Dad’s Book of Awesome Projects is designed to get families crafting and playing together — largely from materials already on hand. Think Martha Stewart meets MacGyver. With simple step-by-step instructions for more than 25 amazing crafts, Dad’s Book of Awesome Projects is chock full of projects you can do together — not just things you assemble while the kids sit idle on the sidelines.

Mike Adamick is a stay-at-home dad, writer, and inveterate tinkerer whose work regularly appears on National Public Radio, KQED Radio and in the New York Times, the San Francisco Chronicle, McSweeney’s and Jezebel.com. Mike lives in San Francisco with his wife and daughter. In his spare time, he enjoys sewing children’s clothing, making cool crafts out of junk from around the house, and practicing for cage fights. He is also deathly afraid of sharks, open water and momentary deficits of oxygen, and competes in the Escape from Alcatraz Triathlon.

When she was just 17, independent and ambitious Elizabeth Scarboro fell in love with irreverent and irresistible Stephen. She knew he had cystic fibrosis, that he was expected to live only until the age of 30 or so, and that soon she’d have a choice to make. She could set out to travel, date, and lead the adventurous life she’d imagined, or she could be with Stephen, who came with an urgency of his own.

Scarboro tells her story of fierce love and its limitations with humor, grace, and remarkable bravery. My Foreign Cities is a portrait of a young couple approaching mortality with reckless abandon, gleefully outrunning it for as long as they can.

Helene Wecker's dazzling debut novel tells the story of two supernatural creatures who appear mysteriously in 1899 New York. Chava is a golem, a creature made of clay, brought to life by a strange man who dabbles in dark Kabbalistic magic. Ahmad is a jinni, a being of fire, born in the ancient Syrian Desert.

Meeting by chance, the two creatures become unlikely friends whose tenuous attachment challenges their opposing natures, until the night a terrifying incident drives them back into their separate worlds. The Golem and the Jinni weaves strands of folk mythology, historical fiction, and magical fable into a wondrously inventive and unforgettable tale.

Join Kepler's, cookbook contributor Jesse Ziff Cool, and WfWI volunteer Lauri Pastrone, in launching Share, the first ever recipe book from Women to Women International. You'll hear about the work of this remarkable organization and enjoy a taste of some of the delectable food from recipes in the book, made by Jesse.

The recipes come from the women living in the war-torn countries where WfWI operates and also from renowned international chefs such as Alice Waters, Maggie Beer, and Rene Redzepi, and humanitarians such as Aung San Suu Kyi, Nelson Mandela, Desmond Tutu, Emma Thompson, Judi Dench, Richard Branson, Paul McCartney and Mia Farrow. The Forward is written by Meryl Streep.

The recipes range from traditional Afghani bichak pastries and Congolese sticky doughnuts, to sweet-potato-topped salmon, Thai fish curry and cheese and leek tart. Interspersed throughout are inspiring stories from the women whose lives have been changed through Women for Women International.

100% of the publisher's profits will support WfWI's farming and food training initiatives, as well as provide micro-financing in the eight countries in which WfWI operate - Afghanistan, Bosnia and Herzegovina, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Iraq, Kosovo, Nigeria, Rwanda and South Sudan.

Kaua'i Kids in Peace and War describes a kid's barefoot adventures on the Hawaiian island of Kaua'i during the 1930s-1940s. Bill Fernandez grew up in the tiny town of Kapa'a, one of the few places where sugar and pineapple plantations did not dominate life. There were few stores and no money to buy toys so kids created their own. In this town settled by immigrants who came to work on the plantations, Bill's family, friends, and neighbors were Chinese, Okinawan, Philippino, Japanese, German, Portugese, French, Irish, Russian, Native Hawaiians, and others who created a sharing society, all struggling, all helping each other.

When Japan bombed Pearl Harbor a hundred miles away on a beautiful December morning. Radios went silent. A Japanese plane landed on a nearby island. Fear of invasion by Japan gripped defenseless Kaua'i and life was no longer carefree. Blackouts, shelling by Japanese, gas masks, a sense of being very much alone and unprotected dominated life.

After graduating from Stanford University and its law school, Bill practiced law in Sunnyvale, where he served on the city council and as its mayor.

Generous with his time and work, Bill is active in civic and Hawaiian organizations and is an honoree of the Hawaiian Chamber of Commerce of Northern California because of his efforts to bring Hawaiian cultural teachers to California.

Mama’s Child is story of an idealistic young white woman who traveled to the American South as a civil rights worker, fell in love with an African American man, and started a family in San Francisco, where the more liberal city embraced them—-except when it didn’t. They raise a son and daughter, but the tensions surrounding them have a negative impact on their marriage, and they divorce when their children are still young. For their biracial daughter, this split further destabilizes her already challenged sense of self—“Am I black or white?” she must ask herself, “Where do I belong?” Is she her father’s daughter alone?

Joan Steinau Lester, Ed.D., is an award-winning journalist and author of four critically acclaimed books. Her writing has appeared in many newspapers and magazines, including Essence, Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, and Cosmopolitan.

Thinking Person's Guide to Autism (TPGA) is the resource we wish we'd had when autism first became part of our lives: a one-stop source for carefully curated, evidence-based information from autism parents, autistics, and autism professionals.

"It was a dark and stormy night...", but not at Kepler's, where we will be having outrageous conversations about some of our favorite Mysteries! For anyone who is new to the area or simply looking to meet other smart, creative, lit-minded souls, Kepler's has put together an event for you: a BookSwap. If not tempted by the good company and great atmosphere, be tempted by delicious food and free-flowing wine. Bring a mystery you love, one you can talk about all night and are willing to part with at the end of the evening.

You'll go home with a book highly recommended by another BookSwapper, a free Advanced Reader's Edition of a book from Kepler's, and some great suggestions to add to your never-ending 'Must Read' list. There are also rumors of surprise giveaways.

Tickets are available now at Brown Paper Tickets Online or by calling 800-838-3006