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920 O'Farrell Street
A Jewish Girlhood in Old San Francisco
Harriet Lane Levy
Trade Paper, ISBN:0-930588-91-6, $14.95
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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Bear in Mind: The California Grizzly
Edited by Susan Snyder
Cloth, ISBN: 1-890771-70-8, $49.50
"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…"

Birds of Napa County
Hermann Heinzel
Trade Paper, ISBN: 978-1-59714-030-0, $12.95
104 pages (4.25 x 9)
A birds-eye view of wine country

Bitter Melon: Inside America's Last Rural Chinese Town
Jeff Gillenkirk and James Motlow, introduction by Sucheng Chan
Trade Paper, ISBN: 0-930588-58-4, $21.95
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.

Blithe Tomato
Mike Madison, Foreword by Deborah Madison, Illustrations by Patrick McFarlin
Trade Paper, ISBN: 1-59714-024-4, $15.00
216 pages (6 x 9), with b&w illustrations throughout
An insider’s wry look at farmers’ market society and food culture

Bloodvine
Aris Janigian
Trade Paper, ISBN: 1-890771-98-8, $14.95
A Great Valley Book
Now available in paperback, Aris Janigian’s highly-acclaimed novel about a family conflict, powerfully rendered amidst the vineyards of the Central Valley.

Bracing for Disaster: Earthquake-Resistant Architecture and Engineering in San Francisco, 1838-1933
Stephen Tobriner
Trade Paper, ISBN: 1-59714-025-2, $30.00
Are we prepared for the big one?

Bret Harte's Gold Rush: "Outcasts of Poker Flat," "The Luck of Roaring Camp," "Tennessee's Partner," and Other Favorites
Bret Harte
Trade Paper, ISBN: 0-930588-88-6, $13.95
Fifteen classic tales bring the Gold Rush to life.

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Califauna: A Literary Field Guide
Edited by Terry Beers and Emily Elrod
Trade Paper, ISBN: 978-1-59714-049-2, $21.95
328 pages (6 x 9), with 16 pages of color images and a timeline
A lively collection in words and images of our fellow creatures.

California: A Study of American Character
Josiah Royce, Introduction by Ronald A. Wells
Trade Paper, ISBN: 1-890771-52-X, $21.95
With keen attention to detail, Royce provides a passionate narrative of California's early history.

California Poetry: From the Gold Rush to the Present
Edited by Dana Gioia, Chryss Yost, and Jack Hicks
Trade Paper, ISBN: 1-890771-72-4, $21.95
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.

California Uncovered: Stories for the 21st Century
Edited by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni,
William E. Justice, and James Quay
Trade Paper, ISBN: 1-890771-97-X, $15.95
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.

Chain Letter
Lucille Lang Day, Illustrated by Doug Dworkin
Hardcover, ISBN: 1-59714-011-2, $14.95. Ages 6 & up
This letter is good luck. It has been around the world nine times in a bottle...

Changing Course: Windcall and the Art of Renewal
Susan Wells
Paperback, ISBN: 978-1-59714-071-3, $18.95
Innovative program helped cure compassion overload

Chief Marin: Leader, Rebel, and Legend
Betty Goerke
Trade Paper, ISBN: 978-1-59714-053-9, $21.95
A history of Marin County’s namesake and his people

Chumash Ethnobotany: Plant Knowledge Among the Chumash People of Southern California
Jan Timbrook, with botanical watercolors by Chris Chapman
Paperback, ISBN: 978-1-59714-048-5, $27.95
272 pages (6 x 9), with illustrations throughout
Plant knowledge and use by the Chumash Indians of Southern California

Complete Guide to Yosemite National Park, 6th Edition, The
Stephen P. Medley
Paperback, ISBN: 978-1-59714-087-4, $12.95
The authoritative guide to Yosemite National Park

El Corazón de la Muerte:
Altars and Offerings for Days of the Dead
The Oakland Museum of California
Trade Paper, ISBN: 1-59714-008-2, $24.95
A sumptuous tribute to a remarkable cultural feat.

Courthouses of California: An Illustrated History
Edited with an Introduction by Ray McDevitt
Cloth, ISBN: 1-890771-49-X , $50.00
A carefully researched and superbly designed photo-documentary book chronicling 150 years of judicial architecture in California.

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Dark God of Eros: A William Everson Reader
Edited with an Introduction by Albert Gelpi
Trade Paper, ISBN: 1-890771-64-3, $22.95
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.

Dark Metropolis: Irving Norman's Social Surrealism
Crocker Art Museum and Irving Norman Trust
Edited by Ray Day and Scott A. Shields
Trade paper, ISBN 1-59714-041-4, $35.00
224 pages (9 x 12), with 154 color plates
Colorful and provocative art with a social concience

Dawson’s Avian Kingdom:
Selected Writings by William Leon Dawson
Edited by Anna Neher
Trade Paper, ISBN: 978-1-59714-062-1, $16.95
Marauding magpies, saucy blackbirds, and hurtling swifts

Dear People: Remembering Jonestown
Edited by Denice Stephenson
Trade Paper, ISBN: 1-59714-002-3, $16.95
The heartbreaking tragedy of Jonestown—and the idealistic community movement that preceded it—are presented in text and photos from the Peoples Temple Archive.

Death Valley in ’49
William Lewis Manly
Trade Paper, ISBN: 1-890771-47-3 , $18.95
The true story of the 49ers who blundered into Death Valley and their dramatic escape.

Deeper Than Gold:
A Guide to Indian Life in the Sierra Foothills
Brian Bibby, Photographs by Dugan Aguilar
Trade Paper, ISBN: 0-930588-96-7, $18.95
Part guide, part literary tribute, part photo album, this beautifully designed book features the memories and knowledge of Gold Country’s first peoples—the Native Americans who know the area best.

The Dirt Is Red Here: Art and Poetry from Native California
Edited by Margaret Dubin
Trade Paper, ISBN: 1-890771--54-6, $16.95
The Dirt is Red Here brings together works by many of today’s finest artists and poets of California’s Indian communities.

Discovering Nature’s Alphabet
Krystina Castella and Brian Boyl
Hardcover, ISBN: 1-59714-021-X, $15.95
Let nature be your book!

Drawn West: Selections from the Robert B. Honeyman Jr. Collection of Early Californian and Western Art and Americana
Jack von Euw and Genoa Shepley
Cloth, ISBN: 1-890771-92-9, $39.95
Co-published with the Bancroft Library, UC BerkeleyCalifornia and the West in the days of exploration and settlement was a region full of adventure, danger, and wonders. And before there were cameras, artists depicted all of it.

Dream Songs and Ceremony: Reflections on Traditional California Indian Dance
Frank LaPena
Cloth, ISBN: 1-890771-79-1, $25.00
With 16 full-color plates
A Great Valley Book
This collection of paintings by acclaimed artist Frank LaPena draws upon the symbols of California Indian dances—sacred events that cannot be photographed or videotaped. Himself a Nomtipom Wintu dancer, singer, and ceremonial leader, LaPena complements his vibrant paintings and poetry with an introduction and commentary.

Dream Town
Michelle Markel, Illustrated by Rick Reese
Hardcover, ISBN: 1-59714-022-8, $15.95
32 pages (8 x 10)
Where do you live?

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Each A Mighty Voice: A Century of Speeches from The Commonwealth Club of California
Edited by Steven Boyd Saum, Preface by Gloria Duffy, Foreword by Kevin Starr
Cloth, ISBN: 1-890771-87-2, $24.95
Published in collaboration with 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.

Ecotopia 30th Anniversary Edition
Ernest Callenbach
Trade Paper, ISBN: 0-9604320-1-9, $13.95
A classic environmental novel offering a vision of a future both socially and environmentally sane.

Ecotopia Emerging
Ernest Callenbach
Trade Paper, ISBN: 0-9604320-3-5, $12.95
This prequel to Ecotopia is a multi-stranded novel that dramatizes the rise and triumph of a powerful American movement to preserve the earth as a safe, sustainable environment.

Eldorado: Adventures in the Path of Empire
Bayard Taylor
Trade Paperback, ISBN: 1-890771-36-8, $18.95
A classic contemporary account of the Calfornia gold rush.

Essential Bierce
Edited with an Introduction by John R. Dunlap
Trade Paper, ISBN: 978-1-59714-054-6, $11.95
A selection of the writings of Ambrose Bierce

Essential Mary Austin
Edited with an introduction by Kevin Hearle
Trade Paper, ISBN: 1-59714-043-0, $11.95
An introduction to the pioneering feminist author who first acquainted America with its desert lands in Land of Little Rain

Essential Muir
Edited by Fred White
Trade Paper, ISBN: 1-59714-027-9, $ 11.95
An introduction to the great "poetico-trampo-geologist-botanist and ornithologist-naturalist"

Essential Saroyan
Edited by William E. Justice
Trade Paper, ISBN 1-59714-001-5, $11.95
A California Legacy Book
His name is William Saroyan and, of his work, this is what is essential.

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Farmworker’s Daughter:
Growing Up Mexican in America
Rose Castillo Guilbault
Trade Paper, ISBN: 1-59714-034-1, $11.95
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 1960s.

Fast Cars and Frybread: Reports from the Rez
Gordon Johnson
Paperback, ISBN: 978-1-59714-066-9, $12.95
Memories of Indian time on the rez.

The Fine Art of California Indian Basketry
Edited by Brian Bibby
Trade Paper, ISBN:0-930588-87-8, $22.50
California Indian baskets are considered by many to be among the world's most beautiful, sophisticated, and cherished art objects.

First Families: A Photographic History of California Indians
L. Frank and Kim Hogeland
Paperback, ISBN: 978-1-59714-013-3, $23.95
Family photo albums provide an intimate look at Native American life

Flora of the Santa Ana River and Environs With References to World Botany
Oscar F. Clarke, Danielle Svehla, Greg Ballmer, and Arlee Montalvo
Trade Paper, ISBN: 978-1-59714-050-8, $29.95
An introduction to the botanical richness of one of southern California’s major waterways.

Flutes of Fire: Essays on California Indian Languages
Leanne Hinton
Trade Paper, ISBN: 0-930588-62-2, $18.00
Thoroughly accessible essays on the structure, sounds, and history of California Indian languages, and the efforts to preserve them.

Fool's Paradise: A Carey McWilliams Reader
Introduction by Grey Brechin, Preface by Wilson Carey McWilliams
Trade Paper, ISBN: 1-890771-41-4, $18.95
A collection from one of the twentieth century's great activist journalists.

Forgotten Bread: First-Generation Armenian American Writers
Edited by David Kherdian
Hardcover, ISBN: 978-1-59714-069-0, $29.95
Forging identity from loss—first-generation Armenian American writing

The Front Lines of Social Change:
Veterans of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade
Richard Bermack
Trade Paper, ISBN: 1-59714-000-7, $19.95
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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Gables and Fables:
A Portrait of San Francisco’s Pacific Heights
Anne Bloomfield and Arthur Bloomfield, Illustrated by Kit Haskell
Cloth, ISBN: 978-1-59714-055-3, $30.00
Trade Paper, ISBN: 978-1-59714-056-0, $19.95
An architectural and social history of one of San Francisco’s most attractive neighborhoods

General Vallejo and the Advent of the Americans
Alan Rosenus
Trade Paper, ISBN: 1-890771-21-X, $18.95
The penetrating biography of one of the central—and most controversial—figures in California's early history.

Geological Ramblings in Yosemite
N. King Huber
Paperback, ISBN: 978-1-59714-072-0, $16.95
136 pages (7 x 9), with b&w photographs, line art diagrams, and maps
throughout
The story behind Yosemite’s breathtaking landscape

The Geography of Home: California's Poetry of Place
Edited by Christopher Buckley and Gary Young
Trade Paper, ISBN: 1-890771-19-8, $18.95
An anthology of contemporary poetry devoted to California's many landscapes—rural and urban, emotional and physical.

Gold Rush: A Literary Exploration
Edited by Michael Kowalewski
Trade Paper, ISBN: 0-930588-99-1, $18.48
In commemoration of the 150th anniversary of the California gold rush comes this definitive anthology.

Grass Games and Moon Races: California Indian Games and Toys
Jeannine Gendar
Trade Paper, ISBN: 0-930588-56-8, $14.95
Dozens of traditional games are described through personal accounts, anecdotes, photographs, and drawings.

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.

Gunfight at Mussel Slough: Evolution of a Western Myth
Edited by Terry Beers
Trade Paper, ISBN: 1-890771-82-1, $19.95
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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The Harvest Gypsies: On the Road to the Grapes of Wrath
John Steinbeck, Introduction by Charles Wollenberg
Trade Paper, ISBN:1-890771-61-0, $9.95
Recently listed in the Top 100 List of the Century's Best American Journalism

Haslam’s Valley
Gerald Haslam
A Great Valley Book
Trade Paper, ISBN: 1-59714-018-X, $18.95
Gerald Haslam picks up where Mark Twain left off in this career-spanning collection of stories and essays

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

The Heart is Fire: The World of the Cahuilla Indians of Southern California
Deborah Dozier
Trade Paper, ISBN: 0-930588-89-4, $16.00
Five Cahuilla elders open their world to us, providing an Indian interpretaion of the Cahuilla world, past and present.

Heirlooms: Letters from a Peach Farmer
David Mas Masumoto, Illustrations by Doug Hansen
Hardcover, ISBN: 978-1-59714-064-5, $21.95
Earthy wisdom from America’s favorite organic farmer.

Henry Sugimoto: Painting an American Experience
Kristine Kim, Introduction by Karin Higa
Trade Paper, ISBN: 1-890771-43-0, $24.95
An extraordinary life revealed through art.

The High Sierra of California
Poems and Journals of Gary Snyder, Woodcuts by Tom Killion
Trade Paper, ISBN: 1-890771-99-6, $24.95
A tribute to the bold, jagged peaks that have inspired generations of naturalists, artists, and writers.

Highway 99: A Literary Journey Through California's Great Central Valley
Edited by Stan Yogi, Gayle Mak, and Patricia Wakida
Foreword by Mark Arax
Trade Paper, ISBN: 978-1-59714-067-6, $18.95
An updated edition of the classic California anthology

How To Keep Your Language Alive
Leanne Hinton, with Matt Vera and Nancy Steele
Trade Paper, ISBN: 1-890771-42-2, $15.95.
A manual for students of all languages, from Yurok to Yiddish, Washoe to Welsh.

Humphrey the Wayward Whale
Ernest Callenbach and Christine Leefeldt
Trade Paper, ISBN: 0-930588-23-1, $4.95
This best-selling children's book tells the true tale and adventures of Humphrey, a humpback whale who wandered seventy miles into the San Francisco Bay in 1985.

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Impressions of the East: Treasures from the C. V. Starr East Asian Library, University of California, Berkeley
Deborah Rudolph
Hardcover, ISBN: 978-1-59714-060-7, $39.95
An opulent look at East Asia’s printed and handwritten treasures

In Full View: Three Ways of Seeing California Plants
Glenn Keator and Linda Yamane, Illustrations by Ann Lewis
Trade Paper, ISBN: 0-930588-77-0, $14.95
A variety of California plants are looked at from the perspectives of a botanist, a Native American, and an artist.

In My Own Words: The Stories, Songs, and Memories of Grace McKibben, Wintu
Alice Shepherd, Foreword by Frank LaPena
Trade Paper, ISBN: 0-930588-85-1, $14.00
Presenting the only bilingual collection of the songs, stories, and traditional tales of the Wintu of Northern California.

Indian Summer: Traditional Life Among the Choinumne Indians of California's San Joaquin Valley
Thomas Jefferson Mayfield, Introduction by Malcolm Margolin
Trade Paper, ISBN: 1-59714-035-x, $13.95
An eye-witness account of the nearly lost and unspeakably beautiful world of the Choinumne Yukots and the valley in which they lived.

Indian Tales
Jaime de Angulo
Trade Paper, ISBN: 1-890771-66-x, $12.95
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.

Inlandia: A Literary Journey through California's Inland Empire
Edited by Gayle Wattawa
Trade paper, ISBN: 1-59714-037-6, $18.95
400 pages (6 x 9)
A groundbreaking anthology from the land east of Los Angeles

Ira Nowinski's San Francsico: Poets, Politics, and Divas
Ira Nowinski, Foreword by Rebecca Solnit
Trade paper, ISBN: 1-59714-040-6, $27.95
112 pages (10.5 x 12), with 85 duotone photographs
A beautifully printed collection of unforgettable faces across three decades

It Will Live Forever: Traditional Yosemite Acorn Preparation
Beverly R. Ortiz, as told by Julia F.Parker
Trade Paper, ISBN: 0-930588-45-2, $13.95
For over twenty years, visitors to Yosemite National Park have watched with fascination as Julia Parker demonstrates the Yosemite Miwok/Paiute skill of preparing acorn.

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Jewish Life in the American West
Edited by Ava F. Kahn
Trade Paper, ISBN: 1-890771-77-5, $22.50
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.

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.

Journey to Topaz
Yoshiko Uchida
Trade Paper, ISBN: 1-890771-91-0, $9.95
Based on Yoshiko Uchida's personal experiences, this much loved classic is the story of one girl's struggle to remain brave during the Japanese internment of World War II.

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The Land of Orange Groves and Jails:
Upton Sinclair’s California
Edited by Lauren Coodley
Trade Paper, ISBN: 1-890771-95-3, $16.95
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.

Lands of Promise and Despair: Chronicles of Early California, 1535-1846
Edited by Rose Marie Beebe and Robert M. Senkewicz
Trade Paper, ISBN: 1-890771-48-1, $21.95
This groundbreaking collection presents an ever-shifting world of struggle and opportunity, aspiration and tragedy, pride and loss.

The Laws Field Guide to the Sierra Nevada
Written and Illustrated by John Muir Laws
Paperback, ISBN: 978-1-59714-052-2, $24.95
368 pages (4.75 x 8.75), with 2,800 watercolor illustrations
The must-have guide to the Range of Light

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.

Letters to the Valley: A Harvest of Memories
David Mas Masumoto, Illustrated by Doug Hansen
Trade Paper, ISBN: 978-1-59714-038-6, $14.95
Essays from America’s favorite farmer and author

Life Amongst the Modocs: Unwritten History
Joaquin Miller, Introduction by Malcolm Margolin
Trade Paper, ISBN: 0-930588-79-7, $18.95
Miller's masterful book, based on his years during the 1850s among the mining town and Indian camps of Northern California.

Life in a California Mission: Monterey in 1786
Jean François de la Pérouse, Introduction and commentary by Malcolm Margolin
Trade Paper, ISBN: 0-930588-39-8, $10.95
La Pérouse's diary of the first foreign vessels to visit Spain's California colonies.

The Life of an Oak: An Intimate Portrait
Glenn Keator, Illustrations by Susan Bazell
Trade Paper, ISBN: 0-930588-98-3, $21.95
A beautifully printed, full-color, intimate look at all aspects of the genus Quercus.

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

Lion Singer
Written and Illustrated by Sylvia Ross
A Great Valley Book
Hardcover, ISBN: 1-59714-009-0, $12.95
There was once a time when there was no metal in the Chukchansi people’s world.

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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Magpies and Mayflies: An Introduction to Plants and Animals of the Central Valley and Sierra Foothills
Derek Madden, Ken Charters, and Cathy Snyder
A Great Valley Book
Trade Paper, ISBN: 1-59714-003-1, $16.95
Follow biologist Derek Madden as he explores some of California’s most diverse ecosystems.

The Maidu Indian Myths and Stories of Hanc'ibyjim
Edited and Translated by William Shipley, Foreword by Gary Snyder
Trade Paper, ISBN: 0-930588-52-5, $12.95
A stunning combination of master storytelling and deft translation produced this world-class collection of Maidu myths.

Marine Mammals of the Northwestern Coast of North America
Charles Melville Scammon
Paperback, ISBN: 978-1-59714-061-4, $16.95
The classic volume on whales and pinnipeds

Mark Twain’s San Francisco
Edited with a new Introduction by Bernard Taper
Trade Paper, ISBN 1-890771-69-4, $14.95
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.

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.

The Morning the Sun Went Down
Darryl Babe Wilson
Trade paper, ISBN: 0-930588-81-9, $13.95
The compelling autobiography of a California Indian man who grew up with one foot in the Indian world of myth and custom, and the other foot in a modern, Western world.

 

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Native Ways: California Indian Stories and Memories
Malcolm Margolin and Yolanda Montijo
Trade Paper, ISBN: 0-930588-73-8, $10.95
California Indians vividly describe various aspects of traditional and contemporary Indian life, in a clear, easy-to-read style.

No Other Life
Gary Young
Trade Paper, ISBN: 1-59714-004-x, $13.95
Simple, beautiful poems shedding light on pain and loss—back in print with a new design. Winner of the Poetry Society of America’s 2003 William Carlos Williams Award.

No Rooms of Their Own: Women Writers of Early California, 1848-1869
Edited by Ida Rae Egli
Trade Paper, ISBN: 1-890771-01-5, $14.95
This important collection includes writings by Dame Shirley, Josephine Clifford McCrakin, Ina Coolbrith, Ada Claire, and others.

No Time to Nap
Mike Madison, Illustrated by Mary Peterson
Hardcover, ISBN: 978-1-59714-046-1, $15.95
What must a farmer do to keep things growing?

November Grass
Judy Van der Veer, Foreword by Ursula K. LeGuin
Trade Paper, ISBN: 1-890771-39-2, $13.95
A provocative treasure of classic California fiction.

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The Ohlone Way: Indian Life in the San Francisco-Monterey Bay Area
Malcolm Margolin
Trade Paper, ISBN: 0-930588-01-0, $14.95
This well-loved classic vividly recreates the lost world of the Indian people who lived in the San Francisco Bay Area such a short time ago.

One Day on Beetle Rock
Sally Carrighar, Foreword by David Rains Wallace
Illustrations by Carl Dennis Buell
Trade Paper, ISBN: 1-1-890771-53-8, $14.95
An elegant and lively depiction of nine animals spending a spring day on Beetle Rock, a large expanse of granite in Sequoia National Park.

Only What We Could Carry:
The Japanese American Internment Experience
Edited with an Introduction by Lawson Fusao Inada
Trade Paper, ISBN: 1-890771-30-9, $18.95.
Lyrical, haunting voices from inside the camps.

Our People, Our Land, Our Images:
International Indigenous Photography
Edited by Hulleah J. Tsinhnahjinnie and Veronica Passalacqua
Trade Paper, ISBN: 978-1-59714-057-7, $27.95
Over 100 years of indigenous art photography

The Oracles: My Filipino Grandparents in America
Pati Navalta Poblete
Trade Paper, ISBN: 1-59714-036-8, $13.95
A funny, poignant memoir of growing up with a house full of immigrant grandparents

Our Valley, Our Choice: Building a Livable Future for the San Joaquin Valley
Great Valley Center
Trade Paper, ISBN: 978-1-59714-058-4, $17.95
128 pages (7 x 9)
Can smarter development lead us to a brighter future?

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Panamint Shoshone Basketry: An American Art Form
Eva Slater
Cloth, ISBN: 1-890771-88-0, $40.00
Trade Paper, ISBN: 1-890771-89-9, $25.00
This lovely book presents the cultural, environmental, and historical context in which a new and extraordinary form of basketry was created by the basket makers of a small tribe that inhabited some of the most inhospitable desert lands in Eastern California.

Past Tents: The Way We Camped
Susan Snyder
Trade Paper, ISBN: 1-59714-039-2, $17.95
A gift book for camping enthusiasts and those who enjoy quirky old photography

Peace Is a Four-Letter Word
Janet Nichols Lynch
A Great Valley Book
Trade Paper, ISBN: 1-59714-014-7, $9.95
When is the right time to stand up for your values?

Peaceful Painter: Memoirs of an Issei Woman Artist
Hisako Hibi
Trade Paper, ISBN: 1-890771-90-2, $20.00
Hisako Hibi's paintings offer an insight into the daily life of a woman who would not abandon her art or betray her spirit.

Perfume Dreams:
Reflections on the Vietnamese Diaspora
Andrew Lam, Foreword by Richard Rodriguez
Trade Paper, ISBN: 1-57914-020-1, $14.95
“When Americans say Vietnam, they don’t mean Vietnam.”

Picturing California's Other Landscape: The Great Central Valley
Edited by Heath Schenker
Trade Paper, ISBN: 1-890771-25-2, $35.00
A full-color look at the art and legacy of California's Great Central Valley.A unique and complete guide to more than 500 museums.

Pleasure
Gary Young
Trade Paper, ISBN: 1-59714-023-6, $12.95
96 pages (6 x 8)
A new collection from a master of the prose poem

The Port Chicago Mutiny
Robert L. Allen
Trade paper, ISBN: 1-59714-028-7, $14.95
244 pages (6 x 9.25), with a map and 16 pages of b&w photos
A nearly forgotten chapter in black history—in a new edition

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Quizzical Eye: The Photography of Rondal Partridge
Elizabeth Partridge and Sally Stein
Trade Paper, ISBN: 1-890771-57-0, $21.95
Intimately associated with the great photographers of his time, Partridge creates his own breathtakingly intimate portraits, devastating environmental statements, compositional wonders, and telling moments from six decades of American history

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The Raccoon Next Door:
Getting Along with Urban Wildlife
Gary Bogue, illustrations by Chuck Todd
Trade Paper, ISBN: 1-890771-71-6, $16.95
You believe your home is your haven, but think again, for there are eyes everywhere! What is that rustle in the bushes? Where did that silver streak come from? Why does your dog bark at nothing?

Remember Your Relations:
The Elsie Allen Baskets, Family & Friends
Suzanne Abel-Vidor, Dot Brovarney, and Susan Billy
Trade paper, ISBN: 0-930588-80-0, $20.00
The Pomo Indians of Northern California are widely considered to be among the world's most skilled weavers, and no finer collection of their baskets exists than that created by Elsie Allen and her mother, Annie Burke.

River of Words: Images and Poetry in Praise of Water
Edited by Pamela Michael, Introductions by Robert Hass and Thacher Hurd
Trade Paper, ISBN: 1-890771-65-1, $12.00
Culled from the annual River of Words art and poetry contest, here is an exceptional selection of creative work from young people (ages 5–19) across America and around the world.

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Samurai of Gold Hill
Yoshiko Uchida, Illustrated by Ati Forberg
Trade Paper, ISBN: 1-59714-015-5, $8.95
A boy who lost everything follows his dreams in a strange new land—gold rush California.

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.

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.

Shades of California: The Hidden Beauty of Ordinary Life
Edited by Kimi Kodani Hill
Trade Paper, ISBN: 1-890771-44-9 , $18.95
These photos, the faces of California from family albums, are a reflection of ourselves and our place in this state we call home.

The Shirley Letters: From the California Mines, 1851-1852
Louise Amelia Knapp Smith Clappe, Introduction by Marlene Smith-Baranzini
Trade Paper, ISBN: 1-890771-00-7, $13.95
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.

Sierra Birds: A Hiker’s Guide
By John Muir Laws
Trade Paper, ISBN: 1-890771-78-3, $9.95
A unique book that assumes no prior birding knowledge on the part of the reader and is organized for easy and quick reference.

Skin Tax
Tim Z. Hernandez, Foreword by Juan Felipe Herrera
Trade Paper, ISBN: 1-890771-93-7, $12.95
Out of California’s Great Central Valley comes the bold new poetic voice of Tim Hernandez, already an established performance poet and community activist. Skin Tax is a powerful print debut of a poet with a mature and complex talent immersed in the themes of a young male wrestling with his sensitivity and his desires for love and affection.

The Smokehouse Boys
Shaunna Oteka McCovey
Trade Paper, ISBN: 1-59714-019-8, $11.95
Poems of grace, heartbreak, and wry, beautiful simplicity.

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

Stickeen
John Muir
Trade Paper, ISBN: 0-930588-48-7, $7.95
An illustrated edition of the well-loved tale that has become an American classic.

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.

Straight with the Medicine: Narratives of Washoe Followers of the Tipi Way
Warren L. d’Azevedo
Trade Paper, ISBN: 1-59714-029-5, $12.95
A Heyday classic, back in print with eleven new chapters

Structures of Utility
David Stark Wilson
Cloth, ISBN: 1-890771-62-7, $45.00
This daringly designed book reflects upon the functionality, allure, and extraordinary presence of these often unobserved and overlooked buildings.

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

A Sweetness Rising: New and Selected Poems
Roberta Spear
Edited with an introduction by Philip Levine
Trade Paper, ISBN: 978-1-59714-063-8, $12.95
The poems of a critically acclaimed, contemporary California poet

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Tales of the Fish Patrol
Jack London, Introduction by Jerry George
A California Legacy Book
Trade Paper, ISBN: 1-59714-005-8, $11.95
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.

Testimonios: Early California through the Eyes of Women, 1815–1848
Rose Marie Beebe and Robert M. Senkewicz
Trade Paper, ISBN: 1-59714-033-3, $17.95
288 pages (6 x 9), with b&w photos throughout
Published in collaboration with Bancroft Library Press, University of California, Berkeley
Unheard voices from pre-gold rush California

Theodore Wores in the Southwest
Edited by Stephen Becker, Foreword by David Turner, Afterword by Tessie Naranjo, Preface by Bill Gerdts
Trade Paper, ISBN: 978-1-59714-047-8, $24.95
An exploration of the artist’s paintings of Native Americans in the Southwest

There’s an Opossum in My Backyard
Gary Bogue, Illustrated by Chuck Todd
Hardcover, ISBN: 978-1-59714-059-1, $15.95
A friendly opossum finds adventure in a family’s backyard

Ticket to Exile
Adam David Miller
Trade Paper, ISBN: 978-1-59714-065-2, $14.95
A memoir of an African American childhood in the Jim Crow South

To the American Indian: Reminiscences of a Yurok Woman
Lucy Thompson (Che-na-wah Weitch-ah-wah)
Trade Paper, ISBN: 0-930588-47-9, $14.95
Originally written in 1916, this book remains one of the few accounts of a Native American woman about her people.

Topaz Moon: Chiura Obata's Art of the Internment
Edited by Kimi Kodani Hill
Trade Paper, ISBN: 1-890771-26-0, $22.50
A great artist bears witness to the Japanese American internment, in this beautifully illustrated book accompanied by a text which draws heavily upon family letters and documents and interviews.

Treasures of the Conservatory of Flowers
Nina Sazevich, Photography by Kevin J. Frest
Trade Paper, ISBN: 1-59714-031-7, $8.95
72 pp (7.5 x 5.5), with full-color photographs throughout
Discover the tropics in one of San Francisco’s most cherished landmark

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.

Trees of Golden Gate Park and San Francisco
Elizabeth McClintock, edited and arranged by Richard G. Turner, Jr.
Trade Paper, ISBN: 1-890771-28-7, $18.95
An essential guide for all who love the natural beauty of San Francisco

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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Una Storia Segreta: The Secret History of Italian American Evacuation and Internment During World War II
Edited with an Introduction by Lawrence DiStasi
Trade paper, ISBN: 1-890771-40-6, $21.95
A new perspective to the history of wartime violations of civilian populations.

Under the Dragon: California’s New Culture
Lonny Shavelson and Fred Setterberg
Paperback, ISBN: 978-1-59714-045-4, $24.95
What’s next after multiculturalism? California forges new frontiers.

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.

Unfinished Message: Selected Works of Toshio Mori
Introduction by Lawson Fusao Inada
Trade Paperback, ISBN: 1-890771-35-x, $15.95
A collection of the best writing from a quintessential California writer.A new perspective on the history of wartime violations of civilian populations.

Unfolding Beauty: Celebrating California's Landscapes
Edited by Terry Beers
Trade Paperback, ISBN: 1-890771-34-1, $17.95
A lively collection of literature inspired by California's varied landscapes

Unsettling the West: Eliza Farnham and Georgiana Bruce Kirby in Frontier California
JoAnn Levy, foreword by Kevin Starr
Cloth, ISBN: 1-890771-85-6, $24.95
Trade Paper, ISBN: 1-890771-83-X, $16.95
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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Walking the Flatlands: The Rural Landscape of the Lower Sacramento Valley
Mike Madison
Trade Paper, ISBN: 1-890771-84-8, $14.95
Mike Madison delivers a detailed critique of the farmland around him, the land he walks daily.

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

The Way We Lived: California Indian Stories, Songs, and Reminiscences
Edited with Commentary by Malcolm Margolin
Trade Paper, ISBN: 0-930588-55-X, $14.95
Captures the vitality and continuance of native culture in California, ranging from love songs to death chants, legends to oral histories.

What Anna Loves
Andra Simmons, Illustrated by Gina Capaldi
Hardcover, ISBN: 1-59714-044-9, $15.95
32 pp (8 x 10), full color throughout
Remember when playing on a farm was the most fun you could ever have? Anna does!

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.

Wild Muir, The
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

Woman of Ill Fame
Erika Mailman
Trade Paper, ISBN: 978-1-59714-051-1, $13.95
264 pages (6 x 9)
Murder, sex, and intrigue in gold rush San Francisco

Workin’ Man Blues: Country Music in California
Gerald Haslam, with Alexandra Haslam Russell and Richard Chon
A Great Valley Book
Trade Paper, ISBN: 1-59714-017-1, $21.95
An affectionate homage to California contributions to what is today the most popular music in America.

A World Transformed: Firsthand Accounts of California Before the Gold Rush
Edited with Introduction by Joshua Paddison
Trade Paper, ISBN:1-890771-13-9, $18.95
Important early writings that chronicle the birth of modern California.

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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.