Geographic Orientation/California
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While Drowning in the Desert
$26.99 Read more30th Anniversary Edition with a new introduction by the author
Shamus Award winner and Edgar Award nominee Don Winslow combines breathless suspense, zany wit, and whiplash action in his latest novel fe
- Series: Neal Carey Mysteries #5
- Author: Winslow, Don
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 202
- Publish Date: December 05 2023
- ISBN10: 9.7982E+12
- Language: English
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Little Brother
$13.99 Add to cartMarcus, a.k.a “w1n5t0n,” is only seventeen years old, but he figures he already knows how the system works-and how to work the system. Smart, fast, and wise to the ways of the networked world, he has
- Series: Little Brother #1
- Author: Doctorow, Cory
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: April 13 2010
- ISBN10: 0765323117
- Language: English
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L.A. Son: My Life, My City, My Food
$35.00 Add to cartA memoir and cookbook from the creator of the gourmet Korean-Mexican taco truck Kogi, the star of Netflix’s “The Chef Show,” and the culinary advisor to Jon Favreau’s film “Chef.”
“Roy Choi sits at the
- Author: Choi, Roy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: November 05 2013
- ISBN10: 0062202634
- Language: English
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The Alcatraz Escape
$10.99 Read moreSleuthing duo Emily and James tackle their most challenging mystery yet set on the haunting Alcatraz Island in Book 3 of the New York Times-bestselling, middle-grade Book Scavenger series by Jennifer
- Series: Book Scavenger #3
- Author: Chambliss Bertman, Jennifer
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: May 07 2019
- ISBN10: 1250308704
- Language: English
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A to Z Mysteries Super Edition #10: Colossal Fossil
$7.99 Add to cartIn the tenth A to Z Mysteries Super Edition, Dink, Josh, and Ruth Rose have a sleepover . . . with a Spinosaurus!
It’s sleepover night at a science museum in Boston. Dink, Josh, and Ruth Rose can’t wa- Series: A to Z Mysteries #10
- Author: Roy, Ron
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: February 27 2018
- ISBN10: 0399551980
- Language: English
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Waiting for the Sun: A Rock & Roll History of Los Angeles
$29.98 Add to cartWAITING FOR THE SUN – A ROCK ‘N’ ROLL HISTORY OF LOS ANGELES
- Author: Hoskyns, Barney
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 454
- Publish Date: February 01 2009
- ISBN10: 0879309431
- Language: English
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The White Boy Shuffle
$19.00 Add to cart“A bombastic coming-of-age novel….The White Boy Shuffle has the uncanny ability to make readers want to laugh and cry at the same time.”–Los Angeles Times
The first novel from National Book Critics- Author: Beatty, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: September 07 2021
- ISBN10: 1250808235
- Language: English
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On Vegetables: Modern Recipes for the Home Kitchen
$49.95 Add to cartThe highly anticipated cookbook from Jeremy Fox, the California chef who is redefining vegetable-based cuisine with global appeal
Known for his game-changing approach to cooking with vegetables, Jeremy
- Author: Fox, Jeremy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: April 17 2017
- ISBN10: 071487390X
- Language: English
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To a God Unknown
$17.00 Add to cartA Penguin Classic
Ancient pagan beliefs, the great Greek epics, and the Bible all inform this extraordinary novel by Nobel Prize winner John Steinbeck, which occupied him for more than five difficult- Series: Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century
- Author: Steinbeck, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: August 01 1995
- ISBN10: 0140187510
- Language: English
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A Man Named Dave: A Story of Triumph and Forgiveness
$20.00 Add to cartA Man Named Dave, which has sold over 1 million copies, is the gripping conclusion to Dave Pelzer’s inspirational and New York Times bestselling trilogy of memoirs that began with A Child Called “It” … [more below]
- Author: Pelzer, Dave
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: September 05 2000
- ISBN10: 0452281903
- Language: English
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Inner City Hoodlum
$8.99 Add to cartJohnny Washington, a black teenager in Los Angeles, knows the freight yard like the back of his hand. He and his pals, Josh and Buddy, hit them often, stealing for a fence. They have to. They’re the s… [more below]
- Author: Goines, Donald
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: August 01 1992
- ISBN10: 0870679996
- Language: English
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Chez Panisse Cooking: A Cookbook
$26.00 Add to cart“Extraordinary,” “poetic,” and “inspired” are only a few words that have been used to describe the food at Chez Panisse. Since the first meal served there in 1971, Alice Waters’s Berkeley, California,… [more below]
- Author: Bertolli, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 456
- Publish Date: November 22 1994
- ISBN10: 0679755357
- Language: English
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Los Angeles Stories
$17.95 Add to cartA Los Angeles Times’s and Southern California Indie Bookseller Association’s Bestseller!
Los Angeles Stories is a collection of loosely linked, noir-ish tales that evoke a bygone era in one of America
- Series: City Lights Noir
- Author: Cooder, Ry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: October 04 2011
- ISBN10: 0872865193
- Language: English
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Imperial Bedrooms
$16.00 Read moreINTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER – The New York Times bestselling author of American Psycho delivers a riveting, tour-de-force sequel to Less Than Zero, set on the seedy side of Los Angeles. – “A haunting vis… [more below]
- Series: Vintage Contemporaries
- Author: Ellis, Bret Easton
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: May 03 2011
- ISBN10: 0307278697
- Language: English
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Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992
$18.00 Add to cartFrom an acclaimed playwright comes “an American masterpiece” (Newsweek) about the 1992 Los Angeles riots.
Twilight is a stunning work of “documentary theater” that explores the devastating human impac… [more below]- Author: Smith, Anna Deavere
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: March 15 1994
- ISBN10: 0385473761
- Language: English
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Pedro: The Angel of Olvera Street
$15.95 Read moreThis Caldecott Honor book from beloved children’s book author Leo Politi, originally published in 1946, is set on Olvera Street, the site of Los Angeles’ original Latino settlement, which is still pre… [more below]
- Author: Politi, Leo
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: October 20 2009
- ISBN10: 0892369906
- Language: English
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Night in the Lonesome October
$14.95 Add to cartEverything changed for Ed that day in the fall semester when he got a letter from Holly, the girl he loved. “Dear Ed,” it began, “I will always cherish the times we had…” Holly was in love with some
- Author: Laymon, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 346
- Publish Date: October 15 2013
- ISBN10: 1477839585
- Language: English
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San Diego Lowriders: A History of Cars and Cruising
$21.99 Read moreSan Diego’s unique lowrider culture and community has a long history of low and slow. Cruising the streets from 1950 to 1985, twenty-eight lowrider car clubs made their marks in the San Diego neighbor… [more below]
- Series: American Heritage
- Author: Reyes
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: April 10 2017
- ISBN10: 1467137804
- Language: English
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The House That Wasn’t There
$16.99 Read more“In this luminous story full of mystery and magic, Elana K. Arnold weaves a shimmering tapestry about the lovely and surprising ways we’re connected to each other. Heart-healing, hopeful, and wonderfu
- Author: Arnold, Elana K.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: March 30 2021
- ISBN10: 0062937065
- Language: English
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The Circuit
$18.99 Add to cart“‘La frontera’…I heard it for the first time back in the late 1940s when Papa and Mama told me and Roberto, my older brother, that someday we would take a long trip north, cross la frontera, enter C
- Series: Circuit #1
- Author: Jiménez, Francisco
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: October 25 1999
- ISBN10: 0395979021
- Language: English
