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California Grizzly
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Junipero Serra: California's Founding Father
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3.72 avg rating — 184 ratings
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Bay Curious: Exploring the Hidden True Stories of the San Francisco Bay Area
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4.03 avg rating — 324 ratings
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Bay Area Backroads: The Best Adventures in Northern California from KRON-TV
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3.50 avg rating — 22 ratings
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The California Missions
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4.60 avg rating — 5 ratings
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A Day in the Life of California
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4.12 avg rating — 34 ratings
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Disney's Land: Walt Disney and the Invention of the Amusement Park That Changed the World
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3.98 avg rating — 3,279 ratings
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Peninsula Portrait: An Illustrated History of San Mateo County
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0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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Alta California: From San Diego to San Francisco, A Journey on Foot to Rediscover the Golden State
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3.80 avg rating — 414 ratings
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The Dreamt Land: Chasing Water and Dust Across California
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4.42 avg rating — 1,455 ratings
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California Calling: A Self-Interrogation
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4.39 avg rating — 98 ratings
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Golden State: The Making of California
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3.89 avg rating — 153 ratings
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The Elusive Eden: A New History of California
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3.69 avg rating — 94 ratings
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Children's Fairyland
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4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings
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Bear in Mind: The California Grizzly
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 17 ratings
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Wake, Sleepy One: California Poppies and the Super Bloom
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4.43 avg rating — 102 ratings
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Life Span: Impressions of a Lifetime Spent Crossing and Recrossing the Golden Gate Bridge
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4.33 avg rating — 45 ratings
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Wide-Open Town: A History of Queer San Francisco to 1965
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3.90 avg rating — 164 ratings
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Gay L.A.: A History of Sexual Outlaws, Power Politics, and Lipstick Lesbians
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4.02 avg rating — 267 ratings
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A World Transformed: Firsthand Accounts of California Before the Gold Rush
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4.18 avg rating — 22 ratings
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Poppy State: A Labyrinth of Plants and a Story of Beginnings
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4.01 avg rating — 176 ratings
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Blues City: A Walk in Oakland
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3.47 avg rating — 177 ratings
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Berkeley: A City in History
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3.78 avg rating — 64 ratings
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Under the Dragon: California's New Culture
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4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings
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BART: The Dramatic History of the Bay Area Rapid Transit System
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3.62 avg rating — 192 ratings
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The End of the Golden Gate: Writers on Loving and (Sometimes) Leaving San Francisco
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3.82 avg rating — 583 ratings
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Down by the Bay: San Francisco's History Between the Tides
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4.02 avg rating — 51 ratings
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California Crazy: American Pop Architecture
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4.38 avg rating — 55 ratings
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California Fruits, Flakes & Nuts: True Tales of California Crazies, Crackpots and Creeps
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3.50 avg rating — 10 ratings
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Louie, Take a Look at This!: My Time with Huell Howser
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4.10 avg rating — 155 ratings
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Gold: The California Story
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4.25 avg rating — 4 ratings
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The War Between the State: Northern California vs. Southern California
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3.50 avg rating — 6 ratings
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Crossing California: A Cultural Topography of a Land of Wonder and Weirdness
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liked it 3.00 avg rating — 13 ratings
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California Uncovered: Stories for the 21st Century
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3.57 avg rating — 37 ratings
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Land in California: The Story of Mission Lands, Ranchos, Squatters, Mining Claims, Railroad Grants, Land Scrip, Homesteads
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3.93 avg rating — 29 ratings
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California Burning: The Fall of Pacific Gas and Electric--and What It Means for America's Power Grid
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4.26 avg rating — 1,660 ratings
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Alcatraz: A Definitive History of the Penitentiary Years
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3.87 avg rating — 895 ratings
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Houseboats: Aquatic Architecture of Sausalito
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3.80 avg rating — 5 ratings
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The History of Alta California: A Memoir of Mexican California
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 17 ratings
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The Anza Trail and the Settling of California
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3.92 avg rating — 37 ratings
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The Browns of California: The Family Dynasty that Transformed a State and Shaped a Nation
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4.26 avg rating — 361 ratings
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Ishi in Two Worlds: A Biography of the Last Wild Indian in North America
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4.10 avg rating — 1,657 ratings
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A Free Library in This City: The Illustrated History of the San Francisco Public Library
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4.09 avg rating — 11 ratings
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Made in California: Art, Image, and Identity, 1900-2000
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4.17 avg rating — 35 ratings
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Building the Golden Gate Bridge: A Workers' Oral History
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4.13 avg rating — 23 ratings
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Love, West Hollywood: Reflections of Los Angeles
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3.50 avg rating — 10 ratings
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Napa: The Story of an American Eden
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3.62 avg rating — 533 ratings
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West of Eden: Communes and Utopia in Northern California
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3.57 avg rating — 37 ratings
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The San Francisco Cliff House
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4.16 avg rating — 19 ratings
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San Francisco's Golden Gate Park: A Thousand and Seventeen Acres of Stories
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4.18 avg rating — 11 ratings
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Northwest California: A Natural History
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3.75 avg rating — 8 ratings
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California: A Multicultural Documentary History
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4.43 avg rating — 7 ratings
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Golden Gate Bridge: History and Design of an Icon
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3.79 avg rating — 70 ratings
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City on the Edge: Technology, Politics, and the Fight for the Soul of San Francisco
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4.40 avg rating — 5 ratings
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The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child
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4.08 avg rating — 8,036 ratings
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Remembering the California Missions
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4.75 avg rating — 8 ratings
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Jack London's California: The Golden Poppy and Other Writings
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3.44 avg rating — 9 ratings
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Farewell to Manzanar: A True Story of Japanese American Experience During and After the World War II Internment
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3.72 avg rating — 20,652 ratings
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Highway 17: The Road to Santa Cruz
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3.74 avg rating — 34 ratings
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San Francisco's 49-Mile Scenic Drive: The Guidebook
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4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings
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When Mountain Lions Are Neighbors: People and Wildlife Working It Out in California
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4.29 avg rating — 136 ratings
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The Heart of California: Exploring the San Joaquin Valley
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4.34 avg rating — 35 ratings
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Dear California: The Golden State in Diaries and Letters
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3.50 avg rating — 18 ratings
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California Rewritten: A Journey Through the Golden State’s New Literature
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4.27 avg rating — 15 ratings
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California Childhood: Recollections and Stories of the Golden State
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4.25 avg rating — 12 ratings
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Indigenous: Growing Up Californian
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3.60 avg rating — 15 ratings
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The California House: Adobe. Craftsman. Victorian. Spanish Colonial Revival
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3.12 avg rating — 8 ratings
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Roaring Camp: The Social World of the California Gold Rush
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3.75 avg rating — 242 ratings
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Juana Briones of Nineteenth-Century California
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4.31 avg rating — 13 ratings
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The California Poem
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4.13 avg rating — 188 ratings
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My California: Journeys by Great Writers
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3.70 avg rating — 67 ratings
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California Wild: Preserving the Spirit and Beauty of Our Land
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4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings
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California Against the Sea: Visions for Our Vanishing Coastline
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4.49 avg rating — 547 ratings
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California Catastrophes: The Natural Disaster History of the Golden State
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4.12 avg rating — 8 ratings
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Birdman of Alcatraz
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3.91 avg rating — 277 ratings
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Sunnyvale: The Rise and Fall of a Silicon Valley Family
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3.43 avg rating — 95 ratings
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Palo Alto: A History of California, Capitalism, and the World
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3.92 avg rating — 2,737 ratings
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San Francisco's Playland at the Beach: The Early Years
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4.18 avg rating — 11 ratings
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San Francisco's Ocean Beach
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4.17 avg rating — 6 ratings
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City by the Bay: A Magical Journey Around San Francisco
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4.13 avg rating — 53 ratings
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I, California
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2.85 avg rating — 81 ratings
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Coming of Age in California: Personal Essays
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4.08 avg rating — 26 ratings
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San Francisco Pilgrimage: Memoir of a Lifelong Love Affair with My City
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4.31 avg rating — 13 ratings
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The Bad City in the Good War: San Francisco, Los Angeles, Oakland, and San Diego
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3.08 avg rating — 13 ratings
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Ten Years That Shook the City: San Francisco 1968-1978
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3.89 avg rating — 36 ratings
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Southern California: An Island on the Land
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4.25 avg rating — 346 ratings
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Writing the Golden State: The New Literary Terrain of California
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4.40 avg rating — 5 ratings
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Fascinating True Tales from Old California: Crooked Con Men, Eccentric Immigrants, and Fearless Females Who Shaped the Golden State
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4.20 avg rating — 15 ratings
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A Country Called California: Photographs 1850–1960
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3.50 avg rating — 6 ratings
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Portal: San Francisco's Ferry Building and the Reinvention of American Cities
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4.12 avg rating — 371 ratings
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The Death and Life of Monterey Bay: A Story of Revival
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4.26 avg rating — 450 ratings
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Life in a California Mission: Monterey in 1786: The Journals of Jean François de la Pérouse
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3.68 avg rating — 85 ratings
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City Lights: Lawrence Ferlinghetti and the Biography of a Bookstore
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4.20 avg rating — 5 ratings
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Smile Southern California, You're the Center of the Universe: The Economy and People of a Global Region
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liked it 3.00 avg rating — 12 ratings
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San Diego: California's Cornerstone
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3.09 avg rating — 22 ratings
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Clyde Arbuckle's History of San José
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4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings
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Californians: Searching for the Golden State
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3.89 avg rating — 9 ratings
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A California Bestiary
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4.01 avg rating — 68 ratings
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California's Daughter: Gertrude Atherton and Her Times
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3.91 avg rating — 11 ratings
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Made in California, Volume 1: The California-Born Diners, Burger Joints, Restaurants & Fast Food that Changed America, 1915–1966
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4.40 avg rating — 82 ratings
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