Geographic Orientation/California
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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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Sidewalking: Coming to Terms with Los Angeles
$21.18 Add to cartIn Sidewalking, David L. Ulin offers a compelling inquiry into the evolving landscape of Los Angeles. Part personal narrative, part investigation of the city as both idea and environment, Sidewalking … [more below]
- Author: Ulin, David L.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: October 06 2015
- ISBN10: 520273729
- Language: English
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The Most Dangerous Animal of All: Searching for My Father . . . and Finding the Zodiac Killer
$19.99 Add to cart“I promise that you’ve never read anything like The Most Dangerous Animal of All. Mesmerizing from the first page, the story includes a shattering surprise that will sear itself in your memory. Be pre
- Author: Stewart, Gary L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: August 11 2023
- ISBN10: 0062313177
- 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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My First Summer in the Sierra
$16.00 Add to cartMy First Summer in the Sierra presents Muir’s journal entries from his first long-term adventure in Yosemite and the surrounding area, when he helped drive a flock of sheep through the foothills towar… [more below]
- Author: Muir, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: April 01 2009
- ISBN10: 1597143391
- Language: English
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Perennials for Northern California
$22.95 Read morePerennial gardening can be easy, fun and rewarding, especially when you have this beautifully illustrated guide at your fingertips. With detailed accounts of 93 different perennials, along with inform… [more below]
- Author: Tanem, Bob
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 360
- Publish Date: February 27 2002
- ISBN10: 1551052512
- Language: English
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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 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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Tinseltown: Murder, Morphine, and Madness at the Dawn of Hollywood
$21.99 Read moreNew 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 Read moreIn 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 Add to cartA 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 Add to cartThis 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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