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Booksmith staff member, Carrie Evans, was recently on NBC11's Quills TV. For her appearance, she selected several recent books to talk about. The video clip is available on the NBC11 website: http://www.nbc11.com/bestbooks/index.html
If you would like to purchase one of these books, please contact us via email at read@booksmith.com or by phone at 800-493-7323 (toll free in US) or 415-863-8688, or click on the titles themselves to purchase them online. |
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Rising author, Vincent Lam, received the prestigious Giller Prize for fiction in Canada for this debut book. Lam is an emergency room doctor and, in this book, he threads together a cohesive set of stories that follow the lives of four physicians. Bloodletting and Miraculous Cures focuses on intimate patient-doctor relationships to provide a strikingly honest, raw, and absorbing portrait of today’s medical profession. Especially powerful are the stories where the physicians require medical care and struggle with their dual roles as patients and doctors. |
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The Post-Birthday World is a captivating novel that explores the often wondered question of “what if?” The first chapter draws you in immediately with its predicament: Irina McGovern is in a loving, long-term relationship when she finds herself unexpectedly wanting to kiss another man. The rest of the novel alternates chapters between the two lives that unfold for Irina based on her decision at that moment. Shriver creates two entirely different but believable plots that delve into the complexities of love, romance, and relationships. |
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Grayson
by Lynne Cox
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A remarkable and true story. Lynne Cox is a long-distance open water swimmer. One morning she is finishing a swim in the Pacific Ocean, when she realizes there is something in the water alongside her. Lynne learns it is a lost baby gray whale and spends the next couple hours swimming with the baby whale until it is reunited with his mother. Grayson is a simply written and touching book that reminds you of the wonders of the ocean and impresses you with the strength of a person’s spirit. |
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The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears, a first novel by an emerging author, is a thought-provoking portrayal of the immigrant experience as it follows Sepha Stephanos, an immigrant from Ethiopia and store owner in Washington D.C. Sepha befriends a white woman and her biracial daughter while he struggles to keep his store afloat in a crime-ridden but increasingly gentrified part of the city. This subtly powerful story explores many important questions about racial, economic, and cultural identity and what it takes to create a new home in an unfamiliar country. |
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Up High in the Trees was selected as a New York Times Notable Book and is the highly acclaimed debut novel by a young San Francisco author. Her book is told in the authentic and innocent voice of Sebby Lane, an 8-year-old boy with Asperger’s syndrome, as he copes with the sudden death of his mother. |
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All Over Coffee
by Paul Madonna
Cloth, $24.95 |
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This beautiful book includes several dozen comics by San Francisco artist, Paul Madonna, who has been a regular contributor to the San Francisco Chronicle since 2004. Each one of Madonna’s “Alice in Wonderland-esque” pieces is accompanied by short writings of conversation and thought. Reading All Over Coffee is as if you spent the day walking around the city’s neighborhoods, sitting in coffee shops, and absorbing the little morsels that reflect San Francisco’s quirky nature.
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