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California
The California Center for the Book will promote the National Book Festival at previously-scheduled high profile events in seven public libraries in connection with the launch of a new and unprecedented statewide reading initiative "California Stories: Reading The Grapes of Wrath." The libraries and program dates are: Fresno County Library (Sept. 29); Newport Beach Public Library (Sept. 19); Sacramento Public Library (Oct. 6); San Diego Public Library (Oct. 8); San Francisco Public Library (Oct. 5); Santa Monica Public Library (Oct. 5); and Shasta County Library (Oct. 9). Participating sites will display National Book Festival materials in the weeks preceding the Festival. The initiative already has support from the California Council for the Humanities, the California State Library, independent bookstores and branches of Borders Books and Barnes & Noble throughout the state, California's Governor and First Lady, and mayors of most of the participating cities. In addition, the California Center for the Book will promote the National Book Festival on its popular Web site.
Contacts: California Center for the Book, Natalie Cole, phone: 310-206-9361, fax: 310-206-4460, e-mail: nacole@ucla.edu; Fresno County Library, Lydia Kuhn, phone 559-488-3856, e-mail: lydia.kuhn@fresnolibrary.org; Newport Beach Library, Tamara Henn, phone: 949-717-3817, e-mail: thenn@city.newport-beach.ca.us; Sacramento Public Library, Susan Benson, phone: 916-264-2710, e-mail: sbenson@sacramento.lib.ca.us; San Diego Public Library, Lynn Whitehouse, phone: 619-236-5821, e-mail: lwhitehouse@sandiego.gov; San Francisco Public Library, Joan Jasper, phone: 415-557-4595, e-mail: jjasper@sfpl.org; Santa Monica Public Library, Rebecca Ryan, phone: 310-434-2644, e-mail: rebecca-ryan@ci.santa-monica.ca.us; Shasta County Library, Diane Gustafson, phone: 530-225-5680, e-mail: ladybuggo@hotmail.com.