East Bay Events

Books Inc. Berkeley proudly presents scholar and former philosophy professor Dr. Jennifer Vest for a introduction to her book The Ethical Psychic!

A 101 guide for psychics and energy workers to build an authentic, equitable, and culturally sensitive healing practice, written by Afro-Indigenous intuitive, scholar, and healer Dr. Jennifer Lisa Vest.

Books Inc. Berkeley proudly welcomes Victoria Lilenthal for a reading from her book The T Room!

Single mom Vera West's bodywork career is on fire, but her dynamic partnership with her charismatic and sexy married mentor turns out to be more like a deal with the Devil. Fraught with yearning, questionable decision-making, and fierce female competition, Vera's path to self-authority is a humorous and insightful tribute to the power of compassion.

Join Books Inc. Berkeley for a literary event with poet Heather Bourbeau, to hear from her new book Some Days The Bird! 

Throughout 2021, as COVID and climate change battled for supremacy in the hearts and minds of the world, American poet Heather Bourbeau and Irish-Australian poet Anne Casey engaged in a poetry conversation back and forth across the globe, alternating each week, to create 52 poems over 52 weeks.

Join Books Inc. Berkeley in welcoming New Yorker writer and professor Hua Hsu in conversation with bestselling author Tommy Orange for a thrilling discussion about Hsu's critically acclaimed and widely anticipated debut memoir Stay True!

A coming-of-age story that details both the ordinary and extraordinary, Stay True is a bracing memoir about growing up, and about moving through the world in search of meaning and belonging.

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YA@Books Inc. and Books Inc. Alameda proudly presents author Amanda Glaze in celebration her debut YA fantasy The Second Death of Edie and Violet Bond, in conversation with friend and award-winning author Nina LaCour.

Crime novelist Lisa Towles returns to Books Inc. Alameda for the launch of her forthcoming political thriller, The Ridders, and will be joined by fellow author and friend Ana Manwaring!

Brock "BJ" Janoff and his older brother Jonas run a private investigation firm in Venice, CA. BJ is randomly approached by a stranger on the street with a proposition he can't refuse - one million dollars to deliver a single envelope to a hotel lobby.

Books Inc. Berkeley proudly presents Lucy Jane Bledsoe with a reading from her new book Tell the Rest!

Two estranged childhood friends find themselves on parallel paths to return to the site of the conversion therapy camp that tore them apart.

Books Inc. Berkeley proudly presents J. Bradford DeLong for a reading from his new book Slouching Towards Utopia!

From one of the world's leading economists, a grand narrative of the century that made us richer than ever, yet left us unsatisfied

Local author Nicole Lusiani joins Books Inc. Alameda for a conversation about her memoir Nothing's Missing, for an uplifting discussion about life journeys, mental health, and well-being.