Green Apple Books
506 Clement St., SF CA 94118
(415) 387-2272
Open daily from 10am to 9pm
Green Apple Books on the Park
1231 9th Avenue, SF CA 94122
(415) 742-5833
Open daily from 10am to 8pm
Browser Books
2195 Fillmore St., SF CA 94115
(415) 567-8027
Open daily from 10am to 8pm
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About The Idea of Perfection
A fresh look into the monumental work of Paul Valéry, one of the major French literary figures of the twentieth century.
This event will be held at our 9th Ave. location.
Ben Ehrenreich discusses his new book Desert Notebooks: A Road Map for the End of Time.
Praise for Desert Notebooks
Layering climate science, mythologies, nature writing, and personal experiences, National Magazine Award winner Ben Ehrenreich presents a stunning reckoning with our current moment and with the literal and figurative end of time.
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Praise for To Live and Defy in LA
How gangsta rap shocked America, made millions, and pulled back the curtain on an urban crisis.
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Praise for Cuppy and Stew
Fiction. Memoir. In November, 1955, a young man in Denver, Colorado, hid twenty-five sticks of dynamite and a crude timer in his mother's suitcase. In what the FBI would term the first example of American air piracy, United Flight 629 blew up twelve minutes after taking off, killing everyone aboard.
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Praise for Life Events
"Waclawiak writes with emotional precision and explores the tragedy of existence by masterfully walking the line between suffering and hope." --Arianna Rebolini, BuzzFeed
One of BuzzFeed's Most Anticipated Books of 2020 and one of The Millions Most Anticipated Books of the First Half of 2020
A woman at a crossroads learns the only way to reclaim her life is to help others die
* One of the Best Books of 2012 --Salon
"Waclawiak's novel reinvents the immigration story. How to Get Into the Twin Palms movingly portrays a protagonist intent on both creating and destroying herself, on burning brightly even as she goes up in smoke." --New York Times Book Review, Editors' Choice
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Praise for I Hold A Wolf By The Ears
"As enchanting as fairy tales, as mysterious as dreams, these exquisitely composed fictions are as urgent and original as any being written today.” —Sigrid Nunez, author of The Friend, winner of the 2018 National Book Award for Fiction
"[A] future cult classic." —The New York Times Book Review
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Praise for What We Inherit
"Part memoir, part investigative journalism, and completely engrossing, What We Inherit is not a book you'll be forgetting anytime soon." --Oprah Magazine
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"Hershon maintains a quiet terror throughout this slim, eccentric novel. . . Fiction full of complexity, devoted to reality. And in the end, a larger sense of purpose crashes down in a satisfying burst."
--Danya Kukafka, The New York Times Book Review
"In epigrammatic, nearly poetic diction, Grant . . . reminds us of how transformative the junctures where food and life collide can be." --The New York Times Book Review
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Praise for The Fixed Stars
From a bestselling memoirist, a thoughtful and provocative story of changing identity, complex sexuality, and enduring family relationships
At age 36, while serving on a jury, author Molly Wizenberg found herself drawn to a female attorney she hardly knew.
Powerful, affecting essays on mental illness, winner of the Graywolf Press Nonfiction Prize and a Whiting Award
