Ok, don't judge. Yes that is my desk. In the On going Collaboration Between the National Writers Union and the Mechanics Institute San  we invite you to a Mechanics Institute Lunch Writers’ Lunch
End of Year Celebration & Indie/Published Book Bazaar
with the MI Independent Publishers Working Group and the National Writers Union December 15, Noon 4th Floor Meeting Room

 Hear success stories and advice on the process, buy books for the local literature lover in your life and enjoy the last Writers’ Lunch of the year!

Some Books on display may include:

Lynn Dow: Nightingale Tales: Stories From My Life as a Nurse; Patricia Dusenbury: A House of Her Own; Jackson (Jack?) Fahnestock: Shu Wei's Revenge: A Young Man's Journey into the Depths of the Underworld;
Jon Foyt: The Gilded Chateau; George Matiasz: 1% Free; C J Verburg:  Another Number for the Road: a Cory Goodwin Mystery; Leigh Verrill-Rhys Pavane for Miss Marcher; Robert C. Yeager: The Romanov Stone 

NWU Authors Books on display -- inspire social justice enlightened by the  struggle of working people. Some of those books are

Brigid O’farrell—She Was One of Us—Elenor Roosevelt and the American Worker; Monice Mitchell Simms—Address House of Corrections; Gevin Corley—Sixteen Tons; Helena Worthen—What Did you Learn at Work Today? Alan Lessik—The Troubleseeker; Harvey Schwartz—Building the Golden Gate Bridge: A workers Oral History; Harvey Schwartz —Solidarity Stories: An oral History of the ILWU; Fred Glass—From Mission to Microchip:A History of the California Labor Movement; Anne Berlak—Joelito’s Big Decision/La Gran Decision De Joelito; Lyzette Wanzer—Chalk Circle- Intercultural Prize Winning Essays; Bruce Hartford— The Selma Voting Rights Struggle and March to Mongomery; September Williams —Chasing Mercury; Stan Marin-New York Hustle; Elizabeth R Gottlieb (Forward by Danny Glover) We Are One

Free to all.

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