Upcoming Events

Discussion & Slide Show for Face to Face: Children of the AIDS Crisis in Africa
Sunday, February 21 - 12:00PM

Face to Face is a beautiful and moving blend of narrative and color photography that takes readers into the world of some of the children affected by the devastation of AIDS in Africa. While it is a document of an ongoing crisis, it is also a paean to the immense capacity for positive change inherent in communities and individuals. It will introduce you to courageous orphans caring for their younger siblings, heroic grannies holding their communities together, and grassroots activists working everyday to alleviate suffering and foster joy.
Face to Face is the product of a collaboration between Bay Area-based activists Ruthann Richter and Karen Ande, both of whom have travelled extensively in Africa documenting and assisting with community-based projects. All of their profits from the sales of Face to Face are donated to organizations dedicating to helping African children.
Please join the authors here at Red Hill Books for this important presentation on a pressing issue!
For more information, please visit Richter and Ande's beautiful, informative website by clicking here.


Signing & Discussion of Redemption Stories: Unwasted Pain
Sunday, February 28 - 12:00PM

Redemption Stories, by Bernal author Mary Ciofalo, is a collection of 21 non-fiction stories about people who experience incredible suffering as the result of war, crime, abuse and other horrors and yet manage to harness it to create incredible, constructive change in their lives.
A Bernal resident for 15 years, Ciofalo has three decades of experience as a marriage and family therapist; this profession, combined with a lifelong passion for creative writing and interest in what allows people to make difficult, redemptive changes in their lives, is the background for the process that led her to write Redemption Stories.
Please join her at Red Hill for an inspirational literary evening!
For more information on this book and Ciofalo's other writings, please visit her website by clicking here.


Past Events

The Bernal Library Re-opens!
Saturday, January 30 - 1:00PM

Huzzah! We here at Red Hill are super-excited to welcome the library back to Bernal- more books are never a bad thing.
Here's what's going to happen with the library reading hours that Red Hill has been hosting during the remodeling: the last library-sponsored reading hour at Red Hill will take place Tuesday, January 26th at 10 am. There will not be a reading hour at the usual time on Thursday, January 28th. The library storytimes will resume at the library in February. The schedule is as follows:
Wednesdays, 1:15 pm: baby storytime (up to 18 mos.)
Thursdays, 10:15 am: family storytime (0-5 yrs.)

The Red Hill story hour, led by Patrick, will continue on Fridays at 10 am. If you've got any questions about this schedule change, please feel free to drop us a line. Many thanks, and we'll see you in the stacks!


Reading & Discussion with Wherever There's a Fight authors Elaine Elinson & Stan Yogi
Sunday, January 10 - 5:00PM

The full title of this new, eminently readable work of state history is Wherever There's a Fight: How Runaway Slaves, Suffragists, Immigrants, Strikers Shaped Civil Liberties in California. Totally fascinating, no? WTAF follows the development of progressive ideals from the time of the Gold Rush all the way up until the precarious post-9/11 era, telling the stories of many of the brave people who stood up for equality and freedom in the face of hostility, violence, poverty and political stonewalling.
Elinson (who is also a Bernal resident, natch) and Yogi know their stuff: both are widely published journalists, have a book or two under their belts, and have put in decades of hard work at the ACLU of Northern California. If you want to know more about our lovely state's history, these are the folks to learn it from!
WTAF is published by Heyday Books, which is an awesome local non-profit press, so it's a Bay Area-lovefest all the way around- your purchase supports local authors, a local publisher and your very local bookstore! For more information on many things, including but not limited to the book and its authors (there is a ton of juicy political info on this site), please visit the WTAF website by clicking here. If you'd like to take a gander at the book, it is in stock at Red Hill on the front table, too.
We hope you'll join us for what promises to be a fascinating reading and discussion!


Holiday Par-tay at Dog Eared!
Friday, December 4 - 7:00PM

Get your tinsel on at Dog Eared from 7 to 10 pm to celebrate another year of book-loving goodness! The fabulous Jonathan Segel and Victor Krummenacher (of Camper Van Beethoven and Cracker fame) provide musical accompaniment to the merriment. Free drinks (Kate, our illustrious owner, is bartending) and goodies, an art sale, and a silent auction of the various and sundry items abandoned in our lost and found round out the good times. Come on down to 900 Valencia (at 20th Street) and say hello to our extended family of dedicated booksellers- we look forward to seeing you and toasting the year!


 

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