Cultural Region/Northern California
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The Sea Forager’s Guide to the Northern California Coast
$25.00 Add to cartIn The Sea Forager’s Guide to the Northern California Coast, Kirk Lombard combines a startling depth of knowledge with wry humor and colorful storytelling to guide readers’ quests to hook fish, dig cl
- Author: Lombard, Kirk
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: October 01 2014
- ISBN10: 159714357X
- Language: English
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A to Z Mysteries Super Edition #11: Grand Canyon Grab
$7.99 Add to cartDink, Josh, and Ruth Rose get to the bottom of the Grand Canyon–and a mystery–in the eleventh A to Z Mysteries Super Edition
Dink, Josh, and Ruth Rose are visiting the Grand Canyon when they spot P- Series: A to Z Mysteries #11
- Author: Roy, Ron
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: March 05 2019
- ISBN10: 0525578862
- Language: English
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Secret Stairs: East Bay: A Walking Guide to the Historic Staircases of Berkeley and Oakland (Revised September 2020)
$17.95 Add to cartRevised and Updated in September 2020
The hills of the East Bay contain one of the finest and densest urban hiking environments in the state of California–more than 400 paved pathways and public sta- Author: Fleming, Charles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: July 01 2011
- ISBN10: 1595800638
- Language: English
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A Crack in the Edge of the World: America and the Great California Earthquake of 1906
$21.99 Add to cartThe international bestselling author of The Professor and the Madman and Krakatoa vividly brings to life the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake that leveled a city symbolic of America’s relentless western
- Author: Winchester, Simon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: October 10 2006
- ISBN10: 0060572000
- Language: English
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The Earth Dragon Awakes: The San Francisco Earthquake of 1906
$9.99 Add to cartOver the years the earth has moved many times under San Francisco. But it has been thirty-eight years since the last strong earthquake. People have forgotten how bad it can be. But soon they will reme
- Author: Yep, Laurence
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: March 25 2008
- ISBN10: 0060008466
- Language: English
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Escape from Alcatraz: The Mystery of the Three Men Who Escaped from the Rock
$12.99 Add to cartWhat’s more exciting than a prison break? Frank Morris and John and Clarence Anglin escaped from Alcatraz in 1962 and have never been caught. Many authorities are certain they died crossing San Franci… [more below]
- Series: Encounter: Narrative Nonfiction Stories
- Author: Braun, Eric
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: January 01 2017
- ISBN10: 151574552X
- Language: English
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Tartine Bread
$40.00 Add to cartThe definitive bread baking book from San Francisco’s legendary Tartine Bakery.
“The most beautiful bread book yet published.”—The New York Times From Chad Robertson, Winner, James Beard Award for O- Series: Tartine
- Author: Prueitt, Elisabeth
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: September 15 2010
- ISBN10: 0811870413
- Language: English
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Sarah and the Big Wave: The True Story of the First Woman to Surf Mavericks
$19.99 Add to cartThis stunning nonfiction picture book tells the inspiring story of Sarah Gerhardt, one of the first female big-wave surfers.
Have you ever seen a big wave? One that’s twenty, thirty, forty, even fif- Author: Tsui, Bonnie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 34
- Publish Date: May 11 2021
- ISBN10: 1250239486
- Language: English
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3rd Degree
$19.99 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: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: May 1, 2005
- ISBN10: 0446696641
- Language: English
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Ghosts: A Graphic Novel
$25.99 Add to cartFrom Raina Telgemeier, the #1 New York Times bestselling, multiple Eisner Award-winning author of Smile, Drama, and Sisters
Catrina and her family are moving to the coast of Northern California becaus… [more below]
- Author: Telgemeier, Raina
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: September 13 2016
- ISBN10: 0545540615
- Language: English
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Who Killed Jane Stanford?: A Gilded Age Tale of Murder, Deceit, Spirits and the Birth of a University
$19.95 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: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: April 04 2023
- ISBN10: 1324064420
- Language: English
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A to Z Mysteries Super Edition #8: Secret Admirer
$7.99 Add to cartIt’s Valentine’s Day in Green Lawn But Dink, Josh, and Ruth Rose just aren’t feeling the love this year.
Valentine’s Day was so much more fun when they were little. Then they each start getting mes- Series: A to Z Mysteries #8
- Author: Roy, Ron
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: December 22 2015
- ISBN10: 0553523996
- Language: English
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The New Year Dragon Dilemma
$7.99 Add to cartZ was just the beginning With A to Z Mysteries(R) Super Editions, chapter book readers keep on collecting clues and solving mysteries with Dink, Josh, and Ruth Rose. Now with over 8 million copies in
- Series: A to Z Mysteries Super Editions #5
- Author: Roy, Ron
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: November 22, 2011
- ISBN10: 0375868801
- Language: English
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Epic Athletes: Stephen Curry
$8.99 Add to cartIn Epic Athletes: Stephen Curry, acclaimed journalist and bestselling author Dan Wetzel tells the inspiring, electrifying story of the NBA superstar, beginning a new series of sports biographies for y
- Series: Epic Athletes #1
- Author: Wetzel, Dan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: August 04 2020
- ISBN10: 1250250625
- Language: English
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Cool Gray City of Love: 49 Views of San Francisco
$18.99 Add to cart“A kaleidoscopic homage both personal and historical . . . Kamiya’s symphony of San Francisco is a grand pleasure.” —New York Times Book Review
The bestselling love letter to one of the world’s great- Author: Kamiya, Gary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: October 14 2014
- ISBN10: 1620401266
- Language: English
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This Is San Francisco: A Children’s Classic
$17.95 Read moreLet the rumbling cable car tell you the story And what a story: From the crookedest street in the world to the Peking ducks in Chinatown, San Francisco is easily one of the world’s most enchanting ci… [more below]
- Series: This Is . . .
- Author: Sasek, Miroslav
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 64
- Publish Date: May 30 2003
- ISBN10: 0789309629
- Language: English
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Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore
$17.00 Add to cartThe New York Times Bestseller
A Winner of the Alex Award, a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for First Fiction, named a Best Book of the Year by NPR, Los Angeles Times, and San Francisco- Author: Sloan, Robin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: January 01, 1970
- ISBN10: 1250037751
- Language: English
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Pierre the Penguin: A True Story
$18.99 Read moreWhen Pierre, an African penguin living at the California Academy of Sciences, begins to lose his feathers, the zoo staff is at a loss as to what to do. The lack of feathers causes Pierre to lose warmt… [more below]
- Author: Marzollo, Jean
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: April 06 2010
- ISBN10: 1585364851
- Language: English
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Season of the Witch: Enchantment, Terror, and Deliverance in the City of Love
$21.99 Add to cartThe critically acclaimed, San Francisco Chronicle bestseller–a gripping story of the strife and tragedy that led to San Francisco’s ultimate rebirth and triumph.
Salon founder David Talbot chronicles- Author: Talbot, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: March 05, 2013
- ISBN10: 1439108242
- Language: English
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Eight Hundred Grapes
$18.99 Add to cartFROM THE AUTHOR OF THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER THE LAST THING HE TOLD ME?
Heralded as “impossible to put down” (Elle), and named a Best Book of the Summer by Glamour, Good Housekeeping, Cosmopoli- Author: Dave, Laura
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: May 03, 2016
- ISBN10: 1476789282
- Language: English
