A boy who lost everything follows his dreams in a strange new land—gold rush California.
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He Flies through the Air with the Greatest of Ease: A collection of work from one of America’s most beloved writers—and one of California’s favorite sons |
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Walking Tractor: And Other Country Tales Hard work and love of the land in the heart of redwood country |
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Spring Salmon, Hurry to Me!: The Seasons of Native California California Indian writers and storytellers celebrate the seasons |
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The Wild Muir: Twenty-two of John Muir’s Greatest Adventures First-person accounts of John Muir’s hairiest encounters in the wild |
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Tree Barking: A Memoir The riveting memoir of a health-care worker in the San Francisco Bay Area |
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Where Light Takes Its Color from the Sea: A stirring collection of short prose by the author of Snow Mountain Passage |
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A Separate Star: Selected Writings of Helen Hunt Jackson The complex legacy of a pioneer woman writer and advocate for Native American justice |
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Ticket to Exile A memoir of an African American childhood in the Jim Crow South |
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Forgotten Bread:
First-Generation Armenian American Writers Forging identity from loss—first-generation Armenian American writing |
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Heirlooms: Letters from a Peach Farmer Earthy wisdom from America’s favorite organic farmer. |
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Fast Cars and Frybread: Reports from the Rez Memories of Indian time on the rez. |
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Highway 99: A Literary Journey through California’s Great Central Valley An updated edition of the classic California anthology |
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Essential Bierce A selection of the writings of Ambrose Bierce |
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Califauna: A Literary Field Guide A lively collection in words and images of our fellow creatures. |
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Gables and Fables:
An architectural and social history of one of San Francisco’s most attractive neighborhoods. |
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Letters to the Valley:
A Harvest of Memories Essays from America’s favorite farmer and author |
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Woman of Ill Fame Murder, sex, and intrigue in gold rush San Francisco |
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Essential Mary Austin An introduction to the pioneering feminist author who first acquainted America with its desert lands in Land of Little Rain |
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Inlandia: A Literary Journey through California's Inland Empire A groundbreaking anthology from the land east of Los Angeles |
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Essential Muir An introduction to the great "poetico-trampo-geologist-botanist and ornithologist-naturalist" |
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Blithe Tomato An insider’s wry look at farmers’ market society and food culture |
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Haslam’s Valley Gerald Haslam picks up where Mark Twain left off in this career-spanning collection of stories and essays. |
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The Autobiography of Lincoln Steffens The first of the muckrakers, in the finest tradition of American journalism. |
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Perfume Dreams: “When Americans say Vietnam, they don’t mean Vietnam.” More... |
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Peace Is a Four-Letter Word When is the right time to stand up for your values? |
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The Land of Orange Groves and Jails: "Entertaining and instructive, like the demonstrated facts of Sinclair’s equally implausible but real life, so effectively rendered in Coodley’s imaginative anthology."—Los Angeles Times |
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Samurai of Gold Hill |
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Tales of the Fish Patrol In this Jack London classic collection of short tales, witness a portrait of the San Francisco Bay like you’ve never seen it—from the water and full of high adventure. |
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Farmworker’s Daughter: In this affectionate memoir, Guilbault invites us into her girlhood, revealing what it was like to grow up as a Mexican immigrant in a farming community during the turbulent. |
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Essential Saroyan His name is William Saroyan and, of his work, this is what is essential. |
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California Uncovered: Stories for the 21st Century As the centerpiece of the California Council for the Humanities’ California Stories Uncovered program, launching in April 2005, this lively anthology probes the question of what it means to be Californian today, blending fresh new voices from the state with other, established California writers like Joan Didion and John Steinbeck. |
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now available in paperback Now available in paperback, Aris Janigian’s highly-acclaimed novel about a family conflict, powerfully rendered amidst the vineyards of the Central Valley. |
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The Addison Street Anthology: Berkeley's Poetry Walk Berkeley is a wellspring of literary and artistic history. As a way of preserving and celebrating that history, the City of Berkeley called on former poet laureate Robert Hass and award-winning artist David Goines to design a series of poetry panels that have been installed in the sidewalks of Berkeley’s thriving downtown arts and theater district. |
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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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Merton of the Movies Harry Leon Wilson, Introduction by David Fine Trade Paper, ISBN: 1-890771-96-1, $14.95 Ever since its debut in the Saturday Evening Post in 1919, Merton of the Movies has delighted book and film lovers alike and is considered one of the first real Hollywood novels. |
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California Poetry: From the Gold Rush to the Present California Poetry: From the Gold Rush to the Present is an authoritative yet accessible collection that brings together 150 years of California poetry in one volume: a comprehensive historical anthology of the state’s poetry from the gold rush era to the present that offers the finest poetry by California authors of all schools and ideas. |
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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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Storm
George R. Stewart Foreword by Ernest Callenbach Trade paper, ISBN: 1-890771-74-0, $13.95 Originally published in 1941, Storm masterfully weaves together a story of the violent storm "Maria" as it sweeps through California. Author George R. Stewart juxtaposes the forces of nature with the vulnerability of human beings, building tension through cinematic cutting from one setting to the next. The California Legacy series is proud to offer this new, elegant edition of Storm, featuring a foreword by Ernest Callenbach, noted author of Ecotopia. More... |
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Indian Tales Appealing to both adults and children, Indian Tales, combines fact and fiction, literature and anthropology as it recounts the journey of Bear, his wife Antelope, and their son Fox as they set out to visit relatives on the coast. |
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Dark God of Eros: A William Everson Reader This carefully chosen selection highlighting the range of Everson’s work will help readers better understand the life and many transformations of one of California’s most fascinating and elusive bards. |
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The Journey of the Flame
Walter Nordhoff, Foreword by Rebecca Solnit Trade paper, ISBN: 1-890771-58-9, $14.95 In this fictional tale of Spanish California Don Juan Obrigon narrates his travels as a boy from the southern tip of Baja California to Monterey. |
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Under the Fifth Sun: Latino Literature from California
Edited by Rick Heide, Foreword by Juan Velasco Trade paper, ISBN: 1-890771-57-9, $19.95 Under the Fifth Sun collects stories of love, family, work, exploration, politics, history, culture, and survival—fiction, poetry, memoirs, commentary, and drama—covering more than two centuries of Latino presence in California. |
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Unfinished Message: Selected Works of Toshio Mori Born in Oakland, California, in 1910, the young Toshio Mori—influenced by contemporaries such as Sherwood Anderson and Ernest Hemingway—produced a body of extraordinary fiction. |
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November Grass A provocative treasure of classic California fiction |
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The Geography of Home: California's Poetry of Place An anthology of contemporary poetry devoted to California's many landscapes—rural and urban, emotional and physical. |
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Unfolding Beauty: Celebrating California's Landscapes A lively collection of literature inspired by California's varied landscapes |
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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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