2nd Year #9
Welcome Back!
Since we re-opened to the public a month ago, it’s been great to see so many of you. A common exclamation: “OMG, browsing in a bookstore again! Can I touch?” (Of course! But you MUST sanitize your hands upon entering or put on gloves!) One patron rejoiced with: “Wow! Books! Eye candy for the brain!”
Thanks to everyone for faithfully adhering to all the pandemic protocols – social distancing, face coverings, et al. So far, everyone is behaving. We have had no issues. But we are carefully monitoring at all times because we are far from free of this health crisis which continues to spiral out of control as this goes to press.
While many people are happy to be able to browse onsite once again, we know many of you are not, which is fine.
For those who still prefer remote versus in-person sales we will continue…
Taking special orders via phone 415.887.9967
or via email staff@sausalitobooksbythebay.com
FREE Home Delivery – right to your doorstep
FREE Shipping Anywhere in the U.S
TAKE-OUT – order books, jigsaw puzzles, gifts for
PICK UP CURBSIDE with free downtown parking
Online Event Series
Next week, we will be launching an online program to bring authors, experts, books and information to you on a variety of timely topics and areas of interest. We wish we could entertain you in person, but alternately we invite you to register for our online programs
Monday, July 27th – 5pm
Special Summer Reading
Recommendations for CSB
members only!
A private, member only Zoom Room event. If you are a member of our loyalty club – the Community Supported Bookstore – you will be receiving an EVITE to register for what promises to be an entertaining Happy Hour with Sausalito Books by the Bay owner Cheryl Popp & Friends.
If you aren’t a CSB member, now is a good time to join and set up an account with us, so you don’t miss this highly anticipated presentation! CSB program
Thursday, July 30th – 5pm via Zoom
Virtual Art Tour & Book Talk with award-winning conservation photographers Nita Winter & Rob Badger who are also the authors of Beauty & The Beast – California Wildflowers & Climate Change.
This beautiful coffee-table book features stunning photography(190 wildflower portraits & landscapes) as well as short stories penned by passionate scientists and nature writers. The book is both art and activism and inspires hope. A great gift for yourself or others.
To register for the live, online event via Zoom and / or purchase a copy of the book click here.
The authors are local and will sign and/or personalize the book for you (in absentia of course!)
August 15th - 5pm via Zoom
Author Event Commemorating the
76th Anniversary of D-Day2
Join local author Ciji Ware (Landing by Moonlight 2019) to learn about the D-Day no one knows about or remembers (South of France August 15, 1944). She will be leading a riveting discussion with other authors who have recently written about WWII. Discussion topics will include: lesser known historical facts about this pivotal event in world history; the role of the unsung heroes and heroines; theories on how the war really ended. Authors will also offer insights into the bevy of current books on WWII that have emerged since 1995, when archives, secret files and classified information were released. This included information about clandestine intelligence agencies, the unsung roles of women, minorities, and other patriots to the Allied cause whose names we didn’t know –until now. Special Guests announced soon!
To register for the live, online event via Zoom click here.
August 19th – 6pm via Zoom
Author Event with Melissa Darby
discussing her book Thunder Go
North – The Hunt for Sir Francis
Drake’s Fair & Good Bay.
This was one of our book buyer’s highly recommended reads when it came out last year. In partnership with the Sausalito Yacht Club.
Non members of the SYC may join the online event by contacting GM@sausalitoyachtclub.com. Books available at our shop.
September 3rd - 5PM via Zoom
Author Event with local Sausalito award-winning journalist and author Joan Ryan and John Shea, award-winning national baseball columnist at the San Francisco Chronicle. They have just published The Intangibles – Unlocking the science & soul of Team Chemistry.
John, a longtime acquaintance of Willie Mays, collaborated with the baseball legend on the recently published 24: Life Stories and Lessons from the Say Hey Kid which we will also discuss!
The Intangibles is based on hundreds of interviews with players, coaches, statisticians and 5 years of extensive scientific research in neuroscience, biology, physiology and psychology. The book probes whether team chemistry actually exists, how it works and how powerful it might be. A groundbreaking book that examines all the forces that make a team click.
To register for the live, online event via Zoom and / or purchase a copy of the books click here.
Pandemic Parenting
Children's story time for toddlers
It’s back! Just as moms and dads are looking for supplemental entertainment options for those stay-at-home kids.
Every Friday we will be offering this at 11 AM, filmed live at our store, hosted by Bookseller & Assistant Manager Angela King. The 20-minute segments will It be available on You Tube and will include an overview of all the new picture books we have in stock.
Where You Spend Your Money Now
Makes a Difference
Spend with intent. Main Street USA is fading fast these days. We have long been a community that eschews chain and big box stores, but it’s likely where most of you are shopping today and quite frankly, always have. Our residents have always wanted “boutique, small shop” retail, but if you don’t support them, these small businesses will go away….including your independent community bookstore.
NOW IS THE TIME to patronize the businesses you want to see survive post-pandemic. If you want more than Walmart, Amazon and McDonalds in your future, shop accordingly. Shopping local makes a difference. Seventy cents of every dollar spent locally at an independent store goes back into the local economy.
Now and in the future, our choices add up. Use your money to support the world you want. Be a conscientious shopper.
Libro.FM Audio Books
In these times of quarantine, rather than turning pages, many are turning to audio books. We applaud this as long as it’s not Audible. In case you aren’t aware, Audible is an Amazon product. Libro.FM partners with independent bookstores like ours and shares a percentage of every sale with us. (Amazon hasn’t offered me anything yet!)
So – if you listen to books on Libro.FM, you are helping your local bookshop. Libro.FM Your Independent Bookstore for Audio Books.Thanks in advance!
Community Supported Bookstore (CSB) Loyalty Program
By opening an account with us – or adding money to your existing account – you provide us with valuable working capital to help make ends meet during this dramatic economic downturn.
Become a CSB member by opening an account with us which you can draw against when you buy books and receive a 10% discount. This money is yours to draw against any time you purchase books. Call us to set up an account. For more information CSB program
What We're Reading
Reading in the Time of COVID
Jeff B.
We tend to turn to both literature and history to try to make sense of whatever confounding social predicament in which we find ourselves mired. In the first weeks of the shutdown our customers were requesting The Plague, by Albert Camus, and Love in the Time of Cholera, by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Both of these are essential novels of the previous century, regardless of the context in which they're read.
I have read extensively on the epidemics of the modern era, from ever-present Rabies, to the Black Death of Renaissance Europe, to the "Spanish Flu" of 1918-19, to Ebola and on to SARS. My two favorite titles are:
Flu
by Gina Kolata
A treatise on the 1918 pandemic.
Spillover
by David Quammen
An exploration of the viruses which "spill over" to us from non-human animals.
Escape to the Backyard, Beach or Lake Reading
Mexican Gothic
by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Moreno-Garcia, the author of one of my faves, Gods of Jade and Shadow, brilliantly reimagines of the classic gothic suspense novel, set in an isolated mansion in 1950s Mexico with a stylish socialite heroine. A dark and thrilling, beautifully terrifying book that is next month's pick for the best novel at Independent bookshops.
Jeff B. / Cheryl P. / Angela K.
The Order
by Daniel Silva
This is vintage Silva – absolutely delightful can’t-put-it-down reading. Gabriel Allon, intrepid spy, art restorer and Israeli intelligence officer (i.e. the Mossad) ends up at the Vatican investigating the suspicious death of the Pope. He is also in search of a long-lost book that disputes human history as depicted in nothing less than the New Testament.
Cheryl P.
Scandinavian Noir: In Pursuit of a Mystery
by Wendy Lesser
Long-time, long-recognized master of Narrative Non-Fiction and Literary Criticism, Wendy Lesser, delves into the forty-year odyssey of Nordic neo-noir as experienced by us Americans. Whether your experience is of the Lisbeth Salander films, the Martin Beck TV movies, or the hopelessly convoluted Harry Hole novels, she continually brings to the fore the context we're missing on our first viewings and / or first reads. And if this description leaves you less than impressed, just know that I was smiling to myself every other page. A fast and fun read!
Jeff B.
The Paris Hours
by Alex George
Imagine Paris between the wars. It's a shimmering City of Light alive with famous artists, intellectuals, writers, musicians… but also four ordinary people, secrets and intrigue. A captivating novel, told in the course of a single day in 1927, with a breathless ending.
Cheryl P.
Love Sometimes
by Barbara Rose Brooker
A novel about risk, Hollywood and controversial love (as in a MUCH younger man) by the author of the Viagra Dairies. The author of 13 books, Barbara is a remarkable 83-year old local writer whose new book is somewhat autobiographical -- chronicling her own tale of Hollywood frustration with ageism, network deception but also personal redemption. Told with humor and honesty with lots of LA vernacular.
Cheryl P.
American Prophecy: The Fourth Turning
by William Strauss & Neil Howe
A sobering look at what cycles of history tell us about America’s next rendezvous with destiny. Published in 1997, this is a chilling and prophetic read based on today’s reality. Parts are a tad ponderous, but it’s fascinating, well documented information and well worth a look. Why can’t we learn from history?
Cheryl P.
A is For Musk Ox (picture book)
by Erin Cabatingan
Musk Ox is tired of being in the middle of the alphabet, so he is determined to make it all about him, claiming every letter for himself from Alaska to Yolanda and Zebra. This enjoyable romp through the alphabet will make kids giggle while giving parents and grandparents plenty of laughs also.
Angela K.
Fortunately, The Milk (Middle Grade)
by Neil Gaiman
Neil Gaiman tells wonderful stories, whether for adults or kids. This middle grade book is no exception. Filled with pirates, piranhas, and aliens, adventures and oddities, it is difficult to discern for which audience he is writing.
Angela K. / Jeff B.
Lovely War (young adult)
by Julie Berry
In the fractured and dangerous days of World Wars I and II, four gods on Mount Olympus spin the story of Hazel, Hames, Aubrey and Collette. The gods must explain their actions, or face judgment on Mount Olympus. While this book is listed for Young Adults, it should not be overlooked by others.
Angela K.
What's New
What’s black & white
and red all over?
We have daily newspapers again! Many retailers have stopped carrying them, but we will continue to do so. The news is important. Especially today. And yes. You can get it all in on your iPhone. But it doesn’t taste the same with your coffee and croissant every morning. Something about getting that newsprint all over your hands. The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, SF Chronicle & Marin IJ.
The Hats Have It!
Sashay into Summer with a
Cool New Chapeau
We just received a new summer collection of fabulous fun hats for him and for her.
The Best Little Bookshop On The Bay!
SPECIAL ORDERS? We gottcha covered. If we don’t have the book you want, we can usually get it in 2 days….and it can be delivered to your front door.
Don't Forget our FREE Parking
In front of the store in the Sausalito Yacht Harbor lot
“She stood in the storm and when the wind did not blow her way, she adjusted her sails.”
Elizabeth Edwards, attorney and former wife of Senator John Edwards, weathered many storms, including the cancer that ultimately took her life. She also wrote two books: Saving Graces: Finding Solace and Strength from Friends and Strangers (2006) and Resilience: Reflections on the Burdens and Gifts of Facing Life’s Adversities (2009).
Her message is as poignant today as it was then. We all need to adjust our sails.