Windows at this modest-size bookstore frame close-up views of the docks and San Francisco Bay. Commuters snap up magazines by the front door as they rush off to their ferries, while shoppers leisurely thumb through the thorough selection of cooking and travel titles. Author events take place several times a month.
If you're moseying through the Ferry Building Marketplace, drop into this cozy independent that emphasizes (for tourists and locals alike) local travel, boating on the bay, food, cooking, sustainable agriculture and ecology, fiction, culinary and regional history and literature, and photo and gift books about the Bay Area. The store also hosts lots of author events: Check their website for...
Ferry Building outpost of the local chain offers a small but well-chosen selection of reads.:
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Catering to tourists, commuters and market merchants, this bright store offers a carefully selected array of hard covers, paperbacks and magazines. The requisite fiction and...