Geographic Orientation/California
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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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San Diego Lowriders: A History of Cars and Cruising
$21.99 Read moreSan Diego’s unique lowrider culture and community has a long history of low and slow. Cruising the streets from 1950 to 1985, twenty-eight lowrider car clubs made their marks in the San Diego neighbor… [more below]
- Series: American Heritage
- Author: Reyes
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: April 10 2017
- ISBN10: 1467137804
- Language: English
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The House That Wasn’t There
$16.99 Read more“In this luminous story full of mystery and magic, Elana K. Arnold weaves a shimmering tapestry about the lovely and surprising ways we’re connected to each other. Heart-healing, hopeful, and wonderfu
- Author: Arnold, Elana K.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: March 30 2021
- ISBN10: 0062937065
- Language: English
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The Circuit
$18.99 Read more“‘La frontera’…I heard it for the first time back in the late 1940s when Papa and Mama told me and Roberto, my older brother, that someday we would take a long trip north, cross la frontera, enter C
- Series: Circuit #1
- Author: Jiménez, Francisco
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: October 25 1999
- ISBN10: 0395979021
- 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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Latinos in Pasadena
$24.99 Read moreHistories of Pasadena are rich in details about important citizens, time-honored traditions, and storied enclaves such as Millionaires Row and Lamanda Park. But the legacies of Mexican Americans and o… [more below]
- Series: Images of America (Arcadia Publishing)
- Author: Martã-Nez, Roberta H.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: April 22 2009
- ISBN10: 0738569550
- Language: English
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Chasing Darkness
$10.99 Add to cartElvis 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 Add to cartThis “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
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Front Desk
$20.00 Read moreFour starred reviews and over ten best-of-year lists!
* Many readers will recognize themselves or their neighbors in these pages. — Kirkus Reviews, starred review- Author: Yang, Kelly
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 407
- Publish Date: August 26 2021
- ISBN10: 1432893254
- Language: English
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Vendetta: Lucky’s Revenge
$8.99 Read moreJackie Collins continues the saga of Lucky Santangelo in a nonstop, action-packed tale of sex, deceit, drugs, and murder. In this scorching sequel to the wildly popular Lucky series, Jackie Collins pl… [more below]
- Series: Lucky Santangelo #4
- Author: Collins, Jackie
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 624
- Publish Date: September 30 2008
- ISBN10: 0061012351
- Language: English
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Stanley Will Probably Be Fine
$12.99 Add to cartThis funny and moving second novel from the Schneider Award-winning author of The Fire, the Water, and Maudie McGinn features comic trivia, a safety superhero, and a super-cool scavenger hunt all over
- Author: Pla, Sally J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: April 02 2019
- ISBN10: 0062445804
- Language: English
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Outrage: The Five Reasons Why O. J. Simpson Got Away with Murder
$34.99 Add to cartHere is the account of the O. J. Simpson case that no one dared to write, that no one else could write. In this #1 New York Times bestseller, Vincent Bugliosi, the famed prosecutor of Charles Manson a
- Author: Bugliosi, Vincent
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: February 17 2008
- ISBN10: 0393330834
- Language: English
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Al Capone Does My Shirts
$18.99 Read moreMoose Flannagan moves with his family to Alcatraz so his dad can work as a prison guard and his sister, Natalie, can attend a special school. But Natalie has autism, and when she’s denied admittance t… [more below]
- Series: Tales from Alcatraz #1
- Author: Choldenko, Gennifer
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 228
- Publish Date: March 30 2004
- ISBN10: 0399238611
- Language: English
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Palm Springs
$24.99 Read moreNestled beneath the San Jacinto Mountains in an oasis of palm trees is a mineral hot springs. For thousands of years, this was the winter home of the Agua Caliente Band of Cahuilla Indians, the origin… [more below]
- Series: Images of America (Arcadia Publishing)
- Author: Henderson, Moya
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: February 09 2009
- ISBN10: 0738559822
- Language: English
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Spirits of San Francisco: Voyages Through the Unknown City
$28.00 Read moreA San Francisco Chronicle Bestseller
From two bestselling, prizewinning, and critically acclaimed contemporary chroniclers of San Francisco comes a ri
A Beat Most Anticipated Graphic Novel of Fall 2020- Author: Kamiya, Gary
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: October 20 2020
- ISBN10: 1635575885
- Language: English
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Chato Y Su Cena
$8.99 Read moreGanador del premio de ilustraci n Pura Belpr 1996
The Spanish edition of a modern classic. Chato can’t believe his luck. Not only is he the coolest low-riding cat in East L.A., but his brand-new neig- Author: Soto, Gary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: September 22 1997
- ISBN10: 0698116011
- Language: Spanish
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Five Marys Ranch Raised Cookbook: Homegrown Recipes from Our Family to Yours
$29.95 Read moreFeaturing 75 family-friendly recipes straight from the ranch, this is a “beautiful, candid, heartfelt window into the life, kitchen, and home of [a] wildly successful rancher and businesswoman” (Erin … [more below]
- Series: Five Marys
- Author: Heffernan, Mary
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: September 08 2020
- ISBN10: 1632173077
- Language: English
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California Fire and Life: A Suspense Thriller
$17.00 Read moreFROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE CARTEL.
Jack
When Jack Wade is called in to examine a suspicious arson claim, he follows the evidence into the crime infested inferno of the California underworld.- Author: Winslow, Don
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: September 04 2007
- ISBN10: 0307279855
- Language: English
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Songs of Willow Frost
$18.00 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
From Jamie Ford, author of the beloved Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet, comes a much-anticipated second novel. Set against the backdrop of Depression-era Seattle, Son- Author: Ford, Jamie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: March 11 2014
- ISBN10: 0345522036
- Language: English
