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

 

 www.laurelbookstore.com  

[email protected]     

Your neighborhood book store in downtown Oakland.     3-12-15

Free parking every Saturday at the Clay St. Garage behind City Hall!
 
    

Laurel Book Store
1423 Broadway
Oakland, CA 94612
510-452-9232
Mon - Sat 10-6
Except Event nights and First Fridays
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In This Issue
FREE parking every Saturday at the Clay St. Garage right behind City Hall between 14th and 15th.


We can't wait to see
you here!



UPCOMING
EVENTS
click the date for info


3/14   Steven Burchik
5pm

3/24 The Bloom
Bay Area Writers Read
7pm

3/27 Proverb Jacobs
6pm

4/2 Oakland Heritage Alliance Event

4/10 Sapphire Books featuring Isabella, Linda Kay Silva &  Stephanie Kusiak
7pm

4/13 Linda Orsi Robinson  6:30 pm

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

4/17   Elana Dykewomon
7pm

4/21 P.E. Chute
7pm

4/22 Janet Dawson and Margaret Grace
Mysteries!
Power Hour Noon

4/23 Miriam Frank
6:30 pm

4/24
Poetry Karoke
Open event where you can read us any poem you like!

4/25  Rad American Women A to Z with Kate Schatz
11am





   

Dear Reader,

    We are getting in plenty of fun things, from books to art supplies.  

    We are a very creative bunch and found that without an art supply in the area we needed to start getting some in. If there is anything you're looking for, let us know and we'll see if we can help. For now we have sketch books, basic acrylic, watercolor, and pastel set as well as brushes.

 

 

 

     Beginning Saturday, March 28 we will have adult art classes in the event space taught by incredible painter Marshall Hasbrouck. 2 to 4 pm for 8 Saturdays, except April 18. You can drop in or pay for three and get four. $20 per class. Come by for a flier and materials list.

             

     The Bay Are Storytelling Festival is upon us. Consider attending this creative and long-running event! April 24-26 in Orinda. 

 

         

     And with that, we're on to the books! 

 

Happy reading, 

Luan 

 

 

All the Old Knives by Olen Steinhauer $23.99  

Six years ago in Vienna, terrorists took over a hundred hostages, and the rescue attempt went terribly wrong. The CIA's Vienna station was witness to this tragedy, gathering intel from its sources during those tense hours, assimilating facts from the ground and from an agent on the inside. So when it all went wrong, the question had to be asked: Had their agent been compromised, and how?

 

 

Fourth of July Creek by Smith Henderson $15.99 After his estranged 13-year-old daughter disappears, social worker Pete Snow must face the fact he has spectacularly failed his own family as he is drawn into a massive manhunt when his client-a profoundly disturbed and paranoid survivalist-sparks the interest of the F.B.I.




By Its Cover by Donna Leon $16.00 In the pages of Donna Leon's internationally bestselling Commissario Guido Brunetti mysteries, the conversations of the Brunetti family have often turned to topics of art and literature, but books are at the heart of this novel in a way they never have been before. One afternoon, Brunetti gets a frantic call from the director of a prestigious Venetian library. Someone has stolen pages out of several rare books. After a round of questioning, the case seems clear: the culprit must be the man who requested the volumes, a visiting American professor. But the man fled the library earlier that day, and after checking his credentials, it becomes clear that he is not who he said he was. As the investigation proceeds, the suspects multiply. And when a seemingly harmless character turns up brutally murdered, Brunetti must question his expectations about what makes a man innocent, or guilty.

World Gone By by Dennis Lehane $27.99  Ten years have passed since Joe Coughlin's enemies killed his wife and destroyed his empire, and much has changed. Prohibition is dead, the world is at war again, and Joe's son, Tom�s, is growing up. Now, the former crime kingpin works as a consigliore to the Bartolo crime family, traveling between Tampa and Cuba, his wife's homeland.

A master who moves in and out of the black, white, and Cuban underworlds, Joe effortlessly mixes with Tampa's social elite, U.S. Naval intelligence, the Lansky-Luciano mob, and the mob-financed government of Fulgencio Batista. He has everything-money, power, a beautiful mistress, and anonymity.

But success cannot protect him from the dark truth of his past-and ultimately, the wages of a lifetime of sin will finally be paid in full.

 

Local Find

 

Living Wisely by Levi Ben-Shmuel $16.95  Draws from Judaism's mystical Kabbalah and Taoist-inspired Tai Chi Chuan to create an inspirational guide to help you live with more wisdom. No prior knowledge of these two great traditions is necessary to benefit from this book. Living Wisely points the way to connect to your essence; as you do so, the timeless, unconditional love at your core will guide you to live with more joy, beauty, and harmony.  The author lives in Mill Valley. 


Want to make a kid laugh?
 The Strange Case of Origami Yoda by Tom Angleberger $7.95 *first time in paperback!*
Dwight is a sixth-grade oddball. But the cool thing Dwight does is origami. One day he makes an origami Yoda and that's when things get mysterious. Origami Yoda can predict the future and suggest the best way to deal with a tricky situation. And his advice actually works. What could possibly go wrong?  Grade 4 and up. (May cause a new appreciation for origami and we can help!)

Want to inspire a kid?
Breakthrough, How One Teen Innovator is Changing the World by Jack Andraka $18.99  For the first time, teen innovator and scientist Jack Andraka tells the story behind his revolutionary discovery. When a dear family friend passed away from pancreatic cancer, Jack was inspired to create a better method of early detection. At the age of fifteen, he garnered international attention for his breakthrough: a four-cent strip of paper capable of detecting pancreatic, ovarian, and lung cancers four hundred times more effectively than the previous standard.

How about a graphic novel for the teen?
Just So Happens by Fumio Obata $17.95 Yumiko was born in Japan but has made a life in London, losing herself in its cosmopolitan bustle. She has a gallery show of her art, a good job, and a good guy she plans to marry. The culture she grew up in seems very far away--until her brother phones with the news that their father has died. Yumiko returns to Tokyo and finds herself immersed in the rituals of death while also plunged into the rituals of life--fish bars, bullet trains, pagodas--as she confronts the question of where her future really lies. "Just So Happens" deals both gently and powerfully with grief, identity, and the pressure not to disappoint one's parents, even after they're gone, in a look at the relationships that build the foundation of our lives.  Teen and up.



New Book Related Stuffies! Meet them soon!

 
   This month we are featuring the photographs of Steven Burchik. Steve will be here on Saturday, March 14 with his book Compass and a Camera about a year in Vietnam serving in the Army. He took his camera when he could and produced over 4000 images.





Book Club News   Open to all, drop on in!
 
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 [email protected].
But keep reading!