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Stacey's
San Francisco Events
All author events at our San Francisco store take place on the 2nd
floor at 12:30 p.m., unless otherwise noted, and last for approximately
45 minutes. For directions to our store, click here.
If you cannot attend an event but would still like to purchase a signed
book, click on the "Order a Signed Book" button. You can either pick it
up at the store after the event or have it shipped to you.
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 Thursday, May
8th @ 12:30
Alexandra
Fuller
The
Legend of Colton H. Bryant
The bestselling author
of Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs
Tonight and Scribbling the Cat turns her eye to telling the story of an
interesting character from her adopted state of Wyoming. In The Legend
of Colton H. Bryant, Alexandra Fuller is uses one man’s
life—and death—to discuss the social and
environmental
changes wrought by the energy boom in Wyoming.
 Monday, May
12th @ 12:30
COSPONSORED
BY ASIA SOCIETY
Mark
Leonard
What
Does China Think?
We simultaneously seem
to know everything and nothing about China, one
of the most important and influential countries in the world. Mark
Leonard looks at China from the inside out in what George Soros calls,
“a masterful and highly readable report.”
Tuesday, May
13th @ 12:30
Raj
Patel
Stuffed
and Starved
It is difficult to pick
up a newspaper without reading about increasing
food crises in much of the world or the epidemic of obesity in America.
Raj Patel argues that both are symptoms of the corporate food monopoly.
From seed to store to plate, Stuffed and Starved explains the steps to
regain control of the global food economy, stop the exploitation of
farmers and consumers, and rebalance global sustenance.
 Friday, May
16th @ 12:30
COSPONSORED
BY MARINES’ MEMORIAL ASSOCIATION
Jim
Sheeler
Final
Salute
From the start of the
war in Iraq, Marines like Major Steve Beck have
found themselves thrown into a mission they never trained for: casualty
notification. In Final Salute, Pulitzer-prize winning journalist Jim
Sheeler weaves together the stories of Major Beck, the fallen, and the
broken homes they have left behind.
Monday, May
19th @ 12:30
MYSTERY
CIRCLE
Sheldon
Siegel
Judgment
Day
Stacey’s is
delighted to welcome local writer Sheldon Siegel for
Sheldonpalooza 2008! In his latest novel, Judgment Day, Mike Daley and
Rosie Fernandez face their most compelling case yet when
they’re
called in at the last minute to try to stop the execution of a mob
lawyer.
 Tuesday, May
20th @ 12:30
Leonard
Mlodinow
The
Drunkard’s Walk
Leonard Mlodinow offers
an irreverent look at how randomness influences
our lives and how difficult it is to recognize. The
Drunkard’s
Walk reminds us that much in our lives is as predictable as the steps
of a stumbling man, fresh from a night at the bar, and shows us what we
should be paying attention to. Join us for what will surely be a
provocative discussion.
 Wednesday,
May 21st @ 12:30
Michael
Chabon
The
Yiddish Policemen’s Union
Michael Chabon,
bestselling author, Pulitzer-prize winner, and local
treasure, joins us for the paperback release of The Yiddish
Policeman’s Union. Described as the “wildly
inventive
blackest of black comedies,” The Yiddish
Policeman’s Union
wraps an alternative history of Jews within a virtuoso recreation of
1940s detective fiction.
 Thursday, May
22nd @ 12:30
Susan
Urquhart-Brown
The
Accidental Entrepreneur
In The Accidental
Entrepreneur: The 50 Things I Wish Someone Had Told
Me about Starting Business Susan Urquhart-Brown speaks powerfully to
the interpersonal aspects of self-employment as well as the practical
nuts and bolts. Urquhart-Brown provides an easy-to-read no-nonsense
guidebook on what it takes to start, build and sustain a successful
small business.
 Thursday, May
29th @ 12:30
MYSTERY
CIRCLE
Steve
Martini
Shadow
of Power
Steve Martini follows
bestselling novel Double Tap with his ninth legal
thriller featuring defense attorney Paul Madriani and his longtime
partner Harry Hinds. In Shadow of Power, hey take on a case that
reaches deep into the halls of the Supreme Court when they agree to
represent a racist facing execution.
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