Cultural Region/Northern California
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Black Death at the Golden Gate: The Race to Save America from the Bubonic Plague
$17.95 Read moreOn March 6, 1900, the bubonic plague took its first victim on American soil: Chinese immigrant Wong Chut King. Empowered by racist pseudoscience, officials rushed to quarantine Chinatown–but when cor
- Author: Randall, David K.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: July 07 2020
- ISBN10: 0393358151
- Language: English
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Infinite City: A San Francisco Atlas
$43.68 Read moreWhat makes a place? Infinite City, Rebecca Solnit’s brilliant reinvention of the traditional atlas, searches out the answer by examining the many layers of meaning in one place, the San Francisco Bay … [more below]
- Series: Chairman’s Circle Books
- Author: Solnit, Rebecca
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 166
- Publish Date: November 29 2010
- ISBN10: 0520262492
- Language: English
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Silicon City: San Francisco in the Long Shadow of the Valley
$16.95 Read moreSan Francisco is changing at warp speed. Famously home to artists and activists, and known as the birthplace of the Beats, the Black Panthers, and the LGBTQ movement, the Bay Area has been reshaped by
- Author: McClelland, Cary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: November 19 2019
- ISBN10: 0393357430
- Language: English
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Neon Girls: A Stripper’s Education in Protest and Power
$20.99 Add to cartNPR’s Best Books of 2020
“Galvanizing and urgent….a slice of queer urban history and a necessary rethinking of sex work as a site of collective labor struggle.” –National Public Radio
A riveting true
- Author: Worley, Jennifer
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: June 09 2020
- ISBN10: 0062971328
- Language: English
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San Francisco’s Bayview Hunters Point
$24.99 Add to cartIt’s hard to imagine cows walking up Third Street or sheep on Innes Avenue, yet a large portion of the area known today as Bayview Hunters Point was once extremely rural. Called Butchertown by locals,… [more below]
- Series: Images of America (Arcadia Publishing)
- Author: O’Brien, Tricia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: August 24 2005
- ISBN10: 0738530077
- Language: English
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East Bay Hills: A Brief History
$24.99 Add to cartLike the mist rising from San Francisco Bay encircles the towering redwoods, the little-known legends of the East Bay Hills enrich a glorious history. Follow the trails of Saclan and Jalquin-Yrgin peo… [more below]
- Series: Brief History
- Author: Marshall, Amelia Sue
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: October 30 2017
- ISBN10: 1467137251
- Language: English
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The Most Dangerous Animal of All: Searching for My Father . . . and Finding the Zodiac Killer
$19.99 Add to cart“I promise that you’ve never read anything like The Most Dangerous Animal of All. Mesmerizing from the first page, the story includes a shattering surprise that will sear itself in your memory. Be pre
- Author: Stewart, Gary L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: August 11 2023
- ISBN10: 0062313177
- Language: English
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Who Killed Jane Stanford?: A Gilded Age Tale of Murder, Deceit, Spirits and the Birth of a University
$35.00 Add to cartIn 1885 Jane and Leland Stanford cofounded a university to honor their recently deceased young son. After her husband’s death in 1893, Jane Stanford, a devoted spiritualist who expected the university
- Author: White, Richard
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: May 17 2022
- ISBN10: 1324004339
- Language: English
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San Francisco’s Sunset District
$24.99 Add to cartLocated in the southwestern part of San Francisco, the Sunset District developed late because of its distance from downtown and because of the sand dunes that covered it for thousands of years. After … [more below]
- Series: Then & Now (Arcadia)
- Author: Ungaretti, Lorri
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: January 23 2012
- ISBN10: 0738589039
- Language: English
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A Short History of San Francisco
$20.00 Add to cartThis is the story of San Francisco, a unique and rowdy tale with a legendary cast of characters. It tells of the Indians and the Spanish missions, the arrival of thousands of gold seekers and gamblers… [more below]
- Author: Cole, Tom
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: July 01 2014
- ISBN10: 1597142735
- Language: English
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Bart: The Dramatic History of the Bay Area Rapid Transit System
$30.00 Add to cartIn the first-ever history book about BART, longtime agency spokesman Michael C. Healy gives an insider’s account of the rapid transit system’s inception, hard-won approval, construction, and operation… [more below]
- Author: Healy, Michael C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: November 15 2016
- ISBN10: 1597143707
- Language: English
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Best Hikes with Dogs San Francisco Bay Area and Beyond: 2nd Edition
$19.95 Add to cart* Handy trail-finder chart allows quick selection for hikes by difficulty, availability of water along the way, views, and more
* Trails range from easy strolls to more challenging routes, all on terr… [more below]- Series: Best Hikes with Dogs
- Author: Fator, Jason
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: February 20 2013
- ISBN10: 1594857032
- Language: English
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The Fabulous Sylvester: The Legend, the Music, the Seventies in San Francisco
$24.00 Add to cartImagine a pied piper singing in falsetto, wearing sequins, and leading the young people of the nation to San Francisco and on to a liberation where nothing was straight-laced or old-fashioned. And eve
- Author: Gamson, Joshua
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: January 24 2006
- ISBN10: 0312425694
- Language: English
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Napa at Last Light: America’s Eden in an Age of Calamity
$21.00 Add to cartThe New York Times bestselling author of Napa tells the captivating story of how the Napa Valley region transformed into an extraordinary engine of commerce, glamour, and an outsized version of the Am… [more below]
- Author: Conaway, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: April 16 2019
- ISBN10: 1501128469
- Language: English
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Frog Music
$24.99 Add to cartFrom the New York Times bestselling author of Room, a young French burlesque dancer living in San Francisco is ready to risk anything in order to solve her friend’s murder–but only if the killer does
- Author: Donoghue, Emma
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: February 24 2015
- ISBN10: 0316324671
- Language: English
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The Scarlet Plague
$4.99 Add to cart“London’s style is typically lush but his viewpoint is skeptical and dystopian…the story reminds us of the dangers we still court with our careless ways.”-The Times
“Jack London saw this coming. Why
- Series: Mint Editions (Scientific and Speculative Fiction)
- Author: London, Jack
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 52
- Publish Date: December 22 2020
- ISBN10: 1513264745
- Language: English
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Murder Under Cover
$7.99 Add to cartA rare book inspires a crime of passion in the fourth novel in the New York Times bestselling Bibliophile Mystery series.
When she receives an exquisite copy of the Kama Sutra from her best friend, Ro- Series: Bibliophile Mystery #4
- Author: Carlisle, Kate
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: May 03 2011
- ISBN10: 0451233514
- Language: English
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3rd Degree
$30.00 Add to cartIn James Patterson’s shockingly suspenseful #1 New York Times bestseller, one member of the Women’s Murder Club is hiding a secret so dangerous that it could destroy them all.
One of James Patterson’s … [more below]- Series: Women’s Murder Club #3
- Author: Patterson, James
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: March 15 2007
- ISBN10: 0316743860
- Language: English
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Backfire
$9.99 Add to cartSavich are Sherlock take on an assassin in this novel in Catherine Coulter’s FBI Thriller series.
The mysterious note delivered to FBI agent Dillon Savich has him an
For what you did you deserve this.- Series: FBI Thriller #16
- Author: Coulter, Catherine
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: June 25 2013
- ISBN10: 051515301X
- Language: English
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The Confessions of Max Tivoli
$17.00 Add to cartFrom the bestselling and Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Less comes Andrew Sean Greer’s extraordinarily haunting love story The Confessions of Max Tivoli, told in the voice of a man who appears to ag
- Author: Greer, Andrew Sean
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: February 01 2005
- ISBN10: 0312423810
- Language: English
