Local Authors
Virginia Barton Brownback: Daredevil Twilight
Richard Blair and Kathleen Goodwin: Point Reyes Visions
Mark Dowie: American Foundations: An Investigative History
Jules Evens: Introduction to California Birds; Natural History of the Point Reyes Peninsula
Philip L. Fradkin: Wallace Stegner and the American West; Magnitude 8: Earthquakes and Life Along the San Andreas Fault, California; Wildest Alaska: Journeys of Great Peril in Lituya Bay; The Great Earthquake and Firestorms of 1906: How San Francisco Nearly Destroyed Itself; Fallout: An American Nuclear Tragedy; Wanderings of an Environmental Journalist: In Alaska and the American West; The Seven States of California: A Natural and Human History; A River No More: The Colorado River and the West; Stagecoach: Wells Fargo and the American West; Sagebrush Country: Land and the American West
Jon Francis: Planetwalker
Susan Hall: Painting Point Reyes and Home Before Dark
Robert Hass: Sun Under Wood; Field Guide;Twentieth Century Pleasures: Prose on Poetry (winner of the 2009 Pulitzer Prize)
Brenda Hillman: White Dress; Fortress; Death Tractates; Bright Existence; Emily Dickinson Poems; Loose Sugar; Cascadia; The Grand Permisson: New Writings on Poetics and Motherhood; Pieces of Air in the Epic; Coffee, 3AM; Autumn Sojurn; The Firecage
John Hulls: Rider in the Sky: How an American Cowboy Built England's First Airplane
Wendy Johnson: Gardening At The Dragon's Gate: At Work in the Wild and Cultivated World
Marty Knapp: Point Reyes: 20 Years
Dewey Livingston: Discovering Historic Ranches in Point Reyes; Nicasio: Historic Valley at the Center of Marin; Point Reyes Peninsula: Olema, Point Reyes Station, and Inverness (Images of America, Arcadia Publishing)
Judith Lowry: Gardening with A Wild Heart; The Landscaping Ideas of Jays: A Natural History of the Backyard Restoration
Bonnie Shrewsbury Arthur: The Inverness Tales
Norman Solomon: War Made Easy: How Presidents and Pundits Keep Spinning Us to Death
Murray Suid: Words of a Feather, How to Be President of the U.S.A., Demonic Mnemonics, The Kids’ How to Do (Almost) Everything Guide
Prince Andrew Romanoff: The Boy Who Would Be Tsar
UPCOMING EVENTS
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author of Grace and Tranquility and Wild Grace: Nature as a Spiritual Path
Thursday, May 177:00pmPoint Reyes Presbyterian ChurchMOREEric Alan is an author, photographer, lyricist, radio broadcaster, and workshop leader. He will talk with us about his books, Grace and Tranquility and Wild Grace: Nature as a Spiritual Path, in which he encourages the re-integration of nature into daily life.
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with Judith Lowry author of Gardening with a Wild Heart, co-owner of Larner Seeds and Arvind Kumar of the California Native Plant Society
Saturday, May 1910:00am - 2:30pmLarner Seeds Demonstration Garden, Bolinas$40MOREMany of us seek to overcome the conscious and unconscious distancing from the natural world that is so difficult to avoid in our times. This presentation by Judith Lowry of Larner Seeds and Arvind Kumar of the California Native Plant Society describe a way to become a part of the more-than-human world, through joining the great returning of habitat taking place these days on Planet Earth.
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Music, cake and beverages
Friday, June 15:00pm - 7:00pmBookstoreFree EventMORE -
Author of Handmade Houses: A Century of Earth-Friendly Home Design
Saturday, June 27:30pmBookstoreMOREFrom deep in the redwood forests of Big Sur to the craggy, pink-sand beaches of Sardinia, italy, Richard Olsen has visited and documented a wide selection of the greatest handmade houses built in the last century—during and before and since the back-to-the-land movement.
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author of The Sacred Art of Listening
Saturday, June 167:00pmPoint Reyes Presbyterian ChurchFree EventMOREKay Lindahl, author, Certified Listening Professional, and founder of The Listening Center, focuses on the power of sacred listening - the art of becoming a listening presence, someone who can truly hear what the other is saying.
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author of Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail
Saturday, June 307:30pmToby's Feed BarnPurchase of $10.00 bookstore gift certificateMOREAt twenty-two, Cheryl Strayed thought she had lost everything. In the wake of her mother's death, her family scattered and her own marriage soon ended. Four years later, with nothing more to lose, she impulsively decided to hike the Pacific Crest Trail—from the Mojave Desert through California and Oregon to Washington State—and to do it alone.







