Tuesday, March 19, 2024 - 5:30pm
In this intergenerational graphic memoir, Replay renowned video game designer Jordan Mechner traces his family's journey through war, Nazi occupation, and everyday marital strife.
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Sunday, March 24, 2024 - 2:00pm
In Unlearning Silence, Elaine Lin Hering explores how we’ve learned to be silent, how we’ve benefited from silence, how we’ve silenced other people—and how we might choose another way. She teaches how to recognize and unlearn unconscious patterns so we can make more intentional choices about how we want to show up at home and at work. Only by unlearning silence can we more fully unleash talent, speak our minds, and be more complete versions of ourselves… and help other people do the same.
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Thursday, March 28, 2024 - 5:30pm
Set against the glittering backdrop of Los Angeles during the gin-soaked Jazz Age and the rise of Hollywood, this debut book, Not Your China Doll, celebrates Anna May Wong, the first Asian American movie star, to bring an unsung heroine to light and reclaim her place in cinema history.
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Wednesday, April 3, 2024 - 5:30pm
The internet as we know it is broken. Here’s how we can seize back control of our lives from the corporate algorithms and create a better internet—before it’s too late. Inspired by historical calls to action like Thomas Paine’s Common Sense, Our Biggest Fight , by Frank H. McCourt Jr., argues that we must act now to embed the core values of a free, democratic society in the internet of tomorrow. Do it right and we will finally, properly, unlock its immense potential.
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Wednesday, April 10, 2024 - 5:30pm
Would you like to improve your eyesight naturally using tools not often considered in the field of eye and vision care while rising to your highest potential?
Author Elisa Beth Haransky-Beck is a Doctor of Optometry and also a life coach. In Enlivening Consciousness, she simplifies her life- changing plan, creating an introduction to a new way to live.
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Saturday, April 13, 2024 - 12:00pm
Please join us for a special meet & greet signing event with renowned chef and physician Linda Shiue acompanying her Foodwise demo at SF Ferry Building marketplace plaza. This signing is in celebration of Spicebox Kitchen, a is a culinary wellness trip you can take in your own kitchen.
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Saturday, April 13, 2024 - 1:00pm
Come join us at the Ferry Building as we celebrate beloved actress and NYT bestselling author Valerie Bertinelli with an exciting meet & greet book signing for her latest cookbook Indulge.
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Sunday, April 14, 2024 - 2:00pm
Based on debut author-illustrator Jonah Newman’s coming-of-age experiences, Out of Left Field is a big-hearted and funny YA graphic novel about learning to be yourself.
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Sunday, April 21, 2024 - 2:00pm
The Talking Stick is a fast-paced dramedy set in the Bay Area, told with the characteristic humor of Donna Levin, an author whom Kirkus called “A witty, modern voice” and the Los Angeles Times deemed “a novelist to keep high on your reading list.” Donna Levin will be joined in conversation with radio journalist (KCBS/KQED) Peter Finch.
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Friday, April 26, 2024 - 5:30pm
Dr. Neal Barnard’s new diet and plan offers [in The Power Foods Diet] an evidence-based, food-as-medicine protocol for kickstarting weight loss and keeping it off. These breakthroughs make weight loss incredibly easy, without calorie counting or deprivation. This diet encourages people to eat, not to stop eating.
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Saturday, April 27, 2024 - 3:00pm
After nearly two decades of clinical experience and her own journey after losing her mother to cancer, Gina Moffa, LCSW offers knows all too well how disorienting, painful, and lonely grief can be. In Moving on Doesn’t Mean Letting Go, she offers a heartfelt, practical map through loss—one that can shift the pain of your grief even when things feel unpredictable and overwhelming.
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Saturday, May 4, 2024 - 3:00pm
Through interview vignettes, The Perfect Story also shares approaches from different storytellers, including the Sundance Institute cofounder, an executive producer of The Moth, the former creative director at Pixar, the TED Radio Hour podcast host, and many more. Karen Eber is an international consultant, keynote and TED speaker.
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Tuesday, May 7, 2024 - 5:30pm
Sparks fly between two women pitted against each other in this delectable new romantic comedy, Lavash at First Sight by Taleen Voskuni, author of Sorry, Bro. Joined in conversation with Jessica Joyce.
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Thursday, May 9, 2024 - 5:30pm
Shanghailanders, by Juli Min -- A dazzling and ambitious debut novel that follows a cosmopolitan Shanghai household backward in time--beginning in 2040 and moving through our present and the recent past--exploring their secrets, their losses, and the ways a family makes and remakes itself across the years. In conversation with Vanessa Hua.
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Thursday, May 23, 2024 - 5:30pm
Spanning multiple generations and nearly eighty years, Last House, by Jessica Shattuck, tells the story of one American family during an age of grand ideals and even greater downfalls. Set against the backdrop of our nation’s history, this is an emotional tour de force that digs deeply into questions of inheritance and what we owe each other—and captures to stunning effect the gravity of time, the double edge of progress, and the hubris of empire.
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Sunday, May 26, 2024 - 2:00pm
Twenty years ago, she survived. This time she may not be so lucky.
On the night that changed everything, Amy Brewer walked out of a house party, trudging angrily away from the friends who made her feel like she didn't belong. Within the next hour, all five of those friends would be dead.
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Sunday, June 2, 2024 - 1:00pm
From Rowena Scherer, founder of Eat2Explore, A Taste of the World is a carefully curated collection of recipes celebrating global cuisine and designed to be made by families with kids of all ages. Each recipe is a full meal and includes step-by-step instructions so parents can safely have their kids join in the fun while learning about other cultures through their traditional foods.
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Tuesday, June 25, 2024 - 5:30pm
Family Values is a photography book presenting approximately 90 images featuring Kurt, Courtney, and their baby Frances, one morning in their modest Hollywood home selected from a photoshoot that Guzman did for Spin magazine in 1992. Only five photographs from the shoot were published in the magazine at the time, including the cover.
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