THIS WEEK!
Thursday, August 15 | 6:00 pm | Page to Stage: Private Lives ty Noel Coward | tickets free to members when registering
FEATURED EVENTS
Thursday, August 22 | 6:00 pm | In Conversation: Jenny Odell with Cathy Park Hong | tickets free to members when registering
Thursday, September 5 | 6:30 pm | In Conversation: Tommy Orange with Steve Wasserman
SEMINAR SERIES
Tuesday, August 27 | Tuesday, September 3 | Tuesday, September 10 5:30pm - 7:00 pm: | First in a Series of Four Seminars on James Baldwin's Books
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Spring is in the air! The warm weekends and longer days beckon many of us outside, and this month I decided to focus on one of my favorite outdoor activities: cycling. The Bay Area is ripe with roads and mountain trails to provide many hours and day of bike time. Whether you’re getting reacquainted with your b...
BOOKS
FICTION
James Conaway Nose
Jonathan Dee A thousand pardons
Indira Ganesan As sweet as honey
William H. Gass Middle C
Kent Haruf Benedi...
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FICTION
Thea Goodman The sunshine when she's gone
Elizabeth Graver The end of the point
Mohsin Hamid How to get filthy rich in rising Asia
Amit Majmudar The abundance
Jodi Picoult...
BOOKS
FICTION
Apuleius The golden ass
Steve Stern A plague of dreamers: three novellas
Historical Fiction
Julie Kibler Calling me home
Sir Walter Scott Ivanhoe: a romance
Multi-Gen Literat...
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If you have been up on the 3rd floor recently, you may have noticed that our circulating magazines have been moved from Balcony 2B to the shelves behind the 3rd floor circulation desk. You can now easily find a 2 year old recipe from Cook’s Illustrated or research Bookforum reviews from 2010. Members can borrow up to 5 magazines at a time, from either the hanging files or the older magazine shelves, but if you are overwhelmed by the rows and rows of tit...
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Tara Conklin The house girl
Penelope Fitzgerald The bookshop ; The gate of angels ; The blue flower
Kristin Hannah Comfort & joy
Rachel Joyce The unlikely pilgrimage of Harold Fry...
Reading works that do not originate in our own culture can be enlightening as well as entertaining. This month’s staff selections span the gamut of everything from fiction, to memoir, to philosophy, and much more. The one thing all of these picks have in common? They weren’t originally written in English. Check out our collection of DVDs in a foreign language while you’re on the second floor, and get your fill of cross-cultural exchange.
Want to dip in your toe before you dive into th...
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On the same day, a couple of weeks ago, the Mechanics' Institute received three books about religion: one by the pastor at Glide Memorial Church, another by a local surfer about Buddhism, and the third an oral histo...
BOOKS
FICTION
Charles Dubow Indiscretion
Alexandre Dumas The conspirators, or, The Chevalier d'Harmental
Herman Koch The dinner
Santa Montefiore The woman from Paris
Stuart...
BOOKS
FICTION
Amity Gaige Schroder
Woody Guthrie House of earth
Jamaica Kincaid See now then
Christa Wolf City of angels, or the overcoat of Dr. Freud
Historical Fiction
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