Geographic Orientation/California
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Eleven Rings: The Soul of Success
$20.00 Add to cart“Through candor and comprehensiveness, Jackson writes a convincing revisionist take, in which he emerges as an excellent coach . . . highly readable . . . reflects Jackson’s polymathy.” —The New York… [more below]
- Author: Jackson, Phil
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: April 29 2014
- ISBN10: 0143125346
- Language: English
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This Is San Francisco: A Children’s Classic
$17.95 Add to cartLet the rumbling cable car tell you the story And what a story: From the crookedest street in the world to the Peking ducks in Chinatown, San Francisco is easily one of the world’s most enchanting ci… [more below]
- Series: This Is . . .
- Author: Sasek, Miroslav
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 64
- Publish Date: May 30 2003
- ISBN10: 0789309629
- Language: English
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Al Capone Does My Shirts
$9.99 Add to cartThe Newbery Honor Book and New York Times Bestseller that is historical fiction with a hint of mystery about living at Alcatraz not as a prisoner, but as a kid meeting some of the most famous criminal… [more below]
- Series: Tales from Alcatraz #1
- Author: Choldenko, Gennifer
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: April 20 2006
- ISBN10: 0142403709
- Language: English
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Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore
$17.00 Add to cartThe New York Times Bestseller
A Winner of the Alex Award, a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for First Fiction, named a Best Book of the Year by NPR, Los Angeles Times, and San Francisco- Author: Sloan, Robin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: January 01, 1970
- ISBN10: 1250037751
- Language: English
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Valley of the Dolls
$20.00 Add to cartThe 50th Anniversary Edition of Jacqueline Susann’s All-Time Pop-Culture Classic
The perfect gift for any Valley fan or your favorite Doll, featuring a new cover design – introduction by Simon Doonan- Author: Susann, Jacqueline
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: July 04 2016
- ISBN10: 0802125344
- Language: English
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Pierre the Penguin: A True Story
$18.99 Read moreWhen Pierre, an African penguin living at the California Academy of Sciences, begins to lose his feathers, the zoo staff is at a loss as to what to do. The lack of feathers causes Pierre to lose warmt… [more below]
- Author: Marzollo, Jean
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: April 06 2010
- ISBN10: 1585364851
- Language: English
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Hollywood Babylon: The Legendary Underground Classic of Hollywood’s Darkest and Best Kept Secrets
$10.99 Add to cart“Kenneth Anger has fashioned a delicious . . . box of poisoned bonbons. Picking through the slag heap of the Hollywood dream factory, he] has put together a truly prodigious anthology of star-studded… [more below]
- Author: Anger, Kenneth
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: November 15 1981
- ISBN10: 0440153255
- Language: English
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Season of the Witch: Enchantment, Terror, and Deliverance in the City of Love
$21.99 Add to cartThe critically acclaimed, San Francisco Chronicle bestseller–a gripping story of the strife and tragedy that led to San Francisco’s ultimate rebirth and triumph.
Salon founder David Talbot chronicles- Author: Talbot, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: March 05, 2013
- ISBN10: 1439108242
- Language: English
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City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles
$21.95 Add to cartThis new edition of the visionary social history of Los Angeles is “as central to the L.A. canon as anything that . . . Joan Didion wrote in the seventies” (New Yorker)
No metropolis has been more lov- Series: Essential Mike Davis
- Author: Davis, Mike
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: July 17 2018
- ISBN10: 1786635895
- Language: English
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Front Desk (Front Desk #1) (Scholastic Gold)
$18.99 Add to cartFour starred reviews and over ten best-of-year lists!* “Many readers will recognize themselves or their neighbors in these pages.” — Kirkus Reviews, starred review
Winner of the Asian / Pacific Americ… [more below]
- Series: Front Desk #1
- Author: Yang, Kelly
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: January 01, 1970
- ISBN10: 1338157795
- Language: English
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Ham on Rye
$17.99 Add to cart“Wordsworth, Whitman, William Carlos Williams, and the Beats in their respective generations moved poetry toward a more natural language. Bukowski moved it a little farther.” –Los Angeles Times Book R
- Author: Bukowski, Charles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: July 29, 2014
- ISBN10: 006117758X
- Language: English
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Indian No More
$18.95 Read moreAmerican Indian Youth Literature Award Winner – American Indian Library Association
When Regina’s Umpqua tribe is legally terminated and her family must relocate from Oregon to Los Angeles, she goes on
- Author: Willing McManis, Charlene
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: September 24, 2019
- ISBN10: 1620148390
- Language: English
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Seen and Unseen: What Dorothea Lange, Toyo Miyatake, and Ansel Adams’s Photographs Reveal about the Japanese American Incarceration
$21.99 Add to cartThis important work of nonfiction features powerful images of the Japanese American incarceration captured by three photographers–Dorothea Lange, Toyo Miyatake, and Ansel Adams–along with firsthand
- Author: Tamaki, Lauren
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 132
- Publish Date: October 25, 2022
- ISBN10: 1452165106
- Language: English
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The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child
$16.95 Add to cartAfter dark in a Mexican border town, a father holds open a hole in a wire fence as his wife and two small boys crawl through.
So begins life in the United States for many people every day. And so begin
- Author: Jiménez, Francisco
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 146
- Publish Date: October 01 1997
- ISBN10: 0826317979
- Language: English
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Ask the Dust
$18.00 Add to cartAsk the Dust is a virtuoso performance by an influential master of the twentieth-century American novel. It is the story of Arturo Bandini, a young writer in 1930s Los Angeles who falls hard for the e
- Author: Fante, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: February 07, 2006
- ISBN10: 0060822554
- Language: English
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By the Great Hornspoon!
$8.99 Add to cartFor fans of I Survived and Dear America, this rollicking adventure about the California Gold Rush is a classic from the award-winning author of The Whipping Boy.
Jack’s aunt is in trouble–even afte- Author: Sid Fleischman Inc
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: April 30, 1988
- ISBN10: 0316286125
- Language: English
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Eight Hundred Grapes
$18.99 Add to cartFROM THE AUTHOR OF THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER THE LAST THING HE TOLD ME?
Heralded as “impossible to put down” (Elle), and named a Best Book of the Summer by Glamour, Good Housekeeping, Cosmopoli- Author: Dave, Laura
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: May 03, 2016
- ISBN10: 1476789282
- Language: English
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Post Office
$20.99 Add to cartCharles Bukowski’s classic roman ? clef, Post Office, captures the despair, drudgery, and happy dissolution of his alter ego, Henry Chinaski, as he enters middle age.
Post Office is an account of Bukow
- Author: Bukowski, Charles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: July 29 2014
- ISBN10: 0061177571
- Language: English
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Only in California: Weird and Wonderful Facts about the Golden State
$21.99 Add to cartThe first in a collection of state-by-state books from the best-selling 50 States series, Only in California! explores the most amazing sites, cities, history, and natural landscapes of the Golden Sta… [more below]
- Series: 50 States #1
- Author: Alexander, Heather
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 64
- Publish Date: August 02 2022
- ISBN10: 0711274045
- Language: English
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Efrén Divided
$9.99 Add to cartWinner of the Pura Belpr Award
“We need books to break open our hearts, so that we might feel more deeply, so that we might be more human in these unkind times. This is a book doing work of the spiri
- Author: Cisneros, Ernesto
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: June 08 2021
- ISBN10: 0062881698
- Language: English
