Bay Curious: Exploring the Hidden True Stories of the San Francisco Bay Area
By: Olivia Allen-Price
3.95
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
Curious about the San Francisco Bay Area? With explorations into unique local legends, interesting …
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1. The Ohlone Way
By: Malcolm Margolin
4.18
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
Two hundred years ago, herds of elk and antelope dotted the hills of the San Francisco-Monterey Bay… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
"Her father is dead. . . . Now she must never mention his name again. No one will ever mention his name. She must try not to think about him. He is dead."-Malcolm Margolin, The Ohlone Way
"The spiritual power sought by the Ohlones was not the pure, abstract kind of power such as modern religions offer. . . . In addition to its good qualities, it had erratic and often malevolent aspects…"-Malcolm Margolin, The Ohlone Way
"The Ohlones seem to have lived at a time and in a spiritual place before the imagination was cast away and isolated from 'mainstream' consciousness. Since dreams were real, when an animal-god appeare…"-Malcolm Margolin, The Ohlone Way
2. Cool Gray City of Love: 49 Views of San Francisco
By: Gary Kamiya
4.25
Format: 385 pages, Hardcover
Cool, Gray City of Love brings together an exuberant combination of personal insight, deeply resear… read more
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- travel
- nonfiction
- history
- essays
"More than any city I know, San Francisco is made up of discrete neighborhoods, each with its own unique aura. The main reason for this is its terrain. Its convoluted landscape defines San Francisco's…"-Gary Kamiya, Cool Gray City of Love: 49 Views of San Francisco
"For cities are museums of time, and to live in them is to be haunted by the places they once were. The waterways that existed before the skyscrapers and freeways are a vanished world that beacons to …"-Gary Kamiya, Cool Gray City of Love: 49 Views of San Francisco
"San Francisco, by contrast, is all about the collision between man and the universe. It is on auto-derive. Anarchic, blown-out, naked, it shuffles its own crazy deck. To walk the streets is to be con…"-Gary Kamiya, Cool Gray City of Love: 49 Views of San Francisco
3. The Blue Zones Solution: Eating and Living Like the World's Healthiest People
By: Dan Buettner
3.00
Format: None pages, Hardcover
In this groundbreaking book, Dan Buettner reveals how to transform your health using smart eating a… read more
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4. The Talk
By: Darrin Bell
4.65
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Darrin Bell was six years old when his mother told him he couldn’t have a realistic water gun. She … read more
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- adult
- nonfiction
5. Wandering Stars
By: Tommy Orange
3.89
Format: 315 pages, Hardcover
The eagerly awaited follow-up to Pulitzer Prize-finalist Tommy Orange’s breakout best seller There … read more
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- adult
- audiobook
"And in the year 1924 Indian citizenship will have been granted, even though they will mean to dissolve tribes by giving citizenship, dissolve being another word for disappearance, a kind of chemical …"-Tommy Orange, Wandering Stars
6. Family Style: Memories of an American from Vietnam
By: Thien Pham
4.29
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
A moving young adult graphic memoir about a Vietnamese immigrant boy's search for belonging in Amer… read more
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- nonfiction
7. Palo Alto: A History of California, Capitalism, and the World
By: Malcolm Harris
3.90
Format: 720 pages, Hardcover
The first comprehensive, global history of Silicon Valley, from railroad capitalists to microchip a… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- audiobook
8. The Chinese Groove
By: Kathryn Ma
3.98
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Anne Tyler meets Jade Chang in this buoyant, good-hearted, and sharply written novel about a blithe… read more
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- adult
- audiobook
9. Strong Towns: A Bottom-Up Revolution to Rebuild American Prosperity
By: Charles L. Marohn Jr.
4.26
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
A new way forward for sustainable quality of life in cities of all sizes Strong Towns: A Bottom-… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- audiobook
10. Our Moon: How Earth's Celestial Companion Transformed the Planet, Guided Evolution, and Made Us Who We Are
By: Rebecca Boyle
3.95
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
An intimate look at the Moon and its relationship to life on Earth--from the primordial soup to the… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- audiobook
11. Come Together: The Science (and Art!) of Creating Lasting Sexual Connections
By: Emily Nagoski
4.14
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
An illuminating exploration of how to maintain a happy sex life in a long-term relationship, from t… read more
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
12. Ten Tomatoes that Changed the World: A History
By: William Alexander
3.98
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
New York Times bestselling author William Alexander takes readers on the surprisingly twisty journe… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- audiobook
13. Invitation to a Banquet: The Story of Chinese Food
By: Fuchsia Dunlop
4.26
Format: 480 pages, Hardcover
The world’s most sophisticated gastronomic culture, brilliantly presented through a banquet of thir… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- audiobook
"In cooking as with love, it's not easy to ensure that both ingredients reach their climaxes of perfection simultaneously."-Fuchsia Dunlop, Invitation to a Banquet: The Story of Chinese Food
"Appetite for food and sex is human nature, shi se xing ye ,' as the philosopher Gaozi said. Or, as the popular saying derived from the Book of Rites puts it: 'Eat, drink, man, woman' ( yin shi nan nü…"-Fuchsia Dunlop, Invitation to a Banquet: The Story of Chinese Food
"A successful dish, as my cooking school teachers always used to say, must hit all the targets of se, xiang, wei, xing – colour, fragrance, flavour and form. It should first delight the eyes with its …"-Fuchsia Dunlop, Invitation to a Banquet: The Story of Chinese Food
"Trying to categorize Chinese regional cuisines makes me dizzy. You can travel and travel and travel around China and taste new foods every single day, which is pretty much what I have been doing for …"-Fuchsia Dunlop, Invitation to a Banquet: The Story of Chinese Food
14. The Big Reveal: An Illustrated Manifesto of Drag
By: Sasha Velour
4.41
Format: 210 pages, Hardcover
“Drag embodies the queer possibility that exists within each of us—the infinite ways in which gende… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- audiobook
15. Start Here: Instructions for Becoming a Better Cook: A Cookbook
By: Sohla El-Waylly
4.48
Format: 656 pages, Hardcover
Change the way you think about cooking! In this epic guide to better eating, the chef, recipe devel… read more
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- adult
- nonfiction
16. Slow Noodles: A Cambodian Memoir of Love, Loss, and Family Recipes
By: Chantha Nguon
4.35
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A haunting and beautiful memoir from a Cambodian refugee who lost her country and her family during… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- audiobook
"When you must flee and can carry only one thing, what will it be? What single seed from your old life will be the most useful in helping you sow a new one?"-Chantha Nguon, Slow Noodles: A Cambodian Memoir of Love, Loss, and Family Recipes
"A refugee must learn to be anything people want her to be at any given moment. But behind the masks, I am only myself - a mosaic of flavors from near and far."-Chantha Nguon, Slow Noodles: A Cambodian Memoir of Love, Loss, and Family Recipes
"But if there's one thing I learned from my mother, it's that losing everything is not the end of the story. She taught me that lost civilizations can be rebuilt from zero, even if the task will requi…"-Chantha Nguon, Slow Noodles: A Cambodian Memoir of Love, Loss, and Family Recipes
"But the past never goes away. The fear and pain are still there, buried in our brains like mines. It is better to defuse them than to leave them entombed, quietly, waiting for a single misstep. That …"-Chantha Nguon, Slow Noodles: A Cambodian Memoir of Love, Loss, and Family Recipes
17. Portal: San Francisco's Ferry Building and the Reinvention of American Cities
By: John King
4.19
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A two-time Pulitzer finalist explores the story of American urban design through San Francisco’s ic… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- audiobook
18. Dark Wire: The Incredible True Story of the Largest Sting Operation Ever
By: Joseph Cox
4.12
Format: None pages, None
The inside story of the largest law-enforcement sting operation ever, in which the FBI made its own… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- audiobook
19. Bay Curious: Exploring the Hidden True Stories of the San Francisco Bay Area
By: Olivia Allen-Price
3.95
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
Curious about the San Francisco Bay Area? With explorations into unique local legends, interesting … read more
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- music
- history
- travel
- nonfiction
- essays
- adult
- audiobook
20. Democracy or Else: How to Save America in 10 Easy Steps
By: Jon Favreau
4.17
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
From your friends at Pod Save America and Crooked Media comes a useful and illustrated guide to sa… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- audiobook
21. Death Comes in Through the Kitchen
By: Teresa Dovalpage
2.82
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
Set in Havana during the Black Spring of 2003, a charming but poison-laced culinary mystery reveals… read more
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- audiobook
