BOOKSHOP MANIFESTO WE BELIEVE IN THE BOOK. We believe in quieting the noise and listening to the stories. We believe in traveling far and wide between paper pages. We believe in touching the words, scribbling in the margins, and dogging the ears. We believe in surrounding ourselves with books long finished and books not yet read; in revisiting our younger selves each time we pull old favorites off the shelf. We believe in five-year-olds inking their names in big letters on the flyleaf. We believe in becoming someone else for four hundred pages. We believe in turning off the screens and unplugging the networks once in awhile. We believe in meeting the author, reading the footnotes, looking up the words and checking the references. We believe in holding our children on our laps and turning the pages together. We believe in standing shoulder to shoulder in comfortable silence with our fellow citizens before a good shelf of books; we believe in talking face to face with friends and strangers in the aisles of a good bookstore. We believe that together, readers, writers, books and bookstores can work magic. If you believe, please join us: SAVE THE WORLD. BUY A BOOK.

Series Events Tuesdays at 11 am from June 15 through August 24: Story Time with Allegra Stories, crafts and snacks for young children and their parents Tuesdays and Thursdays from 6:30 to 8:30 pm, June 15 through August 26: Creative Writing Workshop for Middle School & High School Students Just $20 for the 10-week program Saturdays 10 to 11 am from June 12 through August 21: Summer Reading Club for Teens & Tweens Help us read & review new, not-yet published chapter books! Pick up an Advance Reader's Copy, turn it in the following week with your review, and get a new one. Plus: prizes at the end of the summer!

Friday, July 30, 6:30 pm Gallery Bookshop and the Mendocino Art Center are delighted to host an event with Shozo Sato, world-renowned artist and author of numerous books including the newly released Sumi-e: The Art of Japanese Ink Painting. In this eagerly awaited treasury, the master artist offers his own personal teaching on the beautiful art of sumi-e. Mr. Sato will give a short talk and sumi-e demonstration at the Mendocino Art Center Friday July 30th at 6:30 p.m. His books will be available for purchase and signing.

Friday, August 13, 6:30 pm Peg Kingman will visit Gallery Bookshop to read from her latest book, Original Sins: A Novel of Slavery and Freedom. A runaway Virginia slave, having built a successful life for herself abroad, returns to America eighteen years later to make an audacious journey into the slave-holding South, risking her own freedom and that of her two sons.

Friday, August 20, 6:30 pm Author Adrienne Ross will visit Gallery Bookshop to present her book, In the Eyes, In the Mouth. This is Ms. Ross's debut collection of short stories, all of which are set in the San Francisco Bay area. Rich in sensory details, her tales reveal their characters through their reactions to the world around them. The stories "overflow with the starkly human hopes, fears, and grievances people are too embarrassed to speak aloud, but can't seem to stop from thinking."

Monday August 23, 9:00 p.m. to midnight The Hunger Games Midnight Release Party LET THE GAMES BEGIN! To celebrate the release of the third book in Suzanne Collins' trilogy, Gallery Bookshop will host a table top role playing game patterned after The Hunger Games. The names of twelve players will be drawn at 9 pm on Monday, August 23. Those chosen will simulate a fight to the death in an arena created by Allegra Fisher, the Gamemaker. The sole survivor wins a copy of the new book, Mockingjay, which goes on sale at midnight.

Sunday, August 29, 6:30 pm Science Sunday with Walt McKeown.

Friday, September 10, 6:30 pm Jim Culp will host an introductory workshop at Gallery Bookshop on Making Family Histories.

Friday, September 17, 6:30 pm Kathryn Hall will be at Gallery Bookshop to talk about her new book, Plant Whatever Brings You Joy. Kathryn Hall is an internationally known book publicist, who has spent the major part of over three decades promoting books designed to make a difference, expressed in her popular tagline, "Changing the world one book at a time." Not available online. To order, call or visit Gallery Bookshop, or send email to info@gallerybookshop.com.

Wednesday, September 22, 6:30 pm Author Martin Keogh will visit Gallery Bookshop to discuss his book, Hope Beneath Our Feet. "In a time of environmental crisis, how can we live right now?" Hope Beneath Our Feet creates a space for change with stories, meditations, and essays that address that question, written by diverse contributors to this anthology. This collection provides tools, both practical and spiritual, to those who care about our world and to those who are just now realizing they need to care. Martin Keogh is a contact improvisation dance educator and author.