Author Chad Stewart of La Jolla will discuss and sign his new book, “The Five Great Principles for Life: Focus, Strength, Success, Wisdom and Responsibility,” from noon to 2 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 30 at Warwick’s Books, 7812 Girard Ave. Stewart said the event will launch him on a nationwide book tour to promote the “guide,” targeted to young people, but full of wisdom and advice for people at all crossroads of life.
Former La Jollan Andy Peterson, now best-selling author of the thrillers “First to Kill” and “Forced to Kill,” will join four other suspense writers for Operation Thriller, a weeklong USO tour, to visit troops in the Middle East this fall. Peterson, along with Clive Cussler, Sandra Brown, Kathy Reichs and Mark Bowden, will discuss books, movies, and writing; sign autographs and pose for photos with service personnel.
Words Alive, San Diego’s non-profit literacy/scholarship organization, will hold its annual Authors’ Luncheon Tuesday, Nov.1 at the Hyatt Regency La Jolla at Aventine. The luncheon will include two keynote speakers: authors Hillary Jordon (“Mudbound,” 2008 and “When She Woke” 2011) and Jasmin Darznik (“The Good Daughter: A Memoir of My Mother’s Hidden Life,” 2011).
When the Conference Board of New York in 2009 reported that only 45 percent of American workers were satisfied with their jobs, a continuous 22-year decline since the indicator was initiated, Mark Crowley decided to do something about it. For Crowley, who had spent the last 25 years professionally leading one successful team after another in retail banking and who has lived in La Jolla for the same period, the statistic made no sense, especially at a time when the highest priority for business is to get the most out of its precious resources.
Although many people were dismayed to learn that the July 8 mission of the space shuttle Atlantis was the last in the 30-year program that epitomized American know-how, inquisitiveness and daring, Mark Albrecht of La Jolla wasn’t a bit surprised. Albrecht not only saw it coming, he was there when the decline began, serving as President George H. W. Bush’s principal advisor on the U.S. space program from 1989 to June, 1992.
The Sept. 27 release of “The Bippalo Seed and Other Lost Stories” by Dr. Seuss could force Grinches, Sneetches and Loraxes to make room for what might be the next member of that venerable pantheon: the Wild Wheef. The Wheef joins the Icka, Gritch, Grickle and other fanciful characters in the new Dr. Seuss book based on a collection of old stories that have been all but forgotten since their publication in Redbook magazine in the early 1950s.
Nina Rosoff — a social and behavioral scientist, academician and organization/leadership specialist — just penned her first book, “The Power of Paradox: The Protean Leader and Leading in Uncertain Times.” The book sees Rosoff tackling the unsolved dilemma of standard economics: How to lead in uncertainty.
Michele Hébert, a popular instructor at La Jolla Yoga Center, has been teaching yoga for more than 30 years. Now she’s the author of “The Tenth Door,” a book about her adventures in “the jungles of enlightenment” that may well be the next “Eat, Pray, Love.” Ask her what she does and she’ll tell you: “I help people transform their lives.”
Put two educators who develop programs for extended learning in a room with an economist who studies technology and innovation, and you’re bound to generate in interesting discussion.
Avid fans of fantasy fiction featuring phantasmagorical creatures and demons vexing teen heroes will be thrilled with the March 29 release of “Fury of the Phoenix,” the latest book by San Diego author Cindy Pon.A sequel to Pon’s lauded first work, “Silver Phoenix: Beyond the Kingdom of Xia,” the story aims at young adult readers enthralled by the adventures of Ai Ling in an imaginative kingdom based on Chinese folklore.
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