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Beth Winegarner is a journalist and author who has written for the New Yorker, The New York Times, The Guardian, Wired, Mother Jones, and many others. Her books include "Tenacity: Heavy Metal in the Middle East and Africa," "The Columbine Effect," "Sacred Sonoma," and "San Francisco's Forgotten Cemeteries: A Buried History." ...more

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Lost SF landmarks I discovered while writing 'San Francisco's Forgotten Cemeteries'

My book “San Francisco’s Forgotten Cemeteries: A Buried History” just celebrated its first birthday on August 28. It’s full of so much information and trivia about the city, but I learned many more things that I had to leave out because they didn’t have anything to do with burying the dead. Here are a few of those discoveries.

1. The Bay-side waterfront looked very different before the 1850s

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	The Columbine Effect: How five teen pastimes got caught in the crossfire and why teens are taking them back really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 22 ratings — published 2013 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	Have Milk, Will Travel: Adventures in Breastfeeding by Rachel Epp Buller (Editor), Anna Braff (Contributor), Jessica Claire Haney (Contributor) 4.56 avg rating — 18 ratings — published 2013 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	Sacred Sonoma: Sacred Sites and Alignments in Sonoma County, California 4.40 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 2007	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Tenacity: Heavy Metal in the Middle East and Africa 3.83 avg rating — 6 ratings — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Read the Music 4.67 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2006	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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“Bran thought about it. 'Can a man still be brave if he's afraid?'
'That is the only time a man can be brave,' his father told him.”
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