New Arrivals

Danielle Teller lives in Palo Alto. Her book "Forged" came out in May 2025. It's about a Gilded Age con artist who steals money from banks in the name of love.

Lori Ostlund lives in San Francisco. Her story collection "Are You Happy?" came out in May 2025. It's about the specter of violence that hangs over women in the queer community, but with humor.

Bonnie Tsui lives in Berkeley. Her book, "On Muscle: The Stuff That Moves Us and Why It Matters," was published in April 2025. It poses the question, what is power in a body? And blends science, culture, and history to answer that question.

Khan Wong lives in San Francisco. His novel, "Down in the Sea of Angels," was published April 2025. It's about a young woman with the psychic ability to know the history of any object that she touches.

Luiza Flynn-Goodlett lives in Richmond. Her poetry collection, "Mud in Our Mouths" came out in March 2025. It's about road tripping to visit family in Tennessee and simultaneously traveling back through many past selves.

Brittany Newell' book, "Soft Core," is about a stripper named Ruth who is plunged into a nocturnal journey through SF’s underground when her ex-boyfriend disappears.

Kat Crosswell lives in Oakland. Her coming of age novel for middle grades, called, "Pieces of Eight: A Harper Family Mixtape," came out in July 2024.

Ellen Barker's new book, Still Needs Work, is about a woman who loses her tech job and spends the next year scrambling to keep her life together.

Maxine Rose Schur lives in Novato. Her book, Star Brother came out in August of 2024. It's about a lonely teenager who makes a discovery that leads to an adventuring rescue mission.

Samantha Schoech book of stories, 'My Mother’s Boyfriends' is a collection about familial and personal relationships. It's full of sympathetic characters who make terrible choices.

Elizabeth Horner Turner lives in San Francisco. Her book, Horsemouth and Aquariumhead, came out in September 2024. It's a chapbook of flash Fictions, which are really short stories that imaginative and sometimes unsettling.

Gloria Huang lives in Palo Alto. Her book, Kaya of the Ocean came out January 7th, 2025. It's about an Asian-American girl in Hawaii who struggles with anxiety... until she discovers some mysterious powers.

Emmerich Anklam lives in Berkeley and works for the independent publishing house, Heyday Books. He’s the editor of Heyday At 50, which was released in September.

Alison Owings lives in San Francisco. Her book, "Mayor of the Tenderloin," came out September 10, 2024. It's essentially a redemption story about Del Seymour, who started Code Tenderloin.

Davis author Jack Gedney dives deep into the lives of California woodland birds in his new book, 'The Birds in the Oaks: Secret Voices of the Western Woods.' It came out on October 15th, 2024.

Berkeley author L. John Harris reads from his new book, "Portrait in Red: A Paris Obsession." It documents his search for the story behind an anonymous portrait of a young girl wearing a red head cover.

Anita Felicelli lives in Mountain View. Her book, How We Know Our Time Travelers, came out on December 3rd, 2024. It's a short story collection about time, memory and desire.

Jeff Miller's book, Bay Area Wild Life: an Irreverent Guide, will make you fall in love with the wild animals that can be found in the Greater San Francisco Bay Area.

The second edition of River of Renewal: Myth and History in the Klamath Basin, by Stephen Most, is about the largest dam removal and watershed restoration project in history.

Terry Tierney lives in Oakland. His poetry collection, Why Trees Stay Outside, came out October 1st, 2024. The poems question our relationships with each other and the earth.

Bay Area authors Stephanie Wildman and Adam Ryan Chang bring us a new children's book, illustrated by Dream Chen. It's about moving, change, and the collective comforts of home.

Sacramento Author Aaron Carnes makes a case for loving ska music in the expanded second edition of his book, In Defense of Ska.

Napa author, John Stallcup, reads from his new book, K’aa Lani, Many Arrows. It's a history of the Navajo, wrapped in a political thriller, and it's full of surprises.

Alameda author, Jeff Raz, reads from his book, An International Circus Affair. It's about the lasting impact of connections between Nanjing, China, and San Francisco, in the world of circus.

Oakland Author, Lenore Weiss, reads from her new environmental novel, Pulp into Paper. It's about the death of a young boy forcing out the truth about what's happening at the local paper mill.