Gentle Love: a Conversation with Pearlie in Heaven

Munch on freshly baked chocolate chip cookies. Do a hand dance to musicwith silk scarves in honor of Grandma Pearlie. Create a love collage --playing with color, yarn and glue. Penina will read from Gentle Love andinspire us to join in. Fun guaranteed or your money back!

Gentle Love: A Conversation With Pearlie In Heaven is a funny, heart-warmingstory with a granddaughter on earth and her beloved soul mate, GrandmaPearlie. The book will appeal to anyone who has known unconditional love intheir lives, grieved over the loss of someone they loved or considered whatheaven may hold. Children of all ages will fall in love with Pearlie!

Gentle Love was written and illustrated by Penina Horowitz. Penina is anExpressive Artist and Arts Educational Facilitator, living in Austin, Texas.She is a catalyst, inspiring others to play, laugh and express theirauthenticity through rhythm, music, movement, writing and visual art. Peninafinds that these modalities release stress, increase vitality, and fosterplayfulness.

Let Food Be Your Medicine



Learn how food can create and reverse disease along with common threads of
success across many healing diets, while exploring which foods promote the
natural healing. If you are struggling with inflammatory or autoimmune
diseases, heart disease or diabetes, food sensitivities and digestive
problems, or hormone and energy imbalance, you will leave this presentation
better prepared to take greater control of your health through good
nutrition, all within the context of a busy lifestyle.



Deirdre Earls, RD, LD, graduated with honors in Scientific Nutrition and her
healthcare career spans over 20 years. After thirty years of struggle with
her severe psoriasis, she finally refused the recommended chemotherapy
treatment and began to research and reverse her condition with nutrition.
Featured in a nationally broadcast documentary, "The Incurables," and
published in Prevention magazine, Ms. Earls is a featured speaker for
medical professionals, universities and corporations. She is the author of
"Your Healing Diet: The Quick Guide to Reversing Chronic Disease Through
Healing Foods".

Liliana Valenzuela was born and raised in Mexico City, and is an adopted
Tejana. literary translator, poet, and essayist. Her work has appeared in
The Edinburgh Review, Indiana Review, Tigertail, Ventana Abierta, and other
journals and publications. She has a bilingual poetry manuscript entitled
Codex of Desire/Códice del Deseo. This year the Austin Poetry Society
honored her with four first prize awards.



Tony Beckwith (says about himself) I've been writing since about 1950,
mainly poems and stories, lots of whimsy. As a young man I traveled widely;
keeping in touch with family via postcards and paper napkins helped to train
my eye, and taught me something about brevity and clarity, which are
qualities I appreciate in poetry.

When the Drummers Were Women: A Spiritual History of Rhythm by Layne
Redmond

An engaging work on the history and meaning of female drumming in ancient
spiritual traditions. Meetings are every 2nd Sunday. New members are
welcome. Join us!

Presentation + Discussion

Local publisher and veteran Web developer, Deltina Hay, will deliver a short
talk and a Q & A session. Hay will discuss how to use the tools of Web 2.0
to build a successful Web presence. From Squidoo to YouTube, Facebook to
WordPress, wikis to widgets, blogs to RSS feeds, business owners, authors,
publishers, students, and nonprofits can learn to apply and integrate these
tools by themselves.

Gone are the days of relying on Web developers! Hay's book arms you with the
nuts and bolts of the new, open-source Internet through hands-on, real-world
examples. And, the companion CD is packed with links to other resources,
directories of Social Websites, and fillable forms and worksheets to help
you map your strategy. You will be pleasantly surprised at how easy it is!

Deltina Hay is the founder of Social Media Power and Dalton Publishing, a
literary press based in Austin, Texas. She has been programming and doing
Web development in one form or another for 25 years.

Huston-Tillotson University history professor and author, Janice Sumler-Edmond, will appear at Austin's BookWoman to sign her book: The Secret Trust of Aspasia Cruvellier-Mirault: The Life and Trials of a Free Woman of Color in Antebellum Georgia. Sumler-Edmond will lead a discussion of her book, including tips on researching history. Sumler-Edmond will also read excerpts from The Secret Trust, providing a glimpse into the unique life of a black female entrepreneur in the antebellum South.

"...an interesting account of a remarkable woman of color .... offers readers a well-structured and thoroughly argued presentation of a part of history still overlooked and long forgotten."—H-Net, June 2009

"....Scholars will find this chip in the monolithic view of antebellum Southern life worthy of attention."—Publishers Weekly, November 2008

Janice L. Sumler-Edmond is professor of history and chair of the Department of Humanities and Fine Arts and director of the W.E.B. Dubois Honors Program at Huston-Tillotson University in Austin, Texas. She is coeditor of two previous books: Freedom’s Odyssey: African American History Essays from Phylon and Black Women’s History at the Intersection of Knowledge and Power: ABWH’s Twentieth Anniversary Anthology

This workshop series will enhance your connection to rhythm thru hand drumming. Drumming is a wonderful way to revitalize your spirit, rejuvenate your body, and connect with others while playing in community. Drumming is an ancient tradition. Some believe women were the first drummers before they were forbidden to play.

In our classes, you will learn basic techniques, hand patterns, and traditional rhythms on the West African djembe drum. You bring the interest and inhibition, and I will bring the drums and instruction. Together we will build a drum community. Come and Drum SistaDrum!

Each class is $15 with a part of the proceeds going to BookWoman. To reserve a drum contact  sistadrums@yahoo.com or call BookWoman.

Tonya "Onye" Lyles is a multi-instrumentalist based in Austin Texas. She founded SistaDrums to rejuvenate, invigorate and uplift a community through teaching the art of hand-drumming and movement linked to traditional world rhythms. Her first drum was a tambourine played in a gospel choir where she sang and performed weekly. In 1994, her path converged with the West African djembe drum in Las Cruces, NM. Her drumming style has been greatly influenced by her teachers, Babatunje Olatundje Alseny Sylla, Karuna Warren, Edwina Tyler, Mohamed Camara, M'bembe Bangora, Ibrahim Diakate, Mouminatou Camara, Abdoulye Diakate, and Moussa Taore.

She has been playing and performing traditional rhythms on djembe since 1994 and currently teaches in Austin, Texas. Her performance experiences range from solo artist to member of a sixteen piece West African drum and dance ensemble. Drum on Sistas Drum!

Come hear Khaled Mattawa's new poems and his translations of modern women's poetry from the Arabic in Austin's cozy, intimate feminist bookstore!

Hear new poetry by Mattawa, and his translations of poems by Imam Mersal, Joumana Haddad, Maram Almassri. (These acclaimed Arab women will be present in their poetry and spirit, but not in body.)

Baklava and Hot Tea provided!



Khaled Mattawa is the author of four books of poems, Ismailia Eclipse (Sheep Meadow, 1996), Zodiac of Echoes (Ausable, 2003), Amorisco (Ausable, 2008), and Tocqueville (forthcoming from New Issues Press). Mattawa has translated eight volumes of contemporary Arabic poetry and co-edited two anthologies of Arab American literature. He has received a Guggenheim fellowship, an NEA translation grant, the Alfred Hodder Fellowship from Princeton University, and three Pushcart Prizes. Mattawa teaches in the MFA (Creative Writing) Program at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Prof. Mattawa was born in Benghazi, Libya and immigrated to the United States in his teens.

Time To Celebrate!

The L Word's Final Season DVD Release!
Come join us for an L Word Viewing Party ....

Watch crucial past episodes at our "Happier Than L" Happy Hour

Shows will start at 5pm sharp (Austin time)!
Drop in and stay for one episode or more, and enjoy refreshments.  

Call 472-2785 or email to reserve your copy of The Final Season and be ready for the big day.

In the autumn of 2000, Hope Edelman was a woman adrift, questioning her place in her marriage, her profession, and the larger world. She felt isolated from her husband who’d been working 16-hour days, effectively leaving her, a busy working mother, alone to parent her three year old daughter Maya. Disconnected and vulnerable, she was primed for change. Into her stagnant routine dropped Dodo, Maya’s curiously disruptive imaginary friend. Dodo is ever-present and becoming more aggressive by the day, forcing Edelman to confront the possibility that something is going seriously awry with her child. After consulting mainstream health professionals for help and getting nowhere, Edelman and her husband made the unlikely choice to bring their daughter to Mayan healers in Belize, hoping that they might help banish Dodo—and, as they came to understand, all he represented—from their lives.

Examining how an otherwise mainstream mother and wife finds herself making this unorthodox choice, The Possibility of Everything chronicles the magical week in Central America that transformed Edelman from a person whose past had led her to believe only in the visible and the “proven” to some one open to the idea of larger, unseen forces. A deeply affecting and beautifully written memoir of a family’s emotional journey, it explores what Edelman and her husband went looking for in the jungle and what they ultimately discovered—as parents, as spouses, and as ordinary people—about the things that possess and destroy, or that can heal us all.

Ladan Osman is originally from Somali. She earned her BA in Creative Writing from Otterbein College in Ohio and is currently an MFA (Poetry) fellow with the Michener Center for Writers at the University of Texas. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Funhouse, Kate, Quiz & Quill, and Poet Lore.

Cara Zimmer grew up in Pittsburgh and earned her undergraduate degree from the University of Virginia. Before making her way to Austin, she spent two years living in southern Spain, where she fell in love with olives, Sevillanos, and drinking beer in crowded alleyways. She graduated from UT's MA program in Creative Writing in May, and she continues to write, teach, and seek more gainful employment.

Austin poets Alyce Guynn and Mariann Wizard will read from their own work and that of others. Guynn and Wizard, who have known each other and enjoyed each other's poems since the 1960s, have never read their work together. "We started out in similar ways," Guynn says, "but we've taken real different paths to the present. Our poetry reflects that -- and it also reflects the ideas we share and the zest for life we embrace. We can still surprise ourselves!"
"We also want to read some things from people who can't be here to read themselves, who are important to us," Wizard added. "Poets are immortal when their poems are read -- so we'll read from our 'personal poets', and hope someday someone does the same for us!"

Patricia Austin, professional psychic, will be reading Tarot Cards, Palms and sharing other divination tools for BookWoman's clientele on Monday, October 26th from 5:30 until 8pm for BookWoman. Recommended donation is $1 a minute, with a portion benefiting BookWoman. Pat gives positive and constructive information. Call to get on that the list, or take your chances and just drop by!

Stand Up Poet/Comic Pandora Scooter performs hilarious and personal spoken word and comedy pieces about coming to grips with identity in all sorts of ways: as a mom, as a lesbian, as a heterosexual, as a liberal...as a human being.

Her rhythmic ranting inspires and excites audiences and leaves them feeling great about themselves. Pandora hails from NYC/NJ area, came out to Austin last spring for the M.A.L.I. Festival and is currently falling in love with Austin, TX.

For more information on Pandora check her out at www.youtube.com/pandorascooter or at www.pandorascooter.com . Power to the Peaceful and Love to All.