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Highlights of 2005 Festival
Saturday, September 10, 2005 from 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
San Luis Obispo, CA -- Mission Plaza

Festival Vendors for 2005

Name:Samuel J. Alibrando
Email:sam@bestchapter.com
Website Address:http://www.natureneverstopstalking.com
Description:Short essays take the reader on a pleasant romp through nature while renewing childlike marvel at natures' ingenuity everywhere.
Titles:Nature Never Stops Talking - The Wonderful Ingenuity of Nature
  
Name:ARO Dental Practice
Website Address:http://www.arodental.com
Description:Books on hygiene, gift bags, schooling and trainings, dental assistents, hygients, dentist, office manger
Titles:Brushing Well; Your Teeth; Smile!; How to Cope with Braces; Going to the Dentists; I know Why I'm Brushing My Teeth; Food For Healthy Teeth; Books to check out from the Library
  
Name: Baby Tattoo Books
Email:bob@babytattoo.com
Website Address:http://www.babytattoo.com
Description:Baby Tattoo publishes illusrated pop-culture books by some of today's most talented artists.
Titles:Gris Grimly's Wicked Nursery Rhymes, Little Jordan Ray's Muddy Spud, Got Your Nose, Issy's Very Important Job
  
Name:Karen V. Bading
Email:karen@infrasonicsco.com
Website Address:http://www.infrasonicsco.com
Description:Without the ability to say "no," saying "yes" is meaningless. "Saying No, A User's Manual" contains tools, practices, and reflections for saying no, keeping promises, and living with integrity and purpose both professionally and personally.
Titles:Saying No, A User's Manual, Saying Yes, A User's Manual
  
Name:Cheryl Block
Email:info@blockpub.com
Website Address:http://www.blockpub.com
Description:When a spider spins a rainbow web, he learns why webs are transparent. The Rainbow Web, first in a series of nature-based pictures books with educational CD-ROMs. True Blue Friends, about whales, is next.
Titles:The Rainbow Web
  
Name:Linda Brough
Email:linda@lindabrough.com
Description:"The One Thing Book" is the one thing you need to grab in case of emergency; to find anything important; to get through the day. Customizing your copy makes you more organized than ever before.
Titles:The One Thing Book
  
Name:Children's Health Initiative
Website Address:http://www.slocms.org
Description:By ensuring that all children have access to health care coverage, the Children's Health Initiative is creatively solving community health care issues one child at a time.
  
Name:Christian Science Church
Email:brentarc@charter.net
Description:"Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy is ". . . One of the 75 books by women whose words have changed the world" (Women's National Book Association.
Titles:"Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy
  
Name:Dhyana Coburn
Email:dhyana@sbcglobal.net
Description:Colloidal Silver is a natural antibiotic. This book tells the history, dosage, characteristics, treatment testimonials and how to make a Colloidal Silver generator.
Titles:The Wonders of Colloidal Silver ~ Nature's Antibiotic
  
Name:Evelyn Cole
Email:evycole@direcway.com
Website Address:http://www.coles-poetic-license.com
Description:Evelyn Cole, MA, MFA, The Whole-Mind Writer, publishes weekly essays on the power of the unconscious mind, writes fiction and poetry which she reads at all SLO county venues.
Titles:For the Sake of All Others, A Tough Journey to the Heart of Happiness, Holy Crow
  
Name:Community Health Centers
Website Address:http://www.slocms.org
Description:For 25 years Community Health Centers have provided comprehensive medical services to residence in San Luis Obispo and Northern Santa Barbara Counties. Our Network continues to grow to serve the health care needs of the Central Coast.
  
Name:Concord Grove Press
Email:info@concordgrovepress.org
Website Address:http://www.concordgrovepress.org
Description:Concord Grove Press makes readily available seminal texts of lasting value, including new renditions of sacred scriptures from the world's major spiritual traditions, contributions to philosophic and literary thought, and reprints of classical works.
Titles:various
  
Name:Peg Connelly
Email:mispegg@aol.com
Description:A collection of children's short stories for 2 to 12 year olds. Perfect for children with short attention spans.
Titles:Grannies' Shorts, Grannies' Critters
  
Name:P. Taylor Copeland
Email:stephanie@grammytime.com
Website Address:http://www.grammytime.com
Titles:I Liked You at Ten; Just You and Me; Let's Make-Believe; You Do It Like This
  
Name:Cyndi Crother, Ph.D.
Email:cyndi@guidetogreatness.com
Website Address:http://www.guidetogreatness.com
Description:"Independent Publishers Book of the Year," 2004 in Business Category. Published in 7 languages, "Catch!" reveals the behind-the-scenes success principles of the world famous pike place fish market in Seattle, Washington.
Titles:Catch! A Fishmonger's Guide to Greatness
  
Name:David P. Diaz
Email:davidpdiaz@earthlink.net
Website Address:http://www.thewhitetortilla.com
Description:Many Mexican-Americans these days do not speak Spanish . . . get used to it! "The White Tortilla" relates life stories that expose the stereotypes and prejudices against today's Mexican-Americans and promotes the elements of "true diversity."
Titles:The White Tortilla: Reflections of a Second-Generation Mexica-American
  
Name:Katherine Shirek Doughtie
Email:kathy@aphroditeinjeans.com
Website Address:http://www.aphroditeinjeans.com
Description:Embark on a poignant adventure with rollicking essays about men, midlife and motherhood. With wicked insights and unflinching courage, Ms. Doughtie ruthlessly examines her own experiences as she dares to tackle life head on.
Titles:Aphrodite in Jeans
  
Name:Gina Ehlin
Email:emmaandfriends@charter.net
Website Address:http://www.emmaandfriends-books.com
Description:Emma & Friends is the beginning of a children's book series. The first book of the series is called "Emma's Airport Adventure." Emma shares her experience of going through the security screening at the airport.
Titles:Emma's Airport Adventure
  
Name:Chris Epting
Email:chris@chrisepting.com
Website Address:http://www.chrisepting.com
Description:Chris Epting is the author of seven critically-acclaimed books. He is currently the national spokesman for Hampton Inn Hotel's Hidden Landmarks program and travel editor for the new Chicken Soup for the Soul magazine.
Titles:James Dean Died Here, Marilyn Monroe Dyed Here, Elvis Presley Passed Here, Roadside Baseball
  
Name:Janet Penn Franks
Email:janetfranks@earthlink.net
Website Address:http://www.janetpennfranks.com
Titles:San Luis Obispo County Wineries; San Luis Obispo: A History in Architecture
  
Name:Friends of Shell Beach Library
Email:katemriggins@charter.net
Description:The Shell Beach Friends earn money from the sale of gently used books. With these funds, the Friends provide programs for children, community literary events and additional books, videos, cds, dvds to the library collection.
  
Name:Friends of the Atascadero Library
Email:arew@charter.net
Description:Proceeds from all fundraisers go towards library programs, materials, and the expansion fund.
Titles:Used books. Library T-shirts, and book bags
  
Name:Friends of the Cambria Library
Email:mrsc3@sbcglobal.net
Description:Since 1991, donations from the Friends of the Cambria Library have been a significant source of funds for our community's library; purchasing books, materials, land for our new library, and other needs that are not possible with reduced county funding.
  
Name:Friends of the Cayucos Library
Email:oustaff@slolibary.org
Description:The Friends of the Cayucos Library celebrate reading and support the community. Author Night Monday, Oct. 3 featuring Sherry Shahan and Elizabeth Spurr. Book Sale Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays 1:00 - 4:00 pm.
  
Name:Friends of the Cuesta College Library
Email:kdecou@cuesta.edu
Website Address:http://library.cuesta.edu/friends
Description:The Cuesta Friends sponsor events, bus trips, book sales, and have a special artist series of merchandise to raise funds to help purchase new materials for the college library.
  
Name:Friends of the Nipomo Library
Website Address:http://www.fonl.net
Description:Donations from the Friends of the Nipomo Library help to purchase materials, fund children's programs, and with other needs that are not possible with reduced county funding.
  
Name:Friends of the Santa Margarita Library
Email:Cheriroe1@msn.com
Description:The Friends of the Santa Margarita Library operate a used bookstore next to the library at I & Murphy Streets. The Old Library Bookstore is open Tuesdays and Wednesdays 2-6 pm and Thursdays noon-6 pm.
  
Name:Gander Publishing
Website Address:http://www.ganderpublishing.com
Description:Gander Publishing provides educational products and materials designed to develop key areas of learning: reading, spelling, math writing, phonemic awareness, critical thinking skills, vocabulary, reading comprehension, listening comprehension, following directions and overall academic performance.
Titles:Vanilla Vocabulary Books & Read Aloud Books by Nanci Bell & Phyllis Lindamood; See Time Fly History Stories & Workbooks, Visualizing and Verbalizing Stories & Workbooks, Catch A Star & Seeing Stars Decoding Workbooks by Nanci Bell
  
Name:Dale Reid Ginder
Email:dreidstudio@aol.com
Description:"Project Avila" is the most definitive narrative to date on Avila Beach's place in history as one of the smallest towns in American handling one of the largest environmental cleanups in California.
Titles:Project Avila -- An Environmental Issue Mandates a Change in the Face of a Small California Beach Town
  
Name:AJ Girand
Email:bmcins@msn.com
Website Address:http://www.2slodicks.com
Description:The 2 SLO Dicks are back! Detectives Nik and Ditto return for another mystery set on the central coast, where a nude body's found on a local landmark. Why is she covered in Nik's bathrobe?
Titles:Bare Body on the Bear
  
Name:Claire P. Gordon
Email:clgordon@charter.net
Website Address:http://www.myjazzfriends.com
Description:The recollections are from the late 1930's and deal with the music, travelling bands, the ballrooms, dancing and discrimination--the jazz friends were black. Never-before-told tales about famous artists.
Titles:My Unforgettable Jazz Friends
  
Name:History Publishing Group Inc.
Email:kari@twistintime.com
Website Address:http://www.twistintime.com
Titles:"Twist in Time; History's Mysteries Revealed" by Bill Coate
  
Name:Loraine Holden
Email:elholden@calweb.com
Website Address:http://www.dontgetthin-gethealthy.com
Description:Holden, over 70, shows you can prevent debilitating aging by ignoring popular media and some medical advice, avoiding extremes in diet, exercise, lifestyle, using natural foods and selected supplements - not expensive drugs.
Titles:Don't Get Thin, Get Healthy
  
Name:Frankie J. Holtz-Davis
Email:myfrankie@comcast.net
Description:Mahrynie Red epitomizes storytelling, with the right blend of transitioning emotions, conflict, intrigue; insatiable humor, unrelenting suspense and page-turning anticipation. It is frothed with family secrets, romance, murder, suicide; and surviving against all odds.
Titles:Mahrynie Red Books
  
Name:Jan King
Email:jbaileyking@cox.net
Description:Dianetics is a technology which uncovers the source of unwanted sensations, emotions, accidents, injuries and psychosomatic illnesses and which sets for the effective handling for these conditions.
Titles:Dianetics Self Analysis Clear Mind, Clear Body
  
Name:Jim Kohl
Email:jim@noblepoverty.com
Website Address:http://www.noblepoverty.com
Description:Jim Kohl is a self-published author of literary fiction and a memoir. His newest work, Through the Fog, mixes realism and a time travel fantasy. His memoir, Noble Poverty, deals with underpaid teachers.
Titles:Through the Fog, One Truth at a Time, Noble Poverty
  
Name:Mel Lees
Email:lemsell@aol.com
Description:Story of revolution from 1775 through the war of 1812.
Titles:The Wheeler Saga
  
Name:Dorothy Lowe
Email:dandwlowe@tcsn.net
Description:Almost forgotten today, Camp Atascadero, on the cutting edge of military innovations 100 years ago, was located on the site of the present city of Atascadero.
Titles:Camp Atascadero. First Joint Maneuvers, U.S. Army and California's National Guard
  
Name:Kathryn Madison
Email:kathrynmadison@sbcglobal.net
Website Address:http://www.kathrynmadison.com
Description:The Canadian Rockies summons woman and wolf - survive or die. In this epic outdoor adventure, nature's the unforgiving crucible forcing Alexandra Verrazano and survivor, a while timber wolf, to forge lives of strength from struggle.
Titles:Woman's Sigh, Wolf's Song
  
Name:Dean Mignola
Email:jdpress@charter.net
Website Address:http://www.singleguysurvival.com
Description:Packed with edgy humor illustration, and hot tips! Single guys can learn how to multiply their onety, camouflage their flaws, banish bad breath and body odor, and attract women like a rock star!
Titles:The Single Guy's Survival Guide
  
Name:Robert L. Mott
Email:bmott@charter.net
Description:In his forty-year career in live radio and television as a writer and Emmy-nominated sound effects artist, Robert L. Mott did sound effects on gangbusters and wrote comedy for Red Skelton.
Titles:Radio Live! Television Live!; Radio Sound Effects
  
Name:Jeanne "Bean" Murdock
Email:jeanne@beanfit.com
Website Address:http://www.beanfit.com
Description:This timeless exercise book contains 120 excuses not to exercise and reasons why each is invalid. Packed with information on exercise theory, "Excuses" captivates the reader with humor, illustrations, and an eye-catching graphic design.
Titles:The Every Excuse in the Book Book: How to Benefit from Exercising by Overcoming Your Excuses
  
Name:Loren Nicholson
Email:lnichols@calpoly.edu
Description:Loren Nicholson, retired Cal Poly Professor, has written five historical books and at least 100 articles about San Luis Obispo County and California.
Titles:Rails Across the Ranchos Romualdo Pachero's California
  
Name:Novel Experience
Description:As your local, independent, general bookstore, we are proud to present a wide selection of the latest and the best central coast authors and subjects in print.
Titles:Various titles including books by Catherine Ryan Hyde and Susan Branch.
  
Name:Jackie O'Brien
Email:jackieoslifestory@yahoo.com
Website Address:http://centralcoastindex.com/jackie
Description:The Jackie O' novel includes Michael Jackson and Calvin Andras of the Drifters, autographs and photos. Go online and check out my West Hollywood photo shoot at centralcoastindex.com/jackie.
Titles:The Life and Times of Jackie O' it was a full moon
  
Name:Lori Paris
Email:janos@direcway.com
Website Address:http://www.authorsden.com/loriaparis
Description:"Follow Your Heart" by Lori Paris is a touching and heartwarming account of a young woman who discovers she was adopted. She sets out on a quest for her true identity, no matter what the risk.
Titles:Follow Your Heart
  
Name:Partners In Health
Website Address:http://www.slocms.org
Description:Partners in Health strives to increase public education and awareness of local healthcare services through collaborative outreach and by promoting the availability of a 24-hour information, referral and crisis intervention phone line.
  
Name:Dennis J. Pezzato, Ph.D.
Email:dennis@dennispezzato.com
Website Address:http://www.dennispezzato.com
Description:These self-help pocket guides approach their topics in an easy and accessible manner. They are designed to inform and motivate. They contain strategies which can make coping easier, move enjoyable, and more productive.
Titles:Kids Don't Come with Instructions Adult Children Don't Come with Instructions Marriage Doesn't Come with Instructions We Don't Come with Instructions
  
Name:Poor Richards Press
Email:tkeneipp@poorrichards.com
Website Address:http://www.poorrichards.com
Description:Poor Richard's Press is a commercial printing company located on the Central Coast of California, specializing in high quality digital and offset printing.
  
Name:Joel Pullen
Email:info@summersetproductions.com
Website Address:http://www.summersetproductions.com
Description:A paradox, an enigma, and a mystery are uncovered and the poorest kids ever to leave Little Rock are left with the axiom "It always works sometimes" and the Jimmy Durante: "Them's the conditions that prevail."
Titles:It Always Works Sometimes
  
Name:Mara Purl
Email:reya@havenbooks.net
Website Address:http://www.havenbooks.net
Description:Mara Purl's "What the Heart Knows" begins the California Central Coast saga of the small coastal town of Milford-Haven, a place of small-town simplicities and global complexities.
Titles:What the Heart Knows; Christmas Angels; Cause and Conscience
  
Name:Lori Rai
Email:donrai@ix.netcom.com
Description:Princess Sheron & the Frog is a children's book & coloring book that offers a twist on the Frog meets the Princess theme. It speaks to the heart of every young women who ever met a Frog.
Titles:Princess Sheron & the Frog
  
Name:Robert E. Kennedy Library
Email:jkunkler@calpoly.edu
Website Address:http://www.lib.calpoly.edu
Description:"Vast Pastoral Domain": two of the earliest accounts of the growth and development of SLO County in the 1870s. Cal Poly" celebrates the university's centennial by tracing the development of Cal Poly and the people who made it happen.
Titles:A Vast Pastoral Domain: San Luis Obispo in the 1870s; Cal Poly: The First Hundred Years
  
Name:Ona Russell, Ph.D.
Email:onarussell@yahoo.com
Website Address:http://www.onarussell.com
Description:Ona Russell's debut novel, O'Brien's Desk, was published in 2004 and she is currently working on her second historical mystery. Ona teaches interdisciplinary courses and lectures on the intersection of literature and the law.
Titles:O'Brien's Desk
  
Name:San Luis Obispo Literacy Council
Website Address:http://http://www.sloliteracy.org/
Description:The San Luis Obispo Literacy Council is a non-profit organization committed to assisting adult learners and their families in the development of English language communication.
  
Name:San Luis Obispo Medical Society
Email:nikki@thesocietygroupfoundation.org
Website Address:http://www.slocms.org
  
Name:Thordis Seager
Email:thordisseager@charter.net
Website Address:http://cookglutenfree.com
Description:"Gluten Free Diet, ha!" she said. "A Piece of Cake!" Author Thorids Seager's determination to simplify this diet is shared in her first cookbook "Simply Delicious Wheat and Gluten Free Cooking."
Titles:Simply Delicious Wheat and Gluten Free Cooking
  
Name:Sherry Shahan
Email:kidbooks@thegrid.net
Description:Sherry Shahan has written many books for young readers, including Alaskan-based adventure, "Frozen Stiff." Her new survival novel, "Death Mountain," is based on a personal experience.
Titles:Death Mountain Cool Cats Counting Frozen Stiff
  
Name:Phil Silver
Email:pnsilver1@surewest.net
Website Address:http://pbjpublishing.com
Description:This is a children's book designed for parents to read to their children. Boga Bear and his friends Skola Squirrel and Bunko Bunny meet and decide how to stay cool in the forest.
Titles:Boga Bear: Beat the Heat Boga Bear: Staying Cool
  
Name:Robert H. Simmons
Email:robert@roberthsimmons.com
Website Address:http://www.roberthsimmons.com
Description:A must-read for all couples, this book offers practical information with road-tested exercises to help you revitalize your relationship.
Titles:Beyond Romance, Making Love Last
  
Name:Sisters In Crime
Email:vheckman@charter.net
Website Address:http://sincrime.vedrin.org
Description:Sisters in Crime is an international organization of writers and readers. Criteria to join: Must love reading mysteries! Meet us at SLO Borders the second Saturday of the month from 10:30 to 12:00.
Titles:. . . And Some of Them Are Dead
  
Name:SLO Friends of the Library
Description:SLO Friends of the Library selling nearly new hardback fiction books and paper backs. Funds go to supplement our city/county library.
  
Name:SLO Nightwriters
Email:lori@lorisfisher.com
Website Address:http://www.slonightwriters.org
Description:SLO Nightwriters is a local non-profit organization that promotes quality writing among its members. This group is comprised of a variety of writers in all genres -- published and unpublished. Visit www.slonightwriters.org for more information.
Titles:"Tangled Webs" by Susan Tuttle, "Everything You've Always Wanted to Know About Special Relativity But Were Afraid to Ask" by Kenneth Knight, "The Vegetarian Mother's Cookbook" and "Simply Natural Baby Food" by Cathe Olson, "Rails Across the Ranchos: Centennial Edition of the Southern Pacific Coastal Line Railroad Centennial Years" and Glimpses of Childhood in the Old West, 1840-1940" by Loren Nicholson
  
Name:Abrendal Smith
Email:abrendal@charter.net
Website Address:http://www.blackpennypress.com
Description:A tale of humanity, infidelity, and triumph of the human spirit. A young pregnant girl finds a condom in her husband's shirt pocket after she ran away with him. He said he was "framed."
Titles:A Fugitive's Wife
  
Name:Maggie Caldwell Smith
Email:magsmith1265@msn.com
Description:The first book in a new middle-grade series, The Case of the Wounded Jack Rabbit features 12-year-old Tommy Wilson, veterinarian volunteer who is determined to expose whoever is hurting local Arizona wildlife.
Titles:Tommy Wilson, Junior Veterinarian: The Case of the Wounded Jack Rabbit
  
Name:John Spivey
Email:john@crowscry.com
Website Address:http://www.crowscry.com
Description:The Great Western Divide -- Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance meets John Muir and Joseph Campbell.
Titles:The Great Western Divide: A History with Crow Coyotes, Chaos, and God
  
Name:Splashes of Color Bookstore
Email:info@splashesofcolor.org
Website Address:http://www.splashesofcolor.org
Description:Splashes of Color is a small non profit bookstore in Sylmar California. We specialize in mutli-cultural and bilingual books for children and books of all languages.
Titles:Assorted multi-cultural bilingual children's books
  
Name:Elizabeth Spurr
Email:elizabeth@elizabethspurr.com
Website Address:http://www.elizabethspurr.com
Description:Spurr , who has published numerous books with major New York houses, will be signing her two new picture books Halloween Skyride, (Holiday House) illustrated by Ethan Long, and The Peterkinsı Thanksgiving, (Atheneum), companion book to last yearıs The Peterkinsı Christmas, both illustrated by Wendy Anderson Halperin.
Titles:Halloween Skyride The Peterkins' Thanksgiving The Peterkins' Christmas
  
Name:Joan Sullivan
Email:artseen@charter.net
Website Address:http://www.artseenjs.com
Description:As a writer/reporter for the Bay News and The Coast News, Joan Sullivan writes about local artists and SLO history. As a producer for Picture The Past Productions, she videotapes historical documentaries aired on Channel 2.
Titles:La Canada de Los Osos: All About Baywod Park, Touring the Froom Ranch, Castle Chronicles, One Room Rural Schools in LO Valley, Video: New Bells for the Old Mission
  
Name:Templeton Community Library Association
Email:rsdutra@sbcglobal.com
Description:Booth to provide information, donation information as well as architectural displays of proposed Templeton Community Library.
  
Name:Candy Taylor Tutt
Email:ibdragon@sbcglobal.net
Website Address:http://www.tendragontails.com
Description:"What a delightful little work!" - Heartland Reviews. Voted "2004 Best Fantasy Book," Sacramento Publishers and Authors. Dragons come alive in historical-fantasy settings.
Titles:Ten Dragon Tails
  
Name:Nancy L. Walter
Email:walterfam4@charter.net
Description:Bumpsie the Red-Footed Tortoise is a fun and educational children's board book. The light-hearted adventures of Bumpsie and his friends are sure to capture the hearts of children and parents as well.
Titles:Bumpsie the Red-Footed Tortoise; Bumpsie's Garden
  
Name:Dr. Scott Whitaker
Email:whitakers@cdm.com
Website Address:http://medisin.ownspot.com
Description:The book MediSin provides a fascinating and unique perspective of the unholy practices of Western Medicine and the commercialization of devalized and chemical based foods.
Titles:MediSin: The Causes and Solutions to Disease, Malnutrition and the Medical Sins that are Killing the World
  
Name:Franz Wisner
Email:frwisner@yahoo.com
Website Address:http://www.honeymoonwithmybrother.com
Description:Franz Wisner had the honeymoon of a lifetime - fifty-three countries, two years, and a world of discovery. The only item missing was the bride. "Honeymoon with my Brother" is an inspiring tale of escape, strenthening relationships, and grasping opportunity when life strands you at the altar.
Titles:Honeymoon with my Brother
  
Name:Marion Wolff
Description:The emotionally charged vignettes and poems in this autobiography reflect with honesty, pain, and humor the many faceted life of the writer who, aged eight, escaped the holocaust on a kinderstransport to England.
Titles:Shedding Skins
  

 

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