Geographic Orientation/California
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Farewell, My Lovely
$16.00 Add to cartThe renowned novel from crime fiction master Raymond Chandler, with the “quintessential urban private eye” (Los Angeles Times), Philip Marlowe – Featuring the iconic character that inspired the film M… [more below]
- Series: Philip Marlowe Novel #2
- Author: Chandler, Raymond
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: June 12 2002
- ISBN10: 0394758277
- Language: English
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Becoming Naomi León (Scholastic Gold)
$8.99 Add to cartFrom Newbery Honoree and New York Times bestseller Pam Muñoz Ryan comes a gripping story about familial love, loyalty, and identity. Perfect for fans of Kate DiCamillo and Rita Williams-Garcia.
Schnei
- Author: Ryan, Pam Munoz
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: October 01 2005
- ISBN10: 0439269970
- Language: English
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City of Bones
$19.99 Add to cartWhen a dog unearths evidence of a murder in the Hollywood Hills, Detective Harry Bosch must tackle a cold case that sparks memories he’s tried to forget.
It’s a cold case, but for Detective Harry Bosch… [more below]- Series: Harry Bosch #8
- Author: Connelly, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: October 02 2006
- ISBN10: 0446699535
- Language: English
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Indian No More
$19.99 Add to cartNotable Children’s Book, Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC)
Editors’ Choices for Books for Youth, Booklist
Notable Books for a Global Society, International Literacy Association (ILA)- Author: McManis, Charlene Willing
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: July 12 2023
- ISBN10: 9798885789479
- Language: English
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The Best Land Under Heaven: The Donner Party in the Age of Manifest Destiny
$18.99 Add to cart“WESTWARD HO! FOR OREGON AND CALIFORNIA!”
In the eerily warm spring of 1846, George Donner placed this advertisement in a local newspaper as he and a restless caravan prepared for what they hoped wou
- Author: Wallis, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: May 29 2018
- ISBN10: 1631494007
- Language: English
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Ecology of Fear: Los Angeles and the Imagination of Disaster
$26.95 Add to cartA witty and engrossing look at Los Angeles’ urban ecology and the city’s place in America’s cultural fantasies
Earthquakes. Wildfires. Floods. Drought. Tornadoes. Snakes in the sea, mountain lions, an- Series: Essential Mike Davis
- Author: Davis, Mike
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: February 15 2022
- ISBN10: 1786636247
- Language: English
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Secret Stairs: East Bay: A Walking Guide to the Historic Staircases of Berkeley and Oakland (Revised September 2020)
$17.95 Add to cartRevised and Updated in September 2020
The hills of the East Bay contain one of the finest and densest urban hiking environments in the state of California–more than 400 paved pathways and public sta- Author: Fleming, Charles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: July 01 2011
- ISBN10: 1595800638
- Language: English
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California Native Gardening: A Month-By-Month Guide
$37.43 Add to cartThis is the first month-by-month guide to gardening with native plants in a state that follows a unique, nontraditional seasonal rhythm. Beginning in October, when much of California leaves the dry se… [more below]
- Author: Popper, Helen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: March 26 2012
- ISBN10: 520265351
- Language: English
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Calling the Doves / El Canto de Las Palomas
$11.95 Add to cartBilingual English/Spanish. Calling the Doves is Poet Laureate Juan Felipe Herrera’s story of his migrant farmworker childhood.
Calling the Doves is poet Juan Felipe Herrera’s story of his migrant farmw
- Author: Herrera, Juan Felipe
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: April 01 2014
- ISBN10: 0892391669
- Language: Spanish
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The Big Sleep
$17.00 Add to cartThe renowned novel from the crime fiction master, with the “quintessential urban private eye” (Los Angeles Times), Philip Marlowe. – Featuring the iconic character that inspired the film Marlowe, star… [more below]
- Series: Philip Marlowe Novel #1
- Author: Chandler, Raymond
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: July 12 1988
- ISBN10: 0394758285
- Language: English
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A Crack in the Edge of the World: America and the Great California Earthquake of 1906
$21.99 Add to cartThe international bestselling author of The Professor and the Madman and Krakatoa vividly brings to life the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake that leveled a city symbolic of America’s relentless western
- Author: Winchester, Simon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: October 10 2006
- ISBN10: 0060572000
- Language: English
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The Earth Dragon Awakes: The San Francisco Earthquake of 1906
$9.99 Add to cartOver the years the earth has moved many times under San Francisco. But it has been thirty-eight years since the last strong earthquake. People have forgotten how bad it can be. But soon they will reme
- Author: Yep, Laurence
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: March 25 2008
- ISBN10: 0060008466
- Language: English
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Escape from Alcatraz: The Mystery of the Three Men Who Escaped from the Rock
$12.99 Add to cartWhat’s more exciting than a prison break? Frank Morris and John and Clarence Anglin escaped from Alcatraz in 1962 and have never been caught. Many authorities are certain they died crossing San Franci… [more below]
- Series: Encounter: Narrative Nonfiction Stories
- Author: Braun, Eric
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: January 01 2017
- ISBN10: 151574552X
- Language: English
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The Drought-Defying California Garden: 230 Native Plants for a Lush, Low-Water Landscape
$19.99 Add to cartA must-have for every gardener in California looking for a new way to garden in a changing climate
In recent years California has been facing extreme drought, and in 2015 they passed state-wide water- Author: Rubin, Greg
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: April 06 2016
- ISBN10: 1604697091
- Language: English
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Under the Big Black Sun: A Personal History of L.A. Punk
$19.99 Add to cartUnder the Big Black Sun explores the nascent Los Angeles punk rock movement and its evolution to hardcore punk as it’s never been told before. John Doe of the legendary band X and co-author Tom DeSavi… [more below]
- Author: Doe, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: April 25 2017
- ISBN10: 0306825333
- Language: English
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The Program
$8.99 Add to cartThe series that started it all
In this powerful follow-up to his action-packed thriller The Kill Clause, Gregg Hurwitz, the new maestro of pulse-pounding suspense, ratchets up the excitement with anot
- Series: Tim Rackley Novels
- Author: Hurwitz, Gregg
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: August 30 2005
- ISBN10: 0060530413
- Language: English
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Let’s All Kill Constance
$9.99 Add to cartOn a dismal evening in the previous century, an unnamed writer in Venice, California, answers a furious pounding at his beachfront bungalow door and again admits Constance Rattigan into his life. An a
- Author: Bradbury, Ray
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: December 30 2003
- ISBN10: 0060561785
- Language: English
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Tartine Bread
$40.00 Add to cartThe definitive bread baking book from San Francisco’s legendary Tartine Bakery.
“The most beautiful bread book yet published.”—The New York Times From Chad Robertson, Winner, James Beard Award for O- Series: Tartine
- Author: Prueitt, Elisabeth
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: September 15 2010
- ISBN10: 0811870413
- Language: English
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Just Harriet
$19.99 Add to cartFrom the award-winning author of A Boy Called Bat comes a new young middle grade series in the tradition of Ramona and Clementine, starring an unforgettable girl named Harriet.
There are a few things y
- Author: Arnold, Elana K.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: February 01 2022
- ISBN10: 0063092042
- Language: English
