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Alive in Necropolis by Doug Dorst is the selection for One City One Book: San Francisco Reads 2009!

Dorst’s thriller, set in the city of San Francisco and the cemeteries of Colma, is one part crime novel, one part ghost story, tinged with humor and heart. Among many colorful characters, the book features a rookie Colma cop navigating a world of both the dead and alive, and a San Francisco teen, struggling with his own version of reality.

"Like Dashiell Hammett, Dorst conveys a hard-bitten love of the physical San Francisco, the fog-swallowed town, the sun after rain, the mineshaft drops in temperature….The fiction seems to possess, and be possessed by, its beloved Bay.” - New York Times Book Review

Read Alive in Necropolis over the summer to get ready for programs and events in September and October 2009! Instant book club. Just add friends!!

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Anyone and everyone who lives in San Francisco and likes to talk about (and laugh and debate and share and be inspired by) what they read. Readers, writers, local writers, publishers, bookstores, lit mags, local venues, literary events, book festivals, SF festivals, SF high schools, libraries, and librarians too!

My Blog

One City One Book 2009 is Alive in Necropolis!

Events will be announced in late summer. Yeah!!Find out more here: http://sfpl.org/news/ocob/onecity.htm
Posted by on Mon, 15 Jun 2009 15:34:00 GMT

Mayor Gavin Newsom’s Welcome to 2008 One City One Book!

From http://sfpl.org/news/ocob/welcome08.htm     "Three years, three great books and thousands of readers, library discussions, bookstore purchases, student questions, author event...
Posted by on Thu, 24 Jul 2008 13:54:00 GMT

Leah Garchik gives One City One Book some love!

San Francisco Chronicle - 9/7/07 "If you want to be a model San Franciscan, you should root for the Giants, drink Hetch Hetchy water, nibble on carrots grown within a 50-mile radius and put down that ...
Posted by on Fri, 07 Sep 2007 09:30:00 GMT

Check out this awesome schedule of events

All things Cane River! Here's our Fall events schedule.
Posted by on Fri, 07 Sep 2007 09:01:00 GMT