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Natasha Triplett's book celebrates Junteenth with the reader through a community parade, a family bbq, and finally a recounting the importance of the holiday.
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Jude Berman's book is about saving democracy and it draws on the wisdom of the Mahābhārata to help us figure that out.
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New ArrivalsLuisa Giulianetti lives in Kensington. Her book, "Agrodolce" focuses on the many ways she understands and imagines home.
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New ArrivalsOakland author Susan Kiyo Ito reads from her new book, "I Would Meet You Anywhere." It's about family identity, adoption, Japanese-American experience and secrets.
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New ArrivalsTerry Tierney lives in Oakland. His book, The Bridge on Beer River, is a novel in which the characters struggle for subsistence.
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New ArrivalsBeth Winegarner lives in San Francisco. Her book, "San Francisco’s Forgotten Cemeteries" is about the history of the city's graveyards and the many dead secretly still buried here.
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New ArrivalsSan Francisco author Paul Flores reads from his new book, "We Still Be.”
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New ArrivalsIn this Hilary Zaid novel, the protagonist is an artist at mid-life, up against a social media giantHilary Zaid lives in Oakland. Her novel, Forget I Told You This, came out on September 1st, 2023.
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New ArrivalsChef Sylvan Mishima Brackett lives in Oakland. His cookbook, Rintaro: Japanese Food From An Izakaya in California explains the thinking that went behind Rintaro's menu.
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Why do tens of thousands of people trek to a temporary tent city in an alkaline Nevada desert every August? Is Burning Man worth the heat and dust? What’s queer about it?
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Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni has always featured women in her writing and her new book Independence is no different.
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Are poems valuable because they do something for us, or are they gloriously useless?