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Los Angeles author Carina Chocano will discuss her new book, “You Play the Girl: On Playboy Bunnies, Stepford Wives, Trainwrecks, & Other Mixed Messages” at 4 p.m. on Sunday, Jan. 14 at Laguna Beach Books, 1200 S. Coast Highway. Chocano, a pop culture critic, merges memoir...

Jeffrey Briar, founder of Laguna Laughter Club, and the Laughter Yoga Institute has written a guidebook entitled “The Laughter Yoga Book.” It covers the history and theory of Laughter Yoga and related forms of therapeutic hilarity and includes dozens of photographs and clear...

Local resident Tom Osborne announced the publication of his latest work, “Coastal Sage,” which chronicles the career and accomplishments of Peter Douglas, the long-serving executive director of the California Coastal Commission. As a result of the four-year endeavor, Osborne,...

The Third Street Writers will share their holiday stories in Park Plaza from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 2, the first of a month-long series of readings on Saturdays in the temporarily closed downtown street organized by Laguna Beach Independent columnist Billy Fried. The...

  Regal Crest Enterprises recently published a first novel by local Laguna Beach author, Lynnette Beers. In “Just Beyond the Shining River,” Beers tells the story of Gemma Oldfield and her discovery of hundreds of letters from a mysterious person to her grandmother, dating...

Dave Clary discusses his first book, “Gangsters to Governors,” at a reception within Laguna Beach Books, 1200 S. Coast Highway, at 4 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 5. By exploring the controversial histories of legal and illegal gambling in America, he offers a fresh perspective on current...

Paul Kivel, a co-founder of the organization Showing Up for Racial Justice, will present material from his book “Uprooting Racism: How White People Can Work for Social Justice” during a 2 p.m. workshop Sunday Oct. 22. The workshop takes place at Laguna Beach Books, 1200 S. Coast...

Local author Suzanne Redfearn will be the guest speaker of the annual Friends of the Library dinner at 6 p.m. Friday, Oct. 13 in the library. Hear about the Friends’ accomplishments while dining. Vegetarian options are available. Tickets at $65 are available through PayPal or...

  Author Brian Rogers will discuss his latest book, “The Whole of the Moon,” at 4 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 1, at Laguna Beach Books, 1200 S. Coast Highway. Six crisscrossing narratives unfold in the novel set along old Route 66, from the Inland Empire to its Chicago terminus,...

Local author, leadership consultant, and motivational speaker Mary Scifres published her first book on transformational leadership and discusses the work at 4 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 24, at University United Methodist Church, 18422 Culver Dr., in Irvine. A veteran of other works on...

Local Laguna author Kaira Rouda will be at Laguna Beach Books, 1200 S. Coast Highway, at 5 p.m. Sunday Sept. 17, to talk about her new book, “Best Day Ever.” A reception with refreshments is planned; all are invited. The suspenseful tale of deception and betrayal was named one of...

Paul Freeman has written a novel, “Stop, Go, Murder,” set in the coastal environs of California and Florida. The story involves a struggling ex-gangster who learns his former boss has been murdered. One of the plot twists involves Go, an ancient game of strategy that Freeman has...

“Laguna Beach of Early Days,” a personal historical account by Joseph S. Thurston, whose parents settled in Aliso Canyon in 1871, is now available thanks to a reissue by his grandson, Kelly Boyd. During a City Council meeting last week, Mayor Pro Tem Kelly Boyd said that he and...

Laguna local Ellen Giradeau Kempler’s latest book of haiku and photographs, “Thirty Views of a Changing World” is now available for pre-order from Finishing Line Press. The book was inspired by the Japanese artist Hokusai’s series of woodblock prints, “Thirty-six Views of...

  Poets Kathryn Nuernberger and Noah Blaustein join Kate Buckley, Laguna Beach’s inaugural poet laureate, at a 7:30 p.m. reading Tuesday, July 18, at The Sawdust Festival, 935 Laguna Canyon Road. The reading will be followed by an audience Q&A with the poets, as well as...