The Rising Readers Fourth Grade Book Club meets monthly at the Claremont Branch Library. Currently this program is full, but we will begin taking names for our wait list on Friday, September 20th at 10:00 a.m. Please call (510) 981-6280 on or after that date to have your child's name placed on this list.
Join author-illustrator Rachel Michelle Wilson as she celebrates her debut picture book HOW TO PEE YOUR PANTS: THE RIGHT WAY with some absurd fun.
Join the West Branch's Mystery Book Club. October's title is The Thursday Murder Club, by Richard Osman.
This is your opportunity to read and discuss the book before it comes to the screen! Production is currently underway for a movie version starring Helen Mirren, Pierce Brosnan, and Ben Kingsley - wow!
Join us for the Silent Book Club: the Introvert Happy Hour!
We will be serving up a free mocktail and providing a space for reading and sharing.
We will chat about what we are reading, spend some time reading, then share more at the end for those interested in chatting. Others are welcome to keep reading if they wish.
All ages are welcome: we're building a community celebrating reading together.
We are an official chapter of the International Silent Book Club, there are now over 1000 chapters around the world!
Join us for the Silent Book Club: the Introvert Happy Hour!
We will be serving up a free mocktail and providing a space for reading and sharing.
We will chat about what we are reading, spend some time reading, then share more at the end for those interested in chatting. Others are welcome to keep reading if they wish.
All ages are welcome: we're building a community celebrating reading together.
We are an official chapter of the International Silent Book Club, there are now over 1000 chapters around the world!
Join us for an evening of conversation with local author Dashka Slater (The 57 Bus and Accountable: The True Story of a Racist Social Media Account and the Teenagers Whose Lives It Changed). This will be a teen-moderated event, with members of Berkeley High School's Right Writers club interviewing Dashka, followed by audience Q+A and book signing. Books will be for sale at the event from Mrs. Dalloway's.
This event is made possible by a generous gift from the Pace Trust in support of the Berkeley Public Library North Branch.
Join us for an evening of live music and conversation at the Hillside Club (2286 Cedar St). Author Margaret Wilkerson Sexton will discuss her book, "On the Rooftop" with host Lewis Watts, author of "Harlem of the West".
Featuring live jazz music by the legendary all women big band Melba's Kitchen.
On the Rooftop is a novel about a mother whose dream of musical stardom for her daughters collides with their own ambition set against the backdrop of San Francisco’s gentrifying Fillmore neighborhood in the 1950s.
This book group will discuss recent literary fiction books on the last Saturday of the month. All sessions meet at 11am on the 5th floor.
September 28: On the Rooftop by Margaret Wilkerson Sexton
Please register here, the first 10 signups will get a free copy of the book.
Join us for the second meeting of our new Mystery Book Club! September's title is The Violin Conspiracy, by Brendan Slocumb.
“Magnificent, from the first page to the last, the pace never slackens. It is a gorgeous read. Old violins, international music competitions, human greed, determination, decency—all of these feature in this first-rate novel." —Alexander McCall Smith
West Branch (510) 981-6270
This online book group will discuss recent literary fiction books, on the last Tuesday of the month. All sessions meet at 2pm
August 27: On the Rooftop by Margaret Wilkerson Sexton
September 24: Mecca by Susan Straight
Register HERE
The discussion will take place over Zoom and include 15 participants with a waitlist.