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SUMMARY:Canine Story Time- Safety Dog Diego Gets Adopted
DESCRIPTION:Sunday\, June 8\, 2025 2:00 PM\nChaucer’s Books (3321 State Street)  hosts Chaucer’s Books hosts Storytime with Tracey and Angel Jimenez (Safety Dog Diego Gets Adopted).\nDuring this event from 1:30 to 3:00 PM\, 10% of all sales will go towards the Santa Barbara County Animal Care Foundation .\n\n\nDescription When a curious little French Bulldog puppy wanders onto a bustling construction site\, he’s not just looking for adventure\, he’s looking for a place to belong. In Safety Dog Diego Gets Adopted\, readers meet Diego\, a bright-eyed pup with a heart full of curiosity and a tail that won’t stop wagging. As he explores the busy world of hard hats and heavy machines\, Diego discovers the importance of safety\, teamwork\, and responsibility.\nWith the help of the kind and watchful Safety Guy\, Diego learns valuable lessons about being aware\, listening carefully\, and staying safe on the job. But more importantly\, he finds something even greater\, a forever home and a brand-new purpose. This heartwarming story\, inspired by true events\, is the perfect introduction to the lovable character at the center of the Safety Dog Diego™ series. Bursting with charm\, adventure\, and gentle lessons\, this book shows kids that even the smallest among us can be heroes in everyday life.\n\n\nAbout the Authors Angel and Tracey Jimenez – Safety Advocates\, Storytellers\, and Community Builders\nAngel and Tracey Jimenez are a passionate husband-and-wife duo with a heart for safety\, education\, and inspiring the next generation. Together\, they’ve combined their unique talents to create Safety Dog Diego™\, a growing children’s brand dedicated to fun\, learning\, and helping kids grow up safe and well.\nAngel Jimenez is a seasoned safety professional with over 18 years of experience in construction safety\, OSHA training\, and safety program leadership across California. Known as the “Safety Guy\,” Angel has written educational safety articles for LinkedIn and recently completed his first professional book\, The Safety Mindset\, focused on cultivating daily habits for a safer workplace. His expertise\, passion for protecting lives\, and commitment to education inspired the creation of Safety Dog Diego™\, a series that blends real-world safety lessons with heartwarming storytelling and a lovable French Bulldog mascot based on true events.\nTracey Jimenez began her career as a para-educator working in special education classrooms in 2005\, where she developed a deep love for helping children learn and thrive. Prior to becoming a licensed esthetician\, she worked as a talent and booking manager\, organizing promotional campaigns and celebrity appearances. In 2010\, she partnered with former MLB player Steve Sax to promote his second book\, coordinating signings\, including at Dodger Spring Training in Glendale\, Arizona—and securing national media coverage. Her experience also includes working with high-profile figures like Jamie Foxx and Tina Knowles.\nToday\, Angel and Tracey pour their combined experience into books\, music\, and educational programs that empower children to make safe choices\, practice kindness\, and embrace responsibility. Whether on a jobsite or in a classroom\, their mission is the same: to create joyful\, lasting experiences that spark learning and inspire lives. Their guiding motto says it all: “Stay Safe and Stay Well™!”
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SUMMARY:Kids Storytime with Nikkolas Smith
DESCRIPTION:Sunday\, June 1 2025 3 PM\nChaucer’s Books (3321 State Street)  hosts storytime with NY Times bestselling artivist Nikkolas Smith (The History of We).\nDescription\nAn awe-inspiring picture book about the origin and advancement of humans\, from author and #1 New York Times bestselling illustrator Nikkolas Smith.\n Fossil records show that the first humans were born in Africa. Meaning\, every person on Earth can trace their ancestry back to that continent. The History of We celebrates our shared ancestors’ ingenuity and achievements and imagines what these firsts would have looked and felt like. What was it like for the first person to paint\, to make music\, to dance\, to discover medicine\, to travel to unknown lands? It required courage\, curiosity\, and skill. The History of We takes what we know about modern human civilization and\, through magnificent paintings\, creates a tale about our shared beginnings in a way that centers Black people in humankind’s origin story.\n\n\nAbout the Author\nNikkolas Smith is an Artivist\, picture book author\, and Hollywood film illustrator. He is the author-illustrator of the USA TODAY bestselling picture book The Artivist\, The Golden Girls of Rio\, and My Hair Is Poofy & That’s Okay. He also illustrated the picture books A Change Is Gonna Come\, Captain America: Brave New World: A Hero Looks Like You\, I Am Ruby Bridges\, Black Panther: Wakanda Forever: The Courage to Dream\, That Flag\, and the #1 New York Times bestselling The 1619 Project: Born on the Water. Many of Nikkolas’s viral and globally published sketches that have sparked important conversations and inspired meaningful change are included in his book Sunday Sketch: The Art of Nikkolas. He speaks on his Artivism and leads digital painting workshops at conferences\, workplaces\, and schools around the world. Nikkolas was born in Houston\, Texas\, and now lives in Los Angeles\, California.\nPraise for The History of We by Nikkolas Smith:\n\n\n★ “Light but layered verse resists oversimplifying…It’s impossible to overstate the emotional effect of Smith’s artwork—simultaneously majestic and intimate…A triumph.” —Kirkus Review\, starred review\n\n\n★“[A] celebration of early human ingenuity….The text and art are elegantly matched in both beauty and impact…[E]xpansive and intimate\, reminding readers of the connections running through all humanity.” —The Bulletin of the Center for Children’s Books\, starred review\n\n \n\n\n“Using phrases that incorporate a communal we\, and thickly stroked acrylic paintings that feel full of movement\, Smith (The Artivist) establishes a progression of humankind’s creativity. . .It’s a visually rich collective history of humankind.” —Publishers Weekly
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SUMMARY:Graphic Novelist Pays Tribute to Raymond Chandler
DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, May 22 6:00 PM\n\n\nChaucer’s Bookstore (3321 State Street\, 805-682-6787) hosts Arvind Ethan David for a book talk and signing of his graphic novel Raymond Chandler’s Trouble is My Business.  Fellow writer Ben H. Winters will join the author in conversation. \n\n\nDescription\n\n\nA brilliant graphic adaptation of the classic Raymond Chandler novella featuring detective Philip Marlowe.\n\n \n\n\nLos Angeles\, 1930s. A rich old man who knows trouble when he sees it hires a detective agency to scare off a young woman who seems to be making his adopted son hemorrhage cash. Fortunately for the detective\, a hard drinking man named Philip Marlowe\, trouble is his business. \n\n\nThe young woman\, Harriet\, has an agenda all her own and aspirations beyond being a shill for a gambler. She’s nobody’s fool. Nor is the old man\, for his part. He’s got serious muscle–a chauffeur with a degree from Dartmouth\, the only Black student from his class\, who knows his way around a gun and isn’t afraid to use it.\n\n\nRight in the middle of it all is a big pile of money. And when the bodies begin to drop\, only Philip Marlowe can sort out which of these suspects is pulling the trigger.\n\n\nAbout the Authors\n\n\nArvind Ethan David is a writer and producer whose career began when he adapted Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency as a high school play\, catching the attention of Douglas Adams. As an author\, he has written seven graphic novels\, including Raymond Chandler’s Trouble is My Business (Pantheon\, 2025) and the Stoker-nominated Darkness Visible. His historical mystery novel The Dread & The Envy will be released by Thomas & Mercer in 2026.\n\n\nIn audio\, he has written Audible Originals like Earworms and The Crimes of Dorian Gray. On stage\, he produced the Grammy and Tony-winning Jagged Little Pill and is adapting The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy for London’s Riverside Studios.\n\n\nHe wrote for Anansi Boys (Amazon) and produced Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency (Netflix). In film\, he produced The Garden of Evening Mists (HBO). He is a principal of Prodigal\, developing projects across film and TV.\n\n\nRAYMOND THORNTON CHANDLER (1888 – 1959) was the master practitioner of American hard-boiled crime fiction. Although he was born in Chicago\, Chandler spent most of his boyhood and youth in England\, where he attended Dulwich College and later worked as a freelance journalist for The Westminster Gazette and The Spectator. During World War I\, Chandler served in France with the First Division of the Canadian Expeditionary Force\, transferring later to the Royal Flying Corps (RFC). In 1919 he returned to the United States\, settling in California\, where he eventually became director of a number of independent oil companies. The Depression put an end to his career\, and in 1933\, at the age of forty-five\, he turned to writing fiction\, publishing his first stories in Black Mask. Chandler’s detective stories often starred the brash but honorable Philip Marlowe (introduced in 1939 in his first novel\, The Big Sleep) and were noted for their literate presentation and dead-on critical eye. Never a prolific writer\, Chandler published only one collection of stories and seven novels in his lifetime. Some of Chandler’s novels\, like The Big Sleep\, were made into classic movies that helped define the film noir style. In the last year of his life he was elected president of the Mystery Writers of America. He died in La Jolla\, California\, on March 26\, 1959.\n\n\nAbout the Moderator\n\n\nBen H. Winters is an award-wining novelist and TV writer. His many books include the Edgar-Award winning THE LAST POLICEMAN\, the Times bestseller UNDERGROUND AIRLINES; his most recent is the sci-fi thriller BIG TIME.  In TV\, Ben worked on the Apple TV show Manhunt and is  the creator of the CBS TV show Tracker. His comic book series BENJAMIN comes out in June. 
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SUMMARY:Book Signing- Jin Young Lim The Dao of Flow
DESCRIPTION:Sunday\, May 18 3:00 PM\n\n\nChaucer’s Books (3321 State Street\, 805-682-6787) hosts Jin Young Lim for a book talk and signing of The Dao of Flow: A Journey to Discover the Ancient Wisdom of Water.\n\n\nDescription\n\n\nJin Young Lim was studying ancient philosophy when he delved into a philosophical investigation of his life to date – from his humanitarian work in Fukushima to studying in Tokyo\, becoming a yoga teacher and Taijiquan instructor\, and co-founding a non-profit in the Himalayas before moving to Beijing as a Schwarzman Scholar. \n\n \n\n\nAlong the way\, Jin Young met scholars\, teachers\, artists\, philosophers\, farmers\, social workers\, and spiritual leaders. In this book\, he weaves classical texts into his experiences with Daoism and Zen\, martial arts\, tea\, agriculture\, conservation\, art\, history\, geography\, politics\, and social economics. He captures his physical\, intellectual\, and spiritual journey in a series of incisive reflections\, vignettes\, and anecdotes that make it accessible in simple terms. Through these stories\, Jin Young constructs a philosophical framework of Daoist principles that he calls ‘The Dao of Flow’ — a way of continuous transformation based on embodying\, flowing\, and regulating water. These same three principles recurred as patterns in the lives of his role models or ‘walking flowers’ – those who ‘walk the flow’ and do so beautifully and naturally like flowers. This book is an invitation to discover the wisdom of water and provides readers with a novel spiritual map to deeper harmony with oneself and the world.\n\n\nAbout the Author\n Jin Young Lim is a PhD student in the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultural Studies at UC Santa Barbara. Previously\, he was a Schwarzman Scholar at Tsinghua University and worked as a Program Coordinator at the Berggruen Institute’s China Center. He is a co-founder of Spawo Foundation\, a non-profit organization dedicated to nurturing holistic education\, sustainability\, health and wellness\, and culture in Ladakh\, India. Jin Young completed his undergraduate degrees in liberal arts and international politics from Waseda University and Peking University. He leads annual mindfulness-based expeditions to the Himalayas and engages in various contemplative practices throughout his life. During his free time\, he moonlights as a writer\, teaches Taijiquan (Tai Chi)\, and loves fostering conversations over a Pu’er tea ceremony. Jin Young Lim hails from Penang\, Malaysia.
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SUMMARY:Story Time with Local Kids' Author Mike Bender
DESCRIPTION:Saturday\, May 10 at 3:00 PM\nChaucer’s Books (3321 State Street\, 805-682-6787) hosts local author Mike Bender for a reading and signing of his latest children’s book Bored Panda.\nDescription\nCome along with a tech-obsessed Panda as he goes from having a “boring” no-screens day to a joyful\, out-and-about day. The New York Times bestselling creator of Awkward Family Photos wants you to know: being bored is not boring!\n\n\nFor Panda\, there is NOTHING worse than being bored. It’s just so…boring.\n\n\nBut what’s a tech-loving panda to do when there’s no electricity? Skeptical that the great outdoors will cure his boredom\, Panda nonetheless sets out on a day full of surprises. They might even turn out to be fun surprises!\n From the duo behind The Most Serious Fart comes a very not boring tale about how boredom is never really boredom–it’s a chance to discover all the fun waiting to be had!\nAbout the Author and Illustrator\nMike Bender is a #1 New York Times bestselling author of Awkward Family Photos. He has written the Junior Library Guild Selection\, The Book About Nothing\, The End Is Just The Beginning\, and The Most Serious Fart. He lives in Santa Barbara with his family and can’t wait for boredom to inspire his next idea!\n\n\nChuck Dillon has created award-winning illustrations for Highlights for Children\, Scholastic\, Dr. Suess Enterprises\, PBS\, Squishmallows\, and his most recent collaboration with Costco and Monopoly. He is a proud member and four-time Reuben nominee of the National Cartoonist Society. Last year Chuck and author Mike Bender’s book\, The Most Serious Fart\, was featured on Ryan Reynolds’ show “Bedtime Stories with Ryan.”
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