Author Events, June 24-30

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SUNDAY (June 24)

Anita Amirrezvani, “Equal of the Sun,” 7 p.m.
Legendary women changed the course of history in the royal courts of England. They are celebrated in history books and novels, but few people know of the powerful women in the Muslim world. Amirrezvani’s gorgeously crafted tale of power, loyalty, and love in the royal court of Iran brings one such woman to life.
Book Passage, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd., Corte Madera. (415) 927-0960, bookpassage.com

MONDAY (June 25)

Jess Walter, “Beautiful Ruins,” 7 p.m.
The story begins in 1962. On a rocky patch of the sun-drenched Italian coastline, a young innkeeper, chest-deep in daydreams, looks out over the incandescent waters of the Ligurian Sea and spies an apparition: a tall, thin woman, a vision in white, approaching him on a boat. She is an actress, he soon learns, an American starlet, and she is dying.  The story continues in present time, half a world away, when an elderly Italian man shows up on a movie studio’s back lot—searching for the mysterious woman he last saw at his hotel decades earlier.
Book Passage, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd., Corte Madera. (415) 927-0960, bookpassage.com

TUESDAY (June 26)

Medea Benjamin, “Drone Warfare: Killing By Remote Control,” 7 p.m.
Code Pink co-founder Medea Benjamin’s new book Drone Warfare: Killing by Remote Control is a comprehensive look at how drones are being used to assassinate people around the world, exploring who is producing the drones, where they are being used, who “pilots” these unmanned planes, who are the victims and what are the legal and moral implications. In vivid, readable style, the book also looks at what activists, lawyers and scientists are doing to ground the drones, and ways to move forward.
Copperfield’s Books, 138 N. Main St., Sebastopol, 823-2618, copperfieldsbooks.com

Laura Moriarty, “The Chaperone,” 7 p.m.
Cora Carlisle’s eyes are opened to the promise of the twentieth century and a new understanding of the possibilities for being fully alive when she chaperones a young and irreverent Louise Brooke to New York City in the summer of 1922. A captivating, layered, and inventive story.
Copperfield’s Books, 140 Kentucky St., Petaluma. 762-0563, copperfieldsbooks.com

THURSDAY (June 28)

Dr. Michael Whitt, “Open Range: Poems West of the Mississippi”; Richard Strong, “Great Basin Poems,” 7 p.m.
Point Reyes Presbyterian Church, 11445 Shoreline Highway, Point Reyes Station. ptreyesbooks.com

FRIDAY (June 29)

Natalie Serber, “Shout Her Lovely Name,” 7 p.m.
Mothers — both reluctant and euphoric — ride the familial tide of joy, pride, regret, guilt, and love in these stories of resilient and flawed women.
Book Passage, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd., Corte Madera. (415) 927-0960, bookpassage.com

SATURDAY (June 30)

Cheryl Strayed, “Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail,” 7:30 p.m.
After a series of devastating, life-altering events, Cheryl Strayed shares her impulsive decision to hike the Pacific Crest Trail—from the Mojave Desert through California and Oregon to Washington State—and to do it alone.  Strayed’s memoir relates how she faces down rattlesnakes and black bears, intense heat and record snowfalls, and both the beauty and the loneliness of the trail. She vividly captures the terrors and pleasures of one young woman forging ahead on a journey that maddened, strengthened, and ultimately healed her.
Toby’s Feed Barn, 11250 Highway One, Point Reyes Station. ptreyesbooks.com

To submit book events for consideration in this column, contact Sara Peyton at sara.peyton@gmail.com at least three weeks in advance of the event.