Heyday Books
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Fylling’s Illustrated Guide to Nature in Your Neighborhood
$20.00 Read moreIn the same lighthearted yet scientifically accurate style of Fylling’s Illustrated Guide to Pacific Coast Tide Pools, this portable guidebook reveals the splendidly strange animals and plants just ou… [more below]
- Series: Fylling’s Illustrated Guides #2
- Author: Fylling, Marni
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: August 11 2020
- ISBN10: 1597144800
- Language: English
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Stickeen
$12.00 Add to cartAn illustrated edition of the well-loved tale in which world-famous naturalist John Muir recounts how he and a dog named Stickeen struggled to cross an Alaskan glacier during an ice storm. An exhilara… [more below]
- Author: Muir, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: June 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0930588487
- Language: English
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The Birds in the Oaks: Secret Voices of the Western Woods
$26.00 Add to cartThe first book on the birds of California’s oaks, from our most lyrical and observant wanderer of the woods.
With charm and delight, The Birds in the Oaks introduces us to the birds who burrow, forage,
- Author: Gedney, Jack
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: October 15 2024
- ISBN10: 1597146595
- Language: English
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California Against the Sea: Visions for Our Vanishing Coastline
$22.00 Add to cartNow in paperback: a “deeply researched and reported” (San Francisco Chronicle) exploration of sea level rise in California that “breathes exquisite detail and dialogue” (Science Magazine) into the sub
- Author: Xia, Rosanna
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: September 24 2024
- ISBN10: 1597146587
- Language: English
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Fylling’s Illustrated Guide to Nature in Your Neighborhood
$20.00 Add to cartIn the same lighthearted yet scientifically accurate style of Fylling’s Illustrated Guide to Pacific Coast Tide Pools, this portable guidebook reveals the splendidly strange animals and plants just ou… [more below]
- Series: Fylling’s Illustrated Guides #2
- Author: Fylling, Marni
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: August 11 2020
- ISBN10: 1597144800
- Language: English
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The State of Fire: Why California Burns
$28.00 Add to cartHow do we live with fire? From the creator of The California Field Atlas, a book of stewardship, resilience, and hope.
Fire is an essential part of California’s ecology. Humans have been using it to sh
- Author: Kaufmann, Obi
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: September 17 2024
- ISBN10: 159714651X
- Language: English
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The California Sky Watcher: Understanding Weather Patterns and What Comes Next
$30.00 Add to cartRide across California on the back of the wind and learn about the dramatic impact that seasonal weather and climate change have on the Golden State.
Often stereotyped as the land of unflaggingly perfe
- Author: Selby, William A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: July 23 2024
- ISBN10: 1597146404
- Language: English
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Unnatural Habitat: The Native and Exotic Wildlife of Los Angeles
$24.00 Add to cartA guide to the ecosystem famously known as Los Angeles, from a field biologist and longtime San Gabriel Valley resident.
“A worthy and illuminating entry in the tradition of works exploring urbanizatio
- Author: Stanford, Craig
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: May 28 2024
- ISBN10: 1597146390
- Language: English
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California Snakes and How to Find Them
$22.00 Add to cartA herpetologist introduces budding snake enthusiasts to the wonders of California snakes.
“I’ve loved snakes since childhood and am thrilled to now have this gorgeous book as my companion to finding sn
- Author: Taylor, Emily
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: May 07 2024
- ISBN10: 159714634X
- Language: English
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Dear Miss Karana
$16.00 Add to cartWhile reading Island of the Blue Dolphins at school and learning about the real woman stranded on San Nicol s Island, ten-year-old T shmal begins writing emails to “Miss Karana” in hopes of talking to… [more below]
- Author: Elliott, Eric
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 126
- Publish Date: January 01 2016
- ISBN10: 1597143235
- Language: English
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Adopted by Indians: A True Story
$18.00 Add to cartThis book gives younger readers a close-up view of traditional California Indian life and early California. Thomas Jefferson Mayfield kept a wonderful secret for almost sixty years: the secret of his … [more below]
- Author: Mayfield, Thomas Jefferson
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: May 01 1997
- ISBN10: 0930588932
- Language: English
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The Bakersfield Sound: How a Generation of Displaced Okies Revolutionized American Music
$27.00 Add to cartIn California’s Central Valley, two thousand miles away from country music’s hit machine, the hard edge of the Bakersfield Sound transformed American music in the latter half of the twentieth century…. [more below]
- Author: Price, Robert E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: March 01 2018
- ISBN10: 1597144150
- Language: English
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Life in a California Mission: Monterey in 1786
$16.00 Add to cartOn the afternoon of September 14, 1786, two French ships appeared off the coast of Monterey, the first foreign vessels to visit Spain’s California colonies. Aboard was a party of eminent scientists, n… [more below]
- Author: de la P?rouse, Jean Fran?ois
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: April 03 2018
- ISBN10: 0930588398
- Language: English
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Tell Me Something, Tell Me Anything, Even If It’s a Lie: A Memoir in Essays
$35.00 Add to cartAn exhilarating journey through the world of books, featuring personal reflections on Susan Sontag, Huey Newton, Barbra Streisand, W. G. Sebald, and Christopher Hitchens.
“A troublemaker of the good ki
- Author: Wasserman, Steve
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: October 08 2024
- ISBN10: 1597146471
- Language: English
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Bird of Four Hundred Voices: A Mexican American Memoir of Music and Belonging
$28.00 Add to cartFrom the founder of Los Cenzontles Cultural Arts Academy, a profoundly personal exploration of music’s power to build cultural bridges that last.
“I wish I had studied with Eugene Rodrigeuz when I was
- Author: Rodriguez, Eugene
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: August 06 2024
- ISBN10: 1597146447
- Language: English
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What Kind of Bird Can’t Fly: A Memoir of Resilience and Resurrection
$24.00 Add to cartA decade behind bars spurs fifty powerful years of political and legal battles for freedom and human rights.
“Whoever wants to assuage their doubts that radical change is possible–from the level of th
- Author: Nunn, Dorsey
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 376
- Publish Date: April 30 2024
- ISBN10: 1597146323
- Language: English
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The Shirley Letters: From the California Mines, 1851-1852
$22.00 Add to cartThe Shirley Letters, written from the mining camps in 1851 and 1852, are something valuable and rare–a portrait by a woman of an era dominated by men. They offer a vivid picture of gold rush life, fr… [more below]
- Author: Clappe, Louise Amelia Knapp Smith
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 238
- Publish Date: January 01 1998
- ISBN10: 1890771007
- Language: English
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Alice: Memoirs of a Barbary Coast Prostitute
$28.00 Add to cartIn 1913 the San Francisco Bulletin published a serialized, ghostwritten memoir of a prostitute who went by the moniker Alice Smith. “A Voice from the Underworld” detailed Alice’s humble Midwestern upb… [more below]
- Author: Anderson, Ivy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: October 01 2016
- ISBN10: 1597143618
- Language: English
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The Anza Trail and the Settling of California
$24.00 Add to cartIn 1774, the Spanish viceroy of Mexico sent Juan Bautista de Anza, captain of the Presidio at Tubac (in what is now Arizona), to lead two expeditions: the first to find a safe overland route to Monter… [more below]
- Series: California Legacy Book
- Author: Guerrero, Vladimir
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: June 01 2006
- ISBN10: 1597140260
- Language: English
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The Cold Canyon Fire Journals: Green Shoots and Silver Linings in the Ashes
$30.00 Add to cartBraiding together illustration, observation, and reportage, artist and naturalist Robin Lee Carlson offers a watershed work that will forever change how we live with wildfire in the West.
When the natu… [more below]
- Author: Carlson, Robin Lee
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: August 02 2022
- ISBN10: 159714584X
- Language: English
