September/ October 2011
VOLUME 2, ISSUE 7
NEW AND OF INTEREST
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Tigerlily’s Orchids Murder in Lichfield House Page 4
An Interview with Tamim Ansary
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Author of West of Kabul, East of New York: An Afghan American Story Page 8
Danger Girl: Destination Danger An all new collection! Page 12
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Currents in Science & Nature
A clever guide to San Francisco’s buildings
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By John King Heyday, $14.95, 110 pages
In this compact book, John King gives the reader glimpses of fifty noteworthy San Francisco buildings. This is not a catch-all Bible of the city’s architecture, nor is it meant as a stand alone tour guide. Cityscapes is an outgrowth of King’s San Francisco Chronicle feature column of the same name that began running in 2009. The newspaper columns would display two or three images and fewer than one hundred words of explanation and
the format is the same here. Some of buildings King has selected for the book are curious and eye-catching, like the white behemoth Conservatory of Flowers on John F. Kennedy Drive, or the ten-story Heineman Building which is just twenty feet wide. Others, though, are important for more subtle reasons, like furniture-falling-out-of-windows modern art on See CITYSCAPES, cont’d on page 47
10 Ways the Earth Could End Page 19
Halloween Books Page 25
Thank You, Borders A heart-felt goodbye Page 51
166 Reviews INSIDE!