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Rudie Tretten's "Where Are We? Thoughts from an American Geezer"

Pacifican Rudie Tretten has written a book, Where Are We? Thoughts from an American Geezer, a collection of brief essays on society, politics, economics, education, and sports. Rudie worked with Amazon’s Create Space to self-publish his book. Some of you may know Rudie from his excellent travelogues published in the Pacifica Tribune. He also served on the Pacifica School District board for many years. Rudie and his wife of 57 years, Shirley, have lived in Pacifica since 1966. To buy the book, see Aaron Schlieve at Florey’s Book Co. on Palmetto, or help Riptide by buying the book at our Amazon bookstore (top right sidebar).

Who's Snooping Around Bookstores?

Click the link below for an article in the most recent newsletter from Book Passage, an independent bookstore in Corte Madera. It discusses the ethics of people who go to bookstores, use an Amazon app to compare prices, then go home and order the book online, for which they receive a $5 additional discount. But the most important information is about data mined from purchased e-books. Not that anyone I know is buying subversive or seditious books, but what bothers me is that info is gleaned by Apple, Amazon, and others, which share this info so you can be targeted. I know it is everywhere on the Internet and is unavoidable, but tracking one's reading habits seems more Big Brotherish than noting what toaster you buy. Even though I am a printed-book person, I think e-books have their virtues, but there needs to be more regulation of data collection and distribution.

JANET TAYLOR

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Florey's: Pacifica's Independent Bookstore

Florey's Book Co. welcomes your special orders, and most books are available in just a few days. Florey's offers FREE gift wrapping for any purchase.

Florey's invites you to its ongoing Tuesday night series "Speakeasy," a free event for readers to share and read aloud from their own work or passages from others. To provide a loose framework, we suggest the following themes:
1st Tuesday, best sellers, hear passages from current hot titles
2nd Tuesday, stories--your own or favorite short stories
3rd Tuesday, memory work--anything memorized, lists, speeches
4th Tuesday, classics--Dickens, Proust, Zola, Nabokov, etc.
5th Tuesday, annotated books--Mother Goose, Alice in Wonderland, etc.

Art Recreation Time (ART) children's art classes, weekly drop-in art class at Florey's. For more information, call Janet Barker at 650-291-9614. Wednesdays from 2 to 4 p.m. Ages 6-16. Cost $10 (includes supplies). Why: Because it’s fun! Explore art and develop your inner artist (drop-in program customized for kids of all ages):
- finish a creative project
- experiment with art materials
- experiment with art techniques
- develop your artistic style
- relax and have some creative fun
Visit Janet's website for sample illustrations: http://artrecreationtime.wordpress.com/

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Pacifica, CA 94044
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Windjamming to China: Sailing Book @ Florey's

Sailing is a proud tradition that goes back to antiquity, predating earliest recorded time. The stunning new memoir Windjamming to China evokes this tradition so it will never be forgotten. The book is set the first half of the 20th century, a time when almost all wind-driven vessels of the sailing age had already been discarded and replaced by steam and steel. It is about an American sailor, who speaks through the voice of author Gustav Tigaard. His story is told as a 15-year-old sailing the North Pacific in the 1930s, and about all the colorful characters he meets. The American sailor was born on the icy shores of Plymouth, was rocked upon the waves of the Atlantic, and cut his teeth on New England codfish. He built his muscles at the halyards of New Bedford whalers, and gained his sea legs atop the mizzen of Yankee Clippers. Windjamming to China sails on the fringes of history, propelling an unforgettable true story.
 
WINDJAMMING TO CHINA (ISBN: 978-1-60911-542-5) is available at Florey's Book Co. on Palmetto in Sharp Park.
 
About the Author: Gustav Tjgaard has always loved literature, having read Cervantes’ Don Quixote for the fourth time as a 10-year old. At age 85, he views the sailor as a legitimate folk hero. Originally from Decatur Island, Washington, he now lives in Pacifica, California, and has already written his next five books.

San Francisco Giants—Images of Baseball

San Francisco Giants: Images of Baseball by longtime Giants fan Tricia O’Brien, who offers a personal and historical glimpse into the evolution of the team from its departure from New York to its 2010 World Series championship in San Francisco. Order from Florey's Book Co. on Palmetto. Highlights of San Francisco Giants include:

-New York Giants
-Welcome to San Francisco
-Willie Mays and Willie McCovey
-From the Tough Years to Triumph
-World Champions

Kurt Kamm's New Firefighter Mystery: Code Blood

My new firefighter mystery novel Code Blood is now available. For a limited time, you can buy the book on my website at a reduced price. It goes on sale on Amazon and in bookstores October 20: paperback $9.99 (signed copy),
Kindle, Nook, iPad e-book downloads $5.99 (signed postcard of the cover).

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Colt Lewis is a rookie fire paramedic, worried about his skills and obsessed with finding the severed foot of his first victim after she dies in his arms. His search takes him on a wild trip into the interconnected lives of a research student with the rarest blood type in the world and the fetishist who is stalking her. In the corridors of medical research laboratories, the shadowy underworld of body parts dealers, and underground Goth clubs of Los Angeles, Colt uncovers a tangled maze of needles, drugs, and ritual, all of which lead to death. But whose death? If you read the book, please send me your thoughts and comments.

KURT KAMM

Healthy Communities: Environment, Economy, and Social Equity

BY DAN UNDERHILL, RIPTIDE CORRESPONDENT

I attended the Healthy Communities Forum #3 on August 18. There were two previous forums in this series that I didn't hear about in time to go to. The series explores the idea of sustainability vis-a-vis environment, economy, and social equity, and it contends that maintaining all three "bottom lines" is good for business in general.

The forum focused more on government and large corporations than small businesses such as my own. The focus on larger institutions is wise, of course, as the larger the institution, the larger the effect for good or ill.

The forum's central question was: "What would the top of the sustainability mountain look like in your/our community, and what steps. individually and collectively, do we need to take to get there?"

After introducing all the corporate and government sponsors, forum organizers showed the film So Right—So Smart, featuring Ray Anderson, founder and CEO of Interface Corporation and author of the book Mid-Course Correction. I had previously seen Anderson in the film The Corporation by Achbar, Abbott & Bakan. This film So Right—So Smart provides a much deeper understanding of Anderson's story and of what governments and businesses might do to transform themselves into being part of the solution.

Librarians (I really appreciate librarians) at the San Mateo Public Library, where the forum was held, set up a display of these books:

75 Green Businesses—You Can Start to Make Money & Make a Difference
By Glen Croston, PhD

Green Business
By Amy K. Townsend

Green Careers For Dummies
By Carol McLelland, PhD

Greening Your Business
By Daniel Sitarz

Doing What Matters
By James M. Kiltz

Companies on a Mission
By Michael V. Russo

Greening Your Small Business
By Jennifer Kaplan

The Plot to Save the Planet
By Brian Dumaine

The Green Collar Economy
By Van Jones

Climate Capitalism
By L. Hunter Lovins & Boyd Cohen

Green to Gold
By Daniel C. Esty & Andrew S. Winston

Florey's Books: The Leadfeather Syndrome

Pacifica author Arnold D. Gardner's new novel The Leadfeather Syndrome is available at Florey's Books on Palmetto across from the Pacifica Library. About the book: Michael Greer’s career as a journeyman private investigator takes on a promising cushy outlook when his assignment takes him to eastern Long Island’s North Fork, the resort and sporting playground where he’s slated to delve into the case of a local auto dealer who’s been officially reported missing along with an imposing chunk of pledged bonding company funds. Almost at once, Greer’s undertaking takes on an awesome dimension when the missing dealer's terrified girlfriend turns out to be an incomparable beauty who’s been directed to seek his help in uncovering possible lethal circumstances related to her boyfriend’s disappearance. P.I. Greer finds himself drawn into a nightmare of intrigue and assassination in uncovering the perpetrators in current and past murder scenes and manages his own survival by outmatching his adversaries in smarts and nerve. Greer's romantic involvement with two beautiful women closely aligned to the story’s events almost ends in his undoing as did a like affair in the immediate postwar days of his youth. But in love, as in the ordeals of war, he learns to live with the fateful outcome of his fortunes, and his intimate knowledge of the wisdom of Shakespeare helps him find words for it.

About the author: The Leadfeather Syndrome is the first published work by WWII combat veteran Arnold D. Gardner, an American educator and business executive who fought throughout the Italian campaign and afterward lived and worked in Italy. He and his Italian war bride Diana lived for many years among the splendid eastern towns and villages of Long Island's North Fork. Mr. Gardner's native roots go back to the scenic country areas along the northern borders of New York state.

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