Cultural Region/West Coast
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City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles
$21.95 Add to cartThis new edition of the visionary social history of Los Angeles is “as central to the L.A. canon as anything that . . . Joan Didion wrote in the seventies” (New Yorker)
No metropolis has been more lov- Series: Essential Mike Davis
- Author: Davis, Mike
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: July 17 2018
- ISBN10: 1786635895
- Language: English
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Ham on Rye
$17.99 Add to cart“Wordsworth, Whitman, William Carlos Williams, and the Beats in their respective generations moved poetry toward a more natural language. Bukowski moved it a little farther.” –Los Angeles Times Book R
- Author: Bukowski, Charles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: July 29, 2014
- ISBN10: 006117758X
- Language: English
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The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child
$16.95 Add to cartAfter dark in a Mexican border town, a father holds open a hole in a wire fence as his wife and two small boys crawl through.
So begins life in the United States for many people every day. And so begin
- Author: Jiménez, Francisco
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 146
- Publish Date: October 01 1997
- ISBN10: 0826317979
- Language: English
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Ask the Dust
$18.00 Add to cartAsk the Dust is a virtuoso performance by an influential master of the twentieth-century American novel. It is the story of Arturo Bandini, a young writer in 1930s Los Angeles who falls hard for the e
- Author: Fante, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: February 07, 2006
- ISBN10: 0060822554
- Language: English
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Downshiftology Healthy Meal Prep: 100+ Make-Ahead Recipes and Quick-Assembly Meals: A Gluten-Free Cookbook
$32.50 Add to cartDiscover an easier, more balanced way to meal prep as you whip up 100 fresh and healthy dishes that happen to be gluten-free, from the creator of the popular blog and YouTube channel Downshiftology.
- Author: Bryan, Lisa
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: December 06 2022
- ISBN10: 0593235576
- Language: English
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SanTana´s Fairy Tales
$15.00 Add to cartSanTana’s Fairy Tales is an oral history, storytelling project initiated by author Sarah Rafael GarcÃa, which integrates community-based narratives to create contemporary fairytales and fables that r
- Author: GarcÃa, Sarah Rafael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 190
- Publish Date: March 17, 2017
- ISBN10: 0692860304
- Language: English
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The Buddha in the Attic
$16.00 Add to cartNATIONAL BESTSELLER – PEN/FAULKER AWARD WINNER – The acclaimed author of The Swimmers and When the Emperor Was Divine tells the story of a group of young women brought from Japan to San Francisco as “… [more below]
- Series: Pen/Faulkner Award – Fiction
- Author: Otsuka, Julie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: March 20, 2012
- ISBN10: 0307744426
- Language: English
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Mama’s Bank Account
$18.99 Add to cartKathryn Forbes’s Mama’s Bank Account, based on childhood, is the bestselling book that inspired the play, film, and television series, and the Richard Rodgers musical, I Remember Mama.There is no mot… [more below]
- Series: Harvest/HBJ Book
- Author: Forbes, Kathryn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: March 20 1968
- ISBN10: 0156563770
- Language: English
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When the Emperor Was Divine
$17.00 Add to cartFrom the bestselling, award-winning author of The Buddha in the Attic and The Swimmers, this commanding debut novel paints a portrait of the Japanese American incarceration camps that is both a haunti… [more below]
- Author: Otsuka, Julie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: October 14 2003
- ISBN10: 0385721811
- Language: English
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East of Eden
$23.00 Add to cartA masterpiece of Biblical scope, and the magnum opus of one of America’s most enduring authors, in a deluxe Centennial edition
In his journal, Nobel Prize winner John Steinbeck called East of Eden “t- Series: Oprah’s Classics Book Club Selections
- Author: Steinbeck, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 608
- Publish Date: June 18 2003
- ISBN10: 0142004235
- Language: English
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Cannery Row
$18.00 Add to cartSteinbeck’s tough yet charming portrait of people on the margins of society, dependant on one another for both physical and emotional survival
A Penguin Classic Published in 1945, Cannery Row focuses- Series: Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century
- Author: Steinbeck, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: February 01 1994
- ISBN10: 0140187375
- Language: English
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The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts
$18.00 Add to cartNATIONAL BESTSELLER – An exhilarating blend of autobiography and mythology, of world and self, of hot rage and cool analysis. First published in 1976, it has become a classic in its innovative portray… [more below]
- Series: Vintage International
- Author: Kingston, Maxine Hong
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: April 23 1989
- ISBN10: 0679721886
- Language: English
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The Ranch Table: Recipes from a Year of Harvests, Celebrations, and Family Dinners on a Historic California Ranch
$40.00 Add to cartUSA TODAY BESTSELLER
From the star of Magnolia Network’s popular show Ranch to Table–a stunningly beautiful cookbook celebrating a year on a ranch on the California coast, featuring simple yet festive
- Author: Poett, Elizabeth
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 03 2023
- ISBN10: 0063257904
- Language: English
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Room to Dream (Front Desk #3)
$8.99 Add to cartNew York Times bestselling author Kelly Yang is back with another heartwarming and inspiring story of Mia and friends!
Mia Tang is going for her dreams!
After years of hard work, Mia Tang finally gets t
- Series: Front Desk
- Author: Yang, Kelly
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: May 02, 2023
- ISBN10: 1338621130
- Language: English
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Kasher in the Rye: The True Tale of a White Boy from Oakland Who Became a Drug Addict, Criminal, Mental Patient, and Then Turned 16
$19.99 Add to cart“The finest, most moving and powerful memoir I have ever read.”–MAYIM BIALIK
Rising young comedian Moshe Kasher is lucky to be alive. He started using drugs when he was just 12. At that point, he ha- Author: Kasher, Moshe
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: September 26, 2023
- ISBN10: 1538768739
- Language: English
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Play It as It Lays
$18.00 Add to cartA ruthless dissection of American life in the late 1960s, Joan Didion’s Play It as It Lays captures the mood of an entire generation, the ennui of contemporary society reflected in spare prose that bl
- Series: FSG Classics
- Author: Didion, Joan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: November 15, 2005
- ISBN10: 0374529949
- Language: English
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Odder
$16.99 Add to cartNow a #1 New York Times bestseller! A touching and lyrical tale about a remarkable sea otter, from Newbery Medalist Katherine Applegate, author of Wishtree.
Nobody has h
Meet Odder, the Queen of Play:- Author: Applegate, Katherine
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: September 20, 2022
- ISBN10: 1250147425
- Language: English
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The Tiger’s Apprentice
$9.99 Add to cartSoon to be an original animated movie streaming on Paramount+ beginning February 2, 2024, starring Henry Golding, Lucy Liu, Brandon Soo Hoo, Academy Award winner Michelle Yeoh, and Golden Globe winner
- Series: Tiger’s Apprentice #1
- Author: Yep, Laurence
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: February 02 2021
- ISBN10: 006305650X
- Language: English
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The Assassination of Robert F. Kennedy: Crime, Conspiracy and Cover-Up: A New Investigation
$18.99 Add to cartLonglisted for the People’s Book Prize 2018.
At 12.16am on Wednesday, June 5, 1968, Senator Robert F. Kennedy was shot and mortally wounded in the kitchen service pantry of the Ambassador Hotel, Los An
- Author: Tate, Tim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: March 04, 2021
- ISBN10: 1839012730
- Language: English
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The Sea Ranch: Fifty Years of Architecture, Landscape, Place, and Community on the Northern California Coast (Sea Ranch Illustrated C
$75.00 Add to cartOne hundred miles north of San Francisco, the Sonoma County coast meets the Pacific Ocean in a magnificent display of nature. This is the location of the Sea Ranch, an area covering several thousand a… [more below]
- Author: Lyndon, Donlyn
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 303
- Publish Date: November 12 2013
- ISBN10: 1616891777
- Language: English
