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Upcoming Events at Book Culture
Sunday Storytelling for Children with Nina Jaffe-
The Golden Flower: A Taino Myth from Puerto Rico/La Flor de Oro: Un Mito Taino de Puerto Rico.

Sunday, May 11, 2008 at 2 pm In-Store

Join us for the next in our series of participatory events celebrating the world’s oral tradition and rich cultural heritages. Including guitar, percussion and bilingual songs.
*Ideal for children ages 4-8, but all are welcome!

Nina Jaffe will tell the story of The Golden Flower: A Taino Myth from Puerto Rico, an enchanting picture book that recreates the indigenous legend of how Puerto Rico became an island. Jaffe’s acclaimed retelling of an indigenous creation myth has also been published in Spanish: La Flor de Oro: Un Mito Taino de Puerto Rico.

A joyful creation myth about the evolution of a beautiful island habitat, this picture book is also a celebration of the young boy’s quest, which encourages young readers, ages 4-8, to respect the gifts of the winds and the cycle of nature that bears fruit for the whole community. Jaffe’s adaptation was inspired by her encounter with a Spanish-language article by Carmen Puigdollers, “Cómo se formó la bella isla de Boriquén,” and folklore research in Puerto Rico.

Nina Jaffe is an award-winning author, folklorist and storyteller who is on the graduate faculty at Bank Street College of Education. Her acclaimed retellings of world folklore include The Way Meat Loves Salt: A Cinderella Tale from the Jewish Tradition and Patakín: World Tales of Drums and Drummers.

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May 16, 17 and 18, 2008

This year's May Sale will be our biggest ever! Almost everything in the store will be 20% off*! Mark your calenders for spring shopping that saves you money!

*Excludes standard exceptions: periodicals, text editions, course adoptions.

Saree Makdisi-
Palestine Inside Out

Thursday, May 29, 2008 at 7 pm In-Store

Americans are looking to reevaluate the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. They’re looking for new voices. Palestine Inside Out is not essentially a book of argument, though argument is inherent in the facts it sets forth. Nor is it focused on the military aspects of the conflict, on the suicide bombers and the bulldozers, the things that make good television. Rather it is an “inside-out” primer about the facts of everyday Palestinian life under Israeli occupation. It is about “death by bureaucracy.” Everyone who has ever been to Israel knows that this is in fact the dominant reality of the conflict. Palestine Inside Out explains why the “peace process” failed. It explains why Hamas won in Gaza, and has been growing in power in the West Bank. It explains why Yasir Arafat walked away from the deal at Camp David that was lauded, incorrectly, in the US media for offering him 90% of the West Bank for a Palestinian state. This book is distinctive in that it comes from an Arab voice, something conspicuously absent from most of the debate about the conflict in the US media.

Saree Makdisi is a professor of English and comparative literature at UCLA. He is a frequent op-ed essayist for the Los Angeles Times and other publications, and speaks on Middle East affairs on NPR, PBS and in public lectures around the world. He lives in Los Angeles, California.

Steven T. Wax-
Kafka Comes to America.

Tuesday, June 10, 2008 at 7pm In-Store
Under the current Bush administration, not only are the civil rights of foreigners in jeopardy, but those of U.S. citizens. Wax interweaves the stories of two men that he and his team represented: Brandon Mayfield, an American-born small town lawyer and family man, arrested as a suspected terrorist in the Madrid train station bombings after a fingerprint was incorrectly traced back to him by the FBI; and Adel Hamad, a Sudanese hospital administrator taken from his apartment to a Pakistani prison and then flown in chains to the United States military prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Kafka Comes to America reveals where and how our civil liberties have been eroded for a false security, and how each of us can make a difference. If these events could happen to Brandon Mayfield and Adel Hamad, they can happen to anyone. It could happen to us. It could happen to you.

Steven T. Wax is in his sixth term as the Federal Public Defender for the District of Oregon. A cum laude graduate of Colgate University and Harvard Law School, he was a key part of the Brooklyn, N.Y. District Attorney’s prosecution of David Berkowitz, a.k.a.“The Son of Sam.” Wax and his team are currently representing seven men held as “enemy combatants” in Guantanamo. He has taught at the Northwestern School of Law at Lewis and Clark College, serves as an ethics prosecutor for the Oregon State Bar, and lectures throughout the country.

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With fresh revelations, one of our most exquisite storytellers ("Esquire") delivers his first collection in over a decade: ten potent new tales that, along with 21 classics, display his mastery over a quarter century.
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Unaccustomed Earth,
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Pulitzer Prize-winning author Lahiri delivers eight dazzling stories that take readers from Cambridge and Seattle to India and Thailand as they explore the secrets at the heart of family life.
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The author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning "The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay" pens a work of literary non-fiction--a series of linked essays in praise of reading and writing.
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From the best-known and most popular historian of modern Europe ("The Independent") comes a keenly perceptive and incisive look at empire and war as they have been transformed in the age of globalization.
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From the celebrated author of "The English Patient" and "In the Skin of a Lion" comes a remarkable new novel of intersecting lives across continents and time.
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