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Charlotte Brontë Jane Eyre Fic Brontë
Willie Carr Love and avocados : Buell and Lloyd adventure Fic Carr
Ann-Helén Laestadius Stolen : a novel Fic Laestadius
Pilar Quintana Abyss...
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Charlotte Brontë Jane Eyre Fic Brontë
Willie Carr Love and avocados : Buell and Lloyd adventure Fic Carr
Ann-Helén Laestadius Stolen : a novel Fic Laestadius
Pilar Quintana Abyss...
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Peng Shepherd The cartographers : a novel
Jack Parlett Fire Island : a century in the life of an American paradise
Fariha Róisín Who is wellness for? : an examination of wellness culture and who it leaves behind
David Santos Donaldson...
At the beginning of The Frisco Kid, a small Jewish community in 1850 San Francisco writes to a rabbinical school in Poland asking for a rabbi. They send Gene Wilder. Along the way he meets some of the best and worst kinds of people: thieves and liars, but also many who help him out of kindness. He needs the help of an outlaw (played by Harrison Ford) to go through...
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Penny, a graphic novel by Karl Stephens, is the whimsical story of the inner life of a humble tortoiseshell cat. Like many cats, she started life as a stray and was taken in (or kidnapped as she sees it) by two humans. Now that she has secure food and shelter, she spends her days contemplating various philosophical questions such as "Is time elastic?" and "What is the point...
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Some members were surprised to find my name in the SFGate article ‘Friendly’ seal bites San Francisco man, sends him to the hospital, wondering why I swim in the Bay and not in a pool. As a librarian, I would like to answer that question with an assemblage of works explaining why some swim in open water.
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When you hear the name "Martin Scorsese" does the phrase "screwball comedy" spring to mind? Maybe it should. In 1985, years after establishing himself as one of the great film directors of our time with movies such as Taxi Driver and Raging Bull, Scorsese directed an absurdist comedy worthy of the old Ealing comedies of the 1950s. Unlike the screwball comedies of old, however,...
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Parini Shroff The bandit queensl Fic Shroff
Annie Ernaux Do what they say or else Fic Ernaux
Hal Hartley Our lady of the highway Fic Hartley
Josh Riedel Please report your bug here...
Do you think that the present state of political discourse in the United States has hit an all-time low? Do you think the population has grown irrevocably divided? We hear words like "unprecedented," and "in all of our history," and other hyperbole nearly every time a political commentator opens their mouth. Along with blaming the mess on social media and technology. Well, read H.L. Mencken on U.S. politics of the 1...
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Arts, Architecture & Crafts
Hebru Brantley Hebru Brantley. 709.2 B735
Thomas E. Crow The artist in the counterculture : Bruce Conner to Mike Kelley and other tales from the edge 701 C953
Aaron Huey Mitakuye oyasin...
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Joseph Conrad Almayer's folly
Charles Dickens Bleak house
Joseph Conrad Chance : A tale in two parts
Virginia Woolf Four short stories by Virginia Woolf
Walter Scott...