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SUMMARY:2012 Spring Forward with Richard Bolles!
DESCRIPTION: [Full details at http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/8832355/ ] Spring Forward with Richard Bolles!
 Experience & Resource Network (E.A.R.N.) in Contra Costa County is a non-profit organization dedicated to finding work for unemployed and under-employed Professionals in Contra Costa County.  
 May 17th we are having a fund raising event\, held in Walnut Creek\, in which Richard Bolles of the Parachute Books ("What Color is Your Parachute") will speak\, answer some questions and do some book-signings.  For anyone who's out of work\, or in a job change\, this is the award winning author who wrote the definitive guide on how to manage a career change.
 For those attending we are asking for a $10 donation\, of which all proceeds go to the functioning of the organization\, and costs for the event.  The donation request is just that.  If someone can't pay\, they can still attend the event.
 The event will be held at Shadelands Civic Center\, Education Center\, 111 North Wigit Lane in Walnut Creek.
 Registration for the event starts now at:  www.euccc.org
 If you have any questions\, feel free to contact me directly at:
 Meagan Thomas\, Marketing Committee\, Experience Unlimited
 e-mail:  meaganmargaret@live.com
 twitter:  @mm2margaret
 phone:  9259567311
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LOCATION;ALTREP="http://upcoming.yahoo.com/venue/558462/":Shadelands Art Center\, Walnut Creek Civic Arts Education @ 111 N. Wiget Lane\, Walnut Creek\, California 94598
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SUMMARY:'Search Inside Yourself' discussion with Chade-Meng Tan
DESCRIPTION: [Full details at http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/8846871/ ] Chade-Meng Tan shares his unique view on mindfulness and emotional intelligence as the catalyst to changing our personal lives\, realigning our professional destinies\, and as means to working toward his ultimate goal: world peace. Based on the popular course taught at Google\, Search Inside Yourself was created to elevate the work and lives of the best and brightest people at one of the most innovative\, successful\, and profitable businesses in the world. Deeply rooted in science\, the course is designed to reduce stress\, increase wellbeing\, heighten focus\, creativity\, and performance\, help individuals become more optimistic and resilient\, build fulfilling relationships\, and ultimately become happier and more profitable in their work and their lives. Based on the just-published book\, Search Inside Yourself takes an unexpected path to achieving success happiness and world peace by way of the motto "optimize thyself"!  
 Chade-Meng Tan (Meng) is Google's Jolly Good Fellow (which nobody can deny). As one of Google's earliest engineers he helped build Google's first mobile search service\, and headed the team that monitored Google's search quality. After a successful eight year stint in Engineering and two years as GoogleEDU's Head of Personal Growth\, he currently serves with Google's Talent Team. His job description is "Enlighten minds\, open hearts\, create world peace."
 Copies of "Search Inside Yourself" will be available for purchase at the event.
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LOCATION;ALTREP="http://upcoming.yahoo.com/venue/766818/":First Unitarian Universalist Church and Center @ 1187 Franklin Street (@ Geary Blvd)\, San Francisco\, California 1187 Frank
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SUMMARY:Abdulrazak Gurnah/Scarf Launch
DESCRIPTION: [Full details at http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/8820559/ ] Born in Zanzibar in 1948\, Gurnah’s Booker-shortlisted fiction has been described as ‘exquisitely lyrical’ (The Telegraph) and ‘psychologically nuanced’ (The Independent).
 To celebrate the launch of SCARF Magazine’s third issue\, which features an extract from his latest novel The Last Gift\, Gurnah will be in conversation with Somali-born\, short story writer and deputy editor of SCARF\, Diriye Osman.
 The two writers will discuss the inspiration behind The Last Gift\, as well as exploring issues of immigration\, finding beauty in often painful circumstances and what it means to be an African writer in the 21st century.
 There will be a short Q&A from the audience followed by a brief book-signing session.
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LOCATION;ALTREP="http://upcoming.yahoo.com/venue/41074/":Rich Mix @ 35-47 Bethnal Green Road\, London\, London E1 6LA.
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SUMMARY:Litquake's Epicenter Presents Peter Carey
DESCRIPTION: [Full details at http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/8836436/ ] Litquake presents author Peter Carey-author of Theft: A Love Story\, My Life as a Fake\, and more-at the monthly Epicenter series in North Beach. This is Carey's only appearance in San Francisco for his latest novel\, The Chemistry of Tears. He will be in conversation with Litquake's Elise Proulx. Book sales and signing to follow.
 Peter Carey is a literary chameleon\, whose nine works of long-form fiction have spanned the stylistic gamut from speculative to historical to epistolary. He's written the fictionalized story of his native Australia's most famous antihero (Ned Kelly) and turned the British classic Great Expectations on its head. In addition\, he's written short stories\, nonfiction\, and work for film\, having adapted his novel\, Bliss\, for that medium and writing a screenplay for the German director and playwright Win Wenders\, Until the End of the World. He is one of only two authors to have won the Man Booker Prize twice (J. M. Coetzee is the other)\, in 1988 for Oscar and Lucinda and in 2001 for True History of the Kelly Gang.
 Carey's new novel\, The Chemistry of Tears\, focuses on a clockwork automaton and its particular fascination for a grieving woman.
 The Epicenter embraces a theater of ideas between writers and readers with a literary conversation followed by audience Q&A\, book sales and signing. Admission is free\, cocktails recommended.  Capacity is limited\, so come early.
 Co-presented by City Lights Books and Tosca Cafe
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LOCATION;ALTREP="http://upcoming.yahoo.com/venue/34529/":Tosca Cafe @ 242 Columbus Avenue\, San Francisco\, California 94133
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SUMMARY:Brautigan Book Club: The Abortion. An Historical Romance 1966
DESCRIPTION: [Full details at http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/8852383/ ] Every last Tuesday meet other Brautiganites to talk about one of his novels.
 It won't be like a traditional book club.
 It will be special.
 If you love Brautigan you are special too.
 You'll have read the book but we won't sit in a circle and talk about reflexive-narrative.
 We hope you will meet other Brautiganites.
 There will also be side shows\, slide shows and workshops.
 This month's book is
 The Abortion: An Historical Romance 1966
 This month's guest is
 Salena Godden
 writer\, singer and poet\, has had work produced by the BBC & been published by Canongate and Penguin. Producer of the Boutique Book Club\, Soho’s hippest literary salon\, and lyricist of eclectic ska-break band SaltPeter - we had to have her!
 “Salena Godden - The Mae West madam of the salon” - Sunday Times
 Free but booking advised as spaces are limited.
 http://www.brautiganbookclub.co.uk/
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LOCATION;ALTREP="http://upcoming.yahoo.com/venue/14475/":Bethnal Green Working Men's Club @ 42 Pollard Row\,\, London\, London E26NB
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SUMMARY:Litquake's Epicenter: A Night of Edith Piaf
DESCRIPTION: [Full details at http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/8852183/ ] Litquake and City Lights Books present an evening of readings and music celebrating the life of Edith Piaf with Carolyn Burke\, author of "No Regrets: The Life of Edith Piaf\," and musical accompaniment from chanteuse Betty Roi.
 The iconic French singer comes to life in Carolyn Burke's biography\, which captures Edith Piaf's immense charisma along with the time and place that gave rise to her international career. Raised by turns in a brothel\, a circus caravan\, and a working-class Parisian neighborhood\, Piaf began singing on the city's streets\, where she was discovered by a Champs Elysees cabaret owner. She became a star almost overnight\, seducing all of Paris with her passionate voice\, and "No Regrets" explores her meteoric rise\; her tumultuous love affairs\; and her struggles with drugs\, alcohol\, and illness. Piaf was an unlikely student of poetry and philosophy who aided Resistance efforts in World War II\, wrote the lyrics for nearly 100 songs\, including "La vie en rose\," and was a crucial mentor to younger singers such as Yves Montand and Charles Aznavour. Burke demonstrates how\, with her courage\, her incomparable art\, and her universal appeal\, "the little sparrow" endures as a symbol of France and a source of inspiration to entertainers the world over.
 Carolyn Burke is the author of "Lee Miller: A Life" (Knopf) hailed as a New York Times Notable Book of the Year and a finalist for The National Book Critics Circle Biography award. She is also the author of "Becoming Modern: The Life of Mina Loy" (Farrar\, Straus & Giroux).
 Betty Roi is an authentic Parisian chanteuse. Her musical training has taken her around the world from Spain to Israel\, Paris to San Francisco.
 The Epicenter embraces a theater of ideas between writers and readers with a literary conversation followed by audience Q&A\, book sales and signing. Admission is free\, cocktails recommended.  Capacity is limited\, so come early.
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LOCATION;ALTREP="http://upcoming.yahoo.com/venue/34529/":Tosca Cafe @ 242 Columbus Avenue\, San Francisco\, California 94133
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SUMMARY:Derrick Jensen: Civilization and Resistance
DESCRIPTION: [Full details at http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/8849305/ ] Derrick Jensen is the most potent voice of the growing deep ecology movement.
 Winner of numerous awards and honors including the Eric Hoffer Book Award and Press Action's Person of the Year\, he is the author of some fifteen books\, including Endgame\, A Language Older Than Words\, The Culture of Make Believe\, Walking on Water: Reading\, Writing\, and Revolution\, and the new Derrick Jensen Reader: Writings on Environmental Revolution. 
 Derrick Jensen is a force for the common good. His books are mandatory reading in the study of culture and change. He is a contemporary philosopher with his feet firmly on the ground". - Terry Tempest Williams
 Jensen raises vital questions that must be asked\, and moreover\, that must be answered. In this mad venture\, we are all complicit\, if only in our silence. Jensen shatters this silence." - Mumia Abu-Jamal
 If any voice can help us break free of this culture of denial\, this is it. Stunningly original\, grippingly personal\,  this book will shock you to your core while at the same time quickening your deepest yearnings for reconnection with the Earth and all its creatures\, Jensen has achieved the impossible: a book that is simultaneously horrifying and uplifting\, terrifying and beautiful. I could not put it down. Passages will stay with me forever." - Frances Moore Lappe
 Hosted by Claire Cummings. Claire Cummings is an author\, journalist\, lawyer\, and lifelong social activist. Her book Uncertain Peril won the 2009 American Book Award and an award by the Society for Economic Botany. She has been honored for radio journalism and awarded a Kellogg Food and Society Fellowship. 
 www.clairehopecummings.com
 $12 advance tickets: http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/244265             t: 800-838-3006  or: Pegasus Books (3 locations)\, Mrs. Dalloway's\, Moe's Books\, Walden Pond\, DIESEL\, A Bookstore\, in SF - Modern Times Bookstore  ($15 at door) 
 Information: www.kpfa.org/events      KPFA benefit
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LOCATION;ALTREP="http://upcoming.yahoo.com/venue/3143/":M.L. King Middle School @ 1781 Rose Street\, Berkeley\, California 94703
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