Fall 2009
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Sue Monk Kidd / Ann Kidd Taylor | An Evening with Sue Monk Kidd and her daughter Ann Kidd Taylor
Friday, September 18, 2009 -
Barbara Ehrenreich | An Evening with Barbara Ehrenreich
Friday, October 23, 2009 -
Former Vice President Al Gore | An Evening with Former Vice President Al Gore
Monday, November 9, 2009
An Evening with Sue Monk Kidd and her daughter Ann Kidd Taylor
Traveling with Pomegranates: A Mother-Daughter Story
Friday, September 18, 2009 ▪ 7:00 pm
Part travel story, part spiritual quest and part induction into feminine passages, Traveling with Pomegranates is a memoir told in two voices. Set against the awe-inspiring backdrops of France and Greece, this intersecting autobiography chronicles an intimate mapping of two women—a fifty something and a twenty-something, a mother and daughter—each about to enter new and different life stages. Sue, painfully aware of aging, struggles to hang on to herself as change surrounds her. Ann, newly graduated from college and heartbroken by the sudden end of her long-term relationship, not to mention a cold rejection from her graduate school of choice, is benumbed by the classic question about what to do with her life.
Sue Monk Kidd’s first novel, The Secret Life of Bees, has spent more than 100 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list. She is also the author of several acclaimed memoirs and the recipient of numerous literary awards. Ann Kidd Taylor is a graduate of Columbia College. She has written personal essays for Skirt! Magazine in Charleston, South Carolina. This is her first book.
Dominican University of California ▪ Angelico Hall
Free lecture and book signing ▪ No RSVP, Limited Seating
Doors open at 6:00pm
An Evening with Barbara Ehrenreich
Bright-Sided: How the Relentless Promotion of Positive Thinking Has Undermined America
Friday, October 23, 2009 ▪ 7:00 pm
Ehrenreich reveals how Positive Thinking has infiltrated every part of American culture and she exposes the downside of this insistence on always and only seeing the bright side. She tracks this phenomenon to all corners of society—the medical profession, which encourages staying positive as a form of healing; the mega-churches, which spread the good news of the prosperity gospel and that God wants you to buy that car or home, even if it means going further into debt; and most of all, the business community, where the refusal to consider negative outcomes—like mortgage defaults—and CEOs’ groundless optimism have replaced risk analysis as the basis for company decisions. Positive thinking has become a beacon of hope for many but all blind optimism has its consequences, not least a failure to find the real culprits or tackle the real causes at work. Bright-Sided is a call for a clear-eyed assessment of the problems at hand and a return to realism in America.
Dominican University of California ▪ Angelico Hall
Free lecture and book signing ▪ No RSVP, Limited Seating
Doors open at 6:00pm
An Evening with Former Vice President Al Gore
Our Choice
Monday, November 9, 2009 ▪ 7:00 pm
Our Choice will pick up where An Inconvenient Truth left off, providing a blueprint for solving the global climate crisis and drawing on Mr. Gore’s 40 years of experience as a student, policymaker, author, filmmaker, entrepreneur, and activist. A co recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007 for his environmental work, Mr. Gore illuminates the real solutions to the climate crisis and describes a comprehensive global strategy to implement them urgently. Our Choice will be an inspiring call to action for those ready to fight for solutions that really work—including some bold initiatives that were deemed impossible only a short time ago but are now gaining support around the world.
Since the publication of the New York Times bestseller An Inconvenient Truth and the release of the Academy Award–winning film of the same title, Mr. Gore has led more than 30 “Solutions Summits” with top scientists, engineers, and policy experts to examine every solution to the climate crisis in depth and detail. Our Choice draws on conclusions developed through those summits as well as on extensive independent research, describing how the bold choices necessary to save the earth’s climate should also be the foundations of policies worldwide to create new jobs and stimulate sustainable economic progress. As they did with An Inconvenient Truth, former Vice President Gore and Mrs. Tipper Gore will donate 100 percent of the proceeds of the book to the Alliance for Climate Protection, a nonprofit, nonpartisan group dedicated to spreading awareness about the climate crisis and how to solve it. Our Choice will feature 100 percent recycled paper, locally produced and sourced editions, low VOC inks, and will be carbon neutral.
Dominican University of California ▪ Angelico Hall
Doors open at 5:30pm for ticket holders. This event is sold out and no tickets will be available for purchase at the event.
An Evening with David Plouffe
The Audacity to Win
The Inside Story and Lessons of Barack Obama’s Historic Victory
Wednesday, November 11, 2009 ▪ 7:00pm
The architect of President Barack Obama’s 2008 campaign reveals how it all happened—and how it will revolutionize our politics. David Plouffe not only led the effort that put Barack Obama in the White House, but he also changed the face of politics forever and reenergized the idea of democracy itself. The Audacity to Win is his story of that groundbreaking achievement, taking readers inside the remarkable campaign that led to the election of the first African American president.
Wednesday, November 11, 2009 ▪ 7:00pm
Dominican University of California ▪ Angelico Hall
Free lecture and book signing ▪ No RSVP, Limited Seating
Doors open at 6:00pm
