Please join us for a special virtual gathering, celebrating some of the best poetry of our time. Hear readings from students, teachers, clergy, moms, dads, and special guest appearances by award-winning poets and more.

In partnership with the Sausalito Library & Sausalito Woman’s Club

April 25th – 7:00 - 8:30 PM – Sausalito Poetry Night

register for the Zoom

Matthew Naythons & Rod Nordland met on the Thailand-Cambodia border in 1979 – one a photographer the other a journalist. Both went on to become hugely successful and they forged a life-long friendship. Waiting for the Monsoon is Rod’s heart wrenching, yet inspirational memoir about his terminal diagnosis and his new lease on life. Matthew, who is a big part of the book, lives in Sausalito and will lead us in a celebration of his friend’s new book.

Jennifer Jewel

In Conversation With Kier Holmes

Celebrate the re-launch of the Mill Valley Library’s Seed Library with this special event featuring a conversation with Jennifer Jewell, host of the gardening podcast Cultivating Place and author of the new book What We Sow: On the Personal, Ecological, and Cultural Significance of Seeds. In conversation with Kier Holmes, local author of The Garden Refresh. Learn about cultivating seeds, create some homemade lettuce tape, and go home with something new to plant courtesy of the Seed Library!

Sun. 4/20 @3pm,  Jennifer Jewell What we Sow: On the Personal, Ecological, and Cultural Significance of Seeds. 

In partnership with the Mill Valley Library

https://millvalleylibrary.libcal.com/event/11582552

Registration is open.

Free to attend, but please RSVP/Register on Eventbrite. (We want to make sure we have enough wine!)

Come Enjoy a Cultural Triangle Tour in Sausalito

A SPECIAL OPEN HOUSE FOR THE COMMUNITY AT LARGE

A festive, informational, and entertaining afternoon for the whole family!

Free Face Painting & Balloon Art for KIDS + Sweet treats

FREE Taco Cart Fare by Two Mamacitas, Wine & Beer for ADULTS

Get your passport stamped at all three locations and enter to win drawing for gift certificates at Sushi Ran and Poggio

1) Sausalito Center for the Arts

2) The new Sausalito Historical Ice House Museum

3) Sausalito Books by the Bay

In conversation with Cheryl Popp

Iconic local hotelier and business leader Chip Conley built a hospitality empire owning or managing 52 hotels including 23 in San Francisco. A New York Times bestselling author of seven books, he is now also a guru on aging, with his Modern Elder Academies.

His new book is all about embracing midlife as a time of transformation and joy.

In partnership with SCA & Sausalito Village

Manjula Martim in conversation with Barbara Lane

H Is for Hawk meets Joan Didion in the Pyrocene in this arresting combination of memoir, natural history, and literary inquiry that chronicles one woman’s experience of life in Northern California during the worst fire season on record. Told in luminous, perceptive prose, The Last Fire Season is a deeply incisive inquiry into what it really means — now — to live in relationship to the elements of the natural world. 

Learning to read can be awkward and intimidating... but not when you’re reading to Stinson. He is a very good listener and has helped a lot of early readers gain confidence.

Stinson is a super friendly 16-month old Australian Labradoodle – a newly graduated “reading dog” – who loves kids and snuggles. A certified AKC Urban and Canine Good Citizen dog, he is the official reading dog at Mt. Tamalpais School in Mill Valley where Lisa is the Teacher Librarian.

Early readers are invited to sign up for 15 minute sessions reading the book of their choice to Stinson. 

Parents: please register in advance at the store or call 415.887.9967.

In conversation with Margaret Wilkerson Sexton at the Mill Valley Library

Lisa Ko, the award-winning author of The Leavers, joins the Mill Valley Library to discuss her visionary new novel of friendship, art, and ambition. Moving from the predigital 1980s to the art and tech subcultures of the 1990s to a strikingly imagined portrait of the 2040s, Memory Piece is an innovative and audacious story of three lifelong friends as they strive to build satisfying lives in a world that turns out to be radically different from the one they were promised.

Thurs. 3/21 Lisa Ko @6:30pm Memory Piece 

In partnership with the Mill Valley Library

https://millvalleylibrary.libcal.com/event/11622424

Registration is open.

Author & Artist Shiva Jafarzadeh celebrating publication of her children’s picture book The Orange Blossom

This master storyteller has once again written a gripping historical novel focused on the courageous women who served our country during the Vietnam war, putting themselves in harms way and at great risk daily. Unsung heroines, often overlooked. A poignant portrait and epic tale of a nation divided by war and the generation it spawned. Read in celebration & honor of Women’s History Month in March.

Mon. 3/11@6:30. Lauren Markham A Map of Future Ruins: On Borders and Belonging. 

In partnership with the Mill Valley Library

https://millvalleylibrary.libcal.com/event/11580149

Registration is open.

March 7th – 6 PM – Author John King (Portal—San Francisco’s Ferry Building)

In partnership with the Belvedere Tiburon Library

1501 Tiburon Blvd.

March 6th – 6 PM – Author Event with Gerry Warburg in conversation with Chance Cutrano

Saving Point Reyes – How an Epic Conservations Victory Became a Tipping Point for Environmental Policy Action

Sun. 3/3 @ 1PM: Perfume Making with Alka Josh. The Perfumist of Paris

In partnership with the Mill Valley Library

https://millvalleylibrary.libcal.com/event/11389546

Registration is open

Fri. 3/1 @ 7pm (doors open at 6:30) Eric Klinenberg (After Hours event) 

2020: One City, Seven People, and the Year Everything Changed.

In partnership with the Mill Valley Library

https://millvalleylibrary.libcal.com/event/11579406

Registration opens 2/12