Title of Event: Awakening to Your Creation with Julia 'Jewls' Hanson
When: Tuesday, July 7, 2009 7:00 PM
Location: BookWoman
Description:

Spend an evening exploring one woman's journey of awakening to her creation.

The BookGoddess BookGroup meets the second Sunday of each month at 1pm at BookWoman. For June AND July the selection is The Fifth Sacred Thing by Starhawk.

The History of Love by Nicole Krauss The illuminating national bestseller: "Vertiginously exciting… vibrantly imagined… . Krauss is a prodigious talent."--Janet Maslin, "New York Times" A long-lost book reappears, mysteriously connecting an old man searching for his son and a girl seeking a cure for her widowed mother's loneliness. Leo Gursky is just about surviving, tapping his radiator each evening to let his upstairs neighbor know he's still alive. But life wasn't always like this: sixty years ago, in the Polish village where he was born, Leo fell in love and wrote a book. And though Leo doesn't know it, that book survived, inspiring fabulous circumstances, even love. Fourteen-year-old Alma was named after a character in that very book. And although she has her hands full--keeping track of her brother, Bird (who thinks he might be the Messiah), and taking copious notes on How to Survive in the Wild--she undertakes an adventure to find her namesake and save her family. With consummate, spellbinding skill, Nicole Krauss gradually draws together their stories. This extraordinary book was inspired by the author's four grandparents and by a pantheon of authors whose work is haunted by loss--Bruno Schulz, Franz Kafka, Isaac Babel, and more. It is truly a history of love: a tale brimming with laughter, irony, passion, and soaring imaginative power.

Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life by Kingsolver, Barbara, Kingsolver, Camille “Tracing the food year, Kingsolver—with her characteristic candor, poetry, and grace—brings us meditations on asparagus, turkeys, tomatoes, and mulch as she and her family try to eat locally as much as they can. This is a distinct hybrid of The Omnivore’s Dilemma, Under the Tuscan Sun, and Walden.” —Matt Plies, Annie Bloom’s Books, Portland, OR

The Elusive Orgasm: A Woman's Guide to Why She Can't and How She Can Orgasm by Cass, Vivienne An extraordinarily thorough, all-inclusive (for straight, lesbian and bi women) exploration of every possible reason why women have orgasm challenges - including the five types of orgasm difficulties, the twenty-five causes of those difficulties, and step-by-step plans to help readers orgasm.

love conjure/blues by Bridgforth, Sharon love conjure/blues is performance literature/a novel that is constructed for breath. the piece is not meant to be theater/a concert/an opera or a staged reading but is. ... love conjure/blues considers a range of possibilities of gender expression and sexuality within a southern/rural/Black working class context that examines the blues as a way of life/as ritual--in concert with Ancient practices and new creations...