2021 BOOK
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Like A Complete Unknown
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A Spot of Trouble: Sidesplitting Enemies-to-Lovers Romantic Comedy (Turtle Beach)
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The Vanderbeekers Make a Wish
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The Vixen: A Novel
$21.99 -
Always, in December: A Novel
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The Long War: The Inside Story of America and Afghanistan Since 9/11
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Hiking the Oregon Coast Trail: 400 Miles from the Columbia River to California
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All In: An Autobiography
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What Storm, What Thunder
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They Called Us “Lucky”: The Life and Afterlife of the Iraq War’s Hardest Hit Unit
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Conquistadores: A New History of Spanish Discovery and Conquest
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The Paper Palace: A Novel
$27.00
Fiction Novels You Can’t Put Down
Check out these exhilarating fiction reads that will introduce you to a selection of wickedly funny, riveting, and suspenseful stories. The list includes stories with a mother and son duo as they commit a series of crimes, an ambitious young writer drawn into a...
Into Another World
Enjoy reading about threats from an alien race, journeying to Mars, and a political epic fantasy while you explore this selection of fantasy and science fiction reads that will take you into another world. Check out the sequels to The Salvation Sequence and Wake the...
Popular Reads
The best seller lists can be a great source of new reading material, pointing interested readers toward popular, award-winning, and worthy books. The five titles included in this roundup have all won a heap of praise and sold incredibly well, and they are all highly...
Whimsical Comics
The world of comics can seem a little daunting sometimes, because there’s just so much out and there and the genre continues to explode with new stories coming weekly. Well, here are four less run-of-the-mill and more good times and fun stories to warm your heart and...
Time to Eat!
People who love to eat may be considered to always be the best people (here’s looking at you, Julia Child), but people who also love to read about eating are arguably just that little bit better. Whether dedicated to the appreciation of one particular foodstuff...
Gimme a Kiss…
As the saying goes, the course of true love never did run smooth, and these three contemporary romance novels certainly indicate that to be a truism. From rediscovering love after a bereavement to rediscovering themselves after a relationship breakdown, the heroines...
Interview With Charles Salter, Author of The Flight of the Schimmerplotz
San Francisco Book Review's Alex Telander interviews Charles Salter, author of The Flight of the Schimmerplotz. Where did the idea for Flight of the Schimmerplotz come from? Like most of my writing ideas, the basic notion of this book came to me first in a...
Interview with Alex Grass, author of Black River Lantern
San Francisco Book Review's Alex C. Telander talks to Alex Grass, author of Black River Lantern. Where did the idea for Black River Lantern come from? I wanted to combine The Dead Zone with Dostoevsky’s The Idiot. At the time, I think I was also reading some of...
Interview with Kagan Tumer, Author of Purged Souls
San Francisco Book Review's Anastasia Gkaitatzi interviews Kagan Tumer, author of Purged Souls. Tell us a few things about Purged Souls. Purged Souls is about exploring human nature in the face of adversity. How do you react when everything you believed to be...
Interview With S.G. Blaise, Author of The Last Lumenian
San Francisco Book Review's Rod Raglin talks with S.G. Blaise author of The Last Lumenian. What were your influences when writing this novel? I was on a European road trip with my family, visiting Germany, Austria and Hungary, when one night I woke up with the...
Interview With Julian Starks, Author and Photographer of Life Behind Bars Vol. I
San Francisco Book Review's David Lloyd Sutton talks with Julian Starks, author of Life Behind Bars Vol. I. What is your principal camera or system? Why? I am an Avid Nikon Man! I used a Nikon D5. D850 and a Leica V-Lux. I went into a camera store and asked the...
The Bay Area Book Festival Monthly: WHAT WE’RE READING IN SEPTEMBER
Welcome to fall 2020: democracy at risk, a continuing pandemic, clashes in the streets, threatened food supplies, fires, a looming election, and skyrocketing anxiety as our cooped-up selves try to manage a cacophony of bad news. How to make sense of it all, and what...
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All In: An Autobiography
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They Called Us “Lucky”: The Life and Afterlife of the Iraq War’s Hardest Hit Unit
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Still on Fire-Field Notes from a Queer Mystic
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True Raiders: The Untold Story of the 1909 Expedition to Find the Legendary Ark of the Covenant
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Running Is a Kind of Dreaming: A Memoir
$23.49
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The Best of Artisan Bread in Five Minutes a Day: Favorite Recipes from BreadIn5
$22.99 -
Gudetama: The Official Cookbook: Recipes for Living a Lazy Life
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Eat Like a Luchador: The Official Cookbook
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Ciudad de Mexico: Recipes and Stories from the Heart of Mexico City
$9.99 -
Sephardi: Cooking the History. Recipes of the Jews of Spain and the Diaspora, from the 13th Century to Today
$16.99
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The Long War: The Inside Story of America and Afghanistan Since 9/11
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Conquistadores: A New History of Spanish Discovery and Conquest
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Conquering the Pacific: An Unknown Mariner and the Final Great Voyage of the Age of Discovery
$23.49 -
Spies on the Mekong: CIA Clandestine Operations in Laos
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Voyagers: The Settlement of the Pacific
$22.49
Interview With Charles Salter, Author of The Flight of the Schimmerplotz
San Francisco Book Review's Alex Telander interviews Charles Salter, author of The Flight of the Schimmerplotz. Where did the idea for Flight of the Schimmerplotz come from? Like most of my writing ideas, the basic notion of this book came to me first in a...
Interview with Alex Grass, author of Black River Lantern
San Francisco Book Review's Alex C. Telander talks to Alex Grass, author of Black River Lantern. Where did the idea for Black River Lantern come from? I wanted to combine The Dead Zone with Dostoevsky’s The Idiot. At the time, I think I was also reading some of...
Interview with Kagan Tumer, Author of Purged Souls
San Francisco Book Review's Anastasia Gkaitatzi interviews Kagan Tumer, author of Purged Souls. Tell us a few things about Purged Souls. Purged Souls is about exploring human nature in the face of adversity. How do you react when everything you believed to be...
Interview With S.G. Blaise, Author of The Last Lumenian
San Francisco Book Review's Rod Raglin talks with S.G. Blaise author of The Last Lumenian. What were your influences when writing this novel? I was on a European road trip with my family, visiting Germany, Austria and Hungary, when one night I woke up with the...
Interview With Julian Starks, Author and Photographer of Life Behind Bars Vol. I
San Francisco Book Review's David Lloyd Sutton talks with Julian Starks, author of Life Behind Bars Vol. I. What is your principal camera or system? Why? I am an Avid Nikon Man! I used a Nikon D5. D850 and a Leica V-Lux. I went into a camera store and asked the...
Interview With Dr. John Kruse, Author of Recognizing Adult ADHD: What Donald Trump Can Teach Us About Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
San Francisco Book Review's Grace Utomo talks with Dr. John Kruse about ADHD and his book, Recognizing Adult ADHD: What Donald Trump Can Teach Us About Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder. Why did you decide to specialize in ADHD? Do you only focus on adults, or...