Spring 2011

• An Evening with Mark Paul
  Sunday, February 13, 2011

• An Evening with Jodi Picoult
  Live music by Ellen Wilber
  Wednesday, March 16, 2011
  Watch the video of the event
• An Evening with Ted Danson
  In conversation with Peter Coyote
  Monday, March 21, 2011
• An Evening with Suze Orman
  Thursday, March 24, 2011
• An Evening with Caroline Kennedy
  Wednesday, April 13, 2011
• An Evening with Abraham Verghese
  Wednesday, April 27, 2011
  
  

An Evening with Mark Paul

California Crackup: How Reform Broke the Golden State and How We Can Fix It
Sunday, February 13, 2011 ▪ 3:00 p.m.
Guzman Lecture Hall
Free event

Is California beyond repair? A sizable number of Golden State citizens have concluded that it is. Incessant budget crises plus a government paralyzed by partisan gridlock have led to demands for reform, even a constitutional convention. But what, exactly, is wrong and how can we fix it?

In California Crackup, Joe Mathews and Mark Paul provide clear and informed answers. Their fast-paced and often humorous narrative deftly exposes the constitutional origins of our current political and economic problems and furnishes a uniquely California fix: innovative solutions that allow Californians to debate their choices, settle on the best ones, hold elected officials accountable for results, and choose anew if something doesn’t work.

This lecture was organized in partnership with the League of Women Voters and Dominican’s Department of Political Science and International Studies.

An Evening with Jodi Picoult

Sing You Home
Live music by Ellen Wilber
Wednesday, March 16, 2011 ▪ 7:00 p.m.
Guzman Lecture Hall
Free event
Watch the Video

Jodi Picoult, author of My Sister’s Keeper, discusses her novel Sing You Home. Picoult explores what it means to be gay in today’s world, and how reproductive science has outstripped the legal system. Are embryos people or property? What challenges do same-sex couples face when it comes to marriage and adoption? And, what constitutes a “traditional family” in today’s day and age?

The book includes a CD of music written by musician (and Jodi's good friend) Ellen Wilber, featuring lyrics by Jodi Picoult. Wilber is teacher and musician with over 25 years of experience introducing children to music. She is a member of the Cardigan Mountain Tradition, a bluegrass band, and the founder of a long-running kid’s summer theater program.

An Evening with Ted Danson

Oceana: Our Planet's Endangered Oceans and What We Can Do to Save Them
In Conversation with Peter Coyote
Monday, March 21, 2011 ▪ 7:00 p.m.
Angelico Concert Hall
Free event

Ted Danson talks about Oceana: Our Planet’s Endangered Oceans and What We Can Do to Save Them. Most people know Danson as the affable bartender Sam Malone in the long-running television series Cheers. But fewer realize that over the course of the past two and a half decades, Danson has tirelessly devoted himself to the cause of heading off the massive destruction of our planet’s oceanic biosystems and the complete collapse of the world’s major commercial fisheries.

In Oceana, Danson details his journey to his current status as one of the world’s most influential oceanic environmental activists.

An Evening with Suze Orman

Thursday, March 24, 2011 ▪ 7:00 p.m.
Angelico Concert Hall
Free event

In her book, The Money Class, Orman says it’s time for a serious reconsideration of the American Dream—what promise it still holds, what aspects are in need of revision, and how it must be refashioned to fit our lives so that we can once again have faith that our hard work will pay off and that a secure and hopeful future is within our reach. Orman is the author of The Road to Wealth and Women & Money.

An Evening with Caroline Kennedy

She Walks in Beauty: A Woman’s Journey Through Poems
Wednesday, April 13, 2011 ▪ 7:00 p.m.
Angelico Concert Hall
Tickets: $35

Just in time for National Poetry Month and Mother’s Day, Caroline Kennedy shares her new collection of poetry She Walks in Beauty: A Woman’s Journey Through Poems. She tells the story of a woman’s life: including first love and lasting love; marriage, motherhood, and work; times of silence and solitude, and times of awe.

Kennedy’s previous collections of poetry include The Best-Loved Poems of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, A Family of Poems, and Family Christmas. Kennedy is the Vice Chair of the New York City Fund for Public Schools and President of the John F. Kennedy Library Foundation.

An Evening with Abraham Verghese

Cutting for Stone
Wednesday, April 27, 2011 ▪ 7:00 p.m.
Angelico Hall Concert Hall
One Book One Marin Award
Free event

Join us in celebration at this culminating event for the 2011 One Book One Marin selection—Abraham Verghese’s Cutting for Stone. Over the past few months, the community will have read and discussed Verghese’s story of twin brothers Marion and Shiva Stone, born of a secret union. Orphaned by their mother’s death and their father’s disappearance, bound together by a preternatural connection and a shared fascination with medicine, the twins come of age as Ethiopia hovers on the brink of revolution. Verghese is also the author of My Own Country.

Join us for this engaging evening with the author as we honor this year’s One Book One Marin selection.

FREE EVENT. To purchase Cutting for Stone, call Book Passage at 415-927-0960 or visit www.bookpassage.com.