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The Hunter and Other Stories
by Dashiell Hammett…are among Hammett’s best. . . . [His] prose is always savvy and sturdy, but for the man who invented ‘hard-boiled,’ it can also be surprisingly elegant.” —San Francisco Chronicle…
How the Dead Live
by Will Self…every paragraph, chiasmus turning clause after clause back on themselves like a hall of mirrors, page upon page enacting a giant oxymoron: loathing as glee.” –Carey Harrison, San Francisco Chronicle…
Goodbye Tsugumi
by Banana Yoshimoto…perfectly round stone dropped into a still pool. . . . In Tsugumi the author has created one of her most palpable and intriguing characters.” –Jennie Yabroff, San Francisco Chronicle…
A Girl Could Stand Up
by Leslie Marshall…. . . A Girl Could Stand Up is the kind of novel that one immediately takes to heart, a remarkable story–goofy and bittersweet.” –June Sawyers, The San Francisco Chronicle…
The French Revolution
by George Rude…likely soon to surpass George Rudé’s judicious synthesis. . . . One of the most balanced overviews of the French Revolution available in English.” –Daniel L. Wick, San Francisco Chronicle…
The Ends of Our Tethers
by Alasdair Gray…life–marriage and relationships as well as the isolation, loss, and the failures which come from these interactions–and steadily dissect them with a mischievous eye.” –Michael Standaert, The San Francisco Chronicle…
The Boy Who Ran to the Woods
by Jim Harrison“Harrison is a master at describing the natural world, and Pohrt’s illustrations are gently evocative of the northern Michigan landscape.” —San Francisco Sunday Examiner & Chronicle Book Review…
Arkansas
by John Brandon…. Arkansas rants against the machine in a voice combining Raymond Chandler’s side-of-the-mouth noir with Quentin Tarantino’s gleeful-psychopath wit and Mark Twain’s episodic romance of the journey.” —San Francisco Chronicle…
Antarctica
by Claire Keegan“Reading Irish-born Claire Keegan is like succumbing to a drug: eerie, hallucinogenic, time-stopping.”—San Francisco Chronicle A new edition of the now iconic fiction writer Claire Keegan’s debut story collection featuring…
Allan Stein
by Matthew Stadler…diluted modern sense of the word, but in its older combination of beauty and menace, fascination and dread . . . A novel of extraordinary imagination and beauty.“––San Francisco Chronicle…
