I Kissed Shara Wheeler (YA fiction – hardbound) by Casey McQuiston
Chloe Green is so close to winning. After her moms moved her from SoCal to Alabama for high school, she’s spent the past four years dodging typical teen issues with classmates. The thing that’s kept her going: winning valedictorian. Her only rival: prom queen Shara Wheeler. But a month before graduation, Shara kisses Chloe and vanishes. From The New York Times bestselling author of Red, White & Royal Blue comes a fierce, funny, and frank young adult novel about breaking the rules, getting messy, and finding love in unexpected places.
The Measure (fiction – hardbound) by Nikki Erlick
As society divides itself, the truth has the power to unravel long-held beliefs and relationships all while forging new alliances and philosophies about our time on this earth and our place in the community. Both heartbreaking and profoundly uplifting, The Measure is a sweeping, ambitious meditation on life, family, and society that challenges us to consider the best way to live life to the fullest.
The Prophets (fiction – paperback) by Robert Jones, Jr.
Now in paperback, The Prophets is a singular and stunning debut novel about the forbidden union between two enslaved young men on a Deep South plantation, the refuge they find in each other, and a betrayal that threatens their existence. This was short-listed for the 2021 National Book Award, and once you experience it, you will understand why it is one of the most gripping and unique stories of enslaved people.
Upcoming Events
Sunday, September 11 @ 4 pm (free in store – Corte Madera) – Javier Zamora author of Solito – in conversation with Rebecca Froust
Solito provides an immediate and intimate account not only of a treacherous and near-impossible journey, but also of the miraculous kindness and love delivered at the most unexpected moments. Solito is Javier Zamora’s story, but it’s also the story of millions of others who had no choice but to leave home.
Javier Zamora was born in El Salvador in 1990. His father fled the country when he was one, and his mother when he was about to turn five. Both parents’ migrations were caused by the U.S.-funded Salvadoran Civil War.
Saturday, September 17 @ 11:30 am (free in store – Ferry Building) June Jo Lee author of Sandor Katz and the Tiny Wild, and Chef Roy Choi and The Street Food Remix
Written by award-winning authors Jacqueline Briggs Martin and June Jo Lee, Sandor Katz and the Tiny Wild folds timely themes of ecology, community-building, and resilience into a lively biography that closes with a hands-on recipe. Lee also presents Chef Roy Choi and the Street Food Remix, an award-winning picture book biography of the chef who kickstarted the food truck movement.
Sunday, September 18 @ 2 pm (free in store – Ferry Building) Tania Romanov, author of San Francisco
Pilgrimage
Like her parents and their parents before them, Tania Romanov Amochaev was an exile; her childhood in a refugee camp ending only when her family eventually made their way to San Francisco’s Russian community. Inspired by Phil Cousineau’s classic The Art of Pilgrimage and in the tradition of Gary Kamiya’s Cool Gray City of Love, Tania sets out on a pilgrimage in her own city. Past and present meld as she seeks not only a deeper understanding of both, but also finding her way into a future she struggles to envision.
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Published on September 8, 2022
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