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Only the Trying opens with the assassination of a man swimming from The Cove to The Shores.
Byron Dorgan (U.S. congressman and senator from North Dakota for 30 years before retiring in January 2011) will discuss his book “The Girl in the Photograph: The True Story of a Native American Child, Lost and Found in America,” 2 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 18, 2020 at D.G. Wills Books, 7461 Girard Ave., La Jolla. Through the story of Tamara, an abused Native American child, Dorgan describes the plight of many children living on reservations and offers hope for the future.
Love participating in your library’s summer reading program? The San Diego Public Library is offering a new winter version that is only available i January 2020. “Litera-SEA” is the theme for the inaugural Winter Reading Challenge, with prizes and reading suggestions for all ages having a maritime and ocean theme. Of course, participants are welcome to read anything to qualify for prizes.
Candace Bushnell, celebrated author of “Sex and the City,” talked about her latest book, “Is There Still Sex in the City?” Friday night, Oct. 4, 2019 at Warwick’s bookstore. A crowd of about 100 (mostly women) showed up to listen to the pragmatic author talk about life in the dating lane for women in their 50s.
La Jolla resident Diane Schneider’s memoir “Lives on Brown Cards” looks at memorable patients she has encountered in her years as a physician — and the lessons she learned from them.
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BUSINESS SPOTLIGHT: Client gift-giving is of growing importance in every industry: corporate, education, real estate and non-profits. -
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While called “The Type 1 Diabetes Cookbook,” La Jolla resident Laurie Block’s recently penned work is more of a guidebook into the world of Type 1 Diabetes (previously known as Juvenile Diabetes), which affects approximately 1.25 million people in the United States.
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Newly published author Jamie Tyrone had a book-signing at Warwick’s bookstore in La Jolla on July 14, 2019 to showcase her tome, “Fighting for My Life: How to Thrive in the Shadow of Alzheimer’s,” published by HarperCollins Publishers.
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The Friends of the La Jolla Library on June 6 celebrated 120 years of library service in La Jolla — as well as 30 years at the 7999 Draper Ave. location — with “The Caper on Draper,” a whodunnit mystery about a missing, priceless manuscript.
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BUSINESS SPOTLIGHT: Join Warwick’s Bookstore in La Jolla for a celebration of romance and literature this month!
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For the past 28 years, the Retired Senior Volunteer Patrol (RSVP) has shown up for both the community and the San Diego Police Department, providing extra eyes and ears to deter crime, check in on the elderly and serve as overall “ambassadors of goodwill,” while on patrol in specially marked cars cruising through La Jolla and Pacific Beach neighborhoods.
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Several La Jolla students are celebrating a big win after taking home first place at the First LEGO League (FLL) Spring Showdown on March 8 at LEGOLAND in Carlsbad.
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After living a bicoastal life in which she found success as a model, teacher and author, Doris Sutton celebrates her 100th birthday this week in La Jolla.
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The last living silent film star turned misfortune into success in academia.
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Here’s how to file for unemployment benefits in California if you’ve lost work because of the coronavirus outbreak. Read this explainer for eligibility requirements and how the program works.
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D.G. Wills Books’ 40th St. Patrick’s Day Open Reading of Poetry and Prose will be its last.
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In her writing, novelist Karen Thompson Walker takes ordinary people and puts them in the most unusual — even bizarre — circumstances.
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Dying is tough. Losing a loved one is tough.
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“A good day is all in your head, you decide when you roll out of bed … There is no need to hurry and no need to rush.
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With the literary pendulum swinging away from digital reading devices toward actual textile books, what will fill those pages in 2018?
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Andy Weir, The New York Times bestselling author of “The Martian” (a story about an astronaut stranded alone on the planet Mars that was made into a 2015 movie of the same name starring Matt Damon) was at UC San Diego on the evening of Dec. 7 to discuss his new work, “Artemis.”
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The author shuffles tenuously over to greet me in the parking lot of his La Jolla apartment building.
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Evan Spoelstra appeared hesitant at first, when asked to define his concept of a rabbi to an actual rabbi.
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