Cultural Region/West Coast
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Guerrilla Tacos: Recipes from the Streets of L.A. [A Cookbook]
$30.00 Add to cartThe definitive word on tacos from native Angeleno Wes Avila, who draws on his Mexican heritage as well as his time in the kitchens of some of the world’s best restaurants to create taco perfection.
In… [more below]- Author: Avila, Wesley
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: October 10 2017
- ISBN10: 0399578633
- Language: English
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Water to the Angels: William Mulholland, His Monumental Aqueduct, and the Rise of Los Angeles
$19.99 Add to cartThe author of Last Train to Paradise tells the story of the largest public water project ever created–William Mulholland’s Los Angeles aqueduct–a story of Gilded Age ambition, hubris, greed, and one
- Author: Standiford, Les
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: August 11 2023
- ISBN10: 0062251457
- Language: English
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California Romantica
$50.00 Read moreCalifornia Romantica features the most important, yet rarely seen, residential exemplars of the California Mission and Spanish Colonial styles, by such noted architects as George Washington Smith, Wal… [more below]
- Author: Keaton, Diane
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: September 10 2019
- ISBN10: 0847864758
- Language: English
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L.A.’s Legendary Restaurants: Celebrating the Famous Places Where Hollywood Ate, Drank, and Played
$50.00 Add to cartL.A.’s Legendary Restaurants is an illustrated history of dozens of landmark eateries from throughout the City of Angels. From such classics as Musso & Frank and The Brown Derby in the 1920s to the se… [more below]
- Author: Geary, George
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: October 11 2016
- ISBN10: 1595800891
- Language: English
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Blackbird
$25.99 Add to cartWith the startling emotional immediacy of a fractured family photo album, Jennifer Lauck’s incandescent memoir is the story of an ordinary girl growing up at the turn of the 1970s and the truly extrao… [more below]
- Author: Lauck, Jennifer
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: September 01 2001
- ISBN10: 0671042564
- Language: English
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The New Homemade Kitchen: 250 Recipes and Ideas for Reinventing the Art of Preserving, Canning, Fermenting, Dehydrating, and More (Recipes for H
$35.00 Add to cartRevive the lost arts of fermenting, canning, preserving, and creating your own ingredients.The Institute of Domestic Technology Cookbook is a collection of 250 recipes, ideas, and methods for stocking… [more below]
- Author: Shuldiner, Joseph
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: June 02 2020
- ISBN10: 1452161194
- Language: English
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Drama High: Jayd’s Legacy
$15.00 Add to cartIt’s official: South Bay High’s finest, Jayd Jackson, and its coolest white boy, Jeremy Weiner, are a couple. And if that’s not enough interracial drama for South Bay’s mostly white, wealthy student b
- Series: Drama High #03
- Author: Divine, L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 226
- Publish Date: February 01 2007
- ISBN10: 0758216378
- Language: English
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Without Lying Down: Frances Marion and the Powerful Women of Early Hollywood
$31.95 Add to cartCari Beauchamp masterfully combines biography with social and cultural history to examine the lives of Frances Marion and her many female colleagues who shaped filmmaking from 1912 through the 1940s. … [more below]
- Author: Beauchamp, Cari
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 475
- Publish Date: April 23 1998
- ISBN10: 0520214927
- Language: English
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Altamont: The Rolling Stones, the Hells Angels, and the Inside Story of Rock’s Darkest Day
$18.99 Add to cartIn this breathtaking cultural history filled with exclusive, never-before-revealed details, celebrated rock journalist Joel Selvin tells the definitive story of the Rolling Stones’ infamous Altamont c
- Author: Selvin, Joel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 374
- Publish Date: April 18 2023
- ISBN10: 0062444263
- Language: English
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140 Great Hikes in and Near Palm Springs, 25th Anniversary Edition
$26.95 Add to cartFor 25 years, the bestselling 140 Great Hikes in and near Palm Springs has served as a staple for anyone exploring the trails surrounding Palm Springs, California. This revised seventh edition, in hon… [more below]
- Author: Ferranti, Philip
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 284
- Publish Date: September 18 2020
- ISBN10: 1733332111
- Language: English
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Seashore of Southern California
$14.95 Add to cartDiscover the natural world of southern California’s coastline from Santa Barbara to the Mexican border. This spectacular pocket-sized guide to shoreline sealife is filled with color illustrations, eng… [more below]
- Series: Lone Pine Field Guides
- Author: Sheldon, Ian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: January 10 2007
- ISBN10: 1551052326
- Language: English
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Shasta Indian Tales
$7.95 Add to cartCharming tales for all ages, come from the storytelling heritage of the Shasta, an Indian tribe that lived in the presence o the highest mountain in Northern California. A variety of myths recount the… [more below]
- Author: Holsinger, Rosemary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 50
- Publish Date: October 01 2018
- ISBN10: 0879611294
- Language: English
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The High Sierra of California
$35.00 Add to cartThe High Sierra of California is a brilliant tribute to the bold, jagged peaks that have inspired generations of naturalists, artists, and writers. Using traditional Japanese and European woodcut tech… [more below]
- Author: Snyder, Gary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: September 01 2016
- ISBN10: 1890771996
- Language: English
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A Short History of San Francisco
$20.00 Add to cartThis is the story of San Francisco, a unique and rowdy tale with a legendary cast of characters. It tells of the Indians and the Spanish missions, the arrival of thousands of gold seekers and gamblers… [more below]
- Author: Cole, Tom
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: July 01 2014
- ISBN10: 1597142735
- Language: English
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Rain of Gold
$25.95 Read moreThis is the Hispanic Roots, an all-American story of poverty, immigration, struggle and success. It focuses on three generations of Villasenor’s kin, their spiritual and cultural roots back in Mexico,… [more below]
- Author: Villasenor
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 551
- Publish Date: January 01 1991
- ISBN10: 1558850309
- Language: English
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AMA: A Modern Tex-Mex Kitchen (Mexican Food Cookbooks, Tex-Mex Cooking, Mexican and Spanish Recipes)
$29.95 Read moreAn Eating the West Award Finalist 2020
Ama finds inspiration from regional Mexican cuisine and beyond with influences from the American South, Germany, Poland, and Morocco to help you bring more diver- Author: Centeno, Josef
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: October 01, 2019
- ISBN10: 1452155860
- Language: English
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The Forest Feast Gatherings: Simple Vegetarian Menus for Hosting Friends & Family
$45.00 Add to cartNew York Times bestselling author Erin Gleeson celebrates the art of vegetarian entertaining with The Forest FeastGatherings, a gorgeously illustrated cookbook packed with 100 brand-new simple vegetar… [more below]
- Author: Gleeson, Erin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: September 27 2016
- ISBN10: 141972245X
- Language: English
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L.A. Noir: The Struggle for the Soul of America’s Most Seductive City
$17.00 Add to cartNow the TNT Original Series MOB CITY
Midcentury Los Angeles. A city sold to the world as “the white spot of America,” a land of sunshine and orange groves, wholesome Midwestern values and Hollywood sta… [more below]- Author: Buntin, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: April 06 2010
- ISBN10: 0307352080
- Language: English
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Tartine All Day: Modern Recipes for the Home Cook [A Cookbook]
$40.00 Add to cartA comprehensive cookbook with 200 recipes for the way people want to eat and bake at home today, with gluten-free options, from James Beard Award-winning and best-selling author Elisabeth Prueitt, cof
- Author: Prueitt, Elisabeth
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: April 04 2017
- ISBN10: 039957882X
- Language: English
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Black Dahlia Avenger: A Genius for Murder: The True Story
$17.95 Add to cartA New York Times Bestseller For viewers of the hit Series I Am the Night and fans of the Root of Evil Podcast, the book that finally revealed the shocking identity of the Black Dahlia Killer–and the… [more below]
- Author: Hodel, Steve
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 550
- Publish Date: February 17 2015
- ISBN10: 1628724390
- Language: English
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