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BAY AREA   

Thursday, May 15, 7 pm   
Cody's Books, 2201 Shattuck Avenue at Allston Way
Berkeley 94704   510-559-9500
www.codysbooks.com                   

SHEILA WELLER talks about GIRLS LIKE US: Carole King, Joni Mitchell, Carly Simon—And the Journey of a Generation, a groundbreaking and irresistible biography of three of America's most important musical artists, who remain among the most enduring and important women in popular music. Their epic stories trace the arc of the now mythic sixties generation. GIRLS LIKE US is an epic look at three women who dared to break tradition and become what none had been before them—confessors in song, rock superstars, and determined adventurers. The Boston Globe notes "Sheila Weller's new book…is a page-turner of the first order. Weller stretches ambitiously to create three overlapping biographies of these pop stars. She succeeds by sheer force of will and by inner-circle access that helps her to interview seemingly all the friends, colleagues, and family members who knew them."

Sheila Weller is a New York Times bestselling author and award-winning magazine journalist. She is the author of five previous books. She is the senior contributing editor at Glamour, and a contributor to Vanity Fair.

Friday, May 16, 7 pm

Cody's Books, 2201 Shattuck Avenue at Allston Way
Berkeley 94704   510-559-9500
www.codysbooks.com

RAJ PATEL  discusses STUFFED AND STARVED: The Hidden Battle for the World Food System.

Half the world is malnourished, the other half obese—both symptoms of the corporate food monopoly. To show how a few powerful distributors control the health of the entire world, Raj Patel conducts a global investigation. What he uncovers is shocking—the real reasons for famine in Asia and Africa, an epidemic of farmer suicides, and the false choices and conveniences in supermarkets. Yet he also finds hope—in international resistance movements working to create a more democratic, sustainable, and joyful food system. From seed to store to plate, STUFFED AND STARVED explains the steps to regain control of the global food economy, stop the exploitation of farmers and consumers, and rebalance global sustenance.

Raj Patel, former policy analyst for Food First, a leading food think tank, is a visiting scholar at the UC Berkeley Center for African Studies. He has written for the Los Angeles Times and the Guardian, and though he has worked for the World Bank, WTO, and the UN, he's also been tear-gassed on four continents protesting them.