New Arrivals
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When Bay Area book tours and launch parties were canceled due to the coronavirus, KALW producer Lisa Morehouse decided to bring author readings to you in this socially-distanced book tour. We loved the idea so much, we're going to keep the book party going with this pocket-sized book tour.Want to tell us about a book that's being published soon by a local author? Write us at new.arrivals@kalw.org.New Arrivals airs on KALW 91.7 FM in the San Francisco Bay Area on Tuesdays at 7:19 a.m. and 3:48 p.m.
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Jase Peeples pens YA novel about gay, comic book-obsessed teen
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May 19, 2026 |
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Nadine Takvorian graphic novel explores Armenian genocide
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May 12, 2026 |
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Caroline Paul book extols the wonders of flight
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May 05, 2026 |
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Liam O’Brien creates illustrated guide to Bay Area butterflies
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Sep 30, 2025 |
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Eddy Rubin book an illustrated nature guide to Ocean Beach
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Sep 23, 2025 |
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Taiwanese novelist takes a California road trip in Alvin Lu novel
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Sep 16, 2025 |
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Gary Prost book explores California’s geology
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Sep 09, 2025 |
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John Doll pens noir set in San Jose
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Aug 26, 2025 |
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Beverly Burch novel spans San Francisco, Nashville
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Aug 21, 2025 |
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James Cagney defies genre in ode to Oakland Ghetto Koans
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Aug 19, 2025 |
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Emile DeWeaver book combines social commentary with personal narrative about prison
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Aug 12, 2025 |
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Desire – and airplanes – at center of new Kate Folk novel
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Aug 05, 2025 |
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Relearning language, history in new Caroline M. Mar poetry collection
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Jul 29, 2025 |
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Susanna Kwan book set in deluged future San Francisco
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Jul 22, 2025 |
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Aimee Phan pens young adult fantasy inspired by Vietnamese lore
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Jul 15, 2025 |
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Debut Wendy M. Thompson poetry collection explores the Black Bay Area
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Jul 08, 2025 |
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Gilded age con artist steals for love in Danielle Teller novel
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May 20, 2025 |
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Violence, humor overlap in lives of queer women in new Lori Ostlund collection
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May 13, 2025 |
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Bonnie Tsui flexes in new book: On Muscle
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May 06, 2025 |
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Khan Wong book combines speculative, historical fiction
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Apr 29, 2025 |
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Southern road trip inspires new Luiza Flynn-Goodlett poetry collection
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Apr 22, 2025 |
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Brittany Newell novel explores SF underground, and love
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Apr 15, 2025 |
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Kat Crosswell coming of age novel features Jazzy protagonist
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Apr 08, 2025 |
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In new Ellen Barker novel, a woman scrambles after losing tech job
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Feb 25, 2025 |
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Maxine Rose Schur pens new young adult adventure book
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Feb 18, 2025 |
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Good people make terrible choices in Samantha Schoech story collection
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Feb 11, 2025 |
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Elizabeth Horner Turner chapbook offers surreal, offbeat flash fictions
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Feb 04, 2025 |
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Gloria Huang middle grade fantasy novel explores anxiety, and culture
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Jan 28, 2025 |
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New collection celebrates Heyday at 50
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Jan 21, 2025 |
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Alison Owings profiles the “mayor” of the Tenderloin
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Jan 14, 2025 |
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Jack Gedney guide explores birds in the oaks
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Jan 07, 2025 |
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L. John Harris searches for story behind a portrait
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Dec 17, 2024 |
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Anita Felicelli collection explores time, memory, and desire.
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Dec 10, 2024 |
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Jeff Miller writes irreverent nature guide
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Dec 03, 2024 |
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New edition of Stephen Most book tracks Klamath dam removal
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Nov 26, 2024 |
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Terry Tierney's poetry questions our relationships with each other and the earth.
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Nov 19, 2024 |
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New children’s book explores multi-cultural family moving to new home
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Nov 12, 2024 |
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Aaron Carnes defends ska music in his expanded, second edition
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Nov 05, 2024 |
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John Stallcup pens political thriller from Navajo perspective
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Oct 29, 2024 |
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Jeff Raz's book details circus connections between Nanjing and San Francisco
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Oct 22, 2024 |
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Environmental novel by Lenore Weiss is set in a paper mill
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Oct 15, 2024 |
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In memoir, Zack Rogow connects with father he barely knew
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Oct 08, 2024 |
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Sam Sax novel – longlisted for the National Book Awards – is a queer, Jewish, coming of age story
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Oct 01, 2024 |
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Sheri Joseph writes near-future love and adventure story
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Sep 19, 2024 |
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Climate change central to new Nina Schuyler story collection
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Sep 17, 2024 |
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Love, lust, and gardening in new Marie Mutsuki Mockett novel
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Sep 12, 2024 |
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Ecy Femi King pens graphic guide to computer science
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Sep 10, 2024 |
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Summer Brenner’s memoir dedicated to her brother with schizophrenia
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Sep 05, 2024 |
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Josh Fernandez memoir details life opposed to status quo
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Sep 03, 2024 |
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Molly Giles memoir spans the Golden Gate Bridge
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Aug 29, 2024 |
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Aida Salazar uses Mexican indigenous teachings to explain the moon
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Aug 27, 2024 |
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Katie Flynn writes book of interconnected, genre-bending stories
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Aug 22, 2024 |
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Natalie Foster argues for a new American economy
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Aug 20, 2024 |
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William Smock writes middle school novel
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Aug 15, 2024 |
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Lissa Soep book explores love, language and friendship
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Aug 13, 2024 |
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Ethel Rohan protagonist questions if she’s in her right life
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Aug 08, 2024 |
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Family reunites in Mae Respicio middle grade novel
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Aug 06, 2024 |
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A complicated senior year at the heart of Carolina Ixta debut novel
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Aug 01, 2024 |
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Luiza Flynn-Goodlett’s eighth poetry chapbook is infused with transformational magic
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Jul 30, 2024 |
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Margaret Juhae Lee memoir a family search into her grandfather’s revolutionary life
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Jul 25, 2024 |
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Jason Roberts writes about rivalry that shaped our relationship to the natural world
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Jul 23, 2024 |
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Sasha Vasilyuk novel features Soviet WWII veteran with a secret
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Jul 18, 2024 |
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Suburban angst and magic cross paths in a cul-de-sac in Elizabeth Stix story collection
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Jul 16, 2024 |
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Peter Coyote applies fundamental teachings of the Buddah to modern life
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Jul 11, 2024 |
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Queer relationships, family history at center of Madeleine Cravens poetry collection
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Jul 09, 2024 |
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Minnie Phan and Viet Thanh Nguyen publish picture book/graphic novel hybrid
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Jul 02, 2024 |
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Mara Kardas-Nelson book excavates the history of microfinance loans
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Jun 28, 2024 |
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Fire rips through Sierra Nevada town in Daniel Gumbiner novel
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Jun 25, 2024 |
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Dorsey Nunn book chronicles the fight for rights of incarcerated people
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Jun 04, 2024 |
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Elizabeth Reed Aden pens medical thriller
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May 28, 2024 |
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Storytellers share histories in Greg Sarris's 'The Forgetters'
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May 21, 2024 |
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Satsuki Ina memoir explores her family’s wrongful WWII incarceration
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May 14, 2024 |
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Bridget Quinn writes biography of revolutionary woman artist
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May 07, 2024 |
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Natasha Triplett book celebrates Juneteenth
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Apr 30, 2024 |
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Jude Berman writes book of speculative fiction
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Apr 23, 2024 |
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Sheryl Kaskowitz book details secret government folk music program
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Apr 16, 2024 |
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Alison Throckmorton pens guide of humorous household tips
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Apr 09, 2024 |
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Caroline Paul book explores women, aging, and the outdoors
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Apr 02, 2024 |
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Grace Loh Prasad finds her way back to Taiwanese identity in memoir
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Mar 26, 2024 |
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Andrew Garrett writes about efforts to record stories and languages of California indigenous people
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Mar 19, 2024 |
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Mary Ladd edits collection about long Covid
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Mar 05, 2024 |
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Surrealist short story collection from Sommer Schafer
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Feb 27, 2024 |
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Chas Halpern novel features three women brought together through circumstance
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Feb 20, 2024 |
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Alvin Orloff novel looks back at a changing San Francisco of the 90s
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Feb 13, 2024 |
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Adam Mansbach pens romp through history — with a golem come to life
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Feb 06, 2024 |
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Maya Ealey writes The Anti-Racist Vocab Guide
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Jan 30, 2024 |
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Stephanie Wildman writes book for kids
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Jan 23, 2024 |
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Lisa Hamilton book profiles Central Valley rice farmer
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Jan 16, 2024 |
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Maxine Rose Schur picture book features worst baker, worst seamstress in the world
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Dec 07, 2023 |
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Ilana DeBare novel is set in the Bay Area … and Hell
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Dec 05, 2023 |
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Joanne Greene pens memoir after car accident
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Nov 30, 2023 |
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Roberto Lovato Memoir Explores Love And Terror In The US And El Salvador
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Nov 28, 2023 |
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In Katie Flynn's Eerily Timed Novel, A Virus — And Quarantine — Hit San Francisco
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Nov 28, 2023 |
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Katherine Seligman Explores The Edge Of The Haight
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Nov 28, 2023 |
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James Nestor Explores How Humans Lost Their Ability To Breathe
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Nov 28, 2023 |
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Heather Young Novel Explores Secrets And Murder In The Desert
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Nov 28, 2023 |
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Zara Stone Book Declares: The Future Of Science Is Female
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Nov 28, 2023 |
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Molly Giles novel provides a home for unwed husbands
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Nov 28, 2023 |
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Beverly Parayno stories showcase the resilience of Filipinas
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Nov 16, 2023 |
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Creativity Explored celebrates its 40th anniversary with a book
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Nov 14, 2023 |
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Luisa Giulianetti’s multi-genre collection explores her Italian-ness
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Nov 09, 2023 |
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Susan Kiyo Ito writes an intimate memoir on adoption
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Nov 07, 2023 |
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Terry Tierney novel set in Reagan-era Binghamton, NY
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Nov 02, 2023 |
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Beth Winegarner book tells buried history of SF’s cemeteries
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Oct 31, 2023 |
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Susannah Kennedy memoir explores her mother’s diaries after suicide
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Oct 27, 2023 |
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Paul Flores poetry collection tackles life’s unexpected turns
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Oct 24, 2023 |
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In this Hilary Zaid novel, the protagonist is an artist at mid-life, up against a social media giant
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Oct 19, 2023 |
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Japanese izakaya meets California cuisine in Sylvan Mishima Brackett cookbook, Rintaro
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Oct 17, 2023 |
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Tess Taylor's collection of poems is about gardening in an era of climate change
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Oct 12, 2023 |
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A new way to look at San Francisco history in Alec Scott book
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Oct 10, 2023 |
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Ben Schwartz writes novel set at a family farm
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Oct 05, 2023 |
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Zusha Elinson and Cameron McWhirter write a history of the AR-15 rifle
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Oct 03, 2023 |
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Jen Lumanlan's book describes parenting beyond power
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Sep 28, 2023 |
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Minna Dubin tackles maternal anger in new book
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Sep 26, 2023 |
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In Yael Goldstein-Love's novel, new motherhood meets science fiction
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Sep 21, 2023 |
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Sara Calvosa Olson writes contemporary cookbook of Native Californian foodways
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Sep 19, 2023 |
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Jann Eyrich’s new eco-mystery has unlikely hero: a San Francisco building inspector
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Sep 15, 2023 |
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Lea Aschkenas children's book based on a real-life message in a bottle
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Sep 14, 2023 |
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Lily Iona MacKenzie poetry collection
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Sep 07, 2023 |
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In Moazzam Sheikh novel, characters search for love, acceptance
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Sep 05, 2023 |
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Generations hang onto a glimmer of hope in Anita Gail Jones novel
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Aug 08, 2023 |
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Clay transforms pain in Vince Montague's book
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Aug 03, 2023 |
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Jane Kuo writes about growing up as an undocumented immigrant
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Aug 01, 2023 |
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Latest family mystery from Claudia Hagadus Long
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Jul 27, 2023 |
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Opposites attract in Cecelia Rabess novel
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Jul 25, 2023 |
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Essential North African dust the topic of Jilanne Hoffmann children’s book
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Jul 20, 2023 |
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Thought leaders across the African diaspora featured in Sarah Ladipo Manyika's book
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Jul 18, 2023 |
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Linda Joy Myers writes historical fiction about the French resistance
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Jul 13, 2023 |
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Irena Smith pens memoir about college admissions – from the inside
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Jul 11, 2023 |
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Ann Jacobus tackles mental health, grief, redemption in her novel
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Jul 06, 2023 |
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In her novel, Nina Schuyler’s protagonist brings back voice of her dead husband
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Jun 29, 2023 |
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Andrew Alden explores Oakland’s human and geological histories
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Jun 27, 2023 |
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Firefighter paramedic Christy Warren writes memoir about recovering from PTSD
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Jun 22, 2023 |
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Father-daughter story at the heart of Mark Ernest Pothier’s debut novel
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Jun 20, 2023 |
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Historical novel by Ginny Kubitz Moyer set on a Peninsula country estate
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Jun 15, 2023 |
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Dominic Lim pens queer Asian romcom
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Jun 13, 2023 |
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Alix Christie writes historical novel about 19th century Northwest fur trade
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Jun 08, 2023 |
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Rita Chang-Eppig Novel features a legendary Chinese pirate queen
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Jun 06, 2023 |
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David Brehmer's poems explore life after a tragic drunk driving collision
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Jun 01, 2023 |
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Eirinie Carson writes memoir about Black love, and loss
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May 30, 2023 |
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Judy Wells pens new collection of travel poems
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May 25, 2023 |
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Dean Rader’s poems respond to Cy Twombly artwork
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May 23, 2023 |
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Robert Cherny biography chronicles labor leader Harry Bridges
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May 18, 2023 |
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Heather Bourbeau explores overlooked or forgotten histories
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May 16, 2023 |
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Lauren Schiller and Hadley Dynak write a guidebook for a feminist future
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May 11, 2023 |
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New book by activist Alice Wong an impressionistic memoir
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May 09, 2023 |
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Reyna Grande's historical novel, set during the Mexican-American war
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Apr 24, 2023 |
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Lynne Twist book encourages lives of meaning, purpose
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Apr 18, 2023 |
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Berkeley’s David Fenton reflects on a life in activism in his book
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Apr 11, 2023 |
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Novel by Ellen Barker explores race and redlining
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Apr 04, 2023 |
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New Rue Mapp Book celebrates black joy in nature
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Mar 28, 2023 |
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Louise Nayer reflects on the impacts of a childhood accident
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Mar 21, 2023 |
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Improving communication skills is at the heart of book by Dan Clurman and Mudita Nisker
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Mar 14, 2023 |
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In homage to 'Ivanhoe,' Esther Erman book centers a Jewish woman physician
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Mar 07, 2023 |
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Mylo Schaff poems explore the path from deep grief
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Feb 28, 2023 |
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Thomas McKenna book chronicles a little-known resistance movement of WWII
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Feb 21, 2023 |
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Children’s picture book by Monica Wesolowska celebrates being yourself
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Feb 14, 2023 |
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Two poets hold conversation across continents during lockdown
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Feb 07, 2023 |
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Multi-generational Iranian-American family at the heart of Susanne Pari novel
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Jan 31, 2023 |
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Leticia Del Toro collection explores motherhood and family expectations
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Jan 24, 2023 |
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Writing guide penned by the prolific Susan Griffin
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Jan 17, 2023 |
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Melanie Abrams and Larry Smith write about the joy of cannabis
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Jan 10, 2023 |
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George McCalman book honors Black pioneers in portrait
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Dec 16, 2022 |
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A chronicle of Linda Ronstadt’s deep roots in Southern Arizona, Northern Mexico
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Dec 16, 2022 |
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Ajuan Mance book is a response to the criminalization of Black people’s daily lives
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Dec 13, 2022 |
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Children take a treasure hunt in Stephanie Wildman book
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Dec 08, 2022 |
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Edward Gunawan reconciles past traumas in poetry and prose
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Dec 06, 2022 |
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Paola Gianturco, Avery Sangster profile women combating climate change
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Dec 01, 2022 |
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Gus D’Angelo’s children's book celebrates National Parks
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Nov 29, 2022 |
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Hunters Point meets Trieste in Tania Romanov’s pilgrimage in San Francisco
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Nov 28, 2022 |
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Jose Antonio Villaran writes poems about mining, natural resource extraction
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Nov 22, 2022 |
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Family and work-place drama in new Toby Brookes novel
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Nov 17, 2022 |
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Tanya Holland cookbook reveals California’s influence on the chef
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Nov 16, 2022 |
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Lyzette Wanzer explores the policing of Afro-Latina and African-American women's natural hair
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Nov 10, 2022 |
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Leslie Absher writes about growing up with a CIA dad
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Nov 09, 2022 |
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Tang dynasty poet inspires Patrick James Dunagan’s new book
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Nov 01, 2022 |
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Caroline M. Mar poems explore her relationship with railroad laborer ancestors
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Oct 20, 2022 |
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Ian Mitroff book challenges COVID-19 anti-vaxxers
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Oct 19, 2022 |
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K.M. Soehnlein novel centers 1980s AIDS activism
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Oct 18, 2022 |
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Scott Badler book features JFK as a teen
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Oct 14, 2022 |
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Patrick James Dunagan edits previously unpublished work by late poet David Meltzer
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Oct 06, 2022 |
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Julia Scheeres writes biography of America’s most-read woman
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Oct 04, 2022 |
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Jack Gedney helps us pay attention to common birds
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Sep 29, 2022 |
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Kimberly Kralowec writes collection of love poems
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Sep 27, 2022 |
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Jon and Destry Jarvis say national parks threatened by political sabotage
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Sep 26, 2022 |
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Shelley Wong champions play, praise, escape, and transformation
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Sep 22, 2022 |
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Jonathan Howland novel set in California’s Eastern Sierra
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Sep 16, 2022 |
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Reem Assil cookbook details how food brought her back to her roots
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Sep 13, 2022 |
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Obi Kauffman releases a California Coasts Field Atlas
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Sep 08, 2022 |
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Greg Sarris essay collection is about what it means to be connected to one's home
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Sep 06, 2022 |
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Joshua Peralta’s debut is a coming-of-age story in poetry and prose
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Sep 01, 2022 |
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David Parker writes about being a San Francisco conservative
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Aug 30, 2022 |
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Sandy Miranda book describes a life in radio
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Aug 25, 2022 |
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Mike Trigg novel turns on fraud at a tech startup
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Aug 23, 2022 |
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Margo Candela novel explores relationships between three sisters from East LA
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Aug 18, 2022 |
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Meleah Ekstrand writes how-to on swaddling babies
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Aug 16, 2022 |
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Monica Wesolowska book for young readers inspired by the Fibonacci sequence
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Aug 11, 2022 |
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Rob Volpe publishes a collection of conversations that encourage empathy
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Aug 09, 2022 |
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Vivian Pisano memoir reflects on love and loss in a life between Chile and the US
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Aug 04, 2022 |
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Joanna Ho children’s book counters microaggressions with family, history
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Aug 03, 2022 |