Arnold Schwarzenegger with Jamie Lee Curtis

Join us for an in-person & virtual 
Live Talks Los Angeles event:
Friday, October 13, 2023, 8pm

Arnold Schwarzenegger
in conversation with Jamie Lee Curtis

discussing his book,
Be Useful: Seven Tools for Life

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Robert Frost Auditorium
4401 Elenda St, 
Culver City, CA 90230
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THE IN-PERSON EVENT ON OCT 13 IS SOLD OUT.
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TICKETS AVAILABLE FOR THE VIRTUAL EVENT
TICKETS (virtual event only, Oct 18)

$45 Virtual Admission + signed book*, 6pm PT/9pm ET
(includes shipping to US addresses)
$20 Virtual Admission
*Event is available on video-on-demand for five days after it airs, thru Oct 23
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The seven rules to follow to realize your true purpose in life—distilled by Arnold Schwarzenegger from his own journey of ceaseless reinvention and extraordinary achievement, and available for absolutely anyone.….
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Arnold Schwarzenegger
 is an Austrian-born bodybuilder, actor, businessman, philanthropist, bestselling author, and politician. He served as the thirty-eighth governor of California.
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The world’s greatest bodybuilder. The world’s highest-paid movie star. The leader of the world’s sixth-largest economy. .
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In his new book, he details the seven tools he believes we all need to follow to find true purpose and success. During his childhood in a rural Austrian town, the chief lesson his father drilled into him above all, and which serves as his title, is Be Useful.  
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Spend an evening with Arnold to learn more about his life-changing successes and life-threatening failures alike—some of them famous, and some shared here for the first time ever.
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Jamie Lee Curtis is an actor, author, activist, producer and creator.  She won both  a Best Supporting Actress Academy Award and SAG Award  this year for her work in Everything Everywhere All At Once and has received numerous accolades and nominations in a decades long career.  Her film debut in Halloween in 1978 brought her to attention of audiences worldwide.  When she reprised that role 40 years later in 2018 its opening weekend was the biggest debut ever, for any movie in any genre, to feature a female lead character over 55 years of age.

Ed Begley Jr. with Mary Steenburgen & Ted Danson

Join us for an in-person & virtual
Live Talks Los Angeles event:
Wednesday, October 11, 2023, 8pm
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Presented in association with New Roads School

Ed Begley Jr.
 with Mary Steenburgen & Ted Danson

discussing his memoir,
To the Temple of Tranquility…
And Step On It!
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Ann and Jerry Moss Theatre
at New Roads School
Herb Alpert Educational Village
3131 Olympic Blvd.,
Santa Monica, CA 90404
(Free Parking available at the venue)
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Face masks recommended
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PURCHASE TICKETS for October 11 (click here)
TICKETS: 
$48  General Admission ticket +signed book
$70  Two General Admission tickets + one signed book
*Tickets include access to watch the virtual version of the event 
that airs on October 16 at 6pm PT, 9pm ET..
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Purchase Virtual event only tickets (October 16)
TICKETS:
$45 Virtual Admission + signed book (includes shipping to US addresses)
*Includes access to watch the event on video-on-demand for five days after it airs

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Beloved actor and environmental activist Ed Begley Jr. shares hilarious and poignant stories of his improbable life, focusing on his relationship with his legendary father, adventures with Hollywood icons, the origins of his environmental activism, addiction and recovery, and his lifelong search for wisdom and common ground. 

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Ed Begley, Jr. is an actor and environmental activist. He has appeared in hundreds of films, television shows, and stage performances. He played Dr. Victor Ehrlich on the television series St. Elsewhere from 1982 to 1988. The role earned him six consecutive Primetime Emmy Award nominations and a Golden Globe Award nomination. Since 1970, Begley has been an environmentalist, well known for his travels in an electric car, reducing trash and recycling, and becoming a vegan. 
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In To the Temple of Tranquility…And Step On It!,  Ed Begley Jr. shares hilarious and poignant stories of his improbable life—from his relationship with his legendary father, to adventures with Hollywood icons, and the origins of his environmental activism, addiction and recovery. He is known equally for his prolific film and television career and his environmental activism. From an appearance on My Three Sons to a notable role in Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman to starring in St. Elsewhere—as well as films with Jack Nicholson, Meryl Streep, and mockumentarian Christopher Guest—Begley has worked with just about everyone in Hollywood.  He shares insightful and surprising tales about about Marlon Brando, Annette Bening, The Beatles, Monty Python, Richard Pryor, Cesar Chavez, Jeff Goldblum, Tom Waits, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Carrie Fisher, and so many more luminaries. Behind all the stories, Begley has wisdom to impart. His memoir is about family, friends, addiction, failure, and redemption.
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Mary Steenburgen
 is an Academy Award and Golden Globe winning actress best known for her work in the films Melvin and Howard, Parenthood, What’s Eating Gilbert Grape, Philadelphia, Stepbrothers, and Book Club and television shows Justified, Orange is the New Black, Curb Your Enthusiasm and The Last Man on Earth. Most recently, Steenburgen starred for two seasons as Maggie Clarke in NBC’s musical television sensation Zoey’s Extraordinary Playlist.    
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Ted Danson
 is an Emmy Award and Golden Globe Award-winning actor known for an array of of performances, most memorably for his portrayal of Boston bartender Sam Malone on NBC’s multi-award winning and iconic comedy Cheers, which ran for 11 seasons and won three Emmys as Best Comedy Series. More recently, Danson starred in the  NBC comedy The Good Place, for which he was nominated for his 14th Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor and received a Critics Choice Award for his role as ‘Michael’. Danson also played himself in Curb Your Enthusiasm.

 

Heather Cox Richardson with Adam Felber (Virtual Event)

Join us for an in-person & virtual
Live Talks Los Angeles event:
Saturday, October 7, 2023, 3pm PT/6pm ET
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This virtual event was taped on Oct 3 with an audience.

Heather Cox Richardson
in conversation with Adam Felber

discussing her book,
Democracy Awakening: Notes on the State of America
 
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PURCHASE TICKETS  (virtual event is October 7)
$45 Virtual Admission + signed book* (includes shipping)
Oct 7, 3pm PT/6pm ET
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*Event is available on video-on-demand for five days after it airs, thru Oct 12
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From historian and author of the popular daily newsletter LETTERS FROM AN AMERICAN, a vital narrative that explains how America, once  a beacon of democracy, now teeters on the brink of autocracy — and how we can turn back.

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Heather Cox Richardson
is Professor of History at Boston College. She has written about the Civil War, Reconstruction, the Gilded Age, and the American West in award-winning books whose subjects stretch from the European settlement of the North American continent to the history of the Republican Party through the Trump administration. Her work has appeared in the Washington Post, the New York Times, and The Guardian, among other outlets. 
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“A vibrant, and essential history of America’s unending, enraging and utterly compelling struggle since its founding to live up to its own best ideals… It’s both a cause for hope, and a call to arms.”–Jane Mayer, author 
Dark Money
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Two million people subscribe to the wisdom and insights history professor Heather Cox Richardson dispenses online via her newsletter. Her writing is like having a world-class scholar talk to you over the dinner table, decoding a confusing world and making you feel smarter and more knowledgeable than you did before. In Democracy Awakening, Richardson crafts a compelling and original narrative, explaining how, over the decades, a small group of wealthy people have made war on American ideals. By weaponizing language and promoting false history they have led us into authoritarianism — creating a disaffected population and then promising to recreate an imagined past where those people could feel important again. She argues that taking our country back starts by remembering the elements of the nation’s true history that marginalized Americans have always upheld. Their dedication to the principles on which this nation was founded has enabled us to renew and expand our commitment to democracy in the past. Richardson sees this history as a roadmap for the nation’s future.

Adam Felber is a writer, performer, and a regular panelist on NPR’s “Wait Wait Don’t Tell Me.” He spent 11 season’s on HBO’s “Real Time with Bill Maher,” and has written several screenplays and books, including the recent “Confessions of a PuppetMaster” (HarperCollins). He’s the co-host of the long-running podcast “Nobody Listens to Paula Poundstone,” and the director/co-writer of the new eco-comedy YouTube series, “Unf***ing the Planet.” 

V.E. Schwab with J. Elle

Join us for an in-person & virtual
Live Talks Los Angeles event:
Thursday, September 28, 2023, 8pm
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V.E. Schwab
in conversation with J. Elle

discussing her novel,
The Fragile Threads of Power
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Aratani Theatre
Japanese American Cultural & Community Center
244 S. San Pedro Street
Downtown Los Angeles, CA 90012
 (Paid parking available in parking structure next to venue)
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Face masks recommended
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PURCHASE TICKETS for September 28 (click here)
TICKETS: 
$48  General Admission ticket + signed book
$70  Two General Admission tickets + one signed book
*Tickets include access to watch the virtual version of the event 
that airs on October 2 at 6pm PT, 9pm ET.

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Virtual event only (October 2) Tickets can be purchased here.
TICKETS:
$42 Virtual Admission + signed book (includes shipping to US addresses)
*Includes access to watch the event on video-on-demand for five days after it airs
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New York Times bestselling author of The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue, opens another door to a new fantasy series set in the dazzling world of Shades of Magic.
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Victoria “V.E.” Schwab
is the New York Times bestselling author of more than twenty books, including the acclaimed novel The Invisible Life of Addie LaRuethe Shades of Magic series, Villains series, and the Monsters of Verity duology. Her work has received critical acclaim; been featured in The New York TimesEntertainment WeeklyThe Washington Post and more; been translated into more than a dozen languages; and been optioned for television and film. When she’s not haunting Paris streets or trudging up English hillsides, she lives in Edinburgh, Scotland and is usually tucked in the corner of a coffee shop, dreaming up monsters.
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Prepare for tangled schemes and perilous adventures with friends old and new in The Fragile Threads of PowerOnce, there were four worlds, nestled like pages in a book, each pulsing with fantastical power and connected by a single city: London. Until the magic grew too fast and forced the worlds to seal the doors between them in a desperate gamble to protect their own. The few magicians who could still open the doors grew more rare as time passed and now, only three Antari are known in recent memory―Kell Maresh of Red London, Delilah Bard of Grey London, and Holland Vosijk, of White London.
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But barely a glimpse of them have been seen in the last seven years―and a new Antari named Kosika has appeared in White London, taking the throne in Holland’s absence. The young queen is willing to feed her city with blood, including her own―but her growing religious fervor has the potential to drown it instead.
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And back in Red London, King Rhy Maresh is threatened by a rising rebellion, one determined to correct the balance of power by razing the throne entirely.
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These two royals from very different empires now face very similar struggles: how to keep their crowns―and their own heads.
Amidst this tapestry of old friends and new enemies, a girl with an unusual magical ability comes into possession of a device that could change the fate of all four worlds.
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Her name is Tes, and she’s the only one who can bring them together―or unravel it all..
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J. Elle is the New York Times bestselling author of young adult and middle-grade fantasy fiction and a 2022 NAACP Image Award Nominee for Outstanding Literary Work for Youth and Teens. The former educator credits her nomadic lifestyle and humble inner-city beginnings as inspiration for her novels. When she’s not writing, Elle can be found on the hunt for desserts without chocolate, looking for any excuse to get dressed up, and road-tripping her way across the country with her two dogs in tow.

Mustafa Suleyman

Join us for an in-person & virtual
Live Talks Los Angeles event:
Tuesday, September 26, 2023, 8pm
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Presented in association with New Roads School

Mustafa Suleyman
in conversation with Ted Habte-Gabr,
founder & producer of Live Talks Los Angeles

discussing his book,
The Coming Wave: Technology, Power,
and the Twenty-first Century’s Greatest Dilemma
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Ann and Jerry Moss Theatre
at New Roads School
Herb Alpert Educational Village
3131 Olympic Blvd.,
Santa Monica, CA 90404
(Free Parking available at the venue)
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Face masks recommended
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$48  General Admission ticket + signed book
$20  General Admission ticket
*Tickets include access to watch the virtual version of the event 
that airs on October 2 at 6pm PT, 9pm ET..
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TICKETS FOR VIRTUAL EVENT ONLY, OCT. 2 (click here)

$45 Virtual Admission + signed book* (includes shipping)
Oct 2, 6pm PT/9pm ET
US Orders Only. We only ship to US addresses.
*Event is available on video-on-demand for five days after it airs, thru Oct 7
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An urgent warning of the unprecedented risks that AI and other fast-developing technologies pose to global order, and how we might contain them while we have the chance—from a co-founder of the pioneering artificial intelligence company DeepMind
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Mustafa Suleyman is the co-founder and CEO of Inflection AI. Previously he co-founded DeepMind, one of the world’s leading AI companies. After a decade at DeepMind, Suleyman became vice president of AI product management and AI policy at Google. 
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“A fascinating, well-written, and important book.”—Yuval Noah Harari
“Essential reading.”—Daniel Kahneman
“An excellent guide for navigating unprecedented times.”—Bill Gates.
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The Coming Wave: Technology, Power, and the Twenty-first Century’s Greatest Dilemma
We are approaching a critical threshold in the history of our species. Everything is about to change. 
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Soon you will live surrounded by AIs. They will organise your life, operate your business, and run core government services. You will live in a world of DNA printers and quantum computers, engineered pathogens and autonomous weapons, robot assistants and abundant energy. 
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None of us are prepared.
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As co-founder of the pioneering AI company DeepMind, part of Google, Mustafa Suleyman has been at the centre of this revolution. The coming decade, he argues, will be defined by this wave of powerful, fast-proliferating new technologies. 
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In The Coming Wave, Suleyman shows how these forces will create immense prosperity but also threaten the nation-state, the foundation of global order. As our fragile governments sleepwalk into disaster, we face an existential dilemma: unprecedented harms on one side, the threat of overbearing surveillance on the other. 
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Can we forge a narrow path between catastrophe and dystopia?
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This groundbreaking book from the ultimate AI insider establishes “the containment problem”—the task of maintaining control over powerful technologies—as the essential challenge of our age.

Sarah J. Maas with Christina Lauren

Join us for a virtual
Live Talks Los Angeles event:
Tuesday, September 26, 2023, 5pm PT/8pm ET
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Sarah J. Maas
in conversation with Christina Lauren
a special virtual event for the paperback release of
House of Sky and Breath (in the Crescent City series).

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PURCHASE TICKETS (Click here)
$20   Virtual Admission only (international orders welcome)
(Sale of tickets with books have ended.)

** Tickets include access to watch the virtual event for five days after it airs on video-on-demand (thru Oct 1)
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A special virtual event for the paperback edition of House of Sky and Breath, the second book in Sarah J. Maas’s sexy, groundbreaking, New York Times bestselling Crescent City series!  Join us for a detailed discussion (including the ending!)
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Sarah J. Maas
 is the New York Times and internationally bestselling author of the Crescent City, Court of Thorns and Roses, and Throne of Glass series. Her books have sold millions of copies and are published in thirty-eight languages. She lives with her family in New York City.
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House of Sky and Breath
Bryce Quinlan and Hunt Athalar are trying to get back to normal-they may have saved Crescent City, but with so much upheaval in their lives lately, they mostly want a chance to relax. Slow down. Figure out what the future holds.
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The Asteri have kept their word so far, leaving Bryce and Hunt alone. But with the rebels chipping away at the Asteri’s power, the threat the rulers pose is growing. As Bryce, Hunt, and their friends get pulled into the rebels’ plans, the choice becomes clear: stay silent while others are oppressed, or fight for what’s right. And they’ve never been very good at staying silent.
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In this sexy, action-packed sequel to the bestseller House of Earth and Blood, Sarah J. Maas weaves a captivating story of a world about to explode-and the people who will do anything to save it.
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Christina Lauren
 is the combined pen name of longtime writing partners and best friends Christina Hobbs and Lauren Billings, the New York Times  and internationally bestselling authors of the Beautiful and Wild Seasons series, Dating You/Hating YouAutoboyography, Love and Other Words, Roomies, Josh and Hazel’s Guide to Not Dating, My Favorite Half-Night StandThe UnhoneymoonersTwice in a Blue MoonThe Soulmate Equation, Something Wilder, and The True Love Experiment. Visit their website and on Instagram.