Come join us as we celebrate the release of The Red Pyramid, the first in a new book series by Rick Riordan called The Kane Chronicles.

* Write on the graffiti wall!
* Enter a drawing to win a copy of a Rick Riordan book!
* Visit all of our craft and game stations!!

This is sure to be a fun and exciting evening!
This event will take place outside in the Vroman’s paseo area.

Halpern, living with his 74-year-old father, has made a whole career off of every patronizing, hilarious thing his father says to him by posting them on twitter. Straight from the internet, this indispensable volume compiles the best tweets from Halpern's account “shitmydadsays.” If you missed the internet sensation in its heyday and want to get caught up, or if you just need some very strange inspirational quotes, this is the book for you.

Graduating students of the University of California, Riverside's MFA program will read from their work. Holly Gaglio will read from her novel-in-progress, Love Is This Way Too, about the end of an affair between a 17-year-old girl and her 55-year-old English teacher; Aviva Kasowski will read poetry and present a staged reading from her developing screenplay, about a mandolinist who mysteriously loses her ability to play when a new neighbor comes to town; and Jie Tian will read her poems as well as poems by Chinese, Indian, Persian, and Turkish poets in English translation in celebration of National Poetry Month and world poetry in the U.S.