Readers' Books

Author Naomi Hirahara will be at Readers’ Books on Thursday, August 22nd to present her latest mystery. There will be a 6:30 reception and a 7:00 reading. Ms. Hirahara is the author of the Mas Arai mystery series, which features a quirky Japanese-American gardener and Hiroshima survivors in Los Angeles. Her new mystery, Iced in Paradise, introduces a new series: Leilani Santiago on the island of Kaua’i. Leilani has returned home to help her mother--who has been diagnosed with MS--run the family business, a shave ice shack.

Rae Lewis, author of Jump on the Love Train and founder of the Chicuchas Wasi Organization, will be at Readers’ Books for the launch of her book on Wednesday, August 7th, with a 6:30 reception and a 7:00 reading. The book tells the story behind the birth of Chicuchas Wasi, which is dedicated to providing free education to poor an indigenous girls in Cusco, Peru. The story begins with Ms. Lewis’s 1985 trip to Peru, where she drank in the majestic Andean mountains and the blend of indigenous Quechua and Mestizo cultures in the city of Cusco, the former capital of the Incan empire.

Local author Rae Lewis reads from her book Jump on the Love Train, which benefits Chicuchas Wasi: The Childrens Project, an Alternative School for Girls in Cusco, Peru. 

Robert Shafter presents his book Mickey at 2pm in the Readers' Garden on Saturday, June 29th at 2pm to read from his memoir, Mickey: The Giveaway Boy. Shafer lays bare his harrowing childhood in 1950s Chicago, telling the story of his mother’s abandonment of her five boys. At the age of nine, his mother found a new home for him by posting an ad in the newspaper. What happened next gives us a heartbreaking glimpse of Shafer’s boyhood. Readers of Frank McCourt’s Angela’s Ashes will recognize the bravery of this memoir.