Empire, Steven Saylor, Wednesday 9/1 at 7PM
Continuing the saga begun in his
best-selling novel Roma, BookPeople favorite Steven Saylor charts the
destinies of the aristocratic Pinarius family, from the reign of
Augustus to height of Rome’s empire. Empire is filled with the
dramatic, defining moments of the age, including the Great Fire, the
persecution of the Christians, and the opening games of the
Colosseum. Steven Saylor once again brings the ancient world to vivid
life in a novel that tells the story of a city and a people that has
endured in the world’s imagination like no other.
The Surf Guru, Doug Dorst, Wed. 9/8 7PM
In the title story, an old surfing-champion-turned-surfwear-entrepreneur sits on his ocean-front balcony watching a new generation
of surfers come of age on the waves, all but one of whom wear wet suits
emblazoned with the Surf Guru's name. An acid-tongued, pioneering
botanist who has been exiled from the academy composes a series of
scurrilous (and hilarious) biographical sketches of his colleagues and
rivals, inadvertently telling his own story. A pair of 21st century drifters course through a series of unusual adventures in their
dilapidated car...
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