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"Book Passage, which has two locations: one in the iconic San Francisco Ferry Building and the other in Corte Madera, just north of San Francisco, California."

The Dharma Bums
by Jack Kerouac

"The black bread was good, it had been baked by Sean Monahan's wife, Sean who had a shack in Corte Madera we could all go live in free of rent some day."

The Dharma Bums
by Jack Kerouac

"Meanwhile Japhy was waiting for me in his nice little shack in Corte Madera California."

The Dharma Bums
by Jack Kerouac

"Sean was a young carpenter who lived in an old wooden house far up a country road from the huddled cottages of Corte Madera, drove an old jalopy, personally added a porch to the back of the house to make a nursery for later children..."

The Dharma Bums
by Jack Kerouac

"I wondered what would ever happen if the cops in Corte Madera got wind of this and came roarin up the hill in their squad cars."

The Dharma Bums
by Jack Kerouac

"…till we could see vistas of Corte Madera and Mill Valley far away and even the red top of Golden Gate Bridge."

The Dharma Bums
by Jack Kerouac

"and it had that same unmistakable witches' tower shape Japhy had given it in his brush drawing of it that used to hang on the burlap wall in the flowery shack in Corte Madera."

The Dharma Bums
by Jack Kerouac

"It wasn't the real‐life Japhy of rucksacks and Buddhism studies and big mad parties at Corte Madera, and the little prayer of gratitude he had delivered to Sean's shack the day he sailed away."