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  • Big Ideas Reading Group

    Kepler's Books 1010 El Camino Real, Menlo Park , CA, United States

    Astrophysics for People in a Hurry by Neil deGrasse Tyson What is the nature of space and time? How do we fit within the universe?...

  • Second Sunday Poetry series

    Brit-Marie's Restaraunt 1369 Solano Avenu, Albany, CA

    Second Sunday Poetry series presents a reading by Meryl Natchez, Francesca Bell, and William Brewer, curated by Barb Reynolds, Britt-Marie's Restaurant, 1369 Solano Avenue, Albany,...

  • GEARS TURNING w/ Kim Shuck

    Adobe Books 3130 24th St., San Francisco, CA, United States

    Join us for an afternoon of wonderful poetry by SF Bay Area based poets, artists, and musicians with your host Kim Shuck. To participate in...

  • Luis Alberto Urrea / The House of Broken Angels

    The Booksmith 1644 Haight St, San Francisco , CA, United States

    Booksmith hosts Luis Alberto Urrea in celebration of the paperback release of his widely acclaimed novel The House of Broken Angels. Please join us!   “All we do,...

  • Tangled Paths: True Stories from Latin America

    Noe Valley Library 451 Jersey Street, San Francisco

    Join us for an evening with local nonfiction authors Mary Jo McConahay and Chris Feliciano Arnold, spanning World War II to the modern Amazon basin,...

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  • Nina Revoyr

    City Lights Bookstore 261 Columbus Ave, San Francisco , CA, United States

    reading from her latest novel A Student of History from Akashic Books A contemporary Los Angeles story of uncrossable social lines, allegiance and betrayal, immeasurable...

  • Poetry Santa Cruz

    Bookshop Santa Cruz 1520 Pacific Ave, Santa Cruz , CA, United States

    Poetry Santa Cruz is dedicated to nurturing the poetry community and bringing poetry to the larger community in Santa Cruz County. They present poetry readings at...

  • Small Publishers Night book exhibition & readings

    Umpqua Bank Noe Valley 3938 24th Street, San Francisco

    The consolidation of publishing house after publishing house into five mega book businesses foretold a future where reading choices for the many would be controlled...

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  • Ali Liebegott with special guests: Doddie Bellamy and Kevin Killian

    City Lights Bookstore 261 Columbus Ave, San Francisco , CA, United States

    Ali Liebegott reads from The Summer of Dead Birds published by Feminist Press joined by special guests: Doddie Bellamy and Kevin Killian "A fierce, funny, agonized, cracked-open aria in...

  • Carolyn Burke, Foursome

    Bookshop Santa Cruz 1520 Pacific Ave, Santa Cruz , CA, United States

    Bookshop Santa Cruz welcomes author Carolyn Burke for a discussion and signing of her new book, Foursome, a captivating, spirited account of the intense relationship among four artists...

  • Story Time with Christian Robinson

    Kepler's Books 1010 El Camino Real, Menlo Park , CA, United States

    In Another, his eagerly anticipated debut as author-illustrator, Caldecott and Coretta Scott King honoree and store favorite Christian Robinson brings young readers on a playful,...

  • Cara Black Takes Us to Paris! reading & talk

    La Boulangerie de Noe 3898 24th Street, San Francisco

    Each year, Noe Valley author Cara Black takes a few lucky readers on a real tour of the Paris she writes about in her bestselling...

    Free

  • Sally Wen Mao

    City Lights Bookstore 261 Columbus Ave, San Francisco , CA, United States

    reading and in conversation with Jennifer S. Cheng celebrating the release of Oculus: Poems published by Graywolf Press In Oculus, Sally Wen Mao explores exile not just...

  • Eleanor Burke on Walking Manhattan’s Neighborhoods

    Green Apple Books 506 Clement St, San Francisco , CA, United States

    Eleanor Burke, author of A Walker's Sketchbook of San Francisco, discusses her new book Walking Manhattan's Neighborhoods. About Walking Manhattan's Neighborhoods Walking Manhattan's Neighborhoods is a...

  • Mesha Maren and Randal O’Wain

    Green Apple Books on the Park 1231 9th Ave, San Francisco , CA, United States

    Mesha Maren discusses her new novel, Sugar Run with Randal O'Wain. Praise for Sugar Run “A heady admixture of explosive plot and taut, burnished prose . . ....

  • Word for Word Reads “The Widow Dreams”

    Folio Books 3957 24th St, San Francisco , CA, United States

    Members of the Charter Group of Word for Word, a program of Z Space will present a reading of "The Widow Dreams," a narrative of...

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  • Helen Oyeyemi and Stephen Sparks

    Green Apple Books on the Park 1231 9th Ave, San Francisco , CA, United States

    Helen Oyeyemi discusses her new novel, Gingerbread with Stephen Sparks. About Gingerbread The prize-winning, bestselling author of Boy, Snow, Bird and What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours returns with a...

  • Lisa Moore Ramee with Sabaa Tahir

    Kepler's Books 1010 El Camino Real, Menlo Park , CA, United States

    Join us to celebrate the launch of Lisa Moore Ramee’s highly anticipated, funny and big-hearted debut middle grade novel A Good Kind of Trouble,  about...

  • Helen Oyeyemi – – Gingerbread

    East Bay Booksellers 5433 College Avenue, Oakland

    EAST BAY BOOKSELLERS welcomes Helen Oyeyemi to discuss Gingerbread, on Saturday, March 16th at 7pm. Influenced by the mysterious place gingerbread holds in classic children's stories, beloved novelist Helen...

  • Alice Pettway

    Adobe Books 3130 24th St., San Francisco, CA, United States

    Alice Pettway is the author of three books of poetry: The Time of Hunger (2017), Moth (2019) and Station Lights (forthcoming 2021). Her poetry, nonfiction...

  • Lea Kirk at Alameda Authors Series 3

    Alameda Free Library 1550 Oak Street, Alameda

    For the third year, AAUW Alameda presents a spring series of talks featuring authors who live and write in Alameda and nearby, now co-sponsored by...

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