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Applied Sciences

Kenneth Druse The passion for gardening : inspiration for a lifetime 635 D79p

Arts, Architecture & Crafts

Don Hibbard Hart Wood : architectural regionalism in Hawaii 720.92 W873
Henrietta Brackman The perfect portfolio 770 B797
Track changes : a handbook for art criticism 701.18 T759
Hilary Robertson Nomad at home : designing the home more traveled 747 R649
Bernard Brett A history of watercolor 759 B845
Walter A Nelson-Rees Albert Thomas DeRome, 1885-1959 : being a story of his life and a picture diary of his oils and watercolors 759.194 D437
David Park David Park (1911-1960) :exhibition : paintings, drawings, watercolors 750.92 P235d
Kingman Dong Paint the yellow tiger 759.13 K549

Biography & Genealogy

George McCalman Illustrated Black history : honoring the iconic and the unseen 973.0496 M122
Mark Gonzales Mark Gonzales 796.22 G643
Brontez Purnell Ten bridges I've burnt : a memoir in verse 813 P985
Kara Swisher Burn book : a tech love story 338.47 S979

Business & Economics
Anthony Robbins The holy grail of investing : the world's greatest investors reveal their ultimate strategies for financial freedom 332.678 R632
Michael Michalko Thinkertoys : a handbook of creative-thinking techniques 650.019 M62

Chess

Nikolaĭ Kalinichenko Winning in the chess opening : 700 ways to ambush your opponent 794.122 K144
The games of Wilhelm Steinitz : first world chess champion 794.15 S822
Sergei Soloviev Bogoljubow : the fate of a chess player 794.15 B67
Valeri Beim Back to basics : strategy 794.1 B422ba
Christina Vo The veil between two worlds : a memoir of silence, loss, and finding home 204.092 V872
Michael Prusikin Attacking strategies for club players : how to create a deadly attack on the enemy king 794.1 P972
Efim Dmitrievich Bogoljubow Mikhail Chigorin : selected games 794.15 C53
William Lombardy Modern chess opening traps. 794.122 L84
Gene H McCormick Bird's defense to the Ruy Lopez 791.1225 C61 M13
T. D Harding 64 great chess games : instructive classics from the world of correspondence chess 794.1 H263s
Tony. Author Rotella The killer Sicilian : fighting 1 e4 with the Kalashnikov 794.1225 B32 R843
Asa Hoffmann The Czech Benoni in Action 794.1225 A60 H699
Lev Alburt Secrets of the Russian chess masters 794.1 A345s
Irving Chernev 200 brilliant endgames 794.124 C52b
Neil McDonald Planning 794.1 M135p
G. E. Nesis Tactical chess exchanges 794.1 N45t
Anatoly Lein Sharpen your tactics! : 1125 brilliant sacrifices, combinations, and studies 794.123 L531s
John Emms Simple chess : more simple chess 794.1 E54
Karel van Delft Chess for educators : how to organize and promote a meaningful chess teaching program 794.1 D351
Kevin Cripe The learning spiral : a new way to teach and study chess 794.1 C931
Neil McDonald Coach yourself : a complete guide to self improvement at chess 794.1 M135co
Cyrus Lakdawala First steps : fundamental endings 794.124 L192f
Fred Reinfeld How to play chess like a champion 794.1 R367how
Fred Reinfeld How to be a winner at chess 794.1 R367ho
Fred Reinfeld The complete chess course : from beginning to winning chess! 794.1 R367c
Romain Edouard Chess Calculation Training for Kids and Club Players : Level 1 Checkmating. 794.1 E243
Fred Reinfeld Why you lose at chess 794.1 R367w

Food & Drink

Nancie McDermott The 5 in 10 pasta and noodle cookbook : 5 ingredients in 10 minutes or less 641.822 M134

Health

Max S Bennett A brief history of intelligence : evolution, AI, and the five breakthroughs that made our brains 612.8 B471
Thomas Hanna Somatics : reawakening the mind's control of movement, flexibility, and health 613.71 H243

History

Francis J Clauss Angel Island, jewel of San Francisco Bay 979.462 C616
Teotihuacan : city of water, city of fire 972.52 T314
Essays and assays: California history reappraised. Edited by George H. Knoles. 979.4 E781
Joaquin Miller Life amongst the Modocs : unwritten history 970.3 M643
Ted Kurihara Skid Row San Francisco 979.461 K968
Dame Shirley The Shirley letters from the California mines, 1851-1852 979.404 C58
Hector Chevigny Russian America : the great Alaskan venture, 1741-1867. 979.8 C528

Languages & Linguistics

Craig M Carver A history of English in its own words 422 C331

Law

Your little legal companion. 349.73 Y813

Literature & Writing

Ahmad Y. Almallah Border wisdom 811.6 A444
Louisa May Alcott A strange life : selected essays of Louisa May Alcott 814 A349
F. J. Cebulski The triumph of death at Pisa and premonitions 811 C387t
Fariha Róisín Survival takes a wild imagination : poems 811.6 R494
Summer J. Hart Boomhouse 811.6 H325
Airea D Matthews Bread and circus 811.6 M438
Allison Blevins Cataloguing pain 811.6 B647

Natural Sciences & Mathematics

Josiah Clark Presidio bird list 598.072 C592
Stephen Jay Gould Bully for brontosaurus : reflections in natural history 508 G69b

Performing Arts & Music

Matthew Kennedy Roadshow! : the fall of film musicals in the 1960s 791.43 K38

Philosophy, Psychology & Religion

Dacher Keltner Awe : the new science of everyday wonder and how it can transform your life 152.4 K29
Christopher Marmolejo Red tarot : a decolonial guide to divinatory literacy 133.324 M351

Politics

Paul Broda Scientist spies : a memoir of my three parents and the atom bomb 327.12 B864

Social Sciences & Current Events

Kristin Vogel-Campbell Partnering with culturally and linguistically diverse families in special education 371.9 V878
Eric Porter A people's history of SFO : the making of the Bay Area and an airport 387.736 P844
Ilyon Woo Master slave husband wife : an epic journey from slavery to freedom 306.362 W873
Damon Scott The city aroused : queer places and urban redevelopment in postwar San Francisco 306.76 S425
Christina Elizabeth Sharpe Ordinary notes 305.896 S532
Antony Loewenstein The Palestine Laboratory: How Israel Exports the Technology of Occupation Around the World 338.4735 L827

Travel & Geography

California : a guide to the Golden State 917.94 F29.1
Luree Miller Literary hills of San Francisco 917.9461 M647
Mary Austin The land of little rain 917.94 A93
Margot Patterson Doss San Francisco at your feet : the great walks in a walker's town 917.9461 D724
Pochoda
Grant Petersen Roads to ride : a bicyclist's topographic guide to Alameda, Contra Costa and Marin counties 917.946 P484
Nancy Olmsted To walk with a quiet mind : hikes in the woodlands, parks, and beaches of the San Francisco Bay area 917.946 O516

Posted on Apr. 18, 2024 by Heather Miles