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On Saturday, October 21, join Olivewood Gardens and Learning Center for an evening celebrating Hispanic Heritage/Latinx in National City, sponsored by Maker's Mark. In honor of The Kitchenistas®, the nonprofit will celebrate culture with garden-to-cup cocktails from Maker’s Mark, using ingredients from Olivewood Gardens; and Kitchenista/Chef Aureny Aranda and Kitchenistas will create a dinner using fall seasonal ingredients, including corn, wheat, and barley. All proceeds will go toward supporting Olivewood’s free community programs. Olivewood Gardens and Learning Center promotes health equity, food access and community building. By supporting this Hispanic/Latinx dinner event, the organization can continue to provide resources, programming and healthy food access to the community it serves. Olivewood works alongside the community of National City and surrounding neighborhoods to improve access to fresh foods and vegetables and combat inequities that disproportionately affect communities of color. Olivewood Gardens and Learning Center on Facebook + Instagram "The Kitchenistas" documentary is also available on Apple TV, VUDU, and Google Play, featuring our Chef/Kitchenista, Aureny Aranda

County officials said the initiative seeks to alleviate the financial burdens of removal costs, with nearly 90% of graffiti cases reported in underserved areas.

From the bookstore: Neal Shusterman discusses "GLEANINGS" Hybrid In-Store and Virtual Book Signing! This is an IN-STORE EVENT that will also be broadcasted live through Crowdcast for those unable to attend in person. This event will consist of a 30 minute talk, followed by the book signing. ATTENDING THE EVENT IN PERSON: Your Purchase of a "GLEANINGS" will get you Numbered Ticket for the signing portion of the event, which will take place after the discussion. Tell us in the comments section if you'll be attending the event so we can assign you a ticket. Those who don't have a ticket may still attend, but must wait at the end of the line to get their item(s) signed. NOT ATTENDING THE EVENT IN PERSON: Mysterious Galaxy's virtual events are hosted on Crowdcast. Click here to register for the event and here to view our virtual code of conduct. Accessibility: Real-time captioning for all Crowdcast events is available via Google Chrome. For enabling captions, please follow this guide. More info here. How to Order a Signed/Personalized Book from Neal Shusterman if you're not attending the event Add any of Neal's available backlist of books to your cart. At checkout in the "order comments" box write "signed only" or to whom your book should be personalized (i.e. "To: Ms. Galaxy"). Requests for anything beyond a name, like a note or quote, are up to the author's discretion and are not guaranteed. Orders must be placed by 12 p.m. pt. on the day of the event (November 19). Please call the store if you wish to purchase a book, or add/alter personalization to an existing order, after this time. About the Author NEAL SHUSTERMAN is the NEW YORK TIMES bestselling author of more than thirty award-winning books for children, teens, and adults, including the "Unwind dystology", the "Skinjacker trilogy", "DOWNSIDERS", and "CHALLENGER DEEP", which won the National Book Award. "SCYTHE", the first book in his latest series, "Arc of a Scythe", is a Michael L. Printz Honor Book. He also writes screenplays for motion pictures and television shows. Neal is the father of four, all of whom are talented writers and artists themselves. About "GLEANINGS" There are still countless tales of the Scythedom to tell. Centuries passed between the Thunderhead cradling humanity and Scythe Goddard trying to turn it upside down. For years humans lived in a world without hunger, disease, or death with Scythes as the living instruments of population control. Neal Shusterman—along with collaborators David Yoon, Jarrod Shusterman, Sofía Lapuente, Michael H. Payne, Michelle Knowlden, and Joelle Shusterman—returns to the world throughout the timeline of the "Arc of a Scythe" series. Discover secrets and histories of characters you’ve followed for three volumes and meet new heroes, new foes, and some figures in between. Follow the author on social media: Facebook | Instagram | Twitter

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Luke Dumas discussing "A HISTORY OF FEAR" An In-Store & Virtual Hybrid Event This is an IN-STORE EVENT that will also be broadcasted live through Crowdcast for those unable to attend in person. This event will consist of a 30 minute discussion with the author, followed by the book signing. If you're joining us virtually, Mysterious Galaxy's virtual events are hosted on Crowdcast. Register for the event and here to view our virtual code of conduct. Accessibility: Real-time captioning for all Crowdcast events is available via Google Chrome. For enabling captions, please follow this guide. How to Order a Signed/Personalized copy of "A HISTORY OF FEAR" if you're not attending the event: -Add the book to your cart. -At checkout in the "order comments" box write "signed only" or to whom your book(s) should be personalized (i.e. "To: Ms. Galaxy"). Requests for anything beyond a name, like a note or quote, are up to the author's discretion and are not guaranteed. Orders must be placed by Noon on the day of the event (December 6). Please call the store (619-539-7137) if you wish to purchase a book, or add/alter personalization to an existing order, after this time. *Masks are required for all in-person attendees. We will have masks for any that may forget there's.* About the Author: LUKE DUMAS was born and raised in San Diego, California, and received his master’s degree in creative writing from the University of Edinburgh. His work has appeared in HOBART, LAST EXIT, and the queer anthology THE WHOLE ALPHABET: THE LIGHT AND THE DARK, among others. "A HISTORY OF FEAR" is his debut novel. About "A HISTORY OF FEAR" The Devil is in Scotland. Grayson Hale, the most infamous murderer in Scotland, is better known by a different name: the Devil’s Advocate. The twenty-five-year-old American grad student rose to instant notoriety when he confessed to the slaughter of his classmate Liam Stewart, claiming the Devil made him do it. When Hale is found hanged in his prison cell, officers uncover a handwritten manuscript that promises to answer the question that’s haunted the nation for years: was Hale a lunatic, or had he been telling the truth all along? Unnervingly, Hale doesn’t fit the bill of a killer. The first-person narrative that centers this novel reveals an acerbic young atheist, newly enrolled at the University of Edinburgh to carry on the legacy of his recently deceased father. In need of cash, he takes a job ghostwriting a mysterious book for a dark stranger, but has misgivings when the project begins to reawaken his satanophobia, a rare condition that causes him to live in terror that the Devil is after him. As he struggles to disentangle fact from fear, Grayson’s world is turned upside-down after events force him to confront his growing suspicion that he’s working for the one he has feared all this time—and that the book is only the beginning of their partnership.

Many Americans don't realize the cheap, plentiful shrimp they buy in the market and order in restaurants is driving U.S. shrimpers out of business.

A few years ago, a man who called himself Stephen became a fixture in Manhattan's Riverside Park. After his body was discovered, a woman who knew him made it her mission to bring his story to light.

This is an in-store event that will also be broadcasted live through Crowdcast for those unable to attend in person. This event will consist of a 30 minute discussion with Mary McMyne and conversation partner Jenn Givhan, followed by the book signing. If you're joining us virtually, Mysterious Galaxy's virtual events are hosted on Crowdcast. Click here to register for the event and here to view our virtual code of conduct. Accessibility: Real-time captioning for all Crowdcast events is available via Google Chrome. For enabling captions, please follow this guide. More info here. About the Authors: Mary McMyne has widely published stories and poems in venues like Redivider, Gulf Coast, Strange Horizons, and Apex Magazine, and her debut fairytale poetry chapbook, Wolf Skin (Dancing Girl Press, 2014), won the Elgin Chapbook Award. She is a graduate of the New York University MFA Program. Jennifer Givhan, a National Endowment for the Arts and PEN/Rosenthal Emerging Voices fellow, is a Chicana and indigenous novelist, poet, and transformational coach. She is the author of Jubilee, which received an honorable mention for the 2021 Rudolfo Anaya Best Latino-Focused Fiction Book Award, and Trinity Sight, winner of the 2020 Southwest Book Award. She has also published four full-length poetry collections and her honors include the Frost Place Latinx Scholarship and the Joy Harjo Poetry Prize. She raises her children in New Mexico. About The Book of Gothel: Germany, 1156. With her strange black eyes and even stranger fainting spells, young Haelewise has never quite fit in. Shunned by her village, her only solace lies in the stories her mother tells of child-stealing witches, of princes in wolf-skins, and of an ancient tower cloaked in mist, where women will find shelter if they are brave enough to seek it. When her mother dies, Haelewise is left unmoored. With nothing left for her in her village, she sets out to find the legendary tower her mother spoke of—a place called Gothel, where she meets a wise woman willing to take Haelewise under her wing. There, she discovers that magic is found not only in the realm of fairy tales. But Haelewise is not the only woman to seek refuge at Gothel. It’s also a haven for a girl named Rika, who carries with her a secret the church strives to keep hidden. A secret that reveals a dark world of ancient spells and murderous nobles, behind the world Haelewise has always known.

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