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Tuesday, March 19, 2024 - 6:00pm

From Margo Livesey the New York Times best-selling author of The Flight of Gemma Hardy (comes The Road from Belhaven), a novel about a young woman whose gift of second sight complicates her coming of age in late-nineteenth-century Scotland. Joined in conversation with Angela Pneuman.

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Wednesday, March 20, 2024 - 6:00pm

[In Murder at la Villette] Parisian private investigator Aimée Leduc has been framed for the murder of her daughter’s father—now she’s on the lam, and must find the real killer to clear her name in this thrilling 21st installment of Cara Black’s New York Times bestselling mystery series.

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Thursday, March 21, 2024 - 6:00pm

In his first international release since the award-winning, best-selling The Boat, Nam Le delivers a shot across the bow with a book-length poem that honors every convention of diasporic literature—in a virtuosic array of forms and registers—before shattering the form itself.

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Saturday, March 23, 2024 - 1:00pm

Full of Sah D'Simone's trademark candor and sass, Spiritually, We is the wake-up call for our times, a deeply felt and necessary reminder that you aren’t alone, that you aren’t meant to be alone, and that it is side by side with others where true wisdom flourishes.

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Saturday, March 23, 2024 - 3:00pm

Anna Quindlen’s trademark wisdom on family, friendship, and the ties that bind us are at the center of this novel about the power of love to transcend loss and triumph over adversity, by the bestselling author of Still Life with Bread Crumbs and One True Thing. In conversation with Anna Sale, author of Let's Talk About Hard Things : The Life-Changing Conversations That Connect Us.

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Saturday, March 23, 2024 - 4:00pm

A startling, erotic novel about the need to balance care for others with care for one’s self dreamily set in Carmel, CA.

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Sunday, March 24, 2024 - 1:00pm

In this book you are guaranteed not to find any dragons. . . .
Set in a community home with an ensemble of characters–both children and adults–Donna Lambo-Weidner's debut picture book filled with humor (and dragons) encourages close observation and discovery.

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Sunday, March 24, 2024 - 2:00pm

A memoir sauteed in Hollywood stories, world travel, and always, the need to belong.

Prolific cookbook author Brigit Binns’ [Rottenkid, is a] coming-of-age memoir—co-starring her alcoholic actor father Edward Binns and glamorous but viciously smart narcissistic mother—reveals how simultaneous privilege and profound neglect lead Brigit to seek comfort in the kitchen, eventually allowing her to find some sense of self-worth. 

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Sunday, March 24, 2024 - 4:00pm

Embrace your potential and a life of fulfillment with Thriving! This captivating book explores what it takes to create a purposeful, healthy, and happy life. Rand Selig, a seasoned expert, shares tools and decades of wisdom to help you thrive in every stage of your life.

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Thursday, March 28, 2024 - 6:00pm to 8:00pm

 We’re thrilled to announce Book Passage’s very first Trivia Night! Join us for a fun filled night where you will compete for glory, bragging rights, and some seriously cool prizes. Whether you're a bookworm or just in it for the thrill of the game, everyone's welcome!

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Saturday, March 30, 2024 - 11:00am

From Rene Denfeld, the bestselling author of The Child Finder and The Enchanted, [comes Sleeping Giants] a compelling and poignant story of sibling bonds, foster children, monsters masquerading as caretakers, terrifying secrets, and the power of love to right even the most egregious wrongs.

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Saturday, March 30, 2024 - 1:00pm

Wendy Wallbridge recognizes this unmet need of professional women for an alternative path to success, and her new book, Spiraling Upward: 5 Co-Creative Powers for Women on the Rise, offers the solution. Using her tried and true "Spiral Up" method, Wallbridge teaches women to cultivate the five co-creative powers of energy, thoughts, feelings, speech, and action.

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Saturday, March 30, 2024 - 4:00pm

The Poet and the Silk Girl illustrates through one family's saga the generational struggle of Japanese Americans who resisted racist oppression, fought for the restoration of their rights, and clung to their full humanity in the face of adversity. With psychological insight, Ina excavates the unmentionable, recovering a chronicle of resilience amidst one of the severest blows to American civil liberties.

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Saturday, April 6, 2024 - 1:00pm

Mount Tamalpais arises at the epicenter of one of the most biodiverse regions in California. Shaped by climate and unique geology, the San Francisco Bay Area harbors an eclectic mix of plant species, some of which are completely unique. With detailed descriptions and refined photography, this book explores this awesome plant diversity for the first time in an accessible field guide.

 

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Saturday, April 6, 2024 - 4:00pm

From the International Booker Prize-winning translator and Women's Prize finalist, an utterly beguiling novel about eight translators and their search for a world-renowned author who goes missing in a primeval Polish forest.

 

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Sunday, April 7, 2024 - 1:00pm

Told in the classic style of Southern Pomo and Coast Miwok creation stories, this book vaults from the sacred time before this time to the recent present and even the near future. Heralded as a "a fine storyteller" by Joy Harjo, Greg Sarris offers us these tales in a new genre of his own making. The Forgetters is an astonishment--comforting and startling, inspiring reveries and deepening our love of the world we share.

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Tuesday, April 9, 2024 - 6:00pm

From the author of the multimillion-copy bestselling A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder series and Five Survive comes a gripping thriller following one teen’s search for the truth about her mother’s shocking disappearance—and even more shocking reappearance—during the filming of a true crime documentary. Joined in-conversation with Alexa Donne, author of The Ivies and Pretty Dead Queens.

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Thursday, April 11, 2024 - 6:00pm

From New York Times-bestselling author Hampton Sides, an epic account of the most momentous voyage of the Age of Exploration, which culminated in Captain James Cook’s death in Hawaii, and left a complex and controversial legacy still debated to this day.

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Saturday, April 13, 2024 - 2:00pm

Please join us for a reading by Barbara Ridley from her book, UNSWERVING, and a Q&A hosted by Book Passage for this event organized by the Left Coast Writers. A story of courage, resilience, and love, Unswerving challenges readers’ preconceived notions of disability, of limitations, and of the inevitability of fate.

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Saturday, April 13, 2024 - 4:00pm

In Every Living Thing, Jason Roberts weaves a sweeping, unforgettable narrative spell, exploring the intertwined lives and legacies of Linnaeus and Buffon—as well as the groundbreaking, often fatal adventures of their acolytes—to trace an arc of insight and discovery that extends across three centuries into the present day.

 

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Saturday, April 13, 2024 - 6:00pm

Please join us for this special film screening event brought to us by Emily Packer with Trey Tetreault in celebration of Holding Back the Tide: Reconsider the Oyster. This impressionist hybrid documentary traces the oyster through its many life cycles in New York, once the world’s oyster capital. Now their specter haunts the city through queer characters embodying ancient myth, discovering the overlooked history and biology of the bivalve that built the city.

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Sunday, April 14, 2024 - 1:00pm

This compelling book tells the story of Venerable Dhammananda’s remarkable path from TV personality, author, academic, wife and mother to ordained Bhikkhuni. Cindy Rasicot writes beautifully of their relationship, and shares Bhikkhuni Dhammananda’s gentle wisdom and direct insights about how to live a more powerful and compassionate life. In conversation with Sylvia Boorstein

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Tuesday, April 16, 2024 - 1:00pm

In Waves in an Impossible Sea, physicist Matt Strassler tells a startling tale of elementary particles, human experience, and empty space. He begins with a simple mystery of motion. When we drive at highway speeds with the windows down, the wind beats against our faces. Yet our planet hurtles through the cosmos at 150 miles per second, and we feel nothing of it. How can our voyage be so tranquil when, as Einstein discovered, matter warps space, and space deflects matter?

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Tuesday, April 16, 2024 - 6:00pm

In this engaging biography, Portrait of a WomanBridget Quinn applies her insightful interpretation of art history to Labille-Guiard’s life. She offers a fascinating new perspective on the artist’s feminism, her sexuality, and her vision of the world. Quinn expertly blends close analyses of paintings with broader context about the era and inserts delicately fictionalized interpersonal scenes that fill the gaps in the historical record. This is a compelling and inspiring look at an artist too long overlooked.

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Saturday, April 20, 2024 - 11:00am

A captivating memoir that tells the story of one woman’s experience of joining a community of army wives after leaving her New York City job—a profoundly intimate look at marriage, friendship, and today’s America. A love story, an unforgettable coming-of-age tale, and a bracing tour of the intractable divisions that plague our country today, The Wives, by Simone Gorrindo, offers a rare and powerful gift: a hopeful stitch in the fabric of a torn America. Joined in conversation with Julia Scheeres

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Saturday, April 20, 2024 - 1:00pm

Life is unfolding as planned for Myra Sack and her husband Matt until their beautiful year-old daughter Havi is diagnosed with Tay-Sachs, a fatal neurodegenerative disease, and given only a year to live. Myra and Matt decide to celebrate Havi's short life and vow to show her as much of the world as they can, surrounded by friends and family who relocate to be in Havi's orbit. Tapping their Judaism, they transform Friday night Shabbats into birthday parties--"Shabbirthdays"--to replace the birthdays Havi will never have.

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Saturday, April 20, 2024 - 4:00pm

From the #1 New York Times-bestselling author Leigh Bardugo comes a spellbinding novel set in the Spanish Golden Age.

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Thursday, April 25, 2024 - 6:00pm

Carissa Stanton of the popular blog and social media accounts, Brocc Your Body, believes that all food has a place in a healthy diet, and that balance is the key to everything in life. Seriously, So Good reflects her philosophy of feeling good about what she’s cooking and eating by making smart choices without depriving herself of carbs or a splash of cream here and there. Joined in conversation with Olivia Noceda.

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Saturday, April 27, 2024 - 11:00am

Lab Girl meets Brain on Fire in, Data Baby, by Susannah Breslin, [a] provocative and poignant memoir delving into a woman's formative experiences as a veritable "lab rat" in a lifelong psychological study, and her pursuit to reclaim autonomy and her identity as a adult.

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Sunday, April 28, 2024 - 1:00pm

For Jeffrey Meyers, Salter's lyrical evocation of people and places, of luxurious decadence and the danger of death, are unsurpassed in contemporary literature. This book [James Salter: Pilot, Screenwriter, Novelist] appears just before the centenary of Salter's birth.

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Sunday, April 28, 2024 - 4:00pm

Join us in celebration of Brian Copeland's debut crime thriller Outraged. Brian will be joined in conversation with the Bay Area's own Michael KrasnyA TV investigative reporter and his sister, a San Francisco PD homicide detective, look into the slayings of Bay Area cops who have shot unarmed African Americans yet faced no repercussions in this debut crime thriller.

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Thursday, May 2, 2024 - 6:00pm

Exuberant and explosive, Real Americans, by Rachel Khong, is a social novel par excellence that asks: Are we destined, or made? And if we are made, who gets to do the making? Can our genetic past be overcome? Joined in-conversation with Christie George

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Sunday, May 5, 2024 - 1:00pm

Join us in celebrating She Writes Press authors Jude Berman [The Die: A Novel], Lally Pia [The Fortune Teller's Prophecy: A Memoir of an Unlikely Doctor], and Meredith Walters [This Animal Body: A Novel] as they celebrate the theme: A Cockroach, a Hacker, and a Refugee: Three Writers on Writing the Change You Want to See.

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Saturday, May 11, 2024 - 1:00pm

In Carbon Done Correctly by Richard H. Lawrence, Jr., you will be inspired by the stories of the work that people are doing to combat climate change, and you will see how the VCM provides an essential tool in helping them, and other people in the future, continue and improve that work for the benefit of our planet. 

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Saturday, May 11, 2024 - 2:00pm

Please join us for a reading by Bonnie Portnoy from her book, THE MAN BENEATH THE PAINT, and a Q&A hosted by Book Passage for this event organized by the Left Coast Writers.

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Thursday, May 16, 2024 - 6:00pm

Bestselling author Ruth Reichl takes readers on an adventure of food, art, and fashion in 1980s Paris in this dazzling, heartfelt novel.

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Saturday, May 18, 2024 - 3:00pm

ART RECEPTION: Sue DeVinnny – Sue has developed her own style with watercolors as well as pastels, and she brings bold and bright colors to her favorite subjects – flowers, gardens, sunsets, beloved pets, and more. 

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Sunday, May 19, 2024 - 1:00pm

The Bipolar Therapist is the only memoir that shows a complete recovery from bipolar disorder and describes how the author’s times as a psychiatric inpatient influenced her work positively as a psychotherapist serving psychiatric and alcoholic inpatients. Marcia Naomi Berger’s story hinges upon resilience, perseverance, drive, and courage.

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Sunday, May 19, 2024 - 4:00pm

In The Court v. The Voterslaw professor Joshua Douglas takes us behind the scenes of significant cases in voting rights—some surprising and unknown, some familiar—to investigate the historic crossroads that have irrevocably changed our elections and the nation. In crisp and accessible prose, Douglas tells the story of each case, sheds light on the intractable election problems we face as a result, and highlights the unique role the highest court has played in producing a broken electoral system.

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Friday, May 24, 2024 - 6:00pm

How can we reclaim the soul-deepening wildness that grounds us and energizes us when so much of the modern world seems designed to tame us?

In [Amphibious Soula] thrilling memoir of a life spent exploring the most incredible places on Earth—from the Great African Seaforest to the crocodile lairs of the Okavango Delta—Craig Foster reveals how we can attend to the earthly beauty around us and deepen our love for all living things, whether we make our homes in the country, the city, or anywhere in between.

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Saturday, May 25, 2024 - 1:00pm

Combining social science, psychology, and hands-on coaching exercises, Stop People Pleasing teaches you how to connect with your own feelings, needs, and dreams; courageously advocate for yourself in your relationships with friends, family, and colleagues; soothe yourself through the growing pains of healing; and dive headfirst into pleasure and play. With fresh insight, heartfelt empathy, and a keen personal understanding of the pitfalls of people-pleasing, Hailey Magee helps you say what you need and get what you deserve.

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Thursday, May 30, 2024 - 6:00pm

Master storyteller Erik Larson offers a gripping account of the chaotic months between Lincoln’s election and the Confederacy’s shelling of Sumter—a period marked by tragic errors and miscommunications, enflamed egos and craven ambitions, personal tragedies and betrayals. Lincoln himself wrote that the trials of these five months were “so great that, could I have anticipated them, I would not have believed it possible to survive them.”

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Saturday, June 1, 2024 - 4:00pm

As one of the few people who traveled the globe in 2020, Drew Binsky witnessed and recorded the pandemic response in countries everywhere—and realized how crucial it is for the world to reconnect. In Just Go, filled with photos, stories, and tips Drew has never before shared, you’ll find the toolkit and the inspiration to do just that: get out there and go wherever you want!

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Saturday, June 1, 2024 - 6:00pm

Please join us in welcoming author of the Longmire mysteries, the basis for the hit Netflix series Longmire, Craig Johnson. Craig's highly anticipated new novel is First Frost.

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Sunday, June 2, 2024 - 2:00pm

Filled with lessons for today's world about why some societies survive massive shocks while others do not, After 1177 B.C. reveals why this period, far from being the First Dark Age, was a new age with new inventions and new opportunities. Eric H. Cline is professor of classics and anthropology at George Washington University.

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Sunday, June 2, 2024 - 4:00pm

Free to Be is an authoritative deep dive by internationally renowned child and adolescent psychiatrist Dr. Jack Turban into the science, medicine, and politics of gender identity. You will be immersed in the lives of three trans and gender diverse youth—Meredith, Kyle, and Sam—as they navigate their gender identities, make decisions around gender-affirming medical and psychological care, and confront an overwhelming political and social terrain.

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Wednesday, June 5, 2024 - 6:00pm

The award-winning Maisie Dobbs series has garnered hundreds of thousands of followers, readers drawn to a woman who is of her time, yet familiar in ours—and who inspires with her resilience and capacity for endurance. In The Comfort of Ghosts by Jacqueline Winspear – This final assignment of her own choosing not only opens a new future for Maisie and her family, but serves as a  fascinating portrayal of the challenges facing the people of Britain at the close of the Second World War.

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Saturday, June 8, 2024 - 2:00pm

Please join us for a reading by TODD CRAWSHAW from his book, GODDESS: SON OF MEDUSA, and a Q&A hosted by Book Passage for this event organized by the Left Coast Writers.

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Saturday, June 8, 2024 - 4:00pm

The debut novel by the acclaimed author of The Electric Woman, Tessa Fontaine's The Red Grove is an exploration of the legacies of violence, the price of safety, and the choices we make to protect what we love.

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Sunday, June 9, 2024 - 2:00pm

Gospel of a Whole Sun, by Katerina Jeng, is a moving collection of poetry chronicling one woman’s journey of self-discovery over the course of three pivotal years. It documents the aftermath of a traumatic breakup, navigating anti-Asian violence during a global pandemic, coming out, and, ultimately, falling in love with life again.

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Saturday, June 22, 2024 - 4:00pm

Farewell, Amethystine by Walter Mosley – Easy Rawlins’ latest client sends him down a warren of memory and nostalgia, blinding him to reason and risk, from “master of the genre,” (Washington Post) Walter Mosley.

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Tuesday, June 25, 2024 - 6:00pm

For readers of Good and MadBorn to Run, and Fly GirlsBetter Faster Farther, by Maggie Mertens, takes us inside the lives and the victories of the women who have redefined society’s image of strength and power.

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Wednesday, June 26, 2024 - 6:00pm

From New York Times bestselling author Joyce Maynard comes the eagerly anticipated follow-up to her beloved novel Count the Ways—a complex story of three generations of a family and its remarkable, resilient, indomitable matriarch, Eleanor.

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Wednesday, July 10, 2024 - 6:00pm

In this dazzling thriller, New York Times bestselling author Joseph Kanon gives us his richest setting yet: pre-World War II Shanghai, where glamour and squalor exist side by side and murder is just a cost of doing business.

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Saturday, July 13, 2024 - 11:00am

In this Ravishing World, by Nina Schuyler, is a sweeping, impassioned short story collection, ringing out with joy, despair, and hope for the natural world. Nine connected stories unfold, bringing together an unforgettable cast of dreamers, escapists, activists, and artists, creating a kaleidoscopic view of the climate crisis.

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Sunday, July 14, 2024 - 1:00pm

In Things I Want Back From You, Elizabeth Stix's hilarious and poignant debut of 20 linked stories, hopelessly flawed characters flail against their own insecurities, seeking one true moment of connection, and if they're lucky, winning that rarest of gifts--a second chance. Joined in-conversation with Tom Barbash, author of The Dakota Winters.

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Saturday, July 27, 2024 - 4:00pm

After years of conducting extensive research and interviews, longtime award-winning journalist and author Vicki Larson has some answers. LATitude: How You Can Make a Live Apart Together Relationship Work is the definitive guide to creating a successful live apart together relationship.

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Saturday, September 14, 2024 - 11:00am

With up-to-date research on gender identity, letters and stories from grandparents on the same journey, resources for transgender youth and their families, and a selection of online and local support groups - [A Grand Love by Janna Barkin] provides uplifting, educational guidance on how to support your grandchild - and yourself!"--

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Saturday, November 2, 2024 - 11:00am

Special Event for Kids!

Told in fun-to-read rhyme and splashed with vibrant illustrations and Italian words, Pisa Loves Bella is a heartfelt story that celebrates travel as well as the importance of being kind to others and yourself.