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Farm City
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Novella Carpenter |
Urban and rural collide in this wry, inspiring memoir of a woman who turned a vacant lot in downtown Oakland into a thriving farm. |
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Thirty-nine years of short-term memory loss
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Tom Davis |
A seriously funny, offbeat and irreverent memoir that chronicles the early days of Saturday Night Live and features some of its greatest personalities--Al Franken, Lorne Michaels, Dan Aykroyd, John B… |
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The Political Edge
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Chris Carlsson |
In the wake of the astonishing popular mobilization on behalf of an underdog campaign to elect Green Party candidate Matt Gonzalez mayor of San Francisco, *The Political Edge* analyzes emergent polit… |
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Season of the witch
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David Talbot |
Salon founder David Talbot chronicles the cultural history of San Francisco and from the late 1960s to the early 1980s when figures such as Harvey Milk, Janis Joplin, Jim Jones, and Bill Walsh helped… |
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God's hotel
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Victoria Sweet |
"San Francisco's Laguna Honda Hospital is the last almshouse in the country, a descendant of the Hotel-Dieu (God's Hotel) that cared for the sick in the Middle Ages. Ballet dancers and rock musicia… |
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The Laughing Gorilla
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Robert Graysmith |
Chronicles the investigation into a series of grisly murders in 1920s San Francisco perpetrated by a man eyewitnesses claimed to have razor claws for hands. |
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¡Cuéntamelo!
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Juliana Delgado Lopera |
Literary Nonfiction. Latinx Studies. Women's Studies. LGBTQIA Studies. Published in a bilingual English and Spanish edition. Winner of the 2018 Lambda Literary Award for Best LGBTQ Anthology.
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The Empress Is a Man
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Michael Robert Gorman |
You may be familiar with the tremendous life achievements of José Sarria, an integral player in the gay rights movement, but never before have you heard the intimate details of his incredible life as… |
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Oh the glory of it all
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Sean Wilsey |
Sean's blond-bombshell mother regularly entertains Black Panthers and movie stars in the family's marble and glass penthouse. His enigmatic father uses a jet helicopter to drop Sean off at the video … |
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The Making of "Mammy Pleasant"
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Lynn M. Hudson |
"Mary Ellen Pleasant arrived in Gold Rush-era San Francisco a free black woman with abolitionist convictions and an aptitude for entrepreneurial success. Behind the convenient and innocuous disguise … |
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Oh the Hell of It All
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Pat Montandon |
Thrust into the media spotlight with her son Sean Wilsey's searing portrayal of her in his New York Times bestseller Oh the Glory of It All, the former queen of San Francisco society shares her own c… |
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