Christian Science Reading Room - Oakland, CA is a welcoming bookstore and quiet prayer and study space open to people of every faith. Visitors can read or purchase Bibles, Christian Science books and literature, Mary Baker Eddy's writings, weekly Bible Lessons, periodicals, and other spiritual resources. The Reading Room offers research archives, JSH-Online computer access, assistance from an on-duty librarian, special events, and Bible-reading gatherings.
This independent North Beach icon, founded by Beat writer-mentor Lawrence Ferlinghetti, goes beyond your average bookstore by shelving beat literature, anthologies, and fiction from Latin America, the Caribbean, the Middle East, Africa, Asia and much more. Experience San Francisco through the words written by some of the area's most famous, and sometimes hard-to-find, writers. The store has its own publishing house, City Lights, which has enriched the San Francisco community since 1953 by promoting emerging writers with an edge.
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We're a small and well-curated bookstore specializing in staff recommendations and children's books.
