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Jan. 9
Rachel Howzell Corridor: The award-winning thriller author speaks about “The Last One,” a “Good Morning America” guide membership choice—described as “a thrilling and action-packed fantasy about a woman who wakes up in the woods and with no idea how she got there”—with best-selling thriller author Samantha Downing. [6 p.m., Book Passage, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd., Corte Madera]
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Jan. 10
Karissa Chen: Showing with San Francisco author Vanessa Hua, the essayist shares her anticipated debut novel “Homeseeking,” a historic fiction epic about childhood sweethearts (who meet once more later in life) happening in Shanghai, Hong Kong, Taiwan and the U.S. between 1938 and 2008. [7 p.m., Green Apple Books, 1231 Ninth Ave., San Francisco]
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Jan. 11
Rhys Bowen: The beloved writer is selling “We Three Queens!,” the 18th Royal Spyness Thriller during which new mom Girl Georgiana “Georgie” Rannoch tries to separate truth from fiction when a homicide occurs on her property whereas a movie is being made. [11 a.m., Book Passage, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd., Corte Madera]
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Jan. 11
Gerald S. Henig: The professor emeritus of historical past at California State College, East Bay speaks about “America’s Presidents: What Your History Teacher Never Told You,” a colourful quantity for adults with little-known accounts, outlandish tales and “all-too-human” enjoyable info about presidents. [2 p.m., Barnes & Noble, Hacienda Crossings, 4972 Dublin Blvd., Dublin]
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Jan. 12
Gary Groner: The Bay Space quick story author speaks about his new novel “The Way,” a “postapocalyptic road trip and a quest for redemption set in 2048, when the world has been ravaged by a lethal virus.” [4 p.m., Book Passage, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd., Corte Madera]
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Jan. 14
Gayle Forman: The writer of the best-selling “If I Stay” (which was tailored right into a 2014 teen film) promotes her new novel “After Life,” a few lady who returns to her household from the useless, in dialog with Nina LaCour, Jandy Nelson and Maggie Tokuda-Corridor. [7 p.m., A Great Good Place for Books, 6120 LaSalle Ave., Oakland]
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Jan. 14
Pico Iyer: The perfect-selling writer speaks with Angie Coro about his latest guide “Aflame: Learning from Silence,” during which he describes how dozens of retreats in a Benedictine hermitage in California have been transformative experiences. [7 p.m., Kepler’s Books, 1010 El Camino Real, Menlo Park]
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Jan. 16
Brian Copeland: The performer and writer of “Not a Genuine Black Man,” the longest-running solo play in San Francisco theatrical historical past, speaks about his Bay Space-set debut crime thriller “Outraged,” which blends motion, thriller and social commentary. [7 p.m., Lafayette Library, 3491 Mount Diablo Blvd., Lafayette]
Jan. 17
Schuyler Bailar: The primary brazenly transgender NCAA Division I athlete, a swimmer on the lads’s crew at Harvard College, speaks about “He/She/They!,” his information to gender id, on its paperback launch. [7 p.m., Kepler’s Books, 1010 El Camino Real, Menlo Park]
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Jan. 18
Carol Emery: The Marin County resident, a printed poet and retired working room nurse, speaks about “Son on the Run,” a narrative based mostly on her son’s (and her personal) historical past of bipolar dysfunction and alcohol and drug abuse supposed to achieve out to these affected by psychological sickness. [11 a.m., Book Passage, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd., Corte Madera]
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Jan. 18
Carole Bumpus: The native meals and journey author shares “Adventures on Land and Sea: Searching for Culinary Pleasures in Provence and Along the Cote d’Azur,” the fourth guide in her award-winning, best-selling journey and culinary sequence. [1 p.m., Book Passage, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd., Corte Madera]
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Jan. 18
Schuyler Bailar: The educator, athlete, writer and advocate celebrates the paperback launch of “He/She/They!,” a information to gender id that particulars why being transgender just isn’t a selection, why pronouns are essential, and the way gender-affirming well being care may be lifesaving. [4 p.m., Book Passage, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd., Corte Madera]
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Jan. 19
James L’Etoile: The thriller author and former director of California’s state parole system with a long time of expertise working within the legal justice system speaks about “River of Lies,” his second Detective Emily Hunter Thriller. [1 p.m., Book Passage, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd., Corte Madera]
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Jan. 19
Brandon Shimoda: The poet-essayist launches “The Afterlife Is Letting Go,” a set of reflective essays exploring the long-term results of the U.S. authorities’s compelled removing and mass incarceration of Japanese immigrants and Japanese Individuals throughout World Conflict II. [3 p.m., City Lights Books, 261 Columbus Ave., San Francisco]
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Jan. 22
Tara Dorabji: The Northern California author, the daughter of Parsi-Indian and German- Italian immigrants, speaks about “Call Her Freedom,” a Simon & Schuster Books Like Us grand prize-winner set in a Himalayan village a few girl’s battle to guard her tradition and household amid a navy occupation. [5:30 p.m., Book Passage, 1 Ferry Building, San Francisco]
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Jan. 23
Silvia Soto: The Sonoma State Professor of Chicano Research discusses “Caracoleando Among Worlds: Reconstructing Maya Worldviews in Chiapas,” which examines the methods Maya writers, visible artists and revolutionaries in Chiapas, Mexico are setting up a collective reminiscence to guarantee that their tradition continues. [6 p.m., Community Room, Napa Library, 580 Coombs St., Napa]
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Jan. 23
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 completely different durations: a modern-day household drama and a World Conflict II-era financial institution heist carried out by Dutch resistance fighters. [7 p.m., Books Inc., 1344 Park St., Alameda]
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Jan. 24
Manuel Magaña: The Rio Vista Excessive Faculty graduate speaks about his novel “When All of the World ‘s Asleep,” a River Delta-set action romance that explores the spirit and soul of Rio Vista. [2 p.m., Rio Vista Library, 44 S. Second St., Rio Vista]
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Jan. 24
John Sayles: The acclaimed independent film director, screenwriter, actor and author is promoting his new 19th century set-novel “To Save the Man,” describing challenges facing Indians enrolled in a military-style boarding school in Pennsylvania who were ordered to abandon their native way of life in favor of white men’s customs. [7 p.m., Copperfield’s Books, 775 Village Court, Santa Rosa]
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Jan. 26
Tracy Grant: The historian and novel author, a Bay Space resident, shares particulars about her greater than 50 works of historic romance, together with the newest installment in her Rannoch Fraser Mysteries, “The Southcott Jewels.” [2 p.m., Foster City Library, 1000 E. Hillsdale Blvd., Foster City]
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Jan. 26
Valerie Francisco-Menchavez: The San Francisco State College affiliate professor shares info from “Caring for Caregivers: Filipina Migrant Workers and Community Building during Crisis,” which examines the lives of Filipina care employees and their mutual help practices. [2 p.m., Koret Auditorium, Main Library, 100 Larkin St., San Francisco]
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Jan. 28
Julia Kornberg: Showing in dialog with Mauro Javier Cárdenas, the Argentine author speaks about her novel “Berlin Atomized,” a globetrotting story of following three siblings—Jewish and downwardly cell—from 2001 to 2034 as they arrive of age towards crises of the twenty first century. [7 p.m., City Lights Books, 261 Columbus Ave., San Francisco]
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Jan. 28
Betty Shamieh: The Palestinian American playwright, a San Francisco resident, discusses her debut novel “Too Soon,” a household saga spanning war-torn Jaffa in 1948, Detroit and San Francisco within the Nineteen Sixties-70s, the New York theater scene post-9/11 and Palestine in 2012, in dialog with best-selling author Ayelet Waldman. [7 p.m., Kepler’s Books, 1010 El Camino Real, Menlo Park]
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Jan. 29
Evelyn Skye: The writer of “The Hundred Loves of Juliet” might be available to signal copies of her new guide “One Year Ago in Spain,” a few girl trying to deliver her lover out of a coma, throughout a ribbon-cutting opening a brand new bookstore in Contra Costa County. [10 a.m., Barnes & Noble, Streets of Brentwood, 2475 Sand Creek Road, Suite 100, Brentwood]
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Jan. 29
Samantha Schoech: The San Francisco author and founding director of Impartial Bookstore Day launches her debut quick story assortment “My Mother’s Boyfriends” in dialog with best-selling novelist Michelle Richmond. [7 p.m., Green Apple Books, 1231 Ninth Ave., San Francisco]
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Jan. 30
Dorothy Lazard: The previous head librarian of Oakland Public Library’s historical past middle shares “What You Don’t Know Will Make a Whole New World,” her coming-of-age memoir in regards to the thirst for information and hometown delight in dialog with journalist Jenee Darden. [7 p.m., Books Inc., 1344 Park St., Alameda]
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Jan. 31
Matt Barrows and Jessica Barrows Beebe: The brother-sister writing duo, a journalist and former journalist, share their suspenseful debut novel “Muddy the Water,” an atmospheric thriller set in South Carolina’s Low Nation during which a psychopathic killer assumes the id of his sufferer. [1 p.m., Barnes & Noble, 1232 Burlingame Ave., Burlingame]
