Cultural Region/West Coast
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The Barbary Coast: An Informal History of the San Francisco Underworld
$21.99 Add to cartThe history of the Barbary Coast properly begins with the gold rush to California in 1849. If the precious yellow metal hadn’t been discovered . . . the development of San Francisco’s underworld in al… [more below]
- Author: Asbury, Herbert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: October 09 2002
- ISBN10: 1560254084
- Language: English
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G-Dog and the Homeboys: Father Greg Boyle and the Gangs of East Los Angeles
$24.95 Add to cartFather Gregory J. Boyle, SJ, is a native of Los Angeles, a Jesuit priest, and founder of Homeboy Industries, an economic development and jobs program begun in 1988 for at-risk and gang-involved youth.
- Author: Fremon, Celeste
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: January 09 2009
- ISBN10: 0826344852
- Language: English
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California: Living + Eating: Recipes Inspired by the Golden State
$32.50 Read moreCalifornia: Living + Eating is a glorious celebration of Californian food, looking at its history and origins and journeying through the state’s varied landscape, from Sonoma’s rolling vineyards to th… [more below]
- Author: Maidment, Eleanor
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: May 21 2019
- ISBN10: 1784882453
- Language: English
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Counter Intelligence: Where to Eat in the Real Los Angeles
$28.00 Add to cart“Gold changed American food writing.”–Time
The only food critic to win the Pulitzer Prize for criticism, Jonathan Gold pioneered a humanist’s approach to reviewing restaurants: COUNTER INTELLIGENCE c- Author: Gold, Jonathan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: December 01 2000
- ISBN10: 0312267231
- Language: English
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Lush Life: Food & Drinks from the Garden
$44.99 Add to cartA California Dream of a Cookbook
A 2023 Next Generation Indie Book Award Winner for Best Nonfiction Design
A 2023 Next Generation Indie Book Award Finalist for Best Cookbook
“A charming take on Californ
- Author: Rice, Valerie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: May 04 2021
- ISBN10: 1945551976
- Language: English
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The High Sierra: Peaks, Passes, Trails
$34.95 Add to cart**Please note we have a few edits and updates for THE HIGH SIERRA: Peaks, Passes, Trails, 3rd Ed. Please download the edits HERE so your copy reflects the appropriate changes and additions. Thank you… [more below]
- Author: Secor, R. J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 501
- Publish Date: February 01 2009
- ISBN10: 0898869714
- Language: English
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The Girl & the Fig Cookbook: More Than 100 Recipes from the Acclaimed California Wine Country Restaurant
$37.50 Add to cartIn 1997, Sondra Bernstein opened the doors to the first girl & the fig restaurant, showcasing her love of locally grown ingredients and her passion for French food. She named her restaurant for the fr… [more below]
- Author: Bernstein, Sondra
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: April 12 2004
- ISBN10: 0743255216
- Language: English
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The Fabulous Sylvester: The Legend, the Music, the Seventies in San Francisco
$24.00 Add to cartImagine a pied piper singing in falsetto, wearing sequins, and leading the young people of the nation to San Francisco and on to a liberation where nothing was straight-laced or old-fashioned. And eve
- Author: Gamson, Joshua
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: January 24 2006
- ISBN10: 0312425694
- Language: English
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Judgment of Paris: Judgment of Paris
$28.99 Add to cartThe only reporter present at the mythic Paris Tasting of 1976 for the first time introduces the eccentric American winemakers and records the tremendous aftershocks of this historic event that changed… [more below]
- Author: Taber, George M.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: September 27 2005
- ISBN10: 0743247515
- Language: English
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Malibu Farm Sunrise to Sunset: Simple Recipes All Day: A Cookbook
$40.00 Read moreThese 100 recipes will transport you to a breezy beach day, from sunrise breakfasts to celebrating under the stars, from the beloved Malibu Farm restaurant chef and owner.
Malibu Farm Sunrise to Sunset… [more below]- Author: Henderson, Helene
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: September 07 2021
- ISBN10: 0593138724
- Language: English
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Louie, Take a Look at This!: My Time with Huell Howser
$35.99 Add to cartEngaging tales from cameraman Luis Fuerte’s many years with Huell Howser, the exuberant, beloved host of PBS’s California’s Gold.
- Author: Fuerte, Luis
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: April 04 2017
- ISBN10: 194555102X
- Language: English
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Buried Onions
$10.99 Add to cartEddie’s father, two uncles, and best friend are all dead, and it’s a struggle for him not to end up the same way. Violence makes Fresno wallow in tears, as if a huge onion were buried beneath the city… [more below]
- Author: Soto, Gary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: December 01 2006
- ISBN10: 0152062653
- Language: English
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Karuk The Upriver People
$12.95 Add to cart- Author: Bell, Maureen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: June 25 2019
- ISBN10: 0879612096
- Language: English
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The Immigrants
$20.99 Add to cart“A most wonderful book…there hasn’t been a novel in years that can do a job on readers’ emotions that the last fifty pages of The Immigrants does.”–Los Angeles Times
The first book in bestselling au
- Author: Fast, Howard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: March 01 2010
- ISBN10: 140223791X
- Language: English
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Summer of the Big Bachi
$20.00 Add to cartIn the foothills of Pasadena, Mas Arai is just another Japanese-American gardener, his lawnmower blades clean and sharp, his truck carefully tuned. But while Mas keeps lawns neatly trimmed, his own li… [more below]
- Series: Mas Arai #1
- Author: Hirahara, Naomi
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: March 30 2004
- ISBN10: 0385337590
- Language: English
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2nd Chance
$33.00 Add to cartA brutal madman sprays bullets into a crowd of children leaving a San Francisco church. Miraculously-or was it intentionally?-only one person dies. Then an elderly black woman is hung. Police homicide… [more below]
- Series: Women’s Murder Club #2
- Author: Patterson, James
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: May 17 2007
- ISBN10: 0316695971
- Language: English
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Firestorm
$7.99 Read moreA raging forest fire in California’s Lassen Volcanic National Park traps exhausted firefighters, including Ranger Anna Pigeon, in its midst. Afterward, Anna finds two from her group have been killed. … [more below]
- Series: Anna Pigeon Novel #4
- Author: Barr, Nevada
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: April 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0425220389
- Language: English
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Frog Music
$24.99 Add to cartFrom the New York Times bestselling author of Room, a young French burlesque dancer living in San Francisco is ready to risk anything in order to solve her friend’s murder–but only if the killer does
- Author: Donoghue, Emma
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: February 24 2015
- ISBN10: 0316324671
- Language: English
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California Girl
$15.99 Add to cartThe Orange County, California, that the Becker brothers knew as boys is no more–unrecognizably altered since the afternoon in 1954 when Nick, Clay, David, and Andy rumbled with the lowlife Vonns, whi
- Author: Parker, T. Jefferson
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: July 28 2009
- ISBN10: 0061874892
- Language: English
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D Is for Deadbeat: A Kinsey Millhone Mystery
$36.00 Add to cartSue Grafton’s #1 New York Times bestselling series, reissued for a whole new generation of readers
D IS FOR DEADBEAT He called himself Alvin Limardo, and the job he had for Kinsey was cut-and-dried:- Series: Kinsey Millhone Mysteries (Hardcover) #4
- Author: Grafton, Sue
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 230
- Publish Date: May 15 1987
- ISBN10: 0805002480
- Language: English
