Book Passage

A Literary Luncheon at Greens
with Sloan Barnett

Green Goes with Everything: Simple Steps to a Healthier Life and a Cleaner Planet

Wed., October 15, 2008, 12:00 pm
Greens Restaurant
Building A, Fort Mason Center, San Francisco

Tickets $95, includes lunch and an autographed copy of the book. To reserve, call (415) 927-0960, ext. 1 or order online at this link.

Consumer correspondent and regular Today show contributor Sloan Barnett shows us the future of green living in Green Goes with Everything: Simple Steps to a Healthier Life and a Cleaner Planet. When a rare opportunity presented itself with Harvard School of Public Health, Barnett seized the chance to have a “body burden test”—one that reveals the chemicals that she, like all of us, carries in her blood. Step by manageable step, she identifies the things we buy and use that are contributing to the crazy skyrocketing rates of asthma, allergies, and cancer. Then, she offers an array of affordable alternatives. She demonstrates that we have the power to make better, smarter, safer choices.

New Writing Class
with Andre Dubus III

Featured Class: Writing as an Act of Discovery
Sunday, October 12, 2008
10:00 to 4:00 pm, $225
Book Passage in Corte Madera
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National Book Award finalist, Andre Dubus III, will lead a one-day workshop on writing and the creative process. Dubus is the author of the bestselling House of Sand and Fog and critically acclaimed The Garden of Last Days, a provocative fictional account of the last days of the 9/11 hijackers. Be sure to sign up for this very special class! Sign Up

Cooks with Books Event:
with Marcella Hazan

Sun., October 19, 2008, 6:30 pm
Left Bank Restaurant, 507 Magnolia Ave., Larkspur
For tickets, call (415) 927-0960, ext. 1
or order online at this link

The subtitle reads, “The Remarkable Life Story of a Woman Who Started Out Teaching Science in a Small Town in Italy, but Ended Up Teaching America How to Cook Italian.” Marcella Hazan is known as America’s Godmother of Italian Cooking. Born in a quiet fishing town on the northern Adriatic Sea, she eventually made her way to the US where she began cooking schools that taught students to make homemade pastas, rustic soups, roasts and stews, seafood dishes, and fresh vegetables dressed with olive oil that Italians love and savor. This memoir is a cookbook but so much more. The price of the combined book & meal is $100 per person/$175 per couple. Sign Up Today!

An Afternoon with Rick Steves
at the Corte Madera Store!

Sunday, October 26, 2008 at 4:00 pm
Free Event, Open to the Public
Book Passage in Corte Madera

Join us as Rick Steves presents European Travel with Rick Steves: Stretching Your Dollars and Your Perspective. After spending a third of his adult life researching and tour guiding in Europe, Rick Steves, author of 30 European travel guidebooks and host of the PBS TV series Rick Steves' Europe, will share all the latest on smart European travel, with a focus on stretching our smaller dollar abroad. Rick believes that thoughtful travel, which challenges truths we were raised to think were self-evident and God-given, is a powerful way for Americans to broaden their perspectives. His lessons help millions of Americans not only enjoy maximum travel thrills per mile, minute and euro, but become better citizens of our planet. Rick is fresh back from four months in Europe (and an exciting side-trip to Iran) and will be on hand after his talk for plenty of Q&A and autographs.

20th Annual
San Francisco Authors Luncheon

Andre Dubus Nancy Snyderman Tobias Wolff

Featuring Authors:
Andre Dubus, Tobias Wolff, Diane Johnson, Nancy Syderman, Jacques Pépin & Curtis Sittenfeld
Sat., October 11, 2008
San Francisco Hilton Hotel
333 O'Farrell Street, San Francisco CA

10:00 am (autographing begins)
12:00 pm (luncheon)
During the past two decades the annual San Francisco Kidney Foundation Luncheon has drawn some of the finest authors in the country. This great literary tradition continues with the 2008 Authors Luncheon. Book Passage is honored to be the bookseller for the event.

Luncheon chair: Tyler Hofinga • Honorary co-chairs: Ann Getty and Amy Tan • Master of Ceremonies: Michael Krasny

Individual tickets for general seating cost $125, and will be assigned on the date of the purchased tickets. Individual tables of 10 are $1,200. To purchase tickets or find out about sponsoring a table: Tel: (415) 543-3303 ext. 114, visit www.kidneynca.org, or email: authors@kidneynca.org.

This Week's Author Events

Peter Galbraith
Monday, October 06, 2008. 1:00 PM
Corte Madera
Featured Book: Unintended Consequences: How the Iraq War Hurt America and Helped Its Enemies

Dennis Lehane
Monday, October 06, 2008. 7:00 PM
Corte Madera
Featured Book: The Given Day

Left Coast Writers: Susan McCombs
Monday, October 06, 2008. 7:00 PM
Corte Madera
Featured Book: Members Only Event

Danny Goldberg
Tuesday, October 07, 2008. 7:00 PM
Corte Madera
Featured Book: Bumping Into Geniuses: My Life Inside the Rock and Roll Business

Ken Silverstein
Wednesday, October 08, 2008. 1:00 PM
Corte Madera
Featured Book: Turkmeniscam: How Washington Lobbyists Fought to Flack for a Stalinist Dictatorship

Leslie Chang LITQUAKE EVENT
Wednesday, October 08, 2008. 6:00 PM
San Francisco
Featured Book: Factory Girls: From Village to City in A Changing China

Sebastian Copeland
Wednesday, October 08, 2008. 7:00 PM
Corte Madera
Featured Book: Antarctica: A Call To Action

Susan Orlean ADDED EVENT!
Wednesday, October 08, 2008. 7:00 PM
Corte Madera
Featured Book: Lazy Little Loafers

Kim Barnes
Thursday, October 09, 2008. 7:00 PM
Corte Madera
Featured Book: A Country Called Home

Stacey O’Brien ADDED EVENT!
Friday, October 10, 2008. 7:00 PM
Corte Madera
Featured Book: Wesley the Owl: The Remarkable Story of an Owl and his Girl

Andre Dubus, Tobias Wolff, Diane Johnson, Nancy Snyderman, Jacques Pépin & Curtis Sittenfeld
Saturday, October 11, 2008. 10:00 AM
Other San Francisco Hilton Hotel
Featured Book: San Francisco Authors Luncheon, 20th Annual Benefitting National Kidney Foundation
$125

Jill Nussinow
Saturday, October 11, 2008. 11:00 AM
San Francisco
Featured Book: The Veggie Queen: Vegetables Get the Royal Treatment

Antonia Juhasz
Saturday, October 11, 2008. 1:00 PM
Corte Madera
Featured Book: The Tyranny of Oil: The World’s Most Powerful Industry— And What We Must Do to Stop It

Thomas Kostigen
Saturday, October 11, 2008. 4:00 PM
Corte Madera
Featured Book: You Are Here: Exposing the Vital Link Between What We Do and What That Does to Our Planet

Kathleen Puckett & Terry Turchie
Saturday, October 11, 2008. 7:00 PM
Corte Madera
Featured Book: Homeland Insecurity