Uncertain what to get for people on your seasonal gift list? A trip to a local bookstore -- yes, a few remain -- will offer a trove of ideas. Here are few to get you started.

"Fairyland" is as much a memoir of the author's own life, as well as the story of San Francisco in the 1970s and 80s, especially queer bohemian life in the Haight Ashbury, and the AIDS epidemic.

The latest batch of erotic offerings from Berkeley-based Cleis Press includes an edgy, diverse collection of 22 lesbian sex tales expertly edited by award-winning New York author and sex educator Tristan Taormino.