Geographic Orientation/California
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The Last Season
$19.99 Add to cart“As Jon Krakauer did with Into the Wild, Blehm turns a missing-man riddle into an insightful meditation on wilderness and the personal demons and angels that propel us into it alone.” — Outside maga
- Series: P.S.
- Author: Blehm, Eric
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: February 01, 2007
- ISBN10: 0060583010
- Language: English
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The New Year Dragon Dilemma
$7.99 Add to cartZ was just the beginning With A to Z Mysteries(R) Super Editions, chapter book readers keep on collecting clues and solving mysteries with Dink, Josh, and Ruth Rose. Now with over 8 million copies in
- Series: A to Z Mysteries Super Editions #5
- Author: Roy, Ron
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: November 22, 2011
- ISBN10: 0375868801
- Language: English
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My Very Own Room / Mi Propio Cuartito
$11.95 Add to cartBilingual English/Spanish. Five brothers, two parents, and a house full of visiting relatives make a young Mexican American girl feel crowded.
Five little brothers, two parents, and a house full of vis
- Author: Irma Perez, Amada
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: March 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0892392231
- Language: Spanish
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Troublemaker
$8.99 Add to cartAn instant New York Times bestseller!
Troublemaker follows the events of the LA Riots through the eyes of 12-year
An Indiebound bestseller!
An Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature Honor Book!- Author: Cho, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: March 07 2023
- ISBN10: 0759554463
- Language: English
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Paletero Man/?Que Paletero Tan Cool!: Bilingual English-Spanish
$19.99 Add to cartWith the English and Spanish text side by side on the page, this bilingual edition of the vibrant picture book celebrating the strength of community and the tastes of summer is ideal for bilingual rea
- Author: Diaz, Lucky
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: 7-Jun-22
- ISBN10: 0063216353
- Language: Spanish
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Epic Athletes: Stephen Curry
$8.99 Add to cartIn Epic Athletes: Stephen Curry, acclaimed journalist and bestselling author Dan Wetzel tells the inspiring, electrifying story of the NBA superstar, beginning a new series of sports biographies for y
- Series: Epic Athletes #1
- Author: Wetzel, Dan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: August 04 2020
- ISBN10: 1250250625
- Language: English
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Where I Was from: A Memoir
$18.00 Add to cartFrom the bestselling, award-winning author of The Year of Magical Thinking In this “arresting amalgam of memoir and historical timeline” (The Baltimore Sun), Didion–a native Californian–reassesses p
- Series: Vintage International
- Author: Didion, Joan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: September 14, 2004
- ISBN10: 0679752862
- Language: English
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An American Genocide: The United States and the California Indian Catastrophe, 1846-1873
$22.00 Add to cartThe first full account of the government-sanctioned genocide of California Indians under United States rule
Winner of the 2016 Los Angeles Times Book Award for History and a New York Times Book Review- Series: The Lamar Western History
- Author: Madley, Benjamin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 520
- Publish Date: June 27, 2017
- ISBN10: 0300230699
- Language: English
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Tending the Wild: Native American Knowledge and the Management of California’s Natural Resources
$34.95 Add to cartA complex look at California Native ecological practices as a model for environmental sustainability and conservation.
John Muir was an early proponent of a view we still hold today–that much of Ca- Author: Anderson, M. Kat
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 558
- Publish Date: 10-Oct-13
- ISBN10: 0520280431
- Language: English
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Homemade Simple: Effortless Dishes for a Busy Life
$35.00 Read moreMore than 100 simple, healthy recipes to feed everyone in your family–from the picky eater to the voracious omnivore–by veteran cookbook author Amanda Haas, featuring full-color photographs by Kathl… [more below]
- Author: Haas, Amanda
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: October 24 2023
- ISBN10: 194948047X
- Language: English
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Cool Gray City of Love: 49 Views of San Francisco
$18.99 Read more“A kaleidoscopic homage both personal and historical . . . Kamiya’s symphony of San Francisco is a grand pleasure.” —New York Times Book Review
The bestselling love letter to one of the world’s great- Author: Kamiya, Gary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: October 14 2014
- ISBN10: 1620401266
- Language: English
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Tortilla Flat
$16.00 Add to cart“Steinbeck is an artists; and he tells the stories of these lovable thieves and adulterers with a gentle and poetic purity of heart and of prose.” –New York Herald Tribune
Adopting
A Penguin Classic- Series: Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century
- Author: Steinbeck, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: 1-Jun-97
- ISBN10: 0140187405
- Language: English
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Eleven Rings: The Soul of Success
$20.00 Add to cart“Through candor and comprehensiveness, Jackson writes a convincing revisionist take, in which he emerges as an excellent coach . . . highly readable . . . reflects Jackson’s polymathy.” —The New York… [more below]
- Author: Jackson, Phil
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: April 29 2014
- ISBN10: 0143125346
- Language: English
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This Is San Francisco: A Children’s Classic
$17.95 Read moreLet the rumbling cable car tell you the story And what a story: From the crookedest street in the world to the Peking ducks in Chinatown, San Francisco is easily one of the world’s most enchanting ci… [more below]
- Series: This Is . . .
- Author: Sasek, Miroslav
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 64
- Publish Date: May 30 2003
- ISBN10: 0789309629
- Language: English
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Al Capone Does My Shirts
$9.99 Add to cartThe Newbery Honor Book and New York Times Bestseller that is historical fiction with a hint of mystery about living at Alcatraz not as a prisoner, but as a kid meeting some of the most famous criminal… [more below]
- Series: Tales from Alcatraz #1
- Author: Choldenko, Gennifer
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: April 20 2006
- ISBN10: 0142403709
- Language: English
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Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore
$17.00 Add to cartThe New York Times Bestseller
A Winner of the Alex Award, a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for First Fiction, named a Best Book of the Year by NPR, Los Angeles Times, and San Francisco- Author: Sloan, Robin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: January 01, 1970
- ISBN10: 1250037751
- Language: English
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Valley of the Dolls
$20.00 Add to cartThe 50th Anniversary Edition of Jacqueline Susann’s All-Time Pop-Culture Classic
The perfect gift for any Valley fan or your favorite Doll, featuring a new cover design – introduction by Simon Doonan- Author: Susann, Jacqueline
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: July 04 2016
- ISBN10: 0802125344
- Language: English
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Pierre the Penguin: A True Story
$18.99 Read moreWhen Pierre, an African penguin living at the California Academy of Sciences, begins to lose his feathers, the zoo staff is at a loss as to what to do. The lack of feathers causes Pierre to lose warmt… [more below]
- Author: Marzollo, Jean
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: April 06 2010
- ISBN10: 1585364851
- Language: English
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Hollywood Babylon: The Legendary Underground Classic of Hollywood’s Darkest and Best Kept Secrets
$10.99 Add to cart“Kenneth Anger has fashioned a delicious . . . box of poisoned bonbons. Picking through the slag heap of the Hollywood dream factory, he] has put together a truly prodigious anthology of star-studded… [more below]
- Author: Anger, Kenneth
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: November 15 1981
- ISBN10: 0440153255
- Language: English
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Season of the Witch: Enchantment, Terror, and Deliverance in the City of Love
$21.99 Add to cartThe critically acclaimed, San Francisco Chronicle bestseller–a gripping story of the strife and tragedy that led to San Francisco’s ultimate rebirth and triumph.
Salon founder David Talbot chronicles- Author: Talbot, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: March 05, 2013
- ISBN10: 1439108242
- Language: English
