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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...

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...

Globus Books presents a reading of Osip Mandelstam's poetry in English. Mandelstam is one of the dozen luminous names in Russian poetry. Mandelstam (1891–1938) began as...

Please join us on Thursday, September 24 at 5 PM PDT for a Zoom book launch with author Rebecca D'Harlingue discussing her new novel, THE LINES BETWEEN US,...

Kerri Arsenault joins us via Crowdcast to discuss her debut book, Mill Town: Reckoning with What Remains (St. Martin's Press), with poet, editor, and writer John Freeman....

Independent Bookstore Day looks a little bit different this year. While we had planned to celebrate virtually alongside more than 450 other bookstores nationwide on August...

Join Eastwind's (virtual) Book Club!This September, we will be reading Exit West by Mohsin Hamid. The book club meeting will take place via Zoom on...

Jorma Taccone, member of the hit comedy trio The Lonely Island, (and Berkeley High alum), presents his debut picture book, Little Fox and the Wild Imagination, a...

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...

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,...

Join us for a Q&A with New York Times–bestselling author Brit Bennett! We encourage you to read The Vanishing Half before this event. Find it at local...

Event will be held on Zoom. Click the link in the event description for info. https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_ltKvFjldSkuS9Em-JDXLgQ What will it take to reverse the current US...

This event is online. With rave reviews from Kirkus and Publisher’s Weekly, from Khaled Hosseini and Russell Brand alike, Livewired is a fascinating review of...

eading from her new book For Now published by Yale University Press --- This is a virtual event that will be hosted by City Lights...

The Perfectly Queer reading series returns to host "A Very Gay Book Reading" online via Zoom Tuesday, September 29, 7pm to 8:15pm. Four Gay authors...

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...

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...

Join us on Wenesday, September 30 at 6pm PDT when francine j. harris joins us to read from her new collection, Here is the Sweet Hand on...