Events

MAY 18 / SAT / 1:00-2:30pm / Ages 12+

With a few simple folds you can turn a book into a work of art. Join us for a free, fun-filled workshop for teens with special needs and learn how folding pages transforms books into unique art.  Bring your favorite book to fold or choose from our recycled collection. Student teachers from local middle school will assist attendees. NOTE: parent/guardian required to stay for duration of event. We gladly welcome parents to engage in this activity with their teen.

Reservations required.

Email names and ages of attendees to: info@wordsbookstore.com

with author Michael Jeffries

MAY 18 / SAT / 4:00 pm

Michael P. Jeffries approaches Obama’s election and administration as common cultural ground for thinking about race. He uncovers contemporary stereotypes and anxieties by examining historically rooted conceptions of race and nationhood, discourses of “biracialism” and Obama’s mixed heritage, and the purported emergence of a “post-racial society.”

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with author Mark Richman

MAY 19 / SUN / 1:00 pm

This book has helped thousands of parents greatly improve the SAT and ACT Exam results of their children. It can help you and your children as well.

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with author William A. Stoever

MAY 19 / SUN / 4:00 pm

Bill Stoever hitchhiked some 50,000 miles in the Americas, Europe, Africa, the Middle East and Asia. He recounts the triumphs and discomforts, the glorious adventures and lonely miseries, the dangers, diseases and detentions, the nice guys, weirdos and women that he experienced in 86 countries.

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with author Rita Gunther McGrath

MAY 21 / TUE / 7:30 pm

Columbia Business School professor Rita Gunther McGrath argues that it’s time to go beyond the very concept of sustainable competitive advantage. Instead, organizations need to forge a new path to winning: capturing opportunities fast, exploiting them decisively, and moving on even before they are exhausted.

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with author Ezekiel Emanuel

MAY 22 / WED / 7:00 pm

How did one mom raise three brothers who grew up to be the nation’s leading medical ethicist, a superstar Hollywood agent, and the mayor of Chicago? Learn how, and meet author Ezekiel Emanuel, formerly President Obama’s special advisor on healthcare, this May at [words].

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with author Leonard E. Burman

MAY 23 / THU / 7:30 pm

Despite their passion and fury, contemporary Americans are remarkably clueless about how their tax system works. But with heated debates over taxation now roiling Congress and the nation, an understanding of our tax system is of vital importance. Taxes in America offers a clear, concise explanation of how our tax system works, how it affects people and businesses, and how it might be improved.

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with author Lian Dolan

MAY 30 / THU / 7:30 pm

Elizabeth Lancaster, an English professor at Pasadena City College, finds her perfectly dull but perfectly orchestrated life upended one summer by three men: her movie-star ex-husband, a charming political operative, and William Shakespeare.

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with author Christina Baker Kline

MAY 31 / FRI / 7:00 pm

Between 1854 and 1929, so-called orphan trains ran regularly from the cities of the East Coast to the farmlands of the Midwest, carrying thousands of abandoned children whose fates would be determined by pure luck. Would they be adopted by a kind and loving family, or would they face a childhood and adolescence of hard labor and servitude?

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