New YorkTimes best-selling author Kimberla Lawson Roby returns with the moving story of a family who learns to overcome betrayal and secrets with courage and love. On the outside\, twelve-year-old Jillian Maxwell is the perfect child. Butinside\, Jillian harbors a terrible secret. Too frightened to tell\, convinced that her friends and loved ones\, especially her mother\, won't understand--and worse\, will blame her--Jillian endures her pain in silence\, believing that things will get better. With sensitivity and grace\, Kimberla Lawson Roby addresses a very real and serious issue\, while delivering the inspiring tale of one family's mission to shed light into the darkest corner of their lives.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120523T043801Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20091007T000000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20091007T000000Z UID:http://www.left-bank.com/event/john-lutz-urge-kill URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.left-bank.com/event/john-lutz-urge-kill SUMMARY:John Lutz - Urge to Kill DESCRIPTION:New York Times best-selling author and St.Louis's own John Lutz brings back veteran homicide detective Frank Quinn in agruesome new page-turner\, and masterfully keeps the pressure pounding throughsavage twists and turns that are sure to captivate thriller fans. Thisedge-of-your-seat thriller will appeal to fans of Harlan Coben\, John Sandford\,and TV's CSI and Law and Order. A multiple Edgar and Shamus Awardwinner--including the Shamus Lifetime Achievement Award--John Lutz is theauthor of over forty books.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120523T043801Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20091008T000000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20091008T000000Z UID:http://www.left-bank.com/event/jamie-ford-hotel-corner-bitter-and-sweet URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.left-bank.com/event/jamie-ford-hotel-corner-bitter-and-sweet SUMMARY:Jamie Ford - Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet DESCRIPTION:In the opening pages ofJamie Ford's stunning debut novel\, Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet\,Henry Lee comes upon a crowd gathered outside the Panama Hotel\, once thegateway to Seattle's Japantown. It has been boarded up for decades\, but now thenew owner has made an incredible discovery\: the belongings of Japanesefamilies\, left when they were rounded up and sent to internment camps duringWorld War II. As Henry looks on\, the owner opens a Japanese parasol\, whichHenry is sure belonged to his friend Keiko in the 1940s\, during a time whenHenry's father was obsessed with the war in China and having Henry grow upAmerican. In Henry and Keiko\, Jamie ford has created an unforgettable duo whosstory teaches us the power of forgiveness and the human heart.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120523T043801Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20091009T000000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20091009T000000Z UID:http://www.left-bank.com/event/robert-olen-butler-hell URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.left-bank.com/event/robert-olen-butler-hell SUMMARY:Robert Olen Butler - Hell DESCRIPTION:The new novel by the Pulizer Prize-winning author of A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain is set in the underworld. Its main character\, Hatcher McCord\, is an evening-news presenter who has found himself in Hell and is struggling to explain his bad fortune. He is not the only one to suffer this fate--in fact\, he's surrounded by an outrageous cast of characters\, including Humphrey Bogart\, William Shakespeare\, and almost all of the popes and most of the U.S. presidents. Each inhabitant's fate and afterlife in Hell is appropriately and ironically dealt. Robert Olen Butler's description of Hell is original\, intelligent\, and fiercely comic\, a book Dante might have celebrated.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120523T043801Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20091010T000000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20091010T000000Z UID:http://www.left-bank.com/event/jane-smiley-georges-and-jewels URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.left-bank.com/event/jane-smiley-georges-and-jewels SUMMARY:Jane Smiley - The Georges and the Jewels DESCRIPTION:Jane Smiley\, the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel A Thousand Acres\, makes her debut for young readers with this novel set on a California horse ranch in the 1960s\,where a girl finds refuge from her problems with the horses. Seventh grader Abby Lovitt has always been more at ease with horses than with people. With all the stress at school (the Big Four have turned against Abby and her friends) and home (her brother Danny is gone--for good\, it seems--and now Daddy won't speak his name)\, Abby seeks refuge with the Georges (the geldings) and the Jewels (the mares). Jane Smiley\, who grew up in St. Louis\, returns with what Publishers Weekly calls\, "\;a lyrical meditation on horses\, families and the vicissitudes of peer relationships among girls."\;
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120523T043801Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20091011T200000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20091011T200000Z UID:http://www.left-bank.com/event/c-marina-marchese-honeybee-lessons-accidental-beekeeper URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.left-bank.com/event/c-marina-marchese-honeybee-lessons-accidental-beekeeper SUMMARY:C. Marina Marchese - Honeybee\: Lessons From an Accidental Beekeeper DESCRIPTION:Left Bank Books and The Eastern Missouri Beekeepers Association cordially invite you to a book signing and honey tasting!
C. Marina Marchese is founder and owner of Red Bee Honey\, which sells honey and natural products to gourmet food shops and fine restaurants all over the United States. Certified by the American Apitherapy Society\, she has trained as a honey judge at the University of Georgia and serves on the board of Back Yard Beekeepers Association of Connecticut. Marina has written for Bee Culture magazine and The Journal of the American Apitherapy Society\, and Red Bee Honey was the cover story of the American Bee Journal in 2004. Marina lives and tends bees in Weston\, Connecticut.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120523T043801Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20091013T000000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20091013T000000Z UID:http://www.left-bank.com/event/paul-tough-whatever-it-takes URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.left-bank.com/event/paul-tough-whatever-it-takes SUMMARY:Paul Tough - Whatever It Takes DESCRIPTION:Geoffrey Canada created the Harlem Children's Zone\, a 97-block laboratory in central Harlem\, tohelp change the lives of poor children. Paul Tough\, an editor at the New YorkTimes and one of America's foremost writers on poverty\, education and theachievement gap\, presents an inspired portrait of Geoffrey Canada and the parents and children who are struggling to better their lives\, often against great odds\, in Whatever It Takes. What would it take to change the lives ofpoor children--not one by one\, through heroic interventions and occasional miracles\, but in big numbers\, and in a way that could be replicated nationwide?The question led Geoffrey Canada to create the Harlem Children's Zone\, where heis testing new and sometimes controversial ideas about poverty in America. Whatever It Takes is a tour de force of reporting. Carefully researched and deeply affecting\, this is a dispatch from inside the most daring and potentially transformative social experiment of our time.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120523T043801Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20091014T000000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20091014T000000Z UID:http://www.left-bank.com/event/kevin-belford-devil-confluence URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.left-bank.com/event/kevin-belford-devil-confluence SUMMARY:Kevin Belford - Devil at the Confluence DESCRIPTION:Out of ragtime\, out of jazz\, out of big band music and beyond\, American music came into its own due to the talents and experiences of the musicians at the confluence of the Missouri and Mississippi rivers. Included with the illustrated pages is a special compact disc of rare--and often some of the last recorded performances--recordings by St. Louis legends\, including early blues masters Barrelhouse Buck\, Speckled Red\, Roosevelt Sykes\, and many more. Devil at the Confluence tells the untold story of the profound connection between these historical blues artists and their ties to St. Louis. Artist Kevin Bellford combines years of scholarly research and discovery with his renowned artwork to present a book that chronicles various legendary talents that built the base for what is now called American popular music.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120523T043801Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20091016T000000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20091016T000000Z UID:http://www.left-bank.com/event/mike-flynn-confessions-mob-hitman URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.left-bank.com/event/mike-flynn-confessions-mob-hitman SUMMARY:Mike Flynn and John Auble DESCRIPTION:Two authors join us to discuss the gangster history of St. Louis.
Voted "\;Best Book by a Local Author"\; in the 2008 Riverfront Times "\;Best of St. Louis"\; edition\, Ray Flynn's narrative reveals his experience with mob warfare in North St. Louis during the depression and prohibition and eventually into St. Louis's bloodiest underground crime war. His son\, Mike Flynn\, published his father's memoir\, Confessions of a Mob Hitman\, fulfilling one of his last requests. Mike writes\, "\;This is the true story of St. Louis and Southern Illinois in the old days that no one else knew like my father."\;
John Auble has been covering news and feature stories in St. Louis since 1967 when he came to work for the old St. Louis Globe. After a number of other media jobs in St. Louis\, he joined the staff of FOX 2 in 1988. His book A History of St. Louis Gangsters is a chronology of mob activity in St. Louis\, on both sides of the river\, ranging from the Egan Rats to the last mob leader on record.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120523T043801Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20091016T003000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20091016T003000Z UID:http://www.left-bank.com/event/lesbian-reading-group-dahlia-season-myriam-gurba URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.left-bank.com/event/lesbian-reading-group-dahlia-season-myriam-gurba SUMMARY:Lesbian Reading Group\: Dahlia Season by Myriam Gurba DESCRIPTION:Chicana. Goth. Dykling. Desiree Garcia knows she's weird and a weirdo magnet. To extinguish her strangeness\, her parents ship her to Saint Michael's Catholic High School\, then to Mexico\, but neurology can't be snuffed out so easily\: screwy brain chemistry holds the key to Desiree's madness. Combining the spark of Michelle Tea\, the comic angst of Augusten Burroughs\, and the warmth of Sandra Cisneros\, Mexican American author Myriam Gurba has created a territory all her own. Dahlia Season not only contains the title novella\, but also several of Gurba's acclaimed stories.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120523T043801Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20091020T000000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20091020T000000Z UID:http://www.left-bank.com/event/deepak-chopra-reinventing-body-resurrecting-soul-0 URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.left-bank.com/event/deepak-chopra-reinventing-body-resurrecting-soul-0 SUMMARY:Deepak Chopra - Reinventing the Body\, Resurrecting the Soul DESCRIPTION:In his groundbreaking book\, Ageless Body\, Timeless Mind\, Dr. Chopra revealed the connection between health and consciousness. In Reinventing the Body\, Resurrecting the Soul\, he takes the process a step further\, showing how the body is actually a reflection of the mind. Deepak Chopra\, the founder of the Chopra Center\, is the preeminent teacher of Eastern philosophy to the Western world. He has been a best-selling author for decades\, including his New York Times bestsellers Buddha and The Third Jesus.
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Tickets are $25 each plus tax\, and they include a copy of Reinventing the Body\, Resurrecting the Soul. Tickets/books are available from Left Bank Books.
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DO NOT ORDER THE BOOK ONLINE AT THIS POINT. We cannot guarantee tickets for any books purchased online as of now. Please call the stores to place your order\: 314.367.6731.
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Doors will open at 6\:00pm. Deepak Chopra will speak from 7\:00-8\:00pm and then start the book signing. To ensure everyone has a chance to meet Deepak Chopra and have a book signed\, each person may have one book signed. Photos are discouraged.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120523T043801Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20091021T000000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20091021T000000Z UID:http://www.left-bank.com/event/ra-salvatore-ghost-king URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.left-bank.com/event/ra-salvatore-ghost-king SUMMARY:R.A. Salvatore - The Ghost King DESCRIPTION:Don't miss the gripping conclusion to R.A. Salvatore's New York Times best-selling trilogy! Whenthe Spellplague ravages Faerun\, Drizzt and his companions are caught in thechaos. Seeking out the help of the priest Cadderly--the hero of the recentlyreissued series The Cleric Quintet--Drizzt finds himself facing his mostpowerful and elusive foe\, the twisted Crenshinibon\, the demonic crystal shardhe believed had been destroyed years ago. R.A. Salvatore is one of the fantasygenre's most succesful authors.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120523T043801Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20091021T170000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20091021T180000Z UID:http://www.left-bank.com/event/current-affairs-reading-group-return-depression-economics URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.left-bank.com/event/current-affairs-reading-group-return-depression-economics SUMMARY:Current Affairs Reading Group - Return of Depression Economics DESCRIPTION:Lunchtime reading group - 20% off! E-mail Kris Kleindienst at kris@left-bank.com to pre-order a Box Lunch from City Gourmet.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120523T043801Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20091022T000000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20091022T000000Z UID:http://www.left-bank.com/event/ron-currie-jr-everything-matters URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.left-bank.com/event/ron-currie-jr-everything-matters SUMMARY:Canceled\: Ron Currie\, Jr. - Everything Matters! DESCRIPTION:This event has been canceled due to the author's illness.
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Everything Matters. Indie bookstores matter. Author events matter. Ron Currie\, Jr. and his new book\, Everything Matters!\, matter. Indie booksellers unite for one giant event to support Ron Currie\, Jr. and his triumpant novel\, Everything Matters! In infancy\, Junior Thibodeaux is encoded with a prophesy\: a comet will obliterate life on Earth in thirty-six years. Alone in this knowledge\, he comes of age in rural Maine grappling with the question\: "\;Does anything I do matter?"\; Ron Currie\, Jr.\, whose fiction has won several prizes\, gets to the heart of character\, and the voices who narrate this uniquely American tour de force leave an indelible\, exhilerating impression. Join Pudd'nhead Books\, Subterranean Books\, Main Street Books\, and Left Bank Books at this exciting collaborative event.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120523T043801Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20091023T000000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20091023T000000Z UID:http://www.left-bank.com/event/john-grogan-longest-trip-home URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.left-bank.com/event/john-grogan-longest-trip-home SUMMARY:John Grogan - The Longest Trip Home DESCRIPTION:Finding your place in the world can be the longest trip home. In his debut bestseller\, Marley &\; Me\, John Grogan showed how a dog can become an extraordinary presence inthe live of one family. Now\, in his highly anticipated follow-up\, Grogan once again works his magic\, bringing us the story of what came first. Before therewas Marley\, there was a gleefully mischievous boy growing up in a devout Catholic home outside Detroit in the 1960s and '70s. Despite his loving parents' best efforts\, John's attempts to meet their expectations failed spectacularly. The Longest Trip Home is a book for any son or daughter who ahssought to forge an identity at odds with their parents'\, and for every parentwho as struggled to understand the values of their children. With his trademark blend of humor and pathos that made Marley &\; Me beloved by millions\, John Grogan traces the individual journey each of us must take to find our unique place in the world.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120523T043801Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20091024T000000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20091024T000000Z UID:http://www.left-bank.com/event/eoin-colfer-and-another-thing URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.left-bank.com/event/eoin-colfer-and-another-thing SUMMARY:Eoin Colfer - And Another Thing... DESCRIPTION:Douglas Adams\, the author of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy\, once said\, "\;I would love to finish Hitchhiker on a slightly more upbeat note\, so five seems to be a wrong kind of number\, six is a better kind of number."\; Now\, the genius behind the best-selling Artemis Fowl series triumphs with the project that washis childhood dream come true\: book six in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxyfranchise. Wtih the full support of author Douglas Adams's widow\, Eoin Colfer continues the wildly popular series with And Another Thing… Colfer is a former elementary school teacher and the author of the New York Times best-selling Artemis Fowl series. He is also the author of Airman\; Half Moon Investigations\;Eoin Colfer's Legend of Spud Murphy and Legend of Captain Crow's Teeth\; and TheWish List.This event is free and open to the public. Books for signing must be purchased from Left Bank Books.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120523T043801Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20091025T000000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20091025T000000Z UID:http://www.left-bank.com/event/andy-williams-moon-river-and-me URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.left-bank.com/event/andy-williams-moon-river-and-me SUMMARY:Andy Williams - Moon River and Me DESCRIPTION:Andy Williams has been oneof the world's best-loved vocalists and entertainers since he began hisprofessional career nearly seventy years ago. Before being declared a national treasure by President Ronald Reagan\, Williams would chart eighteen gold and three platinum albums\, headline at Ceasars Palace in Las Vegas for more than twentyyears\, and host an enormously popular weekly television show whose Christmas specials still occupy a tender spot in every baby boomer's heart. Williams knew everybody who was anybody during his seven remarkable decades in show business and was a close friend of Bobby Kennedy for many years\, and he shares hismemories of them all in his memoir\, Moon River and Me. Purchase a copyof Moon River and Me from Left Bank Books to receive a ticket to thisevent where Andy Williams will talk\, answer questions\, sign books\, and sing a few songs.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120523T043801Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20091028T170000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20091028T180000Z UID:http://www.left-bank.com/event/novel-ideas-lunchtime-reading-group URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.left-bank.com/event/novel-ideas-lunchtime-reading-group SUMMARY:Novel Ideas lunchtime Reading Group DESCRIPTION:Each story in this acclaimed debut collection byNigerian Jesuit priest Uwem Akpan pays tribute to the wisdom and resilience ofchildren\, even in the face of the most agonizing cirucumstances. It's Oprah'spick this month\, too which is a great boost for this excellent and deservingbook.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120523T043801Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20091029T000000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20091029T000000Z UID:http://www.left-bank.com/event/zora-oneill-and-tamara-reynolds-forking-fantastic URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.left-bank.com/event/zora-oneill-and-tamara-reynolds-forking-fantastic SUMMARY:Zora O'Neill and Tamara Reynolds - Forking Fantastic DESCRIPTION:Underground restauarantsare all the rage in St. Louis and beyond\, but now you can meet the innovativehosts of a hot-ticket underground supper club as they invite you to crank upyour oven\, break out the vino\, and save the dinner party from extinction. Twicea month\, two veterans of the New York food world prepare a big meal in a tinykitchen\, serving heaping plates of spectacular cuisine to wenty diverse people(or more). Never obsessed with perfect place settings or fussy details\, ZoraO'Neill and Tamara Reynolds instead focus on the practical joys ofdown-to-earth entertaining at home. In Forking Fantastic\, they showcasetheir very best recipes for making mouthwatering dinners--and for having thetime of your life. We can't do a food event without the food\, so come preparedto sample some of these underground goodies.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120523T043801Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20091030T000000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20091030T000000Z UID:http://www.left-bank.com/event/carolyn-hart-merry-merry-ghost URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.left-bank.com/event/carolyn-hart-merry-merry-ghost SUMMARY:Carolyn Hart - Merry Merry Ghost DESCRIPTION:The impetuous\, redheaded ghost of Bailey Ruth is back in the second book in Carolyn Hart's series. Anaccomplished master of mystery\, Hart is the author of eighteen previous Deathon Demand novels. Her books have won multiple Agatha\, Anthony\, and Macavity Awards. She is also the creator of the Henrie O series\, featuring a retired reporter\,and she was one of the founders of Sisters in Crime.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120523T043801Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20091030T003000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20091030T003000Z UID:http://www.left-bank.com/event/mitch-albom-have-little-faith URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.left-bank.com/event/mitch-albom-have-little-faith SUMMARY:Mitch Albom - Have a Little Faith DESCRIPTION:Congregation Shaare Emeth and St. John's UCC are pleased to present Mitch Albom. New York Times best-selling author Albom (Tuesdays with Morrie) goes back to his nonfiction roots with Have a Little Faith\, a timely\, moving and inspiring look at faith--not just who believes\, but why--prompted by his search for the right words to eulogize a beloved rabbi.
There is no admission charge\, although donations at the door are encouraged. Congregation Shaare Emeth will use the donations towards the Youth Scholarship Fund and St. John's UCC will use their donations to support their St. John's Community Service Food Pantry.
All attendees are also requested to bring a non-perishable food item. All the food will be donated to the St. John's Community Service Food Pantry and the Harvey Kornblum Jewish Food Pantry.
Mitch Albom's books are available for sale at the event.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120523T043801Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20091031T000000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20091031T000000Z UID:http://www.left-bank.com/event/lucinda-scala-quinn-mad-hungry URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.left-bank.com/event/lucinda-scala-quinn-mad-hungry SUMMARY:Lucinda Scala Quinn - Mad Hungry DESCRIPTION:Civilize the wildbeasts in your life\, one meal at a time. Four hungry borthers. Three ravenoussons. A husband who loves to eat. Lucinda Scala Quinn has spent much of herlife feeding the men and boys around her and teaching them how to feed themselves.Now Scala Quinn--chef\, television personality\, and Martha Stewart Omnimedia'sresident food guru--shares winning strategies for how to sate the seeminglyinsatiable\, trade food for talk\, and get men to manage the kitchen with MadHungry. Lucinda Scala Quinn is the host of a satellite radio show about foodand of Everyday Food\, the PBS cookingseries produced by Martha Stewart Living Television.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120523T043801Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20091031T003000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20091031T003000Z UID:http://www.left-bank.com/event/bellaspark-productions-evening-spiritual-liberation-michael-beckwith URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.left-bank.com/event/bellaspark-productions-evening-spiritual-liberation-michael-beckwith SUMMARY:BellaSpark Productions\: An Evening of Spiritual Liberation with Michael Beckwith DESCRIPTION:BellaSpark Productions presents Spiritual Liberation\, an evening with Michael Beckwith. Beckwith teaches that inner spiritual work\, not religion or dogma\, liberates individuals. He draws on a wide spectrum of wisdom teachers such as Jesus and Buddha\, contemporary spiritual luminaries\, and Western contributors to create a profound new belief synthesis. Beckwith was a featured teacher in the hit movie The Secret and has appeared on Oprah. His newest book is Spiritual Liberation. Tickets are $40 in advance/ $50 at the door. For tickets\, visit www.brownpapertickets.com or call 970.443.0732. More information is available at www.bellaspark.com. Books for signing may be purchased in advance or at the event from Left Bank Books.
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