Diesel, A Bookstore in Malibu welcomes native Dan Fante to the shop to discuss and sign his new novel, 86'd, his newest Bruno Dante narrative.

Dan Fante was born and raised in Los Angeles. At twenty, he quit school and hit the road, eventually ending up as a New York City resident for twelve years. Fante has worked at dozens of crummy jobs including: door to door salesman, taxi driver, window washer, telemarketer, private investigator, night hotel manager, chauffeur, mailroom clerk, deck hand, dishwasher, carnival barker, envelope stuffer, dating service counselor, furniture salesman, and parking attendant. He hopes eventually to learn to play the harmonica.

Diesel, A Bookstore in Brentwood is very excited to welcome Susan Dopart to the shop to discuss and sign A Recipe For Life by the Doctor’s Dietitian on Sunday, January 10th, at 3 p.m.

Susan B. Dopart, M.S., R.D., is a nutrition and fitness consultant who has been in private practice for more than 15 years. She specializes in medical nutrition-related issues, including diabetes and endocrinology, heart disease, weight management, pregnancy, infertility, PCOS, and exercise nutrition. Before establishing her own consultancy, Susan worked at UCLA as both a medical and kidney dietitian. She received her B.S. in Nutrition and Clinical Dietetics from UC Berkeley and her M.S. in Exercise Physiology and Sports Medicine from California State University, Hayward.

Diesel, A Bookstore in Brentwood is delighted to welcome Nancy Power to the store to discuss and sign her new book, Power of Gardens, on Sunday, January 24th, at 3pm.

"Nancy Goslee Power is to landscape what Frank Gehry is to architecture,” famed
California historian Kevin Starr once remarked. In his book Coast of Dreams, California
on the Edge, 1990-2003, he describes her style as ‘eclectic boldness’. Her blend of
cultural and landscape palettes, her painter’s eye, her use of water, stone, appropriate
planting, color, and light to create designs for use and comfort place her as one of the
great landscape designers working in the nation today. Nancy Power was awarded
the 1999 Henry Francis du Pont Medal in landscape architecture, she was an Artist in
Residence at American Academy in Rome in 2004, and was the recipient of the 2005
House Beautiful Giants of Design Award.

Nancy Goslee Power & Associates has designed and built gardens of all sizes,
from small home gardens to large estates, and including the Norton Simon Museum
Sculpture Garden in Pasadena, the Music Center and Grand Avenue street planting
in downtown Los Angeles, Simon Meadow Native Park, and Kidspace Children’s
Museum. The firm has just completed two gardens in Beverly Hills: a new public
garden, Beverly Canon Gardens, adjacent to the Montage Beverly Hills Hotel and All
Saint’s Episcopal Church’s new campus.

Nancy Power is Chairman of the Board of the Garden School Foundation, which is
dedicated to creating schoolyard gardens to provide students opportunities to benefit
from hands-on exposure to nature. This interest has created a new focus for her public
work; she has just completed a garden for Inner-City Arts, a non-profit school for high
poverty inner-city children, and has two more projects in the works, The Herb Albert
Education Village, which will have a kitchen garden on its roof, and the Children’s
Institute, another inner-city educational garden.

Ms. Power is a trustee of the Santa Monica Museum of Art and is a board member of
the new Los Angeles Park Conservancy Foundation. Ms. Power is the author of the
classic, The Gardens of California: Four Centuries of Design from Mission to Modern
published by Hennessey and Ingalls and is currently working on her monograph, The
Power of Gardens, to be published by Stewart, Tabori & Chang in 2009.