New Arrivals
Tuesdays at 7:19 am and 3:48 pm
When Bay Area book tours and launch parties were canceled due to the coronavirus, KALW producer Lisa Morehouse decided to bring author readings to you in this socially-distanced book tour.
We loved the idea so much, we're going to keep the book party going with this pocket-sized book tour.
Want to tell us about a book that's being published soon by a local author? Write us at new.arrivals@kalw.org.
New Arrivals airs on KALW 91.7 FM in the San Francisco Bay Area on Tuesdays at 7:19 a.m. and 3:48 p.m.
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New ArrivalsDevi S. Laskar lives in Mountain View. Her book, 'Midnight at the War,' came out in April 2026. It’s about a foreign correspondent covering a global conflict... but really it’s a story about love and grief and the relationship between a daughter and her mother. -
New ArrivalsDanish Kurani lives in Mountain View. His book, 'The Spaces that Make Us,' came out in February 2026. -
New ArrivalsLindsay Kent lives in Half Moon Bay. Her book, 'My Twin the Murderer' came out in June, 2026. It's a mind-bending thriller about estranged twin sisters battling a murder rap, the psychedelic mafia, and their own fractured past. -
New ArrivalsLauren C. Johnson lives in San Francisco. Her book, The West Facade came out on March 3rd, 2026. It’s a fantasy novel about a statue of St Genevieve who gives into her desire to be human. -
New Arrivals"Shavasana, Between Breath and Death," is about the final pose done in a yoga class, as well as using the pose to change our relationship to our feelings about death and dying. -
New ArrivalsIt's a novel that takes on the ways women can disappear; physically and emotionally. -
New ArrivalsThe book is about the first 30 years of one of the most important record labels to come out of the South Bay Area. -
New ArrivalsVanessa Hua lives in the East Bay. Her novel, Coyoteland, came out May 12th, 2026. It’s about wealth, privilege and the housing market, as well as territory, predator, and prey. -
New ArrivalsJase Peeples lives in San Francisco. His book, Before You Can Fly, came out May 8th, 2026. It’s a YA coming of age romance about a gay, comic-book obsessed teen who is struggling with his growing feelings for his best friend. -
New ArrivalsIt's about a teenage daughter of Armenian immigrants from Istanbul Turkey, who struggles with her identity and searches for the true stories of her family's history of surviving genocide. -
New ArrivalsCaroline Paul lives in San Francisco. Her book Why Fly? came out February 24th, 2026. She reads a passage about an emergency landing she had to make. -
New ArrivalsLiam O’Brien lives in San Francisco. His book, "Butterflies of the Bay Area, and (Slightly) Beyond," is about the places and the zones where humans and butterflies converge. It came out September 30th, 2025.
