A Californian's Guide to the Trees among Us
Matt Ritter

We bring the strength and beauty of the natural world into our urban landscapes by planting trees, and California is blessed with a rich horticultural history, visible in an abundance of cultivated trees that enrich our lives with extraordinary color,...

paperback, ISBN: 978-1-59714-147-5  $18.95

The Super Silly Yosemite Sticker and Activity Book
Text by Katherine Brumage and Illustrations by Doug Hansen

Take a magical trip through Yosemite; set up your ideal campsite, search for ladybugs, climb El Capitan, pack up your mule for a back-country trip, then put the animals to bed. Full of lively games, puzzles, and mazes, this cleverly...

paperback, ISBN: 978-1-59714-155-0  $7.95

Rancho Los Alamitos: Ever Changing, Always the Same
Claudia Jurmain, David Lavender, and Larry L. Meyer, with Foreword by Kevin Starr

Rancho Los Alamitos is a place soaked through in time and history. Rooted in sacred ground and located under temperate skies, Rancho Los Alamitos is a microcosm of Southern California with a history reflecting every decade from the late-eighteenth-century Alta...

paperback, ISBN: 978-1-59714-148-2  $35.00

Jesse's Ghost: A Novel
Frank Bergon

Everybody loved Jesse. Boys wanted to be him--or beat him--and girls wanted to be with him. In California's Central Valley, where fist fighting was a noble sport and drinking and sex were rites of passage for teenagers, Jesse was the...

hardcover, ISBN: 978-1-59714-153-6   $20.00

Rise of the Ranges of Light: Landscapes and Change in the Mountains of California
David Scott Gilligan

California is a place of intense and immediate tectonic activity, varied climate, and diverse habitats, and it is a place where stunning arrays of life meet and intermingle. California is also one of the newest places on Earth, freshly hewn,...

paperback, ISBN: 978-1-59714-151-2  $18.95

Paris Portraits: Stories of Picasso, Matisse, Gertrude Stein, and Their Circle
Harriet Lane Levy

In 1906, Harriet Levy was talked into moving to Paris by her friend Alice B. Toklas and suddenly found herself immersed in a strange world peopled by artists who spoke a language she could not understand--a colorful world that she...

hardcover, ISBN: 978-1-59714-157-4   $21.95

Cityscapes: San Francisco and Its Buildings
John King

Buildings in cities are remarkable things: they provide not only shelter but touchstones of reference and recall, a language that shapes our sense of place as well as the skyline. In sparkling prose and with full-color photography, Cityscapes looks at...

paperback, ISBN: 978-1-59714-154-3  $14.95

New California Writing 2011
Edited by Gayle Wattawa

At a time when common opinion perceives California to be in a state of decline, there grows out of this dire situation something that can only be described as amazingly hopeful. What seem to be falling apart, along with everything...

paperback, ISBN: 978-1-59714-156-7  $20.00

Black California: A Literary Anthology
Edited by Aparajita Nanda

Black California is the first comprehensive anthology celebrating black writing through almost two centuries of Californian history. In a patchwork quilt pieced from poetry, fiction, essays, drama, and memoirs, this anthology traces the trajectory of African American writers. Each piece...

paperback, ISBN: 978-1-59714-146-8  $24.95

News from Native California
Number 24 Volume 2, Winter 2010/11

Published by Heyday, News from Native California is a unique quarterly magazine devoted to the Indian people of California. Written and produced by California Indians and those close to the community, News provides an intimate portrait of traditional and contemporary...

A State of Change: Forgotten Landscapes of California
Laura Cunningham

Vernal pools, protected lagoons, grassy hills rich in bunchgrasses and, where the San Francisco Bay is today, ancient bison and mammoths roaming a vast grassland. Through the use of historical ecology, Laura Cunningham walks through these forgotten landscapes to uncover...

hardcover, ISBN: 978-1-59714-136-9   $50.00

Entangled: A Chronicle of Late Love
Don Asher and Lois Goodwill

Don, an eighty-year-old jazz pianist, and Sarah, a sixty-nine-year old clinical psychologist, spent twenty-two relatively content years together as monogamous lovers, despite their wildly different interests and personalities. One summer at her youngest son's wedding, a handsome, seventy-year-old former Jesuit...

paperback, ISBN: 978-1-59714-152-9  $14.95

July 2011

How Do I Begin? A Hmong American Literary Anthology
The Hmong American Writers’ Circle

Hmong history and culture can be found in the form of oral stories, oral poetry, textile art, and music but there is no written account of Hmong life, by a Hmong hand, passed down through the centuries. As an undergraduate,...

paperback, ISBN: 978-1-59714-150-5  $16.95

August 2011