Patriots (Krasikov Sana)(Paperback / softback)

Patriots (Krasikov Sana)(Paperback / softback)

A rich and involving big-canvas story about three generations of one family as they move between Russia and the US, between Stalin's era and the modern

Sports in San Antonio, Texas(Paperback / softback)

Tom Crean - Fear San Oighear (Smith Michael)(Paperback / softback)

Patriots and Liberators (Schama Simon)(Paperback / softback)

A reissue of Simon Schama's landmark study of the Netherlands from 1780-1813, this is a tale of a once-powerful nation's desparate struggle to survive the treacheries and brutality of European war and

Rebels and Patriots: Wargaming Rules for North America: Colonies to Civil War (Leck Michael)(Paperback)

Uncanny Valley - Seduction and Disillusionment in San Francisco's Startup Scene (Wiener Anna)(Paperback / softback)

Diary of a Pint-Sized Farmer - A Year of Keeping Sheep, Raising Kids and Staying Sane (Urwin Sally)(Paperback / softback)

Road to San Giovanni (Calvino Italo)(Paperback / softback)

Includes five autobiographical meditations that delves into the author's past, remembering awkward childhood walks with his father, a lifelong obsession with the cinema and fighting in the Italian Resistance against the

Wild Irish Women: Extraordinary Lives from History (Broderick Marian)(Paperback)

From patriots to pirates, warriors to writers, and mistresses to male impersonators, this book looks at the unorthodox lives of inspiring Irish women.In times when women were expected to marry and have children, they travelled the world and sought out adventures; in times when women were expected

The Year of the French (Flanagan Thomas)(Paperback)

In 1798, Irish patriots, committed to freeing their country from England, landed with a company of French troops in County Mayo, in westernmost Ireland. They were supposed to be an advance guard, followed by other French ships with the leader of the rebellion, Wolfe Tone. Briefly they triumphed,

Bundori (Rowland Laura Joh)(Paperback / softback)

The sequel to the acclaimed novel Shinju again features detective Sano Ichiro as he trails a serial killer stalking feudal

Animal Factory (Bunker Edward)(Paperback / softback)

Ronald Decker, first-time San Quentin intern doing minor time for an insignificant offence, is befriended by hardened old-timer Earl Copen and introduced into the White

Oracle Night (Auster Paul)(Paperback / softback)

Oracle Night is a compulsively readable novel by 'one of the great writers of our time.' (San Francisco Chronicle). Several months into his recovery from a near-fatal illness, novelist Sidney Orr enters a stationery shop in Brooklyn and buys a blue

Joy Luck Club (Tan Amy)(Paperback / softback)

In 1949 four Chinese women, recent immigrants to San Francisco, meet weekly to play mahjong and tell stories of what they left behind in China. United in loss and new hope for their daughters' futures, they call themselves the Joy Luck

Almost Dead (Jackson Lisa)(Paperback / softback)

Dark family secrets emerge in San Francisco, in a thrilling novel by New York Times Number One bestseller Lisa

American Privateers of the Revolutionary War (Konstam Angus)(Paperback)

This title explores the ships and history of the enterprising American patriots who fought the Royal Navy as privateers, and played a major part in winning the Revolutionary War at sea. During the American War of Independence (1775-83), Congress issued almost 800 letters of marque as a way of

Holy Madness: Romantics, Patriots and Revolutionaries 1776-1871 (Zamoyski Adam)(Paperback)

From America's fight for independence to the Paris Commune - an exotic collection of fanatics, adventurers, poets and thinkers are brought vividly to life.Holy Madness probes into the psyche that was responsible for so many of the founding events of our modern world, and into the instincts that

Patriots: A Novel of Survival in the Coming Collapse (Rawles James Wesley)(Paperback)

America faces a full-scale socioeconomic collapse--the stock market plummets, hyperinflation cripples commerce and the mounting crisis passes the tipping point. Practically overnight, the fragile chains of supply and high-technology infrastructure fall, and wholesale rioting and looting grip every

House of Broken Angels (Urrea Luis Alberto)(Paperback / softback)

In this 'raucous, moving, and necessary' (San Francisco Chronicle) story by a Pulitzer Prize finalist, the de La Cruzes, a family on the Mexican-American border, celebrate two of their most beloved relatives during a joyous and bittersweet

Champion of Champions (Brayley David)(Paperback / softback)

Daniel Williams needs to deliver the performance of his life in the notorious Milan-San Remo road race or his professional cycling career will be over. To do that, he has to revisit his 14-year-old self. Will the memories be too painful, or will they lead to ultimate

Noah Webster: Weaver of Words (Shea Pegi Deitz)(Paperback)

This picture book celebrates one of the most important patriots in post-Revolutionary times -- Noah Webster. Most readers know Noah Webster for his dictionary masterpieces and his promotion of a living 'American Language' that embraces words and idioms from all its immigrant peoples. But he was

Story of a Marriage (Greer Andrew Sean)(Paperback / softback)

Pearlie and Holland live quietly with their son in San Francisco, with a barkless dog in a vine-covered house. Apart from Holland's elderly aunts, the family have no regular visitors. The Story of a Marriage portrays three people trapped by the restrictions of their era, and reveals how we can

All Tomorrow's Parties (Gibson William)(Paperback / softback)

Rydell is on his way back to near-future San Francisco. A stint as a security man in an all-night Los Angeles convenience store has convinced him his career is going nowhere, but his friend Laney, phoning from Tokyo, says there's more interesting work for him in Northern

Locked Rooms (King Laurie R. (Author))(Paperback / softback)

In 1924, San Francisco is booming. The great fire and earthquake of 1906 cleared the ground for a modern city, but the closer she comes to the place she used to call home, the more troubling Mary Russell's dreams