San Francisco (Calif.) - History - 20th
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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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Can You Survive the Great San Francisco Earthquake?: An Interactive History Adventure
$9.99 Add to cartThe date is April 18, 1906. The city of San Francisco has just been rocked and shaken by a huge earthquake. Even worse, the quake causes huge fires to break out across the city. Can you escape your da… [more below]
- Series: You Choose: Disasters in History
- Author: Collins, Ailynn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: January 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1666323578
- Language: English
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What Was the San Francisco Earthquake?
$5.99 Add to cartIn this addition to the What Was? series, kids will experience what it was like to be in San Francisco in 1906 when the ground buckled in a major, catastrophic earthquake.
One early April morning in 1- Series: What Was?
- Author: Hoobler, Dorothy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: October 25 2016
- ISBN10: 399541594
- Language: English
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Julie Takes a Stand
$7.99 Read moreIt’s 1976 and the entire country is celebrating America’s 200th birthday, including Julie! She can’t wait to camp in a horse-drawn wagon for the Bicentennial, but pioneer life turns out to be a lot ha… [more below]
- Series: American Girl Historical Characters
- Author: McDonald, Megan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: August 27 2019
- ISBN10: 168337133X
- Language: English
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When We Rise: My Life in the Movement
$21.99 Add to cartThis sweeping memoir tells the life story of longtime LGBTQ and AIDS activist Cleve Jones in a profoundly moving account from sexually liberated 1970s San Francisco, through the AIDS crisis, and up to
- Author: Jones, Cleve
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: September 26 2017
- ISBN10: 0316315419
- 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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The Longest Minute: The Great San Francisco Earthquake and Fire of 1906
$35.00 Add to cartA New York Times Book Review Editor’s Choice
Matthew J. Davenport’s The Longest Minute is the spellbinding true story of the 1906 earthquake and fire in San Francisco, and how a great earthquake spark- Author: Davenport, Matthew J.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: October 17 2023
- ISBN10: 1250279275
- Language: English
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The Buddha in the Attic
$16.00 Add to cartNATIONAL BESTSELLER – PEN/FAULKER AWARD WINNER – The acclaimed author of The Swimmers and When the Emperor Was Divine tells the story of a group of young women brought from Japan to San Francisco as “… [more below]
- Series: Pen/Faulkner Award – Fiction
- Author: Otsuka, Julie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: March 20, 2012
- ISBN10: 0307744426
- Language: English
