New Arrivals

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.

Zack Rogow reads from his memoir, it's about his dad who was a widely published fiction writer, a Drama critic on Broadway, captain of a ship in the U.S. Navy in World War Two. And tragically, he died in an airplane crash when Rogow was just three years old.

Sam Sax reads from his new book. It's a queer Jewish coming of age story told in these nonlinear fragments. It's titled "Yr Dead" and it came out in August.

Tiburon author Sheri Joseph, reads from her new book. It's a near-future love and adventure story about genetic screening tests making it impossible to hide a secret identity. Her novel, Edge of the Known World, was released September 3rd, 2024.

San Anselmo author Nina Schuyler reads from her new book, centered around nature and the changing climate. Her collection of stories, In This Ravishing World, came out July 2, 2024.

Marie Mutsuki Mockett lives between San Francisco and Tokyo. Her novel Tree Doctor, is set in Carmel, and came out March 19th, 2024.

Palo Alto author Ecy Femi King, reads from her new book about exploring Stanford's introductory computer science classes in graphic form.

Berkeley author Summer Brenner reads from her memoir. It’s a family memoir, it's about her brother David who was schizophrenic and who came to Berkeley during the last year of his life to live with her.

Josh Fernandez reads from his memoir about a life lived in opposition to the status quo, sometimes to a fault. From anti-racist action to street violence to jail to unrelenting joy in the belief that another world is possible.

Woodacre author Molly Giles reads from her new book: a memoir about her life in the Bay Area crossing and recrossing the Golden Gate Bridge. It's called "Life Span."