Great white sharks bite bigtime just beyond the Golden Gate in The Devil’s Teeth (Henry Holt, $25), Susan Casey’s chilling account of a stint on and around that bloody buffet, the Farallones. … A billionaire’s son sniffs his stepmother’s panties in Oh the Glory of It All (Penguin, $25.95): Sean Wilsey’s stunning memoir, set mainly in San Francisco, is rich in many more ways than one. … Everything crashes into the Blockbuster Video in Bethesda, MD, and Jesus buffs out for the Post-Crucifixion Smackdown in Lauren R. Weinstein’s dazzlingly drawn comic collection Inside Vineyland (Alternative Comics, $5.95). … Boxes of condoms transform into choo-choo trains and rag dolls sunbathe in hot sand: Keith Morrison is a retrospective of the Jamaican-born painter’s dreamy, disturbing works, with text by Renée Alter (Pomegranate, $35). … Hell broke loose one April morning, then just kept on breaking, as Philip Fradkin recounts in The Great Earthquake and Firestorms of 1906 (University of California, $27.50), a horrifying history of a city nearly destroying itself. … It’s “Thumbelina” today, morphine tomorrow in Hans Christian Andersen (Overlook, $37.50), Jens Andersen’s sensitive new biography of the sad fairy-tale king.
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