Live Events

The author of The Day the Crayons Quit takes to the stage with his hilarious new chapter book, No Sam! and the Meow of Deception.

Celebrated author Gary Shteyngart joins us with his poignant and bitterly funny new novel, Vera, or Faith.

Multi-award winning author Adam Johnson joins us with The Wayfinder, his historical epic about a girl from a remote Tongan island who becomes her people's queen.

Bruce Henderson returns to Kepler’s with his untold history of a top-secret operation in the run-up to D-Day, in which American flyers and Allied spies carried out some of the most daring cloak-and-dagger operations of World War II.

Free! Meet and hear from local authors Richard Osborn, Lori Ostlund, Raj Oza, and Shobha Rao.

Calling all aspiring writers for a creative writing workshop with two highly accomplished novelists and experienced writing teachers.

The bestselling, beloved author, Ann Packer, returns to Kepler’s with her new novel Some Bright Nowhere.

Atlantic CEO Nicholas Thompson takes to the stage with his profound meditation on what running can teach us about our limits and our lives.

Award-winning author, George Packer, discusses his gripping new fable of imperial collapse with Dave Eggers.

Acclaimed photographer Dick Evans and award-winning writer and nature guide Hannah Hindley come together to discuss In the Shadow of the Bridge: Birds of the Bay Area. They will be joined by John Epperson, President of the San Mateo Bird Alliance.

Join us to celebrate Nina McConigley’s debut novel which has been described as “spirited and witty, stylish and audacious.”