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Reminder: April is National Poetry Month. Bring a friend or family member and check out our poetry sections for adults and for children. This is the last week to save 20% on any poetry book purchase (offer good through the end of April). |
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Don't miss these great upcoming events this month:
The bestselling author of Stiff has written an impeccably researched and hilarious tribute to "the men and women who dared" — dared to use hard science to search for better, more satisfying sex. Roach reveals the "occasionally noble, sporadically ghastly, ever surreal world" of researchers in the often mysterious and frustrating field of sexual physiology. Chapters include: "The Upsuck Chronicles," "The Lady's Boner," and "What Would Allah Say?" Don't miss this entertaining event with "the funniest science writer in the country." (Burkhard Bilger, The New Yorker). |
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Ryan's debut novel, a finalist for the 2008 Northern California Book Award, is a mesmerizing story of a community of Chinese immigrants in a small California town in 1928, and the ghosts who haunt them. A boat bearing three bedraggled Chinese women appears through the mists of the Sacramento Delta, throwing the community into confusion. As the lives of the townspeople become intertwined with the newly arrived women, a flood threatens to wash away the entire town, and the frightening power of these women from the mist is revealed. |
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Coming in May:
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MARY ROACH will discuss
SHAWNA YANG RYAN will read from|
80 West Portal, San Francisco, CA
94127 | (415) 564-8080 |
