Books
Book signing event for local Danville author
Anita F. Venezia, local author of “Crosswinds At Campo Carcasso”, lives in Danville and is Senior Staff writer for ALIVE East Bay Magazine. Her sensational novel was recently launched with 4-star r...
Sep 09, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 4 4 recommendations | email to a friend
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14 Year-Old Danville Resident becomes Published Author
Adya Roy is a 14 year old freshman at Dougherty High School and loves to write. She moved to Danville three years ago from Singapore and loves California. Adya plays the Alto Sax and is part of her...
Jun 21, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 5 5 recommendations | email to a friend
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2011 SUMMER READING GAME Alameda County Library
June 6 - August 13, 2011 Each summer, hundreds of thousands of parents throughout Alameda County are faced with the same old question: What do I do to keep my kids occupied this summer? The Alam...
May 19, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 7 7 recommendations | email to a friend
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Mount Diablo Fine Art Photography Book Débuts March 12, 2011
Mount Diablo Interpretive Association (MDIA) announces the publication of Mount Diablo, The Extraordinary Life and Landscapes of a California Treasure, a fine art photography book showcasing Northe...
Feb 09, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 6 6 recommendations | email to a friend
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Karen Joy Fowler
A new collection of stories by New York Times Best Seller Karen Joy Fowler
Fowler measures the human capacities for hope and despair, brutality and kindness, recording with unflinching honesty our petty discords, our daily inhumanities. “Fowler’s closing story, “King Rat...
Nov 11, 2010 | 0 0 comments | 9 9 recommendations | email to a friend
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Michael Krasny
Michael Krasny visits walnut Creek Library
On Thursday evening, September 30, the Walnut Creek Library Foundation hosted their first Live! From the Library program with Michael Krasny, who since 1993 has been senior editor of KQED-FM radio’...
Oct 07, 2010 | 0 0 comments | 16 16 recommendations | email to a friend
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Living Landscape: The extraordinary rise of the East Bay Regional Park District and how it preserved 100,000 acres
The new book Living Landscape chronicles the extraordinary rise of the East Bay Regional Park District. Author and historian Laura McCreery traces the East Bay Regional Park District’s 75-year hist...
Sep 15, 2010 | 0 0 comments | 11 11 recommendations | email to a friend
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Walnut Creek Library
Walnut Creek Library Events
September 11, 11am Bedford Gallery Docents will be offering guided art tours of the new downtown library which opened July 17. The library houses thirty-nine works of art that were purchased or ...
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New book: Living Landscape: The extraordinary rise of the East Bay Regional Park District and how it preserved 100,000 acres
The new book Living Landscape chronicles the extraordinary rise of the East Bay Regional Park District. Author and historian Laura McCreery traces the East Bay Regional Park District’s 75-year hist...
Jul 15, 2010 | 0 0 comments | 9 9 recommendations | email to a friend
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Hell’s Angels: A Strange and Terrible Saga
Willie Bloxham
Jun 14, 2010 | 0 0 comments | 23 23 recommendations | email to a friend
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Postcards from the Hedge Reveals Gardening’s Quiet and Powerful Life Lessons
Spring is here, and New Year Publishing is celebrating with the release of Postcards from the Hedge: Seasons in a Suburban Garden. This witty memoir by landscape designer Jill Appenzeller is now av...
Jun 02, 2010 | 0 0 comments | 26 26 recommendations | email to a friend
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Jeff Carlson
Breaking The Rules To Breaking In: Ten Tips To Sell Your First Novel
California Writers Club–Tri-Valley Branch offers writers of all genres and experience levels the opportunity to learn about their craft and share their work. The next meeting is on Saturday, June ...
Jun 02, 2010 | 0 0 comments | 11 11 recommendations | email to a friend
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UNBOUND: a NATIONAL EXHIBITION OF BOOK ART AT THE BEDFORD GALLERY, WALNUT CREEK, JULY 11—SEPTEMBER 19, 2010
The Bedford Gallery originates this national survey of artists who make one-of-a-kind art books, as well as artists who disassemble pages, covers, and spines to create new two and three-dimensional...
Jun 02, 2010 | 0 0 comments | 15 15 recommendations | email to a friend
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New Book Highlights History of Regional Park District
The East Bay Regional Park District is featured in a new book published by Wilderness Press titled “Living Landscape.” According to Wilderness Press’ website, “Living Landscape” traces the East Bay...
Jun 01, 2010 | 0 0 comments | 18 18 recommendations | email to a friend
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2010 Young Writers Contest Winners
The California Writers Club, Mt. Diablo Branch’s Young Writers Contest celebrated their winners on May 15 at Zio Fraedo’s Restaurant in Pleasant Hill. The families and teachers were honored by the...
May 27, 2010 | 0 0 comments | 17 17 recommendations | email to a friend
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Summer Reading 2010: Make a Splash at your library
The beach isn’t the only place you can make a splash this summer; stay cool at your local library with fun prizes, tremendous books, and many special events! Join the Contra Costa County Library’s...
May 10, 2010 | 0 0 comments | 17 17 recommendations | email to a friend
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Local resident writes Old Country Cookbook
A century ago two families migrated from Greece to Greektown in Detroit, MI. As they settled in, mingled and grew, they maintained their culture, customs and cooking. Memories, as well as delicio...
Apr 26, 2010 | 0 0 comments | 16 16 recommendations | email to a friend
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Nicole Hemmenway
Danville teenager copes with complex regional pain syndrome
Before Nicole Hemmenway’s diagnosis of complex regional pain syndrome (CRPS) in 1998, she was a typical Danville teenager looking forward to college. She had attended St. Isidore’s Elementary Schoo...
Feb 27, 2010 | 0 0 comments | 14 14 recommendations | email to a friend
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