Locality/San Francisco
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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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The Alchemyst
$19.99 Add to cartNicholas Flamel appeared in J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter–but did you know he really lived? And his secrets aren’t safe Discover the truth in book one of the New York Times bestselling series the Secr… [more below]
- Series: Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel (Hardcover) #1
- Author: Scott, Michael
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: May 22 2007
- ISBN10: 0385733577
- 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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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
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The Chinese Parrot: A Charlie Chan Mystery
$16.99 Read more1926. The character of Charlie Chan was based in part on the experiences of two Chinese detectives, Chang Apana and Lee Fook, who Biggers had read about in a Honolulu newspaper while on vacation. Bigg
- Series: Charlie Chan Mysteries #02
- Author: Biggers, Earl Derr
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 286
- Publish Date: January 01 2009
- ISBN10: 0897335783
- Language: English
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China Dolls
$27.00 Read moreNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – “A fascinating portrait of life as a Chinese American woman in the 1930s and ’40s.”–The New York Times Book Review
“Superb . . . This emotional, informative and brilliant … [more below]- Author: See, Lisa
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: June 03 2014
- ISBN10: 081299289X
- Language: English
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If Only It Were True
$17.99 Add to cartWhat do you do when you find a stranger in your closet, particularly when she’s surprised that you can even see her — and she can disappear and reappear at whim? What if she then tells you that her b… [more below]
- Author: Levy, Marc
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: May 17 2005
- ISBN10: 0743276841
- Language: English
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I Hate the Internet
$15.95 Add to cartWhat if you told the truth and the whole world heard you? Would you expect to be believed? What if you lived in a country swamped with Internet outrage? What if you were a woman living in a society th… [more below]
- Author: Kobek, Jarett
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: February 07 2016
- ISBN10: 0996421807
- Language: English
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The Valley of Amazement
$16.99 Add to cartNew York Times bestseller The Valley of Amazement is a sweeping, evocative epic of two women’s intertwined fates and their search for identity–from the lavish parlors of Shanghai courtesans to the fo
- Author: Tan, Amy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 608
- Publish Date: July 15 2014
- ISBN10: 0062107321
- Language: English
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Virgin Soul
$14.95 Add to cartWritten in first-person point of view, Virgin Soul is the semi-autobiographical tale of a young woman’s struggle for identity and purpose during one of the most politically and racially charged eras o
- Author: Juanita, Judy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 374
- Publish Date: July 06 2017
- ISBN10: 0971635242
- Language: English
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Bone
$17.99 Add to cartThis emotional story about family and community follows a young woman living in San Francisco’s Chinatown as she navigates lingering conflicts and secrets after her sister’s death.
“We were a family o… [more below]
- Author: Ng, Fae Myenne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: May 13 2008
- ISBN10: 1401309534
- Language: English
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Mary Ann in Autumn
$17.99 Add to cartInspiration for the Netflix Limited Series, Tales of the City
The eighth novel in the beloved Tales of the City series, Armistead Maupin’s best-selling San Francisco saga.
Following the success of his N
- Series: Tales of the City #8
- Author: Maupin, Armistead
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: October 04 2011
- ISBN10: 0061470899
- Language: English
