Community Events
On September 28th, the Friends of the Alameda Free Library hosted a webinar featuring Rubén Degollado - an educator from Texas and author of The Family Izquierdo and Throw - in conversation with his friend and fellow author Daniel Olivas. Click on the video below to watch this great talk!
Community Events
On September 19th, the Friends of the Alameda Free Library were joined by award-winning author Marjan Kamali for a discussion of her book The Stationery Shop, which is being adapted into a TV series at HBO. Click on the video below to watch this talk!
Friends @ Home
When the pandemic arrived in March 2020, local author Helen Harris was disappointed that the book signing of her novel Visible Means of Support at Books Inc. in Alameda had to be cancelled. At the same time, the Friends of the Alameda Free Library was wrestling with what to do
Community Events
On August 17th, the Friends of the Alameda Free Library were joined by award-winning journalist and New York Times bestselling author Eric Weiner, who discussed his recent book, The Socrates Express. Click on the video below to watch this fun talk!
Community Events
On July 18th, the Friends were joined by award-winning sports writer Joan Ryan who discussed her recent work, Intangibles: Unlocking the Science and Soul of Team Chemistry, which weaves research in sociology, psychology, and neuroscience, with page-turning storytelling. Click on the video below to watch this great talk!
Community Events
On June 15th, the Friends were joined by bestselling crime fiction author Vaseem Khan who discussed his Malabar House Novels, which take readers on an exhilarating journey from the last days of the Raj to the heart of modern India. Click on the video below to watch this great talk!
Community Events
On May 16th, the Friends were joined by national bestselling author Gail Tsukiyama who discussed The Color of Air, her gorgeous and evocative historical novel about a Japanese-American family set against the backdrop of Hawai’i’s sugar plantations. Click on the video below to watch this talk!
Art Docent
On May 11th, the Friends were joined by art docent Avril Angevine for a presentation on some of California’s most interesting clay crafters, from studios in Berkeley, on Catalina Island, and in Southern California — from familiar names like Arequipa, California Faience, Bauer, Metlox, and fascinating individuals like Marguerite Wildenhain,
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On April 20th, the Friends were joined by author Sarah Penner who discussed her novel, The Lost Apothecary. In her addictive and spectacularly imagined debut, Penner tells us of an eighteenth century female apothecary who secretly dispenses poisons to liberate women from the men who have wronged them—setting three
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On February 25th, the Friends were joined by author Syed Masood who discussed his debut novel, The Bad Muslim Discount. Following two families from Pakistan and Iraq in the 1990s to San Francisco in 2016, The Bad Muslim Discount is an inclusive, comic novel about Muslim immigrants finding their way
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On February 2nd, the Friends were joined by author Gabrielle Selz who discussed her book Light on Fire: The Life and Art of Sam Francis, the first comprehensive biography of Sam Francis, one of the most important American abstract artists of the twentieth century. Click on the video below to
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On January 19th, the Friends were joined by investigative reporter Larissa Zimberoff for a discussion of her new book Technically Food: Inside Silicon Valley’s Mission to Change What We Eat, which describes the paradigm shift transforming the food we eat and the companies behind it. Click on the video