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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...

Nearly 40 years ago, David D. Burns, MD, a pioneer in the development of cognitive therapy, wrote Feeling Good, a book with an uplifting message: When you...

Join us on Tuesday, September 15 at 4:30pm PDT when American Short Fiction hosts Esmé Weijun Wang as a part of their My Constellation of 8 series benefitting Green Apple...

We couldn’t be more thrilled to welcome back Drew Daywalt, (The Day the Crayons Quit), one of our all-time favorite picture book authors, for a...

Join us for the first session in our free Fall Leadership Lecture series in which Chasten Buttigieg joins Pulitzer-Prize-winner Andrew Sean Greer to talk about his new memoir, I Have...

       discussing two new books Mill Town: Reckoning With What Remains, by Kerri Arsenault published by St. Martins Press Evil Geniuses: The Unmaking of America:...

Robert Macfarlane joins us for a virtual event to celebrate the paperback release of Underland (W.W. Norton). More details coming soon, so keep an eye on this...

Rosemarie Day and Zach Norris discuss both of their books, the pandemic's effect on communities of color and lower income communities, public health policy across...

Sue Miller’s latest book, Monogomy, is an engrossing and haunting novel about marriage, love, family, happiness and sorrow. Sue is recognized internationally for her elegant and...

       reading from Facing You/Spotlight #19, by Uche Nduka Natch/Spotlight #20, by Sophia Dhalin both published by City Lights Books ---- This is a virtual...

Lara Mimosa Montes is the author of THRESHOLES, a meditation on the Bronx of the 70s and 80s, gentrification, trauma, and loss. Her work has...

Join us on Thursday, September 17 at 6pm PDT when Carl Phillips discusses his latest poetry collection, Pale Colors in a Tall Field, with Kimberly Reyes on Zoom....

You're Going to Die: ALL THE FEELS 2020 an ONLINE Open Mic & Listening Space for communal connection & mortal vulnerability w/Ned Buskirk, the You're...

Register to attend Join us for this reading by Poetry Center Book Award winner Ashley Toliver, for her book Spectra (Coffee House Press). She'll be...

Thursday, September 17, 7:00pm featuring Peter Neil Carroll online on Zoom registration link to come Peter Neil Carroll is currently Poetry Moderator of Portside.org. His...

Join us for an online event with Jessica Garrison, author of The Devil's Harvest: A Ruthless Killer, a Terrorized Community, and the Search for Justice in California's...

Please Share. Please Invite. Join us as Jingletown Reading & Open Mic celebrates Tomás Riley on Saturday September 19, 2020 from 2-3:30pm PST. See Jingletown...

Ayad Akhtar's new novel, Homeland Elegies, is the profound and provocative story of an immigrant father and his son searching for belonging—in post-Trump America, and with...

Meet some of the legendary, bestselling and critically acclaimed authors who donated time and work to Shattering Glass, the first non-profit anthology by non-profit publisher Nasty Woman...

Join us on the Crowdcast platform for an event with National Book Award finalist Sy Montgomery (Soul of an Octopus) for her new book, Becoming a...

Wade Davis' inspiring tale of hope and redemption, Magdalena: River of Dreams, braids together memoir, history, and journalism to form both a rare, kaleidoscopic picture of...

Eugene Ostashevsky, a Russian-American poet, will talk about the intersection between poetry and translation in his work, in particular on wordplay in Russian avant-garde poetry...

Join The Humanities Institute as they present their virtual Peggy Downes Baskin Ethics Lecture featuring Margaret Atwood in conversation with UC Santa Cruz alumna and New...

Poet, essayist, and translator Dan Beachy-Quick joins us for a conversation about his new translation of ancient Greek poetry, Stone-Garland (Milkweed Editions). This event is sponsored by...

Booksmith and The Bindery host a virtual event with Lucy Jane Bledsoe to celebrate the paperback edition of her new novel Lava Falls. She'll be in conversation with Christina...

celebrates the release of his new book Roy's World: Stories 1973-2020 published by Seven Stories Press In a special presentation, Barry Gifford will be joined...

Join us for a book talk with Tara Fickle about her new book The Race Card: From Gaming Technologies to Model Minorities and Aiiieeeee!: An...