Locality/San Francisco
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Paperquake: A Puzzle
$15.95 Add to cartViolet’s paralyzing fear of the San Francisco earthquakes changes when her family renovates an old building. An aftershock dislodges a letter addressed in 1906 to Baby V–and Violet is certain the dis… [more below]
- Series: Time Travel Mysteries
- Author: Reiss, Kathryn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: March 01 2002
- ISBN10: 015216782X
- Language: English
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The San Francisco Splash
$6.99 Add 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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Xochitl and the Flowers / Xóchitl, La Niña de Las Flores
$11.95 Add to cartBilingual 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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San Francisco, Baby!
$14.99 Add 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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City by the Bay: A Magical Journey Around San Francisco
$8.99 Read 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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Landed
$19.99 Read 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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The Haunted Lighthouse
$9.99 Add 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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Yao Bai and the Egg Pirates
$16.99 Add 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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When You Look Out the Window: How Phyllis Lyon and del Martin Built a Community
$15.95 Read 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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S Is for San Francisco
$19.95 Add 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
$24.99 Add 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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Gay and Lesbian San Francisco
$24.99 Add 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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Growing Up in San Francisco: More Boomer Memories from Playland to Candlestick Park
$21.99 Add 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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American Chinatown: A People’s History of Five Neighborhoods
$18.99 Add 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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Homeland
$20.99 Add 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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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 Add to cartWhat 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
