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Join CHSA for a chance to learn Mandarin with specialist Kathy Yang! Kathy is an expert Mandarin teacher. For our MandoMeet sessions, all levels of...

Booksmith and The Bindery are very pleased to host a virtual event with Claire Marie Stancek for her new book of poems, wyrd] bird. She's joined by Dan Beachy-Quick and Jennifer...

David Harris’s newest release, My Country ‘Tis of Thee: Reporting, Sallies, and Other Confessions is a wide-ranging and incisive anthology conveying the spirit of the 1960s and '70s....

Devil in a Blue Dress BY WALTER MOSLEY Mosley’s celebrated 1990 novel introduces readers to Ezekiel “Easy” Rawlins, a World War II veteran who turns...

reading and discussing her new novel 10 minutes 38 seconds in This Strange World published by Bloomsbury Books ---- This is a virtual event that...

In conversation with Tom Barbash Thursday, December 19, 4:00pm PT/7:00pm ET • Virtual Event In the bestselling tradition of Indianapolis and In Harm’s Way comes a thrilling and vividly...

BYOF (Bring Your Own Fruitcake) and settle in for this traditional Mrs. Dalloway's event. This year it will be a bit different, like everything else:...

Please join us for Poems to Make You Laugh & Cry, a special virtual event honoring the late local poet Peter McLaughlin. To evoke Pete, poets...

Please join us on Tuesday, January 5, 2021 at 7 PM PST for a GGP Online Book Club discussion of My Year of Rest and Relaxation...

VIRTUAL EVENT: WINTER READING PROGRAM MIXER Whether you are looking for your next read or just starting our Winter Reading Program, join our booksellers for a...

VIRTUAL EVENT: WINTER READING PROGRAM MIXER Whether you are looking for your next read or just starting our Winter Reading Program, join our booksellers for a...

JOIN US ON SATURDAY, JANUARY 9 AT 12PM PT WHEN DANIELLE HAWA TARIGHA DISCUSSES HER BOOK, UPLIFT AND EMPOWER: A GUIDE TO UNDERSTANDING EXTREME POVERTY AND POVERTY ALLEVIATION ON...

Join us for a virtual poetry & short stories reading featuring Brian Dempster (Seize), Caroline Kim (The Prince of Mournful Thoughts and Other Stories), and...

Discussing Mason's most recent book A Registry of My Passage Upon the Earth, winner of the Simpson Library Project Joyce Carol Oates Prize and the Northern California...

An Evening with the Editor and Contributors of Now What? The Voters Have Spoken—Essays on Life After Trump. Where Do We Go From Chaos? As Jon...

An Evening with the Editor and Contributors of Now What? The Voters Have Spoken—Essays on Life After Trump. Where Do We Go From Chaos? As Jon...

Gretchen Rubin's most recent release, Outer Order, Inner Calm is a lovely, easy-to-use illustrated guide to decluttering that shows us how to take control of our stuff—and,...

Join Gina Apostol and friends for the launch party of the first ever US publication of Gina Apostol's Philippine National Book Award–winning novel Revolution According...

Join the CHSA Community for a roundtable discussion on topics that impact our community on the 1st and 3rd Wednesdays of the month! Our goal is...

Isaiah was Samuel's and Samuel was Isaiah's. That was the way it was since the beginning, and the way it was to be until the...

Booksmith and Berkeley Arts & Letters are very pleased to host a virtual event with David P. Barash for his new book Threats: Intimidation and Its Dicontents. He'll be in conversation...

Madeleine Watts discusses her highly anticipated debut novel, The Inland Sea (Catapult). "Full of heart and disquiet, astute and precise, almost savage in its eloquence, illuminated about...

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...

Booksmith and Mother Jones are very pleased to host a virtual event with Mary Ziegler for her new book Abortion and the Law in America: Roe v. Wade to the Present....

discussing Tasting the Past: One Man's Quest to Discover (and Drink!) the World's Original Wines. "Takes readers along on a journey to find the historical origins...

discussing their new book Gardening in Summer-Dry Climates: Plants for a Lush, Water-Conscious Landscape. Every Bay Area gardener needs this book written and photographed by the same...

reading her timely book The Next President: The Unexpected Beginnings and Unwritten Future of America's Presidents, an inspiring and informative book for kids about the past and...

JOIN US ON SATURDAY, JANUARY 16 AT 12PM PT WHEN MICHELLE GALLEN DISCUSSES HER NOVEL, BIG GIRL, SMALL TOWN, WITH CRISSY VAN METER ON ZOOM! Zoom Login...

discussing Neither Settler Nor Native: The Making and Unmaking of Permanent Minorities by Mahmood Mamdani published by Belknap Press (an imprint of Harvard University Press)...