Geographic Orientation/California
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Desperate Passage
$20.99 Add to cartIn late October 1846, the last wagon train of that year’s westward migration stopped overnight before resuming its arduous climb over the Sierra Nevada Mountains, unaware that a fearsome storm was gat… [more below]
- Author: Rarick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: July 08 2009
- ISBN10: 0195383311
- Language: English
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Mr. Wilson’s Cabinet of Wonder: Pronged Ants, Horned Humans, Mice on Toast, and Other Marvels of Jurassic Techno Logy
$16.95 Add to cartFinalist for Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction
Pronged ants, horned humans, a landscape carved on a fruit pit–some of the displays in
Finalist for National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction- Author: Weschler, Lawrence
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: November 26, 1996
- ISBN10: 0679764895
- Language: English
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Night + Market: Delicious Thai Food to Facilitate Drinking and Fun-Having Amongst Friends a Cookbook
$37.50 Add to cartIf you love to eat Thai food, but don’t know how to cook it, Kris Yenbamroong wants to solve your problems. His brash style of spicy, sharp Thai party food is created, in part, by stripping down tradi… [more below]
- Author: Yenbamroong, Kris
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 03 2017
- ISBN10: 0451497872
- Language: English
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The Black Ice
$19.99 Add to cartWhen an LAPD narcotics officer is found with a fatal bullet wound and a suicide note, Detective Harry Bosch follows a bloody trail of drug murders across the Mexico border.
Working the case, LAPD dete- Series: Harry Bosch Novel #2
- Author: Connelly, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: August 24 2021
- ISBN10: 1538737965
- Language: English
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The Boy Who Saved Baseball
$8.99 Read moreTom Gallagher is in a tight spot. The fate of the Dillontown team rests on the outcome of one baseball game, winner take all. If Tom’s team loses, they lose their field too. But how can they possibly … [more below]
- Author: Ritter, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: March 17 2005
- ISBN10: 0142402869
- Language: English
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The Drop
$19.99 Add to cartIn his fierce search for a new case, Detective Harry Bosch discovers a killer hiding behind suspicious DNA evidence — and a political conspiracy that could destroy the Los Angeles Police Department. … [more below]
- Series: Harry Bosch Novel #15
- Author: Connelly, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: July 02 2019
- ISBN10: 1538733404
- Language: English
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The Tortilla Curtain
$18.00 Add to cartT.C. Boyle’s tragicomic, award-winning novel about assimilation, immigration, and the price of the American dream
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“A masterpiece of contemporary social satire.” –The Wall Street Journal- Author: Boyle, T. C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: September 01 1996
- ISBN10: 014023828X
- Language: English
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Less Than Zero
$17.00 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – The timeless classic from the acclaimed author of American Psycho about the lost generation of 1980s Los Angeles who experienced sex, drugs, and disaffection at too early a… [more below]
- Series: Vintage Contemporaries
- Author: Ellis, Bret Easton
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: June 30 1998
- ISBN10: 0679781498
- Language: English
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Ghosts: A Graphic Novel
$25.99 Add to cartFrom Raina Telgemeier, the #1 New York Times bestselling, multiple Eisner Award-winning author of Smile, Drama, and Sisters
Catrina and her family are moving to the coast of Northern California becaus… [more below]
- Author: Telgemeier, Raina
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: September 13 2016
- ISBN10: 0545540615
- Language: English
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Who Killed Jane Stanford?: A Gilded Age Tale of Murder, Deceit, Spirits and the Birth of a University
$19.95 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: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: April 04 2023
- ISBN10: 1324064420
- Language: English
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Magician’s Assistant
$19.00 Add to cartFrom the bestselling author of The Dutch House, a secretive magician’s death becomes the catalyst for his partner’s journey of self-discovery in this “enchanting” book (San Francisco Chronicle) “that
- Author: Patchett, Ann
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: March 7, 2023
- ISBN10: 0156006219
- Language: English
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Delicious Disney: Disneyland: Recipes & Stories from the Happiest Place on Earth
$35.00 Add to cartA holistic look at the California resort’s culinary past, present, and future–all organically woven around diverse recipes from the Disney Chefs and fit for home chefs of varying skill levels.
Some o- Series: Delicious Disney
- Author: Brandon, Pam
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: November 07 2023
- ISBN10: 1368084133
- Language: English
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The Grapes of Wrath
$21.00 Add to cartThe Pulitzer Prize-winning epic of the Great Depression, a book that galvanized–and sometimes outraged–millions of readers.
One of The Atlantic‘s Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years First p- Series: Critical Library, Viking
- Author: Steinbeck, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: January 08 2002
- ISBN10: 0142000663
- Language: English
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Tanya Holland’s California Soul: Recipes from a Culinary Journey West [A Cookbook]
$35.00 Add to cart80+ comfort-filled recipes that trace the roots of modern California soul food to the Great Migration–from the acclaimed chef and author of Brown Sugar Kitchen.
“The new California Cuisine is Califo- Author: Holland, Tanya
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: October 25 2022
- ISBN10: 1984860720
- Language: English
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The Red Pony
$12.00 Add to cartRaised on a ranch in northern California, Jody is well-schooled in the hard work and demands of a rancher’s life. He is used to the way of horses, too; but nothing has prepared him for the special con… [more below]
- Series: Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century
- Author: Steinbeck, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: February 1, 1993
- ISBN10: 0140177361
- Language: English
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Secrets of the Oak Woodlands: Plants and Animals Among California’s Oaks
$22.00 Read moreA Next Generation Indie Book Award Finalist
”I love this book. It reads like a walk in the woods with the best naturalists.”–John Muir Laws
A Californian may vacation in Yosemite, Big Sur, or Death Va
- Author: Marianchild, Kate
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: August 12, 2013
- ISBN10: 159714262X
- Language: English
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Three Keys (Front Desk #2)
$17.99 Add to cartThe story of Mia and her family and friends at the Calivista Motel continues in this powerful, hilarious, and resonant sequel to the award-winning novel Front Desk.
Mia Tang thinks she’s going to have … [more below]
- Series: Front Desk
- Author: Yang, Kelly
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: September 15, 2020
- ISBN10: 133859138X
- Language: English
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A to Z Mysteries Super Edition #8: Secret Admirer
$7.99 Add to cartIt’s Valentine’s Day in Green Lawn But Dink, Josh, and Ruth Rose just aren’t feeling the love this year.
Valentine’s Day was so much more fun when they were little. Then they each start getting mes- Series: A to Z Mysteries #8
- Author: Roy, Ron
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: December 22 2015
- ISBN10: 0553523996
- Language: English
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Address Unknown
$16.99 Read moreA rediscovered classic and international bestseller that recounts the gripping tale of a friendship destroyed at the hands of Nazi Germany
In this searing novel, Kathrine Kressmann Taylor brings vivid
- Author: Taylor, Kathrine Kressmann
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: June 29, 2021
- ISBN10: 0063068494
- Language: English
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Showtime: Magic, Kareem, Riley, and the Los Angeles Lakers Dynasty of the 1980s
$21.00 Read moreThe New York Times bestselling author of Sweetness and Gunslinger delivers the first all-encompassing account of the 1980s Los Angeles Lakers, one of professional sports’ most-revered—and dominant—d… [more below]
- Author: Pearlman, Jeff
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: October 07 2014
- ISBN10: 1592408877
- Language: English
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