|
|
|
Dear Friends & Neighbors,
In appreciation for your support throughout the year, we are pleased to continue our holiday tradition of hand-selecting our Holiday Picks - over 100 titles to satisfy a wide range of tastes and interests - that make ideal gifts. All of these titles are 20% off through the month of December. We've included a sampling below of the many excellent titles to choose from. 
|
|
The author follows up his New York Times bestselling The Great Upheaval, with a study of one crucial year in the wartime administration of Franklin Delano Roosevelt. As major military operations (like D-day) were unfolding, with no assurance that the war would be won, the sharply declining President also wrestled with saving Europe's Jews.
|
|
Journalist and historian Victor Sebestyen, who wrote Revolution 1989, portrays 1946 as the year that laid the foundations of the modern world. He describes in harrowing detail the early postwar period as it witnessed vast and unprecedented destruction, famine, and displacement throughout much of Europe and Asia, and reminds readers that human suffering didn't end with the conclusion of the war.
|
|
The paths of a blind French girl and a German boy collide in occupied France as both try to survive the devastation of World War II, in this "magnificently drawn story...a novel to live in, learn from, and feel bereft over when the last page is turned." - Booklist.
|
|
John Irving returns to the themes that established him as one of our most admired and beloved authors in his latest book. Avenue of Mysteries is an absorbing story about an aging Mexican-American novelist, who travels from his home in Iowa to the Philippines to fulfill a decades-old promise.
|
|
Here is a master storyteller at his best. Since his first collection, Nightshift, published thirty-five years ago, Stephen King has dazzled readers with his genius as a writer of short fiction. In his latest book, which features several brand-new stories, King delivers revelatory autobiographical comments on when, why, and how he came to write (or rewrite) each story.
|
|
This breathtaking collection of photographs from the archives of NASA provides an astonishing tour of the universe. Images of Earth from above, the phenomena of our solar system, and the celestial bodies of deep space will captivate readers and photography lovers with an interest in science, astronomy, and the great beyond.
|
|
An engrossing biography of explorer and naturalist Alexander von Humboldt - "a visionary, a thinker far ahead of his time," who "revolutionized the way we see the natural world." For most of his life, von Humboldt (1769-1859) was the public face of science for his era. British author Andrea Wulf emphasizes that he ushered in the modern era of natural science, that his insights marked the end of the universal view of animals as soulless automatons and the belief that humans were lords of the Earth.
|
|
This New York Times and internationally bestselling author's latest novel has been named one of the most anticipated novels of the year by New York Magazine, The Wall Street Journal, Entertainment Weekly, Publishers Weekly, The Huffington Post, and more. It is an exquisitely crafted love story and multi-generational epic that sweeps from San Francisco in the present-day to Poland and the United States during the Second World War.
|
|
Here is a fascinating visual exploration of the power and behavior of light, across the electromagnetic spectrum, and how it affects life on earth and everything in the universe. Co-authors Kim Arcand and Megan Watzke present the subject of light as never before. Organized along the order of the electromagnetic spectrum, each chapter focuses on a different type of light: from radio waves, harnessed for telecommunications, to X-rays, which let us peer inside the human body and view areas around black holes in deep space.
|
|
In this beautiful and original book, the story of the American Revolution is capably told through maps. Richard Brown, vice-chairman of the Norman B. Leventhal Map Center at the Boston Public Library, and map dealer and historian Paul E. Cohen (author of Mapping the West: America's Westward Movement 1524-1890) chart the seven years of Revolutionary War between Britain and its North American Colonies in a series of maps and related illustrations.
|
Please visit our website for more Holiday Picks
|
|
80 West Portal, San Francisco, CA
94127
|
(415) 564-8080 |
