Geographic Orientation/California
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Everybody Had an Ocean: Music and Mayhem in 1960s Los Angeles
$18.99 Read more“Excellent social history…an indispensable account of a time of beauty and terror.” —Kirkus Reviews, starred review
A modern epic of the battles between innocence and cynicism, joy and terror Los- Author: McKeen, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: September 07 2021
- ISBN10: 1641605715
- Language: English
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Black Death at the Golden Gate: The Race to Save America from the Bubonic Plague
$17.95 Read moreOn March 6, 1900, the bubonic plague took its first victim on American soil: Chinese immigrant Wong Chut King. Empowered by racist pseudoscience, officials rushed to quarantine Chinatown–but when cor
- Author: Randall, David K.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: July 07 2020
- ISBN10: 0393358151
- Language: English
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Riot on Sunset Strip: Rock ‘n’ Roll’s Last Stand in Hollywood (Revised Edition)
$19.95 Add to cartOn the Sunset Strip in Los Angeles in 1965 and 1966 an electrifying scene appeared out of nowhere, exploded into creativity, and then, just as suddenly, vanished. So much remarkable music, art, and so
- Author: Priore, Domenic
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 408
- Publish Date: September 15 2015
- ISBN10: 1908279907
- Language: English
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Patina Farm
$40.00 Add to cartA new farm home blending modern lines and materials with French antiques.
When Brooke and Steve Giannetti decided to leave their suburban Santa Monica home to build a new life on a farm, they looked in
- Author: Giannetti, Brooke
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: March 08 2016
- ISBN10: 1423640462
- Language: English
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Infinite City: A San Francisco Atlas
$43.68 Add to cartWhat makes a place? Infinite City, Rebecca Solnit’s brilliant reinvention of the traditional atlas, searches out the answer by examining the many layers of meaning in one place, the San Francisco Bay … [more below]
- Series: Chairman’s Circle Books
- Author: Solnit, Rebecca
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 166
- Publish Date: November 29 2010
- ISBN10: 0520262492
- Language: English
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Silicon City: San Francisco in the Long Shadow of the Valley
$16.95 Read moreSan Francisco is changing at warp speed. Famously home to artists and activists, and known as the birthplace of the Beats, the Black Panthers, and the LGBTQ movement, the Bay Area has been reshaped by
- Author: McClelland, Cary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: November 19 2019
- ISBN10: 0393357430
- Language: English
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The Shirley Letters: From the California Mines, 1851-1852
$22.00 Add to cartThe Shirley Letters, written from the mining camps in 1851 and 1852, are something valuable and rare–a portrait by a woman of an era dominated by men. They offer a vivid picture of gold rush life, fr… [more below]
- Author: Clappe, Louise Amelia Knapp Smith
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 238
- Publish Date: January 01 1998
- ISBN10: 1890771007
- Language: English
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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 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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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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