Katherine Cole is a wine columnist for The Oregonian newspaper and MIX, Portland’s Magazine of Food + Drink. Her interest in the intersection between sustainability and winegrowing and her frustration at the lack of information about biodynamic agriculture led her to write ...

This is a family story spanning two decades, set against the social, political, and geological upheavals of the Bay Area. Eager to escape her damaging past and chart her own future, Alison Rose is drawn to Zoe, a free-spirited artist who offers emotional stability and a love outside the norm....

Meet & Greet with the author of The Whip, a novel is inspired by the true story of Charlotte “Charley” Parkhurst (1812-1879) who lived most of her extraordinary life as a man.

One of the most gripping images from the 1960's captures Dr. S.I. Hayakawa scrambling onto an SF State sound truck. Hayakawa had hoped to use this soapbox to address assembled demonstrators, but instead he ripped out speaker wires and halted an illegal campus demonstration—or denied first-...

Twelve-year-old Rose Bliss wants to work magic in her family's bakery as her parents do, but when they are called away and Rose and her siblings are left in charge, the magic goes awry and a beautiful stranger tries to talk Rose into giving her the Bliss Cookery Booke.

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Meet & greet with the author of the fabulous "101 Ways" series!  Steve "Sneeze" Wyatt takes half of his classes at the high school, where he attracts the attention of a bully on the varsity golf team, while at middle school all of his friends seem to be falling in love--...

From bestselling author Jennifer Chiaverini comes a powerful and dramatic tale of forbidden love, family, and resilience in Prohibition-era Sonoma County. The story follows the fortunes of Rosa Diaz Barclay, a woman who plunges into the unknown for the safety of her children and the love of a...

The publication of Dorothy Allison's Bastard Out of Carolina was a landmark event. The novel's profound portrait of family dynamics in the rural South won the author a National Book Award nomination and launched her into the literary spotlight. Critics have likened Allison to William...

Mac Barnett and Jon Klassen, award-winning staff favorites, will join us for a dramatic reading of their wonderful new picture book Extra Yarn, followed by signings, knitting, demos, and snacks....