Lectures with Book Passage

 Beyond the Impossible

Friday, February 8, 2012   |   Angelico Concert Hall   |   7 p.m.
Tickets:  $30 and includes an autographed copy their book. 

Reverend Cecil Williams and Janice Mirikitani together have led San Francisco’s Glide Memorial Church toward profound social change for the past half-century. In Beyond the Possible: 50 Years of Creating Radical Change in a Community Called Glide, they share stories that reveal how Glide became the spiritual soul of San Francisco—and one of the city’s most generous providers of social services. Williams' innovations, such as HIV testing during services, have drawn protest from conservative factions within the Methodist Church, while being praised by of Bill Clinton, Oprah Winfrey, and Warren Buffett.

The Future

Wednesday, February 13  |  Angelico Concert Hall  |  7 p.m.
Tickets:  $45 and includes an autographed copy of the book. 

Ours is a time of revolutionary change that has no precedent in history. With the same passion he brought to the challenge of climate change, and with his decades of experience on the front lines of global policy, Former Vice President Al Gore surveys our planet’s beclouded horizon and offers a sober, learned, and ultimately hopeful forecast.  Gore identifies six critical drivers of global change. This absorbing and visionary work is a map of the world to come, from a man who has looked ahead before and been proven all too right.

Prague Winter

Citizenville: How to Take the Town Square Digital and Reinvent Government

Wednesday, March 6  |  Angelico Concert Hall  |  7 p.m.  Doors open at 6:00 p.m.
Free - Priority seating with purchase of this book from Book Passage.  

California Lieutenant Governor and former Mayor of San Francisco, Gavin Newsom, presents Citizenville: How to Take the Town Square Digital and Reinvent Government. Newsom discusses how ordinary citizens can use new digital tools to dissolve political gridlock and transform American democracy. By integrating democratic government with cutting-edge American innovation, the lieutenant governor of California charts a bright future for open-source America. Citizenville suggests that the only way Americans can secure their future is by reinventing their relationship to government, just as they have countless times before.

In Conversation with Michael Krasny: Packing for Mars

Thursday, April 18  |  Angelico Concert Hall  |  7 p.m.
Free event and no priority seating.

Join us for the culminating event of One Book One Marin Award 2013, where Michael Krasney interview Mary Roach about her book, Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void. Space is a world devoid of the things we need to live and thrive: air, gravity, hot showers, fresh produce, privacy, beer. Space exploration is in some ways an exploration of what it means to be human. Roach takes us on a surreally entertaining trip into the science of life in space and space on Earth.

Maya's Notebook

Tuesday, April 23  |  Angelico Concert Hall  |  7 p.m.
Tickets: $32 and includes an autographed copy of the book.

Internationally acclaimed author and Marin resident Isabel Allende presents Maya’s Notebook. Allende’s new novel is a frank and contemporary story about a 19-year old American girl who, while struggling to overcome drug addiction and wrestle her demons, finds respite on a remote Chilean island. There, she unveils a terrible family secret, comes to understand the meaning of love and loyalty, and initiates the greatest adventure of her life: the journey into her own soul. Allende's books include The House of the Spirits, Paula, and Daughter of Fortune.

 Cooked

Monday, May 20   |   Angelico Concert Hall   |   7 p.m.
Tickets:  $35 and includes an autographed copy the book.

Michael Pollan, named by Time Magazine as one of the 100 most influential people in the world, explores the previously uncharted territory of his own kitchen. He discovers the enduring power of the four classical elements—fire, water, air, and earth—to transform the stuff of nature into delicious things to eat and drink. In the course of his journey, he discovers that the cook occupies a special place in the world, standing squarely between nature and culture. Both realms are transformed by cooking, and so, in the process, is the cook.

 In the Body of the World

Wednesday, May 22   |   Angelico Concert Hall   |   7 p.m.
Tickets:  $30 and includes an autographed copy the book.  

From Eve Ensler, the bestselling author of The Vagina Monologues and one of Newsweek’s 150 Women Who Changed the World, comes  In the Body of the World, a visionary memoir of separation and connection—to the body, the self, and the world. As a playwright, author, and activist, Ensler has devoted her life to the female body: how to talk about it, how to protect and value it.  While working in the Congo, Ensler is shattered to encounter the horrific rape and violence inflicted on the women there. She is the founder of V-Day, the global movement to end violence against women and girls, which has raised more than $90 million for local groups and activists, and inspired the global action One Billion Rising.