Dear People: Remembering Jonestown
Edited by Denice Stephenson
Trade Paper, ISBN: 1-59714-002-3, $16.95
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Allensworth, the Freedom Colony: The untold story of California’s only African American town |
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Archy Lee: A California Fugitive Slave Case The historic case of a black man’s quest for freedom in 1850s California |
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Life on the River: The Archaeology of an Ancient Native American Culture The story of an archaeological dig that uncovered a Wintu village |
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All the Saints of the City of the Angels: An artist’s homage to everyday Angelenos |
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Chief Marin: Leader, Rebel, and Legend A history of Marin County’s namesake and his people |
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Testimonios:
Early California through the Eyes of Women, 1815–1848 Unheard voices from pre-gold rush California |
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Past Tents: The Way We Camped A gift book for camping enthusiasts and those who enjoy quirky old photographs |
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The Anza Trail and the Settling of California The epic true story of the journey to colonize San Francisco |
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Bracing for Disaster:
Earthquake-Resistant Architecture and Engineering
in San Francisco, 1838-1933 Are we prepared for the big one? |
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The Port Chicago Mutiny A nearly forgotten chapter in black history—in a new edition |
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Workin’ Man Blues: Country Music in California An affectionate homage to California contributions to what is today the most popular music in America. |
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The heartbreaking tragedy of Jonestown—and the idealistic community movement that preceded it—are presented in text and photos from the Peoples Temple Archive. |
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The Front Lines of Social Change: This book presents a moving portrait of the Veterans of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade, a brave group of people who over the last sixty years have participated in virtually every progressive social movement in America. Though they rarely win, they are never defeated. |
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The Land of Orange Groves and Jails: This book draws on a variety of Sinclair pieces to create a view of his impressions of California, his political awakening, and the creation of popular culture. |
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Each a Mighty Voice: A Century of Speeches from The Commonwealth Club of California The Commonwealth Club, the nation’s oldest and largest public affairs forum, has hosted presidents, national and world leaders, policymakers, leading lights in the arts and sciences, and countless celebrities, beginning with Theodore Roosevelt in 1911. |
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Gunfight at Mussel Slough: On May 11, 1880 at Henry Brewer’s homestead in the southern San Joaquin Valley district of Mussel Slough, seven men lost their lives during one of the deadliest shootouts in the history of the American West. |
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Unsettling the West: Eliza Farnham and Georgiana Bruce Kirby in Frontier California Always outspoken, often outrageous, and fervent on behalf of their causes—prison reform, women’s rights, Spiritualism, phrenology, abolitionism, suffrage—these admirable idealists believed not only in the perfectibility of human kind, but also in their personal responsibility to point the way. |
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Jewish Life in the American West In this multifaceted volume of art and essays, narrow stereotypes of westerners and immigrants give way before an exploration of Jewish community-building in the West. Here is a world that few people know—a world of Jewish cowboys, pioneers in covered wagons, gold miners, frontier politicians, and suffragettes. |
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Bear in Mind: The California Grizzly "There have always been bear stories, as long as there have been campfires and shadows in the night, and as long as humans have shared the earth with their fellow predators…" |
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Mark Twain’s San Francisco From earthquakes, police scandals, and tantalizing silver mine bonanzas to elegant ladies blowing their noses in "exquisitely modulated tones" and seals "writhing and squirming like exaggerated maggots" below the Cliff House, Mark Twain has left us a vision of San Francisco that is at once fascinating and hilariously familiar. |
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920 O'Farrell Street Harriet Lane Levy's memoirs of her childhood in San Francisco during the late 1800s give us a rare view into the traditional life and manners of an upper-middle-class Jewish family of the era. |
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California: A Study in American Character Josiah Royce, Introduction by Ronald A. Wells Trade paper, ISBN:1-980771-52-x, $21.95 With keen attention to detail, Royce produced a passionate narrative—at times ironic, at times outraged, at times in awe of pioneer courage—that is admired to this day. |
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The Harvest Gypsies: On the Road to the Grapes of Wrath John Steinbeck, Introduction by Charles Wollenberg Trade paper, ISBN 0-930588-38-X, $9.95 A companion volume for the California Stories project |
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Lands of Promise and Despair: Chronicles of Early California, 1535-1846 This ground-breaking collection offers a new perspective on early California: seen thorough the eyes of those who explored it, colonized it, and settled it in the age before the gold rush. |
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Death Valley in '49 The classic narrative of survival in Death Valley during the gold rush. |
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Fool's Paradise: A Carey McWilliams Reader Carey McWilliams—lawyer, activist, historian, editor of The Nation for two decades—wrote the history of California as no one else could, or would. |
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Eldorado: Adventures in the Path of Empire A classic contemporary account of the California gold rush. |
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Only What We Could Carry: The Japanese American Internment Experience The words, art, and haunting recollections of the Japanese American internees. |
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Una Storia Segreta: The Secret History of Italian American Evacuation and Internment During World War II A new perspective to the history of wartime violations of civilian populations. |
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General Vallejo and the Advent of the Americans The penetrating biography of one of the central—and most controversial—figures in California's early history |
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A World Transformed: Firsthand Accounts of California Before the Gold Rush Important early writings that chronicle the birth of modern California. |
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Gold Rush: A Literary Exploration In commemoration of the 150th anniversary of the California gold rush comes this definitive anthology. |
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No Rooms of Their Own: Women Writers of Early California, 1848-1869 This important collection includes writings by Dame Shirley, Josephine Clifford McCrakin, Ina Coolbrith, Ada Claire, and others. |
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Bret Harte's Gold Rush: "Outcasts of Poker Flat," "The Luck of Roaring Camp," "Tennessee's Partner," and Other Favorites Fifteen classic tales bring the Gold Rush to life. |
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The Shirley Letters: From the California Mines, 1851-1852 This beloved classic of California historical literature offers a vivid portrait of the exuberance and brutality of gold rush life from a woman's perspective. |
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Life in a California Mission: Monterey in 1786 La Pérouse's diary of the first foreign vessels to visit Spain's California colonies. |
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Bitter Melon: Inside America's Last Rural Chinese Town An unforgettable glimpse into the unique and vibrant community of Locke, the only village in the United States built and inhabited exclusively by Chinese immigrants. |
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