Saturday, November 7, all day.

This Saturday, November 7 is the inaugural National Bookstore Day, designed to celebrate the vibrancy and dedication of the independent, community bookstore. To celebrate, we're offering door prizes, hot cider and cookies and bookish quiz questions. A correct answer puts you in the drawing for a $20 gift certificate.

National Bookstore Day could easily be called National Reader Appreciation Day. Readers make bookstores what they are, and Diesel is a reflection of your continuing support and passion for literature.

So stop by and celebrate books, bookstores, reading, and yourself!

Saturday, November 7, all day.

This Saturday, November 7 is the inaugural National Bookstore Day, designed to celebrate the vibrancy and dedication of the independent, community bookstore. To celebrate, we're offering door prizes, hot cider and cookies and bookish quiz questions. A correct answer puts you in the drawing for a $20 gift certificate.

National Bookstore Day could easily be called National Reader Appreciation Day. Readers make bookstores what they are, and Diesel is a reflection of your continuing support and passion for literature.

So stop by, chat with Malibu Mayor Andy Stern and other council folk around 11am and celebrate books, bookstores, reading, and yourself!

Saturday, November 7, all day.

This Saturday, November 7 is the inaugural National Bookstore Day, designed to celebrate the vibrancy and dedication of the independent, community bookstore. To celebrate, we're offering door prizes, hot cider and cookies and bookish quiz questions. A correct answer puts you in the drawing for a $20 gift certificate.

National Bookstore Day could easily be called National Reader Appreciation Day. Readers make bookstores what they are, and Diesel is a reflection of your continuing support and passion for literature.

So stop by and celebrate books, bookstores, reading, and yourself!

Diesel, A Bookstore in Oakland is pleased to present another installment of Poetry Flash, this time with Marilyn Kallet and Susan Cohen. The Flash will be on Sunday, November 8th, at 3 p.m.

Marilyn Kallet's latest book of poems is Packing Light, a new and selected; X.J. Kennedy says, "Marilyn Kallet writes with candor, infectious humor, and verve. Her poems keep delivering enjoyable jolts that you don't see coming--an immensely skilled crafter of fat-free free verse." Marilyn Kallet is the author of fourteen books, including the book of poems Circe After Hours, Last Love Poems of Paul Eluard, translation; The Movable Nest: A Mother/Daughter Companion, which she co-edited; and Sleeping With One Eye Open: Women Writers and the Art of Survival.

Susan Cohen's new poetry book is Finding the Sweet Spot; Molly Fisk enthuses, "Susan Cohen's poems praise the world in all directions, from the autistic boy who sings to a canyon at four in the morning to the huge flock of crows whose ruckus 'saws into our sleep.' Cohen's words are well-earned, they sear us with a fierce joy." An earlier collection, Backstroking, was a winner of the Acorn-Rukeyser Chapbook Award. She has had a long, varied career as a journalist, for the San Jose Mercury News, as a freelancer, a faculty member of the Graduate School of Journalism, and other positions, with a special interest in science, health, and ethics questions. She is co-author of the new book Normal at Any Cost: Tall Girls, Short Boys, and the Medical Industry's Quest to Manipulate Height.

Amnesty International members meet to exchange ideas on action.

Amnesty International is a worldwide movement of people who campaign
for internationally recognized human rights to be respected and
protected for everyone.
They believe human rights abuses anywhere are the concern of people
everywhere.

So, outraged by human rights abuses but inspired by hope for a
better world, they work to improve people’s lives through campaigning
and international solidarity.

Their mission is to conduct research and generate action to
prevent and end grave abuses of human rights and to demand justice for
those whose rights have been violated.

Members and supporters exert influence on governments, political bodies, companies and intergovernmental groups.

Activists take up human rights issues by mobilizing public
pressure through mass demonstrations, vigils and direct lobbying as
well as online and offline campaigning.

Book Group #3 meets to discuss Anne Enright's Man Booker Prize-winning novel, The Gathering, on Tuesday, November 10, at 7pm.

All are welcome and encouraged to attend!

Malibu Book Group meets to discuss The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo by Steig Larsson on Wednesday, November 11 @ 6pm.

This event is free and all are welcome and encouraged to attend!

Diesel, A Bookstore in Oakland is delighted to host the Book Launch Party for local author Anne I. Barrows in celebration of her inaugural collection, Our Charlotte, sixty seven poems inspired by the paintings of Charlotte Salomon, born 1917 in Berlin, died 1943 at Auschwitz, on Wednesday, November 11, at 7 p.m.

Although she created many paintings, those that survive are a self-portrait, a few sketches, and 1,325 gouache works on paper made during last year of Solomon's life. This body of work, which she called Life? or Theater? A Musical Play was completed under extreme duress, and only discovered after the war.

The poetry of Anne I. Barrows has appeared in Denver Quarterly, Barnabe Mountain Review, Psychological Perspectives, Runes, and in the anthologies Cloud View Poets and Appetite.
Our Charlotte is her first book of poems.

Diesel, A Bookstore in Malibu is pleased to present Mike Roselle and Josh Mahan as they discuss and sign their new book, Tree Spiker: From Earth First! to Lowbagging: My Struggles in Radical Environmental Action, on Thursday, November 12 at 7 p.m.

Come show your support for the environment!

Diesel, A Bookstore in Brentwood is very excited to welcome Mark Weiss to the shop to discuss and sign the anthology of poetry he edited, The Whole Island: Six Decades of Cuban Poetry, on Sunday, November 15th, at 3 p.m.

Cuba's cultural influence throughout the Western Hemisphere, and especially in the United States, has been disproportionally large for so small a country. This landmark volume is the first comprehensive overview of poetry written over the past sixty years. Presented in a beautiful Spanish-English en face edition, The Whole Island makes available the astonishing achievement of a wide range of Cuban poets, including such well-known figures as Nicolás Guillén, José Lezama Lima, and Nancy Morejón, but also poets widely read in Spanish who remain almost unknown to the English-speaking world - among them Fina García Marruz, José Kozer, Raúl Hernández Novás, and Ángel Escobar-and poets born since the Revolution, like Rogelio Saunders, Omar Pérez, Alessandra Molina, and Javier Marimón. The translations, almost all of them new, convey the intensity and beauty of the accompanying Spanish originals. With their work deeply rooted in Cuban culture, many of these poets - both on and off the island - have been at the center of the political and social changes of this tempestuous period. The poems offered here constitute an essential source for understanding the literature and culture of Cuba, its diaspora, and the Caribbean at large, and provide an unparalleled perspective on what it means to be Cuban.

Diesel, A Bookstore in Malibu is pleased to present Latana in celebration of the publication of her new book, Barely Exposed, a subtle yet probing answer to the question, "How do you see your world?" in visual likenesses of contemporary young people, on Sunday, November 15, at 3 p.m.

The stark images of young people half-dressed and set against a black background is an effort to evoke the true essence and intimacy of who they are, while at the same time asking the viewer to consider their own strength, beauty and vulnerability.

Latana’s artwork has been the object of numerous exhibitions throughout the world. She was sponsored by the Armenian Embassy to discover inspiration within that magnificent country and returned with a series of poignant images of the land and its people. The exhibition, “Armenia...Through The Lens And Into The Heart” was held at the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland. She has authored two other photographic books, Fragments, the Abandoned Villa Series and The Phukthar Monastery.

Diesel, A Bookstore in Oakland is pleased to present award-winning children's book author Katherine Sturtevant to the store to host a publication party for her new novel, The Brothers Story, on Sunday, November 15th, at 3 p.m. The Brothers Story is a fascinating portrait of a young person struggling to balance family and freedom and also a frank depiction of Restoration London in its bawdy, raucous glory.

“...Sturtevant has done a breathtakingly good job...[The] book is not only a stunning story but a challenging and deeply satisfying work of social conscience.” -- Booklist (starred review)

“Sturtevant’s characters have real human complexity....Packed with authentic period detail...this is a lively adventure that merits a sequel...” -- Horn Book

Katherine Sturtevant has previously written At the Sign of the Star, a Booklist Editors’ Choice, and its sequel, A True and Faithful Narrative, an ALA Best Book for Young Adults, among other accolades. She lives in Berkeley, California.

Diesel, A Bookstore in Oakland is pleased to present David Swanson as he discusses and signs his new book, Daybreak: Undoing the Imperial Presidency and Forming a More Perfect Union, on Sunday, November 22nd, at 3 p.m.

Swanson holds a master's degree in philosophy from the University of Virginia. He has worked as a newspaper reporter and as a communications director, with jobs including press secretary for Dennis Kucinich's 2004 presidential campaign, media coordinator for the International Labor Communications Association, and three years as communications coordinator for ACORN, the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now.

Diesel, A Bookstore in Brentwood is excited to present University of California Press author Tom Kemper to the shop to discuss and sign his first-of-its-kind new book, Hidden Talent: The Emergence of Hollywood Agents, on Sunday, November 22, at 3 p.m.

Katharine Hepburn, John Wayne, Lauren Bacall — behind each of these stars was a hidden force: the talent agent. In this first-ever history of Hollywood agents, Tom Kemper mines agency archives to present an insider's view on their tooth-and-claw rise to power during the studio era. It's a tale of ambitious characters, savvy calculation, muckraking, financial ruin, and ultimate triumph, and establishes the agent's vital role in the Hollywood business world. Existing studies characterize agents as a product of the 1950s, but Kemper revises the record to show how agents emerged from the primordial film industry during the late 1920s and carved themselves a permanent niche. Through case studies of key figures like Myron Selznick and Charles Feldman, we see that the agent's character and social relationships functioned within a business structure — a good reputation and powerful connections were his most precious assets. With wit and precision, Kemper locates Hollywood agents at the crossroads of talent and profit, and captures their central and enduring role in the burgeoning film industry.

Tom Kemper is Visiting Lecturer at the University of Southern California, and a teacher at the Crossroads School of Arts and Sciences in Los Angeles.

Book Group #1 meets to discuss Natsuo Kirino's psychologically intricate thriller, Real World, on Tuesday, November 24, at 7pm.

All are welcome and encouraged to attend.

Diesel, A Bookstore in Brentwood is excited to host Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl to celebrate the publication of their new Gothic young adult novel, Beautiful Creatures, the story of Lena Duchannes and Ethan Wate and their intertwined fates amongst the overgrown gardens, murky swamps and crumbling graveyards of the forgotten South. The launch party will be on Tuesday, December 1st, at 7 p.m.

Please stop by and make this publication party a success!

Diesel, A Bookstore in Oakland is pleased to present Claudia Pruett and Rima Barkett as they discuss, sign, and share a recipe or two from their new cookbook, Cooking Dinner: Simple Italian Family Recipes Everyone Can Make.

Earlier in the day, from 3-4pm, Claudia and Rima will be on ABC 7's The View from the Bay, promoting Cooking Dinner, so be sure to tune in and then stop by Diesel for a delicious sample and a copy of the book!

For more info, check out A Tavola Together.

We will also be accepting donations of non-perishable food items in support of the Alameda County Community Food Bank. So, bring some dry goods in and leave with a cookbook. You get fantastic recipes and those less fortunate get something to eat.

Diesel, A Bookstore in Brentwood presents Diane Leslie's Book Group with Author. This month the group will be discussing Rachel Kushner's first novel, Telex From Cuba, a tour de force set in the American community in Cuba during the years leading up to Castro's revolution on Thursday, Dec. 3, at 5pm.

And the best part? Rachel Kushner will be there for the discussion!

There is a $20 entry fee for this event.

Diesel, A Bookstore in Malibu is pleased to present local artist Fred Read to the shop in celebration of the opening of his art show Dreams.

Fred Read is an American original. A decoupage artist who captures the best and worst of the American experience with images of idyllic vistas alongside barrels of money and naked women. His work is informed by a love of sport fishing and an interest in military campaigns the world over.

Read's "Dreams" are created from photographic images culled over years of patient selection from a wide variety of print sources. Though two-dimensional in a practical sense, the works are cut and layered and also contain a subtle dimension of depth. The poster-sized reproductions bring forward details while flattening the cut edges into a more painterly whole.

Created completely by hand, the original works, analog mash-ups of mostly pop culture print ads and traditional fine art images, are brought full circle in this show through the process of digital reproduction.

Diesel, A Bookstore in Brentwood is very excited to present cook, food television producer, and author, JoAnn Cianciulli to the shop to discuss, sign and share samples from her most recent book, L.A.'s Original Farmers Market Cookbook: Meet Me at 3rd and Fairfax, a richly textured tribute to one of California’s most beloved culinary destinations.

L.A.'s Original Farmers Market Cookbook truly makes the perfect holiday gift for any foodie or culinary enthusiast, so stop by and celebrate the season with two of the greatest things around: food and books!

Diesel, A Bookstore in Malibu is pleased to present surfer, singer/songwriter and author Nava Young to the shop to discuss and sign her new cookbook, Surf Food: The Ultimate Surfer's Cookbook.

Come by and celebrate the holidays with a book about two of the best things around: food and surfing!