BOOKS
FICTION
Chantel Acevedo The distant marvels
Amit Chaudhuri Odysseus abroad
Heather Cocks & Jessica Morgan The royal we
Brian Doyle Martin Marten
Lisa Genova...
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BOOKS
FICTION
Chantel Acevedo The distant marvels
Amit Chaudhuri Odysseus abroad
Heather Cocks & Jessica Morgan The royal we
Brian Doyle Martin Marten
Lisa Genova...
BOOKS
FICTION
Fatima Bhutto The shadow of the crescent moon
Marisa de los Santos The precious one
Omar Shahid Hamid The prisoner
T. Geronimo Johnson Welcome to Braggsville
Deepti Kapoor...
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FICTION
Elisa Albert After birth
T. Coraghessan Boyle The harder they come
John Boyne A history of loneliness
M.J. Carter The strangler vine
Sara Gruen...
The Coppola clan, consisting of Francis, Sophia, Ronan, Eleanor and Nicolas Cage (née Nicolas Kim Coppola), have made a significant impact on American film. Most prominently, Francis Ford Coppola's critical and commercial success with his Godfather series, started a broad career writing, directing and producing a variety of films, from the bold and ambitious to smaller and more personal work. In the early...
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BOOKS
FICTION
Cesar Aira The musical brain & other stories
Rachel Basch The listener
Rick Bass The hermit's story
Amanda Filipacchi The unfortunate importance of beauty
Barry Gifford...
BOOKS
FICTION
Jill Alexander Essbaum Hausfrau
Tara Ison Rockaway
David Joy Where all light tends to go
David Vann Aquarium
Historical Fiction
Michelle Moran...
The “final frontier” of outer space has consistently captured humanity’s imagination from time immemorial. We seek to understand the universe and our place in it by studying the seemingly unknowable expanse of what lies beyond our own livable nook of the macrocosm. From music and film to scientific discovery and science fiction, this month, Mechanics’ Institute staff selects books, both fact and fiction, rooted in what we know and imagine about the cosmos.
Taryn recommends...
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Monika Trobits’ tidy little book ends with a great quote from Shakespeare’s As You Like It, - “All the world’s a stage / And all the men and women merely players”. Indeed, after reading Antebellum and Civil War San Francisco: A Western Theater for Northern & Southern Politics, one wonders how Shakespeare could have been so prescient.
Antebellum and Civil War San Francisco consists of thirteen chapters that in a linear and concise fashi...
[read more]New PPIE Display on the 2nd Floor
In 1909, an extraordinary group of California women organized to assist in the campaign to secure the right to hold the Panama-Pacific International Exposition (PPIE) in San Francisco in 1915. With their success, the Woman’s Group was formally recognized by the PPIE Board of Directors as the hostesses of the Exposition who would see to the comfort, housing, entertainment, and safety of the PPIE visitors. The Californi...
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BOOKS
FICTION
Ralph McInerny The red hat
Caryl Phillips The lost child
Colin Winnette Coyote
Historical Fiction
Anne Easter Smith Queen by right
Helen Hollick...