Geographic Orientation/California
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Highway 99: The History of California’s Main Street
$22.95 Add to cartBefore it was a modern freeway, California’s State Highway 99 was “the main street of California,” a simple two-lane road that passed through the downtowns of every city between the Mexican border and… [more below]
- Series: California’s Historic Highways #1
- Author: Provost, Stephen H.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 270
- Publish Date: September 15 2017
- ISBN10: 1610352963
- Language: English
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The Anza Trail and the Settling of California
$24.00 Add to cartIn 1774, the Spanish viceroy of Mexico sent Juan Bautista de Anza, captain of the Presidio at Tubac (in what is now Arizona), to lead two expeditions: the first to find a safe overland route to Monter… [more below]
- Series: California Legacy Book
- Author: Guerrero, Vladimir
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: June 01 2006
- ISBN10: 1597140260
- Language: English
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The Complete Tassajara Cookbook: Recipes, Techniques, and Reflections from the Famed Zen Kitchen
$39.95 Add to cartFeaturing gourmet recipes from the renowned Zen retreat center, this vegetarian cookbook is a celebration of cooking, spirituality, and tradition
California’s Tassajara Zen Mountain Center has long b- Author: Brown, Edward Espe
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: May 24 2011
- ISBN10: 1590308298
- Language: English
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Lost Restaurants of Sacramento and Their Recipes
$33.99 Add to cartFrom saloons and tamale vendors to greasy spoons and neon-lit drive-ins, Sacramento natives Maryellen Burns and Keith Burns trace the trends of California’s capital city through 150 years of dining ou… [more below]
- Author: Burns, Maryellen
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 178
- Publish Date: June 11 2013
- ISBN10: 1540208249
- Language: English
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The Green Wall: The Story of a Brave Prison Guard’s Fight Against Corruption Inside the United States’ Largest Prison System
$14.95 Add to cartThe career of Donald “D.J.” Vodicka encompassed the rapid expansion of the prison system. For sixteen years, he was a prison guard in California’s highest security prisons, serving meals to gang leade… [more below]
- Author: Vodicka, D. J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: October 19 2009
- ISBN10: 1440140596
- Language: English
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Murder Over a Girl
$22.00 Add to cartIn February 2008, during first period English class at a junior high school in Oxnard, California, blue-eyed and blond fourteen-year-old Brandon McInerney shot and killed fifteen-year-old Larry King,
- Author: Corbett, Ken
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: March 14 2017
- ISBN10: 1250118158
- Language: English
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Drama High: Holidaze
$17.00 Add to cartIt’s almost Valentine’s Day at South Bay High, but romance is the last thing on Jayd Jackson’s mind. . .
If Cupid had his way, love would be in the air at South Bay High. But even though Valentine’s D
- Series: Drama High #9
- Author: Divine, L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: October 01 2009
- ISBN10: 0758231091
- Language: English
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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 Add to cartSince 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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Rock Me on the Water: 1974-The Year Los Angeles Transformed Movies, Music, Television, and Politics
$0.00 Read moreNew York Times Bestseller
Editors’ Choice —New York Times Book Review
In this exceptional cultural history, Atlantic Senior Editor Ronald Brownstein–“one of America’s best political journalists“ (The
- Author: Brownstein, Ronald
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: March 23, 2021
- ISBN10: 006289921X
- 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 Read moreThe 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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A Cross of Thorns: The Enslavement of California’s Indians by the Spanish Missions
$16.95 Add to cartThe Spanish missions of California have long been misrepresented as places of benign and peaceful coexistence between Franciscan friars and California Indians. In fact, the mission friars enslaved the… [more below]
- Author: Castillo, Elias
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: April 01 2017
- ISBN10: 1610353048
- Language: English
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Covered Wagon Women, Volume 4: Diaries and Letters from the Western Trails, 1852: The California Trail
$18.95 Add to cartIn 1852 a record number of women helped keep the wagons rolling over the perilous western trails. The fourth volume of Covered Wagon Women is devoted to families headed for California that year. Diari… [more below]
- Series: Covered Wagon Women #4
- Author: Holmes, Kenneth L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 303
- Publish Date: April 01 1997
- ISBN10: 080327291X
- Language: English
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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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Eternity Street: Violence and Justice in Frontier Los Angeles
$18.95 Read moreLos Angeles is a city founded on blood. Once a small Mexican pueblo teeming with Californios, Indians, and Americans, all armed with Bowie knives and Colt revolvers, it was among the most murderous lo
- Author: Faragher, John Mack
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 624
- Publish Date: February 28 2017
- ISBN10: 0393353656
- 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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