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Poet Jim Powell’s first collection in twenty years examines
the indigenous habitat of Northern California,
treating history as a kind of sediment. Powell, fascinated by the first person,
turns to eyewitness historical accounts and primary witnesses to create a
portrait assembled of samples from twenty-five ‘strata’ in the ‘substrate’ of
the region.

Largely narrative, Powell’s poems embrace the tradition,
borrowing tools from prose and contemporary oral narration. His title poem
summons twenty-five witnesses from oral and documentary history, ethnology,
archeology, ethnobotany and linguistics, all providing a composite cultural
history of California.  Substrate
is a vivid, multifaceted volume dazzling in its lush imagery and its linguistic
richness.

Jim Powell is the author of It Was Fever That Made the
World and the translator of The Poetry of Sappho and Catullan Revenants.
He received a CCLM Younger Poets Prize in 1986 and a MacArthur Fellowship
(1993-1198), and was the Sherry Poet and Lecturer at the University of Chicago
in 2005. He is a fourth generation California
native and lifelong resident of the Bay Area.

See
David Ulin’s Los Angeles Times’ review.

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“This is THE
parenting book.  This is the one to read
over and over.  So much wisdom and
empathy, all based in real science.  My
children owe Christine Carter big time.” -- Kelly Corrigan, author of The Middle Place

“The learning curve
for all parents is in failure analysis—where and how we went off course—and how
we can do better the next go round. Enter Raising Happiness, a compendium of
ideas and suggestions on how to do better and how to increase happiness and joy
in all families. Read it, enjoy, and most importantly, put it into practice.” --
Mike Riera, Ph.D., author Field Guide to
the American Teenager and Right From
Wrong

“Raising Happiness is
an elegant, funny, and rigorous handbook for the humbling task of raising
joyful children. Brimming with brilliantly distilled science, poignant stories
from her family, and what parents so urgently seek – clear, practical, and
informed guidance – it is an encyclopedia of wisdom for raising children in
today’s multitasking, multimedia world.” -- Dacher Keltner, author Born To Be Good: The Science of A Meaningful
Life, Professor of Psychology, University
of California, Berkeley

Christine Carter Ph.D., a sociologist, Executive Director of
the Greater Good Science Center at UC Berkeley, and mother of two young
children herself, reveals ten simple principles, distilled from years of
fascinating research, to help parents foster the skills, habits, and mindsets
that will set the stage for positive emotions now and into their adolescence
and beyond.

Psychologists, sociologists, psychiatrists, and neurologists
study happiness through single focus lenses, but when you put together their
disparate research -- as Carter does at the Greater Good Science Center -- you
see proof that happiness is a skill; it is a muscle any parent can help their
child build and maintain. In her new book, Carter
covers the day-to-day pressure points of

Parenting -- how best to discipline, get kids to school and
activities on time, and get dinner on the table -- as well as the more elusive
issues of helping children build healthy friendships and develop emotional
intelligence.

Bring your questions and observations and join the
discussion this evening!

Christine Carter is
a regular on ABC's “View from the Bay” talk show, has been profiled in the San Francisco Chronicle and quoted in
dozens of national publications including The
New York Times, the Boston Globe,
American Baby, and Parenting.

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A Finalist in Fiction for the National Jewish Book Awards!

Set in a Paris
darkened by World War II, Sara Houghteling's sweeping and sensuous debut novel
(just now in paperback) tells the story of a son's quest to recover his
family's lost masterpieces, looted by the Nazis during the occupation.

Born to an art dealer and his pianist wife, Max Berenzon is
forbidden from entering the family business for reasons he cannot understand.
He reluctantly attends medical school, reserving his true passion for his
father's beautiful and brilliant gallery assistant, Rose Clement. When Paris falls to the Nazis,
the Berenzons survive in hiding. They return in 1944 to find that their
priceless collection has vanished: gone are the Matisses, the Picassos, and a
singular Manet of mysterious importance. Madly driven to recover his father's
paintings, Max navigates a torn city of corrupt art dealers, black marketers,
Resistants, and collaborators. His quest will reveal the tragic disappearance
of his closest friend, the heroism of his lost love, and the truth behind a
devastating family secret.

Written with tense drama and a historian's eye for detail,
Houghteling's novel draws on the real-life stories of France's
preeminent art-dealing families and the forgotten biography of the only French
woman to work as a double agent inside the Nazis' looted art stronghold. Pictures at an Exhibition conjures the
vanished collections, the lives of the artists and their dealers, the exquisite
romance, and the shattering loss of a singular era. It is a work of astonishing
ambition and beauty from an immensely gifted new novelist.

"In times like this, one turns to books like
"Pictures at an Exhibition" for their exhilarating sense of wonder
and ambition. No other book I have read in a long time has such depth of
history and intelligence, setting art as antidote for suffering, and love as
both a cause and remedy for pain." -- Andrew Sean Greer, author of The Story of a Marriage and The Confessions of Max Tivoli

""Pictures at an Exhibition" is remarkably
self-assured, astute, worldly, and well-informed; in fact, it does not look
like a first novel at all. Its subject-matter-stolen paintings, and Nazis, and
the insatiable hunger for beauty-requires both erudition and brilliance, and
Sara Houghteling has plenty of both, along with a sense of humor and a warm
heart." -- Charles Baxter, author of The
Soul Thief

Sara Houghteling graduated from Harvard
College in 1999 and received her
master's in fine arts from the University
of Michigan. She is the
recipient of a Fulbright scholarship to Paris,
first prize in the Avery and Jules Hopwood Awards, and a John Steinbeck
Fellowship. She currently lives in California,
where she teaches high school English.

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with live music from
Matthew Edwards

Sixteen-year-old Allie, a self-professed music geek, has her
dream job working at Berkeley’s
independent record store, Bob and Bob’s Records. It’s shaping up to be a summer
like never before, what with her mother starting to date again after the
divorce, business at Bob and Bob’s getting dangerously slow, Allie crushing on
a handsome stranger and, biggest of all, her new blog, The Vinyl Princess,
which seems to be gaining interest one vinyl junkie at a time…

THE VINYL PRINCESS
is a love letter to music, and the perfect companion for readers who walk
through life with their earphones in, heads nodding to the rhythm of song,
dreaming of all the great things that are to come.

Yvonne Prinz has written three books in the Clare series; Still There, Clare was was nominated
for an IPPY Award (an Independent Publisher Award) and a Red Cedar Award. Not Fair, Clare was recently
shortlisted for the Red Maple Award. A Canadian living in San Francisco, Prinz founded the famed
independent music store Amoeba Records (our neighbor!)  with her husband. There, she keeps her finger
on the pulse of hip teen culture. You can read the blog of The Vinyl Princess
at www.thevinylprincess.com

Matthew Edwards, the driving force behind The Music Lovers,
will play a short acoustic set this evening; his song, “The Former Miss
Ontario” is on the CD mix that accompanies Yvonne’s book. He will be joined by accordianist Isaac Bonnell. 

Be prepared for some
cool giveaways, too!