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Arts & Entertainment

Page-turners: Bay Area writers of color, Oprah shine light on new books, protests

By Sue Gilmore | Bay City News | June 19, 2020

Works of some of the Bay Area’s talented writers of color, all of them award winners.

Arts & Entertainment

Bay City Books: New Books from Bay Area Authors – June 2020

By Meg Waite Clayton | Bay City News | June 11, 2020

From a murder mystery to the latest research on breathing, here's what to read in June.

Around Town

Award-winning author/journalist to speak about “Homewreckers,” the robber barons of housing

By Lou Fancher | November 1, 2019

Aaron Glantz goes deep on predatory financiers and the devastating impact of housing bubbles on the middle class.

Scholastic Book Fair at Beach Elementary

By Aaron Glantz | October 4, 2019

Celebrate reading at the annual Scholastic Book Fair at Beach Elementary School! Come in to pick up some good reads from October 21st - 25th in the auditorium.

Around Town

2019 READMONT book announced: “Just Mercy” by Bryan Stevenson

By Kathryn Levenson | PHS Librarian | January 11, 2019

The author writes movingly about justice, mercy, and death penalty cases he encountered as a young Harvard law grad.