New Arrivals

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.

Jann Eyrich lives in Sonoma County. Her eco-mystery, The Rotting Whale covers the exploits of a San Francisco building inspector.

Novato author Lea Aschkenas reads from her children's book, "Arletis, Abuelo, and the Message in a Bottle." It’s based on the true story of a little girl named Arletis who, on her 8th birthday, finds a message in a bottle on the beach near her home in rural Cuba. It came out on April 25, 2023.

Lily Iona MacKenzie lives in Richmond. Her poetry collection, California Dreaming. It's about life and the things she experience in the outer world.

Moazzam Sheikh lives in San Francisco. His book, A Footbridge to Hell Called Love, is about a person's search for love, dignity and acceptance.

Novato author Anita Gail Jones reads from her new novel, “The Peach Seed.“ It’s about how a glimmer of hope as small as a seed ripples through generations in one family. It came out on August 1, 2023.

Cloverdale author Vince Montague reads from his new book, "Cracked Pot." It is about a fragmented experience with trauma and loss and how he turns to clay and making pots to transform my pain into the making of art. It was published in February 2023.

Jane Kuo lives in San Carlos. Her book, Land of Broken Promises is about her experience growing up as an undocumented immigrant. It came out on June 6, 2023.

Claudia Hagadus Long lives in Calistoga. Her book, Our Lying Kin, is about stolen artifacts, some insurance fraud, a family scandal, and maybe a murder. It came out on February 28th, 2023.

Cecelia Rabess lives in San Francisco. Her novel Everything's Fine is about a young, progressive black woman who falls for a young conservative white guy. It came out June 6th, 2023.