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Your Indie Downtown San Francisco Bookstore
*ACADEMY OF ART UNIVERSITY students may sell used textbooks during all business hours.*

With three floors stocked with over 50,000 new books to browse and shop, Alexander Book Company is a full-service independent bookstore, conveniently located in Downtown SOMA district of San Francisco near Bart and Muni (Montgomery Street Station). We havemost categories of books and feature extensive African-American, Children's, Graphic Design and Literature/Fiction Departments. We'll order any book in print and offer complimentary gift-wrap.
REMEMBER TO SHOP LOCAL - You too can actively support your community by choosing to shop at locally owned business' such as Alexander Book. A study conducted in Austin,TX found for every $100 spent at a locally owned bookstore, $45 stayed in the community as opposed to only $13 when compared to a Border's in the area.

Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption (Hardcover)

The lieutenants name was Louis Zamperini. In boyhood, hed been a cunning and incorrigible delinquent, breaking into houses, brawling, and fleeing his home to ride the rails. As a teenager, he had channeled his defiance into running, discovering a prodigious talent that had carried him to the Berlin Olympics and within sight of the four-minute mile. But when war had come, the athlete had become an airman, embarking on a journey that led to his doomed flight, a tiny raft, and a drift into the unknown.

With the same dazzling imagination and love of language that have made Salman Rushdie one of the great storytellers of our time, Luka and the Fire of Life revisits the magic-infused, intricate world he first brought to life in the modern classic Haroun and the Sea of Stories. This breathtaking new novel centers on Luka, Harouns younger brother, who must save his father from certain doom.

America's most delightfully unconventional hostess and the bestselling author of I Like You delivers a new book that will forever change the world of crafting. According to Amy Sedaris, it's often been said that ugly people craft and attractive people have sex. In her new book, SIMPLE TIMES, she sets the record straight. Demonstrating that crafting is one of life's more pleasurable and constructive leisure activities, Sedaris shows that anyone with a couple of hours to kill and access to pipe cleaners can join the elite society of crafters.

Sunset Park follows the hopes and fears of a cast of unforgettable characters brought together by the mysterious Miles Heller during the dark months of the 2008 economic collapse.

Seeing Further: The Story of Science, Discovery, and the Genius of the Royal Society (Hardcover)

Edited and introduced by Bill Bryson, with original contributions from "a glittering array of scientific writing talent" (Sunday Observer) including Richard Dawkins, Margaret Atwood, Richard Holmes, Martin Rees, Richard Fortey, Steve Jones, James Gleick, and Neal Stephenson, among others, this incomparable book tells the spectacular story of science and the international Royal Society, from 1660 to the present. Seeing Further is also gorgeously illustrated with photographs, documents, and treasures from the Society's exclusive archives.

How can a guilty man convince lawyers, judges, and politicians that theyre about to execute an innocent man? Get ready to ride on the suspense train that Grisham has booked for us.

In The Minds Eye, Oliver Sacks tells the stories of people who are able to navigate the world and communicate with others despite losing what many of us consider indispensable senses and abilities: the power of speech, the capacity to recognize faces, the sense of three-dimensional space, the ability to read, the sense of sight.

American Colossus: The Triumph of Capitalism, 1865-1900 (Hardcover)

In a grand-scale narrative history, the bestselling author of two finalists for the Pulitzer Prize now captures the decades when capitalism was at its most unbridled and a few breathtakingly wealthy businessmen utterly transformed America from an agrarian economy to a world power.

The Pulitzer Prizewinning, best-selling author of Founding Brothers and His Excellency brings Americas preeminent first couple to life in a moving and illuminating narrative that sweeps through the American Revolution and the republics tenuous early years.

The Man Who Invented the Computer: The Biography of John Atanasoff, Digital Pioneer (Hardcover)

Jane Smiley tells the quintessentially American story of the child of immigrants John Atanasoff with technical clarity and narrative drive, making the race to develop digital computing as gripping as a real-life techno-thriller.

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