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David Eggers with Mokhtar Alkhanshali at Port of Mokha, Alkhanshali’s coffee-roasting company in Oakland.
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Leave it to the man who opened a pirate supply store to come up with a fun way to kick off a book tour.

The co-founder of 826 Valencia St. — home to the pirate store and nonprofit writing center — will hit the road Friday, Jan. 26, with Mokhtar Alkhanshali, the subject of his new book, “The Monk of Mokha.” The book recounts the captivating story of Alkhanshali, a young Yemeni American who grew up in the Tenderloin and became — through perseverance and a series of improbable adventures and narrow escapes — the founder of his own coffee-roasting company, Oakland’s Port of Mokha.

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Eggers and Alkhanshali will open the book tour, in partnership with the San Francisco Public Library, at 10:30 a.m. Friday on the steps of City Hall. They’ll speak, as will James Freeman, founder and CEO of Blue Bottle Coffee; Hellen Russel, co-founder of Equator Coffee; San Francisco City Librarian Luis Herrera; Supervisor Jane Kim; and others.

The biodiesel- and solar-powered bookmobile will then tour five bookstores in San Francisco over the weekend. Here are the locations and times:

The Booksmith Bindery, 1727 Haight St., Jan. 27: 11 a.m.-1 p.m.

Green Apple on the Park, 1231 9th Ave., Jan. 27, 2-4 p.m.

Book Passage, Ferry Building, Jan. 27, 5:30-7:30 p.m.

Bookshop West Portal, 80 W. Portal Ave., Jan. 28, 10 a.m.-11:30 a.m.

Books Inc. Laurel Village, 3515 California. St., 1-3:30 p.m.

John McMurtrie is The San Francisco Chronicle’s book editor. Email: jmcmurtrie@sfchronicle.com Twitter: @McMurtrieSF