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HALF THE SKY\:

Turning Oppression
into Opportunity for Women Worldwide

by Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn

In honor of Women's History Month in March\, The Booksmith
has teamed up with the Young Nonprofit Professionals Network to co-host a book
club event discussing Kristof and WuDunn's recent book Half the Sky.
Whether you've read the book\, are an activist for female empowerment\, or just
want to learn more about an awakening topic\, join nonprofit professionals and
global activists and thinkers for this provocative evening. Refreshments
to follow.

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YNPN’s guest speakers
this evening will be Heather Murphy\,
who currently works for the Women in Technology Program with the Institute of
International Education where she manages the program in six countries in the
Middle East and North Africa providing oversight of in-country staff and
partners\, trainings and project implementation\; and Deborah Goldberg\, who currently works as Development Associate at
International Development Exchange\, a nonprofit grantmaking organization that
promotes sustainable solutions to poverty in six countries in Africa\, Asia and
Latin America focused on women's empowerment\, building local economies and care
for the environment.

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For those frustrated with our current culture of overwork\,
stress and constant want\, finding true satisfaction can seem impossible. Yet an
alternative to our hectic way of life does exist. Raised in the tumult of Japan’s industrial powerhouse\, the eleven men
and women profiled in A Different Kind
of Luxury have made the transition to sustainable\, deeply fulfilling lives
in the mountains of Japan.
Based on Andy Couturier’s popular articles in The Japan Times\, this is a treasure chest of stories about real
people who have created an abundance of time for contemplation\, connecting with
nature\, artistic practice\, and contributing to their communities.

Pico Iyer writes\, “Andy
Couturier catches everything that is essential and beautiful in Japan
with a clarity\, sincerity\, and openness that move me to the core. It’s been
years since such a fresh and liberating voice has emerged to remind us of the
true heart of a country that so many of us fail to see – or\, indeed\, to listen
to.”

Andy Couturier is the author of Writing Open the Mind. He has contributed to Adbusters\, MIT Press\, The Oakland Tribune\, The Japan
Times\, Kyoto
Journal\, Creative Nonfiction\, and The
North American Review. He lives in Japan for four years where he
taught\, was a journalist\, and worked on environmental causes. Couturier runs a
center for courses in writing\, The Opening.
Join us to raise a cup of sake this evening!

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Quick\: your
parents/ex-boyfriend/regional sales manager/hip friend from Manhattan are coming to town. Do you know
where to take them for dinner? Most restaurant guidebooks can’t help you find
the right spot. Because here’s a revelation\: diners don’t choose restaurants by
category ranking (French\, Financial District\, $$$\, * * *)\, but by occasion\:
cocktails and nibbles with the girls\, first date\, power lunch\, dinner with the
kids.

Marcia Gagliardi\, a
San Francisco food writer and culinary
personality\, is known from coast to coast as “The Tablehopper”\, a trusted
source for what’s new\, good\, and of course\, delicious in the San Francisco restaurant and bar scene. After
launching her weekly tablehopper e-column
in 2006 and receiving an onslaught of requests from her readers\, she started
“tip please”\, a free customized restaurant recommendation service on her site. After making thousands of restaurant
recommendations\, Marcia realized her readers were always looking for
restaurants by situation\, and rarely by neighborhood or cuisine. Her solution
to these dining dilemmas if The Tablehopper’s Guide\, which covers our dining
landscape with a totally fresh perspective\, and is full of hot tips about
obscure locations\, can’t-miss dishes\, and the best seats in the house.

Marcia includes
“insider” one-\, two-\, and three-day itineraries for gourmet-minded tourists on
a variety of budgets\, as well as destination-worthy locations in the East Bay\, South Bay\,
and Wine County. She’s the ultimate restaurant
matchmaker\, guiding us to the best fried chicken or Ramos Gin Fizz\, for date
one or a twenty-fifth anniversary. Celebrate!

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CARA BLACK and DAVID
CORBETT

Murder in the Palais
Royal

Do They Know I’m
Running?

MURDER IN THE PALAIS
ROYAL is the tenth book in Cara Black’s Parisian crime series starring P.I.
Aimée Leduc. Last year’s Murder in the
Latin Quarter debuted at #1 on the San
Francisco Chronicle’s bestseller list\, garnered much praise\, and found
Black interviewed in the streets of Paris
for NPR’s All Things Considered. Now\, with a narrative call back to her first
novel\, Palais Royal is poised to be
her biggest hit yet.

In Murder In The Palais Royal\, Aimée’s business partner\, René\, has
been shot\, and eyewitnesses have identified Aimée as the culprit. A mysterious
deposit has been made to their firm's bank account\, interesting the taxman in
their affairs. Someone seems to be impersonating Aimée\; someone wants revenge.
Two murders ensue. How do they relate to the youth whom Aimée's testimony sent
to jail in the very first Aimée Leduc investigation\, Murder in the Marais?

“The ninth mystery in Cara Black’s irresistible series set
in Paris . . .
might well be the book we’ve been waiting for. Aimée Leduc\, Black’s adorably
punkish sleuth\, is in her element . . . one of this colorful series’s most
scenic itineraries.” -- New York Times Book
Review

Cara Black is the
author of nine other novels in the best-selling Aimée Leduc series. She lives
in San Francisco with her husband and son and
visits Paris
frequently.

DO THEY KNOW I’M
RUNNING? from acclaimed author David Corbett is a stunning and suspenseful
novel of a life without loyalties and the borders inside ourselves.

Roque Montalvo is wise beyond his eighteen years. Orphaned at birth\, a
gifted musician\, he’s stuck in a California
backwater\, helping his Salvadoran aunt care for his damaged brother\, an
ex-marine badly wounded in Iraq.
When immigration agents arrest his uncle\, the family has nowhere else to
turn. Roque\, badgered by his street-hardened cousin\, agrees to bring the old
man back\, relying on the criminal gangs that control the dangerous smuggling
routes from El Salvador\,
through Guatemala and Mexico\, to the U.S. border.

But his cousin has told Roque only so much. In reality\, he will have to
transport not just his uncle but two others\: an Arab whose intentions are
disturbingly vague and a young beauty promised to a Mexican crime lord. Roque
discovers that his journey involves crossing more than one kind of border\, and
he will be asked time and again to choose between survival and betrayal -- of
his country\, his family\, his heart.

David Corbett is
the author of three critically acclaimed novels\: The Devil’s Redhead\, Done
for a Dime\, and Blood of Paradise\,
nominated for numerous awards\, including the Edgar\, and named one of the Top
Ten Mysteries and Thrillers of 2007 by the Washington
Post and a San Francisco ChronicleLas Vegas Noir\, was selected for
inclusion in Best American Mystery Stories 2009
Notable Book. His short fiction and essays have appeared in numerous
periodicals and anthologies\, and his story "\;Pretty Little Parasite\,"\;
from

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Las Vegas Noir\,
was selected for inclusion in Best American Mystery Stories 2009.

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Roads\: metaphorically and literally\, they bind our modern
world into a coherent whole. From the transportation of goods\, knowledge\, and
disease to their hold on the imagination\, the role of roads in our lives cannot
be overstated. They even permeate our language\: you navigate the information
superhighway\; your career is in the fast lane\; you choose the high (or low)
road\; you take the path less traveled.

Behind every road lies a story\, and in THE ROUTES OF MAN\, Ted Conover
brings his unparalleled eye to six roads around the world that have a
profound impact on the lives lived on or near them\, the businesses run over
them\, and the cultures that surround them. Conover’s dispatches come from
Peru\: accompanying a trucker through the
perilous Andes\, where he contemplates the threat that better infrastructure
poses to indigenous populations and surrounding rainforests\; the Indian region
of Ladakh\, where he follows locals down the Chaddar\, a frozen river at the
bottom of a canyon and the only path in existence during winter\, and considers
what the coming highway will do to Buddhist towns now untouched by the wider
world\; East Africa\, where he revisits a trucking route from Tanzania through
Rwanda and Burundi along which one could trace the spread of AIDS in Africa to
see what has changed over a decade\; the West Bank\, as he passes through
security checkpoints with both Palestinians and Israelis\, seeing firsthand how
grueling and unfair the process is for both sides\;China\, where he paints an exuberant and frightening portrait
of the emerging car culture from Chinese roads and the rapid increases in auto sales
and highway construction\; Lagos\, Nigeria\, describing a megacity where traffic
stalls for hours\, teenage beggars run between stopped cars\, and ambulances park
along the highway to wait for accidents.

Conover’s journeys ultimately reveal the costs and benefits
of being connected -- how roads have played a crucial role in human life\, from
ancient Rome to
the present\, changing man and his world for better and for worse.

“Ted Conover is one of the great writers of my generation\,
and this may be his finest book. Fearless and compassionate\, with echoes of
Conrad and Kerouac\, it explores how the road\, once a symbol of limitless
possibility\, has become a path to annihilation. I have enormous admiration for
what Conover has achieved.” --Eric Schlosser

“Humans evolved on the road and we go on seeking
territory\, survival\, wealth\, and even knowledge. The Odyssey\, Don Quixote\, On the Road\, The Road\, Arabian Sands\,
Marco Polo on the Silk Road\, wagon trains heading for California\, and Latinos
at the fence between Mexico and the U.S.A -- so many of us streaming toward
vivid dreams. Buy this book and enjoy some armchair roaming (the second best
way to travel). That’s my advice.” -- William Kittredge

Ted Conover is the
author of several books including Newjack\:
Guarding Sing Sing (winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award and a
finalist for the Pulitzer Prize) and Rolling
Nowhere\: Riding the Rails with America’s Hoboes. His writing has appeared
in The New York Times Magazine\, The
Atlantic Monthly\, The New Yorker\, and National
Geographic. The recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship\, he is Distinguished
Writer-in-Residence in the Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute at New York University. Read a travel
community’s interview with Conover.

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