Locality/San Francisco
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By: David A. Kelly
The San Francisco Splash
$6.99PaperbackAdd to cartTime for a seventh-inning stretch! The San Francisco Splash is book #7 in our early chapter book mystery series, where each book is set in a different American ballpark!
Splash! A hit soars over the- Series: Ballpark Mysteries #7
- Author: Kelly, David A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: May 28 2013
- ISBN10: 030797779X
- Language: English
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By: Argueta, Jorge
Xochitl and the Flowers / Xóchitl, La Niña de Las Flores
$11.95PaperbackRead moreBilingual English/Spanish. Miles away from their home in El Salvador, Xochitl (SOH-cheel) and her family make a new home in the United States, but nothing is the same.
Xochitl mourns a lovely garden an
- Author: Argueta, Jorge
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: March 01 2008
- ISBN10: 089239224X
- Language: Spanish
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By: Ward Jenkins
San Francisco, Baby!
$14.99HardcoverAdd to cartTwo babies go on two big-city adventures, and there are so many exciting sights to see In New York, Baby , Times Square, Broadway, Central Park, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art number among the to… [more below]
- Series: Baby!
- Author: Jenkins, Ward
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: April 11 2012
- ISBN10: 1452106207
- Language: English
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By: Brown, Tricia
City by the Bay: A Magical Journey Around San Francisco
$8.99PaperbackRead moreThe Golden Gate Bridge, cable cars, Union Square, Chinatown–these are just a sampling of the San Francisco landmarks featured in this magical journey around the fabled city by the bay. Each famous lo… [more below]
- Author: Brown, Tricia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: April 01 1998
- ISBN10: 0811820122
- Language: English
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By: Lee, Milly
Landed
$19.99HardcoverRead moreSun is ready to leave his village in China for America, the
place known as Gum Saan, Gold Mountain. His father warns
him, though, that passage will not be easy. Because of the 1882
Chinese Exclusion Act,- Author: Lee, Milly
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: February 21 2006
- ISBN10: 0374343144
- Language: English
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By: Penny Warner
The Haunted Lighthouse
$9.99PaperbackAdd to cartAn infamous prison may hold a secret only the Code Busters can uncover.
Cody, Quinn, Luke, and M.E. may all have different talents, but they share one thing in common: they love playing around with co
- Series: Code Busters Club #2
- Author: Warner, Penny
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: October 08 2013
- ISBN10: 1606844555
- Language: English
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By: Myers, Tim J.
Yao Bai and the Egg Pirates
$16.99HardcoverAdd to cart2020 Storytelling World Resource Award Honoree
Inspired by the 1863 Egg War and the mad rush for murre eggs on the Farallon Islands near San Francisco, Yao Bai and the Egg Pirates is a high-seas adven
- Author: Myers, Tim J.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: April 09 2019
- ISBN10: 1513261444
- Language: English
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By: Pitman, Gayle E.
When You Look Out the Window: How Phyllis Lyon and del Martin Built a Community
$15.95HardcoverRead moreWhen You Look Out the Window tells the story of Phyllis Lyon and Del Martin, one of San Francisco’s most well-known and politically active lesbian couples.
Describing the view from Phyllis and Del’s- Author: Pitman, Gayle E.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: June 05 2017
- ISBN10: 1433827360
- Language: English
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By: Kernahan, Maria
S Is for San Francisco
$19.95HardcoverAdd to cartS is for San Francisco takes you on an A-B-C tour of San Francisco’s most popular icons including the Ferry Building, cable cars, seals on Pier 39, Golden Gate Park and twenty-one other places and thi… [more below]
- Series: Alphabet Cities
- Author: Kernahan, Maria
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 56
- Publish Date: July 11 2017
- ISBN10: 1942402341
- Language: English
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San Francisco’s Haight-Ashbury
$24.99PaperbackAdd to cartAt the turn of the 20th century, the Haight-Ashbury first gained prominence as the gateway to Golden Gate Park; six decades later, it would anchor the worldwide cultural revolution that blossomed in t… [more below]
- Series: Images of America (Arcadia Publishing)
- Author: Powell Cohen, Katherine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: December 08 2008
- ISBN10: 0738559946
- Language: English
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By: Lipsky, William
Gay and Lesbian San Francisco
$24.99PaperbackAdd to cartIn recent years, San Francisco has been synonymous with gay and lesbian pride, and the various achievements of the gay and lesbian community are personified in the city by the bay. The tumultuous and … [more below]
- Series: Images of America (Arcadia Publishing)
- Author: Lipsky, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: September 20 2006
- ISBN10: 0738531383
- Language: English
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By: Dunnigan, Frank
Growing Up in San Francisco: More Boomer Memories from Playland to Candlestick Park
$21.99PaperbackAdd to cartNewcomers and visitors can still enjoy iconic San Francisco with activities like riding a cable car or taking in the view from Twin Peaks. But San Franciscans cherish memories of a place quite differe… [more below]
- Series: American Chronicles
- Author: Dunnigan, Frank
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: October 17 2016
- ISBN10: 1467135704
- Language: English
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By: Tsui, Bonnie
American Chinatown: A People’s History of Five Neighborhoods
$15.00PaperbackAdd to cartThe mystery of Chinatown as foreign yet familiar has been long established in the American imagination. Visitors come to expect this, looking for “something different” in its narrow lanes and fish mar… [more below]
- Author: Tsui, Bonnie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: June 15 2010
- ISBN10: 1416557245
- Language: English
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By: Doctorow, Cory
Homeland
$20.99PaperbackAdd to cartIn Cory Doctorow’s wildly successful Little Brother, young Marcus Yallow was arbitrarily detained and brutalized by the government in the wake of a terrorist attack on San Francisco–an experience th
- Series: Little Brother #2
- Author: Doctorow, Cory
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: May 27 2014
- ISBN10: 0765333708
- Language: English
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By: David K. Randall
Black Death at the Golden Gate: The Race to Save America from the Bubonic Plague
$17.95PaperbackAdd to cartOn 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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By: Rebecca Solnit
Infinite City: A San Francisco Atlas
$43.68HardcoverRead 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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By: McClelland, Cary
Silicon City: San Francisco in the Long Shadow of the Valley
$16.95PaperbackRead 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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By: Worley, Jennifer
Neon Girls: A Stripper’s Education in Protest and Power
$20.99PaperbackAdd 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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By: O'Brien, Tricia
San Francisco’s Bayview Hunters Point
$24.99PaperbackAdd 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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By: White, Richard
Who Killed Jane Stanford?: A Gilded Age Tale of Murder, Deceit, Spirits and the Birth of a University
$35.00HardcoverAdd 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














