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A San Francisco Chronicle bestseller! Beneath Oakland’s streets and underfoot of every scurrying creature atop them, rocks roil, shift, crash, and collide Read the rocks as only a geologist can, with this deep drill-down into Oakland’s geological history and its impacts on the city’s urban present.
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Cryptopedia — Oakland Public Library
Cryptopedia — Demcak, Andrew — Cryptopedia by Andrew Demcak speaks directly to the secret sides of our beings, to our shadow-selves. It is the oldest story we have, and it wants to be told. This collection comes from a place where children go missing, where monsters roam freely, and urban myths transform into realities.
The Edge of Fruitvale — Oakland Public Library
The Edge of Fruitvale — DaCosta, Rohan, — Poetry, prose, and photographs.
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Our brand illustration shows three layers: the foundation being built, the valley we're stuck in, and the world waiting above. Here's what it all means.
Kafkaesque Backrooms
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Caduceus City
The appearance of a thoroughly protocolized environment is, almost, the perfect cover for dark practices.
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New Topographics: photographs that find beauty in the banal
William Jenkins's 1975 exhibition rewrote the rules of landscape photography. Does it have the same impact today?
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