From Ari Shapiro, the beloved host of NPR's All Things Considered, comes The Best Strangers in the World a stirring memoir-in-essays that is also a love letter to journalism. Ari takes us around the globe to reveal the stories behind narratives that are sometimes heartwarming, sometimes heartbreaking, but always poignant. Join him for a conversation with fellow NPR legend Davia Nelson.

Playing God by author Mary Jo McConahay is the definitive account of how a group of American Catholic bishops are using “dark money” and allying with ultra-right evangelicals in an attempt to remake America.

Please join us for a reading by Laila El-Sissi from her new novel, Fate Knocked On My Door, and a Q&A hosted by Book Passage for this event organized by the Left Coast Writers. Fate Knocked on My Door, a story of a young girl looking for freedom and independence from a culture of control. She traveled three continents in search of the free life she couldn't have in Egypt. She acquired courage and strength.

An aching love story and powerful coming-of-age that reckons with the legacy of British colonialism, the World War II Japanese occupation, and the pursuit of modernity, Rachel Heng's The Great Reclamation confronts the wounds of progress, the sacrifices of love, and the difficulty of defining home when nature and nation collide, literally shifting the land beneath people’s feet.

In The Oak Hill Method: Connecting to Students with Autism, you will hear directly from expert teachers and clinicians who have been working with students with autism in the highly successful program at Oak Hill School. Oak Hill School uses a wide range of evidence-based strategies that center around building relationships, truly knowing the individual, and customizing educational programs.

Special Event for Kids! Ages 6-9!

I Dare! I Can! I Will! from Linda Ólafsdóttir, a picture book inspired by the Long Friday—a real event in Iceland that inspired women around the world to stand up, walk out, and march together for women’s rights

Sixteen Rivers Press presents a poetry reading featuring our two new Spring 2023 releases: All Tomorrow’s Train Rides by Matthew Monte, and Songbird of the Nine Rivers by Joseph Zaccardi, along with member poet Barbara Brauer.

Reconceptions by author Rachel Lehmann-Haupt offers a compelling vision of what advances in reproductive science mean for the definition of family in the 21st century and beyond, and imparts a modern story for anyone looking to understand their own familial relationships — no matter what their family looks like.

In turns deeply sexy, riotously funny, and utterly joyful, This Bird Has Flown explores love, passion, and the ghosts of our past, and offers a glimpse inside the music business that could only come from beloved songwriter Susanna Hoffs.

Special Event for Kids! Ages 1-3!

Get ready for bed with this charming board book set to the tune of the beloved nursery rhyme, Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star.

Blinker, Blinker, Little Car by Susan B. Katz

In The Inward Outlook, psychologist Laura Basha shares how to discern this habitual way of thinking from the innate wisdom and common sense that we all have available to us at all times.

From the New York Times bestselling author of All the Missing Girls and “master of suspense, Megan Miranda” (Mary Kubica, New York Times bestselling author of The Good Girl ), The Only Survivors is a thrilling mystery about a group of former classmates who reunite to mark the tenth anniversary of a tragic accident — only to have one of the survivors disappear, casting fear and suspicion on the original tragedy.

Special Event for Kids! Ages 4-8!

From Maya Cameron-Gordon, The Mermaid Princesses is a magical story starring three Black mermaid sisters who each wish to wear the underwater crown! Perfect for fans of Little Mermaid and Oona.

A Brand New Start by Felecia Gaston documents Marin City’s founding as a shipbuilding community during WWII, as workers migrated from the American South & Midwest to create Marin County’s only Black enclave. This book focuses mainly on housing and social challenges from 1942 to the present day, showing the community’s fierce strength and resilience.

Standin' in a Hard Rain from Joel D. Eis, is the fast paced, personal, "boots-on-the-ground," front line account of major events by a dedicated radical in the 1960's (and beyond) who found himself at the table with the planners and out in the street, running from the cops. 

From the author of Reese's Book Club Pick The Henna Artist, Alka Joshi's The Perfumist of Paris, the final chapter of her New York Times bestselling Jaipur trilogy, takes readers to 1970s Paris, where Radha's budding career as a perfumer must compete with the demands of her family and the secrets of her past.

Organized around ten assessments and ten physical practices that anyone can do, Built to Move, mobility pioneers Kelly and Juliet Starrett, is designed to improve the way your body feels—less stiffness! fewer aches and pain!— and boost the overall quality of your life, no matter how you spend your time.

In Death of the Great Man, a novel by Peter D. Kramer, that’s part comic mystery, part political satire, and part case vignette, a psychiatrist reviews his involvement with a narcissistic national leader who has turned up dead on the consulting room couch. 

From Jeannette Walls, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Glass Castle, comes Hang the Moon, a riveting new novel about an indomitable young woman in Virginia during Prohibition. You will fall in love with Sallie Kincaid, a feisty and fearless, terrified and damaged young woman who refuses to be corralled.

True West: Sam Shepard’s Life, Work, and Times is the story of an American icon, a lasting portrait of Sam Shepard as he really was, revealed by those who knew him best. Robert Greenfield's sweeping biography charts Shepard’s long and complicated journey from a small town in Southern California to become an internationally known playwright and movie star.

A powerful work of memoir and healing, in Them Before Me Nancy Pechner traces her journey from intergenerational trauma and a childhood of emotional chaos, to forgiveness and healing of heart and soul.

Wisdom of Wildly Creative Women is filled with powerful affirmations and true-life stories to empower you. This book by author Angela LoMenzo and photograher James LoMenzo is packed with words of wisdom from women who have both overcome adversity and achieved an authentic life honoring their individuality and freedom of personal expression. Their real stories illustrate that it is possible to live the life you have always desired now.

Soon Wiley's When We Fell Apart is a profoundly moving and suspenseful drama that untangles the complicated ties that bind families together — or break them apart — as a young Korean American man’s search for answers about his girlfriend’s mysterious death becomes a soul-searching journey into his own bi-cultural identity

Turning Words is a poignant portrait of spiritual relationships in the diverse worlds of American and global Buddhism, told by author Hozan Alan Senauke through the stories of over 30 luminaries including His Holiness the Dalai Lama, Thich Nhat Hanh, Joan Halifax, Joanna Macy, and more.

Nicholas Dawidoff's The Other Side of Prospect is a landmark work of intimate reporting on inequality, race, class, and violence, told through a murder and intersecting lives in an iconic American neighborhood.

Join MaryCatherine McDonald and Anne Lamott for a powerful conversation on healing, survival, and transformation. Unbroken: The Trauma Response Is Never Wrong  is a profound new approach to healing trauma, grounded in a radical reframing of how we understand this nearly universal experience

You Could Make This Place Beautiful by Maggie Smith, like the work of Deborah Levy, Rachel Cusk, and Gina Frangello, is an unflinching look at what it means to live and write our own lives. It is a story about a mother’s fierce and constant love for her children, and a woman’s love and regard for herself.

Sydney Dunlap in her latest YA novel, It Happened on Saturday, tells a story of a middle-school girl who narrowly escapes becoming a victim of human trafficking and must find her way toward hope and healing after this traumatic event.

Join us to celebrate the best student poets from Marin County. Hosted by: California Poets In The Schools - Meg Hamill and Claire Blotter. Seating outside Book Passage in the courtyard. Students will read their wonderful poems!

Carmela Ciuraru's Lives of the Wives is a witty, provocative look inside the tumultuous marriages of five writers, illuminating the creative process as well as the role of money, power, and fame in these complex and fascinating relationships. Joined in conversation with John McMurtrie.

The Sheik is pissed. Along with his wives and children, the Sheik got put on the wrong plane, and ended up waiting hours in the desert on a hot tarmac for a crew that never came. As usual- it's Riya's fault.

Join Tania Malik for her rollicking new novel Hope You Are Satisfied.

Beautifully rendered, deeply researched, and inspiring, Guardians of the Valley by Dean King, is a moving story of friendship, the written word, and the transformative power of nature. It is also a timely and powerful “origin story” as the toweringly complex environmental challenges we face today become increasingly urgent.

While every community faces unique challenges with police reform, Neil Gross' Walk the Walk opens a window onto what the police could be, if we took seriously the charge of creating a more just America.

 Join us to welcome Kristin Jakob and celebrate an installation of her exquisite botanical drawings in the Gallery space!

In Deep Waters, Beth Ann Mathew's adventurous life as a marine biology professor and mother in Alaska is upended when her healthy husband is slammed by a rare type of stroke. Deep Waters is a gripping, intimate story of relationship resilience, set against the backdrop of Alaska’s dramatic marine wilderness.

At once an immersive story and a brilliant literary puzzle, Hernan Diaz's Trust engages the reader in a quest for the truth while confronting the deceptions that often live at the heart of personal relationships, the reality-warping force of capital, and the ease with which power can manipulate facts.

From the creation of the first encyclopedia to Wikipedia, from ancient museums to modern kindergarten classes—Knowing What We Know is award winning writer Simon Winchester’s brilliant and all-encompassing look at how humans acquire, retain, and pass on information and data, and how technology continues to change our lives and our minds.

Diving at the Lip of the Water is Karen Poppy's much anticipated debut poetry collection. The book confronts family systems and societal gender expectations, to reclaim what makes us powerful and whole.

Mary Beth Keane the bestselling author of Ask Again, Yes, presents a masterful new novel, The Half Moon, about a couple in a small town who must navigate the complexities of marriage, family, and longing.

From the bestselling author of the Pulitzer Prize finalist Empire of the Summer Moon, S.C. Gwynne comes His Majesty’s Airship, a stunning historical tale of the rise and fall of the world’s largest airship—and the doomed love story between an ambitious British officer and a married Romanian Princess at its heart.

A pioneer of artificial intelligence rebuilds the love of her life, but when she discovers he's been feeding incriminating civilian information to the Chinese government, she'll have to decide whether to keep or kill him. Author Nina Schuyler's Afterword explores what it means to be human and is a moving testament to the deeply human desire for belonging, companionship, and love.

Utterly original and wildly entertaining, Michelle Gagnon's Killing Me is a laugh-loud-loud thriller with a protagonist whose life is a total mess.

She escaped a serial killer. Then things got weird.

Glaciers are Alive by Debbie S. Miller introduces young science and nature lovers to the wonders of glaciers, the wildlife that call them home, and how important they are to the health of our planet. As glaciers melt at a rapid rate due to climate change, their disappearance impacts not only the wildlife that calls them home, but also all life on earth. Glaciers are alive, and they need our protection!

Walking with Sam is an intimate, funny, and poignant travel memoir following New York Times bestselling author and actor Andrew McCarthy as he walks the Camino de Santiago with his son Sam in an effort to get to know each other as adults.

Going Remote from author Adam Bessie and illustrator Peter Glanting, is a searingly honest graphic memoir dispatch from a community college professor who cares deeply for his students and family while also combating personal health issues from the frontlines of public education during the pandemic.

Dr. Stephen L. Hauser's The Face Laughs While The Brain Cries, is a doctor’s powerful and deeply human memoir about the mysteries of the brain and his 40-year quest to find a treatment for Multiple Sclerosis.

In God on Psychedelics, veteran journalist Don Lattin trains his eye on some previously unexamined questions. Why do relatively few people in the burgeoning psychedelic renaissance connect chemically induced mystical states with their own religious traditions? Can sacred plant medicines be a source of renewal for Christians, Jews and other people of faith?

In Central Park West, the gripping crime fiction debut from former FBI director James Comey takes readers deep inside the world of lawyers and investigators working to solve a murder while navigating the treacherous currents of modern politics and the mob.

Annabel Monaghan brings us the ultimate summer nostalgia read. Same Time Next Summer about an engaged woman who comes face to face with her first love who she hasn't seen in fourteen years, but who she spent every summer with from age five to seventeen when he broke her heart, calling into question everything she thought she knew about their love story, and herself.

Long acclaimed as one of America's preeminent novelists, Jane Smiley is also an unparalleled observer of the craft of writing. In The Questions That Matter Most this Pulitzer Prize-winning writer offers steady and penetrating essays on some of the aesthetic and cultural issues that mark any serious engagement with reading and writing.

Award-winning author Jane Delury’s new novel, Hedge, revolves around one transformational summer when a garden historian has an affair while she restores a lush private estate - a choice that jeopardizes her marriage and more. Hedge is an unforgettable story about the conflicts of motherhood, the lure of desire, and the pressure of intellectual ambition.

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Genius of Birds and The Bird Way, Jennifer Ackerman comes What an Owl Knows, a brilliant scientific investigation into owls—the most elusive of birds—and why they exert such a hold on human imagination.

Surf When You Can gathers inspiring lessons learned from a lifetime of honor, service, and leadership from Captain Brett Crozier, the former commanding officer of the aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt and renowned Navy officer.

Aisha Harris has made a name for herself as someone you can turn to for a razor-sharp take on whatever show or movie everyone is talking about. Now in Wannabe: Reckonings with the Pop Culture that Shapes Me, she turns her talents inward, mining the benchmarks of her nineties childhood and beyond to analyze the tropes that are shaping all of us, and our ability to shape them right back.

Gail Tsukiyama, the beloved bestselling author of The Color of Air, Women of the Silk, and The Samurai's Garden returns with The Brightest Star. A magnificent historical novel based on the life of the luminous, groundbreaking actress Anna May Wong—the first and only Asian American woman to gain movie stardom in the early days of Hollywood.

An irrevocably transformational journey of love, hope, courage, and resilience, Alenka Vrecek tells that story in a voice stripped of self-pity and infused with a good dose of humor. She Rides is a galvanizing wake-up call for anyone who wants to unearth and follow their own deeply buried dreams — and reclaim their life.

Join us for a special afternoon tea celebrating Lady Tan's Circle of Women, the latest historical novel from New York Times bestselling author Lisa See, inspired by the true story of a woman physician from 15th-century China—perfect for fans of See’s classic Snowflower and the Secret Fan and The Island of Sea Women.

Linda Joy Myers's new novel The Forger of Marseille is a thriller rife with history and intrigue. It's 1939, and all across Europe the Nazis are coming for Jews and anti-fascists. The only way to avoid being imprisoned or murdered is to assume a new identity. For that, people are desperate for papers. And for that, the underground needs forgers. 

A rust belt city in decline retains the solace of romance, which often proves to be an empty promise or even a curse. In Terry Tierney's latest The Bridge on Beer River, a novel-in-stories set in Reagan-era Binghamton, New York, characters scramble for subsistence while hoping for love and a better life.

Pedro & Daniel is a sweeping and deeply personal novel from Frederico Erebiai, that spans from childhood through teenage years and into adulthood, all the while tracing the lives of two brothers who are there for each other when no one else is. Together the brothers manage an abusive home life, school, coming out, first loves, first jobs, and the AIDS epidemic, in a coming-of-age story unlike any other

From Adrienne Brodeur, the author of the bestselling memoir Wild Game comes a riveting novel Little Monsters about Cape Cod, complicated families, and long-buried secrets—for fans of the New York Times bestsellers The Paper Palace and Ask Again, Yes.

In The Zen Way of Recovery, Laura Burges shares an accessible, compassionate guide to Buddhist principles and practices that can help support recovery from addictions and addictive behaviors—written by an experienced lay teacher with long-term recovery.

Anita Gail Jones' The Peach Seed is a multigenerational novel and an epic debut that explores the origins of a south Georgia family’s tradition and how its modern-day sons and daughters struggle with the legacies of America’s Civil Rights Movement and the far-reaching impacts of the 1800s slave trade from Senegal to Charleston, SC.

Wisdom and guidance to face the climate emergency from the most influential spiritual and environmental leaders of our time. Susan Bauer Wu's A Future We Can Love shares the words of Greta Thunberg and the Dalai Lama, generations apart, bringing them into dialogue with cutting-edge climate scientists, activists, and spiritual leaders to start a world-changing conversation.

Set in a small, sun-drenched Northern California town shifting from hippie haven to moneyed paradise, Michael Bourne's Blithedale Canyon asks whether a man who has spent his whole life screwing up can stop long enough to avoid destroying a woman he loves.

In this debut poetry collection Eggtooth, Jesse Nathan matches an exquisite feeling for the music of lines and sentences with his profound explorations of the idea of home. Ecology, family, history, sexuality, and poetry itself are his subjects, but in all these matters, Nathan’s rich formal imagination travels our fundamental feelings of alienation and belonging.