Geographic Orientation/California
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Silver Screen Fiend: Learning about Life from an Addiction to Film
$17.00 Add to cartThe instant New York Times bestseller from author, comedian and actor Patton Oswalt, a “heartfelt and hilarious” (USA TODAY) memoir about coming of age as a performer during the late 1990s while obses… [more below]
- Author: Oswalt, Patton
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: October 13 2015
- ISBN10: 1451673221
- 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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Tinseltown: Murder, Morphine, and Madness at the Dawn of Hollywood
$21.99 Add to cartNew York Times Bestseller – Edgar Award winner for Best Fact Crime
The Day of the Locust meets The Devil in the White City and Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil in this juicy, untold Hollywood st
- Author: Mann, William J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: October 06 2015
- ISBN10: 0062242199
- 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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Wildflowers of California: A Month-By-Month Guide
$43.75 Add to cartIn this photograph-driven field guide to California’s spectacular wildflowers, Laird R. Blackwell expertly provides several ways to find them in bloom: by month, by place, and by flower. The month-by-… [more below]
- Author: Blackwell, Laird
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 588
- Publish Date: May 08 2012
- ISBN10: 520272064
- Language: English
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A People’s Guide to Los Angeles
$31.18 Read moreA People’s Guide to Los Angeles offers an assortment of eye-opening alternatives to L.A.’s usual tourist destinations. It documents 115 little-known sites in the City of Angels where struggles related… [more below]
- Series: People’s Guide
- Author: Pulido, Laura
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: April 23 2012
- ISBN10: 0520270819
- Language: English
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Who Killed Jane Stanford?: A Gilded Age Tale of Murder, Deceit, Spirits and the Birth of a University
$35.00 Add to cartIn 1885 Jane and Leland Stanford cofounded a university to honor their recently deceased young son. After her husband’s death in 1893, Jane Stanford, a devoted spiritualist who expected the university
- Author: White, Richard
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: May 17 2022
- ISBN10: 1324004339
- 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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We Got the Neutron Bomb: The Untold Story of L.A. Punk
$20.00 Add to cartTaking us back to late ’70s and early ’80s Hollywood–pre-crack, pre-AIDS, pre-Reagan–We Got the Neutron Bomb re-creates word for word the rage, intensity, and anarchic glory of the Los Angeles punk … [more below]
- Author: Spitz, Marc
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: November 13 2001
- ISBN10: 0609807749
- Language: English
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San Francisco’s Sunset District
$24.99 Add to cartLocated in the southwestern part of San Francisco, the Sunset District developed late because of its distance from downtown and because of the sand dunes that covered it for thousands of years. After … [more below]
- Series: Then & Now (Arcadia)
- Author: Ungaretti, Lorri
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: January 23 2012
- ISBN10: 0738589039
- Language: English
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Alta California: From San Diego to San Francisco, a Journey on Foot to Rediscover the Golden State
$18.95 Read moreThis national bestseller chronicles one man’s 650-mile trek on foot from San Diego to San Francisco–sure to appeal to readers of naturalist works like Edward Abbey’s Desert Solitaire, Paul Thoreau’s … [more below]
- Author: Neely, Nick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: June 09 2020
- ISBN10: 164009444X
- 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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Bugs of Northern California
$14.95 Read moreTelevion’s Nature Nut, John Acorn, teams up with nature illustrator Ian Sheldon to craft a witty and personable book about the myriad insects and arachnids found throughout the diverse habitats of Nor… [more below]
- Author: Acorn, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: March 04 2002
- ISBN10: 1551053209
- Language: English
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A Wall of White: The True Story of Heroism and Survival in the Face of a Deadly Avalanche
$17.99 Add to cartThis “mesmerizing tale of human courage and heroism” (Nando Parrado, author of Miracle in the Andes) follows the astonishing ordeal of survival during an avalanche in California.
In 1982, at the Alpi- Author: Woodlief, Jennifer
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: February 23 2010
- ISBN10: 1416546944
- 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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Drama High: Jayd’s Legacy
$15.00 Add to cartIt’s official: South Bay High’s finest, Jayd Jackson, and its coolest white boy, Jeremy Weiner, are a couple. And if that’s not enough interracial drama for South Bay’s mostly white, wealthy student b
- Series: Drama High #03
- Author: Divine, L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 226
- Publish Date: February 01 2007
- ISBN10: 0758216378
- Language: English
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Without Lying Down: Frances Marion and the Powerful Women of Early Hollywood
$31.95 Add to cartCari Beauchamp masterfully combines biography with social and cultural history to examine the lives of Frances Marion and her many female colleagues who shaped filmmaking from 1912 through the 1940s. … [more below]
- Author: Beauchamp, Cari
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 475
- Publish Date: April 23 1998
- ISBN10: 0520214927
- Language: English
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