Geographic Orientation/California
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Find a Victim: A Lew Archer Novel
$18.00 Add to cartLas Cruces wasn’t a place most travelers would think to stop. But after private investigator Lew Archer plays the good samaritan and picks up a bloodied hitchhiker, he finds himself in town for a few … [more below]
- Series: Lew Archer #5
- Author: MacDonald, Ross
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 226
- Publish Date: August 14 2001
- ISBN10: 0375708677
- Language: English
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Latinos in Pasadena
$24.99 Read moreHistories of Pasadena are rich in details about important citizens, time-honored traditions, and storied enclaves such as Millionaires Row and Lamanda Park. But the legacies of Mexican Americans and o… [more below]
- Series: Images of America (Arcadia Publishing)
- Author: Martã-Nez, Roberta H.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: April 22 2009
- ISBN10: 0738569550
- Language: English
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Chasing Darkness
$10.99 Read moreElvis Cole is back in a desperate fight to clear his name in this spectacular thriller from Robert Crais, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of A Dangerous Man.
It’s fire season, and the hills o- Series: Elvis Cole Novels
- Author: Crais, Robert
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: January 26 2021
- ISBN10: 1982163828
- Language: English
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Learning in Public: Lessons for a Racially Divided America from My Daughter’s School
$18.99 Read moreThis “provocative and personally searching”memoir follows one mother’s story of enrolling her daughter in a local public school (San Francisco Chronicle), and the surprising, necessary lessons she lea
- Author: Martin, Courtney E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: August 16 2022
- ISBN10: 0316428272
- Language: English
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Front Desk
$15.99 Read moreFour starred reviews and over ten best-of-year lists!
* Many readers will recognize themselves or their neighbors in these pages. — Kirkus Reviews, starred review- Author: Yang, Kelly
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 407
- Publish Date: August 26 2021
- ISBN10: 1432893254
- Language: English
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Vendetta: Lucky’s Revenge
$8.99 Add to cartJackie Collins continues the saga of Lucky Santangelo in a nonstop, action-packed tale of sex, deceit, drugs, and murder. In this scorching sequel to the wildly popular Lucky series, Jackie Collins pl… [more below]
- Series: Lucky Santangelo #4
- Author: Collins, Jackie
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 624
- Publish Date: September 30 2008
- ISBN10: 0061012351
- Language: English
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Stanley Will Probably Be Fine
$12.99 Add to cartThis funny and moving second novel from the Schneider Award-winning author of The Fire, the Water, and Maudie McGinn features comic trivia, a safety superhero, and a super-cool scavenger hunt all over
- Author: Pla, Sally J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: April 02 2019
- ISBN10: 0062445804
- Language: English
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Outrage: The Five Reasons Why O. J. Simpson Got Away with Murder
$34.99 Add to cartHere is the account of the O. J. Simpson case that no one dared to write, that no one else could write. In this #1 New York Times bestseller, Vincent Bugliosi, the famed prosecutor of Charles Manson a
- Author: Bugliosi, Vincent
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: February 17 2008
- ISBN10: 0393330834
- Language: English
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Al Capone Does My Shirts
$18.99 Read moreMoose Flannagan moves with his family to Alcatraz so his dad can work as a prison guard and his sister, Natalie, can attend a special school. But Natalie has autism, and when she’s denied admittance t… [more below]
- Series: Tales from Alcatraz #1
- Author: Choldenko, Gennifer
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 228
- Publish Date: March 30 2004
- ISBN10: 0399238611
- Language: English
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Palm Springs
$24.99 Read moreNestled beneath the San Jacinto Mountains in an oasis of palm trees is a mineral hot springs. For thousands of years, this was the winter home of the Agua Caliente Band of Cahuilla Indians, the origin… [more below]
- Series: Images of America (Arcadia Publishing)
- Author: Henderson, Moya
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: February 09 2009
- ISBN10: 0738559822
- Language: English
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Spirits of San Francisco: Voyages Through the Unknown City
$28.00 Read moreA San Francisco Chronicle Bestseller
From two bestselling, prizewinning, and critically acclaimed contemporary chroniclers of San Francisco comes a ri
A Beat Most Anticipated Graphic Novel of Fall 2020- Author: Kamiya, Gary
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: October 20 2020
- ISBN10: 1635575885
- Language: English
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Chato Y Su Cena
$8.99 Read moreGanador del premio de ilustraci n Pura Belpr 1996
The Spanish edition of a modern classic. Chato can’t believe his luck. Not only is he the coolest low-riding cat in East L.A., but his brand-new neig- Author: Soto, Gary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: September 22 1997
- ISBN10: 0698116011
- Language: Spanish
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Five Marys Ranch Raised Cookbook: Homegrown Recipes from Our Family to Yours
$29.95 Read moreFeaturing 75 family-friendly recipes straight from the ranch, this is a “beautiful, candid, heartfelt window into the life, kitchen, and home of [a] wildly successful rancher and businesswoman” (Erin … [more below]
- Series: Five Marys
- Author: Heffernan, Mary
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: September 08 2020
- ISBN10: 1632173077
- Language: English
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California Fire and Life: A Suspense Thriller
$17.00 Read moreFROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE CARTEL.
Jack
When Jack Wade is called in to examine a suspicious arson claim, he follows the evidence into the crime infested inferno of the California underworld.- Author: Winslow, Don
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: September 04 2007
- ISBN10: 0307279855
- Language: English
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Songs of Willow Frost
$18.00 Read moreNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
From Jamie Ford, author of the beloved Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet, comes a much-anticipated second novel. Set against the backdrop of Depression-era Seattle, Son- Author: Ford, Jamie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: March 11 2014
- ISBN10: 0345522036
- Language: English
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Death Claims
$15.00 Read moreCELEBRATING 50 YEARS OF DAVE BRANDSTETTER
Death claims investigator Dave Brandstetter enters a world thespians and booksellers as he uncovers the true story behind the death of a rare book dealer in t- Series: Dave Brandstetter Mystery
- Author: Hansen, Joseph
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: January 11 2022
- ISBN10: 1681990490
- Language: English
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Stanley Will Probably Be Fine
$16.99 Read moreA New York Public Library Best Kids Book of 2018 * A Kirkus Best Book of 2018 * A Bank Street Best Children’s Book of 2019
This funny and moving second novel from the author of The Someday Birds featur
- Author: Pla, Sally J.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: February 06 2018
- ISBN10: 0062445790
- Language: English
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If You Were a Kid During the California Gold Rush (If You Were a Kid)
$7.95 Add to cartLearn how prospectors mined for gold, what life was like in mining camps, and much more.
In 1848, gold was discovered in a California river, kicking off a period of time when thousands of people travel… [more below]
- Series: If You Were a Kid
- Author: Gregory, Josh
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: February 01 2018
- ISBN10: 0531243125
- Language: English
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Early Hollywood
$24.99 Read moreThe image of Hollywood often translates as some otherworldly dreamscape filled with fantastic lives and fantasy fulfillment. The real deal was carved from the Southern California desert as an outpost … [more below]
- Series: Images of America (Arcadia Publishing)
- Author: Wanamaker, Marc
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: October 29 2007
- ISBN10: 0738547921
- Language: English
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Rivers in the Desert: William Mulholland and the Inventing of Los Angeles
$18.99 Add to cartThe rise and fall of William Mulholland, and the story of L.A.’s disastrous dam collapse: “A dramatic saga of ambition, politics, money and betrayal” (Los Angeles Daily News).
Rivers in the Desert fol- Author: Davis, Margaret Leslie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 268
- Publish Date: August 19 2014
- ISBN10: 149763878X
- Language: English
