Laurel Book Store 
1423 Broadway,  Oakland, CA 94612
510-452-9232

 

 www.laurelbookstore.com  

laurelbookstore@att.net     

Your neighborhood book store in downtown Oakland.     1-8-15
    

Laurel Book Store
1423 Broadway
Oakland, CA 94612
510-452-9232
Mon - Sat 10-7
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We can't wait to see
you here!
Quick Links to
Places We Like

Paws & Claws 

Bryant Terry 

Colleen Patrick-Goudreau

3/50 Project

Blue Chair Fruit

Pollinate Farm & Garden 

The New Parkway 

Phnom Penh Restaurant   

Downtown Wine Merchants 


Order from us 24/7 at We can get large print
books, language
translations, books on
cd, and many movies.

Would you like us to
let you know when your favorite author releases
a new book? Let us know and we'll do it.

We order twice a week and can easily add nearly any book for arrival within a couple of days. Just ask!

We gift wrap and give opinions for free.  

Friday, January 9,
7 pm


Sunday, January 25
we will be
open from 1 to 5.
At 3pm please come and meet Colleen Patrick-Goudreau
author of The 30 Day Vegan Challenge
 
Yes, there will be treats!

UPCOMING
EVENTS
click the date for info

1/28 Barbara Rhine
Power Hour- noon

2/7 Dorothy Hom
3pm

2/18 Patricia Bracewell 
Power Hour- noon

2/20 Elmaz Abinader
7pm

(details to come for the following)

3/4  Miki Kashtan
6pm

3/11  Harvey Smith
Power Hour- noon

3/14   Steven Burchik
5pm


4/15  Vivek Shraya, Amber Dawn, and
Leah Horlick
7pm

4/17   Elana Dykewomon
7pm

4/25  Kate Schatz
11am




   

Dear Reader,

     Friday we will host painter, sculptor and now novelist Annie Weatherwax. Please plan to join us at 7 for a reading in support of her new book All We Had. See Events for more information.  

     We are starting to book lunch time events that will be known as Power Hours. Feel free to bring your lunch and we'll start the presentations at 12:15. We want to provide you with an interesting lunch hour and if you have any suggestions, please feel free to let us know.

     The first few are listed to the left down the page so take a look and mark your calendar.

     We are also booking several authors in the next few months and would love to have you her for them.  

     And now, on with the books! 

 

Happy reading, 

Luan 

 

 


San Francisco's Jewel City; the Panama-Pacific International Exposition of 1915 by Laura A. Ackley  $40   Nine years after the great earthquake of 1906, San Francisco put on quite the party. The Panama-Pacific International Exposition of 1915 celebrates it's 100th anniversary this year. Heyday has produced this absolutely gorgeous book of photos, history and accounts of the amazing expo. From the Polo Grounds to Fort Mason, the world's fair created an amazing destination for the latest and greatest in food, technology, and cultures of the world.


The Secret Wisdom of the Earth by Christopher Scotton $26.00  
After witnessing the death of his younger brother in a terrible home accident, 14-year-old Kevin and his grieving mother are sent for the summer to live with Kevin's grandfather. In this peeled-paint coal town deep in Appalachia, Kevin quickly falls in with a half-wild hollow kid named Buzzy Fink who schools him in the mysteries and magnificence of the woods. The events of this fateful summer will affect the entire town of Medgar, Kentucky.

Wildalone by Krassi Zoukova $25.99 A freshman at Princeton, Thea Slavin, away from her family and her Eastern European homeland for the first time, falls into a romantic entanglement with two brothers who draw her into a sensual mythic underworld as irresistible as it is dangerous where she uncovers a terrifying truth about her own family.


The 30 Day Vegan Challenge by Colleen Patrick-Goudreau $29.95  Are you finding that you want to be healthier in the new year? Oakland author Patrick-Goudreau has authored several books on vegan cooking and this one will give you a chance to explore eating in a new way. I know from experience that her recipes are not terribly difficult and uniformly delicious.  You owe it to yourself to take a look.
***Just booked! Sunday, January 25 meet Colleen and try some of her treats at 3pm!***

Speaking of food, here's a brand new arrival.
My Usual Table; A Life in Restaurants by Colman Andrews $14.99  Combining his own story of growing up during Hollywood's golden age with tales of traveling the world in pursuit of great food, the founding editor of Saveur reveals how, from his usual table, he has watched the changing history and culture of food in America and Western Europe.
Fans of Ruth Reichl will eat this up.

This House, My Bones by Elmaz Abinader $18.95 
Author Statement: The conversation with history is witnessed by the earth and etches the collisions on its body-every rock and road, riverbed and meadow hold the marks of migrations, escapes, exiles, alienations, aging and evolutions. In This House, My Bones, the body and the earth exchange their positions and perspectives. The memories of war are on the skin as well as on the mesa, the exile is written in dust and cells. Through mining experience of occupation, dislocation, and aging, I created poems where the body and the earth examine their bruises.
**Author Event on February 20**

And if you are looking for inspiration for the new year, here are three good choices:

Happier At Home by Gretchen Rubin $15 The author of The Happiness Project has subtitled the new book "Kiss More , Jump More, Abandon Self-Control, and My Other Experiments in Everyday Living" She sets out to make home a place that calmed her, and energized her. A place that, by making her feel safe, would free her to take risks. Also, while Rubin wanted to be happier at home, she wanted to appreciate how much happiness was there already.

10% Happer; How I Tamed the Voice in My Head, Reduced Stress Without Losing My Edge, and Found Self-help That Actually Works- A True Story by Dan Harris $15.99  The Nightline anchor, who had a nationally televised panic attack on Good Morning America, takes readers on a rollicking ride through the outer reaches of neuroscience to the inner sanctum of network news during which he discovered a way to get happier that is truly achievable.

Small Move, Big Change; Using Microresolutions to Transform Your Life Permanently by Caroline L. Arnold  $16.00  Whether trying to lose weight, save money, get organized, or advance on the job, we're always setting goals and making resolutions, but rarely following through on them. According to longtime Wall Street technology strategist Caroline Arnold, the big push" strategy of the New Year's resolution is designed to fail, because it broadly pits our limited willpower stores against an autopilot of entrenched behaviors and attitudes that is far more powerful.


 
Compass and a Camera; A Year in Vietnam by Steven Burchik  $15.00

I met Steven recently and he has an amazing story. While in Vietnam he was on forward observer patrol and brought his camera along taking over 4000 pictures while there. At the
same time he was writing a letter a day home to his then-fiance. (They're still married and she kept the letters!)
For years after the war it appeared no one was interested in his photos, but with the distance of time things have changed. His photos have been displayed in several places, most recently at the Lindsay Brown Dirkx Gallery.
Now he has put many of his photos and stories into a book and we have it. We will see about displaying some of his art on our walls but for now, mark your calendar to meet him on March 14 at 5pm.  

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BOOK GROUP

The monthly book group is suspended until further notice.  If you'd like to know about when we start up again, drop us a line at laurelbookstore@att.net.
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