Samantha "Izzy" Rose, Emmy Award-winning writer and television producer, blogger, author (and the daughter of former Press Democrat columnist Susan Swartz), plans to read in Sonoma County from her new book in early May. Rose's latest, The Package Deal: My (Not So) Glamorous Transition from Single Gal to Instant Mom, [...]
Terry Ehret's latest collection of lyric and prose poems, Lucky Break, has been nominated for the Northern California Book Reviewers Award in poetry. Ehret, also a co-founder Sixteen Rivers Press, served as poet laureate of Sonoma County from 2004 to 2006.The 28th Annual Northern California Book Awards will be held [...]
Here's a list of the bestselling books according to Copperfield's Books, surely an excellent indication of what we're reading in Sonoma County.Yet the books piled on my nightstand aren't on this list. This week I'm diving into Cheever: A Life by Blake Bailey. The book is long, some 770 pages, [...]
Lilla Weinberger, the literate proprietor of 17-year-old Readers Books in downtown Sonoma, offers a price break to book club members. "We give a 10 percent discount to book clubs that order ten books or more," explains Weinberger. "I also give a talk every spring and fall to book clubs that [...]
Get ready to be inspired and have some fun. Amy Goodman returns to Sonoma County on April 12 to celebrate the launch of the paperback version of her book Standing Up to the Madness: Ordinary Heroes in Extraordinary Times in a benefit for KRCB FM Radio 91.Not too long ago, [...]
The folks at Read Write Poem, an online gathering joint for poetry lovers everywhere, want to help you celebrate April's National Poetry Month. (Sure National Poetry Month in April is a U.S. phenomenon but everyone is welcome to join in.) To jumpstart NaPoWriMo a daily lyrical prompt is promised through [...]
"I delivered twenty babies in the summer of 1977. I was hardly more than a baby myself, just turned twenty-four, and starting my third year of medical," writes Santa Rosa physician Mark Sloan. Now, over 30 years later and after attending nearly 3000 births, the Kaiser Permanente doctor explores the [...]
Copperfield's Books Bestsellersfor the week of March 16 - 22(F indicates Fiction, NF non-fiction)Three Cups of Tea (NF)Shack (F)Cool Jew (NF)Zen Wrapped in Karma (NF)The Reader (F)Watchmen (F)New Moon (F)Laura Werlin's Cheese Essentials (NF)Twilight (F)Miracle at Speedy Motors (F)
Bestsellers from Copperfield's BooksHere are the current bestselling books in our area. Three are among my favorite books, "Beautiful Boy," "Three Cups of Tea," and "The Reader." Do you have any favorites on this list? March 9 to 15, 2009 Watchmen (F) Beautiful Boy (NF) Shack (F) Tweak (NF) Three [...]
Bestsellers from Copperfield's BooksMarch 2 - 8, 2009Quality Paperbacks, F for Fiction, NF for NonfictionWatchmen (F)The Shack (F)Three Cups of Tea (NF)The Power of Now (NF)Out Stealing Horses (F)People of the Book (F)New Moon (F)Suze Orman's 2009 Action Plan (NF)The Elegance of the Hedgehog (F)The Enchantress of Florence (F)
