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We are a bookstore -- a good one, we think! -- selling new books -- good ones, we hope! -- in Oakland, California.
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December 5, 2025 at 5:20 AM
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Seems like it’s going to throw a massive wrench into finding comps, too, since the number of backlist titles are surely to be diminished.
December 3, 2025 at 9:09 PM
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It's pretty wild how many years running now POWER OF GENTLENESS has been a top 5 bestseller at our little store.

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Power of Gentleness by Anne Dufourmantelle | East Bay Booksellers
Key moments of our lives, especially at the beginning and end, are marked by gentleness—but the simplicity of that concept is misleading. Gentleness is an active passivity that may become an extrao...
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December 3, 2025 at 6:07 PM
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3) Eddy van Wessel's UKRAINE is stark and brutal, but also defiant ... like so many acts of survival.

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For a flip-through: ideaweb2.ideabooks.nl/videos/25048...
Ukraine by Eddy van Wessel | East Bay Booksellers
In UKRAINE, photojournalist Eddy van Wessel documents a raw account of three years of war in Ukraine through (analogue) photography and firsthand testimonies.
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December 3, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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2) Ying Ang's FRUITING BODIES is a jaw-dropping photobook, reimagining mushrooms as a biological form and feminist metaphor.

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For a flip-through see here: ideaweb2.ideabooks.nl/videos/25051...
Fruiting Bodies by Ying Ang | East Bay Booksellers
Visual artist Ying Ang reimagines the mushroom as both a biological form and feminist metaphor – an emergent, generative force that challenges dominant narratives of fertility and the female body.
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December 3, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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1) Don't tell my dog this, but cat books are better than dog books. They just are. Alberto Vieceli's MORE THAN CAT FOOD is no exception, but it is in fact exceptional.

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For a virtual flip-through: ideaweb2.ideabooks.nl/videos/25099...
More Than Cat Food by Alberto Vieceli | East Bay Booksellers
Cats in advertising are a popular and effective tool to capture consumers' attention. With their cuteness, elegance, charm, and playful lightness, they can be positive associations with a brand or pro...
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December 3, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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Went a somewhat different route to saying the same thing in this Small Business Saturday Instagram essay.
Why shop local? There are a whole heap of economic reasons that people smarter than me have detailed at length. & this being a smart area, they're maybe persuasive to many. But I'm fond of more immeasurable reasons. The visceral stuff of passion & principle. One such: shopping locally is simply more human. It's sometimes messy, with our maelstrom of emotions & personalities. Expectations clash in an interpersonal way that can't be explained away by some appeal to robotic failure somewhere in the logistical chain. No ... sometimes people just mess up. But then, the flip side, they sometimes come through in a big way. Often by accident, and sometimes the least possible effort. Somebody says aloud randomly the word you've been trying to remember for a week. You overhear a recipe. You see a blind date gone horribly wrong, & more deeply appreciate your current life choices. These are the sort of thing the non-local corporates do not simply not care about, but are actively against. Oh, they'll depict such in commercials, but the scripted emotional tugs of laughter and sadness are patently opposite of the real things. Shopping locally puts us in a position to be genuinely & immediately surprised. Which for me is one of the most defiant things we can do in these most inhuman of times.
November 29, 2025 at 5:18 PM