Luisa Giulianetti lives in Kensington. Her book, "Agrodolce" focuses on the many ways she understands and imagines home.

Oakland author Susan Kiyo Ito reads from her new book, "I Would Meet You Anywhere." It's about family identity, adoption, Japanese-American experience and secrets. It came out on November 4, 2023.

Terry Tierney lives in Oakland. His book, The Bridge on Beer River, is a novel in which the characters struggle for subsistence.

Beth Winegarner lives in San Francisco. Her book, "San Francisco’s Forgotten Cemeteries" is about the history of the city's graveyards and the many dead secretly still buried here.

Marin County author Susannah Kennedy reads from her new book, "Reading Jane." It's about what happened when she explored 45 years of her mother's diaries following her suicide. It came out on September 5, 2023.

San Francisco author Paul Flores reads from his new book, "We Still Be.” It’s about how you have to adjust or transform yourself and your identity when life takes a turn you didn't expect.

Hilary Zaid lives in Oakland. Her novel, Forget I Told You This, came out on September 1st, 2023.

Chef Sylvan Mishima Brackett lives in Oakland. His cookbook, Rintaro: Japanese Food From An Izakaya in California explains the thinking that went behind Rintaro's menu.

Tess Taylor lives in El Cerrito. The book she edited, "Leaning Towards Light: Poems for Gardens and the Hands that Tend Them" is about how to be in touch and in love with the earth around us.

Alec Scott lives in Oakland. His book, Oldest San Francisco is about the oldest, this, that and the other thing in San Francisco.