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Jennifer Fosberry
Start: 3:00 pm

The precocious, purple-haired traveler spends the day playing with her dad as she pretends everyday things (like the sandbox) are extraordinary places (like the desert and the pyramids of Egypt). Isabella ends the day in her own home-sweet-home, the most wonderful place to be.

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Katherine Cole
Start: 5:30 pm

Katherine Cole is a wine columnist for The Oregonian newspaper and MIX, Portland’s Magazine of Food + Drink. Her interest in the intersection between sustainability and winegrowing and her frustration at the lack of information about biodynamic agriculture led her to write Voodoo Vintners, the first book on biodynamic viticulture for a general wine-loving audienc

Meredith Maran
Start: 6:00 pm

This is a family story spanning two decades, set against the social, political, and geological upheavals of the Bay Area. Eager to escape her damaging past and chart her own future, Alison Rose is drawn to Zoe, a free-spirited artist who offers emotional stability and a love outside the norm.

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Karen Kondazian
Start: 1:30 pm

Meet & Greet with the author of The Whip, a novel is inspired by the true story of Charlotte “Charley” Parkhurst (1812-1879) who lived most of her extraordinary life as a man.

Gerald Haslam
Start: 7:00 pm

One of the most gripping images from the 1960's captures Dr. S.I. Hayakawa scrambling onto an SF State sound truck. Hayakawa had hoped to use this soapbox to address assembled demonstrators, but instead he ripped out speaker wires and halted an illegal campus demonstration—or denied first-amendment rights to the crowd, depending on your perspective.
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