Book recommendations from Rakestraw Books
Recommendations of recent books from the staffs of a rotating list of Bay Area independent bookstores.
Guns and constant surveillance engender a comic tinder box in Clarke’s satire of life in contemporary America.
Algerian journalist Daoud tells the story of the “nameless Arab” whose murder is little more than a plot point in Camus’ “The Stranger.”
The Vacationers, by Emma Straub: A two-week family vacation to Majorca ought to be a pure joy, but in Straub’s comic story, it is also an occasion in which long-held secrets and tensions emerge.
In this delightful re-creation of Von Arnim’s classic “The Enchanted April,” several tired and frayed New Yorkers fall in love with their lives again during a month an island off the coast of Maine.
Holzer gathers all sorts of material — diaries, newspaper accounts, letters and more — to show us this pivotal event as Americans at the time experienced and understood it.
Historian Kittelstrom brilliantly presents the historic relationship between Christianity and social progress in American history.
Part anthropologist and part elite climber and adventurer, Roberts brings an unusual perspective to this study of the peoples of the Southwest and the present-day fate of their largely unexplored legacy.