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

                                                

 

 

David Chang and Peter Meehan

Saturday, November 7, 4:00 p.m.

Momofuku  BUY NOW

Introduction by David Kinch, chef/owner of Manresa Restaurant [Michelin: 2 Stars]

Never before has there been a phenomenon like Momofuku. A once-unrecognizable word, it's now synonymous with the award-winning restaurants of the same name in New York City: Momofuku Noodle Bar, Ssäm Bar, Ko, and Milk Bar. Chef David Chang has single-handedly revolutionized cooking in America with his use of bold Asian flavors and impeccable ingredients, his mastery of the humble ramen noodle, and his thorough devotion to pork. 

Momofuku is both the story and the recipes behind the cuisine that has changed the modern-day culinary landscape. Chang relays with candor the tale of his unwitting rise to superstardom, which, though wracked with mishaps, happened at light speed. And the dishes shared in this book are coveted by all who've dined—or yearned to—at any Momofuku location (yes, the pork buns are here). This is a must-read for anyone who truly enjoys food.

Chang has been named a Food & Wine Best New Chef, a GQ Man of the Year, a Rolling Stone Agent of Change, and a Bon Appétit Chef of the Year. He has taken home three James Beard Awards: Rising Star Chef, Best Chef New York City, and Best New Restaurant (Momofuku Ko). This is his first book.

Co-author of Momofuku and food critic, Peter Meehan, formerly writer of the "$25 and Under" column for the New York Times, currently writes the column "Grass Fed" for "the Moment", a NYT style blog. 

Read interview: Take Five with Momofuku’s David Chang, On the Flap Over “Fig-Gate”

by Carolyn Jung, Food Gal

 

 

 

Fall Book Club Mixer!

Sunday, November 8, 2:00 p.m.

Cider anyone?
Sparkling, Spiked or Natural--we'll have it all! 
 
Enjoy cookies and cider as authors Gail Tsukiyama, Brian Copeland and Cara Black join Kepler's Head Buyer, Frank Sanchez, to talk about their best book club picks of the season.

 

Cara Black frequents a Paris little known outside the beaten tourist track. A Paris she discovers on research trips and interviews with French police and private detectives. She lives in San Francisco with her husband, a bookseller, and their teenage son. She is a San Francisco Library Laureate and a member of the Paris Sociéte Historique in the Marais. Her nationally bestselling and award-nominated Aimée Leduc Investigation series has been translated into five languages. Cara's most recent book is Murder in the Latin Quarter. 

Brian Copeland is an actor, comedian, radio talk show host, playwright and author based in the San Francisco Bay Area.  For the past 12 years he has hosted a talk radio program for KGO (AM). In 2004, Copeland premiered his first one-man show, Not a Genuine Black Man, about his experiences growing up in the East Bay suburb of San Leandro in the 1970s, when it was considered a racist enclave due to its 99.4% white population and coordinated policies of housing discrimination and segregation. It became the longest-running solo show in San Francisco history. His memoir, Not A Genuine Black Man, is based on the play.

Gail Tsukiyama, born to a Chinese mother and a Japanese father,is the bestselling author of six novels, including Women of the Silk, The Samurai's Garden and, most recently,The Street of a Thousand Blossoms. She is the recipient of the Academy of American Poets Award and the PEN Oakland/Josephine Miles Literary Award. Gail has served as chair of the Kiriyama Prize fiction panel, and she is WaterBridge Review book reviews editor.

 

 

Veronica Wolff

Tuesday, November 10, 7:30 p.m.

Lord of the Highlands  BUY NOW

An online dating service may have pronounced Felicity “unmatchable” but she’s determined—and destined—to find her perfect mate. All it takes is a mystical deck of Tarot cards and suddenly she’s in 17th-century Scotland, smitten by a warrior who must make a daring choice: send Felicity back to her own time, or endanger both their lives. 

Veronica Wolff was an aspiring art historian when she realized that academic writing was not the place to explore her romantic flights of fancy. She's lived everywhere from Texas, to Hawaii, to India, finally settling in Northern California where she lives with her husband, two children, a dog, cat, and countless houseplants. Her unmarketable skills include snowboarding, speaking Hindi, gardening, and knowing an alarming amount of pop-culture trivia. Her adventurous time-travel romances are set in seventeenth-century Scotland, and are based on the lives of real heroes.

 

 

Charles H. House & Raymond L. Price

Wednesday, November 11, 7:30 p.m.

The HP Phenomenon: Innovation and Business Transformation  BUY NOW 

The HP Phenomenon tells the story of how Hewlett-Packard innovated and transformed itself six times while most of its competitors were unable to make even one significant transformation. It describes those transformations, how they started, how they prevailed, and how the challenges along the way were overcome—reinforcing David Packard's observation that "change and conflict are the only real constants." The book also details the philosophies, practices, and organizational principles that enabled this unprecedented sequence of innovations and transformations. In so doing, the authors capture the elusive "spirit of innovation" required to fuel growth and transformation in all companies: innovation that is customer-centered, contribution-driven, and growth-focused.

The corporate ethos described in this book—with its emphasis on bottom-up innovation and sufficient flexibility to see results brought to the marketplace and brought alive inside the company—is radically different from current management "best practice." Thus, while primarily a history of Hewlett-Packard, The HP Phenomenon also holds profound lessons for engineers, managers, and organizational leaders hoping to transform their own organizations. 

Charles (Chuck) House is Executive Director for Media X, and Senior Research Scholar in the Human Sciences and Technologies Advanced Research Institute at Stanford University. Previously, he led the Research Collaboratory and served as director of Societal Impact of Technology for Intel Corporation, after executive management positions at Dialogic, Spectron Microsystems, Veritas, Informix, and Hewlett-Packard.

Raymond L. Price is the Professor and Severens Chair for Human Behavior in Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He has had a long career in industry working in Management and Organization Development and Human Resources. He has also held various management positions with Hewlett-Packard, including Manager of Engineering Education.

 

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