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At the Edge of the Haight

Seligman, Katherine
At the Edge of the Haight
When Maddy Donaldo, a homeless woman who has made a family of sorts in the dangerous spaces of San Francisco's Golden Gate Park, witnesses the murder of a young homeless boy and is seen by the perpetrator, her relatively stable life is upended.

CHF 40.90

Creatures

Meter, Crissy Van
Creatures
Winter Island, off the coast of Southern California. Evangeline grew up with her well-meaning but negligent father, surviving on the money he made dealing the island's world-famous strain of marijuana, Winter Wonderland. Tomorrow Evie is getting married-- but on the eve of the wedding a dead whale becomes lodged in the bay, the groom may be lost at sea, and Evie's mostly absent mother shows up out of the blue."--Provided by publisher.

CHF 23.50

Outwitting History: The Amazing Adventures of a Man Who R...

Lansky, Aaron
Outwitting History: The Amazing Adventures of a Man Who Rescued a Million Yiddish Books
As a twenty-three-year-old graduate student, Aaron Lanskey set out to save the world's abandoned Yiddish books before it was too late. Today, twenty-five years and one and a half million books later, he has accomplished what has been called "the greatest cultural rescue effort in Jewish history." In Outwitting History, Lansky shares his adventures as well as the poignant and often laugh-out-loud stories he heard as he traveled the country coll...

CHF 33.50

In Code

Flannery, David / Flannery, Sarah
In Code
Originally published in England and cowritten with her father, "In Code" is "a wonderfully moving story about the thrill of the mathematical chase" ("Nature") and "a paean to intellectual adventure" ("Times Educational Supplement"). A memoir in mathematics, it is all about how a girl next door became an award-winning mathematician. photo insert.

CHF 34.90