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New Releases at Red Hill for the Week of January 25th!
The Lost City Of Z by David Grann
Now in paperback, this is the irresistible true story of the English adventurer Percy Fawcett's attempt to track down the legendary city of gold, El Dorado. Pitted against the unfathomable obstacles of the Amazon jungle, Fawcett's tale, as beautifully told by Grann, is about the essential confrontation between humans and the natural world, between wild desire and fatal destiny.
Crazy Like Us: The Globalization Of The American Psyche by Ethan Watters
American hegemony is by now an unquestioned fact, for better of for worse. Besides all the junk food, consumerism, and abject money worship we export to all the ends of the earth, could it be, argues Watters, that our most deleterious contribution has not been fully investigated? Which is the exportation of madness. We are homogenizing how the world goes mad.
Cutting For Stone by Abraham Verghese
Now in paperback, this is a sweeping, sensuous novel about brothers and doctors, ailments and . . .
New Releases at Red Hill for the Week of January 11th!
Tuesday, January 12th:
The Godfather of Kathmandu, by John Burdett
This fourth installment of Burdett's gritty series featuring corrupt detective Sonchai Jitpleecheep is a vivid and fascinating portrait of modern Thailand. Recommended for fans of hard-boiled mysteries with a liberal dose of informative local color.
Lark & Termite, by Jayne Anne Phillips
This beautifully written novel about familial devotion, grief and survival is now out in paperback- huzzah!
Where the God of Love Hangs Out, by Amy Bloom
This new collection of stories by the author of Away is, fittingly, about love, but it also explores loss and the changes it wreaks on our lives. Marked by Bloom's trademark wit and dazzling prose, Where the God of Love is a lovely, funny, heartbreaking meditation on the big ideas. Highly recommended!
You Are Not a Gadget: A Manifesto, by Jaron Lanier
Two decades ago, Lanier was a Silicon Valley genius; he was one of the progenitors of virtual reality, and saw almost . . .
New Releases at Red Hill for the week of December 28th!
Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us, by Daniel Pink
Pink, the author of the perennially best-selling A Whole New Mind is back with a new book that looks at the disconnect between what science tells us about human motivation and what actually happens in business, and how that disconnect informs every aspect of our lives.
Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World, by Liaquat Ahamed
One of the New York Times Books Review's Best Books of the Year is now out in a less-doorstopish paperback edition. Fascinating and accessible, Lords demonstrates how the Great Depression was actually triggered by the mistakes of a small group of powerful bankers, rather than a series of world events beyond any one person's or government's control. In these precarious economic times, Lords is a potent reminder of the sometimes-global effects and far-reaching consequences of human fallability.
Shades of Grey, by Jasper Fforde
For anyone who has not yet discovered the silly . . .
New Releases at Red Hill for the week of December 7th!
Tuesday, December 8th:
Literary Life, by Larry McMurtry
The author of over 40 books, including novels, essays, memoirs and works of history is back with a new autobiography chock full of his reflections on writing, writers, books and booksellers (McMurtry owns two independent bookstores, both called Booked Up, in Washington D.C. and Texas). A must-read for McMurtry fans and anyone interested in the recent history of American letters.
San Francisco Panorama, McSweeney's Quarterly Issue No. 33
Update: Currently, all of Red Hill's copies of this are spoken for, but we are expecting more in, and are taking names for our waiting list, then contacting folks as soon as more copies become available. Thank you all so much for your patience- this has been quite the hot literary phenomenon!
The newest issue of MQ is a giant love letter to the charm and utility of digitally bedeviled print journalism. Fans of MQ know that its format and design is always interesting and often beautiful, . . .
New Releases at Red Hill for the Week of November 30th!
Tuesday, December 1st
Cleaving, by Julie Powell
The author of foodie memoir favorite Julie & Julia is back with another exploration of the connections between matters of the heart and matters of the stomach. In Cleaving, these are marital infidelity and butchery, respectively; as the title suggests, this is a book as much about how we hurt the ones we love as it is about cutting meat, although the investigations of global butchery culture are just as interesting as Powell's reflections on temptation and desire. Highly recommended for folks who enjoy Elizabeth Gilbert and Amanda Hesser.
Stones into Schools, by Greg Mortenson
Like Cleaving, Stones into Schools is a long-awaited follow-up to a phenomenally popular first book. It continues the story Mortenson began in Three Cups of Tea, following the efforts of the nonprofit he co-founded, the Central Asia Institute (CAI), to make good on a promise to build a school in an isolated region of Afghanistan's Pamir Mountains, assist . . .
Sunday, February 21 - 12:00PM
Discussion & Slide Show for Face to Face: Children of the AIDS Crisis in Africa
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!
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Sunday, February 28 - 12:00PM
Signing & Discussion of Redemption Stories: Unwasted Pain
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.
Michael's Pick
Top Ten Books I've Read On Long Winter Trips
1. The Bell by Iris Murdoch.
This intriguing novel revolves around saints and sinners and hypocrites and lovers and combines religious fervor with erotic abandon, gothic mystique with philosophical tomfoolery. The bell of the title is a mythical, witch-cursed icon that may or may not be buried at the bottom of a lake. This novel leaves indelible images in the mind and nobody but Iris can bring so many disparate characters to life in such bizarre, yet strangely believable settings. It will make you want to discover abandoned monasteries on some fog-drenched English moor.
2. Travels With My Aunt by Graham Greene.
Greene was one of the few authors who was able to capture both the political and spiritual tragedies of the 20th century and also weave entertaining, thrilling and often humorous capers. This novel by Greene is a picaresque romp in the company of a septugenarian world-traveller, full of spies and intrigue and trains. Highly recommended especially if you're just . . .
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