Author Events

The Book Works is delighted to announce that we are hosting the Official Launch of The Neighbors are Watching by Debra Ginsberg

Thursday, November 18th at 7:00pm

STAY TUNED as we will be announcing prizes and other events in conjunction with the regular author event!

"A pregnant teenager shows up, literally, on her biological father's doorstep, and the neighbors can't stop talking. Joe Montana is a handsome restaurant manager who failed to tell his wife that he fathered a baby with an ex-girlfriend seventeen years ago. Diana's bombshell arrival in their quiet cul-de-sac sets off a chain reaction of secrets and lies that threaten to engulf the neighborhood along with the approaching flames from the Santa Ana-fueled California wildfire.
A woman scorned, a former reality TV star, and a suburban housewife with her own checkered past--these are just a few of the warring neighbors who will be forced to band together when Diana disappears in the aftermath of the wildfire evacuation, leaving her newborn baby--and many unanswered questions--behind."

Debra Ginsberg is the author of the memoirs, Waiting: The True Confessions of a Waitress, Raising Blaze: A Mother and Son's Long, Strange Journey Into Autism, and About My Sisters and the novels Blind Submission and THE GRIFT. Agraduate of Reed College, she has contributed to NPR's All Things Considered, is a regular reviewer for Shelf Awareness, and works as a freelance editor. She lives in Southern California.

For more information on Debra, visit her website HERE

The Book Works Author Event featuring Jennifer Ouellette! Thursday, September 16th, at 7:00pm.

"Were you traumatized by high school calculus? Does the mere mention of integrals and derivatives make you queasy?

Jennifer Ouellette feels your pain. She never took math in college, mostly because she — like most people — assumed that she wouldn’t need it in real life. But then the English-major-turned-award-winning-science-writer had a change of heart and decided to revisit the equations and formulas that had haunted her for years. And she’s here to tell you that the mysteries of calculus aren’t nearly so scary when they’re faced head on.

The Calculus Diaries is the fun and fascinating account of her year spent confronting her math phobia head on. With wit and verve, Ouellette shows how she learned to apply calculus to everything from gas mileage, diet, and the rides at Disneyland, to shooting craps in Vegas, and warding off zombies famished for tasty fresh brains. Along the way, she proves that even the mathematically challenged can learn the fundamentals of the universal language."

For more information about the book and Jennifer CLICK HERE

"The book, Kamin’s seventh, is a chronicle of his experiences at Cincinnati's churning Woodward High School in the 1960s, his troubled friendship with a black classmate, and how the legacy of MLK led to their eventual reunion almost forty years later.  It is ultimately a paean to his spiritual mentor, M.L. King."

Ben Kamin is a nationally known rabbi, author, spirituality columnist, interfaith specialist, lecturer, Op-ed contributor to The New York Times and many other publications. Kamin is also a scholar on the life and values of Dr. King.  T George Harris, the former bureau chief of TIME-LIFE, has said about Nothing Like Sunshine:  “No single writer living in America can communicate the black-white story more evocatively than Ben Kamin.” 

http://www.benkamin.com/index.html