PENINSULA VIRTUAL BOOKFEST 2020 SCHEDULE Welcome Message from San Mateo County Supervisor Carole Groom and local librarians https://youtu.be/D__YAzFYfV0 September 2, 1pm PT Burlingame Public Library...
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After being cleared of his wife’s murder, Todd Norman returns to her small Connecticut hometown in order to finish building their dream house by the... |
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Presented by Beacon Press Join us on Tuesday, September 29 at 1pm PDT for the book launch of Andreas Karelas' Climate Courage: How Tackling Climate Change Can Build Community,... |
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Ingrid Rojas Contreras was born and raised in Bogotá, Colombia. Her first novel Fruit of the Drunken Tree won the Silver Medal in First Fiction from the California Book...
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Daniel Mendelsohn is joined in conversation by Chris Jennings to discuss his latest book, Three Rings: A Tale of Exile, Narrative, and Fate (University of Virginia Press).... |
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90 minutes 30 readers 3 minutes each On Zoom! FREE AND ALL WELCOME! Sign up to read here: https://forms.gle/1ZNKSnnzRZpXxvUE7 If you enjoy spaces like this... |
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Join us on Monday, October 5th at 7pm PST when Aarti Namdev Shahani discusses her memoir, Here We Are, on Zoom! Zoom Login Info Please...
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Join us for a virtual conversation between Mike Jung and Olugbemisola Rhuday-Perkovich as they discuss Jung's new novel,The Boys in the Back Row. Jung will debut his forthcoming music video opus of absurdity,... |
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Katherine May joins us from the UK to discuss her new book, Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times (Riverhead Books). “Every bit as... |
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Fowzia Karimi is a writer, illustrator, and alumni of the Mills MFA in Creative Writing Program. As Publishers Weeklydescribes, her illuminated debut novel Above Us...
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Life is Living is going virtual! Mark your calendars to join in the largest celebration of Oakland taking place October 9th-11th, online. Live Music Theater...
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Join us on Friday, October 9 at 7pm PDT when Shannon Lee, discusses her book, Be Water, My Friend: The Teachings of Bruce Lee, with author Jeff Chang on... |
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Please join us on Saturday, October 10, 2020 at 11 AM PDT for an online discussion with author Keir Graff discussing his new novel, THE... |
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Catherine Grace Katz's first book, The Daughters of Yalta: The Churchills, Roosevelts, and Harrimans — A Story of Love and War, draws on newly accessible sources to... |
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City Lights in conjunction with Gray Area and FSG Originals present three days of discussion exploring the way we interact with technology and how it...
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Join us on Monday, October 12 at 5pm PST when Caroline Kim and Vanessa Hua read from their work to celebrate Caroline's new collection, The...
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Currently, one of Joe Cottonwood’s poems is on display on an 8-foot-tall billboard in the Kew Gardens in London, England. He is widely published around the world. His new book of poetry... |
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The Internet Archive and Booksmith present the virtual launch for Tim Hwang's new book, Subprime Attention Crisis: Advertising and the Time Bomb at the Heart of the Internet.... |
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Booksmith and Berkeley Arts & Letters host a virtual event with Cory Doctorow for his new book Attack Surface, a standalone novel set in the world of New York Times bestsellers Little Brother and Homeland. Please... |
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THE RACKET READING SERIES: TOTAL RECALL w/ HECTOR TOBAR ZOOM LINK TO COME! We're doing a weekly reading series. And this week, oooooh weeee, are...
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Globus Books is honored to present a new book LIFE IN SPACE, by Galina Rymbu (Галина Рымбу), translated by Joan Brooks and with the foreword by Eugene Ostashevsky,... |
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Booksmith hosts a virtual event with Rebecca Roanhorse for her new novel Black Sun. She'll be in conversation with Charlie Jane Anders. Please join us! ** Please note **... |
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Brandon Taylor, author of Booker Prize finalist Real Life and senior editor of Recommended Reading, talks to Ross Feeler about “Parisian Honeymoon,” a story about...
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Beast Generation culture exploded in the San Francisco Bay Area in the late 2000s. By 2012, we, Beast Generation writers, lived a never-ending literary feast....
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We are delighted to welcome Sherri Duskey Rinker and AG Ford as they share their newest adventure, Construction Site Mission: Demolition! Everyone's favorite construction crew is back... |
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An afternoon of ¡VIVA! poetry with Alejandro Murguía, Leticia Hernández-Linares and José Héctor Cadena. Alejandro Murguía author of Southern Front and This War Called Love, Nine Stories, City Lights...
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Discussing the intersections of their new books ReTargeting Iran published by City Lights Books & Out of Mesopotamia published by Akashic Books --------- This is... |
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The Before Columbus Foundation recognizes the winners of the 41st Annual American Book Awards. The American Book Awards were created to provide recognition for outstanding...
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Globus Books presents a talk on Wassily Kandinsky's writings for the theatre and a reading of his poetry by Lissa Tyler Renaud, one of the... |
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Booksmith and The Bindery host Michele Morano for her new collection of essays Like Love. She'll be in conversation with Ryan Van Meter (If You Knew Then What I Know Now). This... |
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An evening with Barbara Jane Reyes, Rachelle Cruz, Jan-Henry Gray and Aldrin Valdez in honor of Filipino American History Month, and in celebration of Filipinx poetry...
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ack by popular demand (and just when we need it most), good friends Anne Lamott and Janine Urbaniak Reid will be talking about what they’ve learned in Covid College... |
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90 minutes 30 readers 3 minutes each On Zoom! FREE AND ALL WELCOME! Sign up to read here: https://forms.gle/1ZNKSnnzRZpXxvUE7 If you enjoy spaces like this...
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Please join us on Tuesday, December 8, 2020 at 7 PM PST for a GGP Online Book Club discussion of Frederik Backman's new novel, ANXIOUS PEOPLE.... |
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Dena Rod Karla Brundage Peggy Morrison Sharon Coleman Norma Smith Zakiyyah G.E. Capehart Carol Dorf |