Cultural Region/West Coast
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Nature Noir: A Park Ranger’s Patrol in the Sierra
$17.99 Add to cartA nature book unlike any other, Jordan Fisher Smith’s startling account of fourteen years as a park ranger thoroughly dispels our idealized visions of life in the great outdoors. Instead of scout troo
- Author: Smith, Jordan Fisher
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: June 30 2011
- ISBN10: 0618711953
- Language: English
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Roaring Camp: The Social World of the California Gold Rush
$29.99 Add to cartThe world of the California Gold Rush that comes down to us through fiction and film is one of half-truths. In this brilliant work of social history, Susan Lee Johnson enters the well-worked diggings
- Author: Johnson, Susan Lee
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 466
- Publish Date: December 17 2000
- ISBN10: 0393320995
- Language: English
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Vegan Soul Food Cookbook: Plant-Based, No-Fuss Southern Favorites
$24.99 Add to cartSoul food goes vegan–101 plant-based takes on comfort food classics
If you love classic soul food but are hungry for options that don’t rely on meat or dairy, the Vegan Soul Food Cookbook is here to d
- Author: Jenkins-El, Nadira
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 178
- Publish Date: September 14 2021
- ISBN10: 1638788111
- Language: English
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Eat. Cook. L.A.: Recipes from the City of Angels [A Cookbook]
$30.00 Add to cartAn intimate culinary portrait of Los Angeles today–a city now recognized among food lovers for its booming, vibrant, international restaurant landscape—with 100 recipes from its restaurants, juice b… [more below]
- Author: Crapanzano, Aleksandra
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: April 23 2019
- ISBN10: 0399580476
- Language: English
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Holy Land: A Suburban Memoir
$14.95 Read moreSince its publication in 1996, Holy Land has become an American classic. In “quick, translucent prose” (Michiko Kakutani, New York Times) that is at once lyrical and unsentimental, D. J. Waldie recoun
- Author: Waldie, D. J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: April 17 2005
- ISBN10: 0393327280
- Language: English
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The History of Forgetting: Los Angeles and the Erasure of Memory
$34.95 Add to cartAnalysis, photography and fiction combine in a bracing portrait of LA.
- Author: Klein, Norman M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: August 17 2008
- ISBN10: 1844672425
- Language: English
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East Bay Cooks: Signature Recipes from the Best Restaurants, Bars, and Bakeries
$32.99 Add to cartThe East Bay has always remained true to itself. It includes Oakland, the most ethnically diverse population in the nation; Berkeley, the birthplace of the Free Speech Movement; the island of Alameda … [more below]
- Author: Jung, Carolyn
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: September 10 2019
- ISBN10: 1773270664
- Language: English
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Nancy Silverton’s Breads from the La Brea Bakery: Recipes for the Connoisseur: A Cookbook
$36.00 Add to cartA 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 Add to cartThe 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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