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Your community bookstore in Village Square
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Come in and relax - there's plenty of comfortable seating inside. Browse our 14,000+ titles and don't hesitate to ask our well-read staff to help with recommendations for all ages and tastes. If we don't have the book on our shelves, we can order it and usually have it ready for pick up at the store within a couple of days. And for your convenience, we offer free gift wrapping.
Our author readings and book signings attract people from all over the Bay Area, and we are particularly proud to offer shelf space and reading events to all local authors. Our twice annual ceramics and painting exhibitions featuring work by Orinda and Moraga artists Gerry Wallace and Paul Kratter have become sell-out hits. We also display paintings for sale by local artists.
However if it is just a friendly cat you want to stroke, Ginger is here too and will always greet you with her welcoming meow.
We look forward to seeing you soon.
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Simon Read discussed his new book
War of Words: A True Tale of Newsprint and Murder at Orinda Books on June 27, 2009.
Ayelet Waldman read from her new book Bad Mother at Orinda Books on June 10, 2009.
Dr. David Kessler explained the brain science behind America's eating habits while discussing his new book
The End of Overeating
at Orinda Books on May 30, 2009.
Andy Raskin delighted an Orinda Books audience with excerpts from his memoir
The Ramen King and I: How the Inventor of Instant Noodles Fixed My Love Life
on May 23, 2009.
Hours
Monday through Friday: 10am to 6pm
Saturday: 9am to 5pm
Sunday: 10am to 4pm
email us: orindabooks@thegrid.net
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Coming Events
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This season we have a superb lineup of well-known authors as well as local favorites scheduled here at the bookstore. Their readings and book discussions promise to be informative and entertaining. Join us for these very special events! Title of Event: Cheryl Dumesnil
When: Saturday, August 8, 2009 3:00 PM
Location: Orinda Books
Description: Cheryl Dumesnil will read poetry from her new book In Praise of Falling.
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What We're Reading
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Each season brings us a treasure trove of books. Here are some of our new favorites.
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Cutting for Stone
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Verghese, Abraham
A sweeping, emotionally riveting first novel--an enthralling family saga of Africa and America, doctors and patients, exile and home.
Marion and Shiva Stone are twin brothers born of a secret union between a beautiful Indian nun and a brash British surgeon at a mission hospital in Addis Ababa. Orphaned by their mother's death in childbirth and their father's disappearance, bound together by a preternatural connection and a shared fascination with medicine, the twins come of age as Ethiopia hovers on the brink of revolution. Yet it will be love, not politics--their passion for the same woman--that will tear them apart and force Marion, fresh out of medical school, to flee his homeland. He makes his way to America, finding refuge in his work as an intern at an underfunded, overcrowded New York City hospital. When the past catches up to him--nearly destroying him--Marion must entrust his life to the two men he thought he trusted least in the world: the surgeon father who abandoned him and the brother who betrayed him.
An unforgettable journey into one man's remarkable life, and an epic story about the power, intimacy, and curious beauty of the work of healing others. Recommended by Janet Boreta and Maria Roden |
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Book Group Corner
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We welcome local book groups to register with Orinda Books. Registration forms are available on the website and at the store. Just designate one member to keep us posted on your monthly selection so that we can be sure to have your title in stock.
All registered book group members receive a 10% discount on their book group choice for that month.
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