Heyday Books
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The California Sky Watcher: Understanding Weather Patterns and What Comes Next
$30.00 Add to cartRide across California on the back of the wind and learn about the dramatic impact that seasonal weather and climate change have on the Golden State.
Often stereotyped as the land of unflaggingly perfe
- Author: Selby, William A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: July 23 2024
- ISBN10: 1597146404
- Language: English
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Unnatural Habitat: The Native and Exotic Wildlife of Los Angeles
$24.00 Add to cartA guide to the ecosystem famously known as Los Angeles, from a field biologist and longtime San Gabriel Valley resident.
“A worthy and illuminating entry in the tradition of works exploring urbanizatio
- Author: Stanford, Craig
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: May 28 2024
- ISBN10: 1597146390
- Language: English
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California Snakes and How to Find Them
$22.00 Add to cartA herpetologist introduces budding snake enthusiasts to the wonders of California snakes.
“I’ve loved snakes since childhood and am thrilled to now have this gorgeous book as my companion to finding sn
- Author: Taylor, Emily
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: May 07 2024
- ISBN10: 159714634X
- Language: English
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Dear Miss Karana
$16.00 Add to cartWhile reading Island of the Blue Dolphins at school and learning about the real woman stranded on San Nicol s Island, ten-year-old T shmal begins writing emails to “Miss Karana” in hopes of talking to… [more below]
- Author: Elliott, Eric
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 126
- Publish Date: January 01 2016
- ISBN10: 1597143235
- Language: English
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Adopted by Indians: A True Story
$18.00 Add to cartThis book gives younger readers a close-up view of traditional California Indian life and early California. Thomas Jefferson Mayfield kept a wonderful secret for almost sixty years: the secret of his … [more below]
- Author: Mayfield, Thomas Jefferson
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: May 01 1997
- ISBN10: 0930588932
- Language: English
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The Bakersfield Sound: How a Generation of Displaced Okies Revolutionized American Music
$27.00 Add to cartIn California’s Central Valley, two thousand miles away from country music’s hit machine, the hard edge of the Bakersfield Sound transformed American music in the latter half of the twentieth century…. [more below]
- Author: Price, Robert E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: March 01 2018
- ISBN10: 1597144150
- Language: English
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Life in a California Mission: Monterey in 1786
$15.00 Read moreOn the afternoon of September 14, 1786, two French ships appeared off the coast of Monterey, the first foreign vessels to visit Spain’s California colonies. Aboard was a party of eminent scientists, n… [more below]
- Author: de la P?rouse, Jean Fran?ois
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: April 03 2018
- ISBN10: 0930588398
- Language: English
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Tell Me Something, Tell Me Anything, Even If It’s a Lie: A Memoir in Essays
$35.00 Add to cartAn exhilarating journey through the world of books, featuring personal reflections on Susan Sontag, Huey Newton, Barbra Streisand, W. G. Sebald, and Christopher Hitchens.
“A troublemaker of the good ki
- Author: Wasserman, Steve
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: October 08 2024
- ISBN10: 1597146471
- Language: English
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Bird of Four Hundred Voices: A Mexican American Memoir of Music and Belonging
$28.00 Add to cartFrom the founder of Los Cenzontles Cultural Arts Academy, a profoundly personal exploration of music’s power to build cultural bridges that last.
“I wish I had studied with Eugene Rodrigeuz when I was
- Author: Rodriguez, Eugene
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: August 06 2024
- ISBN10: 1597146447
- Language: English
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What Kind of Bird Can’t Fly: A Memoir of Resilience and Resurrection
$24.00 Add to cartA decade behind bars spurs fifty powerful years of political and legal battles for freedom and human rights.
“Whoever wants to assuage their doubts that radical change is possible–from the level of th
- Author: Nunn, Dorsey
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 376
- Publish Date: April 30 2024
- ISBN10: 1597146323
- Language: English
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Life After Manzanar
$28.00 Read moreFrom the editor of the award-winning Children of Manzanar, Heather C. Lindquist, and Edgar Award winner Naomi Hirahara comes a nuanced account of the “Resettlement” the relatively unexamined period wh… [more below]
- Author: Hirahara, Naomi
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: April 03 2018
- ISBN10: 1597144002
- Language: English
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The Shirley Letters: From the California Mines, 1851-1852
$22.00 Read moreThe Shirley Letters, written from the mining camps in 1851 and 1852, are something valuable and rare–a portrait by a woman of an era dominated by men. They offer a vivid picture of gold rush life, fr… [more below]
- Author: Clappe, Louise Amelia Knapp Smith
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 238
- Publish Date: January 01 1998
- ISBN10: 1890771007
- Language: English
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Alice: Memoirs of a Barbary Coast Prostitute
$28.00 Add to cartIn 1913 the San Francisco Bulletin published a serialized, ghostwritten memoir of a prostitute who went by the moniker Alice Smith. “A Voice from the Underworld” detailed Alice’s humble Midwestern upb… [more below]
- Author: Anderson, Ivy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: October 01 2016
- ISBN10: 1597143618
- Language: English
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The Anza Trail and the Settling of California
$24.00 Add to cartIn 1774, the Spanish viceroy of Mexico sent Juan Bautista de Anza, captain of the Presidio at Tubac (in what is now Arizona), to lead two expeditions: the first to find a safe overland route to Monter… [more below]
- Series: California Legacy Book
- Author: Guerrero, Vladimir
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: June 01 2006
- ISBN10: 1597140260
- Language: English
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The Cold Canyon Fire Journals: Green Shoots and Silver Linings in the Ashes
$30.00 Add to cartBraiding together illustration, observation, and reportage, artist and naturalist Robin Lee Carlson offers a watershed work that will forever change how we live with wildfire in the West.
When the natu… [more below]
- Author: Carlson, Robin Lee
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: August 02 2022
- ISBN10: 159714584X
- Language: English
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A Salad Only the Devil Would Eat: The Joys of Ugly Nature
$16.00 Add to cartA quirky and reverent romp through nature with an irreverently funny guide
In these wry and explosively funny essays, nature obsessive Charles Hood reveals his abiding affection for the overlooked an- Author: Hood, Charles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: November 02 2021
- ISBN10: 1597145459
- Language: English
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Bringing Our Languages Home: Language Revitalization for Families
$27.00 Add to cartThroughout the world individuals in the intimacy of their homes innovate, improvise, and struggle daily to pass on endangered languages to their children. Elaina Albers of Northern California holds a … [more below]
- Author: Hinton, Leanne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: March 01 2013
- ISBN10: 159714200X
- Language: English
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California’s Wild Coast: Poetry, Prints, and History
$40.00 Add to cartGold Medal Winner, California Book Awards
Winner, NCIBA Book of the Year Award
Winner, Northern California Book Reviewers Recognition Award
A show-stopping collaboration between artist Tom Killion & poet
- Author: Killion, Tom
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: July 14 2020
- ISBN10: 1597145076
- Language: English
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A Californian’s Guide to the Mammals Among Us
$32.00 Read moreAt its current tally of 212 species, California’s mammal list is the largest of all the United States’. This new guidebook joins its sister titles A Californian’s Guide to the Birds among Us and A Cal… [more below]
- Author: Hood, Charles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: April 02 2019
- ISBN10: 1597144436
- Language: English
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The Naturalist’s Illustrated Guide to the Sierra Foothills and Central Valley
$25.00 Add to cartCalifornia’s San Joaquin and Sacramento Valleys and the nearby Sierra Nevada Foothills are host to abundant, varied, and often surprising plants and wildlife. This fully illustrated guide pairs over s… [more below]
- Author: Madden, Derek
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: July 07 2020
- ISBN10: 159714486X
- Language: English
