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  • MY COUNTRY 'TIS OF THEE
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    MY COUNTRY 'TIS OF THEE
    DAVID HARRIS
    A "wide-ranging and incisive anthology" of articles and essays by the eminent journalist and antiwar activist from the 1960s to the twenty-first century ( Publishers Weekly). David Harris is a reporter, an American dissident, and, as these selected pieces reveal, a writer of great character and empathy. As an undergraduate, he gained recognition for his opposition to the Vietna...

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  • UNLIKELY ALLY
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    UNLIKELY ALLY
    MARILYN BERLIN SNELL
    An environmental journalist reveals how some California military bases are leading the charge in the fight against climate change.   In California, the US military has begun to redefine how our national security operations relate to the destabilizing effects of climate change. Several bases have taken on a largely unrecognized yet crucial role in renewable-energy innovation and...

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  • CHANGING SEASON
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    CHANGING SEASON
    DAVID MAS MASUMOTO / NIKIKO MASUMOTO
    In a series of personal essays, the organic farmer and author of Epitaph for a Peach prepares to hand his family's eighty-acre farm to his daughter. How do you become a farmer? The real questions are: What kind of person do you want to be? Are you willing to change? How do you learn? What is your vision for the future? In this poignant collection of essays, David Mas Masumoto p...

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  • THE CITY OF VINES
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    THE CITY OF VINES
    THOMAS PINNEY
    The author of A History of Wine in America recounts the beginnings of California's wine trade in the once isolated pueblo now called Los Angeles. Winner of the 2016 California Historical Society Book Award! With incisive analysis and a touch of dry humor, The City of Vines chronicles winemaking in Los Angeles from its beginnings in the late eighteenth century through its declin...

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  • HOW A MOUNTAIN WAS MADE
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    HOW A MOUNTAIN WAS MADE
    GREG SARRIS
    Inspired by Native American creation tales, these sixteen interconnected stories tell the origin of California's Sonoma Mountain. In the tradition of Calvino's Italian Folktales, Greg Sarris, author of the award-winning novel Grand Avenue, turns his attention to his ancestral homeland of Sonoma Mountain in Northern California. In sixteen interconnected original stories, the twi...

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  • ROSE HILL
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    ROSE HILL
    CARLOS E. CORTÉS
    A Jewish Mexican American author chronicles his family's tumultuous, decades-long spars over religion, class, and culture in this candid, inspiring memoir. The son of a Mexican Catholic father with aristocratic roots and a mother of Eastern European Jewish descent, Carlos E. Cortés grew up wedged between cultures. He grew up "straddling borders, balancing loves and loyalties, a...

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  • THE HARVEST GYPSIES
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    THE HARVEST GYPSIES
    JOHN STEINBECK
    A collection of newspaper articles about Dust Bowl migrants in California's Central Valley by the author of The Grapes of Wrath, accompanied by photos.   Three years before his triumphant novel The Grapes of Wrath—a fictional portrayal of a Depression-era family fleeing Oklahoma during a disastrous period of drought and dust storms—John Steinbeck wrote seven articles for the Sa...

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  • GOLD RUSH STORIES
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    GOLD RUSH STORIES
    GARY NOY
    From the author of Hellacious California!, deeply human stories of the California Gold Rush generation, full of brutality, tragedy, humor, and prosperity. In less than ten years, more than 300,000 people made the journey to California, some from as far away as Chile and China. Many of them were dreamers seeking a better life, like Mifflin Wistar Gibbs, who eventually became the...

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  • GIVING WITH CONFIDENCE
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    GIVING WITH CONFIDENCE
    COLBURN WILBUR / FRED SETTERBERG
    "The pitfalls, potential, and the ins and outs of charitable giving . . . a must-read for all nonprofit leaders, donors, and students."—Marjorie Schwarzer, award-winning author of Riches, Rivals, and Radicals   There are thousands of books that tell you how to get money, but few that cover something just as challenging: how to give money away.  Giving with Confidence provides t...

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  • THE COURT THAT TAMED THE WEST
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    THE COURT THAT TAMED THE WEST
    RICHARD CAHAN / PIA HINCKLE / JESSICA ROYER OCKEN
    This unique history reveals how a century of Federal Court drama and influential rulings shaped the development and culture of Northern California.   From the gold rush to the Internet boom, the US District Court for the Northern District of California has played a major role in how business is done and life is lived on the Pacific Coast. When California was first admitted to t...

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  • ALICE
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    ALICE
    IVY ANDERSON AND DEVON ANGUS
    The collected memoirs of a 1913 San Francisco sex worker, their effect on society at the time, and where they fit in today's world. In 1913 the  San Francisco Bulletin published a serialized, ghostwritten memoir of a prostitute who went by Alice Smith. "A Voice from the Underworld" detailed Alice's humble Midwestern upbringing and her struggle to find aboveboard work, and candi...

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  • DE-BUG
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    DE-BUG
    RAJ JAYADEV AND JEAN MELESAINE
    Stories of the dot-com boom—from everyone but the techies. "A raw look into the lives of residents bearing the brunt of gentrification." — HuffPost No shuttle buses here: De-Bug, a new collection of true stories from the social justice organization of the same name, shows a side of working in Silicon Valley that you won't read about in the business section. As tech moguls land ...

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  • KING SEQUOIA
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    KING SEQUOIA
    WILLIAM C. TWEED
    A naturist and historian for the National Parks Service offers a lively history of the giant sequoias of California and the love of nature they inspired.   Former park ranger William C. Tweed takes readers on a tour of some of the world's largest and oldest trees in a narrative that travels deep into the Sierra Nevada mountains, across the American West, and all the way to New ...

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  • BRACING FOR DISASTER
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    BRACING FOR DISASTER
    STEPHEN TOBRINER
    "The first history of seismic engineering in San Francisco . . . spiced with survivor and eyewitness accounts. "— Midwest Book Review   For the past one hundred and fifty years, architects and engineers have quietly been learning from each quake and designing newer earthquake-resistant building techniques and applying them in an ongoing effort to save San Francisco.  Bracing fo...

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  • SIERRA STORIES
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    SIERRA STORIES
    GARY NOY
    The author of Gold Rush Stories shares tales of the larger-than-life characters from the history of the legendary Sierra Nevada mountain range. With its 14,000-foot granite mountains, crystalline lakes, conifer forests, and hidden valleys, the Sierra Nevada has long been the domain of dreams, attracting the heroic and the delusional, the best of humanity and the worst. Stories ...

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  • MANZANAR TO MOUNT WHITNEY
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    MANZANAR TO MOUNT WHITNEY
    HANK UMEMOTO
    This intimate memoir offers a poignant, at times humorous account of Japanese American life in California before and after WWII. In 1942, fourteen-year-old Hank Umemoto gazed out a barrack window at Manzanar Internment Camp, saw the silhouette of Mount Whitney against an indigo sky, and vowed that one day he would climb to the top. Fifty-seven years and a lifetime of stories la...

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  • LITERARY INDUSTRIES
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    LITERARY INDUSTRIES
    HUBERT HOWE BANCROFT
    An autobiography of the bookseller, library collector, man of letters, and historian of the American West edited by his great-great granddaughter. A bookseller in San Francisco during the gold rush, Hubert Howe Bancroft (1832–1918) rose to become the man who would define the early history of California and the West. Creating what he called a "history factory," he assembled a va...

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  • DEAR MISS KARANA
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    DEAR MISS KARANA
    ERIC ELLIOTT
    "This engaging story is told by a ten-year-old Native American girl living on a reservation . . . a rich resource of native culture and language." — Native Talk While reading Island of the Blue Dolphins at school and learning about the real woman stranded on San Nicolás Island, ten-year-old Tíshmal begins writing emails to "Miss Karana" in hopes of talking to her spirit. When s...

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  • BROTHER AND THE DANCER
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    BROTHER AND THE DANCER
    KEENAN NORRIS
    An award-winning novel following two Black adolescents as they come of age in two vastly different neighborhoods of the same Southern California city. Winner of the 2012 James D. Houston Award, Keenan Norris's first novel is a beautiful, gritty, coming-of-age tale about two young African Americans in the San Bernardino Valley—a story of exceptional power, lyricism, and depth. E...

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  • MAKING HOME FROM WAR
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    MAKING HOME FROM WAR
    BRIAN KOMEI DEMPSTER
    The sequel to the award-winning From Our Side of the Fence—personal stories of life after the WWII internment camps from twelve Japanese Americans.   Many books have chronicled the experience of Japanese Americans in the early days of World War II, when over 120,000 persons of Japanese ancestry, two-thirds of whom were American citizens, were taken from their homes along the We...

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  • MASHA'ALLAH
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    MASHA'ALLAH
    MARIAH K. YOUNG
    This "beautifully written and soulful" story collection explores the lives and struggles of those on the fringes of California society (Mark Haskell Smith, author of Baked). In Masha'allah and Other Stories, debut author Mariah K. Young brings readers deep into the unpredictable landscape of East Oakland, and the varied lives of remarkable individuals who rarely take center sta...

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  • BART
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    BART
    MICHAEL C. HEALY
    An insider's "indispensible" behind-the-scenes history of the transit system of San Francisco and surrounding counties ( Houston Chronicle).   In the first-ever history book about BART, longtime agency spokesman Michael C. Healy gives an insider's account of the rapid transit system's inception, hard-won approval, construction, and operations, warts and all.   With a master sto...

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  • A SHORT HISTORY OF SAN FRANCISCO
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    A SHORT HISTORY OF SAN FRANCISCO
    TOM COLE
    A concise, "colorful, well-told" history of the City by the Bay, from the Gold Rush to the Summer of Love to the twenty-first century ( Los Angeles Times).   This is the story of San Francisco, a unique and rowdy tale with a legendary cast of characters. It tells of the Indians and the Spanish missions, the arrival of thousands of gold seekers and gamblers, crackbrains and drea...

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