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Author Events | March 2011

at Magers & Quinn Booksellers, 3038 Hennepin Ave S, Minneapolis, 612.822.4611, www.magersandquinn.com Monday, March 7, 7:30 p.m. -- Ron Tanner will discuss the new book Kiss Me, Stranger. He will be joined by local graphic artist Lars Martinson, author of Tonoharu. Featuring over fifty illustrations by the author, Kiss Me, Stranger is a comical and tragic commentary on war, violence and consumerism. Set in an unnamed country sometime in the past, present or future, Kiss Me, Stranger … [Read more...]

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At Magers & Quinn Booksellers, 3038 Hennepin Ave S, Minneapolis, 612.822.4611, www.magersandquinn.com March 3, 7:30 p.m. -- Scott Edelstein discusses his new book, Sex and the Spiritual Teacher: Why It Happens, When It's a Problem, and What We All Can Do. The author looks at the complex of forces that tempt otherwise insightful, compassionate and well-intentioned teachers to lose their way -- and that tempt some of their students to lose their way, as well. It analyzes why most of our … [Read more...]

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at Magers & Quinn Booksellers, 3038 Hennepin Ave S, Minneapolis, 612.822.4611, www.magersandquinn.com January 21, 7:30 p.m. -- Heidi Durrow reads from The Girl Who Fell From the Sky -- This searing and heart-wrenching portrait of a young biracial girl dealing with society's ideas of race and class -- winner of the Bellwether Prize for best fiction manuscript addressing issues of social justice -- will be available in paperback on January 11. Rachel, the daughter of a Danish mother and … [Read more...]

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at Magers & Quinn Booksellers, 3038 Hennepin Ave S, Minneapolis, 612.822.4611, www.magersandquinn.com November 10, 7:30 p.m. - Gene Stone discusses The Secrets of People Who Never Get Sick - He will be joined by special guest Dan Beuttner, author of The Blue Zones and Thrive: Finding Happiness the Blue Zones Way. Gene Stone is a bestselling health-savvy journalist who's investigated virtually every form of regimen, diagnostic test, therapy and fad. His new book The Secrets of People … [Read more...]

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at Magers & Quinn Booksellers, 3038 Hennepin Ave S, Minneapolis, 612.822.4611, www.magersandquinn.com October 7, 7:30 p.m. - Karen Casey discusses Let Go Now: Embracing Detachment - So many of us spend so much time enmeshed in other people's problems, trying to solve or change them, that we don't really know where we begin and they end. Not reacting to people or situations that provoke us is not an easy skill to develop. Even the idea that someone else can make us feel happy (or … [Read more...]

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The following author events will take place at Magers & Quinn Booksellers, 3038 Hennepin Ave S, Minneapolis, 612.822.4611, www.magersandquinn.com • September 12 at 4 p.m. - Julie Doxsee and Paula Cisewski, two great poets - one from Istanbul, one from Minneapolis - read from their new poetry. Born in London, Ontario, Julie Doxsee is a professor of writing and literature at Koc University in Istanbul, Turkey. She is the author of Objects for a Fog Death (Black Ocean, 2010) and … [Read more...]

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The Barn Dance: An Interview with James Twyman

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Editor's note: The author of this interview, a noted publicist, passed away suddenly shortly after submitting this piece for publication. We honor the passion and love that he shared throughout his life. The Barn Dance is James Twyman's 13th book, and his most personal to date. Though known internationally as The Peace Troubadour and the author of many bestselling books like Emissary of Light and The Moses Code, the Twin Cities native became even more well known when the news of his … [Read more...]

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Plant Whatever Brings You Joy – Part Two

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Internationally known book publicist Kathryn Hall, who was instrumental in promoting such seminal books as Creative Visualization by Shakti Gawain and Way of the Peaceful Warrior by Dan Millman, writes a highly popular gardening blog, "Plant Whatever Brings You Joy!" She is now the author of the book, Plant Whatever Brings You Joy: Blessed Wisdom from the Garden (Estrella Catarina), in which she shares 52 life lessons from the garden. This is a continuation of her interview with us about her … [Read more...]

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Plant Whatever Brings You Joy – Part One

By Tim Miejan Leave a Comment

Internationally known book publicist Kathryn Hall, who was instrumental in promoting such seminal books as Creative Visualization by Shakti Gawain and Way of the Peaceful Warrior by Dan Millman, has led a rich life full of friendship, travel, motherhood, and a love of animals and nature. As a young woman, she felt the call of her generation and fled the Midwest for San Francisco as the Summer of Love began to bloom. She became half of a singing duo in Amsterdam, and she has lived in Mexico and … [Read more...]

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Where Heaven and Earth Meet: The Barn Dance

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We all want to believe that there's a place between Heaven and Earth where the magic never ends, but how many of us ever get the chance to visit that sacred ground? In the summer of 2009, I had the opportunity to spend several days in the space "in-between," and the result was a book I feel I was born to write: The Barn Dance. The story may begin in sorrow, but it concludes with the hope that life doesn't end with death. It's just the beginning. Three days after Thanksgiving in 2005, the … [Read more...]

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