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Adventuring in the California Desertby Lynne FosterISBN 0871563940 (0-87156-394-0)
Softcover, Sierra Club Books
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Adventuring in the California Desert: The Sierra Club Travel Guide to the Great Basin, Mojave, and Colorado Desert Regions of Californiaby Lynne FosterISBN 0871567210 (0-87156-721-0)
Softcover, Random House, Incorporated
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Al Capone Does My Shirtsby Gennifer CholdenkoISBN 0786280433 (0-7862-8043-3)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Al Capone Does My Shirts'Book summary:A New York Times Bestseller
A Junior Library Guild Selection
A Children's Book-of-the-Month Club SelectionWhen Moose's family moves to Alcatraz Island so his father can work as a guard and his sister can attend a special school in San Francisco, he has to leave his friends and his winning baseball team behind. But it's worth it, right? If his sister, Natalie, can get help, maybe his family will finally be normal. [via]
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Among Friendsby Mary Frances Kennedy FisherISBN 0865471169 (0-86547-116-9)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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The Art of Richard Diebenkornby John Elderfield, Jane Livingston, Richard Diebenkorn, Whitney Museum of American ArtISBN 087427107X (0-87427-107-X)
Softcover, Distributed Art Pub Inc
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Blue Willowby Doris GatesISBN 0844671436 (0-8446-7143-6)
Hardcover, Peter Smith Pub Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Blue Willow'Book summary:A little girl, who wants most of all to have a real home and to go to a regular school, hopes that the valley her family has come to, which so resembles the pattern on her treasured blue willow plate, will be their permanent home. [via]
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The Brothers Karamazov: Library Editionby Fyodor DostoevskyISBN 0809598604 (0-8095-9860-4)
Hardcover, Wildside Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Brothers Karamazov: Library Edition'Book summary:The Brothers Karamazov was Fyodor Dostoevsky's last and greatest work, telling the tales the three brothers and their father, Fyodor it is, among many other things, a tale of patricide -- a love-hate struggle with profound psychological and spiritual implications. It is a search for faith, for God -- driven by intense, uncontrollable emotions of rage and revenge, the Karamozov brothers become involved in the brutal murder of their despicable father. Exploring the secret depths of humanity's struggles and sins, Dostoevsky unfolds a grand epic which attempts to venture into mankind's darkest heart, and grasp the true meaning of existence. [via]
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The Brothers Karamazov: A Novel in Four Parts with Epilogueby Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Richard Pevear, Larissa VolokhonskyISBN 0865474222 (0-86547-422-2)
Hardcover, Farrar, Straus & Giroux
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The Brothers Karamazov: Worlds of the Novelby Robin Feuer MillerISBN 0805781188 (0-8057-8118-8)
Softcover, Gale / Cengage Learning
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Brothers Karamazov: Worlds of the Novel'Book summary:[via]Fyodor Dostoevsky completed his final novel The Brothers Karamazovin 1880. A work of universal appeal and significance, his exploration of good and evil immediately gained an international readership and today remains harrowingly alive in the face of our present day worries, paradoxes, and joys, observes Dostoevsky scholar Robin Feuer Miller. In this engaging and original book, she guides us through the complexities of Dostoevskys masterpiece, offering keen insights and a celebration of the authors unparalleled powers of imagination.
Millers critical companion to The Brothers Karamazov explores the novels structure, themes, characters, and artistic strategies while illuminating its myriad philosophical and narrative riddles. She discusses the historical significance of the book and its initial reception, and in a new preface discusses the latest scholarship on Dostoevsky and the novel that crowned his career.
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The Butterfingers Angel; Mary & Joseph; Herod the Nut; the Slaughter of 12 Hit Carols in a Pear Treeby William GibsonISBN 0822201682 (0-8222-0168-2)
Softcover, Dramatist's Play Service
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Butterfingers Angel; Mary & Joseph; Herod the Nut; the Slaughter of 12 Hit Carols in a Pear Tree'Book summary:THE STORY: Dealing with the story of Mary and Joseph and the birth of Jesus from a fresh and richly creative point of view, the author combines a series of deftly constructed short scenes, traditional Christmas music, and often antic characterizations into a wholly original theatre piece. The flow of the action follows the Biblical recounting, but is enhanced by a tree, a sheep and a donkey who talk (and most amusingly); a beguiling Mary who had heretofore decided that men and marriage were not for her; a suddenly cautious Joseph who now contends that he is too old for his intended (having earlier scoffed at Mary for expressing the same thought); and a flustered boy-angel who directs the action from a promptbook and manages to get only the most strangled, bleating sounds from his trumpet. But, through all the lively and resourceful happenings, the true significance of the occasion is never lost, and the underlying mood and spirit of reverence is, if anything, enhanced and made new by the distinctive approach of this joyful and unique retelling. [via]
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California: A Sketchbookby Elisha CooperISBN 081182697X (0-8118-2697-X)
Hardcover, Chronicle Books Llc
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California Missionsby Henry Miller, Harry KnillISBN 0883881195 (0-88388-119-5)
Softcover, Bellerophon Books
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California Why Stop ? A Guide to California Roadside Historical Markers: A Guide to California's Historical Markersby Marael JohnsonISBN 088415923X (0-88415-923-X)
Softcover, Gulf Pub Co
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California's Architectural Frontier: Style and Tradition in the Nineteenth Centuryby Harold KirkerISBN 087905011X (0-87905-011-X)
Softcover, Gibbs Smith
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Carter Beats the Devilby Glen David GoldISBN 0786886323 (0-7868-8632-3)
Softcover, Hyperion Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Carter Beats the Devil'Book summary:In Carter Beats the Devil, Glen David Gold subjects the past to the same wondrous transformations as the rabbit in a skilled illusionist's hat. Gold's debut novel opens with real-life magician Charles Carter executing a particularly grisly trick, using President Warren G. Harding as a volunteer. Shortly afterwards, Harding dies mysteriously in his San Francisco hotel room, and Carter is forced to flee the country. Or does he? It's only the first of many misdirections in a magical performance by Gold. In the course of subsequent pages, Carter finds himself pursued by the most hapless of FBI agents; falls in love with a beautiful, outspoken blind woman; and confronts an old nemesis bent on destroying him. Throw in countless stunning (and historically accurate) illusions, some beautifully rendered period detail, and historical figures like young inventor Philo T. Farnsworth and self-made millionaire Francis "Borax" Smith, and you have old-fashioned entertainment executed with a decidedly modern sensibility.
Gold has written for movies and TV, so it's no surprise that he delivers snappy, fast-paced dialogue and action scenes as expertly scripted as anything that's come out of Hollywood in years. Carter Beats the Devil has a mustachioed villain, chase scenes, a lion, miraculous escapes, even pirates, for God's sake. Yet none of this is as broadly drawn as it might sound: Gold's characters are driven by childhood sorrows and disappointments in love, just like the rest of us, and they're limned in clever, quicksilver prose. By turns suspenseful, moving, and magical, this is the historical novel to give to anyone who complains that contemporary fiction has lost the ability to both move and entertain. --Mary Park [via]
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Cast of Killersby Sidney KirkpatrickISBN 0816142742 (0-8161-4274-2)
Hardcover, G K Hall & Co
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Caught Inside: A Surfer's Year on the California Coastby Daniel DuaneISBN 0865475091 (0-86547-509-1)
Softcover, North Point Pr
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Chavez Ravine 1949 : A Los Angeles Storyby Don NormarkISBN 0811840573 (0-8118-4057-3)
Softcover, Chronicle Books LLC
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The Coast of Californiaby Tom KillionISBN 0879237678 (0-87923-767-8)
Hardcover, David R Godine Pub
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Cold Storageby Don LasseterISBN 0786011254 (0-7860-1125-4)
Softcover, Kensington Pub Corp
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Crime and Punishmentby Fyodor Dostoevsky, Margaret BrantleyISBN 074348763X (0-7434-8763-X)
Softcover, Washington Square Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Crime and Punishment'Book summary:Enduring literature illuminated by practical scholarship dostoyevsky's penetrating study of a man for whom the distinction between right and wrong disappears, and a riveting portrait of guilt and retribution. Each enriched classic edition includes: a concise introduction that gives readers important background information a chronology of the author's life and work a timeline of significant events that provides the book's historical context an outline of key themes and plot points to help readers form their own interpretations detailed explanatory notes critical analysis, including contemporary and modern perspectives on the work discussion questions to promote lively classroom and book group interaction a list of recommended related books and films to broaden the reader's experience enriched classics offer readers affordable editions of great works of literature enhanced by helpful notes and insightful commentary. The scholarship provided in enriched classics enables readers to appreciate, understand, and enjoy the world's finest books to their full potential. Series edited by cynthia brantley johnson [via]
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Softcover, Amsco School Pubns Inc - Crime and Punishment: ISBN 0785795227 (0-7857-9522-7)
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Day Trips: Roaming the Backroads of Northern Californiaby Peter Browning, Carol HolleufferISBN 0811814238 (0-8118-1423-8)
Softcover, Chronicle Books LLC
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Dynamite Roadby Andrew KlavanISBN 076534694X (0-7653-4694-X)
Softcover, Doherty Associates, LLC, Tom
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False Prophetby Faye KellermanISBN 081617458X (0-8161-7458-X)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr
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Fire in the Valley: The Making of the Personal Computerby Paul Freiberger, Michael SwaineISBN 0881341215 (0-88134-121-5)
Softcover, Osborne/McGraw-Hill
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Frommer's California's Best-Loved Driving Tours: 25 Unforgettable Itinerariesby Robert HolmesISBN 0764577999 (0-7645-7799-9)
Softcover, John Wiley & Sons Inc
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Gay by the Bay: A History of Queer Culture in the San Francisco Bay Areaby Susan Stryker, Jim Van BuskirkISBN 0811811875 (0-8118-1187-5)
Softcover, Chronicle Books Llc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Gay by the Bay: A History of Queer Culture in the San Francisco Bay Area'Book summary:A fabulous montage of word and image, this is the first book ever to chronicle the origin and evolution of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender culture in the San Francisco Bay Area. Capturing the international center of the gay experience as never before, and published to coincide with the opening of the Gay and Lesbian Center of the new main San Francisco Public Librarythe only publicly funded archive of its kind in the worldGay by the Bay contains over 200 full-color and black-and-white photographs of historical memorabilia, including correspondence, posters, buttons, and other artifacts. With anecdotes about Bay Area gay luminaries, past and present, and a foreword by acclaimed author Armistead Maupin, Gay by the Bay offers a scintillating look at a continually dynamic and evolving community. [via]
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The Gentle Wilderness: The Sierra Nevadaby John MuirISBN 0884861252 (0-88486-125-2)
Hardcover, BBS Publishing Corporation
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Geology Underfoot in Death Valley and Owens Valleyby Robert P. Sharp, Allen F. GlaznerISBN 0878423621 (0-87842-362-1)
Softcover, Mountain Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Geology Underfoot in Death Valley and Owens Valley'Book summary:Eastern California boasts the greatest dryland relief in the contiguous United States, between 14,499-foot Mount Whitney in the Sierra Nevada and minus-282-foot Badwater Basin in Death Valley. That relief offers a rich variety of environments--and spectacular geology. Through driving and walking tours, Geology Underfoot in Death Valley and Owens Valley provides an on-the-ground look at the processes sculpting the terrain in this land of extremes. Illustrated with photographs, maps, and diagrams, each geological vignette weaves the tale of a particular scene, feature, or relationship in the landscape. Some sketches ponder questions that have puzzled geologists: what formed the turtlebacks in the Black Mountains and how do stones mysteriously slide on desolate Racetrack Playa? Others spotlight the role of volcanoes and earthquakes as landscape artists: the superb lava columns of Devil's Postpile, the massive steam explosion at Ubehebe Crater, and fault scarps that shape a golf course's greens. Still others focus on less obvious but equally powerful geologic processes: boulders shattered by salt crystals and rocks blasted by windblown sand. Together, these snapshots introduce readers to eastern California's rich, dynamic geology. [via]
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Gold Dustby Donald D. JacksonISBN 0785819126 (0-7858-1912-6)
Hardcover, Castle Books Inc
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Greens Cookbook: Extraordinary Vegetarian Cuisine from the Celebrated Restaurantby Deborah Madison, Edward Espe BrownISBN 0767908236 (0-7679-0823-6)
Hardcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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"I consider Greens to be the ultimate vegetarian restaurant. The cuisine is elegant, inspiring, and astonishingly creative. Many of us have long awaited this major event in cookbook publishing. Congratulations!" --Mollie Katzen, Moosewood Cookbook [via]
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Hidden L. A.by Alexander Vertikoff, Robert WinterISBN 0879057416 (0-87905-741-6)
Hardcover, Gibbs Smith, Publisher
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The Human Comedyby William SaroyanISBN 0808554093 (0-8085-5409-3)
Hardcover, Bt Bound
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I Know Why the Caged Bird Singsby Maya AngelouISBN 0808510576 (0-8085-1057-6)
Hardcover, Bt Bound
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› Find signed collectible books: 'I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings'Book summary:In this first of five volumes of autobiography, poet Maya Angelou recounts a youth filled with disappointment, frustration, tragedy, and finally hard-won independence. Sent at a young age to live with her grandmother in Arkansas, Angelou learned a great deal from this exceptional woman and the tightly knit black community there. These very lessons carried her throughout the hardships she endured later in life, including a tragic occurrence while visiting her mother in St. Louis and her formative years spent in California--where an unwanted pregnancy changed her life forever. Marvelously told, with Angelou's "gift for language and observation," this "remarkable autobiography by an equally remarkable black woman from Arkansas captures, indelibly, a world of which most Americans are shamefully ignorant." [via]
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I know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Blooms Guides)by Harold BloomISBN 0791077683 (0-7910-7768-3)
Softcover, Facts on File
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Indians of the Feather River: Tales and Legends of the Concow Maidu of Californiaby Donald P. JewellISBN 0879191112 (0-87919-111-2)
Softcover, Ballena Pr
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Julia Morgan, Architectby Sara Holmes Boutelle, Richard BarnesISBN 0789200198 (0-7892-0019-8)
Softcover, Perseus Distribution Services
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Justiceby Faye KellermanISBN 0783814941 (0-7838-1494-1)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr
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Life and Adventures of Joaquin Murieta: The Celebrated California Banditby John R. RidgeISBN 0806114290 (0-8061-1429-0)
Softcover, Univ of Oklahoma Pr
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Lonely Planet San Franciscoby Tony Wheeler, Tom DownsISBN 0864425562 (0-86442-556-2)
Softcover, Lonely Planet
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The Los Angeles River: Its Life, Death, and Possible Rebirthby Blake GumprechtISBN 0801866421 (0-8018-6642-1)
Softcover, Johns Hopkins Univ Pr
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Maltese Falconby Dashiell HammettISBN 0848824369 (0-8488-2436-9)
Hardcover, Amereon Ltd
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Maltese Falcon'Book summary:Sam Spade, Dashiell Hammett's archetypally tough San Francisco detective, is more noir than L.A. Confidential and more vulnerable than Raymond Chandler's Marlowe. In The Maltese Falcon, the best known of Hammett's Sam Spade novels (including The Dain Curse and The Glass Key), Spade is tough enough to bluff the toughest thugs and hold off the police, risking his reputation when a beautiful woman begs for his help, while knowing that betrayal may deal him a new hand in the next moment.
Spade's partner is murdered on a stakeout; the cops blame him for the killing; a beautiful redhead with a heartbreaking story appears and disappears; grotesque villains demand a payoff he can't provide; and everyone wants a fabulously valuable gold statuette of a falcon, created as tribute for the Holy Roman Emperor Charles IV. Who has it? And what will it take to get it back? Spade's solution is as complicated as the motives of the seekers assembled in his hotel room, but the truth can be a cold comfort indeed.
Spade is bigger (and blonder) in the book than in the movie, and his Mephistophelean countenance is by turns seductive and volcanic. Sam knows how to fight, whom to call, how to rifle drawers and secrets without leaving a trace, and just the right way to call a woman "Angel" and convince her that she is. He is the quintessence of intelligent cool, with a wise guy's perfect pitch. If you only know the movie, read the book. If you're riveted by Chinatown or wonder where Robert B. Parker's Spenser gets his comebacks, read the master. --Barbara Schlieper [via]
The Man in the High Castleby Philip K. DickISBN 0839824769 (0-8398-2476-9)
Hardcover, Gregg Pr
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The Mark of Zorroby Johnston McCulleyISBN 0812540077 (0-8125-4007-7)
Softcover, Forge
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Maya Angelou's I Know Why the Caged Bird Singsby Harold BloomISBN 0791036669 (0-7910-3666-9)
Hardcover, Facts on File
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Maya Angelou's I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings'Book summary:Maya Angelou's I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings accomplishes a controlled poignance in representing a portrait of the young artist as a black woman. Her novel is the focus of this edition of Bloom's Notes. Along with a collection of some of the best criticism available on his work, this text includes a brief biography of the author, structural and thematic analysis, an index of themes and ideas, and more. This series is edited by Harold Bloom, Sterling Professor of the Humanities, Yale University; Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Professor of English, New York University Graduate School. These texts are the ideal aid for all students of literature, presenting concise, easy-to-understand biographical, critical, and bibliographical information on a specific literary work. Also provided are multiple sources for book reports and term papers with a wealth of information on literary works, authors, and major characters. [via]
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Miss Lonelyhearts & the Day of the Locustby Nathanael WestISBN 0811202151 (0-8112-0215-1)
Softcover, New Directions
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Miss Lonelyhearts & the Day of the Locust'Book summary:"Somehow or other I seem to have slipped in between all the 'schools,' " observed Nathanael West the year before his untimely death in 1940. "My books meet no needs except my own, their circulation is practically private and I'm lucky to be published." Yet today, West is widely recognized as a prophetic writer whose dark and comic vision of a society obsessed with mass- produced fantasies foretold much of what was to come in American life. Miss Lonelyhearts (1933), which West envisioned as "a novel in the form of a comic strip," tells of an advice-to-the-lovelorn columnist who becomes tragically embroiled in the desperate lives of his readers. The Day of the Locust (1939) is West's great dystopian Hollywood novel based on his experiences at the seedy fringes of the movie industry. "The work of Nathanael West, savagely, comically, tragically original, has come into its own," said novelist and screenwriter Budd Schulberg. "A new public [has] discovered in the writings of West a brilliant reflection of its own sense of chaos and helplessness in a world running more to madness than to reason." [via]
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Monterey Bay and Beyond : The Best of California's Central Coast from Santa Cruz to San Simeonby Lucinda JaconetteISBN 0811804887 (0-8118-0488-7)
Softcover, Chronicle Books LLC
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Napa Valley: The Ultimate Winery Guideby Antonia Allegra, Richard GilletteISBN 0811815447 (0-8118-1544-7)
Softcover, Chronicle Books Llc
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Napa Valley: The Ultimate Winery Guideby Richard Gillette, Antonia Allegra, Robert MondaviISBN 0811828581 (0-8118-2858-1)
Softcover, Chronicle Books Llc
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Octopusby Frank NorrisISBN 0804901791 (0-8049-0179-1)
Softcover, Airmont Pub Co
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Pasadenaby David EbershoffISBN 0812968484 (0-8129-6848-4)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Pat Welsh's Southern California Gardening: A Month-By-Month Guideby Pat WelshISBN 0811822141 (0-8118-2214-1)
Softcover, Chronicle Books Llc
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The Pearlby John SteinbeckISBN 0786258918 (0-7862-5891-8)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr
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Pool Boyby Mike DahlieISBN 0761329242 (0-7613-2924-2)
Hardcover, Henry Holt & Co
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Postcards from the Edgeby Carrie FisherISBN 0743466519 (0-7434-6651-9)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Postcards from the Edge'Book summary:When we first meet the extraordinary young actress Suzanne Vale, she's feeling like "something on the bottom of someone's shoe, and not even someone interesting." Suzanne is in the harrowing and hilarious throes of drug rehabilitation, trying to understand what happened to her life and how she managed to land in a "drug hospital." Just as Fisher's first film role-the precocious teenager in Shampoo-echoed her own Beverly Hills upbringing, her first book is set within the world she knows better than anyone else: Hollywood. More of a fiction montage than a novel in the conventional sense, this stunning literary debut chronicles Suzanne's vivid, excruciatingly funny experiences-from the clinic to her coming to terms with life in the outside world. Conversations with her psychiatrist-"What worries me is, what if this guy is really the one for me and I haven't had enough therapy to be comfortable with having found him?"; a high-concept, eighties-style affair-"The only way to become intimate for me is repeated exposure. My route to intimacy is routine. I establish a pattern with somebody and then I notice when they're not there?" Sparked by Suzanne's-and Carrie Fisher's-deliciously wry sense of the absurd, Postcards from the Edge is more than a book about stardom and drugs. It is a revealing look at the dangers-and delights-of all our addictions, from money and success to sex and insecurity. [via]
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Red Deathby Walter MosleyISBN 0743451767 (0-7434-5176-7)
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Run Riverby Joan DidionISBN 0839210949 (0-8392-1094-9)
Hardcover, Astor-Honor Inc
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Santa Barbara Day Hikesby Raymond FordISBN 0874611032 (0-87461-103-2)
Softcover, McNally & Loftin Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Santa Barbara Day Hikes'Book summary:Everything you need to know to enjoy hundreds of hours of great day hiking - all within an hour's drive from Santa Barbara.
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A Scanner Darklyby Philip K. DickISBN 0879979232 (0-87997-923-2)
Softcover, New Amer Library
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The Selected Poetry of Robinson Jeffersby Tim Hunt, Robinson JeffersISBN 0804741085 (0-8047-4108-5)
Softcover, Stanford Univ Pr
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Sierra Club Naturalist's Guide to the Sierra Nevadaby Stephen WhitneyISBN 0871562162 (0-87156-216-2)
Softcover, Sierra Club Books
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The Silverado Squattersby Robert Louis StevensonISBN 0809566311 (0-8095-6631-1)
Hardcover, Wildside Pr
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Son of the Mobby Gordon KormanISBN 0786807695 (0-7868-0769-5)
Hardcover, Disney Press
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Son of the Mob'Book summary:Vince Luca, 17, has a problem. His wealthy family runs the, uh, vending machine business in New York, and Vince is determined not to be part of it. Especially after a hot date is ruined when he finds that his older brother Tommy has conducted some business with Jimmy the Rat and hidden the messy and temporarily unconscious body in the trunk of Vince's car. His dad, the King of the Mob, is reasonable, sensible, lots of fun, gives great presents to his kids--and his name strikes the hearts of other mobsters to stone.
Although Vince keeps a low profile at school, his family connection brings him unwanted advantages, like the birthday Porsche that gets him arrested on stolen vehicle charges, or the football game in which he makes touchdown after touchdown because word has gotten around and nobody is willing to tackle him. Even private conversations at home have to be carried on in the basement because the FBI has bugged the house and an agent is always listening. Vince's life is inextricably tangled up with the family business, no matter how hard he tries to stay out of it. How can he show them he's serious? Then he meets Kendra, and when she innocently reveals that her father's an FBI agent--that FBI agent--it's a match made in heaven. He thinks.
Gordon Korman, author of (No More Dead Dogs) and over 30 other witty YA novels, is at his best in this Sopranos-style spoof about a teen's home life with the Mob. (Ages 12 and older) --Patty Campbell [via]
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Son Of The Mobby Korman GordonISBN 0786815930 (0-7868-1593-0)
Softcover, Disney Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Son Of The Mob'Book summary:Vince Luca, 17, has a problem. His wealthy family runs the, uh, vending machine business in New York, and Vince is determined not to be part of it. Especially after a hot date is ruined when he finds that his older brother Tommy has conducted some business with Jimmy the Rat and hidden the messy and temporarily unconscious body in the trunk of Vince's car. His dad, the King of the Mob, is reasonable, sensible, lots of fun, gives great presents to his kids--and his name strikes the hearts of other mobsters to stone.
Although Vince keeps a low profile at school, his family connection brings him unwanted advantages, like the birthday Porsche that gets him arrested on stolen vehicle charges, or the football game in which he makes touchdown after touchdown because word has gotten around and nobody is willing to tackle him. Even private conversations at home have to be carried on in the basement because the FBI has bugged the house and an agent is always listening. Vince's life is inextricably tangled up with the family business, no matter how hard he tries to stay out of it. How can he show them he's serious? Then he meets Kendra, and when she innocently reveals that her father's an FBI agent--that FBI agent--it's a match made in heaven. He thinks.
Gordon Korman, author of (No More Dead Dogs) and over 30 other witty YA novels, is at his best in this Sopranos-style spoof about a teen's home life with the Mob. (Ages 12 and older) --Patty Campbell [via]
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Son of the Mob: Hollywood Hustleby Gordon KormanISBN 0786809191 (0-7868-0919-1)
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Southern California: An Island on the Landby Carey McWilliamsISBN 0879050071 (0-87905-007-1)
Softcover, Gibbs Smith
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Southern California Country: An Island on the Landby Carey McWilliamsISBN 0836916743 (0-8369-1674-3)
Hardcover, Ayer Co Pub
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Southern California's Best Ghost Towns: A Practical Guideby Philip VarneyISBN 0806126086 (0-8061-2608-6)
Softcover, Univ of Oklahoma Pr
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The Spectator Birdby Wallace StegnerISBN 0803291078 (0-8032-9107-8)
Softcover, Univ of Nebraska Pr
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Stormby George R. StewartISBN 0803291353 (0-8032-9135-3)
Softcover, Univ of Nebraska Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Storm'Book summary:A violent storm sweeps through California, taking on a life of her own. Making her way from the Pacific Coast, she gains momentum as she approaches the Sierra and transforms into a blizzard of great strength, covering mountain ranges and roads with twenty feet of snow. Originally published in 1941, _Storm_ is a rare combination of fiction and science by a master storyteller, drawing upon a deep knowledge of geography, meteorology, and human nature.
"In _Storm_ we are&far from freeways, from megapopulation, from sprawl, from beach TV, from stress, from road rage. And we are in touch with a much deeper reality. Of land and water and weather, of humans huddled together on the planet in a dark universe."Ernest Callenbach, in the foreword [via]
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Sympathy for the Devil: The Emmanuel Baptist Murders of Old San Franciscoby Virginia A. McConnellISBN 0803283105 (0-8032-8310-5)
Softcover, Univ of Nebraska Pr
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A Tale of Two Valleys: Wine, Wealth and the Battle for the Good Life in Napa and Sonomaby Alan DeutschmanISBN 0767907043 (0-7679-0704-3)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Tale of Two Valleys: Wine, Wealth and the Battle for the Good Life in Napa and Sonoma'Book summary:When acclaimed journalist Alan Deutschman came to the California wine country as the lucky house guest of very rich friends, he was surprised to discover a raging controversy. A civil war was being fought between the Napa Valley, which epitomized elitism, prestige and wealthy excess, and the neighboring Sonoma Valley, a rag-tag bohemian enclave so stubbornly backward that rambunctious chickens wandered freely through town. But the antics really began when new-money invaders began pushing out Sonomas poets and painters to make way for luxury resorts and trophy houses that seemed a parody of opulence. A Tale of Two Valleys captures these stranger-than-fiction locales with the wit of a Tom Wolfe novel and uncorks the hilarious absurdities of life among the wine worlds glitterati.
Deutschman found that on the weekends the wine country was like a bunch of gracious hosts smiling upon their guests, but during the week the families feuded with each other and their neighbors like the Hatfields and McCoys. Napa was a comically exclusive club where the super-rich fought desperately to get in. Sonomas colorful free spirits and iconoclasts were wary of their bohemia becoming the next playground for the rapacious elite. So, led by a former taxicab driver and wine-grape picker, a cheese merchant, and an artist who lived in a barn surrounded by wild peacocks, they formed a populist revolt to seize power and repel the rich invaders.
Deutschmans cast of characters brims with eccentrics, egomaniacs, and a mysterious man in black who crashed the elegant Napa Valley Wine Auction before proceeding to pay a half-million dollars for a single bottle. What develops is nothing less than a battle for the good life, a clash between old and new, the struggle for the soul of one of Americas last bits of paradise. A dishy glimpse behind the scenes of a West Coast wonderland, A Tale of Two Valleys makes for intoxicating reading. [via]More editions of A Tale of Two Valleys: Wine, Wealth and the Battle for the Good Life in Napa and Sonoma:
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Unpaid Duesby Barbara SeranellaISBN 0743466373 (0-7434-6637-3)
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Vivien: The Life of Vivien Leighby Alexander WalkerISBN 0802132596 (0-8021-3259-6)
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The Wild God of the World: An Anthology of Robinson Jeffersby Albert Gelpi, Robinson JeffersISBN 0804745927 (0-8047-4592-7)
Softcover, Stanford Univ Pr
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Womenby Charles BukowskiISBN 0876853904 (0-87685-390-4)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Women'Book summary:Low-life writer and unrepentant alcoholic Henry Chinaski was born to survive. After decades of slacking off at low-paying dead-end jobs, blowing his cash on booze and women, and scrimping by in flea-bitten apartments, Chinaski sees his poetic star rising at last. Now, at fifty, he is reveling in his sudden rock-star life, running three hundred hangovers a year, and maintaining a sex life that would cripple Casanova.
With all of Bukowski's trademark humor and gritty, dark honesty, this 1978 follow-up to Post Office and Factotum is an uncompromising account of life on the edge.
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The Yosemite Handbook: An Insider's Guide to the Parkby Phil Frank, Susan FrankISBN 076490616X (0-7649-0616-X)
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