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Chang-rae Lee's latest novel, My Year Abroad, is an exuberant, provocative story about a young American life transformed by an unusual Asian adventure—and about the human...

Rabbit Island Launch Virtual Event Join Community Bookstore and Two Lines Press for an event celebrating Elvira Navarro’s Rabbit Island, a collection of stories that traverse the fickle, often terrifying...

Booksmith and The Bindery are very pleased to host the virtual launch for Liat Berdugo and her new book The Weaponized Camera in the Middle East: Videography, Aesthetics,...

A searing, deeply moving memoir of illness and recovery that traces one young woman’s journey from diagnosis to remission and, ultimately, a road trip of...

Kim Stanley Robinson is joined in conversation by Robin Sloan to discuss his latest novel, The Ministry for the Future (Orbit Books). "If I could get policymakers,...

Join us for a virtual event with Ada Calhoun who will discuss We Can't Sleep: Women's New Midlife Crisis (available in paperback on January 19th), an in-depth...

Tim Harford, called  “perhaps the best popular economics writer in the world” (New Statesman), and Randall Munroe in conversation about The Data Detective: Ten Easy Rules to...

discussing Nicole Perlroth's new book This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends: The Cyber Weapons Arms Race Published by Bloomsbury Books This is...

The UCSC Literature Department and Creative Writing Program Present: LIVING WRITERS SERIES WINTER 2021 "Shelter and Place," a theme about world building when the world...

A leading-edge guide to how well-being drives success across all aspects of life. CEO, executive wellness coach, and thought leader Naz Beheshti distills the most...

reading the award-winning Nian, the Chinese New Year Dragon, an illustrated retelling for young readers of the Chinese folktale about a dragon that threatens a village...

Vendela Vida’s newest release, We Run the Tides is an achingly beautiful story of female friendship, betrayal, and a mysterious disappearance set in the changing landscape of...

A deeply funny and shrewdly observed debut novel about being lost in the very place you know by heart. Bennett Driscoll is a Turner Prize-nominated...

Please join us on Tuesday, February 16, 2021 at 7 PM PST for a GGP Online Book Club discussion of Uncanny Valley by Anna Wiener. The...

A paradigm-shifting study of neurodivergent women—those with ADHD, autism, synesthesia, high sensitivity, and sensory processing disorder—exploring why these traits are overlooked in women and how...

celebrating the launch of Brontez Purnell's new book 100 Boyfriends published by MCD x FSG Originals ---------- This is a virtual event that will be...

JOIN US ON WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 17 AT 6PM PT WHEN WE CELEBRATE THE NEW SHORT STORY ANTHOLOGY, KINK, WITH AN EVENING OF READINGS, LIVE DEMONSTRATIONS, AND CONVERSATIONS IN PARTNERSHIP...

Join Book Passage in welcoming Adam O. Davis (author of Index of Haunted Houses) and Emma Hine (author of Stay Safe) for a reading and discussion celebrating...

JOIN US ON THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 18 AT 6PM PT WHEN ZAK SALIH DISCUSSES HIS DEBUT NOVEL, LET'S GET BACK TO THE PARTY, WITH LYDIA KIESLING ON ZOOM! Zoom Login...

Please join us on Thursday, February 18, 2021 at 7 PM PST as we welcome author Daniel Nayeri to discuss his new novel, EVERYTHING SAD IS...

reading A Place Inside of Me: A Poem to Heal the Heart, a powerful, affirming poem in which a Black child explores his shifting emotions throughout the year. "A...

Join Eastwind Books of Berkeley online for children's story time featuring a live read-aloud of The Unexpected Friend: A Rohingya Children's Story with author Raya...

Equal parts time travel tale, thriller, and baseball saga, Bill Zarchy’s debut novel Finding George Washington: A Time Travel Tale is a gripping, humorous, and entertaining look at...

JOIN US ON MONDAY, FEBRUARY 22 AT 6PM PT WHEN LAUREN OYLER IS JOINED BY ANNA WIENER TO DISCUSS HER DEBUT NOVEL, FAKE ACCOUNTS, ON ZOOM! Zoom Login...

In Assume Nothing, award-winning filmmaker Tanya Selvaratnam bravely recounts the intimate abuse she suffered from former New York State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, using her story...

Booksmith and Berkeley Arts & Letters are very pleased to host a virtual event with Dr. Euan Angus Ashley for his new book The Genome Odyssey: Medical Mysteries and the Incredible...

Join us for a special pajama party with local author Mitali Perkins and her dog to celebrate the launch of Mitali's new picture book, Home is in Between!...

VIRTUAL EVENT: Bookshop Santa Cruz, in partnership with The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz, Marcus Books, and the NAACP Santa Cruz County Branch, present author Heather McGhee...