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My name is nancy widen, i am the owner of the strand along with my dad, fred bass, who usually can be found in the buying desk on the main floor. Ninety years ago my grandfather, benjamin bass, founded the strand on fourth avenue, right around the corner. It was an area that was known as book row. It ran from about the 1880s to about is about the 1970s, and at its height there were 48 bookstores. Today were till run by my family. Were the sole survivor of decades of big box stores, amazon, ebooks, and we hold our 18 miles of books of new, rare and old. And tonight i am delighted that were goin...

My name is nancy widen, i am the owner of the strand along with my dad, fred bass, who usually can be found in the buying desk on the main floor. Ninety years ago my grandfather, benjamin bass, founded the strand on fourth avenue, right around the corner. It was an area that was known as book row. It ran from about the 1880s to about is about the 1970s, and at its height there were 48 bookstores. Today were till run by my family. Were the sole survivor of decades of big box stores, amazon, ebooks, and we hold our 18 miles of books of new, rare and old. And tonight i am delighted that were goin...

Forbes contributor. Samantha is the editor of the New York Times anthology torn, a recognized speaker on women and work, a contributor to women at forbes, the Huffington Post and disney interactive. Please join me in welcoming Heather Cabot and sam that wall raven. Thank you so much. [applause] thank you. Wow, we really appreciate you coming out on a rainy night like this x this is a super exciting moment for us because, first of all, were in the same city, which we rarely are. I live in new york, and sam lives in San Francisco. But this really is the evening before geek girl rising comes out....

Good evening ladies and gentlemen. Tonight i have the pleasure of introducing samantha as they join us to discuss the new book by former news correspondent adjunct professor at Columbia University grad school of journalism and a woman at forbes contributor. And Disney Interactive so please join me in welcoming heather and samantha. [applause] thank you. We appreciate you coming out on a night like this this is an exciting moment for us because we are in the same city but this is the evening before it comes out to two kick things off i want to show you a little book trailer first. I think that ...

Good evening ladies and gentlemen. Tonight i have the pleasure of introducing samantha as they join us to discuss the new book by former news correspondent adjunct professor at Columbia University grad school of journalism and a woman at forbes contributor. And Disney Interactive so please join me in welcoming heather and samantha. [applause] thank you. We appreciate you coming out on a night like this this is an exciting moment for us because we are in the same city but this is the evening before it comes out to two kick things off i want to show you a little book trailer first. I think that ...