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The Manicurist's Daughter
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Outside Voices: A Memoir of the Berkeley Revolution
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I Am Applicant: One Family's Seven-Year Odyssey in Building a New Home in Sausalito, California
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Orphan Bachelors
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Strip Tees: A Memoir of Millennial Los Angeles
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Affliction: Growing Up with a Closeted Gay Dad
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Fe: A Traumatized Son's Graphic Memoir
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Indigenous: Growing Up Californian
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Memoirs of a Gay Shah: My Story of Family, Fame, and Becoming a King
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Hollywood Park
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The Oracles: My Filipino Grandparents in America
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Normal Family: On Truth, Love, and How I Met My 35 Siblings
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My Mama, Cass: A Memoir
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I'm Not Broken
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Take This Man: A Memoir
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Collateral Stardust: Chasing Warren Beatty and Other Foolish Things
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The Golden Hour: A Story of Family and Power in Hollywood
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Naked in the Promised Land: A Memoir
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Adobe Days
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East of the River: A Memoir of Los Angeles Girlhood
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Nineteen: A Daughter's Memoir of Reckoning and Recovery
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Life Span: Impressions of a Lifetime Spent Crossing and Recrossing the Golden Gate Bridge
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Wildfire Days: A Woman, a Hotshot Crew, and the Burning American West
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Miracle Country
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Fairyland: A Memoir of My Father
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When We Rise: My Life in the Movement
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Burn Book: A Tech Love Story
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Burnt: Firefighter’s memoir of burnout, trauma, and trying to rebuild a life.
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Stay True
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I, California
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How the World Was: A California Childhood
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Dune Child
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Blood Loss: A Love Story of AIDS, Activism, and Art
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Sunnyvale: The Rise and Fall of a Silicon Valley Family
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California Girl: Growing Up in the Great Depression
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Beaujolais In My Blood: Growing Up Gay and Well-Fed in a Family-Run French Restaurant
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Louie, Take a Look at This!: My Time with Huell Howser
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Home Baked: My Mom, Marijuana, and the Stoning of San Francisco
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The Storm: One Voice from the AIDS Generation
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The Cruising Diaries
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Impresario of Castro Street: An Intimate Showbiz Memoir
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Young Man in a Hurry: A Memoir of Discovery
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Biting the Hand: Growing Up Asian in Black and White America
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The High Desert
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Friends from the Beginning: The Berkeley Village That Raised Kamala and Me
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AlphaPussy: How I Survived the Valley and Learned to Love My Boobs
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The One You Get: Portrait of a Family Organism
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On Sunset: A Memoir
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What Kind of Bird Can't Fly: A Memoir of Resilience and Resurrection
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Sex, Drugs & Disco: San Francisco Diaries from the Pre-AIDS Era
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Only Say Good Things: Surviving Playboy and Finding Myself
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Data Baby: My Life in a Psychological Experiment
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On Gold Hill: A Personal History of Wheat, Farming, and Family, from Punjab to California
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Growing Up in Long Beach: Boomer Memories from Autoettes to Los Altos Drive-In
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Compton in My Soul: A Life in Pursuit of Racial Equality
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Americanized: Rebel Without a Green Card
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Red Eggs and Good Luck
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The Boys: A Memoir of Hollywood and Family
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Queerspawn in Love: A Memoir
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1974: A Personal History
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Reading the Room: A Bookseller's Tale
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Circle Way: A Daughter's Memoir, a Writer's Journey Home
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Neon Girls: A Stripper's Education in Protest and Power
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Memoirs of an Old Dyke
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Beyond the Mountains: An Immigrant's Inspiring Journey of Healing and Learning to Dance with the Universe
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Living Up the Street
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King of Shadows
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Earth to Moon: A Memoir
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Advocate: A Graphic Memoir of Family, Community, and the Fight for Environmental Justice
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A Piece of Cake
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Hippie Chick: Coming of Age in the '60s
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Tosh: Growing Up in Wallace Berman's World
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The Spitboy Rule: Tales of a Xicana in a Female Punk Band
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Gringa: A Contradictory Girlhood
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Insurgent Muse: Life and Art at the Woman's Building
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Everybody Into the Pool: True Tales
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Red Diaper Daughter: Three Generations of Rebels and Revolutionaries
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Frantic Transmissions to and from Los Angeles: An Accidental Memoir
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Queen of the Oddballs: And Other True Stories from a Life Unaccording to Plan
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Girlz 'n the Hood: A Memoir of Mama in South Central Los Angeles
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San Francisco Pilgrimage: Memoir of a Lifelong Love Affair with My City
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