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Heyday's Spring/Summer 2023 Season
Since 1974 Heyday has published books that celebrate the natural wonder of the Golden State, explore California's rich arts and history, amplify the voices of its First Peoples, and promote social justice. On the cusp of Heyday's 50th anniversary, that proud mission continues in our Spring/Summer 2023 season. With this season we are excited to debut a Native California resistance reader, a Scott Timberg collection, myriad works that invite mindful connection with nature, and nonfiction from Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jane Smiley.

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The Questions That Matter Most
Reading, Writing, and the Exercise of Freedom

By Jane Smiley
Pulitzer Prize-Winning author Jane Smiley unearths valuable lessons in life and writing in a new summer must-read that plumbs racism, classism, and feminism in contemporary criticism and the innately political nature of readerly autonomy. This volume presents the renowned novelist's first literary nonfiction collection since 2005's best-selling Thirteen Ways of Looking at the Novel.

ON-SALE JUNE 2023

Stranded
Finding Nature in Uncertain Times

By Maddalena Bearzi
When pandemic lockdowns stopped the world on a dime, seafaring scientist Maddalena Bearzi went from exploring the mysterious mammals teeming off the shore of the City of Angels to living life marooned on land. Never good at idle, Bearzi took refuge in the daily wonders of the natural world, a pandemic journey she charts with warmth and an activist undercurrent in Stranded.

ON-SALE APRIL 2023

Know We Are Here
Voices of Native California Resistance

Edited by Terria Smith
A powerful collection, Know We Are Here details how California's Indigenous communities are resisting the legacies of colonial dispossession, violence, and genocide. This anthology unpacks traumas perpetuated through mis-education; underscores the import of traditional teachings; explores land rematriation and water protection; and traces the intersections of Native struggle with other racial justice movements.

ON-SALE JUNE 2023

What You Don't Know Will Make A Whole
New World
A Memoir

By Dorothy Lazard
In this memoir from public historian and beloved doyenne of the Oakland Public Library Dorothy Lazard shines a light on questions of race and resilience in this engrossing coming-of-age tale. Transplanted to the San Francisco Bay Area circa 1968 by way of segregated St. Louis, Lazard shares her dawning consciousness of the dynamics of racism in America and the world that opened to her through the sanctuary of public libraries.

ON-SALE MAY 2023

Boom Times for the End of the World

By Scott Timberg
This propulsive collection from late arts and culture reporter Scott Timberg gathers the journalist's love letters and dirges to the creative class he chronicled. In this volume the author of the acclaimed Culture Crash (2015) offers incisive criticism and forward-thinking concerns about the creative economy—including inequality in popular music, collapsing hierarchies of high- and lowbrow art, and whether unions can save creatives from paltry wages and the caprices of gig work.

ON-SALE MARCH 2023

Deep Oakland
How Geology Shaped a City

By Andrew Alden
In Deep Oakland, Andrew Alden excavates the ancient story of Oakland's geologic underbelly, revealing how its subterranean sinews are intimately entwined with its human history and future. One of the foremost experts on the East Bay's natural history, Alden welcomes visitors and denizens of planet Oakland to see this corner of the world as never before in this illustrated guide brimming with contagious enthusiasm.

ON-SALE MAY 2023

The Sierra Forager
Your Guide to Edible Wild Plants of the Tahoe, Yosemite, and Mammoth Regions

By Mia Andler
This guide to the common edible plants of the Sierra Nevada offers practical advice for ethically foraging and deliciously preparing the bounteous botany of the montane regions of California. Featuring photographs to aid plant identification and 44 simple recipes, from campfire blackberry pie to birch leaf soda, The Sierra Forager will delight beginners and experienced harvesters alike.

ON-SALE APRIL 2023

Birds of Point Reyes

By Keith Hansen
The sky that stretches over the rugged coastline of the Point Reyes Peninsula is one of the most frequented flyways in the nation, drawing thousands of birders, naturalists, and outdoor enthusiasts annually to glimpse the sheer diversity of avian life soaring overhead. In Birds of Point Reyes illustrator Keith Hansen showcases 27 iconic species that live and layover along the Marin seashore, one of the nation's premiere birding destinations, with original paintings and playful prose.


ON-SALE JUNE 2023


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