Nonfiction

Music

🌉 ​Longevity Rocks!
or What We Know Now, That We Didn't Know Then
​by Denize Springer
The recounting of a 1978 Rolling Stones concert reveals how amazing life was back then and still is, but reminds us that it can be “as brutal as it is wondrous.”

The Music in My Soul
 by Elsa Fernandez
A rousing personal essay describing a woman’s introduction to and subsequently becoming hooked on jazz.

Musical Power​
​by Juanita Callejas
This personal essay reveals how a family “permeated” with music copes with the deafness of some of its members.

Naptime
​by Barbara Applegate
​A touching memoir about how hearing her mother play classical music in childhood caused the author to experience sadness on hearing that music all her life.

Bud In Dreamland
by Don Plansky
​A comprehensive, lively and sympathetic investigation of jazz great Bud Powell: genius, mental patient, flawed human being.

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One Good Egg
​by Kathy Bruin
​A rousing account of a 40-year-old’s tussle with infertility doctors and insensitive family members as she attempts to become pregnant.

Finding My Father
​by Matt Ginsburg
The intriguing saga of a middle-aged man’s search for his birth father, not to find a “role model or mentor,” but his own identity.

Lifeline
​by Angie Minkin
​The warm recounting of a conventional family coping with a death in an unconventional way.

🌉The $5 Bill​
​by Barbara Applegate
A woman finds it unexpectedly difficult to give money away in San Francisco’s Tenderloin.

Not Climbing Every Mountain
​by Cathy Fiorello
This poignant essay presents a glimpse of what life is like as a mother, wife and would-be world traveler while afflicted with a fear of heights.

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🌉 BAY AREA STEW SELECTION - A TASTE OF LIFE IN THE BAY AREA
Click or tap for an index of Bay Area Stew selections and California Trees and Wild Birds photography

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