Our Team
Cheryl Popp & Sparky
A kid who always loved books. And tends to hoard them now. Long-time Sausalito resident. Marketing communications specialist and survivor of corporate America (Robertson Stephens, Credit Suisse First Boston?)
A girl who can’t say no. Former president Sausalito Chamber of Commerce, Sausalito Business Advisory Council Chair, Flag Officer Sausalito Yacht Club.
Still crazy after all these years. Founding director & curator Sausalito Film Festival, Sausalito-Cascais Sister City program chair, Marin Humane Society board of directors, Sausalito Beautiful Advisory Board, Sausalito Woman’s Club, Sausalito Books by the Bay.
2011 recipient of the Spirit of Marin award. Published writer, former radio talk show host and journalist, native of the San Francisco Bay Area, graduate of U.C. Berkeley.
Go Bears. Buy books.
Jeff Battis
Jeff is our Book Buyer. If there is a specific book you want to know about, ask Jeff. He has over 20 year experience in the book store business in the Bay Area.
On most days, you can see Jeff riding his bicycle back and forth across the Golden gate Bridge as he commutes from the City to Sausalito.
His hero is Johnny Cash. Is this why he is always dressed in black?
Matthew is a coffee guzzling 20-something and recent recipient of a BA from Lewis and Clark College in Portland OR, where he spent a great deal of time studying Romantic English poetry. His favorite books are in the vein of off-beat sci-fi fantasy- Douglass Adams, Terry Pratchet and the like. But he enjoys reading all kinds of literary genres, including graphic novels, and especially scripts for plays. He writes short fiction and draws black and white cartoons.
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Angela
Angela was probably reading before she could walk. After leaving her job in the legal field to become a stay at home mom, she got involved in the PTA volunteering in the classroom, libraries and eventually working, then chairing, the district’s book fairs.
She has been a bookseller for three years, with emphasis on fiction, although will read anything from picture books and children’s lit to nonfiction. She has been a regular literary personal shopper for friends and family alike.
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Patricia Wood CFO
A native Californian privileged to grow up in a family that treasured books and a town with a wonderful children’s library. Former co-owner of a financial services company, Pearson-Wood Assoc.
My favorite books are mysteries and biographies. My current goal is to contribute to the success of the bookstore. My long-term goal has been and continues to be obliterating the glass ceiling.
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When not discussing the thermal properties of light with his friend Albert, Jim can be seen around Sausalito at the Dog Park, Sister City Events and the Portuguese Hall.
For reading, he enjoys 20th century non-fiction especially the people and events of that era. His favorite writer is Robert Penn Warren. Could it be because Mr. Warren was born only 15 miles from Jim’s hometown in Tennessee?
Quoting Jim, “ If you can have cows in Berkeley, you sure as heck should have a bookstore in Sausalito.
“Once you have read a book you care about, some part of it is always with you.”