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New Arrivals

by KALW

When Bay Area book tours and launch parties were canceled due to the coronavirus, KALW producer Lisa Morehouse decided to bring author readings to you in this socially-distanced book tour. We loved the idea so much, we're going to keep the book party going with this pocket-sized book tour.Want to tell us about a book that's being published soon by a local author? Write us at [email protected] Arrivals airs on KALW 91.7 FM in the San Francisco Bay Area on Tuesdays at 7:19 a.m. and 3:48 p.m.

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  1. Novel set in 9/11-era Middle East features mother/daughter relationship

    Devi S. Laskar lives in Mountain View. Her book, 'Midnight at the War,' came out in April 2026. It’s about a foreign correspondent covering a global conflict... but really it’s a story about love and grief and the relationship between a daughter and her mother.

  2. New Danish Kurani book explores the spaces that make us

    Danish Kurani lives in Mountain View. His book, 'The Spaces that Make Us,' came out in February 2026.

  3. Twins – and the psychedelic renaissance – at heart of new Lindsay Kent thriller

    Lindsay Kent lives in Half Moon Bay. Her book, 'My Twin the Murderer' came out in June, 2026. It's a mind-bending thriller about estranged twin sisters battling a murder rap, the psychedelic mafia, and their own fractured past.

  4. Parisian statues come to life in Lauren C. Johnson’s new fantasy

    Lauren C. Johnson lives in San Francisco. Her book, The West Facade came out on March 3rd, 2026. It’s a fantasy novel about a statue of St Genevieve who gives into her desire to be human.

  5. In new book, Leslie Howard, Richard Rosen re-examine shavasana

    "Shavasana, Between Breath and Death," is about the final pose done in a yoga class, as well as using the pose to change our relationship to our feelings about death and dying.

  6. Jessica Guerrieri explores all the ways women disappear in new novel

    It's a novel that takes on the ways women can disappear; physically and emotionally.

  7. Mike Huguenor chronicles iconic indy label Asian Man Records

    The book is about the first 30 years of one of the most important record labels to come out of the South Bay Area.

  8. Vanessa Hua tackles race, class, housing, and suburbia in new novel

    Vanessa Hua lives in the East Bay. Her novel, Coyoteland, came out May 12th, 2026. It’s about wealth, privilege and the housing market, as well as territory, predator, and prey.

  9. Jase Peeples pens YA novel about gay, comic book-obsessed teen

    Jase Peeples lives in San Francisco. His book, Before You Can Fly, came out May 8th, 2026. It’s a YA coming of age romance about a gay, comic-book obsessed teen who is struggling with his growing feelings for his best friend.

  10. Nadine Takvorian graphic novel explores Armenian genocide

    It's about a teenage daughter of Armenian immigrants from Istanbul Turkey, who struggles with her identity and searches for the true stories of her family's history of surviving genocide.

  11. Caroline Paul book extols the wonders of flight

    Caroline Paul lives in San Francisco. Her book Why Fly? came out February 24th, 2026. She reads a passage about an emergency landing she had to make.

  12. Liam O’Brien creates illustrated guide to Bay Area butterflies

    Liam O’Brien lives in San Francisco. His book, "Butterflies of the Bay Area, and (Slightly) Beyond," is about the places and the zones where humans and butterflies converge. It came out September 30th, 2025.

  13. Eddy Rubin book an illustrated nature guide to Ocean Beach

    The book is partly a love letter and partly a field guide to the creatures, currents, weather that you might encounter or be curious about walking along the sand or paddling a surfboard a distance from the shore.

  14. Taiwanese novelist takes a California road trip in Alvin Lu novel

    The book is about Chinese literary exiles in California. There’s a scandal and a roadtrip as they investigate and look for a mysterious woman who was involved in a murder of one of their friends.

  15. Gary Prost book explores California’s geology

    Gary Prost's new book is about his journey across the state from the Marin headlands to the wine country, from the gold fields to Death Valley, to learn about the geology of this amazing state.

  16. John Doll pens noir set in San Jose

    John Doll lives in San Francisco. His novel, "St. James Park," is a 1933 noir set in San Jose, about a kidnapping of a department store heir. It came out August 19th, 2025.

  17. Beverly Burch novel spans San Francisco, Nashville

    Beverly Burch lives in Oakland. Her book, "What You Don’t Know," is about two women whose antagonism turns into something tender and electric, then catastrophic. It came out in May of 2025.

  18. James Cagney defies genre in ode to Oakland Ghetto Koans

    James Cagney's new book is a blend of genres and a personal archive.

  19. Emile DeWeaver book combines social commentary with personal narrative about prison

    Emile DeWeaver lives in Oakland. His book, "Ghost in a Criminal Justice Machine," came out in May 2025. It's about his journey through prison and what he learned about criminal justice and white supremacy.

  20. Desire – and airplanes – at center of new Kate Folk novel

    Kate Folk lives in San Francisco. Her book, "Sky Daddy," came out on April 8th, 2025. It's about a woman named Linda who's sexually obsessed with airplanes.

  21. Relearning language, history in new Caroline M. Mar poetry collection

    Caroline M. Mar lives in Oakland. Her latest poetry collection, "Water Guest," came out on April 1st, 2025. It's about Lake Tahoe, the Chinese who built the transcontinental railroad, and at least a little bit about her struggle with losing her family's ancestral language.

  22. Susanna Kwan book set in deluged future San Francisco

    Susanna Kwan lives in San Francisco. Her book, Awake in the Floating City it came out in May. It takes place in a future version of San Francisco that's flooded by years of rain.

  23. Aimee Phan pens young adult fantasy inspired by Vietnamese lore

    Aimee Phan lives in Berkeley. Her book, The Lost Queen came out May 6th, 2025. It's about two girls in San Jose who discover that they are the reincarnated queens of Vietnam.

  24. Debut Wendy M. Thompson poetry collection explores the Black Bay Area

    Wendy M. Thompson lives in Oakland. Her book of poetry, "Black California Gold" came out March 2025. In it she looks at the Black Bay area and explores the ways their presence and displacement has continued to shape the region.

  25. Gilded age con artist steals for love in Danielle Teller novel

    Danielle Teller lives in Palo Alto. Her book "Forged" came out in May 2025. It's about a Gilded Age con artist who steals money from banks in the name of love.

  26. Violence, humor overlap in lives of queer women in new Lori Ostlund collection

    Lori Ostlund lives in San Francisco. Her story collection "Are You Happy?" came out in May 2025. It's about the specter of violence that hangs over women in the queer community, but with humor.

  27. Bonnie Tsui flexes in new book: On Muscle

    Bonnie Tsui lives in Berkeley. Her book, "On Muscle: The Stuff That Moves Us and Why It Matters," was published in April 2025. It poses the question, what is power in a body? And blends science, culture, and history to answer that question.

  28. Khan Wong book combines speculative, historical fiction

    Khan Wong lives in San Francisco. His novel, "Down in the Sea of Angels," was published April 2025. It's about a young woman with the psychic ability to know the history of any object that she touches.

  29. Southern road trip inspires new Luiza Flynn-Goodlett poetry collection

    Luiza Flynn-Goodlett lives in Richmond. Her poetry collection, "Mud in Our Mouths" came out in March 2025. It's about road tripping to visit family in Tennessee and simultaneously traveling back through many past selves.

  30. Brittany Newell novel explores SF underground, and love

    Brittany Newell' book, "Soft Core," is about a stripper named Ruth who is plunged into a nocturnal journey through SF’s underground when her ex-boyfriend disappears.

  31. Kat Crosswell coming of age novel features Jazzy protagonist

    Kat Crosswell lives in Oakland. Her coming of age novel for middle grades, called, "Pieces of Eight: A Harper Family Mixtape," came out in July 2024.

  32. In new Ellen Barker novel, a woman scrambles after losing tech job

    Ellen Barker's new book, Still Needs Work, is about a woman who loses her tech job and spends the next year scrambling to keep her life together.

  33. Maxine Rose Schur pens new young adult adventure book

    Maxine Rose Schur lives in Novato. Her book, Star Brother came out in August of 2024. It's about a lonely teenager who makes a discovery that leads to an adventuring rescue mission.

  34. Good people make terrible choices in Samantha Schoech story collection

    Samantha Schoech book of stories, 'My Mother’s Boyfriends' is a collection about familial and personal relationships. It's full of sympathetic characters who make terrible choices.

  35. Elizabeth Horner Turner chapbook offers surreal, offbeat flash fictions

    Elizabeth Horner Turner lives in San Francisco. Her book, Horsemouth and Aquariumhead, came out in September 2024. It's a chapbook of flash Fictions, which are really short stories that imaginative and sometimes unsettling.

  36. Gloria Huang middle grade fantasy novel explores anxiety, and culture

    Gloria Huang lives in Palo Alto. Her book, Kaya of the Ocean came out January 7th, 2025. It's about an Asian-American girl in Hawaii who struggles with anxiety... until she discovers some mysterious powers.

  37. New collection celebrates Heyday at 50

    Emmerich Anklam lives in Berkeley and works for the independent publishing house, Heyday Books. He’s the editor of Heyday At 50, which was released in September.

  38. Alison Owings profiles the “mayor” of the Tenderloin

    Alison Owings lives in San Francisco. Her book, "Mayor of the Tenderloin," came out September 10, 2024. It's essentially a redemption story about Del Seymour, who started Code Tenderloin.

  39. Jack Gedney guide explores birds in the oaks

    Davis author Jack Gedney dives deep into the lives of California woodland birds in his new book, 'The Birds in the Oaks: Secret Voices of the Western Woods.' It came out on October 15th, 2024.

  40. L. John Harris searches for story behind a portrait

    Berkeley author L. John Harris reads from his new book, "Portrait in Red: A Paris Obsession." It documents his search for the story behind an anonymous portrait of a young girl wearing a red head cover.

  41. Anita Felicelli collection explores time, memory, and desire.

    Anita Felicelli lives in Mountain View. Her book, How We Know Our Time Travelers, came out on December 3rd, 2024. It's a short story collection about time, memory and desire.

  42. Jeff Miller writes irreverent nature guide

    Jeff Miller's book, Bay Area Wild Life: an Irreverent Guide, will make you fall in love with the wild animals that can be found in the Greater San Francisco Bay Area.

  43. New edition of Stephen Most book tracks Klamath dam removal

    The second edition of River of Renewal: Myth and History in the Klamath Basin, by Stephen Most, is about the largest dam removal and watershed restoration project in history.

  44. Terry Tierney's poetry questions our relationships with each other and the earth.

    Terry Tierney lives in Oakland. His poetry collection, Why Trees Stay Outside, came out October 1st, 2024. The poems question our relationships with each other and the earth.

  45. New children’s book explores multi-cultural family moving to new home

    Bay Area authors Stephanie Wildman and Adam Ryan Chang bring us a new children's book, illustrated by Dream Chen. It's about moving, change, and the collective comforts of home.

  46. Aaron Carnes defends ska music in his expanded, second edition

    Sacramento Author Aaron Carnes makes a case for loving ska music in the expanded second edition of his book, In Defense of Ska.

  47. John Stallcup pens political thriller from Navajo perspective

    Napa author, John Stallcup, reads from his new book, K’aa Lani, Many Arrows. It's a history of the Navajo, wrapped in a political thriller, and it's full of surprises.

  48. Jeff Raz's book details circus connections between Nanjing and San Francisco

    Alameda author, Jeff Raz, reads from his book, An International Circus Affair. It's about the lasting impact of connections between Nanjing, China, and San Francisco, in the world of circus.

  49. Environmental novel by Lenore Weiss is set in a paper mill

    Oakland Author, Lenore Weiss, reads from her new environmental novel, Pulp into Paper. It's about the death of a young boy forcing out the truth about what's happening at the local paper mill.

  50. In memoir, Zack Rogow connects with father he barely knew

    Zack Rogow reads from his memoir, it's about his dad who was a widely published fiction writer, a Drama critic on Broadway, captain of a ship in the U.S. Navy in World War Two. And tragically, he died in an airplane crash when Rogow was just three years old.

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ABOUT THIS SHOW

When Bay Area book tours and launch parties were canceled due to the coronavirus, KALW producer Lisa Morehouse decided to bring author readings to you in this socially-distanced book tour. We loved the idea so much, we're going to keep the book party going with this pocket-sized book tour.Want to tell us about a book that's being published soon by a local author? Write us at [email protected] Arrivals airs on KALW 91.7 FM in the San Francisco Bay Area on Tuesdays at 7:19 a.m. and 3:48 p.m.

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