New Arrivals

By KALWArts Books

New Arrivals episodes

September 08 Novel set in 9/11-era Middle East features mother/daughter relationship
Devi S. Laskar lives in Mountain View. Her book, 'Midnight at the War,' came out in April 2026. It’s about a foreign correspondent covering a global conflict... but really it’s a story about love and grief and the relationship between a daughter and her mother.
3 min
August 25 New Danish Kurani book explores the spaces that make us
Danish Kurani lives in Mountain View. His book, 'The Spaces that Make Us,' came out in February 2026.
3 min
August 18 Twins – and the psychedelic renaissance – at heart of new Lindsay Kent thriller
Lindsay Kent lives in Half Moon Bay. Her book, 'My Twin the Murderer' came out in June, 2026. It's a mind-bending thriller about estranged twin sisters battling a murder rap, the psychedelic mafia, and their own fractured past.
3 min
August 11 Parisian statues come to life in Lauren C. Johnson’s new fantasy
Lauren C. Johnson lives in San Francisco. Her book, The West Facade came out on March 3rd, 2026. It’s a fantasy novel about a statue of St Genevieve who gives into her desire to be human.
3 min
August 04 In new book, Leslie Howard, Richard Rosen re-examine shavasana
"Shavasana, Between Breath and Death," is about the final pose done in a yoga class, as well as using the pose to change our relationship to our feelings about death and dying.
3 min
July 28 Jessica Guerrieri explores all the ways women disappear in new novel
It's a novel that takes on the ways women can disappear; physically and emotionally.
3 min
July 21 Mike Huguenor chronicles iconic indy label Asian Man Records
The book is about the first 30 years of one of the most important record labels to come out of the South Bay Area.
3 min
July 14 Vanessa Hua tackles race, class, housing, and suburbia in new novel
Vanessa Hua lives in the East Bay. Her novel, Coyoteland, came out May 12th, 2026. It’s about wealth, privilege and the housing market, as well as territory, predator, and prey.
3 min
May 19 Jase Peeples pens YA novel about gay, comic book-obsessed teen
Jase Peeples lives in San Francisco. His book, Before You Can Fly, came out May 8th, 2026. It’s a YA coming of age romance about a gay, comic-book obsessed teen who is struggling with his growing feelings for his best friend.
3 min
May 12 Nadine Takvorian graphic novel explores Armenian genocide
It's about a teenage daughter of Armenian immigrants from Istanbul Turkey, who struggles with her identity and searches for the true stories of her family's history of surviving genocide.
3 min

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