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Laurel Book Store
1423 Broadway
Oakland, CA 94612
510-452-9232
Mon - Thurs 10-6
Fri & Sat 10-7
Except Event nights and First Fridays
Sun Closed
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FREE parking every Saturday at the Clay St. Garage right behind City Hall between 14th and 15th.
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UPCOMING
EVENTS click the date for info
****Tonight**** June 4 6pm Carmen de Monteflores author of Jibara!
June 5 7pm Heather Rose Jones with Mystic Marriage
June 6 4pm Kristin Bennett and a workshop on career counseling!
Mark your Calendar if you're an A's fan! June 11 6pm 100 Things You Should Know and Do If You're an A's Fan by Susan Slusser You could win tickets to the Father's Day game too!
June 12 7pm Armin Brot and with books just in time to honor fathers
June 13 11am Children's Event with Bethanie Murguia author and illustrator of several picture books
June 13 6pm Kimber Simpkins and her memoir Full: How I Learned to Satisfy My Insatiable Hunger and Feed My Soul
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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.
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Graduation is upon us! Ask us for our recommendations for great gifts for the grad of any age. Don't forget that a wole raft of people are striking out on their own and might need some guidance. Yes, we have books for that.
Then there's Father's Day. What does dad read? Or what is he interested in? Start checking now.
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Dear Reader,
The inaugural Oakland Book Festival was a blast! I hope you were here for any part of it. The panels were well thought out and interesting as well as interactive. They were often full to standing room only and overflow. That was certainly the case for the panels held here at the store! From youth issues to writing about sex, we had a store full of people all day. Most delightedly for me, we had a large number of families with kids!
A huge thank you goes to the organizers and sponsors and everyone who made downtown their destination for the day. We have a great selection of panel author books on display so take a look this week.
I'll mention some events below but please bring the kids to meet Bethanie Murguia whose adorable picture books will appeal to the whole family. We will host Bethanie on Saturday, 6/13 at 11am.
And now, on to books and things!
Happy reading,
Luan
A little bonus. Check out what our friends at Pollinate Farm & Garden, a really cool garden store are up to. Conveniently located on Fruitvale, you should really go see them.
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Sweet Cream and Sugar Cones by Kris Hoogerhyde, Anne Walker and Dabney Gough $24.99 San Francisco's Bi-Rite Creamery is as well known for its small-batch, handcrafted, show-stoppingly inventive ice cream as it is for the long line that snakes around the block. Guests young and old flock to the destination ice cream shop, craving a toasty banana split, a jewel-toned ice pop, a scoop of cooling sorbet, a mouthwatering ice cream sandwich, or one of the best ice cream cakes around. You can do this. Start practicing now for when the sun comes out for real. We are happy to be your testers. Really.
A hit from the Book Festival was this next book. The Meat Lovers Meatless Cookbook, Vegetarian Recipes Carnivores Will Devour by Kim O'Donnel $18.95 There are a whole lot of really great recipes for those wanting to eat less meat. Beautifully put together and varied, it's for any kitchen actually. Really.
Fans of Kent Haruf know that his new book is out now. Our Souls at Night $24 In the familiar setting of Holt, Colorado, home to all of Kent Haruf's inimitable fiction, Addie Moore pays an unexpected visit to a neighbor, Louis Waters. Her husband died years ago, as did his wife, and in such a small town they naturally have known of each other for decades; in fact, Addie was quite fond of Louis's wife. His daughter lives hours away in Colorado Springs, her son even farther away in Grand Junction, and Addie and Louis have long been living alone in houses now empty of family, the nights so terribly lonely, especially with no one to talk with. Their brave adventures-their pleasures and their difficulties-are hugely involving and truly resonant, makingOur Souls at Night the perfect final installment to this beloved writer's enduring contribution to American literature.
Willin' The Story of Little Feat by Ben Fong-Torres is in paperback. $16.99 Formed in 1969 by ex-members of Frank Zappa's Mothers of Invention, Little Feat created groove-heavy music that was an irresistible mix of rock, blues, R&B, country, jazz, soul, and funk. Fronted by the doomed, enigmatic, and charismatic vocalist and slide guitarist Lowell George, they recorded such classic studio albums as Sailin' Shoes and Dixie Chicken, as well as what many consider to be one of the best live albums of all time:Waiting for Columbus. After George's tragic death in 1979 and a long period of silence, the band later re-formed in 1987, delighting concert crowds with tight renditions of their beloved songs, including their signature outlaw trucker anthem "Willin'." Acclaimed journalist Ben Fong-Torres, working with surviving band members and their friends and associates, has based Willin' on hours of brand-new interviews with all the key players, resulting in the definitive, first-ever biography of this beloved rock 'n' roll institution.
Talking Back, Voices of Color edited by Nellie Wong $15 This is a dynamic anthology featuring voices of youth, political prisoners, immigrants, and history-makers. Essays by a multi-racial, intergenerational mix of 25 Black, Latino, Native American, and LGBTQ community organizers. Topics include quality education and environmental justice, indigenous land rights and international solidarity, film and book reviews, hidden histories of women of color, and tales of endurance and survival.
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Interstellar Cinderella written by Deborah Underwood and illustrated by Meg Hunt. $16.99 Looking for something for that smart, handy, awesome girl in your life? This is is. Wait til you see how she responds to the prince's proposal.
Preparing to fly to the ball with a little help from her fairy godrobot, Cinderella, a talented innovator, zooms to the rescue when the prince's ship has mechanical trouble.
Magonia by Maria Dahvana Headley $17.99 Aza Ray Boyle is drowning in thin air. Since she was a baby, Aza has suffered from a mysterious lung disease that makes it ever harder for her to breathe, to speak-to live. So when Aza catches a glimpse of a ship in the sky, her family chalks it up to a cruel side effect of her medication. But Aza doesn't think this is a hallucination. She can hear someone on the ship calling her name.
Only her best friend, Jason, listens. Jason, who's always been there. Jason, for whom she might have more-than-friendly feelings. But before Aza can consider that thrilling idea, something goes terribly wrong. Aza is lost to our world-and found, by another. Magonia.
Above the clouds, in a land of trading ships, Aza is not the weak and dying thing she was. In Magonia, she can breathe for the first time. Better, she has immense power-but as she navigates her new life, she discovers that war between Magonia and Earth is coming. In Aza's hands lies fate of the whole of humanity-including the boy who loves her. Where do her loyalties lie? Teen and up.
Check in for lots of fun activity books and summer reading suggestions!
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