Please join us as local Sacramento author Tim Comstock presents his latest book, Reunion in Carmel.

Carmel is rocked by a series of burutal murders. The locals are overwhelmbed by a cunning killer and their own bizarre politics. As he struggles to hunt down a man who hides in shadows, Chief Will Kempton must call on skill long untested to save himself, his family and the village he has come to love. The trail twists as the hunter becomes the hunted and the crimes escalate. The clash of the peaceful tourist enclave and the evil of the killer is a perfect backdrop for a story of confrontations.

Tim Comstock has published three books and many articles in a variety of magazines, including Sports Illustrated. His listening skills as a university dean of students gave him a keen ear for truth and good intentions. He uses that talent to fuel the realistic dialogue for a memorable cast of characters in pursuit of a deadly killer. The author splits time between Carmel and Saramento and is now working on a series of Sherlock Holmes adventures.

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The Wind Doesn't Need a Passport by Tyche Hendricks

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 Event has been postponed and the rescheduling is in the works. We apologize for the inconvenience and will update you as soon as a date is worked out.

How do you fight despair and learn to meet the
world with a loving heart? How do you overcome shame? Stay faithful in
spite of failure? No matter where people live or what their
circumstances may be, everyone needs boundless, restorative love.
Gorgeous and uplifting, Tattoos on the Heart amply demonstrates the impact unconditional love can have on your life.

As
a pastor working in a neighborhood with the highest concentration of
murderous gang activity in Los Angeles, Gregory Boyle created an
organization to provide jobs, job training, and encouragement so that
young people could work together and learn the mutual respect that comes
from collaboration. Tattoos on the Heart is a breathtaking
series of parables distilled from his twenty years in the barrio.
Arranged by theme and filled with sparkling humor and glowing
generosity, these essays offer a stirring look at how full our lives
could be if we could find the joy in loving others and in being loved
unconditionally. From giant, tattooed Cesar, shopping at JCPenney fresh
out of prison, we learn how to feel worthy of God's love. From
ten-year-old Lula we learn the importance of being known and
acknowledged. From Pedro we understand the kind of patience necessary to
rescue someone from the darkness. In each chapter we benefit from
Boyle's wonderful, hard-earned wisdom. Inspired by faith but applicable
to anyone trying to be good, these personal, unflinching stories are
full of surprising revelations and observations of the community in
which Boyle works and of the many lives he has helped save.

Erudite,
down-to-earth, and utterly heartening, these essays about universal
kinship and redemption are moving examples of the power of unconditional
love in difficult times and the importance of fighting despair. With
Gregory Boyle's guidance, we can recognize our own wounds in the broken
lives and daunting struggles of the men and women in these parables and
learn to find joy in all of the people around us. Tattoos on the Heart reminds us that no life is less valuable than another.

Louise Nayer is an internationally published poet and writer who has
read her work on radio, at universities, and at coffee houses and
bookstores throughout the United States. She has published four books,
and her poetry and writing have appeared in over forty magazines.

On July 22nd, 1954, at four years old, Louise Nayer woke to find her
world shattered. Her parents, Hank and Dorothy Nayer, a New York City
physician and nurse, were on their first family vacation in Cape Cod,
Massachusetts. After dinner and a play, they climbed down a rickety
ladder to the basement to light the pilot light that had gone out. After
the match struck, they were engulfed in flames while Louise, her
sister, Anne, and babysitter slept upstairs. Dorothy Nayer suffered
third degree burns mostly on her face and hands. She would live her life
as a disfigured woman. Hank Nayer was severely burned as well. For the
next nine months she and her sister lived with their uncle, aunt and two
cousins on a farm in upstate New York where they played in the fields
and later built forts among snowdrifts. Connected to each other only by
the telephone, her parents tried to make their daughters believe they
were still alive and would come for them. Though her mother bore 37
surgeries, and her father suffered severe burns and from a paralyzing
depression, the family reunited in New York City amidst horror and love.
This book chronicles the nightmare of the explosion, the nine months of
separation and the final reconstruction not only of Louise's mother's
face and her father's soul, but of the family itself. Haunted by panic
attacks as an adult, Louise knew she had to write the story of the
explosion.

 Louise Nayar will be speaking in our Davis store on Saturday, September 11th. Copies of the book are available to purchase prior to the event or during and the event is open to all. 

Professional trainers ANIELA and JERZY GREGOREK have developed a proven way to help people lose weight, reverse serious health conditions, and slow down the aging process. In their comprehensive new book, The Happy Body: The Simple Science of Nutrition, Exercise, and Relaxation, with a foreword by Stanford University School of Medicine’s Eric Weiss MD, this dynamic husband and wife team introduce readers to the successful and innovative fitness program they’ve become famous for among the hundreds of athletes, celebrities, and ordinary people whose bodies, lives, and health they’ve transformed.
Based on standards and goals established over the course of three decades of practice, and backed by sound scientific study, The Happy Body program features structured exercise sequences (simple weightlifting and floor exercises), relaxation techniques, and nutrition guidelines. The program slows down the aging process by restoring six qualities of youthfulness— flexibility, strength, speed, leanness, ideal body weight, and good posture—making you feel as youthful as you were at 20.
Using detailed step-by-step photographs, easy-to-follow charts and formulas, and concise written instructions, the Gregoreks show how to design a personalized fitness plan consisting of 18 exercises you can do in your own home with a set of inexpensive hand weights. They demonstrate how to do each exercise the right way so as to avoid injury, and include guidelines that enable you to customize a routine for your own body type, fitness and health goals, and progress.

 ANIELA and JERZY GREGOREK came to the U.S. from Poland in 1986 as political refugees during the Solidarity Movement, and have since built a successful personal coaching and athletic training practice in LA. Aniela is a five-time World Weightlifting Champion who holds six world records, and Jerzy is a four-time World Weightlifting Champion with one world record. The Gregoreks founded the UCLA weightlifting team in 2000 and are its head coaches. They have devoted the last three decades of their lives to researching and designing The Happy Body program. Using these techniques, they have transformed hundreds of people—from housewives and physicians to athletes and celebrities—who came to them with every conceivable body shape and desire.

 The
Happy Body is the recipient of many awards, including Winner of the USA
Book News 2009 Exercise and Fitness Book of the Year, finalist in the
ForeWord Book of the Year 2009, and a Gold Award Winner in the 2010 Best
Of Expo in San Francisco, 2010 Eric Hoffer Award Winner, and Winner of the Living Now Book Awards

Not Fit for Our Society:

Is a book of deep and telling
ironies, Peter Schrag provides
essential background for understanding the fractious debate over
immigration. Covering the earliest days of the Republic to current
events, Schrag sets the modern immigration controversy within the
context of three centuries of debate over the same questions about who
exactly is fit for citizenship. He finds that nativism has long colored
our national history, with the fear—and loathing—of newcomers that
provides one of the faultlines of American cultural and political life.
Schrag describes the eerie similarities between the race-based arguments
for restricting Irish, German, Slav, Italian, Jewish, and Chinese
immigrants in the past and the arguments for restricting Latinos and
others today. He links the terrible history of eugenic "science" to
ideas, individuals, and groups now at the forefront of the fight against
rational immigration policies. Not Fit for Our Society makes a
powerful case for understanding the complex, often paradoxical history
of immigration restriction as we work through the issues that inform,
and often distort, the debate over who can become a citizen, who
decides, and on what basis.

Peter Schrag, for many years the editorial page editor and
later a weekly columnist for the Sacramento Bee, currently
contributes to The Nation, Harper's, The Los Angeles Times, and
other publications. He is a visiting scholar at the Institute for
Governmental Studies at the University of California at Berkeley and the
author of several books, including Paradise Lost and California:
America's High-Stakes Experiment (both from UC Press) and Final
Test: The Battle for Adequacy in America's Schools. Peter Schrag is
the 2010 winner of the Carey McWilliams Award from the California
Studies Association.

It's Tea time! If you're one of the millions who love this classic beverage, you're in for a treat. From traditional brews to the new classic drinks, from tasty accompaniments to tea parties, come see how deliciously diverse tea culture can be. Tea devotee and expert Dubrin will steep you in tea talk, answering all your questions and pouring a wealth of knowledge into these stylishly photographed pages. Find out about tea history, from its origins in Asia and spreading popularity in Europe to its arrival in North America. Beverly Dubrin is a food journalist and tea lover. For over 20 years, she published her private newsletter, Beverly Dubrin's Where-To-Guide, about food, shopping, and travel, and now authors Beverly Dubrin's Where-To-Guide blog, found at www.wheretoguide.blogspot.com. Beverly lives in Walnut Creek, California.

It's Tea time! If you're one of the millions who love this classic
beverage, you're in for a treat. From traditional brews to the new
classic drinks, from tasty accompaniments to tea parties, come see how
deliciously diverse tea culture can be.

Not Fit for Our Society:

Is a book of deep and telling
ironies, Peter Schrag provides
essential background for understanding the fractious debate over
immigration. Covering the earliest days of the Republic to current
events, Schrag sets the modern immigration controversy within the
context of three centuries of debate over the same questions about who
exactly is fit for citizenship. He finds that nativism has long colored
our national history, with the fear—and loathing—of newcomers that
provides one of the faultlines of American cultural and political life.
Schrag describes the eerie similarities between the race-based arguments
for restricting Irish, German, Slav, Italian, Jewish, and Chinese
immigrants in the past and the arguments for restricting Latinos and
others today. He links the terrible history of eugenic "science" to
ideas, individuals, and groups now at the forefront of the fight against
rational immigration policies. Not Fit for Our Society makes a
powerful case for understanding the complex, often paradoxical history
of immigration restriction as we work through the issues that inform,
and often distort, the debate over who can become a citizen, who
decides, and on what basis.

Peter Schrag, for many years the editorial page editor and
later a weekly columnist for the Sacramento Bee, currently
contributes to The Nation, Harper's, The Los Angeles Times, and
other publications. He is a visiting scholar at the Institute for
Governmental Studies at the University of California at Berkeley and the
author of several books, including Paradise Lost and California:
America's High-Stakes Experiment (both from UC Press) and Final
Test: The Battle for Adequacy in America's Schools. Peter Schrag is
the 2010 winner of the Carey McWilliams Award from the California
Studies Association.

Trekking the Globe with Mostly Gentle Footsteps: Twelve Countries in Twelve Months is an account of their trials and tribulations on a journey across four continents. Their personal challenge was to travel for the same cost as staying at home, while still adhering to their older traveller’s motto “we are not here to suffer.” As they immersed themselves in other cultures, their intention was to tread with Gentle Footsteps leaving behind favourable impressions. The Mostly refers to times when their footsteps, as a result of misunderstandings, were less than ideal leading to bizarre, hair raising or humorous incidents.

However, nothing could deter these intrepid Canadian travelers ­­-- not even being forced off a train at gun-point at the Polish border or having their motor scooter collide with a truck in India. Join the Butlers as they learn many valuable travel lessons, including the most valuable lesson of all “expect the unexpected.” Conclusively, their year away was more daring, enlightening and wondrous than any previous twelve months in their lives.

Irene Butler is an award-winning Freelance Journalist whose travels have led her to Europe, Australia, Africa, Asia, North and South America, and Mexico. Articles about her travel adventures have appeared in a variety of magazines including Air Canada Vacations, Canadian Traveller, Outpost Magazine, and Senior Living Magazine. She won an award in the Destination Category at the 2005 B.C. Association of Travel Writers Symposium. She continues to travel the world with her photographer and fellow adventurer Rick.

Trekking the Globe with Mostly Gentle Footsteps: Twelve Countries in
Twelve Months is an account of their trials and tribulations on a
journey across four continents. Their personal challenge was to travel
for the same cost as staying at home, while still adhering to their
older traveller’s motto “we are not here to suffer.” As they immersed
themselves in other cultures, their intention was to tread with Gentle
Footsteps leaving behind favourable impressions. The Mostly refers to
times when their footsteps, as a result of misunderstandings, were less
than ideal leading to bizarre, hair raising or humorous incidents.

However, nothing could deter these intrepid Canadian travelers ­­--
not even being forced off a train at gun-point at the Polish border or
having their motor scooter collide with a truck in India. Join the
Butlers as they learn many valuable travel lessons, including the most
valuable lesson of all “expect the unexpected.” Conclusively, their year
away was more daring, enlightening and wondrous than any previous
twelve months in their lives.

Irene Butler is an award-winning Freelance Journalist whose travels
have led her to Europe, Australia, Africa, Asia, North and South
America, and Mexico. Articles about her travel adventures have appeared
in a variety of magazines including Air Canada Vacations, Canadian
Traveller, Outpost Magazine, and Senior Living Magazine. She won an
award in the Destination Category at the 2005 B.C. Association of Travel
Writers Symposium. She continues to travel the world with her
photographer and fellow adventurer Rick.

The Illuminated Landscape: A Sierra Nevada Anthology is a sweeping
consideration of the remarkable Sierra Nevada region. This book includes literary
descriptions of what the famous naturalist John Muir called the “Range of Light” from
the earliest native origin myths to contemporary accounts of those who have recently
been inspired by the Sierra experience.

Among the authors represented are Sierra Nevada Native American authors and poets, John C. Frémont, Mark Twain, Bret Harte, Isabel Allende, Dame Shirley, Horace Greeley, Maxine Hong Kingston, Walt Whitman, James Houston, Robert Louis Stevenson, John Muir, Jack London, Mary Austin, Chiura Obata, Ansel Adams, Jack Kerouac, David Brower, Wallace Stegner, Tom Knudson, Gary Snyder, Ishmael Reed, and more than fifty others who have written about the magnificent but threatened range.

The anthology also includes original prose and a poem written especially for the book. The anthology is illustrated by biologist and author Joe Medeiros. The book features a foreword written by Robert Hanna, great-great-grandson of John Muir and a former Sierra College student.