Cultural Region/Northern California
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A Piece of Cake: A Memoir
$20.00 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – The heart-wrenching, uplifting tale about a woman named Cupcake
” Cupcake] Brown’s confessional . . . memoir is one you can’t easily put down. Her life is nothing short of- Author: Brown, Cupcake
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: April 10, 2007
- ISBN10: 1400052297
- 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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A Dirty Job
$19.99 Add to cartCharlie Asher is a pretty normal guy with a normal life, married to a bright and pretty woman who actually loves him for his normalcy. They’re even about to have their first child. Yes, Charlie’s doin
- Author: Moore, Christopher
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: March 27 2007
- ISBN10: 0060590289
- Language: English
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Zodiac: The Shocking True Story of the Hunt for the Nation’s Most Elusive Serial Killer
$10.99 Add to cartRobert Graysmith’s New York Times bestselling account of the desperate hunt for a serial killer and his own investigation of California’s unsolved Zodiac murders.
A sexual sadist, the Zodiac killer t- Author: Graysmith, Robert
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: January 02 2007
- ISBN10: 0425212181
- Language: English
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The 6th Target
$9.99 Add to cartWhen a horrifying attack leaves one of the Women’s Murder Club struggling for her life, the others fight to keep a madman behind bars before anyone else is hurt.
Lindsay Boxer and her new partner in th… [more below]- Series: Women’s Murder Club #6
- Author: Patterson, James
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: December 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0446198951
- Language: English
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The Creaky Knees Guide Northern California, 2nd Edition: The 80 Best Easy Hikes
$19.95 Add to cartExplore the beauty of Northern California’s natural landscape with this guide to 80 of the best easy-to-walk day hikes located throughout Northern California.
From hikes just outside of San Francisco- Series: Creaky Knees
- Author: Brown, Ann Marie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: March 02 2021
- ISBN10: 1632173581
- Language: English
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Little Brother
$13.99 Add to cartMarcus, a.k.a “w1n5t0n,” is only seventeen years old, but he figures he already knows how the system works-and how to work the system. Smart, fast, and wise to the ways of the networked world, he has
- Series: Little Brother #1
- Author: Doctorow, Cory
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: April 13 2010
- ISBN10: 0765323117
- Language: English
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The Alcatraz Escape
$10.99 Add to cartSleuthing duo Emily and James tackle their most challenging mystery yet set on the haunting Alcatraz Island in Book 3 of the New York Times-bestselling, middle-grade Book Scavenger series by Jennifer
- Series: Book Scavenger #3
- Author: Chambliss Bertman, Jennifer
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: May 07 2019
- ISBN10: 1250308704
- Language: English
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A to Z Mysteries Super Edition #10: Colossal Fossil
$7.99 Add to cartIn the tenth A to Z Mysteries Super Edition, Dink, Josh, and Ruth Rose have a sleepover . . . with a Spinosaurus!
It’s sleepover night at a science museum in Boston. Dink, Josh, and Ruth Rose can’t wa- Series: A to Z Mysteries #10
- Author: Roy, Ron
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: February 27 2018
- ISBN10: 0399551980
- Language: English
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Learning in Public: Lessons for a Racially Divided America from My Daughter’s School
$18.99 Read moreThis “provocative and personally searching”memoir follows one mother’s story of enrolling her daughter in a local public school (San Francisco Chronicle), and the surprising, necessary lessons she lea
- Author: Martin, Courtney E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: August 16 2022
- ISBN10: 0316428272
- Language: English
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Spirits of San Francisco: Voyages Through the Unknown City
$28.00 Read moreA San Francisco Chronicle Bestseller
From two bestselling, prizewinning, and critically acclaimed contemporary chroniclers of San Francisco comes a ri
A Beat Most Anticipated Graphic Novel of Fall 2020- Author: Kamiya, Gary
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: October 20 2020
- ISBN10: 1635575885
- Language: English
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Poppy
$7.99 Read moreFrom the #1 New York Times best-selling author of Max comes a heartwarming, middle grade story about a misunderstood rescue dog, Poppy, who finds kinship with an outcast girl on the coast of Northern … [more below]
- Series: American Dog
- Author: Shotz, Jennifer Li
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: April 07 2020
- ISBN10: 035810873X
- Language: English
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Pop’s Bridge
$19.99 Read moreThe Golden Gate Bridge. The impossible bridge, some call it. They say it can’t be built.
But Robert’s father is building it. He’s a skywalker–a brave, high-climbing ironworker. Robert is convinced hi- Author: Bunting, Eve
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: May 01 2006
- ISBN10: 0152047735
- Language: English
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Julie: The Big Break
$7.99 Read moreJulie Albright is dealing with big changes since her parents’ divorce. When she finds out that her new school has a basketball team, life starts looking up – until the coach tells her girls aren’t all… [more below]
- Series: American Girl Historical Characters
- Author: McDonald, Megan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 120
- Publish Date: August 27 2019
- ISBN10: 1683371321
- Language: English
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Lola and the Boy Next Door
$13.99 Read moreLola Nolan is a budding costume designer, and for her, the more outrageous, sparkly, and fun the outfit, the better. And everything is pretty perfect in her life (right down to her hot rocker boyfrien… [more below]
- Author: Perkins, Stephanie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: July 09 2013
- ISBN10: 0142422010
- Language: English
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Child of the Owl: Golden Mountain Chronicles: 1965
$9.99 Add to cartTwelve-year-old Casey is waiting for the day that Barney, her father, hits it big — ’cause when that horse comes in, he tells her, it’s the penthouse suite. But then hr ends up in the hospital, and C… [more below]
- Series: Golden Mountain Chronicles
- Author: Yep, Laurence
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: May 08 2001
- ISBN10: 006440336X
- Language: English
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Fairyland: A Memoir of My Father
$16.95 Add to cartIn this vibrant memoir, Alysia Abbott recounts growing up in 1970s San Francisco with Steve Abbott, a gay, single father during an era when that was rare. Reconstructing their time together from a rem
- Author: Abbott, Alysia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: June 02 2014
- ISBN10: 0393348903
- Language: English
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Step Up to the Plate, Maria Singh
$21.95 Read moreAsian/Pacific American Award for Literature – Asian/Pacific American Librarians Association (APALA)
Nine-year-old Maria Singh learns to play softball just like her heroes in the All-American Girls’ Lea
- Author: Krishnaswami, Uma
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: May 15 2017
- ISBN10: 1600602614
- Language: English
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The Balloon Boy of San Francisco
$9.95 Add to cartIn 1853, San Francisco newsboy Ready Gates lives up to his nickname. He’s ready for anything–whether it’s shouting the latest headlines from a street corner, sneaking onto a river boat to avoid payin… [more below]
- Author: Leland, Dorothy Kupcha
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: January 01 2005
- ISBN10: 0961735791
- Language: English
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The Dragon Warrior
$10.99 Read more“An exhilarating tale. . . Readers will be enthralled.” –J.C. Cervantes, New York Times bestselling author of The Storm Runner
A debut novel inspired by Chinese mythology, this middle-grade fantasy fo- Series: Dragon Warrior
- Author: Zhao, Katie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: November 24, 2020
- ISBN10: 1547604794
- Language: English
