Book Clubs

Three Japanese American brothers found themselves on opposite sides of the world and the war after two of them returned to Hiroshima while the eldest brother served as a Japanese interpreter in the U.S.

How could two hardworking people do everything right in life, a woman asks, and end up destitute? Willa Knox and her husband followed all the rules as responsible parents and professionals, and have nothing to show for it.

You meet the man next door. He's the head teacher at the local school. Twice your age. Very attractive. You find yourself watching him. All the time. But you never dreamed that your innocent crush might become a deadly obsession.

A fresh and brilliantly told memoir from a cult favorite comic artist, marked by gothic twists, a family funeral home, sexual angst, and great books.

Big Angel, has summoned his entire clan for one last legendary birthday bash. As the party approaches, his nearly one-hundred-year-old mother dies, transforming the weekend into a farewell doubleheader.

A woman begins serving two life sentences at Stanville Women's Correctional Facility in California, reflecting on the San Francisco of her youth and her relationship with her young son.

When her new husband is imprisoned for a crime she knows he did not commit, a rising artist takes comfort in a longtime friendship, only to see her husband's sentence is suddenly overturned.

A novel—which grapples with the complex history of Native Americans and a plague of addiction, abuse and suicide—follows 12 characters, each of whom has private reasons for traveling to the Big Oakland Powwow.

An intimate tale of three generations, from the Civil War to the 20th century.

The lives of two sisters--Nettie, a missionary in Africa, and Celie, a Southern woman married to a man she hates--are revealed in a series of letters exchanged over thirty years.