An Hour with George Galdorisi
2022-05-10 11:00 - 12:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Winn Room, Coronado Public Library, 640 Orange Ave, Coronado, CA, 92118, United States
Join author George Galdorisi as he speaks about his newest book, AI at War. This book is the first to deal with the military and naval application of AI in a comprehensive and pragmatic fashion. It presents the widest possible viewpoints on the actual (as opposed to theoretical) use of AI in war and will appeal to all interested in this subject.
Registration is not required, just recommended. Visit cplevents.org for more information.

George Galdorisi is Director of Strategic Assessments and Technical Futures for the Naval Information Warfare Center Pacific. Prior to joining NIWC Pacific, he completed a thirty-year career as a naval aviator, culminating in 14 years of consecutive experience as executive officer, commanding officer, commodore, and chief of staff.
During his career as a naval aviator he completed an array of operational assignments in all five Navy fleets. After completing a tour as Test Director in the LAMPS Mk III helicopter Program Office, he was one of a small cadre of officers who stood up the Navy’s first LAMPS Mk III squadron, HSL-41. His operational assignments culminated in commanding officer tours of HSL-43, the Navy’s first operational LAMPS Mk III squadron, HSL-41, the LAMPS Mk III Fleet Replacement Squadron, USS Cleveland (LPD-7), and Amphibious Squadron Seven. His last operational assignment spanned five years as Chief of Staff for Cruiser-Destroyer Group Three, during which he made combat deployments to the Western Pacific and Arabian Gulf embarked in the USS Carl Vinson and USS Abraham Lincoln. During this final tour he also led the U.S. Delegation for military-to-military consultations with the Chinese Navy.
He began his writing career in 1978 with an article in U.S. Naval Institute Proceedings. He has written fourteen books, including the New York Times best seller, Tom Clancy Presents: Act of Valor, the novelization of the Bandito Brothers/Relativity Media film and The Kissing Sailor, which proved the identity of the two principals in Alfred Eisenstaedt’s famous photograph. His reboot of the best-selling Tom Clancy’s Op-Center Series includes three consecutive New York Times best sellers, Out of the Ashes, Into the Fire and Scorched Earth. His most recent fiction project is a new series of Rick Holden thrillers published by Braveship Books (The Coronado Conspiracy, For Duty and Honor and Fire and Ice). His most recent non-fiction project is AI at War How Big Data, Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Are Changing Naval Warfare. Additionally, he has published more than four hundred articles in professional journals and national newspapers.
He has received a number of national and international writing awards, including: the Navy League of the United States Alfred Thayer Mahan Award for Literary Achievement, the U.S. Naval Institute General Prize Essay Contest, the Surface Navy Association Literary Award, the Navy League of Australia’s Annual Essay Competition, the Naval Helicopter Historical Association Literary Award, and the Military Writers Society of America Silver Medal Award, among others.
He is a 1970 graduate of the United States Naval Academy and holds a Masters Degree in Oceanography from the Naval Postgraduate School and a Masters Degree in International Relations from the University of San Diego. He graduated from both the Naval War College’s College of Command and Staff and the College of Naval Warfare, and in 1994 he received the Naval War College’s Admiral John Hayward Award for Academic Achievement. Additionally, he is a graduate of MIT Sloan School’s Program for Senior Executives.

Jack Carr Author Event
2022-05-19 19:00 - 20:30 | John D. Spreckels Center, 1019 Seventh Street, Coronado, CA, 92118, United States
#1 New York Times bestselling author and former Navy SEAL Jack Carr will be in person in Coronado in a Library event on the evening of May 19. Jack Carr’s first book, The Terminal List, is set in Coronado and will be aired on Amazon Prime Video in July this year starring Chris Pratt. He is also the author of True Believer, Savage Son, and The Devil’s Hand and the host of the Danger Close Podcast. Carr will be discussing his latest book, the thriller In the Blood. To accommodate a larger audience, the Library will be using the Grand Room at the next door Spreckels Center, to host the event from 7 to 8:30 pm. Entry is free on a first come, first served basis. Books will be available for sale at the event for the author to sign.
About the book, In the Blood:
A woman boards a plane in the African country of Burkina Faso having just completed a targeted assassination for the state of Israel. Two minutes later, her plane is blown out of the sky.
Over 6,000 miles away, former Navy SEAL James Reece watches the names and pictures of the victims on cable news. One face triggers a distant memory of a Mossad operative attached to the CIA years earlier in Iraq–a woman with ties to the intelligence services of two nations…a woman Reece thought he would never see again.
Reece enlists friends new and old across the globe to track down her killer, unaware that he may be walking into a deadly trap.
This program is free and seating is general-admission; however, if you would like to pre-order a book and get priority seating, please call Warwick’s at 858-454-0347.

Teen Graphic Novel Book Club
2022-05-23 17:00 - 18:00 | Ruby Room, Coronado Public Library, 640 Orange Ave, Coronado, CA, 92118, United States
Join us for monthly book discussions of graphic novels. Sign up to reserve your copy of the book!
This month’s pick is the graphic novel interpretation of Roald Dahl’s “The Witches”!

San Diego Shakespeare Society Presents: Shakespeare Authorship Forum
2022-06-12 14:00 - 16:00 | Coronado Library Winn Room, 640 Orange Avenue, Coronado, CA, 92118, United States
For hundreds of years people have questioned whether William Shakespeare of Stratford-upon-Avon actually wrote the plays and sonnets credited under his name, in view of his limited education and experience. Mark Twain, Walt Whitman, Sigmund Freud, and Malcom X, to name a few, have expressed such doubts.
The audience will watch a 30-minute documentary, “Last Will & Testament,” which provides an overview of the question and viewpoints both from the so-called “Orthodox” school and from the doubters. The film will be followed by a discussion, led by a moderator from the San Diego Shakespeare Society, of all points of view on the topic.
The event will include a Zoom appearance by Cheryl Eagan-Donovan, a noted documentary filmmaker, who will argue in favor of a leading author candidate, Edward de Vere, Earl of Oxford, a highly educated nobleman in the court of Queen Elizabeth, who traveled extensively in Italy where so many of the plays take place.
This is a hybrid event, meaning it will take place in-person, but people can also watch and participate from elsewhere via Zoom. To do so, please register using the link below, and you will receive the Zoom link shortly before the event.
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/shakespeare-authorship-forum-in-person-coronado-library-and-via-zoom-tickets-338793700077?aff=odeimcmailchimp&mc_cid=0260f261e6&mc_eid=311eb1849a

Mystery Book Club: Magpie Murders by Anthony Horowitz
2022-06-20 14:00 - 15:00 | Coronado Library Winn Room, 640 Orange Avenue, Coronado, CA, 92118, United States
The Coronado Public Library’s Mystery Book club will meet regularly on the third Monday of each month. Receive reminder emails about our meeting by registering below. Registration is not required.
We will be discussing Magpie Murders by Anthony Horowitz. Check out the book in print or ebook format from the Coronado Library Catalog by clicking here.

Children's Summer Reading Event: Beach Storytime!
2022-06-21 10:00 - 10:30 | Coronado Central Beach, 600 Ocean Boulevard, Coronado, CA, 92118, United States
Grab some sunscreen and head to the beach with the Coronado Public Library! Join Ms. Natalie for a fun storytime on the beach. Enjoy stories, songs, and fun while sitting in the sand. These storytimes are for all ages and everyone is encouraged to stay after and enjoy the beautiful beach Coronado has to offer!
Storytime will take place in the sand at Central Beach, within sight of the bathrooms and main lifeguard tower. Look for a green popup tent with “Coronado Public Library” on the side. Bring proper shade and supplies for your child to have an enjoyable storytime!
And stay after for a NAT-partnered Bioblitz where you and your child can learn how to document the plants and animals that live along our coast with our teen librarian Tara.
Citizen Science Project: Snapshot Cal Coast BioBlitz

Summer Reading Kick-Off Party
2022-06-24 16:00 - 18:00 | Coronado Public Library, 640 Orange Ave, Coronado, CA, 92118, United States
Adults, teens, and kids of all ages are invited to the Summer Reading Kickoff Party on Friday, June 24 at 4pom! Come for an afternoon of fun featuring crafts, games, and “campfire” stories with Aunt Li-Anne!
Aunt Li-Anne is a gifted storyteller who will weave stories, both real and fantastical, to delight listeners.
All ages are able to sign up for the Summer Reading Program by going to Coronado.Beanstack.org or clicking here.

UFC Fighter Tim Kennedy in Person - "Scars and Stripes"
2022-06-27 19:00 - 20:30 | Coronado Library Winn Room, 640 Orange Avenue, Coronado, CA, 92118, United States
Decorated Green Beret sniper and UFC headliner Tim Kennedy will be at the Coronado Public Library on Monday, June 27 at 7 pm to discuss and sign his new book Scars and Stripes. This inspirational memoir offers lessons on how to unlock the best version of yourself, from someone who knows that failure is just one step toward success.
Through vivid, wild anecdotes – such as saying he only feels alive right before he’s about to die – Kennedy reveals all the dumb, violent, embarrassing, and undeniably heroic things he’s done in his life, including multiple combat missions in Afghanistan, building a school in Texas for elementary kids, and creating two multimillion-dollar businesses. He has learned that failure isn’t the end – rather, it’s the first step toward unearthing the best version of yourself and finding success, no matter how overwhelming the setbacks may feel.
Originally from Atascadero, California, Kennedy joined the Army in 2004. After completing Ranger School he was assigned to the 7th Special Forces Group and was deployed on multiple combat missions in Afghanistan and Iraq as a sniper, sniper instructor, and principal combatives instructor. While in the Army, he also honed his mixed martial arts fighting skills, which he had originally developed at ‘The Pit’ in Atascadero. He returned to mixed martial arts in 2009 at Strikeforce Challengers and in January 2013 was brought over to the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC). While now retired from fighting, his professional fighting record has him with just six losses in twenty-four matches. Today, Kennedy is the founder and head of Apogee Cedar Park: an Acton Academy school in Austin, Texas. He is also co-owner of Ranger Up and the CEO of Sheepdog Response.
For more information, head to cplevents.org. This program is free and seating is general-admission; however, if you would like to pre-order a book and receive priority seating, please call Warwicks at 858-454-0347.

Children's Author Book Signing "Taking Turns"
2022-07-04 14:00 - 16:00 | Fair Trade Decor, 828 Orange Ave, Coronado, CA, 92118, United States
Come and meet award winning
local children’s author
Marianne Blackstone Tabner
for a book singing of TAKING TURNS!
Directly after the Coronado July 4th Parade
along Orange Avenue!!
“Taking Turns” is a whimsical tale written with a universal theme about restoring balance. Moon’s refusal to take turns with Sun to gain more attention not only impacts his friend, Sun, but affects our whole planet, Earth. Filled with nature, science and how Sun and Moon resolve their differences, “Taking Turns” provides social skills for children to learn kindness, sharing and friendship with a science theme. Fun facts about our Sun and Moon included.

Biography & Memoir Book Club: "The Last Black Unicorn"
2022-07-14 13:30 - 14:30 | Conference Room – Coronado Public Library, 640 Orange Ave, Coronado, CA, 92118, United States
We will be reading The Last Black Unicorn by Tiffany Haddish.
Tiffany Haddish can’t avoid being funny—it’s just who she is, whether she’s plotting shocking, jaw-dropping revenge on an ex-boyfriend or learning how to handle her newfound fame despite still having a broke person’s mind-set. Finally poised to become a household name, she recounts with heart and humor how she came from nothing and nowhere to achieve her dreams by owning, sharing, and using her pain to heal others.

Mystery Book Club: "Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line" by Deepa Anappara
2022-07-19 14:00 - 15:00 | Winn Room, Coronado Public Library, 640 Orange Ave, Coronado, CA, 92118, United States
The Coronado Public Library’s Mystery Book club will meet regularly on the third Monday of each month. Registration is not required, but you can register to receive reminder emails about future meetings.
We will be discussing Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line by Deepa Anappara. Check out the book in print or ebook format from the Coronado Library Catalog by clicking here.

Summer Reading Event: Beach Storytime and Beach Cleanup
2022-07-21 10:00 - 13:00 | Coronado Central Beach, 600 Ocean Boulevard, Coronado, CA, 92118, United States
Grab some sunscreen and head to the beach with the Coronado Public Library! Join Ms. Natalie for a fun storytime on the beach. Enjoy stories, songs, and fun while sitting in the sand. These storytimes are for all ages and everyone is encouraged to stay after and enjoy the beautiful beach Coronado has to offer!
After the Beach Storytime, stick around and join a beach cleanup with the Coronado Public Library. Kids can earn a prize for helping collect trash, and anyone is welcome to help keep our beautiful Coronado Beach clean.
Storytime will take place in the sand at Central Beach, within sight of the bathrooms and main lifeguard tower. Look for a green popup tent with “Coronado Public Library” on the side. Bring proper shade and supplies for your child to have an enjoyable time!

Spoilers Book Club: Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmond Rostand
2022-07-30 14:30 - 17:30 | Winn Room, Coronado Public Library, 640 Orange Ave, Coronado, CA, 92118, United States
The Spoilers Book Club reads books that have been turned into movies. We read the book and get together to watch the film. We compare the two and discuss what we did and didn’t like.
“Cyrano”

2021
PG-13
2h 3m

Regarded as one of the greatest dramas ever written, Cyrano de Bergerac is the story of the silver-tongued soldier whose unfortunate looks drive him to woo his love by speaking for his handsome but dull-witted rival.

Jamie Ford: In Person Luncheon with Author
2022-08-05 11:30 - 13:30 | Coronado Library Winn Room, 640 Orange Avenue, Coronado, CA, 92118, United States
Jamie Ford is an American author best known for his debut novel, “Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet,” which spent 130 weeks on The New York Times Bestseller List, won awards and was named the #1 Book Club Pick for Fall 2009/Winter 2010 by the American Booksellers Association. Ford will be discussing his new book, The “Many Daughters of Afong Moy,” which will only have been released on July 27, 2022, just days before his Coronado appearance.
The $40 ticket includes lunch and a hardcover copy of the book. Proceeds support free programs at the library such as lectures, workshops, classes, concerts and children’s programs. The talk will be followed by a Q&A session and a chance to have the author sign books. This event is in partnership with Warwick’s Bookstore. To purchase tickets and reserve your seats, please register below. Don’t delay – seating is limited!

Teen Poetry Reading
2022-08-05 15:00 - 16:00 | Coronado Library Winn Room, 640 Orange Avenue, Coronado, CA, 92118, United States
Local teen author, Jamie Piearcy, shares poems from her latest book, Visions of You and Me. After her reading, participants will have the chance to ask questions about the poems or her writing process. Teens are welcome to share poems of their own with the group as well! Refreshments provided. Copies of her book will be available for sale at the event.

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San Diego Memoir Writers Association Local Author Signing Event
2022-08-06 10:00 - 12:00 | Winn Room, Coronado Public Library, 640 Orange Ave, Coronado, CA, 92118, United States
Eight local authors – Laura L. Engel, Madonna Treadway, Lindsey Salatka, Suzanne Spector, Nancy Johnson, Janet Hafner, Leslie Ferguson, and Anastasia Zadeik – will be on hand to read from, sign and sell their books and chat about memoir writing at this open meeting of the San Diego Memoir Writers Association. Event includes refreshments, raffles and free books.

Biography & Memoir Book Club: "Yes, Chef"
2022-08-10 13:00 - 14:00 | Ruby Room, Coronado Public Library, 640 Orange Ave, Coronado, CA, 92118, United States
For August, the biography and memoir book club will be reading and discussing the book, Yes, Chef by Marcus Samuelsson and Veronica Chambers.
Yes, Chef chronicles Marcus Samuelsson’s journey, from his Swedish grandmother’s kitchen to his arrival in New York City, where his outsize talent and ambition finally come together at Aquavit, earning him a New York Times three-star rating at the age of twenty-four. But Samuelsson’s career of chasing flavors had only just begun—in the intervening years, there have been White House state dinners, career crises, reality show triumphs, and, most important, the opening of Red Rooster in Harlem. (Amazon)

An Evening with Pulitzer and National Book Award Finalist Marianne Wiggins
2022-08-11 19:00 - 20:30 | Winn Room, Coronado Public Library, 640 Orange Ave, Coronado, CA, 92118, United States
On Thursday, August 11th at 7 pm, Coronado Public Library, in partnership with Warwick’s, will host Marianne Wiggins as she discusses and signs her new book, Properties of Thirst. Marianne Wiggins is the author of eight novels including John Dollar and Evidence of Things Unseen, which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the National Book Award. She has won a Whiting Award, a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship, the Heidinger Kafka Prize, and was shortlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction. She lives in Venice, California.
This program is free and seating is general-admission; however, if you would like to pre-order a book and get priority seating, please call Warwick’s at 858-454-0347 or visit their website.
About the book, Properties of Thirst:
“This magnificent novel opens every little nerve of language and sends jolts of electricity along the spine. It’s a love story, and a family tale, and a song of history. It’s about shame and loss and recovery and beauty. It’s a novel to cherish, composed with great humanity and humour.” ~ Colum McCann
“This is a novel I wish I could have written. Keen, unsparing, and compassionate, Properties of Thirst reveals a world and a history I thought I knew, in language so beautiful, it took my breath away. Vividly alive, these characters mirror our present moment, our complex ties to this land and to each other, our most profound alienations and our fiercest loves.” ~ Ruth Ozeki
Rockwell “Rocky” Rhodes has spent years fiercely protecting his California ranch from the LA Water Corporation. It is here where he and his beloved wife Lou raised their twins, Sunny and Stryker, and it is here where Rocky has mourned Lou in the years since her death.
As Sunny and Stryker reach the cusp of adulthood, the country teeters on the brink of war. Stryker decides to join the fight, deploying to Pearl Harbor not long before the bombs strike. Soon, Rocky and his family find themselves facing yet another incomprehensible tragedy.
Rocky is determined to protect his remaining family and the land where they’ve loved and lost so much. But when the government decides to build a Japanese-American internment camp next to the ranch, Rocky realizes that the land faces even bigger threats than the LA watermen he’s battled for years. Complicating matters is the fact that the idealistic Department of the Interior man assigned to build the camp, who only begins to understand the horror of his task after it may be too late, becomes infatuated with Sunny and entangled with the Rhodes family.
Properties of Thirst is a novel that is both universal and intimate. It is the story of a changing American landscape and an examination of one of the darkest periods in this country’s past, told through the stories of the individual loves and losses that weave together to form the fabric of our shared history. Ultimately, it is an unflinching distillation of our nation’s essence—and a celebration of the bonds of love and family that persist against all odds.

Barrio Logan Literacy Festival
2022-08-20 10:00 - 13:00 | Barrio Logan College Institute, 2114 National Avenue, San Diego, CA, 92113, United States
This exciting new event will place new books in the hands of the community’s kindergarten through eighth-grade students just in time for the new school year! Families in the San Diego community are invited to register for a time block to come to receive new, reading-level appropriate books and engage in fun activities!
This event is free to attend, but advanced registration is required. Please reserve one ticket for each student who will attend. Students must be accompanied by an adult.

Coronado author Marianne Blackstone Tabner will be at the event on Saturday, August 20th, for an author reading of her book “TAKING TURNS” at 11:30am.
She’s excited to be donating books to this worthwhile cause and celebrate her almost TWO year book birthday! “TAKING TURNS” will be available in both English and Spanish at this book festival to support literacy for children to kick off their school year!

Barrio Logan College Institute and San Diego Oasis are excited to announce their partnership to present the Barrio Logan Literacy Festival! Consider a donation to the Barrio Logan College Institute whose mission is to break the cycle of poverty by preparing underserved students. Check them out at https://blci.org/. Consider volunteering at SD Oasis! https://san-diego.oasisnet.org/
This event is free but please remember to get your ticket for admission for each child on the link that follows. Tickets for Barrio Logan Literacy Festival can be booked here: https://tinyurl.com/blliteracyfest

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Barrio Logan Literacy Festival
2114 National Ave, San Diego, CA 92113

Mystery Book Club: "The Moonstone" by Wilkie Collins
2022-08-22 14:00 - 15:00 | Winn Room, Coronado Public Library, 640 Orange Ave, Coronado, CA, 92118, United States
The Coronado Public Library’s Mystery Book club will meet regularly on the third* Monday of each month. Receive reminder emails about our meeting by registering here. Registration is not required.
*This month, August, we will be meeting on the 4th Monday of the month.*
We will be discussing The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins. Check out the book in print or ebook format from the Coronado Library Catalog by clicking here.

"WARBOATS, 55 Years of Naval Special Warfare Combatant Craft History" Presentation
2022-08-27 11:00 - 12:00 | Winn Room, Coronado Public Library, 640 Orange Ave, Coronado, CA, 92118, United States
A special presentation on the book WARBOATS, 55 Years of Naval Special Warfare and a book signing by the authors Phil Garn and James Gray.
WARBOATS, 55 Years of Naval Special Warfare Combatant History by Boat Unit veterans James Gray and Phil Garn is the first book about “The Silent Ones,” now known as Special Warfare Combatant-Craft Crewmen (SWCC). The book is profusely illustrated with many never-published photos, documents, insignia and charts as well as dozens of veteran interviews. The book tells the story of Naval Special Warfare Boat Units — from the Boat Support Units of the 1960s prowling the coast of North Vietnam and the waterways of the Mekong Delta to today’s Special Boat Teams in action around the world — with some background on maritime special operations since Colonial times. Published by the Combatant Craft Crewman Association, a 501(c)(3) organization dedicated to preserving the history and honoring our veterans.

Spoilers Book Club: Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
2022-08-27 14:30 - 17:30 | Winn Room, Coronado Public Library, 640 Orange Ave, Coronado, CA, 92118, United States
Spoilers Book Club
The Spoilers Book Club reads books that have been made into movies. We read the book and get together to watch the film. We compare the two and discuss what we did and didn’t like.
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Of Mice and Men is a novella written by John Steinbeck. Published in 1937, it narrates the experiences of George Milton and Lennie Small, two displaced migrant ranch workers who move from place to place in California in search of new job opportunities during the Great Depression.
The film adaptation is from 1992 and stars John Malkovich and Gary Sinise.

Author Elena Armas in Conversation with Author Lauren Billings
2022-09-08 19:00 - 20:00 | Coronado Library Winn Room, 640 Orange Avenue, Coronado, CA, 92118, United States
Coronado Public Library, in partnership with Warwick’s bookstore, welcomes Elena Armas, author of The American Roommate Experience, in conversation with Lauren Billings, who co-writes young-adult and adult novels with a friend under the pseudonym Christina Lauren. Armas is kicking off her international tour with this event.
This event is free and first-come, first-served. A limited number of premium-view reserved seats are available for those who pre-order a copy of the book by contacting Warwick’s via https://www.warwicks.com/armas-2022-reserved-seat or calling the store at 858-454-0347. One reserved seat per book.
About The American Roommate Experience:
Rosie Graham has a problem. A few, actually. She just quit her well-paid job to focus on her secret career as a romance writer. She hasn’t told her family and now has terrible writer’s block. Then, the ceiling of her New York apartment literally crumbles on her. Luckily she has her best friend Lina’s spare key while she’s out of town. But Rosie doesn’t know that Lina has already lent her apartment to her cousin Lucas, who Rosie has been stalking – for lack of a better word – on Instagram for the last few months. Lucas seems intent on coming to her rescue like a Spanish knight in shining armor. Only this one strolls around the place in a towel, has a distracting grin, and an irresistible accent. Oh, and he cooks.
Lucas offers to let Rosie stay with him, at least until she can find some affordable temporary housing. And then he proposes an outrageous experiment to bring back her literary muse and meet her deadline: He’ll take her on a series of experimental dates meant to jump-start her romantic inspiration. Rosie has nothing to lose. Her silly, online crush is totally under control – but Lucas’s time in New York has an expiration date, and six weeks may not be enough, for either her or her deadline.

Spoilers Book Club: "The Pursuit of Happyness" by Chris Gardner
2022-09-10 14:00 - 17:30 | Coronado Library Winn Room, 640 Orange Avenue, Coronado, CA, 92118, United States
The Spoilers Book Club reads books that have been turned into movies. We read the book and get together to watch the film. We compare the two and discuss what we did and didn’t like.
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At the age of twenty, Milwaukee native Chris Gardner, just out of the Navy, arrived in San Francisco to pursue a promising career in medicine. Considered a prodigy in scientific research, he surprised everyone and himself by setting his sights on the competitive world of high finance. Yet no sooner had he landed an entry-level position at a prestigious firm than Gardner found himself caught in a web of incredibly challenging circumstances that left him as part of the city’s working homeless and with a toddler son. Motivated by the promise he made to himself as a fatherless child to never abandon his own children, the two spent almost a year moving among shelters, “HO-tels,” soup lines, and even sleeping in the public restroom of a subway station.
Never giving in to despair, Gardner made an astonishing transformation from being part of the city’s invisible poor to being a powerful player in its financial district.
More than a memoir of Gardner’s financial success, this is the story of a man who breaks his own family’s cycle of men abandoning their children. Mythic, triumphant, and unstintingly honest, The Pursuit of Happyness conjures heroes like Horatio Alger and Antwone Fisher, and appeals to the very essence of the American Dream.

Author Craig Johnson Discusses New Novel "Hell and Back"
2022-09-21 19:00 - 20:30 | Winn Room, Coronado Public Library, 640 Orange Ave, Coronado, CA, 92118, United States
Coronado Public Library, in partnership with Warwick’s bookstore, welcomes novelist Craig Johnson, whose new book is Hell and Back: A Longmire Mystery.

This event is free and first-come, first-served. A limited number of premium-view reserved seats are available for those who pre-order a copy of the book by contacting Warwick’s via https://www.warwicks.com/johnson-2022-reserved-seat or calling the store at 858-454-0347. One reserved seat per book.
Johnson is The New York Times bestselling author of the Walt Longmire mystery novels, which are the basis for Longmire, the hit Netflix original drama. The books have won multiple awards: Le Prix du Polar Nouvel Observateur/Bibliobs, the Wyoming Historical Association’s Book of the Year, Le Prix 813, the Western Writers of America’s Spur Award, the Mountains & Plains Book of the Year, the SNCF Prix de Polar, Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year, The Watson Award, Library Journal‘s Best Mystery of the Year, the Rocky, and the Will Rogers Award for Fiction. Spirit of Steamboat was selected by the Wyoming State Library as the inaugural One Book Wyoming. Johnson lives in Ucross, Wyoming, population 25.
About Hell and Back:
What if you woke up lying in the middle of the street in the infamous town of Fort Pratt, Montana, where 30 young Native American boys perished in a tragic 1896 boarding school fire? What if every person you encountered in that endless night was dead? What if you were covered in blood and missing a bullet from the gun holstered on your hip? What if there was something out there in the yellowed skies — along with the deceased and the smell of ash and dust — something the Northern Cheyenne refer to as the Éveohtsé-heómese, the Wandering Without, the Stealer of Souls? What if the only way you know who you are is because your name is printed in the leather sweatband of your cowboy hat, and what if it says your name is Walt Longmire — but you don’t remember him?
In Hell and Back, the eighteenth installment of the Longmire series, author Craig Johnson takes the beloved sheriff to the very limits of his sanity to do battle with the most dangerous advisory he’s ever faced — himself.

Author Event with Javier Zamora
2022-09-24 11:00 - 12:00 | Winn Room, Coronado Public Library, 640 Orange Ave, Coronado, CA, 92118, United States
Coronado Public Library, in partnership with Warwick’s Bookstore, will host Javier Zamora as he discusses and signs his new book, Solito: A Memoir.

This event is free and first-come, first-served. A limited number of premium-view reserved seats are available for those who pre-order a copy of the book by contacting Warwick’s via https://www.warwicks.com/event/zamora-2022 or calling the store at 858-454-0347. One reserved seat per book.
Zamora was born in El Salvador in 1990. His father fled the country when he was a year old, and his mother when he was about to turn five. Both parents’ migrations were caused by the U.S.-funded Salvadoran Civil War. When he was nine Javier migrated through Guatemala, Mexico, and the Sonoran Desert. His debut poetry collection, Unaccompanied, explores the impact of the war and immigration on his family. Zamora has been a Stegner Fellow at Stanford and a Radcliffe Fellow at Harvard and holds fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Poetry Foundation.
About the Book:
Trip. My parents started using that word about a year ago: “one day, you’ll take a trip to be with us. Like an adventure.”
Zamora’s adventure is a 3,000-mile journey from his small town in El Salvador, through Guatemala and Mexico, and across the U.S. border. He will leave behind his beloved aunt and grandparents to reunite with a mother who left four years ago and a father he barely remembers. Traveling alone amid a group of strangers and a “coyote” hired to lead them to safety, Zamora expects his trip to last two short weeks.
At nine years old, all Zamora can imagine is rushing into his parents’ arms, snuggling in bed between them, and living under the same roof again. He cannot foresee the perilous boat trips, relentless desert treks, pointed guns, arrests and deceptions that await him; nor can he know that those two weeks will expand into two life-altering months alongside fellow migrants who will come to encircle him like an unexpected family.
A memoir as gripping as it is moving, Solito provides an immediate and intimate account not only of a treacherous and near-impossible journey, but also of the miraculous kindness and love delivered at the most unexpected moments. Solito is Zamora’s story, but it’s also the story of millions of others who had no choice but to leave home.

South of the Border Storytelling with Mindy Donner and Silvio Diaz
2022-10-06 15:30 - 16:30 | Winn Room, Coronado Public Library, 640 Orange Ave, Coronado, CA, 92118, United States
Join local storyteller Mindy Donner and artist Silvio Diaz for a South of the Border storytelling event! Incorporating puppets, stories and music, this duo will honor Hispanic Heritage Month through bilingual tales from Mexico.
*This program is geared towards elementary school students but storytelling lovers of all ages are welcome to attend.*

Author Jennifer Coburn Discusses "Cradles of the Reich"
2022-10-06 18:00 - 20:30 | Winn Room, Coronado Public Library, 640 Orange Ave, Coronado, CA, 92118, United States
Author Jennifer Coburn appears at the Library to celebrate the fall 2022 publication of her new novel, Cradles of the Reich. Set in 1939, Germany is on the brink of war and Hitler’s plan to create a “master race” of pure-blooded Aryan babies has been launched. The top-secret Lebensborn Nazi breeding program is brought to life amidst the story of three German women who change the course of one another’s lives.
Coburn has also published a mother-daughter travel memoir, We’ll Always Have Paris, as well as six contemporary women’s novels. Additionally, she has contributed to five literary anthologies, including A Paris All Your Own.
Books will be sold at the event courtesy of Adventures by the Book and are available for pre-sale at adventuresbythebook.com/event/jen-coburn-launch.
Coburn lives in San Diego with her husband William. Their daughter Katie is currently in graduate school. When Jennifer is not going down historical-research rabbit holes, she volunteers with So Say We All, a live storytelling organization, for which she is a performer, producer, and performance coach. She is also an active volunteer with Reality Changers, a nonprofit that supports low-income high school students in becoming the first in their families to attend college. She specializes in college essay development and interview preparation.

San Diego Writers Festival
2022-10-08 09:00 - 18:00 | Coronado Public Library, 640 Orange Ave, Coronado, CA, 92118, United States
The Coronado Public Library will host the fourth annual San Diego Writers Festival live on the campus of the Library and Coronado High School on October 8 from 9 am to 6 pm. There will be author appearances and signings as well as panels on writing topics. Admission is free.
This year’s theme is What Unites Us and will offer writers and readers a series of workshops, panels and lectures. Notable authors include Shilpi Somaya Gowda, Naomi Hirahara, Joe Ide, Qian Julie Wang, Aimee Bender, Maile Maloy, Anastasia Zadeik, Lucy Crawford, Adalyn Grace, Jennifer Coburn, and Chris Baron. Among the writing and publishing panels are “How to Write a Bestselling Mystery,” a workshop with playwright Levy Lee Simon, and “Developing a Book Publishing Plan.”
There’s also a full slate of programs for kids, like story time, an art class, balloon-twisting and face-painting.
Food and beverages will be available for sale.
For more information about the festival, please visit sandiegowritersfestival.com.

Actor Geena Davis Discusses Memoir "Dying of Politeness"
2022-11-12 12:00 - 14:00 | Hotel del Coronado, 1499 Orange Ave, Coronado, CA, United States
The Friends of the Coronado Public Library, in partnership with the Coronado Island Film Festival and Warwick’s bookstore present actor Geena Davis in-person discussing her memoir Dying of Politeness. A paid ticket is required to attend. To obtain tickets, please visit https://www.warwicks.com/event/davis-2022 and click “Buy Tickets Here.”
Important:

Doors open at 11:30 a.m. Please print out your tickets, if possible, to facilitate a smooth check-in.
Seating is first-come, first served.
“With Book” ticketholders will receive a pre-signed copy of Dying of Politeness at check-in. Additional books will be available for purchase at this event.
Please call the Warwick’s Book Department at 858-454-0347 for more information.

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Two-time Academy Award winning actor Geena Davis, at the age of three, announced to her parents that she was going to be an actor. She has appeared in several roles that became cultural landmarks, including Muriel Pritchett in The Accidental Tourist, Thelma in Thelma & Louise, and Dottie Hinson in A League of Their Own. She is also a world-class athlete and a member of the genius society Mensa. Davis is now recognized for her tireless advocacy for women and girls as founder and chair of the nonprofit Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media, which engages film and television creators to dramatically increase the percentage of female characters, and reduce gender stereotyping in media made for children.
Dying of Politeness: A Memoir is Davis’ story, one woman’s journey to fight for herself and ultimately live a bolder, freer, more authentic life. “In this book,” says Davis, “I’ll reveal the ways in which my public life, the movies, the advocacy, and my relationships have impacted and empowered the private me, and I hope, inspire my readers to expand their own sense of power.” Davis regales readers with tales of a career playing everything from a soap opera star in her underwear to a housewife-turned-road-warrior, a baseball phenomenon, an amnesiac assassin, the mother of a rodent, and the president of the United States.
