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Laurel Book Store
1423 Broadway
Oakland, CA 94612
510-452-9232
Mon - Sat 10-6
Except Event nights and First Fridays
Sun Closed
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FREE parking every Saturday at the Clay St. Garage right behind City Hall between 14th and 15th.
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We can't wait to see
you here!
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Oakland Heritage Alliance
Fundraising Tour
Modernism Masterfully Melded with Nature on Sunday, May 17
from 2-6 pm.
A tour of Frank Lloyd Wright's Buehler House and the Henry Matsutani Japanese Gardens. Included in the price of the ticket is a lecture by noted historian Alan Hess on May 5.
Click here for more information.
Support Oakland Heritage!
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Order from us 24/7 at
We can get large print
books, language
translations, books on
cd, and many movies.
Would you like us to
let you know when your favorite author releases
a new book? Let us know and we'll do it.
We order twice a week and can easily add nearly any book for arrival within a couple of days. Just ask!
We gift wrap and give opinions for free.
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UPCOMING
EVENTS
click the date
for info
4/23 Miriam Frank
6:30 pm
4/24
***POSTPONED***
Sorry, we'll do it soon I promise.
Poetry Karoke
Open event where you can read us any poem you like!
4/25 Rad American Women A to Z with Kate Schatz
11am
4/25 Live Music!
Click here to see a sample!
Tickets are $15, reserve a seat today!
Just added! Mark your Calendar if you're an A's fan!
6/11 100 Things You Should Know and Do If You're an A's Fan by Susan Slusser
You could win tickets to a game too! Details to come.
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Dear Reader, Today we had two wonderful mystery authors in the store with their new books! Janet Dawson and Margaret Grace both have new books so if you missed it we still have signed copies. May 1 we will be adding some hours to our schedule. Friday and Saturday we will be open until 7pm for your shopping convenience. You should be out and about downtown those nights anyway, so come by! Until Earth Day, April 22, TODAY Gardening and Sustainability books are 15% off. And we have wonderful reusables on sale- bags, cups, cool stuff. And we've restocked our Bentology lunch containers so come in and see what we have! And now, on to the books. Happy reading, Luan |
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 God Help the Child by Toni Morrison $24.95
Spare and unsparing, God Help the Child-the first novel by Toni Morrison to be set in our current moment-weaves a tale about the way the sufferings of childhood can shape, and misshape, the life of the adult.
At the center: a young woman who calls herself Bride, whose stunning blue-black skin is only one element of her beauty, her boldness and confidence, her success in life, but which caused her light-skinned mother to deny her even the simplest forms of love. There is Booker, the man Bride loves, and loses to anger. Rain, the mysterious white child with whom she crosses paths. And finally, Bride's mother herself, Sweetness, who takes a lifetime to come to understand that "what you do to children matters. And they might never forget."
 Pleasantville by Attica Locke $26.99 In this sophisticated thriller, lawyer Jay Porter, hero of Attica Locke's bestsellerBlack Water Rising, returns to fight one last case, only to become embroiled once again in a dangerous game of shadowy politics and a witness to how far those in power are willing to go to win. Fifteen years after the events of Black Water Rising, Jay Porter is struggling to cope with catastrophic changes in his personal life and the disintegration of his environmental law practice. His victory against Cole Oil is still the crown jewel of his career, even if he hasn't yet seen a dime thanks to appeals. But time has taken its toll. Tired and restless, he's ready to quit.
 Dead Wake by Erik Larson $28 On May 1, 1915, with WWI entering its tenth month, a luxury ocean liner as richly appointed as an English country house sailed out of New York, bound for Liverpool, carrying a record number of children and infants. The passengers were surprisingly at ease, even though Germany had declared the seas around Britain to be a war zone. For months, German U-boats had brought terror to the North Atlantic. But theLusitania was one of the era's great transatlantic "Greyhounds"-the fastest liner then in service-and her captain, William Thomas Turner, placed tremendous faith in the gentlemanly strictures of warfare that for a century had kept civilian ships safe from attack.
 Missoula by Jon Krakauer $28.95 Chronicles the experiences of several women in Missoula, Montana, who claimed to be raped by University of Montana football players, highlighting the inequities of the law in regard to rape allegations and the treatment of rape victims and perpetrators.
 A Girl and Her Greens by April Bloomfield $34.99 The chef, restaurant owner and author of A Girl and Her Pig presents a sumptuously photographed collection of seasonal vegetable recipes that offers such options as Pot-Roasted Romanesco Broccoli and Onions With Sage Pesto.
Isn't it time for a new cookbook? After all, it's spring and there are so many yummy things to experiment with at the farmers markets.
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Gone Crazy in Alabama
by Rita Williams-Garcia $16.99
It's the summer of 1969, and Delphine, Vonetta, and Fern are off to Alabama to visit Big Ma and her eighty-two-year-old mother, Ma Charles. Pa can't remind them enough that the South's not like Brooklyn, and that you can't get more southern than Alabama.
Across the field, through the pines, and over the creek is the Trotter home, where Ma Charles's half sister, Miss Trotter, lives. The two half sisters haven't spoken in years, each determined to hold on to her version of the truth. Dramatic Vonetta plays middleman to the two warring, elderly sisters, while Delphine struggles against her to bring the family together. As Delphine hears about family history that she never knew existed, she learns of a hurt that happened many years ago-which maybe can't be mended. But when a tragedy comes to the farm in Alabama, Delphine discovers that the bonds of family run deeper than she ever knew possible. 9 and up
 Rad American Women A-Z by Kate Schatz and Miriam Klein Stahl$14.95
A book for children and their parents, teachers, and cool grown-up friends documenting America's famous and unsung heroines. Everyone wants to give this to the new baby, new niece or nephew, or teacher in their life. It's that good.
Join us on Saturday to meet the author and illustrator!
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New Things!
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The coolest reusable lunch containers and very very cool carrying cases! Get in here and see these!
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