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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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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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The Laws Field Guide to the Sierra Nevada
Written and illustrated by John Muir Laws
Trade Paper, ISBN: 978-1-59714-052-2, $24.95
368 pages (4.75 x 8.75), with 2,800 watercolor illustrations
A comprehensive field guide to the natural wonders of the Range of Light |
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Chumash Ethnobotany: Plant Knowledge among the Chumash People of Southern California
Jan Timbrook, with botanical watercolors by Chris Chapman
Trade Paper, ISBN: 978-1-59714-048-5, $27.95
256 pages (6 x 9), 24 color plates
Plant knowledge and use by the Chumash Indians of Southern California |
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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
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The story behind Yosemite’s breathtaking landscape |
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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
560 pages (6 x 9)
An updated edition of the classic California anthology |
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There’s an Opossum in My Backyard
Gary Bogue, Illustrated by Chuck Todd
Hardcover, ISBN: 978-1-59714-059-1, $15.95
40 pages (8 x 10), full color throughout
A friendly opossum finds adventure in a family’s backyard |
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Archy Lee:
A California Fugitive Slave Case
Rudolph M. Lapp; Foreword by Shirley Ann Wilson Moore
trade paper, isbn: 978-1-59714-080-5, $12.95
96 pages (5.5 x 8.5)
The historic case of a black man’s quest for
freedom in 1850s California |
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Walking Tractor:
And Other Country Tales
Bruce Patterson, Foreword by Gerald Nicosia
trade paper, isbn: 978-1-59714-082-9, $14.95
288 pages (5.5 x 8.5)
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; Foreword by Darryl Babe Wilson;
Woodcuts by Frank LaPena
trade paper, isbn: 978-1-59714-079-9, $16.95
128 pages (6 x 9)
California Indian writers and storytellers
celebrate the seasons |
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