Feb. 1
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Derek Dwight Anderson: The historical past instructor, a Sausalito resident, shares “Forgotten Capitals and the Historical Lessons They Teach,” which examines obscure capital cities in China, the Philippines, Nigeria, Utah, Bosnia, Somaliland, Manchuria, Russia, Guatemala and Papua New Guinea that after performed a distinguished position within the worldwide scene. [1 p.m., Book Passage, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd., Corte Madera]
Feb. 1
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Eric Grey: The native creator seems in varied San Mateo County library displays to share humorous, touching excerpts from “Backyards to Ballparks: More Personal Baseball Stories from the Stands and Beyond”; further talks are at 6 p.m. Feb. 4 on the Half Moon Bay Library, 3 p.m. Feb. 9 in Foster Metropolis, 6 p.m. Feb. 10 in Atherton. [1 p.m., Pacifica Sharp Park, 104 Hilton Way, Pacifica]
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Feb. 2
Omo Moses: The son of famed civil rights organizer Robert P. Moses, in dialog with activist Belvie Rooks, shares “The White Peril: A Black Family’s Struggle for Freedom from Jim Crow to Hip-Hop,” his coming-of-age story about being Black in America that includes experiences of three generations of members of the family. [2 p.m., African American Center, third floor, Main Library, 100 Larkin St., San Francisco]
Feb. 2
Genny Lim shall be inaugurated as San Francisco’s ninth poet laureate on Feb. 2. (Courtesy San Francisco Public Library)
Genny Lim: The inauguration of San Francisco’s new poet laureate, the primary Chinese language American within the position, consists of performances by youth poets from Youth Speaks, a refrain from Clarion Youngsters’s Theater, and previous San Francisco poet laureates. [3 p.m., Koret Auditorium, Main Library, 100 Larkin St., San Francisco]
Feb. 3
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Chris Hayes: Ebook Passage presents the Emmy Award-winning MSNBC host discussing his guide “The Sirens’ Call: How Attention Became the World’s Most Endangered Resource” with best-selling author Michael Lewis at a ticketed ($36) occasion that features a guide. [7 p.m., Calvary Presbyterian, 2515 Fillmore St., San Francisco]
Feb. 3
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Martin Yan: The favored TV chef prepares dishes from his cookbooks “The Best of Yan Can Cook” and “MY Asian Kitchen” at a meet-and-greet for library patrons. [7 p.m., Morgan Hill Library, 660 West Main Ave., Morgan Hill]
Feb. 4
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Geraldine Brooks: Ebook Passage presents the Pulitzer Prize-winning creator of “Horse” talking about her memoir “Memorial Days” with author Michael Lewis at a ticketed ($40) occasion that features a guide. [7 p.m., Angelico Hall, Dominican University of California, 20 Olive Ave., San Rafael]
Feb. 4
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Erin Wade: The innovator who opened the mac and cheese restaurant Homeroom in Oakland shares data from her guidebook and memoir, “The Mac & Cheese Millionaire: Building a Better Business by Thinking Outside the Box.” [7 p.m., Books Inc., 855 El Camino Real #74, Town & Country Village, Palo Alto]
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Feb. 5
Allegra Goodman: One of the best-selling creator of “Sam” speaks about her newest novel “Isola”; the story a younger lady and her lover who’re marooned on an island is described by Time as “a feminist castaway tale about love, faith, and self-actualization.” [7 p.m., Books Inc., 855 El Camino Real #74, Town & Country Village, Palo Alto]
Feb. 5
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Liese Greensfelder: The freelance science author discusses “Accidental Shepherd: How a California Girl Rescued an Ancient Mountain Farm in Norway ” her account of how, at age 20 and with no expertise, she overtook operation of a distant Norwegian farm in 1972. [7 p.m., Books Inc., 1344 Park St., Alameda]
Feb. 6
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Scott W. Stern: The Oakland public curiosity lawyer shares particulars from “There Is a Deep Brooding in Arkansas: The Rape Trials That Sustained Jim Crow, and the People Who Fought It, from Thurgood Marshall to Maya Angelou,” his deep examination of two sexual assault trials in the identical Southern county that offered totally different outcomes for the defendants: in a single case a pair of Black males, within the different, a pair of white males. [7 p.m., Books Inc., 1344 Park St., Alameda]
Feb. 7
Liese Greensfelder: The previous Bay Space public relations skilled, now a contract science author, shares her memoir “Accidental Shepherd: How a California Girl Rescued an Ancient Mountain Farm in Norway,” which particulars her experiences in 1972 as a 20-year-old who overtook operation of a distant, centuries-old farm. [7 p.m., Copperfield’s Books, 138 N. Main St., Sebastopol]
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Feb. 8
Chiara Colombi: The Bay Space younger grownup and kids’s creator launches her image guide “Rocket Beams, Lunar Dreams,” a follow-up to “Rocket Ship, Solo Trip,” one other journey for Rocket, who learns about making mates and overcoming disappointment and with artwork by bestselling illustrator Scott Magoon. [11 a.m., Hicklebee’s, 1378 Lincoln Ave., San Jose]
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Feb. 9
Samantha Schoech: The San Francisco author, a staffer at New York Instances Wirecutter, shares excerpts from “My Mother’s Boyfriends,” her assortment of 14 humorous and insightful brief tales related by her sympathy for individuals who make unhealthy selections regardless of their greatest intentions. [1 p.m., Copperfield’s Books, 2419 Larkspur Landing Circle, Larkspur]
Feb. 10
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Rolando André López, Denise Newman, Dean Rader, Sarah Rosenthal: The Bay Space writers of various generations learn from their political and private new works in a session titled “Making and Breaking the Lyric: Four Poets Engage the Polis.” [6 p.m., City Lights Bookstore, 261 Columbus Ave., San Francisco]
Feb. 11
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Barbara Boyle: The author shares her new memoir “Pinch Me: Waking Up in a 300-Year-Old Italian Farmhouse” during which she particulars how she moved from a excessive stress profession in international promoting to a easy rural life in a barn in Piemonte, a small hill city. [5:30p.m., Book Passage, 1 Ferry Building, San Francisco]
Feb. 12
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Kevin Fagan: The veteran San Francisco Chronicle reporter launches “The Lost and the Found: A True Story of Homelessness, Found Family, and Second Chances,” his detailed account of what occurred to Rita and Tyson, two homeless people in San Francisco, in dialog with documentary filmmaker Gianna Toboni. [6 p.m., Book Passage, 1 Ferry Building, San Francisco]
Feb. 13
Barbara Boyle: The previous promoting govt, a part-time San Francisco resident, seems in dialog with actual property knowledgeable Ross Robb to advertise her memoir “Pinch Me: Waking Up in a 300-Year-Old Italian Farmhouse,” an up to date “twist on ‘Under the Tuscan Sun’” during which she shares her adventures transferring from the Bay Space to construct a brand new residence in a stone barn in Piedmont, Italy. [7 p.m., Books Inc., 2251 Chestnut St., San Francisco]
Feb. 13
Kevin Fagan: The San Francisco reporter seems in “This Is Now with Angie Coiro,” discussing “The Lost and the Found”—a San Francisco-set guide that explores the human facet of what’s behind the homelessness epidemic—in a ticketed ($41) that features a copy of the guide. [7 p.m., Kepler’s Books, 1010 El Camino Real, Menlo Park]
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Feb. 13
Dominic Lim: The Oakland author and singer is selling his novel “Karaoke Queen,” a homosexual romance that includes a protagonist whose alter ego is a drag queen; Publishers Weekly known as it “hilarious” and a “joyous celebration of drag, karaoke and Filipino culture.” [7 p.m., A Great Good Place for Books, 6120 LaSalle Ave., Oakland]
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Feb. 13
Katy Motiey: The Iranian-born, Bay Space lawyer shares her debut novel “Imperfect,” based mostly on the dramatic lifetime of her mom, who overcame authorized and private challenges (together with combating for management of her kids after her husband died) in Seventies Iran. [7 p.m., Books Inc., 855 El Camino Real #74, Town & Country Village, Palo Alto]
Feb. 13
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Nnedi Okarafor: Showing in dialog with travel-and-culture author Religion Adiele, the award-winning, best-selling fantasy author promotes her newest guide “Death of the Author,” a few disabled Nigerian American lady whose life spins uncontrolled after she writes a profitable sci-fi novel. [7 p.m., Books Inc., 601 Van Ness Ave., San Francisco]
Feb. 15
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Shail Rajan: The East Bay resident indicators copies of her novel “The Summer Breeze: Bed and Breakfast,” the primary guide in her feel-good girls’s fiction trilogy “The Summer Breeze.”[Noon, Barnes & Noble, Streets of Brentwood, 2475 Sand Creek Road, Suite 100, Brentwood]
Feb. 15
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Betty Shamieh: The acclaimed Palestinian American playwright, a San Francisco resident, speaks about her debut novel “Too Soon,” a household saga spanning war-torn Jaffa in 1948, Detroit and San Francisco within the Sixties-70s, the New York theater scene post-9/11 and Palestine in 2012. [2 p.m., Central Park Library, Redwood Room, 2635 Homestead Road, Santa Clara]
Feb. 17
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Cory Doctorow: The bestselling science fiction creator and activist discusses “Picks & Shovels,” the most recent guide within the Martin Hench sequence (and the character’s origin story) with award-winning science fantasy Charlie Jane Anders in a ticketed ($42) speak that features a copy of the guide. [7 p.m., Kepler’s Books, 1010 El Camino Real, Menlo Park]
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Feb. 18
Pierre R. Schwob: The Palo Alto laptop scientist and director of the SETI Institute speaks about “AWE: A technothriller,” his brainy, globe-hopping novel describing efforts of heroic scientists (who develop an Synthetic Knowledge Engine) to push back a predicted local weather change disaster. [7 p.m., Books Inc., 855 El Camino Real #74, Town & Country Village, Palo Alto]
Feb. 20
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Ethan Schiener: The UC Davis political science professor speaks about “Freedom to Win: A Cold War Story of the Courageous Hockey Team That Fought the Soviets for the Soul of Its People—And Olympic Gold,” which particulars how small-town younger males from Czechoslovakia led their underdog hockey in opposition to the Soviet Union. [7 p.m., Lafayette Library, 3491 Mount Diablo Blvd., Lafayette]
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Feb. 22
Glen Dahlgren: The favored fantasy author indicators copies of the ultimate installment in his award-winning younger grownup Chronicles of Chaos sequence, “The Realm of Gods.” [Noon, Barnes & Noble, Streets of Brentwood, 2475 Sand Creek Road, Suite 100, Brentwood]
Feb. 23
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Maria van Lieshout: The Amsterdam native, a Bay Space illustrator, reads from her first graphic novel, “Song of a Blackbird”; the fictionalized story stems from actual occasions from totally different durations: a modern-day household drama and a World Struggle II-era financial institution heist carried out by Dutch resistance fighters [1 p.m., Book Passage, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd., Corte Madera]
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Feb. 26
M.E.A. McNeil: Ebook Passage sponsors the journalist and grasp beekeeper who discusses her novel “Bee Club” with entomology professor Marla Spivak at a ticketed ($30) occasion that features a guide. [6 p.m., Creekside Lounge, Dominican University of California Creekside, 100 Magnolia Ave., San Rafael]
Feb. 27
Robert Hass: The poet, translator, scholar and former Poet Laureate of the US discusses the life and work of Czeslaw Milosz to launch “Poet in the New World: Poems, 1946–1953,” a brand new assortment that features beforehand untranslated poems written throughout Milosz’s time in Washington, DC, and years in Europe earlier than and after. [7 p.m., City Lights Bookstore, 261 Columbus Ave., San Francisco]
