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By Mary Ellen Hannibal Last night I saw “Waiting for Giovanni,” Jewelle Gomez‘s play about James Baldwin’s struggle over whether to publish Giovanni’s Room. Jewelle is, as her name, one of San Francisco’s literary gems; president of the Library Commission, she works at the Horizons Foundation, which provides social justice support to gays, lesbians, and [...]

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By Byron Spooner Every year the Friends’ Book Sales Operation comes up with some really cool, rare stuff.  A great deal of that rare stuff we donate to the Library for their collections or sell on various on-line venues or at auction to benefit the Library.  And there’s always a bunch of stuff that we [...]

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Cute cover illustration for “The Girls from Planet 5″ by Richard Wilson (1955). Daily Treats are sweet finds from our Treat Avenue Donation Center. Hungry for more collectibles?  Like us on Facebook and follow us on Twitter! Find more rare reads at Amazon and AbeBooks.

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By Mary Ellen Hannibal I’ve been writing a book about conservation, climate change and the West, a political map of which is pretty much all red.  Since I was born and raised true blue, and have only ever lived in deeply liberal, coastal enclaves (New York and San Francisco), I really don’t understand those hard-line, [...]

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