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Books of the Month

A young Palestinain-American girl embraces Islam to find herself amongst family turmoil and tragedy. I loved this book!
The Beauty of Your Face
A candid account of the fancy and frenzy of Guerneville in the 70's and 80's.
River Days, River Nights
A swirling portrait of a damned Mexican Village. A witch is dead and all of the villagers are investigating the murder.
Hurricane Season
Absolutely brilliant. Fizzes with energy-and with raunchiness, color , beauty and insight.
Irish Examiner
Iron Annie
A YA novel that is perfect for adults as well. Petra Planned to be a storyteller like her grandmother, but earth is in danger of being destroyed as a comet is heading its way.
The Last Cuentista
An utterly absorbing piece of noir fiction.
Secret Identity
Deftly mix[es] research and reimagining.
The New York Times Book Review
The Art of Losing
I couldn’t put this book down. A masterfully written tale of an interpreter at The Hague who is interpreting the case of an African head of state accused of heinous crimes against his people.
Michael (proprietor)
Intimacies
Toni Morrison called novelist and poet Henry Dumas an “absolute genius.” An important collection of the black experience in the United States.
Echo Tree: The Collected Short Fiction
A slow burning mystery with murder, romance, and family dysfunction. What more can you want?
The Kingdom

Happy 1st Birthday

Join us Saturday and Sunday from 2-5pm.
Raffles, Readings, and Live Music.

Coffee Bazaar next door will be playing live jazz fusion guitarist Bobby Martin.

New Autumn Reads

Starter Villain

Starter Villain

John Scalzi
Loot

Loot

Tania James
Pony boy

Pony boy

Eliot Duncan
Glitter And Concrete: A Cultural History of Drag in New York City

Glitter And Concrete: A Cultural History of Drag in New York City

Elyssa Maxx Goodman
Sublunar

Sublunar

Harald Voetmānn
August Wilson: A Life

August Wilson: A Life

Patti Hartigan
Bavarian Bears

Bavarian Bears

Swen Marcel
Robin And Her Misfits

Robin And Her Misfits

Kelly Ann Jacobson
Crossings How Road Ecology Is Shaping The Future Of Our Planet

Crossings How Road Ecology Is Shaping The Future Of Our Planet

Ben Goldfarb
The Ghost Forest

The Ghost Forest

Greg King
A Council of Dolls

A Council of Dolls

Mona Susan Power
Against Technoableism

Against Technoableism

Ashley Shew
Doppelgänger

Doppelgänger

Naomi Klein
Daughter

Daughter

Claudia Dey
The Free People’s Village

The Free People’s Village

Sim Kern
Crook Manifesto

Crook Manifesto

Colton Whitehead
The Fraud

The Fraud

Zadie Smith
Lone Women

Lone Women

Victor LaValle
Chain Gang All-Stars

Chain Gang All-Stars

Nana Kramer Adjei-Brenyah

New Essays, Poetry, and Short Fiction

The Lights: Poems

The Lights: Poems

By
Suddenly We: Poems

Suddenly We: Poems

Evie Shockley
Promises Of Gold: Poems

Promises Of Gold: Poems

José Olivarez
Glowing in the Dark: Stories of Wounded Healers

Glowing in the Dark: Stories of Wounded Healers

Judith Day
Holler, Child: Stories

Holler, Child: Stories

Latoya Watkins
Somewhere A Phone Is Ringing: Collected Stories

Somewhere A Phone Is Ringing: Collected Stories

Nancy Bourne
Let’s Go Let’s Go Let’s Go: Stories

Let’s Go Let’s Go Let’s Go: Stories

Cleo Qian
Dearborn: Stories

Dearborn: Stories

Ghassan Zeineddine
Congratulations, The Best Is Over

Congratulations, The Best Is Over

R. Eric Thomas
Creep: Accusations and Confessions

Creep: Accusations and Confessions

Miriam Gurba

Young Adult and Chapter Books

Worser

Worser

Jennifer Ziegler
Click

Click

Kayla Miller
Swim Team

Swim Team

Johnnie Christmas
The Lesbian’s Guide to Catholic School

The Lesbian’s Guide to Catholic School

Sonora Reyes
Family of Liars

Family of Liars

e. Lockhart
Heat Wave

Heat Wave

TJ Klune
The Last Cuentista

The Last Cuentista

Donna Barba Higuera
Melissa

Melissa

Alex Gino
Starfish

Starfish

Lisa Fipps
Violet Made Of Thorns

Violet Made Of Thorns

Gina Chen
Fire Keeper’s Daughter

Fire Keeper’s Daughter

Angeline Boulley

Coffee Table Books

Vegan at Home

Vegan at Home

Wild Life: The Life and Work of Charley Harper

Wild Life: The Life and Work of Charley Harper

Madrid: Portrait of a City

Madrid: Portrait of a City

Cabinet of Natural Curiosities: The Complete Plates in Colour 1734-1765

Cabinet of Natural Curiosities: The Complete Plates in Colour 1734-1765

Modern Architecture A-Z

Modern Architecture A-Z

San Francisco: Portrait of a City

San Francisco: Portrait of a City

Dragon Rock At Manitoga

Dragon Rock At Manitoga

Amazônia

Amazônia

The Ballad of Sexual Dependency

The Ballad of Sexual Dependency

Secrets of the Whales

Secrets of the Whales

Into the Forest: The Secret Language of Trees

Into the Forest: The Secret Language of Trees

What's Cooking?

The Red Truck Bakery Farmhouse Cookbook

The Red Truck Bakery Farmhouse Cookbook

A Year At Catbird Cottage: Recipes For A Nourished Life

A Year At Catbird Cottage: Recipes For A Nourished Life

The Kitchen Studio: Culinary Creations By Artists

The Kitchen Studio: Culinary Creations By Artists

My Mexico City Kitchen: Recipes And Convictions

My Mexico City Kitchen: Recipes And Convictions

Pig Beach: BBQ Cookbook

Pig Beach: BBQ Cookbook

Portugal: The Cookbook

Portugal: The Cookbook

Peru: The Cookbook

Peru: The Cookbook

Sephardi: Cooking the History

Sephardi: Cooking the History

Japan: The Cookbook

Japan: The Cookbook

Take a look at our used books

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Books for Children

Book Of Dinosaurs: 10 Record Breaking Prehistoric Animals

Book Of Dinosaurs: 10 Record Breaking Prehistoric Animals

Where The Wild Things Are

Where The Wild Things Are

Maurice Sendak
One boy watching

One boy watching

We Are Still Here: Native American Truths Everyone Should Know

We Are Still Here: Native American Truths Everyone Should Know

Traci Sorell
Frané Lessac
Fox Tells a Lie

Fox Tells a Lie

Susanna Isern and Leire Salaberria
The Book That Kino Wrote

The Book That Kino Wrote

Mariana Ruiz Johnson
If You’re a Drag Queen and You Know It

If You’re a Drag Queen and You Know It

Lil Miss Hot Mess
Olga de Dios
Armadillo Antics

Armadillo Antics

Bill Martin Jr. & Michael Sampson
Gibberish

Gibberish

Young Vo
My Perfect Cabin

My Perfect Cabin

Emmanuelle Mardesson & Sarah Loulendo
The Wisdom of Trees

The Wisdom of Trees

Lita Judge
Lita Judge
Luli and the Language of Tea

Luli and the Language of Tea

Andrea Wang
Hyewon Yum
My First Book of Beards

My First Book of Beards

Robyn Wall
Lydia Nichols
My First Book of Tattoos

My First Book of Tattoos

Robyn Wall
Lydia Nichols

Upcoming Events & Readings

Books & Letters Events

Sunday
Dec
10
10:00 am
Maura O'Connor at the Theatre

Maura O'Connor at the Theatre

Join us and welcome Maura O’Connor to Armstrong Redwoods Forest Theater for her new book – Ignition: Lighting Fires in a Burning World on Sunday, December 10, 2023 starting at 10AM at the Armstrong Redwoods Forest Theater. The discussion will be followed by a Q&A. This event is free and open to the public – sponsored by Stewards of the Coast and Redwoods and Russian River Books & Letters. Coffee will be available

Journalist M.R. O’Connor’s IGNITION: Lighting Fires in a Burning World is a riveting investigation into the science and ecology of wildfires and the advent of global megafires.

Heat. Flames. Billows of smoke. Danger. Unpredictability. All of these are characteristics of an element we have been conditioned to fear: Fire. Yet, what if there was a missing piece to the story? What if much of what we have been taught to believe about fire, and our relationship to it, is wrong?

O’Connor offers compelling evidence emerging from the field of ethnoecology and dendrochronology that proves how, until very recently, humans all over the world were igniting fires—actively molding and influencing the ecosystems that exist around them by inserting themselves into the loop of a natural biological process to start “good fires.” What results is a kind of natural history of arson.

Discussion will be moderated by Ryan Klausch, California State Park Environmental Scientist for the Wildfire and Forest Resilience Program.

“Wildfires have become a symbol of climate apocalypse frequently cited as unambiguous evidence of the fossil-fuel induced ecological disaster that is destabilizing life on earth. Get close enough to a fire on the landscape—maybe even close enough to smell it burning and feel its heat—and what you may find is a far more complicated and fascinating story about evolution, biology, history, and culture. And one that is infinitely more hopeful.” —Prologue, Ignition

Please park in the front parking lot of Armstrong Redwoods and account for 15 minutes walking time from the parking lot to the theater.

Registration is required for this event.

Register

Join us and welcome Maura O’Connor to Armstrong Redwoods Forest Theater for her new book

Sunday
Dec
10
6:00 pm
A Chanukah Concert

A Chanukah Concert

Join us for a night of music to celebrate Chanukah at Books & Letters!

Chris Eccles: Mandolin and Vocals

Laurie Lippin: Accordion 

Lois Pearlman: Vocals 

Featuring Yiddish Favorites, Traditional Chanukah Music, and Celtic Tunes

Sunday
Dec
3
7:00 pm
Reading with Rich Rubin

Reading with Rich Rubin

The Day Before It Rained is an eclectic collection of short stories, from quirky portraits to tales of LGBTQ+ relationships to eccentric takes on friendship, romance, and everything in between. From period pieces to modern day, from the magical to the mundane, from the heart of Kansas to the Yorkshire moors to the Tunisian desert, the stories span the years, travel the globe, and explore the spectrum of emotions as his characters discover love, loss, hope, and fear--in other words, the dubious joy of being human.

The Day Before It Rained is an eclectic collection of short stories, from quirky portraits to tales of LGBTQ+ relationships to eccentric takes on friendship, romance, and everything in between.

Saturday
Dec
2
7:00 pm
Holiday Parade of Lights

Holiday Parade of Lights

Come celebrate the Guerneville Holiday Parade of Lights and cheer on Russian River Books & Letters as we march down Main Street!

Russian River Books & Letters will march down Main Street at the Holiday Parade of Lights

Friday
Dec
1
4:00 pm
Shop local this holiday season!

Shop local this holiday season!

Join Russian River Books & Letters at the Guerneville Holiday Night Market for books, ornaments, and holiday cards. Shop local this holiday season!

Night Market (4-8pm) & Tree Lighting Ceremony (7pm)

Join us at the Guerneville Holiday Night Market for books, ornaments, and holiday cards.

Friday
Dec
8
7:00 pm
Reading with Kelly Gray

Reading with Kelly Gray

Russian River Books & Letters presents an evening with Kelly Gray on Friday, December 8th at 7pm. Kelly authored The Mating Calls of a Specter and received  the Tusculum Review Chapbook Prize. Her collection is to be published this November.  The reading will be followed by a Q & A with Manjula Martin, author of The Last Fire Season: A Personal and Pyronatural History, (coming in January 2024 from Pantheon Books with a reading at Books & Letters!) 

Russian River Books & Letters presents an evening with Kelly Gray

Saturday
Dec
16
1:00 pm
Areté Singers Mistletoe Carolers

Areté Singers Mistletoe Carolers

Areté Singers Mistletoe Carolers will be performing at Russian River Books and Letters on Saturday, December 16th at 1pm.

Join in on the Christmas Cheer!

Get to them known at: https://www.aretesingers.com/mistletoe-carolers.html

Areté Singers Mistletoe Carolers will be performing at Russian River Books and Letters!

Every town needs and deserves a bookstore.

Russian River Books & Letters was born In December of 2021 to fulfill that need and create a gathering place for bibliophiles, writers, or just anyone who wants to hang out and browse. Stay tuned for special events including music, readings, book clubs, and writing workshops.

Please come in and say hello if you are Russian River local or just staying with us for a few days. We look forward to seeing you soon.