Cultural Region/West Coast
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The White Boy Shuffle
$19.00 Add to cart“A bombastic coming-of-age novel….The White Boy Shuffle has the uncanny ability to make readers want to laugh and cry at the same time.”–Los Angeles Times
The first novel from National Book Critics- Author: Beatty, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: September 07 2021
- ISBN10: 1250808235
- Language: English
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On Vegetables: Modern Recipes for the Home Kitchen
$49.95 Add to cartThe highly anticipated cookbook from Jeremy Fox, the California chef who is redefining vegetable-based cuisine with global appeal
Known for his game-changing approach to cooking with vegetables, Jeremy
- Author: Fox, Jeremy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: April 17 2017
- ISBN10: 071487390X
- Language: English
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Inner City Hoodlum
$8.99 Add to cartJohnny Washington, a black teenager in Los Angeles, knows the freight yard like the back of his hand. He and his pals, Josh and Buddy, hit them often, stealing for a fence. They have to. They’re the s… [more below]
- Author: Goines, Donald
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: August 01 1992
- ISBN10: 0870679996
- Language: English
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Chez Panisse Cooking: A Cookbook
$26.00 Add to cart“Extraordinary,” “poetic,” and “inspired” are only a few words that have been used to describe the food at Chez Panisse. Since the first meal served there in 1971, Alice Waters’s Berkeley, California,… [more below]
- Author: Bertolli, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 456
- Publish Date: November 22 1994
- ISBN10: 0679755357
- Language: English
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Los Angeles Stories
$17.95 Add to cartA Los Angeles Times’s and Southern California Indie Bookseller Association’s Bestseller!
Los Angeles Stories is a collection of loosely linked, noir-ish tales that evoke a bygone era in one of America
- Series: City Lights Noir
- Author: Cooder, Ry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: October 04 2011
- ISBN10: 0872865193
- Language: English
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A Field Guide to Coastal Fishes: From Alaska to California
$28.95 Read moreA comprehensive, beautifully illustrated guide to West Coast marine fishes.
From the Arctic waters of Alaska to the southern tip of California, this fully illustrated guide captures the stunning divers
- Author: Kells, Valerie A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 376
- Publish Date: March 30 2016
- ISBN10: 1421418320
- Language: English
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Imperial Bedrooms
$16.00 Read moreINTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER – The New York Times bestselling author of American Psycho delivers a riveting, tour-de-force sequel to Less Than Zero, set on the seedy side of Los Angeles. – “A haunting vis… [more below]
- Series: Vintage Contemporaries
- Author: Ellis, Bret Easton
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: May 03 2011
- ISBN10: 0307278697
- Language: English
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Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992
$18.00 Add to cartFrom an acclaimed playwright comes “an American masterpiece” (Newsweek) about the 1992 Los Angeles riots.
Twilight is a stunning work of “documentary theater” that explores the devastating human impac… [more below]- Author: Smith, Anna Deavere
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: March 15 1994
- ISBN10: 0385473761
- Language: English
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Pedro: The Angel of Olvera Street
$15.95 Read moreThis Caldecott Honor book from beloved children’s book author Leo Politi, originally published in 1946, is set on Olvera Street, the site of Los Angeles’ original Latino settlement, which is still pre… [more below]
- Author: Politi, Leo
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: October 20 2009
- ISBN10: 0892369906
- Language: English
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Night in the Lonesome October
$14.95 Add to cartEverything changed for Ed that day in the fall semester when he got a letter from Holly, the girl he loved. “Dear Ed,” it began, “I will always cherish the times we had…” Holly was in love with some
- Author: Laymon, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 346
- Publish Date: October 15 2013
- ISBN10: 1477839585
- Language: English
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Find a Victim: A Lew Archer Novel
$18.00 Add to cartLas Cruces wasn’t a place most travelers would think to stop. But after private investigator Lew Archer plays the good samaritan and picks up a bloodied hitchhiker, he finds himself in town for a few … [more below]
- Series: Lew Archer #5
- Author: MacDonald, Ross
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 226
- Publish Date: August 14 2001
- ISBN10: 0375708677
- Language: English
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Chasing Darkness
$10.99 Read moreElvis Cole is back in a desperate fight to clear his name in this spectacular thriller from Robert Crais, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of A Dangerous Man.
It’s fire season, and the hills o- Series: Elvis Cole Novels
- Author: Crais, Robert
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: January 26 2021
- ISBN10: 1982163828
- Language: English
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Learning in Public: Lessons for a Racially Divided America from My Daughter’s School
$18.99 Read moreThis “provocative and personally searching”memoir follows one mother’s story of enrolling her daughter in a local public school (San Francisco Chronicle), and the surprising, necessary lessons she lea
- Author: Martin, Courtney E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: August 16 2022
- ISBN10: 0316428272
- Language: English
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Front Desk
$15.99 Read moreFour starred reviews and over ten best-of-year lists!
* Many readers will recognize themselves or their neighbors in these pages. — Kirkus Reviews, starred review- Author: Yang, Kelly
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 407
- Publish Date: August 26 2021
- ISBN10: 1432893254
- Language: English
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Vendetta: Lucky’s Revenge
$8.99 Add to cartJackie Collins continues the saga of Lucky Santangelo in a nonstop, action-packed tale of sex, deceit, drugs, and murder. In this scorching sequel to the wildly popular Lucky series, Jackie Collins pl… [more below]
- Series: Lucky Santangelo #4
- Author: Collins, Jackie
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 624
- Publish Date: September 30 2008
- ISBN10: 0061012351
- Language: English
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Outrage: The Five Reasons Why O. J. Simpson Got Away with Murder
$34.99 Add to cartHere is the account of the O. J. Simpson case that no one dared to write, that no one else could write. In this #1 New York Times bestseller, Vincent Bugliosi, the famed prosecutor of Charles Manson a
- Author: Bugliosi, Vincent
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: February 17 2008
- ISBN10: 0393330834
- Language: English
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Spirits of San Francisco: Voyages Through the Unknown City
$28.00 Read moreA San Francisco Chronicle Bestseller
From two bestselling, prizewinning, and critically acclaimed contemporary chroniclers of San Francisco comes a ri
A Beat Most Anticipated Graphic Novel of Fall 2020- Author: Kamiya, Gary
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: October 20 2020
- ISBN10: 1635575885
- Language: English
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Chato Y Su Cena
$8.99 Read moreGanador del premio de ilustraci n Pura Belpr 1996
The Spanish edition of a modern classic. Chato can’t believe his luck. Not only is he the coolest low-riding cat in East L.A., but his brand-new neig- Author: Soto, Gary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: September 22 1997
- ISBN10: 0698116011
- Language: Spanish
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Five Marys Ranch Raised Cookbook: Homegrown Recipes from Our Family to Yours
$29.95 Read moreFeaturing 75 family-friendly recipes straight from the ranch, this is a “beautiful, candid, heartfelt window into the life, kitchen, and home of [a] wildly successful rancher and businesswoman” (Erin … [more below]
- Series: Five Marys
- Author: Heffernan, Mary
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: September 08 2020
- ISBN10: 1632173077
- Language: English
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California Fire and Life: A Suspense Thriller
$17.00 Read moreFROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE CARTEL.
Jack
When Jack Wade is called in to examine a suspicious arson claim, he follows the evidence into the crime infested inferno of the California underworld.- Author: Winslow, Don
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: September 04 2007
- ISBN10: 0307279855
- Language: English
