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Local Author Collection

Books by local and Bay Area residents ranging from debut novels to well-established authors who have participated in programs at San Mateo Public Library. Find these books on the 3rd floor in New Fiction. Books by authors who have recently appeared at an SMPL event are featured at the top of the list.

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65 items

  • Breaking Cadence

    One Woman's War Against the War

    Del Duca, Rosa,
    Book, 2019Portland, Oregon : Ooligan Press, [2019] — 956.7044 DELDU
  • You Can Be a Winning Writer

    the 4 C's Approach of Successful Authors : Craft, Commitment, Community & Confidence

    Gelfand, Joan,
    Book, 2018Coral Gables, FL : Mango Publishing, [2018] — 808.02 GELFA
  • Book, 2021San Francisco, CA : Mumblers Press, [2021] — F KARPA
  • Book, 2021San Francisco, CA : Mumblers Press, [2021] — SF KARPA
  • And Still We Rise

    a Novel About the Genocide in Bosnia

    Sher, Jordan Steven,
    Book, 2021[Place of publication not identified] : Atmosphere Press, [2021] — F SHER
  • Book, 2021Seattle : Montlake Romance, [2021] — ROMANCE Woolridge A.
  • Michelle Carter is a professional journalist with a thirty-year career in daily newspapering (The Kansas City Star and The San Mateo Times) and a twelve-year stint as a journalism instructor at Notre Dame de Namur University in Belmont, California.…
    Book, 2017Fairfield, California : Bedazzled Ink Publishing Company, [2017] — 070.4092 C246f
  • Book, 2018Pennsauken : BookBaby, [2018] — F GORDO
  • Taking Aim at the President

    the Remarkable Story of the Woman Who Shot at Gerald Ford

    Spieler, Geri
    Book, 2009New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2009. — 364.1524 SPIEL
  • Madelon Phillips was a bay area resident since the mid-1950s. Read her astonishing tale in this book that will strike a chord in women from the era, and later.
    Book, 2016[Place of publication not identified] : Lucky Star Books, ©2016. — F PHILL
  • Raised primarily in Independence, Missouri, Stites received a B.A. in history and English from the University of Missouri and an M.A. in the same subjects from Purdue. She lives with her husband in northern California and spends most summers on an…
    Book, 2015Seattle : Lake Union Publishing, [2015] — RO STITE
  • Book, 2021Eastsound, WA : Wandering Aengus Press, [2021] — 921 WILSO
  • Book, 2014Port Townsend, WA : Ovenbird Books, [2014] — F WILSO
  • Book, 2021Toronto, Ontario : Harlequin Enterprises ULC, [2021] — RO ERWIN