Geographic Orientation/California
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City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles
$21.95 Add to cartThis new edition of the visionary social history of Los Angeles is “as central to the L.A. canon as anything that . . . Joan Didion wrote in the seventies” (New Yorker)
No metropolis has been more lov- Series: Essential Mike Davis
- Author: Davis, Mike
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: July 17 2018
- ISBN10: 1786635895
- Language: English
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Front Desk (Front Desk #1) (Scholastic Gold)
$18.99 Add to cartFour starred reviews and over ten best-of-year lists!* “Many readers will recognize themselves or their neighbors in these pages.” — Kirkus Reviews, starred review
Winner of the Asian / Pacific Americ… [more below]
- Series: Front Desk #1
- Author: Yang, Kelly
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: January 01, 1970
- ISBN10: 1338157795
- Language: English
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Ham on Rye
$17.99 Add to cart“Wordsworth, Whitman, William Carlos Williams, and the Beats in their respective generations moved poetry toward a more natural language. Bukowski moved it a little farther.” –Los Angeles Times Book R
- Author: Bukowski, Charles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: July 29, 2014
- ISBN10: 006117758X
- Language: English
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Indian No More
$18.95 Add to cartAmerican Indian Youth Literature Award Winner – American Indian Library Association
When Regina’s Umpqua tribe is legally terminated and her family must relocate from Oregon to Los Angeles, she goes on
- Author: Willing McManis, Charlene
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: September 24, 2019
- ISBN10: 1620148390
- Language: English
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Seen and Unseen: What Dorothea Lange, Toyo Miyatake, and Ansel Adams’s Photographs Reveal about the Japanese American Incarceration
$21.99 Add to cartThis important work of nonfiction features powerful images of the Japanese American incarceration captured by three photographers–Dorothea Lange, Toyo Miyatake, and Ansel Adams–along with firsthand
- Author: Tamaki, Lauren
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 132
- Publish Date: October 25, 2022
- ISBN10: 1452165106
- Language: English
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The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child
$16.95 Add to cartAfter dark in a Mexican border town, a father holds open a hole in a wire fence as his wife and two small boys crawl through.
So begins life in the United States for many people every day. And so begin
- Author: Jiménez, Francisco
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 146
- Publish Date: October 01 1997
- ISBN10: 0826317979
- Language: English
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Ask the Dust
$18.00 Add to cartAsk the Dust is a virtuoso performance by an influential master of the twentieth-century American novel. It is the story of Arturo Bandini, a young writer in 1930s Los Angeles who falls hard for the e
- Author: Fante, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: February 07, 2006
- ISBN10: 0060822554
- Language: English
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By the Great Hornspoon!
$8.99 Add to cartFor fans of I Survived and Dear America, this rollicking adventure about the California Gold Rush is a classic from the award-winning author of The Whipping Boy.
Jack’s aunt is in trouble–even afte- Author: Sid Fleischman Inc
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: April 30, 1988
- ISBN10: 0316286125
- Language: English
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Eight Hundred Grapes
$18.99 Add to cartFROM THE AUTHOR OF THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER THE LAST THING HE TOLD ME?
Heralded as “impossible to put down” (Elle), and named a Best Book of the Summer by Glamour, Good Housekeeping, Cosmopoli- Author: Dave, Laura
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: May 03, 2016
- ISBN10: 1476789282
- Language: English
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Post Office
$20.99 Add to cartCharles Bukowski’s classic roman ? clef, Post Office, captures the despair, drudgery, and happy dissolution of his alter ego, Henry Chinaski, as he enters middle age.
Post Office is an account of Bukow
- Author: Bukowski, Charles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: July 29 2014
- ISBN10: 0061177571
- Language: English
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Only in California: Weird and Wonderful Facts about the Golden State
$21.99 Add to cartThe first in a collection of state-by-state books from the best-selling 50 States series, Only in California! explores the most amazing sites, cities, history, and natural landscapes of the Golden Sta… [more below]
- Series: 50 States #1
- Author: Alexander, Heather
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 64
- Publish Date: August 02 2022
- ISBN10: 0711274045
- Language: English
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Efrén Divided
$9.99 Add to cartWinner of the Pura Belpr Award
“We need books to break open our hearts, so that we might feel more deeply, so that we might be more human in these unkind times. This is a book doing work of the spiri
- Author: Cisneros, Ernesto
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: June 08 2021
- ISBN10: 0062881698
- Language: English
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Paletero Man/¡Que Paletero Tan Cool!: Bilingual English-Spanish
$9.99 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: Paperback
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: June 07 2022
- ISBN10: 63216361
- Language: Spanish
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Downshiftology Healthy Meal Prep: 100+ Make-Ahead Recipes and Quick-Assembly Meals: A Gluten-Free Cookbook
$32.50 Add to cartDiscover an easier, more balanced way to meal prep as you whip up 100 fresh and healthy dishes that happen to be gluten-free, from the creator of the popular blog and YouTube channel Downshiftology.
- Author: Bryan, Lisa
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: December 06 2022
- ISBN10: 0593235576
- Language: English
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SanTana´s Fairy Tales
$15.00 Add to cartSanTana’s Fairy Tales is an oral history, storytelling project initiated by author Sarah Rafael GarcÃa, which integrates community-based narratives to create contemporary fairytales and fables that r
- Author: GarcÃa, Sarah Rafael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 190
- Publish Date: March 17, 2017
- ISBN10: 0692860304
- Language: English
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The Buddha in the Attic
$16.00 Add to cartNATIONAL BESTSELLER – PEN/FAULKER AWARD WINNER – The acclaimed author of The Swimmers and When the Emperor Was Divine tells the story of a group of young women brought from Japan to San Francisco as “… [more below]
- Series: Pen/Faulkner Award – Fiction
- Author: Otsuka, Julie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: March 20, 2012
- ISBN10: 0307744426
- Language: English
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Mama’s Bank Account
$18.99 Add to cartKathryn Forbes’s Mama’s Bank Account, based on childhood, is the bestselling book that inspired the play, film, and television series, and the Richard Rodgers musical, I Remember Mama.There is no mot… [more below]
- Series: Harvest/HBJ Book
- Author: Forbes, Kathryn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: March 20 1968
- ISBN10: 0156563770
- Language: English
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Locals Only: California Skateboarding 1975-1978
$24.95 Add to cartOne afternoon in 1975, a young photographer named Hugh Holland drove up Laurel Canyon Boulevard in Los Angeles and encountered skateboarders carving up the drainage ditches along the side of the canyo
- Author: Holland, Hugh
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 84
- Publish Date: May 01 2012
- ISBN10: 193442983X
- Language: English
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Donner Dinner Party (Nathan Hale’s Hazardous Tales #3): A Pioneer Tale
$15.99 Add to cartIn author-illustrator Nathan Hale’s Donner Dinner Party, discover the shocking and true story of the ill-fated expedition in this Hazardous Tale from the New York Times bestselling graphic novel serie
- Series: Nathan Hale’s Hazardous Tales
- Author: Hale, Nathan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: August 06, 2013
- ISBN10: 1419708562
- Language: English
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When the Emperor Was Divine
$17.00 Add to cartFrom the bestselling, award-winning author of The Buddha in the Attic and The Swimmers, this commanding debut novel paints a portrait of the Japanese American incarceration camps that is both a haunti… [more below]
- Author: Otsuka, Julie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: October 14 2003
- ISBN10: 0385721811
- Language: English
