On July 20th, the Friends of the Alameda Free Library was joined by Alia Volz, a San Francisco native and author of the memoir Home Baked: My Mom, Marijuana, and the Stoning of San Francisco (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2020), winner … Read More
On June 14th, the Friends were joined by art docent Avril Angevine for a presentation on the work of Dorothea Lange, who produced an astonishing body of photographic work in a career that lasted from the 1920s, when she ran … Read More
On June 9th, George Takei – a social justice activist, social media superstar, Grammy-nominated recording artist, New York Times bestselling author, and pioneering actor whose career has spanned six decades – joined the Friends of the Alameda Free Library to … Read More
On May 26, 2021, the Friends of the Alameda Free Library was joined by Francesca Lia Block, MFA, who has authored more than twenty-five books of fiction, non-fiction, short stories, and poetry and has written screenplay adaptations of her work. … Read More
On May 19, 2021, the Friends of the Alameda Free Library was joined by award-winning artist and best-selling author Paul Madonna, who gave a presentation of his electrifying mystery novel Come to Light. Full of unexpected plot twists, lively characters … Read More
On May 5, 2021, the Friends of the Alameda Free Library was joined by author Caroline Kim, whose work explores what it means to be human through the Korean diaspora. With humor, insight, and curiosity, Kim’s wide-ranging stories explore themes … Read More
On April 28, 2021, the Friends of the Alameda Free Library was joined by author Susan Cox, whose first novel, The Man on the Washing Machine, won the Minotaur Books/Mystery Writers of America First Crime Novel Competition. Her second novel, … Read More
On April 10, 2021, the Friends of the Alameda Free Library was joined by author Deepa Anappara, whose debut novel Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line has been nominated by The Mystery Writers of America for the Edgar© Award as … Read More
On March 6, 2021, the Friends of the Alameda Free Library was joined (from London!) by internationally best-selling author Jung Chang, whose books include her family autobiography “Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China” and “Big Sister, Little Sister, Red Sister,” … Read More
On February 17, 2021, the Friends of the Alameda Free Library was joined by New York Times bestselling author Robin Sloan for a fun and engaging discussion of his books Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore and Sourdough, two novels steeped in the … Read More