Events

    Kickoff Event for "One Book One Community: San Mateo County Reads" 2009 Thursday, October 1, 7:00 p.m. Mistress of Spices  BUY NOW San Mateo Performing Arts Center, 600 N. Delaware St., San Mateo Free and open to the public Chitra Divakaruni will appear with KALW public radio's "New America Now" host Sandip Roy. Roy will explore with Divakaruni the characters, themes and storylines of The Mistress of Spices. This event includes audience Q & A and book sales and signings by Ms. Divakaruni. Companion programming throughout the entire month of October will explore the culture of India including storytelling, art, body art, food, dancing, myths and medicine.  One Book One Community: San Mateo County Reads is presented by the member libraries of the Peninsula Library System.  For more information, visit http://www.onebookreads.com/

      Thursday, October 1, 7:30 p.m. Come Back Como: Winning the Heart of a Reluctant Dog  BUY NOW A delightful story about the joys and deeper meanings dogs bring into our lives. (Amy Tan ) This is the story of a unique journey: one man's valiant quest to win the love of a truly one-of-a-kind dog, a creature usually thought of as man's best friend. With humour and pathos, Winn describes the exasperating but ultimately rewarding effects Como had on his family, the ordeals he and his dog endured together, and the greatest lesson Como taught him: that loving a dog can somehow make us more human. Award-winning journalist and fiction writer Steven Winn was a staff writer at the San Francisco Chronicle. A former Wallace Stegner Fellow in Fiction at Stanford and a founding staff member of the Seattle Weekly, his work has appeared in publications from Good Housekeeping, Parenting, and Parents, to Sports Illustrated, AARP magazine, the Utne Reader, and the National Lampoon. He has appeared on 20/20, the Today Show, NBC Nightly News, AandE Biography, and NPR.  After skunk encounter, house goes to the dogs Steven Winn, Special to The Chronicle Tuesday, September 29, 2009 http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/09/28/DDSD19SSQR.DTL