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Join us for a virtual Live Talks Los Angeles event: Monday, February10, 2025, 6pm PT/9pm ET **An Evening with Naomi Watts discussing her book, "Dare I Say It: Everything I Wish I’d Known About Menopause."** *This event is taped on Feb 3, 2025 with an audience.* VIRTUAL TICKETS (**US Orders Only**) Monday, February 10, 2025, 6pm PT/9pm ET $46 Virtual Admission + signed book (**includes shipping to US addresses only**). Includes access to watch the event on December 10 at 6pm PT/9pm ET and on video-on-demand for five days. **A frank, funny and informative guide to menopause and aging by beloved actress Naomi Watts, one of the leading voices in menopause awareness.** **Naomi Watts** is a renowned actor and producer. She has Academy Award nominations for her performances in *21 Grams* and *The Impossible*, and is also known for starring in critically acclaimed projects such as *Mulholland Drive, King Kong*, and, more recently, *Feud: Capote vs. The Swans*. She is the founder and chief creative officer of Stripes, a company dedicated to raising menopause awareness and providing women with education, community, and solutions for a holistic approach to menopause. At thirty-six, Naomi Watts had just completed filming King Kong and Read More ...

Come celebrate Black history with us at Malik Books! Meet best-selling author Derrick Barnes and dive into the rich stories of our culture.Derrick Barnes is a National Book Award Finalist for his 2022 graphic novel Victory. Stand! -Raising My Fist For Justice, which also won the 2023 YALSA Excellence in Young Adult Nonfiction Award, and a Coretta Scott King Award Author Honor. He is also the author of the critically acclaimed, multi-award-winning picture book Crown: An Ode to the Fresh Cut which received a Newbery Honor, a Coretta Scott King Author Honor, the Ezra Jack Keats New Writer Award, and the Kirkus Prize for Young Readers.In 2020, he became the only author to have won the Kirkus Prize twice for his twelfth release, the New York Times bestseller I Am Every Good Thing. The title also won a Charlotte Huck Award (NCTE), and a Boston Globe-Horn Book Award Honor.Derrick is also the creator of the New York Times Bestselling companion picture books, The King of Kindergarten (2019) and the Queen of Kindergarten (2022).He is a graduate of Jackson State University (BA-Marketing ’99) and was the first African American male creative copywriter hired by greeting cards giant Hallmark Cards. Derrick is Read More ...