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We've got the cool stuff you'll want to come back to time and again! When you want to know what The Next Big Media Thing is, we've got it! Comics are the gooey center of Pop Culture and Flying Colors has it all! "One of the World's Greatest Comic Boo... more

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Hayward Public Library

The Hayward Public Library promotes and celebrates the diverse cultural heritage of the community in all of its services and programs. The Hayward Library is committed to providing materials and services that support each individual's right to know a... more

Irish Literary & Historical Society

The Irish Literary & Historical Society (ILHS) of the San Francisco Bay Area provides an open, nonsectarian, and nonpolitical forum for the presentation and discussion of Irish and Irish-American culture.  The ILHS holds monthly meetings at... more

John F Kennedy Library

Welcome to the John F. Kennedy Library.   Meeting Room The Joseph Room is equipped with a baby grand piano, data drop, and tables and chairs for meeting use. Reservations are taken six months in advance but no more than six times a year. It i... more

Lafayette Library

A visionary construct of education, collaboration and community, the Lafayette Library and Learning Center (LLLC), home of the Glenn Seaborg Learning Consortium, is a place where all generations can gather for enriched intellectual and cultural exper... more

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Lakeshore Writers Workshop

LAKESHORE WRITERS offers Creative Writing Workshops designed to motivate, inspire and support writers in all genres. Workshops and classes are offered throughout the year -- Spring, Summer, Winter and Fall -- in eight week sessions. Manuscript... more

Leon Western Wear

Western Wear, Ordenes Especiales.  Botas Vaqureas Originales y Imitaciones.   Trajes, Camisas, Cinturones, Botas de Trabaja y Boas Vaqueras y Botines. more

Livermore Public Library

The Livermore Public Library encourages the development of a lifelong interest in reading and learning by youth and adults, provides materials and services of popular interest, supports the educational needs of the community, furnishes timely, accura... more

Mad Monk Center for Anachronistic Media

Although no business could ever "take over" for the iconic Cody's Bookstore, Mad Monk is a wonderful resource for book and music lovers.   Mad Monk provides the market to purchase and trade in new and used books and records!  more

Marcus Books

Named after the famous civil rights leader, this bookstore is dedicated to the education, history, and future of African Americans. The store features children's books, for storytelling and educational books used in school, and also literary books th... more

Massage Therapist Deane Juhan

Deane Juhan may be best known as the author of Job's Body: A Handbook for Bodywork, which many consider the essential text on the means, methods, uses, and deeply personal applications of  what has come to be known as bodywork, a vast, sophisti... more

Max's Garage Press

Max’s Garage Press is dedicated to keeping stone lithography alive through printing artist editions, teaching classes, and making all the special materials and equipment in our printshop available to artists. more

Moe's Books

Since 1959 Moe's has been providing customers with fair and accurate valuations of rare and collectible books in a broad and expansive range of subject areas. Moe's is a great resource for used books in Berkeley. more

Mrs Dalloways

Multicultural Bookstore

Discover the world of multicultural books under one roof. We have selections for babies to adults including board, picture and chapter books. You will find books for these cultures: African American, Latino, Native American Asian/South Asian, Midd... more

Newark Library

Niebyl Proctor Marxtist Library

Nomadic Press

Our Fruitvale, Oakland, location—home of the original Nomadic Press Salon—is now open for co-working! Our sun, book, and plant-filled workspace will offer you just the right mix of peace, quiet, and warmth to get your work done in a comfy... more

Oakland Public Library - Cesar E. Chavez Branch

The Chávez Branch Spanish collection is the largest in OPL. Chávez also has a Chicano collection and a Seed Lending Library. They have books in Chinese and Arabic. The branch has 18 computers with internet. more

Oakland Public Library - Rockridge Branch

Rockridge Branch has approximately 75,000 books, compact disks, DVDs, audio books, video games, and magazines and newspapers for all ages. Circulating materials are largely of popular interest, with a strong emphasis on practical how-to topics and fi... more

Oakland Public Library Brookfield Branch

Oakland Public Library Dimond Branch

Oakland Public Library Golden Gate Branch

The Oakland Public Library is a part of the City of Oakland in California and has been in existence since 1878. We also offer many other special services for residents of Oakland. The Golden Gate branch has a collection of approximately 35,000 items... more

Oakland Public Library Main Branch

Located between downtown and Lake Merritt, Oakland's Main Library is one of the largest public library facilities in the Bay Area. In addition to large collections of over 350,000 reference and circulating non-fiction and fiction books, the Main Libr... more

Oakland Public Library Melrose Branch

Oakland Public Library West Oakland Branch

Octopus Literary Salon

The Octopus is a literary salon of the 21st Century encouraging the social interaction of readers, writers, & performers of all ages. more

Orinda Library Auditorium

The Orinda Library with over 30,000 children's materials and an overall collection of over 70,000 books, recorded books, music and DVDs along with 29 public computers, WiFi, comfy chairs, pillows, reading nooks and a tutoring room is a far cry from t... more

Owl & Company Bookshop

We are an independent bookstore located on Piedmont Avenue in Oakland, California, specializing in EVERYTHING out of the ordinary. We carry thousands of used books, pamphlets, magazines & journals. We offer trade credit for your books. At this tim... more

Pegasus Books

Welcome to Pegasus and Pendragon Bookstores. We sell thoughtfully chosen new and used books and CDs, beautiful art cards and journals, magazines both foreign and domestic, and an exciting assortment of ever-changing sale books. more

Play Cafe

Play Cafe, Inc. is a nonprofit organization, based in Berkeley, whose mission is to support the creation and development of new works by San Francisco Bay Area playwrights and composers. Our programs include Scene Nights, Table Reads, Song Salons,... more

Pleasanton Library

Rakestraw Books

Welcome to Rakestraw Books (est. April 1973), a beautiful, well-stocked independent bookshop located in Danville, California; well-known for our selection, our book-loving staff, and our great events. more

Revolution Books

The world today, with all its horrors, holds the potential for something far better. To unlock that - at the foundation of Revolution Books (RB) - is the most advanced scientific theory and leadership for an actual revolution for the emancipation of... more

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