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In Michael Chabon's fantasy/murder mystery The Yiddish Policemen's Union, Europe's post-Holocaust Jews have settled in Sitka, not Israel, but they're facing yet another diaspora and contemplating new horizons. Newly out in paperback, the novel recently bagged a Nebula Award for its Berkeley-based author, who is also a Pulitzer Prize winner and will be at Barnes & Noble (1149 S. Main St., Walnut Creek) on Thursday, May 22. 7:30 p.m. BarnesandNoble.com