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Picturing Resistance: Moments and Movements of Social Change from the 1950s to Today
By Melanie Light and Ken Light (Orinda)
(Ten Speed Press, October 20)
A photographic history of the important moments of progressive resistance—from the civil rights movement to the present—to inspire the change-makers and activists of today.Buy This Book
The President Who Would Not Be King
By Michael W. McConnell (Stanford)
(Princeton University Press, November 10)
Vital perspectives for the divided Trump era on what the Constitution’s framers intended when they defined the extent—and limits—of presidential power |Buy This Book
Together in a Sudden Strangeness: America’s Poets Respond to the Pandemic
Edited by Alice Quinn (Various authors from the Bay Area)
(Knopf, November 17)
Poets speak to us as they shelter in place, addressing our collective fear, grief, and hope from eloquent and diverse individual perspectives. This collection is dedicated to Stanford’s Eavan Boland, who passed away last spring. Buy This Book
All That Glitters
Edited by Danielle Steel (San Francisco)
(Delacorte Press, November 17)
A young woman must overcome tremendous adversity in her quest to find herself and achieve real happiness. Buy This Book | About The Author
The Novel and the New Ethics
By Dorothy J. Hale (Berkeley)
(Stanford University Press, November 24)
A literary critic investigates why contemporary writers believe the novel, through its content and form, tasks author and reader alike with the ethical responsibility to know and be responsible to people different from oneself.Buy This Book
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On Swift Horses
By Shannon Pufahl (Monterey)
(Riverhead Books, November 3)
A lonely newlywed and her wayward brother-in-law follow divergent and dangerous paths through the postwar American West.