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Who Killed Jane Stanford?: A Gilded Age Tale of Murder, Deceit, Spirits and the Birth of a University
$19.95 Add to cartIn 1885 Jane and Leland Stanford cofounded a university to honor their recently deceased young son. After her husband’s death in 1893, Jane Stanford, a devoted spiritualist who expected the university
- Author: White, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: April 04 2023
- ISBN10: 1324064420
- Language: English
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The Grapes of Wrath
$21.00 Add to cartThe Pulitzer Prize-winning epic of the Great Depression, a book that galvanized–and sometimes outraged–millions of readers.
One of The Atlantic‘s Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years First p- Series: Critical Library, Viking
- Author: Steinbeck, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: January 08 2002
- ISBN10: 0142000663
- Language: English
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Welcome to Beach Town
$34.00 Add to cartBeloved New York Times bestselling author Susan Wiggs returns with a compulsively readable tale of an idyllic California beach town forced to reckon with scandal when a high school valedictorian’s spe
- Author: Wiggs, Susan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: June 20, 2023
- ISBN10: 0063090309
- Language: English
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The Crying of Lot 49
$16.99 Add to cartOne of The Atlantic‘s Great American Novels
“A puzzle, an intrigue, a literary and historical tour de force.” — San Francisco Examiner
The Crying of Lot 49 is Thomas Pynchon’s highly original classic s
- Author: Pynchon, Thomas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: October 01 2006
- ISBN10: 006091307X
- Language: English
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Murder by the Seashore
$31.99 Read morePerfect for fans of Jenn McKinlay and Ellery Adams, Scarlett Gardner’s dream was to open a bookshop in Southern California, but it soon becomes a nightmare when she finds the dead body of a customer–
- Series: A California Bookshop Mystery
- Author: Yew, Samara
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: October 17, 2023
- ISBN10: 1639104933
- Language: English
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Francisco
$14.95 Read moreAlison Mills Newman’s innovative, genre-bending novel has long been out of print and impossible to find. A “fluently funky mix of standard and nonstandard English,” as the poet and scholar Harryette M… [more below]
- Author: Mills Newman, Alison
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: March 07 2023
- ISBN10: 0811232395
- Language: English
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In the Beautiful Country
$9.99 Add to cartFor fans of Jasmine Warga and Thanhh? Lại, this is a stunning novel in verse about a young Taiwanese immigrant to America who is confronted by the stark difference between dreams and reality.
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- Author: Kuo, Jane
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: June 06 2023
- ISBN10: 0063118998
- Language: English
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The Red Pony
$12.00 Add to cartRaised on a ranch in northern California, Jody is well-schooled in the hard work and demands of a rancher’s life. He is used to the way of horses, too; but nothing has prepared him for the special con… [more below]
- Series: Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century
- Author: Steinbeck, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: February 1, 1993
- ISBN10: 0140177361
- Language: English
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52 Weekend Adventures in Northern California: My Favorite Outdoor Getaways
$21.99 Add to cartEscape to the great outdoors with award-winning expert Tom Stienstra’s 52 Weekend Adventures in Northern California. Inside you’ll find:
- The best weekend getaways, hand-picked by the authority on outd
- Series: Travel Guide
- Author: Stienstra, Tom
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 300
- Publish Date: September 15 2020
- ISBN10: 1640499342
- Language: English
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A to Z Mysteries Super Edition #8: Secret Admirer
$7.99 Add to cartIt’s Valentine’s Day in Green Lawn But Dink, Josh, and Ruth Rose just aren’t feeling the love this year.
Valentine’s Day was so much more fun when they were little. Then they each start getting mes- Series: A to Z Mysteries #8
- Author: Roy, Ron
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: December 22 2015
- ISBN10: 0553523996
- Language: English
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1st to Die
$19.99 Add to cartFour crime-solving friends face off against a killer in San Francisco in the Women’s Murder Club novel that started James Patterson’s thrilling series.
Each one holds a piece of the puzzle: Lindsay Bo- Series: Women’s Murder Club #1
- Author: Patterson, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: May 01 2005
- ISBN10: 0446696617
- Language: English
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Shell Beach
$26.00 Add to cartSet in the breathtaking coastal California town of Miramar Bay, this uplifting new novel from internationally bestselling author Davis Bunn celebrates the challenges and triumphs of new beginnings, fa
- Series: Miramar Bay
- Author: Bunn, Davis
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: April 25, 2023
- ISBN10: 149673470X
- Language: English
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Saving the Team
$7.99 Add to cartFrom star soccer player and Olympic gold medalist Alex Morgan comes the New York Times bestselling first book in an empowering, fun-filled middle grade series about believing in yourself and working a… [more below]
- Series: Kicks #01
- Author: Morgan, Alex
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: March 25, 2014
- ISBN10: 144248571X
- Language: English
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Dark Angel
$32.00 Add to cartThe second book featuring Letty Davenport, the tough-as-nails adopted daughter of Lucas Davenport, this time taking on an undercover case that brings her across the country–and into the most dangerou… [more below]
- Series: A Letty Davenport Novel
- Author: Sandford, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: April 25, 2023
- ISBN10: 0593676564
- Language: English
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Land of Broken Promises
$18.99 Add to cartTaiwanese immigrant Anna and her family make a shocking discovery that puts their American dreams at risk in this searing companion to In the Beautiful Country, which Gene Luen Yang called “vivid and
- Author: Kuo, Jane
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: June 6, 2023
- ISBN10: 0063119048
- Language: English
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Chinese Cinderella: The True Story of an Unwanted Daughter
$11.99 Add to cartMore than 800,000 copies in print!
From the author of critically acclaimed and bestselling memoir Falling Leaves, this is a poignant and moving true account of her childhood, growing up as an unlove… [more below]- Author: Mah, Adeline Yen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: September 14, 2010
- ISBN10: 0385740077
- 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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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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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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Fire in the Canyon
$27.00 Read moreA New Yorker Best Book of 2023
A new novel from National Book Award nominee Daniel Gumbiner about a California grape-grower, his family, and the climate disaster that upends their quiet lives. Since h- Author: Gumbiner, Daniel
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: October 03 2023
- ISBN10: 1662602421
- Language: English
