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Kepler's Presents... Authors appearing at Kepler's and in our community
 

 

 

Greg Mortenson

Friday, December 11, 7:30 p.m.

Stones Into Schools: Promoting Peace, with Books Not Bombs, in Afghanistan and Pakistan  BUY NOW

Smithwick Theatre at Foothill College, 12345 El Monte Rd., Los Altos, CA, 94022

Mortenson picks up where Three Cups of Tea left off in 2003.  He  recounts his relentless, ongoing efforts to establish schools for girls.

Don't miss this special evening with one of the premier humanitarians of our time!

Sorry, folks.  This event is SOLD OUT. 

Due to time constraints, Greg will only be signing copies of his new book. 

January Events  

 

 

David Thomson

Thursday, January 7, 7:30 p.m.

The Moment of Psycho: How Alfred Hitchcock Taught America to Love Murder  BUY NOW

It was made like a television movie, and completed in less than three months. It killed off its star in forty minutes. There was no happy ending. And it offered the most violent scene to date in American film, punctuated by shrieking strings that seared the national consciousness. Nothing like Psycho had existed before; the movie industry—even America itself—would never be the same.

In The Moment of Psycho, film critic David Thomson situates Psycho in Alfred Hitchcock’s career, recreating the mood and time when the seminal film erupted onto film screens worldwide. Thomson shows that Psycho was not just a sensation in film: it altered the very nature of our desires. Sex, violence, and horror took on new life. Psycho, all of a sudden, represented all America wanted from a film—and, as Thomson brilliantly demonstrates, still does.

English-American writer David Thomson is the author of many books on film, including “Have You Seen...?” A Personal Introduction to 1,000 Films, which the New York Times called, “passionate, illuminating, rich, and eccentric”; and the massively influential Biographical Dictionary of Film called “the best book on the movies ever written in English” (The New Republic). He lives in San Francisco with his family. 

Photo Credit: Lucy Gray Photography

 

 

Judith L. London, Ph.D.

Saturday, January 9, 2:00 p.m.

Connecting the Dots: Breakthroughs in Communication as Alzheimer's Advances  BUY NOW

Foreward by Jane E. Brody

Half the five million people in America with Alzheimer's disease are in the middle to late stages. The accepted notion of the medical establishment is that it is impossible to communicate with these individuals, and family members and friends should give up hope of being able to salvage a real relationship with their loved ones with Alzheimer's. By working with Alzheimer's patients and their families for more than sixteen years, author Judith London has learned that this is false, and, in fact, people can learn how to connect the dots of scattered information offered by people with Alzheimer's and maintain a sense of connection with their loved ones.

Compelling and inspiring anecdotes from the author's work reveal the depth of feeling and insight still present in advanced Alzheimer's patients. After each anecdote, the author explains the technique she used to draw meaning from the Alzheimer's patient's communication, then shows readers how to use it with their loved ones. The book also includes chapters of pertinent, accessible information on Alzheimer's that will help readers understand how the brain is affected by the disease.

Judith L. London, Ph.D., is a psychologist licensed in New York and California who has treated people with Alzheimer's and other dementias in public long-term care facilities for more than sixteen years. She has been adjunct professor at New York University, a stress management trainer and workshop leader, and a featured columnist on addictions. London conducts seminars on Alzheimer's disease, dementia, and maintaining brain health.

 

 

Charles Todd 

Tuesday, January 12, 7:30 p.m.

The Red Door: An Inspector Ian Rutledge Mystery  BUY NOW

New York Times bestselling mother-and-son writing team, Charles Todd, brings back Scotland Yard detective Ian Rutledge in another riveting mystery set in post–World War I Lancashire, England, June 1920. In a house with a red door lies the body of a woman who has been bludgeoned to death. Rumor has it that two years earlier, she'd painted that door to welcome her husband back from the Front. Only he never came home.

Meanwhile, in London, a man suffering from a mysterious illness first goes missing and then just as suddenly reappears. He is unable to explain his recovery. His family, supposedly searching for him, give conflicting accounts of where they were and why. What is the secret that nearly drove one man mad and turned his brothers and sister against one another with such unexpected savagery?

Inspector Ian Rutledge, drawn into both cases and facing a wall of silence, must solve two mysteries before he can bring a ruthless killer to justice: Who was the woman who lived and died behind the red door? Who was the man who never came home from the Great War, for the simple reason that he might never have gone? And what have they to do with a man who cannot break the seal of his own guilt without damning those he loves most?

Charles Todd is the author of eleven Ian Rutledge mysteries, the first Bess Crawford mystery, and one stand-alone novel. 

 

 

Wendy Nelson Tokunaga

Wednesday, January 13, 7:30 p.m.

Love in Translation  BUY NOW

Stuck.  That’s how 33-year-old aspiring singer Celeste Duncan feels, with her deadbeat boyfriend and static career. But then Celeste receives a puzzling phone call and a box full of mysterious family heirlooms which just might be the first real clue to the identity of the father she never knew. Impulsively, Celeste flies to Japan to search for a long-lost relative who could be able to explain. She stumbles head first into a weird, wonderful world where nothing is quite as it seems—a land with an inexplicable fascination with foreigners, karaoke boxes, and unbearably perky TV stars. 

Wendy Nelson Tokunaga received her MFA in writing from University of San Francisco, and her short stories have appeared in a variety of publications. She lives in San Francisco with her Japanese-born surfer-dude/musician husband and their cat Meow.  When she’s not writing, she is a professional karaoke singer(singing both j-pop and enka), having won awards in a number of competitions.  

 

 

Daniel Pink

Thursday, January 14, 7:30 p.m.

Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us  BUY NOW

Forget everything you thought you knew about how to motivate people--at work, at school, at home. It's wrong. As Daniel H. Pink explains in his new and paradigm-shattering book, the secret to high performance and satisfaction in today's world is the deeply human need to direct our own lives, to learn and create new things, and to do better by ourselves and our world.

Drawing on four decades of scientific research on human motivation, Pink exposes the mismatch between what science knows and what business does--and how that affects every aspect of our lives. He demonstrates that while the old-fashioned carrot-and-stick approach worked successfully in the 20th century, it's precisely the wrong way to motivate people for today's challenges.

Drive is bursting with big ideas-- the rare book that will change how you think and transform how you live.
Daniel H. Pink is the author of the long-running New York Times and BusinessWeek bestseller A Whole New Mind, as well as The Adventures of Johnny Bunko and Free Agent Nation. He has written for The New York Times, Harvard Business Review, Fast Company, and Wired, where he is a contributing editor. He has provided analysis for CNN, CNBC, ABC, NPR, and other networks in the U.S. and abroad. Pink lectures on economic transformation and the new workplace at corporations, associations, and universities around the world.  

Photo Credit: Jerry Bauer

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