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ByJessica Brody
I didn’t become a reader until college. I wish I could say it was because
of some inspiring professor who reached deep into my soul and turned
on a light switch I didn’t even know I had. But no. It was because of the
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Sometimes I feel like a fraud standing in front of
an auditorium of high schoolers, asking them to
read my book. After all, I wasn’t a reader at that
age. In my mind, reading was the equivalent of
homework. The books they assigned us in class
were of no interest to me. And most of the time,
I just opted for the Cliff Notes.
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You know, that strange cultural phenomenon in which you get to college
and magically gain 15 pounds? That’s what happened to me. It was a
problem. And I didn’t have a solution.
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Julia Reynolds
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Laurie R. King
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Marie-Rose Phan Lê
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Masha Maslova
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My roommate, on the other hand, did. She dragged me to something
called a “gym” and stuck me on this horrifyingly pointless contraption
called an “elliptical.” Basically, you pedal and pedal and go nowhere. But
I was determined to lose the weight. So I programmed it for 40 minutes
and dove in with full force. After a while, however, I started to get really
tired…and sweaty. Not to mention, incredibly bored. I glanced down and
only two minutes had passed. I was about to give up.
Then my roommate made another unhelpful suggestion. “Why don’t you
read a book? It’ll make the time go by faster.”
To which, I responded, “I already finished my homework.”
“No,” she corrected. “I mean like a book for fun.”
That’s when I gave her the most sympathetic look I could muster
(through my sweat) and said, “Honey, there’s no such thing as a book
for fun. That’s called television.”
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We went back and forth until she finally convinced me to try the book
she was reading. I waded in with reluctance.
But after a few minutes, to my surprise, I found I was laughing and
turning the pages with zeal. I was completely absorbed in the story.
Then I heard this weird beeping sound. I looked down to see that my
forty minutes on the elliptical were up! Just like that!
What is this magic book that makes time cease to exist?! I thought.
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Drinks with Nick
Books Inc. in Alameda store manager Nick
Petrulakis has been known to mix a cocktail
now and then. In this monthly feature, Nick
creates a cocktail to go with one of his favorite books for the month.
• Fiction •
Christian Kiefer’s The Animals is a brawling
and beautiful book. You’ll travel from a
hardscrabble Battle Mountain, Nevada,
to the non-neon side of the Biggest Little
City in the World, and end up in a wildlife
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Green on Blue
The Fifth Gospel
Leaving Berlin
By Elliot Ackerman
By Ian Caldwell
By Joseph Kanon
Aziz and his older brother Ali live with their
mother in a village amid the endless mountains
of eastern Afghanistan. When a convoy of armed
men arrives in their village one day, the boys are suddenly
orphaned in a small unfamiliar city miles from home. And
soon, Aziz must decide whether to embrace the brutality of
war or leave it behind, and risk placing his brother in jeopardy.
Available Now
Young Skins
By Colin Barrett
Enter the small, rural town of Glanbeigh, Ireland a place whose fate took a downturn with the
Celtic Tiger, a desolate spot where buffoonery
and tension simmer and erupt, and booze-sodden boredom
fills the corners of every pub and nightclub. Here, and in the
towns beyond, the young live hard and wear the scars. Told in
Barrett’s vibrant, distinctive prose, Young Skins is an accomplished and irreverent debut. Available Now
The Whites
By Harry Brandt
Back in the 1990s, when Billy Graves was part
of the anti-crime unit the Wild Geese he was
branded as a loose cannon after accidentally
shooting a young boy during a scufﬂe with a criminal. Now
a sergeant for the Manhattan Night Watch, the bad old days
have returned to Billy’s life with a vengeance when the team
is summoned to a case with ties to the former members of the
Wild Geese. Available Now
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2004 -A mysterious exhibit is under construction at the Vatican Museums. A week before it is
scheduled to open, its curator is murdered. That
same night, a violent break-in rocks the home of the curator’s
research partner, Father Alex Andreou, a Greek Catholic
priest who lives inside the Vatican. When the papal police fail
to identify a suspect in either crime, Father Alex undertakes
his own investigation. Available March 3rd
An Exaggerated Murder
By Josh Cook
Private investigator Trike Augustine may be a
brainiac with deductive skills to rival Sherlock
Holmes, but they’re not doing him any good at
solving the case of a missing gazzilionaire because
the clues are so stupefyingly--well, stupid. Meanwhile, his
sidekicks Max and Lola don’t quite rise to the level of Dr.
Watson, either. Meanwhile, the clock is ticking as the astronomical reward being offered diminishes drastically every day.
Available March 3rd
The Buried Giant
By Kazuo Ishiguro
The Romans have long since departed and Britain
is steadily declining into ruin. Axl and Beatrice,
a couple of elderly Britons, decide that now is
the time, finally, for them to set off across this
troubled land of mist and rain to find the son they have not
seen for years. Sometimes savage, sometimes mysterious,
always intensely moving, The Buried Giant tells a luminous
story about the act of forgetting and the power of memory.
Available March 3rd
The Tusk That Did
the Damage
By Tania James
A tour de force set in South India that plumbs
the moral complexities of the ivory trade through
the eyes of a poacher, a documentary filmmaker, and, in a
feat of audacious imagination, an infamous elephant known
as the Gravedigger. The Tusk That Did the Damage blends
the mythical and the political to tell a wholly original, utterly
contemporary story about the majestic animal that has mesmerized us for centuries. Available March 10th
Berlin 1948. Alex Meier, a young Jewish writer,
ﬂed the Nazis for America before the war. But
the politics of his youth have now put him in the
crosshairs of the McCarthy witch-hunts. Faced with deportation and the loss of his family, he makes a desperate bargain
with the ﬂedgling CIA: he will earn his way back to America by
acting as their agent in his native Berlin. Available March 3rd
Shame and the Captives
By Thomas Keneally
Inspired by a notorious incident in New South
Wales in 1944, this beautifully rendered novel
from the author of “Schindler’s List” brilliantly
explores a World War II prison camp, where Japanese
prisoners plan an outbreak, to shattering and far-reaching
effects on all the citizens around them. Shame and the Captives is another masterful work by Thomas Keneally which
explores ordinary lives caught up in extraordinary events.
Available Now
Dreaming Spies
By Laurie R. King
After a lengthy case, Mary Russell and Sherlock
Holmes set off for a sojourn in Japan. Aboard
the ship, Holmes recognizes the Earl of Darley,
whom he suspects of being an occasional blackmailer. And
then there’s the young Japanese woman who befriends Russell. From the glorious city of Tokyo to the cavernous library
at Oxford, Russell and Holmes race to solve a mystery with
potential to topple an empire. Available Now
The Last Word
By Hanif Kureishi
Mamoon Azam is an eminent Indian-born writer
who has made a career in England--but now, in
his early seventies, his reputation is fading. In
an attempt to revitalize his career, Mamoon’s publisher commissions Harry, an ambitious young writer, to produce a
provocative biography to bring Mamoon back into the public
eye. The Last Word is a tale of youthful exuberance and the
misery of outgrowing it. Available March 10th
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March
2015
I Am Radar
Night at the Fiestas
Cat Out of Hell
By Reif Larsen
By Kirstin Valdez Quade
By Lynne Truss
The moment just before Radar Radmanovic is
born, the hospital’s electricity fails. The delivery
takes place in total darkness. Lights back on, the
staff sees a healthy baby boy--with pitch-black skin--born to
stunned white parents. I Am Radar begins with Radar’s perplexing birth but rapidly explodes outward, carrying readers
throughout history, as well as to unknown regions where radio
waves and subatomic particles dance to their own design.
Available Now
World Gone By
By Dennis Lehane
A psychologically complex novel set in Cuba and
Ybor City, Florida, during World War II -- Joe
Coughlin effortlessly mixes with Tampa’s social
elite, U.S. Naval intelligence, and the Lansky-Luciano mob. He has everything--money, power, a beautiful
mistress, and anonymity. But success cannot protect him
from the dark truth of his past--and ultimately, the wages of a
lifetime of sin will finally be paid in full. Available March 10th
Lucky Alan
By Jonathan Lethem
Jonathan Lethem’s third collection of stories
uncovers a father’s nervous breakdown at SeaWorld; a foundling child rescued from the woods
during a blizzard; a political prisoner in a hole in a Brooklyn
street; and a crumbling, haunted “blog” on a seaside cliff. As
in his celebrated novels, Lethem finds the uncanny lurking in
the mundane, and the tragic undertow of the absurd world(s)
in which we live. Available Now
The Discreet Hero
By Mario Vargas Llosa
The Discreet Hero, follows two fascinating characters whose lives are destined to intersect:
neat, endearing Felicito Yanaque, a small businessman in Piura, Peru, who finds himself the
victim of blackmail; and Ismael Carrera, a successful owner
of an insurance company in Lima, who cooks up a plan to
avenge himself against the two lazy sons who want him dead.
Available March 10th
Satin Island
By Tom McCarthy
U., a “corporate anthropologist,” is tasked with
writing the Great Report, an all-encompassing
ethnographic document that would sum up our
era. Yet at every turn, he feels himself overwhelmed by the ubiquity of data. As he begins to wonder if
the Great Report might remain a shapeless, oozing plasma,
his senses are startled awake by a dream of an apocalyptic
cityscape. Available Now
Kirstin Valdez Quade’s unforgettable stories
plunge us into the troubled hearts of characters
defined by the desire to escape the past or else to
plumb its depths. From a young man discovering his estranged
father has been squatting in his grandmother’s empty house,
to a young woman at an impasse when she is asked to hear
her priest’s confession, these stories explore themes of race,
class, and coming-of-age. Available Now
The Valley
By John Renehan
When Black, a deskbound admin officer, is sent up
the Valley to investigate a warning shot fired by
a near-forgotten platoon, he can only see it as the
final bureaucratic insult in a short and unhappy Army career.
What he doesn’t know is that his investigation puts at risk
the centuries-old arrangements that keep this violent land in
fragile balance, and will launch a shattering personal odyssey
of obsession and discovery. Available March 10th
Barefoot Dogs
By Antonio Ruiz-Camacho
On an unremarkable night, Jose Victoriano
Arteaga--the head of a thriving Mexico City family--vanishes on his way home from work. The
Arteagas find few answers; the full truth of what happened
to Arteaga is lost to the shadows of Mexico’s vast and desperate underworld, a place of rampant violence and kidnappings,
and government corruption. But soon packages arrive to the
family house, offering horrifying clues. Available March 10th
All the Old Knives
By Olen Steinhauer
Six years ago in Vienna, terrorists took over a
hundred hostages, and the rescue attempt went
terribly wrong. The CIA’s Vienna station was witness to this tragedy, gathering intel from its sources during
those tense hours, assimilating facts from the ground and from
an agent on the inside. So when it all went wrong, the question
had to be asked: Had their agent been compromised, and how?
Available March 10th
Dr. “Wiggy” Winterton is a librarian who finds
himself suddenly alone: he’s just lost his job, his
beloved wife has just died, and to top it all off, his
sister has disappeared. Overcome by grief, he stands in his
sister’s kitchen staring at the only witness to what’s happened
to her--her cat, Roger. Who then speaks to him. . . Available
March 3rd
Aquarium
David Vann
Twelve year old Caitlin lives alone with her
mother in Seattle. Each day, while she waits to
be picked up after school, Caitlin visits the local
aquarium to study the fish. When she befriends
an old man at the tanks one day, Caitlin cracks open a dark
family secret and propels her once-blissful relationship with
her mother toward a precipice of terrifying consequence.
Available Now
A Little Life
By Hanya Yanagihara
When four classmates from a small Massachusetts college move to New York to make their way,
they’re broke, adrift, and buoyed only by their
friendship and ambition. Over the decades, their relationships
deepen and darken, tinged by addiction, success, and pride. Yet
their greatest challenge, each comes to realize, is their friend
Jude, haunted by an unspeakable childhood trauma which he
fears will define his life forever. Available March 10th
The Wisdom of Perversity
By Rafael Yglesias
Brian and Jeff were best friends, growing up
together in the late 1960s. Then something happened that drove a wedge between them, ending
both their friendship and their childhood, something that
neither ever spoke about . . . at least until their shared secret
resurfaced some forty years later, forcing them to reunite and,
along with Jeff’s cousin Julie, to face the consequences of their
years of silence. Available Now
Lacy Eye
By Jessica Treadway
When Dawn brings her new boyfriend home from
college for a visit, her parents and sister try to
hide their doubts because they’re glad that Dawn
- always an awkward child - appears to have grown into a
confident woman in her relationship. But when Hanna and her
husband, Joe, are beaten savagely in their bed, Daen’s mother
is forced to question everything she thought she knew about
her daughter. Available March 10th
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Brooklyn, New York to the counterculture
in Los Angeles, California--with a conversation between authors David Kukoff and
Joseph Di Prisco, discussing their respective works Children of the Canyon: A Novel,
and the memoir Subway to California.
5:00 PM • Laurel Village
415-221-3666
“New York Times-bestselling
author Cara Black launches the latest
installment in her Aimee Leduc series,
Murder on the Champs de Mars. Single
mother Aimee Leduc is fighting off sleep
deprivation when a young Gypsy boy
comes to her with news that his dying
mother has an important secret she
needs to tell Aimee, something to do
with Aimee’s father’s unsolved murder a
decade ago.
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1110 Alameda De Las Pulgas
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The Belmont Library presents New York
Times-bestselling author Laurie R. King
for a discussion of the latest intstallment
in her Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes
series, Dreaming Spies.
7:30 PM • SF • Nourse Theatre
275 Hayes St • 415-392-4400
City Arts & Lectures presents moderator
and managing editor of Meet the Press
and author of The Stranger: Barack Obama
in the White House, Chuck Todd in conversation with Roy Eisenhardt.
7:00 PM • The Marina
415-931-3633
“Co-founder of Seattle7Writers,
playwright, and New York Times-bestselling author of The Art of Racing in the
Rain, Garth Stein discusses his much-anticipated new novel A Sudden Light. Called
“a grand, gorgeous, multi-generational
epic of the Pacific Northwest” by bestselling author Maria Semple, A Sudden Light
is rich with unconventional characters,
scenes of transcendent natural beauty,
and unforgettable moments of emotional
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“Award-winning journalist and the writer
and co-producer of the PBS documentary
Nuestra Family, Our Family Julia Reynolds
discusses her gripping and comprehensive
examination of one of the most violent
gangs in the United States--and the history
of Operation Black Widow, the FBI’s questionable decade-long effort to dismantle
the Nuestra Familia--Blood in the Fields.
7:00 PM • Palo Alto
650-321-0600
Local author Daniel Kunstler discusses
Passaic: The True Story of One Man’s Journey
Through American Immigration, Detention and
Deportation. A compelling look at one human
rights failure, Passaic also sheds light on
the darker side of our national ambivalence
toward immigrants illustrating a pattern of
social control cloaked in the rule of law.
7:30 PM • The Castro
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International bestselling author with
books published in 47 languages, and the
recipient of two Irish Book Awards, the
Bistro Book of the Year, and numerous
international awards, John Boyne discusses his new novel--which is a riveting
narrative of an honorable Irish priest who
finds the church collapsing around him in
the 1970s--A History of Loneliness.
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7:30 PM • SF•Nourse Theatre
275 Hayes St • 415-392-4400
City Arts & Lectures presents Surprising
Benefits of Bacteria: The Human Microbiome
with UCSF genetic researcher Dr. Katie
Pollard in conversation with Associate
“Co-founder of Seattle7Writers, playwright, and New York Times-bestselling
author of The Art of Racing in the Rain,
Garth Stein discusses his much-anticipated new novel A Sudden Light. Called “a
grand, gorgeous, multi-generational epic
of the Pacific Northwest” by bestselling
author Maria Semple, A Sudden Light
is rich with unconventional characters,
scenes of transcendent natural beauty,
and unforgettable moments of emotional
truth.
7:00 PM • Palo Alto
650-321-0600
in conversation with Lisen Stromberg.
With a clear and accessible action plan
to achieving more joyful and productive
lives, stronger communities and a better
world, Seeking Serenity is a revolutionary, and essential, read for all.
7:00 PM • The Marina
415-931-3633
Architectural historian and
digital visualization professional and a
recognized authority on the Panama-Pacific International Exposition Laura Ackley
marks the centennial of the PPIE, when
our own San Francisco emerged from the
ashes of the 1906 earthquake and fire to
host the resplendent exposition, with San
Francisco’s Jewel City: The Panama -Pacific
International Exposition of 1915.
7:00 PM • Palo Alto
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“New York Times-bestselling author Cara
Black launches the latest installment in
her Aimee Leduc series, Murder on the
Champs de Mars. Single mother Aimee
Leduc is fighting off sleep deprivation
Take a trip through the
1960s--from crime and corruption in
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7:00 PM • Laurel Village
415-221-3666
USA Today-bestselling author
Meg Donohue shares her poignant new
novel Dog Crazy. Set in San Francisco, Dog
Crazy follows pet bereavement counselor
Maggie Brennan as she searches the City
Meg Donohue
2:30 PM • Mountain View
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Health and Happiness in the Age of Anxiety
Curator of Microbiology at California
Academy of Science’s Shannon Bennett.
7:00 PM • Opera Plaza
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when a young Gypsy boy comes to her
with news that his dying mother has an
important secret she needs to tell Aimee,
something to do with Aimee’s father’s
unsolved murder a decade ago.
for a stolen dog, and learns to open her
heart to new love. This evening will benefit San Francisco’s oldest all-breed rescue
group Grateful Dogs Rescue.
“(S)He Talks events in partnership with
Books Inc. presents CNN and PBS contributor Amanda Enayati for a discussion
of Seeking Serenity: The 10 New Rules for
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Doomsday Equation Books Inc. Mountain
View presents an evening with Pulitzer
Prize-winning author Matt Richtel in conversation about the state of science fiction
and the writing process with critically-acclaimed, bestselling authors Andy Weir,
author of The Martian, and Mira Grant
(Seanan Maguire), most recent author of
Symbiont and Book #4 in the Incryptid
series Pocket Apocalypse.
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Join Alameda for a salute to
hometown hero Marine Gunnery Sgt.
Aaron Tam (Ret.), who is featured in the
cover story of National Geographic Magazine’s February 2015 issue entitled “Behind
the Mask: Revealing the Trauma of War.” A
powerful story of the many brain injuries
soldiers endure as a result of blast events,
“Behind the Mask” is a visually arresting
article about a form of art therapy that
is helping many service members work
through their mental and physical pain by
painting masks to express their feelings.
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Looking for feedback on your
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7:30 PM • The Castro
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“Literary editor and a former Senior
Editor for Vanity Fair magazine, George
Hodgman shares his stunning debut work
Bettyville: A Memoir. Called “exquisitely
written” by Jeanette Walls author of The
Glass Castle, Bettyville is a witty, tender
narrative of a son’s journey home to his
hometown of Paris, Missouri to care for
his irascible mother who has never really
accepted the fact that her son is gay.
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7:30 PM • SF
Nourse Theatre • 275 Hayes St
415-392-4400
City Arts & Lectures presents Minds of
Their Own: Animal Intelligence with Virginia
Morell, author of Animal Wise: How We
Know Animals Think and Feel, in conversation with Roy Eisenhardt.
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7:00 PM • Opera Plaza
415-776-1111
“Founder and president of Healing Planet Project, a nonprofit dedicated
to the preservation and presentation of
healing and spiritual traditions through
media, Marie-Rose Phan-Lê discusses
her journey through the world of healing, from Hawaii to the Himalayas, with
Talking Story. Marie-Rose will also present
a clip from her award-winning documentary of the same name, which is a
captivating companion to her memoir.
7:00 PM • Palo Alto
650-321-0600
Jack Erickson shares his debut international thriller Thirteen Days in Milan. When
American Sylvia de Matteo becomes
separated from her fiancé and young
daughter and is taken hostage by terrorists during a political assassination, an
international incident is triggered. And
soon, Sylvia’s only hope for freedom rests
on her father, a prominent Wall Street
investment banker.
7:00 PM • Mountain View
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Editorial Director and Tasting Lab
Expert for America’s Test Kitchen on
PBS Jack Bishop discusses his latest
essential book The Complete Vegetarian
Cookbook: A Fresh Guide to Eating Well with
700 Foolproof Recipes. With inventive and
uncomplicated techniques for making
satisfying and boldly flavorful vegetarian
recipes, this comprehensive cookbook
is sure to inspire both vegetarians and
omnivores alike.
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7:00 PM • The Marina
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“Award-winning poet and
professor of creative writing at Concord
Academy in Massachusetts Cammy Thomas
reads and discusses works from her second collection Inscriptions. Focused on
three strong women--a mother, an aunt,
and a sister-in-law--confronting death,
Inscriptions is an intense and lyrical meditation in the face of impermanence.
7:00 PM • Alameda
510-522-2226
“A journalist specializing in international
human rights, and a current board member of the San Francisco based NGO
Women’s Intercultural Network, Jessica
Buchleitner and contributors share their
works from the powerful anthology 50
Women: Book One. Part one in a two book
series, 50 Women shares personal stories of strength and perseverance and
discusses everything from politics and
armed conflict, to gender based violence
and health afflictions. Joining Jessica are
contributors New Oo Cheema and Masha
Maslova.
7:00 PM • Burlingame Main
Library•480 Primrose Road
650-558-7400
Books Inc. and the Burlingame Library
proudly present New York Times-bestselling author J.A. Jance for a discussion
of the latest thrilling installment in her
Ali Reynolds series, Cold Betrayal.
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Pulitzer Prize-nominee and
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Named among the Top 10 European
writers by the Observer in 2011, and a
recipient of the Crime Writers Association Award, Timothy Williams shares
the first book in his critically-acclaimed
Commissario Trotti series, Converging
Parallels. Available for the first time to
readers in the United States, Converging Parallels is set in Northern Italy in
the late and features lush descriptions
reminiscent of crime masters Raymond
Chandler and Nicolas Freeling.
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icle of one man’s spiritual redemption
found while climbing to the top of Mt.
Kilimanjaro.
Travel to the far future with
local authors Annika Stenstedt author
of Fireflight, a haunting and mysterious
novel which follows Clover’s journey
to recover her past through a series of
dreams; and Ellery A. Kane, author of
Legacy, a thriller set in dystopian San
Francisco where an elite group of government-appointed military police, known as
The Guardians, seek to maintain order at
all costs.
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Russell shares the richly detailed follow-up to Doc, Epitaph: A Novel of the O.K.
Corral. Exploring the woman behind the
myth of Wyatt Earp, Epitaph imagines
the life of Josephine Sarah Marcus, who
who carefully chipped away at the truth
until she had crafted the heroic legend
that would become the epitaph she
believed her husband deserved.
7:00 PM • Mountain View
650-428-1234
Sharma Shields shares her debut novel The
Sasquatch Hunter’s Almanac. Described as
7:00 PM • The Marina
415-931-3633
Human rights activist, founder
of Run for Congo Women, and co-founder
of Sister Somalia, Lisa J. Shannon discusses the harrowing account of her
journey with Congolese expatriate Francisca Thelin to her beloved homeland,
which is now under the shadow of one
of Africa’s most feared militias--Joseph
Kony’s Lord’s Resistance Army--with the
gripping Mama Koko and the Hundred Gunmen: An Ordinary Family’s Extraordinary Tale
of Love, Loss, and Survival in Congo.
7:00 PM • The Castro
425-864-6777
Kevin Sessums discusses I Left It on the
Mountain. A fascinating follow-up to
“”a mash up of “Moby-Dick” and Kafka’s
“Metamorphosis” (with a hearty dash
of “Twin Peaks” thrown in)” by Kirkus
Reviews, Sharma’s work is a dark, fantastical, multi-generational tale about a
family whose patriarch is consumed by
the hunt for the mythical, elusive sasquatch he encountered in his youth.
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7:00 PM • Palo Alto
650-321-0600
Host of the wildly popular
PBS Kids show “Dinosaur Train” Dr.
Scott Sampson discusses How to Raise a
Wild Child: The Art and Science of Falling in
Love with Nature. An essential read, How
Mississippi Sissy, Kevin’s latest memoir
chronicles his early days in New York as
an actor, his years working for Andy Warhol at Interview and Tina Brown at Vanity
Fair, his HIV Positive diagnosis and his
descent into addiction. It’s also the chron-
to Raise a Wild Child is an easy-to-use
guide for parents, teachers, and others
looking to foster a strong connection
between children and nature, complete
with engaging activities, troubleshooting
advice, and much more.
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The Age of Selfishness
By Darryl Cunningham
Tracing the emergence of Ayn Rand’s philosophy of
objectivism in the 1940s to her present-day influence,
Darryl Cunningham’s latest work of graphic-nonfiction
investigation leads readers to the heart of the global
financial crisis of 2008. Tackling the complexities of economics by distilling them down to a series of concepts accessible to all
age groups, Cunningham ultimately delivers a devastating analysis of
our current economic world. Available March 31st
The Age of Acquiescence
By Steve Fraser
From the American Revolution through the Civil Rights
movement, Americans have long mobilized against political, social, and economic privilege. Hierarchies based
on inheritance, wealth, and political preferment were
treated as obnoxious and a threat to democracy. But over the last
half-century that political will and cultural imagination have vanished. Why? The Age of Acquiescence seeks to solve that mystery.
Available Now
Future Crimes
By Marc Goodman
We all know today’s criminals can steal identities, drain
bank accounts, and wipe out computer servers, but
that’s just the beginning. With explosive insights based
upon a career in law enforcement and counterterrorism,
Marc Goodman takes readers on a vivid journey through
the darkest recesses of the Internet. Future Crimes also offers a way
out with clear steps we must take to survive the progress unfolding
before us. Available Now
Girl in a Band
By Kim Gordon
Almost as celebrated as the Sonic Youth’s defiantly dissonant sound was the marriage between Kim Gordon
and fellow Sonic Youth founder Thurston Moore. So
when the two split in 2011 after twenty-seven years, fans
were devastated. Exploring the artists, musicians, and
writers who influenced Gordon, and the relationship that defined her
life for so long, Girl in a Band is filled with the sights and sounds of a
woman who has become an icon. Available Now
The Utopia of Rules
By David Graeber
Where does the desire for endless rules, regulations,
and bureaucracy come from? Leaping from the
ascendance of right-wing economics in the second
half of the twentieth century to the hidden meanings behind James Bond, The Utopia of Rules is at
once a powerful work of social theory in the tradition of Foucault
and Marx, and an entertaining reckoning with popular culture that
calls to mind Slavoj Žižek at his most accessible. Available Now
Follies of God
By James Grissom
At a moment in the life of Tennessee Williams when
critics were proclaiming that his work had been overrated he sent a hopeful twenty-year-old writer, James
Grissom, on his behalf to find out if he, or his work, had
mattered to those who had so deeply mattered to him.
Grissom sought out more than seventy giants of American theater.
Follies of God is Grissom’s revelation, a book that moves and inspires.
Available March 3rd
• Non Fiction •
Discontent and Its Civilizations
By Moshin Hamid
Mohsin Hamid’s brilliant, moving, and extraordinarily
clever novels are at once timeless and of-the-moment,
and his themes are universal: love, language, ambition,
power, corruption, religion, family, identity. Here he
explores this terrain from a different angle in essays
that deftly counterpoise the personal and the political, and are shot
through with the same passion, imagination, and breathtaking shifts
of perspective that gives his fiction its unmistakable electric charge.
Available Now
Moody Bitches
By Julie Holland, M.D.
As women, we learn from an early age that our moods
are a problem. As a result, one in four of us takes a
psychiatric drug. In Moody Bitches Dr. Holland offers
readers insider information about the pros and cons
of the drugs we’re being offered, surprising and highly
effective natural therapies that can help us press the reset button
on our own bodies and minds, and much more. Available March 3rd
Dead Wake
By Erik Larson
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author comes
the enthralling story of the sinking of the “Lusitania,”
published to coincide with the 100th anniversary of the
disaster. It is a story that many of us think we know
but don’t, and Erik Larson tells it thrillingly, switching
between hunter and hunted while painting a larger portrait of America
at the height of the Progressive Era. Available March 10th
Shrinks
By Jeffrey A. Lieberman, M.D.
Dr. Lieberman traces the field of psychiatry from its
birth as a mystic pseudo-science through its adolescence
as a cult of “shrinks” to its late blooming maturity as a
science-driven profession that saves lives. With fascinating case studies and portraits of the luminaries of the
field Shrinks is a gripping and illuminating read, and an urgent callto-arms to dispel the stigma of mental illnesses. Available March 10th
Girl in the Dark
By Anna Lyndsey
Anna was living a normal life. But then she started to
develop worrying symptoms: her face felt like it was
burning whenever she was in front of the computer.
Soon this progressed to an intolerance of fluorescent
light, then of sunlight itself. With gorgeous, lyrical prose, Anna brings
us into the dark with her, a place from which we emerge to see love,
and the world, anew. Available March 3rd
Irritable Hearts
By Mac McClelland
When award-winning human rights journalist Mac
McClelland left Haiti after reporting on the devastating
earthquake of 2010, she never imagined how the assignment would irrevocably affect her own life. Delving into
the latest research by the country’s top scientists and
therapists, Mac also spent time with veterans and their families. Irritable Hearts is a searing memoir, as well as an exploration of our
culture’s history with PTSD. Available Now
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The Fall of the Ottomans
By Eugene Rogan
In 1914 the Ottoman Empire was depleted of men and
resources after years of war. But in the aftermath of
the assassination in Sarajevo, not even the Middle East
could escape the vast and enduring consequences.
Eugene Rogan brings the WWI and its immediate aftermath in the Middle East to vivid life, uncovering the often ignored
story of the region’s crucial role in the conflict. Available Now
Data and Goliath
By Bruce Schneier
We cooperate with corporate surveillance because it
promises us convenience, and we submit to government
surveillance because it promises us protection. The
result is a mass surveillance society of our own making.
But have we given up more than we’ve gained? Security
expert Bruce Schneier shows us exactly what we can do to reform our
government surveillance programs and shake up surveillance-based
business models. Available Now
I Left It On the Mountain
By Kevin Sessums
I Left It on the Mountain chronicles Sessums early days
in New York as an actor, his years working for Andy
Warhol at Interview and Tina Brown at Vanity Fair, his
HIV Positive diagnosis and his descent into addiction.
For readers who loved Mississippi Sissy and want to know what happened to that tenacious little boy, I Left It On the Mountain is the
sometimes very dark, but ultimately hopeful answer. Available Now
Rust
By Jonathan Waldman
In a thrilling drama of man versus nature, journalist
Jonathan Waldman travels from Key West, Florida, to
Prudhoe Bay, Alaska, to meet the colorful and often
reclusive people who are fighting our mightiest and
unlikeliest enemy: Rust. The result is a fresh and often funny account
of an overlooked engineering endeavor that is as compelling as it is
grand, illuminating a hidden phenomenon that shapes the modern
world. Available March 10th
The Future of the Catholic
Church with Pope Francis
By Gary Wills
Pope Francis, the first Jesuit pope, offers a challenge
to his church. Can he bring about significant change?
Should he? As Wills contends, it is only by examining
the history of the Church that we can understand Pope Francis’s and
the Church’s challenges, and, as history shows, any changes that meet
those challenges will have impact only if the Church, the people of God,
support them. Available March 10th
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MARCH 11 • 7:00 PM
Books Inc. Palo Alto • 650-321-0600
NOT YOUR MOTHER’S BOOK CLUB™ proudly
welcomes the “Keep YA Weird” tour, which
celebrates literary experimentalism and
extreme imagination in YA literature, with
award-winning author Andrew Smith and his
latest transcendent work The Alex Crow. With
Starred Reviews from Kirkus Reviews, Booklist, and Publishers Weekly, readers will be
captivated by this bizarre and brilliant novel
that blends multiple story strands to tell the
story of 15-year-old Ariel, a refugee from the
Middle East who is the sole survivor of an
attack on his small village.
MARCH 18 • 7:00 PM
MARCH 17 • 7:00 PM
MARCH 13 • 7:00 PM
Books Inc. Opera Plaza • 415-776-1111
NOT YOUR MOTHER’S BOOK CLUB™ excitedly wel-
comes back local author Whitney Miller for a
discussion of the thrilling sequel to The Violet
Hour, The Crimson Gate. Trapped inside of a
Cambodian temple, Harlow Wintergreen must
find a way out before her double, the evil Isiris,
unleashes a killer super virus that threatens
to destroy the world.
Books Inc. Palo Alto • 650-321-0600
Join NOT YOUR MOTHER’S BOOK CLUB™ for a
Launch Party celebrating the release of local
author Stacey Lee’s debut novel Under a Painted
Sky. A captivating work of historical fiction
set in 1849 Missouri, Under a Painted Sky
adeptly explores race, slavery, and gender
roles amidst a heart-wrenching survival tale
that will restore your faith in the power of
friendship.
Books Inc. Alameda • 510-522-2226
NOT YOUR MOTHER’S BOOK CLUB™ presents crit-
ically-acclaimed and award-winning author
Teresa Toten for a discussion of her latest
novel The Unlikely Hero of Room 13B. Awarded
the 2013 Governor General Literary Award of
Canada, Teresa’s latest tackles the challenges
of teens coping with obsessive-compulsive disorder set against the backdrop of a traditional
whodunit, creating a story so engaging readers will find it hard to put down.
Books Inc. Clubs Calendar
ALAMEDA
8 B.G.P. SOCIAL NETWORK BOOK
Sunday, March 8 2:00 PM THE
SOCIETY (ages 16 & up) will meet.
11 ALAMEDA’S YOUNG ADULT BOOK
Wednesday, March 11 7:00 PM
CLUB (ages 15+) will meet.
BERKELEY
7 FIRST SATURDAY BOOK CLUB will
Saturday, March 7 9:30 AM The
discuss Americanah by Chimamanda
Ngozi Adichie.
BURLINGAME
Thursday, March 19 7:00 PM
12 The RECOMMENDED BY A
19 The
BIG YES SOCIETY DISCUSSTRANGER BOOK CLUB will discuss
SION GROUP will discuss Small Graces:
A Celebration of the Ordinary: Sacred
Moments That Illuminate Our Lives by
Kent Nerburn.
20 The OUR PARENTS MADE US DO
Friday, March 20 5:00 PM
THIS BOOK CLUB will meet.
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Thursday, March 26 7:00 PM
The DESERT ISLAND BOOK CLUB
will discuss Soledad Brother: The
Prison Letters of George Jackson.
March 29 2:00 PM
29 Sunday,
The BAY AREA STEAMPUNK
SOCIETY BOOK CLUB will meet.
29 The INTIMATES: EAST BAY
Sunday, March 29 6:00 PM
QUEER BOOK CLUB will discuss The Tes-
tosterone Files: My Hormonal and
Social Transformation from Female to
Male by Max Wolf Valerio.
Thursday, March 12 7:00 PM
Golden State by Michelle Richmond.
26 The IS THAT A GUN IN YOUR
Thursday, March 26 7:00 PM
POCKET? BOOK CLUB will discuss The
Wife, the Maid, and the Mistress by
Ariel Lawhon.
MOUNTAIN VIEW
9 BROKEN COMPASS ADVENTURE
Monday, March 9 7:30 PM The
BOOK CLUB will discuss The Riddle of
the Labyrinth: The Quest to Crack an
Ancient Code by Margalit Fox.
10 The POLITICALLY INSPIRED
Tuesday, March 10 7:30 PM
BOOK CLUB will discuss Towards Col-
lective Liberation: Anti-Racist
Organizing, Feminist Praxis, and Movement Building Strategy by Chris Crass.
March 25 7:00
25 Wednesday,
PM The MEETING OF THE
MUSES BOOK CLUB will meet.
March 30 7:00 PM
30 Monday,
The HANDS ON BAY AREA BOOK
CLUB will discuss The World’s Strongest
Librarian: A Book Lover’s Adventures
by Josh Hanagarne.
ONLINE
The THINKING PARENT BOOK GROUP
will meet online.
PALO ALTO
March 8 6:00 PM The
8 Sunday,
SPECULATIVE FICTION BOOK CLUB
March 3 7:00 PM The
3 Tuesday,
WOMEN WE’D LIKE TO LUNCH WITH
BOOK CLUB will discuss Americanah by
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie.
17 The FOREIGN INTRIGUE BOOK
Tuesday, March 17 7:00 PM
CLUB will discuss Backstrom: He Who
Kills the Dragon by Leif Gw Persson.
Sunday, March 22 1:00 PM
22 The
WILD GIRLS MOTHER
DAUGHTER BOOK CLUB will discuss El
Deafo by Cece Bell.
will discuss The Martian by Andy Weir.
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10 The BOOK BUSTERS MIDDLE
CLUB will discuss And We Stay by
Tuesday, March 10 4:00 PM
READER BOOK CLUB (ages 8-12) will discuss Life on Mars by Jennifer Brown.
24 The FOURTH TUESDAY (MAR-
Tuesday, March 24 7:00 PM
GIE’S) BOOK CLUB will discuss My
Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante.
LAUREL VILLAGE
March 1 1:00 PM The
1 Sunday,
ADVENTUROUS READERS CLUB
(Ages 9-12) will discuss book one in the
Magisterium series The Iron Trial by
Holly Black & Cassandra Clare.
Wednesday, March 25 6:00
PM The YOUNG@HEART BOOK
Jenny Hubbard.
OPERA PLAZA
14 The SECOND SATURDAY BOOK
Saturday, March 14 10:00 AM
CLUB will discuss Regeneration by Pat
Barker.
22 The WORLD AFFAIRS COUNCIL
Sunday, March 22 11:00 AM
BOOK CLUB will discuss Mastering the
Art of Soviet Cooking: A Memoir of Food
and Longing by Anya Von Bremzen.
THE CASTRO
Tuesday, March 10 6:30 PM
10 The
CENTRAL SF CLASSIC LIT
BOOK CLUB will discuss Phineas Finn by
Anthony Trollope.
Wednesday, March 11 7:00 PM
11 The
SF LGBT BOOK CLUB will meet.
THE MARINA
2 SAN FRANCISCO TRAVEL BOOK
Monday, March 2 7:00 PM The
CLUB AND LECTURE SERIES will discuss
Never Mind the Bullocks: One Girl’s
10,000 Km Adventure Around India in
the World’s Cheapest Car by Vanessa
Able.
Sunday, March 8 4:00 PM The
8 MISS
JANE AUSTEN BOOK CLUB will
discuss The Penguin Book of Romantic
Poetry edited by Jonathan & Jessica
Wordsworth.
25 The CLASSICS I FORGOT TO READ
Wednesday, March 25 7:30 PM
BOOK CLUB will discuss The Ox-Bow Inci-
dent by Walter Van Tilburg Clark.
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The New Small Person
AUTHOR JANDY NELSON LOVES
Black Swan Green by David Mitchell
Like a lot of readers
around the globe, I’m a David
Mitchell fan. When it comes
to voice, to really getting
inside a character and letting
that character rip across the
page in all his or her heartbeating glory, he’s a maestro.
This particular genius of his
PHOTO BY SONYA SONES
exploded out of his awardwinning bestselling novel Cloud Atlas where he embodied a
myriad of characters in a ﬂabbergastingly orchestral way. I
adored the book, but it is not my favorite of his, not by a long
shot.
I am madly in love with a lesser-known work of his called
Black Swan Green. It is my favorite young adult novel even though
it is not marketed as such. Mitchell’s brilliance with structure and
voice and language—his sentences crackle—is apparent here like
in all his other works but this story is all heart. The novel tracks
a year in the life of thirteen-year-old aspiring poet Jason Taylor
growing up in Cold War Worcestershire England in 1982 with a
stammer and a family coming apart. He is one of the funniest
most endearing narrators I’ve ever had the pleasure of knowing.
The thirteen chapters, each an
exquisitely constructed story
in its own right, explore the foibles and firsts of coming of age,
the heartbreaks of family life,
the glory of imagination with
poignancy, humor, intimacy as
well as spectacular linguistic
pyrotechnics at the level of
the line. I love this beautiful
book so much and know you
will too!
Happy reading!
Jandy
Jandy Nelson is the New York Times-bestselling
author of the 2015 Michael L. Printz Award-winning novel I’ll Give You the Sun, and her debut
novel The Sky Is Everywhere was a YALSA Best
Fiction for Young Adults pick.
Listen, Slowly
By Lauren Child
Elmore Green is an only child. Until one
day the new small person comes along,
and it seems that everybody might like it
a bit more than they like Elmore Green.
Elmore wants the small person to go back to wherever it
came from. In her signature visual style, Lauren Child gets
to the heart of a child’s evolving emotions about becoming
a big brother or sister. (Ages 4-8) Available Now
Up in the Garden
and Down in the Dirt
By Kate Messner
Explore the hidden world and many lives
of a garden through the course of a year
-- Up in the garden, the world is full of
green--leaves and growing vegetables
and fruits. But down in the dirt exists a busy world of
earthworms, snakes, and skunks. Accompanied by Christopher Silas Neal’s beautiful illustrations, this is the perfect
way to journey through the garden with your little one!
(Ages 4-8) Available March 3rd
By Thanhhà Lai
A California girl born and raised, Mai can’t
wait to spend her vacation at the beach.
Instead, though, she has to travel to Vietnam with her grandmother. Besides barely
speaking the language, Mai doesn’t know the
geography, the local customs, or even her distant relatives.
To survive her trip, Mai must find a balance between her
two completely different worlds. (Ages 8-12) Available Now
Echo
By Pam Muñoz Ryan
Lost and alone, Otto meets three mysterious sisters and finds himself entwined in a
quest involving a prophecy, a promise, and
a harmonica. Decades later, Friedrich in
Germany, Mike in Pennsylvania, and Ivy in
California each, in turn, become interwoven
when the very same harmonica lands in their lives. Echo
pushes the boundaries of genre and form, and shows us what
is possible in how we tell stories. (Ages 10-13) Available Now
Mosquitoland
Counting Crows
By Kathi Appelt
A delightful counting book from two-time
National Book Award Nominee Kathi
Appelt -- One, two, three, hungry crows
in a tree. Snack one, snack two, snack
three--all the way to a dozen! But before they have time
to complain about bellyaches, they have a bigger problem: a cat has been eyeing them...as potential snacks! Can
these well-fed crows become well-FLED crows? (Ages 3-5)
Available March 3rd
The Imaginary
By A.F. Harrold
By David Arnold
After the sudden collapse of her family,
Mim Malone is dragged from her home
in northern Ohio to the “wastelands” of
Mississippi to live with her father and
stepmom. When Mim learns her mother
is sick back in Cleveland she hops aboard a northbound
Greyhound bus to her real home. Mosquitoland is a modern American odyssey, as hilarious as it is heartbreaking.
(Ages 12+) Available March 3rd
Seeker
By Arwen Elys Dayton
Perfect for Neil Gaiman and Roald Dahl
fans, this fully illustrated journey into the
secret world of imaginary friends is quirky,
dark, and utterly irresistible. When Amanda
Shufﬂeup’s imaginary friend, Rudger, is
being hunted by Mr. Bunting (with the potential to be eaten!)
he must find a way to stand out in the real world before it’s
too late. (Ages 8-12) Available March 3rd
The night Quin Kincaid takes her Oath,
she will become what she has trained to be
her entire life. She will become a Seeker.
This is her legacy. As a Seeker, Quin will
fight beside her two closest companions,
Shinobu and John, to protect the weak and
the wronged. But soon Quin finds out that being a Seeker
is not what she thought. And now it’s too late to walk away.
(Ages 14+) Available Now
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Celebrate Chinese New Year with local illustrator Alina Chau! With over a decade working
in the animation industry, Alina’s wonderful work is showcased in the tenth installment of
Oliver Chin’s Tales from the Zodiac picture book series, The Year of the Sheep. In addition
to a reading of The Year of the Sheep, Alina will also feature a drawing demonstration!
March 14 • 2:00 PM
Books Inc. in The Castro
415-864-6777 • (Ages 3+)
Books Inc. in The Castro presents a very special Saturday Storytime with director of the
Stonewall National Education Project, Jessica Herthel for a reading of I Am Jazz. Co-written
with transgender LGBT rights activist Jazz Jennings, I Am Jazz is based on Jennings’ reallife experience and is a perfect book for young readers, parents, and educators alike.
March 24 • 4:30 PM
Books Inc. Alameda
510-522-226 • (Ages 5+)
Join New York Times-bestselling author Jean Reagan for a Launch Party celebrating the
third installment in her hit “How-To” series, How to Surprise a Dad. Learn all the tips and
tricks to becoming a super dad surpriser, from crafty gift ideas to how to prepare for the
big reveal, this adorable guide is the perfect how-to book about surprising dear old Dad!