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Alumni Presenters Index

For those of you who wish to learn more about some of our former Book Event presenters, here is a list of the writers, illustrators and other literary illuminaries who have appeared at a Gallery Bookshop Book Event in recent years.

Links (if any) to the Book Events guest speakers' websites will open in a separate window, so you may easily return to the Gallery Bookshop website.


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   2010
Jan. 15, 2010Shelley AntillaPhotographers' Vintage Treasures & People Who Wore Them: Early Photography & Memoirs from the Mendocino Coast
Jan. 20, 2010Gretchen Lemke-SantangeloDaughters of Aquarius: Women of the Sixties Counterculture
Jan. 23, 2010Dr. Donald HahnChange and a Good Laugh
Feb. 12, 2010Sharon DoubiagoMy Father's Love: A Memoir
Feb. 28, 2010Paul McHughDeadlines
Mar. 16, 2010David Deardorrff & Kathryn WadsworthWhat's Wrong With My Plant?
Mar. 19, 2010Donna Sheehan &Paul ReffellRedefining Seduction
Mar. 28, 2010Maria FinnHold Me Tight & Tango Me Home
Apr. 2, 2010Estrella Root13 Tales of the Revolution
Apr. 9, 2010Michael McGuireGod's Brain
Apr. 16, 2010Amy StewartWicked Plants
Apr. 23, 2010Gordon EdgarCheesemonger: A Life On The Wedge
Apr. 30, 2010Elaine Elinson
& Stan Yogi
Wherever There's a Fight: How Runaway Slaves, Suffragists, Immigrants, Strikers, and Poets Shaped Civil Liberties in California.
May 14, 2010Nancy Ellis-BellA Man for All Species: The Remarkable Adventures of an Animal Lover and Expert Pet Keeper
May 16, 2010Ginny RorbyThe Outside of a Horse
May 22, 2010Linda Joy MyersThe Power of Memoir: How to Write Your Healing Story
May 28, 2010John GrayVenus on Fire, Mars on Ice
June 11, 2010Bill BraddNotes from the Emerald Triangle
June 18, 2010Sondra BarrettWine's Hidden Beauty
June 25, 2010Bruce Tickell TaylorDilkusha by the Ginkgo Tree
July 9, 2010Ronnie JamesTouching Wings, Touching Wild
July 30, 2010Shozo SatoSumi-e: The Art of Japanese Ink Painting
Aug. 13, 2010Peg KingmanOriginal Sins: A Novel of Slavery and Freedom
Aug. 20, 2010Adrienne RossIn the Eyes, In the Mouth
Aug. 27, 2010JoAnn SkyWatcherTouched by a Miracle: EFT Healing Stories
 
   2009
Jan. 7, 2009Nanette GartrellMy Answer Is No ... If That's Okay with You
Jan. 10, 2009Larry WagnerArtists of the Mendocino Coast, Volume Two
Jan. 16, 2009Fauna PerkinsNothing to Declare
Feb. 6, 2009Walt McKeownBank Shot
Feb. 20, 2009Laura StecCool Cuisine: Taking the Bite Out of Global Warming
Mar. 7, 2009Lorraine Hee-ChorleyThe Chinese in Mendocino County
Mar. 11, 2009Peg KingmanNot Yet Drown'd
Mar. 18, 2009Denyse BeaudetDreamguider: Open the Door to Your Child's Dreams
Mar. 20, 2009Lawrence BullockYou Don't Want To Know
Mar. 25, 2009Rebecca Foust
Joan Gelfand
Dark Card
Seeking Center
Apr. 4, 2009Stephen Kessler & Daniela HurezanuCelebrating National Poetry Month
Apr. 11, 2009L. Rand, J. Maxwell, M. GoodwinTravel Stories
Apr. 24, 2009C. E. ChaffinUnexpected Light
May 15, 2009Tom ReedThe Granite Avatars of Patagonia
May 29, 2009Cammie ConlonBonnie Blue Butler: A Gone With the Wind Memoir
June 26, 2009Eydie BauerLife After Bread: Get Off Gluten and Reclaim Your Health
July 10, 2009Sophia RadayLove in Condition Yellow: A Memoir of an Unlikely Marriage
Aug. 12, 2009Nancy Ellis-BellThe Parrot Who Thought She Was a Dog
Oct. 2, 2009Jenny CornbleetRaw for Dessert: Easy Delights for Everyone
Oct. 16, 2009Mikaya HeartMy Sweet Wild Dance
Oct. 30, 2009Stefanie FreeleFeeding Strays
Nov. 6, 2009Dianne HalesLa Bella Lingua: My Love Affair with Italian, the World's Most Enchanting Language
Nov. 13, 2009Amy RacinaAngels in the Wilderness: The True Story of One Woman's Survival Against All Odds
Dec. 4, 2009Mahbod SerajiRooftops of Tehran
Dec. 11, 2009Romney "Nani" SteeleMy Nepenthe: Bohemian Tales of Food, Family, and Big Sur
Dec. 29, 2009Mickey HuffCensored: Top 25 Censored Stories of 2008-09
 
   2008
Feb. 24, 2008Maureen EppsteinQuickening
May 2, 2008Raj PatelStuffed & Starved: The Hidden Battle for the World Food System
May 4, 2008Janine CananGoddesses, Goddesses
May 7, 2008Anne SemansSexy Mamas: Keeping Your Sex Life Alive While Raising Kids
June 11, 2008Amy StewartWomen's Book Night: Flower Confidential
June 28-29, 2008Andrew TodhunterWriting As Spiritual Practice (seminar)
July 2, 2008Bruce PattersonWalking Tractor and Other Country Tales
July 9, 2008Meredith NortonLopsided: How Having Breast Cancer Can Be Really Distracting
July 13, 2008Nesta RovinaTree Barking
July 20, 2008Molly DwyerRequiem for the Author of Frankenstein
July 30, 2008Gayle GreeneInsomniac
Aug. 1, 2008Stephenie MeyerBreaking Dawn
July 30, 2008Dana BagshawMama Grace
Aug. 6, 2008Meg Waite ClaytonThe Wednesday Sisters
Sept. 10, 2008Any StewartFlower Confidential
Sept. 12, 2008Heidi Cusick Dickerson
Russ Parsons
Soul & Spice: African Cooking in the Americas
How to Pick a Peach: The Search for Flavor from Farm to Table
Sept. 17, 2008Barbara QuickVivaldi's Virgins
Sept. 19, 2008Christopher PaoliniBrisingr
Oct. 29, 2008Ellen SussmanDirty Words: A Literary Encyclopedia of Sex
Bad Girls: 26 Writers Misbehave
Nov. 7, 2008Todd Walton & Marcia SloaneBuddha in a Teacup
Nov. 19, 2008Johanna Bedford, Jeanette Boyer, & Katy TahjaWomen Authors of Gallery Bookshop (Women's Book Night)
Nov. 21, 2008Jay FrankstonTales of Mendocino and Mendocino Magic
Nov. 26, 2008Mickey HuffProject Censored: The News that Didn't Make the News
Dec. 3, 2008Don KirkpatrickRant & Whimsy
Dec. 5, 2008Antonia JuhaszThe Tyranny of Oil
Dec. 12, 2008Charlie FreedVet Tails
 
   2007
Jan. 5, 2007Antonia JuhaszThe Bush Agenda: Invading the World, One Economy at a Time
Jan. 21, 2007Amy WachspressThe Call to Shakabaz
Jan. 26, 2007Dr. Scott EberleThe Final Crossing
Jan. 28, 2007Terri Pischoff WuerthnerIn A Cajun Kitchen
Mar. 4, 2007Jody WeinerPrisoners of Truth
Mar. 9, 2007Tad HillsDuck, Duck, Goose
Mar. 25, 2007Tom KendrickBluewater Gold Rush: The Odyssey of a California Sea Urchin Diver
Apr. 1, 2007Ken RoseA Brief History of Qi
Apr. 15, 2007David SkibbinsThe Star: A Tarot Card Mystery
Apr. 29, 2007Steve RyalsDrunk with Wonder
May 6, 2007Karin UphoffBotanical Body Care: Herbs & Natural Healing for Your Whole Body
May 9, 2007Anne SemansSexy Mamas: Keeping Your Sex Life Alive While Raising Kids
June 6, 2007Nancy Red StarStar Ancestors: Indian Wisdomkeepers Share the Teachings of the Extraterrestrials
June 10, 2007(Jane O'Connor's)Fancy Nancy & the Posh Puppy
July 20, 2007(J.K. Rowling)Harry Potter Pajama Party
July 29, 2007Nik ColyerChanneling Biker Bob
July 31, 2007Eric SchaefferI Can't Believe I'm Still Single
Aug. 12, 2007Josie IselinSeashells
Aug. 22, 2007Ruth GendlerNotes on the Need for Beauty
Sept. 14, 2007David BarsamianTargeting Iran
Sept. 19, 2007David WallaceNeptune's Ark: from Ichthyosaurs to Orcas
Sept. 23, 2007Barbara QuickVivaldi's Virgins
Oct. 3, 2007Laurence HillmanPlanets in Play
Oct. 10, 2007Wes WalkerTuscan Country: A Photographer's Journey
Oct. 21, 2007Andrew TodhunterA Meal Observed
Oct. 23, 2007Alethea EasonHungry
Nov. 4, 2007Bobby MarkelsMendocino Malady: The Complete Collection, 1966 - 2006
Nov. 14, 2007John HamamuraThe Color of the Sea
Nov. 18, 2007Marion Dusoir EnnesNature's Way: Observations of a Good Earthkeeper
Dec. 5, 2007Mark FerrariThe Book of Joby
Dec. 8, 2007James GurneyDinotopia
Dec. 9, 2007Taylor LockwoodChasing the Rain: My Treasure Hunt for the World's Most Beautiful Mushrooms
 
   2006
Feb. 12, 2006Luke BreitThe Tumultuous Times of Jesus in The 21st Century
Mar. 17, 2006Frances Moore LappéDemocracy's Edge
Apr. 7, 2006Michael ParentiThe Culture Struggle
May 21, 2006Leslene Della Madre
Maggie Watson
Midwifing Death: Returning to the Arms of the Ancient Mother
A Graceful Farewell
June 4, 2006Pam HoustonSight Hound
June 18, 2006Jessica PrenticeFull Moon Feast: Food & the Hunger for Connection
Oct. 1, 2006Josie IselinBeach Stones
Oct. 14, 2006Leslie LarsonSlipstream
Oct. 15, 2006Janet LapierreFamily Business
Oct. 22, 2006Lindsey SmithHailing the Taxi Hopefully
Nov. 5, 2006Linda FaillaceMad Sheep: The True Story Behind the USDA's War on a Family Farm
Nov. 12, 2006Margaret FoxMorning Food
Dec. 3, 2006Bobby MarkelsSumming Up
Dec. 9, 2006Nicholas WilsonMendocino in the Seventies
Dec. 10, 2006Holly BrackmanThe Surface Designer's Handbook
 
   2005
Jan. 23, 2005Kate ColemanThe Secret Wars of Judi Bari: A Car Bomb, the Fight for the Redwoods, and the End of Earth First!
Feb. 13, 2005Charles FureyGoing Back: A Navy Airman in the Pacific War
Mar. 6, 2005Cynthia WallThe Courage To Trust
Apr. 3, 2005Jay FeldmanWhen the Mississippi Ran Backwards
May 22, 2005Four PoetsBarbara Elovic, Victoria Hallerman, Cathleen Micheaels, Susan Sindall
May 29, 2005George LakoffDon't Think of an Elephant; Moral Politics; Metaphors We Live By
June 5, 2005Pam HoustonSight Hound and Cowboys Are My Weakness
June 19, 2005Daniel ImhoffPaper or Plastic: Searching for Solutions to an Overpackaged World
June 26, 2005Christy CampbellThe Botanist & the Vintner: How Wine Was Saved for the World
July 17, 2005Blair TindallMozart In The Jungle
August 7, 2005Mark BittnerThe Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill
August 28, 2005Jean HeglandWindfalls
October 16, 2005Irene ThomasOlaf Palm: A Life In Art
October 30, 2005Erik & Marcia SchmidtBlazing Splendor: the Memoirs of Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche
November 13, 2005David SkibbinsEight of Swords
November 27, 2005Howard Wheatley AllenHoward Wheatley Allen: Sculptor to Emperors, Presidents & Kings
 
   2004
Feb. 1, 2004Kirk Russell & Judy RodgersShell Games (Russell), Zuni Café Cookbook (Rodgers)
Feb. 29, 2004Bennett BergerSurvival of a Counterculture: Ideological Work and Everyday Life Among Rural Communards
Mar. 12, 2004Orin StarnIshi's Brain: In Search of the Last Wild Indian
June 27, 2004James Dalessandro1906
July 11, 2004Jim TarbellImperial Overstretch: George W. Bush & the Hubris of Empire
Aug. 1, 2004Michelle Anna JordanCalifornia Home Cooking, The Veg Out Vegetarian Guides, etc.
Aug. 21, 2004Jim HightowerLet's Stop Beating Around the Bush: More Political Subversion from Jim Hightower
Oct. 3, 2004Leonard ShlainSex, Time & Power
Oct. 24, 2004Thaïs MazurWarrior Mothers
Nov. 14, 2004Bill AptonMendonomans
Dec. 5, 2004Anne ChadwickPacific In My Soul
 
   2003
Jan. 4, 2003 John McClearyThe Hippie Dictionary
Feb. 8, 2003 Eleanor CooneyDeath in Slow Motion: My Mother's Descent into Alzheimer's
Feb. 24, 2003 Sarah AndrewsKiller Dust and others
Mar. 15, 2003 Kevin MilliganMendocino: A Painted Pictorial -- The Art of Kevin Milligan
Apr. 19, 2003 Jane ReicholdWriting & Enjoying Haiku
Aug. 2, 2003 Michael TomsA Time For Choices: Deep Dialogues for Deep Democracy
Aug. 21, 2003 Doris HaddockGranny D: A Memoir
Oct. 25, 2003 Peter ElblingThe Food Taster
Nov. 2, 2003 Gary SnyderThe High Sierra of California: Poems & Look Out
Nov. 15, 2003 Bill Moody & Bruce FormanLive Jazz at Gallery Bookshop
Dec. 13, 2003 Julie Orringer & Ryan HartyHow To Breath Underwater (Orringer), Bring Me Your Saddest Arizona (Harty)


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