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WE BELIEVE IN THE BOOK. We believe in quieting the noise and listening to the stories. We believe in traveling far and wide between paper pages. We believe in touching the words, scribbling in the margins, and dogging the ears. We believe in surrounding ourselves with books long finished and books not yet read; in revisiting our younger selves each time we pull old favorites off the shelf.
We believe in five-year-olds inking their names in big letters on the flyleaf. We believe in becoming someone else for four hundred pages. We believe in turning off the screens and unplugging the networks once in awhile. We believe in meeting the author, reading the footnotes, looking up the words and checking the references. We believe in holding our children on our laps and turning the pages together.
We believe in standing shoulder to shoulder in comfortable silence with our fellow citizens before a good shelf of books; we believe in talking face to face with friends and strangers in the aisles of a good bookstore. We believe that together, readers, writers, books and bookstores can work magic.
If you believe, please join us: SAVE THE WORLD. BUY A BOOK.

Tuesday, November 9, 5:00-7:00 pm at Mendocino K8 School
Book Fair Family Night: Meet the Authors (for Students, Friends & Family):

Pat Neth: Al, The Mysterious Albatross
Roni McFadden: Josephine, a Tale of Hope & Happy Endings
Ginny Rorby: The Outside of a Horse

Friday, November 12, 6:30 pm
Local author Cal Winslow will appear at Gallery Bookshop to present two of his books, Labor's Civil War in California and Rebel Rank & File: Labor Militancy & Revolt from Below During the Long 1970s.
Cal Winslow is an historian, the coauthor of Albion's Fatal Tree, and the coeditor of Rebel Rank and File, Labor Militancy in the Long Seventies. He is a fellow in environmental politics at University of California, Berkeley and the director of the Mendocino Institute. He lives in Mendocino, California.

This BOOK EVENT has been POSTPONED until next spring.
(Originally scheduled for Nov. 12, 2010)
Frank Baumgardner will be at Gallery Bookshop to talk about his soon-to-be-published book, Yanks in the Redwoods: Carving Out a Life in Northern California.
Life on the north Mendocino coast in frontier days, as told throught the stories and documentary details of the hardy and self-reliant individuals and families who came here. The evidence presented through these stories belies the myth of the "noble pioneers" as "solitary heroes" who tamed a wilderness; instead they founded towns and cities by pulling together, not going it alone.
The book also highlights the impact of big business in the second half of the 19th century as it destroyed precisely the economic independence and community life which the settlers worked so hard to build.
Not available online. To order, call or visit Gallery Bookshop, or send email to info@gallerybookshop.com.

Gallery Bookshop and Bookwinkle's Children's Books regularly hosts author readings and signings. Telephone 707-937-BOOK (707-937-2665) or email us for information on upcoming events or for directions to the store.

Tomorrow I'm due at Mendocino High School to (quote) "talk about the process you go through to develop your pieces."
You caught me at a good time, I'll say, because it's a good day to write. It's raining outside, the Giants' game hasn't started, and the computer's working again.
Blank screen, nothing particular to say. It's a universal problem for writers. In my case, I have to be interesting for five minutes and about 600 words.
When I'm truly at a loss, I look at the online news, where the GoogleNet tirelessly searches on my behalf for the word "books," wherever it may be found.

Continue Reading Tony Miksak's latest edition of
Words On Books

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Gallery Bookshop and Bookwinkle's Children's Books

Main & Kasten Streets, Mendocino, CA 95460
707-937-BOOK (2665) FAX: 707-937-3737