Check out the next UAA Campus Bookstore events.  

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Wednesday, November 19, from 1:00 p.m.-2:00 p.m.

Chef Vern: Chocolate, Chocolate and More Chocolate

UAA Culinary Arts & Hospitality’s Chef Vern Wolfram and his student apprentices share their knowledge and technical skills at this special event where everyone is encouraged to indulge in a variety of delicious chocolate samples.

Wednesday, November 19, from 5:00 p.m.-7:00 p.m.

Popular Chinese Novels and Dramas: A Series

Everyone is invited to come and learn about the Chinese television series sensation “Empresses in the Palace / Legend of Concubine” by Zhen Huan, to read  the highly acclaimed book, Fortress Besieged by Qian Zhongshu, and Red Sorghum by Mo Yan– recipient of the 2012 Nobel Prize in Literature. Dr. Annie Zeng, members of the Confucius Institute, and UAA Faculty will participate. This event is sponsored with the UAA Confucius Institute.

Friday, November 21, from 4:00 p.m.-6:00 p.m.

Former Teachers as Writers

Former teachers Lynn Lovegreen, Deb Vanasse, Tam Agosti-Gisler and Julie Stafford discuss their books and the role teaching has in their writing. Julie Stafford is author of The Manual That Should Have Come With Your Child But Didn’t: A Teacher’s Guide to Healthy Parenting; Lynn Lovegreen is author of numerous young adult romance novels, including Quicksilver to Gold, and author Deb Vanasee who has published more than a dozen books in a variety of genres, including Lucy’s Dance and Cold Spell.Joining the authors will be Tam Agosti-Gisler, who will discuss Dona Marie Wolking Agosti’s book Wilma, which is about a wolverine.

Monday, November 24, from 5:00 p.m.-7:00 p.m.

Poet Carolyn Goodwin: Trapline

Caroline Goodwin was born and raised in Anchorage. She moved to California from Sitka in 1999 to attend Stanford University as a Wallace Stegner fellow in poetry. Her first collection of poetry called Trapline, was published by JackLeg Press in 2013. Currently, she serves as the first Poet Laureate of San Mateo County, CA, and also teaches in the MFA Writing program at California College of the Arts in San Francisco. Her first poem was published in the Anchorage Daily News in 1971.

All UAA Campus Bookstore events are informal, free and open to the public. There is free parking for bookstore events in the West Campus Central Lot (behind Rasmuson Hall), the Sports Lot and the Sports NW Lot. For more information call Rachel Epstein at 786-4782 or email repstein2@uaa.alaska.edu .  Or see http://www.uaa.alaska.edu/bookstore/events

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Rachel Epstein
Special Events Coordinator
UAA Campus Bookstore
2905 Providence Drive Anchorage, Alaska  99508
(907) 786-4782
http://www.uaa.alaska.edu/bookstore