New Arrivals

Oakland author Aida Salazar's children's book When Moon Blooms is about Mexican-Indigenous culture. It came out on February 27th, 2024.

San Francisco author Katie Flynn reads from her new book about characters who face their monsters and sometimes become them. It's called "Island Rule."

Oakland author Natalie Foster writes a provocation for the economy that she says we deserve in America. Her book is titled "The Guarantee: Inside the Fight for America’s Next Economy."

Berkeley author William Smock reads from his new novel about the most irresponsible, disobedient boy in the world. It's called "Bobby Lord of Acton Waters."

San Francisco author Lissa Soep reads from her book "Other People’s Words." It's about friendship as a great love and how we hold loved ones close after they're gone through the language that they leave behind.

San Francisco author Ethel Rohan reads from her book "Sing, I." It's about a middle aged woman living in Half Moon Bay and questioning if she's in her right life and what she should or perhaps should not do about that.

Mae Respicio lives in San Rafael. Her middle grade novel, Isabel in Bloom is about 12-year-old Isabel, who's leaving the Philippines for San Francisco to finally reunite with her mother, an overseas Filipino worker whom she's only seen five times in five years.

Carolina Ixta's debut novel, is about a young Latina woman named Belen Dolores Ixtel del Toro who was trying to find her way in a very messy and very complicated senior year of high school.

Luiza Flynn-Goodlett lives in Richmond. Her poetry chapbook "Familiar" is about a time traveling witch, childhood trauma, healing, and transformational magic. And there's footnotes.

Margaret Juhae Lee lives in Oakland. Her book, Starry Field is about her family's search for information about my grandfather, who was a student revolutionary in colonial Korea.

Jason Roberts lives in Oakland. His book is about one of the most important rivalries in history, a rivalry that shaped the nature of our relationship to the natural world.

Sasha Vasilyuk's novel is about a Soviet World War Two veteran with a dangerous secret, and it's loosely based on her grandfather.

Eizabeth Stix's book is a collection of linked stories full of quirky, lonely characters all seeking connection but who can’t help getting in their own way.

We hear a reading from local actor and Zen Buddhist priest, Peter Coyote. It's about Japanese gift wrapping around Buddhist teachings.

Madeleine Cravens poetry collection is about queer relationships and family history set in New York City.

Minnie Phan lives in Oakland. Her new book Simone is a collaboration with Viet Thanh Nguyen. It's about wildfires and Vietnamese families' experience with climate change.

Mara Kardas-Nelson reads from her book about the history of small anti-poverty loans, how those came to dominate international development, and what that means for poor borrowers around the world.

Oakland author Daniel Gumbiner reads from his new book, "Fire in the Canyon." It's about what happens to a family in the Sierra Nevada foothills after a wildfire moves through their town.

East Menlo Park author Dorsey Nunn reads from his new book "What Kind of Bird Can’t Fly." He wrote it in collaboration with journalist Lee Romney. It's about the fight for the full restoration of civil and human rights of incarcerated and formerly incarcerated people

Berkeley author Elizabeth Reed Aden reads from her new book, "The Goldilocks Genome."

Greg Sarris lives in Sonoma County. His collection of stories, The Forgetters, came out on April 16th, 2024.

Satsuki Ina lives in Albany. Her book, The Poet and the Silk Girl came out on March 26th, 2024.

Bridget Quinn lives in Occidental. Her book is "Portrait of a Woman." It's a story about reclaiming a woman's life and work from the ashes of revolution.

Natasha Triplett's book celebrates Junteenth with the reader through a community parade, a family bbq, and finally a recounting the importance of the holiday.

Jude Berman's book is about saving democracy and it draws on the wisdom of the Mahābhārata to help us figure that out.