Oakland Post: Week of December 10 – 16, 2025
William “Bill” Patterson, 94, of Little Rock, Arkansas, passed away peacefully on October 21, 2025, at his home…
Claude, San Francisco’s Beloved Albino Alligator, Dies At 30
Claude was an albino alligator that lived at the California Academy of Sciences (Credit: calacademy.org/ Public Domain) San…
Meet the Long Beach typewriter poet helping strangers navigate heartbreak – Press Telegram
Outside a bank on Long Beach’s 2nd Street, a woman is crying. Nico Patino, a street poet sitting…
Bestselling Books in California
With reporting from the California Independent Booksellers Alliance, Alta Journal brings you a list of the bestselling titles…
Meet the Long Beach typewriter poet helping strangers navigate heartbreak – San Bernardino Sun
Outside a bank on Long Beach’s 2nd Street, a woman is crying. Nico Patino, a street poet sitting…
Meet the Long Beach typewriter poet helping strangers navigate heartbreak – Orange County Register
Outside a bank on Long Beach’s 2nd Street, a woman is crying. Nico Patino, a street poet sitting…
Filmmaker wins San Diego’s annual Matchbook Story Contest with tender memory of grandmother – San Diego Union-Tribune
A filmmaker and novelist’s 50-word story about his grandmother won the top prize in the Library Shop SD’s…
Ed Roberts, hero of disability rights movement, gets first biography
A multi-genre love letter to Naples; a collection of writings on comic book artists and an expansive biography…
Bestselling Books in California
With reporting from the California Independent Booksellers Alliance, Alta Journal brings you a list of the bestselling titles…
Oakland Post: Week of November 26 – December 2, 2025
Charlene Muhammad | California Black Media Copy and paste this HTML code into your webpage to embed. Earlier…
Half Price Books will close in downtown Berkeley
Half Price Books in downtown Berkeley closed its doors for good on Nov. 30. Credit: Nico Savidge for…
Get cozy with some Indigenous reads
Overview: La Mesa Library In addition to finding these great titles, drop by to pick up books and…