Jeff Miller's book, Bay Area Wild Life: an Irreverent Guide, will make you fall in love with the wild animals that can be found in the Greater San Francisco Bay Area.

The second edition of River of Renewal: Myth and History in the Klamath Basin, by Stephen Most, is about the largest dam removal and watershed restoration project in history.

Terry Tierney lives in Oakland. His poetry collection, Why Trees Stay Outside, came out October 1st, 2024. The poems question our relationships with each other and the earth.

Bay Area authors Stephanie Wildman and Adam Ryan Chang bring us a new children's book, illustrated by Dream Chen. It's about moving, change, and the collective comforts of home.

Sacramento Author Aaron Carnes makes a case for loving ska music in the expanded second edition of his book, In Defense of Ska.

Napa author, John Stallcup, reads from his new book, K’aa Lani, Many Arrows. It's a history of the Navajo, wrapped in a political thriller, and it's full of surprises.

Alameda author, Jeff Raz, reads from his book, An International Circus Affair. It's about the lasting impact of connections between Nanjing, China, and San Francisco, in the world of circus.

Oakland Author, Lenore Weiss, reads from her new environmental novel, Pulp into Paper. It's about the death of a young boy forcing out the truth about what's happening at the local paper mill.

Zack Rogow reads from his memoir, it's about his dad who was a widely published fiction writer, a Drama critic on Broadway, captain of a ship in the U.S. Navy in World War Two. And tragically, he died in an airplane crash when Rogow was just three years old.

Sam Sax reads from his new book. It's a queer Jewish coming of age story told in these nonlinear fragments. It's titled "Yr Dead" and it came out in August.