You may pick signed books up in the store after the author event or we shall be happy to ship books to you. Based on Tademy s own family history, it begins with her distant ancestor Elisabeth in rural Louisiana s Cane River region, and sweeps through the days of slavery and Civil War all the way to the pre-Civil Rights South. Tademy, a Menlo Park resident, left her V.P. job at Sun Microsystems to devote herself to researching her family s past, with this most impressive result. Sunday Night Poets Open-Mike Readings Read your own work or listen to the many talented poets in our community. This is a wonderfully creative and supportive group.
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Just Don t Understand , Tannen helped us to navigate the tricky waters of communication between men and women. As she explains, in families more than anywhere else, everything we say and hear is colored by history, by expectation, by ties of intimacy and our struggles against them. With stark, lyrical writing, Power tells an intimate story of loneliness and the noblest human longings. Nani Power s gorgeous, unforgettable prose is sharp and surprising like salted plum on the tongue. The Gardens of Kyoto is a seductive tale of a young woman s coming of age in the aftermath of World War II, as related to her daughter forty years later.