For 54 years, Kepler's Books has been one of the nation’s premier independent bookstores, famous for its outstanding author events, knowledgeable staff, and its broad selection of books, magazines and gifts. Its commitment to the local communities it serves has helped define the cultural identity of the San Francisco Bay Area.

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

 

 

Free Career Workshop with Elizabeth Wagele and Ingrid Stabb  

Tuesday, February 9, 7:30 p.m. 

The Career Within You: How To Find the Perfect Job for Your Personality  BUY NOW

 

What a tragedy it is to posses such natural gifts and to hide them from ourselves and the world. Wagele and Stabb are great detectives who will help you understand your perfect habitat for all you can bring to the workplace. (Chip Conley, Founder & CEO, Joie de Vivre Hospitality, author of PEAK: How Great Companies Get Their Mojo from Maslow )

This book will free you to become the person you know you really want to be. It is of immense help in understanding yourself and your colleagues. It will empower you to take those steps that will result in new and even joyful professional satisfaction. (Gil Garcetti, former Los Angeles County District Attorney, Consulting Producer of "The Closer," author and photographer )

"The Career Within You will help you recognize who you are in the working world, the kind of job you'll thrive at and how to find it." (Jonathan Feinstein, John G. Searle Professor of Economics and Management, Yale School of Management)

Elizabeth Wagele is a professional writer, cartoonist, and leading expert on the Enneagram. A graduate of UC Berkeley, she blogs regularly about personalities and other subjects.

Ingrid Stabb, a Yale MBA, chairs the career development committee of the Yale School of Management Alumni Association. A graduate of Columbia University, she is currently a social media marketer for Lithium Technologies.


Co-sponsored by the Yale Club of Silicon Valley

 

 

Brian Copeland

Los Altos Community Read

Tuesday, February 9, 7:30 p.m.

Not a Genuine Black Man  BUY NOW

Los Altos High School - Eagle Theatre, 201 Almond Ave., Los Altos

 

This year’s featured speaker is Brian Copeland, social-commentator, comedian, author, and radio host.  Known to be alternately profound, sad and funny, he tells his first-hand account of growing up in San Leandro in the early 1970’s and the racial discrimination he faced.  He also turned his touching tales into a long-running one man show in San Francisco.

This event is free and open to the public.

 

 

Randall Smith

Wednesday, February 10, 7:30 p.m.

The Prince of Silicon Valley: Frank Quattrone and the Dot-Com Bubble  BUY NOW

The Prince of Silicon Valley traces the rise of the foremost investment banker of the Internet stock-market bubble, from the back streets of South Philadelphia to the peak of finance as the highest paid banker on Wall Street. From Cisco to Netscape to Amazon, Frank Quattrone took some of the biggest names in technology public. During the bubble years of 1999 and 2000, his California-based technology banking group led the most hot initial public offerings, which lifted the entire stock market to record heights.

But after the bubble burst, the hot stocks cooled and ordinary investors lost billions. It emerged that brokers in Quattrone’s firm had created lucrative investment accounts, stuffed with hot IPOs, for banking clients who became known as “Friends of Frank.” Some of the brokers, regulators charged, cut off other investors who refused to pay back a share of their IPO profits.   

The story of Quattrone's fall from grace, however temporary, remains a cautionary tale of ambition gone wrong--of a Wall Street Icarus who flew too close to the sun. The Prince of Silicon Valley is an absorbing noir detective story of the investigations and trials that brought him to the brink of disaster.

RANDALL SMITH is an award-winning reporter for The Wall Street Journal who has covered the Street and its denizens for nearly three decades. He is a graduate of Harvard, and with other Journal reporters has shared the George Polk Award and a Pulitzer Prize.

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