New Arrivals

San Francisco author Roberto Lovato reads from his memoir "Unforgetting: A Memoir of Family, Migration, Gangs, and Revolution in the Americas." It's about his journey to understand the tenderness that survived the terror of Salvadoran and U.S. history.

San Francisco author Katie Flynn's new novel, "The Companions," which came out in March, is set in the near future, with California under quarantine.

San Francisco author Katherine Seligman reads from her new novel "At The Edge of the Haight." It’s about a girl who lives in Golden Gate Park.

San Francisco author James Nestor reads from his book, "Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art." It’s about how humans, as a species, have lost the ability to breathe properly.

Mill Valley author Heather Young reads from her novel "The Distant Dead." It's about a murder in the Nevada desert.

San Francisco-based author Zara Stone reads from her book, "The Future of Science is Female." It's about projects that women in STEM are working on.

Molly Giles reads from her book "Home For Unwed Husbands." It's about a grown woman with a good education and a decent job who still feels she has to accommodate all the men in her life. It came out on August 1.

Cameron Park author Beverly Parayno reads from her new book, “Wildflowers.” It’s about the strength, the struggles, and the resiliency of Filipinas. It came out on May 27.

Ann Kappes is the director of art partnerships at Creativity Explored. The organization’s new book, "Art is Art" was published in recognition of 40 years of art making by disabled artists.

Luisa Giulianetti lives in Kensington. Her book, "Agrodolce" focuses on the many ways she understands and imagines home.

Oakland author Susan Kiyo Ito reads from her new book, "I Would Meet You Anywhere." It's about family identity, adoption, Japanese-American experience and secrets. It came out on November 4, 2023.

Terry Tierney lives in Oakland. His book, The Bridge on Beer River, is a novel in which the characters struggle for subsistence.

Beth Winegarner lives in San Francisco. Her book, "San Francisco’s Forgotten Cemeteries" is about the history of the city's graveyards and the many dead secretly still buried here.

Marin County author Susannah Kennedy reads from her new book, "Reading Jane." It's about what happened when she explored 45 years of her mother's diaries following her suicide. It came out on September 5, 2023.

San Francisco author Paul Flores reads from his new book, "We Still Be.” It’s about how you have to adjust or transform yourself and your identity when life takes a turn you didn't expect.

Hilary Zaid lives in Oakland. Her novel, Forget I Told You This, came out on September 1st, 2023.

Chef Sylvan Mishima Brackett lives in Oakland. His cookbook, Rintaro: Japanese Food From An Izakaya in California explains the thinking that went behind Rintaro's menu.

Tess Taylor lives in El Cerrito. The book she edited, "Leaning Towards Light: Poems for Gardens and the Hands that Tend Them" is about how to be in touch and in love with the earth around us.

Alec Scott lives in Oakland. His book, Oldest San Francisco is about the oldest, this, that and the other thing in San Francisco.

Ben Schwartz lives in El Cerrito. His book, The Way It Went. It is a story of how capricious and surprising love can be and how that plays out through three generations of a farm family in the great American heartland.

Zusha Elinson and Cameron-McWhirter co-wrote the book American Gun: The True Story of the AR 15. It's a history of the gun that's often been used in mass shootings, a gun that's become the most popular rifle in America.

Jen Lumanlan lives in Berkeley. Her book, "Parenting Beyond Power," is about how we can make parenting easier.

Berkeley author Minna Dubin reads from her new book, "Mom Rage." It's about maternal anger and the ways that society and families neglect mothers. It came out on September 19, 2023.

Berkeley author Yael Goldstein-Love reads from her new novel, "The Possibilities." It's about the psychological experience of becoming a new mother, told through a multiverse suspense story.

Mill Valley author Sara Calvosa Olson reads from her book, "Chimi Nu’Am: Native Californian Foodways for the Contemporary Kitchen." It's about beginning a journey toward connection and community, good food and the role we all play in healing our world.