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02 / 9
Start: 10:00 am
On the morning of Tuesday, February 9 at 10:00am, join Warwick's booksellers, John & Seth for the third installment of Coffee with a Bookseller - a casual, coffee-sipping chat about books with two experienced booksellers. John reads a wealth of nonfiction titles, while Seth reads mostly fiction, so we'll have a good mix of new, interesting titles to talk about with whoever wants to listen. And it's free, so come on down!
Start: 7:30 pm
Award-winning novelist and Grand Canyon river & hiking guide, Margaret Erhart, will be at Warwick's on Tuesday, February 9 at 7:30pm to discuss and sign her latest novel, The Butterflies of Grand Canyon. This event will also feature a butterfly display courtesy of the San Diego Natural History Museum. The display will feature the "cream-of-the-crop" butterflies from the Museum's collection. Their entire collection consists of approximately one million specimens used to support the Museum's mission to "interpret the natural world through research, education, and exhibits, to promote understanding of the evolution and diversity of Southern California and the peninsula of Baja California, and to inspire in all people respect for the environment." About the book: Set against the backdrop of the brooding and sensual canyon, a young woman's heart awakens and a decades-old mystery is solved. When Jane Merkle arrives in the tiny town of Flagstaff, Arizona, with her much older husband on a summer day in 1951, she hasn't any idea that her life is about to change forever. After all, one of Jane's favorite sayings is "When in Rome, remember that you're from St . Louis." But over a summer spent with her sister-in-law, Dotty, and Dotty's lepidopterist husband, Oliver, in a village perched on the rim of the Grand Canyon, Jane discovers her latent ability with a butterfly net and her attraction to a handsome young ranger. Meanwhile, an unidentified skeleton is found on the premises of one of the village's most cantankerous citizens. With the help-and hindrance-of a colorful cast of historical characters, including an eccentric botanist who moonlights as an amateur sleuth, the murder mystery that has haunted the town for years is solved. In her latest novel, set in the quintessential landscape of the Southwest, Margaret Erhart weaves history, science, and an intimate knowledge of the human heart to tell a fast-paced tale. Margaret Erhart is a river and hiking guide in the Grand Canyon and southern Utah. Her essays have appeared in The New York Times, The Christian Science Monitor, and in several anthologies, and her commentaries have aired on National Public Radio. She lives in Flagstaff, Arizona, and teaches creative writing. | ||
02 / 10
Start: 4:30 pm
Just in time for Valentine’s Day, we invite you and your children to share in some Puppy Love, a special afternoon of storytime on Wednesday, February 10 starting at 4:30pm, followed by doggie picture show-and-tell (please bring your favorite dog picture to share). Event includes free paper Valentine frame for dog pictures, Valentine treats, and a 15% discount on select children’s dog books. No dog? No problem - bring a picture of any pet you love!
Start: 7:30 pm
Debut novelist (and already a Warwick's staff favorite) Beth Hoffman will be at Warwick's on Wednesday, February 10 at 7:30pm to discuss and sign her new novel, Saving CeeCee Honeycutt. Twelve-year-old CeeCee Honeycutt is in trouble. For years, she has been the caretaker of her psychotic mother, Camille-the tiara-toting, lipstick-smeared laughingstock of an entire town-a woman trapped in her long-ago moment of glory as the 1951 Vidalia Onion Queen. But when Camille is hit by a truck and killed, CeeCee is left to fend for herself. To the rescue comes her previously unknown great-aunt, Tootie Caldwell. In her vintage Packard convertible, Tootie whisks CeeCee away to Savannah's perfumed world of prosperity and Southern eccentricity, a world that seems to be run entirely by women. From the exotic Miz Thelma Rae Goodpepper, who bathes in her backyard bathtub and uses garden slugs as her secret weapons, to Tootie's all-knowing housekeeper, Oletta Jones, to Violene Hobbs, who entertains a local police officer in her canary-yellow peignoir, the women of Gaston Street keep CeeCee entertained and enthralled for an entire summer. Laugh-out-loud funny and deeply touching, Beth Hoffman's sparkling debut is, as Kristin Hannah says, "packed full of Southern charm, strong women, wacky humor, and good old-fashioned heart." It is a novel that explores the indomitable strengths of female friendship and gives us the story of a young girl who loses one mother and finds many others. For more, visit http://bethhoffman.net or check out Heather's take on the Warwick's blog.
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02 / 11
Start: 6:00 pm
Our Valentine's Day Dinner event at Isabel's Cantina scheduled for Friday, February 11th has been cancelled. We're sorry for any inconvenience. | ||
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02 / 18
Start: 12:30 pm
Warwick's is pleased to continue our exciting program, Books & Bites, with the award-winning author of Little Bee, Chris Cleave at Burgundy Restaurant on Thursday, February 18 at 12:30pm. How many times have you wanted to have a book discussion directly with the author of an intriguing book? Now is you opportunity to do just that! You are invited to have lunch with award-winning author Chris Cleave and discuss his novel, Little Bee. When you purchase a copy of Little Bee from Warwick's, you can make a lunch reservation for only $20. If you wish to attend as a couple and share a copy of the book, additional lunch tickets are available for $25. To reserve your spot today, call the book department at (858) 454-0347, email your payment and contact information to orders@warwicks.com, or stop on by the store. About Little Bee: We don't want to tell you what happens in this book. It is a truly special story and we don't want to spoil it. Nevertheless, you need to know enough to buy it, so we will say this: this is the story of two women. Their lives collide one fateful day, and one of them has to make a terrible choice, the kind of choice we hope you never have to face. Two years later, they meet again - the story starts there... Once you read it, you'll want to tell your friends about it. When you do, please don't tell them what happens. The magic is in how the story unfolds.
Start: 6:30 pm
Acclaimed author of the 2010 One Book, One San Diego selection, Warren St. John, will be at Isabel's Cantina on Thursday, February 18 at 6:30pm to discuss and sign his book, Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference. For this event Warwick's will be partnering with three of San Diego's finest independent booksellers: Mysterious Galaxy, Book Works, and Yellow Brick Road. Event tickets are $25 - your ticket includes a small donation to the One Book One San Diego program, as well as a glass of wine and hors d’ouevres for you to enjoy while meeting with some of the refugees who have relocated to San Diego. Learn from them, and representatives from the International Rescue Center, about life as a refugee and the assimilation process. Warren St. John will then discuss and sign his book, Outcasts United. The book may be ordered with your tickets and will also be available at the event for sale. About the book: Outcasts United is the story of a refugee soccer team, a remarkable woman coach and a small southern town turned upside down by the process of refugee resettlement. In the 1990s, that town, Clarkston, Georgia, became a resettlement center for refugees and a modern-day Ellis Island for scores of families from war zones in Liberia, Congo, Sudan, Iraq and Afghanistan. The town also became home to Luma Mufleh, an American-educated Jordanian woman who founded a youth soccer team to help keep Clarkston’s boys off the streets. These boys named themselves the Fugees -- short for refugees. Outcasts United follows a pivotal season in the life of the Fugees, their families and their charismatic coach as they struggle to build new lives in a fading town overwhelmed by change. Theirs is a story about resilience in the face of extraordinary hardship, the power of one person to make a difference and the daunting challenge of creating community in a place where people seem to have so little in common. | ||
02 / 19
Start: 6:30 pm
Ozzy Osbourne, the Prince of Darkness himself, will descend on La Jolla for a special signing only event at Warwick's on Friday, February 19th at 6:30pm. Ozzy will be signing his new memoir, I Am Ozzy. ***Please note, with the purchase of each copy of I Am Ozzy from Warwick's, you will receive one ticket for the signing line (good for you +1 guest to attend the signing). Only books purchased from Warwick's will be signed at the event - if you choose to use warwicks.com to order your book, please note that your purchase is not guaranteed until your order has been paid for in full. Per Ozzy's publisher, there will be no personalizations (signature only), no signed memorabilia, no posed photography, and a maximum of 3 books signed per person. For questions regarding the signing policy, please call the book department at 858-454-0347*** Also, courtesy of our friends at Extreme Pizza, a personal size pizza will be provided to the first 25 people* in line dressed as an Ozzy Osbourne lookalike. Don’t want to dress up? No problem - Extreme Pizza will also be giving out $5-off pizza coupons to the first 75 people who purchase a book/ticket at Warwick’s, and coupons* for a free slice of pizza to the first 100 ticketed customers in line. I Am Ozzy: "People ask me how come I'm still alive, and I don't know what to say. When I was growing up, if you'd have put me up against a wall with the other kids from my street and asked me which one of us was gonna make it to the age of sixty, which one of us would end up with five kids and four grandkids and houses in Buckinghamshire and Beverly Hills, I wouldn't have put money on me, no f**king way. But here I am: ready to tell my story, in my own words, for the first time. A lot of it ain't gonna be pretty. I've done some bad things in my time. I've always been drawn to the dark side, me. But I ain't the devil. I'm just John Osbourne: a working-class kid from Aston, who quit his job in the factory and went looking for a good time." For more information, please enjoy this public service announcement:
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02 / 20
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02 / 21
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02 / 22
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02 / 23
Start: 7:30 pm
New Thought teacher & spiritual leader of the Unity Center, Wendy Craig-Purcell, will be at Warwick's on Tuesday, February 23 at 7:30pm to discuss and sign her book, Ask Yourself This: Questions to Open the Heart, Expand the Mind and Awaken the Soul. The heart of Ask Yourself This is centered around taking the time and quieting the mind to ask ourselves the kinds of deep, self-reflective questions that can open us up to entirely new ways of thinking and living. Questions are channels through which our mental, emotional and creative energy flows. The quality of the answers we receive are directly related to the quality and timing of the questions we ask. These deeper answers open a path to creating our lives consciously and by design, rather than by default. The circumstances many of us are facing today require us to re-think various aspects of our lives ranging from spirituality and life purpose to careers and relationships. As we allow these questions to settle deeply within ourselves, the answers we receive will be uniquely our own and open us up to possibilities we had never considered before. The essence of Ask Yourself This is that living a spiritually vibrant life is not only personally powerful; it is absolutely relevant in today's world. For countless numbers of people, the religions of our childhood have fallen short in answering many of our most important questions. It is from our own innate spirituality that new answers arise leading us to personal transformation and the integration of higher levels of consciousness in our day-to-day living. Wendy Craig-Purcell is Founding and Senior Minister and CEO of The Unity Center, a 1500-member spiritual community located in San Diego, California. For more information, please visit http://theunitycenter.net.
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02 / 27
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02 / 28
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03 / 1
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03 / 2
Start: 7:30 pm
Holistic esthetician, aromatherapist and author, Stephanie Tourles will be at Warwick's on Tuesday, March 2 at 7:30pm to discuss and sign her new book, Raw Energy. It's time to rescue snacks from the realm of empty-calorie packaged junk food and transform everyday pick-me-ups into healthful, satisfying mini meals. Why waste calories on cookies or chips that have no nutritional value and provide only short-term satisfaction when raw foods are delicious, simple to prepare, and bursting with natural energy boosters that every body needs to stay fit and healthy? Thanks to Raw Energy, it has never been easier to add a full spectrum of raw ingredients to a healthful lifestyle. Author Stephanie Tourles' 125 recipes for trail mixes, parfaits, energy bars, juice blends, smoothies, soups, vegetable chips, zippy dips, candies, and cookies combine raw ingredients in delicious snacks that are chock-full of nutrients and long-term energy boosters. Made from real, whole foods that are uncooked, unadulterated, and unprocessed, these snacks are packages of health and vitality, dense with naturally occurring vitamins, minerals, fiber, and enzymes. The snacks in Raw Energy do not rely on refined white flour or sugar, they are not cooked in any way, and, with the exception of honey, they do not use animal products. They do include raw nuts and seeds, nut butters, dried and fresh fruits, oats, carob, cocoa, freshly extracted juices, and vegetables. They taste great and are easy to digest. Tourles provides a complete overview of the benefits of raw foods, along with an introduction to "uncooking" techniquees and an ingredient-by-ingredient food guide. For anyone looking for more nutritional punch from low-to-moderate calorie snacks, Raw Energy provides 125 tasty starting points.
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03 / 3
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03 / 4
Start: 7:30 pm
Bestselling author, Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, will be at Warwick's on Thursday, March 4 at 7:30pm to discuss and sign her latest novel, One Amazing Thing. Late afternoon in an Indian visa office in an unnamed American city. Most customers have come and gone, but nine people remain. A punky teenager with an unexpected gift. An upper class Caucasian couple whose relationship is disintegrating. A young Muslim-American man struggling with the fallout of 9/11. A graduate student haunted by a question about love. An African-American ex-soldier searching for redemption. A Chinese grandmother with a secret past. And two visa office workers on the verge of an adulterous affair. When an earthquake rips through the afternoon lull, trapping these nine wildly individual characters together, their focus first jolts to a collective struggle to survive. There’s little food. The office begins to flood. Then, at a moment when the psychological and emotional stress seems nearly too much for them to bear, the young graduate student suggests that each tell a personal tale, “one amazing thing” from their lives, which they have never told anyone before. As their surprising stories of romance, marriage, family, political upheaval, and self-discovery unfold against the urgency of their life-or-death circumstances, the novel proves the transcendent power of stories and the meaningfulness of human expression itself. One Amazing Thing is a passionate creation about survival - and about the reasons to survive.
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03 / 11
Start: 7:30 pm
Award-winning author (Searching For Tamsen Donner) Gabrielle Burton, will be at Warwick's on Thursday, March 11 at 7:30pm to discuss and sign her new novel, Impatient with Desire. In the spring of 1846, Tamsen Donner, her husband, George, their five daughters, and 80 other pioneers headed to California on the California-Oregon Trail in eager anticipation of new lives out West. Everything that could go wrong did, and an American legend was born. The Donner Party. We think we know their story - pioneers trapped in the mountains performing an unspeakable act to survive - but we know only that one harrowing part of it. Impatient with Desire brings us answers to the unanswerable question: What really happened in the four months the Donners were trapped in the mountains? And it brings to stunning life a woman - and a love story - behind the myth. Tamsen Eustis Donner, born in 1801, taught school, wrote poetry, painted, botanized, and was fluent in French. At twenty-three, she sailed alone from Massachusetts to North Carolina when respectable women didn’t travel alone. Years after losing her first husband, Tully, she married again for love, this time to George Donner, a prosperous farmer, and in 1846, they set out for California with their five youngest children. Unlike many women who embarked reluctantly on the Oregon Trail, Tamsen was eager to go. Later, trapped in the mountains by early snows, she had plenty of time to contemplate the wisdom of her decision and the cost of her wanderlust. Historians have long known that Tamsen kept a journal, though it was never found. In Impatient with Desire, Burton draws on years of historical research to vividly imagine this lost journal - and paints a picture of a remarkable heroine in an extraordinary situation. Tamsen’s unforgettable journey takes us from the cornfields of Illinois to the dusty Oregon Trail to the freezing Sierra Nevada Mountains, where she was forced to confront an impossible choice. | ||
