Through science, storytelling, and art, two essential books reframe how we see California. ๐พ๐๐ก๐๐๐ค๐ง๐ฃ๐๐ ๐ผ๐๐๐๐ฃ๐จ๐ฉ ๐ฉ๐๐ ๐๐๐ examines sea level rise, while ๐๐๐ ๐พ๐๐ก๐๐๐ค๐ง๐ฃ๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ก๐ ๐ผ๐ฉ๐ก๐๐จ maps the stateโs ecosystems as an interconnected whole. Both are among @gettymuseum.bsky.social's must-reads for #EarthMonth
This first-ever book about the Paiute teenager who fought for for Native students' rights to enroll in California public schoolsโ30 years before the Brown v. Board of Ed decisionโdebuts from Heyday June 2, 2026 on Alice Piper Day. #booksky
This underwater forest is disappearing โ and most people donโt even know it exists. Josie Iselin, author of ๐๐๐ ๐๐ฎ๐จ๐ฉ๐๐ง๐๐ค๐ช๐จ ๐๐ค๐ง๐ก๐ ๐ค๐ ๐ฉ๐๐ ๐ฝ๐ช๐ก๐ก ๐๐๐ก๐ฅ ๐๐ค๐ง๐๐จ๐ฉ, spotlights this spectacular seaweed and what we can do to ward off its collapse.
For the last 25 years the Roadless Rule was a boundary that defined where industrialization stopped and where nature began. But as ๐๐ง๐๐๐ก ๐๐ค๐ง๐ author Dillon Osleger reports, it's under threat from a federal directive to extract timber, despite overwhelming public opposition.
Californiaโs underwater forests are in crisis.
Bull kelp ecosystems have collapsed in parts of the West Coast as warming oceans and exploding sea urchin populations wipe out kelp forests.
Hear author Josie Iselin discuss restoration efforts on A Rude Awakening.
Listen @ kpfa.org
#kpfa #ocean
"After you read ๐๐๐ ๐๐ฎ๐จ๐ฉ๐๐ง๐๐ค๐ช๐จ ๐๐ค๐ง๐ก๐ ๐ค๐ ๐ฉ๐๐ ๐ฝ๐ช๐ก๐ก ๐๐๐ก๐ฅ ๐๐ค๐ง๐๐จ๐ฉ, when you look at the ocean youโll see the forest that lies beneath, every bit as beautiful and important as the trees on the land."
๐ง Tune in: shorturl.at/UIIb6
How do we actually show up for each other during disaster? Kate Weiner and Kailea Frederick share real insights on compassion, organizing, and community resilience, drawing from their work in ๐พ๐ค๐ข๐ฅ๐๐จ๐จ๐๐ค๐ฃ ๐๐ฃ ๐พ๐ง๐๐จ๐๐จ (releasing May 2026). #booksky #mutualaid
"This deserves a place in every wilderness explorer's backpack," raves @publisherswkly.bsky.social. #booksky #publiclands
Join us for a conversation about accountability, justice, and Native American rights at @ucberkeleylaw.bsky.social. Professor Seth Davis and Tony Platt explore Platt's book ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ฃ๐๐๐ก ๐ค๐ ๐พ๐๐ก and the legal and ethical challenges surrounding Indigenous repatriation at UC Berkeley.
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๐๐๐ ๐๐๐จ๐ฉ ๐๐ช๐ข๐๐ฃ ๐ฝ๐๐๐ง by Greg Sarrisโcoming this Juneโhas been named one of @7x7bayarea.bsky.social Magazineโs most anticipated Bay Area book releases. #BookSky
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On Saturday 3/14, @heydaybooks.com author/artists Krystle Hickman (The ABCs of California Native Bees), Robin Lee Carlson (The Cold Canyon Fire Journals) & Elissa Callen will join me for a big discussion about the Colors of California at Local Economy in Oakland! Details here: luma.com/e5xpw17e
Some of the plants and animals found in the Los Angeles area have long been there; others are recent arrivals. All are now existing in a place very different from what is once was. Craig Stanford's "Unnatural Habitat" (@heydaybooks.com) tells many of their stories. #Booksky
In ๐๐๐๐ฉ ๐๐ค๐ช ๐ฟ๐ค๐ฃ'๐ฉ ๐๐ฃ๐ค๐ฌ ๐๐๐ก๐ก ๐๐๐ ๐ ๐ ๐๐๐ค๐ก๐ ๐๐๐ฌ ๐๐ค๐ง๐ก๐ , Dorothy Lazard "recalls her youth in the Town at the moment when so many of its young people were first declaring themselves to be Black (and discovering a new kind of community in the power of that declaration)," writes @oaklandreviewofbooks.org
"They never dreamed that they would be threatened with deportation and indefinite detention. It was shocking to them and heartbreaking to realize that their citizenship wasn't going to protect them." Satsuki Ina on the lingering trauma of the US government's incarceration of Japanese Americans:
"Our trails are vanishing faster than our ability to maintain public lands," says Dillon Osleger, whose forthcoming book ๐๐ง๐๐๐ก ๐๐ค๐ง๐ explores how the erosion of US trail infrastructure has proceeded in lockstep with mounting political pressure to privatize public land.
Greg Sarris writes to make people visible. His classic book, ๐๐ง๐๐ฃ๐ ๐ผ๐ซ๐๐ฃ๐ช๐, is @altajournal.bsky.social's California Book Club pick in February. His highly anticipated new novel, ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐จ๐ฉ ๐๐ช๐ข๐๐ฃ ๐ฝ๐๐๐ง , debuts this summer.
"Los Angeles and California are an epicenter of a new wave of 21st Century literary culture," writes @lataco.bsky.social, and John Freeman's ๐พ๐๐ก๐๐๐ค๐ง๐ฃ๐๐ ๐๐๐ฌ๐ง๐๐ฉ๐ฉ๐๐ฃ casts illuminating insight into the major voicesโfrom Percival Everett to Ada Limรณnโdefining the California literary sensibility today.
I highly recommend the 2023 book, "California Against the Sea: Visions for Our Vanishing Coastline", by LA Times environmental reporter Rosanna Xia, on sea level rise issues for California. There's a great discussion about how hard it is politically to do managed retreat from doomed coasts.
"This highly readable guide reflects years of accumulated experience and a shared family love of the Sierra and its abundant wildflowers. In many respects, ๐๐ก๐ค๐ฌ๐๐ง๐๐ฃ๐ ๐๐ก๐๐ฃ๐ฉ๐จ ๐ค๐ ๐ฉ๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ง๐ง๐ ๐๐๐ซ๐๐๐ is a multigenerational amalgam of science, observation, and passion for the regionโs wild beauty."
"This gorgeous new photo book ๐๐ฃ ๐ฉ๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐ค๐ฌ ๐ค๐ ๐ฉ๐๐ ๐ฝ๐ง๐๐๐๐ showcases the breadth and variety of bird species that can be found throughout the Bay Area, especially on public land."
Obi Kaufmann is a celebrated chronicler of California's ecology and landscape whose bestselling books have changed the way Californians see their state and its first inhabitants. But at least one of his books has been targeted by a new executive order that may pull it from national park shelves.
You too can attune more deeply to the world around you through nature journalingโand what better way to begin than with the Laws Guides?
When Amy Tan first got started in nature journaling she took heart in advice from Heyday author John Muir Laws: โJust spend five minutes a day drawing a bird," says @amytan.bsky.social, "You have to put in what @johnmuirlaws.com calls โpencil miles.โ I have logged thousands of pencil miles.โ
๐๐๐๐ฉ ๐๐๐ฃ๐ ๐ค๐ ๐ฝ๐๐ง๐ ๐พ๐๐ฃ'๐ฉ ๐๐ก๐ฎ shares the remarkable story of one man's journey through prison and toward a life of impactful activism on behalf of incarcerated people. It has been blacklisted by the California Department of Corrections.
Born at the Tule Lake Segregation Center, Satsuki Ina was incarcerated as an "enemy alien" from birth until her family's release in 1945. She shares her family's harrowing journey of survival and resistance in ๐๐๐ ๐๐ค๐๐ฉ ๐๐ฃ๐ ๐ฉ๐๐ ๐๐๐ก๐ ๐๐๐ง๐ก, a blend of exquisite writing and revelatory archives.
This urgent and timely conversation is the culmination of a newly released podcast series, Burn Order, hosted by @maddow.bsky.social, that explores how one of the most egregious violations of civil rights in US history was carried out and covered up. Tune in here ๐:
During WWII, the US incarcerated tens of thousands of people of Japanese descent, including US citizens, without due process. Satsuki Ina, author of ๐๐๐ ๐๐ค๐๐ฉ ๐๐ฃ๐ ๐ฉ๐๐ ๐๐๐ก๐ ๐๐๐ง๐ก, joined Rachel Maddow to unpack this traumatic history. Catch the conversation on The Rachel Maddow Show on December 29.
Heyday's ๐พ๐๐ก๐๐๐ค๐ง๐ฃ๐๐ ๐๐๐ฏ๐๐ง๐๐จ ๐๐ฃ๐ ๐๐ค๐ฌ ๐ฉ๐ค ๐๐๐ฃ๐ ๐๐๐๐ขโ"packed with beautiful photos [...] as well as compelling stories"โranks among @nytimes.com's favorite niche field guides.
All Heyday books and notecards are now 30% through the end of the year with discount code HEYDAY30 at checkout. Whether shopping for the nature lover, history buff, budding birder, or California devotee, we have something for everyone and books for all ages. ๐
Searching for a special present for the nature-lover in your life? Look no further. The volumes of Obi Kaufmann's California Field Atlas series make for unforgettable gifts. Shop the collection here: www.heydaybooks.com/genre/obi-ka...
