Cultural Region/West Coast
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Hawker Fare: Stories & Recipes from a Refugee Chef’s Isan Thai & Lao Roots
$39.99 Read moreFrom chef James Syhabout of two-Michelin-star restaurant Commis, an Asian-American cookbook like no other–simple recipes for cooking home-style Thai and Lao dishes
James Syhabout’s hugely popular Hawk
- Author: Syhabout, James
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: January 23 2018
- ISBN10: 0062656090
- Language: English
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Mas Alla de Mi: Reaching Out (Spanish Edition) = Reaching Out
$9.99 Read moreFrom the perspective of the young adult he once was, Francisco Jimenez describes the challenges he faces when continuing his education. During his college years, the very family solidarity that allows
- Series: Cajas de Carton #3
- Author: Jiménez, Francisco
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: September 01 2009
- ISBN10: 0547250312
- Language: Spanish
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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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Coastal Fishes of the Pacific Northwest
$29.95 Add to cartWritten by a marine biologist and illustrated in colour by a prizewinning underwater photographer, Coastal Fishes of the Pacific Northwest identifies each fish by its common name and is illustrated wi… [more below]
- Author: Lamb, Andy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: June 08 2010
- ISBN10: 1550174711
- 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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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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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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A Field Guide to Coastal Fishes: From Alaska to California
$28.95 Read moreA comprehensive, beautifully illustrated guide to West Coast marine fishes.
From the Arctic waters of Alaska to the southern tip of California, this fully illustrated guide captures the stunning divers
- Author: Kells, Valerie A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 376
- Publish Date: March 30 2016
- ISBN10: 1421418320
- 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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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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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
