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He Flies through the Air with the Greatest of Ease:
A William Saroyan Reader
Edited by William E. Justice; Foreword by Herbert Gold
Hardcover, ISBN: 978-1-59714-089-8, $35.00
Paperback, ISBN: 978-1-59714-090-4, $24.95
A collection of work from one of America’s most beloved writers—and one of California’s favorite sons |
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Allensworth, the Freedom Colony:
A California African American Township
Alice C. Royal with Mickey Ellinger and Scott Braley
Paperback, ISBN: 978-1-59714-091-1, $17.95
The untold story of California’s only African American town |
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Walking Tractor: And Other Country Tales
Bruce Patterson
Paperback, ISBN: 978-1-59714-082-9, $14.95
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
Edited by Margaret Dubin and Kim Hogeland
Paperback, ISBN: 978-1-59714-079-9, $16.95
California Indian writers and storytellers celebrate the seasons |
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Archy Lee: A California Fugitive Slave Case
Rudolph M. Lapp
Foreword by Shirley Ann Wilson Moore
Paperback, ISBN: 978-1-59714-080-5, $12.95
The historic case of a black man’s quest for freedom in 1850s California |
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Sudden and Solitary: Mount Shasta and Its Artistic Legacy, 1841–2008
William C. Miesse with Robyn G. Peterson
Paperback, ISBN: 978-1-59714-088-1, $35.00
Generations of artistic tributes to California’s mythic giant |
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Life on the River: The Archaeology of an Ancient Native American Culture
William R. Hildebrandt and Michael J. Darcangelo
Paperback, ISBN: 978-1-59714-086-7, $13.95
The story of an archaeological dig that uncovered a Wintu village |
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Tree Barking: A Memoir
Nesta Rovina
Paperback, ISBN: 978-1-59714-081-2, $14.95
The riveting memoir of a health-care worker in the San Francisco Bay Area |
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Luminous Mountains: The Sierra Nevada of California
Photographs and text by Tim Palmer
Paperback, ISBN: 978-1-59714-077-5, $19.95
Breathtaking new photography and ideas explore the Range of Light |
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Where Light Takes Its Color from the Sea:
A California Notebook
James D. Houston, Foreword by Alan Cheuse
Hardcover, ISBN: 978-1-59714-083-6, $21.95
A stirring collection of short prose by the author of Snow Mountain Passage |
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Yosemite Meditations
Photographs by Michael Frye
Foreword by Michael Tollefson
Hardcover, ISBN: 978-1-59714-094-2, $9.95
Yosemite Valley is a source of inspiration in this inspirational photo gift book |
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The Complete Guide to Yosemite National Park, 6th Edition
Stephen P. Medley
Paperback, ISBN: 978-1-59714-087-4, $12.95
The authoritative guide to Yosemite National Park |
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The Wild Muir: Twenty-two of John Muir’s Greatest Adventures
Selected and introduced by Lee Stetson; Illustrated by Fiona King
Paperback, ISBN: 978-1-59714-093-5, $10.95
First-person accounts of John Muir’s hairiest encounters in the wild |
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All the Saints of the City of the Angels:
Seeking the Soul of L.A. on Its Streets
J. Michael Walker
Paperback with flaps, ISBN: 978-1-59714-075-1, $35.00
An artist’s homage to everyday Angelenos |
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A Separate Star: Selected Writings of Helen Hunt Jackson
Edited by Michelle Burnham
Paperback, ISBN: 978-1-59714-074-4, $21.95
The complex legacy of a pioneer woman writer and advocate for Native American justice |
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Two Bear Cubs:
A Miwok Legend from California’s Yosemite Valley
Retold by Robert D. San Souci; Illustrated by Daniel San Souci
Hardcover, ISBN: 978-1-59714-092-8, $14.95
The tale of two lost bear cubs, Mother Grizzly, Red-tailed Hawk, Gray Fox, Mountain Lion, Clever Badger, Mother Deer, Measuring Worm, and El Capitan |
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A Seed of Modernism:
The Art Students League of Los Angeles, 1906–1953
Will South, Marian Yoshiki-Kovinick, and Julia Armstrong-Totten
Paperback, ISBN: 978-1-59714-076-8, $24.95
Artwork from the early days of L.A.’s modern art scene |
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Legends of the Yosemite Miwok
Compiled by Frank La Pena, Craig D. Bates, and Steven P. Medley
Illustrated by Harry Fonseca
Paperback, ISBN: 978-1-59714-073-7, $12.95
A beautifully illustrated collection of old Indian tales about Yosemite |
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Grassroots Philanthropy:
Field Notes of a Maverick Grantmaker
Bill Somerville with Fred Setterberg
Hardcover, ISBN: 978-1-59714-084-3, $30.00
Paperback, ISBN: 978-1-59714-085-0, $15.00
An unorthodox guide to decisive, hands-on grantmaking |
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Above All:
Mount Whitney and California’s Highest Peaks
Photographs by David Stark Wilson with text by Steve Roper
Hardcover, ISBN: 978-1-59714-107-9, $35.00
Photographs and stories of California’s majestic
Fourteeners
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Norman Clyde:
Legendary Mountaineer of California’s Sierra Nevada
Robert C. Pavlik; Foreword by Steve Roper
Paperback, ISBN 978-1-59714-110-9, $14.95
A biography of the notorious but beloved
mountaineer who achieved more than one
hundred first ascents |
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Wallace Stegner’s West:
Selected Works
Edited with an introduction by Page Stegner
Paperback, ISBN 978-1-59714-111-6, $18.95
A collection as broad as the Great Basin and as
dynamic as California’s coastline—fi ction and
essays by Wallace Stegner |
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Nature’s Beloved Son:
Rediscovering John Muir’s Botanical Legacy
Bonnie J. Gisel with images by Stephen J. Joseph; Foreword by David Rains Wallace
Hardcover, ISBN: 978-1-59714-106-2, $45.00
John Muir’s inordinate fondness for plants |
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Nothing Left in My Hands:
The Issei of a Rural California Town, 1900–1942
Kazuko Nakane; Foreword by Naomi Hirahara
Paperback, ISBN: 978-59714-109-3, $14.95
A respected Japanese American text now back
in print |
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Seaweed, Salmon, and Manzanita Cider:
A California Indian Feast
Margaret Dubin and Sara-Larus Tolley; Foreword by Kathleen Rose Smith
Paperback, ISBN: 978-1-59714-078-2, $21.95
The foods of Native California |
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Jazz Idiom:
Blueprints, Stills and Frames
The Jazz Photography of Charles L. Robinson; Poetic Takes and Riffs by Al Young
Paperback, ISBN: 978-1-59714-095-9, $21.95
The jazz greats, as photographed on stage and
behind the scenes |
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Edges of Bounty:
Adventures in the Edible Valley
William Emery; Photographs by Scott Squire
Paperback, ISBN: 978-1-59714-108-6, $24.95
A writer and photographer’s adventures through
small-farm California |
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Forgotten Bread:
First-Generation Armenian American Writers
Edited by David Kherdian
Paperback, ISBN: 978-1-59714-068-3, $21.95
Forging identity from loss—first-generation
Armenian American writing, coming in paperback |
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