Events

Launch for Heretics Anonymous, her hilarious debut YA novel about a band of misfits who set out to challenge their strict Catholic school, one nun at a time.

To reserve your seat, please purchase a copy of Heretics Anonymous by speaking to a bookseller or via our website.

presenting Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish. One boy's search for his father leads him to Puerto Rico in this moving middle grade novel, for fans of Ghost and See You in the Cosmos.

To reserve your seat, purchase a copy of Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish by speaking to a bookseller or ordering from our website.

This is a Society of Children’s Book Writers & Illustrators event and is open to the public.

Both the author and illustrator join us for a special event celebrating Ivy + Bean #11: One Big Happy Family.

This is a ticketed event with open seating. You can buy a copy of Ivy + Bean One Big Happy Family for a ticket to guarantee a seat, or you can buy a ticket without a book to guarantee a seat. We'll have copies of Ivy + Bean One Big Happy Family for sale at the event, plus all the previous books from the series. Tickets available through Eventbrite at this link: https://ivyandbean11mrsds.eventbrite.com or at the store.

All ages are welcome but best for 6-9 year olds.

reads from her debut novel, Kickdown, a taut and moving novel of a family's struggle to sustain their land when fracking comes to the contemporary American West.

"Deep, true, achingly pure, as stripped of glamour and pretense as the beautiful desolation it describes. With an unflinching eye for the unsettling political and environmental issues of our time, Clarren captures perfectly the heartland of our country and the hearts of those whose old answers have suddenly failed them--they are all strangers to themselves, full of wonder and worry, wild impulses, inarticulate feelings. Kickdown is what life sounds like when we give up the search for who we thought we were supposed to be, and begin the search for our own true humanity."--Karen Fisher, author of A Sudden Country, Finalist for the Pen/Faulkner Award

To reserve your seat, purchase a copy of Kickdown by speaking to a bookseller or ordering from our website.

present I Am Home: Portraits of Immigrant Teenagers.

To reserve your seat, please purchase a copy of I Am Home by speaking to a bookseller or ordering via our website.

Featuring contributors to the brand new anthology, America, We Call Your Name.

Purchase a copy of America, We Call Your Name (paperback, $20) by speaking to a bookseller.

reads from The Second Life of Ava Rivers, "a deftly written examination of familial relationships, trauma, and post-adolescence."-- Kirkus

To reserve your seat, purchase a copy of The Second Life of Ava Rivers by speaking to a bookseller or ordering from our website.

reads from his magnificent new novel, The Winter Soldier, a sweeping, unforgettable love story of a young doctor and nurse at a remote field hospital in the First World War.

"I have been a Daniel Mason fan since The Piano Tuner. His abilities as a storyteller and a writer of the most gorgeous prose leave you wanting more. The Winter Soldier is a tour de force. I was immersed in the grandeur of Imperial Vienna and the frozen battlefields of the Eastern Front, and in this beautiful tale of love and war, and of our frailty and resilience in the face of both."--Abraham Verghese, author of Cutting for Stone

To reserve your seat, please purchase a copy of The Winter Soldier by speaking to a bookseller or ordering via our website.

East Bay launch for her story collection, Lava Falls.

“From Antarctica to suburbia to the ancient past and a post-apocalyptic future, these tales of kick-ass women adventurers and survivor girls are big-hearted, breathtaking, and profound. Reading Lava Falls is like meeting an animal in the wild: I was rapt, unable to turn away, with no idea what would happen next."—Micah Perks, author of What Becomes Us

To reserve your seat, please purchase a copy of Lava Falls by speaking to a bookseller or ordering via our website.

presents Gardenlust: A Botanical Tour of the World's Best New Gardens, a sumptuously illustrated survey and the perfect armchair travel guide to 50 of the most innovative modern gardens from around the world.

"A beautiful and relaxing tour through some of the loveliest gardens in the world! The author's original images provide a fine taste of their gorgeous plants and the creativity used in organizing them."--Peter H. Raven, President Emeritus at Missouri Botanical Garden

To reserve your seat, please purchase a copy of Gardenlust in advance by speaking to a bookseller or via our website.

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Launch for You Don't Know Everything, Jilly P!, a novel that carries a strong social message as Gino traces the stages of Jilly’s enlightenment…Its thoughtful handling of characters and dynamics offers fodder for further discussion about privilege in all its forms.”—Publishers Weekly, starred review

 "[An] engrossing and satisfying read…Necessary and rewarding.”—Kirkus Reviews, starred review

To reserve your seat, please purchase a copy of You Don't Know Everything, Jilly P! by speaking to a bookseller or via our website.

reads from The Shape of the Ruins, his highly anticipated, deeply personal masterpiece that is being heralded as the most ambitious novel of his career.

"A highly sophisticated, fast-moving political thriller set in Colombia and an excellent read."--Alan Furst 

"One of the great novels of recent years."--Mario Vargas Llosa

To reserve your seat, purchase a copy of The Shape of the Ruins by speaking with a bookseller or ordering from our website.

discussing The Browns of California: The Family Dynasty That Transformed a State and Shaped a Nation.

"A remarkable book--a generational biography of a political dynasty, ranging from the California Gold Rush to the presidency of Donald Trump. She recounts the pivotal governorship of Pat Brown and the even more significant career of his son Jerry with assured prose and a keen sense of historical context. This is the engrossing saga of complicated family at the center of American political life for the last sixty years."--T.J. Stiles, Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Custer's Trials and The First Tycoon.

To reserve your seat, please purchase a copy of The Browns of California by speaking to a bookseller or via our website.

reads from his award-winning novel, You Have Me to Love, an unforgettable story about lost childhood innocence, isolation, guilt and mother-son relationships.

"An intense and dramatic novel filled with meticulous use of detail and a forensic psychological accuracy. Its power comes from the fierce energy of the narrative structure, the way of handling silence and pain, and the ability to confront the darkest areas of experience with clear-eyed sympathy and care. Jaap Robben handles delicate, dangerous material with subtlety and sympathy, but also with a visionary sense of truth that is masterly and unforgettable."--Colm Tóibín

presents In My Father's House: A New View of How Crime Runs in the Family, a pathbreaking examination of our huge crime and incarceration problem that looks at the influence of the family--specifically one Oregon family with a generations-long legacy of lawlessness.

"A spellbinding book, brilliant and bone-chilling. In My Father's House will change the way we look at what makes a criminal."--Linda Fairstein, author of Deadfall

To reserve your seat, please purchase a copy of In My Father's House by speaking to a bookseller or ordering on our website.

celebrating the publication of his wonderful new novel, Virgil Wander, much of which takes place in and around a beloved old movie theater not unlike our own here in the Elmwood. There will be a special screening of Cinema Paradiso in connection with the reading and signing. Stay tuned for further details.

Discussing Stone's new novel, Hungry Ghost Theater, "a thrilling hybrid of a novel about the intricacies of family life and the inevitable handing down from one generation to the next of our deepest passions and pathologies. . . . both marvelously inventive and deeply humane."--Ann Packer

To reserve your seat, purchase a copy of Hungry Ghost Theater by speaking to a bookseller.