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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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• Warwick’s books hosts Academy Award-winning actor Sean Penn discussing his new novel, “Bob Honey Sings Jimmy Crack Corn,” 7:30 p.m.
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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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“Paintings are People Too” is the latest mural curated and installed by the Murals of La Jolla program. The large-scale, vibrant print of paintings floated against a photograph of a Berlin street hangs at 7661 Girard Ave., created by artist and UC San Diego professor Monique van Genderen while she was living in Germany.
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Welcome to Auntie Inga’s Curmudgeon Hour. Grab your preferred beverage and sit down while I whine again about why life has just gotten too perplexing for me. Recently, for example, I wanted to attend a fundraiser only to discover when I went to buy a ticket online that the only type of payment accepted was PayPal. I e-mailed the agency in charge of the fundraiser whose solution was that they would help me set up a PayPal account. This was not what I had in mind.
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Before a highly interested audience of community leaders and merchants at the Rec Center, Jan. 16, La Jolla Community Foundation chair Phyllis Pfeiffer and architect Mark Steele presented the first phase of a proposed project to create a new public plaza at “The Dip,” located at the north end of Girard Avenue at Prospect Street. The presentation, titled “La Jolla Village Streetscape Plan,” included a myriad of fresh ways these overdue changes could enhance the community.
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At UCSD: suicidal bacteria, pot-hastened cancer, dengue-thwarting mosquitoes In the past two weeks, UC San Diego researchers have made three unrelated and unusual discoveries: 1) Some bacteria cells infected by bacteriophage viruses (phages) self-destruct to keep the infection from spreading to other cells.
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Veerabhadran Ramanathan, director of the Center for Atmospheric Sciences at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, delivered a sobering message during a talk at The Bishop’s School on the evening of Jan. 15.
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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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