Geographic Orientation/California
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The Cable Car and the Dragon
$6.99 Read moreThis is the rollicking tale of the adventures of Charlie, the youngest cable car. Only sixty years old, he is tired of the same old rut. One night as he’s puffing himself up Nob Hill, he hears a lot o
- Author: Caen, Herb
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: March 01, 1995
- ISBN10: 0811810542
- Language: English
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The I-5 Killer
$10.99 Add to cartThe terrifying true crime story of the I-5 serial killer from Ann Rule, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Stranger Beside Me.
Randall Woodfield had it all. He was an award-winning studen- Author: Rule, Ann
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: March 01 1996
- ISBN10: 0451165594
- Language: English
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Within These Lines Softcover
$10.99 Add to cart“Within These Lines is a moving story of love, hope, and family set against the dark history of Japanese internment in America. This book had me captivated ” –Maureen McQuerry, YALSA award-winning au
- Author: Morrill, Stephanie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: December 03 2019
- ISBN10: 0310765218
- Language: English
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The 6th Target
$19.99 Add to cartWhen a horrifying attack leaves one of the Women’s Murder Club struggling for her life, the others fight to keep a madman behind bars before anyone else is hurt.
Lindsay Boxer and her new partner in th… [more below]- Series: Women’s Murder Club #6
- Author: Patterson, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: January 08 2008
- ISBN10: 446179515
- Language: English
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Between Us and Abuela: A Family Story from the Border
$18.99 Add to cartA unique holiday story about love overcoming the border fences between Mexico and the United States from a National Book Award nominee. A new must-read classic for Christmas!
It’s almost time for Chr- Series: Between Books
- Author: Perkins, Mitali
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: September 10 2019
- ISBN10: 0374303738
- Language: English
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The Way We Lived: California Indian Stories, Songs and Reminiscences
$20.00 Add to cart35th anniversary edition! Here, in their own words, Indigenous voices reclaim the narrative of California Indians.
“Their stories, here brilliantly illuminated by Margolin’s comments, contain beauty, h
- Author: Margolin, Malcolm
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: June 06 2017
- ISBN10: 1597143936
- Language: English
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Hitler in Los Angeles: How Jews Foiled Nazi Plots Against Hollywood and America
$19.99 Add to cartA 2018 FINALIST FOR THE PULITZER PRIZE
” Hitler in Los Angeles] is part thriller and all chiller, about how close the California Reich came to succeeding” (Los Angeles Times). No American city was mo- Author: Ross, Steven J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: March 05 2019
- ISBN10: 1620405636
- Language: English
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Someday Soon
$9.99 Add to cartFall in love with the first book in Debbie Macomber’s Deliverance Company series featuring a romance between a mercenary and a widow inexplicably drawn together.
Cain McClellan had chosen his lifestyle
- Author: Macomber, Debbie
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: May 25 2021
- ISBN10: 0063073706
- Language: English
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The Essential Oyster: A Salty Appreciation of Taste and Temptation
$35.00 Add to cartFrom Rowan Jacobsen, America’s go-to expert, the author of the trailblazing A Geography of Oysters, comes the ultimate oyster guide–a gorgeous, full-color, must-have book.
A decade ago, Rowan Jacobse- Author: Jacobsen, Rowan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: October 04 2016
- ISBN10: 1632862565
- Language: English
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Two Badges: The Lives of Mona Ruiz
$14.95 Add to cartThis engrossing memoir charts Ruiz’s journey toward self-identity, tracing the tortuous path of her life–a life in which Ruiz assumed contradictory roles: gang chola, high school drop-out, disowned d… [more below]
- Author: Ruiz, Mona Boucher
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: April 01 2005
- ISBN10: 155885455X
- Language: English
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The Future Once Happened Here: New York, D.C., L.A., and the Fate of America’s Big Cities
$15.95 Add to cartEach of Siegel’s three urban portraits–New York, Washington, D.C., and Los Angeles, — shows the desperate remedies undertaken by cities searching for a lifeline back to the future whose promise they… [more below]
- Author: Siegel, Fred
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 308
- Publish Date: February 01 2000
- ISBN10: 1893554104
- Language: English
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The Last Tycoon: An Unfinished Novel
$17.00 Add to cartFitzgerald’s last novel, published posthumously in 1941, was edited by Edmund Wilson, who attempted to polish the work to make it appear less like a work in progress. This version of the acclaimed Cam… [more below]
- Series: Scribner Classic
- Author: Fitzgerald, F. Scott
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: November 21 2023
- ISBN10: 1668047993
- Language: English
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Secret Stairs: A Walking Guide to the Historic Staircases of Los Angeles (Revised September 2020)
$16.95 Add to cartRevised and Updated in September 2020
Containing walks and detailed maps from throughout the city, Secret Stairs highlights the charms and quirks of a unique feature of the Los Angeles landscape, and- Author: Fleming, Charles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: April 01 2010
- ISBN10: 1595800506
- Language: English
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The Sea Forager’s Guide to the Northern California Coast
$25.00 Add to cartIn The Sea Forager’s Guide to the Northern California Coast, Kirk Lombard combines a startling depth of knowledge with wry humor and colorful storytelling to guide readers’ quests to hook fish, dig cl
- Author: Lombard, Kirk
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: October 01 2014
- ISBN10: 159714357X
- Language: English
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A to Z Mysteries Super Edition #11: Grand Canyon Grab
$7.99 Add to cartDink, Josh, and Ruth Rose get to the bottom of the Grand Canyon–and a mystery–in the eleventh A to Z Mysteries Super Edition
Dink, Josh, and Ruth Rose are visiting the Grand Canyon when they spot P- Series: A to Z Mysteries #11
- Author: Roy, Ron
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: March 05 2019
- ISBN10: 0525578862
- Language: English
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The Pastures of Heaven
$17.00 Add to cartA Penguin Classic
In Nobel Prize winner John Steinbeck’s beautifully rendered depictions of small yet fateful moments that transform ordinary lives, these twelve early stories introduce both the subje- Series: Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century
- Author: Steinbeck, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: April 01 1995
- ISBN10: 0140187480
- Language: English
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House of Sand and Fog
$17.99 Add to cartA recent immigrant from the Middle East–a former colonel in the Iranian Air Force–yearns to restore his family’s dignity in California. A recovering alcoholic and addict down on her luck struggles t
- Author: Dubus, Andre
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: October 02 2018
- ISBN10: 0393356345
- Language: English
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Nate the Great on the Owl Express
$6.99 Add to cartBeginning readers are introduced to the detective mystery genre in these chapter books. Perfect for the Common Core, kids can problem-solve with Nate, using logical thinking to solve mysteries!
All ab… [more below]- Series: Nate the Great Detective Stories
- Author: Sharmat, Marjorie Weinman
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: December 28 2004
- ISBN10: 0440419271
- Language: English
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The Wild Muir: Twenty-Two of John Muir’s Greatest Adventures
$12.99 Add to cartHere is an entertaining collection of famed conservationist John Muir’s most exciting adventures in nature, representing some of his finest writing. From the famous avalanche ride off the rim of Yosem… [more below]
- Author: Stetson, Lee
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: March 12 2013
- ISBN10: 1930238371
- Language: English
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Judgment of Paris: Judgment of Paris
$18.99 Add to cartThe only reporter present at the mythic Paris Tasting of 1976–a blind tasting where a panel of esteemed French judges chose upstart California wines over France’s best–for the first time introduces … [more below]
- Author: Taber, George M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: December 01 2006
- ISBN10: 0743297326
- Language: English
