Cultural Region/West Coast
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Nancy Silverton’s Breads from the La Brea Bakery: Recipes for the Connoisseur: A Cookbook
$36.00 Read moreA beautiful cookbook from the master baker of the brioche and creme fraiche custard that made Julia Child cry because, “It’s a dessert to cry [over]; it’s so good.”
The owner and chef of L.A.’s famous- Author: Silverton, Nancy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: March 05 1996
- ISBN10: 679409076
- Language: English
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Visions from San Francisco Bay
$20.00 Add to cartInterrelated essays by the Nobel Laureate on his adopted home of California, which Lewis Hyde, writing in The Nation, called “remarkable, morally serious and thought-provoking essays, which strive to
- Author: Milosz, Czeslaw
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: July 01 1983
- ISBN10: 0374517630
- Language: English
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Obata’s Yosemite: Art and Letters of Obata from His Trip to the High Sierra in 1927
$29.99 Add to cartChiura Obata, a gifted Japanese-born artist from California, made his first trip to Yosemite in 1927. The trip left a lasting impression in a remarkable collection of sketches, postcards, and letters…. [more below]
- Author: Obata, Chiura
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 156
- Publish Date: September 01 1993
- ISBN10: 0939666677
- Language: English
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Theatres in Los Angeles
$24.99 Add to cartLos Angeles and the movies grew up together, and a natural extension of the picture business was the premium presentation of the product–the biggest, best, and brightest theatres imaginable. The magn… [more below]
- Series: Images of America (Arcadia Publishing)
- Author: Cooper, Suzanne Tarbell
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: January 16 2008
- ISBN10: 0738555797
- Language: English
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San Francisco’s Bayview Hunters Point
$24.99 Add to cartIt’s hard to imagine cows walking up Third Street or sheep on Innes Avenue, yet a large portion of the area known today as Bayview Hunters Point was once extremely rural. Called Butchertown by locals,… [more below]
- Series: Images of America (Arcadia Publishing)
- Author: O’Brien, Tricia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: August 24 2005
- ISBN10: 0738530077
- Language: English
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Drama High: Hustlin’
$15.00 Add to cartA YALSA Quick Pick for Reluctant Young Adult Readers
Between Christmas, the annual Fall Festival, and baby-mama issues, South Bay High is vibrating with activity, excitement, and drama. . . The holida- Series: Drama High #07
- Author: Divine, L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: February 01 2009
- ISBN10: 0758231059
- Language: English
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West by West: My Charmed, Tormented Life
$21.99 Add to cartThe honest and powerful autobiography from basketball legend Jerry West is a must-read for fans of the game.
He is one of basketball’s towering figures: “Mr. Clutch,” who mesmerized his opponents an- Author: Coleman, Jonathan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: October 09 2012
- ISBN10: 0316053503
- Language: English
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Das Cookbook: German Cooking… California Style
$41.99 Add to cartA collection of Rockenwagner’s inventive German cooking with a California flair, featuring recipes from his popular California restaurants and bakeries.
- Author: Röckenwagner, Hans
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: October 14 2014
- ISBN10: 1938849337
- Language: English
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The Hillside Stranglers: The Inside Story of the Killing Spree That Terrorized Los Angeles
$21.99 Add to cart“A deeply disturbing book–cool, ironical, and ferocious.” –Thomas Flanagan, author of The Year of the French
For several weeks in the fall of 1977, Los Angeles was held hostage by fear as the body- Author: O’Brien, Darcy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 410
- Publish Date: October 31 2017
- ISBN10: 1504047885
- Language: English
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101 Hikes in Northern California: Exploring Mountains, Valleys, and Seashore
$21.95 Add to cartThis updated book highlights the 101 best hikes in Northern California, from family strolls to 22-mile treks.
- Series: 101 Hikes
- Author: Heid, Matt
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 376
- Publish Date: July 21 2015
- ISBN10: 0899977812
- Language: English
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Knott’s Berry Farm: The Early Years
$31.99 Add to cartBefore there was a Disneyland, there was Knott’s Berry Farm. What started out in the early 1920s as a small, roadside berry stand in Buena Park, California, grew over the next 60 years into one of the… [more below]
- Author: Jennings, Jay
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 130
- Publish Date: August 12 2009
- ISBN10: 1531645542
- Language: English
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Beach Eats: Favorite Surfside Recipes for Every Occasion
$30.00 Read moreCoastal Living shares over 100 tantalizing recipes inspired by the coast. With jaw-dropping scenic photography from seaside locales around the globe and cues for setting your own enticing scene, Beach… [more below]
- Author: The Editors of Coastal Living
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: May 09 2023
- ISBN10: 1957317248
- Language: English
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The Greens Cookbook: Extraordinary Vegetarian Cuisine
$39.95 Read moreThe Greens Cookbook is a rarity; it is a book that created a revolution in cooking when it first appeared in 1987. It has now become a classic and has been unavailable for many years. Here are the rec… [more below]
- Author: Madison, Deborah
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: July 25 2023
- ISBN10: 1911667483
- Language: English
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The L.A. Cookbook: Recipes from the Best Restaurants, Bakeries, and Bars in Los Angeles
$40.00 Add to cartFrom Boyle Heights to Malibu, Los Angeles is the most exciting food city in the United States. These 100 recipes from L.A.’s best chefs transport the California Dream to your table.
Blessed by the abun… [more below]- Author: Steingold, Alison Clare
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: March 20 2018
- ISBN10: 0847861678
- Language: English
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Guerrilla Tacos: Recipes from the Streets of L.A. [A Cookbook]
$30.00 Add to cartThe definitive word on tacos from native Angeleno Wes Avila, who draws on his Mexican heritage as well as his time in the kitchens of some of the world’s best restaurants to create taco perfection.
In… [more below]- Author: Avila, Wesley
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: October 10 2017
- ISBN10: 0399578633
- Language: English
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Water to the Angels: William Mulholland, His Monumental Aqueduct, and the Rise of Los Angeles
$19.99 Add to cartThe author of Last Train to Paradise tells the story of the largest public water project ever created–William Mulholland’s Los Angeles aqueduct–a story of Gilded Age ambition, hubris, greed, and one
- Author: Standiford, Les
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: August 11 2023
- ISBN10: 0062251457
- Language: English
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California Romantica
$50.00 Read moreCalifornia Romantica features the most important, yet rarely seen, residential exemplars of the California Mission and Spanish Colonial styles, by such noted architects as George Washington Smith, Wal… [more below]
- Author: Keaton, Diane
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: September 10 2019
- ISBN10: 0847864758
- Language: English
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L.A.’s Legendary Restaurants: Celebrating the Famous Places Where Hollywood Ate, Drank, and Played
$50.00 Add to cartL.A.’s Legendary Restaurants is an illustrated history of dozens of landmark eateries from throughout the City of Angels. From such classics as Musso & Frank and The Brown Derby in the 1920s to the se… [more below]
- Author: Geary, George
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: October 11 2016
- ISBN10: 1595800891
- Language: English
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Blackbird
$25.99 Add to cartWith the startling emotional immediacy of a fractured family photo album, Jennifer Lauck’s incandescent memoir is the story of an ordinary girl growing up at the turn of the 1970s and the truly extrao… [more below]
- Author: Lauck, Jennifer
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: September 01 2001
- ISBN10: 0671042564
- Language: English
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The New Homemade Kitchen: 250 Recipes and Ideas for Reinventing the Art of Preserving, Canning, Fermenting, Dehydrating, and More (Recipes for H
$35.00 Add to cartRevive the lost arts of fermenting, canning, preserving, and creating your own ingredients.The Institute of Domestic Technology Cookbook is a collection of 250 recipes, ideas, and methods for stocking… [more below]
- Author: Shuldiner, Joseph
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: June 02 2020
- ISBN10: 1452161194
- Language: English
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