand #1 Bestseller! A story of mind-bending control and unnerving metamorphosis, The Twist unravels the tale of a hotshot consultant as he struggles to foil a plot to steal $12 million and to rescue the feisty, female scientist who has stolen his heart.
READ AN EXCERPT FROM THE TWIST
Lee
Lee Silver
"Romance With a Twist"
THE TWIST, BookStrand #1 Bestseller
www.LeeSilver.org
Hey Books Inc! Thanks for finding me here!xox
Hey, Book's...WELCOME to goodreads...thanks for the invite into your circle of friends...looking foward to sharing chats, reviews and any/all recommendations...have a blessed week...and Happy Reading :-)
Thank you for allowing me the honour of being your friend. =)
Thanks for the invitation! Always wonderful to meet another book addict!!
xoxo
Laura Stamps
Author of Paranormal Romance and Erotica Novels
http://www.LauraStamps.blogspo... (to read excerpts from my novel series)
http://laura-stamps8.livejourn... (my Author blog...updated daily)
Hi there, Books. Thanks for being a friend on Good Reads. Andrea M. Kulman, Author of The Drama Unfolds.
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Author of The Samson Effect
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