Cultural Region/West Coast
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Songs of Willow Frost
$18.00 Read moreNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
From Jamie Ford, author of the beloved Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet, comes a much-anticipated second novel. Set against the backdrop of Depression-era Seattle, Son- Author: Ford, Jamie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: March 11 2014
- ISBN10: 0345522036
- Language: English
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Death Claims
$15.00 Read moreCELEBRATING 50 YEARS OF DAVE BRANDSTETTER
Death claims investigator Dave Brandstetter enters a world thespians and booksellers as he uncovers the true story behind the death of a rare book dealer in t- Series: Dave Brandstetter Mystery
- Author: Hansen, Joseph
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: January 11 2022
- ISBN10: 1681990490
- Language: English
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Early Hollywood
$24.99 Read moreThe image of Hollywood often translates as some otherworldly dreamscape filled with fantastic lives and fantasy fulfillment. The real deal was carved from the Southern California desert as an outpost … [more below]
- Series: Images of America (Arcadia Publishing)
- Author: Wanamaker, Marc
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: October 29 2007
- ISBN10: 0738547921
- Language: English
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Rivers in the Desert: William Mulholland and the Inventing of Los Angeles
$18.99 Add to cartThe rise and fall of William Mulholland, and the story of L.A.’s disastrous dam collapse: “A dramatic saga of ambition, politics, money and betrayal” (Los Angeles Daily News).
Rivers in the Desert fol- Author: Davis, Margaret Leslie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 268
- Publish Date: August 19 2014
- ISBN10: 149763878X
- Language: English
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Hollywood Studios
$24.99 Read moreJust after the turn of the 20th century, the motion picture industry moved to the West Coast, and the largest land of make-believe was created in Hollywood, California. From the silent-era beginnings … [more below]
- Series: Postcard History
- Author: Dangcil, Tommy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: April 01 2007
- ISBN10: 0738547085
- Language: English
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Molly Moon Stops the World
$10.99 Add to cartMolly Moon is back–and this time she’s hypnotizing her way to the Academy Awards in Los Angeles
Along with Rocky and Petula the pug, Molly is tracking the sinister activities of American billionaire
- Series: Molly Moon #2
- Author: Byng, Georgia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 375
- Publish Date: April 12 2005
- ISBN10: 0060514159
- Language: English
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The Informers
$18.00 Add to cartFrom the New York Times bestselling author of American Psycho and Less Than Zero comes a nihilistic novel set in the early eighties that portrays a chilling descent into the abyss beneath L.A.’s gorge… [more below]
- Series: Vintage Contemporaries
- Author: Ellis, Bret Easton
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: August 01 1995
- ISBN10: 0679743243
- Language: English
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Pop’s Bridge
$19.99 Read moreThe Golden Gate Bridge. The impossible bridge, some call it. They say it can’t be built.
But Robert’s father is building it. He’s a skywalker–a brave, high-climbing ironworker. Robert is convinced hi- Author: Bunting, Eve
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: May 01 2006
- ISBN10: 0152047735
- Language: English
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Cruisin’ the Fossil Coastline: The Travels of an Artist and a Scientist Along the Shores of the Prehistoric Pacific
$35.95 Add to cartIn this long-awaited sequel Kirk Johnson and Ray Troll are back on a road trip–driving, flying, and boating their way from Baja, California to northern Alaska in search of the fossil secrets of North… [more below]
- Author: Johnson, Kirk R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 290
- Publish Date: September 01 2018
- ISBN10: 1555917437
- Language: English
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The Honeysuckle Cookbook: 100 Healthy, Feel-Good Recipes to Live Deliciously
$27.99 Read more100 crave-worthy, wholesome recipes and time-saving tips for busy home cooks from the founder and host of the Honeysuckle channel on YouTube.
The Honeysuckle Cookbook is stuffed with exciting ideas fo- Author: Lewis, Dzung
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: September 22 2020
- ISBN10: 0593135601
- Language: English
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Forever
$18.99 Add to cartBook 5 in the 5-book Christian fiction series that has sold over 1.5 million copies
A story about surviving tough times, about drawing strength and hope from family and deep faith, from Karen Kingsbury… [more below]
- Series: Baxter Family Drama–Firstborn #5
- Author: Kingsbury, Karen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: October 01 2011
- ISBN10: 1414349807
- Language: English
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Jesse
$11.99 Read moreIn this new edition of his first young adult novel, Gary Soto paints a moving portrait of seventeen-year-old Jesse, who has left his parents’ home to live with his older brother. These Mexican America… [more below]
- Author: Soto, Gary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: October 01 2006
- ISBN10: 0152054251
- Language: English
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Lola and the Boy Next Door
$13.99 Read moreLola Nolan is a budding costume designer, and for her, the more outrageous, sparkly, and fun the outfit, the better. And everything is pretty perfect in her life (right down to her hot rocker boyfrien… [more below]
- Author: Perkins, Stephanie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: July 09 2013
- ISBN10: 0142422010
- Language: English
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Crescent
$16.95 Read moreSirine, the heroine of this “deliciously romantic romp” (Vanity Fair) is thirty-nine, never married, and living in the Arab-American community of Los Angeles. She has a passion for cooking and works c
- Author: Abu-Jaber, Diana
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 398
- Publish Date: May 17 2004
- ISBN10: 0393325547
- Language: English
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What Makes Sammy Run?
$19.00 Read moreThe classic book that shaped two generations’ view of the movie business and introduced the archetypal Hollywood player Sammy Glick. He’s got a machete mouth and a genius for double-cross. As Budd Shu… [more below]
- Author: Schulberg, Budd
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: December 06 1993
- ISBN10: 0679734228
- Language: English
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Child of the Owl: Golden Mountain Chronicles: 1965
$9.99 Add to cartTwelve-year-old Casey is waiting for the day that Barney, her father, hits it big — ’cause when that horse comes in, he tells her, it’s the penthouse suite. But then hr ends up in the hospital, and C… [more below]
- Series: Golden Mountain Chronicles
- Author: Yep, Laurence
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: May 08 2001
- ISBN10: 006440336X
- Language: English
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The High Window
$17.00 Add to cartThe renowned novel from crime fiction master Raymond Chandler, with the “quintessential urban private eye” (Los Angeles Times), Philip Marlowe – Featuring the iconic character that inspired the film M… [more below]
- Series: Philip Marlowe Novel #3
- Author: Chandler, Raymond
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: June 18 2002
- ISBN10: 0394758269
- Language: English
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Fairyland: A Memoir of My Father
$16.95 Add to cartIn this vibrant memoir, Alysia Abbott recounts growing up in 1970s San Francisco with Steve Abbott, a gay, single father during an era when that was rare. Reconstructing their time together from a rem
- Author: Abbott, Alysia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: June 02 2014
- ISBN10: 0393348903
- Language: English
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The Model Bakery Cookbook: 75 Favorite Recipes from the Beloved Napa Valley Bakery (Baking Cookbook, Bread Baking, Baking Bible Cookbook)
$37.50 Read moreFeaturing Oprah’s 2016 Favorite Things English Muffins This definitive baking guide is the much-anticipated cookbook from the Model Bakery, a mother-daughter-run baking destination with a huge local … [more below]
- Author: Mitchell, Karen
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: September 17 2013
- ISBN10: 1452113831
- Language: English
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Chez Panisse Cafe Cookbook
$40.00 Add to cartWe hung the walls with old French movie posters advertising the films of Marcel Pagnol, films that had already provided us with both a name and an ideal: to create a community of friends, lovers, and
- Series: Chez Panisse
- Author: Waters, Alice L.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: August 25 1999
- ISBN10: 0060175834
- Language: English
