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08/05/2025

This Thursday at Diesel Bookstore: Crime, Hollywood, and One Unmissable Conversation!

Join legendary Hollywood producer Thom Mount and former Secret Service agent turned bestselling author Gerald Petievich for a rare in-person event at Diesel, A Bookstore in Brentwood. You can grab of copy of their books via the link in our bio, wherever good books are sold, or at Diesel this Thursday. See you there!

08/02/2025

Originally written in 1966 but long kept from the public, Frank Capra’s Cry Wilderness is one of our backlist gems that showcases the iconic filmmaker’s deeply humane storytelling in literary form.

Set in the rugged beauty of the Eastern Sierra Nevadas, Capra casts a fictional version of himself in this richly imagined tale of wilderness, small-town politics, and quiet rebellion. With compassion, wit, and a filmmaker’s eye for drama, Cry Wilderness is a moving meditation on care, community, and standing up for those living on the margins.

Discover a different side of Capra—off-screen, on the page. Available via the link in our bio or wherever good books are sold.

07/30/2025

Two Rare Bird authors, two coasts, one night.

Tomorrow evening, join us for a rare literary double feature:
In San Francisco, drummer and author Greg Anton appears at Book Passage in conversation with music journalist Joel Selvin, diving into his rhythm-infused novel It’s About Time—a story pulsing with mystery, music, and metaphysics.

Meanwhile, across the country in Cambridge, Cal Hoffman takes the stage at the Harvard Book Store to discuss his searing and soulful debut Easy to Slip, joined by acclaimed author Audrey Schulman.

West Coast or East—wherever you are, Rare Bird is in the air.

07/29/2025

Out in paperback today!

In Combat Love, CNN Anchor Alisyn Camerota traces the jagged edges of adolescence on the Jersey Shore—where punk rock offered more safety than home ever did.

Set against the chaos of the 1980s, this unforgettable memoir explores the push and pull between mother and daughter, freedom and responsibility, and the search for a place to belong when everything familiar begins to fall apart.

Gritty, heartfelt, and unflinchingly honest, Combat Love is a story of survival, self-discovery, and the unlikeliest forms of salvation. Out now in paperback via the link in our bio and wherever good books are sold.

07/28/2025

Grief bends reality. Memory warps the edges.
In a small town on the Missouri River, a couple is pulled back into the undertow of loss after the death of a teenage boy echoes the tragedy of their own daughter. As the floodwaters rise, so does something stranger: a talking goat, Bigfoot sightings, and a G-Man with alien thoughts.

Blending grief and wonder, menace and magic, Alex Branson’s Water, Wasted is a haunting debut about the stories we tell to survive.

A strange and tender Rare Bird backlist gem—worth discovering, or rediscovering. Available via the link in our bio or wherever good books are sold.

07/25/2025

✨ “Once upon a time there was a summer…” ✨

Mari Caldwell told her daughter it was just a bedtime story. But now, at 34—newly divorced, stuck in a “safe” job, and wondering how she lost her way—it’s starting to feel more like a memory. Or maybe a second chance.

From Carla Malden, author of Shine Until Tomorrow, comes Playback—a witty, touching, and time-bending novel about revisiting the past to reclaim the future.

What happens when the 17-year-old you shows up in your life again—only you’re the one out of place?

Playback hits shelves August 12.
If you fell in love with Shine Until Tomorrow, you won’t want to miss what happens next. Both books are available via the link in our bio or wherever good books are sold.

07/24/2025

Huge thanks to The Mercer Hotel and to McNally Jackson Books for hosting a beautiful evening in celebration of Easy to Slip, the unforgettable debut novel from Cal Hoffman.

To everyone who came out to toast the book’s arrival—your warmth, conversation, and your support meant the world.

Next (and last!) stop on Cal’s East Coast tour: Harvard Book Store () on July 31st at 7pm. Cambridge, we’ll see you soon.

Get your copy of Easy to Slip via the link in our bio or wherever good books are sold.

07/16/2025

Thank you to everyone who packed the house last night at Book Soup to celebrate Gerald Petievich and Thom Mount’s new books.

From noir-drenched streets to Hollywood boardrooms, these two spun stories sharp enough to cut glass—and the room was electric with curiosity, memory, and reverence for the craft.

We’re grateful to Book Soup, as always, for the space, the shelves, and the spirit—and to every reader who showed up and reminded us why we do what we do. The books are out there now—To Live and Die in L.A., To Die in Beverly Hills, 13 Hillcrest Drive, Rafferty Returns—and last night, they found their people.

Available via the link in our bio, on the shelves at Book Soup or wherever good books are sold.

07/15/2025

From pandemic love stories and haunted childhoods to satirical short fiction and a memoir forged in the crucible of reinvention, Rare Bird’s newest releases arrive with one shared truth: survival is never simple, and becoming who you are takes more than time—it takes reckoning, heartbreak, and hope.

These books speak across genre and form, each one asking: What remains after the storm? What does love cost? What does it save?

Novels, memoirs, and stories that don’t flinch—and won’t be forgotten.

These new releases and paperback editions are out now on rarebirdlit.com and anywhere good books are sold.

07/14/2025

Before it all began—there was just a diner, a band of friends, and Cody Smyth with a camera no one noticed.

The Strokes: The First Ten Years is the first authorized visual record of one of New York’s greatest bands. Photographer and longtime friend of the band, Cody Smyth was there from the start—capturing candid, chaotic, tender moments that only someone inside the circle ever could.

“Cody’s been with us since the very beginning—always a motivator, forever a friend,” says Nick Valensi. “Along the way he captured some very special moments. I didn’t even know he’d brought along his camera.”

Fabrizio Moretti calls this book “the scrapbook we never made.”

From high school hallways to the front lines of rock history, this book is a nostalgic, unfiltered window into the rise of The Strokes.

Available via the link in our bio or wherever good books are sold.

07/11/2025

In Flip City, fifteen-year-old runaway James Daniel Ross trades the locked doors of a psych ward for the freedom of the underground—where drugs are currency, friendship is survival, and danger wears a familiar face.

A trippy, terrifying coming-of-age story for anyone who’s ever danced on the edge of madness.

Available via the link in our bio or wherever good books are sold.

07/09/2025

Join us for an unforgettable night at The Village Well with actor & author Candi Milo as she launches her raw, hilarious, and deeply human memoir, Surviving the Odd — a wild journey through a childhood spent in one of California’s first homes for the mentally ill.

In conversation with Emmy-winning voice actor Eric Bauza, Candi will read from her book and dive into stories of madness, resilience, punchlines, and growing up where the line between reality and absurdity was razor thin.

Surviving the Odd hits bookshelves on July 15th. Available via the link in our bio or wherever good books are sold.

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